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Ask Steve Ingersol, a 30-something waiter at Applebee's near Akron, Ohio, how he's going to vote in November, and he shrugs."No matter who the president is, it's just someone to blame stuff on," says Mr. Ingersol, a registered Republican who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because he thought it would be "cool" to have a black president. This time, he says, his vote is a coin toss.
Ingersol doesn't know it, but he's a hot commodity in Ohio, part of a key demographic – the white working class – in what could be the decisive state of the 2012 race. If the upper Midwest, from Iowa to Pennsylvania, is the premier battleground region of the country, then Ohio is ground zero. While Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania lean Democratic, Ohio and Iowa are tossups. And with 18 electoral votes (to Iowa's six), Ohio has more power to swing the outcome.
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Chances are, between now and Nov. 6, Ingersol will hear plenty more about his choices. The TV airwaves are already crackling with political ads. The local Portage County Tea Party is armed with voter lists for door-to-door canvassing and phone calls. The unions, too, are revving up. And both the Obama and Romney teams are on track to set up more campaign offices around Ohio than did any previous nominees.
For Mr. Obama, winning Ohio isn't essential to reaching 270 electoral votes. But it is for Mitt Romney. No Republican has ever been elected president without carrying Ohio.
Last week alone, Obama, Mr. Romney, and Vice President Joe Biden all made campaign appearances in Ohio. First lady Michelle Obama heads to Columbus and Dayton on Tuesday.
And it comes as no surprise that three of Romney's top campaign surrogates and potential running mates are from the upper Midwest – starting with Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a formerGeorge W. Bush budget director. The others are Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and formerMinnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
"[Senator Portman] is worth three to five points in Ohio," says Ohio GOP chairman Bob Bennett, who has been talking up his state's junior senator with Romney. "Independents like Portman. AndDemocrats don't get mad at him."
Where every vote matters
Rare is the running mate who can swing a state, but in a battleground as tight as Ohio, every vote matters. Four years ago, Obama won the state by just 4.6 percentage points, even as he was winning Wisconsin by 14 points and Michigan by 16. This year, his margins are down everywhere.
And with most voters already in one or the other camp, "Ohio will be decided by 5 to 8 per cent of its electorate," says Rex Elsass, one of the top GOP admen in the United States, based nearColumbus, Ohio.
Which brings us back to Ingersol, the Applebee's waiter. In some ways, he's the quintessential white working-class voter – a tough demographic for Obama in 2008 and even more so now. Ingersol is a single dad with no health insurance. But he's so busy with work and family that the new health-care law is barely on his radar. And it may not be enough to bring him back to Obama.
"I've only been to the doctor once in the last 13 years," Ingersol says proudly, suggesting he can do without insurance. (His kids are covered on their mother's plan.)
In the Obama campaign's Zanesville office, it's health care that drew 23-year-old Chase Flowers to volunteer full time – specifically, the fact that the new law allows his parents to cover him and his sister.
"I tell people that health-care reform kills two birds with one stone," he says. "It's controlling health-care costs and helping people with their health."
But to other Ohioans, "repeal Obamacare" is the ultimate rallying cry of the election. On a recent Tuesday evening, some 200 members of the Portage County Tea Party gathered near Akron for a candidates' forum and then a pep talk from executive director Tom Zawistowski. Along the back of the room, 5,700 pages of voter names and contact information supplied by the Romney campaign were stacked on tables, waiting for volunteers to take.
Despite the tea party's ambivalence about Romney, there's no doubt that on defeating Obama and the state's senior senator, Sherrod Brown (D) – two steps toward undoing the health-care law – they're on the same page.
"We're at war with the Republican Party in some ways: It's not as conservative as we'd like it to be," says Mr. Zawistowski, who is also president of the statewide Ohio Liberty Coalition. "But we're working together on get-out-the-vote. They have resources that we don't have."
In his speech to his local tea party, exhorting members to canvass their neighbours, he gets choked up.
"The Supreme Court punted," Zawistowski says. "They kicked it back to the legislature, to the American people…. My destiny, our destiny is in our hands. I thank God I live in Ohio. I want to fight this fight with you. We will decide."
Collective-bargaining backlash
One of the biggest questions hanging over Ohio is what kind of residual impact there may be from last year's battle over public-sector unions. Gov. John Kasich (R) took office in January 2011 vowing to curb collective-bargaining rights in an effort to balance the state budget. But when the law passed, the backlash was fierce – particularly so because, unlike in Wisconsin, it included police and firefighter unions.
Suddenly, traditionally Republican-leaning unions had common cause with their liberal union brethren. Last November, their efforts paid off: Ohio voters repealed the collective-bargaining law with 61 per cent of the vote.
"[The law] was probably an overreach," says GOP chair Bennett. But "we were outspent 2-1/2 to 1."
Governor Kasich remains unpopular – a blow to Romney's chances in Ohio, Democrats say – even though statewide unemployment has steadily declined to 7.2 per cent in June, a percentage point below the national average. But it's too soon to say whether the police and firefighters will stick with the more liberal unions in supporting Obama in 2012, despite Romney's anti-union positions.
"It's going to take some work. I wouldn't say it's an automatic thing," says Robert Davis, political director of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Ohio Council 8 in Columbus. Even the membership of his own union, he says, is one-third Republican.
For Senator Brown, support for unions has already paid off. Last Tuesday, the state Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorsed Brown against Republican challenger Josh Mandel, the first time the organisation has backed a Democrat for the US Senate since 1988.
The Ohio FOP has yet to state a choice to the national FOP for a presidential endorsement, but Romney's support for the anti-union ballot measure last October, along with the union's Senate endorsement, does not bode well for him. Republicans say that the police union's political preferences are all about labour issues, not about how the rank and file will vote.
One issue that clearly boosts Obama is his 2009 bailout of the auto industry. One out of 8 Ohio jobs is auto-industry related; 80 of the state's 88 counties contain auto supply manufacturers.
Still, there's no denying that the sputtering economic recovery casts a shadow over all else in Ohio, as it does nationally. Ohio ranks ninth in the nation on home foreclosures. And if the battle for Ohio boils down to the southeastern, Appalachian part of the state, Obama could be in real trouble. Coal is king there, and the Environmental Protection Agency's new regulations on coal-fired power-plant emissions are deeply unpopular.
Southeastern Ohio is also socially conservative – no to gay marriage and abortion, yes to guns – which is another strike against Obama. But it's also economically liberal in its support of the social safety net. That's why some political observers call it Ohio's ultimate swing area.
Former Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who represented southeastern Ohio in Congress for 12 years, says he won't deny that coal will sway some voters. "But it won't be the determinative factor," he says. "All along theOhio River, where steel mills have closed, I think the outsourcing of jobs is a more powerful issue in a generic kind of sense."
A long winning streak
Ultimately, the battle for Ohio will be waged statewide. From the liberal northeast to the conservative southwest, the Buckeye State is in many ways a microcosm of the country. One exception is its small Hispanic population. But for now, Ohio is the reigning bellwether in presidential politics: It has voted for the winner every time since 1964, the longest streak of all 50 states.
When ads funded by outside groups are included, Team Obama expects to be outspent on TV and is banking on its ground game. Four years ago, the Obama campaign opened more than 100 offices around the state. This time, the campaign plans to outdo that. State campaign director Greg Schultz has been on the job since March 2009.
The Romney campaign, delayed by a tough primary battle, has had to play catch-up. As of July 16, there were 23 joint Romney–Republican National Committee "victory centres" in Ohio versus 36 Obama for America offices. All told, Romney and the RNC plan more than 60 or 70 victory centres, says a Republican source.
But it's not the number of offices that matters, says the Romney campaign. "What's clear is we are going to be able to match Barack Obama volunteer for volunteer, door-knock for door-knock, phone call for phone call between now and November," says Christopher Maloney, spokesman for the Romney campaign in Ohio.
What's also clear is that Romney can't match Obama as a stump performer. As of July 24, the president and his top surrogates – Mr. Biden and Mrs. Obama – will have been here 47 times since Obama's election. Biden may be his secret weapon, the "scrapper from Scranton" who can speak to white, working-class voters in a way that the Obamas can't.
All those Obama visits play right into Romney's hands, says Mr. Elsass of the Strategy Group for Media, the GOP ad firm. "Barack Obama," he says, "energizes our base in a way that Mitt Romney can't."
In a sign that Democrats will let no challenge to their ground game go unanswered, the Obama campaign filed a federal lawsuit last Tuesday against Ohio election officials, saying new restrictions halting early voting three days before the election are unconstitutional.
The Obama campaign, joined by the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party, says the new rule is unfair, since military and overseas voters are allowed to vote in person until the day before the election. Four years ago, the Obama campaign saw early voting as crucial to winning Ohio.
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Hi,Possible I missed something but I cannot find a way to burn ripped DVD from HDD to DVD back. It it possible with current LinuxMCE implementation? Also in what format LinuxMCE rips DVD? Is it possible to burn it using K3b?Thanks in advance.
Andrew, thanks for your replay. It's good that at least K3b can be used to burn DVD. But it might be useful to have that functionality in LinuxMCE. Moreover MythTV and/or VDR have plug-ins for burning DVD.
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by Trevor Kuss, sports information assistant
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Senior Dani Gallucci (Orlando, Fla.) of the No. 21 Georgia College softball team (30-12, 12-4 PBC) was named Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Pitcher of the Week. This is the second time that Gallucci has been given the award this season.
Gallucci was the game changer last Wednesday evening in a doubleheader against the then-No. 19 Columbus State University Cougars. She only allowed one run and finished game one with two walks and eight strikeouts. The senior retired nine straight Cougars at one point on the way to her 11th win of the season.
In the second game, Gallucci came back as a relief pitcher, striking out another five batters and walking two over the final three innings, earning her second save of the year.
In 10 total innings that Gallucci pitched, she allowed only one earned run and five hits. She walked just four Cougars over the two games and struck out 13. She also lowered her ERA to 1.21, third best in the PBC.
Gallucci's 11 wins for the season tie her for 10th in the PBC. Her second save ties her for the second most in the league.
The Bobcats will be back in action today, April 10 against USC Aiken at 5 p.m. The match will be a home game, a doubleheader and a conference game for Georgia College.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Network Analysis: An Introduction
Network analysis focuses on relationships between social entities. It is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in political science, economics, organizational science, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective, which will be taught in this workshop, has been developed over the last sixty years by researchers in psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The social network paradigm is gaining recognition and standing in the general social and behavioral science communities as the theoretical basis for examining social structures. This basis has been clearly defined by many theorists, and the paradigm convincingly applied to important substantive problems. However, the paradigm requires a new and different set of concepts and analytic tools, beyond those provided by standard quantitative (particularly, statistical) methods. This workshop covers precisely those concepts and tools. The course will present an introduction to various concepts, methods, and applications of social network analysis drawn from the social and behavioral sciences. The primary focus of these methods is the analysis of relational data measured on groups of social actors. Topics to be discussed include an introduction to graph theory and the use of directed graphs to study structural theories of actor interrelations; structural and locational properties of actors, such as centrality, prestige, and prominence; subgroups and cliques; equivalence of actors, including structural equivalence, blockmodels, and an introduction to role algebras; an introduction to local analyses, including dyadic and triad analysis; and statistical global analyses, using models such as p1, p*, and their relatives. The workshop will also cover more specific applications in common software packages for network analysis: UCINET, Pajek, STOCNET, and Pnet.
Fee: Members = $1500; Non-members = $3000
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We were thrilled when Shapeling A Sarah posted this poem as a rejoinder to a grossly fat-shaming one that is making its way around via email forwards. Thank you, A Sarah, for sharing your brilliant wit with all of us!
About A Sarah: "I write song parodies as a way to deal with stress (and got one published once, but under my real name), I'm married with two small kids, and I once had a paid acting role in a radio drama for truckers."
A Visit from Aunt Fattie
'Twas the month after Christmas and all through my body,
I was quite unconcerned with being a hottie.
The legs from my mom's side, the shoulders from dad,
The cells made from holiday meals I'd had…
All parts were happy, contented, and warm,
Joyful and useful and causing no harm.
I grabbed my down comforter, kicked off my shoes,
And settled in bed for a long winter's snooze.
When from the bathroom there arose such a clatter!
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the loo I flew like a flash!
(But my stomach felt fine, so I threw up no sash.)
When what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But the talking scale which I'd thrown out last year!
More rapid than eagles his insults they came.
He whistled, he shouted, he called me a name:
"Now, Failure! Now, Ugly! Now, Sloppy and Lumpy!
Unloved, Unlovable, Loathsome and Dumpy!
Count points, log your food, and get 'healthy,' you cow.
Waste away! Waste away! Waste away now!"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So into my mind his aspersions they flew…
I thought, "Oh, I'm loathsome. Whate'er shall I do?"
I hated my shoulders, my legs, and my tummy,
And all of those meals I'd thought were so yummy.
I hated myself for my natural weight range.
I decided to diet… er, make a 'lifestyle change.'
But just as I started turning around,
Down the chimney Aunt Fattie came with a bound.
She was dressed all in pleather, from her head to her heels.
On her chest and her cape? Baby doughnuts, for reals.
Her eyes – how they twinkled! Her dimples – how merry!
Her cheeks were like roses, her nose like a cherry!
The stump of her stogey held tight in her teeth,
And the smoke it encircled her head like a wreath.
She had a broad face and magnificent belly,
That shook, when she laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
Though chubby and plump, a right jolly old auntie,
The sight of my scale caused her to get ranty.
"Don't listen to him," she said. "I mean, really!
Diet for weight loss? What for? Oh, how silly.
Imagine a pill that, for just three percent,
Does all of the things that the pill-makers meant.
Everyone else? They've just wasted their money.
But now let's pretend the pill also tastes funny,
Gives you bad breath, makes you cranky and tired,
And, oh yes, three hours a day are required
To swallow it. Tell me, do you think you'd try it?
'Cause, honey, that's just what you get with a diet.
Or let's say it works. What then? You're entitled
To live life unhindered, unbroken, unbridled?
Your diet success gives you license to dance?
Swim? Work out? Run a race? Wear tight pleather pants?
Make a friend? Make a date? Take a break? Take a bow?
Girlfriend, you know you can do those things now!
Plus, FAT ISN'T BAD, for Pete's sake. It's just tissue.
If others don't like it, it's their goddamned issue!"
So we jumped on the scale, which shattered to bits,
Then spent hours indulging our sardonic wits.
And I heard her exclaim, 'ere she turned on her heels,
"Hell yeah, some things taste just as good as thin feels!"


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What a tease!
Before Marvel releases the first full trailer for "Iron Man 3" Tuesday, the company is giving fans a 17-second glimpse of what's to come.
Robert Downey Jr. debuts new suit on Iron Man 3 set!
In the super-short teaser trailer, there are a few quick images of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) walking through a sea of photographers, and then suited up as Iron Man, diving from the sky.
Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is also back for the third installment of the action franchise, and it looks like she'll be in a bit of trouble, given the quick shot we can see of her struggling to free herself from some metal contraption.
"Iron Man 3" is set to hit theaters May 3, 2013.
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The musical journey of Southeast Texas native David Adam Moore
From youth, people struggle to find their place in the world. They long to find their path, the road that leads them to the future. Students strive to decide what direction they want their lives to take. Once decided, obstacles in the path can cause people to choose to fork and leave completely the path they thought they wanted to follow, changing the course of their futures. Vidor native David Adam Moore faced obstacles and veered onto a path that would ultimately lead him to be a highly sought after operatic baritone.
The life of a performer, a life spent traveling, city to city, country to country, across continents, is a difficult yet rewarding one, according to Moore. He was raised in Vidor, born into a family with a musical background.
"I started making music from childhood because my family are all country and western musicians going back like five or six generations," Moore said. "I think my grandfather, John Shirley Moore, actually had his own radio show as a teenager and started playing professionally locally in the nightclub scene from the time he was a teenager. My dad, John 'Bubba' Moore started working the nightclub scene in Southeast Texas when he was 13. Most of my aunts and uncles and my cousins play music…Most of them are nightclub musicians but some have played on the national level. My dad toured with Tracy Byrd for 15 years or so. So, I was around people making music."
Moore said his interest was in electronic music, which had gained popularity at the time. He listened to bands like The Cure, The Smiths and Depeche Mode. He worked with synthesizers and learned about the technical side of music. He also started listening to classical music on KVLU while in high school. Moore said, at that time, he planned to go to college to study theology and possibly linguistics. A talent show at Vidor High School lead him to become a member of the choir, altering his course though he did not know it at the time.
"I was bouncing around the idea of (joining) choir my junior year in high school…I didn't really think I was a strong enough singer," Moore related. "My old friend Jason Lyles, Michelle Hinch and I had put together a little band for the talent show. Michelle wanted to sing a Debbie Gibson song. She knew that Jason and I both knew synthesizers quite well and we both had gear…Then, Michelle was not able to participate. On about three days notice, Jason and I decided to just go ahead and do a Depeche Mode song instead. Jason was going to sing it because he was the singer of the two of us…Then, Jason comes down with a cold the day before the talent show. So, I had to sing instead. I was nervous because I was horrified by the idea of singing in front of people…So, we auditioned with Jason singing. No one had heard me sing until the show. After the show, David Llewellyn, the choir director at Vidor High School at that time, came up to me and said, 'I just want to know one thing: why aren't you in my choir?' I said, 'Am I good enough to be in your choir? I'm not really a singer.' From that point on, he was my mentor. He was extremely encouraging."
Moore said Llewellyn gave him some solo repertoire to work on although he did not have solos for the high school choir. Moore was still considering theology, but financial hardship caused him to have to choose between several different directions after high school. Llewellyn told Moore he could get a scholarship to Lamar if he joined the university's choir. That led him to complete his first two years at Lamar.
"At the time, my family did not have the money to send me to the kind of school I wanted to go to for theology…By the time I got to my senior year of high school, I did not have a many options as far as college was concerned. My choices boiled down to staying in Beaumont at Lamar University or enlisting in the Army and using the G.I. Bill."
Moore said he tested well on the Army recruiting test and had the chance to go in as an Arabic linguist.
"That sounded really interesting. The other option was to go into the Navy as a chaplain. Because of my test scores, they wanted me to go to their nuclear submarine school…It's really a top-flight school…I tested really well on these tests, but they had no idea I was terrible at math…So my options were to go into the military in some capacity, to go to a Southern Baptist college on a ministerial scholarship or to stay in Beaumont and go into Lamar. Lamar offered me a modest scholarship to major in voice."
He majored in voice at Lamar, adding composition and music education because he did not view himself as a performer.
"At that point I had not really gotten in touch with that part myself that wants to get out on stage and express raw emotions to large amounts of people," Moore said. "So, I ended up going to Lamar. I was very, very interested in vocal anatomy and physiology. When I got to Lamar, the music theory and the music history training was amazing. I was captivated as soon as I started learning…In every part of it, there was something about the musical developments in every area that was captivating to me.
"I started taking voice lessons for the first time. I did not take any prior lessons before going to Lamar. I was really enjoying that. I was learning how to sing. It was all very exciting. I got my first taste of opera there. It's where I really learned what opera was."
Moore performed in his first musical production at Lamar University and his first operatic solo, a scene from La Boheme. He said professors at Lamar encouraged him and helped him in his musical development.
"Betty Shine was a big mentor to me there," Moore said. "She is the one who taught us acting and stage movement and stagecraft. Of the people there, she was the one most interested in opera from a performance standpoint. She was the one who made me realize it's possible to take your emotions and life experience and channel it into your voice and into the music and into the character you create. She was the first person to make me realize that was possible. She was the first person to take me to see an opera. She took us to see some productions at the Houston Grand Opera."
Moore said that even now, he believes the performance was one of the best he has seen.
"Among the singers who I have admired the most and tried to emulate the most are people like Hildegard Behrens, a German soprano who died a few years ago. I saw her perform in Houston, and that was the performance that really set me along the course I have been following since and has had probably the most impact on me of any performance I have seen, and she was playing Elektra in the opera by Richard Strauss. At the time, I think she was in her fifties or sixties, and instead of standing out in the middle of the stage and sort of emoting very nobly with her chest in the air like a sort of diva would, she was actually flinging herself with wild abandon all over the stage. She literally looked like a thirteen-year-old girl who was in hysterical agony over the death of her father who she loved so much, and while she was throwing herself about the stage like this, she was singing perfectly. I mean her voice was absolutely pristine. There's noting else like that…There are other performing arts that have elements of this, but here she was acting at the highest level you can act and making music at the highest level you can make music, just 100 percent pure expression. It was raw. There was something completely animal and primal about it. Her performance was completely visceral. This is what opera can be, and this is what drew me to it. It was that particular production that gave me the desire to perform opera, even though I was not sure then that I had the pipes for it."
Moore said that while he enjoyed going to school at Lamar, he could not pass on the chance he got to study voice with the man who literally wrote the book on it, Richard Miller.
"I got this amazing opportunity to study with one of the great teachers in history, a legendary voice teacher, who was actually the author of the textbooks on vocal technique and using vocal pedagogy that we were reading at Lamar," Moore remembered. "He was at Oberlin Conservatory. He was Richard Miller. He died in 2009. I was in one of his last groups, last generations, of students.Once I started reading Richard Miller's books, I became much more interested in becoming a voice teacher. That was really the route I was envisioning when I transferred over to Oberlin."
Moore said without the help of a scholarship from Temple Emanuel in Beaumont, where he acted as substitute cantor, he would no have been able to afford the tuition at the prestigious school. He received encouragement support for his transfer from Lamar to Oberlin from the rabbi there.
Moore said, regardless of the money, he was not entirely sure he would get into the school when he applied.
"I barely, barely got into Oberlin," he asserted. "My score for my audition there was on the low side for admittance. I was there on a need-based scholarship, not a merit scholarship. But, once I got to Oberlin and started working with Mr. Miller, I started learning how to support my voice properly. What is my natural instrument started to emerge. When that happened, it became evident that I had the potential to become a professional singer. It was about my junior year in college. I started performing in opera there. I started doing some competitions. By the time my final year there came around, I placed quite highly in the Metropolitan Opera competition and was offered some very good scholarships to grad schools. It became clear that was the direction I should pursue. It was very encouraging."
Moore said he participated in an accelerated Master's program at Oberlin, and took graduate courses along with his undergraduate courses.
"It was very cost effective, but looking back I think that shaved a year or two off my life," Moore said of the experience. "It was so intense. I had to write two Master's theses…learn all these languages. Oberlin was a very academically vigorous school…I speak German, Italian, French and Russian conversationally. I've sung in a few other languages with the help of coaches. As with any professional singer, we always know exactly what we are saying when we perform. We always know every word we sing, what it means, whether it is an adjective or an article or a verb. Those are things you have to know."
In addition to the languages he knows conversationally, he has sung in Czech, Spanish, an Argentine dialect, Hebrew and more.
After graduating from Oberlin, Moore said he still needed more training and development.
"It was an unusual situation. I was 22 with a Master's degree but still had this 22-year-old baritone voice that was not professionally ready yet. I had gotten a good start on my vocal technique but I needed a more training and a lot more mileage. So, I ended up doing a post-graduate degree at Cincinnati Conservatory. It's one of the top opera programs in the nation. At the time, I think they were doing six or eight fully staged opera productions every year. They had the budget and the production resources of a regional opera company…They had a top-flight faculty and really great acting training. That was great."
Moore received a performance-oriented artist's diploma from Cincinnati Conservatory. He said the experience prepared him for the reality of life as a performer. He received voice training and training in method acting while there. He took courses in stage combat, dance and yoga among others. Moore said due to the demanding physical nature of stage performance, students at the conservatory were required to take courses in some form of physical discipline each semester.
"I was lucky. I started doing some professional work while I was still in school. I did one large role with a small company and some small roles with a larger company. I got to do some very interesting concert work while I was in school. That was really cool, to kind of get out and get into some professional situations and make a little money as a grad student. It was a fairly even transition, a steady transition. When I left the artist's program at Cincinnati, I was still only 24, a bit too young to be taken seriously as a professional operatic baritone. So, after that, I went into the Seattle young artists program."
He said he was in the program for two years. During his time there, the company did a production of the Benjamin Britten opera "Billy Budd," one of Moore's "favorite operas of all time."
"Billy Budd was my dream role and while I was there during my final year in Seattle, the Seattle Opera did a production of it. I got to cover the role of Billy," Moore said. "I was the understudy, and playing a smaller part in it."
Moore said the production familiarized him with the role, another stepping stone leading him to a major step in his career.
"Shortly after that, the Israeli Opera was doing the same production Billy Budd," according to Moore. "They lost their Billy…about a month before the production started, and I heard through the grapevine they had a choice between me and this really famous baritone. The famous guy was only able to come in for the last two weeks of the production and cost a lot of money, whereas I could be there the whole time and they did not have to pay me so much. They hired me for it even though I had done very little professional work at that point, and they are a major international opera house. It was a huge, huge role. I did that, and it went really well. For some reason that role just clicked with me. It was through that that I got an agent and some professional credibility that I could be cast in bigger roles and not be such a risk."
Moore said that was his big break. Since then, he has performed in productions such as "Angels in America," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Soldier Songs," and many more with various opera companies around the world. He has visited Milan, Kobe, London, Ireland and many other places.
Moore said being on the road is often challenging and not for everyone. During one production, the company with whom he was working placed him in a five-star hotel, but he could not afford the room service. There was no cooking allowed in the room. He had to boil eggs in a coffee pot. Eventually, he snuck a toaster oven into his room so he could cook and hid it in his suitcase when he was out of the room. He said while in Japan, he had to dry his socks on the heated toilet seat in his hotel room. He said that while life on the road is not perfect, it is part of the package. "It's been fun. It's definitely not the route I had planned on."
Moore will reprise his role as Prior Walter in "Angels in America" with L.A. Philharmonic on Jan. 15. He will be playing the role of Stanley Kowalski in the upcoming operatic version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Lyric Opera of Chicago and Virginia Opera. In May, he will sing the part of Jud Fry in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of "Oklahoma!"
Moore lives in New York, NY, his home base. He is a composer as well as a singer. He works with video production and gives private voice lessons. He said he also has to take voice lessons to care for his voice. He said some years are leaner than others, but he is successful and very happy. He said if given the choice, he would definitely not change course. Moore said ultimately, the reward is worth the long and often bumpy journey.


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Journal Issue
Finance & Development, March 2011
- From the Editor: Latin America Gets Its Groove on
- In Brief
- People in Economics: Residual Brilliance
- Latin America: Sustaining Latin America's Transformation: Building on recent successes, Latin America now has a chance to raise its profile in the global marketplace
- Latin America: Ending Instability: How monetary policy reforms helped propel five major Latin American countries from recurrent crises to economic stability
- Latin America: Face-to-Face with Productivity: It is not lack of investment but inefficient production that holds back Latin American incomes
- Latin America: Spreading the Wealth: Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do
- Latin America: Great Expectations: Brazil's economic success has raised the bar for that country, at home and abroad
- Rising Prices on the Menu: Higher food prices may be here to stay
- Picture This: A History of World Debt: How public debt has changed since 1880
- Gyrations in Financial Markets: Financial cycles tend to be long and deep and often interact in ways that can cause booms or busts
- Investing in Growth: Revisiting the debate over whether public investment in infrastructure is productive
- Up or Down: Some have predicted postcrisis deflation in advanced economies, others high inflation: Worries about either are probably exaggerated
- Healing Health Care Finances: Health care presents a daunting fiscal challenge, but reforms can help manage the growth of spending fairly and efficiently
- Back to Basics: What Are Financial Services?: How consumers and businesses acquire financial goods such as loans and insurance
- Free Governments, Good Policies: Economic reforms may scare politicians, but democracy and economic liberalization generally go hand in hand
- Veterans of the System: Ideas for strengthening the international monetary system
- Book Reviews
- Data Spotlight: Branching Out: Access to basic financial services in low-income countries is growing
Latin America: Spreading the Wealth: Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
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- March 2011
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My fish are looking for food, can I feed them?
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Now that the rain and warmer weather has melted the ice away from your water garden you can see your decorative pond fish moving about the pond. After a long winters rest you would think they are hungry and ready to eat but it may still be too soon to feed your fish.
Temperature is a major determining factor in whether or not it is time to feed your fish and what type of food you should feed them. Install a floating pond thermometer within reach of the pond's edge so you can readily check water temperatures throughout the day. Once the weather warms up enough to keep the pond water continually over 40°F you can start feeding your fish a wheat-germ based food like Pond Logic® Spring & Fall Fish Food. As your fish are still a bit chilly their digestive tracks are working at a decreased rate. Foods designed for cooler weather consist of easy-to-digest ingredients that can be broken down faster so they don't sit inside your fish and cause problems.
Once water temperatures rise above 50°F you can switch over to your growth and color enhancing foods like Pond Logic® Growth & Color or Pond Logic® Professional fish foods. As your fish will be warm and fully active, they will have no trouble breaking down these denser high-protein foods.
Your decorative pond fish will naturally want to eat at any chance they get whether they are hungry or not. They commonly fool their owners into thinking they are starving as they splash around at the surface of the pond and fight for every last pellet you throw to them. Be sure to wait for the temperatures to rise before you give them food and rest assured that a small handful of food each day is all they need to maintain healthy diet.
Pond Talk: Is your pond free and clear of ice yet? Are you fish actively swimming around your pond?
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The Basics
Score: #13 Missouri 68, VCU 65
Record: VCU (3-3), Missouri (5-1)
Location: Imperial Arena - Atlantis Resorts - Nassau, Bahamas
The Short Story: For a second straight night, the Rams took a top-15 team down to the wire, battling back-and-forth with #13 Missouri, but ultimately falling to Phil Pressey's late-game heroics, 68-65. Sophomore Treveon Graham and junior Juvonte Reddic combined for 24 points, 14 rebounds and five assists for the Black & Gold.
VCU STARTERS: #2 Briante Weber, #10 Darius Theus, #15 Juvonte Reddic, #21 Treveon Graham, #30 Troy Daniels
MIZZOU STARTERS: #1 Phil Pressey, #14 Negus Webster-Chan, #21 Laurence Bowers, #33 Earnest Ross, #42 Alex Oriakhi
How It Happened
- Mizzou got off to a quick start and on a three-pointer by Pressey took an 11-6 lead with 13:09 showing on the first half clock.
- As they did all week, VCU answered back behind three treys from senior Troy Daniels to spark a 17-5 run to give the Rams a 23-16 advantage with under seven minutes to play in the first stanza.
- Mizzou would chip away at the lead and eventually take a 30-28 lead into the break after scoring eight of the half's final 10 points, capped off by a bucket from Alex Oriakhi.
- The Tigers would hold onto the lead for much of the second half until senior Darius Theus stepped up and scored seven straight points in less than a minute to give VCU a 60-59 lead with 3:28 remaining.
- The teams exchanged layups until sophomore Briante Weber rattled in a three-pointer with 1:36 to play to give the Rams a 65-63 lead.
- That's when Pressey unleashed his heroics, hitting a step-back three-pointer and followed it up with a runner in the lane that ultimately sealed the deal for Mizzou.
- VCU would have a chance, drawing up a shot from sharpshooter Troy Daniels, but his long-distance attempt with under 10 seconds to play rattled off the rim to give the 13th-ranked Tigers the 68-65 victory.
Beyond the Box Score
- This week marked the first time in school history that VCU played three top-20 teams in consecutive games.
- Graham had a strong week against some of the nation's toughest teams, averaging 18 points and six rebounds, while shooting 52.8% from the field.
- Reddic, who went toe-to-toe with three of the nation's best big men, averaged 12.0 ppg and 9.3 rpg, while shooting 52.9%.
- Mizzou held a 40-31 advantage on the glass, marking the first time all year that VCU was outrebounded..
Head Coach Shaka Smart:
- "I thought it was a hard fought game. Missouri made some huge shots down the stretch, especially Phil Pressey. He's a terrific player. We tried to slow him down and take him out of some of their stuff. I thought our guys did a good job of that earlier in the game, but as the game wore on, he was able to get loose and create wide open shots for his teammates, and ultimately himself at the end of the game."
- "We had the opportunity to play three teams in the top-20 in the country. That had never happened in VCU's history. That right there is a special opportunity. Obviously, we play every night to win, so we are disappointed we let two of those opportunities slip away. At the same time, all three games are incredible learning experiences.
Senior Troy Daniels
- "I think the biggest thing we learned is that we need to do all the little things every time we take the court. Our effort was there all week, but our discipline and execution wasn't there. If we want to play with some of the best teams in the country, we have to do all those little things."
Junior Rob Brandenberg
- "We played hard enough, but just playing hard doesn't win games against some of the best teams in the country. We have to do all the little things and that's what we're going to focus on when we get back home."
- VCU returns to the Siegel Center for the first time in over two weeks when Stetson visits Richmond on Wednesday, Nov. 29. Tip time on CBS 6.3 is set for 7:30 p.m.


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In the wake of Lavabit closure, what kind of guarantee, we as potential customers of cryptostorm, would have that cryptostorm would not shut down for similar reasons as Lavabit?
Lavabit owner: "I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States." [https://lavabit.com/]
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In my poor understanding of quantum physics, quantum entanglement means that certain properties of one of two 'entangled' quantum particles can lead to change over infinitely large distances when the other particles' properties are changed.
Disregarding this already mind-boggling event taking place over say 10 meters distance; how have physicists been able to demonstrate, beyond reasonable doubt, that this can take place over infinitely large distances?
For instance: have they done some of these tests between ISS and Earth perhaps?
How can they be so sure?


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ohh you know, pretty good. Just living life and what not. Thought id see if any of the old guys where still about
Ey, you still on and about Giveupalready?
Hey man, long time no see. To be honest I'm a little surprised you're still around here, I figured most of the old members would be long gone, heh. Anyway, I was amazed my old account was still here and even more amazed I managed to remember my login info for it, so I figured I'd stop by and say hi.
MEh, our school system and finance system suck balls so you're probably right. It's all about being in debt for the rest of your life here.
Cap America fixes all the problems.
Thanks, but I'm not there yet lol.
That sucks, but at least you've got a degree and (hopefully) a well paying job. Always time to go back and finish what you wanted later, you know, when you're not paying out the ass from student loans. Damn student loans.
Hey now, politicians and the general public on the US are two vastly different things. I happen to be quality super hero material here.
Well, it was implied that I would get a girlfriend first, but the ultimate goal is a wife, so none of those flingy women.
Nice! Look at you, all mad doctoring it up and shit. Remember me when you make your super soldier formula
Eh, things are ok over here. Overworked and underpaid as usual. Trying to get me a wifey atm, it is much more difficult than I was lead to believe.
What's goin on broski ~For we are buddies
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Hi Legion,
To be honest, I just got fed up of being in charge of this. I don't like what GUA has become, and as such it's not something I'm happy to be in charge of, or paying for. I don't see why I should be paying for people to troll each other.
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We continue our look at the O Antiphons with today's O Clavis David
LATIN: O clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris.
ENGLISH: O Key of David, and scepter of the house of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens: come, and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death.
Scripture Reference:
Isaiah 22:22
Revelation 3:7
Relevant verse of Veni, Veni Emmanuel:
O come, thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Do not fall into the trap of thinking that the we are dealing with events isolated solely in the past. Even taking just the image of the key in Scripture, we see how God's plan is still in effect for us today, and we are all still players in his plan for salvation. The Old Testament reference from Isaiah helps us see this. In Isaiah we read how the Lord said to Shebna, who was the master of the household of King Hezekiah:
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Helkias, and I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda. And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father".
The Lord establishes an office to be handed down through a succession, an office of jurisdiction.
This same language and image was used by our Lord when in Matthew 16 He conferred His own authority on Peter to exercise as a office to be handed down in a succession.
Truly the Lord who came to us at Bethlehem is with us always in His Church until His ultimate Coming at the end of the world.
In Revelation 3:7 the Lord is described as He who still wields David's key. Even as Peter holds the keys on earth, it is the Lord's own hand which holds Peter's hand.


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The Ultimate Tea Crime
By William I. Lengeman III
When it comes to tea, I have tried (for the most part) to practice tolerance. I won't say I've always succeeded, but over the years I've come to realize that the world of tea is vast and there are many types of tea drinkers contained therein, each with their own way of doing things.
So, while I might cringe a bit at the notion of spoiling a good black tea with cream, milk, sugar, lemon, or whatever else it is that people want to dump in there, to be perfectly fair and evenhanded about things, people who drink their tea like this might rightly be horrified by the notion of drinking black tea with absolutely nothing in it.


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As an important part of the Senior School experience, every Senior School student takes part in a number of one-on-one academic mentoring sessions with his or her Dean. The purpose of the mentoring sessions is to help individual students plan their academic pathway through the Senior School in a way that prepares them effectively for their chosen tertiary future.
During the academic mentoring sessions, students, with guidance from their Dean, develop a personalised academic plan tailored to their individual competencies, skills and aspirations. The sessions primarily focus on academic goal setting as well as identifying strategies to help students achieve them.
We recognise that parents have an important role in their child's academic and tertiary future. To this end, we warmly encourage you to discuss with your child their academic and tertiary goals and ask that you articulate your views about your child's academic plan by responding to the parents' section of your child's individual academic plan.
If you have any questions about the Senior School's academic mentoring programme, please feel free to contact your child's House Dean or Assistant Principal Geoff Burge.
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A particularly useful source of scholarship information is GivMe, which is New Zealand's primary source of funding information for students, researchers, sports people, artists and those wanting professional development. GivMe holds details of over 2200 funding schemes and is a searchable database. It will give you the best matches of scholarships, awards and grants you are eligible for in terms of criteria, level of study and discipline along with closing dates, application requirements and contact details.


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Thanksgiving in Vietnam –
Thanksgiving Dinner cooked in camp and taken out to the field for the soldiers. Thanksgiving dinner in a foxhole was probably not what these soldier had in mind, but the Army did all they could to make these soldiers in-country feel at home. With their families back home, our soldiers fought together and of course, celebrated Thanksgiving together, creating their own version of a family. The Army family, the men and women who serve our country, and their families share a common bond of sacrifice and service that many do not know.
The Army Heritage and Education Center would like to wish all service members and their families a Happy Thanksgiving. Soldiers have served our country throughout our history and have missed many Thanksgivings back at home. Thank you for the service you provide to our country.


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Harvey Penick once said: "A man who can't putt is a match for no one, a man who can is a match for anyone."
I think Harvey said it all. Putting is the easiest part of the game to practice. We all should be good putters. Practicing can be at home on the carpet, at the office between telephone calls, after school during study breaks and, of course, on the putting green. Here are the three best ways to practice (Note: directions are for right-handed golfers):
You must know your grip
Place your hands on the club with your palms facing each other. Allow the "lifeline" of your left hand to fit on the putter grip near the top of the handle. With the putter grip in the lifeline, this will help eliminate excess wrist movement. The back of the left hand and the palm of the right should face the target with your thumbs flat on top of the rubber grip. With the thumbs on top and the index finger under the shaft, you are able to gain touch. The more you practice this grip, the more touch you will have for your putts.
The fundamentals of putting
Make sure your grip is perfect. Aim your club face at your target and sole the putter head directly behind the ball. Position your eyes over the ball and down the target line. Set your shoulders, hips, knees and feet all parallel to the target line. Your hands should be directly under your shoulders and you should have a slight bend in your elbows. Ball position will be 2 inches inside your left heel and you should lean left with your weight. About 75 percent of your weight should be on your left heel. Your forearms must be parallel to each other, maintaining the same place throughout the stroke. As the putter starts away from the ball, the left shoulder will work down and the right will work up so that your shoulders control the stroke. Keep your head still while maintaining the angle in your right wrist throughout the stroke.
Strategic planning of the putt
"Plan your work, work your plan." Success or failure of every putt stems from preparation. When on the green, you must take time to read the putt. Reading or studying the putt will provide the logical information that will allow you to make a good putt. Determine if the putt is uphill or downhill, the amout of break (right or left turn), and how much speed you will need to be successful. The gathering of this information comes mainly from experience, which is gained by on-course situations, the practice putting green, and even on the carpet at home. The time spent reading the putt is the most important. Make your decision on how you are going to hit your putt, commit to it, and learn from it.
Here are two drills to assist you with putting:
Long putts ... the eye to the hole drill
Practice only putts 25 feet or longer. Use three balls. Read the putt, set up to the putt, and look up at the target while you make the stroke, looking at the target instead of the ball. This will help you focus on two things. First, thinking more about the target and less about the mechanics in your stroke. And second, rolling the ball the correct distance.
Short putts ... Listen, don't look drill
Practice putts within 6 feet and use three balls. Read the putt, set up to the ball, and keep your head still with your eyes in place while making the putt. Listen for the ball to fall in ... it's the best sound in golf. This drill will help in three ways: 1) Staying steady over short putts, 2) visualizing more clearly and 3) trusting yourself.
Remember, this is the fastest and easiest way to lower your scores. Life is too short for high scores.


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More snow forecast for western Colorado
DURANGO — Snow is expected to keep falling in parts of western Colorado.
Up to 12 inches are possible at higher elevations, including Crested Butte, through Friday evening. A few inches of snow are also expected in Aspen and Vail.
Durango got its first snowstorm of the season Thursday evening. Rain unexpectedly turned into wet, heavy snow and knocked out power to about 3,000 homes and businesses. It also caused several accidents of U.S. Highway 550, with some cars stuck in ditches.
The Durango Herald reports about 8 inches of snow fell in Silverton while Red Mountain Pass got about 12 inches.
Along the Front Range, strong winds also knocked out power to homes in and around Denver and Boulder.
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I went to my local pharmacy today for my Sarcasma refill (without it I'd have no patients, or friends, or staff).
Local Pharmacy was hopping. Very busy. Long line, only one poor pharmacist with dark circles under his eyes was working. Looked badly understaffed and overworked (I later found out they had 1 pharmacist and 2 techs call in sick today). And the pharmacist was frantically trying to keep from tearing his remaining hair out.
Finally there was only one elderly lady ahead of me, and I patiently waited my turn. Suddenly the cashier turned around and yelled "I need the pharmacist to counsel over here!" The bleary-eyed pharmacist actually was holding a phone receiver to each ear when this happened.
He paused for maybe 5 seconds, put one of the phones on hold, glanced at the computer screen next to him, and then yelled across the room: "Verapamil, uh, might make you constipated, or make you lightheaded!"
Thank heavens it was only for blood pressure pills.


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Philadelphia improv group Tongue & Groove debuted its' new show, "Six" at this year's fringe festival. The show's name is derived from the way the group gets suggestions from the audience, via cards with six word autobiographies. These short blurbs are used by the members of the ensemble to create rich characters with deep relationships between each other as well as set scenes, perform character monologues, and play improv games.
The members of Tongue & Groove have developed a improvisational style that they describe as "serio-comic, realism based, 'Actors Improv'" in which they focus on the relationship between the characters in the scene, to dramatic and hilarious effect. Whether the scene was serious or comedic, or a mixture of both, it was constantly interesting to watch the interaction between the players.
The show began with each actor reading a card with a six word biography written by an audience member for inspiration. The scenes started with a bang as cast members Ed Miller and Casey Spaulding jumped into each others arms for an intense make-out session which led to a scene exploring the amusing perils of young love. Other recurring characters and scenes included Frederick Anderson and Beth Dougherty as actors waiting to go on an audition who slowly develop an admiration for each other, Dougherty and Bobbi Block as a couple in trouble after Dougherty loses her job as a lawyer and takes work in at a hippy farmers market, and Block and Josh Rubinstein as siblings who never really got along having to deal with the declining health of their mother. All of the scenes showcased the group's ability to mix realistic deep relationships showcasing the funny moments in the drama of everyday life.
The scenes were interspersed with monologues from characters created from more of the six word biographies, actors creating their own six word bios from a single word suggestion, some improv games, and larger group scenes. The show wrapped up with the actors in a line in the front of the stage, each taking turns reciting memorable lines from the characters they portrayed during the show.
Considering the show was filled with rich characters, deep relationships, and moments of honest hilarity each one of the members of the cast had a lot to return to in the closing. With "Six" Tongue & Groove was able to take six words and create a full world of people you grew to care about, feel for, and laugh with.


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Wedding caterers have an important role to play—making sure the food and drink are top notch on your big day! Whether you'd prefer a casual buffet-style meal or a formal plated dinner, wedding caterers will create a delicious menu your guests won't soon forget. Be sure to read reviews on WeddingWire of wedding caterers in Woodbridge before booking!
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30 May 2018UNFPA
Girls around the world lack basic knowledge about their sexual and reproductive health and struggle to access menstrual health supplies. Many grapple with shame and taboos surrounding menstruation. These issues undermine girls' health and rights. Girls can be subjected to stigma or miss school due to difficulty managing their menstrual hygiene. These concerns are being addressed at this week's Menstrual Health Management Symposium in Johannesburg, South Africa.


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Bain Capital and its employees have contributed to City Year's development, growth and success for more than two decades. Since 1988, the firm and its people have invested in City Year through a wide range of philanthropic support, including more than $40 million in financial contributions. More than one-third of Bain Capital employees have participated in volunteer projects, given their expertise as advisors and board members, and made generous financial contributions to the organization. The firm was not only one of the first contributors to City Year's endowment in 1998, but was also instrumental in the founding of the annual Investment Community Breakfast in Boston.
Bain Capital has sponsored teams of AmeriCorps members for over 17 years, helping develop and support more than 300 young idealists giving a year of service. For the 2018-2019 school year, the firm is continuing their commitment to sponsor teams of corps members serving in Boston, London, New York, Providence and San Jose/Silicon Valley. Additionally, the firm will serve as the Presenting Sponsor of the Red Jacket Society Leadership Conference, a Sponsor of City Year's National Investors Summit, and the Presenting Sponsor of City Year Boston's Starry Night Gala.
Speaking about the partnership, Jonathan Lavine, Co-Managing Partner of Bain Capital and Chief Investment Officer of Bain Capital Credit, said, "City Year and Bain Capital share a common belief that supporting young people's education, growth and development is the single most important investment we can make in our future. City Year is an incredible double bottom-line investment. It helps students in high poverty public schools succeed, and at the same time develops AmeriCorps members into civic-minded leaders of tomorrow."
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Read the YAML metadata with UTF-8 by default and make an exception for older ruby targets, since all new targets will support (and need) the UTF-8 flag. Fixes bug 504642.
Add a yard recipe for creating documentation.
Quote DISTDIR.
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Although it was long ago, I can taste her mother's cooking still – always something ready to serve and abundantly. It's probably the first time I tasted pierogis – that Eastern European version of the ravioli I was more accustomed to eating. And they were amazing. So I was really excited to read about this month's Daring Cooks' Challenge: Pierogis. The August 2010 Daring Cooks' Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n' Bites and Anula of Anula's Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one filling that best represents their locale.
Not only was making the pierogis going to be an adventure, but I was also looking forward to creating a stuffing that was uniquely local. I knew I wanted potatoes to be a key ingredient, and Vicki's Veggies had beautiful new agria potatoes, plus there were shallots that were just the right size. A bit of kale from Everdale Farm would add healthy colour, Pingue Niagara smoked pancetta would soften the kale's bitter edge, and I would finish the mixture with Blossom, a creamy sheep's milk cheese with flecks of lemon zest from Monforte Dairy.
Agria potatoes - top left corner, just below the sign
Everdale's kale is pretty enough to put in a vase and enjoy before eating
Can you see the flecks of lemon zest?
With the ingredients fresh from the market, the pierogi-making adventure began.
Russian style pierogi
makes 4 generous servings, around 30 dumplings
This traditional Polish recipe is Anula's family recipe. The filling is my own.
For dough:
2 to 2½ c all-purpose flour
1 large egg
1 tsp salt
About ½ c lukewarm water, more if needed
For filling:
1 lb fleshy potatoes
1 medium bunch kale, washed, tough stems trimmed, chopped roughly
1tbsp olive oil
1 small shallot, minced
1-2 oz smoked pancetta (or a good quality prosciutto), finely diced
1/3 c creamy goat or sheep's milk cheese
Salt to taste*
*You'll want to add salt as a last step, since the cheese and pancetta will add saltiness to the filling.
Make the dough:
1. Place 2 cups flour in a large bowl or on a work surface and make a well in the center. Break the egg into it, add the salt and the water. Bring the dough together, kneading well and adding more flour or water as necessary. Cover the dough with a bowl or towel. Let it rest 20 minutes.*
*My mother always let her pasta dough rest for at least an hour before rolling it out and with that in mind, I wrapped the dough in plastic, and let it rest in the fridge for a couple of hours.
Meanwhile, make the filling:
1. Peel the potatoes, quarter them, and boil until soft enough to mash. Don't salt the water! (see note above)
3. Mash the potatoes until they are smooth and creamy. Transfer the potatoes to a bowl and add the cheese, mashing to incorporate thoroughly.
4. Chop the kale mixture as finely as possible. Add the kale to the potato mixture and stir to combine. Test for salt and add more if needed.
1. On a floured work surface, roll the dough out thinly (⅛") cut with a 4-inch round or glass. Spoon a heaping teaspoon of the filling into the middle of each circle. Fold dough in half and pinch edges together. Gather scraps, re-roll and fill. Repeat with remaining dough.
This is going to be a case of delayed gratification. I wanted to share this first attempt with Vera, and with travel, cottages, kids and life, getting together will likely be a bit of schedule shuffle. The pierogis wait, frozen and ready to pop into boiling water at a moment's notice. Vera, when are you coming over?


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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Caldwell County Circuit Court Case (Divorce) 1834
The Glenn Martin Genealogy Library, located in a separate building just in front of George Coon Public Library on Main Street in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, is becoming "The Place" to research your western Kentucky families. Winter hours for Martin Genealogy Library are 10-2 Monday - Friday and 10-1 Saturday. Before traveling to visit the Martin Library, you might want to call 270-365-2884 for the current hours as they do change periodically.
The library has a wide selection of published works as well as vertical files on local families and the Sam Stegar collection of research material, but the jewels of the collection are the Caldwell County circuit court order books and case files. Caldwell County is only one of a handful of Kentucky counties that has retained these valuable records. Circuit court files include a variety of cases including felonies, will contests, debts, and divorces petitions. An index by year and by complainant is available at the library.
From 1802 - 1849, the county circuit courts accepted divorce petitions and those they approved were sent on to the state legislature, where the divorce was granted or not granted. Beginning in 1850, the circuit courts were empowered to grant divorces without the state legislature being involved. I have found in my personal research, however, that some divorce petitions are mentioned only in the county circuit court files with the case below being one of those.
The following is an abstract of one of the divorces filed in Caldwell County in 1834:
Hooper vs Hooper} Your orator Ennis Hooper would respectfully state that a good many years ago he married his present wife Elizabeth and lived with her until they had several children, all of whom now live with your orator; that about five years ago she became disatisfied with your orator and refused to live with him. He cannot account for her dissatisfaction, for he declares his treatment to her was kind and he regretted what he could not prevent - a discontent on her part. Perhaps it was owing to some unaccountable caprice; be this as it may, the matter at last reached its climax and she determined to leave your orator with all the children, several of whom are small, and go to her kin in Alabama. This was a little over a year ago that she left the country entirely, though for several years previous she had abandoned his bed and board. She is now with her relations in Alabama and he has no idea she ever intends to return and live with him. He therefore prays she may be made a defendant to this bill and required to answer the several allegations ... and on a final hearing he prays the Court to divorce him from Elizabeth Hooper. [signed] Ennis Hooper.
Elizabeth Hooper responded that everything Ennis said was true, she plans to remain in Alabama and is willing that Ennis be divorced from her and he may keep the children.
Thomas Kivel gave a disposition 22 Mar 1834: It was his understanding that Elizabeth left the county and was going to Alabama to live with her brothers. He also said he had "lived a neighbour" to Ennis for near 20 years and Ennis always made a kind husband and provided for his family.
In another disposition, James H. Bigham stated that Elizabeth told him that she does not intend to live with Ennis again.
Francis Hooper, of lawful age, identified the parties to this suit as his parents.
The divorce was granted and to Ennis was restored all the rights of a single man.
Posted by Brenda Joyce Jerome at 10:24 AM
Labels: Caldwell County, Divorce
2 comments:
- Willis said...
Brenda, is there an index to the divorce records?
- January 13, 2008 at 11:59 AM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG said...
I asked that question of a library employee just recently and was told that an index is currently being compiled. I do not know when it will be finished.
- January 13, 2008 at 1:57 PM
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Sun Mark Limited
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We were established in 1995 to provide and distribute famous supermarket products all over the world.
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As well as representing top British and international companies including Unilever, Nestle, Heinz, Premier, Fox's, Burton, PepsiCo and Kraft and many others in certain markets, we also produce our own range of quality products, which are competitively priced and similar to the market leaders in terms of quality and taste. Our brands are Laser, Golden Country, Royalty, Robust, Bulldog, Pure Heaven, English Breeze, Anmol, Comfi and Flower Garden. These brands are becoming increasingly popular all over the world as they are synonymous with quality and outstanding value for money.
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RALEIGH � A North Carolina man will spend at least 34 years in prison after a high speed chase in 2012 that resulted in the death of a state trooper.
Christopher McCoy Rodgers pleaded guilty Monday in a Nash County courtroom to second degree murder in the death of Trooper Bobby "Gene" DeMuth Jr. Authorities say Rodgers fatally stuck the married father and former Marine as he was trying to deploy a strip of spikes across U.S. 64 to pierce the suspect's tires.
The 41-year-old Rodgers was sentenced to between 21 and 26 years on the murder charge. He was sentenced in Wake County last week to 13 to 18 years on charges of first-degree burglary, common-law robbery and two counts of first-degree kidnapping for crimes that occurred prior to DeMuth's death.