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Harry Wilmer
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What happens when Hollywood makes a movie from your book? My book, Social Psychiatry in Action (Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 1958), was a report of my introduction of the Therapeutic Community concept at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, California, during my tour of duty during the Korean War. I entered the service in 1955 as Lieutenant Commander and was discharged in 1957 as Captain in the Medical Corps Reserve. I was thirty-seven years old.
I was assigned the admission ward at the Naval Hospital. The surgeon general issued orders for me to travel for one month in England to study the therapeutic communities which were an outgrowth of the military rehabilitation centers in World War II. I would introduce this concept in the United States.
I took the best of Max Jones's Social Rehabilitation unit for psychopaths at Bailment, Tom Main's therapeutic community for neurotic patients at the Cassel Hospital using psychoanalytic concepts, and T. P. Rees's large state hospital atWarlingham Park for psychotic patiens. These were all unlocked facilities.
I set up a special program on my admission ward in Oakland when I returned with the radical idea that a therapeutic community could be created on one ward of thirty-two beds in a general hospital, treating a random sample of patients who were neurotic, psychotic, and psychopaths. Jones and Main said it could not be done, but Rees was confident that I could do it.
With an unsolicited research grant from Admiral Bartholomew Hogan, U.S. Navy Surgeon General, I was able to recruit anthropologist Gregory Bateson to serve as our consultant and write a report for my book.
My ward was a thirty-two-bed unit where all the Navy psychiatric casualties from the West Coast and Pacific area were admitted. I eliminated all restraints, and the use of seclusion in the Quiet Room, and instituted daily community meetings of all the patients and staff every morning after sick call. Over the first year, 1,000 patients passed through this unit, each staying for a ten-day period before being transferred to other units in the hospital. The success in elimination of violence, and the cooperation of neurotic, psychotic, and psychopaths was dramatic. The fellowship in community led to each patient taking care of the others.
I worked with the corpsmen and nurses in the post group critique in my office where I drew a seating map and wrote out the psychological theme and continuity of dialogue. Dennie Briggs, an outstanding psychologist; Joseph Concannon, social worker; charge nurse Bethel Green; nursing supervisor Lina Stearns; and a resident, Captain Bohland, composed my professional staff, and had the complete support of Captain Gaede, chief of psychiatry.
I disregarded the hospital regulation of writing suicidal orders because I felt it was counter-productive, intensifying the observation of certain patients and placing a responsibility on the nurses and corpsmen which had previously led to the frequent use of the Quiet Room and excessive sedation. The staff was told that all patiens were potential suicides and that the primary care would be all of the patients having the responsibility for the care of one another. I told Dr. Graede what I was doing and he did not order me to follow the regulation, but said if there was a suicide he would not remember what I had told him and I might be court marshalled.
The community meetings, led by me, were a great success in open and free dialogue. In 1955 group therapy was rarely used in California, and community meetings were unheard of. There were also small groups in the afternoon.
The therapeutic effectiveness of the ten-day intense therapy attracted much attention when I reported our work at the Nothern California Psychiatric Society. The ward had visitors on Fridays from various state hospitals, Standford University, the University of California Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. The Commanding Admiral of the hospital took a special interest because of the unusually controlled beheavior, and the lack of broken furniture and disciplinary actions. He visited the group on two occasions, and then invited Admiral Chester Nimitz to also visit our ward. Nimitz, now at Yerba Buena Island, had taken a keen interest in the Oakland Naval Hospsital, where all the casualties of the Pacific which he commanded were treated.
The Pacific Combat Camera Crew photographed all meetings for one month and accumulated 133,000 feet of 32mm film. I was transferred to the National Naval Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, for the second year of my two-year tour of duty, to write a book and edit the film.
Tragically, this unique documentary film's sound track was so flawed that the Navy would not preserve the film and destroyed it, despite my plea to let me narrate a voice-over continuity. This would have been one of the all-time great psychiatric documentary films. I did manage to save one reel of film converted to 16mm that was shown to the actors in the movie and the screen writers who incorporated parts of it in the docudrama.
After the book had been released, I received a telephone call from a psychologist in Los Angeles asking if I would be agreeable to having a movie made of my experience. ABC Public Affairs Department would make a docudrama, and Henry Greenberg, a Hollywood screen writer, was asked to write the film dialogue. For eighteen months, he and I worked once a week on the script. The one expected sour note in the film was Henry Greenbergs's credit, which read, "Henry Greenberg, screen writer, from his story," when the stories and words came from my book.
When Fred Astaire was going to host and narrate the ALCOA Premier film series on ABC-TV, my film was selected by the William Morris Agency for the opening program. The film was produced by Revue Studio at Universal Studio in Hollywood in 1961.
I was on the set the entire time, along with my five children. I had the authority to censor or propose change that varied from the truth. This was requested by the Navy because of their support of the film. Dr. Gaede, then a Rear Admiral, was present in uniform to represent the Navy during the filming. I vetoed two wild ideas of the director, Alex Siegal, a brilliant film and theater director. But he was right several times when he deviated from the script.
I declined the producer's request to play my own role, so they asked Henry Fonda, who declined because he was committed to make another film. Jeff Chandler was asked and accepted, but died suddenly. The Broadway actor Arthur Kennedy agreed to play Dr. Wilmer. While all the actors asked me about the real sailor whom they were playing, Kennedy refused to talk with me because he wanted the freedom to play Dr. Wilmer as he read the script. The music of the film was composed by Johnny Williams.
The star role was a violent homicidal and suicidal marine played by Lee Marvin, who we selected from a large casting photograph album of actors and actresses. I knew nothing about Marvin except that he played on "M Squad." Clearly, his face fit the role, and he turned out to be a great choice, having been a marine who was wounded on Saipan. He was carried out on a stretcher and evacuatd to a waiting ship, where he was immediately offered ice cream by a nurse as music played over the ship loudspeakers. He only thought of his buddies, bloody and dying on Saipan. In fact, the rest of his platoon was killed, giving Lee a haunting guilt feeling and the irrational belief that was a coward. Marvin's personal life history, including his parents, was close to the character he played. Lee said that this film, called "People Need People," was the most important film in forming his career as a superstar because it made him feel free to act himself, independently of any controlling director. He and I maintained a close friendship until his death.
The episodes in the film are true, but selected from over the span of one year and carefully written into a dramatic ten-day period. Because there were about 1,000 patients passing through admissions in one year, I calculated that by requiring every patient to stay for a ten-day period, we would avoid the bad practice of the previous ward director, who would transfer the most violent patients off the ward as soon as they were able, leaving the ward composed of rather passive and depressed patients.
The film was such a powerful recreation of my experience that it was difficult, or painful, to watch it for several years. When the studio showed the first preview for the actors, producers, director, screen writer, guests and me, they first asked me for my reaction. I stood up but could not speak. I was given a copy of the film but was unable to bring myself to show my copy to a public audience for five years.
The film was nominated for five Emmy Awards and received rave notices, and no negative criticism. Shown on the BBC, the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, said, "It was the most remarkable psychiatric film shown on any screen in ths country. It showed with singular effect and accuracy the group rehabilitation of psychotics in the USA by Dr. Harry Wilmer."
The program was viewed by twenty million people. The Oakland Tribune, under a banner heading, "Standing Ovation," said, "The new 'ALOCA Premier' anthology series started last night with a play that was by far the most compelling hour on television this year. It was called 'People Need People, ' a dramatization based on treatment given by Oakland Naval Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Harry Wilmer, using group therapy and 'the human being approach' with violent mental patients. Lee Marvin gave an absolute electrifying performance as a homicidal Marine Corps sergeant, and Arthur Kennedy was superb playing Dr. Wilmer."


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I don't think I have seen another celebrity look as happy to be at a press conference as Vin Diesel was when he was at the Four Seasons Hotel to talk about Riddick. Of course, he had just received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the day before, so his good mood was very understandable. But at the same time, he was very pleased to hear at the press conference that we had all seen Riddick and was desperate to know what we thought about it.
According to him, we were the first people to actually have watched this movie, and he said that "to sit before all of you who have seen the movie is almost as exciting as getting the Hollywood star yesterday." Upon his saying that, everyone applauded him.
Diesel's excitement about Riddick, however, became even more understandable when he described how much he and writer/director David Twohy had to struggle with just to get it off the ground. Unlike The Chronicles of Riddick, which was produced by a major movie studio and had a budget of over $100 million, Riddick was made independently on a budget of just under $40 million. While the previous movie in the franchise was not a commercial success, the fans kept begging Diesel and Twohy to make another Riddick film, and they have delivered on their promise to do so.
Check out the interview below and enjoy!
Now that you have completed this trilogy, do you feel ready to move on from the character of Riddick or are you hungry to make more Riddick/sci-fi movies?
Vin Diesel: I would love to do more science fiction. We have another project at Universal called Soldiers of the Sun that's very interesting and an opportunity to go into that genre. That's a really good question because I've been thinking about that lately. The reality is I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow. And yet there is part of what you said that rings true which is I do feel like I answered that request from the fans that said, "Please make another Riddick."
It was one of the three promises that I either made or people assumed that I made on the social media network. One of them obviously was the return of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) to the Fast & Furious franchise, something everybody was so vocal about 4 ½ years ago. The second was the resurrection of Riddick and reawakening that mythology, and then of course the third one you all know which is Hannibal the Conqueror, which is the one promise I haven't delivered on yet. But I will!
Now that I have kids, it's a little bit trickier to watch Riddick. We were initially going to try to make Riddick before I did Fast Five, and then I learned that we were expecting a child. I didn't think it would be fair to the child and I didn't think would be fair to the fans to go to that dark place while welcoming a life into the world, so Riddick waited until after I did the more family centric Fast Five.
As you remember in Fast Five, the idea of pregnancy was very present in the Brian and Mia relationship which I guess played to the fact that my son was being born while we were making the movie. But I couldn't play the Riddick character and go to that dark place, and I guess the reason I'm saying that is because it is a dark place to go to play Riddick.
It's very rewarding to see the movie, it's very rewarding to make the movie, but playing the character is sometimes a lot more difficult than other characters because it takes so much preparation to get into that character. For this version for where Riddick is now in this movie, I went to the woods for four months and prepared by basically being a recluse. Preparing the inner core of the character, and specifically because I was also producing it, it was so important to get that core character correct so that I could easily tap into it while maintaining some kind of circumspect view of what was going on with the production as a producer.
Because you are a producer on this, how difficult is it for you to be the boss of your castmates and how do you switch out from moment to moment of being an actor to being a producer?
Vin Diesel: I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we are all in character. When we played Dungeons & Dragons as kids, there would be all of us around the table and someone might say something like, "I'm tired. I just might take a nap or something." Then the Dungeon Master would say, "Everything you say is in game."
It is a similar approach to the way we approached making this movie. When you come on set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket as much as possible. Every actor has their own process, but for me I really have to stay in the pocket. So if I'm on set and I'm in character, I am not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character and I'm just coming in during the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
This is tricky because it wasn't like being the producer of Fast & Furious. This was being the producer of something that, if it didn't work, I would've lost my house. Everything that I had in my life was leveraged to make this movie, so the stakes were higher than for any producer I know because the skin in the game was real. I was so committed to answering this growing request from the social media fans to continue this character, and the only way I could pull it off was by leveraging everything.Next
Since Riddick was an independent production this time, is this the story you always envisioned to follow The Chronicles of Riddick?
Vin Diesel: It isn't the story I always envisioned would follow Chronicles of Riddick. Part of what I've been trying to do, and have been very successful with as you seen with the Fast franchise, was to create movies while simultaneously thinking about the succeeding chapters and how they would all interlink and speak to one another. That felt like the challenge of our millennium. In the old millennium when we made sequels, we just put the brand up there and slap something together and then expect the property to grow. We expected the property to fizzle out and it was exploiting a brand, and that's why I turned down all those sequels because I didn't feel like they were approaching it with that level of respect to an overall chronological story.
So when we were doing Chronicles of Riddick back in 2003, David and I put together three leather binders. Each leather binder had a lock and we gave it to the head of the studio and gave them one key. On the first binder it said "Core One," the second binder said "Core Two" and the third binder said "Core Three." At that production level and the amount of money we were spending at that point, we were thinking we were going directly to the Underverse for "Core Two" and then to Furya for "Core Three." When years and years started going by and we weren't delivering the next chapter, we had to make a very conscious decision to find a way to tell the next chapter and to continue the story and the mythology even if it meant what we weren't going to get the size budget that we had on Chronicles of Riddick.
Almost luckily for us, there was an outcry from the social media to make this one rated R which did two things: one is it ruled out all possibilities of a studio backing you. As you all know, R-rated movies are now few and far between these days. We had to take a more independent route, so I went to Europe to a film market and presented what this film was going to be and got foreign money to start this movie and to be the bulk for the financing of it. Then it was up to us to take those somewhat limited means, especially in good person to where we were on Chronicles, and tell a story with those limited means. Thank god the audience wanted rated R because that justified in some ways taking a more independent route.
How does fighting Dave Bautista in Riddick compare to fighting Dwayne Johnson in Fast Five, and when you were off camera did you and Bautista keep sizing each other up?
Vin Diesel: When Dave Bautista came in, I immediately saw some potential. I had just worked with Dwayne Johnson on Fast Five so I believe you could take someone from the wrestling world and coach them into some great performances. So I was confident about that.
The fight sequence between Bautista and me was different in some ways. It took the same level of choreography, but the fight sequence in Fast Five took us a week to shoot. Anyone will tell you it was one of the most rigorous scenes we ever shot because it wasn't just all the physical components, there was an emotional component that was part of that fight sequence that added an extra level of difficulty and intensity to it.
The fight with Bautista wasn't supposed to be a huge set piece in the way that the Dom/Hobbs fight is. As you know in Fast Five, at the very introduction of Hobbs, you're really waiting for the Hobbs/Dom showdown. I got spoiled on Fast Five because I used to do fight sequences and I started to get self-conscious about them because invariably the other person would get hurt. You never want anyone to be hurt on a film and let alone you be responsible.
The great thing about working with these guys that have spent their lives choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they did; their specialty is selling taking hits and selling explosive hits without really making a contact or really doing too much damage. So I was able to exploit that for the Fast Five fight as well as exploit that with Dave Bautista. As you know, he's the only arch-protagonist in Riddick who fights to that degree, and he was a great choice to have that fight sequence with.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recently made some predictions that the film industry would implode and that only blockbuster franchises will get made and ticket prices will go up. As someone who stars and produces those kinds of movies, what are your thoughts on their statements?
Vin Diesel: Not on my watch! It won't implode while I'm around, I promise you that! I would love to talk to them about that. I love Steven Spielberg and I'm a huge fan of George Lucas. At the risk of sounding naïve, I don't see that in the immediate future. I think Hollywood is changing. I don't know the last time that Steven or George made a movie with Universal, but I can tell you that Universal is leading the charge. They are looking at film differently, they are planning ahead in a way I've never seen a studio do before, they are believing in a relationship between a fan and film franchise in a new way, they are more receptive (in part because of the social media) to an audience in a way we've never been allowed to previously and in a way Steven could never have imagined.
When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook page to just sift through for feedback to try and get an idea of what he was going to do next. It's a luxury that we have today and it's really cool to see Universal leading the charge by listening. The thought of listening to an audience was unheard of five years ago. And you know from your history of going to movies; movies are that thing where you go and you buy a ticket and you never get to talk to the person that's made it. You never get to talk to the creator or the producer of those films. You buy the ticket, shut up and sit down, and you can never comment about it. You can never have a relationship with that. If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2!
That concludes our interview but we'd like to thank Vin for his time. Be sure to check out Riddick when it hits theatres no September 6th!Previous


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- Calories from fat: 28%
- Fat: 7.6g
- Saturated fat: 1.2g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 2.4g
- Protein: 33.2g
- Carbohydrate: 6.9g
- Fiber: 1.7g
- Cholesterol: 140mg
- Iron: 2.9mg
- Sodium: 629mg
- Calcium: 49mg
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- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
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- 1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1. Heat canola oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle salt and pepper over fish. Add fish to pan; cook 2 1/2 minutes on each side or until fish flakes easily with a fork or until desired degree of doneness. Remove fish from pan; cover and keep warm.
- 2. Add mushrooms and sesame oil to pan; sauté 2 minutes. Add ginger and garlic to pan; sauté 1 minute. Add the green onions and remaining ingredients to pan; sauté 2 minutes. Serve with fish.
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Top 5 Regrets of the Dying…
This is so relevant and inspiring. I dream and work towards my dreams so I never have to say these words.
- I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
- I wish I didn't work so hard.
- I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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Review: Portal 2
The long-awaited sequel to one of the best games of 2007 is now in my hands (not physically, I got it through Steam). Portal 2 is one of those few gems that stands up to the hype it generated. It takes everything that worked with the first game and adds more.
Portal 2 sees Chell (the protagonist from the first game) return to the Aperture Science laboratory after a seemingly considerable amount of time has passed (Check out Portal 2: Lab Rat comic to get filled in on the details if you have not already). The lab, now falling to ruin, forces players to once again think outside the box to navigate a treacherous landscape. The narrative reveals much more about history of Aperture Science, explaining some of the mystery of the original game while also offering a few tantalizing clues about its connection to the immensely popular Half Life series of games.
Definitely one of the biggest draws of the game is the simple yet brilliantly executed concept of creating portals that connect two spatially distinct surfaces. The player, rather than shooting down obstacles or hacking them with a sword, must instead think their way out every situation, only being able to create portals on certain surfaces. It is a refreshing change from the general run of games; The rush you get from figuring out the puzzle more than makes up for the lack of firepower.
So, what is the difference between the two games? What makes Portal 2 so great? On the surface it wouldn't seem like much, as the game mechanics are essentially identical to Portal. The Source engine was updated to accommodate some new elements, but game-play really is not changed at all. If you played Portal you can pick up Portal 2 with no effort. However, a big change that was made was incorporating new environmental factors that give you new way to think about the environment you are navigating. These factors come in the form of colored gels that display some interesting physics bending properties, much like the portal gun itself. A blue gel repels your character from the surface it coats with a force equal to that with which you struck it, allowing you to bounce and reach areas that are normally unreachable with the portal gun or to bounce certain obstacles out of the way. The orange gel (I guess Valve likes this color scheme) create a slick surface that accelerates your character along it, to gather up more momentum for large jumps or gravity defying portal antics. A third white gel allows you to create new surfaces to place portals on. These three new additions alone probably would have been enough to satiate fans of the series, but Valve decided to give much more.
The familiar Weighted Companion Cube and gun turrets return and are accompanied by new features like Hard Light Bridges, surfaces that can be extended over gaps and Excursion Tunnels, tractor-beam-like devices that can push or pull you in any direction. All of these additions come together to create so many new dimensions in the solving of puzzles. No longer are you simply moving from point A to B, you are also trying to figure out how to best combine the portals with these other features while still keeping the game play simple and enjoyable.
And then Valve decided to give us even more, adding a storyline that is just as entertaining as the first one, if not more so. Portal 2 introduces two new characters, the lunatic CEO of Aperture, Cave Johnson, and the bumbling, inept Personality Core, Wheatly. GLaDOS also makes a return in a much more up-close-and-personal sort of way. The new characters serve to fill in much more detail behind Aperture and the development of the portal technology as well as GLaDOS, and add much to the atmosphere of the game, being voiced by actors J.K. Simmons and Stephen Merchant, respectively.
The game design itself should be mentioned, as Portal 2 is significantly longer than the first one and much, much more expansive. The levels are designed to give the players the feeling that they really are in massive underground research facility. Even portions of the test chambers, which return as well, often utilize the outside of the chamber, adding new challenges to the puzzles.
The co-op mode flows seamlessly from the new game-play elements and encourages player cooperation in a way that I have not seen often in games. Rather than just encouraging the mutual slaughter of enemies, the co-op mode presents you with a series of puzzles in which each person is key element of solving it, and you absolutely cannot complete a puzzle without your partner's cooperation. The Aperture story also gets expanded on, a nice touch that helps bring co-op into the fold of the Portal world rather than just feeling like extra content that was tacked on.
In essence, Portal 2 does what a sequel should do. It expands on the franchise, adding to it rather than changing it, keeping the elements that make the game successful and paying service to the fans with very little pandering or hand holding. If I rated games with a numerical score, I would definitely give this game some ridiculously high number, but I don't, so I will just say that this game doesn't need to rest on it's laurels. It brings something new and most importantly, fun, to gaming. If you like gaming at all, even if you are not familiar with the Portal or Half Life universe, go out and get this one. It is well worth it.
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Angst over health insurers refusing basic medical care to autistic kids trumped ideology on Friday with a committee's endorsement of SB57.
SB57 would add Utah to the list of 34 states that require insurers to pay for autism treatment. It cleared the Senate Business and Labor Committee 6-1, despite concerns that it could raise insurance rates for employers, including the state of Utah.
Fiscal analysts predict the bill would cost the state about $3 million, mostly in increased premiums for state employees.
Sponsoring Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Cottonwood Heights, said data from other states with autism coverage requirements show the increases in premiums costs are negligible. A study in Missouri showed its autism mandate bumped the cost of health insurance claims by 0.2 percent.
"There's a medical adage you never want to be the first or the last to embrace a therapy," said Shiozawa, a physician. But "this is not an investigational drug or therapy. We know this is safe and that it works."
The bill is endorsed by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and Utah's doctor lobbies, the Utah Medical Association (UMA) and Utah Academy of Family Physicians.
It's opposed by the equally politically powerful insurance industry, which contends it will raise insurance premiums for small businesses that can least afford to pay them and will likely drop their health benefits. SB57 would only affect state-regulated insurers, those that sell directly to individuals and small employers.
But faced with growing ire over coverage denials, insurers were hard-pressed to mount a persuasive argument Friday.
Utah families spoke of having to dip into retirement savings, sell homes and file bankruptcy to pay for treatment.
"We needed speech and occupational therapy and we were not able to receive that through the insurance that we paid premiums for. We paid for it on our own, which led to us filing bankruptcy," said Nate Passey, the Midvale father of a 6-year-old girl with autism.
Among the benefits of therapy was hearing "I love you" from their previously nonverbal daughter, he said.
Of particular concern to senators, though, were reports of insurers refusing to cover medical claims unrelated to autism once children are diagnosed.
"It doesn't make any sense to me when I hear stories about little children who have broken arms and are denied coverage because they have autism. It's appalling. There's no excuse for that," said Sen. Deidre Henderson. "I hope industry will work to resolve that problem."
Ideologically opposed to insurance mandates, the Spanish Fork Republican was alone in voting against the bill, but stressed, "It's a reluctant no."
Sen. John Valentinewas less inclined to trust insurers to change on their own. "I've consistently voted against mandates," the Orem Republican said. "However, I am convinced that we need to tell our insurance companies to get on the ball. I'm going to vote for [the bill]."
"Equally dismayed that insurance companies have not solved this problem," Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, lent his support but said he would like to see the bill amended to lower its maximum treatment allowance.
SB57 would require health plans to cover up to $36,000 worth of treatment a year for children through age 8, then up to $18,000 a year through age 17. It heads now to the Senate floor.


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Billy Joel made a college student's dream come true by performing onstage with him in Nashville, Tenn.
In January, the singer held a question-and-answer session with students at Vanderbilt University when Michael Pollack asked if he could play "New York State of Mind" with the singer. Joel sang the tune as Pollack, 18, played along on the piano -- and the star was clearly impressed with the teenager's talent.
He told the audience, "Remember that name. ... Guy's got chops." Speaking about the impromptu performance, Pollack told the university's student paper, The Vanderbilt Hustler, "It was probably the greatest moment of my life, up to date."


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The Jared Falk story is very dull and I'm not sure I can remember all the details.
Essentially, years back Jared was accused of taking material on the single-stroke roll from Johnny Rabb and producing a video that (other than the presenter) was identical. Obviously, copyright enforcement is a very expensive proposition and Rabb never took it to court but there was a lot of ill-feeling in the community as a result. There were a few threads laying into Jared and in the end Jared came over here with a crowd and started attacking anybody and everything that went against his way of thinking and his viewpoint.
Needless to say, I have since had no time for Jared or his associates. This was further complicated by another member here (that had a website) that had links to one of Jared's associates. A few harsh things were said.
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Purdy's claim seems to get some backing from other parties who also see that Web application development is taking hold in the enterprise market. In a survey sponsored by Zend, a company that offers commercial support tools for the PHP Web programming language, 97 percent of 117 business and IT executives who said their organizations currently use PHP will use the Web programming language for additional applications in the future. Many cited the speed and flexibility of Web application development as a factor for choosing this approach over the more traditional approach of developing desktop applications.
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Better Sex Now: An Age-by-Age Guide to Sexual Satisfaction and Health
Pages in this Story:
- What You Need to Know About Your Sexual Health
- What You Need to Know About Fertility
- What You Need to Know About Birth Control
- What You Need to Know to Have the Best Sex Ever
- Why Fit Women Have Better Sex
What You Need to Know About Fertility
In your 20s: All the stats are on your side. You have a 25 percent chance of conceiving each month. If you're younger than 25, you have a 98 percent chance of getting pregnant within a year, and the odds are still a healthy 84 percent until age 30. You're also less likely to have a miscarriage.
Just a little smoking can do big damage. "Five or six cigarettes on the weekend may affect your future ability to conceive by decreasing the oxygen supply to your eggs," says Sherman Silber, MD, director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis and author of How to Get Pregnant: The Classic Guide to Overcoming Infertility. Additionally, a British Medical Association report found that smoking can not only delay conception but can also be a primary cause of infertility.
In your 30s: Time sex right. Doing it the two days prior to ovulation gives you the greatest chance of conceiving. An ovulation-predictor kit (available in drugstores) can tell you when you're good to go by detecting surging levels of luteinizing hormone in your urine. Don't panic if you don't get pregnant right away. A 30-year-old woman has a 20 percent chance of success every month and a 65 to 75 percent chance within a year.
Weight matters. The most fertile BMI is 20 to 25. "Being underweight or overweight can make it more difficult to conceive, because body fat produces estrogen, and too little or too much can affect your fertility," says Dr. Trupin. One percent of women run out of eggs before age 40. If you're not ready for a baby yet, consider getting a follicle count from a fertility specialist. (Go to the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals at arhp.org to find an accredited one in your area.) "A vaginal ultrasound can show the number of follicles in the development stage, and that can help your doctor estimate how many eggs you have left," says Dr. Silber. A count of 15 to 30 is considered healthy. "If yours is lower than 14 and you're not planning to get pregnant within a year, consider freezing some of your eggs for future use." The test costs about $175 and typically isn't covered by insurance.
In your 40s: Every month counts. We see so many older moms these days, it's easy to think that the fertility window is still wide open. But only 5 percent of women 40 and older conceive in a month, and just 40 to 50 percent are successful after a year. Wait no longer than a few months before consulting a fertility expert. "Older eggs are more likely to have chromosomal abnormalities," says Dr. Silber. Even if you get pregnant, you have a greater chance of miscarrying. The rate rises from 34 percent in your early 40s to 53 percent after 45. The news isn't all bad. "Donor eggs are a great option, because your uterus is probably as healthy as ever," says Dr. Silber.
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Uh, I agree...I'm over 55 and I still have desires, and so does my mate!5/10/2014 07:51:37 PM Report Abuse
I'm in my 70s, where the heck is your help for me? But it can be pretty good even without your help! Maybe us over 50 need to give the younger people some advice since they evidently don't think there is s_x after 49! So youngsters, there is s_x after 50 and 60 and 70, and it can be darn good. Even without the "e", dumb software!12/10/2013 09:58:38 AM Report Abuse
Well, I didn't die when I turned 50, Chrissakes.10/24/2013 09:54:08 PM Report Abuse
So, people in their 50s don't have s?x? Lame to leave the story where you did! By the way, when did you word "s?X become inappropriate. People use the "F" bomb ALL the time and the word SE?x is in appropriate? Again, LAME story.8/28/2013 09:27:21 PM Report Abuse
Same comment, s_x does not have to stop when you turn 40!8/28/2013 08:57:15 PM Report Abuse
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Path (social network)
|San Francisco, California
|San Francisco, California, United States
|Area served
|Dave Morin
Shawn Fanning
Dustin Mierau
|Key people
|Dave Morin
Shawn Fanning
Dustin Mierau
|Written in
|C & Objective-C (iOS), Java (Android), Python (backend)
|Type of site
|Social networking
|Available in
|English, Arabic, Norwegian, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese
|November 2010
|Current status
Path is a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging[1] service for mobile devices, launched in November 2010. The service allows users to share with their close friends and family up to a total of 150 contacts.[2]
Dave Morin, co-founder and CEO, says: "Our long-term grand vision here is to build a network that is very high quality and that people feel comfortable contributing to at any time."[2]
The company began with an iPhone application and a website, and later released apps for Android, iPad, and Windows Phone. The company competes with other social networks such as Instagram.[3]
Based in San Francisco, California, the company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executive Dave Morin.[4] Path's initial $2.5 million funding round[1] included Ron Conway, Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Rose, Marc Benioff, Chris Kelly, and others.[4] It subsequently raised $30 million in venture capital from Redpoint Ventures. On January 11, 2014, the company announced it had raised another $25 million in venture funding from Indonesian Bakrie Group, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and First Round Capital.[5]
Indonesia is the world's largest Path userbase with more than 4 millions users.[6]
Users update their stream on Path by posting photos, adding tags for people, places, and things.[7]
Path limits each user's social network to 150 friends to encourage users to select only high-quality connections.[8] Overall, the decision the company says was inspired by psychology research that suggests people have a maximum number of workable social contacts. The limitation, along with user controls over how to share each post, were designed to encourage greater sharing of personal information by keeping it private to a person's inner circle of social contacts.[9] The site was intended as a companion to Facebook and other social network platforms, as opposed to a destination website.[10]
Contacts are suggested from among persons in a user's electronic address book, as well as people with whom the user is communicating by email.[11]
Original Angel investor funding for Path was secured in November 2010.[12]
In February 2011, the company raised a second round of $8.5 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Index Ventures along with Digital Garage of Japan.[13]
In November 2011, Path relaunched with more features, and by December 2011 it grew from 30,000 to over 300,000 members in less than a month.[14]
August 11, 2013 – Path partnered with Apps Viddy, Picstitch, Strava, WordPress, Bible, Papelook, Miil, Manga Camera and Otaku that hooked into its network to get a "Share on Path" button. The company's first API partner was Nike which allows users to share their runs and general fitness levels for each day. [15]
In February 2012, the company was widely criticized for concerns of accessing and storing member phone contacts without their knowledge or permission. In a blog post by the CEO the company apologized and changed its practices.[16] Soon thereafter, in March 2012, the company received a request for information from Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-California) and G. K. Butterfield (D-North Carolina) along with 33 other app developers asking them to detail what information they collect from users and how they use it.[17]
In February 2013, the company was fined $800,000 by the FTC for storing data from underage users and will be required to have its privacy policies assessed every two years for the next 20 years.[18] Along with the civil penalty, FTC has prohibited Path from making any misrepresentations about the extent it maintains confidentiality of its users' personal data. [19]
In April 2013, a user wrote a blog post alleging that Path sent spam SMS invitations to his phone contacts. Even so, the user could not confirm without doubt that he did not send the SMS invitations when signing up for the service, stating: "I'm pretty sure I didn't opt in...."[20] TechCrunch then speculated that Facebook blocked Path's "Find Friends" access due to this occurrence; however, Facebook nor Path confirmed or denied such reports. Even so, Path users can still share their posts to Facebook.[21] Facebook also cut off "Find Friends" access to other apps such as MessageMe and Voxer, which were formally cited as competitors to Facebook.[22]
The company was named in a 60 minutes report on internet privacy and data brokers.[23]
- ^ a b McCarthy, Caroline (November 14, 2010). "A Path the world isn't meant to see". CNET.
- ^ a b Fowler, Geoffrey A. (March 11, 2011). "Path Gets "FriendRank" and a Revenue Stream". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Start-Up Path Aims for More Personal Social Network". The New York Times New Roman. November 15, 2010.
- ^ a b Isaac, Mike (November 14, 2010). "New Social Network Path = iPhone + Instagram + Facebook – 499,999,950 Friends". Forbes.
- ^ Empson, Rip. "Path Finally Closes That Elusive Series C". TechCrunch.
- ^ Cornila Desyana (February 25, 2014). "Indonesia has the Largest Number of Path Users".
- ^ Molina, Brett (November 15, 2010). "Following the Path to a more personal social network". USA Today.
- ^ "From Ex-Facebooker, A New 'Path' To Sharing". Associated Press. November 15, 2010.
- ^ Frommer, Dan (November 15, 2010). "Path Launches To Save You From Facebook". Business Insider.
- ^ "Startup Path bids to be 'anti-social network'". Economic Times. November 16, 2010.
- ^ De Jesus, Roy (November 19, 2010). "A different Path to create your social network". Central Florida News 13.
- ^ After Months Of Buzz, Path Launches: It's Photo Sharing Where You Can Be Yourself | TechCrunch
- ^ Path Gets $8.5 Million. Ahem! Why? — Tech News and Analysis
- ^ A New Path: Path Grows Daily Users 30x Since Relaunch | TechCrunch
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- ^ Path CEO: We are sorry, and we've deleted your address book data | Rafe's Radar - CNET News
- ^ Bonnington, Christina (March 23, 2012). "Congress Queries App Developers on Their Data Privacy Practices". Wired.
- ^ Path's Big Privacy Mistake Offers a Valuable Lesson for Start-ups
- ^ Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books
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- ^ Constine, Josh; Butcher, Mike (May 4, 2013). "Facebook Blocks Path's 'Find Friends' Access Following Spam Controversy". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
- ^ Cutler, Kim-Mai (March 15, 2013). "Facebook Brings Down The Hammer Again: Cuts Off MessageMe's Access To Its Social Graph". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 19, 2014.
- ^ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/
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Shobana Chandrakumar Pillai is an exponent of the Bharatanatyam dance and a leading actress of South Indian motion pictures. She was born into a Malayalam speaking family from Kerala, India. Shobana is the niece of the Travancore sisters Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini, all of whom were renowned for their skill in classical Indian dance. She has acted in over 150 movies in 5 languages.
Shobana acted for the first time in a leading role in the Malayalam motion picture "April 18" in 1984, directed by Balachandra Menon. She also acted alongside the Malayalam actor Mammootty in the film Kanamarayathu (1984). Shobana won her first National Film Award for Best Actress from the government of India in 1994 for her performance in Fazil's movie Manichitrathazhu, starring Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi. She bagged a second National award for best actress in the year 2002 for her role in an English language film Mitr, My Friend, directed by Revathi. Revathi is her very close friend, philosopher and guide.
Shobhana is an accomplished dancer of Bharatanatyam. She did her dance training at the Chidambaram academy in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her gurus include legendary Bharatanatyam dancers Chitra Visweswaran and Padma Subramanyam. Shobhana is famed for her Abhinaya, a pivotal element in Bharatanatyam. She performed in Kuala Lumpur before the King and Queen of Malaysia. Shobhana's skilled execution of dance movements and her extraordinary beauty has led many people to consider her as the most beautiful South Indian actress from the 1980s through the 1990s. She is often equaled to the curvaceous beauty of Indian sculptures.Shobhana has founded a school for classical Bharatanatyam dance in Chennai. She was also a part of Mani Ratnam's stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai. In 1994, Shobana founded Kalarpana. The aim of Kalarpana is to organize annual festivals throughout India. This will include performances of nationally and globally known artistes to help raise funds that will be ploughed back into training talented artistes who are financially insecure. Under its umbrella, Kalarpana extend its support to the handicapped and the environmental movement.
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Much has been made of the Eagles having to pay Michael Vick a $3 million guaranteed bonus if he was on the roster 3 days after the Super Bowl. Many assumed because of such a high number that it would be a forgone conclusion that Vick would be released by next week. The Star Ledger via Jason La Canfora says not so fast. La Canfora is reporting that Vick may well indeed receive that $3 million as the Eagles figure out what to do with their quarterback situation. La Canfora: Much has been made of the fact that $3 million of Mike Vick's $16.5 million contract with the Eagles becomes guaranteed if he is on their roster come Feb. 6, but sources said that issue is not a concern at this time, and it's unlikely Vick's contract will be resolved before then. Kelly's fast paced spread attack would seem to suit Vick's skill sets but still some have doubt about whether Kelly will go with a battered 33-year-old quarterback who holds the ball to long. Expect the Eagles to hold onto to Vick up until at least the draft where they hold the 4th overall pick. It will be interesting to see what Kelly does with that pick if West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith is still on the board.
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Hardware vendors say it all the time: Your firmware is out of date and should be upgraded.
I hear this almost every time I'm working on a hardware support contract. Disk failures on storage, part failures on modular switches -- it doesn't matter; the firmware issue almost always pops up. And I play along.
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"Because there are tons of improvements and bug fixes in the newer version," they all say when asked why I should upgrade. But unless I'm experiencing a problem that can be directly traced to firmware, I'll usually decline. I've been bitten more than once by the siren song of the latest firmware. I'll take stability over recency nearly every time.
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Maintenance windows and downtime are significant factors when it comes to updating firmware on core devices. Unless your storage supports online firmware updates (as some do), you're looking at a reboot of a storage array at best and longer downtime at worst. Most small organizations can't afford hardware that supports online updates, so the entire virtualization infrastructure must be powered down or migrated just to upgrade the firmware of one storage array. Unless your current firmware is causing data integrity issues, it isn't worth having to do either.
That's nothing to say of the possibility that a "minor" firmware update can cause unforeseen problems with the device, rendering it inoperable or otherwise offline. Now you're left with a situation of your own causing that has suddenly become a far bigger problem. That simple firmware update, which has a changelog that contains next to nothing pertinent for your infrastructure, has hit a bug and instead of rebooting normally, your device is now stuck at boot throwing errors.


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Santa's Cookie Recipe: Holiday Snowballs
It's the holiday season and while my household celebrates Christmas, we're also just as likely to attend holiday events that don't necessarily match its red and green theme. (Hanukkah, Solstice, Buddha's Enlightenment, etc.) I love to bring a plateful of cookies as a gift or put luck offering, so this year I gave my usual Christmas cookie recipe some new, more ecumenical party clothes. Read on for the transformation!
Several years ago, I wrote a post about reconnecting with my family's tradition of making cookies for Santa. Our cookie of choice was Red and Green Christmas Balls which were carefully placed, along with a mug of hot cocoa, next to the fireplace on Christmas Eve.
I still love Red and Green Christmas Balls and all of the traditions of Christmas, but for those times when something a little more neutral, but still sparkly, is required, Holiday Snowballs will fit the bill quite nicely.
This is the same dough as the original Christmas Balls recipe, with a few exceptions: a dash of salt and some elbow grease. In my original recipe, I talk about using a hand mixer but my mixer is in storage and my current abode does not have one. So I beat the (room temperature) butter and sugar by hand until it was well incorporated and then added in the water and vanilla. It took a while, and some careful, delicate stirring and mashing, but the liquid eventually was incorporated. The nuts and flour also took some care at first, but then it all came together. (I had yet to read Sarah Rae's advice to use a fork.)
I decided that a nice simple white cookie would cover all my holiday party bases. Powdered sugar was a natural choice but I didn't want my cookies to be mistaken for Mexican Wedding Cakes, which are lovely but not festive enough for my purposes. So I threw a bottle of very sparkly decorating sugar into the powdered sugar and rolled the cookies it it. They weren't quite sparkly enough, so I rolled them again in just the glitter for an extra top coat of sparkliness.
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2 tsp vanilla
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2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup chopped pecans
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, cream the butter with the powdered sugar until fluffy. Add the vanilla and water and beat until incorporated. It helps to use an electric mixer as the water will resist the oiliness of the butter and refuse to mix in at first. If you do have to mix by hand, then just be patient and carefully mix and mash the mixture. Or try using a fork. Add the flour, pecans, and salt and mix until just incorporated.
Roll into marble-sized balls and place on a parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until the cookies are set and the bottoms have browned slightly. Meanwhile, mix the powdered sugar and one bottle of decorating sugar together in a shallow bowl or plate. Empty the second bottle of decorating sugar on another plate.
When the cookies are done, remove them from the oven and let them sit until they have cooled. Roll in the powdered sugar mixture until coated and then roll in the decorating sugar until sparkly. Store in an airtight container. Happy Holidays!
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What's not to love about a sparkly snowball?
What's wrong with calling them Mexican Wedding Cookies?
I. Love. These. I make them every year and sometimes i give them a chocolate covered bottom for a little added oomph.
Manjar... you said it!
Mexican wedding cakes are THE xmas staple. We called then round-powdered-cookie-rounds when I was a tot. Super easy for the kids to help with.
i'm not sure i understand what's wrong with calling them snowballs, either? It's a recipe, it probably has a zillion different names...thank you for sharing one of your traditions, dana!
What's in a name? These cookies (or variants thereof, with different nuts subbed in for the pecans) are known by many names - Mexican wedding cakes, Russian tea cakes, kourambiethes (the Greek version), and in a different shape, Viennese crescents.
Yep, we grew up with them as Russian tea cakes. So long as it's the same perfect cookie, I'm content.
We grew up with Mom's recipe that is quite similar. She used ground pecans, bread flour, butter, vanilla, salt, ice water (to cream butter and vanilla), powdered sugar. Rolled into "finger" shapes rather than balls, we called them "Pecan Fingers". I took the recipe out last night and plan on making them today!
These are not snowballs. They are Mexican wedding cookies!! Cookie crime!!!
I grew up making these and we called them Pecan Sandies.
Whoa these look amazing. Delicious holiday donut cookies. Would you mind sharing them on the USPS Facebook page? Here's the link: http://on.fb.me/ujGGtE
For a healthier version, use 3/4 cup of canola oil instead of butter, 1.5 cups of all purpose flour and 3/4 cup of whole wheat flour (instead of 2 cups AP). I add 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp of almond extract to give it that little extra flavor.It's still amazingly good! Try it, you'll like it!
When I think of snowballs, I think of cakes coated in frosting and coconut. These have always been Russian Tea Cakes in my family. I think it conjures a really elegant image of them being served on ornate, gold embellished china.
The Wikipedia article on Russian Tea Cakes has some interesting information about the cookie's origins. Calling them Snow Balls is apparently common, but they are technically not the same as Mexican Wedding Cakes, although very similar. Mexican Wedding Cakes include anise, while these do not.
Any thoughts on doing these cookies without pecans or any sort of nuts?
Greek Kourabiedes! The best version is always the Greek version;-)
Can you please clarify what sparkly white decorating glitter is? Are you talking about luster dust (or something in that family), or white sanding sugar? Thanks!