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For Cincinnati Christians, is it feast or fast?
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CINCINNATI -- For Greater Cincinnati's Christians, Wednesday might come with a conundrum: Feast, or fast?
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If you're not single, Valentine's Day often means a fancy dinner, decadent chocolates, flowers, and possibly some alcohol.
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But for the first time since 1945, the holiday falls on the same day as Ash Wednesday, when Christians are supposed to spend the day fasting.
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According to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, the two holidays need not be contradictory. The Rev. Gabriel Torretta says both are about love: Valentine's Day celebrates human love, while the Christian season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday, is a time recognizing Jesus Christ's love for humanity.
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"So why not take that beautiful idea about Valentine's Day... and give that this decisive direction toward Jesus Christ," said Torretta, parochial vicar at St. Gertrude's Parish in Madeira.
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St. Gertrude's will have a series of daily video meditations around the theme "Lent is for Lovers." The parish also is hosting a Valentine's Day-Ash Wednesday feast day meal. The idea is that people don't have to choose between the two holidays, Torretta said. Couples, single people and widows have shown interest, along with entire families.
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"It's a way of actually having a real time of penance together, but also entering into the joy of love," he said.
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Catholics and other Christians have traditionally given up something for Lent, whether a bad habit or a pleasure they enjoy. At Hyde Park Gourmet Food and Wine, they're ready to accommodate those needs this Valentine's Day. There's the usual selection of cheese, chocolates and wines -- but also nonalcoholic champagne and organic soaps made with wine for people who aren't drinking alcohol this Lent.
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"People are definitely in the mood, I think. People are coming in and seem upbeat," co-owner Sylvia Levine said.
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Lenten abstinence could also be one way for couples to come closer together, Torretta said. He just advised they talk about it beforehand.
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"If they're expecting a card and flowers and chocolates, you don't say, 'Oh, I gave that up for Lent.' That's how you break up," he said.
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We, as members of the LGBTQ+ community at Northwestern University — as activists, as advocates and as allies — are voting for Sky Patterson and Emily Ash for student body president and vice president. We fully believe that these candidates are the best choice for LGBTQ+ students at NU.
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Sky and Em are the only candidates that have plans to implement policies essential to the LGBTQ+ community. Woven throughout their platform is a promise that the needs of queer and trans students will always be a priority throughout their term. They are making a promise to advocate for gender-neutral bathrooms and gender-open housing. Sky and Em have concrete plans to expand visibility about resources and physical spaces that are accessible to LGBTQ+ students as well as advocate for the expansion of these spaces and resources. We are confident that they are the best people to listen to the needs of our community and advocate for those needs with the administration. It is unclear based on the other ticket’s platform whether they would make any attempt to work with us, listen to our ideas or advocate for us at all.
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Sky has worked toward improving equity for trans and non-binary students as vice president of academics. She developed the first-ever faculty pronoun guide with the help of feedback from trans and non-binary students who are most saliently affected. While her position does not specifically call for work that promotes inclusivity or accessibility, she has made sure to be intentional about developing policies that support marginalized students. For Sky, intersectionality is not just a buzzword used to get attention — it is a purposeful guiding principle. She crafted policies acknowledging the fact that LGBTQ+ students are also impacted by unaffordable textbooks, inaccessible buildings, biased professors and the protest policy.
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Our community is blatantly absent from the paragraphs of text that make up Justine Kim’s and Austin Gardner’s platform. The only mention of the LGBTQ+ community at all is with regards to accessibility of identity-based mental health counselors. While we appreciate this policy, it does little to tangibly improve the everyday experiences of queer students on this campus. Sky and Em’s campaign also calls for expansion of mental health resources to marginalized communities, but goes above and beyond to tangibly improve the lives of queer students. During the Tuesday debate, Justine claimed to have a second platform, but we have no doubts that the queer community will continue to be an afterthought.
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This is especially disappointing given the fact that Austin formerly acted as Vice President of Accessibility and Inclusion for Associated Student Government. In his work on all-gender bathrooms, he did not reach out to many of the queer student leaders who have been working on this project for years without ASG’s resources or support. If he would have reached out, he would have had access to an archive of the locations of all gender neutral bathrooms on campus. How do we know that Justine and Austin will fight for increased gender-open housing as the housing master plan is carried out? Will they advocate for larger physical spaces devoted strictly to the needs of the LGBTQ+ community? Will they work to ensure that our professors respect our gender identity and use our pronouns?
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The choice we make on Election Day is a simple yet critical one. At even a surface level of analysis, it is clear that one ticket will show up for the LGBTQ+ community and work with us, and one will not. The work has been done and is being done by members of our community; we just need candidates who will listen to and stand by us. We urge members of the LGBTQ+ community and our allies to consider the implications of a platform with only minimal mention of our needs and make the right choice on Election Day.
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Compare Tim Murphy's voting record to any other representative in the 115th Congress.
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Represented Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District. This is his 8th term in the House.
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David Caballero of Battle Mountain shoots a 3-pointer against Rifle on Thursday in Edwards. The Huskies fell to the Bears, 49-42.
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EDWARDS — Rifle girls basketball escaped with a 35-30 win over Battle Mountain on Thursday night in Edwards.
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That is not written in jest or sarcastically.
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The Huskies really gave the Bears, who are tied for first atop the 4A Slope, a game. Perhaps, Battle Mountain’s win at Eagle Valley on Tuesday wasn’t as much of a shocker as previously thought.
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The Huskies (10-4, 3-3) led at halftime, 18-11, and, 24-19, after three periods. Karly Manupella hit a 3 with 6:10 left to give Rifle (11-3, 4-1) a 26-25 lead, but Battle Mountain didn’t go quietly. Dylan Barker answered with two free throws.
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The Huskies Claire Krueger had a bucket with 1:01 left to tie it at 29.
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Rifle’s Elly Walters sank two freebies with 29 seconds left to put the Bears ahead for good.
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Without Devin Huffman (ankle), Battle Mountain boys basketball’s offensive struggles continued on Thursday night with a 49-42 loss to Rifle.
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Not only did the Huskies miss Huffman’s presence in the paint defensively and on the glass, but Battle Mountain scored only two points in the third quarter, allowing the visiting Bears (8-9, 5-2) to overcome a 26-21 halftime deficit.
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The Huskies (5-11, 2-4) built that lead behind strong shooting, something for which they’ve been looking to have balance when Huffman is in the lineup. Battle Mountain lit it up in the second quarter with 3s from Taylor Staughton, Ethan Tatreau, David Caballero and Baker Gentry, who ended up leading the Huskies with 14 points.
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Battle Mountain’s teams are back in action tonight against Palisade at 5:30 and 7.
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BBC - Capital - Can you work yourself to death?
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‘Death from overwork’ is so common in Japan there’s even a word for it. But is it physically possible?
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The Japanese have a knack for inventing words – and there are some that every self-respecting office worker should have in their vocabulary. There’s arigata-meiwaku: when someone does you a favour that you didn’t ask them to – which actually caused you massive inconvenience – but you’re socially obliged to thank them anyway. Or how about majime: an earnest, dependable colleague who can get things done without causing any drama.
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But there’s one uniquely Japanese term you don’t want to relate to: karoshi, which translates as “death by overwork”.
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Reports of the nation’s corporate breadwinners, known as “salarymen”, dropping dead from overwork have been making headlines for decades.
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But is it just urban legend?
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Well, no. The social phenomenon was first recognised in 1987, when the health ministry began logging cases after the sudden deaths of a string of high-flying executives.
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So widespread is the issue, that in Japan, if a death is judged karoshi, the victim’s family receives compensation from the government of around $20,000 per year and company payouts of up to $1.6 million.
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Initially, the government was documenting a couple of hundred cases every year. But by 2015, claims had risen to a record high of 2,310, according to a report by the Japanese Labour Ministry. This may be the tip of the iceberg. According to the National Defence Council for Victims of Karoshi, the true figure may be as high as 10,000 – roughly the same number of people killed each year by traffic.
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But can you really die from overwork? Or is it just a case of old age and undiagnosed medical conditions? In an increasingly well-connected world, where technology keeps us in the loop 24-7, work hours are creeping up. Could karoshi be going on unrecognised elsewhere?
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A typical case of karoshi goes something like this. Kenji Hamada was an employee at a Tokyo-based security company, with a devoted young wife and formidable work ethic. His typical week involved 15-hour days and a gruelling four-hour commute. Then one day he was found slumped over his desk; his colleagues assumed he was asleep. When he hadn’t moved several hours later, they realised he was dead. He had died of a heart attack at the age of 42.
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Though Hamada died in 2009, karoshi claimed its first victim 40 years earlier – when a healthy 29-year old suffered a stroke after pulling punishing shifts in the shipping department of the nation’s largest newspaper.
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“After the defeat of the Second World War, the Japanese worked the longest hours in the world by far – they were workaholics of the highest order,” says Cary Cooper, a stress expert at Lancaster University.
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In the post-war era, work provided men with a renewed sense of purpose; workers were not just financially – but psychologically – motivated. Businesses welcomed this new order and began funding labour unions, culture groups and company housing, transportation, recreation facilities, health clinics and childcare centres. Before long, work was the central life interest.
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Decades later, in the mid-1980s, it took a dark turn. Abnormalities in the country’s economic system fuelled a rapid and unsustainable escalation in the prices of shares and real estate. The resulting economic growth spurt, known as the “bubble economy”, pushed Japan’s salarymen to their limits.
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At the bubble economy’s peak, nearly seven million people (around 5% of the country’s population at the time) were grinding out a 60-hour work week. Meanwhile, the US, UK and Germany were mostly still cruising along on a more forgiving nine-to-five work schedule.
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According to a survey conducted in 1989, 45.8% of section chiefs and 66.1% of department chiefs in major companies thought they themselves would die from overwork.
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By the late 1980s, enough white-collar workers were dying from overwork each year that the government began to pay attention. Karoshi became a matter of urgent public concern and the Ministry of Labour started publishing statistics.
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To count as karoshi, victims must have worked more than 100 hours of overtime in the month before their death – or 80 hours of overtime in two or more consecutive months in the previous six.
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When the economy’s bubble collapsed in the early 1990s, the culture of overwork only got worse. During the following years, known as the “lost decade”, karoshi reached epidemic proportions; deaths of those in management and professional roles spiked and it has never recovered.
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The deaths of middle-aged men with underlying health conditions, such as heart disease or diabetes, would be one thing. The deaths of young, otherwise healthy people in their prime – doctors, university professors and engineers – are altogether more alarming.
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Among the thousands of varied cases, two potential culprits stand out: stress and a lack of sleep. Can these things kill you? And how long do you have to spend in the office before you keel over?
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Going to work the day after pulling an all-nighter can certainly make you feel terrible. But, the evidence that a lack of sleep can kill you is surprisingly scarce.
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While there’s plenty of evidence that a lack of sleep can kill you indirectly – through an increased risk of heart disease, disorders of the immune system, diabetes and some forms of cancer – no human death has ever been attributed to intentionally staying awake. It’s not going to be good for you in the long-term, but it seems unlikely you’ll spontaneously drop dead after an all-nighter in the office.
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The Guinness World Record for the longest period awake belongs to Randy Gardner, who stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) in 1964. On his final day, he attended a press conference where he spoke without slurring his words – then slept for 14 hours and 40 minutes. He’s still alive and lives in San Diego.
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And contrary to what you might expect, there’s currently no evidence that stress – on its own at least – can cause a heart attack or even heart disease either. Though it might lead you to bad habits (smoking, drinking, or a poor diet) which will.
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But what if you include deaths from insidious illnesses such as cancer? It’s commonly thought that stress is lethal, but last year a team of Oxford University scientists decided to take a closer look. The so-called Million Women Study tracked the health of around 700,000 women for nearly a decade. In that time, 48,314 died.
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When they analysed the data, the researchers found that women who rated themselves as more stressed and less happy, healthy and in control were more likely to die. But they were also less healthy to begin with – they were stressed because they were sick. When they factored this in, along with risky behaviours such as smoking, the link vanished. Stress and unhappiness had no correlation with the risk of death.
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It looks like even a really, really stressful day, month, or year in the office isn’t going to send an otherwise healthy person to an early grave.
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Intriguingly, karoshi might not be caused by stress or a lack of sleep, but time spent in the office. By analysing the habits and health records of more than 600,000 people, last year researchers found that those who worked a 55-hour week were a third more likely to suffer a stroke than those working fewer than 40 hours. It’s not known why, but the authors speculated it might simply be the result long periods sat at a desk.
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The thing is, the Japanese don’t work the longest hours anymore. As of 2015, the average Japanese worker clocked less time than those in the United States – let alone the global leader of overwork, Mexico, where they toiled for a staggering 2246 hours.
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As you would expect, reports of karoshi outside Japan are racking up. China loses around 600,000 people to guolaosi – as it is known locally – every year, around 1,600 every day.
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“India, South Korea, Taiwan, China – the next generation of emerging economies is doing the same thing, they are following the post-war Japanese movements towards long hours,” says Richard Wokutch from Virginia Tech, Virginia, a management Professor who has authored a book on occupational safety in Japan.
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“Haven’t we had cases in the city of London? There’s just no word for it,” says Cooper. He’s right. In August 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern Moritz Erhardt was found dead in his shower after working for 72 hours straight. The 21-year-old was found to have died from epilepsy, which could have been triggered by working so hard, an inquest was told. Following his death, the bank restricted the intern workday to 17 hours.
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So could a culture of presentee-ism be to blame? According to Cooper, yes. In many countries part of the problem is not so much the culture of working hard, but being seen to be doing so. “Nowadays it’s more about showing facetime at work – arriving early and staying late – but it’s counterproductive,” he says.
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In Japan, many younger workers feel uncomfortable leaving before their bosses do. “When I was working over there, people would take out a newspaper at the end of the normal working day. They didn’t leave but – though they could have been reading the business section – they also weren’t exactly hard at work,” says Wokutch.
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So the next time you find yourself at work, updating your status on social media or reading about absurdly specific Japanese words on the internet, remember: staying later might be a risky way to make up for it.
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Lucas Longo is an MA Candidate, Learning, Design & Technology 2016 at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford. He also holds an M.P.S from the Interactive Telecommunications Program 2008, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he created a mobile learning platform called Pocket Learning. His undergraduate degree was a B.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering 1997 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. In Brazil he founded the Interactive Arts Institute in 2009 with the aim of demystifying technology with hands on courses in mobile development, design and basic programming. Lucas has worked with mobile technologies since 2000 in the roles of project manager, technical lead and consultant in content portals, mobile operators, content providers and aggregators. He has a passion for learning, teaching, adventure traveling, photography, multi-media, and human computer interactions.
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Scott's bond with his mother runs deep. He's seen her struggle. He's hoping an NFL career can help pay her back.
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LJ Scott’s mother loves her drive home from work through Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, Ohio. It's an oasis in an otherwise depressed and shrinking industrial town. She’s been going there since she was a child.
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She likes her job as a home health aide, taking care of those who can no longer take care of themselves.
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“I think that’s my calling,” his mother, Lachelle Steele, says.
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Scott thinks it’s about time someone starts taking care of her instead.
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Scott is close to being able to reward his mother for her resolve in the face of constant struggle, for her unconditional love, for always making her children her priority, right through last December, when he told her he was leaning toward returning to MSU for his senior football season.
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Scott is the signature recruit of the Mark Dantonio era at Michigan State, the first Ohio kid coveted by Ohio State to choose the Spartans over the Buckeyes. For a program driven in no small part by Ohio players, landing Scott was a significant moment.
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He’s mostly delivered, including a spinning, leaning, reaching touchdown to beat Iowa in the 2015 Big Ten championship game that sent MSU to the College Football Playoff, one of the great moments in Spartan football history.
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He’s also had a few hiccups — fumbles primarily. His 2017 season will be remembered largely for four fumbles in the first five games (notably in the end zone against Notre Dame) and then a well-publicized arrest for driving without license and the hubbub that followed.
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“It was rough, because I watched social media run him down in the ground like he was the worst person on earth,” said Steele, who rarely heeds her son’s advice to avoid social media.
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On the field, Scott rushed for more than 100 yards three times and showed flashes of the talent that’s drawn comparisons to former MSU star Le’Veon Bell. But he and MSU’s other rushers were also limited by a young offensive line that couldn’t get a regular push against upper-tier Big Ten opponents.
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In all, Scott rushed for a modest 898 yards on 201 carries and eight touchdowns at 4.5 yards per carry, nearly a full yard less per attempt than his sophomore season in 2016. It’s unclear where he would have been chosen in the NFL draft, perhaps the middle rounds at best. He might have tested well with NFL teams. He has the frame, the burst, the wiggle in a phone booth to play at the next level.
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Scott is uncomfortable sharing the details of the low moments of his childhood.
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There were days when she forgot to eat. Months when she didn’t know how she’d cover the rent. Years when new school shoes for her four kids meant budgeting months in advance.
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She’s proud of how she navigated the struggle.
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For LJ, whose first name is Larry, that also meant realizing his mother was alone in that battle. His father, the man he’s named after, was in the home less and less and then not at all.
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“They knew this man, but they always saw just me,” Steele said.
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Last August, as I interviewed LJ in the MSU football building, his teammates walked behind us, playfully mocking him, “Lar-ry, Lar-ry.” They knew he didn’t like the name. But did they know why?
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If this all sounds like a brutal upbringing, Scott would argue he’s blessed.
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Scott was lined up to attend a parochial football powerhouse high school in Youngstown, until he pestered his middle school history teacher into helping him go to high school in the town where the teacher lived instead.
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“I’m a white suburban guy, never taught before, going into inner-city Youngstown,” said Josh Barr, who taught Scott in both seventh and eighth grade. “I’m the third teacher for that class already. (One day) we BS’d for 20 minutes about everything and nothing. Luckily for me, he was the type of kid all the other kids followed. I was just working off nervous energy. He made my life easier.
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“There” was the nearby blue-collar suburb of Hubbard. Scott also convinced Barr to help his brother, Isiah — who’s nine months younger, but in the same grade — get to Hubbard, too. The only condition was that Scott begin to behave around all of his teachers and classmates the way he did in Barr’s class.
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The first night in their new home, Steele called Barr to tell him she was drinking a glass of wine on the porch at 9 o’clock. She’d never been able to do that before. When she moved back to Youngstown after LJ and Isiah left for college, she did so to be near family and because she found a house with an indoor porch. “I shouldn’t have moved back,” she said.
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At home, even if money was tight, there were fun times. LJ, his mother and siblings — an older brother, older sister and Isiah — would play games, like a makeshift version of the TV show “American Idol." One person would sing, the others would judge. LJ sang the same song almost every time, “Ignition,” by R. Kelly.
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“It was always that song for some reason,” he said.
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At MSU, he’s found a platform to chase his dreams and friends to chase them with. Scott isn’t alone among his teammates in wanting to give his family financially what they can only provide in love.
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“That’s that pressure for a lot of us,” said senior safety Khari Willis, who joined Scott this week at Big Ten media days in Chicago and has been to Scott’s home in Youngstown to visit. “Maybe some families are worse (off) than others. But, as a man, you want to take care of your family, see the women in your life happy, especially if it’s your mom, if she raised you by herself, if you’ve seen her struggle. Maybe, at a young age, you didn’t know what it meant. But as you grow and see, you know what it means. And if you have the opportunity to change that, you’re going to want to take advantage of that.
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Scott is 12th all-time on MSU’s rushing list with 2,591 yards. He could realistically finish fourth on that list, behind only Lorenzo White, Javon Ringer and Tico Duckett.
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Dantonio was impressed with how quickly and decisively Scott made the decision to return, making his intentions known at the Holiday Bowl in late December.
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Scott might have decided differently if he didn’t think MSU had the players around him to help him have that big year.
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“Collectively as a team, we lost one guy up front, that’s Brian Allen, a great lineman, but we’ve got his brother Matt Allen,” Scott said. “We should be good as a team.
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