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Photo by Michael Hartwell Law enforcement and education officials use a variety of skills in evaluating messages students write online to separate potential warning signs from typical teenage antics.
FITCHBURG -- For years students have been punished by their schools or even the courts for messages they posted on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter, but how do officials find these troublesome messages and how do they separate a discernible threat from a melodramatic teenager?
"This office is paying attention to everything. Good, bad, evil everything," said Robin Duncan, vice president for marketing and communication at Mount Wachusett Community College.
The school has a new media specialist tasked with looking for mentions of the school online. That ranges from negative or positive comments about the school that can affect its reputation to students who write they intend to harm themselves or others at the school.
She said when they first pitched the idea to the college, they were asked, "What is this person going to do, sit on Facebook all day?"
The answer was yes.
MWCC was one of the first schools to monitor social media on a dedicated level, according to Duncan, and was recognized for being proactive by the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations.
"If you don't have someone paying attention to your new media ... you're being negligent," she said.
Duncan said staff in her office are trained to detect warning signs. So far they have not had to intervene on any major threats but have spoken to some students about issues that needed to be defused with a conversation.
"It's no different than any
students walking on campus or talking to one another. We use the same methodology," she said. "We don't have a different practice simply because of the tool being used."One thing that is different with online communication is tone. Duncan said things can come out differently than intended online, and if the message can be taken as a cause for concern, they err on the side of caution and investigate further.
"It's not black and white," said Duncan. "There's some subjectiveness to it, and it takes good training and judgment." She said the staff will discuss posts they are not sure about and look to what other schools have dealt with to learn more.
Fitchburg Police Department Community Liaison Sgt. Glenn Fossa said online messages lack the inflections of voice a verbal message would have. Something meant to be a joke may come out very wrong, and they have to figure out what the message really means.
Fossa said his department does not have any officers tasked with monitoring social media, but they come across them in their personal online activities or community members may report suspect messages.
"Generally speaking, we have to be careful that words in and of themselves may not be criminal," said Fossa. "For criminals cases, there has to be some level of connection or nexus to a plan of undertaking a criminal activity."
Speaking in general and not on any specific cases, Fossa said one thing that elevates the likelihood of the seriousness of a suicidal or threatening message is specific details listed in the message.
"When there's very specific words that show intent, the next thing that police frequently do is look for other supporting evidence," said Fossa. The big three things they try to discover are motive, opportunity and ability for a crime.
"For example, say a 5-year-old says he's going to drive his dump truck into a public building," said Fossa. The boy doesn't actually have a dump truck, and even if he did he wouldn't be able to reach the pedals. That issue would be handled very differently from someone who was a gun owner who said he or she were going to shoot someone.
"Every single case is different," said Fossa.
Ralph Hicks, superintendent of Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District, said school employees do not monitor social media, but they let the police in district's two towns handle any potential problems.
Hicks explained that the legal doctrine "in loco parentis," which is Latin for "in place of a parent" allows school officials to interfere in the lives of students only in issues involving the school. If they became aware that a student is severely depressed, they would be able to offer the student advice for dealing with the problem or contact other authorities but could make no direct action unless the school was involved in the problem.
He said the district has not had any major cases involving social media, but a previous district he worked in was able to use social media to investigate a conflict between students.
Several girls stole a school sweatshirt from another girl and put it in a toilet and posted photos on MySpace.com. Hicks said they could see from the photos that it was in a school bathroom and were able to discipline the students because of evidence brought to them by social media. If it had occurred off school grounds, they would not have had jurisdiction over the incident even though all the parties are students.
Fossa said social media has been a great benefit to law enforcement by giving people a stage to make their private lives public. That could take the form of a threat being easily proven and traced or photographs revealing something a suspect denies in court. He gave the example of a case where a suspect said he didn't own a gun, but police found pictures of the suspect with handguns online.
"It didn't require a subpoena, it didn't require a warrant," added Fossa.
He said some larger police departments do have dedicated personnel who monitor online activity, just as the federal government looks online for terrorist or threats against public officials.
Fitchburg State University spokesman Matt Bruun said his school is putting more eyes on social media this year.
"The university monitors the traffic on our own social media portals, and when issues from individuals' social media pages are brought to our attention we respond as we deem appropriate. Such instances are rare, however, and usually warrant only an educational conversation," he said.
Bruun said FSU is preparing to launch a new Facebook application for incoming students that will allow them to meet and interact. He said the application will be expanded to the entire campus community, including alumni, and there will be multiple staff members who monitor what goes on inside the application.
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Posted on January 14, 2013 at 5:38 PM
Updated today at 8:46 PM
DALLAS --?With the number of murders climbing in the city of Dallas, Mayor Mike Rawlings urged the police department Monday to?step up efforts to track down and catch known domestic violence abusers.?
?I?m asking Chief [David] Brown today to redouble those efforts,? he said during a Monday news conference at City Hall. ?We?ve got to dial it up to the next level.?
Last month, the police department launched a special task force of 100 officers to serve arrest warrants. Often, the suspect flees after a victim calls to report an abusive family member.?An arrest warrant is then issued for the suspect, but officers sometimes can?t track them down.
?I'm asking that these warrants are given the highest priority along with murders in this city,? Rawlings said. ?This is not going to be at the bottom of the heap. We're going to take it right to the top.?
Murders connected to domestic violence in Dallas more than doubled last year to 26, from 10 the year before.
The issue became strikingly clear last week when Karen Smith, 40, was shot and killed in a parking garage after leaving work at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Police say her husband, Ferdinand Smith, 41, waited for her by her car and opened fire.?
Weeks earlier, Karen Smith had called police on her husband for nearly strangling her in her driveway.?An arrest warrant was issued for Smith, but officers didn?t find him until after his wife?s murder.
?It would be a mischaracterization to say that the officers weren't doing everything they could do to try and make an arrest,? Chief Brown said, adding his officers were in contact with Karen Smith but were having trouble finding her husband.
The case has focused fresh attention on arrest warrants that are never served.
Last year, 4,277 arrest warrants were issued in Dallas for suspects in domestic violence cases. Chief Brown said his officers were able to find close to 80 percent of those suspects.?
?It?s those 20 percent that hide from us that we want to redouble our efforts in order to be able to put them in jail,? Brown told News 8.?
He said he?s asking his officers to urge family members, witnesses and victims to reveal more information about whereabouts of suspects.
?That?s a lot of people to track down,? Rawlings said. ?That's why we've got to redouble our effort to make sure we re-prioritize those warrants.?
The pledge didn?t impress activist Debra Bowles, who founded Women Called Moses, a support group for domestic violence victims.
?I just think it?s the good old boys talking,? she said, adding more needs to be done for the victims themselves.
?Where are they going to go? Call the shelters, they?re at capacity,? she said. ?It?s not serious until a woman is in her grave, dead, and then they want to call a press conference. Why can't we have these press conferences before it gets to this point??
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Source: http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Mayor-pledges-new-focus-on-domestic-violence-crimes-186865292.html
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As a coach, you want to try to put your team in the best position you can so they can be competitive. As players, it?s the same thing. It?s like when you talk to the Navy SEALs and those guys talk about when they go on a mission, how they talk about, ?Alright, so we get there and we practiced going over a six-foot wall and the wall is 30-feet high.? Well, that?s the way it is in the NFL. You practice for whatever ? you think you?re going to swim across a 200-yard lake and the lake is 800 yards across. You have to get across it. You get in an NFL game and think you?re going to get this and then you get that.
? Bill Belichick, on Friday before the AFC Divisional Playoff game against Houston
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Before Sunday?s game was 12 seconds old, the Patriots had allowed a 94-yard kickoff return. Before it was 90 seconds old, they had lost their most experienced running back, Danny Woodhead. Before it was seven minutes old, they had lost their Pro Bowl tight end Rob Gronkowski.?
The wall got higher. The lake got wider. The Patriots still advanced to their seventh AFC Championship game in 12 seasons with a 41-28 win over the Houston Texans.
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All season long, Tom Brady has gone to the figurative whip. Every chance he?s gotten to speak of a need for mental toughness, he?s taken it. Brady wouldn?t mention mental toughness if it wasn?t a concern. If he didn?t want the message he?s delivered in private to be amplified, he?d never put it in the public domain. But he has.
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And Sunday was a study in mental toughness.
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?I think that?s been the mark of our team,? Brady said, though he was despondent just before Christmas after a lackluster win in Jacksonville. ?We?ve won 11 of 12. We were down 31-3 at home (to San Francisco on December 17) and battled back. I think we?re going to be in it. We have a lot of tough guys, mentally tough guys. Whatever happens, like what happened on the first play of the game, you?ve got to overcome it. We made some key plays when we needed to. Shane [Vereen] made them, Wes [Welker] made them, Brandon [Lloyd] made them, so it was a great effort. Offensive line was awesome, as usual.?
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Vereen is an extremely talented player who -- in his second season in the league -- wasn?t where he needed to be a month ago. A fumble against the 49ers that led to points. A missed blocking assignment against Jacksonville that got Brady blown up. Sunday, Vereen wasn?t just making simple plays he ought to make, he was making outstanding plays including a momentum-building touchdown early in the fourth on an over-the-shoulder catch most wideouts would bungle.
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Hoomanawanui?s performance wasn?t as gaudy as Vereen?s but it was every bit as necessary once Gronkowski went to the sidelines.
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"Hooman [Michael Hoomanawanui] and Shane [Vereen] stepped in there and both did a good job for us,? said Belichick. "Shane obviously made a lot of big plays but Hooman did a great job too, as he?s been doing for the last month. These kinds of games, you never really know when the dial spins, where it?s going to wind up, who it?s going to end up on. Those guys were prepared."
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And it?s not as if the Patriots were going to veer from their plans because they lost some players.
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"We had a whole plan built for [Gronkowski] and [Woodhead]," Brady said. "We run the first series of the game and all those plans change. I think a little of it was ?What are we going to do now? How are we going to adjust?? But we seemed to settle in there midway through the first quarter and put together a pretty good game. Obviously it?s a bummer to lose anybody, but someone of Rob?s importance or Danny?s importance, we need guys to step in and fill the void, whether it?s this game or any game after.?
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The finality of playoff football was stressed this week. But so was the need to play freely enough and not allow the moment to be too big.
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?You don?t win a war by digging a foxhole and sitting in it,? said Belichick. ?You need to attack.?
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Sunday night, Logan Mankins smiled when asked if he wanted to play the Texans. ?We wanted to play them because they wanted to play us,? said the veteran guard.
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Now come the Ravens who have already begun flapping their gums at New England, led by special teamer Brendon Ayanbedejo. Via Twitter, the 36-year-old -- who should know better by now -- said the following.
There are myriad ways to interpret the ?why? of what
Ayanbadejo tweeted. One of them is to chalk it up to fear. Ayanbadejo knows
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?When you?re playing at this time of year, each game gets tougher, each game gets bigger,? said Belichick. ?I think the Ravens certainly showed how physically and mentally tough they were to go out there and come from behind and beat Denver in a tough environment. That showed a lot of character, resiliency and toughness. Our game with them this year, our game with them last year, went down to the last possession, the last play, however you want to look at it.?
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There?s no doubt the Ravens have some mental toughness. But they are playing next Sunday against a team that?s been to seven AFC Championships in 12 seasons. A team that?s 5-1 in those games. The Patriots showed Sunday -- again -- which way they?ll go when it comes time to put up or shut up.
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Originally Posted by CatfishRivers Vizio Costar To Receive Google TV 3 Update - Zatz Not Funny! (click for full article)January 11, 2013
by Dave Zatz
"I briefly swung by Vizio?s CES suite for an update on their small form factor streamer. And came away quite please to learn existing Vizio Costar units will beging receiving a Google TV 3 update within just a few weeks. "
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Vizio Costar To Receive Google TV 3 Update
Filed by Dave Zatz under Gadgets, Industry, VideoJan112013
I briefly swung by Vizio?s CES suite for an update on their small form factor streamer. And came away quite please to learn existing Vizio Costar units will begin receiving a Google TV 3 update within just a few weeks ....
While our initial Costar impressions weren?t the most favorable, there?s still quite a bit of value here at the $99 price point and the Google TV refresh, including updated YouTube app and tablet voice control, ups the ante ....
Further, Vizio informed me a full-on Amazon Instant app is now available (versus the web shortcut). Given Vizio?s Input 1 HDMI pass-thru and true web browsing, in addition to the requisite apps, it?s a competitive and unique offering at this price point ?
which will surely gain traction as they expand to brick & mortar distribution later this year. We?re looking forward to taking our (two) Costars for a spin, once the gTV3 update hits, and will report back ....!
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