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Justice for Eric Garner: Street Protests and Prosecutions Will Not End Police Brutality
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"I can't breathe" was one of the last things 44-year-old Eric Garner said after being arrested by New York Police Department officers and placed in what appears, in a bystander's video, to be a chokehold. The asthmatic African-American man was being detained on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes on the sidewalk and died shortly after being taken into custody. With the city medical examiner ruling his death a homicide, it remains to be seen if the cop-friendly Staten Island district attorney will prosecute the law enforcement officers.
In another case that resulted not in death but trauma and severe humiliation, a 48-year-old woman in Brooklyn named Denise Stewart, also African-American, was dragged by male officers out of her apartment while she was clothed in only a towel and underwear. They were looking for the source of a domestic violence call that had been made from somewhere in the building and heard shouts coming from Stewart's unit, but she told officers they had the wrong apartment. Stewart, who, like Garner is asthmatic, was left topless and screaming in desperation for her oxygen. Although she survived the encounter, she has now been charged with assaulting a police officer, and her son and two daughters have also been slapped with charges.
Both police encounters are attracting public outrage but perhaps only because they were videotaped by witnesses. In Garner's case, Ramsey Orta, whose video of the arrest provides the clearest indication of what happened, has himself been arrested on unrelated weapon possession charges. Orta's arrest has the potential to have a chilling effect on witnesses documenting such police encounters.
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In the absence of government statistics, individuals are attempting to track deaths. One former FBI agent named James Fisher counted a total of 1,146 people shot by police nationwide from Jan. 1, 2011, to Jan. 1, 2012, with 607 of them dying. A journalist named D. Brian Burghart, the publisher and editor of the Reno News & Review, has started his own online searchable database called Fatal Encounters to "be able to figure out how many people are killed by law enforcement, why they were killed, and whether training and policies can be modified to decrease the number of officer-involved deaths." Burghart's site offers state-by-state searches, and a comparative database of incidents. Wikipedia also maintains a list of officer involved killings organized by date and location but it is nearly impossible to verify the completeness of these lists without a comprehensive and detailed study.
Yet those of us who constantly monitor the news understand the ubiquity of police abuse. We see and feel it all around us, sometimes in our own neighborhoods, and all too often through personal experience. Depending primarily upon our race, but also on income, gender and age, it is often fear of police officers, rather than trust in their uniform, that colors our comfort levels with them.
Racial profiling and excessive police force are a potentially fatal mix. When I see a police car in my rearview mirror, my instant and irrational reaction is one of panic, while my white friends are probably more likely to hold the attitude of "if you haven't done anything wrong, there's nothing to fear." I find myself constantly making the mental calculation of whether a police officer will judge me by my skin color or by the fact that I'm driving a Prius—an unmistakable hallmark of the middle class that could mitigate any officer bias.
Black and brown Americans especially know how some police officers tend to view them through the lens of race above all. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham found that even his exalted position, and his former leadership of the L.A. Police Commission, did not protect him from police abuse on the UCLA campus. The university agreed last month to pay $500,000 to settle a suit over an arrest of Cunningham in November that he says was made solely because of his race (he is African-American). Arizona State University's Ersula Ore similarly seemed to find that being a professor on the campus she was walking through apparently did not trump the fact that she is black when she was stopped for jaywalking in May and asked for ID by police, in an incident that resulted in a charge of resisting arrest and a sentence of nine months' supervised probation.
A recent report by the ACLU called War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing analyzed police data from 20 agencies around the country in 2011, and found that 62 percent of SWAT team deployments were for drug searches and 79 percent were to serve search warrants. But in only 35 percent of the heavily armed deployments was a weapon even present in the searched home, and 54 percent of the people impacted were people of color.
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Growing up, I loved American Girl dolls. Didn't we all? The highlight of 4th grade was when my best friend and I got to visit American Girl Place, the refreshingly wholesome but overstimulating doll wonderland that lets kids see all the dolls in real life instead of just pining for them in a catalogue. The other day, my boyfriend and I passed by the store and I couldn't resist forcing him inside to revisit my childhood as he balked in horror at why any child could possibly need $80 "party sets" of plastic food and $120 "down comforters" for their dolls' beds. Conan O'Brien was let loose in the Los Angeles store this week, and his reaction was pretty similar. Try not to hyperventilate from laughing at his too-real take on your childhood obsession. [CNN]


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At 23, brimming with enthusiasm, new university graduate Sophie Bifield hit the ground running in search of a full-time job.
But 18 months later, after contacting more than 300 employers, the Queen's University psychology major was unemployed and disillusioned, her dream of a career in marketing derailed by the global economic crisis.
Ms. Bifield's lengthy bout of joblessness mirrors the predicament facing thousands of young job seekers as another school year ends: surging youth unemployment.
The jobless rate for those in the 15-to-24-year-old age group in 2009 jumped to almost 19 per cent in industrialized countries from about 13 per cent in mid-2008, before the recession hit, according to an April report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. It was the largest year-over-year rise in at least 10 years, the group said. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said youth joblessness is likely to stay high for the next two years, creating the potential for a "lost generation."
In Canada, where the downturn was milder, youth joblessness hit 15.1 per cent in May, a slight improvement over April - but still near an 11-year high.
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a resident of Foothill Place
on Nov 14, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Can you believe this?
How can we have faith in educators, leaders, and government...when they can not keep their hands to themselves, behave with dignity, and not steal from us in one form or another?
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on Nov 14, 2011 at 4:47 pm
I hope that she receives medical treatment for her addiction. In my opinion, she is also deserving of jail time.
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Cholo, Addiction says who???????? Jail time ?????? Crazy!
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be patient...the truth will eventually come out...
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Sales revenue rose by 13.6 per cent to $1.275 billion with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation reaching $129.4 million, up 11.5 per cent on the previous year, the company said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on Tuesday.
The company declared a final dividend of 48¢ per share fully franked.
Monadelphous' largest unit, engineering construction, recorded a 14.8 per cent increase in revenues to $890 million while its other main division, maintenance and industrial services, rose by 6.9 per cent to $376.2 million.
Managing director Rob Velletri said the company's strong revenue numbers were achieved through a continuing strong performance in the resources sector and additional contracts with energy companies.
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The company warned that labour supply would tighten as large scale oil and gas projects in Western Australia were developed but also stressed macro economic factors had created some uncertainty on the timing of "a return to full use of industry capacity".
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from Michael Arace of the Columbus Dispatch,
The Blue Jackets traded disgruntled winger R.J. Umberger and a fourth-round draft pick to Philadelphia yesterday for Scott Hartnell. There is nothing small about this deal.
It was done within the Metropolitan Division, which took a lot of nerve on the part of Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen and his Flyers counterpart, Ron Hextall. It involved former first-round picks with recognizable names and healthy contracts. This was big-boy stuff.
Kekalainen deserves high marks.
First off, he found a buyer for Umberger, which was no small feat.
Umberger had asked to be traded. Everyone knew it. If a buyer could not be found, there was a very real possibility that Umberger would have to be bought out — which is both expensive and counterproductive. Buyouts are bad business.
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First off, he found a buyer for Umberger, which was no small feat.
Obviously it was kind of a small feat, in that they found a buyer relatively quickly and they found one who would overpay for him.
I mean yes, good on Kekalainen for getting the deal done, but let's not pretend that it's hard to convince Philly management that the jelly beans you have in your pocket are going to grow into a great beanstalk.
Posted by Garth on 06/24/14 at 09:08 AM ET
Well, living in the area and being surrounded by Flyers' fans, most of them think this is the greatest deal ever and most apparently hated Hartnell.
Posted by George0211 on 06/24/14 at 09:16 AM ET
So Flyers fans are no smarter than Flyers management?
Posted by Garth on 06/24/14 at 09:24 AM ET
So Flyers fans are no smarter than Flyers management?
Posted by Garth on 06/24/14 at 09:24 AM ET
For the most part, yes
Posted by George0211 on 06/24/14 at 09:25 AM ET
Hartnell is preferable to Umberger in almost every situation. Columbus wins this deal hands down.
Posted by Iggy_Rules from Calgary, Canada on 06/24/14 at 09:50 AM ET
Hartnell is preferable to Umberger in almost every situation. Columbus wins this deal hands down.
Posted by Iggy_Rules from Calgary, Canada on 06/24/14 at 09:50 AM ET
Skating without falling over? EDGE: Umberger…
Posted by Primis on 06/24/14 at 09:57 AM ET
It was done within the Metropolitan Division, which took a lot of nerve on the part of Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen and his Flyers counterpart, Ron Hextall.
I love how this is a big deal, trading within your division. The purpose of a trade is, supposedly, to improve your own team. If you're improving the other team more than your own, you should rethink the deal. Yes, there are occasions where it is lopsided in terms of the benefit to each team even if the assets traded are equal, based on the need of each team and how well the player fills it. But mostly, GMs don't trade within their own division out of fear of looking bad. That's weak.
Posted by awould on 06/24/14 at 11:04 AM ET
I have no idea what you guys have been watching the last 2 years. Hartnell has been a one-trick pony, slot shot on the power play. Other then that, he's been a defensive liability, slow, can't skate, takes dumb penalties. I'll take Umberger over him any day. Also, from the Philly perspective, Umberger's deal ends at the same time as Mason's new contract, Streit's, Pronger's, and a year before Lecavalier's comes off the books. Hextall is going this for now and for 2-3 years from now.
Posted by phillyd from Southern New Jersey on 06/24/14 at 12:47 PM ET
Skating without falling over? EDGE: Umberger…
Hartnell draws a lot of penalties with his falling as well.
Dont know why all the hate on hartnell, he is a superior player to umberger in almost every aspect. HE hits a lot, he agitates with the best of them, he scores. He is built for playoff hockey. And despite his rought style of play he has been fairly durable missing something like 24 games since coming to philly. He is more of a complete package that many teams would love to have hiim. Umberger was a buy out candidate, the fact that they found any team to take him for free, let alone an asset like hartnell says a lot about the ability of columbus gm, and the inexperience of hextall.
Posted by Luongo-is-my-hero on 06/24/14 at 02:44 PM ET
It's always nice to have a point of view of someone who may be more knowledgable about the pieces and plans involved than the average fan.
Posted by teldar on 06/24/14 at 02:46 PM ET
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Sounds like you did much the same research I did back when I was learning the
details of ALTQ but your summery is better then anything I produced. I
originally switched to pfsense to take advantage of the ability of ALTQ to
borrow bandwidth from alternate queues but it supports ECN which I usually try
to use. As you posted, ALTQ uses ECN to adjust traffic rates before packets
would normally need to be dropped for traditional flow control and then drops
packets if that fails. Comparing m0n0wall to pfsense when limiting incoming
traffic showed the best performance with pfsense closely followed by monowall
followed by having no incoming traffic shaping at all in which case my VoIP
connections were completely useless.
I never tried controlling the outbound ACKs to throttle incoming traffic.
The biggest problem I currently have is that ALTQ under pfsense tends to put a
fraction of my incoming bittorrent traffic into the default queue instead of the
bittorrent queue. I suspect a rules generation issue but have not tracked it
down yet.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:20:32 -0700, "Michael" <zlinda1002 at cox dot net> wrote:
>I think I found the answer why inbound transmissions cannot be regulated.
>This write up would be thanks to Fred Wright. I believe the article states
>that the only efficient way to do it would be ECN which is not impletmented
>and the only option to control inbound tcp with m0n0wall is by dropping
>packets (as long as it's controlled) I have stuck with what Chris suggested;
>using the outbound ack to control the inbound. Any suggestions on what I can
>do to limit ftp, bittorren, etc so that voIP maintains highest priority.
>The TCP window was designed for *application* flow control, not
>network flow control.
>1) TCP doesn't provide reliable delivery of control information, such as
>window updates. In the original RFC793 version, the *only* means of
>restarting transmission previously blocked by a closed window was
>timeout-based retransmission of the window probe. Most modern TCP
>implementations send one "free ACK" when the window opens, but if that ACK
>gets lost for any reason it falls back to timeouts. Thus, the performance
>of receiver-limited TCP tends to be very fragile on lossy networks.
>2) The window specifies an *amount* of data, not a rate. In order to
>translate between the two, it's necessary for the receiver to know the
>round-trip time of the path (in effect, the window size limits the
>delay-bandwidth product, not the bandwidth per se). But the receiver is
>in no position to determine that in the absence of "ACKs of ACKs".
>3) The receiver is never allowed to "reduce" the window, in the sense of
>moving the window limit backward in the stream (the *size* of the window
>can decrease as the ACK point moves forward, but the *sum* can never
>decrease). This puts a greater constraint on the throttling possibilities
>than one would like.
>TCP's congestion control (that regulates its send rate) also suffers from
>the "too little information" problem like #2, but the other way - i.e. it
>knows the RTT (sort of) but not the bandwidth. It "probes" the bandwitdh
>by continuing to increase the congestion window until it sees packet loss,
>whereupon it reduces it. At best this causes the rate to oscillate with
>the *peaks* being the theoretical maximum, and hence the average is always
>Note the stability problem: TCP's only measure of RTT comes from time
>from send to ACK, and its only throttle is by limiting the amount of
>outstanding data. If it doesn't increase the window when it's not
>utilizing all the bandwidth, it will *never* utilize all the
>bandwidth. But if it increases the window after the bandwidth is
>saturated, it just increases the queue length which increases the measured
>RTT, which increases the delay-bandwidth product, which increases the
>window needed to get the *same* bandwidth, etc., etc. There is research
>going on into rate-limited sending rather than window-limited sending, but
>nothing in "production" AFAIK.
>There are a few ways a router can tell a sending TCP to throttle back:
>1) Drop packets. This is the most common method, and not *too* bad if
>done sparingly and *before* the choke point. Doing it after the choke
>point works, but wastes bandwidth where it's scarce.
>2) ICMP Source Quench. For some reason this never really caught on,
>though it could provide feedback before getting to the point of dropping
>packets. I think this was partly due to the lack of standards for exactly
>when to send them and what to do when receiving them.
>3) Early Congestion Notification (ECN). This is probably the best
>approach in principle, but it's quite new and not widely supported. The
>idea is that a router can tweak flags in a packet to say that congestion
>is becoming an issue, and this is reflected back to the sender along with
>the ACK. Properly supported, transmission could be throttled *before* it
>becomes necessary to drop packets, and there's no problem doing this
>downstream of the choke point.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael [mailto:zlinda1002 at cox dot net]
>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 4:10 PM
>To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Inbound (downloaded) traffic is not being shaped at
>So pretty much I might as well remove all the inbound rules set to wan since
>they aren't doing anything.
>I have ack set to high priority 0-128 now, below that small packets, ah,
>esp, gre, dns
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com]
>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:48 PM
>Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Inbound (downloaded) traffic is not being shaped at
>On 1/28/07, Michael Brown <knightmb at knightmb dot dyndns dot org> wrote:
>> Well, I think there is a mis-understanding here. You can traffic shape
>> inbound traffic, but it's not possible to make it "instant". When you
>> traffic shape outbound traffic, you already know your "limits" and
>> m0n0wall responds to this accordingly. With inbound traffic, even when
>> you know your "limits" inbound, you can't account for limits that exist
>> outside of your connection.
>This is correct, but much more detailed than I had time to get into
>(or have time to comment much on now). Shaping incoming traffic from
>the Internet is complex. You don't shape the traffic that's coming in
>on the WAN because that's not helping you any - you need to shape
>outbound ACK's appropriately to have any sort of control on incoming
>traffic. The easiest way to limit your NNTP traffic is to use a NNTP
>client that allows you to limit its speed.
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Investors anticipate a continued economic recovery in Europe and are flocking toward European investments. European markets still trade at a slight discount to their peers in the U.S., but there is a particular segment that we believe looks attractively priced: high-quality companies.
Valuation Analytics in European Equities
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The valuation of the WisdomTree Europe Dividend Growth Index, on a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio basis, is only slightly higher than the broader European market indexes shown in the table below. Its dividend yield, another important valuation metric, is broadly in line with, if actually a little higher than, that of the MSCI EMU Index. This low valuation spread for a high-quality basket, in my opinion, makes this a particularly attractive time to consider these stocks to represent European equity exposures.
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• Drivers of Dividend Growth: The dividend discount model suggests that dividend growth is critically linked to earnings retention and return on equity. Simply stated, the potential future growth of dividends is determined by the fraction of earnings put back into the firm and how profitable those earnings are in their subsequent use. While there is no way to know what any firm's actual future dividend growth will be, I believe this metric is important when attempting to gauge a firm's future dividend growth potential.
WisdomTree Europe Dividend Growth: The Index's ROE x earnings retention was 13.6%. None of the other European indexes score above 10% by this metric. This wasn't attributable to earnings retention-that was broadly similar across each index. ROE for the WisdomTree Europe Dividend Growth Index was-by virtue of its selection methodology-nearly 26%, which was at least 9% above the ROE of the next highest index shown. This illustrates how one of the great differentiators of the current constituent list is a focus on quality companies, with quality being approximated by ROE.
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According to Amref, 13 new latrines and five Ecosan toilets were installed in Katine primary schools over the last year, increasing the sanitation and hygiene coverage in schools to 79% from 25% at the start of the project.
Ideal homes
One of the aims of the project was to establish "ideal homesteads" in the sub-county – models of how a hygienic home should be run – to encourage communities to learn from each other. One of the jobs of the village health teams has been to promote these ideal homesteads at parish level. Amref's target is to have five model villages in each of Katine's six parishes with full sanitation. Amref believes this is on track and says 312 ideal households have now been established.
Water testing
As part of the maintenance of safe water sources in Katine, 34 boreholes and wells were tested for quality. Quality testing is being carried out on all water sources constructed as part of the project, as well as on those built by other NGOs. The main concerns were found to be iron deposits in the water in two parishes, Olwelai and Merok.
Soak pits
The project has encouraged water source committees and village health teams to build soak pits around boreholes as a way of improving water conservation and preventing mosquitoes from breeding near stagnant water.
The committees have also been supported in carrying out awareness campaigns on sanitation and hygiene improvement among the community and the water users.
Year three priorities
Access to safe water in the sub-county has increased from 42% at the start of the project in 2007 to 66% at the end of year two. But Amref plans to further increase the number of safe water sources by installing four boreholes, two motor drilled wells and two hand-dug wells this year.
From its database, Amref says it has identified villages lacking access to safe and adequate water and each will be vetted depending on demand and equitable distribution in a meeting with the sub-county water and sanitation coordination committee. Hydro geological surveys, test drilling and reconnaissance surveys to determine the best water source for a particular village need to be conducted before a final decision on where the new water sources will be located is made. These checks are due to be carried out in December and January.
In a bid to ensure all safe water sources in Katine are adequately maintained, Amref plans to offer training for committees charged with maintaining water sources established by the government and other NGOs.
All water sources established as part of the Katine project have maintenance committees.
Amref wants to link those committees outside the project with the local government technical team so they can get more support and training, "otherwise we shall be moving two steps forwards and one step backwards," it says.
Supply chain roll-out
Amref is implementing a spare parts supply chain in Katine, which will allow the community to buy parts to maintain water sources at a lower price.
The parts will be purchased in bulk by the sub-committee of the sub-county's executive committee for water and sanitation. This group will manage, procure, sell and restock relevant spare parts as and when necessary, using money raised from villagers who have benefited from the water sources Amref has put in place. So far UShs 2,000,000 (₤650) has been collected.
Each water source established by Amref is monitored by a water and sanitation committee and these groups will be able to purchase spare parts from the sub-committee at a lower cost because the goods will have been bought in bulk and transport costs will have been reduced.
Amref's water and sanitation officer will offer technical advice to the sub-committee for the duration of the project, but the supply chain is expected to be owned and run by the community, which should make it sustainable.
Procurement is expected to begin this month.
Health issues
Amref aims to provide an intermittent water supply to Tiriri health centre, which will pump water to the operating theatre and maternity ward. The theatre has not been used because there has been no water.
Village health teams will continue to receive support to improve household sanitation and hygiene and promote school sanitation and hygiene education.


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Washington, D.C.: Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is condemning President Barack Obama for urging Senate leaders to employ controversial reconciliation rules to force a government takeover of health care.
"The people have spoken, and they have said no to Obama's radical brand of health care reform," said Project 21's Massie. "Putting his seal of approval on usurping regular Senate procedure showcases not just an extraordinary arrogance and a willingness to abuse legislative power, but it also unambiguously indicates his contempt and disregard for the will of the American people."
In an address from the White House today, Obama expressed a willingness to work with Republicans to pass health care reform. But Obama also suggested that the Senate leadership might instead employ reconciliation rules to limit debate and lower the vote threshold normally needed to pass legislation in that chamber. This would allow the plan's more unpopular provisions to be enacted.
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In a February 25 Wall Street Journal commentary, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) called the use of reconciliation to pass Obamacare "a total affront to the legislative process." He noted that the process had previously been used for incremental budget issues or with wide bipartisan support. Calls to use reconciliation to pass the Clinton health care reform plan in 1994 and to create the Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2003.
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'Teen behaviour' OR mental health issue?(11 Posts)
How does one decide where the line is between 'teen behaviour' and an actual mental health issue? My DS16 is extremely hostile and rude to both me and DH pretty much all the time. He says he has decided to behave like this as we will not give in to his demands for later curfews ( he says 2 - 3 am is fair, we do not!! ) We have no positive relationship with him at all, he is increasingly mean and manipulative (EG yesterday I was in a ( calm) conflict with him and his dad walks in, DS16 says to me - 'you are looking more confident now that dad is here' - I find this a v manipulative/ threatening comment from my own son.
My DH and I stand as a united front which is good but DS16 is constantly trying to divide us. I know he smokes weed at the weekends and I wonder if this is making him paranoid, am very worried at his thought processes which are typical teenage stuff but more extreme ?
He is dreading parents evening at school next week already as he says we are so embarrassing ( no we are not, we are boring and ordinary ) - he feels he will be teased about us- I said if his friends are rude about us he should reconsider his friends but he says it's 'everyone '.
He goes out at weekends and appears to have lots of friends although we are not allowed to meet them. - he seemed to function well out of the home.
Any ideas ?
From your op I don't see any signs of a mental health issue or even that his behaviour is particularly extreme for a teen. Many people on this board will be able to report far more extreme behaviour eg aggression, theft, school-refusal etc.
He is attending school, socialising normally with friends and able to articulate his reasons for being angry with you even if they are unfair. I agree that 2/3 am can hardly be described as an acceptable 'curfew' but then again he has reached an age where many of his friends will have a lot of freedom and consider themselves pretty much an adult.
I think this sounds like pretty normal behaviour for an angry, bright, articulate teenager who wants to be nasty. I have certainly experienced much worse, including some truly odd behaviour like barricading me out of the house, and hiding on a small shelf in the fridge-sized airing cupboard when he wanted to avoid me.
I'm afraid that if he is smoking skunk, some of his behaviour will be erratic, and I personally found it made my own DS paranoid and aggressive, to the point where I also wondered about psychosis. Particularly, he flew into violent rages, smashed stuff up and threatened me, especially on Monday evenings after a heavy weekend taking a lot of skunk and perhaps also M-CAT, that I think would have got him sectioned if he'd done them in public rather than at home.
The good news is, lots of them seem to grow out of it. Two years on, my DS is not violent, rarely angry, and back on track.
I have yet to meet anyone who thinks 3 am is a reasonable curfew for someone in year 11. Except my DS who feels SO strongly that we are incarcerating him that he has totally withdrawn from the family. ( since the start of term )- this is the only reason he is giving for his anger.
Are other teens also so embarrassed and ashamed of their parents that they start worrying about parents evening at school a week ahead of time ? ( he gets good reports so he isn't worried about that, he can't bear for us to be seen by his peers ).
Flow4 I fear you are right ( skunk) Monday was awful.
To me, worrying about parents being embarrassing makes him sound very immature for his age: that is the kind of behaviour I would expect around the age of 12 rather than 16.
(When ds was 11 he didn't want to be seen with me in public if I was wearing my oldfashioned winter coat and tried to ban me from speaking English in public "because people might understand what you're saying".)
Most 16yos I know have moved beyond that stage and treat their parents with slightly patronising tolerance. So highly unlikely that his friends would be teasing him over something as remote as that. Possibly skunk induced paranoia? Or just being very immature. Do you think he could be struggling socially?
Madbess, I think your question is a reasonable one. When your child acts in a way that's difficult for you to understand its natural to question if it's normal. I have a ds16 too and its not easy to maintain a good relationship.
"Hostile"is a good description. Sounds like your son is pushing boundaries ( at least he's respecting your curfew, even if he's having a tantrum about it) it's like a older version of the terrible twos, pushing you to see how far you'll go, then get angry when they don't get their way - and there's no room for reason. Don't over worry about him being embarrassed by you, he probably used this as another stick to beat you with. Good luck.
The bravado and confidence in insulting you could be fuelled by weed. Thats part of the appeal of smoking. It increases you sense of self and ability to 'do anything' - btw, that includes dangerous stuff involving physical risk.
Where is he getting the money for weed from? If its you, then can I suggest you stop that right now. By effectively paying for it you are condoning its use - not a clever position for a parent to be in.....
I don't give him any money. I don't know how he funds it. I have asked but he won't tell me, obviously.
How do you know he's smoking?
Over the years we have found paraphernalia in his room, papers, tobacco, bongs so we have talked to him about it and he sees a drug counsellor.
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Ned takes the mickey out of the Ned Kelly legend. Sacha Molitorisz meets the man who wears the bucket in this relationship.
Directors often compare making a film to going to war. During production, they say, deadly blows are struck during devastating battles: the battle of raising the finance, the battle of assembling the cast and crew and, of course, the battle of shooting the blasted thing.
And here's the rub: the battlefield is no place for a teenager. Especially when that teenager wants to be a general before he's barely been a footsoldier.
"Compared to other people, I certainly hadn't done enough to warrant directing a feature," says Abe Forsythe on the eve of the release of Ned, a comedy that he not only directed but also wrote and starred in. Forsythe, whom you might recognise as Cam from TV's Always Greener, was 19 when he started work on Ned. He's now 21.
"I have worked on shoots before where the crew has turned on the director or not respected the director," says Forsythe. "Initially, I was worried the crew would think, 'What the f--- is this?' That was scary. I did feel I had to prove myself."
For the moment, though, let's put aside the remarkable achievement of a young man - possibly the youngest director of a feature film in Australia - whose previous experience consisted essentially of shooting a few shorts and appearing in the odd TV show.
Let's talk instead about the other war. No, not Iraq, but the one between Ned Kelly, the big-budget drama starring Heath Ledger and directed by Gregor Jordan that has made millions, and Ned, Forsythe's iconoclastic low-budget comedy.
For Forsythe, the war of the two bushranger flicks has spawned snide comments, dismissive articles and the threat of litigation. The first shots were fired last year at a movie convention on the Gold Coast.
"We sent a trailer there," says Forsythe. "For the trailer we'd filmed two versions of a scene with Governor Sinclair laughing over a 'Wanted' poster and in one of them they had a headshot of Heath Ledger instead of me.
"So at the conference they premiered all the Australian films for the coming year. They didn't have any footage for Ned Kelly yet so Gregor came on and talked about it. And then they showed the trailer for our film, which had that headshot of Heath cut into it, and everyone just went, 'Ooooh!'
"Then their legal team got on to Ocean Pictures, one of our distributors, so we couldn't put that scene in the film. They were going to take it further, too, but they couldn't because it was a private screening."
Forsythe and his collaborators weren't particularly fussed, even when their rivals were later quoted in the press referring to a "a low-budget straight-to-video spoof". They didn't name Ned, but couldn't have been talking about anything else.
"It was all a bit nasty," says Felix Williamson, who plays the role of Governor Sinclair, Ned's maniacal antagonist. "But we all laughed."
As they should have: Ned is anything but a straight-to-video release.
"It's actually a really good opportunity for us," says Forsythe. "They've got a massive advertising campaign, so everyone's going to have Ned Kelly burned into their brains. And if people are anything like me, they'll want to see that stuff have the piss taken out of it."
That, in a nutshell, is the synopsis of Forsythe's film: a piss-take of the story of Ned Kelly. A very funny piss-take.
In this retelling, Ned is the bumbling son of a rubber farmer (Jeremy Sims). Ned's feeble ambition is to be the world's premier outlaw illusionist, which leads him and his pony, Muffy, to join the gang of highwayman Dan Hughes (Nick Flint).
Dan is busy building a career repeatedly robbing the Glenrowan bank with Steve Hart (Damon Herriman), a twitchy psychopath, and Joe Byrne (Josef Ber), a cross-dresser who is stealing only to raise money for a sex change operation. On their tail is Governor Sinclair, an official with a hamster fetish, an evil laugh and an iron fist.
"He's maniacal, evil and slightly homoerotic," says Williamson. "It's always good to play a villain, and especially a [gives a stereotypical evil laugh] muu-ha-ha-haa villain."
Says Forsythe: "The thing I've found that works for me when I'm writing is that if I spend enough time just on the characters, the script pretty much writes itself."
But why pick on Ned Kelly? Why poke fun at one of Australia's best-loved heroes?
"We're a nation of people that like taking the piss," says Forsythe.
"And Ned to me seemed the prime target, because we've made a hero of someone who was a cattle thief and a murderer. His legend has been blown out of all proportion. I reckon the only reason is that helmet, because it's such a striking image."
Naturally, that's an image Forsythe subverts. At one point, Ned uses the mailbox of the local brothel as his helmet. This is unfortunate, given said helmet has two prominent breasts above the words "Glenrowan Slut Palace".
Which brings us to the humour. One of Ned's many strengths is that it doesn't feel like a film cynically written for a particular audience. The fast humour ranges from lowbrow fart jokes to pop culture allusions to adult innuendo.
"I didn't try to make the funniest film possible for 16-year-olds," says Forsythe. "I've always just used my mates as a sounding board. If they find it funny, it's in. I think the distributors and investors and all those people need demographics.
"I mean, the investors were always saying this is a very strong film for 16- to 21-year-olds. They were comparing it to Road Trip and calling it Dude, Where's My Pony?
"When you explain it, you always have to say, well, 'It's Blazing Saddles meets South Park meets Flying High ...'"
" ... meets Agnes of God," adds Williamson.
The Dirty Deeds star brings a compelling intensity to Governor Sinclair, a performance Williamson says was inspired by the lunacy of the Goodies and Monty Python. Other standout performances come from Flint, Sims and Forsythe.
Forsythe says his writing and performance was informed by South Park and early Steve Martin films such as The Jerk.
In a way, perhaps it's not such a surprise that Forsythe made Ned at a young age, nor that it's very good. He comes from good thespian stock: his father is Drew Forsythe, a veteran of 100 productions including Cop Shop and All Saints. Forsythe snr narrated Ned.
Following in the family tradition, Forsythe jnr started acting and directing as a youngster. He was 16 when his film Guided by the Light of the Lord was a finalist at 1998's Tropfest, where it won the Tropicana Award.
As an actor, his credits include key roles in productions by the Bell Shakespeare Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, and appearances on Water Rats, G.P. and Big Sky.
Apart from starring in Always Greener, Forsythe has recently finished playing the lead character of Marking Time, the new mini-series from John Doyle.
Forsythe says his Tropfest experience proved particularly crucial in making Ned.
Originally he wanted to shoot his script on digital video for $50,000. But after passing his script on to producer Darryl Robinson - whom he had met indirectly through Tropfest - Robinson passed Ned on to a distributor. A distribution guarantee followed.
"Tropfest has opened a lot of doors for me that I'm sure wouldn't have been opened for me otherwise," says Forsythe.
Still, Ned was only possible because its budget was "very, very low", largely because the shoot was a mere 27 days and Forsythe played the lead role.
"I'd written that role for myself," he says. "The whole point of originally writing it was that I'd missed out on a film I'd auditioned for and it was a real bummer.
"And people were worried it was going to be too big a responsibility for me, but it came down to the fact that I didn't need any practice playing that role because I've had it in my head for so long."
Forsythe says the shoot itself was "non-stop fun", but would he do it again?
"I wouldn't direct and act at the same time again," he says. "But I do have something I'm trying to get up that's really, really low budget. But yeah, hopefully I'll get the chance to do it again. Maybe I'll do Ned 2: Ned Goes to Jamaica."
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