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Lymphomas are a surprisingly diverse group of cancers that arise from cells of the immune system called lymphocytes, which are a type of white blood cell (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2011a). The American Cancer Society estimates that 79 030 new cases of lymphoma will be diagnosed in 2013 and 20 200 people will succumb to this disease (Siegel 2013).
Lymphomas can be broadly categorized as non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) or Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). NHL comprises a diverse group of many different types of lymphoma, which together account for about 90% of all lymphoma cases. HL makes up about 10% of lymphoma cases (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2011a; Shankland 2012).
For NHL, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are the primary conventional treatment methods. Immunotherapy, which involves modifying the way the immune system responds to cancer cells, is also approved for some NHL subtypes (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2011a). HL has a high cure rate of about 75% overall and up to 90% in young patients. NHL prognosis varies significantly by subtype, with some variants having an excellent prognosis and other subtypes with more guarded long-term mortality estimates; inclusive of the many diverse subtypes of NHL, the average 5-year relative survival rate is about 71% (Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2011b; Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2013a).
The incidence of NHL has been increasing in the United States over the past few decades (Siegel 2012) for unclear reasons, though speculation includes impaired immune response to some types of viral infections (eg, with Epstein Barr virus [EBV], hepatitis B and C viruses) as well as enhanced exposure to industrial and/or environmental toxins including hair dyes, pesticides, and chemical solvents (De Falco 2011; Lim 2007; Olsson 1988; Ward 1996; Frankenfeld 2008). In contrast with NHL, the incidence of HL has remained relatively stable in the United States over the past few decades (Fast Stats [SEER] 2013).
An important aspect of lymphoma prevention involves the identification and treatment of infections known to be associated with lymphoma (Portlock 2008). For those undergoing active treatment, the use of readily available off-label drugs, including antiviral therapies, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (eg, diclofenac [Voltaren®]), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) inhibitors (eg, tocilizumab [Actemra®]) or integrative therapies such as mistletoe (eg, Iscador) may improve outcome (Gottfried 2013; Braun 2012; Wilson 2009; Wang 2009; Kovacs 2002; Kanakry 2013; Fields 2012).
In this protocol you will learn the basics of lymphoma and the fundamentals of lymphoma care. The emerging, intriguing science in support of treating specific infections in lymphoma management will be discussed as well. Several integrative interventions that have been medically studied specifically in the context of lymphoma will be presented and the biological mechanisms by which they may reduce lymphoma progression will be reviewed.


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Boston College cross country runner Jose Estevez heard the slurs in the locker room. There was, "That's so gay" or "Don't be a fag." Even though the sophomore believes the words were intended as playful profanity rather than hate talk, it was hard to hear.
"When I was in the closet — especially when I was in the closet — hearing things like that would just push me further back in," says Estevez, now 20, who came out as gay a year ago. "By throwing around homophobic slurs, you're terrifying gay athletes."
Now there are signs of change. Straight athletes are supporting gay athletes in public service videos, antigay remarks from prominent athletes are met swiftly by public reprimands, and just this week, one of the NFL's most visible players, Tim Tebow, cancelled an appearance at a Dallas church because its pastor has described homosexuals as "perverse."
Helping propel that change is a Boston-based group called You Can Play, founded by Patrick Burke, a 29-year-old law student and recruiter for the Philadelphia Flyers. The goal: to get to the point where "casual homophobia" in locker rooms is no longer tolerated. Estevez volunteers with the organization.
"No one ever says a racial slur and then says they don't mean it in a bad way," said Burke, a North End resident. "What I tell these athletes is that you eliminate five or 10 of these words from your vocabulary and we're 90 percent of the way there."
Burke's work with You Can Play carries on the mission of his brother Brendan, who was killed in a car crash in February 2010 at the age of 21. Brendan Burke was student manager for the Miami University hockey team the Redhawks, and he was gay.
Patrick Burke says his brother's sexuality was a non-issue for both his teammates and their sports-oriented family; Brian Burke, their father, served as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Anaheim Ducks, and the US Olympic hockey team. Before Brendan Burke died, he envisioned starting an organization like You Can Play. Now it is Patrick's mission.
The timing is right. Former Major League Soccer player Robbie Rogers revealed this month he is gay. And according to gay former American football player Wade Davis, the current level of discussion about gays and sports is unprecedented.
"I retired in 2004, and it's completely changed in that time," Davis said. "No one was talking about gays and sports. It's just a conversation that wasn't being had."
Burke's group, and organizations like it, are coming to prominence as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender athletes begin to come out of the closet.
But what continue to draw greater attention are the inflammatory comments from athletes about the idea of having a gay teammate and the rebukes of those comments from other straight athletes.
One of the biggest stories to come out of this year's pre-Super Bowl events was San Francisco 49er cornerback Chris Culliver's remark: "Nah, we don't got no gay people on the team. They gotta get up outta here if they do. Can't be with that sweet stuff. Nah, can't be in the locker room."
Culliver's words were met with quick rebukes and an apology. But it was merely the latest in a long string of such remarks. Late last year New York Mets minor league pitcher Noah Syndergaard tweeted "Nice Crocs Fag Lol," ESPN radio hosts Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin were suspended for mocking the appearance of transgender college athlete Gabrielle Ludwig, calling her "it," and Cleveland Browns rookie linebacker Tank Carder tweeted an antigay slur, followed by "I don't agree with being gay."
Burke and You Can Play are part of the avalanche of straight allies who are coming forward to support gay athletes. Minnesota Viking punter Chris Kluwe came out strongly in favor of gay marriage, and college wrestling coach Hudson Taylor started an organization called Athlete Ally for straight athletes to support the gay community. Both Kluwe and former New York Rangers player Sean Avery have expressed support for the group.
The premise is similar to You Can Play. Both groups are rounding up heterosexual athletes to support their gay counterparts, making sports more accessible and comfortable for athletes and fans.
Burke has enlisted such hockey players as Boston Bruin Andrew Ference and San Jose Shark Tommy Wingels into You Can Play to speak out against antigay language. Burke frequently travels to college and pro locker rooms to talk about hurtful language.
"A lot of this comes from ignorance, in its truest, purest definition," said Burke, a subdued and droll man with a head of prematurely graying hair. "For the most part, they don't have any LGBT friends. Sports is a very insular culture. You lift with your teammates, you study with your teammates, you practice with your teammates. There's not a lot of time to branch out and be exposed to new groups.
"When we explain that these words have a terrible effect on people, for the most part they say 'Oh, OK. I'll stop.' "
Patrick Burke learned from his brother the harm those words can cause. "A couple of weeks after he came out [in 2007] I had to sit down and apologize to him. I had to say, 'I'm sorry if the words that I use ever felt like I wouldn't support you or love you for who you are.' To sit down and have the conversation with your little brother is a difficult and sad thing to do."
Wingels, who played hockey at University of Miami when Brendan Burke was manager of the team, says the antigay teasing in the locker room dissipated when Brendan told the team he was gay.
"I know that it took a lot of courage for him to do that," says Wingels, who marched with a gay hockey team at Chicago Pride earlier this year. "Brendan was Brendan, and this really didn't matter to any of us."
Patrick Burke says coming from a sports background makes it easier for him to talk to athletes. He'll team with gay athletes, such as Estevez, at speaking events.
Burke says he's not expecting these athletes to run out and champion gay rights after meeting with them. He's looking for tolerance, which he hopes will grow into acceptance. In the short time his group has existed, he's lined up athletes and teams to create public service announcements. He's also found support from organizations such as the America East Conference, the NCAA Division I conference that includes University of Massachusetts Lowell.
"It's so interesting to see how open kids are today in terms of talking LGBT issues," said America East commissioner Amy Huchthausen. "We didn't need to do any arm-twisting or anything like that. The kids really got behind the idea right away."
Burke is gaining a reputation as the go-to-voice to respond to an antigay incident in sports. When the Toronto Blue Jays suspended Yunel Escobar in September for writing an antigay slur in his eye black, Burke and Jose Estevez were brought in to talk to him.
"Homophobia is still a big problem in sports," says Cyd Zeigler Jr., cofounder of the website Outsports.com. "Anytime you have people avoiding sports because of homophobia, or killing themselves or attempting to kill themselves because of it, I'd say it's a big problem. On the flip side, it's slowly changing."
Burke has helped shift the landscape for student-athletes such as James Nutter. After years of hearing antigay slurs in the locker room growing up in Kennebunk, Maine, he attempted suicide last year.
"Hearing that all the time, I just didn't want to be gay," Nutter says. "I just didn't feel good about myself, and this was what I saw as the alternative."
Kluwe, the 31-year-old punter for the Vikings, has been trying to offer an alternative voice in the locker room. He's been a vocal supporter of gay marriage — and even posed in the gay magazine Out.
"For me, it's an issue of justice and equality," says Kluwe. "The guys in the locker room know where I'm coming from. If I hear someone say something that isn't cool, I'll say 'Hold on, there are plenty of other good swear words that you can use.' I'm never going to get into a screaming match with someone. That's never going to change anyone's mind. But I will constantly point it out to them."
Burke says that he will continue to do the same thing and that You Can Play has been a way to constructively cope with his brother's death.
"It's definitely helped me get through some of those things." he says. "Instead of sitting around drinking and being angry and sad, it gives me something to do. And it's nice to think that we've done something that would have helped a 15- or 16-year-old Brendan."
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Tonya Thomas is seen in a 2002 booking mug provided by the Brevard County, Fla., Sheriff's Office. Authorities say Thomas, 33, shot and killed her four children before killing herself on May 15 in Port St. John, Fla.
A Florida woman who fatally shot her four children before killing herself in May was drunk at the time, according to autopsy reports.
Tonya Thomas had a blood-alcohol level of 0.16 percent -- two times the legal limit, according to reports cited by floridatoday.com. That's the equivalent of approximately 10 drinks for a woman her height and weight, Bruce Goldberger, a professor and the director of toxicology in the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, told floridatoday.com.
Thomas, 33, of Port St. John, used a .38-caliber revolver to shoot Joel Johnson, 12, Jazzlyn Johnson, 13, Jaxs Johnson, 15, and Pebbles Johnson, 17, before killing herself at the family's home early May 15, police said. A total of 19 shots were fired and each child was struck multiple times.
Though Thomas was impaired by alcohol at the time, police still don't know why she killed her children.
"We're not going to know the answer to that question, because she's deceased," Brevard County Sheriff's Lt. Tod Goodyear told floridatoday.com. "She's the lone person responsible for the deaths."
With the results of the autopsy in, investigators will now close the case.
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Brevard County crime scene workers conduct an investigation after Tonya Thomas shot her four children and then herself May 15, 2012 in Port St. John, Florida. The children ranged in ages 12 to 17 and the family had a history of domestic complaints.
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Covenant for the Future, the new strategic plan for Louisville Seminary, is built upon the seminary's commitment to quality theological education that is informed by Presbyterian and Reformed traditions and is aligned with its core mission of educating men and women to participate in the redemptive ministry of Jesus Christ in an increasingly pluralistic World.
Louisville Seminary is serious about the commitment to ministry. So much so that full-tuition scholarships for every master's degree student will be available by the fall 2015 semester and a stipend to cover living expenses by the fall 2021 semester.
In return, all students will "pay the debt forward" by engaging in learning and service opportunities that will greatly enhance their capacity for leadership in the church and the non-profit sector.
This is an important question to ask. Christ sometimes calls us to build bridges across the lines that divide us, and to stand on unfamiliar shores beside those who were previously strangers so that we might see the world from their perspective.
Louisville seminary's Doors to Dialogue (D2D) and Black Church Studies (BCS) programs are two such mechanisms for bridge building. D2D prepares graduates for Christian pastoral leadership in intra-Christian, interfaith and multi-cultural contexts. BCS addresses the critical needs of African American Church communities and offers opportunities for students of all races to expand their awareness in ministering to people in a variety of cultural and religious settings.
On a small planet where religious and cultural differences abound and where spiritual and material needs are pressing, the quality theological education at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary prepares its students for a life of service to others.
Are you passionate about serving Jesus Christ? Are you eager to learn from others, innovative, authentic, and socially and interpersonally aware? Louisville Seminary's transformative learning environment prepares its students for effective ministry in a variety of contexts.
Here, students will struggle with tough issues, trusting God to lead them into new knowledge and understanding. They will explore their faith and its heritage, and develop their gifts for pastoral and theological reflection so that they can flourish in ministry.
In an effort to provide the best resources for the best seminary students in the country, the Covenant for the Future Strategic Plan also calls for creating an endowed fund to support expansion and maintenance of the seminary's information technology services.
Additionally, the plan calls for renovations to student housing, which will enhance the environment in which students and their families can thrive and build community.
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Musicals based on movies. Musicals constructed around pop songs. The Disney-fication of Broadway.
The major trends in musicals are reflected in the upcoming touring season of Broadway shows presented in Orlando by Florida Theatrical Association.
The group announced the schedule for its 2012-13 Broadway Across America season Monday.
- "Beauty and the Beast" (Oct. 2-7) defied critics to become the eighth-longest-running show on Broadway. Thank the love generated by the Disney cartoon, with its signature songs such as "Be our Guest" and the title tune. If you don't know the plot, well, where have you been? It's a tale as old as time, as the song goes.
- "Million Dollar Quartet" (Oct. 30-Nov. 4) is based on a true-life 1956 Memphis recording session by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. The show's songs include "Blue Suede Shoes," "Great Balls of Fire," "I Walk the Line" and the like.
- "Sister Act" (Dec. 4-9) tells the story of a streetwise disco diva (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the movie) who after witnessing a murder gets placed in a convent for her protection. There, she shakes up the good sisters. Music is by Alan Menken, who also composed the songs in "Beauty and the Beast."
- "Mary Poppins"(Jan. 8-13, 2013) is Disney's adaptation of its movie about the practically perfect nanny immortalized by Julie Andrews on film.
- In "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (April 16-21, 2013), three drag queens travel the Australian outback to a soundtrack of "I Will Survive," "It's Raining Men" and other disco hits, learning lessons of friendship and acceptance along the way. It's based on the 1994 movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."
- And it's back to 1950s Tennessee for "Memphis" (May 14-19, 2013) in which a white DJ and a black singer try to make it professionally — and personally — in a culture hostile to their dreams. "Memphis" has the best pedigree of the show: It won the 2010 Tony for best musical.
The series will continue its Tuesday-Sunday schedule for each show. Performances take place at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston St., Orlando.
Season tickets cost $170-$600, depending on seating and day selected. Call 1-800-448-6322 or go to OrlandoBroadway.com.
Beauty and the Beast: Oct. 2-7
Million Dollar Quartet: Oct. 30-Nov. 4
Sister Act: Dec. 4-9
Mary Poppins: Jan. 8-13, 2013
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: April 16-21, 2013
Memphis: May 14-19, 2013


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Today is my fifteenth wedding anniversary, and that always gets a girl asking the Big Questions.
Questions like, "What, no cake?"
And, "how do you spell 'anniversary,' anyway?"
And, "Does this seem suspicious to you?"
("It's. Looking. At me.")
After spending one third of my married life writing this blog - which, WOW, amirite? - I've seen enough anniversary cakes to know many have valuable life lessons to teach.
For example, this one reminds us that the first few years of marriage are a learning experience.
A four year "anniversity," if you will.
And this one encourages us to never give up in the face of adversity, poor planning, or earthquakes:
Its always the thought that counts. ALWAYS.
And here's a valuable reminder that, after 24 years, even the most devoted couple might need a little more space:
Love comes in all shapes, sizes, and combinations, so never judge.
Some folks would have given up after, like, TEN weddings - but not these two crazy kids!
And finally, anniversaries aren't just about the big, life-changing moments; they're about celebrating all the everyday things you get to share together. Things like holding hands during the fireworks, or reading to each other on long car rides ... or even just a new pair of dentures:
Though for the record, Sweetie, I think I'm going to draw the line at sharing dentures.
Thanks to Sarah G., Jaime & Jen, Janet R., Mika R., Brad L., Brittany T., Anna F., Christine M., & Kristin R. for helping us celebrate. John and I are in Atlanta today for Dragon Con, btw, so I hope to see some of you here!


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Genetic monitoring has the potential to become a valuable tool for resource managers in the management and conservation of wild populations of plants and animals. Rapid recent advances in molecular genetic techniques now make it relatively easy and inexpensive to quantify temporal changes in the genetics of populations over tens or even hundreds of years (i.e., genetic monitoring). However, it is currently unknown under what circumstances genetic monitoring could provide valuable information or what genetic data are required for effective genetic monitoring. This Working Group will address these issues in order to provide guidance for resource managers and policy makers. We will also evaluate the potential for using genetic monitoring of candidate genes likely to be affected by climate change and other forms of stress in order to understand evolutionary responses to environmental changes. The outcome will be rigorous and practical guidelines for the design of genetic monitoring strategies useful to resource managers in conducting improved assessments of population trends and processes.


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Gluten-free Indian-Chinese Vegan Manchurian Cauliflower Recipe
There are few things I love more than vegetarian Indian food. I love the spices, the complexity of the flavors, the amazing variety of ingredients, and the special techniques like adding spiced oil to temper a dish at the end that completes the flavor. While living in Japan I learned something that had not occurred to me before; that when foods from other places enters a country or region, local residents often adapt it to suit their own tastes and end up creating something entirely new. The Japanese take on an "Italian" pizza that is festooned with mayonnaise or corn is an excellent example of this. I had not thought much about how the same would be true in India until I accompanied a friend to her favorite allergen-sensitive Indian restaurant (yes they exist- in this case, the owners actually know what is in each and every dish and will tell their customers). She ordered a dish called Gobi Manchurian, or Manchurian Cauliflower that she said was amazing, with Chinese "red sauce" flavor on top of fried cauliflower that approximated a vegetarian "chicken". Dear readers, do beware. It is extremely rare that this dish would be gluten-free, as the cauliflower is coated in a flour batter. It would also generally be fried in oil with non-gluten-free items and could easily be contaminated this way. However, in this special case, the Manchurian Cauliflower is safe and she urged me to try some. This is such a decadent way to enjoy cauliflower, and the flavor is amazing. After I got home I started researching recipes online so that I could create it at home.
According to Archana's Kitchen, Gobi Manchurian "is said to have been developed by the tiny Chinese community that lived in Kolkata for over a century. Immensely popular with Indians, it is widespread in major Indian metropolitan cities such as Mumbai, New Delhi and most importantly Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)." After comparing various recipes online, I was most intrigued by Soma of ECurry's recipe for Gobi Manchurian. Soma has an absolutely fantastic blog, and it turns out that she is from the city of Kolkata/Calcutta and so grew up enjoying Indo-Chinese fusion food. That explains a lot! However, if I tried her recipe as written, the extreme spiciness of it would make my intestines explode and all that would be left of me is a little charred bit of ash on the sidewalk. Yes, I'm a wimpy little gluten-free girl. My husband and baby are also not so into the chili peppers, so in the interest of family tummy harmony, I adapted it to be gluten-free and less spicy. The resulting dish was a hit with everyone, although Baby Yum stuck to the plain fried cauliflower. I hope you enjoy! One of my favorite things about the internet is how we can learn from bloggers from all over the world. Archana, Soma, and Manjula are three of my absolute favorite Indian bloggers, and I have learned so much from all of their recipes and stories. What are your favorite "fusion" recipes and international bloggers? Tell me in the comments! I'd love to hear what your favorite recipes are by Archana, Soma, and Manjula as well.
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Gluten-free Vegan Gobi Manchurian Cauliflower Recipe
1 medium cauliflower cut into florets (small or medium)
1 cup your favorite gluten-free flour*
1/2 cup corn starch
1 tablespoon gluten-free tamari OR coconut aminos
1 1/2 inch fresh ginger, peeled and grated with a microplane
1 tablespoon white scallion paste (white part of scallion ground up in food processor or blender)
1 teaspoon white pepper (or black pepper)
3/4 cup water to make a thick batter
oil to deep fry the cauliflower florets
Mix together your flours, corn starch, tamari, ginger, scallion paste (ground up in a mini food processor), white pepper and water. You want a thick batter, like pakora batter or a slightly thick pancake batter.
Immerse your cauliflower in boiling water, rinsing with cold water when they are crisp tender and then spinning dry in a salad spinner (or pat dry in a kitchen towel).
Cover a cookie sheet with a sheet of wax paper and then put a cooling rack on top of the cookie sheet for cooling your fried cauliflower.
This fried cauliflower makes a delicious snack. Baby Yum loved stealing it from the rack and kept saying "more, more". That girl loves her cauliflower!
If you want to really amp it up, prepare a sauce for the full Gobi Manchurian experience.
Whisk together liquid ingredients (water, ketchup, srirachi sauce, tamari) along with sugar and salt in a bowl.
Heat your 3 sesame oil in a wok. Add your garlic clove and let it brown, flavoring the oil. Turn once. When both sides are brown, remove the garlic from the oil. Add your grated ginger, and saute for a few seconds. Then add the chopped onions, and the white parts of the scallions. When the onion becomes translucent, add your liquid ingredients in the bowl to the wok. At medium heat simmer for about 3 minutes.
Whisk the corn starch with the water to make a cornstarch slurry and add to the pan, stirring in and letting the sauce begin to thicken. Toss in your fried cauliflower and fold into the sauce until each floret is coated in yummy sauce. To serve, sprinkle with the green onions and enjoy with rice or quinoa!
*I used a homemade Sorghum +potato or cornstarch +tapioca blend
Two cups sorghum flour
Two thirds cup potato starch, arrowroot or corn starch flour
One third cup tapioca rice flour
This makes 3 cups of gluten-free blend which you can use in regular gluten recipes to replace flour.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Twitter were up sharply on Thursday as analysts pointed to the microblogging service's gains in mobile and TV engagement, although one analyst warned that Facebook is "increasingly taking share."
Twitter TWTR, +0.30% gained nearly 1% to close at $54.83. Janney Capital analyst Tony Wible cited new research that showed a growth in "TV-related multitasking" which he said "signals that both TV networks and social networks have some way to go to drive TV related activity that they can monetize."
"We see both Facebook and Twitter as key beneficiaries in this context," he told clients in a note.
Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Youssef Squali, citing data from comScore, wrote in a note to clients that Twitter saw "a robust uptick" in smartphone visitor and engagement growth in January.
"The data shows continued strength in user growth and acceleration in time spent, consistent with management's commentary that time spent per timeline view increased in the fourth quarter, despite deceleration in total timeline views," Squali wrote.
However, Benchmark analyst Mike Hickey offered a less-upbeat view of Twitter, which spooked investors in its last quarterly report by posting weaker-than-expected user growth.
"The executive team continues to tweak forward product layers to appeal to a mass market audience, a process that will provide limited benefits, in our view," he told clients in a note. "We have lingering concerns that plans for an accelerated user growth could prove ambitious, and wonder if user engagement could struggle to find a solid foundation for reset. We are concerned Facebook is increasingly taking share."
Shares of Facebook FB, -0.52% were down 1% to close at $70.84.
Also in the red were shares of Pandora Media US:P, which fell 5.6% to close at $37.23, after the Internet radio firm reported disappointing audience growth data.
Shares of eBay Inc. EBAY, -0.17% gained nearly 1% to close at $59.30 as investor Carl Icahn sent another open letter to the company's shareholders, saying he plans to continue his campaign for a change on the eBay board.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.28% gave up 6 points to close at 4,352. But the benchmark ended the week up 1%. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index US:MSH also was down a fraction on Friday, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -0.69% was up 0.7%.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Union steelworkers will be back on the job at a Kansas City manufacturing plant next week after approving a new contract.
Nearly 200 members of United Steelworkers Local 1307 had been locked out since their previous contract with Milbank Manufacturing Co. expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday.
The two sides reached a tentative agreement Wednesday, and the company said union members ratified the new contract in a vote early Friday. A federal mediator had been brought in to help resolve the standoff.
Terms of the new contract were not disclosed. Both sides said increases in employee contributions to health insurance costs were the main sticking point.
Milbank manufactures electrical equipment.


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Welcome to Roommate Confessions, the column where we share the worst stuff you've done to your roommate. If you think you can top these stories, confess your sins at the bottom of this page.
Hey! You were always a great roomate but your dog was a piece of shit. It shed everywhere and chewed up my nintendo 64 and Xbox and you didn't do a damn thing about it. Your dog also loves to lick things, especially your face. So to get you back I spread peanut butter all over my balls and let your dog lick it off. It felt good. You came home shortly after and your dog gave you a big wet kiss. I hope my balls taste good!- Anonymous
My roommates were all out of town the night of my New Years party a couple years ago. I never got along well with this one girl I lived with, so when two of my friends started hooking up on the couch, I let them use her room for the rest of the night. She'll never know that two guys she's never met had sex on her bed. - snowleopardprincess
I put bleach in your ridiculously expensive Matrix shampoo. And you wondered why your hair looked funny and then threw the whole (brand new) 32oz bottle away! Ha! And guess what? I'm gonna do it again to the new one you're buying tomorrow. Take that bitch.- Corie
I was pissed because you were always leaving huge messes in the kitchen, so one day, I used your tweezers on my pubes and didn't wash them.- fakingsanity
hey man thanks for the wonderful semester i mean it was really special i loved how you never left the room to for any reason not even to brush your teeth or to eat for that matter because you sit and play WOW rather than enjoying college and having a life, i especially liked how you would never take showers, walk in on me and my girlfriend having sex (during the brief moments you actually left the room) and leaver you bottles filled with tobacco spit, sunflower seeds and whatever you spit out from brushing your teeth all over our room. it always smelled so wonderful with that shit festering all over our room and my girlfriend just loves coming over to a room that smells of fucking vomit. Now with that said as a little going away gift i took the privilege of having sex on your dirtyass bed and cumming on that blanket your girlfriend gave you, as well as taking my semen and putting in everyplace conceivable but mostly stuff you'll insert into your mouth and/or ingest at some point during the next few weeks. that'll teach you to talk shit and call the cops on me for smoking pot you douche- Anonymous
To my roommate: Remember that weekend you went out of town to serve a few days in jail for a DUI? Remember how about two weeks before you left you and I had started a prank war and I had never really got you back? Well while you were sleeping on a hard mattress in the slammer, I was sleeping in your bed slamming a girl I met at a party. Yes, she was on her period, and yes I ejaculated on those warm flannel sheets you have yet to wash. Oh what a prank war, you might think you won, but inside I know I am the true winner
- Anonymous
remember when everyone would kid about me and your mom, saying we'd be a good match up,because she would always try and hang out outside when you would have people over beer pongin and shit well im tired of you not getting it, after you f*cked my girl it took like 4 months, but finally i got your mommy drunk and definatly received oral sex while leaning on the railing and grill outside, you will know who you are when i say this, your moms tazmanian devil tattoo on her left tit! bitch, dont fuck with my shit- Anonymous
this was a while ago
. '95
but the confessions page got me remembering
. anyway, i lived in a suite with 9 other dudes and we shared a kitchen and a bathroom. halfway through the semester, one of our suite mates got busted for dealing and we picked up a new loser. i don't remember his name, only his nickname 'chore-boy'. that knucklehead ate all the food in the fridge like he owned it. we talked to chore-boy about it repeatedly to no avail
so one day winslow (one of the suite mates) opens my door and tells me chore boy is cooking some ramen on the stove, and that he pissed in the pot while it was cooking. so i went in and pissed a little, and two other dudes from the suite pissed in it. we probably doubled the volume of total liquid in the pot (and we pissed all over the stove trying to cut it off mid stream), but chore-boy failed to notice the change. so he comes back in a few minutes later, oblivious to the stink of piss in the air, and proceeds to eat the freaking top ramen. i had to leave the suite when that idiot started drinking the broth. i don't think chore boy ever realized what we did
.- Anonymous
We really did put dog shit in your bong
and watched you smoke from it 10 minutes later.- Anonymous
Remember when I proposed to you and got you a sweet $1500 dollar ring? Well after you started acting like a cunt all the time, hitting me in the face when we'd fight, and just acting like a little 14 year old bitch in general I have a confession. One night after I was finishing up rubbing one out to my Brazzers account (Ya you also acted like a 14 y/o in bed which forced me to pay 35 a month for porn) I was searching for a place to "unload". On my desk was an almost empty box of sour patch kids, it was a good enough place for me. Two days later you came over and immediately picked up the box and asked for the last few sour patch kids. I didn't stop you. - Anonymous
remember when you would throw out your used condoms in the kitchen trash can? and how, most of the time, they would be precariously placed on top of all the garbage.. just so they'd fall out and I'd have to put gloves on and shove them back in the bag? well, dick, I used your pillow as an accessory while having sex (its versatility was infinite!), and shaved my pubes with your razor. serves you right you hipster douche.- Anonymous
Hey you. The psychotic, bug-eyed, racist homophobe who never looks anyone in the face. Yeah. You. Remember when you ate with me and my friends, one of whom is of African ancestry? Remember your hate-filled rant about other races, especially n***ers less than 48 hours later? Remember your rants about gays wanting to marry? Remember your boasting about hunting down f*gs and beating the hell out of them? Well, guess what. Your very temporary room-mate IS one. So, for the last month we lived together, every single day, I'd rub my dick on your toothbrush. If you were being a reasonable facsimile of a human being that day, I'd wait until after my shower. But I gotta tell you, most days it was before the shower. And some of the people we both know, know all about it. Have any of them mentioned it to you?- Anonymous


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Put The Coffee DOWN
It's not often that a baker submits on of his/her own creations for us to pick on. But Maayan, who both bakes and documents funny food horrors, did just that.
The following diet-assisting monstrosity was actually ordered by a customer. And what is it?
Spaghetti with tomato-y cream sauce?
An ear?
A cherry, Cheez-Whiz and regurgitation torte?
Nope, nope and nope! Give up?
It's a fetus-with-an-iPod pie!
Uh, I guess fetus cookies would have been going too far?
Thanks to Maayan Z. for being such a great sport!
- Related Wreckage: Fetal Bites


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Victoria C. (Parish) Hedrick
b. April 4, 1861, Wise Co. Tx.
d. May 14, 1938, Prescott, Az.
COD: Coronary thrombosis
w/o Frank Combs
w/o John Shepard
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(m) 1931
d/o James & Sally Parish
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Burial: May 18, 1938
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John Waters and documentary 'Vito' to open Outfest
Jeffrey Schwarz's "Vito," a documentary about the late gay activist Vito Russo, author of "The Celluloid Closet," will be the opening-night gala presentation at the 30th edition of Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
The oldest film festival in Los Angeles and the nation's leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival takes place July 12 to 22. "Vito" will screen at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
Outfest also announced Wednesday morning that filmmaker John Waters of "Pink Flamingos" and the original "Hairspray" will be receiving the 16th annual Achievement Award in recognition of a body of work that has "made a significant contribution to LGBT film and media."
Waters will also be performing his show "The Filthy World: Gayer and Filthier" July 11 at Hollywood Forever's Masonic Lodge.
For more information go to Outfest's website.
Obituary: Vito Russo, writer on homosexual issues
Book review: 'Role Models' by John Waters
-- Susan King
Photo: John Waters will receive the 2012 Outfest Achievement Award. Credit: Los Angeles Times


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Sans Deity is the online handle of Matt Dillahunty.
Raised as a Southern Baptist, he began a broad, prolonged investigation into all things religious in an attempt to bolster his faith and pursue a career in the ministry. This investigation continues, though he long ago abandoned faith and religion in favor of skepticism, reason, logic and scientific evidence. His interest in apologetics led to the creation of IronChariots.org, though the site's current incarnation is the result of the combined efforts of many dedicated individuals.
- President of the Atheist Community of Austin (2006)
- Board member of the Atheist Community of Austin (2005 - )
- Host (and co-host) of "The Atheist Experience" (2005 - )
- Commentator (and engineer) for "The Non-Prophets" (2005 - )
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Carroll owns a 1.42 goals-against average and .942 save percentage in three career postseason appearances (photo courtesy Steve Babineau).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Senior Ryan Carroll of the Harvard men's hockey team has been named ECAC Hockey MLX Skates Goaltender of the Week after winning three games to close out his final regular season with the Crimson.
Carroll stopped 95 of the 100 shots that came his way in Harvard's wins at Brown and at home against Clarkson and St. Lawrence. The Crimson needed every save, as each game was decided by one goal or one plus an empty-net tally.
The Hackensack, N.J., native made 40 saves, including 19 in the third period, in a 2-1 win Feb. 22 at Brown. On the weekend, he logged 23 saves in a 3-1 victory against Clarkson and 32 in a 4-3 win against St. Lawrence. Two of the Saints' goals came on power plays. Carroll made 41 of his 95 saves in the third period of last week's games.
This is the second straight week ECAC Hockey has honored a Harvard player. Sophomore defenseman Danny Biega was named MLX Skates Player of the Week on Feb. 22. It is the second ECAC goalie honor in Carroll's career. He was previously named Goaltender of the Week on Feb. 16, 2009, after making 71 saves in a weekend sweep of Colgate and Cornell.
Carroll has won each of his last five starts to help the Crimson close the regular season on a 5-1-1 run. Harvard begins ECAC Hockey tournament play by visiting Clarkson for a best-of-three series in Potsdam, N.Y., beginning Friday at 7 p.m.


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Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band closed out the first leg of their U.S. tour last Sunday in Newark. It was an epic show, even by ESB standards. Two moments specifically have been hot topics this week- a performance of "The Weight" for the late Levon Helm and a performance of "Bishop Danced," a song never performed after 1973. Let's talk about the latter.
Friends have been Facebooking and texting about "Bishop Danced" since the second the first chord was struck this past Sunday evening. Plenty of "OMGS" and "I don't believe its!" But are these expressions of joy or confusion?
I was surrounded by hundreds of excited (?) people in 2003, and none of them knew just why they were screaming at Giants Stadium.
"It's Cynthia." "What is this?" "Cynthia!" "OMG!" "What is this?"
Bruce had been opening with different, deeper tracks during this run of shows, and this particular night, it was "Cynthia," found on the "Tracks" boxed set. I get it. "SURPRISE!" But "Cynthia" just ain't good. Most of the people in my section weren't quite sure why they were happy. It was a fleeting thrill, one that may have been sustained if the opener had been "Night" or "The Ties That Bind," or even a familiar cover.
At the show I attended on April 6th, the band dusted off "Lion's Den," another so-so song from the "Tracks" boxed set. As soon as it registered I thought, "It'll be over in 5 minutes." And if I was in Newark, I would have felt the same about "Bishop Danced." We're talking 5-10 minutes a night, so really, why complain? But I can't help feeling a killer "Drive All Night" or "Kitty's Back," or (insert here) would have trumped the 8 second "never did this before" thrill.
One Facebook acquaintaince looks at this way:
"With every one of these rarities there is at least one true-blue fan in that crowd whose all-time favorite song is "Bishop Danced" (or another rarity) and the gift of hearing it live is monumental. And I love that Bruce and the band will throw us fans that."
She makes a good point. And really, who am I to assume that 25,000 people would rather hear "Drive All Night" than ""Bishop Danced?" I know I'd rather hear "Bishop Danced" than "Bobby Jean."
I've always been fascinated by artists and their set list choices. Why do something one night and not the other? Or worse, why keep playing "Waiting On A Sunny Day?" Why? WHY?! (oops...sorry.)
Here is my dream set list for Bruce & The ESB:
Code Of Silence
Sherry Darling
Candy's Room
Atlantic City
Highway Patrolman
Girls In Their Summer Clothes
Racing In The Street
Pink Cadillac
Because The Night
Tougher Than The Rest
Rag Mama Rag
Brilliant Disguise
The E Street Shuffle
Valentine's Day
Growin' Up
Kitty's Back
Pretty Flamingo
Raise Your Hand
Drive All Night
Born To Run
Thunder Road
Bruce...if you're reading...


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Adobe® AIR For Dummies®
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Part I: Airing It Out with Adobe AIR.
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Adobe AIR.
Chapter 2: Building and Deploying Your First AIR Application with HTML and JavaScript.
Chapter 3: The Air Feels Different: Building with Flex Builder and Flash.
Chapter 4: Exploring the Adobe AIR API.
Part II: AIR Application Design.
Chapter 5: Using HTML and CSS as Building Blocks.
Chapter 6: Anyone Listening? Working with Events.
Chapter 7: Windows: Creating Native Application Shells.
Chapter 8: Working with Menus and Tray and Dock Icons.
Part III: Programming the Adobe AIR API.
Chapter 9: Don't Be a Drag: Interacting with the Clipboard and Drag-and-Drop.
Chapter 10: A New Developer Freedom: Working with the Local File Syste.
Chapter 11: From AIRhead to Datahead: Working with Databases.
Chapter 12: Surfi ng the AIRwaves: Net Connectivity.
Chapter 13: Working with Audio.
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Top Pop Musics > Leila Foroohar
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Leila Forouhar (Persian: Leylā Foruhar) (born 23 February 1959, Isfahan, Iran) is a popular Iranian pop singer. She was also an actress before the Iranian Revolution. She relocated to Paris after the Iranian Revolution and then to Los Angeles in 1988. Leila is the daughter of the late Iranian actor Jahangir Forouhar, who had already established a solid background in the Iranian entertainment industry by the early 1970s. She speaks of the great influence her father had upon her interviews. She followed her father's career path into movies, beginning with minor roles in various movies that were based mainly on the social issues of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi[citation needed]. In time she became known as a child star, and with the release of Soltaneh Ghalbhaa (King of Hearts), her fame had already spread far abroad. As a teenager, she began modeling for top fashion magazines alongside acting, with roles in Ezteraab, Three Sisters and The Thirsty Ones. Leila has more than 47 films. Move to France With the outbreak of war with neighboring Iraq, the Iranian movie and music industry was foundering. Initially Forouhar family decided to stay in Tehran in hopes that the conclusion of the war would signify a return to the pre-revolutionary era[citation needed]. With the war drew stretched on, however, Leila decided to leave the country. During this time, much of the press speculated about Forouhar's possible comeback to singing, but Forouhar did not grant interviews, desiring to remain unobtrusive (assassinations of famous expatriates were common). Move to the United States In 1988 Forouhar and her family moved to the United States quickly establishing contact with Los Angeles based Iranian artists who had fled at the outbreak of the revolution. That same year, she released "Makhmal-e-Naz" and in 1989 "Hedieh" ("The Gift"), and the song "Ey Dil" ("Oh My Heart") became very popular[citation needed], rekindling a craze similar to that inspired by "Cheshma-e-Nour" ("Eye of Light")[citation needed]. Releasing an album a year[citation needed], by the 1990s she re-established her reputation as a popular female vocalist amongst Persian audiences[citation needed]. Leila is very popular among Middle Eastern countries like Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kurdistan, Armenia and also in the United States. She has received appreciation from the Los Angeles mayor several times. Releasing an album a year, Leila has released more than 20 albums since she has started her singing career. One of her best sold album was "Planet of Harmony", that consisted of famous songs in different languages like English, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Afghani, Armenian, Turkish, and Kurdish. Her albums are available in Tower Records and iTunes.[1] In 2005, Leila married a Los Angeles-based Iranian-American businessman in a ceremony that included many fellow singers and entertainers with whom she had made albums[citation needed]. Forouhar's nephew is American Muslim reformer Reza Aslan.[2] Live In Tajikistan In 2006, Leila Forouhar had a performance in Tajikistan for a celebration commemorating Aryan civilization.[citation needed] During three concerts that she performed there more than 40,000 people came at the concerts.[citation needed] Celebration of regarding Nowrouz In celebration of regarding Nowrouz as an international ceremony in the United Nations calendar (2010), Leila Forouhar performed a program as a representative of the Iranian Community with the presence of numerous US politicians as well as those of Middle East countries in the Thomas Jefferson congress Hall.[citation needed] Dolly Parton's Jolene Leila has covered Jolene, the most famous song composed and performed by Dolly Parton, in her album called Do Parande (The Two Birds, Persian: دو پرنده) in 1976. She is one of the first popular singers that has sung "Jolene" Leila Forouhar was born on February 23 in Isfahan, Iran, into an artist family. Her father , Jahangir Forouhar, already established a solid background in the Iranian entertainment industry. By the early 70's he featured appearances in more than 80 movies in addition to his work in television and theater. Farangis Farahzadi , Leila's mother, is also a well-known movie and theater actress.In addition to music, Leila was also an actress in many Persian movies of the 1960's and 1970's. She is more widely known as a singer than as an actress. From birth, Leila , as a little girl went on the stage to perform. She was on the stage with her father , mother, and the great actor of Iran's theater, Arham Sadr, at the theater of Sepahan Isfahan. In 1962 , Leila initiated acting in movies like " Wild Rooster " , and " Morad & Laleh ". She was well-known as a great artist in Iran and because of her age she was became known as a child star of Iran. Leila had the most brilliant acting in the movie " Soltane Ghalbha " directed by Mohammad Ali Fardin. Besides acting , Leila started to sing when she was only 14 years old and it has become the preface of a way has been continued until today. In 1974 , Leila released a self-titled music album , which sold out in some Middle Eastern countries like Afghanistan in less than a day. Two singels from the album , " cheshmeye nour " and " eshgh mesle atish " in particular where noted in entertainment magazine and praised by so many great musician of this time in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. She has released more than 60 songs before the Islamic Republic Revolution and after the revolution in 1979 she remained in Iran until 1986 but did not record or perform again due to the ban on solo female singers. She also initiated learning Persian classic music with presence of a great musician, Tajbakhsh in 1981. In 1986 Leila and her family moved to Turkey and from there to France and after 2 years living in France in 1988 they moved to the United States of America quickly established contact with Los Angeles based Iranian artist who had fled at the outbreak of the revolution. That same year , she released "Makhmal-e-Naz" and in 1989 "Hediyeh" (" The Gift "), and the song " Ey Del " ( "Oh My Heart" ) became very popular, rekindling a craze similar to that inspired by " Cheshmeye Nour". By the 1990's re-established her reputation as a popular female vocalist amongst Persian audiences and has performed in concerts all around the world and in so many well-known arenas like Shrine Auditorium, Kodak Theater , Universal Amphitheater , Oberhausen. 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This article appears in the Winter 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
Campus sexual assaults are horrifying, made all the worse because the settings are bucolic and presumed safe—leafy campuses, ivy-walled universities. Assaults are reported in dormitories, off-campus apartments, and fraternity houses, in elite and non-elite institutions, from one end of the country to the other. Title IX (of the Education Amendments of 1972) was supposed to promote equal opportunity in any educational program receiving federal money. But until recently, Title IX was dormant and largely ignored. The enforcer, the federal government, had been a paper tiger. Universities were not reporting, much less dealing with, either sexual harassment or explicit sexual violence. Sexual misconduct impairs a woman's ability to function as an equal in an academic environment—and by extension menaces all women. Unless a woman is safe, all the other guarantees of equal treatment are irrelevant.
In 2011, the government's approach changed dramatically: A "Dear Colleague" letter on sexual violence was sent to colleges and universities from the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), pointedly reminding them of their obligations under Title IX and presaging aggressive enforcement. By August 2013, the public face of the department's enforcement efforts was Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary at the Office for Civil Rights, a zealous advocate, formerly head of impact litigation at Public Counsel, a public interest law firm; before that, she was assistant legal director of the ACLU of Southern California. At a July 2014 meeting of college administrators, Lhamon made the threat of disciplinary action unmistakable: While no school accused of violating Title IX had ever lost its federal funding, "do not think it's an empty threat," she warned them. A department website announced the campaign against sexual violence on campus, Not Alone. President Barack Obama, in a January 25, 2014, speech, assured his listeners that "anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You are not alone. We have your back. I've got your back." Even the department's language changed, no longer referring antiseptically to a complainant and an accused but rather to victims or survivors, and perpetrators.
To feminists—I among them—it was about time that pressure was brought to bear on educational institutions. Too often colleges and universities had excused or turned a blind eye to the crimes of serial sexual predators. The media, after often dismissing the claims of rape victims, was finally more sympathetic, covering accounts of sexual violence from the University of Virginia to Yale and Harvard. This kind of sustained attention was precisely what was needed to come to grips with the problem. Nothing less would have done the trick. Indeed, nothing had worked before. It was as if women, especially young women, had to speak especially loudly and especially often to finally be heard—a not unfamiliar concept.
President Barack Obama signs the Campus Sexual Assault Presidential Memorandum during a White House Council on Women and Girls meeting in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 22, 2014.
The problem was that the issues surrounding campus sexual assault were more complicated than the public debate reflected. How were universities and colleges to deal with the range of campus sexual encounters—a continuum from violent rape, to sex fueled by alcohol impairing all involved, to the expectations about women and men in the so-called "hookup culture," to consensual sex followed by second thoughts. There are plenty of bright lines such as forcible rape—but also blurry ones. Genuine ambivalence and ambiguous signals seem almost inherent in courtship and sexuality, especially in first encounters. Where should the Title IX violation line be? What was a reasonable adjudication process? What was the role of the criminal justice system in cases in which university conduct codes overlapped with possible prosecutions?
Further, how were colleges and universities to balance the interests of the complainant with those of the accused? Just as the complainants must be treated with dignity and their rights to a fair resolution of their charges be respected, so too must those accused of sexual misconduct. You don't have to believe that there are large numbers of false accusation of sexual assault—I do not—to insist that the process of investigating and adjudicating these claims be fair. In fact, feminists should be especially concerned, not just about creating enforcement proceedings, but about their fairness. If there is a widespread perception that the balance has tilted from no rights for victims to no due process for the accused, we risk a backlash. Benighted attitudes about rape and skepticism about women victims die hard. It takes only a few celebrated false accusations of rape to turn the clock back.
I come to this issue—campus sexual assault—from all sides. This is not because I was a federal judge for 17 years, where "considering all sides" was part of the job definition. I left the bench in 2011 to teach at Harvard Law School, among other things. I am an unrepentant feminist, a longtime litigator on behalf of women's rights, as my memoir, In Defense of Women, reflects. Rape, I insisted, is a crime to which women—including me—feel uniquely vulnerable, no matter who they are, no matter what their class, their race, their status. No one should have been surprised that I supported stronger enforcement of Title IX, more training for investigators, more services for complainants, systematic assessments of the state of enforcement on college campuses, and other tough remedies. What surprised many, however, was that I was one of 28 Harvard professors who signed a letter opposing Harvard University's new sexual harassment and sexual assault policies, policies introduced ostensibly in response to pressures from the Department of Education.
When I was a lawyer, I understood how inadequate the law was in addressing sexual violence at all. I worked for changes to the retrograde definition of rape in statutes around the country and their disrespectful treatment of rape victims, laws that were a throwback to medieval conceptions about women. I lobbied for rape shield laws that limited the defense counsel's cross-examination of a woman about her prior sexual experiences. So little did the law trust a woman's account of rape that some states required that a woman's accusations be corroborated by independent evidence, a requirement to which no other crime victim was subject. The definition of the crime focused on the woman's conduct, whether she had resisted "to the utmost;" a simple "no" did not suffice. To the extent that the man's conduct was considered at all, the statutes required that he use force before his acts amounted to rape; drugging a woman, or having sex with one wholly incapacitated by alcohol, was not enough. And date rape was never prosecuted no matter what the circumstances.
But I was also a criminal defense lawyer. I understood more than many how unfair the criminal process could be, how critical the enforcement of a defendant's rights were to the integrity and, even more, to the reliability of the criminal justice system. I understood what it meant to have a defendant's liberty hanging in the balance, how long terms of imprisonment could wreak havoc on the lives of defendants and their families. I appreciated the stigma of the very accusation, which persists—especially today on the Internet—even if the accused is exonerated. And I understood the racial implications of rape accusations, the complex intersection of bias, stereotyping, and sex in the prosecution of this crime.
I reconciled the pressures pushing me in opposite directions by choosing not to represent men accused of rape, while bringing civil lawsuits for women against the universities or the building owners that failed to provide them with adequate security, or against psychiatrists and psychologists who sexually abused them. I steered clear of prosecutions for rape—except for one case.
A young man, a freshman at a local college at the time the incident happened and a friend of a former roommate of mine, was referred to me. (In my memoir, I call him "Paul.") He'd had sex with a classmate, his very first sexual encounter; he believed his classmate had consented. And while we can never know what went on between them, the facts—her actions, her words, the testimony of others—made her charges wholly unconvincing. A few examples: She went out of her way to invite him to her parents' home a short time after the sex to stay for the weekend. Nine months after their sexual encounter, she claimed to have been raped and mentioned his name following the breakup of a different relationship and her hospitalization for depression. She accused Paul during a conversation with her father, but accused another male student while speaking to a classmate. Witnesses reported nothing out of the ordinary that evening, no evidence of drinking, no impairment, not even anxiety about what had occurred. Her account itself was improbable, internally inconsistent, and contradicted by the evidence and the testimony of her own classmates. While from decades of work on rape and my women's rights advocacy, I understood that this young woman could be telling the truth—that her behavior in the days and weeks after the sex, and even her multiple accounts of what went on, could be explained by post-traumatic stress disorder, or simply embarrassment—her account seemed unlikely.
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia has been the scene of numerous protests since the report of an alleged gang rape at one of its parties. This demonstration on Saturday night, November 22, 2014, was in response to the university's reaction to a controversial Rolling Stone article on the allegations.
By the late 1980s, when the accusations against Paul were brought, the women's movement had succeeded in making some of the changes for which I and others had fought. The popular media finally reported on the horror of date rape and its consequences. District attorneys and police belatedly began to prosecute the offense. The definition of rape changed in states across the country, although progress was far from uniform. Gone was the mandatory corroboration requirement and limitless attacks on a woman's "chastity," whatever that meant in the late 20th century. Still, we were a long way from adequately dealing with these issues. There were many jurisdictions where change came slowly or not at all, where prosecutors and even courts not so subtly sided with perpetrators and blamed victims.
While I believed that Paul had been wrongly accused, and would be exonerated, true to my practice I declined to represent him. I asked one of my law partners to step in, and then watched with horror as the prosecution unfolded.
The atmosphere surrounding date rape had changed more dramatically than I had appreciated, at least in Massachusetts. The district attorney, though he fully understood the weaknesses of the case, felt compelled to bring the charges lest he face political repercussions, for being yet another politician ignoring a woman's pain. Even the grand jury ignored their serious doubts about the case and indicted Paul. As I later learned from one of its members, they felt comfortable indicting Paul because I was rumored to be representing him and they assumed he would be acquitted. And the judge—with life tenure—likewise felt the pressure. The judge was critical; my partner decided to waive the jury when a program on date rape was aired on the eve of the trial. While the judge expressed his skepticism throughout the trial—every single comment of his pointed to reasonable doubt about Paul's guilt—his verdict was "guilty." He did not say so explicitly, but the message seemed clear. If he acquitted Paul, he would be pilloried in the press. "Judge acquits rapist," the headlines would scream. But if he convicted Paul, no one would notice.
I took over the appeal. The brief my firm filed was what I described as a feminist brief: Just because the legal system has moved away from the view that all rape accusations are contrived does not mean it must move to the view that none are. This conviction was not just technically imperfect, I argued, it was a true injustice. I was successful. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed Paul's conviction on a procedural error, the trial court's evidentiary rulings. The prosecutor could have retried the case, but, thankfully, chose not to do so.
After decades of feminist advocacy (the case establishing the right to choose abortion in Massachusetts, the first introduction of Battered Woman Syndrome in a defense to a murder charge, and on and on), I was picketed by a women's rights group when I spoke on a panel following the reversal of Paul's case; I was a "so-called women's rights attorney," one sign announced, simply because I had represented a man accused of rape. When I explained why, including the fact that I believed he was innocent, a demonstrator yelled, "That is irrelevant!" The experience was chilling; to the picketers, a wrongful conviction and imprisonment simply did not matter. Paul would have been incarcerated, but for my firm's advocacy and the appellate court's independent review. Still, advocacy and appellate review could only go so far: Though the charges against Paul were dropped, he was expelled from the college he had been attending; he struggled to reapply years later and finally get his degree. Worse yet, he continues to suffer from the stigma of the accusation to this day, many, many decades later.
As a federal judge, I did not have much occasion to address the issues with which I had been so concerned as a lawyer. Rape is principally a state, not federal, crime. I did deal with accusations of sexual harassment in the workplace, fully appreciating the extent to which sexual harassment obstructs equal opportunity and discriminates against women. I wrote articles decrying the state of civil rights enforcement in the federal courts. And on the criminal side, while I did everything I could to mitigate the harsh effects of onerous drug sentencing, I had no problem sentencing sex traffickers as harshly as the law allowed.
Still, I could not forget Paul's case. It shaped the context in which I saw the university sexual assault controversy. As in the '80s, women mobilized against institutions that had woefully failed to deal with sexual violence and sexual harassment. While the movement had successfully raised public awareness about violence and harassment in homes, on the streets, and in workplaces, many police, prosecutors, and courts were stuck in an earlier era of victim-blaming. And progress seemed to have stalled at the doors of the academy, where at least some institutions still dissuaded women from bringing complaints while they shielded alleged perpetrators.
In the summer of 2014, Harvard issued its new Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures. It contained both new procedures for when students are accused of Title IX violations and new definitions of the covered conduct. While ostensibly in response to the Office for Civil Rights' pressures, they were released without OCR's approval. In some respects, they go beyond what the 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter spelled out.
The Harvard University logo is inscribed with the Latin word for "truth."
OCR has clearly mandated that universities and colleges evaluate accusations of rape under a preponderance of the evidence standard. A preponderance of the evidence is in fact the lowest standard of proof that the legal system has to offer. In effect, if the evidence leans in favor of the victim to any degree, say 50.01 percent, that is sufficient. OCR's rationale was that this was the standard for suits alleging civil rights violations, like sexual harassment. True enough, except for the fact that civil trials at which this standard is implemented follow months if not years of discovery—where each side finds out about the other's case, knows the evidence and the accusations, and has lawyers to ask the right questions. Not so with the new Harvard regime, which has no lawyers, no meaningful sharing of information, no hearings. It is the worst of both worlds, the lowest standard of proof, coupled with the least protective procedures.
The new standard of proof, coupled with the media pressure, effectively creates a presumption in favor of the woman complainant. If you find against her, you will see yourself on 60 Minutes or in an OCR investigation where your funding is at risk. If you find for her, no one is likely to complain.
But Harvard's new policy goes further than OCR's mandated preponderance standard. Harvard establishes a fact-finding process that takes place entirely within the four corners of a single office, the Title IX compliance office. The Title IX officer has virtually unreviewable power from the beginning of the proceeding to its end. The officer deals directly with the complaining witness, advises her, determines if the case should be investigated, proceeds to an informal or to a formal resolution. If there is a formal investigation, the Title IX officer appoints and trains the "Investigative Team," which consists of one investigator, who is also an employee of the Title IX office, and a designee of the school with which the accused is affiliated. The investigative team notifies the accused of the written charges, giving him one week to respond. While he has a short deadline, there is no time limit for the complainant's accusations, no period of time within which she must complain—what the law calls a statute of limitations.
Thereafter, the team interviews the parties and, if it deems appropriate, witnesses identified by the parties as well as any others it decides to consult. The team issues a final report on a preponderance standard and working jointly with the Title IX officer—who was in fact involved in the investigation throughout—may provide recommendations concerning the appropriate sanctions to the individual schools. There is an appeal, but it is to that same Title IX officer and only on narrow grounds. While the final sanction is determined by the individual school, the fact-findings on which that sanction is based—this critical administrative report—cannot be questioned.
As the letter of the 28 faculty members noted, this procedure does not remotely resemble any fair decision-making process with which any of us were familiar: All of the functions of the sexual assault disciplinary proceeding—investigation, prosecution, fact-finding, and appellate review—are in one office, we wrote, and that office is a Title IX compliance office, hardly an impartial entity. This is, after all, the office whose job it is to see to it that Harvard's funding is not jeopardized on account of Title IX violations, an office which has every incentive to see the complaint entirely through the eyes of the complainant.
Nothing in the new procedure requires anything like a hearing at which both sides offer testimony, size up the respective witnesses, or much less cross-examine them. Nothing in the new procedure enables accuser and accused to confront each other in any setting, whether directly (which surely may be difficult for the accuser) or at the very least through their representatives. Nor is there any meaningful opportunity for discovery of the facts charged and the evidence on which it is based; the respondent gets a copy of the accusations and a preliminary copy of the team's fact findings, to which he or she can object—again within seven days, a very short time—but not all of the information gathered is necessarily included. Everything is filtered through the investigative team, which decides the scope of the investigation, the credibility of witnesses, and whom to interview and when.
Nothing in the OCR's 2011 "Dear Colleague" letter called for a proceeding remotely like this. Indeed, the letter underscored the need for an "adequate, reliable and impartial investigation of complaints, including the opportunity for both parties to present witnesses and other evidence," and to have access to any information that would be used at the "hearing." And while the 2014 White House "Not Alone" report mentioned that some schools had a "single, trained investigator" doing "the lion's share of fact finding," as in Harvard's policy, it did not—and I would argue, should not—require such an approach.
Nor is there any meaningful role for lawyers in the Harvard policy. The parties may use a "personal adviser" who can be a lawyer, but that adviser may not speak for their advisees at the only relevant stage in this policy, the interview with the investigative team, "although they may ask to suspend the interviews briefly if they feel their advisees would benefit from a short break." (Indeed, this description sounds like a grand jury proceeding, which is notoriously one--sided, controlled entirely by the prosecutor with no role for the defendant's lawyer, within the hearing room.) Harvard makes no provision for representation of the accused, particularly for students unable to afford counsel, as the letter of the 28 professors notes. Richer students will have lawyers; poorer students will not. Nothing should prevent a university with Harvard's resources from providing lawyers for those who cannot afford them, as, for example, Columbia University does. In contrast, the complainant has advisers and advocates from the Title IX office at the outset of the proceeding, advocates especially provided for under the policy. The respondents are left to their own resources.
As the 28 law school faculty members' letter noted, even the definition of the misconduct is skewed. The new Harvard standards governing sexual conduct between students when both are impaired or incapacitated are "starkly one sided" and "inadequate to address the complex issues involved in these unfortunate situations involving extreme use and abuse of alcohol and drugs by our students." "Impairment" and "incapacitation" are not the same, under the law. Sex with an individual who is incapacitated or unconscious, who does not understand what is happening, is plainly egregious, and is rape by any modern definition. But "impairment" because of alcohol is surely a different matter. Worse yet, the policy is not equally applied: The accused's "impairment" based on drugs or alcohol is not at all relevant; it is not an argument for his "diminished capacity" as it might be under the criminal law of some jurisdictions. Instead, the policy treats him as if he were fully sober, fully responsible for his acts. The complainant's "impairment" is another matter. If both parties are drunk, but not unconscious, not incapacitated, and only impaired by their drinking, and they have sex, only he is responsible under Harvard's policy.
In fact, there is no reason to believe that the students themselves define what Professor Janet Halley of Harvard Law School calls "drunk/drunk" cases as rape at all. While 10 percent of female MIT undergraduates in a recent study identified themselves as having "been sexually assaulted," 44 percent reported having sex while being incapacitated by drugs or alcohol. Plainly, some of the students did not regard sex under those circumstances as sexual assault. The unfairness of this policy is nowhere clearer when the misconduct allegations are also the subject of a criminal investigation. The policy requires that the respondent be advised to get a lawyer—again on his own dime—before he provides any statement, but the investigation may well proceed at the discretion of the Title IX office. And should that investigation continue—given his silence—he stands a good chance of losing the disciplinary proceeding and being subject to academic sanctions. At the same time, should a legal prosecution end with dismissed charges or an acquittal, there is no provision for a reconsideration of the academic sanctions.
Sexual assault advocates will argue that this is as it should be. It will be traumatic for the complainant to confront her accuser, even if only through her representatives rather than directly. It will be traumatic for the complainant to be asked to repeat her story over again. A speedy resolution is critical to her recovery, they would suggest. These arguments, however, assume the outcome—that the complainant's account is true—without giving the accused an opportunity to meaningfully test it. However flawed, the way we test narratives of misconduct—on whichever side—is by questioning the witness, by holding hearings, by sharing the evidence that has been gathered, by giving everyone access to lawyers, by assuring a neutral fact-finder. While we know from the Innocence Project that even these "tests" can produce wrongful convictions, they are at least more likely to produce reliable results than the opposite—a one-sided, administrative proceeding, with a single investigator, judge, jury, and appeals court.
Indeed, the Office for Civil Rights has agreed to investigate a claim of a wrongful accusation of sexual assault at Brandeis University. A male student was found guilty of assaulting his ex-lover, also a man. He claims that the school's investigation was skewed, that he was not permitted to respond fully to the accusations, that his accuser had counsel while he did not, and that his counter allegations were not sufficiently credited in Brandeis's investigation. In effect, the complainant is arguing that a flawed, unfair process undermines his Title IX rights to equal participation in university life. While all of the details of the Brandeis complaint are not clear at this time, to the extent that Harvard's new procedures mirror those of Brandeis, Harvard may also be vulnerable to wrongful-accusation charges.
Some will say that all of this shows that a university has no business at all dealing with sexual misconduct accusations, which amount to a crime. The police should be called; the sanction should not simply be suspension or expulsion but prison. And in a criminal trial, there is no question about due process; the accused has the benefit of all the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Indeed, Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld argues that recourse to university remedies rather than a criminal prosecution for rape trivializes the offense, and may even enable serial predators to get away with their crimes.
Yet women are right to be skeptical about the criminal justice system—about full-blown criminal trials and appeals and the toll they take on witnesses and accusers, about the higher standard of criminal proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, which, though justified by the risk of imprisonment, can leave many claims un-redressed. To be sure, there is overlap between the two—when a student accused of misconduct under Title IX is also vulnerable to a criminal prosecution—but they cannot be mutually exclusive. In any event, Title IX's definition of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment is appropriately broader, more nuanced than even the recent statutory definitions of rape. While the colleges and universities abandoned their role as parens patriae (de facto parents) decades ago, in a sense, Title IX has invited them back in, policing sexual activities and misconduct—although, according to some commentators, not paying enough attention to the conditions that make that misconduct possible, like alcohol and drugs. Still, just because prison is not a risk hardly means that Title IX disciplinary proceedings are without serious consequences for those accused, and surely does not justify a process as one-sided as is Harvard's.
At Oberlin College, administrators worked with students to arrive at a policy for adjudicating campus sexual assault cases that has stronger due-process protections than Harvard's.
There are plainly other options, other ways of protecting the rights of both students who bring complaints and of those they accuse. The policy adopted by Oberlin College offers an instructive counter-example. This is all the more interesting, since Oberlin has a reputation as a left-wing and politically correct college. Indeed, the college was widely ridiculed last year when a professor proposed a conduct code requiring teachers to give "trigger warnings" when a class included material that might upset some students. (Oberlin quickly shelved that proposal.) Yet Oberlin's procedure on sexual misconduct may be a model for other schools.
Oberlin has devised a symmetrical due process proceeding. In language suggested by the students, the parties to the case are termed "reporting party" and "responding party" rather than victim and perpetrator. After a preliminary assessment, designed both to provide support to the complainant and to determine whether there is reasonable cause to move to a fact-finding panel, a disciplinary proceeding may be called. Both parties may present information, call witnesses, and, in lieu of a cross-examination, may forward questions that they want the panel to ask the other party. The three panelists are trained administrators, none of whom is part of the Title IX office. "That would be a conflict of interest," says Meredith Raimondo, Oberlin's Title IX director. In the event that punishment is meted out, the responding party has the right of appeal to the dean of students, who is also not affiliated with the Title IX office. If the complainant feels the outcome is unfair, she may also appeal. This policy was created by a task force that included students, faculty, and administrators meeting over the course of 18 months. "We feel there can be great harm when the process is seen as biased against reporting parties," says Raimondo, "and there can be great harm when it is perceived to be biased against responding parties."
Feminists should be concerned about fair process, even in private institutions where the law does not require it, because we should be concerned about reliable findings of responsibility. We put our decades-long efforts to stop sexual violence at risk when men come forward and credibly claim they were wrongly accused. We put our work at risk when the media can dredge up the shibboleths about false accusations of rape, a collective "We told you so" tapping into old attitudes. The recent feeding frenzy around Rolling Stone's account of a gang rape at the University of Virginia campus shows just how much damage can be done by the claim that a rape report was flawed—damage to the women making the accusations, to the men who are accused, and to the cause of combating sexual violence.
There is no question that we have to confront sexual misconduct on campus and elsewhere as aggressively and comprehensively as we can. There is no question that we have to lift the protection offered the star athlete, confront the administrators more concerned with the man's future than with a woman's trauma, challenge the atmosphere of impunity at fraternity houses and social clubs. And we can do so without turning every disciplinary proceeding into a full-blown trial, without imposing the maximum due process protections, on the one hand, or an administrative Star Chamber, on the other. It isn't necessary to jettison every modicum of a fair process to redress decades-long inattention to these issues. It never is. As I argued in Paul's case, we should not substitute a regime in which women are treated without dignity for one in which those they are accusing are similarly demeaned. Indeed, feminists should be concerned about fair process, not just because it makes fact-findings more reliable and more credible, but for its own sake.
This article has been updated.


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In the 2009 edition of an annual job satisfaction survey conducted for The Conference Board, only 45 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with their jobs, which is a marked drop from the more than 61 percent who said they were satisfied in 1987, the first year the survey was conducted. While some may wish to blame the most recent survey's low satisfaction numbers on the current economic downturn, such an easy answer would be inaccurate. An analysis of the job satisfaction data produced by The Conference Board finds that, unlike the economy, this increasing worker unhappiness is not cyclical. I Can't Get No...Job Satisfaction, That Is examines how, through both the booms and the busts of the past two decades, job satisfaction numbers have shown a consistent downward trend.


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The last time I saw my sweet friend Amy was in April, when a bunch of us college girlfriends gathered together in Knoxville to throw her a baby shower. We came from Dayton, Chattanooga, Chicago, and Charlotte—all to celebrate the new little boy that Amy and her husband Jon were bringing into the world in June.
Amy chatted excitedly about the new apartment they'd be renting in Chicago. This one would be more spacious than the last, closer to work, perfect for the baby. She left Knoxville with a car full of baby clothes, diapers, equipment, and supplies.
Then, on Thursday of last week, the unthinkable happened: Jon and Amy lost nearly everything they owned in an apartment fire. (See the Chicago Tribune story here.)
Fortunately, no one was hurt, and Jon and Amy are blessed to have renters' insurance. But with Amy nearly 37 weeks pregnant, the timing could not be worse. They have been staying with friends, but do not yet have a "home" to which they can take their baby boy once he is born.
I mentioned all of this on Twitter earlier, and was surprised and humbled by how many of you wanted to know how you could help. Well, here's how:
- A friend of theirs from Chicago has set up a donation page here.
- My friends Annie and Josh (who you may remember from this amazing guest post), also from Chicago, have opened up their home to Jon and Amy and also created a page through which you can get updates and make specific donations.
- And if you live in Chicago, (as I know many of you do—it's the blog's most popular city!), you may want to stop by The Book Cellar on North Lincoln Ave. on May 31st at 7 p.m. for a fundraiser, baby shower, readings from local authors, and a raffle. Might be a fun way to connect with the Chicago literary scene, and engage in those fun, slightly awkward conversations that happen when you meet people through a mutual friend.
And, of course, you can always pray—for peace, for health, for hope, for Jon and Amy's relationship, for Josh and Annie's continued hospitality (they are amazing!), and for a sense of God's presence through this difficult time.
Thanks so much for your care and concern.
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