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Some Texas schools are testing out ID cards that allow administrators to track students. The cards emit a radio frequency that allow administrators to confirm that students are at school. It doesn't seem like the cards are for class skippers. Administrators say the cards are to help track attendance even if the students are not in homeroom, which allows the school to collect all the state dollars it is entitled to.
"In Texas, school finance is a numbers game: schools receive money based on the number of students counted in their homeroom classes each morning. At Anson Jones, as at other schools, many students were in school but not in homeroom, so they were not counted and the district lost money, said Pascual Gonzalez, a spokesman for the district."
Some have concern about the cards.
"Matthew Simpson, a policy strategist for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said the technology was easy to acquire, meaning people outside a school might be able to monitor a student if they obtained the student's unique tracking number. "
"Mr. Simpson said the technology was originally designed for shipping goods and for cattle. 'It was never intended for people,' he said. "
Some students say they like being able to scan the tag to get through the lunch line. Other school officials say it's an easy way to find a student in an emergency.
Lots of businesses make employees use ID cards for access, which is in a way tracking the employee. They can tell where they have been.
So what do you think: Would you be upset if your child was asked to wear an ID badge that could track them? Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
October 8th, 2012
1:06 am
Haha! As if the kids couldn't figure out, "Hey, Joey, here, take my card to school with you, I'm playing hooky today." Puh-leeze. My daughter and I laughed at the parents of one of her roommates, who parents gave her a GPS-enabled phone so that they could always keep track of her. They also admonished her that she "must" be in her dorm room by midnight each night. As far as the parents were concerned — she was. At least, her phone was . . .
October 8th, 2012
7:31 am
If you aren't organized and disciplined enough as an administrator to get your kids in homeroom, you don't deserve extra funding dollars.
October 8th, 2012
8:11 am
Until the computer system that tracks these kids becomes self-aware, then attempt to find Sarah Conner…..
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
October 8th, 2012
8:38 am
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! I do not want my kids tracked by the school. I don't care how much funding they lose, they ain't tracking my babies.
October 8th, 2012
9:09 am
Could we use them for evidence to sue the school systems for not being accountable for our kids at all times?
October 8th, 2012
9:15 am
Oh how I hate agreeing with the ACLU, but they are right. Kids are not Walmart freight or cattle. If the story didn't say it was from Texas, I would assume it was dreamed up by GDOT.
@DB – So true!
October 8th, 2012
9:25 am
I am a liberal/progressive Democrat but I wouldn't want my child being tracked through any means that's out of my control. What's wrong with good old-fashioned roll call first thing in the morning? Then if kids are tardy for whatever reason, the school office usually checks them in, so they should have accurate counts everyday.
October 8th, 2012
9:48 am
If anyone is tracking my kids, it will be me and I do NOT plan on doing it. Is Texas the only state that gets money for children who show up for school?
Perhaps the point is that children are not OBEYING their parents and going to school. I find the word OBEY to be rather obsolete in many families.
When I was a student, and living with my parents, I never dreamed of not going to school. My own kids knew that I expected them to go to school. I am not a parent who believes in perfect attendance AT ALL COSTS. There were times mine went ( with me) to other places besides school…such as California or Alaska.
I DO feel that consistent school attendance falls in line with good grades and perhaps a good work ethic of going to work, even when you would rather do something else ( we have all been there). Maybe more and more parents are throwing up their hands and letting their kids take over. That would not shock me.
OFF topic but interesting…I listened to Ilyce Glink on WSB yesterday on the way home from church. She had a guest on who was talking to parents of current and potential college students ( I cannot remember her name). Ilyce asked about sports scholarships and they both laughed. It was said that less than 2% of HS athletes, nationally, get a college sports scholarship and while sports are good…it may be better to invest that time and $$$$ in academics. I thought it was interesting.
October 8th, 2012
9:48 am
What the heck???? If they can't keep track of the kids, they don't deserve money and they have bigger problems anyways. No way I would allow this done to my children. It is MY responsibility to make sure my kids are in school and where they are supposed to be on time. NOT anyone else's.
October 8th, 2012
10:17 am
My son's school uses RFID tags to track visitors but not students. It's the same technology they use in hospitals with babies if I'm not mistaken. They can't track the RFIDs outside of the school so quite frankly, I don't see the huge deal.
October 8th, 2012
10:34 am
Big brother watching.. between cell phones, id cards, gps tracking in the car, credit cards, ip address on
a lap top, facebook, twitter, and everything else in between.. there is no place to hide LOL!!! really….
What happened to the teacher taking role in the morning? Are there to many students in the class for the teacher to take the time and call role? If so, spend the money to add new teachers and reduce the classroom size.
Who is going to pay for the new badges, installation of the equipment, maintenance and monitoring????
October 8th, 2012
11:03 am
I don't see the problem with this. In fact, if I could have a tracker on me at all times I would. The only reason I would need to be tracked is if something bad happened to me. If I went missing, I would want someone to find me as fast as possible. This is the way technology is going, so we may as well get used to it.
Also- I like the way the technology works. Scout Mob knows where I am and if I walk into a restaurant and there is a discount, I know right away. Not bad. If I walk into Target and there are coupons, of course I want them sent to me.
I am not that important (and neither are any of you) that someone ("Big Brother") is going to watch my every move. Don't be narcissistic. No one cares what you are doing. Just stay out of trouble and you'll be fine.
October 8th, 2012
11:06 am
@ camille…WOW you would have THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS running over to give you a hug if we could just: "spend the money to add new teachers and reduce the classroom size."
In today's economy…many teachers have lost jobs as class sizes are on the increase. Public school dollars are shrinking. Many Kinders in Gwinnett County GA have lost their parapros. I would rather teach 26 students with a parapro than 20 without (but that is just me). Another set of arms is beyond helpful in Kinder. I believe that many GA parapros ( teacher's aides for some of you) make $10 -$12 per hour. Not much but a lot of them do it for the school schedule, as they want to be home with their children. I know so many that are wonderful. They are also in it for the health insurance.
October 8th, 2012
11:12 am
Let's just microchip them, behind the neck. The Georgia legislature says we cannot do that here, but in Texas I bet it would be fine!
And we can start microchipping each baby when it is born! That way, we can tell the American citizens from the "illegals." And if a person becomes naturalized, we could microchip them right in front of everyone when they say the pledge!
October 8th, 2012
11:22 am
I don't think it's a good idea, just like the others.
What's up with the new layout? I don't like it. I like to be able to see the past articles on the right like the old layout had.
October 8th, 2012
11:41 am
When are you parents finally going to realize that government schools are basically just prisons with a night-release program? Indoctrination, following bells like trained dogs, obedience, subservience, and a general dumbing down are all that they are good for anymore.
Get your kids out of these day-prisons. Homeschool them, put them in private schools, and work to get your wasted money back so you can take responsibility for their education as you should.
October 8th, 2012
11:42 am
Is this really an "american" institution you wish to continue supporting?
October 8th, 2012
11:44 am
@catlady – that's a REALLY slippery slope you speak of… carrying an ID badge is way different than being implanted with one.
So why do you all think it's OK to track newborns in a hospital with this technology but not kids in classrooms?
October 8th, 2012
11:46 am
@Cynic – how many kids you got? My guess is NONE. Anyone who starts off a post with "YOU PARENTS" is obviously childless and the authority on child rearing.
Homeschool them. OK, I'll quit my job to home school my kids. Then who's going to put food on the table? YOU? great, I'll email you my address. Or I can apply for unemployment and food stamps. again, YOU will pay for that.
Private schools – who's gonna pay that $10,000 a year bill? Oh I will, let me go get two more jobs so I can pay for that. Then there won't be anyone at home to take care of the kids after school. Lose/lose situation.
Your post is ridiculious. Talk to me after you have children.
October 8th, 2012
11:51 am
Mayhem – justify your support of government education anyway you see fit. Doesn't change the reality of what it has become or how much worse it is going to get. You are right. They are your kids.
October 8th, 2012
12:11 pm
Catlady, isn't that too similiar to the mark of the beast? Everyone getting marked?
October 8th, 2012
12:21 pm
No, I wouldn't be upset if my child was tracked. It is no biggie, IMO.
First, there wouldn't be a need to be tracked if students reported to homeroom as required. Failure to do what is requested has consequences. IMO, the bigger and more important question is why aren't students reporting to homeroom? Parents need to be concerned that their students are complying with such a simple/mundane task.
Second, I don't see any harm. What's the harm in knowing where my student is, given that I already know he is at school? I guess it falls into the no harm, no foul category in my book.
Third, I don't think this type of tracking will lead to other Big Brother behavior. Besides, who really cares about the whereabouts of a middle school student??? Please don't answer pedophiles. They have been successful in finding victims without tracking devices and sadly, will continue to be successful.
I'm just not at all concerned about tracking children in this scenario.
October 8th, 2012
12:22 pm
Oops! Parents need to be concerned why their students *aren't* reporting to homeroom.
October 8th, 2012
1:45 pm
Umm, maybe I was the only one that read catlady's comments as facetious. Did I spell that right?
October 8th, 2012
1:57 pm
If your child is one who misses homeroom, or any part of school for that matter, enough to need a tracking device, you have much larger problems than being late for school. I am sure that the ones who need tracking aren't straight A or B students, so tracking them is not going to help. It will be a cold day when my child gets tracked by a school, you can count on it.
October 8th, 2012
3:14 pm
Techmom and traci: My tongue was FIRMLY planted in my cheek! Thanks, Jeff! Guess the sarcasm for our Republican legislature could not be heard.
I remember when my eldest was a student at Cedar Shoals in Athens. There was a group of kids who hung out in the parking lot most all day–even called "the parking lot kids."
I agree that if a high school student is not where they are SUPPOSED to be, it is up to the parent to "convince" them to be in class! If the school steps in, it will be accused of "stong arming" the kids. Parents, if your child is skipping school, the ball is in YOUR court! The school should call (robo call) every time a kid is not where they are supposed to be. (Of course, kids find ways to intercept these calls, and it doesn't account for the high incidence of parents with changed numbers, disconnected numbers, or parents unwilling to even give the school an actual number.)
October 8th, 2012
3:21 pm
And when the kid looses the card…….then what?
October 8th, 2012
3:39 pm
I think this is in a little story called 1984. I say NO WAY!
October 8th, 2012
3:41 pm
And when the kid looses the card…….then what?
We make them learn the difference between lose and loose.
October 8th, 2012
3:49 pm
loses……my bad
October 8th, 2012
6:18 pm
Revelation 13:
16 – And he will cause all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
October 8th, 2012
7:30 pm
Is it still the schools fault if they don't show up? No child left uncounted!! Is that Rommeys education plan? Or is it all rich people this way, all making less than 250000 this way?
October 8th, 2012
7:33 pm
cynic- are you or your preacher going to teach chemistry and physics. You can always you the first 5 pages of that 2000 year old book you folks carry around.
October 8th, 2012
8:31 pm
For all of you that are opposed to such a tracking device, what's the harm? I haven't heard one harm articulated. Please don't say an infringement on liberty or privacy. Neither is applicable in the case, IMO.
October 8th, 2012
11:12 pm
"Lots of businesses make employees use ID badges for access." Yes, they have the ability to know when employees are arriving and to keep non-employees out of building. They are not radio activated and not designed to "track" my whereabouts. If I lose my card, $25 of my personal money to replace. Who is funding radio-activated cards for students? Let me guess……taxpayers fund, BUT, the school gets the benefit of government funds. How about this, take old-fashioned roll in homeroom. Call out a name, either present or not. Call mom and dad and report truancy. Taxpayers saved.
October 9th, 2012
5:19 am
@Why Not – They are plenty that care what you are doing! You are being watched because the corporations want you to spend your money on their product. Creating consumer robots that they can lead to specific purchases is their mission. Marketing is typically now targeted to specific persons based on their past purchases being tracked. Web ads appear on news sites you visit that happen to be something you recently searched for on Amazon. It is not being narcissistic to know these things.
October 9th, 2012
5:25 am
@ camille – Regarding who is going to pay for the purchase, installation and monitoring, many of these contracts for new equipment are "justified" as being beneficial to the schools or kids, when, in reality, they are avenues for contracts and money to pass to a friend or associate's private business venture. This is behind many school decisions. The Texas system claims this will help them account for some extra kids so they can get their federal money. Does anyone really believe the extra money from a handful of kids each day is really going to add up to more than the cost to develop, purchase, setup, implement, and track/monitor kids on a daily basis in order to acquire that additional federal money per child? There will be costs for replacement cards, setting up the individual tracking numbers, etc. The costs to actually maintain these systems is often not considered at the outset.
October 9th, 2012
10:59 am
NO! No way, no how would I submit my children to this.
October 9th, 2012
11:40 am
@ Sk8ing Momma – You are saying that you know where your child is, but you don't see any harm in this type of tracking. I would ask, why are you okay with your child having to "do something" because of the smaller percentage of kids who are not in school? This is similar to a non-drug user having to do a drug urine test at school because of the smaller percentage of students getting into trouble with that issue.
You say that you "don't think this type of tracking will lead to other Big Brother behavior. Besides, who really cares about the whereabouts of a middle school student?" There is huge interest in tracking that middle school student. They are future consumers of products and companies are much more aggressive about "locking in" brand preferences and loyalty at an early age. Why do you think cell phones are now targeted with designs for five year olds?
This tracking plan will cost taxpayers money and they "no harm, no foul" needs to take cost into consideration. There is a long track record of schools spending money on changes and reforms without giving proper thought to the long-term cost and benefit to the public. Sometimes, these decisions are made because a person "in their job" wants to make some change or "improvement" to justify the need for their job.
October 9th, 2012
11:58 am
@Sk8ing Momma – First, your saying that infringement of liberty and privacy is not applicable does not make it so. It is an invasion of liberty and privacy, because there is nothing that prevents the RFID chips from being used outside school hours or by reader other than those belonging to the school.
Second, RFID chips in credit cards have been shown to be notoriously insecure. The chips can be read from a distance and RFID scanners are very portable. This combination means the chips can easily be read by someone with no business doing so. Further, tags can be read from greater distances using a high-gain antenna or if the cards use a battery to boost range, exacerbating this problem.
Third, RFID chips linked to an individual person can easily be used by businesses using RFID technology for marketing purposes. This means that if the RFID reader at the cash register reads your student's ID chip, they can link every purchase to an individual person. If your student uses your credit card with RFID technology, or if they also carry a card with RFID technology, their purchases are also linked to you (or whatever card they are using).
Fourth, technical issues can cause problems. Because RFID systems use electromagnetic spectrum, they are relatively easy to jam using energy at the right frequency. Also, active RFID tags (those that use a battery to increase the range of the system) can be repeatedly interrogated to wear the battery down, disrupting the system. If reader ranges overlap or there are many RFID tags in an area, reader collision or tag collision can cause data collection problems. What happens when your child is in class, but a system disruption, reader collision, or tag collision causes them to be recorded as absent?
October 9th, 2012
12:06 pm
What kind of cost-benefit analysis has been done on this? The "we're losing money" statement is not enough. 1) how many children are missing homeroom roll call that are in class the rest of the day? is there a way to account for them later in the day? 2) is the truancy rate high in the area? that needs to be fixed before you go implementing this on kids that come to school. 3) is the cost of implementing this system reasonable vs the money the school (system?) will get in federal dollars? I'm not talking just financial cost. Cost in parental satisfaction matters. How quickly will this school board be voted out if the parents are dissatisfied? 4) will this system actually satisfy the requirements for getting the federal dollars? 5) what other data is being tracked? I'm sure attendance is not the only thing that will be tracked once this system is put in effect but it will be the only thing parents will be made aware of.
October 9th, 2012
9:53 pm
I wish they were more concerned as to WHY the kids weren't in school, instead of bemoaning the fact that they are loosing money because they aren't there.
October 14th, 2012
4:19 pm
If the people entrusted with access to the system were perfect, then nothing could possibly go wrong. If their character were beyond reproach then they would never use it for anything sinister. If the world were a perfect place then there would be no need for laws or punishment for breaking those laws. None of us live in that place. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hitler would have loved such a tracking system. I am sure the final solution would have claimed more lives in a shorter period of time. The index cards really slowed things down.


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In response to public criticism, Gill included language specifically preventing any development in the Cherry Point industrial area, which would include the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal, from using any aspect of the program.
Despite the changes, representatives from local environmental groups are concerned the program does not go far enough to protect existing wetlands and may even encourage development that would endanger the Birch Bay watershed ecosystem.
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Earth to Amy, since you mentioned Houla: According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ):
"Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houla's Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houla's population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet." (Neue Erkenntnisse zu Getöteten von Hula.Abermals Massaker in Syrien, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 7, 2012 translated from the German,
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OIT requires additional steps to access the wired and wireless network to ensure the security of network and computing resources. Network access to services including websites, email, internet/intranet, network shares, and printing requires the use of authentication (entering a username/password) via Network Access Control (NAC).
Employees that use a GPC owned computer will automatically be given access to the campus network (wired or wireless) when they sign-in to their computers. OIT deployed an agent program (Cisco Clean Access Agent) that allows for single sign on from these computers.
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Kratos is making a return to the PlayStation 3 with God of War: Ascension. Unveiled this morning by, of all places Amazon, the latest game in the series takes a step back to the beginning of the 'angry man' chronicles. This outing will see players take control of Kratos before he rose to power and became the God of War. Amazon's description of the game is as follows:
Join Kratos as he seeks freedom, redemption, and the clarity to avenge his family in the most ambitious God of War adventure in the series so far.
We have added the trailer above for your viewing pleasure since we received the official release from Sony. We also have the boxart (seen here) and as more info trickles out today we will be sure to keep you update.
Be sure to tune in to the PlayStation.Blog and God of War: Ascension Facebook page on Monday, April 30th at 8:00am Pacific Time for a live streaming event that will give you a glimpse of what's in store for God of War: Ascension.
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SATURDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Text message reminders help
children -- but not teenagers -- stick with their asthma medication
schedule, a new study finds.
It's common for youngsters to forget to take asthma control
medications, and missing doses can result in poor asthma
This small pilot study included patients ages 6 to 17 who had
moderate, persistent or more severe asthma and used inhaled
corticosteroids to keep their asthma under control. The
participants received daily text messages reminding them to take
their controller medication, and their asthma control was monitored
by researchers.
Two of the seven patients showed improvement in their asthma
control, and parents of children said the text messages were
helpful. However, text messaging didn't improve asthma controller
use among teens.
The study is slated for presentation at the annual meeting of
the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Nov. 3 to 8
in Boston.
"Since teens often communicate by text message, we were surprised to see this approach did not improve the consistency in which they took their medication," allergist Dr. Jennifer S. Lee, of Women & Children's Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y., said in an ACAAI news release.
"Text message reminders help some patients take their medication more regularly. This is a pilot study, so a larger, longer term study is needed to determine if this intervention will ultimately improve asthma control," she added.
About one in 10 children in the United States has asthma and
nearly 4 million have had an asthma attack in the past year,
according to the ACAAI.
Research presented at meetings should be considered preliminary
until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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The Nemours Foundation has more about
childhood asthma.
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New showhomes to highlight stylish Archford and Layton designs at Waterbrook Ways
Discovering a brand new home in popular Brockworth is set to become even easier - thanks to David Wilson Homes.
The housebuilder offers a stylish selection of three and four bedroom homes at Waterbrook Ways. And now two new showhomes are expected to tempt even more buyers to the exciting development.
"Buyers are attracted to Waterbrook Ways because of its location here in Brockworth - surrounded by countryside and close to both Gloucester and Cheltenham," said David Wilson Homes sales director, Louise Ware. "But those moving to this development are doing so because of the outstanding range of new homes featured here.
"Now we are unveiling showhomes for our three bedroom Archford and four bedroom Layton house types so that visitors can take a much closer look at all that these special designs have to offer."
The Archford is a spacious family home with an airy lounge and attractive kitchen, with a dining area that has french doors out to the rear garden.
Upstairs, the master bedroom features an en suite with shower. The remaining double and single bedrooms have use of a family bathroom.
With four double bedrooms, the Layton is a bright and airy home. The kitchen with breakfast area leads through french doors out to the rear garden. The lounge and separate dining room each feature a beautiful bay window.
Also on the ground floor is a study - ideal for use as an office or homework room - and a utility room.
Upstairs are the four double bedrooms, with an en suite shower room to the master. And there is an attractive family bathroom.
"These new homes are set to attract buyers from across the region and beyond. And the setting here is already proving particularly popular among buyers with young families," added Louise. "It is very close to the excellent Castle Hill Primary School and all local amenities are very easily accessible.
"Anyone keen to put down roots in this sought-after area should contact us soon about the new homes here."
Waterbrook Ways offers the best of both worlds. It is located within touching distance of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is conveniently placed for easy commuting to nearby towns and cities.


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Radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant found in US tuna
AP: New research has found increased levels of radiation in Pacific bluefin tuna caught off the coast of Southern California. Scientists say the radiation in the fish came from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant that was heavily damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Photo:Workers are seen harvesting bluefin tuna near Ensenada, Mexico, on March 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris Park, File)
This news is so ironic when considering what happened in the 50s. In 1954, the US Bravo test of a hydrogen bomb irradiated a Japanese tuna fishing boat near Bikini Atoll. The incident gained attention in Japan when it was found that some contaminated tuna brought back by other boats had been sold in the marketplace. This pissed off Japanese housewives, whose anger eventually escalated into a worldwide anti-nuclear movement. It was following this incident that the US - wanting to placate Japanese anti-nuclear sentiment and disguise its own Cold War nuclear testing under the guise of harmless, beneficial "Atoms for Peace" - provided Japan with the enriched uranium and nuclear technology to develop its own nuclear power industry.
Sixty years later and we are still dealing with irradiated tuna? Something isn't right here.
Further reading: The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, The Lucky Dragon, and I by Ōishi Matashichi.


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Specialty box office: 'Blue is the Warmest Color' goes green
This weekend at the art house/indie box office, the big winner was predictably "Blue is the Warmest Color," which "12 Years a Slave" entered the top ten.
Seven (or ten) movies you should see right now
There are actually some good movies in theaters right now. Here are seven (well, ten) you should try and make time for.
Abdellatif Kechiche on directing 'Blue is the Warmest Color'
"Blue is the Warmest Color" director Abdellatif Kechiche talks about not making a big deal out of homosexuality and how France is more homophobic.
Theater to ignore 'Blue is the Warmest Color"s NC-17 rating
A theater in New York City, the IFC Center, will allow teens under 17 to see the NC-17-rated film "Blue is the Warmest Color."
'Blue is the Warmest Color' is about more than hot sex
This year's Palme d'Or went to "Blue is the Warmest Color," a film whose graphic sex scenes have eclipsed its awards and its excellence.
Adele Exarchopoulos says 'Blue is the Warmest Color' was hard but worth it
"Blue is the Warmest Color" star Adele Exarchopoulos talks about the difficulties of doing endless improvisation and how her director is the best in France.
The Philadelphia Film Festival heads into its first weekend
Taking over city theaters for the next two weekends, the Philadelphia Film Festivals begins, with biggies including "The Immigrant" and "12 Years a Slave."
The New York Film Festival reaches its final weekend
The final weekend of the New York Film Festival includes the lesbian drama "Blue is the Warmest Color" and Jim Jarmusch's vampiric "Only Lovers Left Alive."
Indie spotlight: 'Concussion,' 'A Touch of Sin,' 'I Used to Be Darker' and 'Bad Milo!'
This weekend's art house releases include a lesbian "Belle de Jour," a violent film from a minimalist, a break-up drama from a minimalist and ass demons.
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With an even larger (and ever so slightly more mainstream) main slate than usual, the New York Film Festival kicks off its two week-plus run this weekend.


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Objectives: This study examined service utilization and event reaction patterns among children who used crisis counseling services provided under Project Liberty for 27 months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Methods: The authors analyzed logs of 681,318 service encounters submitted by Project Liberty counselors, paying particular attention to demographic characteristics and reported event reactions. Results: Nine percent of service recipients reached by community-based Project Liberty providers were children, whereas census data for the 15 counties and boroughs served by Project Liberty indicated that children constituted 25 percent of the population. Service use as a function of race or ethnicity and of gender was consistent with census data. Similar to findings for adults, the most common emotional event reactions reported for children were experiencing sadness and tearfulness, being anxious and fearful, having difficulty concentrating, experiencing irritability and anger, having intrusive thoughts or images, and having difficulty sleeping. Behavioral event reactions listed on service logs suggested that older children (12 to 17 years) were more likely to use drugs whereas elementary school-age children were more likely to display signs of anxiety, isolation and withdrawal, and difficulties with concentration and memory. Conclusions: Sensitivity to differences in the event reaction patterns shown by younger and older children may be useful in refining treatments to help reduce the psychological impact of children's trauma after terrorist incidents. (Psychiatric Services 57:1277-1282, 2006)
Dr. Covell and Dr. Essock are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Health Services Research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City. Dr. Essock is also with the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Bronx. Dr. Allen is with the Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Ms. Pease, Mr. Felton, Ms. Lanzara, and Ms. Donahue are with the Center for Information Technology and Evaluation Research, New York State Office of Mental Health, Albany. Send correspondence to Dr. Essock, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1230, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com). This report from Project Liberty is part of a special issue of Psychiatric Services commemorating the five-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Susan M. Essock, Ph.D., served as guest editor.
By its very nature, terrorism is designed to create social chaos and a psychological climate of fear and intimidation (1). Even when terrorist activities are aimed at adults, the physical and mental well-being of children invariably is negatively affected (2). Children affected by terrorism generally have been found to manifest the same broad symptoms of traumatic stress as adults (2). Children also exhibit these symptoms of traumatic stress for six or more months after a traumatic event (3,4), and these symptoms vary according to the children's age and cognitive abilities (5,6). Accurate assessment of reactions to trauma among children as a prelude to rapid provision of therapeutic intervention (7) is particularly important.
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, created widespread emotional distress among both adults and children. In a survey of 434 parents conducted two months after the attacks, parents reported that 18 percent of their children had severe or very severe stress reactions and 27 percent of their children exhibited problems in their daily functioning (8). A substantial number of New York City children continued to have elevated rates of psychiatric disorders for up to six months after the attacks. A needs assessment survey of 8,236 public schoolchildren estimated that 28.6 percent of fourth through 12th graders experienced at least one mental health problem serious enough to require intervention six months after September 11, 2001 (3). Children's symptom patterns also were found to vary as a function of age, gender, and race or ethnicity. Younger children, girls, and non-Caucasian children were more likely to report symptoms of anxiety-related disorders. Family exposure to the attacks was associated with a probable mental disorder to a larger degree than personal exposure (3).
Surveys found low rates of service utilization for children who experienced symptoms after the World Trade Center attacks. Two phone surveys of 434 and 112 parents, respectively, reported that 10 percent (8) and 22 percent (9) of symptomatic children received treatment; the school-based needs assessment (3) reported that only 33 percent of children who met criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had sought counseling services. According to survey results, such services were more likely to have been accessed by children whose parents reported current PTSD (9), those who had lost a relative or friend in the attacks, those who had received previous counseling, and those who manifested severe PTSD (8). Survey information is very helpful in estimating population needs and service utilization after a disaster. However, it is also important to examine trends in service use by employing actual service utilization data to provide disaster mental health community planners, providers, researchers, and program managers with information to enhance opportunities for disaster preparedness and response.
Project Liberty, a federally funded program designed to respond to mental health needs after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, provided large-scale, free, disaster-related outreach, individual and group counseling, psychoeducation, and referral services to both adults and children residing in the greater New York City metropolitan area (10). In order to be reimbursed for services, Project Liberty providers were required to complete service encounter logs, thus providing a source of data for examining demographic characteristics and event reaction profiles of clients served.
This study used data from Project Liberty to examine the characteristics of service utilization among children served, compare service utilization by children and adults who received individual or family counseling services, examine service utilization of children in relation to census data, and examine children's reactions to the World Trade Center disaster.
Under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding conditions, all services provided under Project Liberty were anonymous. All of the 177 community-based Project Liberty service providers served both adults and children. Provider agencies included large and small mental health agencies, consumer-run organizations, faith-based social service agencies, and agencies with experience serving particular ethnic, cultural, or racial groups. Providers completed 753,015 service logs indicating date and location of service (for example, school or place of employment), borough or county where service was received, and risk category (for example, family of a missing or deceased person, persons who were injured in attack, or fire, police, or rescue personnel).
These service logs included both group education and individual (including family) counseling services provided from Project Liberty's inception through December 31, 2003. Individual counseling service logs included information about whether the contact was a first or follow-up visit, demographic information (client age, gender, preferred language, and race or ethnicity), and ratings of the presence of up to 31 behavioral, emotional, physical, and cognitive reactions to the events that the recipient identified as a reaction that he or she was experiencing or that the crisis counselor observed during that day's session. The 31 event reactions were adapted by Project Liberty from those included in the data management toolkit developed for the FEMA-funded disaster mental health crisis counseling program by the federal Center for Mental Health Services (11). Data from the separate Project Liberty program administered by the New York City Department of Education from January 2003 to December 2004 were not included in the analyses reported here; rather, this article focuses on the services delivered by community-based agencies, including services that community-based agencies provided in school settings.
The analyses focused on the logs of 681,318 service encounters (99 percent of the 687,848 individual crisis counseling sessions) for individual counseling sessions where counselors coded age. Visit logs were not grouped within each provider for these analyses. The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Institutional Review Board found this secondary analysis of anonymous data to be exempt from review.
The study first examined characteristics of service utilization by children, and chi square analyses were applied to examine whether event reactions for adults differed from those for children and whether younger and older children who received services differed in terms of demographic characteristics, event reactions, and possible major depressive disorder or PTSD (12). Logs were linked to census statistics by county (date of census information April 1, 2000), and analyses used chi square goodness-of-fit tests to examine whether the observed rates of children's service use and of children's race or ethnicity differed from what would be expected on the basis of census data. This analysis permitted determination of whether Project Liberty services were being accessed by children in representative proportion to their presence in the population.
Throughout, because of the very large number of service logs, group differences were nearly always significant, even when they differed by just a few percentage points. Hence, this report notes differences that were both statistically significant (p<.05) and programmatically meaningful (defined as having a difference between groups of 10 percent or greater, a difference large enough to suggest changes in service delivery to target underserved populations).
To examine whether providers influenced the likelihood of receiving follow-up visits, for each provider, the proportion of first visits versus follow-up visits and the proportion of first visits provided to children compared with adults were calculated. These proportions were then correlated. Chi square statistics were then applied to determine whether follow-up visits were more likely in school settings. After finding that significantly more follow-up visits occurred in school settings, we used hierarchical logistic regressions to determine whether children were more likely to receive a follow-up visit after the analyses controlled for location of service (school versus other). The first logistic regression model included one independent measure, location of service. The second logistic regression model included two independent measures, location of service and whether the participant was a child or an adult.
Of 681,318 individual service logs for first and follow-up visits, 105,244 (15 percent) were for services provided to children either individually or in family counseling. Because services were provided anonymously, it was not possible to determine how many different children had follow-up visits and, among those with follow-up visits, how many each child had. When only first visits were examined, 39,962 of 463,277 service logs (9 percent) were for services provided to children. As shown in Table 1, children received first-time visits most frequently from community providers in schools (41 percent), and most first visits with children (69 percent) were provided to those aged 12 to 17 years.
Chi square goodness-of-fit tests indicated that, across all areas served by Project Liberty, children constituted a smaller proportion of individual counseling service logs than their representation in the population. Compared with adults, significantly fewer first-visit service logs were for children (regardless of whether children six years of age or younger were included or excluded), given the census data (most p values <.001 for chi square goodness-of-fit comparisons for children versus adults). However, among those served, the proportions of gender and race or ethnicity were generally consistent with what would have been expected on the basis of the census data.
Comparisons of preschool, grade school, and older children who received individual counseling services showed no between-group differences for gender, for whether services were received in English or another language, or for whether the child received a referral for professional mental health services. However, preschool children served were more likely to be Caucasian (31 percent compared with 20 percent of grade school children and 17 percent of older children) and less likely to be African American (22 percent compared with 33 percent of grade school children and 35 percent of older children) (χ2=244, df=6, p<.001).
As shown in Table 2, on the basis of first-visit service logs, children and adults who received individual counseling services did not differ meaningfully from each other in terms of gender, preferred language, or likelihood of referral for professional mental health services. However, compared with the adults, significantly more of the children served were Hispanic and significantly fewer were Caucasian.
Compared with the proportion of adults (90 percent) among the service logs for first visits, a significantly smaller proportion of adults (70 percent) was seen among the service logs for follow-up visits (χ2=51,570, df=1, p<.001). Providers who devoted a higher proportion of first visits to children were also more likely to offer proportionately more follow-up visits overall (r=-.21, p<.005). Significantly more follow-up visits with both children and adults (60,341 visits, or 28 percent) than first visits with both children and adults (36,862 visits, 8 percent) occurred in school settings (χ2=47,131, df=1, p<.001). Proportionally more of these follow-up visits in school settings were provided to children, than to adults (49,710 follow-up visits for children, or 76 percent, compared with 10,529 follow-up visits for adults, or 7 percent; χ2=109,494, df=1, p<.001).
Results of logistic regression suggest that adults were .36 times less likely than children to receive a follow-up visit (χ2=14,511, df=1, p<.001), even after the analyses controlled for whether the follow-up visit was provided in a school setting (those who received services in school settings were 2.5 times more likely to receive a follow-up visit; χ2=10,277, df=1, p<.001).
Table 3 summarizes the percentage of adults and children within each age group whose counselors reported specific event reactions, categorized as behavioral, emotional, physical, and cognitive. Children were less likely than adults to report at least one physical event reaction (48 percent compared with 61 percent; χ2=2,700, df=1, p<.001). No significant differences were found between children and adults for the emotional, behavioral, or cognitive reaction categories. As illustrated in Table 3, Project Liberty providers reported that the most common reactions among children (20 percent or greater) were similar to the most common reactions among adults. Additionally, the percentage of individuals with possible major depressive disorder or possible PTSD increased with age (χ2=346, df=5, p<.001 for major depressive disorder and χ2=868, df=5, p<.001 for PTSD).
Children represented 9 percent of those who received individual counseling services from community-based agencies participating in Project Liberty between program inception and December 2003, when service delivery by these agencies ceased. Project Liberty also funded additional counseling and other services to New York City schoolchildren between January 2003 and December 2004 that were organized through the New York City Department of Education. Although data processing delays precluded the inclusion of detailed data from the Department of Education's service logs in these analyses, we know that an additional 36,337 children received individual crisis counseling during this later phase of Project Liberty. With these additional services included, 20 percent of Project Liberty's total service logs for individual (including family) counseling were provided to children, which is comparable to the census information identifying 25 percent of New York City's population as children. Community-based Project Liberty providers reached children of both genders and varying races or ethnicities in expected proportions, given the census statistics.
The relative frequencies of traumatic stress reactions recorded for these children paralleled what Project Liberty counselors recorded for the adults they served. Sadness, tearfulness, fear, anxiety, concentration difficulties, anger, irritability, intrusive thoughts and images, and difficulty sleeping were the most common event reactions reported for children as well as adults in this and other samples (2,13).
There were, however, some important differences in event reactions between younger and older children. Compared with reports about older children (12 to 17 years), counselors reported that elementary school-age children exhibited relatively more isolation and withdrawal, anxious and fearful reactions, and concentration difficulties. Older children were more similar to adults and more likely than younger children to exhibit several avoidance and "numbing" reactions across domains and to abuse substances. Additionally, the incidence of possible major depressive disorder and PTSD appeared to increase with age. These outcomes are consistent with literature indicating that younger children are less likely to manifest psychic numbing (5) or avoidance symptoms associated with PTSD (6).
Given the growing body of evidence linking childhood trauma to a large number of later-life psychological (13,14,15) and physical (16,17,18) disorders, accurate assessment of vulnerability to traumatic stress is critical. Cognitive-behavioral interventions are proving effective in ameliorating the effects of traumatic stress on children (19,20,21,22,23,24). These interventions typically meld four basic components: psychoeducation about trauma, sustained exposure to trauma related cues or memories, coping skills to manage fearfulness, and parent training (7). Little is known, however, about how to best match varying doses of these components to different age categories (7,22). Although accurate assessment is central to identifying children in need of early intervention (25), it is also important in helping to develop specific age-relevant interventions.
This investigation has several limitations. Race and ethnicity were coded as a single variable on the basis of observation by Project Liberty service providers, rather than from the service recipient's self-assessment. Also, because services were provided anonymously, it was not possible to determine how many different children had follow-up visits or what the average number of follow-up visits was for any given child.
Information from Project Liberty service logs indicates that by January 2003 community-based agencies succeeded in providing nearly 40,000 children with individual counseling both within the schools and in other community settings. Compared with adults, children were more likely to participate in more than one counseling session. A majority of follow-up sessions were provided in the schools. However, after the analyses controlled for setting, children were still more likely than adults to receive follow-up services. Event reaction patterns differed as a function of children's age. Elementary school-age children manifested relatively more isolation and withdrawal, anxious and fearful reactions, and concentration difficulties than older children. Knowledge of the reaction patterns shown by younger and older children may be useful in refining treatments to help reduce the psychological impact of children's trauma after terrorist incidents and other disasters.
This evaluation was funded by grant FEMA-1391-DR-NY (titled "Project Liberty: Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program") to New York State from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration administered the grant. The authors express their appreciation to Katherine M. Shear, M.D.
a Not all data were available for all Project Liberty service logs.
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Blitz fixes this. We subbed out grunt-making duties to Blitz, who incidentally has been tuning the Japanese Vitz, European Yaris and the more familiar Scion xA and xB for some time. Their existing Compressor System supercharger kit bolts right up to the Yaris' 1NZ-FE, sort of, and gives us the extra power we're looking for, kind of. The twin-screw, clutch-driven supercharger mounts to a custom aluminum intake manifold also supplied by Blitz and includes fuel management and bags of gaskets, hardware and other stuff to get the job done the way we like. The supercharger's clutch engagement is controlled electronically by a throttle switch and is adjustable by an in-car controller with positions netting everything from fuel efficiency to full blown performance-well, as much full-blown performance as you could hope to get out of a Yaris. But ours is respectable. With the supercharger installed, the Yaris posted 119 hp and 119 lb-ft. This doesn't suck when you consider the Yaris weighs only 2,300 pounds. And this is more than enough to keep the Yukon from passing us. The supercharger builds its 7 psi of pressure, and after allowing this to compress and burn inside the combustion chamber, exhaust gases are expelled through a Blitz NUR-Spec universal muffler. Also from Blitz are three Mirror Drive Meters: one each for boost, water temperature and exhaust gas " temperature that we fabricated into the interior's original climate control location.
We debuted Project Yaris at last year's SEMA show in the Kumho Tires booth. Once the supercharger was installed, only two weeks were left to do everything else. Underneath we fitted the Toyota with Tein Basic coilovers and a huge front brake kit from Wilwood featuring forged Dynalite four-piston calipers and slotted rotors. Color matched side skirts from Seibon and a carbon-fiber hood were also added. Motegi Racing TRAKLITE 2.0's are fitted around the Wilwoods and are, of course, wrapped with Kumho tires. The combination barely fits, but these 215/40-17 tires are one of the biggest improvements we've made to the car as far as handling is concerned.
Inside, the Yaris received help from a few different sources, including us. We tossed the Toyota's stock front seats in favor of a couple of Sparco Pro S2000's and complemented those with a Sparco steering wheel and hub adapter. The rear seats and door panels were re-stitched in matching Sparco fabric. Stuffed behind the front seats is a bolt-in, four-point, chromoly rollbar engineered and built by Design Craft Engineering in nearby Lake Forest. With the rollbar finished we doused it, " along with the Motegis and several interior components, with paint matching our Yaris' exterior. Al and Ed's Autosound in Costa Mesa also tackled the interior and fit our Yaris with tons of goods from Alpine, including a 6.5-inch screen in-dash DVD player, speakers, a 10-inch sub and amp. A couple of two-pound NOS bottles with MINI Hi-Flo valves were also mounted out back should we feel the need to step up the Yaris' performance potential in the future.
The Yaris is still not fast and probably never will be. And that's OK. Opportunities for going fast on Southern California freeways are rare anyway. But the extra power from the Blitz compressor is welcomed, as is the added handling prowess realized from the wider Kumhos and Tein coilovers. Project Yaris is not a race car or a full-blown track rat. Yet. But it is, without a doubt, the best one we've seen and driven so far this side of the Vitz.


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Police are investigating a fatal shooting of 39-year-old Randell Sanders at a barber shop in northeast Birmingham Friday morning.
The shooting happened around 9 a.m. Friday at the Still Stand'N Barber & Style Shop in the 500 block of Oporto-Madrid Boulevard North.
Birmingham Police Sgt. Johnny Williams confirmed that Sanders was killed in the shooting. The suspected shooter reportedly fled the scene in a vehicle driving south on Oporto-Madrid Boulevard.
Police say Sanders worked at the barber shop, but they have not confirmed whether or not he was a barber. Community members, however, say he was a barber at the shop. One bystander said Sanders was cutting someone's hair when a person walked into the shop and shot him. He died on the scene.
Community members say that Sanders was married with children, but police haven't confirmed these details. Neighbors also say they will hold a vigil for him Saturday, Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the barber shop.
Police still don't know a motive in the shooting. One investigator called this type of crime in this particular neighborhood "very unusual." Police are interviewing witnesses to find out more information and a suspect description.
There are no suspects in custody at this time. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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Need your awesome assistance!!!
Hey guys!
So, I've got a friend that needs a great amount of help! It's for his thesis. He's currently in a contest right now and the competitions pretty intense (The video that's leading right now has 600+ likes, and my friend only has around 200+), so I need you guys to help him out! And it's really easy! You gotta have a Facebook Account though, which I'm sure most of you guys have!
It's called: Team iCare - eyeCare (Click the link above!)
Just look for their video entitled: [EPRS] and click that little "Like" button at the lower left portion of the video! If the video doesn't appear on the first page, just click the left or right buttons to scroll through the other videos until you come across EPRS!
EPRS alright? The thumbnail's black with white text saying "EPRS". I wouldn't want you guys to be voting for some other video! Haha!
That's all you gotta do! You'd be helping out, just like that! Awesome right?
Hope you guys could take the time out to help! I'd really appreciate it, and so will my friend. I'm sure of it!
Thanks guys! :)
P.S. If you'd like to spread the word, just reblog the post about this project from his tumblr! From here: demandforchocolate
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Seal Beach Barber Shop Project
Several months ago I was getting my hair cut at the Seal Beach Barber Shop that had just changed ownership and had a complete face lift. The new owner, Mike Schafer, is really into cars and is in the final stages of restoring a 1961 Chevrolet Impalla SS convertable with the 409 engine. There were only 142 of these made. Remember the Beach Boys, "She's real fine, my 409?"
We got to talking and decided that it would be neat if I would make a copy of a 1961 surfboard from my collection and make a surfboard to use as a sign inside of his shop that has the feel of the Impalla.
So I taught myself using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, how to replicate the logos in the rear of the side flair. That was a huge project in itself, but I learned a lot.


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MOSCOW, Idaho-- Officers cited both the driver and a pedestrian involved in a collision Monday in Moscow.
Grace Drynan, 21, was walking in dark clothing when she was struck by 83-year-old driver Norman Hovey. Police said Hovey failed to see Drynan, even though she was crossing in a marked crosswalk. They cited him for inattentive driving.
However, police also cited Drynan for unsafe walking in a crosswalk. She was injured and taken to a local hospital for treatment.


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TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State coach Jimbo Fishers team might have had to learn its lesson the hard way, but it seems his constant refrains about practicing with purpose might have finally gotten through.
The week before [last] we had a bad week of practice and we saw that we almost got beat by Boston College, said redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston.
Florida State beat BC 48-34 two weeks ago but gave up 397 yards of offense including 200 on the ground.
[Last] week it was a great week, it was fun, energetic and we saw how we played, said Winston.
FSU beat then-No. 25 Maryland 63-0 on Saturday and limited the Terrapins to just 33 yards rushing.
So were going to be trying to come back with the same mentality and maybe go even harder [this week], added Winston.
The lesson if indeed learned comes right on time. The sixth-ranked Seminoles are scheduled to travel to No. 3 Clemson on Oct. 18.


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University House is the first structure built as part of the University Farm in 1907. Its original purpose was to house the farm director.
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