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BOSTON (AP) — The gun felt good in Antonio Stroud's hands. He looked at the small, black object and knew he was prepared to use it, if necessary. In his mind, survival in his Roxbury neighborhood required a weapon.
"I felt invincible," he said. "I felt powerful."
But something happened to Stroud that year — as he began his march from age 16 to his 20s and through traps that often derail young black and Latino men in neighborhoods like his. He turned to God and became a changed man. And then he discovered something that felt equally powerful: Shakespeare.
It came in the form of a high school play and the discovery that Othello was black and, like Stroud, struggled with race and identity. Stroud auditioned and got the role. He dived into it, taking the script home and going over it again and again. There were words he didn't get, meanings he couldn't comprehend. But it still spoke to him.
An acting coach helped him after school. "We just kept doing it over and over," said Stroud. "I was yelling. And then I stopped the rehearsals, and I said 'Yo! I love this!'"
Stroud had teamed with professionals at the Actors' Shakespeare Project, which has a partnership with his high school, Boston Day and Evening Academy. The Somerville company saw promise in Stroud and tapped him not only for "Othello" in 2011, but for youth performances of "Macbeth" in summer 2012 and "Henry V" this year.
In Shakespeare, Stroud said, he found an answer to the pressures young men like him face, and the power within himself to overcome them. He understands the notion that great men in difficult circumstances must chart their own courses. Macbeth chose evil. But Henry V, the young king of England, grew from his wayward youth to a king who led an invasion of France against impossible odds.
"It was like therapy," said Stroud.
Stroud is a child of the projects in Roxbury, his mother on welfare, his father long gone.
At Dearborn Middle School, Stroud was surfing couch to couch at night and spending his days hanging out with friends from his neighborhood, where violence is all too common.
"First it was a friendship, then it's like, 'Let's make some money,'" Stroud recalled about his friends. "So once that began, I was like, 'This is a gang.'"
Stealing cars and hustling were part of his world. Fighting teens from other neighborhoods came with the territory. He had cocaine in his pockets to sell and was heading up Blue Hill Avenue in summer 2009 when a teenager approached him and asked him where he was from. Recognizing the question as street code for naming his gang affiliation — and a potentially deadly challenge — Stroud ran to a friend's house.
He felt intimidated and disrespected; according to street rules, he felt he had to retaliate or at least be prepared for the next time. He asked the friend for the gun.
That life is long gone now, along with the bravado he was cloaked in, the slouching, and the attitude. His ambition now is to rule the stage, through acting.
Still green and having much to learn, Stroud recently won a regional contest in which competitors recite an August Wilson monologue. He will compete for the national prize on Broadway in May. And he is preparing to audition for a main stage role in "Romeo and Juliet" for the Actors' Shakespeare Project.
"He is absolutely for real," said Michael Forden Walker, interim director of youth programs for the Actors' Shakespeare Project. "He's a pretty remarkable combination of confidence and humility. He's a real natural for the stage."
When he was first considering pursuing Shakespeare and acting, Stroud went to someone he considered a mentor, Michael McDonald.
"I was so excited," Stroud said. "And he said, 'Go for it.' I had come to him with other things before. But I wanted to do this acting. I thought he was going think that this was just another one of my ideas. But I haven't stopped."
McDonald, a towering and steady father figure to Stroud, had watched the young man transform through the years, and he did not flinch when Stroud mentioned auditioning for "Othello."
"It was so refreshing for me," said McDonald. "Here was this young man who was not only excited about literature and about reading, but about Shakespeare — of all people."
At first it was tough. Stroud was not getting "Othello" and had to read the play over many times.
During rehearsals he found himself screaming the lines and using a faux British accent. The acting coach told Stroud he didn't believe him and urged him to use his own voice.
"He made me do it 15 times," Stroud recalled. "He pushed me. It was intense."
Stroud began to understand the story of "Othello," and why such a powerful man could fall for a deception that cost him his beloved Desdemona and himself.
"He was a black man and he was honored," said Stroud, pointing to Othello's strengths.
But he was flawed. "I automatically identified with him. I am human. I make mistakes. I am misunderstood."
When he played Macbeth, he recited lines while doing push-ups and walking around the house. He recruited his mother, who would sit on the sofa in the living room, sipping soda while Stroud strutted around her speaking in his crisp baritone.
"She would smile and say 'you're so cute,'" he recalled. "I had her play every character so I could get my lines."
Aunts and cousins got used to seeing him walking in the apartment, talking to himself.
It's all part of the process, but it's also work that Stroud hopes will pay off.
"Throughout this process, I have grown more as an actor," he said. "When I started, everything was difficult. Even the language, it was difficult to master. But it was fun to master."
His favorite line: "All things be ready if our minds be so."
That is from "Henry V."


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The company also raised its guidance to per-share earnings of $3.19 to $3.27 for the full year. Kroger previously expected $3.08 to $3.16. It anticipates identical-store sales, excluding fuel, to rise 3% to 4%, up half a percentage point from prior guidance.
Shares jumped 5.1% to $49.70 in recent trading. Through Wednesday's close, Kroger was up 19.6% since the start of the year.
Kroger reported earnings of $501 million, or 98 cents a share, for the period ended May 24, compared to $481 million, or 92 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Excluding pension charges and other one-time items, adjusted earnings checked in at $1.09 a share.
Revenue improved 9.9% to $32.96 billion, or 11% when excluding fuel sales. Identical-store sales were up 4.6%.
Analysts were looking for an adjusted profit of $1.05 a share and revenue of $32.64.
Kroger also announced it reached agreements to exit two multi-employer pension funds. The $56 million needed to restructure the obligations was included in the company's first-quarter charge.
Kroger has maintained strong sales amid tepid consumer spending, given its portfolio of value-oriented grocery stores. The nation's largest supermarket company operates its namesake Kroger stores as well as Ralphs, Food 4 Less and others.
In January, Kroger completed its $2.4 billion deal for Harris Teeter, a higher-end grocery chain with 200 stores. The Cincinnati-based company was also said to be considering a bid for Safeway (NYSE:SWY), which agreed in March to sell itself to an investment group led by Cerberus Capital Management.

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BEVERLY, Mass. – With a 2-2 performance at the Endicott College Tournament, the nationally-ranked No. 8 MIT men's volleyball team raised its ledger to 21-8 on the year and recorded the program's eighth straight 20-win season. The Engineers swept New Jersey City University (25-17, 25-16, 25-20) and fell to No. 5 Stevens Institute of Technology (25-17, 26-24, 25-19) on Saturday. The next day, MIT bounced back by blanking Hilbert College (25-17, 25-19, 25-17) but was defeated by No. 11 Vassar College (25-12, 25-17, 26-24). Junior Patrick Vatterott (St. Louis, Mo.) represented the Cardinal and Gray on the all-tournament team.
Junior Matt Hohenberger (St. Louis, Mo.) powered the Engineers with 13 kills and a .667 hitting percentage to go along with three digs and an ace against NJCU. Sophomore Ken Siebert (St. Louis, Mo.) and freshman Alex Klein (San Diego, Calif.) both had six kills while senior David Thomas (Carlsbad, Calif.) totaled four kills, four blocks, and three digs. Vatterott posted six blocks as senior Jeremy Velazquez (Chelmsford, Mass.) collected four digs. Sophomore Paul Syta (Fairport, N.Y.) tallied 27 assists, seven digs, five aces, and three blocks while classmate Evan Wang (Saratoga, Calif.) added five assists.
Against Stevens, Hohenberger registered 13 kills, a .360 hitting performance, three digs, two aces, and a block. Siebert notched 12 kills followed by five from Klein. Vatterott contributed four kills and a block while Velazquez led the defense with nine digs. Syta rounded out the squad with 31 assists, five digs, and an ace.
In its victory over Hilbert, freshman Brad Gross (Centreville, Va.) paced MIT with 14 kills as he hit .571. Thomas compiled seven kills, a .636 hitting percentage, and three blocks as freshman Andrew Busse (Mount Prospect, Ill.) generated five kills, three blocks, and three digs. Freshman Tyler Nolan (Sayville, N.Y.) chipped in four blocks and three aces while classmate Chris Omahan (Mount Vernon, Ohio) tacked on six kills. Wang finished with 32 assists and two aces as freshman Isaac Margulies (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) had a team-high six digs.
Siebert led the way with nine kills and added four digs in the finale with Vassar. Vatterott posted seven kills and three blocks while Hohenberger totaled four kills and two aces. Klein bolstered the balanced attack with four kills as Thomas contributed five digs and three blocks. Velazquez gathered five digs as Syta closed the weekend with 19 assists and nine digs.
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"We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new mobile app," Sound Tigers President Howard Saffan said. "Fans will now be able to stay connected with the Sound Tigers on the go."
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Your Guide to Successful Career in Radio Broadcasting
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A radio broadcasting school gives you the skills and knowledge that are required by radio stations. The curriculum varies greatly from school to school as well as from one programme to another. Obviously, you will need a completely different set of skills if you want to become an on-air personality than if you are interested in the job of a sound engineering technician.
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Thanks to the Internet you have the ability to choose between a large number of schools that enable you to obtain the skills and knowledge required to succeed in radio broadcasting from the comfort of your home. But which school to choose? If possible, choose a school whose graduates are highly sought after by radio stations. How do you know which radio broadcasting schools have a good reputation? Well, visit the official websites of different schools and look for lists of past graduates who have succeeded in radio broadcasting business. If there are not any famous names, there probably are not many.
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As the January transfer window opens for business once more, the mad mid-season scramble for improvement can finally get underway.
Although managers will have attempted to get their squads perfectly balanced during the summer, a lack of depth, a sudden injury crisis or just a simple but often desperate longing for increased strength can entice them back into the market.
One particular curse of this window is that, with the season in full flow, transfer fees are routinely inflated and so many clubs often end up paying well over the odds for players that are typically valued at far less during the summer period.
With the market finally open, here GMS looks at the 10 most expensive deals in the history of the January transfer window and rates each transfer as either a 'hit' or a 'miss' depending on the success (or lack thereof) enjoyed by the player at that club.
Don't forget to leave your thoughts below. What do you make of these 10 pricey deals? Were they worth it?
Which do you feel were hits and which do you feel were ultimately misses? Perhaps you think we are wrong with our assessment of any of these deals/players?
Click on to see the list...
Please note, the ratings are strictly based on the writer's opinion and all figures are based on the work of the fine folks over at transfermarkt.