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Q: How we show the selected ListView item in alert dialog box in a Sequence? Here is my code, I don't know what will do to write to show the individual selected items.
how we can show the user id, name, and other details in selected listview view item to alert the dialog. box. The main problem is the position of the selected item.

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*List item

private String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName();
private ProgressDialog pDialog;
private ListView lv;

ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> contactList;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    contactList = new ArrayList<>();

    lv = findViewById(R.id.list);

    new GetContacts().execute();
}

/**
 * Async task class to get json by making HTTP call
 */
@SuppressLint("StaticFieldLeak")
private class GetContacts extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();
        // Showing progress dialog
        pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
        pDialog.setMessage("Please wait...");
        pDialog.setCancelable(false);
        pDialog.show();

    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
        HttpHandler sh = new HttpHandler();

        // Making a request to url and getting response
        // URL to get contacts JSON
        String url = "https://api.androidhive.info/contacts/";
        String jsonStr = sh.makeServiceCall(url);

        Log.e(TAG, "Response from url: " + jsonStr);

        if (jsonStr != null) {
            try {
                JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonStr);

                // Getting JSON Array node
                JSONArray contacts = jsonObj.getJSONArray("contacts");

                // looping through All Contacts
                for (int i = 0; i < contacts.length(); i++) {
                    JSONObject c = contacts.getJSONObject(i);

                    String id = c.getString("id");
                    String name = c.getString("name");
                    String email = c.getString("email");
                    String address = c.getString("address");
                    String gender = c.getString("gender");

                    // Phone node is JSON Object
                    JSONObject phone = c.getJSONObject("phone");
                    String mobile = phone.getString("mobile");
                    String home = phone.getString("home");
                    String office = phone.getString("office");

                    // tmp hash map for single contact
                    HashMap<String, String> contact = new HashMap<>();

                    // adding each child node to HashMap key => value
                    contact.put("\n"+"id", id);
                    contact.put("name", name);
                    contact.put(""+  "email", email);
                    contact.put(""+"mobile", mobile);
                    contact.put("address",address);
                    contact.put("\n"+"gender",gender);
                    contact.put("\n"+  "home",home);
                    contact.put("\n"+"office",office);

                    // adding contact to contact list
                    contactList.add(contact);
                }
            } catch (final JSONException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "Json parsing error: " + e.getMessage());
                runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                                "Json parsing error: " + e.getMessage(),
                                Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                                .show();
                    }
                });

            }
        } else {
            Log.e(TAG, "Couldn't get json from server.");
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                            "Couldn't get json from server. Check LogCat for possible errors!",
                            Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                            .show();
                }
            });

        }

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        super.onPostExecute(result);
        // Dismiss the progress dialog
        if (pDialog.isShowing())
            pDialog.dismiss();
        final ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
                MainActivity.this, contactList,
                R.layout.list_item, new String[]{"name", "email",
                "mobile", "address", "gender"}, new int[]{R.id.name,
                R.id.email, R.id.mobile, R.id.address});

        lv.setAdapter(adapter);
        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                                    int position, long id)
            {

                AlertDialog.Builder alert =  new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this);
                View mView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.list_item,null);
                final ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
                        MainActivity.this,contactList,

                        R.layout.list_item, new String[]{"name", "email",
                        "mobile", "address", "gender"}, new int[]{R.id.name,
                        R.id.email, R.id.mobile, R.id.address});

                contactList.get(position);
                alert.setAdapter(adapter, null);

                alert.setView(mView);
                final androidx.appcompat.app.AlertDialog alertDialog = alert.create();
                alertDialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);
                btn_cancel.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View view) {
                        alertDialog.dismiss();

                    }
                });
                ok.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View view) {
                        textView.setText(text.getText().toString());

                    }
                });
                alertDialog.show();

            }
        });
    }

}

}

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Fifa 20 – What I Want
(Spoilers for The Journey and the Jamie Johnson Books)
The Fifa series, by EA, is a series that I'm sure every football fan ever has played at some point in their life, even if you are a PES fan. The series captures everyone with its fun gameplay and awesome controls. Despite this, Fifa has many flaws, and they become clear in gameplay. Here is what I want in Fifa 20 – or at some point in the Fifa series of games.
1 – Revamped Career
In-Game Screenshots from FIFA19
The first thing that I really would like in Fifa is an improved career mode. Career mode in Fifa has stayed the same really since the early days of Fifa, with a few additions here and there, but not much has really come about. If I were in charge, I would add a whole new revamped career mode (as an option compared to the older version), where the player can't start at a club of their choosing, instead they get an offer from small clubs, in maybe lower divisions, compared to having the ability to manage Barcelona straight away. This particular mode would be separate from original career mode, which I would change too. I would call this mode "Hard", and it would be an option when you select "Manager" in the career menu.
Additionally, I would add another career mode for chairman, where you take control of a club as the chairman, and you have to appoint top class managers, manage the club's finances, and keep the board on your side. To keep the board on your side, you have to make sure you have the results and get the right amount of sales. Perhaps you could pay for an advertising campaign, or you have to hire the right social media manager. You would not be able to manage the team, as only "Sim Match" would be available. Despite this, you could perhaps watch the game, a feature for which is already in Fifa today.
2 – Ultimate Team Improvements
Secondly, I would much like Ultimate Team improvements, more specifically, making it less pay to win. Personally, I do not purchase Fifa packs, which makes it really difficult for me to progress, even on singleplayer. There should be better rewards, and the match rewards should be better than they are. 500 coins per match, or whatever it is at the moment, is far too much for anyone to viably progress without paying for Fifa points, and it is annoying, at least for me.
3 – The Journey. But Good.
Personally, I do not like The Journey. I think the story is bland, and having played through most of the Fifa 17 Journey, it just feels scripted. The real player cameos just feel off for some reason, and the acting is something to laugh at, in my opinion. If I were in charge of the Journey's production, I would make the
next trilogy (if there will be one) the best story in a game anyone has ever played. My main criticism with the Journey is that it is such a normal story. Despite not having played the Fifa 18 Journey, I have played most of the Fifa 17 Journey and watched a lot of playthroughs of the newest instalment. I used to love the Jamie Johnson series because I was able to connect with Jamie, as a character, and it wasn't forced. I felt sad at every character's death. I was on the edge of my seat at the end of the last book, and I still mean to get the new one. Then they made that Tv-Series and turned the character I had grown to really like turned into something completely different. I've never been able to connect with Alex Hunter or Danny Williams.
Tangents aside, if I were in charge of the Journey, I would have made it into a Jamie Johnson style series. In fact, EA loves some good old rights, so why not purchase the rights to Jamie Johnson and make a Journey Season 2 playing through the life of Jamie Johnson, it would be so hard to get wrong, the stories are already written, all you have to do is make Jamie what he is in the books, and not what he is in that CBBC thing. The stories are far more compelling than Alex Hunter's and unless EA pulls something really special out of the bag, that is not loot-boxes, they will always be more compelling than the Journey. The Journey is career mode with cutscenes, Jamie Johnson is something really special, and those stories in a Fifa game would be the best thing since I got to play at Villa Park in Fifa.
In conclusion, the Fifa franchise is a great series of solid football games, but they always miss something. These were the improvements I would make to give the game that something. Thanks for reading.
Note: This was written before Fifa 19 was released, so it has been amended where possible for Fifa 20.
Tom Obiwan
Indie Game Developer also a writer for Sip Read Repeat. Aviation and space enthusiast, has a bit of a thing for coffee.
Tags: EAEA SportsFifaFifa20FootballPESWhat I want

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COMPLIANCE MANAGER, AEROSPACE INDUSTRY, PHOENIX
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Financial transactions with an entity on one of many government watch lists pose significant risk to companies in the financial services sector, and in the controlled-goods space. You could be committing violations of export control and FinCEN regulations right now, or they could be hidden in your books, or those of companies you have or in are considering acquiring.
The severe penalties of violating the regulations, including fines, restrictions on business activities, incarceration, and damage to personal and corporate reputations invites appropriate due diligence measures to protect individuals, executives and the corporation.
In most time-is-money, high transaction volume / low revenue environments, a key challenge in anti-money laundering due diligence is finding solutions that add negligible incremental transaction costs and are almost invisible to throughput.
Financial Services companies have screening mandates that include OFAC
Financial services companies subject to FinCEN and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) have a set of watch lists against which screening is typically performed to ascertain transactions for inclusion on SAR and other reports.
Most companies include a broad range of lists, including Patriot Act Section 311, FinCEN 314a, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP), FBI, OSFI, UK Consolidated (formerly the Bank of England consolidated list), EU Consolidated and FATF.
When the USA Patriot Act was introduced, in amending the BSA to strengthen U.S. measures to prevent, detect and prosecute international money laundering, it added the requirement for financial service companies to screen against the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. It also added requirement for these companies to ensure compliance with OFAC country-based sanctions.
As part of corporate anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) programs, financial service companies are concerned with ensuring screening accuracy while minimizing the workload involved in false positives, particularly when screening against the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.
Companies in the controlled goods space
Controllers, executives and board members of companies dealing in controlled goods, technologies or services face heightened compliance risks and requirements. Regulatory criminal and civil penalties aside, it's not good for business to be publically exposed as a company that compromises national security.
To ensure compliance, companies are concerned with classifying the goods and services they provide, managing their licenses and agreements, and screening against government lists:
Are the items on the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) USML list or the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) CCL list of military goods? Are licenses or technical assistance agreements required based on the classification and the end-user, end-use, destination and employee or contractor nationality?
How much room is there on the licenses? Do they satisfy the pipeline, marketing plans and expansion strategies?
Are the parties on the BIS entity, denied or unverified lists, the DDTC debarred parties list, the OFAC specially designated nationals list, or other national and international watch lists? When was the last time they were screened?


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Judge Rebuffs Microsoft's Objection To Brief Writer in Antitrust Trial
John R. WilkeStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
Updated Dec. 21, 1999 12:01 am ET
WASHINGTON -- U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rejected Microsoft Corp.'s objections to Lawrence Lessig's renewed participation in the company's antitrust trial, saying he finds no convincing evidence the Harvard University Internet expert is biased against Microsoft.
Microsoft had said in an earlier court filing that Mr. Lessig, whose views on the case had been solicited by Judge Jackson, "may not be an impartial friend of the court with regard to legal issues in the case."


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Home → January, 2012
Monthly Archives: January 2012 − News & Stories
Deadly polar bear attack in Tempelfjorden
Posted on 21. January 2012 by Rolf Stange
In August 2011, one person died and four other ones were seriously injured under a polar bear attack on a camp in Tempelfjord (see August 2011 news on this site for further details). The Norwegian police has now published a report on the technical condition of the safety equipment. Both the alarm fence and the rifle had failed, which contributed to the tragic outcome of the incident. Four attempts to shoot the bear failed, the bear was shot with a fifth cartridge, which had been in the rifle before, but had been ejected without firing and was then found on the ground.
According to the Norwegian police, both the rifle and the alarm fence worked when handled properly. As had been assumed before, it seems now safe to say that misusage of the alarm fence and the rifle contributed to the tragic development. Based on the information available, it is however impossible to say if it might have been possible to shoot the bear before the victim was killed. The bear was extremely aggressive and the attack went very rapidly.
Mauser-style rifles are commonly used for protection against polar bears in Spitsbergen.
Source: Sysselmannen
East Svalbard management plan: open letter from Thor Larsen
Thor Larsen is a well-known polar bear biologist. He was research director at the Norwegian Polar Institute and is now professor emeritus. With a large number of expeditions over more than half a century, he is one of the veterans of Norwegian polar research.
Recently, Thor Larsen has expressed substantial criticism about the latest proposal of a management plan for east Svalbard, which includes large so-called scientific reference areas. It can be expected that public access to these areas will be significantly more difficult, if not impossible. Larsen critizises that the plan is kept upright although several working groups of the Sysselmannen have concluded that conflicts between tourism and science can not be identified at the time being and are not expected in the future either. The actual environmental impact of organized tourism is described as minimal by these working groups. For example, it was feared that tourist visits to walrus haulout sites might lead to disturbance. Monitoring with automatic cameras over several years has, however, not yielded any evidence to support this. According to Larsen, remaining problems such as local erosion can be solved with the implementation of site-specific guidelines wherever needed. A need for closing large areas is not seen, neither from a scientific nor from an environmental perspective, writes Larsen, also pointing out that the areas in question are all inside the nature reserves, which are already enjoying strict protection. The current regulations are well capable of protecting scientific and environmental needs, according to Larsen.
Larsen critizises that higher administrative levels keep the proposal to reserve large areas as "scientific reference areas" upright despite of this obvious lack of data which might support such a drastic step. He also points out that the scientific quality of the papers that suggest the proposal is not meeting any standards. Larsen supposes that relevant institutions now insist on their proposal because of a feared "loss of face" and reminds of a common-sense rule for mountaineering that is well-known in Norway: it is never too late to turn around.
Thor Larsen's complete letter was published last Friday in Svalbardposten (02/2012) in Norwegian. An English translation can be downloaded here.
Northeastern Nordaustland is mostly very rocky. Nobody really knows why this area should become an exclusive playground for "science relevant to administration".
Diesel leakage at Kapp Linné
The old radio station Isfjord Radio at Kapp Linné at the mouth of Isfjord was abandoned about 10 years ago. Today, the protected buildings are used only during the spring and summer season for touristic purposes. For the rest of the year, the houses are standing empty, mostly without supervision.
Employees of the owner SNSG (Store Norske Spitsbergen Grubekompani) have discovered a diesel leakage. It is uncertain for how long diesel could escape from the tank, but the Sysselmannen assumes that up to 100,000 or 150,000 litres may have entered the local environment. The leakage happened in a generator room.
The polar winter makes it impossible to take counteractive measures.
The houses of the former radio station Isfjord Radio at Kapp Linné.
Sysselmannen
Management plan for East Svalbard: letter to the editor of Svalbardposten
Posted on 9. January 2012 by Rolf Stange
The ongoing controversy about the East Svalbard management plan has been covered repeatedly on these pages, most recently in early December, 2011. Now 17 expedition leaders have given their comments and made alternative suggestions in a letter-to-the-editor of Svalbardposten, which was published in Norwegian on last Friday (Svalbardposten 01/2012). An English translation can be downloaded here (englisch).
Many of the undersigned, including the owner of this website, have university-level education in natural sciences and are dedicated environmentalists with experience from areas, where tourism is successfully controlled, such as Antarctica.
According to the latest official proposal, Duvefjord is to be part of the controversial "Zone A", the "scientific reference area".
Exploration drilling in the Barents Sea
OMV Norge, the Norwegian daughter of the international oil- and gas company OMV, plans exploration drillings in the field PL 537, about 196 kilometres southeast of Bear Island, searching for hydrocarbons. The depth of the Barents Sea in this area is near 400 metres.
The Barents Sea is biologically very productive and ecologically sensitive. It is highly important for large seabird populations, marine mammals and the fishing industry.
The approximate location of PL 537 in the Barents Sea.
Source: Oilinfo.no
AECO: site-specific guidelines
AECO (Arctic expedition cruise operators) has published site-specific guidelines. These are intended to support visitors at a number of mostly frequently visited site to treat the natural and historical environment carefully. AECO member companies, which run most tourist ships that travel Spitsbergen on a regular basis, have commited themselves to the AECO guidelines. All other ships, including private boats, are invited to follow them.
The guidelines can be downloaded from AECO.
As expected, experienced expedition leaders won't find a lot of new information in the guidelines. Tourleaders with lesser experience and private visitors will find them interesting and helpful in order to avoid or minimize any impact.
From the guidelines: Ytre Norskøya. © AECO.
Source: AECO
Spitsbergen on the UNESCO world heritage list?
In December it emerged that the Norwegian government has plans to nominate the Spitsbergen archipelago (at least partly) for the UNESCO world heritage list. Political parties and representatives of the local populations are spectical. Local politicians in Longyearbyen said they would prefer such initiatives to come from the local population, rather than the government in Oslo, which is often too far away from real life in the arctic.
It is also believed that a nomination for the UNESCO world heritage list is seen as a political exchange for a new mine, which has recently been announced to be permitted. Politicians in Longyearbyen fear that the ministry of the environment is looking for a political balance for the new mine at the possible expense of locals and tourists, who may face new restrictions which are often beneficial for Oslo politicians rather than the environment.
Controversial: a nomination for the UENSCO world heritage list. The image shows a scene from Krossfjord.
Source: NRK (Norwegian TV boradcaster)
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THE MUMBAI FILM & TV INDUSTRY DECLARES A STRIKE!
By: Anjum Rajabali
We were hoping to avoid this, and did our damnedest for that, but unfortunately, in the face of demeaning obduracy, we failed. Hence, the only way out of a rather grim situation is to continue the struggle by striking work!
So, all the workers of this industry, including directors, actors, music directors, cinematographers, all other technicians, junior artistes, AND screenwriters & lyricists are going on strike from October 3, 2015.
Below, I'm going to focus on the screenwriter's condition.
Background for screenwriters
The vulnerable position and condition of screenwriters in the film industry is no secret. And, the primary reason for that is that writers' contracts are unfair, are totally one-sided in favour of producers, exploitative, and violate the Copyright Act, as we explain below. Writers' contracts humiliate the writer! In too many contracts, even credit is not assured. Shockingly, the contracts of even some established writers say, 'Final credit will be on the discretion of the producer'! And, 'This contract can be terminated by the producer at any time, without assigning any reason whatsoever'! This allows the producer to throw you out, snatch your written work, take your credit away, and deny you your balance fees. (Some contracts even state that the writer will return the fees, if the producer is unhappy with the work!!) Wow!
Plus, it is a known fact that new writers, no matter how good their work and how talented they may be, are paid a pittance, often less than Rs. 1 lakh for the entire script. Even successful writers are paid much much less than the worth of their work. This, when film budgets are ballooning rapidly and proudly, all the time. And, star salaries have hit the sky!
The amended Copyright Act was unanimously passed by parliament in June 2012. It now contains sections that are protective of writers' rights. According to this law now
When a writer writes, s/he creates intellectual property of which s/he is the first owner
S/he then has the right to assign it to the producer to make a film, making him the second owner
The right to be called the author of that work is permanently his/hers
While the producer is free to commercially exploit the script, when the film based on your script is shown on TV, on the Internet or on any platform outside of a cinema hall, you are entitled to royalties (a percentage of such earnings). If the film is remade or adapted or dubbed or converted into a TV serial or book or commercially exploited in any way whatsoever, you are entitled to royalties from such exploitation. This right to receive royalties cannot be assigned or sold to anyone, including to the producer. No one can take it away!
This royalty is separate from the writing fee. And, you are to receive it for your entire lifetime, after which your heirs get it for 60 years after your death. (Royalty rates are formulated by the writers' copyright society and confirmed by the Copyright Board. While HRD Ministry is still to appoint a Copyright Board, do know that you will get your royalties in retrospect from June 21, 2012, and writing contracts have to acknowledge that.) Royalty does not depend on the generosity of the producer. It is your legal right.
This is the clear and unambiguous copyright law of this country.
Illegal contracts
How many writers' contracts have these clauses? None! Instead, they term the writing fee 'advance royalty', or flatly write that the writer forgoes his/her right to receive royalty. This is blatantly illegal.
For too long have all screenwriters suffered such practices that deny them the due value of their work, their credit and royalty!
Why do they do this? Simple answer: Because they can! As businessmen, their aim is to squeeze costs wherever possible, and writers are soft, unprotected targets. Their high-sounding words about writers being very important never seem to translate into contracts, fees and rights!
FWA's Minimum Basic Contract
To rectify this situation, and regulate the writer-producer relationship, FWA insisted on a basic standard contract for film & TV writers and lyricists, which would have some essential protective clauses, and a schedule for minimum fees, production slab-wise. After intensive consultations with several IP lawyers and about 25 film screenwriters including Javed Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Jaideep Sahni, Sriram Raghavan, Rajat Aroraa, Shridhar Raghavan, Abbas Tyrewala, Amole Gupte, Saket Chaudhary and others, a Minimum Basic Contract (MBC) was formulated.
It is based on the principles of mutuality and fairness.
Holds both, the producer and the writer, accountable to their respective commitments
Guarantees your credit.
Confirms your right to receive royalty.
Protects you against arbitrary termination.
Has a schedule of minimum writing fees, budget-wise.
Our MBC was examined by senior Indian and international writers, other writers' guilds, senior IP lawyers, and most importantly by producers themselves. It was termed reasonable by all of them! In fact, three years ago, when FWA officially negotiated this MBC with the Film and TV Producers Guild, all the above clauses were mutually agreed to! They even wrote to us confirming this!! And, yet, when the copyright act was amended, they summarily backtracked.
The solution: Collective Bargaining
Screenwriters the world over envy the status and rewards that Hollywood writers enjoy. Why do they get this and Indian writers don't? The only, and we repeat, the only difference is collective bargaining! The bargaining power of an individual writer is grossly unequal compared to that of the producer. So, the Writers Guild of America enforces their own Minimum Basic Agreement with the collective support of all its members. And, even they've had 3 strikes since the 40s before achieving their currently enviable position.
FWICE's MoU
The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE, the mother-body of all 23 unions) signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Producers' bodies to ensure a wage-increase and improved working conditions for workers. But, this was mainly for the physical workers. This year, FWA and other talent-based unions, including cinematographers, editors, art directors, sound recordists, etc. decided that our proposed standard contracts should be included in that collective MoU.
The Producers' representatives agreed, in principle, that negotiation meetings with all the unions would be concluded and the MoU signed by January 2015.
Why strike?
But, that has not happened. Unending prevarications, procrastinations, cancellations, and excuses have been used to not sign it. The sub-text is clear: On their own, they will not grant us our rights. Not until, we resolve to struggle and fight for it.
After 14 months of suffering delaying tactics, FWICE was left with no choice but to declare a general strike. All the 23 unions, actors, directors, music directors, every single worker of the Film & TV industry, including FWA, are going on strike!
Of course it is going to be difficult to sustain the strike. In a relationship-based industry, telling one's producer that I am on strike and won't write is deucedly awkward. You fear for your job. A writer's strike in India is unprecedented, and hence fraught with doubts, misgivings, anxiety and questions.
Entirely understandable. But, the alternative of a no-strike seems clear too. You continue to be denied the fair value of your work. You get exploited for ever. You continue to suffer the humiliation of unfair contracts, which take away your rights AND your dignity.
On the other hand, if screenwriters remain united and speak in one voice and action through this strike, they can compel producers to collectively negotiate a fair and just MBC, which will assure every screenwriter of a decent status. So, while we don't want a strike, it seems clear that we need it. Moreover, as members of their union, screenwriters are bound by it.
All working writers, please feel free to send in your questions and issues to filmwritersassociation@gmail.com. Please cc anjumrajabali@gmail.com
It's time to stop being helpless. It's time to make a difference. And, if we stand together, we can!
In solidarity:
Anjum Rajabali (Convener, Film MBC)
Saket Chaudhary (Member, Film MBC)
Abhijeet Deshpande (Member, Film MBC)
Manisha Korde (Member, Film MBC and Jt. Secretary FWA)
Sanyuktha Chawla-Shaikh (Member, Film MBC)
Pooja Varma (Member, Film MBC)
Vinod Ranganath (Convener, TV MBC and Vice President FWA)
Rajesh Dubey (Member, TV MBC)
Zaman Habib (Member, TV MBC and Jt. Secretary FWA)
Preiti Mamgain (Member, TV MBC and Treasurer FWA)
Rajita Sharma (Member, TV MBC)
Mayur Puri (Convener, Lyricists' MBC)
Kamlesh Pandey (General Secretary FWA and President FWICE)
Posted by SASFED at 10/02/2015 12:41:00 PM
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Pay Now Or Pay Later - A Warning For Parents Of Traumatized Kids
The voice whispered in my ear, "pay now or pay later."
I didn't wanna hear it.
Instead, I kept with my plan: Work full-time and the mandatory two evenings a week, while Xavier went to kindergarten and afterschool daycare. A babysitter picked him up and kept him until 9:30 on two of those nights.
All of that year and the next, the voice was persistent, "pay now or pay later."
I continued to ignore it and raked in a fat income.
Meanwhile, this little boy who had been through friggin' hell in two shitty foster homes and looked like a near-starved child from an impoverished African nation when I got him at three, was suffering, and I, a mental health nimwit therapist, was too selfish and blind to see it.
I rationalized, I justified.
"He's done okay so far," I'd whisper back to the voice of my conscience. "Daycare and my mom pitching in to babysit hasn't hurt him so far, and now he'll be in a good private Christian school."
"Not good enough," the voice whispered back.
"F you, what do you know?", I'd retort. "You're just my fears talking to me. He's doing fine... most of the time."
The voice would fall silent at my denial, and I'd try to fall into slumber. This was hard. I could hear Xavier in the next room, banging his head on his pillow, trying to bang away the demons of past neglect so he could fall asleep.
Sometimes at night, the many pillows I had lined against his wall at the head of his bed would fall away. His wall would literally shake as he banged his head into it, again and again and again in his effort to fall back asleep. I'd run into his room, grab him by the ankles and pull him downwards, then place the pillows against the wall again because he'd always edge back up to it in his sleep.
My mother, like me when I first witnessed his head banging behavior in his foster home, was initially aghast. Later she'd joke about it.
"I can picture him on his honeymoon now," she say laughing. "His poor wife won't be able to get a lick of sleep."
We often laugh and crack jokes to lighten the load.
Most children outgrow this form of self-soothing behavior by age three. Boys are three times as likely to do it as girls. However, he's 19 now and still rocks himself to sleep by gently banging his head on his pillow before passing out.
I had a different type of hard head, common to the career mom addicted to a comfortable lifestyle, good money, and having the convenient belief that this emotionally damaged child didn't need a real sacrifice from me: to sell my house and live off the profit as a renter, quit my job for a year or two and and become a stay-at-home mother to give him the undivided attention he missed in his primary years.
I ignored the voice, and I remember the day I noticed he had lost a chunk of his soul. I could see it in his eyes.
We were on a long, Florida vacation in October when the lines are short at Disney & Universal. Xavier was six years old and I hadn't given a second thought to pulling him out of school for the trip since I never met an adult who couldn't spell cat, hat and rat.
In downtown Orlando, I discovered a spooky house of horrors to die for. You'd go on a tour with a group of only six or eight people through dark corridors and into rooms designed to shock you silly. Real actors re-enacted terrifying scenes from classic horror movies and would pop out of nowhere. They were so convincing that adults cringed and screamed and young children unlucky enough to be there hid behind their parents.
Hey, I didn't know it was gonna be that real. Fo' real.
MrSynnerster, DeviantArt.com
Xavier didn't bat an eye through any of this.
He was too busy obsessing on the cool, macabre shit he'd glanced at in the gift shop, but couldn't get to because it was our turn to do the tour. Immediately afterwards and while the group was still sweating and tittering over the blood, gore, torture chambers and monsters they'd seen, he couldn't get to the display counter fast enough.
"Xavier," I asked, "didn't any of this scare you?"
"Nuh-uh. I wanna buy somethin'."
It was beyond weird. It was unhealthy and a signal that he had turned a very dangerous corner - torture scenes (evil) didn't scare him. His unnatural greed for possessions scared me.
In the hotel, I watched him role play both good guys and bad with the collection of toy swords, guns and other weapons. It's like he couldn't make up his mind what to be.
Most boys are attracted to superhero figures, but he was equally comfortable slipping into the role of the powerful bad guy. Males in particular and women in general are attracted to raw power. It fits in with the law of survival, aka survival of the fittest.
In politics this usually plays out as voting for the perceived strongest and smartest who claim to the ability to protect us and win any war. In poor urban 'hoods where kids are routinely traumatized from everything associated with poverty and have few visible positive leaders, it manifests as an attraction for the head gangstas in charge.
I studied his behavior with new eyes, and also wondered why the hell this kid seemed utterly fearless. I thought of how he had never been afraid of monsters, but went into full-blown panic attacks if I put him my car and said that where I was taking him was a surprise. I chalked this off to early abandonment issues. That was his monster and he'd been through it before - three times.
The first time he was a few weeks old. As an infant, he had bonded to his birth mother who breast fed him. Someone drove her to Social Services where she willingly signed him over to foster care because she was old enough to realize that her crack lifestyle and raising an infant weren't compatible. It took her four kids to get to this point, but even then she couldn't let go completely. She suckered me into an open adoption.
I honored the deal, which in hindsight, was stupid after she missed half of her once a year Christmastime visits until he was nine. He perceived her no shows as rejection and was going nuts from wanting to know her better. He destroyed everything in sight to have full day or weekend visits at her home.
I should have moved far away to put the burden of buying a plane ticket to see him on her, but I have family in the area and had a good job. After seeing how hard open adoptions with a highly dysfunctional birth mother or family can be on a number of kids including my own, I don't advocate them, but that's another story.
As an infant, he had to bond with his new foster mother because she was all he had. The county closed her home down for neglect when another parent complained and Social Services agreed. Removing a child from his primary caretaker is usually traumatic, even if that person is neglectful or marginally abusive.
At a year old, he was moved from the frying pan and into the fire of another home where this foster mother immediately stripped him of his pacifier and nearly starved him to death. She didn't do this intentionally; she worked long hours, took care of six kids to pay her house note, and didn't have the patience to nurture a picky eater.
The outcome was still neglect. I never had the sense that he bonded with her, and wondered if his ability to emotionally attach to others was going to be an issue. This serious impairment is now called Reactive Attachment Disorder, and word up, it can look like bipolar disorder.
When he left for the last time, he knew it was the last time. He didn't even look back or say goodbye.
I had the best of good intentions, toys, art, puppets, educational games, books. He developed a strong attachment to me and his new grandmother, but this took time.
Puppets and art are an excellent and quick way to get into the mind of child and used in play therapy, which is one of my strengths as a therapist. Be very careful though; when they say shocking things, you absolutely must not 'interrogate' them or you'll freak them out. Leave the gentle probing to a child therapist.
Video games were fairly new as the rage in the early 90s. I bought him several. They distracted him from reality and he could be the powerful character in the video. That's all Mario, Zelda, Street Fighter and the newer video games are or ever will be. You live on the edge and live and die by your mistakes, but you always come back to life.
Limited doses of the tamer games are great for a kid, but children can over-identify with the characters. If the games are violent, they easily become desensitized and lose varying degrees of their capacity to be empathetic.
Xavier was in a Christian summer camp just before he turned five. This was in 1993 and before people knew much about the effects of them. I thought one of staffer was nuts when I overheard her say to another, "Marva, I swear, one of these days, they're gonna find out that Satan lives in those games. That's how he's getting to these children."
This staffer listened to her inner voice and intuition, and shared what she'd heard. I thought it was funny, but over time I wondered, because that lil' mo-fo was tough as nails and for some reason, had no healthy sense of fear. He acted like he an immortal game character and couldn't get hurt.
When Xavier began kindergarten that September, he told me about a bigger boy, a bully, at the school bus stop.
"He's beating up kids. He says I'm next."
"Really?", I replied.
I had to think how I would handle this. The bully's parents were bullies too. One of my good neighbors had the miserable luck to live next door to them. She witnessed the father, a mean-looking cab driver, run over her cat - on purpose - then lie in her face that he didn't and she better back the fuck off. His wife equaled him in being an out and out bitch.
I like to avoid people who love to intimidate and start shit. Easier on the blood pressure and frees up my mind to worry about other things than if they're poisoning my dog when I'm at work.
I finally told him, "Then you go stand at the other bus stop from now on."
"I ain't worried," Xavier said. "I'll fight anyone, anywhere, anytime."
"No you won't," I said. "I mean it."
He defied me and the bully with his screw fear attitude. The next day, he popped that kid in the back of his head as the boy got off the bus in front of him. Then set his azz up to take the fall by running to his house telling his mama, "He tried to hit me. He's hitting all the kids. They gonna kick him outta school."
I'm laughing now. Lil' nigga was political. Forty-five pounds and knew about manipulation and social politics. Xavier stood outside this 3rd grade boy's window and laughed loudly when he heard him get a major azz-whipping, 'cause these folks had too much shit going on for the school to get involved with their life, and then he taunted him outside his window.
I was mesmerized.
"What he do?"
"Opened his blinds and looked mad at me. I gave him the finger and walked away laughin'."
"He's gonna beat yo' azz tomorrow," I said worriedly.
"No he won't, not if knows what's good for him."
And the bully didn't. He must've known that my kid, far smaller than himself, was friggin' possessed. It didn't hurt that Xavier could run fast and laughed the whole time like it was a game. To him it was, and his lack of fear commanded a lot of respect.
How does a human being lose the fear of getting physically hurt in dangerous situations that make others cautious?
Young children who live in high stress, non-nurturing environments are forced to look loneliness and despair in the eye. They often respond to this with extreme behaviors, such as crippling shyness or reckless fearlessness. When they have no fear of adults as well as other kids, they're a pain in neck. Problems at school compounds the problem.
Professionals will resort to a lot of name-calling:
"His poor reading and math skills show that he has learning disabilities."
"He has ADHD, which is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This is why he can't sit still or pay attention."
"His chronic non-compliance indicates he has Oppositional-Defiant Disorder."
"It looks like Depression."
"I'm sorry, the mood swings indicate your child suffers from Bipolar Disorder."
"Well, he might be mildly Conduct Disordered. That's the kiddie version of Anti-Social Personality Disorder."
Their remedy: Load him or her up with lots of medication.
Other name-calling may be heard from your folks and neighbors:
"He's bad."
"He ain't depressed. He's just playin' you."
"He's from bad seed. The fruit didn't fall far from the tree. I told you that you were crazy to adopt."
"Maybe Satan gotta hold of him."
"He's just crazy."
Cartoon by Gary Larson
Their remedies: beat his azz, take him to church, strip him of all privileges until he gets his shit together, or worse - send him back to foster care, or if they won't take him and you've got the money, put him a 24 hour facility for out of control children.
Except for sending him away, I tried most of the above remedies by professionals and regulars folks alike. Few worked or worked for long.
It was years before I seriously considered that these formal or informal diagnosis weren't true, even though most never quite felt right. My mind kept returning to the one diagnosis that not a single therapist or hospital considered: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Back then, PTSD was thought to be a soldier's disorder. Even in 2001 when he was 13, they thought he was too young to remember what he experienced up until the age of three and that those events didn't matter too much. Instead, I was told, the fault must lie with his brain. I've always been a free-thinker and and wondered then if they were wrong.
Memories that occur before we are able to think in terms of language generally remains inaccessible to us.
Our five senses, however, remember them. A certain smell, sound, tone of voice, taste, or being touched a certain way can trigger a response and the person has no idea why.
"I've always feared dogs," a therapy client says. "I was told I witnessed one attacking my sister, but I don't remember this."
"I don't know why the smell of cigarettes and beer on a man turn me on," a woman says.
Later she reveals that her father, a good man who died when she was two, smoke and drank a couple beers as he cuddled and played with her when he got home from work each day, but she never connected this with the present.
PTSD is a condition that mimics a lot of different illnesses. The diagnosis is critical because this is what determines treatment.
This brings me back to my very demanding job. The loads of stuff I bought him and variety of caretakers were a poor substitute for what he, and many newly placed foster and adopted children need: intensive mothering. They initially need lots of lap time, cuddling, cookie baking, reading, walks in the park, daily naps, and a peaceful environment with toys, books and games that don't stir up aggression or further desensitize them.
Do this 24/7 and until that voice whispers in your ear that he or she is ready for a half-day school or daycare setting. It may even require a year of home schooling.
Are you thinking ouch yet? Are you picturing those dollar signs disappearing from lost income you wouldn't be making if you bit the bullet, quit your job, and stayed at home?
Pay now or pay later.
PTSD is a monster of gigantic proportions for both the child and his family to deal with. Until the 90s, the mental health profession reserved this diagnosis mostly for emotionally damanged soldiers returning from combat. In children, it looks an awful lot like a lot of disorders including bipolar illness, where the person's mood is a yo-yo and a damnedest things can trigger all sorts of strange behaviors.
It can appear to be a classic Oppositional-Defiant Disorder where he won't do a damn thing you ask no matter how reasonable. The person stuck in this toddler stage of development behaves like a spoiled brat not only to get his way, but more importantly, to avoid feeling like a victim.
I didn't figure this out until he was 13 or 14, and spent a lot of time trying to teach him about the word yes.
"Xavier, saying yes to a reasonable request does not mean you're a sucker or punk.
"But I feel like one when I do," he replied.
It was an a-ha! moment. It still took him nearly four years to move him out of this mental no man's land and to develop insight.
The child scarred by trauma needs to learn this or he'll spend years no'ing you to death and will play your azz to get what he wants or thinks he needs.
Add in ADHD, your kid is impulsive. His nervous system excites easily. These kids can't handle large doses of being tickled, and monotonous activities - like sitting still in a chair for six hours at school - drives them nuts. They need to have a calm environment when they're very young (not always possible). Later they have to master their internal need for excitement and have frequent breaks and with physical activity. A one or two mile walk to school can do wonders for many of them - and you too, if you need exercise.
ADHD behavior looks crazy as shit. You're cooking or cleaning and think he's playing with his toys on the deck, only to discover he got the bright idea to impulsively skateboard off it. Explain that to the doctor whose treating his sprained ankle and lecturing you to keep a constant eye on him, and argue back that this would require a dog leash.
Then there was time he quietly tried to cook an egg on one of those fat candles, then tried to put the fire out with a paper towel, and when that caught on fire, threw it in the trash can - all while I was one room over trying to have a half hour break watching a sitcom. Try explaining that shit to the fireman.
This kind of stuff and a lot more happened to us before he was six and I'll admit it - it made me tough as nails as a mama. I had to be or I'd have been a weepy-eyed basket case. I loved his curiosity and appreciated his machismo, but his recklessness and impulsivity drove me nuts.
Beware of labels, but be twice as careful of greed.
If you can figure out a way to quit your job or at least cut back on your hours and still get by financially, but don't, then you're putting your comfort before your child's needs and sanity.
Most of the reading out there is pro-women working and thus, pro-daycare and pro-afterschool programs. They don't guilt trip mothers by speaking frankly that her absence will increase the odds of her child becoming an F'ed up individual with issues galore, even when the child has special needs.
By the time I realized this, Xavier was seven, addicted to materialism and undisturbed by violence. It would take a decade to undo the damage.
Being a mother of a special needs child requires enormous sacrifice. I finally bit the bullet when he was 14 and acting out all the rage from the mistakes others made before I met him and the ones I put him through afterwards. I sold my house, moved into an apartment, and quit my full time job and got by on working 10 or 12 hours a week.
I had to. By 14, Xavier was crazy and getting battier by the day. He had all the labels. Social Services and foster care had failed him, the school system failed him, the hospital over-medicated him, therapy wasn't working anymore, and I finally had to tell my inner voice, you were right. I shoulda listened to you a lot sooner, 'cause I failed him too.
His drama continued. He hated me more because now I was home 24/7 and he run the streets or skip school without me finding out immediately. A simple request such as "could you please clean up your dishes?", or "hell no, your gang-banging friends are not allowed in the house", could and did result in police intervention more times than I can remember. He was a master at escalating nothing into something.
Teens are rebellious by nature and most re-enact the stage of their life called the 'terrible twos'. Whatever steps and stages they didn't master when younger becomes a potential battlefield in adolescence.
Xavier was reliving his chronic feelings of powerlessness as a baby and toddler when he couldn't say no. He couldn't even say no to himself. He resisted attempts by me, his teachers, and therapist to teach him how to put brakes on his behavior. He banded with other youths with similar histories, and exported this behavior to the streets, where I almost lost him many times.
In one of our darkest moments when he was in 8th grade and I was considering sending him away to a boarding school, a school therapist said one thing I truly valued.
She said, "I've never met a human being who got better, who wasn't truly, truly loved."
The words resonated. She didn't say them to guilt-trip me, she said them to teach me.
I had to ask myself, what if his life was my life? What if I gave up but it meant the death of my own soul? How hard then would I try? What sacrifices would I make to save my own life? And if really love him as much as I love myself, what would I do differently?
That's when I heeded the voice and did what I should've done a decade earlier, throwing caution to the wind that it might be too late and that I'd plunge from wealth to working class.
The first two years of this was hard on both of us because of the constant arguing and my trying (usually unsuccessfully) to set limits on him, but he made teeny-tiny improvements such as no longer punching holes in the walls and breaking up my stuff. This would happen when I'd try to give him a consequence:
Me: You ran up the cable bill by ordering pay for view movies at night. I'm taking away your PlayStation.
Him: Fuck you. (Phone flies across the room, misses my head by inches, and breaks on the wall. That's gonna cost me another $100.)
Me: I'm calling the police! You're out of control.
Him: I'll kill myself! (Runs to get steak knife and slashes his arm superficially.)
Police - when they catch him an hour later: We'll take him to the mental hospital.
Psychiatrist: I've changed his medications around and added two more.
Me: He's on six now? That's insane.
Psychiatrist: Well, he is bipolar.
Xavier during a visit: Can I have my PlayStation back?
Me: Hell no.
Xavier: But what happened isn't my fault.
Me: Bullshit.
Hospital Social Worker: You're kind of hard of him. I've worked with him for three days now. He's a great kid. We haven't had a single problem with him. Maybe he can do a little extra housework to get back his PlayStation.
Me: He refuses to do any. The last time he was here was because he threatened to kill me when I told him he had to wash the dishes. His dishes. Read his record.
Xavier: You're picking on me.
Me: I'm tired of being played.
Now that's an example of Oppositional Defiant Disorder at it's best. Refuses to anything he doesn't want, and sets up situations and people to continue this modus operandi.
The genesis of the behavior in the child or teen with PTSD often comes from very early childhood trauma and an unconscious decision to never be a victim again. Saying no or not accepting no from others is how they empower themselves and get in control of their environment. However, it's a negative survival strategy in normal social situations.
Xavier must have been 16 when I confronted him with all his labels.
"You are not crazy," I said in a heated argument. "You're real good at acting that way, though. You excel at it. You've never been bipolar, depressed, and I don't even believe you're LD (learning disabled). You're grades suck because you stopped studying back in elementary school. You've been sad and pissed suffering from foster care trauma and learning too much from meeting your birth family and seeing their problems, and have been saying fuck you to everyone since you were three. Nuh-uh. You ain't crazy. Ain't a god-damned thing wrong with you other than PTSD."
Of course he had to prove me wrong by getting a knife, making superficial cuts on an arm and threatening to commit suicide in the bathtub - and conveniently leaving the door open so I could save him.
People hang on to their labels. I'm a woman. I'm a man. I'm black (or insert race). I'm American. I'm educated. I'm working class. I'm liberal (or conservative or free-thinker).
Such is the case too with negative labels. I'm stupid. I'm helpless. I'm shy. I'm a victim. I'm a bad person. I'm mentally ill.
I stripped him of the negative labels and he panicked. And naturally, the next three trips to the hospital restored them. One was a real doozy. The first love of his life broke up with him. They had lost their virginity to each other gone steady a year. But he was bossy and verbally abusive - just like he'd been with me and his sister. He was 17 when his girlfriend got tired of it and said goodbye.
Did he respect this? Hell no. He went to her house and tried to talk her out of her decision for the umpteenth time. The girl's mother asked him to leave, and then she did something that triggered his pre-verbal lifestage when he was abandoned, but couldn't express or define it for his lack of language skills.
She slammed the door when he left and shouted, you're not wanted here anymore!
This action was symbolic and triggered feelings of rage over previous major losses. Xavier attempted real suicide with his handy-dandy knife right in front of her house by plunging it into his stomach.
He was in the ICU for three days, followed by another two in the main ward, and five days in the mental ward.
It must have been on Day 4, after the girlfriend had visited him. She said she was sorry and that they could keep going together.
After she left, I looked at him with hard eyes. "You still can't take no for an answer," I said. "It's all about you and the drama. You ain't crazy. These are foster care issues getting played out with her. It's so unfair. What if her mother had yelled at you in her house instead of waiting until you were outside? That knife could have ended up in her instead of you. You need to stop this shit before you kill yourself or someone else."
Boy was he pissed. "Mom! Stop talkin' like a therapist to me! You should feel sorry for me!"
"Fuck that," I said. "I wish the hell a therapist would talk to you like that. You ain't never gonna have a decent life for yourself as long you believe you're not normal. Neither will anyone else associated with you. Foster care issues fucked you up. Period. Have the courage to deal with it."
He wept. He said I didn't understand, yet he allowed me to hold his hand and he held on tightly to mine. I'd have cradled him in my arms but he was in the hospital bed and it wasn't possible.
"Why ain't I dead?", he whimpered.
"I guess the Lord and Satan are still fighting over you," I answered softly. "You've always been a lil' hellraiser, but you've also got a core of decency and general love for others. When you love, you love hard. You always have. You've been in pain a long time from the love you lost or didn't get long ago. You'll be okay if you want, but it's your choice. Fo' real."
Perhaps he could listen to me because of his near death experience. As skinny as this boy was at barely 17, the knife missed every major organ.
I lucked up about the same time and found a psychiatrist who also wasn't into the excessive labeling or over-medication thing. You can read about that on my first ever post here, When Therapy & Blackness Collides.
It took more time and a drug rehab program before he finally began to "get it" at the age of 18 that he wasn't mentally ill, and to buy into the belief that stress can make ya look crazy when you ain't.
Take note that stress may start off as an external event or series of events, but even after the child is removed from that situation, the stress has become internalized and his part of psyche. He or she carries it with them like bad baggage.
Therapy is sort of hit and miss; depends on if the client is ready for change and if their therapist is a good fit. When it hits the right spot, the person can let go of that baggage. The 'therapy' can also be attained from a wise friend, the right books, a pastor who understands, etc. As the Buddhists believe, there are many paths to enlightenment.
I'm not financially wealthy anymore. My savings are thin, because I didn't trust my gut, gave into the comfort life and refused to listen to the angel whispering in my ear and saying pay now or pay later.
It took me five years to do with him as a teen when I could have done this in less than two years when he was young child. I try not to be too hard on myself; I wasn't a seasoned mental health therapist back then, and a lot of new knowledge has emerged since the '90s through the past few years.
I shrug off the money; it's only money and I can earn more of that. My intuition, however, tells me - and him - that he would have been dead or locked up for something awful if I hadn't finally rolled the dice and took the ultimate gamble that my child - a troubled kid and emerging thug - could recover from trauma and learn better coping skills. He's still a work in progress and will have many bumps ahead on the road - but at least he's on the road.
When we ask ourselves the big questions, such as what does it really mean to really love a child, part of the answer lies in sacrifice. Ask yourself, what has this child really been through and how might I behave under those circumstances? If trauma is an issue, help those well-intentioned mental health and school professionals as well as your child or teen to understand it too.
In summary, healing the traumatized child, whether your own by birth, relative placement, or adoption, is not for the faint of heart. A lot of people don't have clue to what they're getting into or the sacrifices it could require to heal him or her. I was a young therapist and had done social work, and still didn't know all that was involved. It's one thing to hear about it and help clients; it's a whole different thing to be in their situation and have to live it. It was a humbling experience.
There are loads of labels which are merely guides to healing through treatment. Select a mental health professional familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children and teens. Meet with him or her first without your kid being present, and give every shred of traumatic history or abandonment that comes to mind.
Your child may have a number of problems, but as a primary diagnosis, PTSD is a helluva lot better label than some of the others - and may free him from a lifetime of believing and acting as though he's something that he's not.
Then make whatever decisions you can regarding sacrifices. Think hard and choose wisely, as it may be a matter of paying now or paying later - for both of you.
Good luck and God bless.
Posted by Kit (Keep It Trill) at 1:46 PM
All-Mi-T [Thought Crime] Rawdawgbuffalo July 1, 2008 at 9:28 AM
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atlasien July 1, 2008 at 10:39 AM
This is a brutally honest piece... it's good to hear that Xavier pulled through his roughest patch.
I also agree with you 100% about the video games.
I'm also thankful that my son doesn't exhibit similar signs of PTSD. He's tender-hearted and sleeps like a log. He had a comparatively easy childhood. There's no cure for the painful separation from his biological family, and then the second separation from his foster family... but other than that, the system worked in his case, and ended up saving him from abuse and major neglect.
But that raises an entirely different problem for us... when he gets older, learning the probable reason that his mother's family made the call to put him into foster care, and then, why they didn't lift a finger to try to get him out again.
As a follow-up question... it sounds like much of what you're talking about in this piece is attachment-related. A lot of our trainings focused on attachment theory. What do you think about that framework? Is it something your argument is outside of, within, or perhaps parallel to?
Kit (Keep It Trill) July 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Torrance - Don't know if you'll return to this comment section, but if so, you look familiar. Did you grow up in DC? Anyway, I saw your site last week and liked it, and submitted your name and the neologistic word you coined, Obamafication, to urbandictionary.com. You are now more famous than you were before.
ATL Asien - Yes. I view Attachment Disorder as the result or effect of PTSD and a secondary diagnosis. They should be treated in concert.
I read the link to the post in your blog where you revealed, in summary: Birth mom dropped out of her kid's life and only re-entered the pic when she found out her parental rights were going to be terminated, then insisted on an open adoption, phone calls, letters and visits.
Been there done that. It's a sure fire way to fuck up his head some more. If she has other children still living with her or relatives, eventually Sunny will find out all about it, their dysfunction and their traumas in every sordid detail.
If they've been through hell or still going through it, as was the case in Xavier's birth family, he'll suffer survival guilt as he watches or learns how one has been victimized but he is powerless to stop it.
Legally, since her rights have been terminated, you aren't obligated to do honor her requests.
If I had to do it over again, I would have sent her a brief letter telling her I decided it would be best for the child, although painful for her, to not allow contact until he's an adult.
The tough part would have been telling him this instead of waiting until my child told me at the age of 11 or 12:
Me: I notice you haven't asked to visit (your birth mom) in a long time. Earlier you wanted to see her almost every weekend. What happened?
Xavier: Let's just say I got to know her better than I wanted too.
I swear to God, this was from the mouth of a child. Mine.
He already had learned that his 13 year old half-sister in the care of her crazy maternal aunt had been raped and impregnated by this woman's live-in boyfriend. That hurt him a lot.
The straw that broke the camel's back happened during a three day Christmas vacation visit. His birth mom said something very disrespectful to her own mother, and he watched his adult half-sister and an aunt beat her ass on the kitchen floor. And of course, everyone was drunk.
Things often have to be horrible before the child even gives you a clue that visits are bad. This is true in natural families where the parents have divorced. The back and forth behavior can cause something called divided loyalties and add to the pre-adoption traumas. It's really tough on a kid.
Each situation is different. This one might work it (although I see lots of warning signs). Trust your instincts, and if you're spiritually inclined, pray for strength and guidance. Hugs,
~Kit
zunzun July 2, 2008 at 1:10 AM
Came here through Atlasien's blog...after reading several of the articles I had to laugh when I was talking to my husband about the future children we want to adopt (we adopted back in 05)and in reference to attachment work I said the following: well...I could "pay now or pay later" and I'd rather pay up front then busted out laughing because I realized I had gotten them from reading your latest entry today!
I'm a senior graduating with my BSW in the spring, and I came across your blog a couple of weeks ago and fell in love.....
This piece truly resonated with me...but what I want to know is...how do you heal from within? Even though your son and I did not live a similar life, but this hit close to home.
And reading from the comments, I see that you live(d) in DC? Are you still in the area? Are you still practicing?
LISA VAZQUEZ July 4, 2008 at 3:01 AM
Hey there Kit!
This is my first visit! {waves}
I am a fairly new blogger and my blog has been around for almost four months now...I'm digging the whole blogging scene!! I am glad that I found your blog!
There is a book that was published several years ago called Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and there needs to be a lot more research done about the impact of children living in these war zones...helicopters overhead with lights...shootings every night...
I know one lady who told me casually, "I need to be in the house by 8 because they start shooting..." and THIS life is all quite normal for her...
Thank you for this post...
Kit (Keep It Trill) July 4, 2008 at 11:44 AM
Lisa, Hi. Sounds like an interesting book. I'll add it to my library list. Thanks.
Kit (Keep It Trill) July 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
EOS, LOL. That's fine! Welcome and glad you like my blog and articles!
Goldiilocs, Welcome and congrats on your BSW. To answer the easy question, I'm in the area but giving up the part-time work in exchange for a full-time job by September.
Your other question, How do you heal from within? is much harder because what works for one person doesn't for another.
A person had to be ready to accept that change is necessary, and understand the idea that if you continue to do what you've always done, you'll get the same results.
It sort of like this: you can be stuck in the snow and complain that you're furiously spinning your wheels but not moving. If you're still stuck, you have to try something different.
I said in the article that there are many paths to enlightenment. This is a Buddhist philosophy. Read and try many different things to understand how your past molded you into the person who you are.
Negative paths are addictions like excessive food, gambling, or substance abuse. This isn't to say you can't learn valuable lessons as you watch yourself and others hit bottom, but it's a painful and destructive path which may have no return.
Positive paths can be something as simple as finding a passion in art, music, sports, or some other hobby where you feel a sense of peace and oneness with yourself and the world. Getting feedback in the way of therapy, from a pastor, wise friend or relative, and self-help and other books are also useful.
The more different paths you explore, the more well-rounded person you may become. The danger is losing your identity into someone else's belief system that doesn't work for you, so be careful as you search for answers.
If you want to email me, I can be reached here: kitnoble at gmail dot com. Otherwise I wish you well.
"I've never met a human being who got better, who wasn't truly, truly loved."
that is what i believe. my little brother was diagnosed with ADHD and life has never been easy. he's my fave little person in the world and i truly believe that if all us (my family) had more time to love him, truly love him, he would get better.
this one hit a nerve.
Yes, Emeritus, and it's not just the love, time, and money, it's the raw emotional energy it takes. These kids are so high maintenance. They say it takes a village to raise a child. My dad was part of my village. He'd take my son for a week at a time, down to his girlfriend's beach home.
Xavier would fish all day, every day. He loved it and nature calmed him. This was when he was 7 and 8. The break was so good for me - and for him. Good memories...
Brown Sugar September 5, 2008 at 2:38 AM
Ahh hell. Why did I have to read this tonite.
Kit (Keep It Trill) September 5, 2008 at 3:00 AM
Lol, and yeah, I guess on top of McCain's speech at the GOP convention, it was a bit much.
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Q: Doctrine unable to get instance from request information I have been trying different methods to get entity attributes from twig and use them in the controller to insert in another database table.
The idea here is to get the attributes of the twig table as an already existing database variables and insert them into another table on button click and it does not seem to work for me and after trying several methods I find myself stuck with doctrine not recognizing the attributes I pass in the controller as parameters, I would highly appreciate some help here because somehow it does not make sense anymore.
This is the twig in which I send the parameter ID from the html table :
 Ajouter

Here is the function that should use that parameter in order to populate another table with the entity instance having that ID, actually I made 2 functions that should do the same thing and none of them works, instead they return the same doctrine exception,
This is the first function :
/**
     * @Route("/ajout/{$id}", name="ajouter")
     * @param Contes $id
     * @return RedirectResponse|Response
     */
    public function ajouter(Contes $id)
    {
        $lstContes1 = new Inventairecontes();
        $em1 = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('App:Contes')->find($id);
        $lstContes1->setTitrec($em1.titre);
        $lstContes1->setAuteurc($em1.auteur);
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $em->persist($lstContes1);
        $em->flush();

        return new Response('Conte ajouté avec succées!');
    }

and this is the second function that should populate a form before inserting into the database :
/**
     * @Route ("/add/{$id}", name="addConte")
     * @paramConverter ("idCc", options={"mapping":{"id":"idc"}})
     * @return Response
     */
    public function add(Contes $idCc, Request $request)
    {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('App:Contes')->find($idCc);
        $form = $this->createForm(Inventairecontes::class,$em);
        $form->handleRequest($request);

        if ($form -> isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()){
           $this->getDoctrine()->getManager()->flush();
           return $this->redirectToRoute('listeContes');
        }
        return $this->render('liste_contes/add.html.twig',[
            'em'=>$em,
            'form'=>$form->createView()
        ]);
    }

I really hope someone could provide some help and thank you in advance :)

A: I'm not sure I understand everything in your code, but at first sight, I see that.
Usually, parameters in twig path function don't use the dollar sign.
Ajouter

The same is true in route annotation and your $id parameter is of type Contes.
I think what you are trying to do is.
/**
 * @Route("/ajout/{id}", name="ajouter")
 * @param Contes $contes
 * @return RedirectResponse|Response
 */
public function ajouter(Contes $contes)
{
    $lstContes1 = new Inventairecontes();
    $lstContes1->setTitrec($contes->getTitre());
    $lstContes1->setAuteurc($contes->getAuteur());
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
    $em->persist($lstContes1);
    $em->flush();

    return new Response('Conte ajouté avec succées!');
}

If your Contes Entity has a property id it will automatically get the matching Contes using the magic of param converters.
Next, here I see many problems.

*

*@ParamConverter annotation should use a capital P

*I don't know what is the idCc argument, but the first argument should be an entity

*Looks like you are trying to map the id property of idCc to an idc parameter that is not in your @Route

Maybe you should give more details because I really don't understand that part.
/**
 * @Route ("/add/{id}", name="addConte")
 * @paramConverter ("idCc", options={"mapping":{"id":"idc"}})
 * @return Response
 */
public function add(Contes $idCc, Request $request)
{
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('App:Contes')->find($idCc);
    $form = $this->createForm(Inventairecontes::class,$em);
    $form->handleRequest($request);

    if ($form -> isSubmitted() && $form->isValid()){
        $this->getDoctrine()->getManager()->flush();
        return $this->redirectToRoute('listeContes');
    }
    return $this->render('liste_contes/add.html.twig',[
        'em'=>$em,
        'form'=>$form->createView()
    ]);
}

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