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Ryan Bledsoe and Barksdale began the inning with back-to-back singles. |
One out later, Anthony Marino was able to advance the runners with a groundout to first base. |
Wray then ripped a RBI single to center field, which also scored Barksdale when Lions center fielder Frichter could not come up with the ball cleanly. |
Southeastern widened its lead in the bottom of the fourth by scoring three additional runs. |
A two-run single by Ty Summerlin gave the Lions a 5-2 lead. |
Richard Imhoff followed with a double that brought home Summerlin, which made it a 6-2 ballgame. |
Nicholls threatened in both the sixth and eighth innings, but was unable to get the big hit in the key situations by stranding two runners on base in both innings. |
The Lions added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth inning to make the final score 7-2. |
Punctuality, responsibility, find something that you love: What did you learn on your first job? |
Some famous names share their experiences – and yes, first impressions count. |
THE FIRST FEW DAYS in a new job can have a huge impact on how you will be perceived at work down the line. |
You might have been top-of-the-class at university or breezed through your training, your outfit is probably on fleek and your manners impeccable, but all that effort will be worthless if you don’t make a good first impression. |
We asked some well-known faces to tell us about their first jobs. |
Did they mess up? What did they learn? And, what’s their best advice? |
And we want you to tell us what you learned from YOUR first job in the comments below. |
“I’ve never really had a proper job in my life unless you include working on building sites with my uncle, or delivering Sunday newspapers to shops on a Saturday night. |
“My first regular paid employment was in RTÉ Radio 2 (now 2FM) and it all began on 1 March 1980 when I entered the ‘campus’ in Donnybrook for the first day as a legal broadcaster (I was on pirate stations before that but I didn’t really get any money) – obviously my mother was thrilled. |
“The thing that I learnt straight away was that the chase is always better than the arrival. Once you’re there it’s over to you to make the most of it and only you can control how that works out. Everybody else is looking out for themselves, understandably, so nobody is more important to your career than you. |
Businessman Jim Breen has more than a few strings to his bow. Most people will know him as one of RTÉ's Secret Millionaires and for his charity work with Cycle Against Suicide, which he founded. He is a very successful entrepreneur and here he tells us what he has learned over the years. |
My Dad used to say, ‘it’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it.’ As a 21 year old starting out into my first job after university, I didn’t really understand what he meant. |
"Twenty-five years later, I finally get it. Whether it’s the day job at PulseLearning, or my volunteer role at Cycle Against Suicide, I have learned that you bring your passion and purpose with you to work each day. If you go there and expect to find it waiting for you, you’ll be sorely disappointed. |
"The only advice I could offer someone leaving school or college and about to start their first job is to find every opportunity you can to learn as much as you can from as many diverse people as possible." |
Brendan Maher is well known for his exploits on the pitch, but his day job is teaching primary school children in Tipperary. He says he first got a taste of the real world while working at a factory in his native Borrisoleigh. |
"For my first proper job, I began working as a 16 year old in M&J Gleeson in Borrisoleigh, which is probably better known as Tipperary Water. |
"I worked in the mineral store there during the summer of 2005, where my job was to prepare orders for deliveries, gathering different cases of drinks and making up the pallets of orders that were to be delivered out to the different pubs and shops. |
"I really enjoyed the experience and felt I learned a lot about being responsible for my actions! I had to have the order right or it would cause a lot of hassle for the delivery men and mess up the whole operation. |
"Mistakes were made but I definitely learned from it." |
After graduating from college in the US, Margaret E Ward set up her own copywriting business. It was successful but she soon learned she was terrible at finances. A job opportunity arose in Wall Street and she took it. |
"I thought it was a great opportunity to sharpen my number skills while still working in marketing. I flew through the writing and interview process at Lehman Brothers but was placed in an operations role instead of in marketing. |
"It was a nightmare so I lobbied the marketing manager once a week to hire me. They didn't have a marketing writer so I sold her on how efficient I was because I'd worked as a journalist and how valuable I was because I understood corporate needs and tone of voice. |
The investment bank was a great experience because they were so well resourced. They had a radio and TV station, were on the cutting edge of multimedia, did regular events and conferences as well as having a need for loads of marketing materials both online and in print. They threw me in at the deep end and I absolutel... |
"After three years though there was nothing left to learn and a chance came up to do a short-term research project in Ireland. I took the leap of faith and here I am 21 years later with a career in Irish financial journalism behind me (Irish Times, Sunday Times, Newstalk) and my brand communications businesses Clear In... |
"None of this would have happened if I didn't think strategically about my first jobs and developed the skills, and contacts, I needed to run my own companies down the line. Mentors and champions were also hugely important in my progression and personal development at each company." |
Conor Adams, left, with his bandmate - he now knows working in a bank is not for him. |
These days he's used to travelling the world on tour and singing to thousands of people, but once upon a time Adams worked in a bank. |
"I worked many part time jobs throughout school holidays and college but I think my first 'proper' job was in a bank in Dublin city centre. |
"I had just come out of studying audio visual technology in DLIADT and after being unable to find anything in that area did an aptitude test for an interview in the bank. I'm pretty sure I got the job because one of the interviewers loved Pearl Jam and so we ended up talking at length about them! |
"I've never been very punctual so I learned pretty quickly that that doesn't fly in a bank. This is a lesson that served me well in touring where punctuality is a necessity. I also learned quite a bit about foreign currency. However, as I was posted on the foreign exchange desk at the time of the euro changeover most o... |
"The most important thing I learned was that I didn't want to work in a bank. I wasn't happy there and I wanted to pursue music. The people and steady pay cheque were very nice, don't get me wrong, but selling my hours and days to something I didn't love started to make less and less sense to me." |
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Our location is Dayton, but our reach is global. Thanks to many faculty, staff and students, news about the University and our experts was carried around around the world during the 2014-15 academic year. |
News about our initiatives and expertise in sustainability, human rights, accessibility to college, Catholic education, our iconic chapel and much more reached top-100 U.S. media markets more than 2,200 times. The "University of Dayton" was seen or heard in more than 14 countries by a possible audience of 8.26 billion ... |
Telling the University of Dayton Story, a video produced by the University's Media Production Group, highlights the University's media coverage during the 2014-15 academic year — a year where the University of Dayton appeared in local, regional, national and global news reports and in outlets ranging from The New York ... |
Military vehicles, bulldozers and riot-geared police have moved into the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, intended to clear out the remaining protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline. |
Live-streams from across the Cannon Ball River showed police, including state troopers from Wisconsin, and what looked like National Guard troops entering the mostly abandoned encampment on Thursday morning, accompanied with armored vehicles and construction equipment. |
About 100 protesters remained in the camp on Wednesday, defying the deadline for evacuation ordered by North Dakota's governor. |
Oceti Sakowin, or “Seven Council Fires,” is the native name for the Sioux nation. The protest camp was set up north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The tribe has tried to stop the construction on the segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline under Lake Oahe, on grounds that it endangered their water supply. |
Thousands of environmental activists, Native Americans and even US military veterans have taken part in protests that began in March 2016. |
On February 18th, the International School Dhaka's Bangla Club arranged the first ever Bangla Language Competition for English medium with participants from eight schools taking part in the competition. Other than ISD, the schools taking part were Sir John Wilson School, DPS STS School, Play Pen, Scholastic, Manarat In... |
The day started off early with participants from each school registering for the competition. This was followed by an Extempore Speech session. The respective participants were given a ten minute preparation time to prepare a five minute speech. Topics ranged from Bangla language and literature to culture and general k... |
The extempore speeches were followed by poetry recitation and creative writing. After a break for the Jummah prayers the competition reconvened for a spelling bee competition aptly named Spellathon. The highlight of the day however was the quiz session where the contestant school students were shown pictures and were a... |
At end of the quiz session it was said by the MC Ferdous Bappi that this competition was not intended to judge which school teaches better Bangla or which school's students have a more in depth knowledge of the language. The whole point of the competition was more to encourage and engender interest in our mother tongue... |
The quiz session was followed by a speech by Anisul Hague who shared stories and his personal views about the promotion of Bangla in our country while reiterating the view that this competition was about inspiring students to take an active interest in Bangla. As an added bonus a concert featuring Arnob was also arrang... |
The organisers started working to realise this event four months ago and have worked diligently to bring this competition to fruition. The competition was an initiative of The ISD Bangla Club, primarily an undertaking of one Namit Kabir, a grade 11 student of ISD, who took on this responsibility to promote our mother t... |
With the anticipation of the Cricket World Cup hanging in the air, cricket is now (almost) the most talked about sport among members of the youth. Cricket tournaments, from garage “short pitch”, to domestic leagues to international ones, all seem to be springing out of nowhere. |
With the hope of initiating goodwill and to an extent, generate more buzz for the upcoming World Cup, the City Montessori School from Lucknow, India, organised an interschool Twenty 20 cricket tournament, with teams being invited from schools in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India. Starting on the January 25, the f... |
Matches were played at two stadiums of CMS under floodlights, with live screen showing replays, commentary, and with a spectator attendance of 2000 average at every match. The matches were fed live to the local Lucknow TV channels. |
The Aga Khan School represented Bangladesh in the tournament. AKS faced Gateway Int'l School from Sri Lanka and Chinmaya Vidyalaya from New Delhi. AKS lost first match to Gateway Int'l School, and won against Chinmaya Vidyalaya by 39 runs. AKS scored 162/7 and Chinmaya scored 123/8 in the allocated 20 overs. Man of the... |
The closing ceremony was held with the guest of honour, Indian star cricketer Suresh Raina. He handed out the prizes to the awardees, with the Champion being Nalanda College and runners up being Ananda College, both from Sri Lanka. |
The event was wrapped up with the formation of the International Council for School Cricket (ICSC). The participating players' names will go down in the history books as the founding members. AKS received the honour of being the Regional Delegate for Bangladesh. AKS will nominate five of the future teams that will repr... |
Engineers are thought to be in possession of a mechanical and calculative mind for their numerous efforts in realising scientific vision. But it was Pythagoras who tried and succeeded in representing the musical notes and tones in numbers. The outstanding talents of the students of Bangladesh University of Engineering ... |
There was a sudden profusion of colour all around. The person next to you on the public transport sneezes revealing his allergic reaction to the abundant pollen in the air. Spring is all around you. And the first day of the Bangla month of Falgun is upon us, right before the Valentine's Day on the 14th, providing our v... |
The three-game losing streak hasn’t been much fun for the UL Ragin’ Cajuns women’s basketball team, but a trio of coaches at Wednesday’s weekly basketball press luncheon emphasized that it’s done nothing to dampen the spirit of the squad. |
Now the coaching staff is just hoping that the players get rewarded for their positive mental approach when the Cajuns try to snap a three-game losing streak at 5 p.m. Thursday against Georgia State in the Cajundome. |
UL associate head coach Sallie Guillory said there were encouraging offensive signs despite the 63-51 loss at Appalachian State on Monday. For instance, UL got 18 points in the paint in the first half by getting the ball inside. |
The issue these days is that since the second half of the Mississippi State game, teams have packed in a zone and forced the Cajuns to shoot the 3, without much success. |
“We’re getting a lot of good looks (from 3-point land),” Guillory said. “We’re getting a lot of good shots, but sometimes we need to look for what is the best shot at that time. |
The emphasis to get the ball in the post has even included point guard Kia Wilridge of late, because Guillory explained Wednesday that Wilridge has some of the best post moves on the team, despite her 5-5 frame. |
Defensively, the Cajuns are facing a Georgia State team that is averaging 71.8 points a game, but has only played two road games all season. |
Meanwhile, UL defensively is allowing just 57.5 points a contest. |
While the Cajuns have played two of their first three Sun Belt games on the road, Georgia State is off to a 2-1 start in league play with all three games being at home. The Panthers beat UL Monroe 80-72 and Texas State 74-69, but lost to UALR 75-55. |
Game: 5 p.m., Thursday, Cajundome. |
Records: Ga. St. 7-5, 2-1; UL 8-4, 0-3. |
Coaches: Ga. St., Sharon Baldwin-Tener (52-81; 247-223 overall); UL, Garry Brodhead (32-41). |
Top players: Ga. St., Kayla Nolan (12.3 pts, 5.8 rebs); Makeba Ponder (11.8 pts, 1.4 rebs); Brittany Logan (11.5 pts, 9.9 rebs); UL, Jaylyn Gordon (13.7 pts, 4.0 rebs); Kia Wilridge (12.3 pts, 4.9 rebs); Keke Veal (11.3 pts, 3.9 rebs). |
DONALD TRUMP has vowed to release the results of his physical examination in the wake of rival Hillary Clinton's collapse and pneumonia diagnosis. |
The Republican presidential candidate, who wished Clinton well after her recent pneumonia diagnosis, said he had taken the physical exam in the past week and would release the results as soon as they were available. |
Donald Trump spoke to the morning program FOX & Friends the morning after Hillary Clinton's collapse, saying he hoped that she would "get well soon". |
He announced he had recently taken a physical examination and was preparing to release the "very, very specific numbers" when the report was finalised. |
Trump said: "In this last week I took a physical and I'll be releasing (them), when the numbers come in. |
"Hopefully they're going to be good, I think they're going to be good, I feel great, but when the numbers come in I'll be releasing very, very specific numbers." |
Speaking about Clinton's ill health, he said: "I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail and we'll be seeing her at the debate. |
Trump was also questioned over whether he was ready to campaign against another Democratic presidential candidate should Clinton be replaced. |
But in the phone interview, Trump said: "I don't think they will replace her. |
"We have to see what's wrong, but whatever it is, I'm ready." |
But Trump did not take it easy on Clinton, also slamming his rival's recent comments that half of those who supported him were "deplorable". |
He said: "Personally, when I heard it I thought it was not something that was within the realm of possible that she would have said it. |
"I said to my people, 'I don't believe she said it, check it because there's no way she said this'." |
He also criticised the way she made the comments with "unbelievable anger". |
Trump said: "I think it's the biggest mistake of the political season. |
"Remember this... you're going to be president of all the people. you're not president of 50 per cent or 75 per cent - you're president of all the people. You're president of everybody." |
Clinton was due to leave this morning for a two-day trip to California that included fundraisers and a speech on the economy. |
But on doctor's orders, the 68-year-old was forced to cancel the trip. |
Clinton's doctor Lisa Bardack said in statement: "Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia. |
"She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. |
"While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. |
"I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely." |
The presidential candidate tried to hose down concerns around her health, saying that she was "feeling great" as she left her daughter's apartment. |
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