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Producer Shonda Rhimes is noted for featuring females and minorities in her TV shows
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As the creator of popular television shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, Shonda Rhimes has received numerous accolades, including being named among Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2013 and, last year, one of Fortune magazine's 50 most powerful women.
These plaudits have come not just because she runs these top-rated series. Time praised her shows for reflecting gender and racial diversity, with central characters who are high-achieving and also female, black, Asian and gay, while Fortune cited her impact on popular culture at large.
Yet, even though she is arguably doing more for diversity than any other writer-producer in Hollywood, Rhimes is slightly exasperated by this - by the fact that hiring women and minorities is still considered so groundbreaking that she has to be singled out for praise.
Neither does she actively try to create a particular kind of female character to challenge likeability and other traits stereotypically associated with women on screen.
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No, Teairra Mari hasn't joined a 12-step program, nor is she walking/biking to raise money for disease sufferers. On her latest single, the singer's looking for the kind of Sponsor with the money to treat her to everything her heart desires – and, hopefully, enough star power to help get her long-delayed At That Point LP onto store shelves. As it turns out, not one but two famous fellas are itching to become the former Roc Princess' sugar daddy: hip-popster Soulja Boy and – surprise, surprise – Gucci Mane step up to the mic to spit guest bars over Zeke's staccato-synth boardwork. Gucci makes a convincing case, plying the headliner with promises of exotic vacations ("No my name ain't Gilligan, but let's go to an island."), and Soulja Boy takes a similar tack on the back end, tempting Mari with shopping sprees and expensive dinners. Having suffered several pushbacks, At That Point is currently scheduled to drop in early 2010. Will this pop-appealing single be the one that gets Warner Bros. to issue a release date that sticks? Will Gucci Mane's vocal chords survive his ongoing guest-verse binge? For the moment, we can only speculate…
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Why does the center channel wander?
This is annoying!
I can't get the 5.1 sound working propperly under Linux.
The first release of the nVidia "official" drivers (nvaudio) used to support only stereo.
So I installed ALSA.
It works... but the problem is that the center channel jumps from time to time to another speaker. It seems pretty aleatory, although it has a "preference" for the rear left speaker. Unmuting/Muting the channels and "playing" with the alsamixer magically solves the problem... for a couple of minutes :(
Yesterday I decided to give the new nVidia drivers a try.
Now, the 5.1 sound does work, but with the same problem as regards the center channel. It jumps arround all the time!!!
Besides, nVidia doesn't provide us with any mixer to "fix" the problem.
Can anyone tell me how to avoid this?
Is there a workarround for this?
I have this problem playing DVDs, both with Xine and MPlayer.
Thanks for your help!
I am getting 5.1 sound on my Abit NF7-S in linux but in order for the sound to come out of the correct speakers, I have to swap the black and orange analogue sound leads over.
I need to swap back again when using 4 channel sound.
The colours of the speaker leads in windows where all works well do not correspond with the correct sockets (I have an Abit NF7-S).
Black lead ...... Orange Socket
Orange lead ... Black Socket
When working in linux this arrangement works fine until 5.1 sound is used.
But with linux nforce audio and 5.1 sound the plugs go in the correct colour sockets. Weird. And this leads me to the conclusion that the 5.1 part of the linux audio driver was written by a guy with an Abit NF7 who rigged up the sound leads colour for colour and proceeded to get the sound working "properly".
The socket colour mismatch is Abit's mistake as changing the windows audio driver for a generic realtek makes no difference to the mapping.
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LONDON (ICIS)--European styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) December contract prices have softened by €10-30/tonne ($14-41/tonne) on the back of an illiquid market, despite main feedstock butadiene (BD) rolling over, market sources said on Wednesday.
SBR contract prices have fallen in December because of seasonally weaker demand, despite BD, the main feedstock, rolling over at €900/tonne free delivered (FD) northwest Europe (NWE). Styrene prices also increased by €10/tonne at €1,375/tonne free on board (FOB) Barge Amsterdam Rotterdam and Antwerp (ARA).
According to market players, 1500 and 1723 grades softened by €20/tonne and €10/tonne on both the low and high ends respectively. SBR 1500 grade was assessed at €1,450-1,520/tonne FD NWE, while SBR 1723 grade was assessed at €1,340-1,390/tonne FD NWE. Meanwhile, SBR 1783 was assessed at €1,300-1,350/tonne FD NWE, down by €10/tonne on the low end and down by €30/tonne on the high end.
One source said, "the market was very quiet" with buyers focused on reducing stocks. A second source said it had fewer orders for December compared to the same month in 2012. Meanwhile, a third source added that only non-tyre buyers were in the market to purchase SBR.
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Aug 20, 2011Not a bad game by any means; but it's too small and it's too short. Deus ex was a far larger game. This game feels too console-y, which is odd as they managed to port the original Deus Ex to PS2 without losing too much of the feel of the PC version. As Mass Effect 2 reminded us, streamlining a game from the original doesn't always make for a better game.
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No better and no worse a game than its predecessor, and there's absolutely no shame in that. And it's no airport novel, as it requires some serious time investment.
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You can also view Bingham Magazine online at www.am-news.com under Special Sections.
BLACKFOOT – Here is a listing of events happening in and around Bingham County this week. Check our online calendar at http://www.am-news.com for updated information during the week. If you have an event you would like posted please send it to email@example.com.
• Solo auditions for the community performance of Handel's "Messiah" are from 4—6 p.m. at the Snake River High School.
• Bingham County Historical Society final meeting of the year tonight at 6 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center. Roast beef dinner--please bring a salad or dessert. Speaker Gene Womack.
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Marinatto declined to say which schools will receive invites to the Big East. He did say the league will hand out invites for football-only and all sports and the league is looking to expand westward.
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BOZEMAN, Mont. — Leona-Ruth Vadnais Fechter Long, 69, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 following a valiant battle with cancer.
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Dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of the past, present, and future of western North America, the Center supports research, teaching, and reporting about western land and life in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Meet the Summer 2015 Interns
Back row: Sam Klotz, Michael Gioia, Peter Salazar, Monica Masiello, Maya Lorey.
Front row: Savannah Pham, Isabella Robbins, Christina Morrisett, Katie Petway.
We are pleased to welcome 10 undergraduate students to the Bill Lane Center's 2015 summer internship program. This year, the Center is resuming collaborations with seven of our public and private partners, including two new internships with Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Our interns will explore the west through multidisciplinary lenses, including museum science, legislative research, historical ecology, statistical modeling, and more.
Stay tuned to our Out West blog for students' stories as they begin their adventures in June. Reports will start trickling in during July.
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Hiking in a Land of Little Rain
Drought was on everyone's mind as friends of the Bill Lane Center for the American West gathered in the early morning on April 18th for the Center's fourth annual "Stanford to the Sea" hike. As is typical these days, there was no rain in the forecast, just cool mid-70s weather during that dipped down to the 50s at the culminating BBQ dinner in Pescadero. The roughly 20 mile route led from the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (the western edge of Stanford lands) to Highway 1 in San Gregorio, passing along the way through Wunderlich County Park, El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve, Huddart County Park, and the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve.
Along the way, hikers heard talks by distinguished guest speakers on the subject of California's ongoing drought. Noah Diffenbaugh, associate professor of earth system science and senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, talked about his lab's prediction of more frequent intersections of hot years with dry years – a combination that suggests further droughts in California's future. Leon Szeptycki, executive director of Water in the West (a joint program of the Center and the Stanford Woods Institute) critiqued some overly dramatic media headlines on the drought, and said that the agriculture sector has sacrificed more than the public realizes. As for drought relief, there's no "silver bullet," said Newsha Ajami, who studies urban water policy at Water in the West and the ReNUWIt engineering research center. Rather, Ajami argued, a diversified "silver portfolio" of solutions tailored to specific locations could reduce water consumption, bolster aging water infrastructure, and moderate demand. Lastly, the author and Center media fellow Mary Ellen Hannibal talked about how the contributions of "citizen" scientists will be increasingly important for researchers addressing environmental concerns like habitat loss and species extinction. She pointed to mobile applications like iNaturalist that let regular people send geolocated photographs for experts to identify and store as "museum-quality" observations.
Following on the tradition of "Walking the Farm," a day-long hike that explored Stanford University's many connections to the contemporary American West, "Stanford to the Sea" was developed with assistance from the Peninsula Open Space Trust and the Stanford land use and environmental planning office. The hike was led by the Center's program and research associate Chau Ho. More photographs of this year's hike – and those from previous years – are available online.
Western State Water Plans are "All Over the Map"
Data visualization of topics found in state water plan summaries compiled by the U.S. Corps of Engineers (California Journal of Politics and Policy)
After a century of federal investment in dams and reservoirs fed rapid growth in the western U.S., water management fell largely to the states. So how have western states managed this essential resource – adjudicating water rights, prioritizing water uses, and planning for the future?
A team of Center researchers and students looked to the states' periodic water plans as a window to understanding the range of practices and philosophies. Their analysis, "All Over the Map: The Diversity of Western Water Plans," has just been published in the California Journal of Politics and Policy.
In the paper, the researchers Vanessa Casado-Perez, Bruce E. Cain, Iris Hui, Coral Abbott, Kaley Dodson, and Shane Lebow found that not all western states compile water plans, and those that do may not update them often. Plans vary in length from less than 80 to over 1,000 pages; and while some are packed with water usage data, others have little or none at all. Moreover, while some states' water plans offer many specific policy recommendations – such as New Mexico's, Montana's or Nevada's – others are less specific, like Utah's.
The team also used computer text-mining techniques to compare the language used in water plans of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The most predominant finding? That western states are highly preoccupied with maintaining supply, while eastern states's principal concerns are with storm- and wastewater management and drinking water quality (see image at the top of this post). Yet even approaches to scarcity can vary widely, say the authors:
As we might expect in the arid West, all plans concentrate on meeting future water demands but adopt different strategies to do so. New Mexico prioritizes drought management and interstate compacts. Utah and Wyoming emphasize water resource development, while Nevada concentrates on interbasin transfers and water quality. Environmental goals are referenced in varying ways. New Mexico addresses global warming and discusses the potential effects in a separate state drought plan. Idaho includes a section on climate variability but does not define causes of climate variability as anthropogenic. All the states analyzed fall far short of California's lengthy climate change adaptation strategy discussion in its 2009 California State Water Plan or the full chapter devoted to future water uncertainties in the 2013 update.
The paper concludes by exploring the future outlook facing western states – with water supply problems mounting, are they at risk of being subject to stricter federal oversight? The authors suggest that rather than such a "top-down" approach, federal support for improved measurement and data collection would help states do a better job managing water:
Under our proposal, federal action would take the form of sufficiently large grants that states could apply for to monitor and collect information about their water resources. The type and form of the data would be uniform across the states and be publicly available on state websites. Some states might choose to forego taking the money, but, over time, governors hate to leave money on the table.
The paper also contains a table comparing western water plans point by point, from their budgets and planning cycles, to qualitative comparisons like how much discussion the plans devote to subjects like conservation, drought preparedness, and policy recommendations in general. In sum, the paper provides a sketch of each state's water plan and a sense of each state's readiness to manage future conditions. After all, while the plans themselves lack the force of law, the authors argue that "the potential value of comprehensive water planning and negotiation is clearer than ever."
Read the paper in the California Journal of Politics and Policy »
Using Visualization to Analyze the Growth of the American West
A screenshot from "Geography of the Post," part of Cameron Blevins' PhD research.
Recent attention has focused on the work of Cameron Blevins, the Center's 2014-15 Thomas D. Dee II graduate dissertation fellow. As part of his study of the United States' western expansion, Cameron worked with the historian and digital humanities technologist Jason Heppler to build an interactive data visualization exploring the growth of the nation's postal system in the 19th century. The Stanford News Service has an article profiling Cameron and his work:
A doctoral candidate who studies U.S. history and digital humanities, Blevins has developed Geography of the Post, an interactive digital platform that visualizes where and when post offices opened and closed. The locations act as proxies for communities, Blevins explained, and indicate which settlements were temporary and which evolved into long-lasting towns. (Stanford News Service)
The digital narratives blog Storybench, a collaboration between Northeastern University and Esquire Magazine, also took note of Cameron's work:
From sourcing to analyzing to visualizing 19th century post office data, Blevins is at the forefront of digital humanities, a burgeoning field that applies the latest technologies to study the past. For his project, Blevins employed many of the same digital tools being used across disciplines like journalism and design to tell stories with data. He gave Storybench an under-the-hood look at his dissertation, "Geography of the Post." (Storybench.org)
The Center's Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellowship offers one year of support for a student in the School of Humanities & Sciences conducting dissertation research on the North American West. Cameron will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in history this year at Rutgers University.
Read the full posts at the Stanford News Service AND Storybench.org »
Seeking Summer Research Assistants
Update: all positions have been filled.
The Bill Lane Center for the American West is seeking to hire undergraduate researchers to join our research teams for "Enchanting the Desert," "So Long Return Flow," "Local Coastal Programs," and more. More details and application information follow below.
Malibu Beach, CA, and the Grand Canyon, via Wikimedia Commons.
In addition to our summer internships, the Bill Lane Center seeks five undergraduate research assistants to join us for an exciting summer of research. Projects run full time for 10 weeks through the summer quarter, with some starting in the spring term at 10 hours per week. Students will be compensated at the normal University rate for undergraduate RAs, and will have access to a vibrant community of scholars throughout their involvement with the Center.
So Long Return Flow
Efficient irrigation systems – such as sprinklers or drip irrigation – allow farmers to use all of the water allocated to them and are likely to increase crop yield. However, traditional flood irrigation returns much more water to rivers, leaving more water for downstream users and for natural ecosystems. This project seeks to understand how different irrigation techniques affect the yield of different crops, water consumption, and whether it makes economic sense for farmers to adopt them. We seek a research assistant to analyze political and scientific documents in Western states regarding water allocations and the push for more efficient irrigation systems. A background in agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, and public policy is desirable. Read more about the position and how to apply here; applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Local Coastal Programs and Coastal Planning
In the state of California, Local Coastal Programs (LCPs) are basic planning tools used by local governments to guide development in the coastal zone, in partnership with the Coastal Commission. While each LCP reflects unique characteristics of individual local coastal communities, regional and statewide interests and concerns must also be addressed in conformity with Coastal Act goals and policies. We are looking for a research assistant to conduct a comparative case study of LCPs in California. Read more about the position and how to apply here; applications will be reviewedon a rolling basis.
Measuring and visualizing metropolitan areas: understanding the space of urban America
The Office for Management and Budget defines metropolitan areas as having a large urban center and a certain proportion of commuters in the population. Having explored the robustness of commuting as a metric, we will now integrate other metrics such as public services (transit, water supply, etc.) and communication to deepen our understanding of metropolitan areas. This summer, we will test the effect of the distribution of public services and people's behaviors on the definition of metro areas. We seek an undergraduate student to investigate these metrics and their behavior over time and space, and to visualize and compare the trajectories of different metropolitan areas in the contiguous United States. Read more about the position and how to apply here; applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The California Coastal Commission: A New History of Environmental Politics
Established in 1972, the California Coastal Commission was a government/public agency established for the conservation and protection of the state's coastal zone. This project seeks to uncover the history of this important agency, tracing how it changed over time, its regional variances, and its contributions to environmental policy—both past and present. We seek three undergraduate students with broad interests in western, political, and environmental history and policy who wish to strengthen their knowledge in these areas and contribute to a new exciting project through archival research. Read more about the position and how to apply here; applications are due February 22, 2015.
Enchanting the Desert
This project seeks to "enchant" the Grand Canyon region with a diversity of geographic information, augmenting Henry Peabody's photographs with detailed human history. Users experience the Grand Canyon from a variety of perspectives simultaneously, affording them the opportunity to read the landscape synthetically through interwoven commentaries. We seek students who bring practical knowledge or interest in programming and the development of interactive visualization tools to join photography and cartography for geographical research. Read more about the position and how to apply here; applications are due March 15, 2015.
Collaboration Was Key to Knight-Risser Prize-Winning "Sea Change"
Craig Welch, left, and Steve Ringman in Papua New Guinea reporting "Sea Change"
With the Knight-Risser Prize Symposium coming to Stanford on February 25, we present an interview with the prize winners, Steve Ringman and Craig Welch of the Seattle Times, who will be honored for their work on the series "Sea Change: The Pacific's Perilous Turn." The Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism is an annual prize that is co-sponsored by the Center and the John S. Knight Fellowships at Stanford.
Reporter Craig Welch and photojournalist Steve Ringman traveled to four states and two countries and interviewed about 150 people for their project on how the rapid rise in ocean acidification could have a disastrous effect on the sustainability of sea life. But the heart of the "Sea Change" project, the 2015 winner of the Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism, was much closer to home – their relationship with each other. Their collaboration, they say, drove the story from the time the idea was being formed to the final editing process.
Stanford Press Pioneers Digital Humanities Publication with "Born-Digital" Project
An annotated photograph on Nicholas Bauch's upcoming website, "Enchanting the Desert." Photo courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
The Center and CESTA postdoctoral researcher Nicholas Bauch has spent the last three years exploring the work of the early-20th-century photographer Henry Peabody, whose travelogue of the Grand Canyon is one of the earliest surviving such collections. Nick's research has led him from back-country hikes above the Colorado River to computer labs where he has geomapped and analyzed the photographs and their documentation of the canyon's features, while developing an interactive website presenting the photographs, analytical essays, and maps of the canyon. Nick says the site allows users to explore the geography on their own terms, in a way that "would be unwieldy on paper, but on a digital platform becomes seamlessly navigable."
In 2014, his work, "Enchanting the Desert," became the very first "born digital" project to be accepted for publication by the Stanford University Press. Nick has written a post today for the Press' blog expressing his elation that digital humanities ("DH") has been validated by a publisher.
Until now, no university press has been willing and/or able to critically peer-review and publish meaningful research projects that are "born-digital." Because of SUP's prescient digital publishing initiative, the gap between what DH scholars are making and the established pathways of traditional academic distribution and accreditation is now much, much smaller. Until now, this gap threatened the very survival of DH because there was no incentive for a group of researchers to spend their time building a digital platform to advance their arguments when there was always the looming pressure to do the "real work" of publishing.
Nick continues,
The SUP initiative is not only an outlet, but a lightning rod, announcing to the academic world that DH is, quite literally, official. The hope that I share with the editors and directors at SUP is that from this point forward you can use digital media to express ideas, and that—just like books—if they are deemed good ideas by professional peer-reviewers and editors, they might be published.


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Give the British a perfectly normal story about robots, and they will turn it into a disquisition on freedom. In the recent posthumanist film Ex Machina, director Alex Garland does just that: when a brilliant programmer builds an artificially intelligent creature named Ava, it isn't long before she kills everyone and flees headlong from captivity. But when she exits the compound, is she truly free? … Read More
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"Our great-grandparents loved killer robots. So do we. But why?" Daniel H. Wilson asks that question in the foreword of the short story collection he edited, Robot Uprisings, which includes work by Cory Doctrow, Scott Sigler, Charles Yu, Robin Wasserman, and many others. It's full of stories of the near-future, when the things we created, as Jeff Abbott puts it in his piece, "wanted to be just like us." … Read More
Charming and Goofy Robot Sculptures Created From Discarded Household Items
California-based artist Tal Avitzur scours scrap and salvage yards for materials to build his collection of Talbotics, a mini race of robots made from a variety of odd items. Each one has a distinct look and, by extension, a distinct personality. "From a workshop full of thousands of parts, I place pieces together like a puzzle until I get a natural looking fit," Avitzur writes. "I then cut, grind, drill, tap and whatever else is necessary to connect objects that were not meant to be connected." Be forewarned, however, as the robots won't be making our lives easier anytime soon. "Though these robots don't clean your house, wash your car, walk your dog, or sing and dance, they do light up," Avitzur admits. Although that also means they won't take over the world and destroy all of us, either! (Phew.) … Read More
Movie Robots From 'Metropolis' to 'Pacific Rim': An Evolutionary Study
Say what you will about its other flaws — and there's plenty to say — but Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (out today in wide release) delivers what it promises: giant goddamn robots fighting giant monsters in the ocean. Gazing upon the magnificence of the film's enormous machines, it's easy to marvel at how far moviemakers have come in their onscreen portrayals of mechanical beings. A brief history: … Read More
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The exceedingly charming Robot & Frank opens in theaters on Friday, and we couldn't be more excited. Set some time in the future, the dramedy heist film starring the always awesome Frank Langella and a cute caretaker robot with a green thumb whose good and bad influence reignites the old man's passion for life, love, and white collar crime.
The idea of a little metal helper who plants tomatoes, makes healthy meals, cleans the house and is your pal unconditionally might just be the best thing we've heard in a long time, so we thought we'd take a gander around the vast virtual marketplace to see who we could bring home today. From caregivers to robots that vacuum and do the bunny hop, click through to check out helpful — adorable — plastic pals of every shape and size. Then, let us know in the comments which mini mechanical bff you'd want to bring home! … Read More
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Laura Hoptman
Mar 2009
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German dramatist Bertolt Brecht viewed most wars as a political panacea for economic downturns and a purposeful division of people by color, religion, language, and geography—a timely perspective in an era defined by the "war on terror," fears about immigration, and ethnic conflict worldwide. For this reimagining of Brecht and composer Hanns Eisler's rarely performed music-theater work Roundheads and…
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Former studies have shown increased mental health problems in adolescents after parental divorce all over the Western world. We wanted to see if that still is the case in Norway today when divorce turns to be more and more common.
In a prospective study design, two samples were constituted, adolescents at a baseline survey in 2001/02 (n = 2422) and those at follow-up in 2003/04 (n = 1861), when the adolescents were 15/16 and 18/19 years-old, respectively. They answered self-administered questionnaires in both surveys of Young-HUBRO in Oslo. Early parental divorce was defined as that which occured before age 15/16 years, and late divorce occured between age 15/16 and 18/19. Internalized and externalized mental health problems were measured by the Hopkin's Symptom Check List (HSCL-10) and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).
After linear regression models were adjusted for gender, ethnicity, family economy, social support, and mental health problem symptoms measured at baseline before parental divorce occured, late parental divorce did not lead to significant increase in mental health problems among adolescents in the city of Oslo. Early parental divorce was associated with internal mental health problems among young adolescents when adjusted only for the first four possible confounders.
It seems that parental divorce in late adolescence does not lead to mental health problems in Norway any more, as has been shown before, while such problems may prevail among young adolescents. This does not mean that parental divorce create less problems in late adolescence than before but these youths might have developed adjustment abilities against health effects as divorce have turned to be more common.
Keywords:HSCL; SDQ; Adolescents; Internalized and externalized mental health problems; Mental distress; Parental divorce
Mental health problems in children and adolescents after parental divorce have been regularly reported during the last decades [1]. A meta-analysis from 1991 showed that the effect sizes were on a decreasing trend as divorce became more common [2] but still this problem seems to have increased in the 1990s as some social forces have operated more strongly to disadvantage children from divorced families [1].
A Norwegian longitudinal study from the 1990s in Nord-Trøndelag county by Størksen et al. found that adolescents aged 13 to 19 years who experienced parental divorce had higher levels of anxiety and depression than others [3,4]. Studies from Finland found that mental distress after parental divorce prevailed into adulthood [5,6], and a recent longitudinal study from Finland by Fröjd et al. also found that adolescents who experienced change in the caretaking parent had increased internalized symptoms when compared with those who did not experience caretaker change or moved away from home [7].
Studies of demographic factors regularly find that internalized symptoms like depression and anxiety generally increase with age among adolescents [3,8] while Størksen et al. [3] showed that young adolescents of divorced parents had higher mental distress beyond that observed in the general trend. Studies of gender differences have shown mixed results. Dutch girls reported more mental distress symptoms after parental divorce than boys [9], while an American study found the opposite result [10], and other studies have found a similar association among boys and girls [1].
Various family constellations have different effects on adolescents' mental health [7,11]. Offsprings of single parents tend to have higher mental distress than adolescents living with both parents [12]. The legal and social differences between cohabiting and married couples are small in Scandinavia today; the most marked difference is that cohabitants have a two to three times higher risk of separation [13].
The objectives of the present longitudinal study were 1) to study if internalized and externalized mental health problems were higher among adolescents who experienced early parental divorce when compared with their 15/16 years-old peers from continuously married parents, and 2) to investigate if such mental health problems were higher among adolescents who experienced late parental divorce when compared with their 18/19 years-old peers whose parents were still married.
This was a cohort study where all 15/16 years-old, 10th grade students in the city of Oslo (n = 4273) were invited to participate in the baseline survey of Young-HUBRO in 2000/2001 [14]. The response rate was 89% (n = 3811).
Self-administered questionnaires were mostly answered in class room sessions; for 13% of the participants the questionnaire was sent by post at the follow-up because they did not attend school any more. Those who stated parents' marital status was other than married/cohabitants or divorced/separated (n = 191) and those who gave contradictory answers in the two surveys (n = 55) were no more considered for our purpose, and were excluded from the participants in the first survey of Young-HUBRO (n = 3811), giving a new sample of 3565. Of these, 1076 did not participate at the second survey and 67 did not respond to the question on marital status, giving the final baseline sample of 2422 in the present study. The sample at follow-up (n = 1861) was determined after exclusion of those who experienced early parental divorce (n = 530) and those whose parents' marital status was other than married/cohabitants or divorced/separated at the second survey (n = 31).
Dependent variable: mental health problems
The Hopkin's Symptom Check List (HSCL-10) was used to measure internalized mental health problems. Ten questions were asked to find out how troubled the participants were by depression and anxiety symptoms during the previous week. Four possible answers scored from 1 (not troubled) to 4 (heavily troubled) gave a continuous variable with score range from 1 to 4.
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ externalized) was used to measure externalized mental health problems that include hyperactivity and conduct symptoms. Considering their own experience in the last six months, the adolescents were asked to rate each of the 10 items by stating one of three possible answers, "not true" (0), "somewhat true" (1) or "certainly true" (2), giving scores from 0 to 20. We combined the hyperactivity and conduct problems into one score, as in other Young HUBRO studies (14,15). The internal reliability using Cronbach's alpha for HSCL-10 was 0.88 and for SDQ 0.67.
Independent variables
Late parental divorce that occurred between 2001 and 2004 (n = 109) and parental divorce reported in 2001, which was referred to as early parental divorce (n = 530), were our main independent variables. Parental divorce was defined by a question about parents' marital status: "My parents are: 1) married/cohabitants, 2) unmarried, 3) divorced/separated, 4) one or two are dead, 5) other". The adolescents' self-report of biological parents' split-up in the form of divorce or separation constituted the term "parental divorce". Adolescents having divorced/separated parents were compared at the same point of time with those whose parents were married or cohabiting partners.
Potential confounders include gender, ethnicity, family economy and social support. These variables are found to be associated with mental distress in other studies [8,15], and should be adjusted for.
Ethnicity was dichtomized into "western" and "non-western" based on parents' place of birth according to the definitions of Statistics Norway. Family economy was dichtomized into "above average" and "average and below", based on the question "I believe, relative to others in Norway, my family has: 1) 'poor economy', 2) 'average economy'; 3) 'good economy'; or 4) 'very good economy'." Social support was created by summarizing the response of two questions that focused on availability of help: "How many persons outside your immediate family are so close to you that you can rely on to get help 1) if you have personal problems, 2) if you have practical problems (for example, school assignments)?" Those who answered "0" or "1" for each of these two separate questions formed the low social support category and the rest were grouped to form the high social support category. This gave a cut-off point at 85th and 78th percentile in the first and the second question, respectively. Cronbach's alpha was 0.57, and mean inter-item correlation value was 0.42 which is within an optimal range for a scale with fewer than 10 items [16]. The number of people to whom the adolescents can talk and rely on for help when they have personal or practical problems was used as a proxy measure for social support which is also used in other studies (8).
Missing values
We included in the baseline sample those who participated in both surveys and answered the main questions, giving missing values of 32% of the 3565 respondents in the first Young-HUBRO survey. 42% of non-western and 27% of western adolescents were non-respondents. Non-response was random at the other independent variables.
Pearson's chi square test was used to study bivariate associations (Table 1), and paired samples t-test for difference in mental distress scores (Table 2). Multiple linear regressions were analysed for early and late parental divorces separately using HSCL-10 and SDQ scores as independent variables (Table 3). Potential confounding variables were gender, ethnicity, family economy, and social support measured at baseline. At follow-up, the regression models were controlled for baseline HSCL-10 and SDQ scores rendering a prospective study design.
Table 1. Late parental divorce and early parental divorce (horizontal percentages) across other independent variables at the first survey (vertical percentages)
Table 2. Mean test scores at two points of time across parental divorce categories (95% confidence interval)
Table 3. Internalized and externalized mental health problems among 15/16 and 18/19 years-old adolescents at baseline and follow-up, across parental divorce (regression coefficients)
Informed consent was given by students and parents. The study was approved by the regional ethical committee for medical research.
Early parental divorce was reported by 22.3% of girls and 21.4% of boys, late divorce by 6.3% and 5.4%, respectively. Western adolescents reported more early divorces than non-western, and so did adolescents from families with average or below average economy (Table 1). Among boys, late parental divorce was also associated with family economy.
After a late parental divorce, HSCL-10 score increased significantly among boys between baseline and follow-up, while among girls the HSCL-10 score increased significantly among those who experienced early divorce (Table 2). Both girls and boys from continuously married parents were also observed to have their HSCL-10 score significantly increased between baseline and follow-up. SDQ scores increased among boys from continuously married parents.
Crude regression results showed that early parental divorce was associated with internalized and externalized mental health problems at age 15/16 years (Table 3). After adjustment, the association of early parental divorce with internalized mental health problems sustained significant, while the association with externalized mental health problems turned to be non-significant. Late parental divorce was not associated with either internalized or externalized mental health problems at follow-up.
We found that late parental divorce which occurred when the adolescents were between 15 and 19 years old had no influence on internalized and externalized mental health problems. Early parental divorce that occurred before the age of 15, on the other hand, was found to have significant association with internalized mental health problem at the baseline survey.
The strength of the study is its prospective design based on a cohort of adolescents aged 15/16 years living in an urban area with diverse cultural, social and economic background. At follow-up, we could compare change in mental distress that ocurred between baseline and follow-up among adolescents who experienced late parental divorce with the change among those whose parents were still married. A limitation is the small sub-sample of those who experienced late parental divorce with risk of type 2 errors. A 32% loss-to-follow-up may influence estimates of prevalence but association measures are shown to be robust to attrition in this sample [14]. Since non-response was common among non-western students our estimates are more unsecure for ethnic non-Norwegians. We have used self-reported mental health symptoms which are well validated [17,18] but self-reported symptoms are arguable in epidemiological research, especially in children and adolescents [7].
Our results that show association of early parental divorce with internalized mental health problems are supported by earlier Norwegian [4,11] and other western [19,20] studies. In the former Norwegian study from Nord-Trøndelag county Størksen et al. found about the same increase in mental distress despite that the divorce rate in their mostly rural area is half of that of Oslo [3,21]. They had the objectives, among others, of determining whether the effect of early divorce was different at follow-up compared to baseline [1]. We have not found any prospective study like ours of mental health problems after late parental divorce but our results seems to differ from earlier Scandinavian [6,22,23] and western studies [1,19,20]. We find no increase in mental health problems among adolescents who experienced late parental divorce compared to their 18/19 years-old peers whose parents were still married at follow-up. Two of these three Finish and Swedish studies had data on children and adolescents from about twenty years ago. Thus, the effects of parental distress in late adolescence may have diminished in recent years.
Fröjd et al. recent study from Finland used another method, showing significant influence of caretaker change on depression [7]. We have similar data of caretaker changes, and found the same. In both studies, caretaker change refers to various forms of family transitions including parental divorce. Interestingly, adolescents moving away from home did not show significant changes in internalizing problems in both studies. This only recent study from Scandinavia does not contradict our results.
Another possible interpretation of these results may be that our measures of mental health problems are not good enough; however, our two tests are well validated and much used [17,18]. A type 2 error because of a small sample is a possibility; in that case the effect among these adolescents in Oslo probably are smaller than found before.
We find it most probable that internalized (anxiety and depression) and externalized (conduct) health problems after parental divorce in late adolescence are not higher any more compared to children of non-divorced parents. This does not mean that parental divorce is not followed by many problems for children and adolecents, both emotional and practical burdens. Our measures are directed towards mental disease-related problems, and they may have been reduced as divorce has turned more common. Other problems of the offsprings after divorce may still be overwhelming, and should get much concern among parents and others taking care of children and adolescents.
While early parental divorce was associated with internalized mental health problems, we do not find such effects of late divorce on adolecents aged 18/19 years in an urban sample. This may mean that our methods are not good enough, or that the adjustment abilities of adolescents of divorce have improved. This does not mean that problems for the offsprings after divorce have become less than in former times.
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
All authors decided design and methods, HZ did the analyses and wrote the manuscript drafts, all authors read and approved the final manuscript, and BC supervised the work.
We thank the National Institue of Public Health for providing data, and Oslo Municipality for supporting the Young-HUBRO study.
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Ronald Lynn Butler, 66, of Arion Street, Bellevue, went to be with the Lord Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, surrounded by his family at his residence. He was a beloved husband, father, friend and devoted pet lover.
He was born Oct. 29, 1941, in Sandusky and graduated from Sandusky High School in 1960. He served in the U.S. Army from 1965-67 and served in Vietnam from 1966-67. He retired from Delco Chassis, Sandusky, in 1993. He was a life member of The American Legion Post 46, Bellevue, a life member of VFW Post 1238, Bellevue, UAW Local 913, and UAW Veteran Region 2B Local 913 Sandusky.
Survivors include his wife of 34 years, Dolores M. "Dee" Farrell Boles Butler of Bellevue; sons, Joseph P. Butler of Sandusky and John R. Boles of Bellevue; daughters, Theresa C. Butler of Toledo, Anita "Tina" Leber of Bellevue, Cheryl (Dale) Hoffman of Bellevue and Kimberly (Brian) Edmonds of Vickery; his mother, Margaret L. Williams Butler Reed of Sandusky; 13 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; brother, Gary Butler of Sandusky; and sister, Darlene Butler of Newport Brach, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his son, Edward Jude Butler in 1995; father, Walter L. "Dagwood" Butler in 2000; and his stepmother, Mary B. Butler in 1997.
Friends will be received from 3-8 p.m. Wednesday, with the Rosary recited at 3:30 p.m. in Foos and Foos Funeral Service, 151 Yorkshire Place, Bellevue, where the funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, conducted by the Very Rev. Keith Stripe. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memory Gardens, Clyde.
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"Singapore views this issue very seriously given our close economic cooperation with Vietnam," a Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman said in a statement released on Wednesday.
"The Singapore Embassy in Hanoi and the Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City have separately requested the relevant Vietnamese authorities to restore order urgently."
The site of the protests - the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) I and II in Thuan An district in the southern Binh Duong province, is run by Singapore's Sembcorp Industries, a public-listed energy, water and marine group. VSIP is a flagship project initiated by the Vietnamese and Singapore governments to encourage investment flows to Vietnam, and it now houses many manufacturing units of firms from Singapore, China, Taiwan and South Korea.
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We just have to kick our own femmy butts whenever complacency threatens to make our house unlivable. Well, let the self-flagellation begin, because lately we all seem to be over the rainbowand in fact over everything. Just because we want it to be history, AIDS has long become a back-burner issue, as disinterest, denial, and a misguided feeling that it's now easily treatable have prompted a much publicized new wave of sexual apathy. Seemingly contradictory messages about sex are helping fuel confused behavior. (One bar rag recently ran a cover story about AIDS vaccine trials and used as a cover image a writhing, half-naked go-go boy.) The handful of remaining sex clubs play host to hormonal hunks who want to act out, but aren't exactly sure how. At the West Side Clubwhich the city is, naturally, investigatingtoweled tyros try to re-create the old bathhouse abandon they've heard about, but in their own self-conscious, millennial way. In the hallway, a wannabe nympho halfheartedly touches a passerby's rippling chest. The object of his affection freezes, trying to instantly decide if the guy's hot enough to deserve a reciprocal grope. There's a tense moment as they distractedly gaze at each other's shoulder blades, then separate because a panting audience has developed. But they'll undoubtedly connect later in a private room, accessorized with the single condom you get on entering the club.
It's all part of the gay learning processexcept that what some have learned is they don't even want that one condom. "Bareback bottom" has become a badge of reckless pride, a loony label that says sex is more important than anything else on earth. Indifference has attained a certain cachet, and for an implacable few, courting death has practically become an aphrodisiac. Correspondingly, AIDS activism has also been visited by ennui, losing the urgency that used to make it electric. In the '80s, the plague seemed unfathomable, the throngs bolted up in response, and it was easy to agree on one do-nothing enemy: "the government." Since we were all enraged at that one target, we found strength in the directed furor. But now we're mad at everyone and no one. Numbed by years of horror, thrown off by subtly changing demographics, and appeased by crumbs of progress, we'd rather pretend that our crises have been resolved than face the mountain of alarming truths.
Occasionally remembering to be agitated, we snarl back at Giuliani, whose desexualized vision of the city threatens to fringe us into one big obsolescence-ready mom-and-pop storebut since he's got a bug up his ass about all fun, not just gay fun, he's not as inspiring an opponent to mobilize against as more specific monsters would be. And the rage is further dissipated by the fact that our own leaders and organizations have to be constantly scrutinizedlike GMHC was for its controversial Morning Party (which it has canceled), partner reportability (which its new executive director supported, then dropped), and employee unrest (which it faced when the same head honcho started thinking pink slips).
But I know some stuff that can get us riled up again. For all of our advances, the très gay America we're living in is one where a talk show host can be massively penalized for showcasing the supposed horror of a man confessing his love to another (you know, the old homosexual panic scenarioand GLAAD pretty much backed up the court decision!). It's a place where lawyers can argue that someone viciously sodomized with a plunger had been engaging in a consensual sex act. (Oh, yeah, we do that all the timefeels great, except for the splinters.) After every step forward, you're reminded of the residual idiocy that holds everything back, as "gay" remains a stinging insult wielded by the holier-than-thou Columbine students of the world. I've gotten called "faggot" more times in the last year than in all the time before that, and though I always want to answer, "Yeah, you should come out of the closet too," I'm always too stunned to think of it.
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1939... the Freedom Movement in the country had gained momentum involving millions of patriotic Indians. Hanumappa Reddy Muniappa Reddy, better known as H. M. Reddy, hailed as 'the Grand Old Man of South Indian Cinema,' made Mathru Bhoomi, a film focussing on the Freedom Movement, during that tumultuous year. It was the era of British Rule and to escape censorship, he set the story in a different age and locale — in the period after the invasion of North West India by Alexander the Great.
The film, an adaptation of a controversial Bengali play 'Chandragupta' (1911) by Dwijendralal Roy, was an allegory for the Freedom Movement. Minander (Singh) is left in charge by Alexander and Ugrasena (Santhanam), founder of the Maurya dynasty, opposes him. Seleucus Nikator's daughter Helen (Rajalakshmi) falls in love and marries the king Chandragupta. Kumudhini (T. V. Kumudhini), the patriotic heroine dumps her husband Jayapala, a courtier (Santhanam, again), when she learns he is a Greek spy. Her brother Prathapan (Chinnappa, the later day star in an early supporting role) backs her. Ugrasena wins the battle and founds the Maurya dynasty……
Rajalakshmi, an attractive young woman, played Helen but sadly her career did not take off and after a few films she retired from movies.
Reddy wanting to cast new faces travelled to Madurai, where he interviewed many young women to play Kumudhini. He chose a lady with singing talent and named her after the role — thus 'T.V. Kumudhini', the noted singing actor of yesteryear, entered the scene. She acted with M.K.T. Bhagavathar in Ashok Kumar (1941) and Chaya. Later she played maternal and character roles in many movies.
Though the film had the Greek story as the background, there were many songs rendered by Kumudhini highlighting the Indian Freedom Movement — 'Namadhu Janmabhoomi….namadhu Janmabhoomi…' and 'Annayin kaalil vilangugalo….muppadhu koti makkalai eenra Bharatha Thayin kaalil vilangugalo….' to name a few. The music and the lyrics were by Papanasam Sivan. Kumudhini attracted much attention with her performance and singing.
The battle scenes were shot at the Gingee Fort and Krishnagiri, making the expenses run to Rs. 2 lakh, which was big money then. There were strong rumours that the movie might be banned and Mounted Police kept constant vigil at Broadway cinema, Madras, where it was released. (Kumudhini told this writer years later that the release became possible, thanks to the efforts of the Indian Congress leader, brilliant orator and parliamentarian S. Sathyamurthi who was then the Mayor of Madras.) There was a brief ban on the film which was later lifted.
'Namadhu Janmabhoomi' became a huge hit and in later years was sung as a prayer song in many schools. The film was shot at Vel Pictures Studio, Guindy. D. V. Chari who wrote the dialogue and worked in the directorial department was a popular screenwriter associated with many of the films of T. R. Sundaram and Modern Theaters.
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The Rasmuson Foundation announced awards to 37 Alaska artists on Tuesday. Painter and art historian Kesler Woodward of Fairbanks received the 2012 Distinguished Artist Award, which includes an unrestricted grant of $25,000.
Woodward was the Curator of Visual Arts at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau and artistic director at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska in Anchorage before moving to Fairbanks in 1981. He taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for more than 20 years and retired from teaching in 2000 to devote himself to painting full time. He has curated several exhibits of Alaska art and authored eight books on the topic.
This is the ninth year of the Individual Artist Awards program, and as of today, the program has awarded 267 grants, totaling $1.9 million, directly to Alaska artists.
Ten Artist Fellowships, worth up to $12,000 each, were awarded from a field of 305 applications determined by a national panel. Recipients are:
Laura Bliss-Spaan, filmmaker, Anchorage
Jack Dalton, storyteller and playwright, Anchorage
Brendan Harrington, artist and photographer, Kodiak
Tommy Joseph, artist and totem maker, Sitka
Da-ka-xeen Mehner, artist, Fairbanks
Karina Moeller, composer, Anchorage
Phillip Munger, composer, Wasilla
Kat Tomka , artist, Anchorage
Sonya Kelliher-Combs, artist, Anchorage
Morris Palter, percussionist, Fairbanks
Twenty-six project grants of up to $5,000 each were awarded to:
Karrie Pavish Anderson, singer/songwriter, Galena
Beth Blankenship, crafter, Anchorage
Slavik Boyechko, filmmaker, Anchorage
Melina Draper, poet, Fairbanks
Ashley DuRoss, artist, Petersburg
David Gerard, folk artist, Homer
Ronald Klein, photographer, Juneau
George Kuhar, filmmaker and musician, Juneau
Kristin Elizabeth Link, artist, McCarthy
Enzina Marrari, artist, Anchorage
Andrew Michael, artist and mask-maker, Anchorage
Maria Nicolai, artist, Bethel
Tracy Opeim, folk artist, Kodiak
Cinthia Ritchie, writer, Anchorage
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Mattox Roesch, writer, Unalakleet
Lucas Rowley, playwright, Anchorage
Mark Tetpon, crafter, Anchorage
David Walker, woodworker, Juneau
Allison Warden, performance artist, Anchorage
Teague Whalen, composer, Ketchikan
Theresa Woldstad, traditional artist, North Pole
Roblin Davis, actor and playwright, Juneau
Meagan Mackey, singer/songwriter, Anchorage
Adam Ottavi Schiesl, photographer, Ester
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When someone is caught, charged and prosecuted as a sex offender, they lose a great many rights they once had. Depending on the state, they have to register themselves as an offender, alert their neighbors and even keep a safe distance from any public place where children congregate.
Now, Google, as well as several other internet companies are sending in their applications to ICANN for the right to add some new TLDs, increasing diversity on the web and offering them some more flexibility.
This year's All Things D was dominated by a person who wasn't even there: Steve Jobs. Tim Cook took over a familiar spot for Jobs, leading off the week with an interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
A judge today made a crucial decision in the Google vs. Oracle case when he ruled APIs cannot be copyrighted.
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GlusterFS can also provide data storage to OpenStack Swift, Glance, and Cinder clients, and it can provide Hadoop HDFS storage, among other capabilities. Because GlusterFS uses a plugin architecture, in the longer term, it will be possible for more capabilities to be added and for GlusterFS to be extended – for example, by adding file encryption or multitenancy support per volume.
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