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Bill Would Allow Government to Locate People With Tracking Devices

General News, HealthAccidents, America, Children, Congressional, development, disability, Disease, Federal, Justice, legislation, Trainingsuperadmin

Dec 2016

A bill meant to help those with developmental disabilities would allow government agencies to locate people with tracking devices, which has some concerned the measure gives the federal government too much authority and power.

In 2008, Kevin Curtis Wills, a 9-year-old boy with autism, jumped into a river near a park and drowned. In 2014, a 14-year-old boy with autism, Avonte Oquendo, left his school and drowned in a river.

Read the Full Article: Source – Free Beacon
Time For Truth: (Free Beacon) – Bill Would Allow Government to Locate People With Tracking Devices

Pornography sites face UK block under enhanced age controls

General Newscensorship, Child protection, Children, Internet, Internet safety, Pornography, Privacysuperadmin

Nov 2016

Pornography websites that fail to implement stringent age verification controls could be blocked from British users after MPs forced the government to strengthen planned measures to prevent children accessing such content.

Read the Full Article: Source – The Guardian
Time For Truth: (The Guardian) – Pornography sites face UK block under enhanced age controls

Child refugees forced to work for nothing after leaving Calais

Europe, General NewsCalais, Children, Europe, France, Refugeessuperadmin

Nov 2016

Child refugees sent from the demolished Calais “jungle” to supposedly safe welcome centres across France claim they have been pressed into forced labour.

Legal interviews with unaccompanied minors dispersed from the refugee camp to France’s official reception centres have uncovered allegations that children have been forced into unpaid work and ordered on to farms to pick apples for French supermarkets. Youngsters said they were too scared to refuse the work because they feared it would harm their chances of claiming asylum to the UK.

Read the Full Article: Source – The Guardian
Time For Truth: (The Guardian) – Child refugees forced to work for nothing after leaving Calais

Hollywood’s Battles For The Best Bar Mitzvah: $5m Budgets, Justin Bieber And Camels

General News, HollywoodAdults, budget, Caesar, Ceremonies, Children, Families, Hollywood, Industry, Jonathan, Los Angeles, Parties, spinoffsuperadmin

Nov 2016

For some, it’s 13 going on $5 million for the Jewish rite of passage as industry families “outdo one another … and the Grammys and the Emmys.”

Bar mitzvahs in Hollywood aren’t just parties — they also can be auditions.

Read the Full Article: Source – Hollywood Reporter
Time For Truth: (Hollywood Reporter) – Hollywood's Battles For The Best Bar Mitzvah: $5m Budgets, Justin Bieber And Camels

Two Drugs for Adult Migraines May Not Help Children

HealthAdults, Children, Drugs, Evidence, Hospital, illness, medical, Medication, Migraine, Pill, Research, Sugar, USsuperadmin

Oct 2016

Neither of the two drugs used most frequently to prevent migraines in children is more effective than a sugar pill, according to a study published on Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers stopped the large trial early, saying the evidence was clear even though the drugs — the antidepressant amitriptyline and the epilepsy drug topiramate — had been shown to prevent migraines in adults.

Read the Full Article: Source – The New York Times
Time For Truth: (The New York Times) – Two Drugs for Adult Migraines May Not Help Children

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