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Electronic cigarette use appears to be on the rise among teens. Now, some teens are finding new ways to use these nicotine-delivering devices, according to a new study.
FDA Targets Smokeless Tobacco in Rural Areas
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expanding its "The Real Cost" campaign to rural America.
Smoking May Put Baby's DNA at Risk
It's a well-known fact that smoking during pregnancy can harm the baby. Now, researchers may have a clearer picture as to why that is.
Officials Crack Down on Nicotine Products
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a leading authority on children's health issues, is looking to clear the air on tobacco product use.
Pregnant Mom Lights Up, Baby's Heart at Risk
It's not news that smoking during pregnancy is a bad idea. But researchers are still learning the various ways it can affect a developing baby.
Early Bloomers Smoking and Drinking Before Peers
Puberty is an important milestone on the road to growing up. But hitting puberty early may lead some kids to try adult substances earlier than other kids.
Mom, Go Outside to Smoke
Pregnant moms may be getting better about quitting smoking while they're pregnant, but once the baby is born, many light up again.
Secondhand Smoke and the Unborn Baby
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Cold Turkey After Birth
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One of the enjoyable developments in rock music in the late 1960s was the rise of bubblegum pop. What made this development even more interesting is how it blended with the burgeoning psych-rock scene as well. While the genre would produce its fair amount of cheese, some true gems can be found.
One such jewel to be had is that of The Fun & Games (or The Fun & Games Commission), a combo from the Houston, Texas area. Though they only released one album, Elephant Candy, was produced by the legendary psych-pop producer Gary Zekley. Zekley also wrote their signature hit, "The Grooviest Girl In The World." It's a wonderfully upbeat number, propelled by "sha la la" harmonies and an utterly hummable melody.
In its own way, the song feels like a predecessor to the up-and-coming Power Pop genre.
The single's b-side "It Must Have Been the Wind," is an organ-driven number, nowhere near as catchy as its b-side, but a song that still possesses many charms, most notably the harmonies. It's a bit more blues-laden, similar in nature to The Grassroots.
Though they would only shine brightly for a few months in 1968, time has not diminished the beauty and the pleasure found in this little slab of vinyl.

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Posted: Wednesday, November 21, 2018. 12:49 pm CST.
By BBN Staff: Yesterday, San Ignacio Police detained three men pending charges of theft and keeping a firearm without a gun license.
According to reports, Hongjun Liang, 43, a Chinese businessman of Joseph Andrews Drive, San Ignacio Town, reported that he placed his Smith and Wesson 9mm firearm containing 8 rounds of ammunition on a carton box inside his warehouse, and upon making checks, he noticed that his weapon was missing.
The firearm was recovered at the residence of Darwin Young, 25, a Belizean Student of Benque Viejo Town.
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DNA tests have made it clear that many innocent people have been sent to prison after a witness picked them out of a lineup. Between 1989 and 2016, more than 70 percent of the 337 wrongful convictions identified in the U.S. had been influenced by misidentification from eyewitnesses, according to the Innocence Project. Researchers recently reported, however, that a simple procedure could help reduce the risk of misidentification: ask the eyewitnesses about their confidence level whenthey pick someone from a lineup.
The new work, published online last December in PNAS, also investigated a long-standing debate over how to perform a lineup. Numerous studies during the past few decades have examined how to minimize the possibility that witnesses will finger an innocent person, and they have settled on showing people the photographs one by one, instead of all together. About 30 percent of the police departments in the U.S. have adopted this sequential method.
Yet some of the studies used to support that approach overlooked the important question of how sure a witness felt about his or her selection. In the current study, the researchers examined real lineups administered by the Robbery Division of the Houston Police Department to see how the different procedures compared when witness confidence was taken into account. The lineups, of which 187 were simultaneous and 161 sequential, were cases in which the suspect was a stranger to the witness, and they were administered by people who themselves were unaware of the suspect's identity. Witnesses rated their confidence as low, medium or high.
In a third of the cases, the witnesses did not identify anyone. In another third, they identified the suspect, and in the remaining cases, they chose someone who was not suspected, or a "filler." Confidence turned out to be key: most high-confidence identifications were of the suspect, whereas most low-confidence IDs were of fillers. "Ignoring low confidence in the beginning is a grave error," says lead researcher John Wixted of the University of California, San Diego. "The witness is telling you that there's a good chance they're making a mistake."
Comparing the results of the two different lineup techniques, the researchers found that the simultaneous method produced more confident identifications, leading to the conclusion that it may be more useful than the sequential approach.
The difference between the two methods, however, is statistically very slight, notes Gary Wells, a professor of psychology at Iowa State University who studies eyewitness memory: "The more important part of this article is that witness confidence did a good job of helping sort between accurate and mistaken witnesses."
What matters most for police departments is that they ask the witness about their confidence on the spot and ensure the lineup is double-blind, meaning neither the witness nor the administrator of the lineup has been tipped off as to who is the suspect. Fewer than half of U.S. police departments use a double-blind procedure, Wells says.
The idea that initial confidence is the best measure, rather than the oft-used level of confidence at trial, has not yet made it beyond the realm of research. Wixted hopes his findings will influence how lineups are handled by the police, but, he says, "the word has not gotten out."


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Under the City's ChooseWell program Lacombians are encouraged to take part in the WinterActive Challenge program to earn prizes by being active.
Beginning Jan. 26th and continuing to Feb. 15th, teams of five will gather and track a minimum of 30 minutes of physical activity each day for 21 days.
The Winter Active Challenge is a fun way for communities to engage in physical activity and to promote overall health by staying active, officials said.
"It's great that the challenge kind of aligns with New Year's because people are making the choice to try and be more active and healthy. This challenge makes it fun because you have a team to encourage you and help keep you going," said Community Services Executive Assistant Sonya Beauclair.
Communities ChooseWell is an Alberta Recreation and Parks Association initiative that has various programs throughout the year to encourage a healthy lifestyle based on healthy eating habits and maintaining physical activity.
"The programs that ChooseWell most promotes are – the Acts of Random physical activity month, which is June. Then they have the 21 days of healthy eating challenge that happens in October that gets families to eat one healthy home-cooked meal together every day for 21 days," Beauclair said.
"The other one is the Iron Chef challenge. That is basically a healthy cooking contest, but we haven't ever been able to coordinate anything for that here in Lacombe yet."
For the WinterActive Challenge, teams of five can register online at www.Lacombe.ca/winteractive or contact Beauclair at 403-782-1267. All team members must reside or work in the City of Lacombe or in Lacombe County. Teams will receive physical activity record keeping charts that are submitted to Beauclair.
Between all team members, there must be a total of 17.5 hours of physical activity a week as a minimum to qualify for the prizes from Fit Body Boot Camp as well as prizes from the City of Lacombe and other sponsors. Teams can be made up of family members, friends or even coworkers of any age and fitness level.
"I know that as a mother, eating healthy and being active is important for kids to grow up with. I think that sometimes with everyone's busy lives, it can be hard to fit it in. For me, I am always looking for the cheapest and easiest way to get it into your daily routine so that it happens," said Beauclair. "You can go out and say that you're going to make huge changes, but then it's hard to follow through. I think it's better to find the quickest and easiest way to get activity in your life. If you're going shopping, park on the far side of the parking lot and walk the extra 100 feet into the store, just to get that little bit of activity. Go outside, and play with your kids. Run around in the snow. Pretty much anything can help."
Activity could include building a snowman, walking around the block, shoveling a neighbours walk or driveway, ice skating, bowling, walking a pet or enjoying some of the local trails.
"The big thing is – keep it simple. For everything that we're trying to get people to do in this ChooseWell category, we want to keep it as simple as possible. I feel that's the best way to success."
Teams must register by Jan. 23rd at 4:30 p.m.


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Interview with Lars Bode: Oligosaccharides: Next Generation Functions
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Human milk is alive and it is a personalized nutritional source: the structures of HMOs are diverse and very different between mothers.
The maternal factors (both genetic and environmental) driving variation in HMO composition are not fully understood. While there is some redundancy, HMOs are not fully interchangeable and the effects are often highly structure-specific. The short- and long-term effects of feeding individual HMOs are not fully evaluated – more human intervention study is needed.


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NAPTIP arrests Ochanya's aunt for conspiracy
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested the late Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbaje's aunt, Mrs. Felicia Ogbuja, for her silence on the alleged travails of her niece.
Ochanya Ogbaje died last month as a result of alleged sexual assault by her uncle and his son. NAPTIP said its operatives arrested Mrs. Ogbuja as she is suspected to have had knowledge of the nefarious act but refused to report or speak out.
The arrest of Mrs. Ogbuja, who is said to be an employee of the Catering Department of Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, came four weeks after intensive manhunt, having disappeared from her house shortly after the tragic incident.
Elizabeth Ochanya Ogbaje, a 13-year-old student of the Federal Government Girls' College, Gboko, died on October 21, 2018 after a battle with Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF) and other health complications at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Makurdi.
The Director-General of NAPTIP, Dame Julie Okah-Donli, had earlier directed the Makurdi Zonal Command of the Agency to arrest Mrs. Ogbuja and other accomplices for prosecution.


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Where the hard packed sand of the beach at low tide is the best place for those on two wheels or two feet. Where there is nothing that cannot be found in one of the sprawling and chaotic markets. Where one place is flooded by a deluge of water and another is suffering through a crippling drought. Where be you by a river, by a lake or on the shores of the Pacific or Atlantic oceans, the sunsets are always magnificent.
Nicaragua is an incredibly diverse country where there is no one defining 'way of life'. Some grow up living off the land in the depths of the jungle. Some spend their nights at sea in tiny banged up vessels, returning at daybreak with a haul of fish for market. Others spend their days at a 9 to 5 job, making their daily commute in a revamped American school bus.
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Do You Have A Muskoka Lakefront Cottage To Sell?
Well here we are coming into Spring. The weather is warming up nicely and people are looking for cottages. Last year we had record low inventory of cottages for sale and we are still hoping to see more listings hit the market in the next few months. Sooo… many buyers and too few cottages.
If you are thinking about selling your cottage, please get in touch with me. Cottages are selling in a week for very high prices and we really don't have any idea, exactly how long this will market will last. There are too many variables.
Spring is the perfect time to list your cottage for sale in Muskoka. Snow is melting, seasonal roads will soon becoming more accessible and summeer is coming!!!
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I wanted to take a minute to be sure you had all of the juicy details for our upcoming fundraising event coming up next Saturday night!
Each of you has been a supporter of Culinary Angels in some huge way. Either by being a dedicated and valued volunteer, a part of our recipient family, or a donor. You are all an integral part of the fabric of this unique and outstanding organization so we wanted to make this special for YOU.
Honestly, I am not just saying this, but the event we have created is going to knock your socks off!
There is so much amazing fun to be shared between live music, celebrity speakers, the cooking competition, live judging and much more! (Shh! We may just make this an annual event-would love your thoughts.)
Due to all of the fabulous content, we have moved up the event start time, with a music pre-show at 5:30p and the actual event starting at 6p.
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Secret Service overpaid campaigns nearly $4 million for charter flights, report says
WASHINGTON – The Secret Service overpaid presidential committees nearly $4 million for air travel on charter flights during the 2016 campaign, the federal government's watchdog agency found Thursday.
A report by the Government Accountability Office determined that the service did not consistently adhere to a long-standing policy to pay the cheapest rate of two charter options when traveling with candidates and other protectees during the busy campaign season.
According to the policy, the agency pays either the lowest commercially available first-class fare or the cost of a charter flight divided by the passenger number, whichever is cheapest. Eight months before the end of the campaign, the agency determined that it was not abiding by the policy yet did not correct its action.
During that time, according to the GAO report, 66% of the campaign flights with agents aboard were taken. The agency reimburses the campaign committees for agent seats on each flight.
In all, travel expenses for the agency during the 2016 campaign totaled $58 million to support 3,236 stops. Of that, $17.1 million was reimbursed to the four campaign committees for charter flights.
Agency reimbursements to the leading campaigns were nearly identical — with $7.3 million paid to the Trump campaign, and $7.1 million to the Clinton campaign.
In its written response to the GAO, the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees Secret Service operations — said letters already have been drafted to the committees requesting reimbursement for the overpaid amounts.
"The Secret Service is incredibly proud of how we operated during the 2016 campaign, and like any high performance operation we are committed to continual improvement," the agency said in a statement Thursday. "After the issues highlighted in the report were brought to our attention, the Secret Service took immediate action to address them. As of the publishing of this report, the Secret Service has completed required corrective actions to ensure miscalculations are not repeated.
"We are confident the American people understand that protecting our elected officials and those running for the highest offices of our nation is a costly endeavor; and with that responsibility, the Secret Service is steadfastly committed to effective stewardship of American tax dollars."
The report was requested by Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the overpayments were "unacceptable."
"Proper stewardship of Secret Service travel expenses is critical as they are paid by the American taxpayer — not the campaigns," Thompson said.
The costs associated with Secret Service operations have been closely scrutinized in the past two years as a crushing workload prompted Congress to take action.
President Trump signed legislation this year effectively raising pay caps that forced more than 1,000 Secret Service agents to forego payment last year for hundreds of hours in overtime necessary to carry out the agency's expanded protective mission.
The action raised the combined annual salary and overtime limits from $164,200 to $187,000, covering unpaid overtime accrued last year. In 2018, the cap increases to $189,000.
Congress intervened last summer when USA TODAY reported that about 1,200 agents and officers had already hit the mandated pay caps that were meant to last the entire year.


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- Complementary Therapies in Medicine: A comprehensive yoga programs improves pain, anxiety and depression in chronic low back pain patients more than exercise: An RCT
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Yoga for a Herniated Disc
Yoga is known for its many mental and physical health benefits. Besides helping you find peace and making you more physically fit, it can help with injuries like disc herniations. A disc herniation is an injury to the spine that may or may not cause pain. If you do suffer pain from a disc herniation, practicing yoga can help fix it.
Disc Herniation
Between each vertebrae of your spine is a gel-like divider called a disc. These discs provide cushioning between the vertebrae and prevent them from rubbing on each other. There is a soft center of the disc surrounded by a more firm ring. In a disc herniation, there is a lot of pressure on the disc, which causes the softer center to rupture and push out of the disc.
Depending on what way your spine was bending, the herniation will go in different directions. Typically, it pushes out in the opposite direction of the way the spine was bending. If you were bending forward, the herniation will come out of the back. If the herniation pushes against one of the nerves that come out of your spine, you will feel pain and possibly numbness in your back and legs.
Is Yoga Safe?
It is important to keep moving if you have a disc herniation. The stretching from a yoga class can help relieve pain by relieving the pressure on the disc. However, you don't want to do anything that makes your pain worse. Generally, you want to avoid moving in the same direction that you originally injured yourself in. It's also wise to consult a doctor before beginning to exercise after your injury.
Yoga is a safe forms of exercise that you can do if you have a disc herniation, as long as your doctor gives the OK. If you go to a Hatha yoga class, you'll move through bodyweight poses that allow you to gently stretch without moving too quickly. It's important to move slowly if you have a disc herniation because you don't want to move into a painful position.
Iyengar Yoga
With so many different forms of yoga, it can be hard to choose the right one to help with your disc herniation. According to a 2009 study in Spine, Iyengar yoga is beneficial for people with lower back pain.
Yoga is a safe option if you have a herniated disc.
Iyengar is a very precise form of yoga that uses a lot of props, such as yoga blocks and bands, to help practitioners get into the correct position. The poses in Iyengar yoga are held for longer than traditional Hatha yoga to allow the practitioner time to adjust to the position.
A 2005 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that Viniyoga, an individualized form of yoga, was better than traditional exercise and a self-care book for back pain patients in easing back pain. The individualized nature of Viniyoga makes it ideal for someone with a disc herniation because the yoga practice can be tailored to avoid painful movements and emphasize non-painful postures.
No matter what style of yoga you choose, it's important to find an instructor that understands the limitations that come with a disc herniation. It's important to move slowly during your practice and to avoid movements that hurt, so some of the poses may need modification.
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- The Clinical Journal of Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Yoga for Low Back Pain
- Yoga Journal: Yoga With a Herniated Disc
- Yoganatomy: Practicing yoga with a herniated disc?
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The Four Day Marches (Vierdaagse) officially open yesterday with fireworks at the Waal. The Vierdaagse will start Tuesday until this week Friday (16-19 July 2019). But the festivities (Vierdaagsefeesten) already started last Saturday (13 July 2019). The Vierdaagsefeesten (13-19 July 2019) attract thousands of people to Nijmegen. It is the biggest festival in Nijmegen with various types of music, foods and activities.
Vierdaagse and Vierdaagsefeesten
The Four Days Marches will be held for the 103rd time this year. It is an annual walking event where people from all over the world walk for four consecutive days. Annually, tens of thousands of walkers participate in this event. This year, there will be 47,000 official participants. Besides the walk, the Vierdaagsefeesten also attract hundreds of thousands of people to party and have some fun in the city. This public event gives a spot for everyone to listen to music, enjoy activities and get some foods and drinks with family and friends.
Difficulty in finding a parking spot
As you can image, with the large festivities come the difficulties in mobility, especially when in comes to finding a parking spot to park your car or bicycle. Many of the cyclists decide to park their bike in someone garden, the rail of the bridge or on street corners.
Why? Because they don't know where to park their bike without going around to every single bicycle parking garage.
Solution to the parking problem
To solve this problem, LUMIGUIDE developed a WebApp for the cyclist and car drivers in Nijmegen. This App will give easy access for cyclist and car drivers to find a parking spot in the city center without having to drive or ride around the city. The Green Mobility App helps cyclist and car drivers to find a free parking spot. With this App, you can go through those waves of people with a single aim to get that free parking spot. You can open the Green Mobility app via the browser of your phone and 'add it to your home screen' via the web browser.
Green Mobility App and FietsPlek
Besides the Green Mobility WebApp, LUMIGUIDE also provides an App to find a bike parking spot in various cities of the Netherlands. FietsPlek App is available on the App Store from Android and Apple. This App will also give you information on bicycle parking in Nijmegen.
Possible removal of your bicycle
For those of you who still think that it is safe to park your bike anywhere, remember that the Nijmegen municipality (via AFAC) has the right to remove your bike if you park it illegally in the city. This can then cost you a hefty fine.
Our suggestion? Use the App and find your legal parking spot.


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Rakstu, jo nevaru apstāties
Kas es esmu?
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You`re Sexy When You`re Sad
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Oh my god! They make films in Latvia! They have already surpassed the "drawings on your cave" era and are actually making movies! That can`t be true. As a matter of fact, it is. And the film was kind of stunning. Contrary to the socialistic realism crap you`d expect from a film made in our piss poor country this is some alternative shit we`re talking about. If you want scenes of a lobotomy done upon a dead person, scenes of bisexuality, scenes of dead beggars - this is a film for you. If you want several stories about modern days Latvia, about what life`s really about and stuff like that this is a film for you. If you want shaky camera work, this is a film for you. If you want Elvis petting Pamela Anderson with Bruce Lee`s penis this is not a film for you. You are a sick idiot, man! How could you ever think of a thing like that! It drives me mad just thinking what it could be like being you. Oh, shit, I am you. How embarassing. See it if you can (the film I mean), if you can`t - don`t bother.
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The Members of the Parish Council are eager to operate with a full membership
No special skills are required just a willingness to represent the interests of the whole community and to make time to attend regular monthly meetings.
To find out more contact the Parish Clerk on 01264 398 534 before 2 January 2017 .
What Does the Parish Council do?
- Play a vital part in representing the interests of the community as a whole
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text: Foley, Alabama, is an exuberant city that is flourishing on the southern borders of Alabama on the beautiful Gulf Coast. Its founder, John B. Foley, came from Chicago in 1901 and purchased 50,000 acres of land to begin what is now Magnolia Land Company. In 1905, Foley built the first railroad station to travel from Foley to Bay Minette, Alabama. Soon after that, the city became the southern hub spot for shipping agricultural goods. John B. Foley's efforts were the framework that helped construct what the city is today. Since its founding in 1905, Foley has become a thriving visitor town with much to do in the city and its surrounding areas.


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Perhaps the accessory of the year award should go to face masks, which most people from all over the globe have been sporting since March or when the coronavirus pandemic started. It has evolved into something more than what can protect us from the highly contagious disease as it also became an avenue to express a person's style.
After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that face masks are one of our best protections against contracting the dreaded coronavirus, businesses have jumped on the opportunity to make money by creating a more sustainable version of disposable face protections. More and more people prefer cloth masks that are not only more comfortable to use but are definitely more fashionable than the surgical type like the following:
Virgil Abloh's luxury brand Off-White is selling three masks with different prints for $95 each. The black jersey masks are made of 100 percent cotton and as per its description, all sales will be used for COVID-19 relief efforts.
VPL is selling silk masks made out of the sash of kimonos. The good news is that these $125-, one-of-a-kind items have pockets to put another filter for added protection against the coronavirus. What's more is that its elastic goes around the head, which means it won't hurt the ears.
One of the first luxury brands to have ever produced face masks of their own is Burberry. Their version features the iconic material and design of the company.
A Burberry face mask will sell for $120 and come with a small pouch for travel. Twenty percent of the sales will be donated to the Burberry Foundation COVID-19 Community Fund.
Michael Ngo
It's hard to stay fashionable during this pandemic because as much as possible, you have to cover the most of your face to avoid catching droplets. In other parts of the world, face shields have become mandatory, making it harder to stay stylish.
Michael Ngo's creations will definitely make you stand out. That's because the scene-stealing masks are filled with embellishments!
Apiece ranges from $110 to $500, which will obviously make your jaw-drop – nonetheless, proceeds will go to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, an organization that helps feed the people from low-income neighborhoods.
Etsy Seller
One Etsy user made the wise decision to repurpose a Gucci dress and make it into face masks. The person is selling one for $128 on the platform.
X Suit
If you are a fan of chic, wild prints, X Suit has six designs to choose from. The good thing is the brand's masks ($119) have adjustable ear straps and interchangeable filters.


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Learn how to stylize your text by applying WordArt Styles in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. WordArt can quickly add some pizazz to your text, but don't try to go overboard.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 and higher
Styling text is one of those features that are either grossly overlooked or entirely over-used in PowerPoint. And, either of those situations can be a shame since PowerPoint allows you to do so much to text with its powerful WordArt feature. Before we proceed further, you must know that WordArt has nothing to do with Microsoft Word and is a totally independent feature in PowerPoint. What WordArt does to the text is similar to what PowerPoint's Shape Styles option does to shapes. WordArt Styles are a collection of some prebuilt text styles which you can instantly apply to your text. These WordArt Styles are all Theme specific, so if the presentation's Theme is changed, any WordArt applied also reflects the changes accordingly. Follow these steps to learn how to apply WordArt Styles to selected text in PowerPoint 2013:
Note: Want to further edit the WordArt Style after applying? You can override the WordArt Styles by making your own customizations. Explore the following tutorials to learn more:
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WordArt Styles (Quick Styles) in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
WordArt Styles (Quick Styles) in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
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Daily Archive: January 17, 2017
Cune Blazes A Trail For Rioja In The U.S.
In 2013, Cune Rioja Imperial Gran Reserva 2004 was named Wine Spectator's Wine of the Year, pointing the way forward for a storied Spanish wine region trying to honor its historical legacy while appealing to a new generation of American consumers. These days, the Cune brand is on fire in the U.S. market, having roughly quadrupled in size since 2012. That year, Cune shipped about 13,000 cases to the U.S. annually. By the end of 2016, company CEO Victor Urrutia tells SND, it reached 50,000 cases, bolstered by a portfolio ranging from accessible premium wines to upscale prestige offerings.
News Briefs for January 17, 2017
•Total Wine & More Co-owner David Trone apparently still has the political bug.
Craft Brewing & Distilling News for January 17, 2017
•Louisville-based Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. is launching a limited-release Zmaj Absinthe Superior. Continue reading →Posted in News on January 17, 2017


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Oh, what I miss when I live in my head
Moments appear suddenly, like shooting stars, magical and fleeting. I memorize the feeling, the light shared and now gone. Moments defy capture. They slip through the nettings of the mind. They leave a few tangible elements to be swept into a pile, words and photos, memories like an imprint on time. But when I burden myself … More Oh, what I miss when I live in my head


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Early Neolithic pottery, a Neolithic flint fabricator, fragments of two Iron Age brooches, Iron Age pottery, Roman brooches, pottery, coins and other metal finds, an Early Saxon brooch and medieval and post-medieval coins and metal finds found by metal-detecting 1995-2004. Metal-detecting in 2011 recovered a fragment of a Roman mirror.
November-December 1995. Metal-detecting finds.Iron Age brooches, Roman metalwork.Medieval strap end.Roman sherd.Roman coins, post-medieval token.See lists in file.A. Rogerson (NLA), 30 January 1996.December 1997. Metal-detecting finds.3 Roman coins (including denarius).3 medieval coins (including 1 Norman).See list in file.Roman and Early Saxon brooches.Medieval buckle.A. Rogerson (NLA), 1 February 1998.February-March 2004. Metal-detecting.1 medieval coin.Neolithic flint.Early Neolithic and Iron Age pottery sherds.Roman, medieval and post-medieval metal objects.See lists in file.A. Rogerson (NLA), 6 October 2004.4 May 2011. Site extended.Fragment of Romano-British mirror.See description in file.A. Rogerson (HES), 27 May 2011.
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Things to do in Little Holmby: Fox Theater
In 1929, William Fox announced his intention to build a movie theatre in the rapidly growing university area of Westwood Village. Two years later, the theatre opened as the Fox Westwood Village in the summer of 1931.
Since then, this historic landmark cinema has been remodeled a number of times but it retains its classic Art Deco style including the striking 170-foot "wedding cake" tower emblazoned with neon letters. The Fox name still lights up the top of the theatre and by night, the tower illuminates Westwood Village and can be seen from nearby Wilshire Blvd.
The theater has been a timeless location for multiple generations of moviegoers and continues to be a top venue for high-profile, red carpet movie premieres. There's something deeply satisfying about the movie experience here. You are greeted by a uniformed usher who guides you to the spacious grand lobby, your snacks are presented at an art deco snack bar, a carpeted staircase takes you to a balcony seating area, and red velvet curtains open to reveal a massive screen. Not only is this theater an L.A. Historical Cultural Monument, it has remained resilient in the wake of so many single-screen theater closures.
Today, the theater is currently operated by Regency Theaters and the latest show times can be found here.


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WSWS arts editor David Walsh recently spoke to three of the five co-directors of Far From Afghanistan—to John Gianvito and Minda Martin in Toronto and to Travis Wilkerson, by telephone, from his home in California.
John Gianvito
John Gianvito is a director, teacher and film curator based in Boston. His 2001 feature, The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, dealt with the situation in the US at the time of the first Persian Gulf war.
His Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, I wrote in 2007, "consists of shots of the graves or tombs of radical opponents of the American establishment, from Native American warriors and early abolitionists to the many martyrs of labor struggles in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. … In some ways, a fascinating and intriguing 58 minutes."
Gianvito's latest documentary, Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010), explores the impact of the US military presence in the Philippines. He is working on a second part of that documentary.
Gianvito coordinated the making of Far From Afghanistan, as he explains in the following conversation, and directed its opening segment. We spoke at a coffee shop in Toronto, the morning after a successful screening of the film.
David Walsh: Can you explain how Far From Afghanistan came about?
John Gianvito: Throughout the period of the US war in Afghanistan I've been following it, concerned about it, engaged with it, as a citizen. And engaged with it as a filmmaker, but not so directly as to have made a film about Afghanistan. My last films have been critiques of US militarism, and I hoped it didn't take that much of a leap to make the connection between that militarism and the current wars.
I read in early 2011 a report from the Pew Research Institute that in 2010 only four percent of US media coverage made any acknowledgment of the war, and in 2011 it went down to two percent. Yet I knew that casualties on both sides had only accelerated. So, at our most intense moment, we were paying the least heed to the war—and with the tenth anniversary of the war on the horizon, I felt that I couldn't let that moment go unacknowledged.
I was deep into the editing of another very long documentary, the second part of Vapor Trail, when I said, I have to do something about Afghanistan. That was approximately March of 2011. I thought, to do this and have something finished by October of that year, the anniversary, it might be necessary to make some kind of collective film.
The first person I contacted was Travis Wilkerson, even though we had only physically met twice in 15 years. He's a filmmaker that I respect a great deal, and on the American film landscape, he's one of the few that I'm glad is out there. We've tried to help each other out over the years. He immediately responded positively to the project, and we began talking about who else we might bring in.
I wrote individual, personal letters to about twenty-five filmmakers. Not all at once, of course, because I didn't want to have a situation where twenty-five people said yes. I set up an arbitrary parameter that they should be US filmmakers, because I felt we had the most responsibility in relation to this situation. A couple of filmmakers who had agreed found, as October 2011 approached, that they were too busy and would be unable to deliver a film.
In any event, it came down to these five directors. I had nothing I was offering them. Could they make a film in this short period of time? Everyone worked very hard, and we had a preliminary version by the time of the anniversary, but I could already tell as we approached the deadline that it was a bit hurried and not everything was as considered as it might be. So I said, let's call this Far From Afghanistan—the October Edition, and keep working on it.
DW: Did everyone go off entirely on their own, so to speak? Did you know what each was making?
JG: We encouraged communication. People who wanted to would send out a cut, and would get feedback. Mostly people were open to that. When I brought in the Afghan material, initially, some of those involved felt it wouldn't work, that the documentary footage would make the experimental material look too 'arty.' I didn't feel that way.
It was complicated working with the Afghan material. Lots of times something looked interesting, and the translator would tell you what was being said, and it wasn't so interesting. Or vice versa. A long, slow process.
This group, "Afghan Voices," responded to what we were saying, to help us get a more dimensional view of what life is like there. I gave them a sense of what that might mean. I didn't know entirely what the various camera people thought about the war and occupation, because I was dealing mainly with the director of the organization, but he was certainly sympathetic in general or he wouldn't have taken this on.
I did get one message when they saw the virtually finished version, because I wanted to check with him that I could actually use their names, because there could be repercussions. It's fine, I said, if you want to be anonymous. They said, absolutely not, they were very impressed with the film and happy to be associated with it.
DW: What are the prospects for showing the film? What are you trying to do with it?
JG: There isn't much of a coherent game-plan with this yet. It's really just been finished. I still have some work to do. I sent it to five festivals, hoping that one of them might pick it. And three responded right away, Locarno, Toronto and the Viennale [Vienna International Film Festival]. Vancouver is also going to show it, the Montreal documentary festival, Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires.
I would like to get it beyond the festival circuit. If it could get some kind of distribution, or DVD distribution, or if it could be made more accessible to people, I'd be all for it. Finally, we may just stream the whole thing. But people's connections are not always so good, and I'm not sure that's the best way to show films. I don't like watching feature films on a computer screen. I believe there is an audience out there, or I wouldn't have made the film.
Minda Martin
Minda Martin is filmmaker, editor and producer, whose films often explore questions of social class in America. Her works include AKA Kathe (2000, "an investigative documentary into the damaged life and violent death of Kathe Vargas, a sex worker in Tucson"), a collection of shorts, Love, Loss & Longing (2007) and Free Land (2009, "Mixing found footage, historical documents, and personal interviews, [the director] traces her family's history to the forced Cherokee relocation in the 1800s").
We also spoke in Toronto, on the day following the screening of Far From Afghanistan.
David Walsh: Your segment deals with a drone pilot, his interaction with two soldiers in Afghanistan who have come to oppose the war and his family problems. It is a fictional piece that has the genuine ring of truth.
Minda Martin: The soldiers in my segment are veterans, they had real experiences, including with drone attacks. I did research, and there was a script. In addition, I read a description of drone pilots having a session and then having this long drive home, and they say that the most dangerous part of the job is the drive home. That was the inspiration for the structure of the piece.
They brought their own experiences, as veterans. I didn't have a lot of time and I had to finance it myself. Many people were generous with their time. They didn't charge me, in many cases. I felt the content was really important, and that people had to think about it critically instead of exoticizing the drone experience, as in Hollywood films, or even documentaries.
DW: I'm interested in the veterans and what their experiences were.
MM: We had conversations on the phone, and in person. They were fully on board and excited about the project. At first, learning that it was narrative, they were a bit distant about it, but I said, 'This is just you, playing yourselves. If you had the chance to talk to a drone pilot, what would you say?'
The story told in the film is a real story. One of the soldiers had witnessed it. He told the intelligence people, hey, this is a school, these are kids, this is nothing bad. Only to find out later that this was bombed and all those kids … this is something that's a trauma.
The more I learned about the drone activity, it was new to me and it shocked me. Then to learn that this is also being used against US citizens. People have to wake up. It's disgusting, and it's frightening. It makes me very fearful for our future. Unless people wake up and mobilize and start changing things in a radical way, I don't see things getting better.
Neither candidate in the election will say anything about the war. Either they won't talk about it, or they will say something positive about it. There's nothing critical from either candidate.
DW: The other aspect of the film that was striking was the phone call from the pilot's mother, and her own economic situation, the threat of foreclosure. Why did you decide to introduce that phone call?
MM: Because I wanted to bring in the reality around him. He's a soldier, he's just doing his job. I see it as a job. I come from a familyof veterans. My brother is an Iraq war veteran, and I don't hate him. He was stop-lossed the second time, and I won't speak for him, but he retired early because of the ongoing war.
I'm not going to make a film that demonizes him. They're doing a job, and many of them do it as well as they can. I think when my brother was there, he saw things he didn't agree with. He's a different person as a result. He's got a great family, and I love him very much. I was thinking of him while making this film.
I also wanted to show the economic situation. For a big part of the American population, class mobility has come through the military. It was for my family. My brother had a free higher education, and they were able to buy a house. I didn't go into the military and I had to take out student loans. I bought my education and my brothers bought their education in a different way.
The point was to bring humanity to the soldier and also to show that he's struggling and part of that struggle. Social security is under threat. For many older people, like my father, that's all they have. It pisses me off when I hear people saying they're taking advantage. They're really playing with fire on that. My father gets very little, it's $800 a month. It's supplemented by other things, but if he didn't have that, he would be homeless.
That's what I thought America was. That we were like a big family, that we looked after each other. And that is very American, the majority is very generous and very loving.
DW: The people at the top are not like that.
MM: No, they don't give a damn. We're not any more important to them than the people in Afghanistan. That's the connection we were trying to make in the film. We're no different from the poor Afghan farmer, we need to share solidarity with poverty everywhere in this world.
What does anyone need billions of dollars for? At that point, there's something parasitic and really dark about that.
Anything that is given to the population is demonized. 'Oh, they're just giving money to the unemployed, who are lazy …' I get so sick to my stomach when I hear people being attacked because they just need to eat. You're going to demonize someone for using food stamps, when it's all right for us to spend trillions of dollars on wars? It's not OK to feed a family, what kind of Christian are you? What kind of person, human, atheist, whatever, are you?
Ninety percent of the American population hates Congress. Everyone I know can't stand what's going in.
DW: But what the alternative is, that's far less clear to people.
MM: I even struggle with that, what do we do?
DW: Tens of millions are asking themselves that, perhaps not so articulately.
MM: The Occupy movement began to address that. It was a beginning, I thought. I went to some of the protests, but I was terrified by the militarized presence of the police. And they were all lined up, just for a peaceful protest.
This film is something of a departure. Most of my films have been about poverty, my family and growing up. It was freeing to do something different. I didn't want to be tied to making films about my own situation and my family.
The situation in the country, it's as though we were wounded and you just put a bandage on it—you don't clean it, you don't take a look at it and try to heal it, it's still festering. We're bleeding through the bandage, and we keep throwing things on it. It's eventually going to kill us, or we have to wake up and see what we have.
It's heart-breaking, a country as rich as Canada or America, so rich, with such resources and you can't take care of your own people? Someone's down on their luck, whether it's drug abuse, mental illness, or being handicapped, and you just throw them out on the street?
DW: Why did you dedicate the film to Bradley Manning [the US army soldier arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to WikiLeaks]?
MM: I researched Bradley Manning because I was told that he had "betrayed" the country and so on. But reading all of his chat logs. He's like … me. I would have done the same thing. He saw the truth, he saw the imagery. If I had seen that footage I would have done something as well. He really cares about America. And he thought that with all of the brainwashing, if the American people saw this, they would do something.
That he has had no due process, and that his constitutional rights have been violated, and he's been tortured … is horrifying. But despite everything, he has not given in. Somehow that human spirit continues on. You push people into a corner and they just get stronger. That's amazing and that gives me hope. That's why I felt that I could never have made this film without Bradley Manning.
Travis Wilkerson
Travis Wilkerson is a filmmaker with a number of intriguing works to his credit. His An Injury to One, which centers on the murder of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana in August 1917, is a remarkable and enduring film. We spoke at the time of its screening in the 2002 Toronto film festival.
His other films include Accelerated Underdevelopment (1999), a tribute to the Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez, Who Killed Cock Robin?, which played at the 2005 Sundance festival, and Distinguished Flying Cross (2011). He was recently honored with a complete retrospective by the Slovenska Kinoteka in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
We recently spoke by telephone.
David Walsh: How did your participation in Far From Afghanistan come about?
Travis Wilkerson: I was very disturbed that artists were not concerned by the war in Afghanistan, were not talking about it, that the society in general was not really engaged with this issue, when it is so profound and so important. And incredibly long, the longest war the US has fought. I felt that I would like to participate in any way that I could.
I was wondering if there was a way that my film could be driven by the situation facing women, especially since I imagined that a lot of the segments would not be. Men tend to dominate all aspects of war discourse in general.
I found myself offered an opportunity to travel up to the Pacific Northwest with a group of veterans who were involved in an anti-war movement organizing a speak-out near Ft. Lewis-McChord Air Force Base, where the issue of Iraq and Afghanistan veteran suicide was reaching an extreme level. In fact, it's gotten worse since then.
I had a camera with me, and as part of that process I encountered the two women who are in that section of the film, Ashley Hagemann and Mary Corkhill [widow and mother, respectively, of two veterans who committed suicide]. Encountering them was very extreme and very sobering, and I realized it reflected the larger things I was trying to understand … I couldn't make a film that could articulately describe what had happened to Afghanistan. I could propose such a film, but I couldn't travel there, and do those kinds of things.
However, I could actually propose that although we were not the victims, but the principal perpetrators, the ramifications for our society were profound. Imperialism destroys the entire world with it.
The way in which the two main threads came together is very strange. On the way home from filming one day, I was shooting images at the main bridge that leads to Ft. Lewis.
Suddenly I was surrounded by armed MPs. And they were very aggressive towards me. They made me delete the photographs, and I decided to walk back to the coffee shop where the speak-out was being organized. Before I walked a hundred yards, another group of MPs stopped me and we went through the ritual again.
I got back to the coffee shop and I used a file restoration software that I have for emergencies. The only images that came up were images I'd shot in Detroit of those burnt-up houses [due to utility shutoffs]. It seemed like the MPs had actually constructed the basic elements of the film—the two situations seemed suddenly very connected, although that would not have occurred to me had I not encountered them in that way.
The year before I had spent several weeks in Michigan, at my parents, and I drove into Detroit during the day and I was actually interested in filming things related to another project.
I ended up taking pictures in several of the houses where there had been fires because of utility shutoffs and people had died. I had accumulated those images, not knowing what I would ever use them for. They just reappeared in the context of this restoration process.
DW: Did you find out about those fires because of material we published on the WSWS?
TW: I definitely found them because of the pieces you guys had already written, yes. That's how I knew about the places in Detroit where the most horrific incidents had taken place, involving Sylvia Young, who lost three children [in a 2010 fire], and the Allen brothers [the Dexter Avenue fire, also in 2010].
I knew about the two main fires because of all the work you had done, which I think is really important actually.
DW: What was it that so struck you about the utility shutoff issue?
TW: It just seemed to me the same kind of callous savagery. Something that anyone with the most elementary human compassion would deal with differently. The system is so vicious that it can allow its own citizens, who are entirely innocent, to be destroyed, over and over again.
When I was up in Ft. Lewis, I was experiencing the same dynamic. Military officials came to the speak-out, sat in the front row and took down people's names. They didn't say anything. There were six people who spoke, all of whom had lost someone [through suicide], it was very powerful. And these military people didn't express the most elementary human compassion.
You understood that the disregard for life bound up with imperialism extends to everyone who connects with it, including the people who live under it here.
The things I saw and heard in Ft. Lewis were worse than I could have imagined, except that I had already seen them in Detroit.
I spent three weeks in a car with three veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I experienced first-hand this thing called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is not a disorder, but a perfectly human reaction. My dad was in Vietnam, he has some of that, but he went once, and he's done fine.
I was around these younger soldiers, and I realized that depending on the number of deployments they'd had, the crisis intensifies. At four deployments, veterans are generally very scarred. They get to the eight, nine level, and they destroy their lives when they come back. I don't want to be cynical about it, but I worry whether such people can ever function. What is that going to mean for the society?
The day that we spoke to Ashley Hagemann, whose husband, a veteran, committed suicide, it was the first time she had ever spoken about it since it had happened.
DW: Her husband was in Iraq or Afghanistan?
TW: He was in both, because he did nine deployments.
DW: Nine!
TW: I can't remember whether he committed suicide after getting his orders for his ninth deployment, or whether he had just returned from his ninth deployment. He was in his early 30s.
Mary, the mother of the other soldier, was central to the whole thing. She was so full of rage. She felt that her son asked for help in so many different ways. She had another son who was in the military as well. She's from Indiana, but she came in from out of town. She and Ashley connected in a really intense way. Each woman was present during the other's interview, which had to do with the intimacy of the conversation.
DW: I think that the connection being drawn by filmmakers between the social conditions in America and the war, and this is in Minda Martin's segment too, is of great significance.
TW: Some of the social crises in America drive the need for neo-colonial wars. We've often understood that when certain contradictions arise in a given imperialist society, one of the natural ways it tends to try and solve those problems is by seeking war. But we also have the back side of it as well, that when you dedicate an immense amount of resources to fighting these wars, which are of an exceptionally complex economic character and have immense geopolitical consequences, the whole system begins to rumble and lurch, and finds itself terribly vulnerable.
Clearly, moments of imperialist war have led to crises within empires. It certainly seems that the set of crises that the wars were intended to solve have not been solved, they have only expanded and deepened. It seems that the world is even more unstable than it was when all this began [in 2001]. The level of instability is remarkable, and historically significant. The system is clearly reaching a point of severe crisis.


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PERTH city council CEO Martin Mileham's decision to take indefinite sick leave comes just days after he attempted to crack down on councillors speaking to city staff.
In report at last Tuesday's ordinary council meeting, he'd suggested bringing the city's policies in line with the Local Government Act so any communications would have to go through his office.
Mr Mileham wrote that he had a legal requirement under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to provide a safe workplace for employees. He was also required to adopt measures to prevent staff being bullied, including shielding them from "aggressive, rude or repetitive" communications.
"The CEO—not the council or any individual elected member—has the responsibility and power in respect of administration matters, including the day-to-day management of the city's operations," he wrote after receiving legal advice on the issue.
The city's current policy allows councillors to talk to staff down to a manager's level, which is inconsistent with the Act.
Mr Mileham says this means the policy exceeds its "lawful powers" and it should be revoked at the earliest opportunity. Even before then it should be ignored as "invalid and unenforceable".
When the item came up, Cr Reece Harley moved to have the issue referred back to the city's Finance and Administration Committee. The only vote against that was lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi who wanted it dealt with on the night.


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As a consequence of the epidemic of divorce that has swept the nation in recent decades, millions of young Americans have seen their parents' marriage torn apart and have then found themselves incorporated into a new stepfamily. The emotions that adolescents experience during this two-step process recently received attention from researchers at Pacific University and Reed College. Their findings are sobering evidence that the members of the younger generation pay a high price for their parents' marital failures and remarriages.
After conducting a series of in-depth interviews of adolescents affected by parental divorce and re-marriage, the Pacific and Reed scholars are able to identify some common themes. The researchers limn "two recurring reactions" to the first event of interest (namely, parental divorce):
1. largely suppressed feelings over the loss of the biological family, and
2. frustration over the disruption in life by the divorce."
A somewhat more complex tangle of emotions emerges in adolescents' characterization of their parents' remarriage and of their own lives as part of a new stepfamily. The researchers acknowledge that the teens in their study do recognize some "positive aspects of their stepfamily situation"—including "increased material resources, a bigger house, and more gifts on holidays." However, the researchers see "a preponderance of distress" in teens' descriptions of stepfamily formation. In surveying the "numerous themes of distress and struggle" in these descriptions, the researchers highlight three:
1. losses in relationships, privacy and space, resulting in sadness, resentment and anger;
2. powerlessness in their tumultuous lives; and
3. confusion and feelings of being overwhelmed by all the changes.
Again and again the adolescents interviewed for this study lament the difficulties of "relocating to a new home and incurring losses of a former home, friends, extended family, school, and time with the noncustodial parent [usually the father]." These teens express "feelings of powerlessness … associated with the development of new family rules, differing values in the new family, and unequal enforcement of discipline among the stepsiblings." And many of the adolescents struggle with "the burden of divided loyalties between their parents and their stepparent" as they try to sort out their "confusion [over] the changes in power structure." A number of teens in the study express "open dislike and discord with their stepparent." Not surprisingly, many of these adolescents have resorted to "'hiding out' in their bedrooms, ignoring the stepparent, and talking with friends or siblings [as] solutions to the stress of stepfamily life."
The authors of the new study find heartening evidence of "resilience" in the "survival strategies" adolescents have developed for "coping with family distress." But Americans who care about children's well-being can only fear the long-term consequences of making home a place where teens struggle to survive emotionally.
(Source: Barre M. Stoll, "Adolescents in Stepfamilies: A Qualitative Analysis," Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 44.1/2 [2005]: 177-189.)
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