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I've spent quite a lot of time in Europe — two summers at the University of Lisbon, innumerable business trips, including over four months in Switzerland and England in 2006, for example — but I still feel like it's a faraway place when I read about its labor laws.
Don't get me wrong: I wish the US had a calmer work culture, but at the same time my deeply ingrained workaholickishness leads me to wry surprise when I hear about the legalisms surrounding work in Europe.
The newest is a Guardian story that relates a new agreement between unions and the consulting and tech industries that requires one million workers to switch off their work phones from 6pm to 9am:
Under the deal, which affects a million employees in the technology and consultancy sectors (including the French arms of Google, Facebook, Deloitte and PwC), employees will also have to resist the temptation to look at work-related material on their computers or smartphones — or any other kind of malevolent intrusion into the time they have been nationally mandated to spend on whatever the French call la dolce vita. And companies must ensure that their employees come under no pressure to do so. Thus the spirit of the law — and of France — as well as the letter shall be observed.
Actually, la dolce vita is Italian — the French would be la douceur de vivre, I think — but that's a quibble. With a 35 hour workweek, it does seem sweet to me.
Volkswagen has also mandated email-free evenings and weekend, shutting down the routing of email for off-duty employees. The German Labor Ministry followed along, as well. But the US email culture leads to an always-on sort of work life, as related in this BBC piece:
An advertising professional who moved from London to New York describes a different email culture.
"I remember on my second day seeing an email from a work colleague sent very late that evening. To my surprise someone replied to it, and then the interaction continued online. And lo and behold we 'were working'. By contrast, in the UK, if I worked late I would often draft emails but save them in my inbox and send them first thing the next morning. That now seems ridiculous and archaic to me. Emails are constant here. It's not that they expect you to answer out of office hours. More that everyone is 'switched on' all the time – that's the culture and pace of New York. I never really heard the concept of work/life balance when I got to the US. There wasn't much complaining as people's expectations were different. It's not just in the corporate world. When my family were moving here and trying to get an apartment I remember being surprised and delighted that our realtor was calling and emailing us late on a Saturday night."
Freelancers and executives may be able to determine their own priorities, but there is a paternalistic aspect of European public policy that is generally absent in the US. There, the presumption is that more junior or 'lower-level' employees might need to be protected from work policies that would lead to longer than legal levels of work. For example, in the UK the great majority of workers cannot be made to work more than 48 hours per week, and if the expectations around a job mean that employees are basically required to read and write email in the evenings and weekends, then that limit can easily be surpassed.
But these laws would never fly in the US. In fact, if I raised it in a discussion people would actually laugh, I bet.


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Ootani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they're in college, they live together, they're happy and everything seems prefect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl?Overview from themoviedb.org
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The state is launching a new mobile app for smartphones and tablets that will help Nebraskans search for available jobs in the state.
The free app is an extension of NEworks.nebraska.gov, the Nebraska Department of Labor's job site that matches employers with qualified candidates.
Gov. Dave Heineman announced the launch of the new app on Wednesday. Heineman says both employers and job seekers will benefit from it.
The governor's office says there are approximately 35,000 Nebraska jobs posted on NEworks and nearly 25,000 resumes of qualified job seekers. The mobile app gives users the option to search jobs by company, job title and location. The app is available for download on both Android and Apple devices.


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The following reaction is for electrolysis of water.
Hence, 2(1*2+16)= 36 gm of water is converted into 2(1*2) or 4 gms hydrogen and 2*16 = 32 gms of oxygen.
1 gallon of water = 3785.411 gms.
Hence, hydrogen produced = (4/36)*3785.411 gm = 420.60gms
The volume of 2 gm of hydrogen is 22.4 liters at STP.
Hence, hydrogen produced = 420.60*22.4/2 = 4710.72 liters at STP.
36 gm of water produces 32 gms of oxygen.
Hence, oxygen produced = (32/36)*3785.411 gm = 3364.81gms
The volume of 32 gm of oxygen is 22.4 liters at STP.
Hence, oxygen produced =3364.81*22.4/32 = 2355.367 liters at STP.
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I am not a mathmatician I was and still in the motor trade and I am working to Stan Meyers voltage splitting of water to gas , I dont need formulae all I need is a ratio of water to gas ie 1 liter of water produces x amount of gas, I have been quoted a percentage and if you can send me your findings if it confirms what I have been quoted I will okay your payment.Like Stan was always saying KISS keepit simple stupid.
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Osheaga begins its three day party in Montreal's Parc Jean Drapeau Friday.
From Mumford and Sons, Beck, Tegan and Sara to The Cure — Osheaga is one of North America's most exciting pop festivals.
The bad news?
Osheaga is now sold out!
But, no need to worry about tickets. CBC's Frank Opolko, Ange Aimee Woods and Pierre Landry will be at all the stages to bring you photos, updates and live sounds from the site.
Each of the three days at Osheaga are filled with main stage performances and impromptu side shows. It's an incredible smorgasbord of excellent entertainment.
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McEwan's Fetching Spy Seduces Writer With Dirty Money
A disgraced spy, a failed mission, a ruined lover: Ian McEwan's new novel, ''Sweet Tooth,'' opens at full tilt.
Narrator Serena Frome (rhymes with ''plume'') is looking back to the early 1970s and a calamitous 18-month stint at MI5. The pretty elder daughter of an Anglican bishop, she had studied mathematics despite being a bookworm at heart. When she graduates from Cambridge, her real education is just beginning.
All that summer she pursues an affair with Tony Canning, an older, married professor who introduces her to pancetta, polenta and other sensual delights. Before dumping her, he sets her up with an interview at MI5, where he's rumored to have had a wartime career.
McEwan is sometimes criticized for favoring middle-aged, middle-class white male protagonists. This latest novel is his first to deploy a female narrator since 2001's ''Atonement.'' Yet in many ways, Serena is Tony's creation. He teaches her what to read, what to say, what to think.
The novel's end reveals a further twist about which I'll say only this: If it feels overly familiar to some McEwan aficionados, it will leave others with the urge to flip back to the beginning and read it all over again.
The title derives from the code name of Serena's first mission at MI5. With a new enemy, the IRA, hogging resources, some of the agency's old Communist fighters are casting around for a project. They come up with Sweet Tooth, which strives to fight the Soviets by sponsoring right-thinking and thoroughly unsuspecting writers.
"This is a culture war, not just a political and military affair," Serena is instructed.
Monthly Stipend
Masquerading as an employee of a generously endowed arts foundation, Serena duly signs up Tom Haly, a promising young author. He receives a monthly stipend which gives him the means to dine out and fill his fridge with Chablis as well as turn down teaching jobs. Without realizing it, Tom becomes an agent run by Serena.
Inevitably, they fall in love.
The novel's pleasures are multiple and, as always with McEwan, they begin with the storytelling. A faint word on a scrap of paper, the sense of being watched and an undelivered letter fuel Serena's suspicions about Tony's abrupt exit from her life and the reasons for her recruitment by the security service. Meanwhile, the ''off-white lies'' she must spin for Tom become a trap.
MI5 runs a staff lecture program and Serena's notes provide a potted history of sectarian terrorism and a glimpse of a socio-economic backdrop in which unemployment and inflation are steep. This can feel forced, as if the novelist already had in mind the movie adaptation.
Keeping Warm
Quotidian details of life in 1970s Britain are more vivid. With miners striking and oil prices soaring, the government issues employees with insulating squares of felt to place between their feet and the cold floor.
In Serena's bed-sitting room, a yellow bedcover carries ''a clammy intimate scent, of dog perhaps, or very unhappy human.'' You half expect a damp whiff as you turn the pages.
There is insider wit here, too, including a cameo for Martin Amis and nerdy references to classic spy thrillers. Tom's stories recall McEwan's own early work, and the two share an editor in Tom Maschler. As for the Booker Prize, whose judges have already excluded ''Sweet Tooth" from this year's competition, it's merely a ''new-fangled" upstart.
These bookish preoccupations flag the novel's true concern, which is literature itself. The novelist, McEwan suggests, is the ultimate spy. While it's giving nothing away to say that MI5's attempt to influence fiction ends in fiasco, what of fiction's ability to influence real life?
''Sweet Tooth'' champions just that. As its sly plot tells it, books not only promote empathy, they can even alter the course of a love story. If only this one didn't leave quite such a sugary aftertaste.
''Sweet Tooth'' is published by Cape in the U.K. (18.99 pounds). It will be published in the U.S. by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday on Nov. 13.
(Hephzibah Anderson is a critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.)
Muse highlights include John Mariani on wine and Amanda Gordon on parties.
To contact the writer on the story: Hephzibah Anderson in London at email@example.com.
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Tim Hortons Learn to Play - New Brunswick
May 01, 2014
Learn to Play has been on a rapid increase in the province of New Brunswick and we are extremely proud of our numbers! With the addition of our new corporate sponsor, Tim Hortons, we know that this high profile company will show our parents that Softball Canada's Learn to Play program is one that is deserving of such standards! In the past 3 years, Learn to Play has blown up across New Brunswick with more than a 200% increase in enrollment in the Kennebecasis Valley and a 100% increase in the capital city of Fredericton. This is due to the hard work and dedication of showing parents and participants the importance of teaching our children the proper, age appropriate skills needed for the sport of softball and keeping it FUN!
Let's face it.... the traditional game of softball can be boring to a 5 year old. A child could potentially spend the entire (traditional form of the) game never touching the ball. This is not fun, no matter the age. This is why the concept of Learn to Play is a HIT with kids! Multiple repetitions of the skills, lots of hands on action, different activities teaching the skills.... but all delivered and disguised in unique playground games. Learn to Play just takes imagination and this is why the most successful programs have the most unique ideas! Kids love to be challenged and to have fun, and it is the job of the coach to keep it exciting and new every single time they come to the field! Want a successful LTP program? Find fun, exciting, energetic volunteers to help! The right people will make Learn to Play in your community a HOME RUN!
Learn to Play is also the ticket to developing more elite softball athletes. Our most skilled coaches should be at the Learn to Play level, teaching the children the right way to catch, hit and throw at age 5 and developing them over the years. This will produce a much better and higher skilled softball athlete. A player that has the fundamentals mastered when they move out of the Learn to Play program will be ready to graduate to the real game of softball with ease!
As a coach of many sports for many years, and a mom of 2 teenagers, I have to admit that I get the most joy out of spending my night with my Learn to Play kids! Unlimited giggles, smiles, hugs and thank yous. My cup overflows on LTP night and I would not pass it up for anything! Always remember that you don't have to be a superstar ball player, to be a SUPERSTAR Coach!
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Our colleagues Ryan Schlief and Sam Gregory are in Chiang Mai, Thailand, conducting a video advocacy training for 15 human rights activists working on forced displacement issues across Asia. The 10-day workshop is being organized in partnership with the IAP, EarthRights International, Komas, and Chiang Mai University's Unit for Social and Environmental Research.
Watch this introductory vlog from Ryan, and then check out updates of their training here (part 2) and here (part 3) to listen to the activists speak about their projects and explain how video will help strengthen their advocacy goals.
Ali Ahmed, from Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI), says video will allow PDI to reach out to more communities in their own languages, which will make their campaigns more accessible to families affected by displacement in Sindh, Pakistan.
Mei Orias, who works with Amnesty International on indigenous rights in mining affected areas in the Philippines, describes how young indigenous people will be able to start using video to advocate for their rights.
Mamata Dash, from India, says video will help local groups reach out to each other and build a much stronger interactive and collective force to counter the damage done after five decades of mega-mining projects in Orissa.
Chandra Singh Kulung talks about how the Association of Nepal Kirit Kulung Language and Cultural Development will use video to strengthen its call for the Nepalese government to recognize the indigenous identity and rights of the Kulung community.
Ekachai Pinkaew, from the National Human Rights Commission in Thailand, talks about how he will use video to target the Thai government and legislature and raise awareness to the conditions of internally displaced persons in Thailand.
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It would not be accurate to call the 2012 Missouri regular legislative session, which ended Friday, a bust. Although plenty of pundits are saying just that.
To be fair, lawmakers did pass a few meaningful pieces of legislation. But it's also true they punted on many of the pressing issues confronting the state.
That's not unusual. That is how it's been for a while now in Jefferson City.
Despite the self-congratulatory fistpumping by some political leaders on Friday after the session ended, real legislative victories were few and far between.
Finding solutions to tough problems is hard work and requires bipartisan determination or in the case of the Missouri legislature, bicameral cooperation, since both chambers are overwhelmingly controlled by Republicans.
In most cases, that was in short supply this past session. So were leadership and statesmanship. Instead, the people of the "Show Me" state were treated to the usual petty bickering and intra-party rancor as well as a healthy dose of posturing and political pandering that has plagued past sessions.
As in the recent past, crafting the state budget consumed most of the session and sucked up most of the oxygen in the Capitol. Legislators eventually passed a $24 billion budget that included a 2-percent pay raise for about 97 percent of state workers and a modest increase in higher education funding.
Lawmakers deserve credit for finding a funding solution in the budget for state-run veterans homes. The seven skilled nursing facilities were in jeopardy of running out of funding in the coming months in part because lawmakers had to co-opt some of their funding to balance past budgets.
The Legislature also deserves credit for passing some important criminal justice legislation including a bill that would lessen the disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing.
Lawmakers passed a watered-down child-care bill that would tighten restrictions on unlicensed day care facilities that is better than nothing but a lot weaker than the original version that we preferred.
Proving that the Legislature can rally to find common cause, it passed a bill to address a recent Supreme Court decision that threw out local sales taxes on out-of-state auto purchases in cities and counties that have not passed use taxes. The court decision could blow a huge hole in some city and county budgets and would put Missouri auto dealers in a competitive disadvantage with dealers in neighboring states.
Remarkably, Gov. Nixon has indicated he will veto the bill on constitutional grounds because it does not include a requirement for a public vote. This announcement heaps more frustration on two earlier vetoes in the session when Nixon thwarted much-needed employment discrimination and workers' comp reform bills.
What this session didn't produce was a major economic development or jobs bill, a plan for the state's Second Injury Fund which is bankrupt, or a better way to administer the state's tax credit program.
There were no sweeping proposals passed to address revenue inadequacies in the state budget. Lawmakers (and apparently the governor) are determined to hold the line on taxes at any cost. So there were no serious attempts to raise the lowest in the nation cigarette tax, adopt an internet sales tax or find a funding solution for our deteriorating roads and bridges.
Nor could the Legislature muster the moxie to pass any major education legislation this year preferring instead to let the courts tackle the tough problems including issues surrounding the state's education foundation formula.
Even a bill that had overwhelming support which would have allowed the state to immediately take over the failing Kansas City public schools died in the last minutes of the session — a victim of petty politics and political egos.
There were times this past session when it appeared our state legislators were channeling their counterparts in Congress. Given Congress' approval ratings, that isn't too smart.


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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectrum auctions can seem arcane and technical, but in fact, auctions for exclusive licenses to use the public airwaves determine the future of American telecommunications. FCC auctions shape the competitive structure of markets and, ultimately, who controls entire industries—from broadcasting, to telephony, to wireless broadband services—that are increasingly central to U.S. productivity growth, consumer welfare, and global competitiveness. These auctions have complex rules, rules which are the subject of study by a branch of economics called game theory. And it is virtually an axiom of game theory that the rules determine who wins and who loses.
The two studies summarized in this paper comprehensively examine the FCC's 2006 Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-1) auction. They focus on two aspects of the way information was used by bidders to engage in collusive, anti-competitive, and demand-reduction behaviors. I conclude that the auction rules were manipulated to exclude new entrants to the marketplace from obtaining spectrum in favor of incumbent cable companies, wireless operators, and telephone companies which feared the competition those new entrants represented. Careful analysis of the patterns of bidding behavior in last year's AWS-1 auction leads to following conclusions:
- There was a concerted effort by major incumbents in the FCC's AWS-1 spectrum auction to target those new entrants whose entry represented a significant potential competitive threat if (1) they acquired a national AWS footprint in the AWS-1 auction or (2) they acquired a strong regional or multi-regional base from which they could acquire national footprint in future auctions.
- The targeted new entrants were met with a tacitly-collusive strategy of blocking bidding, with coalitions of multiple major incumbents making bids for the apparent purpose of denying licenses to the new entrant rather than acquiring the licenses for themselves. A majority of the major incumbents ceased bidding on such licenses after the targeted new entrant ceased bidding.
- The strategy of blocking was successful. All but two targeted new entrants were denied any spectrum in the AWS-1 auction.
- There is evidence in the pattern of bids that the major incumbents' blocking bidding strategy may have been explicitly collusive and the incumbents were willing to pay a significant premium to block the targeted new entrants, indicated by the significantly higher mean price they paid for the spectrum they acquired (2.5 times higher) compared to other bidders.
- The principal signaling behavior identified was retaliatory bidding, which occurred in the AWS-1 auction at a slightly higher level than in the FCC's 1996-97 PCS D, E, and F Block auctions. Significant indirect demand reduction effects were observed in the AWS-1 auction, calling into question whether the auction—whatever it's impact on competition—even succeeded in maximizing revenue for the government.
Both the blocking and retaliatory bidding strategies evidenced in the AWS-1 auction limited competition, adversely affected new entrants and most likely reduced total auction revenue. Both strategies were also available only because bidders were provided with the identities of all other bidders and of the licenses on which they bid in each round. The study concludes with a recommendation that the FCC should adopt anonymous bidding rules for the 700 MHz and for future FCC spectrum auctions. Anonymous bidding remains the only auction rule that can hope to prevent the effective use of retaliatory bidding, blocking bidding and other forms of tacit collusion by incumbents and other bidders.
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Elise B Robinson
Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA
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- Stability of autistic traits in the general population: further evidence for a continuum of impairmentElise B Robinson
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 50:376-84. 2011..This study investigated the developmental course of autistic traits in a nationally representative sample of subjects 7 to 13 years of age...
- A multivariate twin study of autistic traits in 12-year-olds: testing the fractionable autism triad hypothesisElise B Robinson
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 185 Cambridge St, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Behav Genet 42:245-55. 2012..40) and the extremes (0.24-0.67), as well as even lower unique environmental correlations, all suggested considerable fractionation of genetic and environmental influences across autistic trait domains, in line with previous findings...
- Psychosocial predictors of lifestyle management in adults with epilepsyElise Robinson
Department of Society Human Development and Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Epilepsy Behav 13:523-8. 2008..Social support was related to self-efficacy. These findings suggest that lifestyle management is influenced by a number of relationships between psychosocial variables, particularly by self-efficacy...
- Brief report: no association between parental age and extreme social-communicative autistic traits in the general populationElise B Robinson
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Simches Research Building, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 41:1733-7. 2011..Neither maternal nor paternal age was associated with extreme scores. These findings suggest that advanced parental age does not confer increased risk for extreme social and communication impairment assessed quantitatively...
- Evidence that autistic traits show the same etiology in the general population and at the quantitative extremes (5%, 2.5%, and 1%)Elise B Robinson
Departments of Epidemiology, and Society, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:1113-21. 2011..Genetic factors play an important role in the etiology of both autism spectrum disorders and autistic traits. However, little is known about the etiologic consistency of autistic traits across levels of severity...
- Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general populationElise B Robinson
Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nat Genet 48:552-5. 2016..A continuum model should inform the design and interpretation of studies of neuropsychiatric disease biology. ..
- Examining and interpreting the female protective effect against autistic behaviorElise B Robinson
Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110:5258-62. 2013..It provides empirical support for the hypothesis of a female protective effect against autistic behavior and can be used to inform and interpret future gene finding efforts in autism spectrum disorders...
- Association of autistic traits in adulthood with childhood abuse, interpersonal victimization, and posttraumatic stressAndrea L Roberts
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Child Abuse Negl 45:135-42. 2015..Levels of autistic traits that are highly prevalent in the general population are associated with abuse, trauma and PTSD. ..
- Bipolar polygenic loading and bipolar spectrum features in major depressive disorderAnna Wiste
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Boston, MA, USA Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA, USA
Bipolar Disord 16:608-16. 2014..Family and genetic studies indicate overlapping liability for major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether this shared genetic liability influences clinical presentation...
- A framework for the interpretation of de novo mutation in human diseaseKaitlin E Samocha
1 Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 3 Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 4 Program in Genetics and Genomics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nat Genet 46:944-50. 2014..We also used our model to identify ∼1,000 genes that are significantly lacking in functional coding variation in non-ASD samples and are enriched for de novo loss-of-function mutations identified in ASD cases. ..
- Bringing a developmental perspective to anxiety geneticsLauren M McGrath
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Dev Psychopathol 24:1179-93. 2012..Expanding the range of phenotypic approaches will be important for advancing studies of the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders...


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Structural breaks in point processes: With an application to reporting delays for trades on the New York stock exchange
In this paper some methods to determine the reporting delays for trades on the New York stock exchange are proposed and compared. The most successful method is based on a simple model of the quote revision process and a bootstrap procedure. In contrast to previous methods it accounts for autocorrelation and for variation originating both from the quote process itself and from estimation errors. This is obtained by the use of prediction intervals. The ability of the methods to determine when a trade has occurred is studied and compared with a previous method by Vergote (2005). This is done by means of a simulation study. An extensive empirical study shows the applicability of the method and that more reasonable results are obtained when accounting for autocorrelation and estimation uncertainty.
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Missed opportunities cost Tigers
Missed opportunities cost Tigers
Realistically, though, although Raburn's two 10th-inning errors brought in the go-ahead run in the Tigers' 3-2 loss to the Royals, there's a chance they might not have cost Detroit anything besides more stranded baserunners. As glaring as the three "E5" calls on the day were, Detroit's 0-for-16 line with runners in scoring position and 10 runners left on base also stood out.
Those stranded runners kept the game going into extra innings, from a close call at first on Gerald Laird's fourth-inning bunt attempt that left runners at the corners to runners stranded at third in the seventh and eighth. Once Raburn's two-out overthrow allowed former Tigers player Josh Anderson to score in the 10th, those lost chances loomed almost as big.
Put the plays together, and it was a situation nobody particularly enjoyed in the home clubhouse.
"Raburn's the same guy that made a great play in Boston [on Thursday] and knocked in both runs to win the game," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. "He's not a third baseman, and we were forced to play him there. He's a good player. I felt bad for him, but that's part of it. That's all part of the game. But I have no problem with him whatsoever.
"That was not, any of that, what cost us the ballgame. What cost us the ballgame was not executing, even though we were trying. Had we done that, we win the game. That other stuff, you'll never hear me say anything about people making errors. That's part of the game. If somebody made an error because they were lazy or didn't care or weren't trying, that's one thing. But we don't have that problem here."
Raburn started at third for the fourth time this year, in place of Brandon Inge, whom Leyland said he "was really trying to stay away from" using Sunday. Had the Tigers taken the lead, Leyland said he probably would've used Inge for an inning. Otherwise, he wanted to pair up Sunday with Monday's off-day to get him extra rest.
"We were trying something with [Inge], some different type of procedure," Leyland said. "Hopefully come Tuesday, he'll be feeling pretty good."
The Tigers had to feel good about their chances, especially when starter Armando Galarraga pitched a little better than expected. He labored through his opening inning in 84-degree heat after being unable to eat solid food earlier in the week due to a throat infection, but he picked up the pace to last five innings with two runs allowed on four hits with six strikeouts.
Magglio Ordonez's 416-foot drive for a second-inning solo homer and Adam Everett's run on a fifth-inning wild pitch ensured Galarraga left a tie game, but Detroit had ample chances to score before and add on later. After Raburn reached on a Kyle Davies error to extend the fourth, Laird tried to lay down a bunt single along the third-base line. Alex Gordon charged and made the throw to first.
"I looked [at the replay]. I was safe," Laird said. "It just frustrates me, because as much as you struggle and struggle, it just seems like stuff builds and builds. I'm going to bust my tail down the line, trying to get an RBI. That run right there could've been the difference."
Raburn could've ended up with the go-ahead hit in the sixth after Carlos Guillen's leadoff double. But Guillen was thrown out trying to steal third base, before Raburn followed with a single through the middle.
A seventh-inning chance with Everett on second and no outs went unfulfilled when Jamey Wright retired the top of the Detroit lineup in order. Miguel Cabrera reached third base with one out, but Ordonez struck out and Raburn flew out to right.
"Obviously, the big one was Jamey getting Ordonez with the infield in," Royals manager Trey Hillman said. "You've got a choice there. You can walk him or bring the infield in, and I'm glad it worked out the way it did."
Said Leyland: "We had a lot of situations today where we didn't move runners, but it wasn't because we weren't trying. So I don't have any problem with it. We knew Granderson tried to pull the ball. Magglio tried to shoot one the other way. We just didn't execute."
Meanwhile, Fu-Te Ni, Ryan Perry and Fernando Rodney combined to retire 13 of 14 batters before Anderson outran a slow roller to third for a one-out single in the 10th. David DeJesus followed with a sharp grounder towards the line that Raburn was unable to backhand.
After Willie Bloomquist's comebacker moved up the runners, Rodney (2-3) induced a potential inning-ending grounder to third from Billy Butler. Raburn's high throw took first baseman Carlos Guillen off the bag, rendering Butler safe and allowing Anderson to score.
Add in a third-inning overthrow, and Raburn suffered a three-error game. But that wasn't what ate at Leyland.
"From a manager's standpoint, when you see all those opportunities go by and not getting anything, it's usually not a good feeling in your gut," Leyland said.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The 2010 Underground Construction Technology International Conference & Exposition – best known as the UCT show – was held in Florida for the first time in January at the Tampa Convention Center.
For the second consecutive year, there were concerns that the continuing recession would impact attendance, and, in fact, final attendance figures showed a slight decrease from the number that attended the 2009 UCT in San Antonio.
Even so, UCT was termed a success.
"We are very pleased with the turnout in Tampa," said UCT Show Manager Karen Francis. "At a time when we're told that attendance at most trade shows is down 20 to 30 percent, UCT maintained attendance near pre recession levels and also at a location where the show has never been held."
The sold out exhibit hall included the popular RehabZone and the Damage Prevention & Safety Zone, a new area with an elevated floor constructed over "live" utilities to allow demonstrations and instruction on the use of utility locating equipment.
New in 2010 was the Damage Prevention & Safety Conference conducted as part of UCT. (For details see report on page ??)
In general, the mood in Tampa was upbeat among both exhibitors and attendees, and most of those interviewed expressed guarded optimism for an improving economy in 2010.
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The Tampa location and facilities brought numerous favorable comments.
"This was one of the more interesting UCT conferences because of the layout of the facility," said Brian Dorwart, P.E., P.G., Brierley Associates, Bedford, NH. "The convention center has plenty of space with areas providing opportunities to communicate with my compatriots, and the layout of the exhibit area also facilitates interaction. I really enjoyed this year's show."
Ultraliner's Grant Whittle said scheduling UCT in January each year is good because work has slowed or stopped in cold weather parts of the country.
"The Tampa location is wonderful," he said. "With the winter much of the country is having, who wouldn't want to come to Florida in January? From an exhibitor's viewpoint, the Tampa area is very nice, and there are not a lot of well known attractions as there are in cities such as Orlando, New Orleans, Las Vegas which can pull attendees away from the exhibit hall."
Reline America's Michael Burkhard agreed that Tampa is an attractive, easy to get to location well suited for UCT. "Our booth traffic has been good," he said.
Whatever its location, contractor Jeff Nock, Terrace Construction, Cleveland, OH, said he is a UCT regular.
"UCT is always very informative with good information about what's new in the underground construction industry," he said.
David Bartosh, Georgia Underground, brought two staff members with him to Tampa.
"We come to UCT each year to stay in touch with manufacturers and to learn about new technologies – particularly in the rehabilitation industry – as they apply to the customers we serve."
Mr. Manhole first exhibited its manhole repair system in 2008 and returned in 2010 with a larger exhibit space.
"We have grown since our first UCT and we're back this year to show a new product," said Mr. Manhole's Tripp Davis. "We have strengthened our distribution system and training programs and look forward to a good year in 2010."
Dave Wisniewski, Vermeer senior director of underground solutions, said booth traffic in Tampa was good for Vermeer.
"We were especially pleased with the interest our new products generated with contractors. There seems to be a lot of excitement about the new technologies that are being introduced to the trenchless industry."
Getting educated
UCT's educational program continues to grow in size and scope.
In Tampa, there were 90 regular educational sessions (60 hours) covering most areas of the underground utility construction and rehabilitation. In addition, a growing number of organizations are scheduling pre- and post-show programs. Attendees had the opportunity to accumulate CEU/PDH credits.
CUIRE training schools conducted programs on trenchless construction methods for water, sewer, gas, highway and railroad crossings, joint utilities and cable projects; pipe lining and renewal methods; and advanced horizontal directional drilling.
The one-day Sewer Rehabilitation Strategy Workshop was back by popular demand. It was conducted George Kurz of Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon and Pat Stephens of ADS.
A special ASCE Workshop covered manhole inspection and rehabilitation and Staking University conducted a Locator Certification Seminar.
NASSCO held training for PACP Trainer Recertification; CIPP Inspection and Training; Pipeline Assessment and Certification; and MACP training.
NASTT held Good Practices courses covering Cured In Place Pipe (CIPP), Horizontal Directional Drilling and Pipe Bursting.
UCT is the underground construction industry's premier trade event, focusing exclusively on underground construction and rehabilitation. It is the only annual industry event that brings together contractors, utilities, consulting engineers and manufacturers in a true business and educational environment. Primary categories of those attending UCT are utility contractors, utility owners, consulting engineers and manufacturers.
UCT is sponsored by Underground Construction, Pipeline & Gas Journal and Pipeline News with the support of corporate, association and academic cosponsors.
The 2011 UCT will be held in Houston on Jan. 25 27. Several pre- and post-show programs will again be offered as well as certification courses.
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BEMIDJI -- Minnesota Rep. John Persell, DFL-Bemidji, defeated primary challenger Lavern "Pedie" Pederson in the race Tuesday evening.
Persell won with 85 percent to 15 percent with all 70 precincts reporting.
Persell has held the seat in what is now District 5A since 2008, having been re-elected twice. Pederson previously ran for state office in 2012, when he lost to state Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids, in the DFL primary. He also has run for Bemidji city and school board positions.
Phillip Nelson of Bemidji is the Republican candidate in the district.


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Sacred Places
Finding solitude on Mt. Baker
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
I recently had the good fortune to accompany a close friend on a backpacking trip on Mt. Baker.
My friend, who prefers anonymity, had been telling me about this place for a long time. He discovered it many years ago while engaged in cross-country rambling in the glorious meadows that give way to the blue ice of Baker's high country. He had arrived at this place in a whiteout and was stunned when the mists parted and a truly epic view of the mountain's ramparts was revealed.
This spot is not reached by any trail. It is not noted on any map. Like many other off-trail destinations, it was there to be discovered, requiring only an inquisitive mind, a lust for beauty and buckets of sweat.
We reached this sacred place after two days of hiking, lugging our backpacks across gullies, side-hilling steep heather slopes and navigating by scant half-remembered landmarks. When we arrived, there were no sign of human habitation—no fire rings, no paths cut through the wildflower gardens, nothing to signal the previous presence of our species.
The front-row view of Baker's icy crown was transcendent, among the best viewpoints I've seen of this beautiful mountain. We gathered water from a snow-melt rivulet and pitched our tents on bare dirt recently (and usually) covered by snow.
In the time that we spent there, we saw no one. The place seems unchanged from eons past. We watched the clouds lift, revealing the splendor of the icy dome of Koma Kulshan, and wandered among the flowers like drunken sailors. The quiet was broken only by the thunder of the avalanches that roared down the mountain at regular intervals. The sunset flared like a Vegas pyrotechnics display and when it was done, we sat in silence and watched the moonlight play on the ice.
There are many trails that offer ready access to the flanks of the mountain. All of them get busier each and every season— and with good reason.
Here in the early years of the 21st century, the benefits of connecting with wild places have become obvious, and, for many, absolutely necessary. The government has, out of necessity, initiated regulations, quotas and fee collection schemes. This is as it should be. The alpine country is fragile and the quest for solitude has become popular, an obvious contradiction in terms. But it is good that other places exist, off the beaten path where a pilgrim can still find himself alone and wrapped in silence.
After our time in this alpine paradise was up, we broke camp, leaving no trace of our presence, split up and headed back across the shattered rock and lupine-brightened meadows. The wind blew down from the ice and the marmots whistled. Solitude is a precious commodity, and the good fortune of finding it lingers in my memory.
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Scarring Following Blepharoplasty
In the immediate post-operative period eyelid incisions tend to be red and raised. These scars tend to respond nicely to massage and avoidance of sun exposure. In the vast majority of cases, eyelid scars heal nicely with the passage of time. In many cases, these scars are imperceptible.
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These scars will take several months before they settle down and look better, but they will definitely improve. I would suggest massaging the scars several times each day. You may want to apply a product like scarfade on the scar. You could also choose to massage the scars with lanolin, Mederma or cocoa butter if you want an alternative product to consider. Scar revisions should not be considered until 6 to 12 months have passed. The only reason to revise scars sooner than that would be if there was a functional loss or distortion to surrounding structures which is not seen in this picture. Follow up with your local Plastic Surgeon for further opinions.
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Your scar looks new and everyone who deals with these injuries will tell you the same thing.....wait! Continue with your routine and possibly have your doctor inject a small amount of Kenalog, a cortisone type drug that often helps thick scars soften and shrink after being injected directly into the scar itself. A revision may be what you need but it should be done after the healing is settled. Ultimately I would expect you to get a good result either through natural healing or with the help of Kenalog or possibly later surgery revision (which is an easy procedure for any plastic surgeon).
When the scar is not red (about 5-8 months) is the time to decide on whether a revision is needed.
Upper Eyelid Scar Treatment with Kenalog-10
Hi Alpine,
You can speak with your treating physician about the possibility of intra-lesional injections of the steroid Kenalog-10 to soften your scar. Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
Scarring after eyelid surgery
While I know that waiting can be emotionally frustrating, the healing process can be a slow and often temperamental one. Unfortunately, being patient is really necessary prior to considering medical intervention. If you are really concerned, having a follow up with your surgeon might help ameliorate and hopefully alleviate some of your fears.
Scars take time to mature
Your scar is still very immature and it will take time for it to settle down. There are lots of ways to help scars mature, but ultimately time is your ally. Typically I recommend waiting 3-6 months before any revision surgery, except for unusual circumstances.
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Marques Harris Celebrity Golf Scramble prize is trip to Super Bowl in Indianapolis
The Marques Harris Celebrity Golf Scramble has upped the ante.
The July 8 golf tournament at the Golf Club at Redlands Mesa has a grand prize of four tickets to the Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Feb. 5, 2012, Harris said Thursday.
This is the first golf tournament hosted by the former Grand Junction High School athlete, who spent time in his five-year NFL career with the San Diego Chargers and San Francisco 49ers.
The scramble costs $150 per person and includes green fees, range balls, cart, food, drinks and prizes. There is a silent auction that includes autographed apparel and Callaway golf clubs.
Harris has commitments from former San Diego teammates Quentin Jammer and Jacques Cesaire, along with former area prep standouts Andrew Walter and Riar Geer to play in the scramble.
Harris said he didn't want to include the Super Bowl tickets in the auction so everyone would have an opportunity to win the tickets.
"It's another reason to come out and if they are going to spend the money, they have an opportunity to win," Harris said Thursday. "Not everyone might have $3,000 for Super Bowl tickets, so this is a way for them to get that opportunity."
The golf tournament will benefit the four District 51 schools through the Harris' Kids Foundation to help cover the costs of sports equipment and uniforms for student-athletes who might not have a chance to play otherwise.
The scramble starts at 1 p.m. on July 8; players can register at http://www.marquesharris.com.
Harris will host a skills camp for football players on July 9 and a 7-on-7 camp July 10 at Mesa State College. Information and camp schedules are available at http://www.marquesharris.com.


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The blackface charade is on the air! A troupe of darkies in their field-workers' clothes and prison garb are singin' and dancin' and funnin' away, in a skewed, bitter, made-for-TV version of the old minstrel show. The feet flash, the banjos are pummeled; the energy level ascends in megavolts, moving beyond satire into irresistible entertainment. And suddenly a weird thought creases the moviegoer's skull: TV could use a comedy-variety show with a self-lacerating edge; and Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show--the defiantly offensive TV parody that is at the heart of Spike Lee's Bamboozled--might just be the one. This show could...
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In Bamboozled, Spike Lee takes furious aim at the history of racial derision in American pop culture
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"It is better to have loved and lost…
Than never to have loved at all…."
These two lines from a woman's magazine caught my eyes… and triggered memories…
We were playmates way back in the 70's. Laughing merrily while we played tagged, patintero, tumbang preso or taguan…Life was very simple then. Street games were the normal thing. Learning to ride the bike was great achievement and owning one was like being on top of the world!
Sports leagues were rampant everywhere. Our teen teams of volleyball and basketball got to play anywhere especially during summer. There was so much fun on games, out-of-town trips and meeting people from everywhere. That was fun one can't get from computers. Real, live teenage fun.
Crushes were already common then, although less obvious (less PDA!). Cute eyes, nice smile, sweet words. They were enough reasons to have crushes. Doesn't really matter how many. Only your closest friend get to know about it so you won't get teased. Truth comes out though when you play "Truth or consequence" via a spinned empty bottle of Coke (palabra de honor still weighed heavily then).
It felt ticklish to hear friends forced to admission as to who their crushes were and "shocking" to hear one has a boyfriend!
And of course, there was teen love. Love finds you though you don't seek it. It just happen.
But Youth can be a sad thing sometimes. We can do foolish things and realize too late what harm we've done. Some things just can't be undone. Lost things can't be retrieved as easily as when we first got them. When we're young, we want to show the world we are old enough. And when we're old, we want to be young once again. The irony of life!
I am now well into my 50th year of existence. But I somehow I keep on regretting the foolishness of my youth. The good thing is… happy memoirs kept me standing during every storm I faced in my life. They were enough to get me going.
Telling and retelling the stories of my youth became joyful bonding time with my kids. My kids and I, we're peers. We keep communication doors open all the time. And one of the most important lessons I taught them was to be strong during life's trials… for there could be many.
My first heavy lesson was with my first relationship. I already had a number of suitors at age 12; often mistaken as a bit older because of my early physical development. But I was more keen on street games and playing ball. This young Don Quixote touched my hand during a bike ride and that triggered my entrance to girlhood.
First touch (on my hand!). First love letter. First boyfriend (by phone).
I really hugged that first letter and took it under my pillow every night! Blue Moonlight stationery and erroneously typed letter, but still, the first love letter I ever got… Blissful? Huh! Sort of puppy love as people call it… I call it my first mistake.
It went ka-blam! Just two weeks and then I found out during a spinned empty-bottle of Coke game of Truth or Consequence that one of my team-mate friends was also his girl!!! Though I was first didn't matter anymore!!
Gosh! It stained me for a long time. No formal break up, but that's it for me! Finished. However, that marred my self-worth a lot. Which I carried with me for years later.
No relationships after that. I made boys cry, so to speak. I was very cold. 'Til my playmate Rom cast his attention on me.
I couldn't help it. Like I was seeing him as a guy for the first time. I only knew him as a little boy with eyeglasses, barring my way during a game of patintero. Who is this sweet guy who's mesmerizing me with his sweet and gentle ways? Hmmm… Eighteen. It became our special number.
Rom wasn't my first boyfriend, but he was definitely the only one I was serious with. The previous guys were just teasers…like players in a game. "It " was over before you got to know each other better.
With Rom, it was so different. He was my playmate in grade school. He became my heart's mate in Junior high. Very sweet, thoughtful, caring and nice. He used to look at me then like I was Cinderella (when in fact I felt more like The Ugly Duckling though sexier!). He wrote letters like a diary and kept souvenirs from where he's been to give to me when he comes to visit. Cupcakes to take in school, delicious brownies for me and my siblings, anything. Hairbrush to remind me of him everyday he said while I brush my hair. Every love song of the 70's on the air became our songs because of him. He used to sing them for me, playing the records again and again. He was funny and smart, too. He was never grouchy or irritable. We never had any quarrel or even a mild LQ. How not to love this guy!
However, I was very careful not to fall deep. Not because I couldn't trust him nor myself. But because I was awfully scared he will soon be walking past. I wasn't the cover girl type. And a number of my girl friends had a crush on him for he was gorgeous and one of the cream of the crop.! The slightly dark, tall and handsome teen with a nice smile and good physique…whew! A few more months and he would be surrounded by more girls in college! And I was talking only of the physical! Wait till the girls hear how sweet he can be! I was foreseeing much competition!
And so it was that I embraced pessimism so early in our relationship that I failed to give my best. I even preempted negativism via poems I recorded for him and which he played and replayed many times…
"Please don't promise me forever….
It would be baseless for you to promise things
You may not be able to fulfill…
See? Such negative thoughts already! Oh my!
To top that… I was told via the grapevine that his family didn't like me for his girlfriend because I belong to the less privileged families. "Why not the doctor's daughter?" buzzzz…buzz…buzz…
The bees kept on buzzing and pushed me up the wall.
I broke up with Rom through a letter, without any explanation. Despite his pleas, I turned deaf ears and hid behind our window. I closed the door. Period.
He returned many times, but I never faced him again . I was such a coward. I didn't want to tell him the reason and cause a rift between him and his family. For I felt sure that what I was told was true. I consoled myself with the thought that he will, anyway, choose someone prettier sooner or later. Why not part now? While I can still bear it. But shucks…. I cried me a river for years. (He said he cried an ocean!)
And when it was time for him to migrate to Canada… he came all dressed in white pants and polo! So gorgeous he looked! But again, I forced myself not to run towards him. Instead, I secretly waved goodbye behind our window, without him knowing that I imprinted his image in my memory… where he stayed forever.
I could never turn back the hands of time though I wished many times Icould.
You see… when you're sixteen… you 're still not wise… nor smart.
Just plain stupid! (oh, pain, pain, pain…)
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ASK A QUESTION translate- no me digas que no
title of song---No me digas que no - translate?
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Hi Janice, bienvenidos.
In the interests of empowerment , try the translator, their is a link at the top of the page.
- 'there is a link' - typo - margaretbl Dec 27, 2010 flag
Don't tell me no
You could probably throw simple sentences like that into the translations tool here on SpanishDict.
¡Hola Janice!
¡No me digas que no!
digas is the imperative of the verb decir which mean "to say"
No simply mean NO as in English
so to sum up, it means: Do not say no to me
This now has Moderatto stuck in my head.
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Losses loom more likely than gains: Propensity to imagine losses increases their subjective probability
Losses loom larger than gains. The typical interpretation of loss aversion involves a subjective value-based asymmetry between gains and losses, with individuals expecting losses to be more painful than gains of equal size to be pleasurable. This paper reveals a novel, subjective probability-based asymmetry between gains and losses that may contribute to loss aversion in risky choice. Results from five experiments suggest that losses may loom not only larger, but also more likely than gains. The propensity of losses to attract attention and to be subsequently imagined appears to underlie the proposed asymmetry. The effect translates into changes in predicted behavior, with subjective probability mediating the impact of imagination on the predicted likelihood to accept to play an equal-probability gamble. The implications of our findings for loss aversion, the negativity bias, and the imagination literature are discussed.
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I never thought my journey would lead me to Spelman College, especially as a nontraditional student. I have been a beauty entrepreneur since I graduated from high school in 1992. I held positions at Clinique, Dr. Miracles Hair Care and Ulta 3 Cosmetics. In 1996, I opened Nekesa's Natural Radiance Beauty Co., a natural hair salon. I married and created a product line once our daughter Shina was born. After the birth of our son Chase, I decided to take some classes in business just to strengthen my skills. Those classes resulted in me obtaining my associate's degree in marketing.
After being in business for so many years, I decided to make the sacrifice and return to college to obtain my bachelor's degree for self-gratification. I figured that I had done so much in my career by working on movie and video sets and writing for beauty publications, while running my natural hair salon. I discovered that Spelman had a program for non-traditional students called the Pauline E. Drake Scholars Program that had a portfolio course that would take the nontraditional student life experiences and apply them as college credits. With an associate's degree and the portfolio program, I was sure to spend only a year-and-a-half at Spelman.
Taking the Plunge
Accepted to Spelman in 2008, I was up for the challenge while still being married, with two active children and running my business at a slower pace. It turned out not only were my previous college credits not accepted at Spelman, but the portfolio program was no longer available. I would be starting college with 15 college credits while needing 120 to graduate. With a little disappointment and a lot of determination, I pressed forward taking one to three classes a semester.
Taking required classes like African Diaspora and the world and intro to women's studies helped me to go through the journey without worrying about the time it would take to graduate. The experience gave me inner strength to accomplish my journey as a nontraditional student. Intro to women's studies gave me a global perspective on women in society past and present. I realized that there is still work needed to enhance the lives of women nationally and globally although women are legally considered equal.
Swimming Upstream
I have had major challenges with my schedule. Some semesters I take all morning classes, while my kids are in school. Some semesters I take the once-a-week evening classes. Another obstacle I've experienced is the disconnection with some of the traditional students. The age factor plays a part with traditional students not being able to relate to a nontraditional student.
One student thought that I may have been a prior student at Spelman who had to drop out because I got pregnant. She also said that she thought my reason for coming back was because I had a deadend job and needed to complete my degree at Spelman to succeed . There were times when I became frustrated if I was assigned to do a group project and my classmates would have no consideration for a family emergency with my children, or maybe not even expect me to fully be involved because I was a nontraditional student.
Some of my greatest experiences here at Spelman College have been me taking one or two traditional students under my wing and mentoring them. Most of these young ladies have been brilliant and independent thinkers; however, with the added input of real life experiences, and advisement from an older sister student the impact truly prepares future leaders.
My major is comparative women's studies. My degree is a foundation for my pursuit of a master's degree in counseling. I also plan to expand my company into a center for women that provides programs centered around counseling and beauty education and entrepreneurship. My ultimate goal is to provide these programs globally though film media to help fill the need for women and children in underserved areas. – Nekesa J. Smith, C'2013, is comparative women's studies major.
We want to hear from you! Be sure to join us here for Inside Spelman's Live Discussion on Wednesday, October. 26, from noon to 1 p.m. to share your thoughts on the non-traditional undergraduate experience.


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Perhaps John Farrell will someday manage one of his sons. For now, though, he's OK watching from a distance.
Farrell's youngest son, Luke, was selected in the sixth round of the MLB draft on Friday. The 22-year-old right-hander now joins Farrell's other two sons, Jeremy and Shane, in kicking off his professional career with an organization other than his father's.
"As a family, we're all in agreement for him to blaze his own trail — as the other two have done," Farrell said. "We're proud of him."
Jeremy, an infielder, was selected by the Pirates in the eighth round in 2008, and he's now in the White Sox' system. Shane, a pitcher, was drafted by the Blue Jays in the 46th round in 2011, he now works in the Cubs' baseball operations department.
Luke, who played college baseball at Northwestern, has overcome plenty of adversity to get to this stage of his baseball career. He twice underwent surgery to remove tumors from his neck.
"I'm proud of him for what he's been able to come back from, what he's accomplished — and excited for his next chapter in baseball," John Farrell said.
We'll have to wait and see how Luke's career develops, but it's already abundantly clear that baseball runs in Farrell family's blood.
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