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Zacks Investment Research reports Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI) is diversifying its business model by adding new revenue streams in an effort to adapt to the changing face of the multiplatform media universe. These endeavors have helped this Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) media conglomerate to gradually emerge as a true value pick, as is evident from its compelling valuation, including a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 7.75.
What Makes Gannett a True Value Pick?
Gannett remains well positioned to harness the opportunities of a rapidly changing business model, such as digitalization, in order to keep itself on the growth path. The company recently provided an update of its growth initiatives and stated that its long-term objective is to attain annual revenue growth of 2% to 4%.
To achieve this, the company is focusing on its subscription-based model and Digital Marketing Services products. Management expects subscription revenue for the U.S. Community Publishing division to increase 25% by the end of 2013, which would translate into a contribution of approximately $100 million to operating profit.
For 2012, company-wide digital revenue is projected advance 19% year over year to $1.3 billion, whereas retransmission revenue is expected to jump 20% to $96 million. Retransmission consent fees for 2013 are expected between $135 million and $140 million, reflecting a more than 40% advance from the 2012 level.
Gannett now forecasts total revenue growth of over 5% and earnings at 87 cents to 88 cents per share for the fourth quarter of 2012. The company has surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in 8 of the past 10 quarters. The average surprise for the period was 4.6%.
The company posted third quarter earnings of 56 cents per share on October 15, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by nearly 4% and rose from the prior-year period by 27.3%. The upside reflected a surge in television advertising attributed to the Olympics and political spending, and the subscription-based model.
Gannett's total revenue climbed 3.4% year over year to $1,309.3 million, due to an increase in revenues across the Broadcasting and Digital segments, partially mitigated by a drop in the Publishing division. Total revenue also came ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1,293 million.
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The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 rose 3.1% to $2.30 per share over the last 60 days, as 5 out of 7 estimates were revised upward. The current estimate implies year-over-year growth of 7.8%.
For 2013, the Zacks Consensus Estimate advanced 4.5% over the same timeframe to $2.30 per share, thanks to 7 upward revisions out of 9 total estimates. The current estimate suggests year-over-year growth of 0.2%.
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Gannett's P/E multiple remains below 15.0, suggesting a value stock. Its price-to-book (P/B) ratio of 1.55 and price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of just 0.79 are lower than the industry averages of 2.20 and 1.60, respectively. Volume is fairly strong, averaging roughly 3,924K daily. It has a remarkable trailing 12-month ROE of 20.1%, compared with the peer group average of 16.6%. The company's PEG ratio of 1.0 stands on par with the benchmark indicator and indicates that the stock is reasonably valued given the long-term earnings growth projection of 7.9%.
The company's stock price remains below 2012 and 2013 earnings estimates, reflecting that the stock is still undervalued. Currently, shares are in the range of $15.00 to $20.00, and have a healthy year-to-date return of 36.7%, significantly higher than the S&P 500's return of 10.7%.
Founded in 1906 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Gannett Co., Inc. operates as an international media and marketing solutions company. It has a well-established presence across various platforms, such as the Internet, mobile, newspapers, magazines and TV stations. The company reports operating results under three segments - Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital. Gannett, which primarily competes with The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT), has a market cap of $4.11 billion.
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Federal Agency Says 'One Year and You're Out' and 'No Accommodation, No Restrictions' Rules Violate Americans With Disabilities Act
CHICAGO – Jewel-Osco, an operating unit of national grocery giant Supervalu, Inc., has been violating federal anti-discrimination law by its leave and disability policies, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, Jewel-Osco is alleged to have refused to allow qualified employees with disabilities who are on authorized disability leave, or who are eligible for it, to return to work if they have any work restrictions, and to have terminated them if they reach the one-year mark on leave. The EEOC also charges that the company has refused to allow qualified employees with disabilities to be assigned to temporary light duty jobs unless they were injured on the job.
In addition, the EEOC contends, Jewel-Osco failed to stop the harassment of an employee disabled by a seizure disorder at its Melrose Park, Ill., warehouse. Among other things said to him, the EEOC maintains, was 'Go have a seizure and crawl on the floor.'"
The EEOC asserts that all this alleged conduct violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, EEOC v. SUPERVALU, INC. a Delaware corporation, and JEWEL-OSCO, an operating unit of SUPERVALU, INC., No. 09 CV 5637, assigned to District Judge Richard Guzman and Magistrate Judge Michael Mason, after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
EEOC Chicago District Director John Rowe, who supervised the administrative investigation which the agency conducted before filing suit, said, "The findings of our investigation were troubling. What we learned indicated to us that Jewel-Osco was apparently not moved to implement its leave policies in a way which might have brought capable disabled employees who had been on leave back to work—instead, they were shut out. We also learned about apparent on-the-job harassment of a disabled employee which was far out of bounds."
EEOC Chicago Regional Attorney John Hendrickson said, "Whether discrimination on the basis of disability strikes at classes of employees or at a single individual, it violates the ADA. Whether the issue is one of leave or termination, accommodation or harassment, the lesson is the same –federal law requires that qualified individuals with disabilities be accorded a fair shot on the job. This case is going to be about seeing how this employer measured up against that standard."
Today's lawsuit is the second recently filed in Chicago by the EEOC against Jewel-Osco under the ADA. On September 4, 2009, the agency filed suit against the company, charging that it had failed to reasonably accommodate a pharmacy employee at its 183rd Street store in Homewood, Ill.; the employee suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and severe allergic reactions to cosmetic fragrances. The September 4 case (N.D. Ill. No. 09 CV 5504) has been assigned to District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo.
Supervisory Trial Attorney Gregory Gochanour and Trial Attorney Gordon Waldron of the EEOC Chicago District Office will lead the agency's litigation team on todays case. The EEOC Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
According to company information, Minneapolis-based Supervalu operates a store network with more than 2,500 locations under various brand names.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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When we replaced our lawn with a garden last month, I knew that I wanted to start with two elements – a mass planting of tall ornamental grass (we planted Gulf muhly), and in the narrow border bed between our yard and the neighbor's driveway, I wanted to mix boulders and native plants in a way that, hopefully, looked more natural than contrived. I got what I wanted, but there is a little "oops!"; I didn't consider that the tall grasses would hide a large portion of the boulder plants.
I was initially inspired by this lovely photo I saw at the blog Creative Country Mom…..
I don't have near as much real estate as CCMom, but here's our new boulder-border below (on the left) sitting behind the tall muhly grass. I like this view, but it's only seen if you stand at the curb in just the right spot.
The rock bed is more visible from the top of the stairs near our driveway (where visitors usually pass to the front door); hopefully the plants in the rocks will thrive and get taller while the muhly shouldn't get much taller than this since it'll be cut back each year in late winter.
I really like this combination of light green Bamboo muhly and silver Texas sage with a purple boulder. I wonder if I can keep the TX sage pruned so it stays full at the bottom and not leggy as it matures? I think low Creeping (wandering?) rosemary (for its dark texture) at the base of the rock would make this even better!
Here's more bamboo muhly planted in a culvert pipe- this visually anchors the end of the long boulder bed. Inspired by Pam Penick's Digging post about culvert pipe planters. The dense sago palm and tall pipe shield the afternoon sun from a saucer of fresh water left for the wildlife.


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The return of Bain
For the final days of the 2012 campaign, the Democratic groups pummeling Mitt Romney on television have returned to the weapon they started with last spring: Bain Capital.
The Obama campaign and its super PAC allies have spent months trashing Romney's policies and personal values across the airwaves, branding him as a job-killing, abortion rights-opposing, Medicare-privatizing tycoon who disdains working-class and poor Americans.
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But with a little over a week left in the race, several of the Democrats' top independent spenders are leaning hard into the Bain message, eschewing a pure policy message for a gut-punch reminder that the former Massachusetts governor made his fortune through controversial deals in the private-equity industry.
The late emphasis on Bain, Democratic strategists say, reflects both the potency of Bain as an attack against Romney in general, and the pivotal significance of Midwestern states such as Ohio where the Bain message is especially resonant. Though Romney remains no better than tied with Obama in most national and swing-state polls, he has gained enough ground since the first debate on Oct. 3 that reinforcing Obama's standing in states such as Ohio and Wisconsin is of paramount importance.
The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is re-airing one of its most powerful Bain-bashing ads: The spot, titled "Stage," features an employee laid off by Bain describing how workers at his company were asked to build a stage from which executives announced their plant was closing.
Workers' Voice, a super PAC backed by the AFL-CIO, rolled out new TV ads in select battleground markets — in Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa — attacking Romney for Bain's current decision to outsource jobs from Illinois to China.
"Mitt Romney is Bain Capital," the Workers' Voice commercials say. "And right now, Bain is shipping jobs to China and forcing workers to train their Chinese replacements."
In addition, the super PAC American Bridge announced Monday that it will air $161,000 in TV and online ads in Ohio targeting Romney's economic views, including his years at Bain.
Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, who advises Priorities USA, said Bain ads have the potential to cut through the fog of commercials from both sides that's currently cluttering the airwaves with statistics about taxes, job creation, health care and more.
"The Obama campaign, I think, is pushing back very effectively against [Romney's] efforts to make himself a little less scary on his ideological agenda. We're playing our part by reminding voters what his values were in business and what they are likely to be as president," Garin said. "If we were running policy advertising, our ability to add or subtract from all the other gross rating points that people are being exposed to would be on the margins at best."
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For some reason, this realization struck me as symbolic. Our family has moved beyond what is considered "normal" or, heck, even convenient in terms of size. I do believe that when people see a swarm of four young children coming at them in the grocery store or a restaurant, they immediately recoil a little.
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I'm actually looking forward to having four kids.
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I realize that the term "large family" is very subjective — my husband and I actually come from families of four children each, so to us, four kids doesn't seem as entirely crazy. (Although ask me that in three months, when all four of them are up crying!) To some, four seems unmanageable and out of control; to others four might even be considered on the smaller side.
But in today's world, when the average U.S. woman has a fertility rate of 2.1 children, it would appear I am outside the norm. I am 28 years old and I will have a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, a 2-year-old and a newborn by summer's end.
Is that your jaw dropping in disbelief?
Allow me to assure you that I am not some kind of crazy women intent on replicating the Duggar's. I'm a woman who actually doesn't love everything that comes hand-in-hand with raising children; an introvert who loves to recharge with alone time and reading; a professional who loves to work and provide for my family; a failed crafter and a mindless Pinterest pinner. In short, I'm a normal, average woman... who just happens to be pregnant year after year.
Why do I do it?
Well, that's a very good question. In full disclosure, our first daughter was an unexpected (and wonderful) surprise who happened to come along a little earlier than we had planned. And knowing we wanted siblings close in age, we planned for our next two children to be born about two years apart. Siblings = fun, at least in our minds. (And hopefully it works out well for them, too.) And this baby? Well, this baby just happened to be a little extra bonus.
There are days, of course, that I spend wondering what on earth we have gotten ourselves into. There are nights that I sleep alone in our bed and ponder if our marriage can survive the stress of these little-people years. There are moments when I just want to run and bury my head under my comforter, ostrich-style and sleep the day away.
But I keep going. Because I do believe what we are creating here is important.
Family matters
There are broken families, traditional families, non-traditional families and blended families, but I fully believe that when it comes right down to it, our family is our "home base." It's where we learn our values and traditions and where we have room to grow, learn, play and think. And while I am able, I want to provide that for my children. I think it's so important to bring these beings into the world in a place of love and security that only we can provide. We can't protect them from everything, we can't guarantee that they will have an easy time of it here and we certainly can't ensure that everything is hunky-dory all the time, but we can guarantee one thing:
That they will be loved.
And in having a "large" family, I do believe that the love is multiplied and that we all learn lessons and grow together in ways that we may not have otherwise. I learned some ugly truths about myself — my selfishness, what my true passions are in life and how much sleep I need to miss before I dissolve into a shriveled, angry mess — and sometimes, I wonder if my children are the true vessels of wisdom in this household.
I imagine our family down the road with a full and overwhelming table set for a holiday dinner, and I can't help but think that creating a life overflowing with love and laughter is never a mistake.
Even if we can't fit into a restaurant booth.
More on large families
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This resulted in Fender introducing their first line of transistor amplifiers in 1965. These models were not reliable and did not have the sound their tube counterparts had. Subsequently they had a very short fate and were pulled off of the market.
Of course other manufacturers jumped on the transistor design. It was cheaper and the need for those pesky tubes was eliminated.
For some of these manufacturers another idea occurred. Why not make an electric guitar with a built in battery powered amplifier. Transistors provided a way to house much smaller components in an amplifier chassis.
In 1956 the Eveready Corporation invented the small rectangular nine volt battery, eliminating housing 6 AA or AAA batteries which took up more room and were more expensive.
Some of the first guitars with built in amplifiers came from the Asian nations, specifically Japan and others were manufactured in Europe.
Teisco TGR-1
The Teisco Company of Japan got it's name from the acronym for the Tokyo Electric Instrument and Sound Company.
Teisco produced their own products under the Del Ray name, which sounded Spanish.
Spain equated with guitars back in the 1940's and 50's that were not Hawaiian style guitars.
Teisco produced an odd shaped guitar designated as model TGR-1. The lower section of this guitar housed a low wattage amplifier that could be turned off an on with a slider switch. The amp section ran off of 2 nine volt batteries. The back of the speaker coil was slightly larger than the guitar, so a round metal cover was put on the back of the body. The front of the guitar's scratchplate was metal and house twin pickups, volume and tone knobs, the slider switch and slats cut out above the speaker section.
There were three European models. Two were manufactured by Davoli. One was under the Wandre name which we have discussed previously with the post about Pioli Wandre.
The first and the oddest is the Davoli Bikini guitar.
During the time of its arrival the bikini was all the rage for beach wear and everyone was talking about the skimpy little outfits that left little to the imagination.
|Davoli Bikini Guitar - Built by Wandre Guitars
The amplifier section was housed in a large round plastic enclosure designed with a plastic grill, similar to the guard plate of an electric fan.
The amplifier was a German made Kraandal CT642.
The guitar section was oddly shaped and covered with a celluloid material, which seemed to be the case with many Italian made guitars. It had twin pickups attached to a chrome plate with pushbutton switches and an on/off slider switch.
Pioli Wandre had hooked up with Davoli and used Davoli pickups in most of his models. He created a guitar with a built in speaker that was named the Meazzi Hollywood. This guitar looked more like what one would image a guitar to resemble. However true to Wandre's artistic design, it was very misshapen.
This instruments neck was made of wood instead of the aluminum used on most of his guitars and the body was made out of plastic. It had one Davoli pickup with a plastic cover, a volume potentiometer and an on/off throw switch. This guitar also purportedly used the same Kraadal CT642 amplifier.
The upper section of the guitar's lower bout housed the amplifier. The top of the guitar had a fairly complicated design above the speakers grill. The bottom section housed the same control panel found on their Violin bass and other Hofner instruments.
The back access panel was made from part of the wood that had been carefully sawed off of the guitars back. This gave it a much classier look than just slapping a piece of plastic on the guitars back. The amplifier was designed by Hofner.
They took their name from Mr. Kuhrmayer's middle initial. Kay produced a guitar called the Kay Busker. Although I cannot seem to find much information about this guitar, I do recall it being shaped somewhat like a Les Paul and contained a speaker in the lower bout.
Kay also produced a Busker that had a Telecaster-like appearance.
For the uninitiated Busking is a word that means playing as a street musician.
More recently there are about four models of guitars with built in amplifiers that can be deemed guitars as opposed to toy guitars.
|Fernandez Nomad and Nomad Deluxe
The Nomad's body comes in a number of colors including red, white and blue.
|Fernandez Nomad
The Nomad Deluxe has all the same features and shape of the regular Nomad, plus a DigiTech multi-effects processor with drum machine.
The processor gives you 25 programmable effects (10 at once), 40 factory presets and 40user created presets, including amp, cab, pickup, and mic models.
This guitar comes with an input for an expression pedal input and contains a built chromatic tuner. Besides the built-in speaker this guitar has a headphone output jack.
The Synsonics Terminator features a built-in amp and speaker. I am not certain if this guitar/amp is still available. It wasn't quite as well constructed as some of the previously mentioned models.
It came with a single coil pickup Asian made pickup and a tremolo bar. Some models had two single coil pickups.
These guitars were manufactured in Korea during 1989 through 1990.
A similar guitar may be sold today under the trade name First Act.
Finally Pignose Industries, the maker of those little battery powered amplifiers, has been offering a guitar with built-in speaker for sale since the late 1990's.
The model PGG 100 houses a built in amplifier that produces 1 watt and runs on a nine volt battery.
The speaker is housed under the strings in the same place the soundhole would be on an acoustic guitar.
The guitar has a unique double cutaway design with a small body. The neck has a 24 ¼" length and a 3+3 headstock. The bridge is an adjustable Fender style unit.


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let me be first to say...
expensive and crap...
do. not. want.
Computer manufacturers are well known for hyping up their products - "magical", indeed - but few actually fib. Samsung isn't telling porkies, but the sticker on its new X125 overstates with the best of them. Two claims in particular struck me: "Fast booting" and "ultra-thin design". Samsung X125 Samsung's X125: netbook plus …
I find your experience interesting. It is sad to find there are response issues at the level of the user interface.
I wonder could it be the bloat that Samsung loaded the machine with. Ie antivirus software (some as you know are real cpu hogs) and god knows what else.
I can't imagine that much of a slowdown due to a CPU issue solely. My 600 Mhz PIII (1 threaded!) with 512 megs of ram runs xp fine.
If I had that machine, I'd decruft it just to see if it made any difference.
I wish you'd gotten a neo review out sooner! After much agonizing (and pouring over reviews online) I just bought an Acer Aspire One with the same processor as this samsung.
On windows it was a DOG, and booting was a chore. I only dealt with that for about five minutes before I slapped ubuntu on there. Normal ubuntu froze on boot, but xubuntu installed fine for me, and it's quite zippy. Booting probably takes around twenty seconds and applications start quickly enough, though you're right in that it's not very good at multitasking. I didn't really buy it for that, though, the most multitasking I'll be doing is listening to music while writing, so it's OK. The video card rocks, though, and can handle anything I throw at it (some fancy compiz effect, mainly, and the occasional game) without problems.
My main question, then, is how does this compare to a single core intel atom processor? That really seems more like the appropriate competitor than a dual core notebook processor.
... you could get the Thinkpad X100e (model NTS5EUK), which has a dual-core AMD processor and comes with an internal 3G modem card, and has a quality keyboard and choice of pointing devices. It looks remarkably similar in layout to the Samsung. But you lose the HDMI port, and the battery life is worse (maybe 2-3 hours tops).


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Because I really wanted to draw stick figures with jetpacks.
Needs pirate hats, imo. Yarrr.
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Haha! Nice job Kae!
Kae, I LOVE your comic strats! Keep em coming!
Stick figures ftw! :)
Hahaha... that totally made my morning. :D
Seriously, with a VERY angry Captain beating on me, and a million foot fall I really do look that scared :S
I resent being made to look that cute. :P
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Could you make a profit out of going to university? Joshua Collaco is in his second year of a fluid dynamics engineering course at Bath University. He wants to work for Nasa when he graduates, and the income he is getting from his three-bedroom semi-detached property is helping him to avoid student debt.
Joshua bought the property through Northstar Homes, a service that aims to help students and their parents to find suitable property that they can buy with a 100pc mortgage through Bath Building Society. The property ends up in the student's name, but the mortgage company puts a second charge on the parents' property.
Instead of paying the average £352 a month for student halls at Bath, or even higher costs for off-campus rental accommodation, he is paying a mortgage of £973 on the property, which he bought for £170,000. However, he is making a profit on the accommodation because he is sharing the house with three friends – his monthly rental income is £1,400. Parents whose children are at university could save their student children hundreds of pounds a year if they opt to help them buy a property to share with friends during their studies.
This week is the deadline for prospective students to hand in their university application forms. With rental costs rising faster than inflation in many student cities, the difference in cost over three years could be considerable.
For example, a student at the University of Exeter, where the average rental cost for a student is £94 a week, could instead share a buy-to-let three-bedroom house worth an average of £217,000. By renting out two rooms to fellow students at the average rate, parents could allow their own child to live rent-free, rather than racking up further debt.
David Hollingworth of mortgage brokers London & Country said parents could consider a variety of mortgage offers to buy accommodation for student children. He said that although buying a property for a student child was seen as an option only for richer parents, it could be a practical solution for many people.
Statistics from house price website Zoopla show that it is now cheaper to buy property, with an interest-only mortgage, than to rent in 84pc of major towns. Student accommodation has been no exception to rising rents. According to accommodationforstudents.com, the average weekly rent for student property rose by 2.4pc last year to £68.70. Some popular towns have seen vast increases, with 20pc rises in student rental costs in Winchester and Durham and a 25pc increase in student rents in Hull. The most expensive areas for student rentals include London, with an average weekly rent of just over £107, Guildford at £93.46 and Exeter at £93.42.
With the right mortgage, buying a student property can be a cheaper option, and leave you with an asset at the end of it.
For example, Coventry Building Society offers a two-year fixed-rate mortgage at 3.29pc for parents who are able to put up 35pc of the property value from their savings and pay a £1,999 fee. However, even parents who cannot afford to put up a deposit themselves can help their children to get a student mortgage if they are willing to act as a guarantor.
Bath Building Society offers a Buy For Uni mortgage that requires no deposit at all, as long as the parents are willing to offer part of their own property as collateral if the mortgage is not paid. This product has a rate of just over 5pc and the property that the student buys must be located within a 10-mile radius of the university he or she attends. The mortgage is portable after graduation and can also be converted into a regular buy-to-let mortgage.
The Coventry product would allow parents with students at Exeter to buy an average three-bedroom terrace house with a deposit of £54,000. They would then pay an interest-only monthly mortgage rate of £447. By renting two of the bedrooms out at the average student rental rate of £93.42, parents would receive £744 income – more than covering the mortgage without their own child having to contribute.
Even with the Bath Building Society product, the bulk of a £911 mortgage would be covered by two other tenants paying average rents, leaving the student owner of the property paying just over £160 a month.
However, there are a number of points that prospective parent or student landlords should consider. Rents in university towns have performed well in recent years. However, experts warned last week that a fall in university applicants could hit student landlords hard. Graham Kinnear, managing director of landlord services firm Landlord Assist, warned that student landlords should "keep a close eye on university admissions in their area".
"If university applications continue to drop at the current rate this could ultimately lead to some landlords having empty properties on their hands or having to cope with falling rents in the coming years," he said.
Agi Eugenio, head of Northstar Homes, which helps parents to find student properties and arranges finance for them, counselled interested parents to make sure that their properties appealed to more than just the student sector. "We don't advise people to look immediately next to the university," he said. "Areas which are more mixed and where professionals live too can be more versatile."
Wait and see
The first year of a course may not be the best time to buy a student property. Many universities offer accommodation in halls of residence for the first year, which can be a great way to meet other people. Agi Eugenio of Northstar Homes suggested waiting and seeing whether the university suited your child in the first year before buying somewhere for him or her to live for the rest of their university career. As a bonus, hopefully they will have met some friends to share with by the end of that time.
Look to the long term
Some university courses are just three years long, while other students – such as those studying architecture – spend far longer at one institution. If your child is studying a longer-term course, or likely to do a postgraduate qualification in the same area, a student investment may be more appropriate.
Consider your own life too
By buying a student property you are becoming a buy-to-let landlord, especially if you are not considering selling up the instant your child leaves university. Unless you are willing to take on the fees and charges for someone to manage the property, you will have to do it yourself, and the time that you would need to put in can be considerable.
Read the small print
When looking for mortgage deals, check that you are allowed to rent your property to a member of your own family, since this is not always the case, warned David Hollingworth of London & Country Mortgages. Check also that there are no exclusions about renting to students.
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Propter Christum: Christ at the Center (ePub)
Propter Christum: Christ at the Center (ePub)
PLEASE NOTE: This is the ePub/digital version of the book.
Propter Christum: Christ at the Center Essays in Honor of Daniel Preus
410 pgs
Essays included:
Confessional Lutheranism Encounters Pentacostalism in India — Michael J. Albrecht
The Justification of the Ungodly: A Mockery of Simple Justice? — Steven C. Briel
Jesus Working on His Disciples — Jan Bygstad
Luther's Invocavit Sermons: A Distinction between Internals and Externals, between the Law and the Gospel — Albert B. Collver
Christ at the Center: Johannes Brenz and His Expositio epistolam S. Pauli ad Philippenses — Charles L. Cortright
Martin Luther on Holy Baptism: The Catechism and the Von der Heiligen Taufe Predigten (1534) — Matthew C. Harrison
Bo Giertz on Righteousness in Romans — Charles M. Henrickson
Pastor Daniel Preus: A Soldier of Truth, a Singer of Zion — Vyacheslav Horpynchuck
Witness, Mercy, Life Together — Theodore M.R. Krey
Who Are Those Witnesses Again?: Acts 1:8 in Context — Alan Ludwig
A Contemporary View of Faith and Reason in Luther — Mark C. Mattes
Christ at the Center in Luther's Interpretation of Old Testament Prophecy and Narratives — John A. Maxfield
Having Jesus on the Mission Field: Reflections on Lutheran Missiology with Christ at the Center— Daniel F. McMiller
Christ Alone — Herbert C. Mueller
Justification and the Pastor's Daily Work — Scott R. Murray
The History of the Luther Academy — Martin R. Noland
Why Am I a Lutheran? — Martin R. Noland
Center and Periphery in the Lutheran Liturgy: Confessional Identity and Ecumenical Perspective — Darius Petkunas
Christ at the Center: Confessional and Pastoral Christocentricity — Jose A. Pfafenzoeller
The Ordination of Women in Global Perspective — John T. Pless
PREFACE: Daniel Preus: Protecting and Promoting the Lutheran Ethos — Klemet I. Preus
Sheep and Trampled Pearls: Gospel Relief for the Suicidal and the Suicided — Peter E. Preus
Theological Education in International Mission — Timothy C.J. Quill
The Holy Spirit in Christ: Pneumatological Christology as a Ground for a Christ-Centered Pneumatology — Leopoldo A. Sanchez
Cultural and Theological Readjustments and the Survival of Lutheranism — David P. Scaer
Matters of Life and Death: An Attempt at Confessional Contextualization — Wilhelm Weber
The Election by Grace Doctrinal Controversy and Justification — John C. Wohlrabe


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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a "heart tugging and emotional" story in the Baxter Family collection that will "touch readers deeply" (RT Book Reviews) featuring two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy--two people desperate to find each other and the connection they shared for a single day...that changed everything. Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing killed his mother. Every year, Brady visits the memorial site on the anniversary to remember her. More than a decade ago on that day, he met Jenna Phillips, who was also a child when her parents were killed in the attack. Brady and Jenna shared a deep heart connection and a single beautiful day together at the memorial. But after that, Brady never saw Jenna again. Every year when he returns, he leaves a note for her in hopes that he might find her again. This year, Ashley Baxter Blake and her sister Kari Baxter Taylor and their families take a spring break trip that includes a visit to the site to see the memorial's famous Survivor Tree. While there, Ashley spots a young man, alone and troubled. That man is Brady Bradshaw. A chance moment leads Ashley to help Brady find Jenna, the girl he can't forget. Ashley's family is skeptical, but she pushes them to support her efforts to find the girl and bring them together. But will it work? Will her husband, Landon, understand her intentions? And is a shared heartache enough reason to fall in love? With To The Moon and Back "Kingsbury skillfully weaves a tale of divine love" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) in an unlikely love story about healing, redemption, hope, and the belief that sometimes a new tomorrow can grow from the ashes of a shattered yesterday. "Kingsbury writes with seemingly effortless poetic elegance, capturing the tender, intimate moments of daily family life as well as heart-wrenching flashbacks to fatal tragedy. A moving story of survival, of faith, and of beauty from the ashes" (Booklist).
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- Publisher: Howard Books
- Release Date: January 1, 2019
- Pages: 384
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Height: 1.00 inches
- Width: 5.40 inches
- Length: 8.30 inches
- Weight: 0.70 pounds


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Lack of swim skills shouldn't thwart triathlon dreams
Bobbing in American Lake like a buoy, I noticed my swim coach was saying something as she paddled up in her kayak.
I wasn't quite sure I heard correctly. I'd crammed in a pair of neon green ear plugs and pulled two swim caps over my ears before heading into the lake.
"Huh?" I asked. "Incompetent?"
"No, competent," said Lois Marquart, an accomplished local triathlete and multisport coach. "Your swimming is competent."
I smiled. That's the nicest thing anybody has ever said about my swimming. (The previous nicest: "That'll probably keep you from drowning.")
Competent is hardly a ringing endorsement, but when I decided eight months ago to learn to swim, that was my goal. At times even setting the bar that low felt as if I was trying to qualify for the Olympics.
The inability to swim, or at least swim more than a few yards, is the most common excuse for not trying a triathlon. It's been my excuse for years, but I assure you, if I can learn almost anybody can.
Back in November, with a goal of participating in the Aug. 17 Lake Stevens Ironman 70.3 and its 1.2-mile swim, a friend and I signed up for our first swim lessons as adults. Thad Richardson, a Graham firefighter, immediately established himself as the fastest guy in the class.
I was the slowest. A trip down and back in the 25-yard pool was exhausting.
My issues were many. I got no propulsion from my kick. Despite my slow speed, my arms moved as if I was sprinting. I was about as buoyant as a grand piano. I could only breathe on my right side. My head position was wrong. And I tended to feel panicked any time I swam more than one length.
The young coaches at Puyallup's Mel Korum YMCA insisted all of these problems could be conquered. So I attended class twice each week and made other visits to practice and pester lifeguards for tips.
Slowly, and with loads of help, I found solutions.
No propulsion from my kick. Turns out this isn't the end of the world. After working to resolve this problem with five different volunteer coaches – including my daughter – a lifeguard told me to stop worrying.
After his shift, he jumped in the pool and gave me a quick demonstration and a huge obstacle was removed. Now, instead of wasting the energy flailing my legs I just kick gently every few strokes to keep my lower body from sinking.
I took a similar approach to my inability to breathe on both sides. I stopped worrying about it. As it turns out there are plenty of solid recreational swimmers who have this bad habit.
That said, breathing on both sides helps with seeing where you're going in the lake and would probably alleviate the pain I sometimes feel in my neck after long swims. So I'm still working on this, I'm just not letting it keep me from moving forward.
I also discovered the pull buoy. I still call this device the crotch buoy, the name I gave it before I learned its proper name, because you place it between your legs when you swim to help keep your lower body from sinking.
Despite repeated warnings not to become dependent on the pull buoy, I use it regularly. Because my goal is to be able to swim long distance in a lake while wearing a wetsuit, I've found the pull buoy replicates the buoyancy I get from the suit.
My poor head position proved to be an easy fix. When I first jumped in the pool, I swam looking forward. Apparently, this is a pretty typical mistake. It's human nature to want to see where you're going. I simply made a point of looking at the bottom of the pool until it became a habit.
As for the panicky feeling, this was more challenging. At a briefing before my first training session at American Lake, Marquart said some swimmers are nervous about fish, seaweed and poor visibility in the lake.
She's adept at helping swimmers overcome these fears, but these weren't what got to me. For me, once I traveled farther than I could comfortably taking one or two breaths, I tended to feel as if I was in trouble. My stroke intensified and I gasped for air almost as if I couldn't convince the rest of my body that I wasn't drowning.
It took months of pool and lake time to relax and find a comfortable rhythm. In fact, almost every swim for me starts with an internal battle to find a rhythm. Sometimes it takes 50 yards, sometimes its 300 yards.
At my first lesson, I needed 40 strokes to swim 25 yards. On my most recent swim, I needed just 22. Considerably more efficient.
For most of my life I've classified myself as a terrible swimmer at best and nonswimmer at worst. So now that I can confidently set out to swim a mile or longer, it's hard not to be proud of the progress.
Of course, all I have to do to be put in my place is go for a swim with just about anybody.
At a training session at American Lake with a group of triathletes, we swam 150-yard laps between buoys. Each time I felt as if I was cruising through the water, probably setting some kind of speed record and rocking boats in my wake.
But each lap when I arrived at the finishing buoy most of the class was already there waiting. Those who weren't had already started their next lap.
So I'm slow. Really, really slow.
But that's OK, because I'm finally competent. And, for now, that's good enough.
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PR Daily just named Lady Gaga one of its top 10 communicators of 2011 on the strength of this speech, noting that "Gaga can own a stage not only with her songs, but also with her goosebump-inducing cadence when delivering a speech." Her message was one of social justice, and in sharing her observations, she made herself the crowd's messenger with lines like these:
The stories of all my beautiful fans, the young soldiers, the homeless LGBT youth, anti-gay violence, the effect that the denial of gay marriage has on real families worldwide — these are the stories that must be told to the world. These are the stories that will change the world. These are the stories that speak out in the defense of love. We are here today because we are not less valuable. We are here to proclaim our strength, our steadfastness, and our intelligence.We will not be treated as anything less than human.
What can you--you, without your green wig--learn from this famous speech? Plenty:
- Do what's least expected of you for impact: Without giving up one jot of her originality, Gaga delivered an old-school speech, in terms of its cadence, rhetorical devices and even her more-subdued-than-usual outfit. She used a lectern, script and microphone in a stand, all unusual in pinning her to one spot on the stage. Her message was equally serious. In wrapping herself in the mantel of old-school speaking, her words could gain influence with those who might otherwise dismiss her and her fans.
- When in Rome, do as the Romans do: Drawing from the playbook of every rock star who's ever uttered "Good evening, Roma!", Gaga plays to the locals over and over again in her speech, from her greeting and references to her Italian-American name and heritage to descriptions of seeing the crowds in the square earlier in the day. And the crowd eats it up. She's a natural relationship-builder with audiences, and this speech is as good an example of that as any of her concerts. Don't forget those little, local touches when you speak.
- Draw us a picture of the future in terms we can understand: She's calling for some high-minded goals in social justice, but Gaga does a great job translating the noble into the everyday, making personal the cause she's advancing--and that helps her listeners relate better to it. "For the 15-year-old who struggles...with their identity...Who and what do they have to look up to? Where is their wedding day? Where does the dream of their potential end? And can it have no limits?" she says, near the end of her speech, in a series of questions that outlines both the struggle and the hopeful future.
You'll want to watch the video and read the transcript of this famous speech. What do you think of it?
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If the universe is infinite patterns are bound to repeat over and over again.
I try to live my life on the basis of eternal return.
Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept which posits that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time and/or infinite space. The concept initially inherent in Indian philosophy was later found in ancient Egypt, and was subsequently taken up by the Pythagoreans and Stoics. With the decline of antiquity and the spread of Christianity, the concept fell into disuse in the western world, though Friedrich Nietzsche resurrected it as a thought experiment to argue for amor fati.
In addition, the philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer. It is a purely physical concept, involving no supernatural reincarnation, but the return of beings in the same bodies. Time is viewed as being not linear but cyclical.
The basic premise proceeds from the assumption that the probability of a world coming into existence exactly like our own is finite. If either time or space are infinite then mathematics tells us that our existence will recur an infinite number of times.
In 1871, Louis Auguste Blanqui, assuming a Newtonian cosmology where time and space are infinite proceeded to show that the eternal recurrence was a mathematical certainty.[1] In the post-Einstein period, there are doubts that time or space is in fact infinite, but many models exist which provide the notion of spatial or temporal infinity required by the eternal return hypothesis.
The oscillatory universe model in physics could be provided as an example of how the universe cycles through the same events infinitely. Stephen Hawking's concept "arrow of time", for example, discuss cosmology as proceeding up to a certain point, after which it undergoes a time reversal (which, as a consequence of T-symmetry, is thought to bring about a chaotic state due to entropy).[citation needed] Hawking and J. Richard Gott have also proposed models by which a/the universe could undergo time travel, provided the balance between mass and energy created the appropriate cosmological geometry.[citation needed]
Multiverse hypotheses in physics describe models where space and or time is infinite, although local universes with their own big bangs could be finite space-time bubbles.
The symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake or dragon devouring its own tail, is the alchemical symbol par excellence of eternal recurrence, possibly borrowed from the Norse concept of Jörmungandr or the Midgard Serpent. The alchemist-physicians of the Renaissance and Reformation were aware of the idea of eternal recurrence; the physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne in his A Letter to a Friend circa 1657 linked the Uroboros symbol with the idea of eternal return thus -
that the first day should make the last, that the Tail of the Snake should return into its Mouth precisely at that time, and they should wind up upon the day of their Nativity, is indeed a remarkable Coincidence, which tho Astrology hath taken witty pains to salve, yet hath it been very wary in making Predictions of it.
[T]ime is infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies, are finite. They may indeed disperse into the smallest particles; but these particles, the atoms, have their determinate numbers, and the numbers of the configurations which, all of themselves, are formed out of them is also determinate. Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations which have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again...[10]
Nietzsche calls the idea "horrifying and paralyzing",[citation needed] and says that its burden is the "heaviest weight" ("das schwerste Gewicht")[11] imaginable. The wish for the eternal return of all events would mark the ultimate affirmation of life:
My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants to have nothing different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely to bear the necessary, still less to conceal it--all idealism is mendaciousness before the necessary--but to love it.
Related to the concept of eternal return is the Poincaré recurrence theorem in mathematics. It states that a system whose dynamics are volume-preserving and which is confined to a finite spatial volume will, after a sufficiently long time, return to an arbitrarily small neighborhood of its initial state. "A sufficiently long time" could be much longer than the predicted lifetime of the universe (see 1 E19 s and more).
[edit] Modern cosmology
Controversial theoretical physicist Peter Lynds suggested a model of eternal recurrence in a 2006 paper.[14] Lynds hypothesizes that if the universe undergoes a big crunch, the arrow of time may reverse. Others have approached the question of eternal recurrence from a physics perspective in different ways, including a hypothesis based on the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics.[15] Other cosmologists such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Max Tegmark consider the possibility that the known universe is just one of many in a multiverse, presenting the argument that existences identical to our own recur infinitely over infinite space.[16] Currently all recurring cosmological models are very controversial within the scientific community, especially due to the fact that there is no evidence to support them. Furthermore, several models proposed in the past have been refuted such as the bouncing model.[17]


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This afternoon we watched some of CNN's coverage of Obama's Train Tour. I got all choked up and cheered when the train slowed down, passing through a crowd-filled station in Maryland.
Waving, searching, trying to see in the windows, all kinds of people waited for that last train car, where Obama and Biden stood and waved. Obama's smile said so much. The people were cold, but they were jubilant, excited, fulfilled. I saw all the things I hope for in their faces.
And my son said, "Mom's Hispanic, Black, White, Indian, Chinese, everything."
You so get it, kid.
Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
A wordly compliment
Labels: CNN, election, Obama, patriotism
2 comments:
- Nardeeisms said...
Yes Cassy! Yes! I've walked and ridden down many of those streets before ...It will never be the same. And, like your son, I "get it". Truth is: I "got it" long ago. Everything looks different now. As I attempted to post this comment, the character verification words "choose an identity" even have a different meaning to me now. Good to be here again, my sister...good to be here.... - Love ~Nards
- January 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Writing Nag said...
beautifully said, it is a great day for our country!
- January 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Africa-focused clothing line founded by rocker Bono and his wife, Ali Hewson, has a fan in Chelsea Clinton.
Clinton, who works with the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, chatted with the label's two visionaries Sunday night on the front row of Edun's fall runway show.
"I just have such tremendous respect for everything that Ali and Edun have created in their continued commitment to fabricating in Africa, which I think is so important," she said.
Does she think the fashion manufacturing base in Africa is strong enough for other companies to follow suit?
"Absolutely. I mean seven of 10 of the fastest-growing countries in most of the last 10 years have been in sub-Saharan Africa, so I think there is already vital fashion happening in Africa," said the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"It just hasn't penetrated to this side of the Atlantic. I think that with people like Ali and companies like Edun investing in Africa, it will not only help bring African-made products to American consumers but will also, ultimately, help African designers come to the United States."
Clinton called the collection in earthy colours of charcoal, camel and rust "absolutely gorgeous" and thinks it's in good hands with Edun's new designer, Danielle Sherman, who joined last year.
After a rocky start, Edun for the first time made 85 per cent of its spring-summer clothes in African factories, primarily in Kenya and Madagascar, Sherman said. The company, intended to promote trade and create jobs in Africa, was founded in 2005.
The company's mission is not charity, she cautioned. "It's not handouts. Its core mission is to give people work. That's really the ethos." Key to success, the company learned, is to have staff on the ground in Africa working closely on the manufacturing end.
esthetically, Edun has honed its look. This time around, Sherman incorporated graphic elements through texture blocking and weaving. Other fabric manipulations produced hair-like and Astroturf textures, and she used faux fur.
"We really are playing with materials to build that youthful playfulness," she said. "There's a kind of art student feeling to it."
Part of that playfulness came in a woven herringbone in patent leather on a chunky-heeled boot, the result of a collaboration with Manolo Blahnik.
"We were really lucky to work with them," Sherman said.
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- Maintaining Effective Deterrence. Authored by Dr. Colin S. Gray.
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Pete Krebs and His Portland Playboys
Pete Krebs and his Portland Playboys' twice monthly Friday happy hour (2nd and 4th Fridays, 6-8pm, all ages) has been getting rave reviews and putting smiles on the faces of young and old for several years now. A high-octane mixture of classic Western Swing and Honky-tonk, the band's hour and a half long sets are legendary for their top-notch musicianship, acrobatic solos and deep, heartfelt vocals ranging from cry-in-your beer weepers to uptempo rave-ups. Drawing from the classic repertoire of 30's-60's Country Western and Swing, the Portland Playboys feature some of the best instrumentalists 'Our Fair City' has to offer; Ian Miller on lead guitar, Rusty Blake on steel, 'King' Keith Brush on slap bass, James Mason on fiddle, and Portland legend Pete Krebs on vocals and rhythm guitar. If you're craving some old school Western Swing for your drinking, dining and dancing pleasure, you can't go wrong with the Portland Playboys.
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Darna Village Beach Hostel
'Darna' means 'our home' in Arabic and we strive to make our guests feel at home while staying with us.
We welcome divers and non-divers alike!
Our hostel and dive centre is located right on the beach, only 50 meters from the Red Sea and its spectacular coral reefs.
We cater for individuals, groups, families, divers and everyone who wishes to chill out on the beach and wash off the dust of Wadi Rum and Petra.
All our rooms are air-conditioned and have a private ensuite bathroom. Most rooms are two-bedded (twin or double) but we have single and triple rooms as well. An extra bed or mattress can be added to most rooms. Our rates include breakfast.
Shared accommodation is also available in six-bed dorm rooms.
We offer campgrounds for RVers and those who wish to pitch their own tents. The default category 'Private Tent' means you pitch your own tent. We provide the campground only, with a common shower and toilet. Breakfast is included in the price.
Our restaurant specialises in fresh fish and seafood but we also offer large selection of chicken meals, salads and refreshments.
A sweet water swimming pool of 7x14m is also available for our guests to use free of charge.
Dive courses and individual dives as well as snorkelling trips are readily available at our dive centre.
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Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Air Conditioning
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- No Curfew
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- Taxes included
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Check-in: 1300. Check-out: 1200. Our hostel has a no smoking policy for the rooms. Smoking is only permitted in open air areas. Diving and snorkeling gear is available for rent. Dorm1 means bedouin tent: shared mixed accommodation. Dorm2 means sleeping on the Roof: shared mixed accommodation.
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Darna Village is located on Aqaba's South Beach Road, 12km south of downtown, at the Public Beach Nr. 4.
GPS: 2925'30.12' N and 3458'28.79' E
By car:
Drive pass Public Beach Nr 3 - the one that has parking lots and buildings on your right - and then make a U-turn at the next possibility, drive about 50 metres and turn right. Darna Village is the first hostel on your left.
Located Near
Darna Village is located 12km south of Aqaba, after the Marine Park Visitor Center, on the left side of South Beach Road, opposite the public beach.
It is a 10-minute taxi ride from the downtown, costs around 6 JD.


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Today we had our first class with the script instructor Ian Mbugua. He took us through acting session. He also went through our scripts that we are to shoot for our 2nd project. We all enjoyed the class and we are hoping to got more from him as he comes for his classes every Monday.
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