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What happens when the parents are home alone instead of the children?
[Note: This review has been expanded since the original post.]
The Empty Nest: 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop. Edited by Karen Stabiner. Hyperion/Voice, 320 pp., $23.95.
By Janice Harayda
Just last week, a professor of family studies told the Washington Post that the idea of the empty-nest syndrome has been pretty much debunked by scholars. Some parents, she added, feel more regret than others when children leave home. But "it's not a widespread syndrome" now that e-mail and cell phones make it easier to keep in touch.
Other scholars have found that – contrary to the idea that mothers feel the most pain when the nest empties – men have more problems than women when children leave home. Women expect the departure of children to be difficult, so they plan (and often grieve in advance) for it. Men are less likely to see the event as a major transition, so they don't prepare as well and express more regrets about lost opportunities to connect with their offspring.
Then why do we need a book that perpetuates some of the ideas scholars have debunked, especially when only seven of 31 contributors are men? Ellen Levine, a former editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, says that mothers still have a hard time with separations from their children: "The dads … no problem." Yet the idea that fathers have "no problem" with separations is exactly what a growing number of scholars – and some men in this book — dispute. If fathers don't show their grief, all those repressed emotions may catch up with them when the children leave home for good.
A clue to the purpose of The Empty Nest comes from the publisher, which has tagged it "self-help/inspiration." This is a bizarre label for an essay collection that, with its mix of dread and tears, reads at times like a cross between a Stephen King novel and Paris Hilton's weepy courtroom outburst on getting sent back to jail.
Editor Karen Stabiner sets the tone when she writes that it will be "intolerable" when her daughter goes to college. Martha Schuur says she sank into "uncontrollable crying" when she dropped her firstborn off at school. Jamie Wolf felt "perpetual despair" when her daughter moved from California to New York. Hilary Mills "dreaded" her son's "panic-inducing" departure, which became "bleakest day" of her marriage. Fran Visco knows that she could do things like going to Canyon Ranch now that her son's away, but she's too "brokenhearted" and lets herself "wallow in the sadness." An unintentionally comical scene comes from Grace Saltzstein, who began "freaking out" after installing her daughter in an apartment at UCLA. What had unhinged her? Her daughter's roommates had gotten to the place first … and left her the top bunk! And only one drawer! To judge by survivors' accounts, many people who went down with the Titanic showed more fortitude as the ship sank than some contributors to The Empty Nest did as they sent their children off to the kind of colleges that provide students with maid service and Asian-fusion meals.
As if to comfort themselves in their trials, an alarming number of writers abandon any qualms they may have had about bragging about their children. Schuur wants you to know that her daughter Kelly is "pure goodness, always there for family and friends." Glynna Freeman tells us that she has raised "three bright, beautiful, and really nice people." Annette Duffy reports that if she "mourned" when her son Ben went to school, she was grieving for a child who was "handsome as the day" and "a nationally ranked freestyler." Fabiola Santiago says that her daughter got into "the top university in our state," but Susan Crandell one-ups her by pointing out that her child got into "one of the top schools in the country." Perhaps the most perceptive comment in this book appears in an e-mail Charles "Chip" McGrath got after he wrote a piece for The New Yorker, reprinted in The Empty Nest, about dropping his son off at college. "It's interesting, and typical, that people who love their children very much approach this moment in their children's lives with almost total self-absorption," his correspondent wrote. Almost total?
A striking aspect of many of the women's stories — more so than in the men's — is how unwilling their authors are to explore whether anything might be causing their pain except for a child's departure. Did some women regret having worked so hard and not spending more time with their children? Did they have problems in their marriages and dread spending time alone with a spouse? Did they feel a spiritual void, having made motherhood into a surrogate religion? If so, they aren't telling. Nor are they telling whether they drank, took Paxil or Prozac or went into therapy, even though some of their symptoms resemble those of clinical depression.
Good statistics on the divorce rate among people over 50 are hard to find, partly because many states don't record the ages of couples who split up. But experts generally agree that it's going up, partly because baby boomers' children are leaving home, and in every generation, many couples wait to separate until the nest empties. Yet not one of the 31 contributors reports that his or her marriage took a serious hit when a child left. Maybe it's true. Or maybe this is a "feel good about feeling bad book" that legitimizes lesser problems while sweeping bigger ones under the rug.
Stabiner seems to have tried to deflect criticism that this book promotes stereotypes of women by recruiting some feminist firepower. And to a degree, it works. Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Anna Quindlen and Ellen Goodman rise above solipsism in their essays and try put empty nests in a social context. Pogrebin says that her stage of life has advantages: "Not having to worry about where your children are at two in the morning frees you up to worry about global warming." Quindlen argues, rightly, that her generation has "professionalized" motherhood, but goes around the bend when she concludes that for this reason, "the empty nest is emptier than every before." No, Anna, your nest will not be "emptier" than that of women like Rochelle Reed's grandmother, who sent four sons into World War II; one son, Reed writes, "was eaten by sharks after his plane crashed during a South Pacific monsoon."
Of all the contributors, Goodman grapples most effectively with an issue at the heart of The Empty Nest: Isn't this book a throwback to the 1950s? Isn't the departure of children less traumatic now that women have more professional opportunities? Goodman says that she used to think mothers who had rewarding work "might avoid the cliché of an empty-nest syndrome." But she doubts it now that her daughter has lived away from home for two decades. In her 60s, Goodman hasn't lost her desire to integrate work and family, so she has revised her juggling act to accommodate a grandchild and stepgrandchild: "Think of it as Juggling Lite." Her young relations are happy with the arrangement. So the question – for Goodman as for many other parents — has changed. It is no longer "How can I avoid the empty-nest syndrome?" It is, simply, "What empty nest?"
Despite such worthy essays, much of this book remains disheartening. The second wave of feminists fought passionately to show employers and others that women didn't wallow in emotion but could remain tough and level-headed in the most difficult circumstances. On the evidence of The Empty Nest women are reclaiming their right to wallow. This a book in the Oprah mold, which ascribes more authenticity to experiences the more painful they are. Gloria Steinem used to say that many women were "man junkies." And like much of our culture as a whole, The Empty Nest leaves the impression that some have become "child junkies" instead. Is it really a step forward to have traded one addiction for another?
Best line: Anna Quindlen's: "Motherhood has changed from a role into a calling. Our poor kids." The best overall essays come from McGrath, Goodman and Roxana Robinson.
Worst line: Anna Quindlen's: "The end result is that the empty nest is emptier than ever before …" Apart from its off-the-wall implication that today's stay-at-home investment bankers have it worse than parents who saw their children get drafted during the Vietnam War or look for jobs during the Depression, that "end result" is painful, too.
Caveat lector: The review was based on the advance readers' edition. Some material in the finished book may differ.
Conflict alert: I've had encounters with a number of contributors to this book that other critics might or might not see as conflicts. For example, I used to be in a writers' group with Ellen Goodman's sister, whom I haven't seen in nearly 20 years. All the other encounters are all similarly distant.
Reading group guide: A Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guide to this book was posted just before this review on June 11 and is archived with the June posts. You can find the publishers' guide, which is less extensive, at www.everywomansvoice.com.
Editor: Leslie Wells
Published: May 2007
Links: Karen Fingerman, a professor of developmental and family studies at Purdue, spoke about the myth of the empty-nest syndrome in "How to Make the Best of an Empty Nest," by Jennifer Huget, the Washington Post, June 5, 2007, page HE04. For a discussion of the different effects of the empty nest on men and women, see Rebecca A. Clay's "An Empty Nest Can Promote Freedom, Improved Relationships" in the American Psychological Association Online, April 2003. To find the article, Google "Rebecca Clay + Empty Nest + APA."
One-Minute Book Reviews is an independent book review site created by Janice Harayda www.janiceharayda.com, an award-winning critic who has been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor of the Plain Dealer and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle. It does not accept free books or other materials from editors, publishers or authors. At least 50 percent of the book reviewed on the site are by women. Reviews of books by female authors typically appear on Mondays and Wednesdays and books by male authors on Tuesdays and Thursdays with the other days up for grabs. Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides appear frequently but not on a regular schedule.
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"Big data" is widely discussed these days, among both businesses and consumer groups. As the volume of data that corporations compile increases exponentially, more and more organizations are leveraging predictive analytics technologies to transform that information into intelligence—and, ultimately, value—for the company. A familiar example is the way in which certain online stores suggest items a particular consumer might be interested in purchasing, based on an analysis of his or her prior buying behavior.
Today, many companies are grappling with how to harness their vast data stores, exploring the potential of predictive analytics to support a variety of corporate functions. One department that may soon be revolutionized by predictive analytics solutions is credit and collections. Analytics software can help accounts receivable (A/R) teams increase cash flow by not only prioritizing which customers are contacted by collections staff, and when, but also recommending a method of contact that is most likely to help the organization get its invoices paid fast.
These same tools can help treasurers, who bear the burden of predicting cash flows months in advance. A study conducted by the Aite Group showed that most treasurers are not yet taking advantage of this opportunity. When asked about their methods of cash forecasting, 60 percent of the survey's respondents said they simply take their current A/R balance, apply an arbitrary percentage, and add that increase or decrease into the previous period's cash forecast. When the credit-and-collections function can provide treasurers with more accurate projections of the cash flows expected from their collections activities, treasury can produce more realistic cash forecasts.
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Historically, it has been common practice for corporations to prioritize collections activities using call lists generated by dialers or using some combination of the invoice age and the amount outstanding or overdue. These practices are imprecise, and so they are not particularly effective. According to a recent study by McKinsey & Co., 70 percent of all collections-related phone calls are made to customers that would have paid even if the company hadn't contacted them.
Predictive analytics offers an alternative approach for companies that want their collections activities to be more targeted. These technologies can apply a statistical model to a company's historical A/R data, as well as information from external sources, to determine each invoice's "collection risk," which is the probability that it will become past-due at some point in the future. It makes sense to use a statistical model to predict specific customers' probable future payment behaviors; determining probabilities is what statistical models do. Sophisticated predictive analytics solutions are able to assign a precise collection-risk score to each of a company's customers, then use that score to prioritize the collections team's contact list and determine what types of activities they should engage in with each customer.
While a competent human collections agent will notice significant changes in a customer's payment behavior, such as starting to let invoices slide past-due before paying them, an analytics application built on a statistical model can detect subtle behavioral shifts that even the best A/R staff is unlikely to catch. These technologies incorporate insights that the vendor has garnered, in some cases, by drilling into decades' worth of payment activities across an array of industries. As a result, they might be able to flag a customer as having an elevated collection risk if payment habits shift only slightly.
For example, suppose you sell to an organization whose payments always come in within the 0-to-30-days past-due range. The company has always paid slightly late, but usually within two to three days of an invoice's due date. Then, six months ago, it started paying five days after the due date. Three months later, it started paying 10 to 12 days late. A good collector might pick up on this change, but an analytics application is certain to notice. Not only that, but most predictive A/R technologies can combine an individual customer's payment history with information about the industry. If the whole industry is starting to pay more slowly, the credit-and-collections software will likely make this customer an even higher priority.
Predictive analytics applications can apply the same principles even when invoices are not past-due. Suppose you've had a customer for three years that has always cut checks once a month to clear out all its outstanding invoices. The customer currently has 50 invoices outstanding: 40 due in a few days and 10 due two weeks later. In the past, the customer would have sent a check for all 50 at once, but instead this month it pays only the 40 that are due now. The other 10 invoices are not yet due, and they may well be paid by their due date. But if this shift in payment behavior continues, it may indicate that the customer has started to manage its cash more carefully, and a predictive analytics solution may elevate the priority of the collections team's contact with this customer.
Collection Risk vs. Credit Risk
"Collection risk," as determined by a predictive analytics solution, is different from what is commonly known as "credit risk." A company's credit-risk profile reflects the financial health of the corporation and the likelihood that it will remain in business, which only indirectly correlates with its likelihood of paying business debts.
Many businesses subscribe to credit bureau data feeds and then use this data to build judgmental scorecards for their current and prospective customers. The scorecards incorporate information such as the company's industry classification, years in business, performance indicators from its financial statements, credit bureau scores, etc. The model rates customers on each element of the data and provides a total credit-risk score for each customer. As an alternative, some corporations simply purchase credit-risk scores for current and prospective customers from credit bureaus.
Either way, the company classifies its customers according to their credit-risk scores and uses this classification to support decisions about the credit limits and terms it will extend. The scores are taken into account when the company is determining whether to accept and ship new orders to a customer. They're also likely to come into play anytime the company is reviewing the customer's credit limit, whether it does so on a regular basis or in response to a particular event.
The company also might use a customer's credit-risk classification in determining how aggressive a collector should be during a call with the customer—but corporations usually do not use credit-risk scores in determining which customers to call and when to call them. One reason is that although these scores can be effective in determining the overall creditworthiness of a business, they are not very effective at predicting future payment habits for invoices that have already been billed. It's a subtle point, for sure, but it can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of collections efforts.
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So, how does a corporation build a statistical model that will accurately predict the probability that a specific current invoice will become past-due in the future? Some companies employ their own statistical modeling teams; their statisticians build proprietary models to predict customers' collection risk. Other organizations rely on scoring service providers to determine the statistical collection risk for each customer on a monthly basis. These statistical scoring providers are able to generate remarkably predictive models by analyzing the effects of behavior patterns on payment habits using a tremendous amount of data gathered over many years. But unlike credit-risk scores, statistical collection-risk models incorporate a company's own data; this makes them extremely accurate.
These models are so predictive that they can dramatically improve the effectiveness of the collections staff. For example, many companies use their collection-risk scores to segment their open invoices, with almost 100 percent accuracy, into one bucket that represents some collection risk (typically about one-third of all invoices) and another bucket that represents negligible collection risk (about two-thirds). Rather than calling every customer with an open invoice, collections staff can focus on the one-third with the highest probability of non-payment, while the remaining two-thirds receive less resource-intensive communications, such as automated emails.
Sophisticated companies take this customer segmentation a step further, prioritizing collections activities based not only on the probability of delinquency, as determined by collection-risk scores, but also by the amount of cash at risk with each customer. "Cash at risk" is simply the probability of delinquency multiplied by the dollar value of outstanding invoices.
Suppose a supplier has two customers with unpaid invoices that are a few days past their due date. Customer A owes $20,000, and its collection-risk score indicates an 80 percent probability that the invoice will pass 30 days past-due, so the supplier's cash at risk with this customer is $16,000 ($20,000 × 80%). Now, suppose Customer B owes the same supplier $100,000, but its collection-risk score gives it only a 5 percent probability of becoming 30 days past-due. The supplier's cash at risk with Customer B is only $5,000 ($100,000 × 5%). The company certainly should proceed with collections activities on both customers, but to get the most out of its limited resources, it will want to prioritize and collect differently from Customer A than from Customer B.
Never Stop Fine-Tuning
I mentioned earlier that a recent McKinsey survey found that 70 percent of all collections calls go to customers which are not actually at risk of delinquency. A risk-based collections process that utilizes predictive analytics technologies can save companies from making the 70 percent of calls that are unnecessary.
Does this sound too good to be true? The great thing about predictive analytics is that statistical models can be objectively validated; corporations can retroactively evaluate the performance of their collection-risk models. Even organizations that are just starting to implement predictive analytics can use the solution to analyze their A/R portfolio from, say, 18 months prior. The solution can review the historical data from the oldest 12 months of data and predict the likelihood that each customer will become past-due in the subsequent months. Then, the company can validate the model by comparing the predictions to the actual data from the most recent six months.
Collections teams at the leading edge of predictive analytics regularly run these types of performance tests on their collection-risk models. Because they never stop fine-tuning, their models stay as predictive as possible. Ultimately, a company's data is only as valuable as the company's processes for turning that data into business insights. By using predictive analytics to leverage the vast volumes of data generated within their collections activities, companies can effect substantial improvements to cash flows throughout the organization.
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C. J. Wimley is COO of AvantGard Receivables in SunGard's Corporate Liquidity business. He is responsible for the credit and collections business, supplying comprehensive software and services solutions to corporations. Mr. Wimley has substantial business and technology experience relating to business-to-business credit, collections, cash application, and dispute management.


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Several months ago I wrote a letter to Pennsylvania's federal lawmakers, asking how long it would be before they would consider new gun-control legislation. The answer came loud and clear from Sen. Pat Toomey and his proposed background-checks measure.
A crime was committed in Connecticut. The criminal took his mother's guns and murdered children and teachers. He obeyed no law. His intent was killing.
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UPDATE: !!!!! LASER TAG 2002 IS RELEASED - Feb 2008 !!!!!
The main event of the GRL Rotterdam tour - 'L.A.S.E.R TAG' - 60mw geek graffiti madness.
Watch the video here on the Graffiti Research Lab website.
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onto the building with a high power projector.
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We used:
1 PC Laptop - ASUS A8JS - Core 2 Duo 1.83 Ghz 1GB Ram Nvideo Geforce Go 7300 256MB - VGA and DVI out.
1 Pansonic PTD5600U 5000 ANSI Lumens 1024x768 DLP Projector.
1 Watec 221S Security/Astrononmy Camera with manual iris zoom lens.
1 Bogen magic arm and super clamp.
1 Pinnacle PCTV USB capture card.
1 60mW Green Laser (super illegal in a lot of places and very dangerous)
and loads and loads of AAA batteries.
Choose a building or wall that the laser shows up well on. If using a building make sure the lights aren't on
as this will make the tracking of the laser beam harder (also it is not a good idea to point powerful lasers
at a building with people in it) .
Pick a spot far enough back that the projector can overshoot the building by a couple of feet on all sides.
Alignment and calibration:
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using the full image of the projection.
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projection area. Allow the camera to see a little more than the projection area so that you can designate an area
as a clear button.
Make sure all the settings on the camera are set to manual - no auto exposure or gain control etc. Adjust the color
balance of the camera so that it looks as natural as possible - make sure any lights in the shot don't look green as this
will confuse the tracking sytem.
Software setup:
Set your resolution of your screen to 1024 by 768.
Connect the projector to the PC and in your display control panel set the display mode to horizontal span.
This should span the Desktop across the laptop screen and the projector so that you have one large screen
of 2048 by 768 resolution. If you have access to openGL and 3D preferences in the control panel, set all settings
to performance.
Connect the camera to the usb capture card and the capture card to the PC. You can use Amcap
to make sure you can capture video okay.
Start the app and you should see something like the image bellow.
Follow the instructions in the diagram to align the camera to the projection surface.
Once the camera is aligned to the projector hide the white alignment lines on the projected image by pressing L.
Turn down the iris of the camera to the point where the surface is as dark as possible but the laser still shows up strong.
The settings for the app are saved in an xml file so once you have made your adjustments hit the S key to save your changes.
The up and down arrows on your keyboard will run through the list of settings and the left and right arrows can adjust the values.
The first settings you will want to adjust is the four at the bottom - which define the color tracking of the laser.
Hue Point - should be the value of green that the camera sees the laser as.
Hue Thresh - is how wide a range from the hue point it should consider.
Sat Thresh - is the minimum amount of saturation.
Value Thresh - is the minimum brightness.
Anything that is outside the range of these settings will show up as black in the Thresh Video anything that is whithin
(hopefully only the laser point) should show up white.
Here is an explanation of the rest of the settings:
Slide - slides the screen over so you can see what is being projected
Verticle mode - if the projector is being used on its side.
Use blobs - should stay on, blob tracking ended up being more reliable than motion difference.
Motion diff - don't touch
Use camera - toggle between using the live camera and an included test video.
Drips mode - when on, small drips of paint will descend from the letter forms.
Fade out - slowely fades the image over time - alternative to clear button.
Slant brush - toggles chisel brush and fatcap mode
Clear zone - Use an area of the image as a clear zone, if the laser is detected there it clears the image.
Brush width - Size of brush
Drips freq - How many drips you want - lower is more
Activity thresh - This determines the time before starting a new line, the background screen should flash red whenever a new line begins.
Min blob size - the smaller this value the more sensitive to noise it will be but also the smoother the line motion.
Jump dist - the max distance to draw a line between two captured points, any distance greater means it starts a new line.
Line resolution - how many points to interpolated a line with, higher number means smoother line but uses more cpu.
Clear X - adjust x position of clear area.
Clear Y - same for y
Clear thresh - lower means a more sensitive clear area , higher less sensitive - adjust so that only laser point clears image.
Once everything is setup be very careful not to bump either projector or camera as even a move of a 1mm will be
enough to mess the alignment.
The settings are saved in settings.xml file - if you want to back up your settings for a location just zip the file and rename it.
If you are pushed for framerate - try overclocking your graphics with hacked drivers from laptopvideo2go,
you will notice quite a difference!
Press h to hide all gui except the projected image, this can also give you a bump in the framerate too.
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#1 the Peyton Manning distraction. Many of those same teams (including us were after him).
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#3 Strong QB draft this year (min. 3 projected starters in this years draft) and next year at a much lower cost.
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For most of the young Nepalese, cricket has overtaken football as the game of interest (I apologise if you are not one of them). It is not unknown to the cricket lovers that the biggest event of world cricket will be held the next month. Bad luck that Nepal is not playing in the world cup, but we can still cheer up for the team we support, can't we?
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To answer Marion Burger's letter and maybe a question that has been bothering me and probably other folks questions, too.
To the Editor:
To answer Marion Burger's letter and maybe a question that has been bothering me and probably other folks questions, too.
Why were there only Baptists listed in a list of citizens supporting placing "In God We Trust" on the Anderson County Courthouse?
All this has been spread by one person: Tom Byrge, Clinton Baptist Association director of missions. I have talked to several Baptists and separately, they have said that they do not believe in this but they must follow the Association's directive.
This was the same principle that ruled the vote of many of Anderson County's well-meaning commissioners. Rather than trying to meet and address the needs of all citizens the Baptists have applied the rule of man rather than God. Anderson County's own mayor chose not to support Anderson County citizens but rather Anderson County's Baptist citizens.
I usually try to feel how much people are in touch with reality. Sometimes you get disgusted and try to ignore man's vices of force.
I was talking to this lady at the hospital and asked her how she felt about the "In God We Trust" issues. She said, I do not believe in this issue for I am agnostic. Now this person runs around seeing that everyone's need gets met.
I keep pondering if there is a deeper meaning than "In God We Trust." I think about how blank walls have been covered by another word created by God/man — graffiti. Many times it is truly art.
As a person who has dealt with discrimination all my life, I was really disappointed in the majority of County Commissioners, who I respected, who chose to use religion as a means to govern rather to govern by compassion for all citizens. Do they speak for me? No.
Lee Roy Gilliam
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Microsoft has released the Bing Code Search Add-in for Visual Studio 2013 this week. This add-in is intended to facilitate search across "community" websites including the MSDN, StackOverflow, Dotnetperls, and CSharp411 without having to switch to a browser and search for code samples.
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Jeter leading off for power-packed AL lineup
MINNEAPOLIS -- When he set his lineup for Tuesday night's All-Star Game, American League manager John Farrell made sure Yankees icon Derek Jeter would have a chance to impact the game as quickly as possible.
Jeter, who will retire following the season, will bat leadoff in his 14th and final All-Star Game.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- When he set his lineup for Tuesday night's All-Star Game, American League manager John Farrell made sure Yankees icon Derek Jeter would have a chance to impact the game as quickly as possible.
Jeter, who will retire following the season, will bat leadoff in his 14th and final All-Star Game.View Full Game Coverage
"[It's a way] to celebrate a player who's not only a champion but a guy that sets the bar that I think all players should aspire to -- the way he's handled himself with class, with performance, no doubt a Hall of Famer," said Farrell. "This will be a day that many baseball fans that are either in the ballpark or watching, [they] will remember Derek's last All-Star Game."
Managing the All-Star Game for the first time in his career, Farrell, who guided the Red Sox to a World Series championship in 2013, relished the opportunity to be able to put together such a stacked lineup.
Following Jeter, Farrell lined up Mike Trout, Robinson Cano, Miguel Cabrera, Jose Bautista, Nelson Cruz, Adam Jones, Josh Donaldson and Salvador Perez.
"I think any time you're surrounded by that caliber of players and you get the fortunate ability to see them across the field or compete on the same field with them, and to see them assembled in one clubhouse, it's a rare opportunity," Farrell said.
"But when you think about the depth -- and you look at a third baseman with Oakland who's hitting in the 8-hole that's got nearly 20 home runs -- just by position in the lineup, it reflects the caliber of players, the depth in it and the reserves will be coming in behind these guys are deserving to start in their own right. It's a rare and unique opportunity."
Felix Hernandez, the Mariners' electric ace, will start for the AL in the 85th All-Star Game, which takes place at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday night on FOX. There's at least a chance Red Sox right-hander Koji Uehara might close it.
"I think when we look at the closing candidates for our American League squad, we have five very capable, very successful closers, Koji being one of them," said Farrell. "We have yet to determine and name internally who we would build back to, but Koji has had a phenomenal year and a half since he has been moved into our closer role."
In both World Series championships Farrell has won -- the first in 2007 as a pitching coach with the Red Sox and last year as manager -- his team capitalized on having home-field advantage.
Once again, the winner of Tuesday's game will determine which league gets home field in the World Series.
"I don't think you can ever underestimate the home-field advantage in a postseason -- certainly a seven-game series," Farrell said. "Typically you're going to go up against an outstanding club, as we did last year in St. Louis. And to have that final game potentially in your home ballpark, that goes a long way to affecting the outcome."
For one game, Farrell gets to be reunited with Bautista, the slugger he managed in Toronto for two seasons.
"Having the fortunate ability to be with him two years in Toronto, you gain such an appreciation of a player that never takes a play off," said Farrell. "His work ethic, certainly his talents and his performance. To see Jose among this group, he'll stand out among this group as well, and to see him in that role, knowing that he has been the leader of the [voting], he's very worthy of it and I know he and his teammates are having a heck of a year in Toronto."
American League All-Star lineup
1. SS Derek Jeter, Yankees
2. LF Mike Trout, Angels
3. 2B Robinson Cano, Mariners
4. 1B Miguel Cabrera, Tigers
5. RF Jose Bautista, Blue Jays
6. DH Nelson Cruz, Orioles
7. CF Adam Jones, Orioles
8. 3B Josh Donaldson, A's
9. C Salvador Perez, Royals
SP Felix Hernandez, Mariners
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne.