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No. 7/7 New Hampshire (8-2, 6-1 CAA) vs No. 19/16 Towson (6-4, 5-2 CAA)
Nov. 17, 2012 • 12:00 p.m. • Cowell Stadium • Durham, N.H.
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•UNH can clinch its first outright CAA championship with a victory. The Wildcats are already assured at least a share of the league championship for the first time since 2005.
•UNH is 8-5 in the Sean McDonnell era in games following a regular-season bye week. The Wildcats have dropped three of their last five post-bye games. However, the Wildcats posted a 45-43 win at Richmond last season following a Sept. 17 bye. New Hampshire defeated Towson, 62-21, at Unitas Stadium on Sept. 17, 2005, following a bye week.
•UNH is riding its first six-game winning streak since Oct. 15-Nov. 26, 2005, when the 'Cats won seven straight games, the longest winning streak of the Coach Mac era. Under Coach McDonnell, UNH has managed a total of two six-game winning streaks and one seven-game winning streak.
•Towson snapped a series-long, seven-game losing streak to the Wildcats by virtue of last season's 56-42 shootout win at Unitas Stadium. Prior to that contest, the Wildcats had outscored the Tigers by an average of 52-17 in five meetings since the team's became conference rivals in 2004.
•Senior middle linebacker Matt Evans is the FCS active leader in career tackles (437) and solo tackles (248). He became UNH's all-time leader in tackles during the Wildcats' Nov. 3 victory against William & Mary, passing Steve Doig (434, 1978-81), who was on hand for the passing of the torch.
•R.J. Harris needs 39 receiving yards to become UNH's first 1,000-yard receiver since Mike Boyle in 2008 and only the fifth receiver in school history to reach that plateau. The sophomore is nine receptions away from the No. 4 spot in school single-season history.
•Since the start of the 2007 season, the Wildcats are 29-3 at Cowell Stadium. The 'Cats have recorded 10 straight home victories and posted a 22-1 mark in their last 23 home games.
UNH-TOWSON ALL-TIME SERIES (WILDCATS LEAD 7-1): Towson snapped a series-long, seven-game losing streak to the Wildcats by virtue of last season's 56-42 shootout win at Unitas Stadium. Prior to that contest, the Wildcats had outscored the Tigers by an average of 52-17 in five meetings since the team's became conference rivals in 2004. Towson's 56 points nearly matched their entire scoring output (61) over the previous four games against UNH. Here is a look at the all-time series, which dates back to 1980:
SCOUTING THE TIGERS: Towson has posted a record of 6-4 thus far, including a 5-2 mark in the conference. Following a season-opening loss at Kent St., the Tigers rallied off two wins in a row against unranked opponents before traveling to Baton Rouge, La. to face perennial FBS powerhouse LSU. The clash of the Tigers saw monumental underdog Towson University give the third-ranked team in the country all it could handle before defeating TU, 38-22, on Sep. 29.
Following the loss in the Bayou, the Tigers dropped their next matchup against James Madison in a game where they took the lead for the first time with 3:21 remaining in the game. The defense was unable to hold the Dukes and JMU drove down the field to score the game-winning touchdown with only 1:24 left in the contest.
TU rebounded quickly after the heartbreaker, trading a win and a loss at home against Maine and Old Dominion respectively. Towson then went on the road to win two straight games at Villanova and Delaware, including a 34-27 overtime defeat of the injury-stricken Blue Hens on Nov. 3. Those two victories pushed Towson to a 2-1 record against FCS-ranked opponents.
The Tigers are led by head coach Rob Ambrose, who is in his fourth season at the helm. Prior to being hired in 2009, Ambrose served as head coach at Catholic University, where he led the Cardinals to a 3-7 record in his only season (2001). After that he coached the quarterbacks at UConn from 2002-04 until he was promoted to offensive coordinator, where he remained until 2008.
Ambrose was 3-19 in his first two seasons combined as head coach of the Tigers, until last season when he led his squad to a 9-3 record, winning the CAA outright and earning Towson's first-ever NCAA FCS playoff birth. The defending CAA Coach of the Year has an overall record of 21-33 and is 13-18 in the conference.
TOWSON PLAYERS TO WATCH: Senior quarterback Grant Enders has been the highlight of the Tigers' attack this season. The 6-foot-3, 215-pounder ranks second in the CAA in total offense (266.3 yards/game) and third in passing yards per game (208.7). Enders is 188-for-289, including 17 touchdown strikes and only eight interceptions on the season.
Towson's rushing attack this season has been led by sophomore running back Terrance West. West, a 5-foot-11, 223-pound power back ranks third in the conference in rushing (90.0 yards/game) and he leads the CAA in scoring (8.7 points/game). conference in touchdowns (13) and points-per-game (9.8).
On defense, freshman linebacker Monte Gaddis leads the Tigers with 70 tackles, including 38 solo, on the campaign. The freshman standout is tied for second in sacks (5.0) and second in tackles for loss (11.5) in the CAA this year.
LUCKY SEVEN?: UNH is ranked a season-best No. 7, its highest ranking since week 10 of last season. The Wildcats subsequently lost their next game, 56-42, at Towson to drop out of the Top 10.
GOING FOR THE CROWN: The Wildcats, who are assured of at least a share of their first CAA championship since 2005 (then Atlantic 10), are vying for their first-ever outright CAA crown.
UNH's last sole conference championship came in 1994 when the Wildcats outlasted Boston University, 52-51, in double overtime at Nickerson Field to claim their 11th and final Yankee Conference title. In the second OT, quarterback Jim Stayer pitched to tailback Matt Mezquita; Mezquita dropped back and launched an option screen pass back to Stayer for a 20-yard TD. BU responded with a TD of its own, but strong safety Rob McCoy blocked the PAT to give UNH the triumph.
The last time the Wildcats won a league championship at Cowell Stadium was Nov. 15, 1975, courtesy of a 14-11 victory against UMass that capped a 5-0 Yankee Conference record (9-3 overall).
SENIOR DAY: Saturday represents the final regular-season home game for 14 seniors. Here is a list of the Wildcats in the Class of 2012-13:
1 Dontra Peters © CB Sr. 5-11 200 Annapolis, Md.
7 James Brady QB Sr. 6-0 210 Deer Park, N.Y.
27 Tyler Sargent DB Sr. 5-10 202 Fairview, Pa.
52 Matt Evans © LB Sr. 6-0 228 Hanover, Mass.
53 Chris Zarkoskie © OL Sr. 6-1 292 W.Caldwell, N.J.
54 Alan Buzbee © LB Sr. 6-3 235 Chester, N.J.
71 Isaiah Martin OL Sr. 6-2 283 Pennsauken, N.J.
72 Mickey DiLima OL Sr. 6-4 309 Kensington, Md.
74 Walter McCarthy OL Sr. 6-5 272 Warwick, R.I.
84 Joey Orlando WR Sr. 5-11 197 Bethlehem, Pa.
90 Jared Smith DT Sr. 6-3 292 Greencastle, Pa.
93 Matt Murray TE Sr. 6-2 265 Stow, Mass.
94 Randi Vines DE Sr. 6-3 238 Roanoke, Va.
9 Nick Pellino K Sr. 6-1 208 Danvers, Mass.
DURHAM, N.H. – Nico Steriti carried 19 times for 106 yards and two touchdowns and Matt Evans registered a game-high 10 tackles to become the all-time tackle leader in school history as the 11th-ranked UNH football team downed William & Mary, 28-25, at Cowell Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The Wildcats improved to 8-2 overall and upped their CAA-leading mark to 6-1, while the Tribe fell to 2-7, 1-5. With its 10th straight home victory, New Hampshire snapped a nine-game losing skid against William & Mary and gave head coach Sean McDonnell his first career victory against the College. The eighth victory also likely punched New Hampshire's ticket to the NCAA Football Championship tournament for a nation-leading ninth consecutive season.
Sean Goldrich completed 21 of 30 passes for 215 yards, and R.J. Harris notched a team-leading 10 catches for 77 yards. Harris moved into a tie for fifth place in UNH single-season history with 71 receptions and seventh place in single-season history with 961 receiving yards.
Evans, who now has 437 career tackles, surpassed Steve Doig as the University's all-time tackles leader with just under 3:25 remaining in the third quarter and the game tied at 18-18. The senior co-captain combined with Nick Cefalo (six tackles) to wrap up Keith McBride (17 rushes-75 yards) on an eight-yard rush at UNH's 38. Five plays later, W&M kicker John Carpenter missed wide left on a 46-yard field-goal attempt, preserving the deadlock.
William & Mary third-string quarterback Michael Graham, who replaced injured starter Brent Caprio (5 of 5, 47 yards, TD) late in the first half, went 13-for-25 for 167 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Mikal Abdul-Saboor carried 16 times for 87 yards and added four catches for 47 yards to pace the Tribe's offense.
With UNH trailing 7-3, Steriti scored on an 18-yard run with 5:20 remaining in the second quarter to cap a nine-play, 92-yard drive. Andy Vailas (11 rushes-53 yards) connected with Harold Spears (two catches-23 yards) on the two-point conversion to stake UNH to its first lead, 11-7.
New Hampshire increased the lead to 18-7 with 16 seconds left in the opening half when Goldrich (seven rushes-37 yards, TD) called his own number for a two-yard score.
Carpenter's 23-yard field goal sliced UNH's lead to 18-10 with 9:20 left in the third, and Tre McBride (four catches-72 yards, two TDs) hauled in a 19-yard pass for his second touchdown catch of the contest with 4:06 left in the period. He was then on the receiving end of Graham's two-point conversion pass to knot the score, 18-18.
Mike MacArthur broke the tie on a 24-yard field goal with 11:22 left in the fourth quarter to give the Wildcats a 21-18 lead.
The Tribe answered with a go-ahead, 13-play, 78-yard drive that concluded with Graham's one-yard keeper on fourth-and-goal for a 25-21 lead with 6:00 to go.
Steriti's second scoring run, a 19-yard rush, proved to be the game-winning score with 4:14 left to conclude a six-play, 84-yard drive and put the 'Cats on top, 28-25. One play earlier, Goldrich hit Joey Orlando (eight catches-94 yards) on a 32-yard pass –the longest pass of the game- down the left sideline.
Keith Parkinson snuffed out the College's next drive when he recorded his first career interception on Graham's second-and-5 pass at the Wildcats' 22 with 1:52 remaining in the contest.
The Tribe's final drive ended on Graham's Hail Mary incompletion from midfield as time expired.
Caprio's 30-yard TD pass to Tre McBride allowed William & Mary to take a 7-0 lead at 4:12 of the first quarter.
MacArthur got UNH on the board with a 23-yard field goal with 13:45 left in the first to make the score 7-3.
WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON: Since the start of the 2007 season, the Wildcats are 29-3 at Cowell Stadium. The 'Cats have recorded 10 straight home victories and posted a 22-1 mark in their last 23 home games at Cowell Stadium. A victory against Towson would give UNH its third undefeated home campaign in the last four seasons and leave the 'Cats one win shy of matching their all-time record for consecutive home victories (12).
GETTING BYE: UNH is 8-5 in the Sean McDonnell era in games following a regular-season bye week. The Wildcats have dropped three of their last five post-bye games, including a 13-3 setback at the hands of William & Mary that ended a school-record 12-game home winning streak in 2010. However, the Wildcats posted a 45-43 win at Richmond last season following a Sept. 17 bye. New Hampshire defeated Towson, 62-21, at Unitas Stadium on Sept. 17, 2005, following a bye week.
GOING STREAKING: UNH is riding its first six-game winning streak since Oct. 15-Nov. 26, 2005, when the 'Cats won seven straight games, the longest winning streak of the Coach Mac era. Under Coach McDonnell, UNH has managed a total of two six-game winning streaks and one seven-game winning streak. Here is a breakdown:
EVANS BECOMES UNH'S ALL-TIME TACKLE KING: Matt Evans, with his eighth tackle in the victory over William & Mary on Nov. 3, became the all-time leader in tackles at UNH. The senior co-captain broke the 31-year record of former Wildcat linebacker Steve Doig, who was on hand to congratulate Evans after the Wildcats' 28-25 defeat of the Tribe.
•Joey Orlando needs 203 receiving yards to move into seventh place all-time and is within three receptions of No. 6 all-time. Here is where the senior stacks up against the all-time UNH receiving greats:
AIMING FOR 1,000: R.J. Harris needs 39 receiving yards to become UNH's first 1,000-yard receiver since Mike Boyle in 2008 and only the fifth receiver in school history to reach that plateau.
The sophomore has a streak of 15 straight games with at least one reception. He has tallied 14 consecutive multi-catch contests. The last time Harris was held without a catch was Oct. 22, 2011, in the Colonial Clash victory over Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. His last single-catch game was in the Oct. 29, 2011, triumph over Rhode Island at Cowell Stadium.
The Odenton, Md., native leads the CAA in receptions (71), receiving yards (961), receiving yards/game (96.1) and receptions/game (7.1). He is nine receptions away from the No. 4 spot in school single-season history. Here is a breakdown of Harris' exploits among the all-time UNH greats:
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DOWN MAKES: The Wildcats are converting third downs 49.3 percent of the time (73 of 148), ranked second in the CAA. However, UNH is a mere 1-for-10 on fourth down, the lowest success rate among the 11 league teams.


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Given central simple algebras A and B, one can look at the their tensor product A ⊗ B as a K-algebra (see tensor product of R-algebras). It turns out that this is always central simple. A slick way to see this is to use a characterisation: a central simple algebra over K is a K-algebra that becomes a matrix ring when we extend the field of scalars to an algebraic closure of K.
Given this closure property for CSAs, they form a monoid under tensor product. To get a group, apply the Artin-Wedderburn theorem (Wedderburn's part, in fact), to express any CSA as a M(n,D) for some division algebra D. If we look just at D, rather than the value of n, the monoid becomes a group. That is, if we impose an equivalence relation identifying M(m,D) with M(n,D) for all integers m and n at least 1, we get an equivalence relation; and the equivalence classes are all invertible: the inverse class to that of an algebra A is the one containing the opposite algebra Aop (the opposite ring with the same action by K since the image of K → A is in the center of A). In other words, for a CSA A we have A ⊗ Aop = M(n2,K), where n is the degree of A over K. (This provides a substantial reason for caring about the notion of an opposite algebra: it provides the inverse in the Brauer group.)
The Brauer group for an algebraically closed field or a finite field is the trivial group with only the identity element.
The Brauer group Br(R) of the real number field R is a cyclic group of order two: there are just two types of division algebras, R and the quaternion algebra H. The product in the Brauer group is based on the tensor product: the statement that H has order two in the group is equivalent to the existence of an isomorphism of R-algebras: H ⊗ H ≅ M(4,R), where the RHS is the ring of 4×4 real matrices.
Tsen's theorem implies that the Brauer group of a function field in one variable over an algebraically closed field vanishes.
In the further theory, the Brauer group of a local field is computed (it turns out to be canonically isomorphic to Q/Z for any local field, of characteristic 0 or characteristic p) and the results are applied to global fields. This gives one approach to class field theory, which was the first approach that allowed global class field theory to be derived from local class field theory; historically it had been the other way around at first. It also has been applied to Diophantine equations. More precisely, the Brauer group Br(K) of a global field K is given by the exact sequence
where the direct sum in the middle is over all (archimedean and non-archimedean) completions of K and the map to is addition, where we interpret the Brauer group of the reals as (1/2)Z/Z. The group Q/Z on the right is really the "Brauer group" of the class formation of idele classes associated to K.
In the general theory the Brauer group is expressed by factor sets; and expressed in terms of Galois cohomology via
Here, not assuming K to be a perfect field, Ks is the separable closure. When K is perfect this is the same as an algebraic closure; otherwise the Galois group must be defined in terms of Ks/K even to make sense.
A generalisation via the theory of Azumaya algebras was introduced in algebraic geometry by Grothendieck.


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Marg Helgenberger, one of the leading actresses on the popular show CSI, says she's ending her association with a wounded warriors charity that's accused of appropriating millions in donations funds for big salaries and golf club memberships.
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I'm 6'4"/250lbs and the WRR pulls me fine. Yes it likes to be revved, but for a 250, its a pretty peppy machine. Not sure if you rode a stock one, but with some gearing changes and a few mods, it totally changes the bike.
With 10K plus on the bike, including coast to coast\TAT and a lot of single track at or above 7,000 feet, I think I gave it a fair run--yes with just about every gearing option available.
It will do much better in GA at sea level it also seemed OK in the north GA mountains. Put it at 10,000 plus feet where it gives up 20% of its power and it gets doggy, especially at 300 lbs plus wet weight.
It ate chain sliders and not in a uniform fashion. Other than tires it was maintenance free. You must have the bigger tank for any long distance work--or be a really good planner.
As I said in an earlier post I would take it on the TAT again over the DR650 due to weight alone as I ride solo.
If he would have asked which bike I would take if I were riding the TAT and then ride it back to the east coast I would take the DR--the WRR is just not--in my opinion--much more than a peppy 250 and then only when wound out.
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COC Presents Mozart's Final Opera La clemenza di Tito in February
The Canadian Opera Company presents a production described as "modern music theatre you mustn't miss" (Chicago Tribune) this winter season when it performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last opera, La clemenza di Tito, directed by Christopher Alden. Conducting some of opera's most sublime music is the dynamic young maestro Daniel Cohen in his company debut, leading an acclaimed ensemble cast that features internationally renowned Canadian tenor Michael Schade and Metropolitan Opera regular American mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. La clemenza di Tito is sung in Italian with English SURTITLES™ and was last performed by the COC in 1991. It runs for nine performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on February 3, 6*, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 19 and 22, 2013.
American director Christopher Alden returns to the COC on the heels of the successful premiere of his production of Die Fledermaus for the opera company this past fall. His production of La clemenza di Tito premiered in 2009 at Chicago Opera Theater, where it was received as "an excellent introduction for the operatic novice and a gorgeously executed classic for the connoisseur" (SteadStyleChicago.com), "smart, good-looking, and in Alden's staging, often humorous" (Chicago Reader) and "boldly liberated from the stilted conventions of opera seria" (Chicago Tribune).
Written in 1791 to celebrate the coronation of Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia, La clemenza di Tito's story of the attempted assassination of the Emperor Tito and his forgiveness of those who betrayed him was meant to reflect a quality that the populace might have hoped for in their new king. Mozart spent his entire life pleasing and placating the kings, emperors, and archbishops who commissioned his operas, constantly striving to impress them. In bringing La clemenza di Tito to the stage, Alden approaches the work as the composer's personal statement on his own dealings with powerful men. Alden's staging explores the real human emotions at the opera's core and focuses on the relationship between the characters, especially how others relate to Tito, offering a psychologically penetrating depiction of people negotiating the dangerous corridors of power.
La clemenza di Tito is considered one of the composer's late masterpieces, and an undeniable example of Mozart's musical genius. The delicate, sublime beauty of the orchestral writing delivers the kind of emotional immediacy that only great art possesses, and the complex characters are depicted with both realism and powerful drama.
In the role of Tito is Michael Schade, returning to the COC, following an acclaimed role debut performance as Eisenstein in last fall's Die Fledermaus. One of the leading Mozart tenors on the stage today, Schade's portrayal of Tito has won him acclaim from Salzburg to Washington, praised for his "apparently effortless command of Mozartian style" (The Telegraph), and "mesmerizing the audience" (Opera Britannia) with an "unflagging intensity and musical intelligence" (Washington Post). Making her COC debut as Sesto, Tito's closest friend, is highly acclaimed American mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. A regular at the Metropolitan Opera and described as "fresh, effervescent, and lovely" (New York Times) and "a stage animal with charisma written all over her" (Financial Times), Leonard's performance with the COC marks her role debut as Sesto. American soprano Keri Alkema, last with the COC in 2012's The Tales of Hoffmann, returns to treat audiences to her "appealing brew of dark and creamy colors" (New York Times) in a role debut as the vengeful Vitellia, the instigator of the attempted assassination of Tito.
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Watch live demonstrations of the art of blacksmithing and view the antique tractors. Located at the Chautauqua Auditorium in Pana's historical Kitchell Park on South Route 51.
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One of the few true American musical forms, bluegrass - that high, lonesome sound created by Bill Monroe over 50 years ago - has steadily gained in popularity over the years, and for good reason. It's natural. It's organic. We are proud to present a few of the finest bluegrass acts to be found anywhere. Hosted by local bluegrass heroes Firebox, Tuscan Hills Winery will have two days of amazing picking, beautiful bowing and soaring vocal harmonies - we can't think of a more harmonious way to bring the summer to a close! This is a rain or shine event. Bring your lawn chairs! There will be a variety of great food and beverages including water, soda, coffee, tea, beer and wine available for purchase on the festival grounds. Parking is free and within 25 to 100 yards away from the venue & of course handicapped parking is available. All ages are welcome. Be sure to check out the web address for more information on tickets and pricing: http://www.grapevinebluegrass.com.


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Curren$y – Flight 216
Curren$y takes on Cam'ron's 2009 track, "I Get It In Ohio," letting loose a new freebie, titled "Flight 216." This goes to hold us over until the Jet Life rapper drops off his forthcoming Jet World Order 2 project, which will hit on November 20. So after you check out the on-hand offering, let us know if you think Curren$y does the beat justice.
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An archaeologist (Steven Seagal) battles Chinese gangsters after uncovering a scheme to smuggle drugs.
Time to be thankful for Seagal and Van Damme.
No doubt you've had your fill of leftover turkey and Black Friday sales and, after checking out The Terminator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of Reelzchannel's first part of our Gratitude With Attitude Action Movie Marathon, we're sure you'll be ready for more. Luckily, Reelz has you covered with another action-filled day planned with movies like Universal Soldier and much, much more. You can miss out if you dare, but you'll have Steven Seagal to answer to if you do. Plus, you'll miss out on claiming your own Universal Turkey sticker from Get Glue!
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Promo for Glee Season 3, Episode 16: Our In-depth Analysis of "Saturday Night Glee-ver"
Better strap on those dancing shoes, because Glee is about to get down, disco-style! We've already seen plenty of spoilers and sneak peek photos teasing what's to come in next week's Season 3, Episode 16: "Saturday Night Glee-ver," but now we have an all-new promo with even more clues.
We're analyzing every single second of the promo, frame-by-frame, searching for more clues. Take a look at what we discovered:
Scene 1a: We enter on a smoky, disco-lit dance floor.
Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), Kurt (Chris Colfer), and Blaine (Darren Criss) slowly twist in the McKinley choir room, while glittery disco lights flash in the background.
Scene 1b: Mr. Schue starts things off. "We're going back in time..."
Cut to The New Directions, standing in a line. They all look a little confused. (Oh, hi Joe (Samuel Larsen). Guess you've officially joined the glee club now!)
Scene 2a: Disco time!
The McKinley stage is decked out in purple lighting, with shining glitter in the background. "The show that defined a generation" — wait, they mean Glee, right? Cool! — "takes on a the music of an older generation."
Scene 2b: Prepare for amazing dancing.
Mike (Harry Shum Jr.), Blaine, and Brittany (Heather Morris) walk down a trippy, swirling, disco-lit hall. One, we LOVE Blaine's purple shirt. Two, whenever we see Mike and Brittany together, we know we're in store for a bunch of awesome dance moves!
Scene 3a: It's the original Saturday Night Fever dance floor!
White floor. Red, blue, and yellow lights underneath. It's the exact same one! This time, Sue (Jane Lynch) and Will (Matthew Morrison) are the ones taking it for a spin.
Scene 3b: Burn, Baby, Burn!
Santana (Naya Rivera), Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Brittany are singing "Disco Inferno." Just one of the many disco tunes that will be performed during the night. Mercedes' red dress looks smokin' hot.
Scene 4a: It's Saturday Night Glee-ver!
Will: "I love that album." Sue: "You bet your ass you love that album."
Scene 4b: Now we're back on the McKinley stage.
This time, it's Brittany, Mike, and Blaine performing "Stayin' Alive." What did we tell you. That dancing? Awesome.
Scene 4c: Brittana SEX TAPE?!
"But will disco be someone's downfall?" Brittany walks up to Santana in the hallway. "Everyone's loving the sex tape of us." Santana looks shocked. "What?!"
Scene 5a: "Grab your boogie shoes!"
Sue Sylvester's certainly got her's. They're tall, white, and sparkly... We kind of want to get ourselves a pair!
Scene 5b: Puck (Mark Salling) begs to differ!
"There's only one problem with that idea." The entire New Directions chime in. "Disco SUCKS!"
Sue points at the camera. (Hah. Learned that trick from Cooper, didn't she?) "Exactly."
As blown away by this promo as we are, there are so many more things it didn't even cover! For instance, we didn't even see one second of Glee Project finalist Alex Newell (Wade). He's going to make his debut appearance in this episode!
Plus, what about Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff), who's set to return as the new coach of Vocal Adrenaline? With Finn and Rachel's relationship already on the rocks... we can't even begin to imagine how the arrival of her ex-boyfriend will mix things up!
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It seems as if every time NASCAR crowns a new champion -- or the same one in Jimmie Johnson's case -- the question comes up as to whether race car drivers are athletes. It's an ongoing debate that probably never will be settled, but former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb definitely has an opinion on the matter.
During a Fox Sports 1 segment Friday, McNabb was asked where Johnson fell among the greatest athletes of the decade. After stating Johnson is ranked third on his take of the decade's best (behind Tiger Woods and Kobe Bryant), McNabb immediately contradicted his ranking by saying Johnson isn't an athlete.
"I like what he's been able to do," McNabb said. "Do I think he's an athlete? Absolutely not. He's not an athlete. He sits in a car and drives. That doesn't make you athletic."
The statement has generated plenty of angst among racing fans and the NASCAR community. Even Johnson responded to McNabb's comments, saying all NASCAR drivers are athletes, "even Tony Stewart."
But the best one-liner came from driver Kevin Harvick, who obviously remembers what happened in Super Bowl XXXIX:
Cardio day in the gym today... Felt like @donovanjmcnabb in the 4th quarter... #sluggish
— Kevin Harvick (@KevinHarvick) November 20, 2013
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AraabMuzik on Getting Shot & Working with Just Blaze0 Comments
Fuse talks to AraabMuzik about his recovery from getting shot, working on Slaughterhouse's new album, and collaborating with Just Blaze. Also checkout Just Blaze vs AraabMUZIK.
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text: MJ came to visit ( so fun – we went to Outside Lands, hit up a Giants Game, went for a hike in Marin, then hopped across the bay for pizza in Berkeley) mum was here for a night (of course we had to go to Rose's) on her way to Ireland, a trip to Napa for some wine tasting, D & I went to NY and experience some amazing meals & spooky weather, there was a camping trip w/ Cassie & Jeff, a pizza making class w/ Susannah, a beachy reunion w/ D's family, another trip to NY for The Daily Muse's 1st Birthday Party, wine tasting in Paso Robles, friends in town for the Cal game and a few birthdays (we celebrated with pink cake), Fleet Week, some runs down along marina green (yes, finally back running!), a post-season Giants Game, some stair climbing, and Autumn & Allison in town this weekend. Fun fun!


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Beatles Film MERSEY BOYS Begins Production in New York City
Film-News.co.uk reports that shooting is currently underway for La Muse Venale Theater's MERSEY BOYS, a full-length film about legendary rock band The Beatles. The film, which stars Jordan Brown (John), Jeremiah Stanfield (Paul), Brady Cudmore (George) and Trevor Crane (Ringo) will be shot entirely in New York City with the Hudson River subbing in for the UK's Mersey.
Mike Strozier, the film's director, will portray lead character, Al Moran. The screenplay is by Steven G. Farrell based on his novel Mersey Boys (World Audience Publisher). The cast also includes Joanna Pickering, Ronnie Armani (Brian Epstein), Ryan Farrell (Gerry Marsden), and Tatyana Kalko (Cynthia Powell) Anna Shields, McKenzie Ginsburg and John Chatterton.
Mersey Boys tells the story of "Al Moran, an Irish-American art professor, who arrives to teach at the Liverpool Art College, circa 1960. He immediately clashes with a rebellious young Scouser by the name of John Lennon. The two soon become fast friends and are together when the Beatles are founded. Professor Moran follows the career of his four new mates from their coffee shop debut to their ultimate success as the world's greatest rock n roll band. The hapless scholar also pursues the elusive Ginny Browne, a beautiful and independent woman."
Mersey Boys will premiere at the Actor's Temple on Broadway in the Spring of 2013.
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Sheryl Sandberg's Can-Do Feminism
In 1956, when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg entered Harvard Law School, her class of more than 500 students included nine women and one black man. Erwin Griswold, the school's dean, summoned the nine women and asked each to answer a question: How could she justify taking a place that would otherwise have gone to a man?
Griswold would later insist he'd just been playing devil's advocate. Ginsburg, who still tells this story with a tinge of resentment, emerged from the meeting determined to prove him wrong. A half-century later, Angie Kim, Harvard Law School class of '93, surveyed 226 women in her class. A decade and a half after graduating, almost one-third of the women described themselves as stay-at-home mothers, which they indicated was a temporary status; nearly another third had arranged "mommy track" part-time or flexible work. With numbers like these among women with every privilege, did Griswold have a point?
When Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg was at Harvard College in the late 1980s, she admits in Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, she didn't call herself a feminist, nor did any of her friends, because "we mistakenly thought there was nothing left to fight for." At school and in the workforce, Sandberg writes, "I believed it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles." She went on to Harvard Business School, which in Ginsburg's day had admitted no women at all, and where women are still only 40 percent of the students. Fiercely determined, she moved up the ranks at the Treasury Department and then at Google and Facebook.
"But with each passing year, fewer and fewer of my colleagues were women," Sandberg writes. "More and more often, I was the only woman in the room." She adds, "We have ceased making real progress at the top of any industry." In her new book, Sandberg urges women to "lean in," or be more assertive on behalf of their careers, and she gives some advice on how to do it. Women who want children, she says, should not be daunted into preemptively withdrawing from their ambitions. They should take a seat at the table, literally and figuratively. They should stop hiding their accomplishments and start demanding more from their workplaces and their partners. They should acknowledge sexism is out there but not let it thwart them.
Sandberg believes bleak "having it all" conversations have discouraged young women, as has "choose my choice" feminism (though she doesn't use this phrase), which calls any option feminist if a woman takes it. "We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership," she writes. Just as crucially, she wants men to step up and be full professional and personal partners in parity. (Ginsburg's husband was famously this kind of better half.)
For these rather modest proposals, Sandberg has been accused in the media of wanting women to "pull themselves up by the Louboutin straps" (USA Today) and being "the elite leading the slightly-less-elite, for the sake of [her] bottom line" (The Washington Post); some feminists and progressives have critiqued her earlier pronouncements for not focusing enough on policy or structural discrimination, for mistaking personal branding for a social movement, and for failing to meaningfully address concerns of working-class women like the domestic workers she and her husband employ. Sandberg agrees, in fact, that it's necessary to push for provisions, from paid family leave to affordable daycare, that would improve women's participation. But countries far more advanced on the policy front than the United States haven't done much better in female representation at the top. Something else is happening, and Sandberg—who now proudly identifies as a feminist—has some ideas based on personal experience and her reading of the research.
As Sandberg concedes, her prescriptions are most relevant to privileged women with "choices"—she is already famous (or infamous) for saying she leaves work at 5:30 to be with her family—and, I would add, to women who share her unapologetic, almost retro love of career. Her book isn't only for them, or should I say us. Practical tips on how to advocate for yourself while threading the needle of sexism can help those for whom work is by necessity work, not vocation. Though her notion of leadership as the apex of a woman's career is fairly conventional, this is a more enthusiastically feminist book than your average executive how-to, and it marshals more optimism and real-world power—what Sandberg delicately refers to as her "front row seat"—than earlier exhortations to get to work and stay there.
As a result, this will never be a book for people who believe that the personal accrual and deployment of power is inherently oppositional to feminism or a prize won at the expense of other women. Sandberg rejects marginalization as a symbolic virtue. She demands a more perfect meritocracy, and she has set out to make one.
Before Sandberg started speaking out about gender roles, she was best known for helping to turn ascendant Internet companies into grown-up businesses that make money, starting with Google and then Facebook, and for being mentored by former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Larry Summers. Summers advised Sandberg's undergraduate thesis on the economic dynamics of spousal abuse and hired her at the World Bank and at Treasury, where she rose to become his chief of staff. She managed to work productively with Summers and later with another man of celebrated intellectual capacities and notoriously terrible interpersonal skills, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. (Both appear often, and uncontroversially, in Lean In.) The spheres these men came from and came to lead were also Sandberg's, and understanding their milieu helps us see the limits of her vision—but also how far out on a limb she has already ventured.
Sandberg has exceptional interpersonal skills, as I learned firsthand attending a dinner she held in New York in November and one of her monthly "women's dinners" at her house in Atherton, California, in January. She had not come to lecture, she made it clear; she had come to learn, and in California, to share some of her leverage with a more diverse pool of people than I'd seen anywhere else in the tech world. In person and in the book, she exemplifies traditionally feminine virtues: assiduous credit-giving, cheerful self-effacement (which she says she is trying to get over!). For every critic who has demanded to know who Sandberg thinks she is bossing women around, you get the sense she's probably already sorry.
In 2008, these skills were called upon in the service of Summers, who had joined Obama's economic team but carried baggage with women's groups. As president of Harvard three years earlier, Summers had given a clumsy talk before female scientists citing research on women's quantitative aptitude, which some of them took to mean he believed women are underrepresented in their fields for biological reasons. What Summers actually said is contested. But even if this was a case, as he later explained, of a "purely academic exploration of hypotheses," his musing aloud betrayed its own ideologies. First, his attendance at the church of empiricism, with its belief that research has no bias; second, the apparent surprise that extemporaneously mansplaining biological differences to a bunch of female scientists would cause him any trouble. To be sure, it would take many bull-in-a-china-shop moments to topple Summers's presidency. (A woman, Drew Gilpin Faust, succeeded him.) Sandberg defended Summers, arguing that while he had perhaps "communicated poorly—and even insensitively," he had a track record of advocating policies benefiting women and had been "a supportive and deeply caring mentor for me and many other women." In Lean In's chapter on mentoring, she talks about how it is not a one-sided transaction; the mentee also gives back, and Sandberg did.
For all of Sandberg's social fluidity, she is taking a risk with Lean In. As she writes in the book, "Within traditional institutions, success has often been contingent upon a woman not speaking out but fitting in." Calling out sexism counts as not fitting in. At Treasury, Sandberg "worried that pointing out the disadvantages women face in the workforce might be misinterpreted as whining or asking for special treatment." That worry would have been rational. After the Democrats lost the 2000 election and she moved west to seek her fortune, Sandberg joined a social order even more invested in believing it had transcended all structural barriers to success, despite its blinding homogeneity.
That would be Silicon Valley, with its driving creed of purported meritocracy. "Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich," wrote TechCrunch's Michael Arrington in a 2010 post titled, "Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Blaming The Men." (Notably, the two concepts on either side of Arrington's slash—changing the world, getting rich—are not seen as opposed in a world shaped by Google and Facebook, even as the companies have grown and are under greater pressure to maximize profits, and as the ways in which they're changing the world are no longer so politically neutral.) Sandberg could herself be held up as proof, but she is one of the few. If meritocracy is the local religion, Sandberg is the reformation, if not wholly a heretic.
The unshakeable belief in the power of technology—and technologists—to transcend social and political divisions is fundamental in Sandberg's current world. A powerful insider calling out the limits of that credo from within is what makes her project so unusual, and so potent. Recognizing, perhaps, that a woman will never quite "fit in," she has given up trying so hard and run with this feminist stuff anyway. "My own attempts to point out gender bias have generated more than my fair share of eye rolling from others," she writes. But having "leaned in" and conquered, she can't be accused of being an embittered outsider. That makes Sandberg a "surprising validator," to borrow legal scholar Cass Sunstein's term for a person best situated to change others' minds.
In college, Sandberg attended a Phi Beta Kappa speech by the feminist Peggy McIntosh on "Feeling Like a Fraud," which led Sandberg to realize that even in her success she'd always felt like an impostor. Men and women who had achieved this same academic honor attended separate ceremonies—a lingering legacy of Harvard and Radcliffe's gender segregation—so Sandberg excitedly filled in a male friend at a reception afterward. "Why would that be interesting?" he asked, confused. Sandberg and her best friend joked that the men's talk had been "How to Cope in a World Where Not Everyone Is as Smart as You."
In other words, Sandberg writes in agreement with a point feminists have long argued, men are encouraged to feel a sense of entitlement from an early age. On the other hand, she has observed on the job that women suffer too often from "tiara syndrome"—the bad habit of expecting someone will notice your achievements and place a tiara on your head. (It's a mentality that usually works better in school, which may be why women do so well there.) "Do not wait for power to be offered," Sandberg writes. "Like that tiara, it might never materialize." Sandberg is also on feminist terrain when she says women are being partly held back by fear: "[F]ear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: The fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter." Even as she owns up to feeling such fear, she counsels working around it. In negotiation, for example, "a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence."
This is meeting the world as it is, not as one would like it. But Sandberg also thinks women should demand more, especially from men, and especially from men who are their partners. In Anne-Marie Slaughter's widely discussed Atlantic piece, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," Slaughter thanked her husband for support but seemed to assume the woman in a heterosexual marriage will always do more of the unpaid labor at home and probably always feel more love for her children, fueling the painful pull of competing duties and loyalties. By contrast, Sandberg urges women to demand more and to "make your partner a real partner." That means seeking out a partner who is supportive of one's career goals and who picks up half of the work at home, even if, as a result, women must cede some control of household duties and childrearing.
Because she is so focused on power sharing between men and women, particularly when it comes to raising children, Sandberg has been criticized for leaving out anyone who isn't heterosexual. But notably left out of her equation are all women who lack a partner—especially women raising kids on their own. When Sandberg writes, "I don't know of one woman in a leadership position whose life partner is not fully—and I mean fully—supportive of her career," she is uncritically describing a socioeconomic reality in which stable partnership has become both a luxury good and a technique for doubling down on advantage.
Marriage has worked for Sandberg (the second time around, after an early divorce). So have institutions, from Harvard to government to technology corporations, even when she has found them deficient. Indeed, Sandberg is at her most wrongheaded when she puts too much faith in such institutions' benevolent interests in helping their employees. At one point, she encourages the frank discussion of possible future pregnancies in job interviews, even as she recognizes that it would brush up against the law. The reason such conversations are regulated by anti-discrimination law is that employers do, in fact, discriminate against pregnant employees. Some bosses may, like Sandberg, be happy to work around such plans in order to get the best talent. But laws are intended to protect employees from the worst bosses.
Sandberg believes that the citadels of power will improve when more women are the boss and institutions will improve when they become true meritocracies. In this, she hasn't strayed too far from her mentor's remedy for inequality. Summers's most shining legacy at Harvard was vastly expanding financial aid, calling income inequality "the most serious domestic problem in the United States today" and education "the most powerful weapon we have to address that problem." The attendant assumption is that if the children of maids and janitors can become investment bankers too, the whole system would be both fairer (unquestionably true) and better for everyone (a matter for serious debate).
Making the system fairer—giving a greater range of people potential access to its benefits—is nevertheless a decent goal in itself and a starting point for something more, which is why it matters whether a privileged woman is among privileged men in executive corridors at Davos or TED or the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium or the G8 Summit. We should care about why women aren't there just as we care about why women almost never win the Oscar for Best Director—an elite subcategory, to be sure—and why we celebrate when 20 women join the flawed institution that is the Senate.
Female leadership has barely been tried out, let alone normalized, nor has self-made female wealth. Sandberg is—of course—optimistic: "The more women attain positions of power, the less pressure there will be to conform, and the more they will do for other women." This approach gives collective justification to the book's exhortations for individual women to rise—to ask for more money, to choose jobs for their growth potential, to communicate directly and unapologetically. This doesn't mean there would be no collective benefit. (Sandberg kicks her book off with a small example: No one at Google thought to have special parking for pregnant women until she, a rare female executive, needed it.) Meritocracy, with its investment in individual achievement before broad social change, has split the difference with social movements and the old hierarchical ways. It is still a vast improvement on those older ways.
Arguing that gender inequality matters is radical in Sandberg's own context, but she could go further still. Then again, she is someone who has already listened to critics who found her structural analysis lacking. Two years ago, she was described in a New Yorker profile as not believing there is a "glass ceiling." Now she is staking her career on talking about breakdowns in the system. Who knows? The current wave of critics might be more effective if they saw her less as a natural enemy and more as a potential convert.
Mon, 2013-03-11 08:56
I have been a feminist since 1952, age 7. The nun preparing us for Communion explained that the boys went up first because "they are closer to God, they can be priests." I have 5 younger brothers, and I immediately recognized sexist bullshit. When I read The Feminist Mystique 50 years ago, it confirmed what I already believed. I was fortunate enough to be able to stay home with my four brilliant daughters for 14 years and take care of my first grandchild for 2 years. I have been an editor, librarian, therapist, internet educator, but mothering and grandmothering were my most fascinating, challenging, exciting job by far.
Since 2008 I have blogged as Redstocking Grandma. The Redstockings were an early NYC radical feminist group. We envisioned a much shorter work week where moms and dads could share equally in child care. We did not dream of a world where both parents worked 50+ hours and poor women of color were exploited to take care of kids, where most parents cannot afford to leave work to care for their babies and toddlers, even for a few months, where the US would be the only industrial country not offering paid parental leave. We did not dream of a world where millions of children would be drugged into obedience to a wildly uncoiled-friendly society with powerful psychiatric drugs untested on children.
It is tragic that most parents no longer can afford to stay home with their babies and toddlers. It is sad that more affluent parents chose not to because they are terrified they are destroying their career. Of course, that is a self-fulfilling prophecy. During World War II millions of men left their career for three or four years. What they did was honored with the GI Bill of Rights.
Almost no one talks about public policy that would make it possible for parents to care for babies. Yet truly excellent child care for babies and toddlers is unaffordable for most parents. I believe in public preschools for children three and over, taught by certified teachers with master's degrees, good salaries, good benefits.
My high-achieving, brilliant daughters live in a world no more suited to parents of young children with careers than I did when the oldest was born 40 years ago. I would be more impressed if Sandberg was advocated superb onsite daycare for all Facebook parents who want it. I would be more impressed with anyone who advocated the equivalent of a GI Bill for parents who stayed home with their children.
I am very proud of my daughters. They would not be who they are if I had put them in day care at 3 months. They are all divergent thinkers; I was able to let them spread their wings and soar.
Tue, 2013-03-12 13:01
So Iris Carmon outs herself as one of the 20 very special NYC women writers who were invited by Sandberg's "PR Team" to dine with her in Manhattan. In addition to Ms. Carmon, there was Anna Holmes, who described this kissy-kissy affair, in her favorable review of Sandberg's book in the New Yorker. Among them too, was Katha Pollitt of the Nation, who also gave a big thumbs up to Sandberg and her oeuvre. Both of them used the better part of their reviews to tell us how Sandberg impressed them at this dinner. Holmes said something I found quite revealing: that Sandberg had really "done her homework" on every woman there. Armed with what she had learned "doing her homework," I'm sure she had something to say to you, Iris, about what a special snowflake you, and only you, are. You can't tell us, though, because, as Holmes explained, all conversations were off the record.
Here is some information that I think is quite relevant as to whether having women like Sandberg in power will "make the system fairer."
Here is a really sweet picture of Sheryl and her boss Mark visiting Wal-Mart corporate HQ last year.
The accompanying text has this to say:
"Wal-Mart is an important partner for Facebook and we look forward to working together to deepen that relationship," Facebook said in a statement to The Orlando Sentinel. "In addition, we admire the company Wal-Mart has built over the past 50 years and believe we can learn from their experience and management team about building a strong, durable and valuable company for the long term."
Sandberg is also on the Advisory Board of the "Pete Peterson Destroy Social Security Medicare and Medicaid Foundation"
She was also the lead pitchman in the "road shows" that preceded Facebook's IPO. Her friends at Goldman Sachs and other slime balls got to dump their shares at $38/share on small investors. The stock has never traded anywhere near that price since that day. Goldman made $500M in profits in the IPO. Also, big institutional traders were given a heads-up about upcoming bad revenues right before the IPO. This info was withheld from the public, so that the small retail suckers would still buy.
She was also working for Summers when he, Bob Rubin, and Alan Greenspan ganged up on another woman, Brooksley Born, the head of the CFTC, and stopped her from regulating Credit Default Swaps.
I would just like to know, Ms. Carmon, if you had done any research, and learned about any of this before you started campaigning in leftwing publications on Sandberg's behalf.
Tue, 2013-03-12 14:33
There is nothing to be contested about what Larry Summers said in that speech about the "innate differences" in the abilities of men and women in science and mathematics.
My spouse is a molecular geneticist at a top research institution. He told me at the time that the "behavioral genetics" research that Summers referred to is regarded as pseudo-science, and that, in any event, Summers, an economist, has no educational background that would enable him to evaluate such studies.
It is interesting to read news reports from the time of the incident, which described the reaction of two of the women present.
One woman, a prominent cancer researcher at MIT who had recently been admitted to the National Academy of Sciences (again, someone in a far better position than Summers to assess the "value" of the research Summers cited) said his remarks made her physically ill, and though she felt self-conscious about appearing rude, left the room. There is no doubt in my mind that she clearly understood what Summers had said.
Another woman defended him; she, like Summers, also an economist.
Sheryl Sandberg's top level of education is an MBA.
And for her to say that he "communicated poorly .." -- sounds as if she is in agreement with him; that he should have gotten his "PR team" (like the one she has) to repackage the bad news more "sensitively." Kind of like the Republicans saying they need to do a better job getting their "message" out to women and Latinos.
I recall that some defenders of Summers at the time noted that after the woman from MIT had left the room, Summers said "I'd like to be proven wrong on this one." -- as if that would have made her feel better.
Someone needed to PROVE HIM WRONG?? About something he knows nothing about.? And all his "mentee" geisha can say is that he "communicated poorly."
Man, are you in the tank for this woman.
Sat, 2013-03-16 15:35
I come from poor but honest folk. my father was institutionalized for mental illness; my mother worked 7 days a week to keep her four children with a roof over our head and food on the table. i worked part-time jobs in high school to help my mom and for my own clothing. I left home at 17 to find a better life. i took the jobs available to woman in the 60's, legal assistant, production secretary for television, executive secretary, etc. until i was given the opportunity to go to college, with encouragement from an older woman, in the free New York city university at the time and graduated with honors. I did not get into Cornell Vet school. although encouraged by the Dean to reapply, i came out west leaving family, friends to start a new life. I went to Las Vegas, drove a cab, became a croupier for awhile then went back to office work to save money to move to CA, which i did with a 15-year old car and $300 in my pocket. Although i was given connections to Stanford Nobel Prize winners by my NY professor, i took computer programming classes instead and got work in a budding computer industry in Silicon Valley. I am an alcoholic in recovery with 28 years sobriety. i never got rich although the opportunities were always there. i now work part-time in a well paid job that leaves me time to enjoy my interests. Success is relative.
Wed, 2013-05-01 14:58
Well, I have my MBA,but not from Harvard. I have been in my profession for 34+ years; 20+ of those years in management. I spent those 20+ years chasing a transparent dangling carrot and all I got for it was 60-80 hour work weeks, every excuse in the book for not giving me the financial rewards I had earned, etc. The truth of the matter, is that one has to be someone's crooney to get ahead in any area of business or awefully lucky. After awhile, even the men start looking for something less harsh and maybe more rewarding. "Leaning in" does really only a few things: it physically and mentally exhausts the person to the point of no return. It allows upper management to pay workers less for more work and few rewards and little real opportunity for promotion. Leaning in takes people out of their social and religious lives as one is often too tired for much of anything, including friends, spouses or kids. Leaning in just wears you out and makes those doing the leaning in resentful. AND, if you think upper managment appreciates the extra work, think again. I have seen way too many managers get honors and rewards and 30 days later, find themselves out on the street. I, like so many well educated business folks are just plain tired of everyone else getting the bulk of the productivity gains from our labor. It is not fair, it is not right and most women know a con job when they see it, Sandbery notwithstanding.
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