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Senior Spotlight: David Flores
Senior helps Lions defense blossom
WAXAHACHIE, Texas -- The development of the men's soccer program at Southwestern Assemblies of God University has begun blooming like flowers.
Part of the reason for such growth is players like David Flores, whose Spanish surname is plural of flor, or 'flower.'
It has been said that "a flower opens itself to outgrow its plantedness, as it yearns to be carried away." The same can be said of the life of Flores, who desires to give his life in service to God.
The well-spoken senior was born in Central America in San Miguel (pop. 220,000), El Salvador.
He was recruited by former SAGU coach Aaron DeLoach. Flores (FLOHR-eez) graduated from R.L. Turner High School in Carrollton, Texas, northwest of Dallas.
The 5-foot-9 defender was known for his physical play in limiting the offensive attacks of the opposition. He started every game during his three years at SAGU.
SAGU has struggled against league teams in the Red River Athletic Conference, going 7-30-2 over the past four years, scoring 48 (1.2 gpg) and allowing 122 (3.1 gpg).
Outside of the RRAC they fared much better. The Lions had a winning ledger in each season, building a 20-13-3 won-lost-tied mark.
David Flores Bio
Name: David Antonio Flores
Birthplace: San Miguel, El Salvador
Parents: Jose and Milagro Flores
Siblings: Carlos, Amadeo, Dimas, Yessica
High School: R.L. Turner H.S. (Carrollton, Tx)
Favorite Verse: Jeremiah 17:7
Favorite Book/Author: Psalms. William L. Shirer.
Favorite Song and/or Movie: The Struggle by Tenth Avenue North. Movie: Nacho Libre
Favorite Restaurant in Waxahachie: Jack in the Box
Major at SAGU: History
Career Direction: Teach at SAGU
Your Immediate Plans: Get a job immediately!
Q1) What were your reasons for choosing SAGU?
David Flores: It was a beautiful environment. The people I was going to be working with were all very welcoming.
Q2) Who were your favorite professors and why?
Flores: I spent a lot of time with my history professors, Dr. Gary McElhany and Dr. Loyd Uglow.
Q3) How would you summarize your accomplishments (athletically) at SAGU?
Flores: Not bad! After winning regionals and going to (NCCAA) nationals in my junior year, I know we could have done better this year.
Q4) What did you enjoy most about the SAGU experience?
Flores: Honestly, learning more about the Bible and the character of God. It shaped my sentiments and world view here at SAGU.
It was worth more than the soccer experience, which I loved.
Q5) What did you most enjoy about chapel?
Flores: I loved the worship every time! We had so many great speakers, I can't pick just one.
Q6) What was the most pleasant surprise you experienced at SAGU?
Flores: My fiancé (Kaylyn Settle), and now my wife, came to work as an assistant coach for the women's soccer team while I played my last season.
Q7) What were favorite memories of playing at SAGU?
Flores: Winning the (NCCAA Central) regional tournament in 2011 while being the underdog in every game, and making so many friends in three years.
Q8) What did you most appreciate from the athletic leadership on your team?
Flores: The coaching staff was always supportive. They were brothers in Christ, first, and that made the difference.
It was a pleasure to be led by Coach (Aaron) DeLoach my first year at SAGU and Coach Clem (Oancea) in my last year. I appreciate their love for God and how much they want to use soccer to reach the lost.
Q9) Did you ever participate in any ministry or service projects with the team?
Flores: Soccer camps. The last one was held in South Texas (Leakey, Tx – pronounced LAY-kee). I was able to create the camp's curriculum and direct the camp with the help of my teammates and as well as the women's soccer team.
Q10) Your biggest win or best game or best play – when, against who, what happened?
Flores: The biggest was against Southwestern College (Ks), a 9-1 win. We possessed the ball maybe 90% of the time.
The best game was at the NCCAA nationals in Orlando. It was a 2-2 draw against Grace College (Ind). We came back from trailing 0-2 and tied it before losing on penalty kicks.
Best play happened in the first game of the regional tournament against Southwestern Christian University (Ok). After they tied us in the last 10 minutes of the game, I assisted Danny Martinez that drew a penalty in the box. Alex (Vazquez) scored the winning PK.
Q11) How do you describe the competition you faced in the NAIA, NCCAA, RRAC?
Flores: I expected the NAIA to be tough. But I never expected the toughness we faced last year in the national tournament, though the NCCAA is a mix of NAIA, NCAA D2 and D3 schools.
Q12) What aspect of the game will you miss the most, or what dynamic will you long for the most?
Flores: The feeling you get after saving a goal and getting the ball back for your team.
Q13) What would you have liked to have received or accomplished while wearing the purple and gold?
Flores: Back-to-back regional championships
Q14) Any post-college plans that utilize your athletic career?
Flores: Finish graduate school, coach, teach at SAGU, and do tons of sports ministry projects.
Q15) How would like to be remembered as a player?
Flores: As someone who cared more about God and people than the game itself.
The bilingual Flores did not resist the temptation to bodily forbid foes from roaming freely in the scoring zone, many times drawing a foul or yellow card.
In regards to sharing his faith, there was nothing yellow about Flores either. Like his play on the soccer pitch, he was a catalyst in all things.
Contact: Mark "Link" Warde, SAGU Sports Information Director, at email@example.com or at 469-658-2847.
SAGU Men's Soccer - Last Four Years
|Overall Record
|RRAC Record
Head Coaches: Clem Oancea 2012, Gerald Nichols 2011, Aaron DeLoach 2010 and Tim Grant 2009.
NAIA - National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. NCCAA - National Christian College Athletic Association.


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The decision was a big loss for workers challenging the security checks, which are common among retailers. According to a brief filed by the agency, there have been 13 class-action lawsuits against Amazon and other companies involving more than 400,000 plaintiffs and seeking hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Update: The full story has just been posted: LCWR will continue dialogue, but not compromise mission
At the end of its annual assembly Friday in St. Louis, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said it will proceed with discussion with the Vatican "for as long as possible" but will reconsider if the sisters are "forced to compromise the integrity of [their] mission."
About 900 representatives of the Catholic sisters have been in St. Louis since Tuesday for the assembly, considering the future of the organization after a Vatican rebuke in April that calls for LCWR to reform and place itself under the authority of three U.S. bishops.
NCR staff writer Joshua J. McElwee is covering the event, and we'll have a full story on the announcement, which was made at 2:45 p.m. Central time, a little later in the day.
More on the LCWR assembly:
- LCWR president to sisters: Be 'fearless' on Vatican mandate, Aug. 10
- Sisters contemplate surrender, discernment, authority, Aug. 10
- Sister, NCR contributors discuss religious life with LCWR, Aug. 10
- Keynote: LCWR 'seed bed' for 21st century, Aug. 8
- LCWR 'gathers collective wisdom' of members to discern next steps, Aug. 8
- LCWR past presidents reflect on Vatican mandate, Aug. 7
- LCWR to determine course at next week's annual meeting, July 31
For related commentary see:
- The Vatican, LCWR, and Definitions of Dialogue By Kevin Aschenbrenner
- What LCWR teaches us about church leadership By Jamie L. Manson
- Are these sisters dangerous women? By Patrick T. Reardon
- The Second Vatican Council has already made us free By Robert Blair Kaiser
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do you ever feel you are in the movie Groundhog Day?
RR: Ran 5 yesterday and it actually felt good. Probably run 5 again today.
NRR: Older DD is off to Seattle with one of her friends who lives there. Younger DD is on her adventure - yesterday was taking the bus around Southern California to get to an old friend's house to stay the night. It took her about 5 hours to get from Anaheim to where we used to live by bus - by car it would take maybe 45 minutes. LOL She is getting an education. Today she is hopping on a train and heading to Albuquerque to visit my mom and sister. HOuse was very quiet again.
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The rapper's song 'Written in the Stars' beats Bruno Mars' 'Just the Way You Are (Amazing)' at the chart.
Rapper Tinie Tempah has stormed to the top of Britain's singles chart with his latest track, "Written in the Stars". The star knocked "Just the Way You Are (Amazing)" by Bruno Mars into the number two slot, while Labrinth's "Let the Sun Shine" was another new entry at three.
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All this stuff about the NHL and the future of the Phoenix Coyotes brought back all those memories I thought I had snuffed out.
Instead they crouched silently in the back of my head.
When news of the Coyotes' woes, and what was passed off as the Jets imminent return to Winnipeg, first broke, I was kind of skeptical. Negotiations, no matter what level, always breed hyperbole. If you've ever walked a picket line, you know what I mean.
But with each story, and with Hockey Night In Canada, ESPN, TSN and the Globe and Mail weighing in, it gained credibility.
Or so I thought.
When you follow the trail it appears when one media guy tweeted something it got picked up and torqued by another. Not to be outdone, a third media outlet torqued it even more. Rumours and mumblings from other sources got blended into other rumours and mumblings to be passed off as facts.
Then there's Don Cherry.
The man is many things. Sports journalist, he ain't. But we still lapped him up.
In all of the noise of the past week, the memories of the Jets started crawling back into my brain. Now, the MRI I had a while ago shows I indeed have a brain and that it works. I should have started using it when all the Coyotes stories started moving on Twitter.
On May 16, 1995, Freep hockey reporter Tim Campbell and I filed a joint by-lined story for the paper on the 35,000 people who showed up at The Forks in a mass effort to save The Winnipeg Jets from leaving (at that time it was supposedly heading to Minneapolis):
"THEY CAME in strollers. They came in Jets jerseys. They came in white. They came in painted faces. They came hand-in-hand. They came from work. They came from school.
They came.
'Are you enjoying this more than the farewell at the arena?' Jets general manager John Paddock asked the 35,000 people in front of him at The Forks.
The answer was a resounding cheer."
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The evening's climax came when four Jets players took centre stage, greeted like they were rock stars. Kris King, Randy Gilhen, Keith Tkachuk and Teemu Selanne looked bewildered, even awestruck, we wrote.
Reading those words 15 years later, I shake my head at that image.
What dopes we Winnipeggers were. What hayseeds. What rubes. What the hell were we thinking?
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Patna, Feb. 8: Senior BJP leaders assembled at an event today to despatch iron and soil samples gathered from across the state to build the Statue of Unity in memory of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley chose the occasion to attack chief minister Nitish Kumar without naming him. He said the results of the Lok Sabha elections would make him repent on the decision of breaking the alliance with the BJP. He also termed Nitishs initiative of forming a separate block in Parliament as losers front.
Ever since the party has announced the name of prime ministerial candidate, opponents are trying their best to stop him. But when the Lok Sabha results come out, he would repent what made him to break the alliance. JD(U) support has shrunk in the state, said Jaitley.
He added: There is new talk of a Third Front, I prefer calling it a losers front. Parties, which failed in their respective regions, are trying to form this front. It is a failed idea, which will not succeed. The results of the Lok Sabha elections would be unprecedented. I must say that there would only be one party which would have MPs in three figures.
Jaitley added that the JD(U) walking out on the BJP alliance had come as a blessing so that the party, which used to contest on 15 seats, would now contest on all 40 seats. He equally attacked the Congress, particularly party vice-president Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress does not have any leadership and the new leadership will not lead anywhere, Jaitley said.
The iron collection campaign was launched in December 15 last year for the construction of the Statue of Unity.
BJP general secretary and Bihar affairs in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan also urged workers to vote for Narendra Modi in the LS elections.
Leader of Opposition in Bihar Legislative Assembly Nand Kishore Yadav accused Nitish of breaking the 17-year-old alliance and called him betrayer. After breaking the alliance with the BJP, he tried to go closer to the Congress and even went to drop a Congress minister (read P. Chidambaram) to Sadaquat Ashram in his car. But how can a person, who broke off from a 17-year-old partner, command the trust of other parties? Another person (read Lalu Prasad) cannot even contest elections. Despite that he is carrying the bag of Rahul Gandhi and shouting slogans in his support, said Nand Kishore.
He did not miss the opportunity to raise the issue of Nitishs minister Shahid Ali Khans alleged links with operatives of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM).
Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said the people of the state are beaten in Congress-ruled states whereas they feel safe in BJP ruled states.
Former minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey dared to resign from the Assembly if Nitishs party wins even a single Lok Sabha seat.
Other BJP leaders present included deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad, BJP general secretary Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Rajya Sabha member C.P. Thakur and state unit president Mangal Pandey.


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A hearty wintery stack of steak and celeriac crowned with cream.
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200g pumpkin, peeled and cut into chunks
2 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp pouring cream
Cracked black pepper
4 fillet steaks (about 150g each)
150g sour cream
2-3 tbsps grated fresh horseradish
1 tbsp chopped parsley
Salt flakes
For the mash, cook celeriac and pumpkin in lightly salted boiling water for about 10 minutes, or until tender. Drain, add parsley, butter and cream and mash until smooth. For steaks, grind black pepper coarsely on both sides of steaks. Chargrill over medium to high heat for two to three minutes on each side, or until cooked as desired. Remove and rest, covered, in a warm place. For the horseradish cream, combine sour cream, horseradish, parsley, salt flakes and pepper in a small bowl and stir well. To serve, pile mash in the centre of four warm plates, place steaks on top and add a dollop of horseradish cream.


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THE owner of a Bournemouth bookmaker says the upward trend for raiding betting shops is "a worrying time for anyone involved in the industry".
Police were last night still hunting a robber thought to have raided both the Coral at Castle Lane West on Thursday and Ladbrokes at Christchurch Road on Wednesday – and yesterday moved to reassure the public.
The suspect threatened staff with a hammer at Ladbrokes and a large knife at Coral – making off with cash from both.
The incidents follow a raid at Coral in Wimborne Road, Winton, last month and attacks at three convenience stores in recent weeks.
Martin Johnstone, owner of Bournemouth-based independent bookmakers Jem Racing, said security and staff safety were paramount at his firm.
He added: "The days of bookmakers holding vast amounts of cash are over. Generally speaking, whenever a large bet is taken for a future event, the cash is paid directly into the bank.
"Any cash that needs to be kept for any winning bets is held in a time-delayed safe and if any potential robber wants to wait 15 minutes for the safe to open, then good luck to him.
"The amount of cash which is actually held in any of our tills at any one time is minimal.
"Our shops also have panic alarms installed which, when activated, go directly to the police station.
"It is obviously a worrying time for anyone involved in the industry."
DCI Jez Noyce of Bournemouth and Poole CID, said: "These crimes are all being investigated individually and I would like to reassure the public that investigating these crimes is a priority for Dorset Police – with two men already being charged separately for two of those offences.
"We have received many calls in response to our witness and information appeals and gained a lot of information.
"Despite this recent spate of criminal activity I stress that these types of robberies are not usual for Dorset.
"Perpetrators arrested will be dealt with robustly and anyone convicted of such a crime is likely to face a very lengthy prison sentence."
He urged shop staff to be vigilant and to make sure that safety features like CCTV were in working order.


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How to calculate a dilapidations provision?
I need to calculate a dilapidations provisions for an office lease expiring in 5 years.
Its a fiarly normal office, the dilapidations will be painting, carpeting, some equipment removal and partition restoration. We'll get the cost assessed formally in the last year of the lease. But in the meantime, I need to start accruing a provision.
What £ per square foot cost or range of costs is typical for a normal dilpaidations?
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The concept of a £/sq ft seems inappropriate to me - I would have thought each building needs to be considered on its own merits, as to what works will be required. That might be difficult without some help from a builder.
A provision should not be made in the accounts unless an accurate estimate can be made. I'm not sure that your proposed estimate will meet the requirements of a provision under UK GAAP.
Have you considered the tax treatment of the provision? Any capital expenditure including demolition or construction works included in the dilapidation provision won't be allowable.
The way we do it is......
We deal with many properties. Even a builders quote is not going to be particularly accurate 5 years out and a lot relies on the facilities manager's negotiation skills.
We simply look at recent experience and apply a rate per square foot and the auditors who are one of the big four have not had a problem with this approach.
In terms of accounting for the provision, when we capitalise lease hold improvements we also capitalise the delaps provision as well which is then relesed over the minimum lease period, so you don't get a big one off hit to the P&L.
We are currently using a rate of c.£9 per square foot.
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Droning on doesn't suit Paul very well
John Watson is a long time Wilmington talk show host. He now makes NewsWorks one of the places where he expresses his opinion on various topics.
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To listen to the media reports on Senator Rand Paul's filibuster, in opposition to John Brennan as head of the
Rand Paul's ranting stunt is some of the most nonsense I have ever heard from an elected official in Congress or elsewhere. Reports say in answering a letter Paul wrote to Brennan on this, Attorney General Eric Holder answered, in essence, it's not going to happen.
I'm all in favor of government transparency, up to a point. But we don't need to know the why and how drone attacks kill the enemy and Americans working with them. This puts our
And what about those silly headlines we are seeing like "WHY OBAMA CAVED ON DRONE
In a letter to Senator Paul, answering his concerns, Attorney General Eric Holder said the U.S. has never carried out a drone strike against an American on
Of course, Senator Paul didn't agree with this, using scare tactics to instill deep fear of the U.S. government, saying we should be concerned about the possibility of the President ordering a drone attack on an innocent American sitting in a dinning room or café anywhere. Rush Limbaugh is quoted in the media as calling him a hero. I say both of them are screwballs that need their heads examined, and should stop trying to misinform Americans what the Constitution says.
Now I don't know about any one reading this piece, but that doesn't sound like President Barrack Obama, or Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking for both of them, caved on anything Senator Paul had to say during and after his filibuster. Paul was criticized by GOP Senator John McCain, especially his Jane Fonda "hell fire" remarks, suggesting a drone attack could have killed her when she protested the Vietnam War. Senator McCain defended her freedom of speech rights to protest the Vietnam War, even though he disagreed with her. McCain said Paul's rant against extrajudicial drone attacks was "simply silly" and "ridiculous" and a "stretch of the imagination" to "allege or infer that the President of the
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BILLIONS of dollars in tax breaks for research and development by big business may be cut under an option being considered by a high-powered panel looking to plug holes in the business tax system.
The move is being eyed to help fund plans by the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, to offer tax relief for loss-making small business in this year's budget, and he has appointed a business tax working group to advise on savings that could pay for the changes.
With some of the nation's biggest companies receiving millions in research tax breaks, cutting large firms' access to the R&D tax incentive has emerged as an option that would help deliver the hefty budget savings needed.
Under the present scheme, companies with a turnover of more than $20 million a year receive a 40 per cent tax offset on research and development spending.
The tax break is forecast to cost $1 billion in revenue this financial year, but there are fears its cost will blow out amid large claims by corporate giants, including highly profitable miners and banks.
While there is wide support for R&D concessions for smaller businesses, the working group has canvassed cutting such generous support for large businesses.
''For very large companies, the argument goes, it doesn't drive R&D because they'll do it anyway,'' said one source in the group.
The Treasurer's office would not comment on the recommendations from the group, but previous government reviews have found corporate Australia enjoys lucrative tax breaks for research and development.
In an economic note released yesterday, Mr Swan said government
revenue lost due to global turmoil means ''we will have to continue to find substantial savings in the budget''.
The 2008 Cutler review of the innovation system said that some miners were claiming as much as 80 per cent of their total investment spending on one-off projects under existing rules.
However, cutting incentives for research and development would likely meet a hostile response among corporate taxpayers.
The director of economics and industry policy at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Greg Evans, warned that any cut could harm spending on innovation.''We are in an environment where we are trying to encourage investment in innovation and the like,'' he said.
''We would be concerned about any measure which made it less attractive to invest in important areas of research and development.''
A Minerals Council of Australia spokesman said miners had spent more than $4 billion on research and development, delivering ''massive benefits'' to the Australian budget through higher productivity.
''Any reduction in R&D tax credits runs the risk of stifling the kind of expenditure needed to ensure Australia remains at the forefront of mining technology and the global mining services industry,'' he said.
The business tax working group, which met on Friday, is expected to hand in its final report to Mr Swan as soon as this week.
Other potential savings include cutting tax breaks for borrowing by local subsidiaries of multinationals, as well as depreciation allowances for the oil and gas industry.


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Their upcoming title track, which has been given the name "Rum Pum Pum Pum" for its English title ("First Wisdom Tooth" is the actual Korean title), is a pop dance track that compares belatedly finding one's first love to a wisdom tooth that grows last as it pushes aside the other teeth.
You don't have to pinch yourself to make sure that this is all happening as their comeback stage dates are also set! They'll actually be kicking off their comeback stages prior to the album release, starting off with their performance at 'M! Countdown' on the 25th. The 2nd full-length album 'Pink Tape' will be released on and offline on the 29th!
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GM adds 8.2 million cars to recall for ignition switches
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General Motors' safety crisis worsened on Monday when the automaker added 8.2 million vehicles to its ballooning list of cars recalled over faulty ignition switches.
The latest recalls involve mainly older midsize cars and bring GM's total this year to 29 million, surpassing the 22 million recalled by all automakers last year. The added recalls also raise questions about the safety of ignition switches in cars made by all manufacturers.
GM said the recalls are for "unintended ignition key rotation" and cover seven vehicles, including the Chevrolet Malibu from 1997 to 2005, the Pontiac Grand Prix from 2004 to 2008, and the 2003-2014 Cadillac CTS.
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The company is aware of three deaths, eight injuries and seven crashes involving the vehicles, although it has no conclusive evidence that faulty switches caused the accidents.
CEO Mary Barra said the recalls stem from an extensive safety review within the company.
"If any other issues come to our attention, we will act appropriately and without hesitation," she said in a statement.
The recalls come just hours after the company's compensation consultant, Kenneth Feinberg, announced plans to pay victims of crashes caused by the defective small-car switches. Attorneys and lawmakers say about 100 people have died and hundreds were injured in crashes, although Feinberg said he didn't have a total.
Feinberg said the company has placed no limit on how much he can spend in total to compensate victims.
GM also announced four other recalls Monday covering more than 200,000 additional vehicles. Most are to fix an electrical short in the driver's door that could disable the power locks and windows and even cause overheating.


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60's retrospective, 'shooting stars' at Berlinale
European cinema of the 1960s will be the theme of the 2002 Berlinale's Retrospective. In addition, a special 'Shooting Stars' film programme will be staged by pan-European promotion body European Film Promotion (EFP).
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Ruffsdale native revels in Emmy experience
A Ruffsdale native who won a $10,000 scholarship for her proposal to develop an iPad application to help teachers working with special education students got the chance to meet some Hollywood stars and watch paparazzi in action last month at an Emmy awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
Kimberly McMichael Snyder of Youngwood, formerly of Ruffsdale, was joined by her childhood friend and college roommate, Holly Hope Yencha of West Newton, in walking down the red carpet Sept. 15 into the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, where television producers and set designers were recognized. Snyder was invited as one of the four winners of the 2013 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's Mister Rogers Memorial Scholarship, which is named after Latrobe native Fred Rogers, a pioneer in children's television.
"We walked down the red carpet. That's really incredible for two country kids," Snyder said of herself and Yencha.
Instead of driving up to the Emmys in a limousine like television stars, the Westmoreland County women drove their rental car to the ceremony, but did enjoy the perks of having preferred parking tickets, Yencha said.
Many of the photographers along the red carpet were yelling the name of every celebrity who walked down the red carpet in an attempt to get their attention, Yencha said.
"They were behind small barriers and under umbrellas. It was just as you would see on television and very frenzied," Yencha said.
Rather than ignoring the two Western Pennsylvania women who were not the target of photographers seeking cover shots for magazines, Snyder said the celebrities they met "were really friendly."
"Everyone we met, from actors to writers to set artists, were extremely friendly. I anticipated some of the celebrities being shy and avoiding interactions, except when necessary. It was quite the opposite. Many of the actors even went up to the gated area where fans were and took pictures with them," Yencha said.
The two 32-year-old women had the opportunity to meet Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman, actor Michael Emerson from the television shows "Lost" and "Person of Interest," comedians Bob Newhart and Seth Green and actresses Lisa Rinna, Katherine McPhee and Molly Shannon, among others. And they have the pictures to prove it.
Not only did they get a good reception outside the theater where the four-hour ceremony was held, but inside they got tickets to sit in the orchestra pit, rather than the upper tier far from the stage.
"I thought we were going up to the balcony," Snyder said.
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Snyder was selected for the prestigious honor of the Rogers scholarship "because the strength of her work indicated her ability to embody the values of the legendary Fred Rogers as she pursues her career in children's media," said Norma Provencio Pichardo, executive director of the Television Academy Foundation in North Hollywood, Calif.
The scholarship, which was announced in March, is worth $10,000 to graduate students to support and encourage them to pursue a career in children's media and further the values and principles of Fred Rogers' work, according to the foundation's website.
Snyder is working with a Pittsburgh area computer game developer to create the iPad application that she says will be a positive classroom behavior management program.
"The purpose of the application is to stimulate student motivation and positive behaviors in the classroom by allowing the students to have an opportunity to earn a reward through an interactive iPad game," said Snyder, who hopes to have it in operation by spring 2014.
"I've always wanted to find a positive motivation for students, rather than the consequences to motivate positive behavior," said Snyder, who has worked as a behavior specialist dealing with children with developmental disabilities.
The two 1999 Greensburg Central High School and Penn State graduates share more than a social friendship – "she's the best friend you can have" Yencha says of Snyder – they both have a passion for education and want to make it their career.
Snyder is a substitute elementary teacher in the Yough and Southmoreland school districts. Yencha has taught at the Northwestern Human Services Autism School in Whitney, Unity Township.
Snyder earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology at Penn State, while Yencha was earning a bachelor's degree in psychology, also at Penn State.
Snyder has a master's degree in developmental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and is working toward a master's degree in early childhood education at Carlow University in Pittsburgh in the spring of 2014. Ultimately, she said she wants to teach in an elementary school and continue developing children's media.
Yencha is working toward her doctoral degree in special education at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her master's degree in special education with teacher certifications in special and elementary education at Seton Hill University in Greensburg.
She wants to continue teaching after earning her doctorate. Yencha also has been operating her business, Jolly Holly Balloon Art & Co., out of her home in West Newton.
"I also hope to work with kids in some capacity, even if only through my balloon business or a few hours a week at a center," Yencha said.
Joe Napsha is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com or 724-836-5252.


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Shares of the following stocks hit 52-week highs on Thursday: Sherwin-Williams ( SHW), NextEra Energy ( NEE), Sempra Energy ( SRE) and Altria ( MO). Sherwin-Williams "We believe Sherwin fundamentals are tracking well based on demand recovery in US architectural coatings and prospects for ongoing margin restoration, aided by raw material cost relief," Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts wrote in a report Wednesday. "With below-average exposure to Europe, Asia, and related FX risk, earnings growth is resilient, so SHW shares could continue to attract capital, especially if "risk-off" market dynamics persist." Shares of Sherwin-Williams hit a 52-week high on Thursday of $130.75. The stock's 52-week low of $69.47 was set on Aug. 19. Sherwin-Williams trades at an estimated price-to-earnings ratio of 24.63; the average of its peers is 14.5. For comparison, Valspar ( VAL) has a lower forward P/E of 15.98. Ten of the 16 analysts who cover Sherwin-Williams rated it hold. Three analysts gave the stock a buy rating and another three rated it sell. The stock has risen 46.63% year to date.


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an Australian fintech services company providing digital banking solutions, digital customer on-boarding and lending platforms, and managed network and hosting services. Founded in 1988 The System Works Group now has over 50 staff and focuses on the financial market comprising banks, mutual banks and credit unions, building societies and incorporated associations. Project: eyeSafe
a startup business, currently located in Singapore providing event organizers and marketers with social audience to market to. They have put forward an idea of an app which alows their clients to set up their own geolocated social network to attract people's attention to their events and services provided. Project: BlastOut
a UK-based company founded in 1998, whose mission is to provide focused information on broadband communications services, and is internationally recognized as one of the best sources on broadband. It provides subscribers with regularly updated online databases and reports about broadband services around the world. Project: Point Topic
an American worldwide communications company. It provides communications and data services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers in 37 states. A member of the S&P 500 index, the company operates as a local exchange carrier and Internet service provider in U.S. markets and is the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States in terms of lines served, behind AT&T and Verizon. Projects: CenturyLink Repo, CenturyLink MM
SquarePeg Software Ltd – the creators of Asset Tracker, the mobile based asset management system and the Vehicle Inspection system that provides an end to end solution for inspecting and reporting of vehicle conditions using the latest in mobile technology. This company is a member of the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association – the trade body for companies engaged in the leasing and rental of cars and commercial vehicles, which produce software all over the world. Project: Vehicle Inspection App
one of the biggest manufacturers and marketers of computer hardware,middleware and software in the world. It offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Projects: printing materials, interactive instruments, flash website.
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The words are full of drama and action. ''Some of the places are so steep that some of our horses fell backwards and rolled 20 or 30 feet among the rocks,'' a soldier named John Ordway wrote of his trek across the Bitterroot Mountains with Lewis and Clark. Yet as Matthew Broderick reads those words, what we see on the television screen is a prettily filmed, bland image of a distant hill in what is now Idaho. No horses; no tension. There you have the essential problem with Ken Burns's lovingly made but wrongheaded film, ''Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery.'' The pictures are rarely equal to the subject. (The two-part program begins tonight on PBS.)
The director applies his trademark style: old artwork, fresh photography, actors reading from letters and journals of the period. But as it chronicles an adventure that predated photography, ''Lewis and Clark'' relies on so many contemporary nature scenes that it resembles a National Geographic special. After such invigorating triumphs as ''The Civil War,'' ''The West'' and ''Thomas Jefferson,'' Mr. Burns has arrived at the point where his style has become a nervous tic. There are more shots of sun-dappled rivers, more banjo and fiddle music here than any film should have to bear.
There are other obstacles built into the subject. The Continental Divide is nothing next to the division between those who dismiss Lewis and Clark as a bad classroom memory and those who are part of what can honestly be called their cult. Some people approach the 19th-century explorers with worshipful obsession, and there is enough interest in them to make Stephen E. Ambrose's fine 1996 book, ''Undaunted Courage,'' an unlikely best seller.
The journey and its players were astonishing. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the group called the Corps of Discovery to go, literally, off the map. They set out from the Missouri River in 1804, arriving at the Pacific a year and a half and many surprises later.
They were searching for what turned out to be the nonexistent Northwest Passage, a water route linking the Atlantic with the Pacific. Along the way, they opened the West and kept meticulous, fascinating records. They encountered helpful Mandan Indians and hostile Sioux. They saw mystifying creatures we now call jack rabbits, antelope and prairie dogs, and documented 122 kinds of animals and 178 species of plants Easterners had never seen.Continue reading the main story
''Lewis and Clark'' includes all this and far more. Yet, with its assumption that every viewer shares Mr. Burns's fascination, it preaches to the converted and fails to convey a sense of the expedition as a dynamic adventure. The film includes some photographs taken decades later, notably of Indians, buildings and landscapes that had changed little. But the lack of photographs from the expedition's era remains a serious problem. ''The Civil War,'' after all, was built around photographs; ''Thomas Jefferson'' relied on a wealth of visual substitutes, from Jefferson's architectural drawings to Monticello itself.
There are moments when Mr. Burns's strategy in ''Lewis and Clark'' succeeds. When the Corps of Discovery stops for the winter, building Fort Mandan, scenes of an empty, frozen landscape in North Dakota effectively convey its harsh battle against nature. More typically, the film cannot make the Great Plains seem as startling to us as they were to Lewis and Clark.
Adam Arkin is appropriately somber and thoughtful as he reads from Lewis's extraordinary journals. Marveling at his discoveries, Lewis says, ''It seemed as if those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.'' The film offers an intriguing thumbnail version of his character: he had been Jefferson's personal secretary; he was prone to depression; he killed himself three years after the expedition ended.
Hal Holbrook acts as official, off-screen narrator. But Dayton Duncan, who wrote the script, and Mr. Ambrose appear so often that they become on-screen narrators describing the action. Mr. Ambrose's strength is in detail. ''Paper and ink, powder and rifles'' were the essential supplies that never ran out, he says. Mr. Duncan is an amiable, lucid storyteller, yet he is also responsible for some grandiose claims about Lewis and Clark's symbolic importance. The expedition members experienced ''the first Fourth of July ever celebrated west of the Mississippi.''
Mr. Burns, Mr. Duncan and Mr. Ambrose have all retraced the expedition's trail. They have lived out the boyhood adventure at the core of the saga, an element that surely accounts for much of Lewis and Clark's hold on the imagination. The film leaves a sneaking suspicion that the off-screen adventure was the real story, and tonight's program simply the overflow.
The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
PBS, tonight and tomorrow
(Channel 13, New York, at 8)
Directed by Ken Burns; written by Dayton Duncan; produced by Mr. Burns and Mr. Duncan; Paul Barnes and Erik Ewers, editors; Buddy Squires, Ken Burns and Allen Moore, cinematography. A production of Florentine Films and WETA/Washington. Hal Holbrook, narrator.
WITH THE VOICES OF: Adam Arkin (Meriwether Lewis), Murphy Guyer (William Clark), Sam Waterston (Thomas Jefferson), Matthew Broderick, Gene Jones, Kevin Conway and Tantoo Cardinal.Continue reading the main story


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The British Government today gave the House of Commons assurance that it will give "thorough consideration" to a proposal introduced in Parliament yesterday, amending the Public Order Act in such a way as to forbid incitements against any racial groups in this country.
However, the Government spokesman, Home Secretary Henry Brooke, also warned that careful consideration must be given to the problem of preserving the right of free speech "while effectively discouraging wanton incitement to racial hatred."
Members of the Labor and Liberal Parties, who have been pressing all week for a statement by the Home Secretary on the recent riotous mass meetings conducted by the British National Socialists and the British Union Movement, the fascist group led by Sir Oswald Mosley, insisted that the Government take some action now.
Sir Barnett Janner, a Laborite, charged that Mr. Brooke's statement failed to note that the "law as it stands" permits the Home Secretary to stop certain types of meetings, declaring that "the common law gives no right to people continuing to perpetuate these outrages."
George Brown, deputy leader of the opposition, told the Home Secretary he was anxious to have the next three months, during Parliament's recess, used for evaluation of the Public Order Act "in relation to the situation that exists today." The Public Order Act itself had been adopted in 1936.
Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond urged Mr. Brooke to distinguish between genuine meetings and those designed to the spread of race hatred. James Griffiths, a Laborite, pointed out that the recent manifestations constituted "sheerest provocations by the marching of people who support racial doctrines through areas where there are settled Jewish and colored populations."
A Conservative Party member, Sir Robert Cary, also backed the proposed Public Order Act amendment, which had been introduced by another Conservative. Mr. Brooke insisted, however, that the Government had no power to ban meetings in advance. He did concede that the police authorities can halt meetings, if they "are likely to promote a breach of the peace."
The Home Secretary deplored attacks against fascist meetings. "We find it deeply disturbing," he said, "however much we abhor and despise views which, fortunately, commend themselves only to a tiny minority in this country, to see in this country the use of physical violence as a means of preventing them from being expressed. This is not a reaction that can be tolerated." He said the police will continue to take firm action against those using violence.
Thirty-five Conservative members of Parliament, meanwhile, have tabled a motion emphasizing the importance of freedom of speech. The motion states: "This House declares its belief that freedom of speech within law is a foundation of parliamentary democracy and reaffirms the principle that, if danger arises from the exercise of lawful rights resulting in a breach of the peace, the remedy is in the presence of sufficient forces to prevent that result, not the legal condemnation of those who exercise those rights."
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A New Hampshire woman with a history of alcohol- and drug-related arrests has been charged with vehicular homicide in the Pleasantville crash that killed her husband and injured their young children last year.
Allison Hawks Nasta, 28, of Manchester, was traveling west on the Black Horse Pike on Aug. 28 when she lost control, crossed several lanes of traffic and collided with a utility pole.
William Nasta, 34, was killed. His wife and the couple's two daughters - one 5 years old, the other 3 months old - were hospitalized for their injuries, but all have recovered.
After the crash, Hawks Nasta originally gave police a fake name, Pleasantville police Chief Jose Ruiz said at the time. She was charged with hindering apprehension, obstruction of justice and several motor vehicle violations.
Detectives found drug paraphernalia in the vehicle and discovered the woman's license had been suspended. Later, investigators with the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office found thousands of dollars in stolen goods inside the West Atlantic City hotel room the couple shared in Egg Harbor Township, officials said. The items taken from homes in Linwood and Galloway and Mullica townships included costume jewelry, cameras, safes and electronics. Hawks Nasta was charged with receiving stolen goods.
Hawks Nasta has a history of drug-related incidents and trespassing charges in her hometown and is currently in custody in New Hampshire on charges unrelated to the ones in New Jersey.
A month before the crash, she was found to be allegedly driving while suspended in Manchester, N.H. That stop also revealed she was intoxicated and in possession of drugs, according to a police blotter item in the Salem Patch.
On June 9, 2011, Hawks Nasta also was arrested on charges of driving under the influence in Manchester, the Pelham-Windham News reported. And in 2009, William Nasta was charged with driving while intoxicated and without a license, the Eagle-Tribune blotter shows. His wife was charged with heroin possession when the couple were found passed out in their car sitting in a travel lane in Salem, according to the Union Leader.
Shortly after the deadly crash, Nasta's father - also named William - said the family was devastated over his son's death and that he was adopting the children, who included a then-10-year-old.
Hawks Nasta's bail on the vehicular homicide charge is $50,000. The charge carries five to 10 years in state prison if convicted.
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Nepali Film – Kancha
Starring – Rajesh Hamal, Karishma Manandhar, Subhadra Adhikari, Laxmi Shrestha, Rama Thapaliya, Kiran KC, Gopal Bhutani, Hiuwala Gautam, Jal Shah etc.
Director – Surya Bohara
Kancha is the first presentation of Shivapuri Films by Diamond Singh Malla. The director, Surya Bohara had written the story script and the dialogue of the movie. The movie featuring Karishma, Jal Shah was one of the hit movies of the time. After a long gap, Surya Bohara had recently produced 'Mutu' and 'Thuli'.
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Town & Country Food Stores relies on both wholesale and DSD for salty snacks
Customers want chips. It's one of the major impulse items in c-stores today, and still the No. 1 item in the snack category. Potato chips alone command a lot of space and, in turn, a lot of attention. But there is more to the salty snack category than chips, and as a whole, to manage and maintain it takes a lot of time and attention — especially with the never-ending new product introductions by major manufacturers.
"There are more new product introductions in the salty snacks category today than ever before, especially in chips," said Ray Bishop, director of merchandising at Town & Country Food Stores Inc., based in San Angelo, Texas, and operating 144 convenience stores and seven grocery stores.
In Bishop's stores, the salty snack category includes peanuts, salted nuts and chips. Currently there are 451 SKUs on record, and the one of the best-selling products in salty snacks is Cheetos Hot, according to Bishop.
"It debuted in our area in 2002, but it has really risen to the top since then and is No. 1 in our chip category at this time," he said.
Additionally, the same products and planograms can typically be found from store to store, and the space allocation for salty snacks alone is at least 24 total feet — equivalent to 120 linear feet, Bishop reported. This includes gondola, endcap and inline space.
Where delivery is concerned, the stores receive the majority of salty snack products though direct store delivery (DSD), especially the chips.
"Typically, our chips are delivered DSD, but select items, such as Pringles, come from a warehouse distributor," noted Bishop. Town & Country uses Texas-based Grocery Supply Co. as its warehouse distributor, and has for the last eight or nine years.
There are pros and cons to both types of delivery, especially in the demanding snack category, but Bishop says it's wise to utilize both methods. "If we didn't use both, we would be limited in the items we could carry," he said.
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To maintain any category, it's important to stay on top of out-of-stocks, achieve just-in-time ordering and restock the shelves — after all, a full shelf is more attractive to a customer than one with holes due to missing product. But staying on top of this takes a lot of labor time, which takes away from time with the customer — and can add expense to the bottom line.
But with DSD, labor is not an issue. "One of the pros of DSD is we don't have to tie up labor because they handle it with the delivery," Bishop explained. "Typically with DSD, stores are serviced one to three times a week for salty snacks. However, it could be as many as four or five times a week, depending on the location."
Also, because salty snacks are impulse items, some stores carry extra stock to make it through the weekend and avoid out-of-stocks. "Depending on the store — the traffic and the store location — we do have back stock that we hold over for the weekend," he explained. "In a neighborhood store we normally won't need back stock, but if it's a store near a busy thoroughfare, interstate or recreational area, we could very easily need additional back stock."
In this case, the guaranteed sale DSD offers comes in handy. "If an item doesn't sell, they take it back," said Bishop. DSD manufacturers also take charge of switching items.
"Our salty snack planograms are somewhat flexible with DSD merchandise," said Bishop. "We do have more SKUs authorized than there is space allocated for all of them. However, there is flexibility for the distributor to determine what items sell best in specific locations and/or the ability to replace items that are slow movers with another item that may be more acceptable to the consumer. All items must be authorized through our pricebook system. Many times, when a new item is introduced, it replaces another because of space allocation."
All in all, there are not many drawbacks when it comes to DSD, as far as Bishop is concerned. "Occasionally there is a poor service issue, but other than that, there are few, if any, drawbacks," he said.
Currently Frito-Lay, Lance and Tom's are Town & Country's DSD snack vendors.
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Besides Pringles chips, other salty snack items delivered through the company's distributor include Planters nuts, Chex Mix and pork skins, and deliveries come twice per week.
One of the biggest pros to using a wholesaler is the price of the product. Overall, Town & Country's gross profit margin on salty snacks is approximately 36.7 percent annually, and products coming from a wholesaler often contribute more to this number.
"We are more likely to have a better cost or profit margin on the items through our wholesaler because it eliminates another person in the line of distribution having to be paid," said Bishop.
However, warehouse delivery because means more work for Town & Country employees. "It takes more time ordering, stocking and rotating the products ourselves," explained Bishop. "Also, it's not a guaranteed sale like it is with DSD."
There's also an issue of lag time: While DSD is delivered straight from the manufacturer, warehouse distribution adds an extra step in the process. "With warehouse you could get shorter expiration dates because by the time we receive it, that item could have been sitting in the warehouse for an expanded period of time," said Bishop.
In order to get all the products he wants in the stores, Bishop uses both delivery methods. The only challenge with using both is time allocation to receive the orders, he said. "With our wholesaler, we do our own ordering by transmitting the order to them from the store level," he said. "With DSD, sometimes it is strictly based on the route person and other times we have to do bill-to charts. So time allocation can become challenging."
Most items falling into the salty snack category increased in dollar sales from June 2004 to June 2005, and the biggest movers include unshelled nuts, canned nuts and trail mixes, according to ACNielsen's Convenience Track.
Unshelled nuts jumped 24.7 percent in dollar sales from $8.8 million in 2004 to $11.0 million in 2005; canned nuts rose 15.7 percent and trail mixes increased 15 percent.
The category leader in terms of sales is still potato chips, which increased 6.7 percent from $500.6 million in 2004 to $534.0 million in 2005.
Tortilla chips are another big seller, up 4.2 percent in 2005 to $321.2 million in sales, and third in line is bagged nuts, up 6.4 percent to $291.5 million.
Items that fell in sales include pork rinds, caramel corn, potato sticks and jars of nuts. The biggest drop was in sales of potato sticks, falling 10.3 percent to $1.9 million this year, compared to $2.1 million last year. Pork rinds are down 8.5 percent, caramel corn is down 5.1 percent and jars of nuts fell 2.4 percent.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0812 Monday, 17 April 2000.
Date: Friday, 14 Apr 2000 10:44:32 -0700
Subject: San Francisco Shakespeare Marathon
Sorry I didn't learn about this earlier. San Francisco will have a
rather leisurely Bardathon beginning in two days, as I write this, and
yesterday, when most of you read it. It has not received much
publicity. Mostly, audience members will not participate. Various Bay
Area theater companies, with an exception or two, will do the readings.
It is put on by "The Committee to Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday" and
will take place at
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco
Box office number: (415) 826-5750
Attended parking available on Bartlett and 21st St.
The suggested donation is $5 -10 per play. For weekends, a full day pass
can be purchased for $20. A $100 pass is available for the entire 10
days of the MARATHON. Proceeds from the MARATHON benefit the LEMONADE
FUND, a grant program for critically ill theater workers.
Here is their schedule. Note, Edward III is included.
Apr 16 - Sunday
The Comedy of Errors 8:00 am Special Guests
Midsummer Night's Dream 10:00 am The Marin Shakespeare Company
Edward III Noon Pacific Repertory Theatre Company
Coriolanus 2:30 pm Inquiline Theatre Company
Romeo and Juliet 5:30 pm Warehouse Theatre Company
Othello 8:15 Chameleon Theatre Company
Apr 17 - Monday
Henry VI, part I 4:00 pm The Audience reads
King John 6:30 pm The California Shakespeare Festival
Troilus and Cressida 9:00 pm Valentine's Playtime
Apr 18 - Tuesday
Henry VI, part II 4:00 pm Living Shakespeare Company
Much Ado About Nothing 6:45 pm Rough and Tumble
The Merchant of Venice 9:15 pm Random Acts Theatre
Apr 19 - Wednesday
Henry VI, part III 4:00 pm The Other Side of New York
Antony and Cleopatra 6:30 pm Heroes Theatre Company
Measure for Measure 9:15 pm Subterranean Shakespeare Company
Apr 20 - Thursday
Richard III 4:00 pm San Leandro Shakespeare Festival
Twelfth Night 7:15 pm The Half Baked Players
Julius Caesar 9:30 pm Guerrilla Shakespeare Productions
Apr 21 - Friday
Richard II 4:00 pm Shakespeare E.T.C.
Two Noble Kinsmen 6:30 pm African American Shakespeare Company
Love's Labour's Lost 9:15 pm Actor's Theatre of Sonoma
Macbeth Midnight Exit Theatre
Apr 22 - Saturday
Breakfast with the Bard! Pericles 8:00 am Cal State Hayward
Merry Wives of Windsor 10:15 am Theatre Bay Area
Henry IV, part I 12:45 pm Impact Theatre
King Lear 3:30 pm Strange Prescription Theatre Company
The Taming of the Shrew 6:30 pm SF Shakespeare Festival
Titus Andronicus 9:00 pm The Thrillpeddlers
Apr 23 - Sunday
Breakfast with the Bard!
Timon of Athens 8:00 am The Cutting Ball
As You Like It 10:00 am The Shotgun Players
Henry IV, part II 12:30 pm Street of Dreams Theatre Company
The Tempest 3:30 pm Festival Theatre Ensemble
Party 5:30 pm
Hamlet 7:00 pm Eastenders Repertory Theatre
Apr 24 - Monday
Two Gentlemen of Verona 4:00 pm ACT Conservatory
The Winter's Tale 6:00 pm Women in Time Productions
Henry V 8:45 Crowded Fire Theatre Company
Apr 25 - Tuesday
All's Well That Ends Well 4:00 pm Pheonix II Theatre Company
Cymbeline 6:30 pm Unconditional Theatre Company
Henry VIII 9:15 pm (not announced)
Have fun,
Mike Jensen


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