New Book Says Black Theatre is Not a Race-primarily based Art Kind


Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 05, 2013

Afrocentric Theatre by Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Molette updates their ground-breaking Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation that has been essential reading in Black theatre courses for over twenty-five years. Afrocentric Theatre describes the nature of a theatre with roots in Africa that embraces and disseminates African American culture and values. The Molettes contend Black theatre is a culture-based art kind, not a race-primarily based one. They further assert culture and values shape perceptions of such ideas as time, space, heroism, reality, truth, and beauty. They say the nature of theatre is an outgrowth of a culture and its values and that culture and values kind the framework for understanding theatre and govern the way theatre, film, and video drama is perceived. They determine standards for evaluating and analyzing Afrocentric theatre and posit an acceptable perspective for interpreting and evaluating its person works.

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Barbara and Carlton Molette are former Drama professors at Atlantas Spelman College where they taught such luminaries as Samuel L. Jackson, Pearl Cleage, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Bill Nunn, and Kathleen McGhee. They are respected theatre professionals who have taught at colleges and universities in the United States and in Jamaica, and Ghana, West Africa. Careers of a tiny over a half-century have provided them a context for understanding the nature of a theatre kind that, more than time has been referred to as Colored, Negro, Black, and Afrocentric. They have been involved in the evolution of this subject by means of the courses they have taught and the expert organizations they have helped to shape. They had been founders of the American Theatre Associations Black Theatre Program and the Black Theatre Network. Both are past presidents of the National Conference on African American Theatre. Both were involved in establishing some of the first graduate and undergraduate courses in African American Theatre. They collaborate as scholars, theatrical designers, and playwrights. Their plays have been made by colleges and universities and such iconic Black theatre firms as The Negro Ensemble Organization and the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in New York, ETA in Chicago, The Free Southern Theatre in New Orleans, Rites and Reason in Providence, Kuntu in Pittsburgh, Miamis M Ensemble, and Abibigromma (the national theatre business of Ghana).

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About the Authors&#13

Barbara Molette was born in Los Angeles and attended public schools there. She earned a BA from Florida A &amp M University, an MFA from Florida State University, and a PhD from the University of Missouri. Professor emerita and former chair of the English Division at Eastern Connecticut State University, she has taught at Spelman College, Texas Southern University, and Baltimore City Community College, exactly where she was director of Writing across the curriculum. She was president of the National Conference on African American Theatre, administrative fellow for the Mid-Missouri Related Colleges and Universities, and director of arts in education applications for the Mayors Advisory Committee on Art and Culture in Baltimore.

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Carlton Molette was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, attended public schools in Kansas City, Missouri, earned a BA degree from Morehouse College, an MA from the University of Iowa, and a PhD from Florida State University. Theatrical credits consist of more than one hundred productions as playwright, producer, director, designer, publicist, stage manager, actor, and technician. He is professor emeritus of dramatic arts and African American research at the University of Connecticut. He served on the faculties of Spelman College, and Atlanta, Howard, and Florida A &amp M universities, as director of the Atlanta University summer season theatre, chair of the division of fine arts at Spelman College, founding dean of the College of Communications at Texas Southern University, dean of arts and sciences at Lincoln (MO) University, and vice president for academic affairs at Coppin State University. He has also served as guest director at the University of Michigan seminar leader at the University of Iowas Afro-American Summer time Drama Institute consultant for universities, colleges, theatre organizations, government agencies, and companies and on the boards of arts organizations in Atlanta, Baltimore, and Houston.

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New Contact Center Workplace Manager Oversees Active Corporate Workplace of USA Primarily based Get in touch with Center


Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) June 30, 2013

Sound Telecom, a major nationwide provider of phone answering solutions, contact center options and cloud-based phone systems, nowadays announced the appointment of Belinda Campbell as Workplace Manager.

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Belindas extensive understanding of our business and proficiency in with our Amtelco Infinity platform, Intelligent Series software, UltraComm platform, and Infinity OnCall Scheduler make it effortless to transition into this pivotal position, states Brian Gabriel, COO of Sound Telecom. The primary focus of this position is handling the extraordinary busy inbound get in touch with visitors for all departments, properly routing calls, taking accurate messages and relaying them on a timely basis to the appropriate team member. Administratively, Belinda has the challenging process of reporting to, offering on-going help and handling extraneous projects for each and every division head, the CEO, CFO, COO and Director of Consumer Relations at Sound Telecom.

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This position is vital for Sound Telecom, says Michael LaBaw, the companys CEO. When youre in the business of answering phones, reception expertise are closely scrutinized by staff, vendors, prospects, clients and every single caller Belinda is the voice of Sound Telecom and also hospitality professional, gatekeeper and caretaker for our corporate workplace.

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We are extremely excited to have Belinda Campbell transition to Workplace Manager and join our corporate employees in Seattle, says Sydney Morgan Diamond, Sound Telecoms CFO. Belinda is a seasoned veteran and has a proficient understanding of all operational and administrative aspects of the telephone answering service and get in touch with center industries. You can hear it every time she answers the phone. Belinda, a native of Ellensburg, Washington brings more than 17 years of encounter in phone answering service and contact center options support, client service management, and workplace administration. Her optimistic up-beat character, friendly demeanor and genuine need to serve other people add great value to Sound Telecom community each day.

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eOriginal Net Based Loan Modification Program Leverages Electronic Documents and Signatures to Expand Loan Servicing Workload Capacities

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) September 29, 2008

In response to the elevated pressure on lenders’ servicing infrastructures due to the unprecedented spike in processing loan modifications, eOriginal announced these days the release of a considerable new product enhancement to relieve the stress on harried lenders and third-party loan servicing businesses. As a lot more mortgages and other customer loans grow to be distressed, buyer service and collection departments are scrambling to cope with thousands of new requests each and every month to modify the terms of delinquent loans as an option to default, foreclosure or repossession. The eOriginal service supplying may possibly be employed for mortgages, equity loans, car loans, leases and other finance documents that want to be signed and can be operational in a matter of weeks.

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Equity Primarily based Solutions, Inc. Successfully Extends Self Storage Construction Loan

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) September 21, 2009

Equity Based Services, Inc. (“EBS”) announced nowadays that they have effectively renegotiated an extension to an current construction loan. The original loan was utilized to construct a Class-A, 2-storey expansion to the EZ Store facility in Peoria, AZ a suburb of Phoenix.

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The three year building loan with Imperial Capital Bank came due this month and was extended for an extra year at substantially the same terms. The interest price remains at Bank of America Prime + 50 basis points and amortized more than 25 years.

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EZ Shop received its Certificate of Occupancy on January 20th of 2008 and began rental activity on February 1, 2008. As of the refinancing, the new facility has achieved 79% occupancy by square foot. Full stabilization is anticipated by the time the loan matures which need to facilitate the straightforward and straightforward placement of permanent financing.

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“This loan extension shows that there is pragmatic optimism in the commercial lending markets and that lenders are being affordable with modifying loan terms on projects that make financial sense. The financial landscape still makes sense for offers that make sense,” states Troy Downing, Principal Equity Primarily based Solutions, Inc.

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“In today’s atmosphere, the ability to refinance or extend a loan is driven by the Lender’s perception of an operator’s experience, professionalism, and the constant execution of a nicely thought out organization strategy.” States Stephen Kaplan, CEO, Equity Based Solutions. “A loan modification that does not involve a reduction of principal, a greater interest rate, or further collateral requirement validates an Operator’s ability to perform in a down or receding economy.”

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EBS is a Private Actual Estate Business specializing in the acquisition and management of self-storage home. According to the Mini-Storage Messenger, EBS is one particular of the best owner/operators in the US. EBS currently owns and operates 63 Self-Storage properties in 11 states with a current marketplace worth of a lot more than $ 300 Million. EBS also manages a family members of Private Equity Funds for institutional and higher net worth person investors. The EBS Income Fund, the EBS Revenue and Growth Fund II, and the Pilot Equity Value Added Fund all closed in 2007. For far more details, make contact with Kurt Ambrosius at 619-220-6700.

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SmartPager Launches Smartphone Primarily based Medical Answering Service

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

Soon after 6 months of field trials across 20 health-related practices and two hospitals in California, Texas, and Arizona, SmartPager Systems is pleased to announce their most recent healthcare communications supplying. SmartAnswer is a HIPAA compliant health-related answering service that can be employed from a smartphone or tablet device.

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SmartAnswer replaces expensive, slow, and error-prone human answering services although enhancing patient encounter. In one particular instance, SmartAnswer was able to lessen a ten doctor practices answering service charges by more than 80% even though also connecting the doctors and administrative staff far more efficiently.

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Inbound text or voice communications from sufferers, hospital staff, and other medical doctors are sent securely to the right doctor based on a practices on-call schedule. A Physician can reply with an instant message or by creating a rapid contact back even though blocking their Caller ID.

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At Scottsdale Healthcares Shea campus in Scottsdale, AZ, SmartAnswer now allows more than 200 nurses to reach physicians with precise information in real-time. There is no a lot more waiting by the phone for a return phone call.patient security is enhanced, writes a Registered Nurse, Ms. Bennion, from the Shea Campus.

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SmartPager has reported that because launching in January of 2013, they now have over 1000 customers in 28 diverse medical practices and hospitals across the US and Canada. “We’re really pleased with the uptake of our service” says SmartPager Founder Ben Moore. “We’re changing the way doctors, clinicians, and sufferers communicate, and in the method we are saving hospitals and practices alot of time and funds.”

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PeopleStrategy and Santeon Partner to Provide Cloud-Primarily based Benefit Carrier Connections to Employer Customers


Atlanta, Georgia and Reston, Virginia (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

PeopleStrategy, Inc. a major Software program-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of versatile Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, these days announced that it has chosen the Santeon eBenefits Network (eBN) to offer secure, automated, electronic advantage carrier communications to its expanding client base. Via this partnership, PeopleStrategys clients will gain immediate access to eBNs developing network of over 300 group advantages providers, such as health plans, group voluntary advantages, 401k, FSA, COBRA administrators and others.

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Supplying our consumers and their personnel with the very best achievable user knowledge is paramount to our good results at PeopleStrategy, stated David Fiacco, President and COO for PeopleStrategy. Equally important is the capacity to give our customers with protected, secure, timely and correct transmission of employee rewards data. After cautious consideration, it was evident that Santeon presented a best-of-breed automated carrier connectivity service along with the support and worth we anticipate from our partners. We are pleased to be partnering with Santeon to further enhance our benefits enrollment and administration providing.

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The Santeon eBenefits Network is an independent provider of cloud-based services that tends to make it simpler for employers to manage employee advantages. The network automates the benefits enrollment approach by seamlessly and securely integrating an employers HR program with those of their advantage insurance coverage carriers and providers. With eBN, employers achieve the benefits of on-time and error-totally free enrollment updates, such as elimination of error-related premium fees, an enhanced benefit usage encounter and reduction of HR and IT workloads. The mixture of the Santeon eBN and PeopleStrategys integrated Human Capital Management answer provides employers with a much more streamlined, precise and effective benefits administration answer.

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PeopleStrategy continues to expand its presence in the Human Capital Management space by delivering trustworthy technology backed with exceptional service, stated Dr. Ash Rofail, Chief Executive Officer of Santeon Group Inc. We are excited to be partnering with PeopleStrategy to give our eBenefits Network, which is an invaluable tool for automating what can frequently be cumbersome and time-consuming activity, as a fully-integrated component of PeopleStrategys innovative HCM system.

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PeopleStrategy is a leading Application-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of versatile Human Capital Management (HCM) options created to assist companies of all sizes successfully execute mission-essential payroll and human resource management functions – in significantly less time, at a decrease cost and with fewer sources. Understand a lot more at peoplestrategy.com. For far more details please go to our net site at http://www.peoplestrategy.com

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Santeon Group Inc. is a technologies firm headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices in Reston, VA, Tampa, FL, Cairo, Egypt and Pune, India. Santeon is focused on measurable outcomes and creating worth for enterprise and government buyers via the efficient delivery of IT options. In addition to the eBenefits Network, Santeon delivers merchandise and solutions in Agile education and transformation, custom application development and reside-streaming media. For much more data please visit our internet site at http://www.santeon.com.

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St. Louis-Primarily based American Realty Group Releases a Free Report For Location Property owners Headed Toward Foreclosure

Saint Louis, MO (PRWEB) November 25, 2011

Joe LoPiccolo, Broker/Owner of American Realty Group, a real estate brokerage primarily based out of St. Louis County, right now announced the availability of a free, educational report for St. Louis property owners which will assist region residents comprehend their possibilities when facing foreclosure. The report, which was launched earlier nowadays on their website, will let homeowners to grow to be a lot more knowledgeable about the various options to foreclosure.

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A Certified Distressed House Expert (CDPE), LoPiccolo pointed out that the long-term implications of foreclosure can not be underestimated, and has created a report entitled, Want a Assisting Hand?

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Nationwide, ten.9 million or 22.five % of all property owners with a mortgage owe much more on their house than its worth in the current industry, and one more 6.three million are in some stage of foreclosure, noted Joe LoPiccolo of American Realty Group.

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The downloadable report, which can be accessed from http://www.stlshortsaleexperts.com, delivers St. Louis region home owners an easy to comprehend, however detailed informative list of often asked concerns and options for these who are facing foreclosure and are exploring extra possibilities. Any nearby homeowner in pre-foreclosure can advantage from reading the report and at the really least, commence producing essential choices on how they want to proceed with their lenders.

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As well often, the anxiousness connected with missed mortgage payments and the worry of placing trust into the wrong hands, causes home owners who are heading toward foreclosure to steer clear of in search of help or pursuing a quick sale, LoPiccolo mentioned.

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This community resource defines foreclosure alternatives, including quick sales, loan modifications and forbearance.

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The holidays are a time of joy and household, but for numerous in St. Louis, this is also a time of elevated financial strain, LoPiccolo stated. With this report, Im helping home owners in my community understand more about their options so they can have hope to carry them via the holidays.

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The report highlights the benefits of a quick sale, which occurs when the present market place value of a home is worth significantly less than what is owed on a mortgage and a true estate agent negotiates with the lender on behalf a financially strapped homeowner to accept a loan payoff that is less than the amount owed. Whilst lenders have been when reluctant to negotiate brief sales, the existing glut of foreclosed properties on their books has prompted an aggressive push to mitigate losses, and some are even paying property owners important money incentives to make a fresh start on their lives following the close of the quick sale, LoPiccolo explained.

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The report also information other foreclosure options such as mortgage modificationswhich is one more process that the federal government and trade organizations are pushing to be streamlined and how it has grow to be a viable resolution for each struggling home owners and lenders to locate frequent ground in this challenging housing environment.

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The CDPE Designation LoPiccolo has acquired offers real estate experts with particular understanding of the complex issues confronting distressed home owners. By way of extensive education and encounter, CDPE-designated agents are in a position to supply solutions for property owners facing financial hardship in todays industry.

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“Taking twenty minutes of your time and reading this report ought to be the first step”, LoPiccolo stated.

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About American Realty Group

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American Realty Group is a complete service residential true estate firm representing both purchasers and sellers in the Saint Louis and Surrounding Metropolitan areas with a specialization in St. Louis quick sales.

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