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Dee, who worked for Padres from 1995-2002, was CEO of Miami Dolphins since 2009
The San Diego Padres today announced they have named Mike Dee president and chief executive officer. Lead Investor, Peter Seidler, and Executive Chairman, Ron Fowler, made the announcement.
"We are ecstatic to bring Mike back to San Diego as our president and CEO," said Fowler and Seidler in a joint statement. "He has the experience, passion and intellect to drive this organization to great success. All of these qualities, combined with his familiarity with our community and his legendary energy, are going to assure exciting times for Padres' fans."
"I am thrilled to be coming home to San Diego - an extraordinary community that has always been very special to me," said Dee. "The Padres organization is where I started my sports career nearly two decades ago, and I am grateful to Ron and Peter for the opportunity to return to my roots."
Dee returns to San Diego after spending eight successful seasons with the Padres from 1995-2002, joining the club as director of corporate development before several promotions that lead to his appointment as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs in 2001. While with the Padres, the club won two division titles, a National League pennant and successfully passed proposition C that led to the construction of Petco Park.
Dee most recently served as the CEO of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium since May 3, 2009. While with the Dolphins, he developed initiatives to grow the fan base and game-day experience, finalized a ground-breaking naming rights deal while enhancing relationships with the club's business partners and re-focused team resources to create a greater emphasis on community relations efforts.
Dee served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs for the Boston Red Sox beginning in 2002 prior to his promotion to Chief Operating Officer in 2004. While with the Red Sox, Dee also served as President of Fenway Sports Group, a company that he created in 2004 under the direction of Red Sox ownership to diversify the business interests of the Red Sox beyond baseball. During his tenure in Boston, the Red Sox won two World Series titles and set franchise records for attendance and revenue each year - including an MLB record consecutive sellouts streak dating to 2003.
Dee played basketball and earned a degree in government from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Penn., where he still serves on the Advisory Board.
Dee and his wife, Karen, have two sons


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In Jared Morris' first game as a defensive back, he picked off four passes.
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Who would have thought that we'd see the record books being rewritten right out of the gate? But that's why the game is played, isn't it, to see the greatness of individual players and of teams emerge? Some rise up and conquer their opponents against the odds, and sometimes it's not just the record books that are rewritten — but our perspectives as well.
Pat Coleman, Keith McMillan and Ryan Tipps lay out their evolving perspectives, building off the week gone by and forecasting the Saturday ahead. We don't live in a bubble, so please comment below or light it up on Twitter using the hashtag #3take.
Lots of teams that took Week 1 off are joining the fray this weekend:
Game of the week.
Ryan's take: No. 3 Wesley at No. 6 Salisbury. Two of the top teams in the country, led by two of the highest-outputting quarterbacks at this level, and playing in the storied Route 13 Rivalry. This is the kind of matchup worth salivating over.
Pat's take: Christopher Newport at Hampden-Sydney. It's high time these two teams played each other. They have scrimmaged each other fairly frequently, but have not met in a regular season or postseason game. But with a combined record of 139-53 over the past decade, these two Virginia schools should be on the field together, and it should be an entertaining game.
Keith's take: No. 14 Redlands at No. 13 North Central. When the Bulldogs beat the Cardinals in California, it echoed throughout the top 25 for much of last season. This year, North Central is hosting, coming off a Week 1 loss to a WIAC team and looking to return the favor. North Central, long considered one of the D-III programs most likely to break through to Salem in place of the purple powers, is now fighting to avoid an 0-2 start. Meanwhile, it's the opener for Redlands and quarterback Chad Hurst, and an opportunity to score another one for the SCIAC while national observers are paying attention.
Surprisingly close game.
Ryan's take: Washington U. at Rhodes. I typed and deleted this answer probably six times before settling on this game. Because, when it comes down to it, almost every game at this point in the season has a surprise element of some sort that affects the outcome, even if it's just how a new player is going to perform under center or how well an offensive line will mesh. Me, I can see Washington being pretty beat up after taking on the defending national champs. That opens a door, even if just a crack, for Rhodes to be competitive.
Pat's take: Eureka at St. Scholastica. The teams couldn't have been further apart in their first-week opponents. There are a couple of other UMAC teams stepping up to play strong non-conference opponents (Northwestern playing St. John's, MacMurray playing Wartburg) but Eureka beating Knox and St. Scholastica losing to Whitworth doesn't show the relative strength of the teams. But Eureka, our pick to finish tied for sixth in the league, and St. Scholastica our pick to win it, should play an entertaining and relatively high scoring game. The question is whether the front six can get enough pressure on Eureka quarterback Sam Durley to force him to get rid of the ball. Otherwise he will pick apart just about any secondary in the UMAC.
Keith's take: Montclair State at Salve Regina. The teams met last season, and the Seahawks were game but not able to win in New Jersey, losing 18-7. This time around, the game is in Rhode Island, the Red Hawks are fielding a much younger lineup and coming off a Week 1 loss. Salve, on the other hand, beat Union despite just 246 yards of total offense. That might not be enough to beat Montclair State, but Salve should against give them a scare, at least.
Most likely Top 25 team to get upset.
Ryan's take: No. 15 Bethel. Bethel travels to Wartburg, but don't think for a moment that the Knights' 73-0 stomping of a lower-tier UMAC team did them many favors in terms of preparation. Complacency can't set in. The Royals are a whole different beast. Wartburg at least has a game under its belt, which Bethel can't claim.
Pat's take: No. 21 UW-Platteville. Dubuque still has enough offensive talent to cause trouble. They won't be intimidated by a WIAC team, especially not the ones across the river. I look at Dubuque and picture them thinking Platteville has the notoriety and the ranking Dubuque earned with its play last season.
Keith's take: No. 9 St. John Fisher. Boy, one week we love you and the next … well, it's not really that the Cardinals are ripe for upset. It's that there's playing at Washington & Jefferson, often the equal to fellow PAC power Thomas More. The Saints pushed the Cardinals into overtime in Week 1.
They'll be on your radar.
Ryan's take: No. 5 Linfield. In Kickoff, I made an unusual prediction about the Wildcats, but to have a good run this fall, they need to make sure that they shore up their fresh-faced secondary. Hardin-Simmons has the ability to spread the ball around and get some yards, but turnovers for the Cowboys were a killer in Week 1. If Linfield can replicate that kind of containment of the HSU passing game, then the future in McMinnville will look even brighter.
Pat's take: Huntingdon. If the experienced front four can bottle up or at least slow down Birmingham-Southern running back Shawn Morris, it will give the Hawks a little room to work with. Only the winner is likely to stay in contention for a playoff bid, and even then they really have to beat Wesley.
Keith's take: Buffalo State and Brockport State. Okay, you got our attention in Week 1. The Bengals put up 49 points and 706 yards on Cortland State. The Golden Eagles limited Lycoming to 31 yards rushing, three third-down conversions and just 23:17 of possession and 60 snaps. Something's got to give in this week's clash of the SUNYs, and we'll be watching the game at Brockport to see what.
Which team will bounce back from a Week 1 loss?
Ryan's take: Christopher Newport. Don't be fooled by the Captains' 40-16 loss last week. With 3:30 left in the third quarter, the score was 20-16, and CNU was notably keeping pace with the sixth-best team in the nation. CNU showed it had offense thanks to a strong passing attack, but the defense was simply worn down in the trenches. Hampden-Sydney doesn't play such a hard-nosed style — they're more of a finesse team. CNU should be ready to handle that well.
Pat's take: No. 16 Franklin. Butler is beatable, even though it's apparently "Band Day" at the D-I non-scholarship school. Butler's better than Valparaiso is, a team which Franklin beat last year, but even being competitive is better than last week's loss to Mount Union.
Keith's take: Adrian, St. Norbert and Monmouth. This was covered in my Around the Nation column this week, so I have three teams at the ready. Defiance, Knox and Beloit are this week's opponents for the Bulldogs, Green Knights and Scots, and if they all don't win by double digits, I'd be stunned.
Opener you're most curious about.
Ryan's take: DePauw. I'm not sure that lining up against St. Olaf is going to tell me much about how well the Tigers will play against their new North Coast conference mates. DePauw's lone year as an independent in 2011 told us a lot about the considerable rebuilding the team was going through (first losing season since 1995). The Oles are good at breaking through the bricks and mortar of a team, but DePauw can't let Saturday's likely setback cripple the next nine weeks.
Pat's take: Bethel. I know the passing game has not been a big part of the Royals' offense so I'm more interested in new quarterback's Erik Peterson's running ability. They'll get a big test right out of the gate. Normally I would give Wartburg a bit of a bonus for having played a game already but MacMurray didn't put up much of a fight and the starters were out early.
Keith's take: Cal Lutheran. There are six teams who have yet to open up in the top 25, including Wabash, Redlands, Bethel, Baldwin Wallace and Mary-Hardin Baylor. I'm intrigued by all of them, but none more than the Kingsmen, who were a hair away from winning a playoff opener at Linfield last year, and earning the SCIAC unprecedented respect. I wanted to ride that wave and rank them higher, but with only 13 starters back, including six on offense and five on defense, I was wary. Seeing how the Kingsmen play in the opener against Pacific Lutheran will help define how voters feel about them, not to mention how they feel about themselves. Plus we're all curious to see 6-4 star wide receiver Eric Rogers back in action.
Which long road trip will turn out the best?
Ryan's take: Washington and Lee at Sewanee. In Week 1, the Generals fell to Franklin and Marshall, in a matchup that's opened the season for several years now. But even in those years in which W&L has lost, the Generals have shown themselves adept at bouncing back, righting their ship ahead of conference play. Making this all the more exciting is Sewanee, coming off its best season in nearly a decade and starting 2012 with a win. This should be a good matchup, with W&L ultimately landing its first win of the season.
Pat's take: St. Olaf at DePauw. I think DePauw has more work to do before it can begin to bounce back from last year. The long trip is not all that unusual for the Oles, who played at Pacific Lutheran in 2009, so the only issue is that St. Olaf needs to play better than it did at Luther last week.
Keith's take: Rowan at Merrimack. It's basically NWC-SCIAC challenge week out West, but the matchups are surprisingly even. There are a ton of short non-conference trips this week, like Methodist to Guilford and Case Western Reserve to Hiram, leaving me to take a out-of-division game here. But if the Profs, like the Rowan teams of old, beats a team from a scholarship division, it sends a message to the NJAC that perhaps the program is back. Nevermind that Merrimack, from the D-II Northeast-10, is probably recruiting players who compare to those recruited into the NJAC, with Rowan's public-school tuition and dearth of in-state competition for players. This is a winnable game for Rowan, riding high after the Week 1 upset. Merrimack, which lost, 45-18, to New Haven in its opener could be demoralized by an early Profs score or two.


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Raised a devout Mormon, at 13 years-old he was subjected to a traumatic event that shattered his young spirit. Kimball carried on dutifully in both his family and faith, but began coping via unhealthy vices. He grew into a scared and empty-feeling adult, taking solace in bittersweet indulgences of alcohol, drugs, and sex. Manipulation of relationships, money, and secrecy were his means to get by, until his schemes came crashing down around him and he found that the animal he let himself become was caged in a jail cell.
"It's definitely been a long journey. It began organically. I was sitting in a jail cell after I was arrested. I was in a really bad place, a really dark place in my life, and I started journaling," he explains of his piece's roots. "I wanted to find answers and needed answers, and this theme was coming out of it. I couldn't stop creating. Over two years it evolved into a play."
The material is entirely autobiographical and, other than adaptation of inconsequential data like ages of characters, is factual. He consulted his parents and spent "hours and hours" watching carefully documented family home video footage to recall details like his own mannerisms; which he says were, perhaps not surprisingly, less than in alignment with stereotypical straight little boys. "I'm in shock at how gay of a little kid I was!" he joked.
Kimball came up in rural Idaho, in a region he calls both very religious and very conservative, but he's found that his true self always seemed to shine through. "There's this theme in the play of the beginning of my homosexually being questioned," he said. "But in my parents' video of the school play, or my birthday parties, I can see it. Or in how excited I was when a friend gave me a crochet set," he laughed. "I was living in this world of cookie cutter religious people and it was so foreign to them, I don't think they could put in a title of who I was or what I was. But if I were accepted, if I were celebrated, would I be a felon today?"
He is reveling in his journey of self-discovery, though, and learning how to grow and move forward from looking backward. "I would say it's surprisingly really fun playing the younger me; to tap into my youth again. As adults we reflect on our childhood, but never get to actually revisit it. But I played the darker elements and themes of myself, revisit those demons. It was very challenging. It was not only cathartic to write, it was emotionally challenging on stage. You're completely vulnerable, opening your heart and your soul on stage, this very peaceful feeling. It's religious!"
Speaking of religion, it's safe to assume the Mormon community isn't eager to get behind Kimball's production, but he's been pleasantly surprised by how some have embraced it. "I don't think the Latter Day Saints Church is thrilled. It questions their doctrines and highlights the negative effects on an individual, on me. Of course I'm a former member, but a lot of my friends and family are still members, very active members. There are people not willing to see the play or have a conversation with me about it, and it's unbelievably frustrating. It's really shocking how quickly they'll shut the door. You don't question authority, god, leadership, your parents, etc. Ignorance is just fear."
"With that said though, it's been really interesting. There has been this incredible amount of support from friends from my childhood, the town we grew up in, and family members. People have sent some very thoughtful emails saying 'We're sorry we didn't do more and are so happy to see the success of your play.' Some people I was expecting retaliation and anger from, I got the opposite. I don't know what to expect anymore."
In addition to enjoying his production's overall success, Kimball has experienced profound personal fulfillment that strengthens his sobriety. "It's filled a void in my life, especially since becoming sober. A big part of the play is my drug use, hard drugs. You're used to having that be a part of your everyday life.Taking that away and filling it with this artistic expression has been really beautiful, to see the path of sobriety and healing and filling it with this play. It's been theraputic."
"I never thought before that I would find closure with a lot of this inner turmoil. I'm beginning to find closure with my family, with myself, and with my religion."
"Sometimes it seems almost hopeless, like you'll never find peace with these challenging emotions and things in your life. Actor and playwright are titles I didn't think I'd ever see on the timeline of Kimball Allen. It's this whole new world and it's been rad! Yes, without a doubt, it gets better!" laughing, he exclaims. He's referencing, of course, journalist and queer activist Dan Savage's widespread "It Gets Better Project", steering at-risk youth away from destructive coping mechanisms, even suicide, and encouraging them to look forward to their future.
Kimball says he feels a profound responsibility to his community and already has plans in the works to support adolescents who may be struggling. "Being an advocate to the LGBT community and being an activist is important to me. Another project we're working on is this workshop, a summer camp for teens. It will be a week-long mentoring project involving team building, workshops, etc. We're going to do a workshop called 'Discovering Your Proud Voice,' encouraging self discovery. Everyone has a story and I'm excited to helping these younger artists discover theirs."
Even the one burden he can find in his new found vocation, editing his work, he is turning into positive step. He's found it tough taking his life's stories, moments that he holds so dear, and putting them on the chopping block. "There is so much to talk about in my life, in my childhood, my family, and my religions-- the challenge is editing, making it so people don't die of boredom!" He's utilizing those untapped monologues for his sequel, "Secrets of the Kool-Aid Sucking Society", about working with his friends at a Boy Scout Camp during the summer as a teen. "It's a secret club I had as a teenager with my friends. It's definitely a dark comedy. If I had to describe it… it'd be like 'Newsies' with 'Dead Poets Society' sprinklings, a side of 'Troop Beverly Hills', garnished with 'Goonies'."
He finds the comparisons to essayist and fellow non-fiction funnyman David Sedaris to be an honor but he what he finds most rewarding is the connection he makes with the audience on stage."This play has so many themes, from self discovery to drug use, to religion. There are also very controversial subjects like rape and abuse. Everyone is going to come away with something different. I've been surprised with people finding connections that I didn't, and that's awesome. That's what art does. Everyone is inspired in a different way."
"My desire is that people will leave reflecting, there is a lot of self reflection, and they should leave questioning themselves, authority, the world we live in, and the way they treat others. I hope that they leave being changed for the better, really.:
The play premiered last summer in Kansas City, Kimball says it's "still very new". In November he'll take the play to Honolulu. Since his show is going to tour, he says, "I'm going to pick fabulous gay-friendly destinations! The intention is to go everywhere, from L.A. to New York." He also hopes to share his story with Salt Lake City, Utah, infamously the Mormon capital of the U.S., in the spring.
To learn more about Kimball Allen and find out where 'Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon' will be performed next, visit http://secretsofagaymormonfelon.com/.


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Program Background
The Governor signed Senate Bill 376 authorizing the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program in October 1997. The State Board of Education (SBE), as required by statute, designated the Stanford Achievement Test Series, Ninth Edition (Stanford 9) as the national norm-referenced achievement tests for the STAR Program. These tests were first administered to students in grades two through eleven in California public schools during spring 1998. They were last administered as part of the STAR Program during spring 2002. School districts were required to administer the tests to all students in grades two through eleven, with the following exceptions:
Students who were receiving special education services with individualized
education programs (IEPs) that specified that the students were to have an
alternate assessment; and
- Students whose parents/guardians submitted written requests to exempt the students from testing.
Students in grades two through eleven were tested in reading, language, and mathematics. Students in grades two through eight were also tested in spelling, and students in grades nine through eleven were tested in science and social science. All questions on the tests were multiple-choice. The purpose of the Stanford 9 was to compare each student's achievement of general skills taught throughout the United States to the achievement of a national sample of students tested in the same grade at the same time of the school year.
In 1998, the SBE designated the Spanish Assessment of Basic Education, Second Edition (SABE/2) as the primary language test for the STAR Program. Beginning in spring 1999, Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) who were enrolled in California public schools less than 12 months when testing began were required to take the SABE/2 as well as the Stanford 9 and the Stanford 9 Augmentation/California Standards Tests (CSTs). School districts were given the option of also testing Spanish-speaking ELs enrolled in California public schools 12 months or more with the SABE/2.
During the 1998–99 school year, multiple-choice questions were developed specifically to assess the California English–language arts (ELA) and mathematics content standards. These questions, initially referred to as the Stanford 9 Augmentation, were administered for the first time during spring 1999. Students received CST scores based on questions selected from the Stanford 9 tests and the California-specific questions.
The purpose of the CSTs is to determine students' achievement of the California content standards for each grade or course. Students' scores are compared to preset criteria to determine whether the students' performance on the test is advanced, proficient, basic, below basic, or far below basic. The state target is for all students to score at the proficient and advanced levels.
The legislature reauthorized the STAR Program during 2002, and the SBE selected the California Achievement Tests, Sixth Edition Survey (CAT/6 Survey) to replace the Stanford 9 as the national norm-referenced test for the STAR Program beginning with the spring 2003 test administration. The SBE also authorized the development of the California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA), an individually administered assessment for students with significant cognitive disabilities whose disabilities preclude them from taking the CSTs and CAT/6 Survey even with modifications. The CAPA assesses the California ELA, mathematics, and science content standards that were identified as appropriate for students with significant cognitive disabilities. The CAPA was first administered during spring 2003.
In August 2004, the Governor signed legislation reauthorizing the STAR Program through 2011. The reauthorized program reduced the CAT/6 Survey to grades three and seven.
During 2005, the SBE designated the Aprenda: La prueba de logros en español, Tercera edición (Aprenda 3) to replace the SABE/2 as the designated primary language test (DPLT) for the STAR Program. Beginning in 2006, Spanish-speaking ELs who were receiving instruction in Spanish were required to take the DPLT, as were Spanish-speaking ELs who had been enrolled in school in the United States less than 12 months when testing began. School districts had the option of administering the Aprenda 3 to Spanish-speaking ELs who had been enrolled in school in the United States 12 months or more who were not receiving instruction in Spanish. The change came about through new state law that became effective on January 1, 2006. The DPLT was administered until 2008.
Senate Bill 1448, which reauthorized the STAR Program, included the development of assessments for reading/language arts and mathematics in the state's dominant primary language. The legislation required that the assessments be aligned to the California academic content standards. The Standards-based Tests in Spanish (STS) was developed to replace the DPLT and is required for the same population of students who took the DPLT. The STS was first administered in the spring of 2007 to students in grades two through four. Beginning in 2009, the STS was available for students in grades two through eleven. Students taking the STS are also required to take the CSTs and/or the California Modified Assessment (CMA).
In April 2007, the U.S. Department of Education enacted regulations for an alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards. In response to the federal regulations, the CDE is developing an alternate assessment of the California content standards based on modified achievement standards for children with an IEP who meet the eligibility criteria adopted by the State Board of Education. The new test, the CMA, includes assessments for ELA, mathematics, and science. Eligible students may take either the CST or the CMA in a subject area. For example, a student in grade five may take the CST for ELA and take the CMA for mathematics and science. In 2011, the CMA was administered to eligible students in grades three through eleven for specific subjects and grades.
The 2011 STAR Program includes four components:
- California Standards Tests
- California Modified Assessment—Grades three through eleven
- California Alternate Performance Assessment
- Standards-based Tests in Spanish
The CSTs are a major component of California's accountability system for schools and school districts. CST, CMA, and CAPA results are the major component used for calculating each school's Academic Performance Index (API). These results are also used for determining whether elementary and middle schools are making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in helping all students become proficient on the California content standards, as required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Schools use CST results to identify high school seniors eligible for the California Golden State Seal Merit Diploma. The eligibility requirements for the diploma are posted at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/eligibility.asp.
Milestones for the STAR Program
|Stand-alone mathematics CSTs that used no Stanford 9 questions
were developed for grades eight through eleven
|Stand-alone history–social science and science CSTs were developed and
administered in grades nine through eleven.
The writing component was added to the grade four and grade seven ELA CSTs.
Performance levels were reported for ELA CSTs.
|Performance levels were reported for all CSTs.
The grade four and grade seven writing components were combined with the multiple-choice components to produce the ELA CST scores.
|Grade nine History–Social Science CST was moved to grade eight.
All CSTs were administered as stand-alone tests.
CAPA was first administered.
|Grade five Science CST was added.
|Grade eight Science and grade ten Life Science CSTs were added.
|STS in reading/language arts and mathematics for grades
two through four were added.
Students in grade seven were allowed to take the Algebra I CST if they had completed the course.
Students in grades nine through eleven were allowed to take the CST for world history if they had completed the course.
|CMAs for grades three through five were added for
ELA, mathematics and science (grade five only).
STS for reading/language arts and mathematics for grades five through seven were added.
CAPA science test became operational.
|CMAs were added for ELA (grades six through eight), mathematics (grades six
and seven), and science (grade eight).
Writing assessments were also added as part of the CMA for ELA in grades four and seven.
STS were added for reading/language arts (grades eight through eleven), Algebra I, and Geometry.
CAT/6 Survey and Aprenda 3 no longer administered.
|CMAs were added for ELA (grade nine), Algebra I (grades seven through eleven), and Life Science (grade ten).
CST and CMA writing tests only administered in grade seven.
|CMAs were added for ELA (grades ten and eleven) and Geometry.
CST and CMA writing tests administered in grades four and seven.


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Do you associate Anna Kendrick with the tightly-wound, overly-ambitious career girl that earned her an Oscar nomination for "Up in the Air"? Congratulations. You're the reason she took a role in the "cancer comedy" "50/50."
"I particularly liked the contrast between this character and 'Up In The Air' that I'd been talking about and promoting for a long time," Kendrick tells PopcornBiz. "I wanted to take a break from being in 'Up In The Air' land. We shot this movie basically right after the Oscars, and so it was great to sort of channel all my insecurities and vulnerability into this character and it felt really cathartic, actually."
Kendrick says the "50/50" role of Dr. Katherine McKay, a novice therapist awkwardly attempting to counsel a 27-year-old cancer patient (Joseph Gordon Levitt) "felt really soft and a little lost, and her problem was that she cares so much and lets herself get tripped up by what she thinks she's supposed to say. She's not really helping anybody, when all she wants to do is help people."
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The 26 year-old actress also discovered herself flexing acting muscles she hadn't expected would require so much lifting while developing a warm, possibly romantic rapport with Gordon-Levitt's character. "This was new territory for me, and at a certain point I sort turned to Joe and I said, 'I'm exhausted! Nobody told me that this stuff was so much work. It looks so easy. It looks like just so kind of breezy and natural,'" she says.
"It certainly helps that Joe is this really interesting and kind person. [But] to dispel any kind of assumption that chemistry onscreen is, like, luck, I guess it was a good combination of luck that we got along really well, but then you actually have to work to make it look easy."
"I get really tired of things quickly, so just whatever the opposite of something that I've just done is what will probably excite me the most," says Kendrick as she tries to imagine even more disparate roles for herself. "I guess that I have a little bit of a Napoleon complex, so I am sort of drawn to strong women and tough women, but then by contrast sometimes it's nice to be just sort of vulnerable. Something strikes you when you're reading and gets you excited and you're never really sure what it's going to be. It tends to be something that I feel like I haven't tapped into for a while, and that gets me excited."


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The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists' unified plan of giving through which cooperating Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their undesignated receipts in support of their respective state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries.
Your Church... decides the next step. Every year your church prayerfully decides how much of its undesignated gifts will be committed to reaching people in your state and around the world through The Cooperative Program. This amount is then forwarded to your State Baptist Convention.
Messengers at the State Convention Annual Meetings... from your church and other churches across the state decide what percentage of Cooperative Program gifts contributed by local congregations stay in your state to support local missions and ministries. The percentage to be forwarded to the SBC for North American and international missions and ministries is also determined at this time.
Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting... from across the country decide how the gifts received from the states will be distributed among SBC entities. These gifts are used by SBC entities to send and support missionaries, train pastors, and other ministry leaders; provide relief for retired ministers and widows; and address social, moral, and ethical concerns relating to our faith and families.
The bottom line – people around the world hear the gospel and receive Christ!
Since its inception in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has always had one mission —the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20). To fulfill its assigned part of this divine mandate, each SBC entity made special offering appeals to the churches. This method was referred to as the "societal" approach to missions and resulted in severe financial deficits, competition among entities, overlapping pledge campaigns, and frequent emergency appeals which greatly hampered the expanding ministry opportunities God was giving Southern Baptist. Some entities took out loans to cover operating costs until pledges or special offerings were received.
In 1919, the leaders of the SBC proposed the 75 Million Campaign, a five‐year pledge campaign that, for the first time, included everything - the missions and ministries of all the state conventions as well as that of the Southern Baptist Convention. Though falling short of its goals, a God‐given partnership of missions support was conceived - The Cooperative Program. Since its launch in 1925, the effectiveness of the Cooperative Program has been dependent upon individuals, churches, state conventions, and SBC entities cooperating, working toward a common goal of sharing the gospel with every person on the planet.


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2400 E. Hartford Ave.
Enderis Hall, Room 132
Milwaukee, WI 53211
The Neuromechanics Laboratories perform interdisciplinary research involving muscle physiology, motor control, and biomechanics. A primary focus of our research is to address basic and applied research questions that inform clinical practice in areas such as athletic training and physical therapy. Our group of research faculty investigates questions relating to neuromuscular control deficits encountered in both young and older populations that could increase the risk of musculoskeletal injury and affect quality of life.
Primary research equipment
- Ten-camera Motion Analysis Eagle motion capture system
- Kinarm robotic exoskeleton for the arm
- Motion Monitor electromagnetic system
- Force Plates (1 AMTI, 2 mounted Bertec, and 4 portable Bertec)
EMG Systems
- Noraxon Telemyo 8 channel
- Run Technologies Myopac 16 channel
- CED Spike 2 Data Acquisition system
- Coulbourn data acquisition system
- Biodex Dynamometer and accessories
- Tekscan in-shoe pressure system
- Uniaxial and Triaxial accelerometers (PCB)
- ATI Nano foce sensor
- Treadmill (Precor)
- Wacom digitizing tablet
Primary research software
- Visual3D
- Labview
- Matlab
- Movalyzer Neuroscript
- Datapac 2K2 Acquisition and Analysis (Run Technologies)


text: Back Apple Carrot Salad Ingredients 1 cup shredded carrots 3 (medium) unpared and diced apples 1 tbsp. lemon juice ½ cup raisins ⅛ cup low-fat mayonnaise Directions Combine all ingredients. Chill thoroughly. Serve on salad greens. Make about six servings Serving size is about 1/6 recipe. Each serving provides 110 calories,1 g fat, 0 mg cholesterol,140 mg sodium, 25 g carbohydrate, 3 g dietary fiber, 20 g sugar, 1 g protein.


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Jun 29, 2011
Wednesday Wallpapers #05
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Jun 24, 2011
But Damn, You Smell Good, Like Home.
I am one of those people who had her heart broken into pieces a long while ago. Inspiring some of my best posts ofcourse - like In Loving Memory and Somedays. For those who don't know, it was a typical college romance that went on for a long long time. We met on the basketball court and it was one heck of a roller-coaster! Till things fell apart, bit by bit and we weren't 'we' anymore. We were just.... me and him.
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Jun 22, 2011
Wednesday Wallpapers #04
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Jun 15, 2011
Wednesday Wallpapers #03
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Jun 11, 2011
This part of my life is called Joy.
Just when I was about to give up on the damnit-you-blink-and-they-dry Acrylics ...
P.S: I think my 'A.' at the top right looks pretty cool! What say? :)
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Jun 8, 2011
Wednesday Wallpapers #02
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Jun 6, 2011
Half Yearly Lessons
Random fact about me - I am a list person. I will make lists to plan things (almost like a timetable :P), to sort things, to buy things, to throw things out. I will make lists when I am angry, when I am sad, when I am happy. And I make lists when I am bored. Lists. About anything and everything and sometimes nothing significant at all.
About things I learnt in the first half of 2011.
- The time to do something you know you want to do - is NOW.
- Everyone thinks they are being paid less.
- Best friends are always too few and too precious to lose.
- No one is 'there' in their lives. Everyone has some crap going on that you may not be aware of.
- It takes serious effort to make a relationship happen.
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Jun 1, 2011
Wednesday Wallpapers # 01
Unless you are on my Facebook, you would probably not know of my obsession with making wallpapers.
I *literally* take hundreds of pictures every week - infact I am running out of space on all my hdd's (and trust me when I say I
have used to have a LOT of space) - and I love changing my desktop wallpaper about 246 times a day. Then I started making my own wallpapers out of some of those pictures and my favorite quotes to adorn my desktop. A couple of my friends passing by my desk saw the wallpapers and asked me where I got them from and thats when I decided to put it up on Facebook.
So, since I am pretty pressed for time to update around here *not really, I am just lazy :P* I think it would be fun to make the middle of my usually boring weeks a lil bit more interesting. What say to Wednesday Wallpapers? :)
I *literally* take hundreds of pictures every week - infact I am running out of space on all my hdd's (and trust me when I say I
So, since I am pretty pressed for time to update around here *not really, I am just lazy :P* I think it would be fun to make the middle of my usually boring weeks a lil bit more interesting. What say to Wednesday Wallpapers? :)
*This one got the max likes... hoping you will love it too :)*
Click on the picture to view it in high-res and download it!
If you like what you see, grab one of these buttons to link up to all the Wednesday Wallpapers :)
P.S: Hey btw, can you believe that HALF of 2011 is GONE?! :O
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I am using windows98 and a djgpp compiler. I am trying to compile a program that use <winsock.h> and <windows.h> and the result is A LOT of errors. It seems that the program's code is OK. Is there any problem with these libs? Is it fixed? If it is fixed where can i find the well working libs?
Thanx a lot.


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(CNN) -- Dolly Parton suffered minor injuries in a traffic crash at a Nashville intersection on Monday, according to the singer and police.
I was in a fender bender this morning here in Nashville, but I am all good... Just a little tired and sore. Resting at home now!— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) October 21, 2013
"I was in a fender bender this morning, here in Nashville," Parton, 67, said in a Twitter posting. "But I am all good. Just a little tired and sore, resting at home."
A Nashville police statement blamed the driver of another vehicle with failing to yield to the SUV in which Parton was riding as a front-seat passenger.
Parton and the driver of her Nissan Xterra, 68-year-old Judy Ogle, were taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries, the police report said.
Parton and Ogle have been close friends since elementary school, according to previous interviews.
Diane Lish, 64, of Old Hickory, Tennessee, was taken to another hospital for treatment. Lish was behind the wheel of the Mitsubishi Diamante that crashed into Parton's vehicle, police said.
None of the injuries appeared serious, police said.
CNN's Joe Sutton contributed to this report.


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I finally found enough time to release the new version I've been working on for past monthes (maybe even years).
You may not see a lot of changes but trust me, there are quite a few under the hood.
I am still amazed by how many people are using LiLi in the world. I would never have thought when I started this project for fun that one day it would be used by 6.7 million people and would create 20 millions live USB !
So thank you all for using and sharing LiLi.
Here is a list of new features/linux for LiLi 2.9.0 :
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After quite a long time I have fainlly been able to release a new version (not just an update).
Here it is, version 2.9 Alpha. You can download it from this URL : http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/other-versions
Click the link below to see what's new (or just read the included README.TXT file).
Woah ! This one took me quite some time to release.
Did you know that Distrowatch is counting more than 700 different Linux distributions ? That means a never-ending job to update LiLi.
This new update brings support for :
I worked the whole saturday just for you so I hope you will like what I have done.
LiLi 2.7 has been updated to 2.7.7 (I call it "Update 7").
Portable VirtualBox is now using the latest VirtualBox 4.0.8 and is more secure.
A new Beta (2.8 Beta) is available.
Last but not least, I greatly improved the way supported Linux distributions are displayed on the Linux support matrix page.
After 6 months of development, the new stable version of LinuxLive USB Creator is available !
It comes with a lot of new features, improvements and new linux distributions supported.
After three public betas, this version is tagged 2.7.3 and weight 3.3 MB.
Click below to see what is new in this release.
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ON a May morning in Los Angeles, a beautiful, somber brunette sat to the left of the lawyer who would present her case to a room full of about 75 reporters, photographers and camera people. "We are here today because another alleged victim of Roman Polanski's sexual predatory conduct has come forward," the lawyer explained, her face set in a familiar, concerned frown as the cameras whirred. "Charlotte Lewis, of London, England, who appeared in Roman Polanski's film 'Pirates,' alleges that she was victimized by Mr. Polanksi when she was 16 years old."
For the lawyer, Gloria Allred, if not for her client, this was not an unusual morning. Over the past three decades, Ms. Allred's face has appeared with remarkable regularity as — depending on one's perspective — a feminist avenging crusader or a deluxe ambulance chaser catching a ride on the latest tabloid scandal. "Other victims should come forward to talk to law enforcement or to talk to me," urged Ms. Allred, who was sitting atop a yellow-pages directory to make her 5-foot-2 frame more visible.
It is in this large white room with its clear view of the Hollywood sign that you may have seen Ms. Allred sitting next to one of Tiger Woods's alleged mistresses, Veronica Siwik-Daniels, just as in earlier days she had famously sat alongside Amber Frey, the former girlfriend of the convicted murderer Scott Peterson; the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman; the aggrieved ex-girlfriends of Charlie Sheen, Shaquille O'Neal and Dodi Fayed; an aspiring singer named January Gessert, attempting to make it clear that she played no part in the breakup of Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush; Mr. Woods's kindergarten teacher, Maureen Decker, repudiating an often-repeated tale that Mr. Woods was the victim of racial epithets as a young child; and a host of women whose faces loop through TMZ.com, Us Weekly and People.
A quick trip through YouTube will also yield a Technicolor parade of other cases with which Ms. Allred has associated herself, including, most recently, that of Debrahlee Lorenzana — the nicely endowed woman with a penchant for fitted suits whose appearance seemed to upset her bosses at Citibank.
As cameras clicked and reporters scribbled in their notes, Ms. Lewis, with Ms. Allred looking on supportively, said she had come forward, nearly three decades after the alleged offense, to "make sure justice is finally done and that Mr. Polanski gets what he deserves."
Mr. Polanski is under house arrest in Switzerland, waiting to see if he will be extradited to the United States over a 1977 sex-crimes case in which he was charged with raping a 13-year-old girl; he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a minor but fled the country before final sentencing.
Ms. Lewis would later describe Ms. Allred as "a terrier," explaining that she hoped to affect a judge's ultimate sentencing of Mr. Polanski in that 1977 case with her own story of what she said happened to her in 1982. She decided to hire her after reading her 2006 book, "Fight Back and Win."
"I needed a strong advocate," Ms. Lewis said. "I felt I needed an American attorney, and I wanted a female. I felt completely protected and safe with her sitting by my side."
Two weeks before that press conference, on a much quieter Los Angeles morning, Ms. Allred, who turns 69 next month, sat at the same extra-long table, impeccably turned out, as she seems always to be — this time in beige pants and a beige jacket, a silk scarf with splashes of red and black, gold earrings and a gold chain around her neck. Her short hair was neatly streaked and coiffed, her skin impressively youthful and her makeup careful and judicious. She is small and trim, though she does hardly any exercise. "Fighting injustice keeps you young," she said.
Ms. Allred's definition of injustice is sweeping. At this point in time she is in the news for assisting Rachel Uchitel and Ms. Siwik-Daniels (perhaps better known as the adult-film star Joslyn James), two of the many women who have emerged in the life of the prolific golfer Mr. Woods. "Whatever number you have read is probably right," Ms. Allred said. (The National Enquirer reported 121).
She also recently represented Vanessa Lopez in a suit against the basketball star Shaquille O'Neal, and accompanied Kate Gosselin's brother, Kevin Kreider, and his wife, Jodi, as they testified during an emotional Pennsylvania legislative hearing on child-labor laws.
But the overwhelming majority of cases handled by her 10-lawyer office, Allred, Maroko & Goldberg, involve workplace discrimination and wrongful termination, and Ms. Allred has handled many heart-wrenching cases that don't make the tabloids.
There is also no question that her high-profile work has helped to make it one of the most well-known litigation firms in the country. Michael Maroko, Ms. Allred's law partner of 35 years, said he first noticed her in class at Loyola law school; she was the student who was always challenging the professor.
"Whenever I go to a dinner party," he said, "someone inevitably asks me, 'Who is your P.R. person?' " He laughed. "We don't have a P.R. person. In 35 years we've never paid one penny for P.R. Gloria just has an ability to handle the mishegas. She can face 150 cameras as cool as a cucumber."
If today it sometimes seems as though Ms. Allred is living in the nascent feminism of the 1970s, so, in a way, are many of her firm's less visible clients: women (and men) who have been sexually harassed or fondled at work, girls who've been molested, or female prison inmates forced to wear handcuffs while delivering their babies. Those who support Ms. Allred argue that cases like those of Ms. Lorenzana and Citibank fit into this galaxy — but with tabloid glare, notoriety and guaranteed publicity thrown into the mix.
Thane Rosenbaum, a novelist and law professor at Fordham University, sees Ms. Allred as what he calls "a moral attorney," which he defines as someone who takes on a case without any thought for her own reputation or even whether she's going to win or lose in the courtroom.
"She represents people who we might not want to go to lunch with," Mr. Rosenbaum said, "and she ruffles the feathers of people who think lawyers should confine themselves to the courtroom. She takes on issues that are too messy for the courtroom. Some people think it's salacious, what she's bringing into the public square. She's in effect saying: 'I move the ball out of this arena and take it into this arena. Being a quiet, demure woman will get this case nowhere.' "
THE first thing to understand about Gloria Allred is that she does not care what you think about her relationship to media. If you search for any sense of embarrassment or shame, such as you might feel if your name were a late-night punch line for any joke regarding overly tenacious lawyering, you will not find it. It doesn't exist. Her relationship to media is like Oprah Winfrey's to money. It is uncomplicated, and you are free to project onto it whatever you like.
Recently, the comedian Chelsea Handler spoke for those who feel less than sympathetic toward Ms. Allred and some of her clients. "I understand Gloria Allred is an attorney, but if all she's concerned about is women who are wronged, there are plenty of women with regular jobs in the Midwest that nobody has ever heard of who have been cheated on by their husbands," Ms. Handler wrote on her blog. Earlier, on her late-night talk show, Ms. Handler had been even more explicit: "She's the worst. She's the worst. Talk about setting the women's movement back a hundred years."
Whatever your response to her style, it is indisputable that Ms. Allred has carved a place for herself in popular culture. Her name popped up in an April "Saturday Night Live" sketch involving a high-school student, played by Justin Bieber, who warns his amorous teacher, played by Tina Fey, that he's "going to call Gloria Allred." In the current issue of Harper's Bazaar, Ms. Allred is photographed dressed in armor as a modern-day Joan of Arc.
Rather like another high-profile lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson, who died in 2004 and who tried a range of traditional cases before becoming known as "the king of palimony," Ms. Allred handles many worthy cases that never see the light of the flashbulb, but she has a singular knack for seizing the ones that bring the press in droves.
Emily Bazelon, a senior editor at Slate.com and a former editor of the Yale Law Journal, said that "some of her causes are incredibly worthy, but her way of going about it makes me cringe."
"I think it's largely a good thing for women that they are more reticent about self-promotion," she added, "but I also know that women sometimes can come out behind because of it. And if a man behaved as Ms. Allred does, he would not be called shrill, as I know she often is. So I think there's some gender stereotyping going on there."
When a crew from the CBS entertainment-news show "The Insider" came to Ms. Allred's midtown Los Angeles office one afternoon last month to ask her why she had taken on Ms. Siwik-Daniels's case, Ms. Allred spoke without a note of reticence: "These women have no money, no power. There are very serious consequences when women are not empowered. Humiliation, depression, poverty."
She put on her do-not-mess-with-me face. "It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers," she said. "It's dangerous out there. It's the Wild West. People come to me to tell them how to manage the maelstrom. And the defense" — here she allows herself a little smile — "the defense just hopes the woman doesn't hire Gloria Allred."
ON a recent spring Saturday, Ms. Allred was wearing a classic fuchsia St. John pantsuit as she greeted me at her weekend place in Malibu, Calif. The house, which came furnished when she bought it eight months ago, is one of those spaces that, when you step inside, makes you feel as if you are floating on the ocean, which in fact can be seen out every window. She has added very little to her new home, which includes bedrooms for her daughter and two grandchildren, aside from family photos and a painting or two.
The open kitchen looked little used; Ms. Allred confirmed that suspicion. She did take cooking classes when she was married to her second husband, the former lawyer William Allred, but those days are long gone. They divorced in 1987 after 19 years of marriage, and she will never remarry, she said. "I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do."
Ms. Allred's daughter, Lisa Bloom, joined us for lunch at a restaurant up the street from her mother's home. She is attractive, fit, vegan. Like her mother, she is a lawyer who frequently represents clients whose lives intersect with the famous. At the moment, she is representing Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael Lohan, who is trying to force the actress into a drug-treatment center.
I pointed out that mother and daughter, who are very close (Ms. Bloom worked in her mother's firm for nine years), resemble each other. "I wish I looked like that," Ms. Allred said, gazing at her daughter with a smile. "Look at her!"
Ms. Bloom was explaining her mother's worldview. "She is deeply offended when someone in power takes advantage of a woman," she said. Her mother joined in: "My work is not about popularity contests. It's not even about justice. Justice would be that they had never been raped. Or abused or fired."
This seemed like a good moment to bring up the subject of a three-point calamity that shaped the young Ms. Allred. She was a divorced single mother by age 21, left without child support. At 25, when she was working as a teacher at Jordan High School in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, she was raped while on vacation in Mexico. As a result, she underwent an illegal abortion that landed her in an intensive-care unit, where, while almost bleeding to death, a nurse told her, "This will teach you a lesson."
"I originally thought it was my own bad luck," Ms. Allred said, as her daughter poked her fork at her salad and kept an eye on her mother's face. "Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated."
Ms. Allred returned to the subject of her work: "Some women fought very hard to get us our rights. They were vilified at every turn. So now we are here to reinforce those rights, to protect those rights. Women can't enjoy equal opportunity if they are sexually harassed at work."
Ms. Allred had earlier spoken of some of her more prominent cases, including a successful suit against the New York Friars Club for excluding women, and a complaint against Pasadena Superior Court Judge Gilbert Alston, who had dismissed a rape-and-robbery case in which the victim was a prostitute because, he said, "the law was set up to protect good people" — not "a street-walking prostitute." The judge, who has since died, also said, "This case shouldn't have been filed," and further clarified his position for a Pasadena newspaper, saying, "A whore is a whore is a whore." (The Commission on Judicial Performance notified Ms. Allred that "it had taken appropriate corrective action" against Judge Alston. But the rapist whom the judge did not jail went on to attack three more women.)
IT probably came as no surprise to anyone that about a week after the Citibank story broke on Ms. Lorenzana — the tabloid favorite known as "bank babe" — Ms. Allred's office issued a press release announcing that she would be acting as Ms. Lorenzana's co-counsel. (Citibank has denied discriminating against Ms. Lorenzana.)
As Ms. Lorenzana found herself in the eye of a media storm, she was represented by lawyers who did not make her feel confident. It was her boyfriend who came up with the idea of phoning Ms. Allred, and the two women met a few days later in New York.
"I knew right away she was the person to represent me," Ms. Lorenzana said in a telephone interview. "The media was attacking me for having surgical procedures. But that is a separate issue from my having a right not to be harassed at work. Gloria understood everything that I was feeling."
The hiring of Ms. Allred got a lot of press, not all of it good. Ms. Handler weighed in on her show again, this time with an extended skit lampooning the lawyer and her clients — but it was yet another reminder of why Ms. Allred has become such a go-to advocate for women caught up in a scandal: She apparently gets results.
Late last year, for instance, when Ms. Allred abruptly canceled her scheduled news conference for Mr. Woods's ex-paramour Ms. Uchitel, it could mean only one thing, according to Ms. Bloom, Ms. Allred's daughter, who was speaking on air in her capacity as a CBS legal analyst. "As we say in the law," Ms. Bloom said, "Mr. Green has arrived" — legal-speak for a cash settlement. (TMZ.com reported that Ms. Uchitel collected $10 million from Mr. Woods in return for confidentiality; Ms. Allred would not comment.)
Ms. Bloom went on to describe the backstage drama behind the press conference's cancellation. "In all of my mother's 30-some years in the law, I've never known her to cancel a press conference," she said, perhaps not joking. She explained that her mother had been caught by paparazzi leaving the offices of Mr. Woods's lawyers on a Monday and then caught again leaving Ms. Uchitel's hotel two nights later. When Ms. Allred scheduled the news conference, she said, that was a signal that financial negotiations between the two parties had broken down, and when she canceled said conference, she was in effect making a tacit announcement that a settlement of some kind had been reached.
Whether or not she plays out her cases in front of the cameras, Ms. Allred — who will not disclose compensation on cases like this but said that "most cases that we take are on a straight contingency" — sees media as part of the message.
"The concept of fairness is always culturally defined," she said. "Even here, where we think we are such an advanced nation, people advise women to grin and bear harassment in the workplace. I say, 'Do complain.' It's only going to get worse. We have rights so that we don't have to go like beggars with cups in our hands asking for mercy. We have to be heard in the court of public opinion as well as in the actual courts. Silence is the enemy."
As for her legacy, both legal and moral, Ms. Allred said that she is not much concerned about it. She was quick, though, to relate her Uncle Simon's theory about how men tend to perceive her. "If a man feels good about the way he's treated women in his life, he likes you," she quoted him, laughing, "and if he doesn't, he hates you."


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Chapters 5 & 6 in Native Science are about animals and place, respectively, so that calls for a reiteration of the link to Michael Pollan's "An Animal's Place," mentioned the other day. (Summary)
Pollan's influential essay was all about how humans can best express and sustain a healthy respect for animals, especially those destined to end up on our plates. He thinks people like Joel Salatin, at Polyface Farm in Virginia, are onto something important. Could be.
Native peoples, we read, have traditionally perceived animals as co-creators of life, in many ways our betters and (as Eagle Man already taught us) our teachers. But of course, indigenous peoples have always eaten animals. Respectfully, gratefully… humanely and ethically too? Or is eating animals wrong, period?
Well, what would Walt Whitman say?
I think I could turn and live with animals, they're so placid and self contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the earth.
There are non-consumptive, non-exploitative forms of participation in animals' lives. Telling stories featuring animal heroes is an example, especially those calling us back to the more elemental and instinctual parts of ourselves. But we're more comfortable with the Disney version, projecting anthropomorphic stories onto Simba and Mickey and Baloo et al. Great entertainment, but do we ever outgrow the patronizing, sentimentalizing propaganda?
What we've really got a case of, apparently, even if biophilia reigns at the deepest instinctual levels, is bio-phobia. We resist the "natural orientation"that would draw all life into our circle of empathy. The Shaman, again, runs interference in "establishing and maintaining a direct relationship between human beings and the animals and plants." (Remember Ed with his hand in the ground?)
Another of my favorite topics is raised here, the question of how "meaning passes from generation to generation," crucially distinguished among indigenous peoples by their inherited oral and hunting traditions. Do those of us whose stories are more encrypted, and who do not trap, wrestle, or otherwise subdue our own sustenance directly, have a harder time "coming into being" (i.e., becoming educated about our natural relations)?
"Coyote stealing fire from the shamans" will remind many of us of Prometheus, and the Great Turtle myth of the Iroquois of Gaia. Stay tuned, Stewart Brand and James Lovelock are on deck and in the hole. (Lovelock may actually be in his bunker humming Carole King.)
I've mentioned Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic" before, but Cajete reminds us again. It carries a strong indigenous current I hadn't thought about much: "We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in." Is that true?
"Multiverse" is a term William James liked, and lately Brian Greene and other astrophysicists, but for neither of them does the term quite mean "multiple realities of which the reality experienced by our five senses is only one of many possibilities," and in which direct communion with animals and plants might result in knowledge discoverable in no other way. James would have been sympathetic, though, especially if the nitrous was strong.
Do animals have "rights," beyond interests, even if they cannot defend them discursively or juridically? Peter Singer…
The Navajo concept of ho'zho was engagingly discussed by Chris Phillips…
Ancient indigenous paths and roads are everywhere, even where their traces are hard to spot. But I've been motoring up and down one of them for many years to visit my in-laws who live down "the Trace." Sometimes I park, get out, lace up my Nikes, and participate in a locomotive ritual that owes more than most realize to native design genius in the matter of moccassins.
Finally, and not just because we're just back from gorgeous Fall Creek Falls: springs and waterfalls are wonderful symbols of healing and purification. They're powerful, beautiful, inspiring, "memorable." I don't think "western science" would or could ever remove its spiritual impact on any honest observer.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brewers star Ryan Braun drew a standing ovation in his return from a drug suspension, then was ruled out in the first call overturned under baseball's expanded replay system as Milwaukee beat the Atlanta Braves 2-0 on Monday in a season opener.
Braun went 1 for 4 and stole a base in the fourth inning that helped set up a two-run double by Aramis Ramirez.
A smattering of boos during Braun's first at-bat was easily drowned out by the overwhelming applause. The former MVP was suspended for the final 65 games last year in the Biogenesis doping scandal.
Later, Braun had his infield single to lead off the sixth overturned to out after the call was challenged by Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez under Major League Baseball's new replay format.
The review took 58 seconds.
Yovani Gallardo (1-0) tossed six shutout innings for the win.
Making his first opening day start, Julio Teheran (0-1) allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Yadier Molina's homer broke a seventh-inning tie, leading St. Louis Cardinals to a victory over the Reds.
Adam Wainwright (1-0) used his refined sinker to finally get the best of the Reds, who have hit him like no other team. Wainwright allowed three hits in seven innings, fanning nine.
St. Louis escaped a threat in the eighth. Trevor Rosenthal retired all three batters in the ninth, finishing a three-hitter for the defending National League champions.
Bryan Price lost his managing debut with Cincinnati, which opened the season with eight players on the disabled list, its most since 2007.
Johnny Cueto (0-1) allowed three hits in seven innings.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Neil Walker homered off Carlos Villanueva leading off the 10th inning, and the Pirates benefited from an overturned to call to beat the Cubs 1-0 on opening day.
Reliever Bryan Morris (1-0) won with the help of an overturned pickoff call in the top of the 10th under Major League Baseball's new replay system. Starter Francisco Liriano and four relievers combined for 11 strikeouts.
Emilio Bonifacio went 4 for 5 for Chicago, but the Cubs were 0 for 11 with runners in scoring position and wasted a fine start by Jeff Samardzija, who scattered five hits over seven innings.
MIAMI (AP) — Jose Fernandez struck out nine and allowed one run in six innings, and Marlins newcomer Casey McGehee drove in four runs with two doubles to help Miami beat the Rockies.
The sellout crowd of 37,116 was the largest yet at Marlins Park, which opened two years ago.
The 21-year-old Fernandez earned the victory while becoming the youngest NL opening-day starter since Dwight Gooden in 1986, according to STATS.
Marcell Ozuna homered, doubled, singled and scored twice. Giancarlo Stanton had an RBI infield single and a run-scoring double. Adeiny Hechavarria singled three times and drove in a run.
Carlos Gonzalez homered for the Rockies in the sixth, but by then they trailed 6-0. Jorge De La Rosa (0-1) allowed five runs in 4 1-3 innings in his first opening day start.
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Rendon hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning and drove in a career-high four runs, twice rallying the Nationals against the Mets' suspect bullpen for an opening-day victory.
Denard Span hit a tying double with two outs in the ninth off closer Bobby Parnell, and Ian Desmond put the Nationals in front for the first time with a sacrifice fly in the 10th. Rendon connected two batters later against former Washington pitcher John Lannan, securing a win for Matt Williams in his first game as a major league manager.
Stephen Strasburg struck out 10 over six innings in his third straight opening-day start.
Juan Lagares and Andrew Brown both homered for New York after they were surprise additions to the lineup.
Aaron Barrett (1-0) struck out two in a perfect inning to win his major league debut.
Jeurys Familia (0-1) took the loss, hurt by catcher Travis d'Arnaud's passed ball.
PHOENIX (AP) — Buster Posey hit a two-run homer off new Arizona closer Addison Reed in the ninth inning and the Giants rallied from four runs down to beat the Diamondbacks.
Miguel Montero, who had three hits and reached base five times, homered to lead off the Arizona ninth and make it a one-run game.
Brandon Belt had three hits, including a solo home run, and singled ahead of Posey's homer.
Arizona scored four unearned runs off starter Madison Bumgarner in the fourth and led 7-3 after six. San Francisco got four runs with two outs in the seventh, with reliever Brad Ziegler walking in the tying run.
Jean Machi (1-0) pitched 1 2-3 innings of relief to get the victory. Reed (0-1), acquired from the Chicago White Sox in the offseason, got the loss.


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Palm Beach Gardens - Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy responded to their surprise early exit from last week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship by going head to head in their own private challenge.
World No 2 Woods and top-ranked McIlroy spent Sunday morning in a golfing duel at the Medalist club in Hobe Sound, Florida.
"We thought we would play our own match play final except it was over 36 holes," the Northern Irishman told reporters ahead of this week's Honda Classic.
"We had two matches. He beat me the first time and I beat him in the second so we're even. We teed off at about 8:00 and I was home by 1:30 so we played quick," added McIlroy.
"He putts with the pin in... it's speed golf. It was good, really enjoyable."
Former NFL player and television presenter Ahmad Rashad also played with the pair.
McIlroy and American Woods have become friends in the past year, with the Northern Irishman now having a base near to the 14-times major winner in Florida and also having joined him in the Nike stable in January.