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Appalled by the "elite" media's reluctance to cover a story that has no merit, Newsbusters staff writer Matthew Sheffield laments the would-be bombers' connections to OWS yet offers absolutely no proof whatsoever to his condemnation other than one-dimensional assertions of guilt-by-association.Continue reading
Obama's "War on Family Farms", or Right-wing, anti-government denialism's ignorance?
The Department of Labor's proposed child safety regulations for American farms went largely combated by Right wingers across the country, who lamented the usual nonsense of anti-American handlings from the executive branch while supporting the gross misconduct of big business.Continue reading
Reality disconnect: New poll shows how religious ignorance can affect elections
Right wing extremism caters to the impressionable who choose not to understand history, science and culture. In a country that is supposed to be leading the world in education, cultural and religious diversity, intellectual advancement and scientific discovery, we continually allow this incessant garbage to dominate and threaten our national dialogue.Continue reading
Why the contraception debate was never a debate
In this country, male, religious, tax-exempt "authorities" are granted more access over legislation than the people to whom it affects; where we allow the loudest most absurd voices in the room to get the most airtime because their narrative tends to agree with the ruling majority's basic tenets of sexism and inequality as supported by "faith".Continue reading
Fox News and its gas price flip-flop conundrum
Media watchdog group Media Matters has compiled a great video compilation from 2008 of Fox News explaining that it's just not reasonable to blame the President for high gas prices. Four years later, the Right wing propaganda engine is whistling another tune.Continue reading
James Inhofe and the GOP anti-science bias
Firing up the cause for regressive politics, Sen. Inhofe's new book, "The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future," furthers his plight of inexcusable denial and conspiracy-theorizing while blaming "government regulations" for the state of energy insecurity in which the nation currently finds itself.Continue reading
On college, Santorum panders to stupidity with 'What a snob' comment
Lauding the popular, collective thought of Right wing-nuttery that higher learning offers little more than Marxist-riddled facets of social engineering, Santorum willfully attempts to lower the importance of education by wrongfully defacing its value to the country.Continue reading
Rep. Morris apologizes to Girl Scouts, but then doesn't
Having taken a proverbial beating from just about everyone, Rep. Bob Morris (R-Indiana) quickly attempted to steer the narrative away from political disaster just before doubling-down on even more backwards Right wing anti-abortion rhetoric against Planned Parenthood.Continue reading
Republican districts to benefit most from 'Obamacare'
A new analysis of the Affordable Care Act shows that some of the nation's most hard-strapped citizens are all-too-often than not proverbially shooting themselves in the foot by falling for Republican rhetoric concerning health care and taxation.Continue reading
Newark Mayor Cory Booker stands strong in fight for marriage equality
In a quick-yet-inspiring clip, Newark Mayor Cory Booker – a long-time advocate for marriage equality – publicly speaks out sharply against Governor Chris Christie's call for a public referendum on gay marriage.Continue reading


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Tale Of The Tape: Miami Dolphins At New England Patriots
After being pushed to the brink by the lowly Jets and losing at home to the Ravens, the Dolphins may be facing a difficult lesson when they go to New England to take on the high-powered Patriots.
Tale Of The Tape: Washington Redskins At New York Giants
After getting blanked by the Rams 24-0 at home, there's little doubt that the Redskins are a team in disarray as they head towards the completion of the 2014 season.
Tale Of The Tape: Jacksonville Jaguars At Baltimore Ravens
The Jaguars would appear to be in over their heads as they go on the road to take on a tough Baltimore team that comes into the game with momentum following their Week 14 come-from-behind road victory over Miami.
Tale Of The Tape: Pittsburgh Steelers At Atlanta Falcons
Ben Roethlisberger has had one of his better statistical seasons, and there's no reason he can't build on that against the Falcons' weak secondary.
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The Andy Dalton show shuffles on, and the Bengals don't know what they are going to get from their quarterback from one week to the next.
Tale Of The Tape: Houston Texans At Indianapolis Colts
Ryan Fitzpatrick was replaced by Ryan Mallett earlier in the year, but an injury to Mallet has given Fitzpatrick another opportunity, and he is making the most of it.

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Once Upon a Time, When the Cubs were Bought by a FamilySubmitted by Dr. Joseph Hecht on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 11:04am
The Ricketts Family owns the Cubs. That sentence has a certain lasting ring to it. We've all followed the travails of how the Cubs ownership has transitioned from the now bankrupt Tribune company and was midwived through the gnarly fingers of real estate magnate Sam Zell, finally getting delivered into our proud new Papa's (Tom Ricketts) loving grasp. To celebrate this rite of passage, I decided to learn more about the events that took place over 90 years ago when the last dynastic family came into control of our Chicago National League franchise.
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Around 58 million overnight trips a year are made by British couples, making them the largest "travelling group" in the country, VisitBritain has said.
Elliot Frisby, a spokesperson for the national tourist agency, explained that the UK has "a rich variety of different appeals that make it ideal for all kinds of traveller … [including] a coastline that offers sandy beaches for walking, riding or building sand-castles, as well as ones perfect for romantic walks".
In addition, the country has "centuries of history and heritage attractions as well as a unique culture with events, ceremonies and more quirky traditions, rooted in music, film and literature", he said.
And on the subject of literature, Mr Frisby recommended: "Cosy up with a loved one for a break on the Yorkshire moors as immortalised by Bronte"s Wuthering Heights, or in Whitby in the north east with its gothic associations, cliff and beachside walks."
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Dawn Thompson is founder and president of ImprovingBirth.org, and has worked as a doula for over ten years--specializing in supporting women who are seeking Vaginal Birth after Cesarean. She had three cesarean sections before a vaginal birth with her last child. This article begins with her first surgery.
At ImprovingBirth.org, we hear from women all the time who felt they were pressured or coerced into a major medical intervention in birth, like an artificial induction of labor or a cesarean section, that they just weren't sure about. But for the majority of women, misinformation about these and other maternity care practices is often delivered quite differently: in a kind, convincing, and non-threatening way.
Take my own story, for example: I went to the obstetrician that my primary care provider recommended and insurance covered. I went to the childbirth classes offered at the hospital. I read "the" book everyone said I should read. I didn't love my doctor, but he was fine, and I didn't realize that it mattered that much, anyway. He was an ObGyn; they all learn the same things, right?
I went into labor six days past my due date, and ran to the hospital in the middle of the night after just a couple of hours, when my contractions were roughly five minutes apart. By the time we pulled in to the hospital parking lot, my contractions had slowed down to about ten minutes apart, but I was admitted, anyway, at two centimeters dilated.
The contractions continued to come slowly, but by morning they were spacing out even more. What I now know is that this is completely typical. Labor often starts at night, dissipates as the sun comes up, and starts again on its own after mom has had time to rest—almost like the body is revving up for a running start. I didn't know at the time that I didn't need to be admitted in the first place, or that I simply could have gone home that morning and waited for labor to really begin. I didn't know that lying in bed, as I'd been told to do, tends to slow or even stop early labor; I didn't know and no one told me that staying mobile encourages it to progress.
The doctor stopped in that morning before his office hours and told me labor had stalled at three centimeters. "We just need to help your body out," he said sympathetically, several times. He was kind, never pushy or bossy. We thought, "Of course, he knows better than us. If my body needs help, let's do it!"
No one told me the risks of Pitocin, other than that it would make me have contractions.
It almost seemed like the "natural" thing to do, since my body "naturally" wasn't having contractions on its own—right?
I always knew I would want an epidural, and I asked for one as the Pitocin-induced contractions started to get intense. Why on earth would anyone do without pain medication? That just seemed silly to me. Moments later, I was singing its praises and the anesthesiologist was my new best friend. A few hours later, however, I'd progressed very little, only another centimeter or so. My doctor came back during lunch and decided my body needed even more help. "Let's break your water," he said—always kind, never rude. I'd been up all night, and I wanted to see my baby. I didn't ask questions. Instead, I said, "Let's get this show on the road!"
After the doctor broke my water, things started moving quickly. The nurse kept coming in and looking at my baby's heart rate strip. Then she brought in another nurse to take a look at it. No one was telling me anything. I kept asking if everything was ok. "Yes," they would say, "We're just keeping an eye on baby."
They decided my baby needed an electrode on the top of her head to be sure they were getting the heart rate clearly, and I quickly agreed.
Within another few minutes, the doctor was in my room and talking about decelerations in the heart rate and saying my baby wasn't tolerating labor well. They needed to do a c-section right away. "Your baby is in DANGER!" they said.
I did what any rational mother would do—I did what I was told was best for my baby.
I never even questioned it. Never in a million years would I risk her life, even though the thought of having surgery left me sobbing and scared out of my mind. I was about to be cut open, but it was for the good and well-being of my baby.
I came away from that birth feeling like I had absolutely done everything I could, and that my doctor had done everything he should. I believed it when he told me I was so lucky, that I would have likely been one of those women who died in childbirth back in the days before modern medicine. I LOVED the drama of that story. I told it and retold it with all my heart.
The truth was, it felt like I needed a good reason why I just "had to have" that C-section. This belief served me well.
I carried that story for many years--through two more C-sections that happened only because I'd had that first one. I helped friends through their births and I would dream of someday being a midwife. It wouldn't be until ten years later, in a doula training class, that I would be presented with the truth, the truth about the "snowball effect" and the "cascade of interventions" that so many first-time mothers fall victim to. I saw the truth of it, and I cried.
My first emotion was deep sadness. Then, there was anger at the doctor for not just sending me home and potentially avoiding the whole sequence of events that led to an emergency cesarean. Any medical professional with more than a passing familiarity with childbirth would have known that early labor with my first baby needed patience and gentleness—not monitoring, confinement, and deadlines.
The emotion that stayed with me the longest was disappointment in myself. Coming to terms with my ego was, by far, the most difficult part. I had to admit that I didn't know any better and that I just believed everything I was told. I didn't ask enough questions. I hadn't protected my baby like I should have. And then came indignation: "Why wouldn't I, shouldn't I, have believed everything my doctor told me? He was the one that is trained, the one I hired to deliver my baby because it's his job. Why on earth wouldn't he be giving me the most current and accurate information?"
It would take me years to understand the "why" and, honestly, even ten years after hearing the truth and being a birth professional in our system of childbirth, a simple explanation eludes me.
I think obstetricians--including the one who made so many errors in my first birth--are mostly good people. I believe they want what's best for you and your baby. But I also think that, like anyone else, they can be susceptible to mistaken beliefs from the bigger system in which they work. Those beliefs are where hospital routines and long-time industry practice overrule common sense and current medical research. "Re-educating" care providers with the best information about science and practices isn't as easy as just handing them that information and expecting them to change.
Recently, I read an article about how people learn and how they can learn "better," and I think this states well the dilemma in updating U.S. maternity care practices:
"The most important thing to realize is that just telling isn't enough. Most methods of instruction and training assume that if you provide [people] with the right information, it will replace any mistaken information they may already possess. But this just isn't so. Especially when our previous beliefs (even though faulty) have proved useful to us, and when they appear to be confirmed by everyday experience, we are reluctant to let them go."
This is where a fundamental issue lies. Even when presented with new and accurate information, it is difficult to let go of a previous belief, especially when the old belief proves useful. In this case, the "usefulness" is often that the hours of working birth stink. Yes, it's much, much easier to rely on ways of "controlling" the rhythm of birth--like with artificial inductions and scheduled surgeries--rather than "working with" the rhythm of birth in a way that lets the body set the pace, even when "working with" birth is best for moms and babies.
It's only natural that providers who work a certain way will buck the information that challenges their core beliefs and their livelihood.
Things will only change when:
1. We start allowing the next generation of providers to use current information and practice evidence-based care;
2. We present that information and those practices to the seasoned professionals in a new, convincing way; and/or
3. We create a confrontation.
"For the most tenaciously-held beliefs, it may be necessary to stage an intervention," the article says.
The Rally to Improve Birth is just that: a massive intervention.
We are rallying to bring awareness to a glaring problem that affects most of the people in this country—mothers, mothers-to-be, and the babies being born within our system. This increasing awareness needs to take place among not just providers, but the people who are receiving the care they provide. A national survey released just this month confirmed that while large numbers of women are receiving non-evidenced base care, most of them still express satisfaction with it. So many women are unaware of just how much room for improvement there is in our maternity care system, of how much of our "routine" practices differ from what current scientific evidence tells us is best for moms and babies.
We're also rallying to bring awareness to a solution. A big part of the solution is you: the families whose business drives the system. Can you imagine what we might accomplish if we recognized how much power we truly have? If we banded together and demanded change, and demanded to be a part of that change?
The 2013 Rally to Improve Birth is our opportunity. It's a peaceful, family-oriented gathering to deliver a big, bold message: There's a big problem in American maternity care, and we demand a big solution. We're willing to be a part of it, and we're willing to start right now.
This is our one-of-a-kind chance this year to bring our many voices together as one, and to be heard. Join us.
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IRIS 2 takes place three years after the end of the first season.
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Iris the Movie is the condensed version of the Korean drama series aired last 2009.
Miss Ripley is about a complicated woman Jang Miri (Lee Da Hae), who lied her way to success.
This Korean film is said to be based on the account of one of the student soldiers who managed to chronicle their last stand against the invading North Korean army.
IRIS is a different kind of Korean drama where there's no girl-dying-from-cancer in the end. It is action-packed but I can't help comparing it to 24, CSI, and the Bourne Trilogy. The storyline seemed to incorporate elements from these Hollywood dramas and movies but gave it a Korean twist. Kim Hyu ...


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The FBI is investigating a Wednesday morning Warr Acres bank robbery.
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On Christmas Eve at the Earnshaw's you can always count on three things: ethnic food, a live nativity, and lots of fun. The pictures were all taken in very low lighting but how could I not share a glimpse into our Christmas Eve?
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White Chicks
This film was probably half over before I figured out that the Wayans family was serious in wanting me to believe that the characters were actually accepting Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans) and Marcus Copeland (Marlon Wayans) as white chicks. I mean, it's one thing if they're just pretending to be two white chicks that nobody has ever met, but to suggest that people who'd actually met the Wilson sisters would be fooled by two FBI agents impersonating them is about as ludicrous as launching a cannonball into my groin and calling it an expression of true love.
It would be one thing if director Keenan Ivory Wayans were commenting on rich, white peoples' superficiality and their complete obliviousness to other people or something like that, but this movie isn't that deep. People just seem to accept that undercover FBI agents Kevin and Marcus are the sisters, even though they've suddenly transformed from hot, obnoxious white women to a couple of Sleestack refugees from "Land of the Lost."
You know that when a movie turns into "You Got Served" and that can actually be spun as a positive, it's a film with serious problems. Posing as white chicks in the Hamptons, it's more certain than flies around Courtney Love that they'll be doing something "black" to win the favor of their new friends. Ultimately, this boils down to break dancing. The two are in the Hamptons because they suspect someone is going to attempt to kidnap the girls and they want to thwart the attempt.
The incredibly well thought-out plot point to make this all possible is Kevin and Marcus leaving the real Wilson sisters in a hotel room and telling them not to move. The whole movie is about that swift. Almost none of it was funny. Personally, I found the Sleestacks to be really god damn scary when I was a kid and watching the Wayans in that ridiculous-looking makeup brought back some really disturbing memories. It just wasn't funny. This was one of those rare situations where I wished that instead of wasting all that pointless make-up, the filmmakers had done something completely stupid like CGI-ed their heads.
There's also the predictable male suitor for Marcus in the form of Latrell Spencer (Terry Crews) and the inevitable knocks at the door leading to miraculous clothing and make-up changes.
The really sad thing here, as with so many films, is that there's something potentially funny about the idea. Sadly, the writing is entirely an afterthought. The script seems to have been written on the fly between takes. Ironically, only those as shallow as the fictional Wilson sisters will find anything to appreciate in this sad film.
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In a sign of renewed interest by developers in Philadelphia's Delaware River waterfront, the city Planning Commission approved a trio of apartment buildings Tuesday that will be within walking distance of a new park at the Race Street Pier.
All three projects have been controversial because their designs deviate markedly from standards in the city's new waterfront master plan and zoning code. Commissioners justified their votes by saying the projects would help jump-start a new neighborhood on the waterfront.
They include two 12-story apartment houses: the Marina View apartment house north of the Ben Franklin Bridge, and one next to Dockside at Piers 34/35. Both were problematic because they lacked ground-floor retail.


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A nationwide salmonella outbreak has manufacturers recalling over 400 peanut products from store shelves.
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A small red spot on the glove of golfer Louis Oosthuizen is credited with playing a critical role in his winning of The Open Championship at St Andrews last Sunday. The idea for the red dot on golfers glove, came from a sports psychologist who was employed to help the golfer improve his concentration when playing. This indicates the growing importance of psychological techniques in competitive sports.Karl Morris, a North west based sports psychologist was asked to help the golfer improve his concentration before starting his swing, thius had been identified as a weak part of his game. Mr Morris designed the glove with the red dot to help the 27-year-old South African concentrate on his swing in the crucial moments leading up to a shot.Psychologist educate sporting professionals to use mental imagery that allows them to rehearse a game in their heads, including psychological blocking techniques that stop them from dwelling on past mistakes. In this case it was a simple dot on his glove that gave him focus and the Champions trophy.
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Four Amarillo bands will come together Saturday for a tribute marking the late AJ Swope's birthday.
The concert begins at 4 p.m. Saturday at Golden Light Cantina, 2906 S.W. Sixth Ave.
The event includes music by Strangetowne, Jon Von Theumer, Daniel "Blue" Whisenhunt and The Chancy Bernson Band, along with food from 4 to 7 p.m.
Swope, who died Jan. 15, 2013, in a car wreck north of Amarillo, would have turned 29 on Jan. 29.
"I just think it's amazing that these local musicians will come together to pay tribute to AJ a year later," said his wife, Wendi Swope. "Everybody playing held a place near and dear to AJ's heart. They were some of his really, really good friends, which makes the whole thing more meaningful to us."
The concert was organized by Jordon McClain, a former member of Swope's band, The Last Train Home, who later formed Strangetowne.
McClain and Swope first met about nine years ago during an ill-fated attempt at forming a band. When Swope started Last Train Home, he again contacted McClain.
"At my very first rehearsal — my tryout, really — it was just like we picked up the pieces from the past, and the rest was history. We really clicked on all cylinders," McClain said.
"AJ always knew I was a very serious musician, and playing with him again on a musical level was phenomenal, but off the stage, he was the most incredible person," McClain said.
The idea for the tribute show first took seed at a jam session at Golden Light following Swope's funeral service, then took shape after the Best of Amarillo event, where Swope was honored as the city's best male musician.
Admission is $10 or $15 including a fajita dinner from 4 to 7 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the Hope and Healing Place, a nonprofit agency that helps grieving families.
"That place saved our lives, every member of our family, and to be able to give something back to them after they've done so much for is so rewarding," Wendi Swope said. "For these musicians to come together and give the money to that place means the world to our family."
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o Where: Golden Light Cantina, 2906 S.W. Sixth Ave.
o How much: $15 including food from 4 to 7 p.m.; $10 otherwise
o Information: 806-374-0097 or www.goldenlightcafe.com


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The problems for Section 2.12 are to be solved assuming that the material is elastoplastic with yield stress σY, yield strain εY, and modulus of elasticity E in the linearly elastic region (see Fig. 2-72).
Two identical bars AB and BC support a vertical load P (see figure). The bars are made of steel having a stress-strain curve that may be idealized as elastoplastic with yield stress σY. Each bar has cross-sectional area A.
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Basically, I'm a bit confused here.
I'm straight (I think I am anyway), but have always had a part of me that wanted to "experiment". I love the idea of masturbating and sucking another guy, and would to be on the receiving end of anal. But I have never had emotion feelings for guys, only a bit of sexual.
I'm now at uni, and want to try stuff. Despite still being a virgin, I really am tempted to go out and try to get a like minded guy who just wants a bit of sex.
Any idea's on how to do this without anyone who knows me finding out?
Anon or delete. Thanks.
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Bicurious then.
Would you rarther have sex with a hot girl right now or a hot guy?
if I had the choice - girl.
That's similar to me, but I'm not confused, I know what I want. You can PM me if you wanna chat about it.
You're a a gay. Well done.
Don't feel ashamed OP, it's more common that you think.
Sounds a bit like me. In that anything I think about of guys is purely sexual. I'm probably bi, but i could never see myself having anything close to a relationship with another guy.
I could have written that myself. I really want to suck a guy off and receive anal, but the thought of kissing a guy I find rupulsive
your gay but don't know yet
just wait till you find your sexuality
Good luck
Have you considered things like t'internet, visiting a gay club/bar, and so on?
Your bicurious if your desperate for a label, but dont feel tied to a label, do what feels right and dont worry about it.
I know, typical lib dem post.
As a homosexual I think it doesn't make you gay to want to just experiment for sexual gratification, or even to regularly have sex with someone of the same sex if it's just on a sexual level. If you start developing an emotional attachment then yeh you might be bisexual but if you're concerned you might be gay then I wouldn't say you were.
A lot of girls make out with their friends while drunk or out having fun and I wouldn't say that made them lesbians. I knew some girls at my Sixth Form that all had boyfriends but would get together and use sex toys on each other just for fun, I wouldn't describe them as lesbians.
Just go to a gay club and see what happens.
(Original post by xx..SPOTTABLE..xx)
your gay but don't know yet
just wait till you find your sexuality
Good luck(Original post by _Cone)
You're a a gay. Well done.
The OP sounds bi-curious (the clue is in the title of the thread):
(Original post by Anonymous)
if I had the choice - girl.
(Original post by Anonymous)
Don't feel ashamed OP, it's more common that you think.
Furthermore, that's pretty much my plan when i go to Uni in September. Living where i live, not much chance to experiment, and I want to try new things.
its not the label I worry about, its other people finding out. As where I'm at uni (and my home town) are very small, anything I did there would get back to people I know (which IS what I'm concerned about for now).
Re the internet suggestion - would that actually be safe for someone who just wants to experiment? I don't think I have the confidence to go to a gay club or whatever.
(Original post by HyperBrain)
I love how people can make judgements like these based on anon posts
The OP sounds bi-curious (the clue is in the title of the thread):
Which is:
(Original post by _Cone)
If he wants to pack some fudge then it's clear he's a gay!
but dude come on, wouldn't you wanna lose your virginity to a girl , rather than a guy ?
cos damn that will be one hard thing to forget


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Five students studying coatings and polymeric materials have been awarded scholarships as part of two new programs announced by North Dakota State University and the Valspar Corporation.
The Valspar Foundation, a philanthropic branch of the global coatings manufacturer, will contribute $20,000 to support up to five graduate student scholarships, as well as a new program for Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE).
Five graduate students in NDSU's Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials were awarded $3,000 scholarships as part of Valspar and NDSU's two new scholarship programs. The first winners are (left to right) Adlina Paramarta, Casey Orgon, Olena Kudina, Alison Rohly and Andriy Popadyuk.
Fargo, ND-based NDSU will administer the scholarships through its 108-year-old Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials and coordinate them through NDSU's Development Foundation.
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A selection committee of NDSU faculty and Valspar's technical leaders announced the first Valspar Graduate Scholars Program awards to:
Each graduate student will receive $3,000 for the 2013-14 academic year.
"These scholarships will further our relationship and build our pipeline of talent by supporting students to develop insights into fundamental performance drivers of coatings and polymers and provide them an experience associated with an industrial environment," said Cynthia Arnold, Valspar senior vice president and chief technology officer.
"Valspar and NDSU have a long history of technical collaboration. We recognize their deep technical expertise in many disciplines associated with coatings research," Arnold said.
Dean Webster, chair of the Department of Coatings and Polymeric Materials, said, "We appreciate Valspar's generous support and commitment to promote applied science and education in the fields of coatings and polymers. Their contribution and engagement will allow us to provide more academic and career development opportunities for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students.
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Town, Gown and Place-Based Sustainability: Collaborating in the Shared Space
Keith H. Hirokawa
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November 28, 2011
Drake University Law School Research Paper No. 12-05
Albany Law School Research Paper No. 37 of 2011-2012
The locational and spatial circumstances of town and gown present opportunities to advance sustainability. This essay examines these areas of opportunity by proposing collaborative frameworks between town and gown. In what we describe as "place-based collaborations," we identify three areas for productive collaboration by two mutually compatible institutions. Part I of this essay introduces the impacts of the sustainable curriculum and other projects that implement the educational mission of the institution, including the more progressive notion that pedagogical strategies for engaged learning, combined with the introduction of sustainability in the curriculum, may serve as drivers for nested sustainable practices. Part II considers the special relationship that towns may foster in their nested universities by recognizing shared space. Part III illustrates interaction and collaboration possibilities that build on the intellectual capital occurring in educational institutions.
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Northshore School District sets public forums on funding issues
The community is invited to attend one of several forums to learn about the educational funding issues facing the state and their impact on the Northshore School District. The forums will be held from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Woodinville High School library; Feb. 3 at the Skyview Junior High library; and Feb. 5 at the Inglemoor High School library.
Primary issues impacting K-12 funding include overall reduced state funding, reduced local levy funds, and additional state mandates with no funding. There are only a limited number of ways a school district can reduce its expenses before these cuts impact the classroom, district officials said. They encourage residents to learn how the school district plans to prepare for these funding reductions and to share reactions, thoughts, and ideas.


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YCteen publishes true stories by teens, giving readers insight into the issues that matter most in young people's lives.
Addiction (44 found)
Note: These stories are from YCteen and its sister publication, Represent, which is written by and for youth in foster care.
The author feels intense pressure, so she begins taking pills that help her study. The drugs change her into someone she doesn't recognize. (full text)
After years of rejection from her father, Tameara finally learns that the reason he is so absent is because he is a crack addict. (full text)
A family therapist describes how kids can cope with a parent's addiction and seek help.
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Gia's been depressed all her life. In therapy, she learns to express her emotions and begins to emerge from her personal darkness. (full text)
Antwaun becomes dependent on drinking and smoking weed to deal with painful emotions, but gradually finds ways to deal with life without being high. (full text)
For years, the writer's father put alcohol ahead of his family. When he finally enters treatment, he and Jessica are able to connect. (full text)
When students discover he can't read, Antwaun is teased and called a "crack baby." (full text)
Edwin smokes his first cigarette at 12 and becomes addicted. Now he can't go a day without smoking. (full text)
Priscilla remembers her father as an "awesome guy." They went to ball games, made model airplanes, and cooked together. That's why she misses him so much. He couldn't kick the cigarette habit and died of lung cancer when she was 9. (full text)
Four relatives who live with Trenee are smokers, and she's sick and tired of smelling like an ashtray whenever she leaves the house. Her father continually warns Trenee never to smoke, but he's got nothing to worry about. (full text)
To keep up at her competitive high school, the author starts abusing Adderall. When she realizes she's addicted, she struggles to find new ways to manage her stress.
The author longs for a stronger relationship with his mentally ill, alcoholic father.
In her senior year, Catherine gets expelled. She has fun partying and taking ecstasy with her dropout boyfriend—until a scary experience stops her.
Delia is a recovering junkie. A pusher by the name of Ralph got her to join his posse when she was six, and soon Calvin and Tommy were wearing her pockets thin as she indulged her habit. Unlike so many others, she was lucky she could go cold turkey.
Evelyn hates cigarette smoke, and can't get her father and boyfriend to quit.
Norman isn't proud to admit it, but he was once a world-class shoplifter. Therapy helps him overcome the addiction.
Yamina, 16, sneaks her first cigarette when she's 12 and within two years is up to three packs a day. Cigarettes keep her sane and calm, but she can't catch her breath during volleyball and is broke from the expense, so she cuts down to half a pack and hopes to quit for good.
The writer feels like she's betraying her parents by reporting their addiction to crack, but she also realizes she's better off living in foster care and not at home with addicts who abuse her.
The author suffers from the death of her grandmother, her mother's mental illness and withdrawal, and going into foster care. Isaac, first her friend, then her boyfriend, supports her, but she drives him away with her cutting. (full text)
The author finds that smoking weed dims her sadness and anger. Unfortunately, it also clouds her brain and isolates her.
Ashunte introduces the Addictions issue by describing his own struggle to kick his weed habit.
Olivia's mother has been an alcoholic for most of Olivia's life. Over the years, Olivia copes with the disappointment by shutting down her emotions. Now she'd like some of them back.
Joy and her big sister were very close until her sister began smoking weed and drifted away from Joy.
Samantha falls in love with "Joseph" despite warning signs of his alcoholism. Even after she realizes he's a full-blown addict, she keeps trying to help him.
A family therapist describes how kids can cope with a parent's addiction and seek help.
At 17, Hollie must cope with her mother's death from alcoholism.
Psychologist Ira Moses explains the connection between addiction and mental illness, that drugs and alcohol won't cure depression, and gives strategies for getting sober.
Desmin uses weed to tame his rage, but he soon realizes that getting high is keeping him from moving forward with his life.
Otis spends so much time online that his schoolwork suffers, but he connects with many people.
Two therapists with drug treatment experience explain how drugs and alcohol distort the brain's natural functioning.
Chris has been in foster care since age six. He fathers a child just as he ages out of foster care, and struggles with the emotional and financial consequences of being a parent.
When he arrives in the U.S. from Russia, Daniel turns to drugs and crime to alleviate his loneliness.
An expert explains the warning signs and effects of drug abuse.
The writer gets addicted to the blissful highs of the drug ecstasy, until the devastating lows of crashing force her to cut back.
Popping pills helps Miguel forget his seemingly endless pain. He winds up homeless and unable to face his problems without drugs.
Though she loves her parents, the author decided that it's best for her to not live with them.
A therapist talks about the confusing feelings young people experience when their parents are addicts, and how they can get help.
When the writer starts smoking marijuana to deal with her turbulent emotions, it worsens her relationship with her abusive mother.
Carmen loses her son to foster care because of her drug abuse. When they are reunited after eight years, she is confronted by his deep anger at having been abandoned.
The writer interviews teens and adults about drug dealing.
Charlene, 12, takes responsibility for her five brothers and sisters when their mother becomes disabled by drugs. She gets them to school, oversees their homework, and does the household chores. Eventually Charlene goes into foster care, and vows to be good parent to her future children.
Instead of blocking out painful memories, getting high makes the author feel angry, guilty, and depressed.
When Sandra is arrested she gets sent to a drug rehab program and is able to overcome her addiction.
The writer turns to his two old pals when it comes to celebrating holidays: a bottle and a blunt. (full text)


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Mr. Charles "Chick" Golden, 97, a resident of Caprice Nursing Care Facility in North Lima, Ohio, and formerly of Belington, departed this life Sunday evening, Feb. 12, 2012, in the care facility. He had been in declining health for quite sometime.
He was born March 6, 1914 a son of the late Fannie Golden Wolfe.
On July 7, 1934, he was united in marriage to the former Pearl Icie Poe, who preceded him in death on July 24, 2001.
He is survived by two daughters, Nadine Hymes and husband, Matt, of Poland Ohio, and Deloris Golden and companion, Harley Watson, of Elkins; four sisters-in-law, Della Ware, Mary Poe, Norma Poe, all of Belington and Sarah Shields of East Liverpool, Ohio. Also surviving are five grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
In addition to his mother and wife, he is preceded in death by two sisters, Evelyn Talbott, and Carrie Hill; one brother, Edward Golden; and one infant granddaughter.
Mr. Golden attended the schools of Barbour County and while living in Belington attended the Resurrection Catholic Mission Church, and was a member of The Knights of Columbus. Mr. Golden was a former employee of the Elkins Limestone Plant, and was a former constable in Barbour County.
Friends will be received from Talbott Funeral Home in Belington from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17th and on Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon, the funeral hour when services will be conducted from the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Jimmie Tallman officiating. Interment will follow in Kingsville Catholic Cemetery at Kingsville.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers memorial contributions be made to Hospice House, 9803 Sharrot Road, Poland, OH 44514. Condolences may be made to the family at www.talbottfuneralhome.com. Talbott Funeral Home of Belington is in charge of the arrangements for Mr. Charles "Chick" Golden.


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Move aims to remove yakuza influence from biz
Tokyo — Japan's National Assn. of Commercial Broadcasters, covering all the commercial networks, has sent its members a new model talent contract aimed at eliminating the influence of Japan's notorious yakuza (gangsters) from the TV biz.
According to the contract, which NAB members are obliged to use, if the contracting individual, company or org is found to have gang ties, the member has the right to terminate the contract without notice.
Pubcaster NHK, which is not a NAB member, drafted a similar policy in November.
The Japanese biz has been on the warpath against the ubiquitous gangs since comedian-MC Shinsuke Shimada abruptly retired in August after admitting to gang ties. The influence of the gangs is deep-rooted and extensive, going beyond individuals to production companies, talent shops and other aspects of the biz.


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Tenet Nurses' Unfair Labor Practice Charges Derail Union Officials' Sham Election
National legal aid foundation puts brakes on collusive arrangement that would force nurses into union ranks
Houston, Texas (November 11, 2008) – Federal labor prosecutors have blocked a so-called "consent election" sought by the Tenet Healthcare Corporation and the California Nurses Association (CNA) while the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conducts an inquiry into the legality of a secret backroom deal entered into by Tenet and CNA officials.
The National Labor Relations Board's Regional Director heeded the wishes of Houston-area nurses who filed unfair labor practice charges against Tenet and the CNA with assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation. The scheduled "consent election" would have determined whether the CNA became the monopoly bargaining agent of nurses at the Houston Northwest Medical Center.
Esther Marissa Cuellar, a nurse at Tenet's Cypress Fairbanks location, and Linda D. Bertrand, a nurse at Tenet's Park Plaza Medical Center, filed the charges on August 12 with the National Labor Relations Board in Fort Worth. The charges allege that an "Election Procedures Arrangement" Tenet and the CNA secretly agreed to violates employees' rights.
The nurses' charges detail how the agreement, signed by Tenet and CNA officials, subverts the NLRB's role in supervising union certification elections and bypasses critical employee protections. The agreement calls for the NLRB merely to count ballots and "certify" the union without providing oversight for the actual process.
Tenet is also charged with providing unlawful assistance to CNA union organizers and discriminating against nurses opposed to unionization. Tenet managers were forbidden from answering workers' questions about unionization, and employees who opposed a union presence in the workplace were prevented from using company facilities to express their views. CNA organizers, on the other hand, were given wide-ranging access to company grounds to facilitate unionization.
"California union militants, with the assistance of complicit Tenet officials, are attempting to corral unwilling nurses across the state of Texas into union ranks." said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. "If similar agreements elsewhere are any indication, CNA may have sold out employees' interests to become Tenet's favored union. We're pleased that the NLRB stepped up to investigate the matter before proceeding with more of these sham consent elections."
The NLRB's decision places the "consent election" on indefinite hold pending the outcome of the unfair labor practice charges.


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PHILADELPHIA - Texas Gov. George W. Bush on Monday selected former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to be his running mate, rounding out the GOP ticket with a Washington insider who played a pivotal role in his father's presidency.
Two highly placed GOP sources said Bush planned to make the offer Tuesday morning. Cheney has told associates he will accept it.
Bush spokeswoman Karen Hughes confirmed that Bush had made his selection, but said, "He has not yet notified that individual or told anyone else about his choice." Republicans open their presidential convention, where Bush will be officially nominated, next Monday.
Cheney brings the ticket a wealth of foreign policy experience and political stature - traits that Bush, a two-term Texas governor, lacks himself. He is a bridge between Bush and his father, former President Bush, who put Cheney in his Cabinet and promoted him for his son's ticket.
After promising an "electrifying" choice, Bush settled to take the safe route: Cheney is a rock-solid conservative who poses little or no political risk. Bolder choices were available, including abortion-rights Govs. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania and George Pataki of New York.
Fashioning an impressive resume in two decades of public service, Cheney served as President Ford's chief of staff, six terms in Congress from Wyoming and four years as Pentagon chief, where he successfully executed the Persian Gulf War.
Cheney, 59, suffered three heart attacks by age 48, but a doctor commissioned by the Bush campaign issued a statement saying his health "should not interfere with a strenuous political campaign."
Bush, 54, plucked the former Pentagon chief from the private sector to head up his selection process, a three-month search that ended with Cheney's name atop the short list.
Returning home from his office at Halliburton Co. of Dallas, an energy company he heads, Cheney was greeted by reporters. "Have a nice evening," he said, waving the journalists away.
He emerged as the leading candidate Friday, and was the only prospect under serious consideration after Bush emerged from seclusion from a weekend at his Texas ranch.
Even before the deal was sealed, Republican officials welcomed the prospect of a Bush-Cheney ticket.
Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, a contender for the job until the end, called Cheney "a man with substance (with) serious broad experience in the public as well as private sector."
Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, another contender, said Cheney "represents the quality, character and experience that America is searching for in national leadership."
Vice President Al Gore, whose convention begins Aug. 14 in Los Angeles, is considering a number of candidates, including former Senate George Mitchell of Maine, Florida Sen. Bob Graham and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.
Bush had hoped to keep his selection a secret until his announcement, which is scheduled for today.
Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth lingered until the end on Bush's short list, but his prospects faded throughout the weekend as Bush mulled his options. Among the GOP stalwarts who had been under consideration: Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma, Ridge and Pataki; former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee; Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Fred Thompson and Frist of Tennessee; and Rep. John Kasich of Ohio.
With so much at stake, rumors and speculation buzzed throughout the GOP community here and in Washington. The hottest gossip: Retired Gen. Colin Powell, who has frustrated Bush with his refusal to serve on the ticket, had reportedly entered negotiations with the Bush camp.
Sources deep inside the Powell and Bush camps quickly denied the report.
All signs had pointed to Cheney for days. He changed his voter registration from Texas to Wyoming to avoid a hitch in the Constitution; he told business associates he had a good chance of getting the job and leaving his company, Halliburton Co. of Dallas; and he forwarded an all-clear health report from his doctors to Bush.
Cheney sold nearly half his interest in Halliburton stock - some 100,000 shares - last month, raising an estimated $5.1 million. Before the sale, Cheney held options on 229,000 shares.
The health report came at the behest of Bush and his father, former President Bush, both of whom wanted to know whether Cheney's history of heart trouble would pose a problem in the campaign.
Sensitive to suggestions that the elder Bush is a quiet power behind his son's White House bid, campaign spokeswoman Karen Hughes said the call to Cheney's doctor was the only action taken by the former president in the review process.
Cheney served as defense secretary under President Bush, helping the president forge an international coalition in the Persian Gulf War. Before that, he served six terms in Congress from Wyoming and as chief of staff for President Ford.
Bush has faced questions about whether he is ready to be president, and advisers believe a running mate who knows his way around the White House - and around the world - would fill in the so-called gravitas gap.
In Congress, Cheney appealed to moderates, but racked up a conservative voting record and was a solid Ronald Reagan supporter. He was mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for Bush in 1992.
He is anti-abortion but says the party must accommodate Republicans on both sides of the debate.
Cheney suffered three mild heart attacks more than 10 years ago, including one while campaigning for the Wyoming House seat in the primaries. He has undergone coronary bypass surgery.
A rare black mark on his record: He admitted writing 21 bad checks while serving in the House, but told the Ethics Committee that investigated the House banking scandal that he always had a positive balance and no checks were returned for insufficient funds.
In 1991, he gave Pentagon briefings to GOP supporters who donated $5,000 to the Republican National Committee.
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NAME: Richard Cheney.
AGE-BIRTH DATE: 59; born Jan. 30, 1941.
HOMETOWN: Lincoln, Neb.
RELIGION: Methodist.
FAMILY: Wife, Lynne, a native of Casper, Wyo.; two grown daughters.
EDUCATION: Attended Yale University for one year. Received bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming, 1965; master's degree in political science, 1966. Did doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin.
EXPERIENCE: White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, 1974-76; Wyoming representative, 1978-89, eventually becoming House Republican whip; secretary of defense under President Bush, 1989-93; chairman and CEO of Dallas-Based Halliburton Corp., one of the world's leading engineering and construction companies in the oil industry, 1995-present.
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Our film, sensitively written by Gina Wendkos (screenwriter of The Princess Diaries), to be directed by Rafal Zielinski (two-time Sundance alumni – Fun Special Jury Awardand Ginger Ale Afternoon), is the story between two people who have fallen between the gaps of our society, lost their family and face the challenge of forgiveness.
It is a story of compassion and redemption that touches themes that resonate with all troubled areas of the world, past, present & future. We hope, through the film, to touch hearts in a real, personal and unique way.
A bittersweet counterbalance to the traditional Hollywood blockbuster.
We realize our budget is almost impossibly minuscule for a film of this scope to be shot in New York, but we have done it before! My two prior Sundance films (both in Narrative Dramatic Competition) Fun and Ginger Ale Afternoon were shot with budgets well below this one.
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Having lost his two children in the war, Samuel adopts Casey as the daughter he never had the chance to raise, so he can teach her how to be lady.
Both face a challenge – if he can forgive her, he can reconcile with the past; if she can forgive herself, she can be free.
"It has been a dream of mine to go around different high schools with this film to foster knowledge and provoke intelligent discussion". – Gina Wendkos.
This project has come close to being funded several times, previously as a larger budget film. The subject matter is challenging, complex and not the obvious commercial fare that Hollywood readily finances. Several legendary actors were either attached or were circling the project at one time – as well as many rising young stars who fell in love with it when they were still playing teenage roles.
If we reach well above our projected $100,000 goal, we hope to convince one of these amazing actors to play Samuel. Not so long ago, we reached out to Kirk Douglas after being so moved by his one man theatre performance on his life, and perhaps there is still a chance to convince him to come out of retirement and be our Samuel. It would be amazing!
We hope to discover a new, budding actress for the role of Casey.
In a number of my prior films, we were unable to afford the young Hollywood stars, so through a meticulous casting process, we discovered several actresses who were given their first leading roles: Leighton Meester (Hangman's Curse), Yasmine Bleeth (Hey Babe!), Alicia Witt (Fun), Whitney Able (Age of Kali).
Rafal Zielinski has made a number of independent films that have been shown internationally on the festival circuit, including two Sundance Dramatic Competition films, "Fun" (Special Jury Award) and "Ginger Ale Afternoon" – as well as some low budget genre director-for-hire works (which helped finance his own indie films).
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Every change that you make to your photos in Lightroom is in the form of instructions in a catalog. A catalog is a database. By default your changes are saved only into a catalog. And when that's the case, external programs like Adobe Bridge can't see the changes that you have made in Lightroom. Now even if you are using Lightroom as your primary digital asset manager, there will times when you probably want to see your photos in Bridge, if not Bridge proper then, in mini-Bridge, which is a smaller version of Bridge that's included right in the Photoshop interface.
So you are going want files in Bridge and mini-Bridge to reflect the changes that you have made in Lightroom. But by default they will not. So let's take a look at what Bridge sees when you make a change to a photo in Lightroom, and then talk about how you can improve the communication between the two programs. So here in my Lightroom Library I have a number of photos. Some of those are pixel-based images, like this TIFF; some are raw files in the Adobe Open Source format, DNG, like this one; and some are raw files in proprietary formats, like this NEF from a Nikon camera, or this RW2 file from a Panasonic Lumix camera.
I am going to select some of the photos here and make a change to them in Lightroom. I'll click on one and Shift+click on another here in Lightroom's grid, and then I'm going to go over to the Quick Develop module in the library, and I'll click on the Develop Preset menu here. And I'm going to go down to a category of presets that come with Lightroom. I'll use the Lightroom Black and White Toned Presets. From this menu, I am going to choose to turn these four photos to a Sepia tone. Now that the change has been applied to that top row of photos, let's take a look at Bridge to see if it can recognize that change.
Here are the same photos in Bridge. By default the photos in Bridge are sorted by file name, back in Lightroom they were sorted by capture time. So I am going to go up to the Sort menu in Bridge and change sort order to By Date Created. And now we have the same order in the two programs. But as you can see, the top row of photos has not been changed to sepia as Bridge sees the photos. So let's go back to Lightroom and see if we can figure out a way to set things up so that Bridge can see Lightroom changes. If you have already made changes to photos in Lightroom, as I have here, then what you can do is to select those photos, the ones with the changes, and go up to the Metadata panel and go down to Save Metadata to Files.
And if you happen to select some DNG files as well, you'll also want to choose Update DNG previews & Metadata. But I am just going to choose Save Metadata to Files now, or you can use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+S. And that brings up a dialog box that's a useful one to read. What Lightroom is telling me is that it's going to take that information that I've already saved into the catalog by default and it's going to save it somewhere else as well. Somewhere that Bridge can access. But that location depends on the file type. So for files that are JPEGs, TIFFs, PSDs, all pixel-based formats, or DNG format, Adobe's raw format, the metadata that contains the information that we are talking about will be saved right into the files.
As the message says, the metadata, which is in the XMP format, will be written into the original files. But when you have proprietary raw file, like the NEF files and the RW2 files that I have in this folder, that metadata will be saved outside of the actual files. Instead, it will be saved in sidecar files right next to original photo files. And that's because Adobe can't write back into the proprietary formats of the camera manufacturers. So that's good information to know, I'll click Continue there.
So the metadata has now been saved, either right into the files, as in the case of this TIFF, or into sidecar files. Now I am going to go back to Bridge, and as you can see Bridge can now read that information, and it displays those four photos with the sepia toning that I had applied in Lightroom. Let's go back to Lightroom again, because I want to show you that you don't always have to wait until you make a change and then use the Save Metadata command, instead you can set things up in advance so that metadata is always saved into a place where Bridge can read it, and that will save you the time and trouble of even thinking about it.
But doing that will only apply to files that you'll change in the future. So you'd still have to come in with the Save Metadata command that I just showed you on files that you have changed in the past. So I am going to go up to the Lightroom menu, that's the Edit menu on a PC, and I'll choose Catalog Settings. Here in Catalog Settings, I'll click on the Metadata tab, and I'll come down to this command, Automatically write changes into XMP. This is unchecked by default and that's why your changes in Lightroom, by default, are only written into the catalog.
As it says here, when this box is unchecked then changes made in Lightroom will not automatically be visible in other applications like Adobe Bridge. But when this box is checked, as I am going to do now, that warning goes away, because now other applications like Bridge should be able to read the changes that you make to files in Lightroom in the future. So now is the future, let's go ahead and make some more changes. I'll select this middle row of photos, clicking on one and shift-clicking on the last, and then, I'll make another change, again from the develop preset menu.
This time I'll choose Cyanotype as my tone preset. And that adds this blue tone to the four photos. Now that effect may take a moment to come up, but you should see it on all four photos. Now let's take a look a Bridge. And sure enough, this time Bridge recognizes the change that I just made to those four photos because I had turned on the preference in the Catalog settings. So those are a couple of things that you can do to get Bridge or other external programs that are looking at the same files you are changing in Lightroom to communicate better with Lightroom.
In this course, photographer and author Jan Kabili shows how to combine both programs. The course begins with details on how to set up the two programs for maximum compatibility. The course then covers strategies for working with photos in a variety of formats, sending them from Lightroom to Photoshop to viewing the edited results in Lightroom. The final chapter demonstrates several real-world scenarios for using Lightroom and Photoshop together.
- Setting the Lightroom preferences for editing in Photoshop
- Passing photos from Lightroom to Photoshop
- Handling software version mismatches
- Viewing and organizing Photoshop-edited photos in Lightroom
- Creating Lightroom presets for external editing
- Using Lightroom with Photoshop Elements
- Building a panorama with Lightroom and Photoshop
- Passing multiple photos to Photoshop for compositing
- Sending photos to Photoshop for retouching and removing content
- Bringing photos into Photoshop to add text and graphics


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To Live and Die in L.A.
Obscured by Her Lurid Murder Is the Memory of How Nicole Simpson Loved Life
Not long ago the Browns of Dana Point, Calif.—father Lou, 70, a retired businessman, mother Judy, 63, a travel agent, and Nicole's three sisters—were ordinary people, with lives they could call their own. Now America knows them as the family that sat, united in their loss, in the Los Angeles courtroom where O.J. Simpson received his pretrial hearing on charges of murder. They said little during the proceedings, except for a few muted words to each other about how they might leave the building with a minimum of flashbulbs and fuss. During the six-day hearing, they showed emotion only rarely—once when prosecutors presented color photographs that showed the lifeless body of Nicole Simpson, blood-soaked and nearly decapitated, lying on its side on the concrete in front of her home. "Nicole's sisters dabbed their eyes with Kleenex," says one courtroom observer. "But after 10 minutes they regained their composure. They all stayed strong."
That is a tall order these days, when the family's grief is still raw, and bizarre twists surface almost daily. O.J. is reportedly offering $500,000 for information leading to the arrest of Nicole's killer at the same time that Nicole's own reputation is under attack. In recent weeks supermarket tabloids have presented her as a party girl, pictured her being fondled on the deck of a vacation condo by a younger man a few days after her divorce from O.J. and even suggested that her behavior was somehow responsible for sparking the rage that killed her. "It's not fair to forget that Nicole was the victim here," says a close friend. "It's really sad that people are questioning her integrity now that she's not here to defend herself."
Who was Nicole Simpson? There are several answers: a daughter, a mother, a wife. A victim. She was beautiful. She had a temper. She liked the high life and all the good things that money could buy. But there was nothing about her that should have marked her for murder.
As a little girl, every night before going to bed, Nicole Brown recited the Lord's Prayer in German, her mother's native tongue. Lou Brown, raised in Kansas, had met and in the 1950s married Juditha Baur in Rollwald, West Germany, where he was a correspondent for the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes. When Nicole and her older sister, Denise, were toddlers, the family moved to Garden Grove, Calif. There Nicole led an unexceptional, middle-class childhood: Brownie and Girl Scout meetings, dance lessons, the Pep Club and a crown as homecoming princess at Dana Hills High School.
During her high school years, Nicole had a reputation as a beach bunny, a "kind of wild, free spirit who had a zest for life," says a friend. In 1977 she was just 18 and working as a waitress at a swank Beverly Hills nightclub, the Daisy, where she met the still-married football superstar O.J. Simpson. "She loved the person, not the figure," said her sister Denise. "When she fell in love with him, she fell hard." In 1985 she and O.J. were married in a splashy affair at his Tudor home in Brentwood.
By all accounts the two had an opulent, extravagant lifestyle, with expensive trips to Mexico and Aspen, homes in Laguna Beach and New York City and a small fleet of luxury cars. Nicole was given more than $5,000 a month in pin money alone. She got along well with O.J.'s children from his first marriage, daughter Arnelle, now 25, and son Jason, 24. But it was her own children, Sydney and Justin, say friends, who became the center of her existence. "I'd see Nicole and the kids around the neighborhood all the time, and she and they would be singing and laughing," says Roni Blak, Sydney's former ballet teacher. "You could tell the kids were her life."
Many other mothers in her tony Brentwood neighborhood employed full-time nannies, but Nicole insisted on hands-on mothering, carpooling, shuttling the kids to karate and dance lessons, picking them up daily after school, often followed by a stop at a local Bas-kin-Robbins. "She was going, going, all day long," says a friend.
Yet there was tension and trouble behind her smile. "Those who knew her loved her, but there was another side to Nicole," says a former neighbor. "She seemed guarded and not too quick to be friendly. I bumped into her walking down the street one day. We were talking and I said, 'I'm sorry, I forgot your name,' and she got offended."
It is clear now that her marriage had begun to fray years before her 1992 divorce. Six years ago, the daughter of a friend of O.J.'s who had been lunching with him at La Scala in Beverly Hills emerged with him from the restaurant. "All of a sudden, out of the blue, came Nicole," the woman says. "She just flipped out. She was screaming obscenities at us from her car. She screamed at O.J., 'If you're going to cheat on me, why don't you at least pick someone pretty.' She was absolutely crazy with rage. It wasn't a pretty sight." The tirade ended, says the woman, only when a Beverly Hills police officer drove up in a squad car, at which point Nicole drove off.
Simpson's philandering, as well as his continuing violence against Nicole, finally led her to seek a divorce. "When I saw her, she looked nothing like the woman in the photographs you see in the papers," said a source of the period following the separation. "She looked like a waif—scared, frightened and depressed. I felt such a sense of dread...."
Her life after O.J. should, in theory, have been less stressful. Her divorce settlement included a lump sum of $433,000, tax-free, and $10,000 a month in child support. That was enough to maintain her in comfort. Soon she was a fixture in her Brentwood neighborhood, tooling up San Vicente in her white Ferrari, patronizing the upscale boutiques at Brentwood Gardens, lunching with girlfriends at the Daily Grill, dining at the trendy Italian bistros Toscana and Mezzaluna. She appeared most often in black Lycra pants and leotard top, well-toned from her workouts at the Gym, where she met an admiring cadre of twenty-something males, most of whom seemed awed by her. She did date after the split, and Simpson was wildly jealous of even the most casual attention paid her. But, her friends insist, none of those relationships was serious. "She knew she was gorgeous," says Kerry Kane, the man who sometimes did her hair. "Once, she pulled up and got out of the Ferrari and I said, 'Nicole, please, I'm having a heart attack.' She joked, 'Then don't look.' "
On Thursday nights she would appear at the hip Santa Monica club Renaissance, where, recalls bartender Ray Barron, "she'd work up a sweat dancing, do a shot of tequila, and then head right back out on the dance floor."
Still, those who knew her maintain that she never let her nightlife interfere with responsibilities to her family. "She just enjoyed having a good time," says one friend. "There were a couple of times I was there when she had been up late. She had been partying, but she made sure the kids were taken care of."
"She went out at night, but who has the right to judge?" adds another. "She was a good, diligent, caring mother."
In the months before her death, Nicole was considering a reconciliation with O.J. but had finally decided against it. Optimistic about the prospect of life on her own, she was upbeat as she dined with her children and family on the last night of her life. She seemed relaxed and, as always, proud of her children. Outside Mezzaluna, "my dad saw her and called her over," says 14-year-old Sara Hakan, who baby-sat for Justin and Sydney. "I was playing with the kids. My sister was riding on my back. We were commenting on Sydney's pants. She had just come home from the dance recital. She had on little bell-bottoms."
Every morning now, Denise Brown lights several white votive candles on a table covered with photographs of her slain sister. "I tell her how much I miss her," Denise has said, "and I pray to God that He's looking out for her."
That is not the only ritual observed by the family. Every night, much as they did when Nicole was a little girl, her parents now tuck their two grandchildren into bed and with them recite the Lord's Prayer, in German. It is a prayer about acceptance in the face of incomprehensible events and, most of all, about hope.
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By Bart Smith
Tribune Publisher
"Oilfield Trash" read the bumper sticker on a vehicle rolling through Greeley on a recent morning.
If you envisioned an old truck with rust holes and beer cans rattling in the back, you would be wrong. I understood the sarcasm in the sign as I looked at the late model option-laden, Super Duty, double-cab Ford pickup that was worth more than twice what I paid for my sport sedan.
When we think of the fast-growing oil fields and the people they attract, there is a stereotype that comes to mind of the hard-drinking, lonely guy destined to end up in the police report after some bad decisions made at closing time.
There is some basis for that thinking. Drilling for gas and oil is hard, dirty work that pays well. It attracts young people who want to go out and enjoy themselves after a long shift, and have some maturing to do.
We receive the newspaper from Williston, N.D., the drilling hot spot, and there are many stories of the extra challenge law enforcement agencies are facing with the big influx of workers.
The official opening of the new Noble Energy building in west Greeley this week, however, demonstrated another aspect of this industry. The modern structure, which will house some 300 employees, is staffed by the same people you would expect to see just across the way at State Farm.
I grew up in this industry, the son of a petroleum geologist who loved prowling the far corners of the planet for hints of riches below the surface. Our family friends were other geologists, engineers and the like. We were fortunate to grow up and live in such places as Canada, Brazil and Australia, often with the same group of professionals who went to college together back at the University of Wyoming and other top geology schools in the U.S.
We got to know some great people who did the physical work, too. Drillers and skilled technicians from the U.S. could be found at petroleum sites anywhere because of their expertise and willingness to work hard.
This new expanded play in the Niobrara formation, underlying Greeley and northeast Colorado will bring both riches and problems with it. It was pointed out this week that Noble was the county's largest property taxpayer at $57 million, followed closely by others. Noble also offered $5 million over five years to local school districts to help convert vehicles to less-expensive natural gas.
Other large and small oil-and-gas-related companies are popping up, which will go a long way to help the local economy heal from some extremely tough years. While getting tires for my pickup at Discount Tire and Service just off U.S. 85 in east Greeley, I watched a stream of white trucks with logos on the sides and hard-hatted drivers dropping off tires for repair or replacement. The shop was a beehive of activity trying to keep up.
These same white trucks populate the motel parking lots in Greeley, bringing business to nearby eateries and night spots and a host of other businesses.
Fortunately, this is more manageable than the Williston boom, where locals are pushed out of apartments with skyrocketing rents, waits at fast food restaurants stretch past an hour and highway accidents shoot up alarmingly.
While the change here is more gradual, it's evident. Years ago, Tribune reporter Bill Jackson clued me into using Weld County Road 49, just this side of Kersey, as an easy way to get down to Denver International Airport. It was a peaceful country drive with little traffic and nice views of the countryside.
I chose that route recently and didn't recognize it. The road was clogged with oilfield traffic. Vehicles were backed up at cross roads, waiting for a chance to dart across or join the slow stream of traffic. New drilling sites were everywhere.
The quiet country road has been transformed into something entirely different.
All facets of this change are becoming bigger news and The Tribune is devoting more staff time and space to it. Whether it's fracking techniques or setback regulations or ozone, or the rising economy and lower unemployment rate, it's important to Weld County residents as the area transitions.
Just this week we pulled up behind a newer SUV with a sign in the back window that said something along the lines of "Proud Oilfield Wife." We decided it meant she was married to an oilfield worker and enjoyed spending the rewards.
Signs of change.
Bart Smith is publisher of The Tribune. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Teen birth rates in South Carolina have reached an all-time low after declining for four consecutive years, and Aiken County saw its second consecutive decrease, according to the S.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
Numbers released by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control indicate the birth rate for 15- to 19-year-olds declined 8 percent to 39.1 per 1,000 in 2011.
In Aiken County, the teen birth rate declined 2.9 percent in 2010 and 13.8 percent in 2011 to 40.5 per 1,000. Additionally, the statistics show that teen births cost taxpayers about $6 million in Aiken County and $197 million statewide.
Forrest Alton, chief executive officer for the Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, is cautiously optimistic about the numbers.
"This is certainly a time to pause and celebrate our accomplishments," he said. "However, we cannot become complacent and think that we have the problem solved. In South Carolina, 6,000 young women under the age of 20 become mothers each year and our state still ranks 11th highest in the U.S. for teen births – there is clearly plenty of work left to be done."
Sloane Whelan, the South Carolina director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood, agreed with Alton. She attributed part of the decrease to teenagers wising up about sexual health.
"Teens are making more responsible decisions," she said. "Teens are using contraceptives more. We've seen an increase in long-acting, reversible contraceptives."
Whelan said the drop can also be attributed to greater focus on teen pregnancy.
"Women's health has been on the national forefront lately. A lot of people have identified that they are concerned about teen pregnancy, not only in South Carolina but across the country," she said. "There are more conversations about women's health and reproductive health in the media."
Kim Martin, facilities operations manager for Nurture Home in Aiken, was happy to hear about the decrease in teen pregnancies.
"At one point, South Carolina had a reputation for having a high teen pregnancy rate," she said.
Nurture Home, a transitional shelter for women and their children, has been in business for about 14 years, according to Martin.
"It started off as a place for teen moms that were pregnant. A lot of them were coming out of DSS or foster care and didn't have a place to go when they were pregnant, so that's why they came here," Martin said, adding that the program is now more "transitional" and only serves women 18 and older.
"A lot of shelters are emergency shelters," she said. "This is more of a transitional living program where we try to provide women with life skills they may have been lacking. They can stay a little bit longer than at an emergency shelter."
Martin said the home has seen a decrease in the number of women coming in, but the facility, which can serve five families at a time, still "rarely" has a room empty.
"We get calls every day from somebody looking for shelter," she said. "There just aren't enough shelters to help people in need of assistance."
Martin said the home's tenants are appreciative of the assistance they receive, and many keep in touch or come back to visit.
"We try to serve as many people as we can," she said. "Our goal when they leave here is to have permanent housing and structure in their lives and increased self-determination. We want success stories."
Alton believes the state can continue to lower its teen birth rate by improving the delivery of age-appropriate, research-proven sex education in public schools; enhancing the conversations that parents have with their children about love, sex and relationships; and increasing access to condoms and other forms of contraception for sexually active youth.
"If we focus our work and investment in these three areas, we will undoubtedly continue to see progress," he said.
Whelan said that, in addition to health centers in Columbia and Charleston, Planned Parenthood has an educator for the state who provides "age appropriate, medically accurate" information to community groups and organizations around the state. She added that the state legislature has a "unique opportunity" to further impact the teen pregnancy rate with the new numbers, particularly with the state's Comprehensive Health Education Act.
"I'd like them to take a close look at that," she said. "There are a lot of loopholes in that act, and if we took a close look at it, we could impact that teen birth rate even more."
She called on lawmakers to examine the act this legislative session.
"The solution to teen pregnancy and unintended pregnancy is prevention," she said. "What is prevention? It's comprehensive health education in the school system and increased access to reproductive health care."
For more information on the statistics and teen pregnancy, visit www.teenpregnancysc.org, or www.scdhec.gov.