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Cherry Jones' Great Adventure
It might be surprising to learn that Cherry Jones has yet played Amanda Wingfield - one of Tennessee Williams' most revered characters - from "The Glass Menagerie." Jones, twice a Tony Award-winner, is at the top of her profession, transitioning easily from the stage to feature film roles and, most successfully, to television in an Emmy-winning role as the U.S. President on "24."
But the role of Wingfield, the domineering, yet charming matriarch in most famous of memory plays, has eluded her.
The reason, she explained with a laugh after a rehearsal of the new production that premieres this week at Cambridge's American Repertory Theater, was that no one asked her... until John Tiffany.
That is all it took - the opportunity to work with the young, Scottish director best known for his adventurous staging of the Broadway hit "Once." Who ever thought of directing a musical without any choreography? That was Tiffany's approach to the stage version of the downbeat Irish film about love found and lost amongst Dublin street musicians, and it paid off: he won the Tony Award for direction and impressed Jones enough that she wanted to work with him.
Just putting Jones' name above the marquee is more than enough to bring considerable attention to the production, which runs through March 17 at the ART's Cambridge home. Add a cast that includes hunk-du-jour Zachary Quinto as Tom, Tony-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger as Laura and up-and-coming Brian J. Smith as the Gentleman Caller; plus rumors of an intriguing visual concept (courtesy of Bob Crowley), and the buzz is high.
Difficult to say no
Not that Jones is any stranger to highly original takes on the classics. She spent most of the 1980s as a member of ART's repertory company during the years when artistic director Robert Brustein brought the cream of Europe's theatrical avant-garde to Cambridge. During those years, Jones appeared in such plays as "King Lear," "Twelfth Night" (with Diane Lane),"Three Sisters," "As You Like It," "The Serpent Woman", "Life is a Dream," "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," "Major Barbara," "Love's Labors Lost," and (more recently) "Lysistrata."
On Broadway the out actress appeared in "Angels in America," "A Moon for the Misbegotten," "The Night of the Iguana," "Faith Healer" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession." She won two Tony Awards for Best Leading Actress in a Play for "Doubt" (1995), then a decade later for "The Heiress." It was at that Tony Award ceremony where Jones kissed her then girlfriend Sarah Paulson when the award was announced, then thanked her "Laura Wingfield" from the podium. Paulson was starring in a production of "The Glass Menagerie" on Broadway that starred Jessica Lange as Amanda. Paulson has gone onto greater fame starring in the recently completed "American Horror Story: Asylum." (As did Lange).
Speaking to Jones recently, "American Horror Story: Asylum" came up in the conversation, not only because of Paulson's involvement, but also because her son in this "Glass Menagerie" family is Quinto, who fans of the series know for his icy portrayal of a homicidal psychiatrist with his own set of mommy issues.
First, though, Jones acknowledged her state of mind.
Couldn't say no
Cherry Jones: I am complete toast. (Laughs)
EDGE: How come?
Cherry Jones: Well, it's Sunday night and we just finished a week of rehearsals. And today we had our sweet farewell to that funky, wonderful rehearsal space. For John Tiffany I think it was especially poignant because he had come up and developed 'Once' in that space.
EDGE: Is it true you turned down playing Amanda in the past?
Cherry Jones: I never declined playing it. No one asked me. But I would have declined. Why I said yes this time is John Tiffany. It's very difficult to say no to John Tiffany. He's a delicious, goofy theater genius - I probably shouldn't say that word because I don't want anyone to think that I am being hyperbolic - but he's an insanely gifted theater artist. You know if you say no to him you are going to miss out on one of the great adventures of your life.
For instance, just the other day he took Zach, Celia, Brian and me over to the Loeb, which was empty. No set. No curtain. People don't realize how enormous that stage is, especially for a room that size. What John did was have Zach stand up in the back of the house on one side, had me stand in the other corner, had Celia stand in the back of the stage and had Brian in-between all of us in what I use to call the great divide - that aisle that separates the orchestra. And we just started speaking the play to each other across the vast space; then we rotated doing full scenes from the play. When we got through, John said, You own the space. You've played every corner of this room. I had never done that before. It creates this intimacy immediately with the space. He's a very clever boy.
Risks being hated
EDGE: This role comes with a lot of history. In the Williams canon, only Blanche Dubois is of equal stature. Are you the least apprehensive about playing it?
Cherry Jones: I still have no idea if we are going to pull this one off, or how my Amanda will be. It doesn't matter to me. I just want to serve this production and this cast. The young people in this cast are so gorgeous. Each of them. Zach brings this sensuality to this Tom that is unbelievable. He explores everything. There is nothing general about anything that Zach does. And Celia (Keenan-Bolger) is doing that kind of magic - you know, Laughing, I can't talk about her without wanting to cry. She has an intelligence and strength with this role that I have never seen before; and also a paralyzing fragility she cannot control. And Brian Jay Smith. I don't think there's been a finer gentleman caller in the history of this play. That's just not purple prose - we all know we are watching something special. I shouldn't be saying this to the press because I don't want him to ever get wind of this because that's a lot of pressure to live up to. It is an extraordinarily exquisite performance and we all know it. We all know it and appreciate it. He doesn't know it, and that is what makes him beautiful as an actor.
EDGE: Williams based Amanda on his mother Edwina, and his portrait of her is an equal mix of charm and abrasiveness. What is it that you like about her?
Cherry Jones: Amanda is, of course, Tennessee's mother Edwina; but she also is not, because Edwina was a privileged woman that never had to worry as to where her next meal was coming from, even if her husband was tight or stingy, she knew that her children would be clothed and fed very well.
Amanda didn't have that privilege. She has had to rear these children by herself in the North, which is a foreign universe to this woman who was born and raised in Mississippi. That she didn't go home to Mississippi makes me think that there is no home to go back to. That her family had died out. And Tennessee never brings that (her back story) up - it's almost as if he didn't care about that part of Amanda. But she had to see these children through the Depression. They were just teenagers - how did she feed them? So she had been through a great deal.
Now Tom, her son, is of age, and it is now time for him to help to get his sister married or taken care of in some way before he flies the nest. Because Amanda is in that awful position that all parents are in who have children that are incapable of surviving in the world. I just can't imagine anything worse than the nightmares of parents with vulnerable, attendant children. That's Amanda's dilemma, and of course she puts that pressure on Tom. And I love her. (laughs) I love her. She could drive you mad, but I love her commitment to these children. Modern parents are accused of not being disciplined enough to give 'tough love' to their children so they can care for themselves when they're grown. Amanda does. Amanda risks being hated. She can be hard and cruel, but she feels she needs to be. She's something.
Back in Cambridge
EDGE: Being from the South, do you feel any kinship with Amanda?
Cherry Jones: Well I do in that I can appreciate how isolated she must have felt coming to St. Louis and how uncouth the North must feel to her coming from this Old South that was holding on by its toenails at that point. All that wealth had finally begun to dwindle and peter out and she was the last burst of the Old South. And there she is: a grown woman, two children and abandoned. I can appreciate having grown up in the South with those stories I heard about those times what it must be like.
EDGE: What is it like being back Cambridge again?
Cherry Jones: It's that wonderful feeling of never having left. Because this place was home for me for almost all of the 1980s. I know every square inch. I love it. And I love watching my cast mates fall in love with this place. It seems almost bucolic and this is the dead of winter - I have no idea how much they would like it in the Spring. They are besotted with Cambridge, so it is nice to see it through their eyes.
EDGE: And what do you think of the changes to the American Repertory Theater in the past few years?
Cherry Jones: It's just so wonderful, knowing that it is full and packed and vibrant and alive. It has recreated itself - that is a wonderful thing to see. Do I miss the old ART? Of course I do. That's the theater I grew up in. We were doing all those wacky, Eastern European productions directed by wonderful Rumanians and Yugoslavians. It was a place for those people to work. I don't think there's a place for people do to that kind of avant-garde work anymore. There are plenty of regional theaters doing classics and revivals and new works, but that canvas of experimental avant-garde theater appears to be changing.
But one needs to respond to the taste of the audience. And I think the quality of the theater that the two Dianes (Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Interim Managing Director Diane Borger) are producing at the ART is pretty spectacular. I didn't get to see 'Porgy and Bess.' I saw 'Pippin' and had a blast. And I know the level of quality that we hope to bring to our production. So it's great to feel the excitement in that building.
A radical approach?
EDGE: There are rumors circulating that this is going to be a radical version of the play....
Cherry Jones: Oh, yeah. I think that people think that because it is John and that there has been some mention of the set that it is going to be radical. But it's not at all. He is using as his Bible the forward that Tennessee wrote to the play. I have it here... hold on a second. (She reaches out for a copy of the script.)
He says that (quoting from Williams' forward): 'Being a 'memory play,' 'The Glass Menagerie' can be presented with unusual freedom of convention. Because of its considerably delicate or tenuous material, atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play a particularly important part. Expressionism and all other unconventional techniques in drama have only one valid aim, and that is a closer approach to truth. When a play employs unconventional techniques, it is not, or certainly shouldn't be, trying to escape its responsibility of dealing with reality, or interpreting experience, but is actually or should be attempting to find a closer approach, a more penetrating and vivid expression of things as they are."
He goes onto say that the straight, realistic play with its 'Frigidaire and authentic ice-cubes, its characters that speak exactly as its audience speaks, corresponds to the academic landscape and has the same virtue of a photographic likeness.'
(She paused)
He's telling John and all of us to go for a more penetrating truth. That's what we are trying to do. We are not trying to re-invent the wheel. I have seen this play four times and have never seen a production of this play - watching it in a rehearsal room - that I've admired more.
EDGE: You have an amazing set designer in Bob Crowley, but the buzz about his set may be part of the reason why the production is being viewed as radical...
Cherry Jones: The set is so perfect. It's my dream set for this play. Part of the reason why I never wanted to play it was because I am so depressed by the time the first line is spoken. There are always these grey walls, grey cityscapes and fire escapes. It all feels so claustrophobic. And I never thought it was right for the play.
That approach turned me off instantly. As I've always seen it played in the past as being cloying and claustrophobic; I wanted to climb out of my skin. But everything that Bob has done lifts us out of that vacuum. When I heard of this concept, I knew I wanted to be part of it because they open it up to the universe. The entire play is in a way a setting for the jewel - the gem - which is the gentleman caller scene. That's the crown jewel of 'The Glass Menagerie'. And the rest of it is a setting in a way for that scene.
The AHS connection
EDGE: Now there's just one degree of separation between yourself and a number of cast members from the FX series "American Horror Story: Asylum." In addition to your co-star, Zachary, there's your ex- Sarah Paulson. Did you watch it?
Cherry Jones: (Laughs) It is soooo wild! I watched it because I loved watching Sarah find her way through the horrors - the hideousness of that show. Was it my favorite show? No. But did I love every single thing Sarah did? Yes. As difficult as it was. She was amazing. And Jessica is just extraordinary. And Zach turns out to be the sweetest guy you would ever want to meet. He's a dreamboat. Sexy as all get-out. And different as night and day as that loathsome doctor on that show.
EDGE: You came out long before it became fashionable. Now that LGBT culture is more mainstream, do you think it's a great time to be gay?
Cherry Jones: I think that anytime is a great time to be gay. (Laughs) It is so astonishing as we are hurtling along through space. Was it twelve years ago, I think, that I heard Bob Dole say on the floor of the Senate, the words 'gay marriage'? Even though he was saying them in a derogatory way, I had to give my harness belt a shake. I just couldn't believe it. And now to hear that speech of Obama. Talk about holding back - when he makes his mind up about something, away we go. It was just thrilling to hear that in that speech. There ain't no stoppin' us now.
EDGE: Do you think we are reaching the point when it is no big deal to be gay?
Cherry Jones: Honesty, that's how most of the young people in the country felt about Obama's inaugural address. It's a given now ... and that is remarkable.
An ephemeral art form
EDGE: The actor that first played Amanda Wingfield was Laurette Taylor, who today is likely remembered by just those in the theater. Yet her performance is often cited by those who saw it as one of the greatest in the history of the theater. Do you regret as an actress that these kind of great performances are only seen by those lucky enough to have gotten to the theater?
Cherry Jones: Oh, no. They (the performances) get embellished that way. (Pause) I was holding my laugh.
There is something wonderful about being part of an art form that is so ephemeral and disappears in the vapor. Because people come up to you years later and talk about some things that you did affected them, and you know darn well that it could never have been that way. It's been embellished by memory. I'm sure Laurette Taylor was extraordinary in that role. But I also know that all of these people that we hear from saw her - I've heard Gena Rowlands talk about it, and Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant and Julie Harris and Elaine Stritch. And the common denominator was that they were all in their early 20s when they saw her. You know, the influence it had over them was so great, but also I know that in their minds it has grown and grown in stature.
I know that is what happened with me and Colleen Dewhurst. I saw her in 'Moon for the Misbegotten,' and many years later after I had done a couple of productions of it -- one that enjoyed and one that I had performance fright with it. But when I first saw it, I was 16 and couldn't take my eyes off Colleen; then years later, after doing the role, I saw a video of it. This time it was Jason Robards that I couldn't take my eyes off of. Not Colleen. She was hamming it up. It's all so subjective. When I am struggling so with this part I remember a line from an autobiography of Eva LaGalliene (the great American actor, director and producer). It was a diary entry about going to see 'The Glass Menagerie' with Laurette Taylor in it. After seeing it, she said, 'I don't know what all the fuss is about.'
"The Glass Menagerie" continues through March 27, 2013 at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA. For more information, visit the American Repertory Theater website.


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Can someone help me out here? I started playing tennis again after a lapse of a few years and have been back into it for about six months now. I attend a couple of courses and have a private lesson every week. I have been encouraged to play (and just about mastered) a topspin forehand and backhand where the ball travels high and deep and I hit it just inside the baseline nine times out of ten. I also have a fairly decent backhand slice and have been told I am of intermediate standard. So far so good. Now when I play people who also play with topspin I have a good competetive game and win regularly. But when I play anyone who hits the ball low and fast and flat I get my ass kicked every time. I either can't get to the ball in time or scoop it up or hit it with slice but every time my opponent then jumps on it and puts it away. I have tried different strategies like hitting the ball high and deep to their backhand with limited success but nothing really works.
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Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield-on the sea-as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. This...
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Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield-on the sea-as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. This film pits Themistokles against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemesia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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Gun to my head, I might be able to say something positive about 300: Rise of an Empire. In a vacuum, I suppose I'd call its aesthetic appealing, its production value impressive, or its giant rhinos kind of cool. But these elements cannot be taken alone, embroidered on a gigantic patch of joyless pain that infests your conscious mind from its inceptive moments on.
It's not so much that the 300 sequel fails at its desired conceit - it gives you exactly what it promises: gore, swordplay, angry sex, halfwit maxims about honor and manliness and the love of the fight. It's simply that its desired conceit is dehumanizing agony. Holding too hard and too long to its mission statement to top its Zack Snyder-helmed predecessor in scope, scale, and spilled pints of blood, Noam Murro's Rise of an Empire doesn't put any energy into filtering its spectacular mayhem through whatever semblance of a humanistic touch made the first one feel like a comprehensive movie.
Now, it's been a good eight years since I've seen 300, and I can't say that I was particularly fond of it. But beneath its own eye-widening layer of violence, there was a tangible idea of who King Leonidas was, what this war meant, and why Sparta mattered. No matter how much clumsy exposition is hurled our way, all we really know here is that there are two sides and they hate each other.
When Rise of an Empire asks us to engage on a more intimate level, which it does - the personal warfare between Sullivan Stapleton (whose name, I guess, is Themistokles) and Bad Guy Captain Eva Green (a.k.a. Artemisia) is founded on the idea that she likes him, and he kind of digs her (re: angry sex), and they want to rule together, but a rose by any other name and all that - we're effectively lost. With characters who don't matter in the slightest, material like this is just filler between the practically striking battle sequences.
But when the in-between material is as meaningless as it is in Rise of an Empire, the battles can't function as much more than filler themselves. Filler between the opening titles and closing credits. A game of Candy Crush you play on the subway. Contemptfully insubstantial and not particularly fun, but taking place nonetheless.
Without even a remote layer of camp - too palpably absent as Rise of an Empire splashes its screen with so much human fluid that The End by The Doors will start to play in your head - there's no victory in a movie like this. No characters to latch onto, no story to follow, no joy to be derived. Yes, it might be aesthetically stunning (and really, that's where the one star comes in... well, half a star for that and half for the giant rhinos), but the marvel of its look shrinks under the shadow of the painful vacancy of anything tolerable.
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Xcel Energy earned more than its regulated return in Colorado in 2012 and as a result is proposing to return $8.2 million to customers, the company said Thursday.
If approved by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, the refund will begin July 1 as a 0.61 percent reduction to base electric rates for the next year, the company said.
Typical residential customer bills would drop by 25 cents a month, while typical small-business customers would see a decrease of 52 cents, the company said.
The refund mechanism was agreed upon in Xcel's last rate case.
"This is money customers would not have gotten back without that mechanism," said Bill Levis, director of the Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel.
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In order to recoup the excess profits in the past, it would have been necessary to file a complaint with the utilities commission, or state regulators would have to wait until the next rate case to settle up, Levis said.
Xcel subsidiary Public Service Company of Colorado had a net income of $458 million in 2012, according to federal filings.
When Xcel filed its earnings estimates with the PUC in April, it calculated that its return was about 9.94 percent — under its 10 percent cap.
Those figures were challenged by the PUC staff, the consumer counsel and Colorado Energy Consumers, which represents large business customers.
A settlement was reached agreeing that the company had earned 10.27 percent and would have to return some of the earnings, according to a PUC filing.
"This was the first time an earnings test was made under the rate case, so there were some interpretation issues," said Mark Stutz, an Xcel spokesman. "We worked them out."
The 2012 rate case was the first multiyear rate case approved in Colorado, and Xcel made a commitment not to seek an increase in base rates until 2015.
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"Our argument is, and will continue to be, that our budget should not be the one that funds the operational expenses of major events brought to Louisiana. There needs to a mechanism that provides funding that does not take away from our advertising and marketing budget."
Speaking Wednesday to a room full of tourism and hospitality professionals, along with politicians both local and state, Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne highlighted his commitment in the fight to protect the state's Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism funding. His speech was the keynote address at the Lt. Governor's Tourism Summit held in Lake Charles Jan. 22-24.
"[Pass throughs are] far and away are the largest chunk of our budget. That's money that, of the three one hundredths of a penny that should go toward advertising and marketing of Louisiana out-of-state, is peeled away before we ever get our hands on it and used to fund various things in the budget," said the Lt. Governor. "Our argument is, and will continue to be, that our budget should not be the one that funds the operational expenses of major events brought to Louisiana. There needs to a mechanism that provides funding that does not take away from our advertising and marketing budget."
This year that added up to $12.5 million immediately coming off the top of their $23 million budget. And next year is full of uncertainty.
"We are going to have a real challenge on our hands," said Dardenne, "We have to fund the entirety of the Super Bowl obligation of the state, which is $6 million, and the entire state's obligation for the Women's Final Four coming up later this year, which is $1 million. You think that as these aren't coming back next year, our budget would be restored the $7 million. We hope that will be the case, but we are not sure it will. We know now that New Orleans has attracted the NBA All-Star in 2014. That has a $3 million price tag on it that the state will have to come up with. We don't want it to come out of the advertising and marketing budget. We will make our case strong during the [legislative] session."
Despite the reduction in budget, Dardenne said that the department has tried to maintain the same level of spending on out-of-state advertising and marketing but it has come at the cost of other programs, such as the one that awards grants.
"We can't continue to do this if budget problems continue as they have in the past because we are struggling to maintain this," he stated.
In Louisiana, tourism equals big money, bringing in billions of dollars each year.
"Every dollar we spend [to promote the state] brings $17 back to the people of Louisiana, which is an incredible return on investment," said Dardenne.
"We are an industry. We are a business," he emphasized, "It is not acceptable to simply hold where we are. We need to be moving forward. We want to compete with Texas and Florida and not just Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. We want to compete with Atlanta, Orlando and Las Vegas for conventions. To do so, we have got to spend the money to get our message out, and the only way we can do this as a state is to get the money directed to us by law from the three one hundredths of a penny sales tax."
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Meran/Merano, rightfully called a "Mediterranean village in the middle of the Dolomites," is well known for its thermal bath as well as for its annual wine festival, a spectacular culinary event held at the end of October/beginning of November.
A trip to Meran(o) isn't complete without a visit to the world-class botanical garden or a hike in the mountains surrounding this picturesque village.
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While at RootsTech 2012, I was able to spend a couple of minutes at the Wiki-Tree booth. I spent some time with Chris Whitten, Create and WikiTeer-in-Chief. I had kidded the Social Networker and Evanelista Extraordinaire, Elyse Dorflinger that I went to RootsTech so that "they" could tell me why I should spend my time on Wiki-Tree.
Trying to ignore Elyse's energy for the project, which is hard to do, she said that between Chris and herself, I would be convinced. And I was.
First, thank you both for your time. The key for me was the ability to reach (my term) the Face Book Generation.
I have made contact with a number of the young folk that I need information from on Face Book or this Blog. So, if they will 'friend me' on Face Book, I needed a platform to get information from them about their families.
The problem that I have, is that I lost two cousins, in my generation, so my link to the information was not there. I could of times making packets of information, self addressed stamped envelops, enclosed letters resulted in very little information.
There is one aunt, in my Dad's generation, and my goal is to create a Book for her, like the ones that I have made for my parents. BUT, I want to give it to her for her birthday THIS year.
So, how to get the data I need on her descendants, and the other descendants of my fathers parents? I am convinced, with a little help from my friends at Wiki-Tree, that this is the platform to try.
I generated a GEDCOM file and uploaded it to Wiki-Tree. It took a little time, but I received an email that said it was online.
Because much of the information in that tree is about living people, I want the Tree to be Private. That was relatively easy to do, and the "Watchlist" report is very clear that it is.
Issue 1 – Import of GEDCOM file.
First, this is a great feature. I would not have done this earlier, but when this capability was added, this platform was back on my plate.
There was an Issue on the import of the GEDCOM file into Wiki-Tree. Here is a portion of the Edit Screen for one person, using a GEDCOM file.
The issue is that the Proper First Name Field contains my dad's Middle Name. So, I had to review each person in the import to Cut the Middle Name and Paste it into the Middle Name field.
Chris was very responsive to this issue. The issue is that in the Name field of a GEDCOM file, the pieces of the names do not have a Tag, but it's a string of characters.
This tree was about 90 people, so it took a while to complete the clean up.
If you notice, there is a "Current Last Name" field. Very handy field, so as I went through the list, I added the Married Surnames for the females, to show their married surname in that field.
Issue 2 – Adding Email Addresses
There is a field, just below the screen above, where you can add an Email Address. So I did, until someone asked "what's this email about". Oops. I didn't want any email go out, until I had the online information as clean as I could get it AND to be able to let the Face Book Generation what I was up to.
Quickly deleted all of the Email addresses. Only had about 5 entered when I heard that question from the other room. Oops.
Warning: Be aware that when you enter an email address in the Profile, an email will be sent.
One of the people who received the email was in contact with Chris. When I deleted the email address, it blocked that person from accessing my tree. This happened when I was emailing with Chris about the initial email, as I couldn't figure it out using the Help pages.
So, Chris is aware of what I was / am trying to do and what happens. Until I understand what an invitee can see and do, I want to have some control and I am concerned about the security. I want to make sure that the Face Book Generation is comfortable in sharing their information.
Issue 3 – Social Networking
Actually, this effort, for me, is very helpful. By checking out my Face Book friends (family) I was able to pick up a number of people for my file. I knew that a couple of the "cousins" had married, but that's all I knew. Face Book helped with that.
I created a Spread Sheet, based on the Watchlist (a list of everyone in the tree), and added a column for email address OR that I can communicate with them on Face Book. Pretty good coverage for this project.
Who said you can't do genealogy on Face Book?
I have a Face Book friend, who understand why you want your genealogy research online, to help me test out how this works. I need to be able to explain what I am trying to do, and what the Face Book generation can expect to see, from me (or the Wiki-Tree), and what I want them to do.
This is in no way an attempt to be negative about Wiki-Tree, but am only sharing my experience with it, to date. Also, my focus is small at the moment, but will expand what Wiki-Tree can do for me in the future.


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Isolating A Superbug
preamble and
output would always work with one strategy but not another?
Let's recap what has happened so far:
Compiling my program would occasionally produce error messages that seemed unrelated to the program. Compiling exactly the same program again would usually work. I thought I had traced the problem to one phase of the compiler behaving consistently. However, when I tried to reproduce the problem, I learned that the real problem was that the previous phase was sometimes producing incorrect output.
Finally, I discovered that the problem wasn't in the compiler at all! Concatenating a copy of the compiler output to a copy of a preamble file that the compiler always put at the beginning:
cp preamble result cat output >>result
would cause
result occasionally to have random characters changed to
'0'. This misbehavior happened even though
cp nullfile result cat output >>result
cat preamble output >result
both worked every time.
This last misbehavior was genuinely puzzling: How could it possibly be that concatenating
preamble and
output would always work with one strategy but not another? The version that worked used the
cat command; the one that failed used both the
cat and
cp commands. Could something be wrong with the
cp command? No, because the part of the output that the
cp command copied was always correct; it was the part of the output copied by the
cat command that was wrong.
So something in the
cat command was misbehaving, and that misbehavior depended on the contents of the
preamble file. I knew that an empty
preamble file worked and the particular one I was using failed. What about other files? After some experimentation, I had a bunch of examples of files that worked and others that failed. What did the ones that failed have in common?
After staring at them for some time, and constructing files to test various hypotheses, I realized something important:
Every preamble file that caused a failure had an odd number of characters.
Moreover, even when the
preamble had an odd number of characters,
cat preamble output >result
always worked. What could possibly cause this command to behave differently from
cp preamble output cat preamble >>output
Of course! The second one appends to a file. And how does appending work? By opening the file, seeking to the end, and writing. If
preamble has an odd number of characters, then that seek will go to an odd offset, and the seek wouldn't happen at all in
cat preamble output >result
In other words, I had a new hypothesis: Seeking to an odd position in a file, then writing, occasionally caused spurious characters to appear.
This was an easy hypothesis to test: Write a program that creates a file, seeks to an odd position, and writes data to the file. Sure enough, once in a while, the file would pick up characters that didn't belong there. Finally, I had isolated this bug accurately enough that I could send it to the operating-system group.
This story contains several lessons that are not obvious at first glance:
- You don't always need the source code for a program to isolate bugs in it.
- Bugs in one program sometimes behave in ways that lead you to think they're in another program entirely.
- If something is happening that appears to be impossible, what's wrong is your understanding of what is happening. So you need to correct your understanding.
- Every time you can rule out part of a program as the source of your bug, you're that much closer to finding it.
Next week, I'll reveal how it is possible for an operating-system bug to cause such a bewildering symptom.


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GS: Where are you from?
EL: Roanoke, Alabama
GS: What degree will you receive and when?
EL: I expect to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience in Summer 2011.
GS: How long have you been at UAB?
EL: I have been at UAB for 7 years, receiving a B.S. in Psychology in 2005 and working on my doctoral degree.
GS: What is your research?
EL: My project focuses on the transcriptional regulation of inhibitory interneurons during brain development. During my first two years, I found that the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1alpha is required for the expression of the interneuron-specific calcium binding protein parvalbumin in the forebrain. This finding is "sexy," so to speak, for two main reasons. First, parvalbumin-positive interneurons control the activity of large populations of principle neurons throughout cortex and hippocampus and are thought to be the driving force behind gamma oscillations in the brain. Second, PGC-1alpha is highly inducible by environmental stimuli, so it offers an avenue by which genes interact with the environment to cause long-term deficiencies in parvalbumin expression, as seen in a variety of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. In the future, I will be determining the intrinsic firing characteristics of cortical interneurons in PGC-1alpha deficient mice as well as exploring environmental stimuli that cause PGC-1alpha expression to plummet and measuring long-term consequences of parvalbumin deficiency.
GS: What made you choose UAB for your graduate studies?
EL: As I received my undergraduate degree from UAB, I already knew that it was "the" up-and-coming institution for the study of neuroscience. I am very happy with my choice, as we have recruited many of the top names in neuroscience research, and I am able to collaborate with many of them.
GS: Have you received any awards or honors?
EL: I have received the Civitan Emerging Scholar Award.
GS: Who was your greatest influence here at UAB and why?
EL: Rita Cowell, my mentor. I have known Rita since she came to UAB fresh out of her postdoc from the University of Michigan. Since her arrival, I have been able to witness her build a lab from scratch while balancing family life with her husband and two children. As a woman in science, it has been really inspiring for me to see firsthand that I don't have to sacrifice family goals in order to succeed as a principle investigator in this game of science.
GS: What is your motivation in your academics/research?
EL: Really, I find the everyday aspects of science to be rewarding – like obtaining small errors bars on my qPCR data or getting a clean band on a Western blot. I think you have to find the little things to be somewhat rewarding because "big" results come so infrequently.
GS: What are your plans after graduating and for the future?
EL: I would like to stay in academia. I plan to do a postdoc, then climb the ladder to principle investigator of my own lab.
Elizabeth's advice for other graduate students:
I think that everyone, at some point in their graduate career, wants to give up and try something else. I was dead set on quitting and going to law school for a few months, but I am glad that I didn't because I wouldn't have been able to see all of my hard work blossom into a real project with real implications for people with neurological and psychiatric illness.


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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Senior Brinson Paolini fired a final round 71 to lead the Blue Devils to a one-over 289 in the Wolfpack Spring Open Sunday at Lonnie Poole Golf Course. Duke, 10th in the latest Golfstat rankings, finished two shots better than host N.C. State to record its fourth tournament victory of the season.
"I am very proud of our guys to win here locally in front of our followers and to be able to drive back home with that trophy in hand," said head coach Jamie Green. "The wind was challenging out there and you had to stay patient. Our guys did that today. They have worked hard throughout the season and to see the depth of our team with six guys in the top 20 is a good thing for all of us as we role on into the ACC Championship."
Duke entered the day with a three-stroke lead and played steady golf throughout the round to secure the victory with a one-under 575. N.C. State, playing on its home course, was two shots back with a 577 and followed by Clemson (+6, 582), St,. John's (+13, 589) and Francis Marion (+19, 595).
"Getting a win the week before ACCs is huge," said Paolini of Duke's team title. "We are building good momentum and being in contention today gives use some great opportunities to learn from and improve on before next weekend."
N.C. State's Albin Choi posted a six-under 66 to claim medalist honors with a seven-under 137. Paolini finished one shot back with a six-under 138. The tandem, paired together Sunday, engaged in a back-and-forth dual throughout the day. Choi charged up the leaderboard with five birdies on the first 13 holes, while Paolini's steady play kept him in contention throughout the round.
On the final hole of the day, Duke held a two-shot lead with Choi grasping a one-shot edge in the quest for medalist honors. Paolini sank a 15-foot birdie putt to secure the team championship for Duke and temporarily take a share of the tournament individual lead. Choi, whose approach on No. 18 landed inches from the cup, countered with a 10-foot birdie putt of his own to claim the win on his home course.
"Brinson was right there in the thick of it all day long and right up to the last shot," added Green. "When he absolutely had to have it, he hit three great shot on No. 18 and made birdie. You just have to tip your cap to Albin Choi, who is one of the best players in college golf this year. When he is playing his home golf course and throws up a 66 you just can't play defense against that."
Clemson's Miller Capps finished third with a four-under 140 with Duke senior Julian Suri and St. John's Ryan McCormick tying for fourth with two-under 142s. Seniors Adam Sumrall and Tim Gornik also placed in the top 10 for Duke, finished tied for sixth and tied for eighth, respectively.
Paolini recorded three birdies, three pars and three bogeys to make the turn at even-par in the final round. He moved into red figures with a birdie on the par 4 13th hole. After a bogey on No. 17, Paolini closed the tournament with a birdie on the par 4 18th hole for his team-leading 12 under-par round.
Suri, playing as an individual, opened play on the back nine and sat at two-over following a bogey on the par 4 16th hole. He began to turn things around with a birdie on No. 18 (par 4) and added birdies on No. 1 (par 5) and No. 3 (par 5) to move to one-under. Following a bogey on No. 5, Suri closed with an eagle on the par 5 7th hole and a birdie on No. 9 for a three-under 69.
Gornik, a senior from Slovenia, posted an even-par 72 Sunday never moving more than one stroke on either side of par. He finished the day with six birdies, six pars and six bogeys while recording his third top 10 finish of the season. Gornik also competed in the event as an individual.
Freshman Mads Soegaard posted an even-par 72 in the final round to finish tied for 12th with a two-over 146. He began the day with birdie on No. 1 before moving back to even-par following a bogey on No. 4. Soegaard parred the next five holes to make the turn at even-par. Birdies on No. 10 (par 4) and No. 13 (par 4) pushed Soegaard back into red figures before back-to-back bogeys on No. 16 and No. 17 dropped him back to even-par.
Sumrall recorded a one-over 73 Sunday to tie for sixth with an even-par 144. The South Bend, Ind., native opened the day with nine straight pars before carding a birdie on the par 4 10th hole. He suffered bogeys on No. 12 and No. 14 to slip to one-over before adding a birdie on the par 5 15th hole. Sumrall dropped a stroke with a bogey on No. 18.
Austin Cody, a junior from North Charleston, S.C., tied for 15th after shooting rounds of 74-73. In Sunday's final round, he registered three birdies, 11 pars and four bogeys. Cody was two-over at the turn before settling in to play the back nine at one-under, including a birdie on the par 4 18th hole.
Freshman Motin Yeung finished tied for 38th with an eight-over 152. He posted a six-over 78 Sunday with two birdies, 10 pars, five bogeys and a triple-bogey.
Complete scoring and leaderboards for the Wolfpack Spring Open
Duke returns to action April 26-28 at the ACC Championship at Old North State Club in New London, N.C.
*** Duke claimed its fourth tournament win over the season and its third in the state of North Carolina ... the last time Duke won four tournaments in a season was in 2004-05 ... the four wins in a season matches the school record.
*** Head coach Jamie Green now had 26 tournament coaching victories , including nine since taking over at Duke in the spring of 2009.
*** Duke had four players finish in the top 10 of the standing, marking the third time this season the Blue Devils have had four or more top 10 finishes in a tournament this season ... Duke was the only team in the tournament field with more than two players to finish in the top 10.
*** Paolini recorded his 12th career top 5 finish, tied for second-most at Duke ... he is also second at Duke with 64 even-par or better rounds.
*** Paolini has now finished in the top 20 in all nine team stroke-play events this season.
*** Suri recorded his 10th under-par round and his third round in the 60s ... he finished the tournament seven-under on the par 5s at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course.
*** Suri moved into a tie for second in the Duke record books with 45 career under-par rounds ... he is also now tied for fourth at Duke with 10 top 5 finishes in his career.
*** Sumrall recorded his third top 10 finish of the year ... he has placed in the top 10 of each of his last two tournaments.


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NYTimes.com offers "Curt Schilling, Rhode Island and the Fall of 38 Studios," a very lengthy and detailed look at the startup studio that ended up costing baseball star Curt Schilling and the state of Rhode Island a lot of money. Nobody comes out looking too good after all this, as the article details the naïveté of game development neophyte Schilling taking on the most ambitious type of game in undertaking an MMORPG, and the sketchy history of politics in Rhode Island ("Rhode Islanders are used to being played by their politicians. What makes them cringe is the suspicion that virtually all their elected leaders might have been played by someone else."). They touch on an interstate rivalry with Massachusetts which played a part in Rhode Island's overreach here, and the behind-the-scenes machinations to facilitate the state's hefty loan to the company, which prompted the one dissenting voter to say: "Scandal finds money." The article is filled with detail on problems inherent in this situation, such as 38 Studios needing to control costs at the same time they were trying to live up to the pumped-up promise that they would bring new jobs to the state and how former 38 Studios CEO Brett Close urged releasing Amalur in smaller phases, rather than "trying to build the skyscraper horizontally and then standing it up." They sum up the current legal proceedings between Rhode Island and Schilling, and offer this interesting take: "At bottom, 38 Studios may be that rare political scandal that grew not from any lies that anyone told the public, but from the stories that desperate politicians told themselves." Thanks nin via Kotaku.
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Green Wins Crown, Makes World Team
Akron, Ohio – University of Nebraska wrestler James Green won this weekend's 66 kg/145.5 lbs. ASICS University Freestyle Nationals with a win over Jason Chamberlain at the University of Akron's Stile Fieldhouse over the weekend. With the title, Green, a two-time NCAA All-American for the Huskers, qualified to represent the United States in the World University Games in Kazan, Russia, this August.
Green, who finished seventh at 157 pounds at this season's NCAA Championships, won eight matches to take home the gold in Akron. After winning his first five matches by technical fall, Green pinned Ohio State All-American Hunter Stieber in the semifinals to earn him a spot in the best-of-three final.
In the championship, Green defeated 2012 University World Team member Jason Chamberlain with a 4-2 decision in the first match to take the advantage. However, Chamberlain then won a 5-4 decision in the second round to force a decisive contest. After a hard-fought battle, Green came out with a 3-0 decision to take the title and join the 2013 University World Team.
ASICS University Freestyle Nationals Results:
Champ. Round 1: James Green over Zachary Stepan (Rocky Mountain Regional Training) (TF 10-0)
Champ. Round 2: James Green over Daniel White (White Wrestling) (TF 10-0)
Champ. Round 3: James Green over Tyler Scotten (BOSTON UNIVERSITY) (TF 10-0)
Champ. Round 4: James Green over Zack Beitz (Nittany Lion Wrestling Club) (TF 12-2)
Quarterfinal: James Green over Nick Dardanes (Minnesota Storm) (TF 13-2)
Semifinal: James Green over Hunter Stieber (OHIO STATE) (Pin 3:59)
Championship Finals:
Round 1 - James Green (NWTC) won by decision over Jason Chamberlain (Titan Mercury Wrestling Club) (Dec 4-2)
Round 2 - Jason Chamberlain (Titan Mercury Wrestling Club) won by decision over James Green (NWTC) (Dec 5-4)
Round 3 - James Green (NWTC) won by decision over Jason Chamberlain (Titan Mercury Wrestling Club) (Dec 3-0)


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Ionia falls to Grand Rapids South Christian in regional final
The Ionia girls basketball team was looking to make more history Thursday night as the Bulldogs had their sights set on a regional championship.
Last week, the Lady Dawgs ended an eight-year district championship drought by beating county rivals Portland and Lakewood at Thornapple-Kellogg High School. With a win over the Sailors of Grand Rapids Christian on Thursday, they would bring home the program's first regional since 2004.
Unfortunately for Ionia, the Sailors were able to open up a seven-point game in the third quarter with a pair of 3-pointers to reclaim a double-digit lead as they handed the Bulldogs a 45-27 loss.
"(South Christian) got off to a quick start and we came out a little tentative tonight, but it has been a great run," Ionia coach Andy Barr said. "Our girls played extremely well over the last few weeks, but we came up a little short tonight. We can reflect on tonight's game, but I would rather reflect on the last couple of weeks and the great basketball we played.
"One of the great things about our tournament run has been the community support. This was not just good for us, but the school and the members of our community. It was something positive for us and them and it was great to see everybody rally behind the girls."
At the start of Thursday's game, South Christian jumped out to and early 13-2 lead before the
Lady Dawns got back-to-back baskets by juniors Sarah Swartz and Meagan Ciganick at the end of the first quarter to make it a 13-6 game.
The Bulldogs started the second with a 7-3 run to make it a three-point affair with 4:37 left, with junior Taylor Bovee scoring five of her game-high 13 points during that stretch. She also assisted on a score by sophomore Anna Riccius during the run as well.
With the Sailors leading 21-15 at the start of the third, South Christian began to open the game up with a 12-1 run that included back-to-back 3-pointers from seniors Angelique Gaddy and Anna Timmer. The rally gave the Sailors a 33-16 lead. They continued to extend their advantage the remainder of the quarter, building a 39-19 advantage by the start of the fourth quarter.
Swartz and Riccius finished behind Bovee on the score sheet with five points each.
South Christian was paced by Cassidy Vredevoogd and Timmer who scored 10 points each. Gaddy chipped in with seven and Kayla Diemer finished with six.
With the loss, the Bulldogs wrap up the 2012-13 season with a record of 15-8.


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The general gist? A minor update somewhere this year, but the real update won't come until 2014. In the meantime, we'll have to... "Resuming..." ...settle for CardDAV/CalDAV support, some additional HTML5 support, and fixes for Xbox Music metadata. We were promised regular updates and an early access program for enthusiasts - but Microsoft failed to deliver, once more. For all intents and purposes, thanks... "Resuming..." ...to the switch to the Windows NT kernel, the Windows Phone we're using today has very little additional functionality to offer over what we were using on WP7 release day. I've been a Windows Phone user since WP7 release day, but Microsoft has lost me.
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Boulder police have found the owner of a van that witnesses believed was involved in a possible abduction Tuesday night and have determined that no crime was committed, according to a news release.
At about 10 p.m. Tuesday, Boulder police received two calls from witnesses who said they saw four or five people in a white utility van apparently forcing a woman into the vehicle at the Circle K convenience store near 15th Street and Canyon Boulevard.
Police never received a missing person report but on Wednesday released descriptions of several people believed to have been involved in the suspicious incident.
They also described the van and gave a partial license plate of 868-GY.
According to Sgt. Thomas Trujillo, Circle K's corporate offices helped identify the people involved. Police spoke with the driver and another man identified by witnesses as an occupant in the van and concluded that no crime occurred, Trujillo said.
Although one witness told a dispatcher that a gun may have been involved, Trujillo said that was not the case.
"It was a couple of guys pretty much horse-playing around," Trujillo said. "They didn't realize anyone had seen them. There was no criminal intent. No crime was committed."
Police consider the matter closed.


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Almost without fail, I get two questions when I'm out and about.
Why Rockford? What do you think of the place?
The tone is a mix of surprise and anxiety. The effect is the same as if my interlocutor were asking what I had done to be sent to prison.
They're good questions to ask of a guy who's still new to town — I've been here just 14 months. And given the very public discussion we're having about the challenges that face Rockford — you can recite the particulars — I suppose it's natural to wonder what on earth would bring to Rockford people who have choices as to where they want to live and work.
Until recently, my answers have been honest but polite. Rockford checks all the necessary boxes: It's a Midwestern city close to my wife's and my Chicago roots.
I'm a Yankee to my core, and although over nearly 35 years I've lived North, South, East and West, my heart belongs to this part of the country. My family has made friends and likes the public amenities the city offers, and I enjoy people with whom I work. And the challenges of crime and urban decay are among the things that make this a good news town.
From now on, however, I'm going to answer a bit differently.
The turning point was the Thursday before last, when 1,400 or so people showed up at the Coronado Performing Arts Center for the Engagement Summit hosted by Transform Rockford, the initiative designed to improve the region's economic and social health through lasting change driven by a shared vision and values.
That number, 1,400, is not a misprint. The Engagement Summit was a monster event. What I saw that evening was a community united in its desire to make something better of itself.
To be sure, all the hard work lies ahead. The brutal facts about which the project's founder, Woodward Inc. CEO Tom Gendron, speaks so passionately can't be wished away.
And of course, most of the hard work will involve people.
No surprise there. I had been in town only a few days last autumn when people inside and outside the News Tower began to chatter about the sour personalities and dysfunctional relationships that make it so hard to get things done here.
It was clear that Thursday night, and again last week when Gendron delivered the keynote at the annual meeting of the Rockford Area Economic Development Council, that the Transform Rockford team gets that and that they're willing to corral the bullies who lead with their egos, civility be damned, and to silence the serial f-bombers who somehow confuse vulgarity and volume for rational debate.
They deserve to be called out. Most of us learn early in life — age 12 sounds about right — that coarse behavior doesn't intimidate. It doesn't persuade. It merely alienates.
In the end, if Transform Rockford is as effective as I hope it will be, the victory will go not to the biggest loudmouths. It will go, instead, to a soft-spoken engineer whose willingness to speak truth about those who wield power produced a broad social movement.
So why Rockford? Let me give you 1,400 reasons.
Mark Baldwin is executive editor of the Rockford Register Star.


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The World This Week - November 16th, 2012 (part 2)
Could the real scandal of the Petraeus affair be the fan following of a top US military brass that will ultimately be associated with failed outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan? Also, China's not-so-new leadership, the Egyptian president caught out by the escalation between Israel and Gaza, and the romance long gone in the Franco-German couple.
- A. Craig Copetas, Correspondent-at-large, Quartz/The Atlantic Group;
- Ulrike Koltermann, Freelance Journalist;
- Anne Bagamery, Senior Editor, International Herald Tribune;
- Virginie Herz, France 24 International Affairs Editor
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No More Phone, Computer for 'Ex-Gay' Grindr User
Chalk up another vocal Christian "ex-gay" who seems not to be able to backtrack. Matt Moore, who has made a great show of his rejection of homosex after finding Jesus, admitted to the Christian Post that he has "learned not to underestimate the power of my flesh."
After being thrown into the media spotlight last week, the "ex-gay" Christian blogger who was caught using the gay hookup app Grindr now says he got rid of his computer in order to "prevent giving into temptation" again.
In that same interview with the Christian Post, the website where he extensively wrote how religion saved him from the gay lifestyle, Moore, 23, says that he got rid of his electronics so he won't be tempted to cruise Grindr or similar apps and websites.
"I have sold my computer and have had someone put a lock on my phone where I cannot download apps or access the Internet through a non-filtered browser," Moore told the publication. "Ultimately, this isn't the solution. My heart being captured by the grace of God and brought into humble obedience is the solution. But not taking precautions is dumb, so these are the precautions I have taken."
When the Post asked Moore what he would tell "a Christian suffering from same-sex attraction," he said that they would need Jesus.
"The world will tell you to embrace your homosexual desires because it'll make you happy in this life," he said. "Jesus tells you to deny yourself and follow Him and promises to give you eternal life if you do."
Moore told the Huffington Post to say he doesn't "promote sexual conversion therapy or promote that people to try and reorient their sexual preferences. So much of what's being printed are old ideologies of the 'ex gay movement,' and they're falsely being placed on me. I don't support those ideologies and I think they are harmful."
He admitted that he doesn't believe he will "ever be attracted to women. So I don't encourage others to make that a goal, either" but urges "people to seek The Lord and seek the truth." (The Huffington Post writer didn't specify how Moore contacted the website, but since has no phone or website, the means of communication must have been miraculous.)
Last week, Zinnia Jones of Freethought Blogs exposed Moore when a reader tipped her off that the "ex-gay" blogger was secretly using Grindr and looking for "special friends." When the story broke, Moore confirmed to Jones that it was really him on Grindr and not a fake.
"I am wrong in having been on Grindr. I haven't changed my views on homosexuality, the Bible, etc.," he told Jones. "Creating a Grindr profile and talking to guys on it was major disobedience on my part....disobedience to Christ. Disobedience to a loving and gracious God. Thankfully, I believe that He forgives me for this disobedience. I believe the blood of Christ covers this disobedience. And I won't be on grindr again....ever."
What made the story so sensational was that Moore blogged for the Post, where he made extravagant claims that he was "cured" of his homosexuality. In a lengthy piece entitled, "My Story: Homosexuality, Drunkenness, Grace and Redemption," he writes how Christianity has helped him leave his gay lifestyle.
"I can, in truth, firmly say that the longer I keep turning away from my homosexual desires, the less in strength they become," Moore wrote. In August Moore encountered a setback and wrote that he was still having urges to sleep with men.
"Although I have same sex thoughts on a daily basis, I do not, in any way, feel compelled to ever return to a lifestyle of homosexuality," he wrote. More recently, Moore blogged that he was suffering from "overwhelming loneliness."


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Expansion Program
Throughout North America, and now in Jamaica, individuals and organizations that have committed themselves to reaching out to the hungry, homeless, abused, and addicted are getting the help they need to develop and grow into established ministries at an accelerated pace. It is happening in cities, towns, and rural areas where there has not been a focused gospel outreach to at-risk people. Additionally, established missions are replicating themselves across the continent, which means that more people are having critical physical needs met and more are experiencing the saving grace of Jesus. This is the purpose of the AGRM Expansion Program.
Mature missions nurturing fledgling missions has long been a hallmark of AGRM, but it was in 1989 that the association really started to put its mind and muscle into a structured growth and development program. The AGRM Expansion Program provides technical and financial support for ministries that are three years old or newer, or that have gone through a major reorganization in the last two years, with a goal of helping to accelerate their growth and development into stable, self-supporting member organizations who will later assist in the growth and development of new ministries.
These missions are called expansion missions, and they can remain in the Expansion Program for a maximum of three years, unless they are selected as the multi-year project recipient—which would add three additional years to their eligibility. In partnership with its District Officers, AGRM raises funds to help expansion mission leaders get organized and educated in the ways of RESCUE.
Every three years the AGRM board of directors selects a ministry as the AGRM Expansion Project to receive major multi-year funding and expertise for its accelerated growth and development. On an ongoing basis, expansion mission leaders receive scholarships to attend national, regional, or local training events; are offered internship opportunities with mature missions; are paired with experienced mentors; and, if funds are available, may receive a special-purpose grant to assist with a designated need.
One important component of the Expansion Program is mentoring. The relationships between established and expansion ministries has proven to be one of growth and learning for both. More details on this subject can be found in the Expansion Mission Mentoring Kit.
For more information about AGRM Expansion Program, contact Selena Hayle, Expansion Coordinator