The video features the keynote from Dan Rose, Dan Rose, VP, Partnerships, Facebook; one of the biggest draws of midem 2012's Visionary Monday conference day.
Rose presented the ways we discover, share and consume content have changed over the past decade as we've shifted from the information web to the social web. He discussed how this transformation will impact music discovery, engagement and monetisation by giving people new ways to experience music with friends.
After his presentation, he was interviewed by Billboard's Bill Werde.
And check out all of midem 2012's conference videos here.


Finally, Google Plus users can get a vanity URL for their profile. Google Plus has been around since 2011, but in those two years, you haven't been able to get a proper vanity URL for your profile.
A vanity URL is when you can brand yourself on the site by having a specially made URL, with say your name, or the name of your business. It makes finding you or your business easier. Facebook has been offering it since the beginning, and it's only now that Google is finally catching up.
Up until now, everyone has had to deal with a long line of numbers in their URL instead.
I'm sure you will agree that this arrangement is rather unwieldy and unsightly. It also makes remembering a particular person or business's page extremely difficult, if not impossible. You would have to bookmark the page to find it again.
But before you get too excited, there is one drawback to this new development. Unlike sites such as Facebook which let you choose what vanity URL you want, Google Plus tells you which one you are being offered. If you don't like it, then that's too bad because that's the only one you're being offered – at least for now. MakeUseOf has been lucky in that we have got a really good one.
The vanity URL scheme is being slowly rolled out to people, so if you don't see it at the moment, keep checking. It also has some eligibility requirements. Personal profiles need to have 10 or more followers, have a profile photo, and be 30 days old or more. For pages, you need to link your site with your Google Plus page, or use Google Plus Local and verify your business.
Did you get the vanity URL you were after?
The vanity URL it offered me for one of my pages was pretty poor. I've changed the website associated with it, and hopefully that changes the url too. I don't like that the url seems to be based solely on the website address, and not the page name or the Google Places listing attached to it.
I just got my G+ URL.
I don't know if I got any email, but just thought I would try by entering google.com/+MarcelSpitz according to the format of the new URL.
Don't like this URL? Request a different one.
So I checked the box and clicked "Change URL"
If you change your profile to a custom URL, you can't change it again or transfer the URL to someone else.
so I clicked "Confirmed Choice"
Hello my name on Google+ and real life is Nitish PERSAND. I had asked to approve another URL for my Profile because it seems that an attached Name and first Name (google.com/+NitishPersand) is not good for Your ENTIRE NAME search on the web, and thus one will often have to type your Name and first Name together to find you correctly in google itself, especially if your name has homonyms . For my facebook profile, this problem arose, so I bet it would be the same with Google + !! I recommend that you separate the names with a hyphen.
I got mine rather quickly (granted I've been using G+ since you needed an invite, so maybe that's why), and they just gave me /+RichardBorkovec (my name). Seems easy enough to me.
Got one today after my page was created less than a month ago. Perhaps because it's linked to an active web site for my blog?
Google Plus tells you which one you are being offered. If you don't like it, then that's too bad because that's the only one you're being offered – at least for now.


Hi everyone this is Danny with plus Republic I'm going to be running you guys through how to set up user permissions in your Google Analytics accounts both internally and externally; so if you're looking to provide them for use within your marketing department or in your company or to outside agencies who need access to your web analytics data this applies to both those situations. First we'll go to Google.com/analytics, go to the top right, click sign-in and select analytics.
If you've been in here before then this should all look relatively familiar. This is your main dashboard area. Where you can access user permissions is in this admin section, so if you click on the admin navigation item you have three options across the top. Accounts, properties and views. This is very important because depending on where you set the user permissions will grant different levels of access. If I'm Plush Republic and am managing a variety of different clients' analytics accounts, I may have a handful of different accounts listed underneath the accounts section besides just Plush Republic's. Also if you have different properties within any one of those accounts you can find them in here. The final column is the views which I break out in a different video on my YouTube channel.
Say I wanted the highest level of account access where they can see all of the different properties and views I'd set it at this first level and so on and so forth. I will typically be looking at the property review level. Say I want to give them access to everything within the Plush Republic property, I can set that here or if I only wanted to set one for the marketing department traffic view that I've set up I could do it here. We'll go ahead and click into the user management section underneath properties. You'll see that I already have two different users, both myself, in here with full manage, collaborate, edit and read & analyze access. To add a user, you would go down to here and type in their email address. You would then select on this right-hand side what permissions they should have. This is very important because it goes from the bottom to the top with increasing permission sets.
Read & Analyze allows them to see all the data as well as to see all the different assets. The difference between read & analyzing and collaborators is that collaborate allows them to edit the assets in your account. Assets include customer segments, annotations, dashboards and re-marketing audiences. If you are unclear about what any of those are you can find out more here. Edit permissions allow users edit access and manage users allows them to add other users which is the highest possible permission. Select whichever ones you want and click add. Also, select notify this user by email so you know they've added them to the account.


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173. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
June 18, 2014 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	4 Comments
"Dream, little one, dream,
Dream, my little one, dream.
Oh, the hunter in the night
Fills your childish heart with fright.
Fear is only a dream.
So dream, little one, dream."
Lullaby from Night of the Hunter (lyrics by Walter Schumann)
DIRECTED BY: Charles Laughton
FEATURING: Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Lillian Gish, Shelley Winters
PLOT: Harry Powell is a self-ordained Reverend during the Great Depression who makes a living by touring Appalachia and marrying widows, who disappear soon thereafter under mysterious circumstances. In prison for stealing a car, he shares a bunk with Ben Harper, a bank robber on death row who has refused to tell the authorities the location of the $10,000 he has stolen. After his release (and Harper's execution), Rev. Powell finds the robber's widow, and learns that his young son John knows where the fortune is hidden.
The film is based on a 1953 novel by Davis Grubb. The book was a bestseller at the time of it's release but has long been out-of-print; Centipede Press is releasing a limited-edition hardcover edition of the novel in July of 2104.
Night of the Hunter's Harry Powell was based on real-life murderer Harry Powers, nicknamed "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," a West Virginia-based killer responsible for the deaths of two widows and three children.
Gary Cooper was Laugton's first choice for Harry Powell but he turned down the role of the serial-killing misogynist preacher, thinking it might damage his career. Robert Mitchum had no such concerns and was eager to play the part.
Mitchum's autobiography contains several inaccurate accounts of the filming, including the allegation that Laughton heavily rewrote James Agee's original script (an accusation supported by Laughton's widow Elsa Lanchester). Film scholars who studied Agee's original script, which was discovered in 2003, reported that the director shot the film almost exactly as written.
This was the only film Charles Laughton ever directed. Although the story that he was so stung by the negative critical reaction to the movie that he never directed again is often repeated, Laughton himself claimed that he simply preferred directing theater to working on films.
Prior to shooting, Laughton screened silent films by D.W. Griffith to get a feel for the look he wanted for the movie.
In 1992, Night of the Hunter was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry.
Ranked #71 in Empire Magazine's 2008 poll of the Greatest Films of All Time. Ranked #2 on "Cahiers du Cinema"'s list of the "100 Most Beautiful Movies."
INDELIBLE IMAGE: Pick a single image from Night of the Hunter? It's a fool's errand. As much as it hurts to pass up the vision of the "good" Reverend with his right hand of love wrestling his left hand of hate, or the dreamlike serenity of Willa Harper's final resting place, we think the most meaningful image must come from the children's flight downriver—specifically, we chose the shot of the skiff passing before the spiderweb, as John and Pearl (temporarily) float away from their murderous stepfather's snares.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: The Night of the Hunter is such a massive achievement that we're invoking 366 Weird Movies' sliding scale rule: the better a movie is, the less weird it needs to be to make the List. Not that Hunter isn't strange, by Hollywood standards (and particularly by 1950s Hollywood standards). Film archivist Robert Gitt called this expressionist/Southern Gothic hybrid "the most unusual and experimental film made in Hollywood in the 1950s." Perhaps that is why director Charles Laughton decided to bring cinematographer Stanley Cortez, who once bragged "I was always chosen to shoot weird things," onto the crew. Hunter is packed with shadowy, stagey, artificial shots (contemporary critics complained that the effects—both narrative and visual—were "misty"). Mixing fairy tale menace and Freudian killer fathers while masquerading as a titillating potboiler, Hunter was so unique and unexpected that it slid right under the upturned noses of viewers in the 1950s, that most conformist-minded of decades. Generations since have remembered it fondly—well, in their nightmares, at least—and it has since been elevated into the canon of great movies. And now, of great weird movies.
Original trailer for Night of the Hunter
COMMENTS: An utterly original blend, Night of the Hunter is simultaneously a melodrama, a fairy tale, a film noir, a Southern Gothic, a Biblical Continue reading 173. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) →
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171. SIN CITY (2005)
June 4, 2014 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	6 Comments
"It's pretty damn weird to eat people."–Marv, Sin City
DIRECTED BY: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino ("special guest director")
FEATURING: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba, Nick Stahl, Jaime King, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood, Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Josh Hartnett
PLOT: The movie tells three stories (with some common characters) set in the mythical Basin City: in one, a police detective risks his life to stop a child-killer. In a second, a brutal, mentally ill criminal hunts down the men he believes killed the only woman who ever showed kindness to him. A final strand tells of a suave assassin who attempts to prevent someone else's accidental killing from turning into an all-out war between the cops, the mafia, and the self-governing prostitutes of Old Town.
A fan of Frank Miller's original series of Sin City comics, Robert Rodriguez wanted to make the movie as true to the book as possible: "a translation, not an adaptation." The actual comics were used as the storyboards. The stories selected were "The Hard Goodbye ," "The Big Fat Kill ," and "That Yellow Bastard " as well as the short "The Customer is Always Right."
Rodriguez shot the opening segment, "The Customer is Always Right," in one day as a proof-of-concept to convince Miller that he could do justice to the art style. He then used that clip to convince actors such as Bruce Willis and Benicio Del Toro to sign on to the project.
Rodriguez insisted that Miller receive a co-director credit on the film, but the Directors Guild of America objected to the credit (they do not allow co-directing). He then decided to give Miller full credit, but Miller refused. Rodriguez then resigned from the Guild so the co-directing credit could remain.
Quentin Tarantino directed a single scene in the movie (a segment from "The Big Fat Kill" involving a conversation between the severed head of Del Toro's "Jackie-Boy" and Clive Owen's "Dwight"). Tarantino directed for a salary of $1 as a way to repay Rodriguez for composing music for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 for $1.
The movie was entirely shot on Rodriguez's "digital backlot" (green screen studio) near his home in Austin, Texas.
Sin City screened in competition at Cannes and won the Technical Grand Prize.
Plans for a sequel (based on Miller's "A Dame to Kill For ") were announced immediately after the film was completed; the followup feature was delayed until 2014, however.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: From the very first frame—a woman in a blood-red backless cocktail dress on a balcony staring out over a steel-grey city—Sin City's pulp Expressionism is consistently startling and poetic. Since we're fascinated by the weird, we'll select the first sight of the Yellow Bastard, the bald, satellite dish-eared pedophile killer dyed the color of French's mustard, as our unforgettable take-home image from the movie.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: A marriage between the mythologies of film noir and violent comics, Sin City's bloody tales are set in an abstract urban hellscape inhabited by invulnerable tough guys and rough sexy dames. They play like the lost works of Raymond Chandler's alternate universe grandson, written to scrape up a few bucks for a bottle of booze while he was down and out in Gotham City. With a cast of cannibal serial killers, jaundiced pedophiles and ninja hookers, the adventures of the hard-boiled demigods of Sin City are as fantastical as its random splotches of color in a monochrome landscape are visually unreal.
Original trailer for Sin City
COMMENTS: Sin City earns its "recommended" label almost solely on the basis of its visuals (bolstered by some finely weird touches), and not for its Continue reading 171. SIN CITY (2005) →
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NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
November 14, 2013 Alfred Eaker	Leave a comment
Tyrone Power was 20th Century Fox's answer to Warner Brothers' Errol Flynn. However, as dated as Flynn's style of acting is, he does generate a kind of cartoon excitement. Watching the bulk of Power's swashbucklers is more of a burden. Power is typically bland. He died at 44 from a heart attack during an on-screen duel with actor George Sanders in the filming of Solomon and Sheeba (1959). Flynn died less than a year later. Both are known for iconic roles: Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Power in The Mark of Zorro (1940). They acted together only once: in Henry King's version of The Sun Also Rises (1957), which (as per most cinematic Hemingway adaptations) is best avoided. Rumors in Hollywood have long claimed that Flynn and Power engaged in a brief affair. If so, then, yes, there was more to Zorro and Robin Hood than tights and mask. Of course, the seedier aspects of Flynn's "wicked, wicked ways" are well known. Yet, behind that boyish persona, Power too had a darker personality. This began to surface later in his career with chosen roles, such as Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and in the earlier Nightmare Alley (1947).
Power came from a long line of actors, and although he desired meatier roles, he settled on the stability of his studio contract, rarely venturing outside of assignments. Nightmare Alley was a notable exception. After reading William Greshen's novel Power purchased the rights and begged Darryl Zanuck to allow him to play the part of the seedy Stanton Carlisle. Reluctantly, Zanuck agreed, although he did little to promote the film.
Edmund Goulding was given the directorial reigns after he and Power had worked together in the drama The Razor's Edge (1946). Although that film received mixed reviews, it was a commercially successful departure for the actor and commercial success was, of course, Zanuck's primary concern. Goulding's reputation had been cemented with the high class soaper Grand Hotel (1932) starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, and Joan Crawford. A string of glossy, star-powered melodramas followed: Riptide (1934) with Norma Shearer and Dark Victory (1939), The Old Maid (1939), and The Great Lie (1941), all with Bette Davis. Zanuck's choice of Goulding was strange but purposeful (for Zanuck). Nightmare Alley lacks the visceral quality of the novel (whose author, not surprisingly, committed suicide). With such a potent literary source, the film might have emerged as something deliriously akin to Tod Browning's Freaks (1932), but it lacks an obsessive director at the helm. Where Nightmare Alley does succeed is in Goulding's direction of the superb Joan Blondell as the affable clairvoyant Zeena, Colleen Grey as the dainty circus girl Molly, and Helen Walker as the icy Dr. Lilith. (Goulding, a woman's director, had gifted Academy Award winning performances to Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis, Mary Astor, Joan Fontaine, and Anne Baxter).
Nightmare Alley is further helped by the bleakly prismatic cinematography of Lee Garmes, who had previously photographed such masterpieces as Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932) and Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932). Screenwriter Jules Furthman crafts a mostly compelling, pessimistic screenplay (weakened by a Zanuck-mandated semi-happy ending) that falls somewhat short of being the yardstick to measure noir by. Furthman would go one to co-write (with Willam Faulkner) two more noir "classics" ( the classics label being debatable): Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1944) and Hawks' cinematic treatment of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (1946). Art directors J. Russell Spencer and Lyle Wheeler provide exemplary mise-en-scène in their impeccably disheveled carnival settings. Cyril Mockridge composes a taut, aptly grotesque score.
Character actors Ian Keith (as Zeena's cuckold, Pete) and James Flavin (as the brawny barker Hoatley) leave the scene too soon, forcing star Power, as a slippery pseudo-mystic, to represent the carny world's masculine populace. Power is only half up to the job. Although his performance was almost unanimously praised by critics of the era (including the great James Agee), Power projects a woodenness in the early scenes that does not altogether convince us of his charisma. Still, perhaps his artificiality, based solely on pulchritude, makes his downfall all the more shocking; and it is in his dissipated state that Power, surprisingly, lives up to the actor's narcissistic potential. Power reminds the viewer of the horror that was once associated with the term "geek" in what turns out to be, perhaps, his finest performance.
Despite Zanuck's attempt to give the film a commercial sheen, Nightmare Alley was a major flop with American audiences, who fervently resisted seeing one of their established stars try something original. The critics proved more insightful, and it was they who had the final say. Today Nightmare Alley is one of Power's most celebrated films, while the majority of his commercial fodder has aged poorly and is primarily forgotten. Despite this, the movie rarely ran on television and its appearance in the home video market was considerably belated. Naturally, its unavailability only increased its cult status, until Fox finally responded, making it part of its film noir series on DVD (it never appeared on VHS).
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IDA LUPINO'S THE HITCH-HIKER (1953)
October 4, 2012 Alfred Eaker	1 Comment
Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is the first and only classic film noir directed by a woman. Lupino began her career as an actress in notable films such as They Drive By Night (1940), High Sierra (1941) (both costarring Humphrey Bogart), and The Hard Way (1943). She earned a reputation as a "hard luck dame" and "the poor man's Bette Davis." Lupino refused to be defined by categories and ventured into directing. Her first film as a co-director (uncredited) was Not Wanted (1949), a stark and candid film (for its time) about an unwed mother. While on suspension (for turning down too many sub-par roles) Lupino and her husband started an independent film company, The Filmmakers, producing several films which she wrote and directed. As a director she was dubbed "the poor man's Don Siegel," which goes to show that sophistic labels die hard.
 Lupino's status as a pioneer for women filmmakers cannot be underestimated. She wrote and directed B-styled films which often focused on serious feminist themes. Her Outrage (1950) brutally dealt with the topic of rape (sadly, the film remains unavailable, but Mike Lorefice's review should certainly be read).
Lupino ended her directorial career in television, and among her credits in that medium are memorable episodes of Thriller (starring Boris Karloff), The Untouchables, and The Fugitive. Lupino's innovative and daring success as a Hollywood filmmaker inspired an homage by jazz musician Carla Bley; it is a composition which has been much performed, most memorably by Paul Bley (Carla's ex-husband) on his album "Open to Love."
Lupino's most acclaimed film is probably The Hitch-Hiker. Distributed by RKO, it is inspired by the true story of early 1950s serial killer Billy Cook. Lupino (who co-wrote the screenplay) creates a confidently bleak, taut atmosphere in The Hitch-Hiker. The pacing is psychologically relentless, and Lupino masterfully takes full advantage of claustrophobic compositions (in a car), an expansive, arid landscape, and the noirsh city at night.
On the run, killer Emmet Meyers (William Talman) kidnaps the two fisherman: Roy (Edmund O' Brien) and Gilbert (Frank Lovejoy). Talman (best known as the nemesis of Raymond Burr's Perry Mason) gives THE yardstick performance of unadulterated sadism.
Fortunately, Lupino does not succumb to exploitation-movie sermons: she does not take time to, filling the film's 71 minute length full of exposed nerves. Lupino handles the material with astute sensitivity, directing three male actors without ever resorting to displays of chest beating machismo. The building tensions between the three men were unsettling enough that RKO head Howard Hughes denied original story credit to the (supposed) leftist writer Daniel Mainwaring. Hughes was convinced the story was a parable about Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism. Leave it to Hughes to be paranoid about depiction of paranoia. The Hitch-Hiker quickly became a cult hit for a reason: it is simply one of the best examples of Hollywood film noir.
Next week: Cat People begins our coverage on the films of Val Lewton at RKO.
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EDGAR G. ULMER'S DETOUR (1945)
September 20, 2012 Alfred Eaker	2 Comments
Reviewing Edgar G.Ulmer's Detour (1945), critic Dennis Schwartz wrote: "For some, being outside the system is as natural as walking in the fog." That about sums up Ulmer. It also sums his Detour star, Tom Neal. Ulmer was an aesthetic outsider who made poor choices in his personal life but tried, sometimes in vain, to bring an artistic sensibility to everything he worked on. Neal was an outsider of a different sort. Despite having received a law degree from Havard, Neal turned to amateur boxing, which only partly satisfied his extremely violent temper. In 1951, that temper and jealousy got the better of him with in a tussle with actor Franchot Tone over the affections of actress Barbara Payton. Tone received a brain concussion, and Neal was permanently blacklisted by Hollywood. The actor was reduced to restaurant work and eventual bankruptcy. In 1965, Neal took a gun to the back of his wife's head and shot her to death. Incredibly, he received a mere six-year sentence, but he died within a few months of his release from prison in 1971. His son, Tom Neal, Jr. attempted to follow in his father's thespian footsteps, appearing in a remake of Detour (1991) that no one seems to have seen.
Shot on the quick and cheaply, Detour defies the rules of Poverty Row aesthetics. In his review of Ulmer's Detour, critic Roger Ebert acknowledges the film's flaws: "Detour is a film so filled with imperfections that it would not earn the director a passing grade in film school." And yet it is greater than the sum of it's parts, defying the "aesthetics only" art school rule. Ebert adds, " Yet, Detour lives on, haunting and creepy, an embodiment of the guilty soul of film noir."
The pessimism of Detour drips into the nitrate of Ulmer's bubblegum Shakespearean saga. Al (Neal) is a pianist who prostitutes his art in dives. Ulmer symbolizes this in idiosyncratic fashion by Al's transformation of a Brahms piano piece into a grotesque, possessed, populist parody. Picasso once said that all art, regardless of subject, is self-portrait. Al eerily mirrors Ulmer in the portrait of a highly cultured artist who is reduced to a career gutter through his own missteps. It is little wonder that Detour was Ulmer's favorite of his own films.
Fate is an ambivalent, malevolent force relentlessly and unjustly dogging Al. He responds with self-pity tightly wrapped in ten cent philosophy. Al, like Bluebeard, is waxing bitter over a woman. His curse is to be in love with the ambitious Sue (Claudia Drake). Sue's dreams of a successful Hollywood career provoke jealousy within Al and serves as a biting reminder of his own failed career. She departs and settles, albeit uncomfortably, in the land of opportunity. Although destitute, Al vows reconciliation and embarks upon a thumbed journey to Continue reading EDGAR G. ULMER'S DETOUR (1945) →
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EDGAR G.ULMER'S THE STRANGE WOMAN (1946)
September 13, 2012 Alfred Eaker	Leave a comment
The recently departed critic Andrew Sarris recommended further study of Edgar G.Ulmer when he amusingly wrote: "Yes, Virginia, there is an Edgar G. Ulmer, and he is no longer one of the private jokes shared by auteur critics, but one of the minor glories of the cinema. Here is a career, more subterranean than most, which be signature of a genuine artist." ((All Sarris quotes come from Andrew Sarris, "The American Cinema: Directors and Direction. 1929-1968."))
Writing in the Village Voice, Sarris' criticism had developed Truffaut's "auteur" theory, which holds that a film is the personal vision of the director. The director, therefore, is the primary author, the "auteur." Sarris' adherence to this theory inspired ridicule from Pauline Kael, who argued that film, being a collaborative medium, is multi-authored. While Kael respected Sarris, she found the theory absurd.
Sarris often used Ulmer as an example of this theory: "Most of Ulmer's films are of interest only to unthinking audiences. Yet, anyone who loves the cinema must be moved by Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, a film so atrocious that it takes forty minutes to establish that the daughter of Dr. Jekyll is indeed the daughter of Dr. Jekyll. Ulmer's camera never falters, even when his characters disintegrate. When his material is less impossible, his reflexes are still sharp. That a personal style could emerge form the depths of poverty row is a tribute to a director without alibis."
Strange Woman (1946) was a rarity in Ulmer's oeuvre: he had a worthwhile budget, a script based off a best-selling novel. an accomplished cinematographer (Lucien Andriot), and a topnotch cast, headed by a star actor (Hedy Lamarr, who also produced). The result was a hit upon its release, yet it has become one of the more obscure Ulmer films; perhaps, because it is typical of the 1940s femme fatale melodramas and cannot compare to the likes of the better known Gilda, which was released the same year.
Lamarr, who had been a childhood friend of Ulmer's, personally chose him to direct. Ulmer repaid the favor with sensual close-ups of the beautiful actress. Her performance as Jenny ranks with similar evil gal performances by Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Barbara Stanwyck. Strange Woman is, easily, Lamarr's best screen work, since she was normally used as mere decor. Lamarr would have been a bigger star if she had continued in similar projects, but her Continue reading EDGAR G.ULMER'S THE STRANGE WOMAN (1946) →
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EDGAR G. ULMER'S BLUEBEARD (1944)
September 6, 2012 Alfred Eaker	3 Comments
Edgar G.Ulmer began his career at Max Reinhardt's theater, became an apprentice to F.W. Murnau on the director's masterpiece Sunrise (1927), and received a commission to direct Universal's two new horror icons, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, in their first co-starring film. With The Black Cat (1934), Ulmer secured an enviable budget and practically carte blanche. The Black Cat may not have had much to do with Edgar Allan Poe, but the legendary 19th century writer would have loved Ulmer's deliciously black deco homage. 1934 critics and audiences most certainly did, making it a bona fide hit. Ulmer's idiosyncratic cult film remains the two stars' best film together. The director was at the top of his game and looked to have a long and successful career ahead. By all rights, Edgar G. Ulmer should have had a career and body of work that could be placed alongside the films of James Whale and Tod Browning. Then, Ulmer screwed up.
Universal was a family-run studio when Ulmer decided to have an affair with the wife of a top-ranking Universal studio executive. Ulmer was fired and blacklisted, by the major studios, for life. Believe it or not, Hollywood once had a sense of morality. Ulmer was reduced to working for the poverty row circuit, namely PRC Studios. He later claimed that this was his artistic choice to do so, because it gave him greater creative freedom. He lied. Ulmer loved European culture, art music, and was known to discourse fluently on the aesthetic process with actors (Karloff was delightfully challenged by Ulmer). Many of Ulmer's contemporaries freely acknowledge that Ulmer was also a pathological liar. Of course, this only makes him more interesting. He consistently exaggerated his background (when he didn't need to), padded his resume, and made outrageous claims about himself. Despite all of that, Ulmer had a unique aesthetic sensibility and conscientiously tried to inject that into his films, even in scripts that could only pass for excrement.
Ulmer struggled as much with PRC as he did with Universal. It was the classic case of artist vs. executives. Ulmer lost far more battles than he won, although he naturally fared best when he was allowed to act as his own producer. Ulmer desperately wanted to make a film of the Bluebeard story for 10 years. Originally, it was supposed to star Karloff and would be his follow Continue reading EDGAR G. ULMER'S BLUEBEARD (1944) →
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Q: Ubuntu doesn't boot when selecting linux 3.0 I just upgraded to 11.10 from the update manager. It doesn't seem to want to boot when using the 3.0 kernel option but does with the 2.6 kernel option.
It gets stuck at the final dot of the Ubuntu bootsplash.

A: I have the same issue. I upgraded to 11.10 from 11.04 on AMD64. I had to revert to the 2.6.38 kernel in order to boot properly.
I have a suggestion: Try changing
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"

in the file /etc/defaults/grub
and do update-grub, and reboot. You will know why the boot fails.
In order to update the /etc/defaults/grub file. Press Ctrl + Alt + F1 at the splash screen to boot into alternative console/ environment. F1 can be replaced with F2 - F6... You will need to enter root password to proceed at this step.
I got ubuntu 11.10 with linux kernel 3.0 working. If you have an nvidia graphics card, try this. Boot into 2.6.38, and disable nouveau kernel by adding the line
blacklist nouveau

in the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.
Install nvidia driver by :
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-current

Now, do an
update-initramfs -u -v -k 3.0.0-12-generic

in order to update the ramdisk for kernel 3.0, and also do
update-grub

(just in case). Now, if you try to boot into Kernel 3.0, it will work. (Worked for me...)

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What Time Is The Nfl Football Game On Sunday Dallas Cowboys Lose Close One to Giants
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This was perhaps the most anticipated game of the NFL football season so far. The first game of the regular season at the new Cowboys Stadium, the mega dome for the American football team, and by association, America's Stadium.
What a beautiful stadium it is. Broadcast to the nation on Sunday Night Football, we witnessed a new type of sports complex. This was large enough that the Empire State Building, laid on its side, would be the same length as the stadium (or even less).
The plasma television above the field was larger than any high definition unit in the history of the world. The picture looked crystal clear, as clear as the plasma TV I was watching the game on.
After a nice Week 1 win for the Cowboys in Tampa Bay, many doubts about the Cowboys' ability to handle the loss of Terrell Owens and play effective football were answered. Tony Romo looked phenomenal at quarterback, and the team seemed like a unit.
The Giants have been a tough opponent for the Cowboys, and this game may not be so easy to win. Many pundits differed in their predictions for this game, and it was certainly close.
And it was a close game. The game was fought to the very end, and the Giants came away with a 33-31 victory. The Giants are now 2-0 and the Cowboys are 1-1. Although the Cowboys look like one of the better teams in the NFL, this was a game they should have won.
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Discussion in 'General Parenting' started by hearthope, Jan 14, 2007.
Ever gotten positive results from a treatment facility?
Maybe it is just the post I read, but it seems as if most of us are in the same boat and our hands have been tied when we have placed our difficult children in some kind of facility.
I am talking about all placements.
He came home and could not funtion by our rules in between all the things we tried.
I just wondered if anyone has had success, and if so How did it become a success???
My son's time spent in the hosptial after his suicide attempt was a joke. And I have a copy of the doctor's discharge report to prove it. Most of it was just flat wrong, including the family history. And our situation was different than most -- the hospital psychiatrist was his private psychiatrist (the one who was prescribing the antidepressant that was making him psychotic). Can't use the excuse about not knowing him well enough or long enough. She should have known him well enough but since she disregarded my reporting and blamed his behavior our relationship and my parenting skills, it's not surprising she had it all wrong. Ironically, she, the psychiatrist, was the problem, not me. But what the hell, no skin off her nose. Her life wasn't ruined, her marriage is still intact and she didn't spend or lose in lost wages what is approaching half a million dollars (including what the insurance paid) trying to fix things.
by the way, anyone ever notice my bitteness? Does it show?
In terms of real therapeutic placements mine has probably been through 4 or 5 now, two for a period of time and others a couple of months or less. Other placements, hospitalizations, jails, shelters,....8 or 10 off the top of my head. All in the last 4 yrs. I figure he's been at home about a total of 6 months of the last 4 yrs. Most every place he got booted out for lousy behavior, danger to other kids, etc, etc.
Do I think any ONE placement changed him? NO. But he has improved over the years. He can identify emotions now. So he has some recognition in advance of imminent loss of control. He also has some tools now to deal with that. So the explosions are MUCH less frequent and non-violent for the most part. Has he complied with any rules? Not much. He's currently a sqatter in my house because he just turned 17 and I'm not allowed to kick him out. He ran away from the Fall placement and is refusing to go into another. He's not going to school, not got a job (which working permit he can't get without going to school), comes home in the middle of the night, steals money from my purse and his brothers, refuses any kind of therapy or medication, etc. But, yes, overall he's better. He's also an addict and actively using. Again, so far not as much as before but I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. With all that, at least one psychiatrist in every place, he still has no real diagnosis other than the obvious CD, ODD and sub abuse.
Personally I have come to accept over the years that mine is like every other addict. He will change when he wants to. I can only pray that is sooner rather than later. The stats say that the more treatment they are in for the longer the period the better the chances that they will someday give it up. So mine had the better part of 4 yrs in some kind of treatment. Frankly, just keeping him alive this long is some kind of miracle. But hopefully, in addition to keeping him alive, I've increased his odds of someday turning around. I think he's certainly got all the knowledge in his head of how to do it, from who to call for help to how hard it's going to be.
I can say that the last jail stay seems to have kept him from selling drugs or committing other crimes. He's been very clear to me any number of times that he intends to not commit any crime because he never wants to go back to jail. The difference the last time I think was two fold. First, he was in big boy jail.... the part of the adult jail where they keep 16 and 17 yr olds. He was not coddled as he had been in juvie. There was no series of guards looking out for him, separating him from the sociopaths, psychotics and so forth. This time he was just one of them. They screamed all night so he could never sleep. They gave him a tray of horrible food period, no sneaking treats to him or giving him more of one thing and less of another if he didn't like it. Mind you, it's not like he had it bad there. It just wasn't his own cell separated from the teenage murderers, rapists and so forth. second, maybe this time, what the other prior guards had told him got through, that he isn't like them and doesn't belong there. Am I foolish enough to think that will permanently change him? No, he's an addict. If he uses enough he will do anything for money for drugs. It's a hugely steep downhill slope for him.
But yes, I do think all the residential placements have helped my kid.
After years of treatment---all kinds---my difficult child is finally showing progress, but it was only after we gave up trying and let him hit rock bottom. When we stopped excusing his behavior, paying his way, trying to help, he had no where else to go. He had lost his friends, his family, and wanted help. Then....he became active in his own treatment and this time it seems to be working. He has been clean for almost 60 days, he is working, he is enjoying sobriety. Now, it is not all a bed of roses. He has lost a lot of time. He still needs to finish his education. He still has some obsessive moments, but... he is cordial, polite, and is trying.
Don't forget Genny's story, Ant's Mom's story, Fran's story, Martie's story... there are some here who have had success of one kind of another. I think Genny's story may be the only one which turned a child from difficult child to easy child but less of a difficult child I sitll consider a success. After all, mental illness and addiction do not go away, they are for life.
Lets see. husband was catatonic combat PTS since 1990. multiple psychiatric hospital stays, never ever came home any better than when went in. Actually, truth told, he came home worse. 10 years of day treatment. Seems he came home from day treatment most days um..with his emotions on his sleeve and in his throat. And then they wound up in mine and the kids faces. so many many many diagnosis along the way, and so many many medications. Thousands of group, marital, family and indiv therapy appts. Many ended on a sour note, One day he was sitting in a coffee shop, and the man next to him was telling someone else about "some guy who xyz" and my husband turned and asked where did you hear THAT? the guy told him, turns out that guy in the coffee shop was discussing something - an experience my husband had in group- so my husband asked for names- and got his own name. YIKES. He NEVER went back to day treatment nor to any more groups. altho he still goes to 1-1 appts on occasion and still sees neuro and psychiatrist.
His medications? several times caused him major severe crisis -----psychosis, electrolyte problems, blood pressure problems etc. Approx 3 years ago, he slowly backed off all psychiatric medications. Truth is he is now better than he was from 1990 - 2000. altho his memory is all but gone and he does still have problems with PTSD and anger and paranoia BUT around 2000 they also found brain lesions/tumors.
My dtr had been in in home therapy, WRAP, SASS, girls group, siblings group, family therapy, 1-1, social skills groups, coping skills, anger management, since age 3 in 1991. She has had 3 neuropsychologist evaluations at 2 diff providers. We have been thru countless parenting groups. She has had a LONG list of diagnosis'es. Also a VERY long list of medications. She has never been aggressive or violent. When the school placed her in an ED BD class, our life went from bad to MUCH worse in the blink of an eye. It also brought us a whole new group of kids hanging around, vandalising, attacking her etc. SOmewhere recently I posted about our in home help experiences......they were pretty negative.
The medications also were never something I would say worked out well. Stims? Ritalin, NOT long acting was not too bad, but then ADs and then suicidal issues, and self harm, and hoarding, and then increased depression......and then the panic attacks began.....the ADs made them worse, the ED BD class made it MUCH worse. Add in APs and her blood pressure and heart rate went totally nuts......and she gained a LOT of weight, (she had been so slim when on Ritalin and then got so big- in all the wrong places) She got hurt in psychiatric hospital-----more than once. Her discharge plan (again in another recent post) was a joke.
by age 13 we transferred her care to a major university and they did a medication wash and they backed dtr out of ALL other services- "to give her a chance to heal" Truth is the school shoved her (no, they did not nudge) out------she spent a year at home, sleeping, eating, and slowly "coming to" and another year testing the water and right now is prolly the MOST stable and BEST I have seen her since she was 3 years old.
My son has atypical seizures. He also has a lot of other "issues" in k-garten my dtrs psychiatrist wanted to put my son on medications......concerta, adderal, becuz my son was not learning to read, he was not toilet training, he could not figure out how to ride a bike, and after all mom, dad and sister all had a mental illness diagnosis. My son walked and talked and ran and bathed IN HIS SLEEP.
The medications made him miserable, he was NEVER without a tremendous headache, he is a picky eater but then he could NOT tolerate eating AT ALL......and he could not sleep. Behavior mod docs were already in home for dtr, and they decided to work with him. He did NOT do well in behav mod. Not at all.
Alas at that time, he had an MRI for "toe walking" and was found to have heterotopia.......and cerebal palsy. and atypical seizures. I then took HIM to the univ hospital and they stopped his medications and the behav mod.
Due to his eye trauma, he wound up missing a LOT of school, and there were issues------he is now home, and to my shock, he now DOES read and he is slowly learning to write!!!!!!! BUT------we use NO medications, and we use NO "services" for him.
I was diagnosis'ed BiPolar (BP) so many years ago, I can barely remember. I had a few crummy tdocs who kept me agitated. I had a few psychiatrists who seemed to not care about my concerns or complaints with the medications they gave me......seems every time they wanted to do something with a medication, I wound up in ER. Or psychotic, or close to it. I did over 5 years in day treatment, but I also worked full time at the same time. I would scream at my psychiatrist and say hey, I am doing great at work, I do fine at home.....I did not do so well in day treatment, mostly becuz my issues were nothing at all like anyone elses in day treatment, noone else there worked. and everyone else in my day treatment sessions lived in group homes.
Eventually I could not keep up with work plus day treatment plus taking care of my kids needs and husband needs.
SO I simply stopped going. and I lost health coverage and hated how the medications made me feel, so I stopped those, too.
I still had a therapist for awhile and she was like a cheerleader to me, always encouraging me and praising me when I did well. Then she moved away.
Now -here at my house, in my family......we have been services free now for 3 years. We have also been medication free 3 years. This is The Calmest our life has EVER been.
The last diagnosis we had was---husband- scizoaffective disorder, combat PTSD, multiple cancers from Agent Orange exposure and early ALzhiemers.
oldest difficult child dtr age 18- major panic attacks and bipolar, middle dtr age 16 no diagnosis, son age 11, heterotopia, atypical seizures, cerebal palsy.
My husband and oldest dtr do still have psychiatrist and neurodoc, they see approx every 6 months. My son has 2 neuro docs, one psychiatrist, one genticist following him and of course a multitude of eye specialists right now.
We get by most days pretty well. We do a lot of walking away from someone who is angry. we definetly pick our battles. we do our best to keep it low key. if someone is agitated we leave them alone.
My dtr is now working on GED and is getting excited about takeing a few college classes. My son is exploring the world of creating things-------says he wants to be an engineer. My middle child is an overacheiver and quite busy.
DId any of those places help? I am not sure. I tend to think no- I tend to think they made things worse. Way too often they spent time teaching my oldest child coping skills the school would not accept. They kept my husband too focused on too much excuses and too much self indulgence and too much on what he could not or should not do instead of helping him learn to help himself or DO anything. and they were far too quick to want to shove psychiatric medications down my sons throat when he has not ever displayed any real psychiatric issues. Living our life with somuch in home scrutiny and us being analyzed over every breathe we took, my oldest dtr and I got to where we could not function unless someone gguided us. we could not grow. we were always waiting for someone to tell us it was ok. My poor little son was born smack dab into it and until he was 9 or 10, I swear he thought EVERYONE had case managers, mentors, therapists, and locked drug cabinets as big as a linen closet. and that everyone in the world took a bath on a reward and punishment system.
I think it made our life harder. ANd I think it did not help my kids very much if it helped at all, no, I think it hurt them more than helped.
My difficult child was in the children's hospital here in kindergarten. It was probably the best thing I ever did for her. From then on things started to improve. The program difficult child was in was very different than the psychiatric wards I have heard about from other parents on here.
Most of the ones I have heard of on the board didn't seem to do squat for their kids.
If nothing else, a treatment facility breaks the cycle of chaos/danger/instability in the home setting. In my mind, that is worth a great deal.
So many of our little wonders improve in baby steps...in some cases, that may be as good as it gets. If the mental/emotional illness is of such a severity you may never see "huge" improvements.
I've had to learn to be happy with the baby steps. To recognize the deficits & find different coping skills. Mostly I explore different ways for the tweedles to get to their highest level of functionality.
I think it helps us all out in our decision making to know what has helped or hurt for others.
I personally found this board less than a year ago and I do not know what everyone has been through and tried.
When I found this site I was franticly searching for answers to help my son, I had so many life changing decisions to make and I knew no one else that had a child like mine that I could gain insight from.
I would like to add that before any of the law enforcement got involved, I tried through our IEP meeting to send him to another state for schooling. The Special Education director for our county was a mentor to my son and He suggested it and at the time we really pushed it.
When the meeting came up, all these reps from different agenices were there. I was very overwhelmed by questioning. The Special Education director had taken another higher office and couldn't be there. I went with the suggestion of one last try with in home group therapy.
the therapy was supposed to last 16 weeks. My son was in our home for 6 wks and dissappeared to live with a friend. I was instructed by the home therapist(2) to not make any contact and let him make the choice to return home.
You know the therapist told me I MUST BE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE HE IS GOING TO SCHOOL WHILE LIVING ELSEWHERE.
When school was out this mom that I have never spoken to, that let my son live with her for 6 mths, called me screaming about my son and what all he had done wrong in the past week. That he wouldn't abide by the rules, was caught drinking and smoking in the house and so on.
I just said "I know, that's what he tries to do at my house"
It was awful being put in the middle of fighting professionals.
I personally buy into the therapeutic milieu theory. It did help my son to see other kids like him, to know that while his issues were extreme there were others who also had extreme behaviors.
OTE thanks for sharing Martie's story.
My difficult child is artistically gifted, I have tried several times to get him deeper into it.
I wish I had tried harder, maybe it could have given him a positive outlook instead of so many failures.
I am not sure, I got myself all mixed up, thinking about this thread and another thread with a subject "for those of you"
and I was thinking gosh.....people have been mentally ill since beginning of time.and some of them were NOT institutionalized......and SOME of them came to do GREAT things.......even without treatment agencies.
I learned something when I became a nurse and that is that professionals are still also simply human beings. If you wind up with professionals that are not so bright, or ones that bring too much personal baggage or biases into their work, they might not end up being quite the kind of help that is helpful? and help that worked for someone else still mgight not work for you and vice versa.
What worked for my husband did NOT work for my dtr. what worked for me did not work for my husband. One of husband docs was doing good with husband for a while, but yikes, when the agency was in need of more docs, and they gave me husband doctor for a short time- YUK.it did NOT work.
something else i have thought a lot about over the last 15 years.....the whole philosphies about some diagnosis'es has changed dramatically and also back and forth 18 years ago, and 15 years ago, not one doctor here here I am WOULD diagnosis a child with bipolar, not AT ALL. We were told time and again over and over it was absolutely parenting and could not be, no way could it be something wrong with the child.
Ah heck, before difficult child was 5 we were told it could not even be ADD or ADHD till she turned 7, and could not be bipolar till she turned 18.
We were also told stims absolutely could NOT make an ADD or ADHD child more hyper when she turned 8.
AT 10 we were told absolutely not, no way did paxil or zoloft make her decide to kill herself. DOcs wanted to know what WE did to make her want to kill herself, and were convinced we could not have been giving her her medications.
By then a few kids in our area finally began to get a BiPolar (BP) diagnosis. BUT you see.....she was 13 then and she is 18 now......and it was ONLY then that the docs and therapists and everyone else treated it as bipolar. SOoooooo you see- it has only been 5 years since here around me anyone has been doing anything with bipolar in mind. ANd that was the beginnning.......so-------how many different things have they been able to yet try? How do they yet know what has worked and what hasn't? They really have not had that much time to be able to say "this works" "this doesn't" when you are talking about treating the problem.
ANd when you add in that there were so many many negative results of so many many medications trialed------we have simply been guinea pigs and so far it has all been mostly trial and error and guesswork. And since we DID follow the professional route and do what they said, how can we possibly know how it would have worked out if we had NOT come thru our journey with the professionals? BUT in my humble opinion, doing the journey WITH the professionals did not seem to get us to any much better place so far. I simply do not know how it would have been now if we had not used the agencies and medications etc.
But I DO know that right now......my dtr is better than she has ever been- no, she is not perfect, no she is not "normal" BUT she is who she is......and we work with that. My husband is not normal by any stretch of the imagination, but with early alzhiemers and brain lesions/tumors, and his age? I give up. we simply live our life around him and love him anyway and deal with that as best we can.
so here we are still wrapped up involved with treatments and therapies and the docs --it is they who cannot let go. My now 11 yr old son now asks them every visit- do you know what you are ding, and why are you doing it? MY life is focused on one darn useless eye......when I COULD be off learning how to be a part of the world, here I am stuck looking at you guys while you all "study" me.
Recently my oldest difficult child looked at my son and said...ya know? THats how "I" felt. ALl those years with all the agencies and careplans etc.......so busy doing that, they forgot to let me LIVE. Oh they said they were trying to "teach me" but when and where did I ever get to use what they said they were trying to teach me?
And what I finally decided was "the real world" "the outside world" they do not seem to examine people for flaws anywhere near as hard as tdocs and psychiatrists and psychiatric units and ED BD classrooms do.
I don't know. I sometimes think the docs and agencies etc are too hyperfocused.
Someone let me know that my account of "what worked" for my ex-difficult child from the archives had been put on this thread.
For anyone who wasn't around for my kid's 11 to 15 year old days--let me tell you, it was really bad.
I always try to say that our son's particular outcome is unusual for a difficult child because of his musical giftedness which none of us asked for or can explain--it's just there--part of him whether he is functioning well or not. However, I do strongly believe that extensive Tx starting at age 7, reaching a very intense point for 14 months of egbs, which he made excellent use of, and a good post egbs high school (one that met his needs) all made a difference.
My biggest disappointment is that the public schools failed my ex-difficult child in many ways when he was young and completely after 8th grade. This is one of the reasons I continue as a moderator on Sp Ed 101. I was fortunate to be able to place privately when the public schools dumped my child after 13 days of high school. I know that it is important to try to improve services for our kids when private placement is not an option.
Some days I think that my ex-difficult child is really a easy child--then he'll get into a terribly foul mood over essentially nothing--and I know I must not tempt fate: he remains at risk for depressive relapse, so I'll just say he is my beloved EX-difficult child.
I am currently of the opinion that NOTHING works unless our kids are willing and able to put in the effort. The willing is often not there, the kids don't see a problem except for us. The able is sometimes not there due to physical and other issues (medications, ets...). I am including our kids' illnesses in the physical, just MHO.
The 4 month stay at the psychiatric hospital did not do much until the last 4-6 weeks, when I forced my son to show his behaviors. I pushed every button he had so that they would quit telling me he was "fine".
The 2 stays that were 2 days or so were a joke. Absolutely no help at all, not even for the family.
The long stay did help the rest of us recover and figure out what was going on. Helped us reassure the younger two. But other than that, not much help.
I wish I had more positive things to say.
it depends on what you mean positive results from a treatment facility. my goal with ant at age 16 in glen mills was to contain ant and have him get his high school diploma. I was not letting him out til that happened. my goal once he turned 18 was to remove myself as much as possible from him and have him be an adult. if he made choices apart from his best interests, I could not go down that road with him. I want him to be able to live as if I were dead one day. one day he will have to.
jail did not help ant. it wasted time. there are no programs and they get more depressed more anxious...more bitter.
-I had told him no help from me at all if he did not comply.
-he ran out of options and people to enable him.
-my boyfriend is a good male example and spends 8-10 hrs a day one on one with ant, five days a week. ant is on his own on weekends and must totally fend for himself and make decisions with no one there to guide.
-ant cares about his son and wants to be here for him.
-the biggest factor was God and his input into ant's life.
it has only been 4 months. but I have to say it is the best four months ant has had for a very long time.
you cannot help them if they do not see a problem. if ant repeats his past behavior, I will once more let him out on his own -homeless or not. he has to comply to be with me. he seems to want that. the pain of his past and watching others who are still trapped in that life haunts him at times.
at some point we realize it is their life. our job is to help them achieve independence.
I have this huge file cabinet with all of difficult child's paperwork from the past 4 yrs.
I had to find a paper and I began searching through the paperwork, I became overwhelmed with it all.
Nothing I tried helped. I think I was trying to validate my actions of failure by comparing with others what I had down .
You know, if it didn't work for anyone else, maybe the fault was on the system and not me.
I guess what I have learned is that perhaps I tried the wrong things. Looking back I see many things I would have done differently.
I was scared of how he was on medications. I kept getting a deaf ear to my concerns, I would have made a much louder noise knowing what I know now.
Jail seemed to make him worse, like Ant's mom shared. But when you can find no other place and he is threatening you, What do you do?
In his 17th yr, I stood firm that he would get his GED.He ran away from the grouphome and was missing 3 mths, it was being locked in a cell that brought him his GED.
I also raced against the clock of his 18th b'day to make sure he went through drug treatment.
I now feel like I have provided him all I can he has his GED, he has had therapy for his anger and emotions, and he has completed drug treament.
this is an interesting topic! My dtr went to a highly regarded (and highly expensive) Residential Treatment Center (RTC) in Utah for 8 1/2 months when she was 16. She came home, relapsed, went to a dual diagnosis rehab for about 4 months. When she came home from that she did seem better--did seem committed to not using hard drugs anymore and she did get her GED while there. She spent the next 6 1/2 months basically doing nothing. At our lowest point back in August or Sept. I would have said that she didn't get much out of the treatment facilities. However, she has picked herself up and now has a job and seems happy--this was nearly overnight it seems. When I talk to her I can see that she learned a lot at the facilities--she learned accountability and learned that only she can change her life. She learned to quit blaming others for her actions and she can talk reasonably and knows how to handle anger in an appropriate way. She seems much more mature now than most 18 yr olds and she used to always seem younger than most kids her age. So, I still wonder--would all this have happened anyway--she just needed to mature? I don't think so--she wouldn't have had the skills she has now without being in treatment. Of course, I sometimes feel resentful over all the money we spent--we live paycheck to paycheck despite having good incomes because we have a huge loan for the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) to pay off--we won't be done with it til my husband is 75. I'm glad it wasn't a total waste but wonder if we had to spend as much as we did.
I guess my final take on it is that you may not see a direct or immediate result from residential treatment--it may take years and then you may not know how much was a result of treatment anyway!
So far for us nothing has really worked. There were some short term improvements but they never lasted. husband ad I feel the outcome wold be the same if we had done nothing other than educate our difficult child. difficult child was in early intervention at age 2, He had an IEP that stayed with him throughout school. We had summer tutors so he didn't slide backwards. We put him in a private school for ADHD kids at the middle school level to prevent him from the effects of a perilous journey through teen years in a public school system. He has had all kinds of medications, Psycotherapy, Behavior modification therapy, and EMDR. He was sent to a magnet school for learning and behavior problems after a month back in public HS. He brought a toy gun to school and though he didn't take it out of his book bag he showed it to someone who reported him. They invoked the "look Alike" law and that was how difficult child first ended up in the legal system. The school suspended him for a full year and he was sent to the magnant facility. I think it was harsh for that particular event but difficult child had done much that he had not been caught at and the School was so perfect for his kind of problems that we didn't fight the placement. Truly if difficult child had not gone there he most likely would not have earned a diploma. outside of school we did Boy Scouts, Church youth group, sent him to windsurfing camp, computer camp, sailing camp (different on each summmer through Middle school and HS since he was an outcst in the neighborhood) for social development. He stole from the family almost his entire life. nothing we did could stop him from taking anything he wanted. He broke locks off our doors so it was not that he didn't know he was not allowed to take our things. He once told me he liked being sneaky. When he neared the end of HS he started his slide (we later learned this is when he started using pot and alcohol). When he reached 18 he was uncontrollable. He did a series of petty crimes and then acted as a lookout in a robbery. while waiting for his court date he continued to use and became very abusive and defiant. He had three visits to hospital Psyc wards for depression and rages. it culminated with his physical attack on me. After a brief stay in prison, we (with the blessing of the court) sent him to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC). difficult child walked away from it even though he was doing well after only 2 months. He was taken back into custody and is serving an 18 month sentance which he can reduce to 4 months if he does their early release program. difficult child has bee thrown out of that program twice and in an effort to gain sympathy and control made a few superficial cuts on his wrists right before Christmas. We think he may have don this so we would spend more of our recouses in trying to get him out again.
So far the only real accomplishment we see after all our efforts is thqt difficult child earned a HS diploma.
I suppose that I should add to my report that one psychologist we contacted said that my son (psychotic on antidepressants) would get better only if he spent 6-12 months in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC). That was after a 45 minute interview. Sort of made me feel like it was a pat response to any mid teen boy who walked in the door. I never believed my son was chosing to behave badly, always thought that his deteriorating behavior was organic in nature but didn't learn until much later that it was being caused by the medication.
Instead of placing him in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we took him home. We had the advantage of being a two parent household which had been living on one income all along. We had the advantage of having no other children who were threatened by our son's violence. I was willing to deal with the violence directed at me because I knew it wasn't my "real" son but my sick son. And no one had answers for me that made me believe any hospital or facility had any ideas that weren't available outpatient.
He had to quit school for all intents and purposes in 10th grade. There was no way he could attend, either while in the violent psychotic state or the over-anxious agoraphobic state that lasted for years after discontinuing the antidepressant. He got his GED as soon as he was able to handle the stress. Fortunately he was bright enough that he didn't have to take classes, just the test.
There was contact with the juvenile justice system twice and I fought tooth and nail to keep him from being convicted and becoming a part of the system. I didn't think the system had anything to offer a sick child. He was not and would not plead guilty to any of the charges against him. The system officials wanted a guilty plea to "make sure he got the help he needed". Those words are meaningless. It makes it sound like there are answers for our kids and too many of us have found out that there aren't. Please save me from the well meaning who think alls ya gotta do is take your kid to the doctor and he'll get these pills that make everything better.
There were weeks at a time that I didn't leave the house unless my husband was home because I feared I would find my son dead when I came back. When my husband was away, I made quick runs to the grocery while my son slept, when he was in a good mood, or when he wanted something specific. If he asked me to go get him something, I was pretty sure he wasn't going to kill himself while I was getting it. Rarely was I gone more than an hour for years. Years.
My son is fairly normal now except for his incredibly low self esteem and high anxiety. He is trying desperately to function on his own. He has circled out and home once already and is leaving again today. I am sick with worry but sure he is doing the right thing. But he has friends where he is going and a support system of peers.
Our costs have included medical bills, home repairs, replacement of damaged items, lawyers fees, lost income because I was suppose to be going to work full time when all this started seven years ago. There were things we bought to help him try to leave the house on his own, like a nice car. There were things we bought because he couldn't leave the house on his own and needed entertainment like movies, books, video games and computers. There were costs for letting him follow the interests he developed while sitting home alone with his computer, the TV and me. There were the costs of moving him across the country, setting him up in his own place then back when he couldn't make it the first time. There were the costs of trips for him and me across the country. It sounds like we -- I (it's just me now) -- were spoiling him but we weren't. I was -- am -- trying to provide for his need to feel secure and strong enough to stand on his own like you would provide a wheel chair to someone who couldn't walk.
Was it worth it? I don't know. It will take years to know the answer. I just know that I made the choices that I felt were best for us. I did the best I can and am still doing it. I have surely made some mistakes. But there is improvement, slow forward progress. Every conversation I have with him I see improvement. Is it what I did? What I didn't do? Or is it just because he -- and his now damaged brain -- get older and more mature every day?
I don't know. I have more questions than answers.


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{{Infobox location | image = Bahro cave (blue).jpg | imagecaption = The "blue" cave from the first Journey | location = [[Rudenna Passage|Rudenna]], [[Star Fissure]], [[Cleft]] }} A '''bahro cave''' is a small, self-contained round stone chamber, accessed either by walking through a [[Journey door]] or [[linking symbol]] or by linking via a [[bahro stone]]. When in a bahro cave, the [[KI]] displays the current age/location as "???" in most cases. However, when looking at the profile of an explorer who is in a bahro cave (for example via the neighbors or buddies list), the actual name age/location of the bahro cave is displayed (usually "D'ni-[[Rudenna]]"). == Types == === Pillar caves === [[File:Bahro cave (orange).jpg|thumb|The "orange" cave from the first Journey]] This pair of nearly identical bahro caves contains a set of four [[bahro pillar]]s and is visited as part of [[Yeesha]]'s [[Yeesha's Journeys#First Journey|first Journey]]. These caves are often called the "blue" and "orange" caves, based on the color of light emitted by the lamps, which is the most visible difference between the two caves. The floor of each cave is a stone plate divided into four quarters, with a round hole in the middle. Each quarter of the cave corresponds to one of the four [[Journey doors]] and holds one of the four pillars. These quarters of the floor can retract into the wall—when an explorer links into the cave through a Journey door, the platform in the corresponding corner of the cave is extended, and all other platforms are retracted. As it is impossible to stand on the retracted parts of the floor, this prevents jumping from one platform to another. On the wall next to each pillar are two touchable symbols. The first symbol is a hand symbol, like that found on [[journey cloth]]s, and is used to transport the bahro pillar from the cave to the explorer's [[Relto]], or vice versa. The second symbol is Yeesha's symbol and a bahro drawing of her, which plays a speech from Yeesha about the corresponding age and the journey. Inside these caves, the explorer's Relto book does not work—the linking panel only shows gray clouds and cannot be touched. An explorer can only leave the cave by jumping off the edge of the platform into the space below. After falling for long enough, the explorer is linked back to their Relto. The "blue" cave is located above what appears to be the [[Star Fissure]], while the "orange" cave is located above the [[D'ni]] [[Cavern]]. According to the KI, both caves are located in D'ni-Rudenna. The "blue" cave is the first cave visited by explorers taking Yeesha's Journey and initially holds the four bahro pillars. As part of the journey, explorers must link to each corner of the cave through the four journey doors and transport the four bahro pillars to their [[Relto]]. Once this is done, the the Journey doors change their destinations to the "orange" cave. At this point the explorer must enter each journey door again and transport the four pillars from their Relto into the "orange" cave. Unlike in the "blue" cave, the "orange" cave's platforms stay extended when the explorer leaves the cave and returns through another door, and it is possible to jump between the extended platforms. Once all four pillars are returned, the entire floor is extended, and only the small hole in the middle remains. Each of the platforms in the caves also has another symbol on the floor. The symbols on the four platforms form a combination that must be entered into the imager in the [[Cleft]] at the end of Yeesha's Journey. These symbols are only visible on extended platforms, so the combination is easiest to see once all pillars have been returned. === Wedge caves === [[File:Bahro cave (MOUL).jpg|thumb|A wedge cave from one of the later Journeys]] These four caves are similar to the "blue" pillar cave. Their lamps emit a mix of blue and yellow colors. There is one wedge cave for each of Yeesha's four [[Yeesha's Journeys|other journeys]], and each cave has one platform per age in that journey. Rather than bahro pillars, these caves contain stone "wedges" for the ages in the journeys. These wedges are also transported to the explorer's Relto by touching a symbol on the wall, but unlike the pillars, they do not need to be transported to another cave. Like in the "blue" pillar cave, [[Relto]] books do not work inside these caves, so the only way to leave is by jumping into the starry expanse below the cave. According to the KI, all wedge caves are located in D'ni-Rudenna. === Pellet cave === [[File:Bahro cave (PotS).jpg|thumb|The top level of the pellet cave, accessed from [[Er'cana]]]] A different form of cave is accessible from bahro stones in [[Er'cana]] and [[Ahnonay]]. This cave is split into two levels. The upper level—accessed from Er'cana—is brightly lit with a hole in the center, and contains glyphs indicating how to bake [[lake pellet]]s. The lower level—accessed from Ahnonay—is dark, and contains a pool of water that lake pellets can be dropped into from above. When a properly-prepared pellet is dropped into the pool, it illuminates the walls of the cave, revealing multiple bahro glyphs, as well as a combination for the imager in the [[Cleft]] that is used at the end of the Path of the Shell journey. Unlike the other bahro caves, the pellet cave has no opening at the bottom. The only way to exit this cave is using [[Relto]] books, which function normally in this cave. The KI refers to this cave as "PelletBahroCave". === Cleft cave === [[File:Bahro cave (Cleft).jpg|thumb|The bahro cave beneath the Cleft]] Finally, there is a small cave beneath the [[Cleft]] which is often referred to as a bahro cave. The walls are covered with a series of glowing [[bahro glyph]]s, and a pedestal in the center of the room contains a page for explorers' [[Relto]] books that grants them access to the first Journey. {{Uru navbox}} [[Category:Places appearing in Uru]]
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Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt case has the poker world watching
16�July�2012
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At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Full Tilt Poker Chief Executive Officer Raymond Bitar enjoyed the trappings of a gaming industry titan.
Inside the Rio's convention area, Full Tilt and other Internet poker giants commanded spacious luxury suites that were a mix between a cocktail party, corporate meeting room, and players' lounge.
Full Tilt's familiar red-and-black logo dominated the landscape. The suite contained plush sofas, an open bar, free snacks and scantily clad waitresses. Full Tilt's sponsored team of professional poker players - led by Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson - relaxed in the lounge during breaks between tournament events and away from legions of fans.
Full Tilt also had a large presence inside the Rio's Gaming Life Expo, a trade show operated during the World Series of Poker that highlighted online gaming companies.
Bitar often held court with the poker media in the Full Tilt lounge during that summer and was king of his universe.
Today, Bitar is home in Glendora, Calif., under house arrest and monitored by federal agents.
Last week in New York, he was released from federal custody after posting a $2.5 million bond and agreeing to put up $2 million in property, ensuring his return to the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan.
Bitar, 40, is facing life in prison after the U.S. Department of Justice amended its 15-month-old nine-count indictment against the gaming executive. Prosecutors said Full Tilt was an elaborate Internet Ponzi scheme that stole more than $350 million from gamblers in the United States and worldwide.
"Bitar bluffed his player-customers and fixed the game against them," Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. "Raymond Bitar will now be held criminally responsible for the alleged multimillion[-dollar] fraud he perpetrated on his U.S. customers."
In a surprise move, Bitar returned to the U.S. on July 2 from a self-imposed exile in Ireland. He voluntarily surrendered to authorities after disembarking from a plane at Kennedy Airport.
Following his arrest, Bitar proclaimed his innocence and vowed to fight the charges. He made a halfhearted attempt to apologize to Full Tilt's former customers. He said he wanted to return their long overdue funds.
"I know a lot of people are angry with me," Bitar said.
Which brings us back to Lederer and Ferguson. The poker icons, who were business partners in Full Tilt, are probably wondering what Bitar might be telling federal prosecutors.
Lederer and Ferguson have been personae non grata in the poker community over the last year-and-a-half following the April 15, 2011, Justice Department crackdown on Internet poker, now known as Black Friday.
Bitar and Full Tilt executive Nelson Burtnick were among the 11 individuals with three online poker websites ensnared in the original indictment that carried charges of money laundering, bank fraud and operating an illegal gambling business.
The government also filed a civil lawsuit seeking $3 billion in money-laundering penalties from Full Tilt, PokerStars and Absolute Poker.
Last September, federal prosecutors added Lederer and Ferguson to the civil action against Full Tilt. The Justice Department alleged that Bitar, Lederer and Ferguson - members of Full Tilt's board - funneled money from players' accounts into their own pockets.
When the new indictment against Bitar was unsealed, prosecutors said Full Tilt commingled player funds with corporate money and distributed $430 million to investors and company insiders. Bitar, it was alleged, paid himself $40 million. Previously, the government alleged Lederer collected $42 million while Ferguson was paid $87.5 million and was "owed" another $25 million.
Lederer and Ferguson, who each won millions on the poker circuit, helped found Full Tilt. Ferguson, who won the 2000 World Series of Poker Main Event, has a doctorate in computer science and developed Full Tilt's software. Both enticed professional poker players - including Andy Bloch, Eric Seidel, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman and Phil Ivey - to become Full Tilt-sponsored players.
Two weeks before Black Friday, Full Tilt struck a partnership with Ferttita Interactive - co-owned by Station Casinos' founding family - to potentially operate an American-based Internet poker site. Lederer called me on background to discuss Full Tilt's involvement. The indictments dissolved the deal.
Full Tilt is out of business. Regulators in the British Channel Islands Crown Dependency of Alderney, where Full Tilt is headquartered, revoked its gaming license last summer.
Facing a combined 145 years in federal prison if convicted, Bitar might be willing to cut a deal, an aspect that has to worry Lederer and Ferguson.
Six of the 11 individuals charged on Black Friday have negotiated plea bargains in the past 12 months, admitting guilt to various charges. Five of the defendants await sentencing.
Bitar is the biggest name, so far, to be arrested.
In August 2006, one of Full Tilt's best-known players, Alan Cunningham, finished fourth in the World Series of Poker's Main Event, which drew a record 8,773 players. Many of the entries came through winning Internet poker-sponsored tournaments, including events on Full Tilt.
Two months later, President George W. Bush signed into law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which made it illegal for financial institutions to process funds related to online gambling. Violations of the act were the basis of the Black Friday indictments.
The outcome of Bitar's case could have a lasting impact on poker.
Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt case has the poker world watching is republished from CasinoCityTimes.com.


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Wireless 4G broadband vs fibre: do you really need fibre?
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You poor sod though, Skinny is still on the B315s!
The northshore is quite insane with the capacity over there.. New towers popping up everywhere.
There are some places where VF may have a better network, but in general spark leave VF in the shadow completely.
We found this out the hard way... we're now migrating all our mobile voice/data services back to Spark due to issues with Vodafone.
ah they are doing them on that? shows how much i pay attention to their plans for wireless!
Will have been to match sparks "ultra wireless" plan.
With unplan now out, those are few and far between.
They've been out on Skinny pretty much since they were with Spark.
1024kb: I have both Spark on B315S & Skinny on B618S. The SIM cards are transferable, you just have to create a new profile.
The performance of each SIM is identical in both modems - there's no apparent premium performance delivered by the premium rate Spark account.
I wanted a better modem than the B315S that Spark provided originally, as well as an upgrade from the 120GB plan. To get a B618S from Spark at the time seemed like an avaricious corporate money-grab - the fees were ridiculous just to let me have better performance, upgrade my plan & spend more money with them. If they could do it, that is. If.
Skinny had B618S available in stock, at Spark finding a B618S was like chasing ghosts through mist.
So I bought the B618S from Skinny, upgraded my plan & spend less money with them. In a couple of weeks the Spark contract expires & I shall look upon that experience as an example of a corporation driving it's own interest without having the agility that customers often require.
I'd have been quite content paying Spark more money each month for an upgraded modem & plan. Due to their inability to do this in a timely manner, I will now be even more content paying their subsidiary less money for the modem & plan I wanted.
Our contract for the 4G wireless is about up - been happy with the performance but scratching the 240Gb limit about half the time.
About to sign up with Inspire wireless 500Gb plan at "upto"25/5 Mb/s for $100/mth - A lot cheaper than the $135/month with Spark. 1st month free and free installation at the mo as well!.
Skinny 4G plan not available from our rural address currently, but would happily stick with Spark/Skinny if price went down or limit went up.
The 240GB Ultra plan has been replaced with Unplan, the Rural 240 is still available.
Worth pointing out, inspire is a Wireless based service, rather than LTE. Rather different hardware.
Yes, very different - They come and do a full external installation of an aerial on the roof and cable to a site inside where the router is set up.
Very surprised that this is on a free promotion currently.
I have not heard anything bad, might be time to try something new?
There is supposed to be a WISP up the road from us but I have not been able to find any information on it at all. Nothing on any sites indicates it is there, but people swear it is. Only second-hand info so far.
i find WISP's fit into two bins.
2. They are near impossible to find apart from word of mouth but have excellent service.
the remaining is ofcourse be big handful that do RBI etc.
the local facebook groups are often an exceptional place to gain contacts for local WISP's.


A bill to prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the completion of a background check.
Under current federal law, background checks on firearms are only required when the sale or transfer is completed by a federally licensed firearms dealer. Oregon closed this loophole in 2015 by passing SB 941, the Oregon Firearms Safety Act.


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Heat waves hit day cares, summer programs
Programs make adjustments to keep children cool
Posted: July 18, 2012 2:46 AM
Updated: December 31, 2019 11:37 PM
MIDDLETON, Wis. — Triple-digit highs have summer programs rushing for the air conditioning to keep the children cool, and it's making for a lot of last-minute changes to trips and activities for camps and day cares in the area.
At the Academy for Little Learners in Middleton, instructors have to switch up planning, sometimes on the fly. Whenever the temperature reaches more than 95 degrees, the children have to be inside. That means limited space for the more than 30 children the day care looks after during the summer months.
"The kids have kind of been struggling because we have to stay inside. They don't know what's going on," said instructor Anna Ingalls.
After countless games of slap jack in the hallway, the only space her group can find with everyone squished inside, Ingalls admitted it has been challenging adjusting to the heat.
The day care had field trips planned months in advance, but many have been rerouted to indoor activities like movies or bowling.
"We've had a lot of outdoor things canceled," Ingalls said. "So it's been difficult, but we do a good job."
On Tuesday, the children played games on the floor with the comfort of air conditioning.
"I don't like the hotness," said camper Jayden Mathias.
The heat led to another field trip cancellation for the group Tuesday. The Madison Mallards pushed back its annual children's day after watching the temperatures creep higher and higher.
"I think we would have seen a lot of groups just not come," Mallards President Vern Stenman said.
The team was expecting 500 children on the field Tuesday, but Stenman said he hopes for more bearable temperatures later this month when the event is rescheduled for. Tuesday night's game is still on.
"The best chance for them to have a good experience for an event like this is to slide it back a couple of weeks and hopefully we'll have a little bit of better weather then," Stenman added.
That means another day being cramped inside for the children and teachers at the Academy for Little Learners. Ingalls said they're making the best of it, but it's not easy for anyone.
"After so many days of being inside, it just gets to be a lot," Ingalls said.
Summer school classes in Madison were in session Tuesday, along with all MSCR programs. District spokeswoman Rachel Strauch-Nelson said the schools are taking extra precautions with more water and fans in classrooms. Strauch-Nelson stressed that it is ultimately up to parents whether or not they want to send their child to school in this kind of heat.