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GARY STANFORD JR. (Interim Education Director)
Gary is a Bay Area native (born in SF) and has lived on the Bay Area peninsula and south bay for his entire life. He graduated from San Jose State in Computer Engineering and has worked for and done High Tech, Communications, Sports Gaming, Retail and Online Business Companies in the Bay Area and Nation. His 20 year career was resolved in 2019 where he retired and took his software development, QA automaton, Project Management and Process Management skills into the performing arts sector.
As a performing artist he has been involved with singing, dancing, and acting since a young child he spent his youth with P. S. Performance, a bay area performing arts company that primarily performed for senior/retirement homes and hospitals as well as competed in State Talent Competitions. As an adult performer he has been heavily involved in Bay Area Musical Theater and appeared in over 80 musicals with various theater companies.
Since 2019 he has been running his own theater company, North California Arts Collective and is on the Board of Directors for Z-Space theater (San Francisco), Woodside Community Theater and Hillbarn Theater (Foster City).
In 2020 he became deeply involved in education/mentoring and contracting in regards to social justice awareness (such as racism, colorism and emotional intelligence). He has his own radio podcast show, Planet Bay Area that is also dedicated to social justice, decolonization principles, self care and empowerment.
Recent productions include Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr (2021) (Director, choreographer, music director) with Woodside Elementary School, 2020 Once On This Island (2020) (Director, choreographer) with Sunnyvale Players, Into The Woods (2019) (Rapunzel's Prince) with Woodminster Summer Theater.
DANIEL THOMAS (Co-Executive Director)
A Bay Area native, Daniel returns after two decades of professional theatrical experience as an administrator, producer, actor, director and musician in Southern California. Previously Daniel served as the General Manager for Musical Theatre West, Education Director for the Norris Center for the Performing Arts, and Box Office Manager for Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera. He was also a Founding Producer/Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Ensemble which is now the wildly popular Reiner Reading Series of Musical Theatre West. Daniel worked for nearly every regional theatre in Southern California as an actor, musical director/conductor, and/or musician, including Musical Theatre West, 3-D Theatricals, Cabrillo Music Theatre, McCoy-Rigby Entertainment, Moonlight Amphitheatre, Candlelight Pavilion and the Santa Barbara, Fullerton, and San Gabriel Civic Light Operas, as well as the Disneyland Resort. Recently Daniel has been the musical director/conductor on multiple productions for Woodminster Amphitheatre in Oakland and Lyric Theatre in San Jose. Daniel is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, AGVA, and American Federation of Musicians Local 6. Daniel is grateful and lucky to have the love and support of his wife Rebecca, and they are the extremely proud parents of their son Joshua.
DAREN A.C. CAROLLO (Producing Artistic Director)
Daren, an award-winning director and producer with over 175 credits, has been a leader in the San Francisco Bay Area arts scene for two decades previously serving as the Producing Artistic Director of Berkeley Playhouse, Executive Director of Broadway By the Bay, and Artistic Director for Diablo Theatre Company/DLOC.
His production company, Carollo & Palumbo, LLC, produced the musical bare Off-Broadway and A Time to Kill on Broadway. His Moon directing highlights include A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, New Girl in Town and our in concert productions of Kismet, Follies, South Pacific, Titanic, and Brigadoon. Favorite directing projects include Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, Jekyll & Hyde, Ripcord, Clybourne Park, Noises Off (twice), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Trip to Bountiful, Dracula (twice), Peter Pan (twice), Miss Saigon, The Drowsy Chaperone (twice), A Grand Night for Singing, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Curtains, and To Kill A Mockingbird (twice). Daren has directed for Diablo Theatre Company, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, Napa Valley Opera House, Ohlone and Solano Colleges, Town Hall Theatre Company, DRAA's On Broadway, El Campanil Theatre and Contra Costa Civic Theatre. He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and Theatre Bay Area's Theatre Services Committee. For all that Daren has been blessed and honored to accomplish theatrically thus far, he is most proud of his greatest accomplishment: being the father of his son, Jack.
MOONSCHOOL TEACHING STAFF
ANGEL ADEDOKUN
Angel Adedokun is a bilingual vocalist, songwriter, and dancer. She has worked with the Latin company MundoBeat Entertainment and was featured as lead singer of leading Indianapolis Salsa band Grupo Bembe. In 2015, Angel moved from Indianapolis to California and has since jumped into musical theatre and teaching. Her stage credits include Hairspray (Lil Inez) with Footlite Musicals, SILENCE! The Musical (Ardelia Mapp), Jesus Christ Superstar (Peter, Dance Captain) with Ray of Light Theatre, Iron Shoes (Second Girl) with Shotgun Players, Avenue Q ( Gary Coleman) with NCTC, and Troop Beverly Heels and Mean Gays with Peaches Christ Productions.
Working for many Children's Theatre companies, she has been the musical director and director for Bay Area Children's Theatre, Tomorrow Youth Repertoire Theatre, and Shanghai Children's Art Theatre. Angel has also choreographed multiple shows for Children's Theatres. Among her the shows she has worked on, her highlights include The Little Mermaid (BACT), Shrek Jr. (SCHAT), and Aladdin (42nd Street Moon). Angel is thrilled to be back and work with MoonSchool!
STACI ARRIAGA
Staci Arriaga's choreography has been seen in and around the Bay Area for the last 20 years. She has been recognized by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area, Shellies, Elly's and Arty's with nominations and awards throughout her career. She has enjoyed working for many theatre companies including 42nd Street Moon, Berkeley Playhouse, Lucky Penny Productions, Center Rep, The Woodland Opera House, OMG Productions, Napa Valley Playhouse, 6th Street Playhouse, and Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre. She has spent 2 summers in Virginia with The Ash Lawn Opera as an Assistant Director/Choreographer and continues to teach Tap and Jazz at The Woodland Opera House Theater and Dance Annex and Justin-Siena High School. She has also taught workshops in and around the Bay Area. You can also see her work at Lucky Penny Productions in Napa where she is an Associate Artist and Resident Choreographer. Staci has earned many awards and award nominations for her tap choreography many shows that include Singing In The Rain, Thoroughly Modern Millie and 42nd Street Moon. You learn more about her at Staciarriaga.com
DANIELLE BEHRENS
Danielle Behrens was born and raised in Visalia, California and has been dancing since the age of three. She works professionally as a musical theatre performer and dance instructor in both California and New York City. She has her Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre from Marymount Manhattan College. Danielle has worked on the North American tour of The Wizard of Oz, Disney Cruise Line, and at regional theatres around the country. She loves sharing her passion for the arts as well as everything she has learned along the way!
MAGGIE CONNARD
Maggie Connard is a teaching artist and performer who graduated with a BA in Dance from Point Park University. Maggie loves musical theatre; especially the choreography of Bob Fosse. She has performed in local productions of "A Chorus Line", "Singing in the Rain", "Chicago", "Cabaret" and "White Christmas", as well as with many local modern dance companies, and SF's go-go sweethearts, The Devil-ettes. She teaches Rhythm and Motion and barre fitness at ODC, and has taught ballet, jazz, tap and musical theatre dance to children and adults.
Juan Castro has worked with children's theatre programs such as Mugglebee Theatre and Bay Area Children's Theatre as a Music/Vocal Director and Assistant Director. He has taught for programs in Pleasanton, San Ramon, Berkeley, Castro Valley, Sunnyvale, and Alameda. He is also a K-5 music teacher at Notre Dame Elementary in Belmont. Aside from teaching, he is an active performer in musical theatre. He has performed with theatre companies such as 42nd Street Moon , Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Bay Area Musicals, City Lights Theater Company, and Palo Alto Players.
ASHLEY COWL
Ashley is a Theatre Bay Area and SFBATCC award nominated actor, singer, and dancer with credits in musical theatre and live events from Las Vegas to the UK. At 42nd St. Moon, she appeared as Mona Kent in Dames at Sea! Other work includes projects for Apple, Danskin, Broadway Cares, and Miss America. She is a graduate of AMDA Los Angeles with a BFA degree in Musical Theatre and a proud member of Actor's Equity Association. She has taught aspiring artists of all ages across the SF Bay Area for 15 years and is thrilled to be a part of MoonSchool!
LAVELE DAVIS (COCO BUTTAH)
Coco Buttah (Lavale Davis) is an Oakland based drag queen, actor, singer and dancer, and has been a performer in many capacities since childhood. Before pursuing drag, Coco spent over a decade performing all over the Bay Area in countless musical theater productions, with some of the area's best theater companies in productions such as: Hairspray (CCMT), The Full Monty (TRVT) La Cage Aux Folles (BAM).
DAVE DOBRUSKY
Dave Dobrusky has long been a 42nd Street Moon mainstay, delighting audiences with his instinctive and intuitive feel for the music of the golden age of Broadway. Dave has been the music director for over 90 of Moon's productions over the last quarter-century. His past favorites include Zorba, Three Sisters, Strike up the Band, Babes in Arms, Call Me Madam, High Spirits, Finian's Rainbow, Paint Your Wagon (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award), and Leave It to Me! (recorded). Other Bay Area credits include Road Show; Marry Me a Little; Tick, Tick, Boom! (Theatre Rhino); I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; The Full Monty (both for Ray of Light); Camelot; My Fair Lady; Man of La Mancha (BATCC Award); Putting It Together (all for SF Playhouse); and Connie Champagne as Judy Garland at the Rrazz Room. Dave has appeared with Emily Skinner, Cady Huffman, Karen Ziemba, Rebecca Luker, Donna McKechnie, Noah Racey, Faith Prince, Andrea McArdle, and the late Celeste Holm, all at 42nd Street Moon. Dave holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory.
MEREDITH FOX
Meredith engages in a wide variety of the performing arts as a choreographer, movement director, performer, and educator. She has an M.F.A in Physical Theatre, a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre, and teaching certifications in ballroom dance and Elemental Body Alignment System (EBAS). Meredith taught for the Fred Astaire Ballroom Dance Franchise for 2 years before serving as Assistant Professor of Dance and Movement within the Department of Theatre Arts at Catawba College in North Carolina. Since relocating to the Bay Area, Meredith has choreographed and directed for Bay Area Children's Theatre, and performed with Boxcar Theatre's The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws. Some Meredith's favorite choreography and movement direction credits include Anything Goes, Reefer Madness, Alice in Wonderland: A Dance Adaptation, Conference of the Birds, and The Comedy of Errors; favorite performing credits include A Chorus Line (Cassie), A Doll's House (Nora), Shakespeare's Henry V (Constable), and The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws (Violet). Meredith is excited to join MoonSchool's education staff, and looks forward to dancing with you soon!
DAVE GARRETT
Dave Garrett is a teacher, actor, and playwright. Over the past fifteen years he's taught with Children's Creativity Museum, StageWrite and Each One Reach One. His students, aged 10-18, have created over 250 original short plays. Dave has an MFA in Acting (UC Davis.) He has been seen on Bay Area stages in both musicals and dramas. His short plays have appeared with PlayGroundSF. His adaptation of The Three Musketeers has been performed by Shotgun Players (Berkeley) and The Shakespeare Company (Calgary, CAN)
JOANA GRAY
JoAna Gray, coordinator for our new cabaret program, has attended shows at Moon since "the script-in-hand" days and ushered since 2006. A native Northern Californian, she moved to San Francisco from Santa Cruz after completing her MBA at Santa Clara University. She worked in marketing, product and project management in tech and financial services, eventually opening her own successful consulting practice. She began studying singing in 2001.
She loves the combination of story-telling and singing that is cabaret – her most recent show was Defying Expectations, Defining Dreams, at The Duplex, NY and Martuni's, SF, directed by Tony Award winner Faith Prince/MD Christopher Denny. Other shows include her SF solo debut, Shades of JoAna Gray with MD Barry Lloyd at Society Cabaret, where she has participated in several shows, including all five Anniversary Celebrations, and monthly open mics. Her first solo cabaret show, Shades of Gray (before those books came out), was at the Larkspur Café. She has appeared in the musicals Anything Goes and The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town in Marin and multiple plays at the Fringe of Marin One Act Festival and Ross Valley Player's RAW Festival. JoAna has performed locally at Savannah Jazz, Octavia Lounge, The Marsh, Oasis and Phoenix Theatre.
For three years, JoAna attended the St. Louis Cabaret Conference and worked with Broadway/Cabaret stars Faith Prince, Marilyn Maye, Billy Stritch, Ann Hampton Callaway and Jason Graae, among others. She currently studies with Bobby Weinapple (Acting for Singers) and Mindy Lym (voice). She is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Manhattan Association of Cabarets and served on the Cabrillo Music Festival board in Santa Cruz.
KEVIN GRUWELL
Kevin is an award-winning choreographer, performer, and teaching artist from the northern part of the Bay Area. His love of performing began when he started dancing with a Ballet Folklorico group as a young child, and since then he has cross-trained in many other styles, including jazz, tap, contemporary, hip-hop, and ballet. Kevin has trained in several major studios with industry professionals all over the Bay Area, in LA and Orange County, and in New York City. Recent performing credits include West Side Story (Berkeley Playhouse), Mamma Mia! (CenterREP), and as a dance lead for Six Flags Fright Fest.
HECTOR GUERRERO
Hector Guerrero has traveled throughout the world as a director, choreographer, performer and master teacher working extensively in film, television, theatre and opera. Hector is one of the few approved by the Robbins Rights Trust to reproduce Jerome Robbins' WEST SIDE STORY which he has set throughout the United States, China and for the Shakespeare Festival. In New York City, he choreographed GIMME A BREAK! (Transport Group) and CONCERT OF EXCELLENCE (Lincoln Center). At the Hollywood Bowl, he was the Assistant Choreographer for their production of A CHORUS LINE. Please visit his website at www.hectorguerrerodance.com for more information. You may also connect with him on Instagram @hectorguerrerodance and Twitter @hecgdance
PHILLIP HARRIS
Phillip Harris has sung as a soloist at venues like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and with organizations like the San Francisco Symphony, San Mateo Masterworks Chorale, and the Aspen Symphonic Wind Ensemble. In 2019, he released a CD, Phillip Harris in Recital, a book, Songs and Spirituals: The Life and Music of Jacqueline Hairston, and presented a lecture/recital and masterclass at Alabama State University. He has sung over twenty operatic roles and several soloist roles in oratorios. A winner of the Encouragement award from the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, he holds bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in voice. More information can be found at philliplnharris.com.
NICOLE HELFER
Nicole is an award-winning choreographer, director, equity actor, and Chair of the School of Theatre at Oakland School for the Arts. With over twenty years of experience, she has taught dance and theatre at such well-known bay area organizations as Dance Mission Theatre, Laureen Fender's Ballet School, Steppin' Out Studios, SF Park and Rec, Kid Stock Inc., Handful Players, YMCA, Spindrift School for the Performing Arts.
Nicole has also studied at SFSU, the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, Big Sur Theatre Lab, the Dunham Technique Seminar in East St. Louis, and many professional workshops across the state. She has worked with many Bay Area theatre companies, including SF Playhouse, 42nd Street Moon, Broadway By the Bay, Center Rep, Ray of Light, The Mountain Play, and Pacific Coast Reparatory Theatre. Most notable choreography credits include Cabaret (TBA and SFBATCC nominee), Groundhog Day (SFBATCC nominee), Dames at Sea (TBA and SFBATCC nominee), She Loves Me (SFBATCC nominee), The Music Man (TBA nominee), West Side Story (TBA Award), In the Heights (TBA Award), No No Nanette (TBA and SFBATCC nominee), and Lizzie (SFBATCC nominee).
MARISSA HOCKFIELD
Marissa Hockfield is a director, choreographer, and educator. She has over 15 yrs experience teaching dance and theater in the Bay Area and Chicagoland area. In the Bay Area, Marissa teaches ballet to 18 mo – 8 yr olds at several Tutu School locations and serves as a director and choreographer for the Bay Area Children's Theatre educational programs. She studied dance and educational studies at Washington University in St. Louis and also holds a Master's of Arts in Teaching and taught elementary school for the Chicago Public Schools. She is passionate about creating a nurturing and supportive environment for young students to work together on creative pursuits. She is thrilled to be joining Moon School and can't wait to meet the students!
ZACHARY ISEN
Zachary Isen is a Bay Area native and holds a BFA in drama from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He has also studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, The Performing Arts Project, and the International Theatre Institute in Amsterdam. Zachary has worked as a teacher, choreographer, and director at Oakland School for the Arts, Bay Area Children's Theatre, The Urban School of San Francisco, Spindrift School of Performing Arts, The Mountain Play, The Performing Arts Academy of Marin, and Marin Musical Theatre Company. He has performed with companies such as San Francisco Playhouse, The Mountain Play, Hillbarn Theatre, Marin Musical Theatre Company, and Sierra Repertory Theatre. Zachary has a passion for using the Performing Arts as a tool to foster passion, creativity, respect, cultural appreciation and self expression.
JEAN-PAUL JONES
Jean-Paul has graced the stages of San Francisco with companies such as 42nd Street Moon, Bay Area Musicals, San Francisco Playhouse, Cinnabar Theater, Moonlet Theater and West Edge Opera. He has been featured as Nanki Poo in Hot Mikado, Jamie in Last Five Years, Tulsa in Gypsy with Texas/Emcee in Cabaret, Sam in Crazy for You, Vadime in Mata Hari and Ensemble in No No Nanette. JP currently teaches vocal jazz at RUTH ASAWA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS in San Francisco, CA.
KIAH KALONI
Kiah Kaloni Childress is California born and raised with a B.A in Deaf Education and dance from Cal State University Northridge. She move to Vegas a few years after graduating and taught kids through out Las Vegas and Los Angeles. She loves working with children and also works with kids with special needs. She even was an Artistic Director for a Deaf and hearing children's performance group in Vegas. She also is an amazing performer, she has danced in shows on the Famous Vegas Strip and also in Reno, NV. She also dances with and for many Cirque de Soleil artists and has been in commercials, tv shows and game shows, and continues to grow her resume. She believes that everyone is a star and is here to help her students reach for their dreams.
FIONA KING
Fiona King is a current student at Smith College pursuing a B.A. in Theatre (playwriting emphasis), where she also acts, directs, and designs. She is currently the chair of a musical theatre company, Duct Tape Productions (also at Smith College). She has also previously studied theatre with the Cherubs program at Northwestern, the American Conservatory Theater, and The Bay School of San Francisco, of which she is an alum. This is her second summer with MoonSchool, having also previously worked with the American Conservatory Theater's summer programs.
CHRISTINA LAZO
Christina Lazo is Bay Area Director, Choreographer and Teaching Artist. She is the Executive Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Works, a performance company for young actors now in its 23rd year. She has directed and choreographed throughout the Bay Area and regionally with companies such as 42nd Street Moon, Bay Area Musicals, Woodminster Summer Musicals, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Broadway By the Bay, Berkeley Playhouse, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, Tri Valley Rep and many others. Some favorite productions include, In The Heights, West Side Story, A Chorus Line and All Shook Up. Christina has also choreographed for Cedar Point Live Entertainment, Victoria's Hair on Stage, and National Theatre for the Performing Arts Tours.
MICHAEL MOHAMMED
Michael Mohammed has recently been engaged to choreograph Harvey Milk (Opera Parallèle) and the world premiere of She Persisted: The Musical (Bay Area Children's Theatre). He created What's Known To Me Is Endless with baritone Kenneth Overton and pianist Rich Coburn for the inaugural season of Amplified Opera, a Toronto based company that places equity-seeking artists at the center of public discourse. Additional directing and choreography includes Le nozze di Figaro, I Pagliacci, Carmen, Candide, and X: The Life & Times of Malcom X. Also active as a performer, his credits include Fakir in Secret Garden (42nd Street Moon), Bertarido in Rodelinda (Handel Opera Project), Luna Pearl Woolf's Act Without Words (Bard Music West, world premiere), and the dance film Separate Sentences.
Michael received his doctorate from the Music and Music Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research looks at the representation of persons with marginalized identities in operatic and theatrical performance. He is the Director of the Musical Theatre Ensemble at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is also on the faculty at San Jose State University, College of Marin, and the San Francisco Community Music Center.
RENEE DEWEESE MORAN
Renee is a Bay Area native and award winning performer and choreographer. She received her BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Renee has worked locally with Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Center Rep, Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre, Diablo Theatre Company, Woodminster, and American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Favorite onstage roles include: Cassie in A Chorus Line (2010 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for best supporting actress), Dream Laurey in Oklahoma!, Louise in Carousel, Bambi in Curtains & Tiger Lily in Peter Pan. Notable choreography credits include CCMT's 42ND STREET (2010 Shellie Award for Best Choreography) and Oklahoma (2011 Shellie Award for Best Choreography), PCRT's Thoroughly Modern Millie, Diablo Theatre Company's Annie and Legally Blonde (associate). Most recently Renee served as choreographer for 42nd Street Moon's 2021 Virtual Gala. Renee is the co-founder of Performing Academy, an arts training program for children with locations in Lafayette, Pleasant Hill and Castro Valley. She is anxiously awaiting the return of live theatre where one of her first projects will be choreographing and playing Gladys in 42nd Street Moon's The Pajama Game.
KEITH PINTO
Keith Pinto is a multi disciplinary artist from the peninsula. He is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has been a dance instructor at San Jose State University for nearly 20 years. As an actor, choreographer, director and musician he's worked all over the bay area as well as out of New York.
He has received Critics Circle awards for his role as "Bill" in Me and My Girl at 42nd Street Moon and for his choreography of Colossal at San Francisco Play-
house, as well as TBA awards for his role as "The Emcee" in Cabaret at Hillbarn Theater and his choreography of Altar Boys at CenterRep. Keith is a proud collaborator with the Bay Area Theatre Cypher as well as co-founder of the award winning hip hop band and theater company, Felonious. Felonious theater pieces, which Pinto appeared in as well as choreographed include: Beatbox: A Raparetta at Theatre Artaud, Angry Black White Boy and Block by Block with Campo Santo and Stateless: A Hip Hop Vaudeville Experience at Jewish Theater SF.
KIMBERLY RIDGEWAY
Kimberly Ridgeway has been working professionally as an Actor, Director, Playwright and Producer in film and theater for over 20 years. Kimberly wrote, produced and directed the stage plays The Drowning Pool, No More Secrets, Prospect Place, and The Gigolo Chronicles, and the short film "The Confession".  Her favorite acting roles include Mrs. Muller, Doubt, Sam Stevens, The Gigolo Chronicles, Coretta Scott King/Fannie Lou Hamer, All The Way, Randa, Savannah Sipping Society, Bernice, The Piano Lesson, Duchess, Wonderland (World Premiere), Tiana in "Hopes Identity" and Camae in The Mountaintop for which she won the 2016 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play (Local). Kim has directed projects for several Bay Area Theater Companies including The Playwrights Center of San Francisco, Bay Area Drama Company, Ubuntu Theater Project Bay Area Performing Arts Collective and Dragon Productions Theatre Company.
CLAY ROBESON
Clay Robeson has been performing and teaching improvisation for the last 20 years. Whether it's for the stage, the corporate world, or as an avenue to more organic character creation and storytelling, he believes the end goal is always to learn to trust yourself and the people around you. Clay has worked and taught with Boston's Improv Asylum, and San Francisco's Un-Scripted Theater Company, Moment Improv Theatre and VoiceOne where he is exploring how improvisation can help Voice Actors both with auditions and in the booth. He also tours improv festivals with Bookends, a two-person improvised musical inspired by Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, which will be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August.
ZOË SWENSON-GRAHAM
Zoë Swenson-Graham returned to the Bay Area in 2015 after living in London for nearly seven years, where she worked as an actor, dancer, and trained as a stage combat instructor and fight choreographer– working around the UK teaching in various drama schools, and working with organizations such as the Royal Opera House, The Globe, Southwark Playhouse and The Kings Head Theatre. Since returning to the Bay, Zoe has choreographed for and taught with the American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Oakland School of the Arts, Sierra Repertory Theatre Company, Broadway By The Bay, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, YMTC, Palo Alto Children's Theatre, Mountain Play Association and MoonSchool with 42nd Street Moon. Dance choreography credits include: Newsies (Hillbarn Theatre), Camelot (Sierra Rep Theatre), Mamma Mia (Mountain Play and Hillbarn Theatre), White Christmas (Sierra Rep Theatre Company), The Producers, A Chorus Line, Company (Mayhem Musical Theatre Company, London) and she worked as the Associate Choreographer on Music Man and Saturday Night Fever at Broadway By the Bay. Zoe's horror film Lasso features her acting and stunt work, which was released internationally last year and her motion capture and voiceover work will be seen in an upcoming feature film. Zoe still loves to perform on stage, most recently appearing in Cabaret at the SF Playhouse and A Chorus Line at Sierra Repertory Theatre.
CHANEL TILGHMAN
Originally hailing from the East Bay, Chanel Tilghman is an actor, vocalist, and dancer who attended Albany High School before earning a B.A. in Communication and a double minor in Theatre and Music Industry from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was a member of UnderSCore A Cappella. Recent stage credits include Kitty Bennet in the world premiere of Paul Gordon's Pride and Prejudice: A New Musical at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, now streaming on Amazon and StreamingMusicals.com; Sophie Sheridan in Berkeley Playhouse's Mamma Mia!; and the Acrobat in CCMT's Matilda. Other notable roles include Ethel/Selma in Memphis (Berkeley Playhouse), a Dynamite in Hairspray (Bay Area Musicals), Michelle Morris in Dreamgirls (Berkeley Playhouse), Lisa in Mamma Mia! (Pacific Coast Repertory Theatre), and Vanessa in In the Heights (Plethos Productions). Along with MoonSchool, Chanel is an arts educator for Berkeley Playhouse and Bay Area Children's Theatre, and is elated to be a part of the MoonSchool family! chaneltilghman.com
NICOLE TUNG
Nicole Tung is a Bay Area Native who started dancing at the age of 5. She has graced the stage with AMTSJ, Woodminster Theater, and TheatreWorks among others, working with the likes of James Monroe Iglehart, Kay Cole, Andy Blankenbuehler, and Francis Jue. Choreography credits include Guys and Dolls (co-choreographer), City of Angels (SVCT), and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (SBMT). She is slated to assistant direct and choreograph Allegiance for PAP later this year. Offstage, she juggles the roles of wife/mother/homeschool teacher/social activities director to her husband, Jason and their 8 year old daughter, Kalana.
LESLIE WAGGONER
Leslie has been performing and choreographing in the Bay Area for most of her life. She received early training locally, as well as at California Institute of the Arts. Most recently, she choreographed the West Coast premiere of American Psycho with Ray of Light. Also with ROLT, she has choreographed The Rocky Horror Show for the past 4 years, adding Director to her title for the Fall 2018 production. Other choreo credits include The Wedding Singer (BAM), Pageant and Ghost (OMG I Love That Show Productions), direction and choreo for Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical (Oasis), and D'Arcy Drollinger's upcoming film, "Shit & Champagne". Up next: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Custom Made) and The Full Monty (BAM). She has performed locally with AMTSJ, Ray of Light, Diablo Theatre Company, BAM, Oasis, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Playhouse, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, SF Shakes, Killing My Lobster (5-year company member) and at the Herbst Theater.
SCOTTIE WOODARD
Scottie is a Bay Area Director, Choreographer, Teaching Artist and Performer. He has had the privilege of working with many companies around the Bay including 42nd Street Moon, Berkeley Playhouse, Lucky Penny Productions and Center REPertory Company. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Napa Academy of Performing Arts at Lucky Penny Productions and spent the last several years working with the award winning Bay Area Children's Theatre. Some of his favorite productions as Director and/or Choreographer include The Little Mermaid, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Godspell, The Andrews Brothers, Forever Plaid, Annie and 110 in the Shade. You may have also seen him on stage at 42nd Street Moon in Pardon My English or the Broadway Backwards concert. Some other favorite roles include Bonnie and Clyde (Buck), Scrooge in Love (Christmas Present), The Andrews Brothers (Lawrence), The Secret Garden (Neville), The Great American Christmas Trailer Park Musical (Rufus), Billy Elliot (Mr. Braithwaite), Hairspray (Corny Collins),Tarzan (Terk), Titanic (Charles Clark), It Shoulda Been You (Albert), Les Miserables (Marius), Peter Pan (Captain Hook), Avenue Q (Rod/Princeton), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmie), and Guys and Dolls (Nicely Nicely).
General Inquiries: gary@42ndstmoon.org


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Review for Cineaste
The Notorious Bettie Page
Produced by Lori Keith Douglas, Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel, Christine Vachon, and John Wells; directed by Mary Harron; screenplay by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner; cinematography by Mott Hupfel; edited by Tricia Cooke; music by Joseph S. DeBeasi and Mark Suozzo; art direction by Thomas Ambrose; costume design by John A. Dunn; starring Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour, David Strathairn and Lili Taylor. Black & white and color, 91 min. A Picturehouse release.
In the first fifteen minutes of Mary Harron's third film, we're shifted around a bit in time. First we have a caption reading "New York 1955 – Times Square." Soon after, we're in "Nashville 1936," and before too much longer, we're back in "New York," only in "1949." Captions like these are typical in the cinema, but in The Notorious Bettie Page I find that these labeling stickers inadvertently reveal the film's attitude toward history. Virtually every image in this film is internally marked with finality, a security that "the past" is as easily pulled out and replaced as a file folder – categorized, not coincidentally, like the smut collection presided over by the film's resident taxonomers, Irving and Paula Klaw (Chris Bauer and Lili Taylor). Bettie Page implicitly asks us to pull history out of the dusty drawer and examine it, lord over it, with the photographer's magnifying eyepiece.
This attitude toward the American past is, as it happens, typical of Harron's directorial style. Under the auspices of tackling suburban complacency and the button-down Republicrat mind, Harron's films frequently succumb to a snide detachment and a rampant historical presentism. American Psycho (another collaboration with Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner, from 2000) turned the eighties into "The 80s," with Reaganite values and tinny Katrina and the Waves music ratcheted up to the level of lubricious parody. Likewise, Harron's I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) depicts the sixties as "The 60s," with cartoonish flower-power grandstanding only serving to make Warhol's Factory seem a relative oasis for the comfortably numb.
In many ways, Bettie Page continues this selectively iconic, VH1 approach to the past. Bettie Page delivers "New York 1955 – Times Square" as a world of repressed gentlemen in their fedoras, squirreling around in the dark after some racy photos and 8mm films while The Man lurked in the night, ready to squash all that innocent fun. And, based on the condensed assault of the scenes that immediately follow – incest, rape, and spousal abuse, all in a ten-minute interval – "Nashville 1936" was no picnic either.
None of this is to say that the facts the life of Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol) are to be sanitized so as not to cast American history in a bad light. Likewise, yes, there were indeed Congressional smut-trials led by showboating politicians like Estes Kefauver (David Strathairn), and governmental repression and encroachments on our privacy should always be interrogated, by art as well as scholarship, if we're to maintain a realistic and useful relationship to our own past. Nevertheless, Harron's film relies on smug shorthand that flatters its own audience for our presumed enlightenment. Senators and G-Men are all slicked back in their gray suits, a tube of Brylcreem wedged up their tight bureaucratic asses. This is a Saturday Evening Post nightmare, the forced rectitude of the Eisenhower era, and Bettie Page makes palpable the need for crusading mavericks to overthrow its hegemony. (And, if parallels to the present era are detected, all the better. You, the discerning Landmark moviegoer, have already proven by your ticket purchase that you aren't one of the mundanes.)
Whereas Michel Foucault, in The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, cautioned his readers not to congratulate themselves too quickly by identifying with the outlaws, harlots, and perverts of the Victorian era (noting that "we 'other Victorians'" were in fact more repressed than we knew, and that living in the present is in itself no one-way ticket to freedom), Harron and company do exactly that. Hey, look, lurking in the back alleys of New York and some weird out-of-the-way suburbs, people were dealing in sex! It's unclear whether this is supposed to be a newsflash, or a vindication of the drab normalcy of seemingly outré sexual practices, some sort of comic attempt to hang a Vanillaroma car freshener around the neck of B&D. (For any of this to be fun, don't we at least have to pretend it's dangerous?) On the other hand, the filmmakers choose to disproportionately highlight Page's bondage photos even though they were a small part of her output. Her tamer work accounted for her widespread popularity as a pin-up girl, and yet the film behaves as though addressing this fact would represent a lapse into squareness. Are harnesses and chains being sensationalized or presented as just another part of the human sexual mosaic?
Ensnared in its own levels of irony, The Notorious Bettie Page finds itself incapable of making clear statements about sex and gender, evincing not the complexity of art but the confusion of hedged bets. The film flirts with class issues, as when Paula assures Bettie that the bondage photos are for "real high-class men," doctors and judges and lawyers whose lives are filled with pressures the rest of us can't understand. (Strange. Bettie herself seems a little tense as she hops from audition to audition, trying to scratch out a living in the Big Apple.) But, since Bettie Page has to toe the sex-positive party line, it can't really interrogate whether or not whips and chains really are the toys of the haute-bourgeoisie and what they might mean. Bettie repeats Paula's line later on, as justification for her work. But what would this really mean in terms of the sex games the film seeks to normalize? Similarly, Bettie Page makes pointed use of women characters functioning in what we might have assumed to be all-male domains. Not only do we have Paula Klaw and Bunny Yeager (Sarah Paulson) working in the skin trade, or a lesbian-coded female photographer (Shelly Mars) scrapping in the pit with the boys, imploring Bettie to "show us your keester." The film also depicts a woman as complicit in Bettie's gang-rape in Nashville. The provocation of including this woman cannot be missed, but without meaningful context, it feels like a hollow gesture, a "gotcha!" on the part of this "edgy" filmmaking team.
Sadly, the film is as formally muddy as it is ideationally obtuse. The Notorious Bettie Page isn't particularly well made. On the micro-level, eyelines don't match up and edits feel perfunctory, seldom melding to provide a genuine sense of cinematic space. On the larger structural level, major stylistic tropes like the occasional shifts from black-and-white to color seem vague in their motivation. (So Florida is the land of color? Why? Why are the Super-8 films shot outdoors in Ektachrome, only sometimes, whereas indoor films are always black-and-white?) If there is a coherent visual scheme at work, I confess it eluded me.
So, if you're actually looking for a nuanced, formally bold, intellectually rigorous examination of the 1950s, in particular the dialectical relationship between underground and official knowledge, do yourself a great favor and see Ken Jacobs' towering six-hour opus Star Spangled to Death (1957-2004), now available on DVD. All the same, I'd be kidding myself if I actually thought that trenchant historical analysis is what folks are looking for in Bettie Page, a film whose subject – the most famous pin-up girl and bondage-queen of the era – sort of sells itself. Just as Mol's Bettie is hilariously instructed to do before the camera, the film's audience presumably demands that The Notorious Bettie Page give us "sassy," "haughty," and "pert," and in that regard it does deliver. As Porton correctly noted in his Toronto festival wrap-up, the film also manages to eschew the dime-store psychologizing of its subject so characteristic of the biopic genre. While Harron, Turner, and indie super-producer Christine Vachon happily place "The 50s" on the dissecting table, Bettie Page herself remains impermeable, "reflective" not in the manner of a novelistic heroine but a glossy finish.
There's been a lot of talk about Gretchen Mol's performance, and it's easily one of the year's finest. But it's also one of the most easily misunderstood. Mol plays Bettie not as empty, and certainly not as stupid. Instead, despite all she's been through and maybe even because of it, Bettie has an unshakable sense of self that, against all odds, is rooted in her religious upbringing. She's no blind believer, but she is confident that whatever else she may be, she is a Child of God. Mol, through a stunning act of alchemy, almost singlehandedly short-circuits the film's smug attitude toward the past (and, by extension, those who might've been most comfortable in it). Everything good and bad in Bettie Page, every wobbly idea and half-developed insight is held together by Mol's flawless interpretation of Page. Some have argued that the film aims to place a void at its center, fashioning Bettie Page as a vapid curiosity. Some have mistaken Mol's Page character for a wide-eyed innocent, But, as it happens, I think this reading misses the fragile power of Mol's performance. In fact, her Bettie beautifully, almost pathologically game, willing to entertain the most bizarre request because, like some Southern Christian Kewpie-faced perfect-breasted preternaturally chipper version of Immanuel Kant, she is the Naked Humanist, and nothing human is foreign to her.
True, some of this is due to her own oddly muted, almost but not entirely disposable backstory. For instance, her encounter with the young black photographer is more significant, and more telling, than other reviews are allowing for. This is Mol helping Harron transcend her means, achieving a lehrstücke moment of which Bertolt Brecht would have no doubt approved. "They're just prejudiced," Bettie declared, on the verge of tears. "I used to be, when I was young, but I grew up and I learned better." (From this comment it's not hard to extrapolate a wider statement on racism as a sad artifact of the humankind's "childhood," one we're still struggling to outgrow.) But mostly Bettie's imperturbable mien is just a kind of divine gift, an almost Chaplinesque embrasure of the world on its own sordid terms, and when it hurts her or does her wrong, well gosh darn it, surely it'll be better next time. As devised by Mol with an actorly intelligence I didn't know she had, Bettie Page so loved the world that she gave to it her only buns. And boobs. And whip-cracking "saucy look." But no full-frontal, please. Because it was "The 50s" after all, and weren't they just so comically uptight back then?

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Home Resources Fact Files Fact file: R1 battle rifle
Fact file: R1 battle rifle
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The standard rifle of the SA Army up to the 1980s.
Gas-operated battle rifle
No longer manufactured.
Associated project names:
Numbers:
Not known; largely withdrawn from service with surplus weapons destroyed.
Calibre:
7.62x51mm NATO.
4.31kg empty, 5.06kg loaded with 20-round magazine (R1).
20 or 30 rounds.
1.053m (R1).
Muzzle velocity:
823m/s.
Rate of fire:
650rpm (max), 35rpm (rapid), 20rpm (normal).
650m.
A license-built copy of the Belgian Fabrique National (FN) Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL, light automatic rifle). The R2 had a folding stock, the R3 was a semi-automatic version and the R1HB was a heavy barrelled variant that allowed for a measure of fully automatic fire and was used as a light machine gun.
Called a battle rifle rather than a true assault rifle by some in the small arms field, the FN FAL used the high-powered ammunition of World War Two bolt-action weapons rather than the less-powerful "intermediate"1 rounds preferred for assault rifles.
The FAL first appeared in 1950 and quickly set a world standard. South Africa adopted it as a standard service rifle in the early 1960s. By the 1980s it was in use with over 70 countries. The R1 family has largely been withdrawn from SANDF service, barring a few accuratised rifles issued for use as snipers' weapons.
A copy of the first weapon made in SA – and received on behalf of the state by then-Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on September 23, 1964 – is on display in the SA Museum of Military History in Saxonwold, Johannesburg.
1 Intermediate between high power rifle ammunition and pistol ammunition used for submachine guns.
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The summer holiday is the ideal chance for children to enjoy reading new texts. To support with this, we have put together some recommended reading lists to help you and your child choose the books they would like to read.
We are always looking to expand and improve our lists so, if you or your child can recommend a book that is not on the list, please let Ms Sultana know.
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package com.nosleep.githubclient.datalayer.services.repos;

import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;

public class Permissions {

    @SerializedName("admin")
    @Expose
    private Boolean admin;
    @SerializedName("push")
    @Expose
    private Boolean push;
    @SerializedName("pull")
    @Expose
    private Boolean pull;

    /**
     * @return The admin
     */
    public Boolean getAdmin() {
        return admin;
    }

    /**
     * @param admin The admin
     */
    public void setAdmin(Boolean admin) {
        this.admin = admin;
    }

    /**
     * @return The push
     */
    public Boolean getPush() {
        return push;
    }

    /**
     * @param push The push
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    public void setPush(Boolean push) {
        this.push = push;
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    /**
     * @return The pull
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        return pull;
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    /**
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More Civil War Soldiers
by ccwinslow394 | Oct 27, 2019 | Confederate affiliation, Davie
SUBMITTED BY: Linda H. Barnette (vetted by Cheri Todd Molter)
As both a genealogist and a member and supporter of the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center, I decided to try to find out how many of my 8 great-great-grandfathers actually fought in the Civil War. I knew that 2 of them had been soldiers who I had already written about. During my research for this project, I found 4 more. Of the 8, one was too old and another one too young. My main sources were the North Carolina Troops books and 2 other locally written books, a roster of Davie County troops and one for Davidson County troops.
First, was my Grandfather Smith's grandfather, William Harden Smith, who was born in 1836 in the Farmington area of Davie County. He married Phebe James in 1856, and they had 6 children, including my grandfather's mother. William enlisted in the Confederate Army when he was 27 years old. He served as a private in Company F, 42nd Infantry of the North Carolina troops. Military records state that William deserted and was arrested on October 12, 1863. He returned to service in 1864. Pension records indicate that he was wounded in his right hand on March 1, 1865, at Kinston, NC. William was paroled on June 7, 1865 at Mocksville, NC. He lived until 1919 and is buried in the Bethlehem United Methodist Church Cemetery, where his tombstone lists his service.
James Ledbetter Bowles, whose name is incorrectly listed in the N.C. Troops book as James L. Bolds, was my great-grandfather who married Jerusha Jacobs in 1850. They were the parents of my great-grandmother, Lovie Belle Bowles Dwiggins. James enlisted in the Confederate Army in Davie County on March 18, 1862 when he was 28 years old. He was also a private in Company F of the 42nd Infantry, North Carolina troops. There is no record of any particular events involving him, and he was paroled at Greensboro, NC on May 1, 1865. He came home to farm in the Mocksville district as he had done before the war. He died in 1909 and is buried at Center United Methodist Church Cemetery, where many of my family rest.
Newberry Potts was my Grandmother Hartley's grandfather. Born in 1843 to William and Sarah Potts, he was a private in Company E of the 42nd Infantry, NC troops. Before the war, he worked for his father, who was a cooper in the Fulton district of Davie County. Newberry enlisted at age 18 in 1862, was paroled at Salisbury on June 5, 1865, and took the Oath of Allegiance there as well. He married Edie Ann Carter in 1868, and they had 4 children, one of whom was James Potts, my great-grandfather. Newberry died in 1920 and is buried at Fork Baptist Church. His brother, Hiram, also served in the army and returned home safely.
John Henry "Bud" Young was born in 1830 in Davidson County, NC. He married Eliza Brooks in 1850 and had 7 children, one of whom was my great-great grandmother, Eliza Young Hartley. I did not find John Henry "Bud" Young listed in the North Carolina Troops book, but I did find him mentioned in Joshua Howard's Forgotten Heroes: Davidson County, North Carolina and the War Between the States. According to Howard, John was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 66th [Battalion] of the North Carolina Militia. However, my ancestor apparently left the army and served in the Home Guard: A March 1864 letter about him from Lt. Colonel Jesse Hargrave states, "Tell Mr. J. H. Young he is not exempt and must report for service in your Home Guard." In his book, Howard located where Civil War soldiers were buried in Davidson county. Not surprisingly, John Henry Young is buried in the Sandy Creek Lutheran Cemetery in Tyro, North Carolina, where many of my other family members are interred. He died in 1908, and his service in the Confederate Army is listed on his tombstone. It reads: "CSA Veteran Second Lieutenant, Reeds District 66th Regiment (sic) NC Militia and in Lt Colonel Hargrave's Home Guard." His tombstone lists his name as 2 LT John Henry "Bud" Young, Jr.
Although none of these men were killed or severely wounded, I can only imagine the disruptions in their lives caused by the war and from leaving their families and their homes for several years. None of these people were wealthy or owned slaves, yet they obviously felt the call of duty to their state.
Mary Alice Hasty and Hazel M. Winfrey. The Civil War Roster of Davie County, North Carolina.
Joshua Howard. Forgotten Heroes: Davidson County, North Carolina and the War Between the States.
North Carolina Department of Archives and History. North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865.
Christopher Watford. The Civil War Roster of Davidson County, North Carolina.


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Tuttosport: Hauge not finding space but his time will come – the club strongly believe in him
By Oliver Fisher - 5 November 2020, 12:57
It has been a whirlwind few weeks for winger Jens Petter Hauge, who completed a move from Bodo/Glimt to AC Milan in the summer window.
After his goal against Celtic a couple of weeks ago, the 21-year-old has now scored both for and against Milan in the same competition.
However, not long after that he was struck down by Coronavirus which forced he and Gianluigi Donnarumma to isolate at home and miss a couple of matches, but he is now back into the fold having tested negative.
Despite this, Tuttosport (via MilanNews) reports that even against Lille the Norwegian will not start and will instead take up a spot on the bench. He is struggling to find playing time, the paper adds but his time will also come.
Milan in fact strongly believe in the qualities of the player, who as mentioned has already opened his account for the club, and securing early qualification for the knockout rounds could help boost his minutes.
Tags AC Milan Jens Petter Hauge
Joe Abate says:
5 November 2020, 20:07 at 8:07 pm
Hauge must be given more than 5-10 mins a match. I wouldn't mind seeing him come on for 20 mins against lille or Verona. Hoping he gets more time when we have an easier schedule in December.


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Scotland Yard chief quits over hacking scandal
BBC News reports:
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned following the phone hacking scandal.
Britain's most senior police officer has faced criticism for hiring former News of the World executive Neil Wallis – who was questioned by police investigating hacking – as an adviser.
Sir Paul said his links to the journalist could hamper investigations.
He said there were lessons to be learned from the affair, but he was leaving with his integrity intact.
The Guardian reports:
Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, had social drinks on up to four occasions over the past two years with the former News of the World deputy editor who was arrested and then bailed last week.
Stephenson already faces a grilling this week by a parliamentary select committee over his recruitment of Neil Wallis as a public relations consultant last year. Wallis, known as "Wolfman" on Fleet Street because of his fiery temper and his beard, worked at the NoW between 2003 and 2009, a period when the phone hacking by reporters on the newspaper is alleged to have taken place.
Now it has emerged that on top of 18 business meals he took with Wallis and other News International executives between 2005 and 2009, which were acknowledged on the gifts and hospitality register, the commissioner also socialised in his own time with the former tabloid journalist.
The development is of particular concern because it is understood that Stephenson accepted a personal assurance from Wallis that he had nothing to do with phone hacking at the paper.
It is also understood that during a 12-year friendship, the Met's assistant commissioner, John Yates, enjoyed dozens of social drinks with Wallis, including several occasions over the past two years when the officer was involved in reviewing the phone-hacking investigation. A source said: "They are close friends and know each other well."
The revelations will concern the home affairs select committee, which has called Stephenson to attend a hearing on Tuesday. Scotland Yard was forced to respond to further allegations which may now also be raised during the hearing.
On Saturday night, it emerged that earlier this year Stephenson, who earns £276,000 a year, accepted a free five-week holiday at Champneys, in Tring, Hertfordshire, a spa resort promoted by the Outside Organisation, a public relations firm for which Wallis is managing director.
Scotland Yard insisted that the holiday, estimated to be worth £12,000, was a gift from the managing director of the resort, who has been a friend of Stephenson's for 20 years.
This entry was posted in Rupert Murdoch, United Kingdom on July 17, 2011 by News Sources.
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Join us for the February 17, 2019 Mission Fair!
Plus visit booths of the various Mission related activities of our church.
As Christians, our primary mission to to make disciples of all nations. This command is also know as "The Great Commission".
All church members are encouraged to be actively involved with at least one mission related ministry. The Mission Fair provides the perfect opportunity to learn more the Mission Ministry opportunities as at Oak Ridge!
Here are some of our Mission related ministries!
You can click on any item to learn more.
Provides the opportunity for children to spend the day with their jailed fathers to get back a little of their lost time.
Brings volunteers to a location affected by a natural disaster to assist homeowners in rebuilding and repairing their homes.
Provides the opportunity to provide material assistance to hurting children and families in your community.
Provide the opportunity for women at risk to transform their lives in this Christian based transition home.
Step onto the foreign mission field for one week in June with other church members. We assist an orphanage by having VBS and helping with building projects.
Travel with us to Eagle Pass, Texas to assist with Operation Christian Love. We will assist in packing shoe boxes and distributing them to children in need.
We provide an onsite Bible Study for girls in treatment for substance abuse. We also host the girls for Sunday Bible Study and Worship Service as well as Wednesday Youth activities.
Provides prompt assistance and emergency support during times of disaster. Our church operates a Mud-Out Unit. SBC Disaster Relief is the 3rd largest relief organization in America.
The majority of people who accept Christ do so as children. VBS is our largest and most important local mission outreach. Many types of volunteer positions are available!
Three annual Mission Offerings help to fund The Great Commission regionally, nationally, and worldwide. Volunteers assist with promotional and educational activities.


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I'm a Runner: Michelle Beadle
The Access Hollywood correspondent will make her marathon debut at New York.
By Kara Mayer Robinson
I've always said to myself that I'm going to run a marathon before I die. For my first to be New York City is amazing and intimidating. It's bragging rights for life. It's the marathon everyone wants to run.
Some of my sports reporter girlfriends are running it. We text every morning. When your friends have already run their four or five miles for the day, it gets you off the couch. You don't want to feel like a slacker.
The goal is to finish, have a beer, pass out—then eat as much pasta as one restaurant is willing to serve one human.
I ran track in middle school and have done 5-Ks since I was 6. A half-marathon [Chicago, July] and a marathon were logical next steps.
Once I saw 20,000 crazies of every age and size at the half in Chicago, I calmed down. [She ran a 2:28.] But for New York I'll need better socks! And I know that I have a lot of training to do.
Running is like golf: Everyone has their input and none of it's right. Running is basic: Just breathe, and don't give up.
As I've gotten older, the metabolism has become virtually nonexistent. But my brain still tells me, It's cool, you can still eat everything you want, just like you did in your twenties. And then you realize, 20 pounds later, that's not the case anymore. This year I put on a bunch of weight. I saw myself on camera and it was one of those moments. Now I'm running more than ever.
I've got an Italian mom who's like, "Eat more pizza!" I'm like, "Mom, I don't think you get what I'm trying to do here."
My PRs? I have no idea. Is that horrible? I feel bad; I should lie. They're all record-breaking! No, I'm totally kidding.
There are those days where you could run seemingly forever, and then there are those other days where you get to that two-mile mark and you're like, Ugh, today is not the day. But if I don't run, I'm cranky and moody. When I've gotten thoroughly disgusting and sweaty, everything comes together. It's the exercise equivalent of Adderall.
Like a psycho, I have a photo of Carrie Underwood taped to my treadmill for motivation. The legs on that woman! If that doesn't inspire you to get out there and put a couple of miles down, I don't know what will.
I listen to sports talk radio or podcasts when I run. I like conversations. I feel like you get more invested in what you're hearing and time goes by faster. Whereas sometimes with songs, if you're on an off day, you're like, Oh god, that was only three minutes. Now what?
I picture my form looking like Phoebe's from that Friends episode where she and Rachel went running. It's not very cute. I'd like to get to where I have consistently good form. At the first signs of being tired, it sort of collapses and it's sad. I'm trying to keep it consistent with the back straight and the head up and all that good stuff.
I have more energy as a result of my marathon training. I'm still a sarcastic ass—let's not kid ourselves—but it's with a smile that I deliver the sarcasm now!
It would've been fun to run with Bill Clinton. Maybe Bill would be in the endorphin zone and start telling me great stories that I wouldn't be able to tell anyone. But in this day, with Twitter, forget it. I'd be like, That's a good one, Bill. Then I'd be tweeting it.
Tweeting is like running because it can feel really, really good—like when you've put together a hilarious tweet. But both can get you into trouble, like, Oh, I just hurt my ankle or Oops, I just said something stupid on Twitter. One won't get me fired, though!
If I'm upset, it's like, Go run, sweat it out, and see if it's a big deal when you're done. Nine times out of 10 it isn't.
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SMQ Corner: Is producing in small quantities the way forward?	Published on	 11 April 2018 in Spotlight on - Exhibitors Collections
It's a trend with a growing market presence, engendering a host of transformations in manufacturing processes at both suppliers and fashion houses. A look at the situation with Christian Reca of the Italian company G&G Abbigliamento and James Wilkie, designer for the Fiorucci brand…
Christian Reca – owner of G&G Abbigliamento
Recent years have seen the emergence of new technologies. At the same time, younger generations are asking brands for different products. How do you adapt to these changing models?
We are totally in tune with changes in the fashion world. We respond to them with faster, more efficient machines and work with suppliers with the same desire for change. However, we remain faithful to a respect for know-how, which we see as central to our project. Machines will never replace this unique know-how. Above all, we believe in excellence and continue to train our employees as we invest in innovation.
Flexibility, innovation, a rapid response to needs are all now fundamental criteria to remain a leader in a mature market. Does this involve significant investment in thinking out your business development?
These criteria have indeed become crucial. We strive to be more flexible and more performant, in terms of technology and know-how. Our investments are spread between infrastructure and human resources, with a ratio of 30% / 70%.
Given all the challenges, do you think production in small quantities is important, and how do you address it, in terms of your production structure?
I think that Made in Italy will continue to develop its production in small quantities, in a spirit of excellence in terms of quality, service and timing. The price is no longer the only criterion…
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Creation leads to new processes, including local production, a better quality of service and greater respect for the environment. Are these values that count for Fiorucci?
The house has always been concerned with ecology and responsible development. Company founder Elio Fiorucci promoted these values from the very birth of the company. Respect for animal welfare and the development of sustainable production are two pillars of the house, and the importance of both is expected to increase in the future.
Do you think that the development of small-quantity production can really impact the environment?
Besides the possibility of local manufacturing, it also induces a virtuous circle that acts on two levels. The consumer has the opportunity to make more selective choices; the company can better adjust its sales and production.
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How good are Canada's universities at creating startups?
Nestor Arellano
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Published: March 14th, 2012
Like many university students, Aditya Bali finds delayed and missed parcel deliveries a "royal pain."
Bali and his friends Mike McCauley and Jay Shah, fourth year engineering students at The University of Waterloo, are frequent online shoppers for things such as textbooks, robot components, and Snuggies. Class schedules, however, often make them miss the delivery of the stuff they purchased.
The trio developed a simple solution. As part of their fourth year engineering project, they created BufferBox.com which provides an on-campus, 24/7 self-serve kiosk and locker service where students can have their online purchases delivered to and picked up. Since its launch last year, the BufferBox has processed hundreds of deliveries and there are now plans to offer the service to other campuses.
BufferBox may be a long way still from growing into the likes of Waterloo's OpenText Corp. or Research In Motion (Canada's largest software company and the country's largest tech company respectively) but BufferBox nevertheless joins the ranks of a long list of startups that grew out of projects from the Waterloo, Ont. university.
Across the country, universities are increasingly focusing on not only serving as centres for higher studies, but also as incubators of business startups.
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"Learning to develop a business, run a business and turn it into a viable source of cash flow is an education that can be just as important as other courses available in universities everywhere," says Mike Kirkup, director of VeloCity an incubator program at the university. The "dorm incubator" was launched in 2008 to help students launch their ideas as viable businesses in various areas of technology such as mobile, Web and digital media applications, said Kirkup.
"University incubators offer an environment where students can test out ideas, fail, learn from their mistakes and succeed," said Kirkup. The VeloCity Venture Fund offers a $25,000 grant to University of Waterloo students interested in starting their own business.
As business in various industries seek out new sources of intellectual properties to monetize and as governments explore ways to boost the economy, campus incubators are emerging as a an ideal solution, according to Andrew Maxwell, chief information of the Canadian Innovation Centre, a non-profit organization helping innovators and entrepreneurs. Maxwell is also a lecturer at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, and at Waterloo.
"Universities and schools are ideal sources for bright talents and innovative ideas that businesses seek to invest in. Universities also offer the environment where startups can sprout out and stimulate the economy," said Maxwell.
Not all incubators are created equal
Not all universities are good startup incubators, according to Maxwell, who has a developed a system for measuring the ability of universities to spawn startups.
In Canada, he believes, Waterloo is best positioned to cultivate tech startups because of a unique combination of geographic location, programs and what he calls "startup culture."
Apart from VeloCity, Waterloo also has another incubator program called Communitech which provides students with a defined workspace to develop their businesses
Maxwell, however, is quick to explain that a campus' shortage of startups is not necessarily a bad thing. "Different universities have different strengths and priorities and reasons for being."
For instance, he said, Toronto may have significantly less startups under its belt compared to Waterloo. But this doesn't make the Waterloo school necessarily better than Toronto. "The U of T focuses more on theory and research which lead to discoveries, inventions, and development of intellectual property."
Over the years, Maxwell said, Waterloo has developed a strong co-op program which thrives on the robust tech company environment in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Companies like RIM, OpenText, Christies Digital Systems Canada Inc. and Com Dev International provide fertile training ground for students. These and other companies also provide resources and valuable mentorship to tech students.
Other campus-based startup incubators include:
Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone an incubator which has so far hatched 31 ventures in its Toronto location.
The Next 36. This is an "entrepreneur boot camp" that aims to launch 36 promising and innovative Canadian undergraduates. A venture challenge gives nine teams of four students $50,000 cash and guidance from industry mentors to build a business. Then the students get a four-month summer residency at the U of T`s Massey College to study with faculty and prominent Canadian entrepreneurs. Funding is provided by Canadian business leaders.
The University of British Columbia's UBC Seed Accelerator Fund, a venture fund that provides students, faculty, staff and recent alumni early-stage capital for their business ventures.
Carleton University's Nicol Entrepreneur Institute. From two $1 million gifts from Carlton graduate Wes Nicol, an overseas paid internship program was developed to help support the "next generation of entrepreneurs." Carleton undergrad and graduate students from all faculties are eligible to apply.
McMaster University's Don Pether Incubation Centre (created from the $1 million donation made to the engineering faculty by the former Dofasco Inc. president) provides startup support for tech businesses by students and recent grads.
'Inventor all' policy
But Waterloo's ace-in-sleeve is a unique philosophy called "inventor all."
"Inventor all means that whatever intellectual property a student or faculty member develops belongs to them 100 per cent," said Kirkup. "This is a tremendous incentive to inventors and entrepreneurs because it means they have control over their creation."
Kirkup said not many universities in North America share this particular policy and if they do, it does not extend to faculty members. "This policy is probably the biggest contributing factor to encouraging the growth of startups in Waterloo."
The inventor all policy is in direct contrast to policies adopted by universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Maxwell. "Over there the policy is 'whatever you create, we own and we will tell you what you should do with it,'" he said.
Such policies, Maxwell said, are not conducive to encouraging students to develop startups. "Although MIT is one of the top universities that develop tech spinoffs, the message this policy sends out is that the university has control over your ideas."
It's not all in the numbers
Maxwell also, however, said that a university's startup spinoff success should not be measured by the number of startups it is able to produce. Such a practice would lead to misleading results and even runs the risk of forcing institutions to focus on the wrong factors.
He is also wary that metrics might be used by used governments or businesses to divert funding from one school to another.
"If you start measuring for the number of startup spinoffs a university is capable of, some schools might focus on just that to the detriment of other programs," said Maxwell.
Rather than just the number of patents and startups, Maxwell's systems also takes into account other factors such as the type of courses offered, number of students enrolled in startup-related or innovation-related courses, school programs and policies, research papers published by students and faculty, contacts or interactions by the school with businesses and industries.
"By taking these and other factors into account, the metrics provides a more complete picture of the university and its ability to produce startups," said Maxwell.
Nestor Arellano is a Senior Writer at ITBusiness.ca. Follow him on Twitter, read his blog, and join the IT Business Facebook Page.
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It's going to be a long day at the ferry terminal for a lot of holiday travellers.
There are multiple sailing waits at B.C. Ferries terminals on what is the busiest travel day of the season, according to the ferry corporation's website.
At Nanaimo's Departure Bay terminal, there were three-sailing waits, during the afternoon, but B.C. Ferries' website is now reporting that there is some deck space remaining for the 7:15 p.m. sailing. Nanaimo's Duke Point terminal also had sailing waits this afternoon. As of 5 p.m., the 8:15 p.m. sailing was at 80 per cent capacity.
Traffic in the other direction wasn't quite as busy, with deck space still remaining on the 6:35 p.m. sailing from Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay. The Tsawwassen to Duke Point ferry had only a one-sailing wait, with the 8:15 p.m. ferry at 80 per cent capacity.
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Born: 1954, South Dakota
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"Much like the nature of life, a painting can't be forced but must emerge and evolve naturally. I try to capture the elusive moments of beauty I see in nature. When someone responds to my art and sees some of the joys of life in them, then the circle is complete for me." - Alfreda Beartrack-Algeo
Alfreda Beartrack-Algeo was born in central South Dakota. She is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Lakota Nation and spent her childhood on a cattle ranch on the reservation.
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Beartrack-Algeo's ambition is to immortalize a way of life she genuinely loves. Her unique works and her prints and cards awaken feelings of nostalgia for the Dakota prairies. They capture the vitality and mystery of both people and animals, which causes them to live again within the spirit of their own time.
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