Revised Therapy Website for Van Stone Productions, Individuals, Groups and Services Programming Holistic Education, Addiction Education and Home Healthcare Education by Shera Minor frontpagenews1@yahoo.com

Revised Therapy Website for Van Stone Productions, Individuals, Groups and Services Programming Holistic Education, Addiction Education and Home Healthcare Education by Shera Minor frontpagenews1@yahoo.com 

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — the walk down most hills in Philadelphia’s University City West Philly neighborhood usually ends at a street corner where there are lots of busy people moving along between four street lights. In Philadelphia, lots of busy people search the internet for websites that offer information about flexible treatment and educational programs.  

The Van Stone Productions (VSP) Foundation, Inc. located in Philadelphia, PA, is proud to announce that its therapy website for VSP, individuals, groups and services programming holistic education, addiction education and home healthcare education will be updated on Friday, December 11, 2015.

A new business directory for individuals, organizations and services companies will be posted as a part of the website on that day, and the VSP nonprofit is incredibly proud to have played a significant role in the start of helping many leaders to further their professional careers. Full details about the nonprofit and its programs are available through www.52stadvancedtownwatch.blogspot.com.

Van Stone, Director of Education for the VSP Foundation Online Training and Behavioral Health programming, says: “We are very excited for our members and know they are determined to make great differences in the lives of adults and children in the State of Pennsylvania. Our training prepares them to do more therapy and help clients problem solve, and we are pleased to hold a 100% support record.”   

Reliability and trustworthiness has been well established and proven.  The therapeutic individuals, groups and services businesses are listed for finding quick help after a search.

“We are confident that many visitors to the website will be successful as they practice what they have learned.”

The website focuses on treatment methods such as sober living and relationship recovery, rehabilitation, family education programming, and holistic approach to wellness. In addition, anyone enrolled in training learn how to work in business practice that hire home healthcare assistants (HHA’s) and personal care assistants (PCA’s) professionals.  Many who are running a self-business may become a member of the Van Stone Productions business listing following the ethics and communications standards of the industry, as well as health and wellness and educational practices to maintain a long and healthy career.

The website is a condensed and intense learning environment where students and job hunters are able to immerse themselves completely in the study of mental health, education and family services.

During the website visit, clients may also take part in elective recovery: Activity Therapy- art therapy, music therapy, radio therapy, sober therapy, family therapy, writing therapy, modeling therapy, and board games and playing cards therapy as well. In individual treatment, you get the one-on-one attention you need to address your specific needs.

Many of the clients taking part in these will now improve their skills all over.

People are encouraged to like the VSP website on http://52stadvancedtownwatch.blogspot.com/ and http://www.vsptrainingsite.blogspot.com/ as well to be kept up to date with future business events and trainings.

Military Families Give Back At USO Holiday Toy Fest

Military Families Give Back At USO Holiday Toy Fest

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) —  You can catch the 116th Army-Navy game Saturday in Philadelphia and right here on CBS3.

But before the big game, military families were in the spirit of giving back.

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Rescue Mission Does Sunday Breakfast For The Homeless In Philly by Tracie Rivers, Fashion and Beauty WVSR Power Model and Philadelphia Front Page News Reporter tracie.rivers@verizon.net

Rescue Mission Does Sunday Breakfast For The Homeless In Philly by Tracie Rivers, Fashion and Beauty WVSR Power Model and Philadelphia Front Page News Reporter tracie.rivers@verizon.net @Facebook Tracie Rivers

I'm Tracie Rivers.  And here is the Rescue Mission!  Rescue Mission, a nonprofit that cares about helping homeless families, amongst other social issues, does Sunday Breakfast for the homeless in Philadelphia at 13^th and Vine Street.  A man who goes by the name of John who makes sure everything runs smooth puts the food on the plates for us to carry out. He tells us the order of things and how it should run.  It is a definite order of how they operate.  John sort of took me under his wing.  And he calls me Lil Bits Lol!  A real good guy.

Here are the volunteers!  At Rescue Mission there is so much diversity.  It's great!  We all help each other and we have one goal to do a great job.  There you meet so many different people.   Everyone has their own reason for doing what they do.  Most leave after everyone has eaten but I always stay around to help clean up. The men at the Mission truly look after me. And they make sure that I am safe.  The Rescue Mission feeds people seven days a week.  I will continue to help as long as God is… willing.

Local Muslim Woman Sent Hate Messages On Facebook

Local Muslim Woman Sent Hate Messages On Facebook

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) —  The anti-Muslim rhetoric on the Presidential campaign trail and beyond is having an impact on Philadelphia’s Islamic community.

First a pig’s head is thrown at a mosque and now– an uptick in complaints from area Muslims where women are the latest targets.

“When you’re walking down the street you have to look like– don’t mess with me”
A lifelong Muslim, Aliya Khabir literally wears her religion.

She dons a khimar that covers the head and the breasts and the neck.

But in recent weeks, Khabir believes it is this modest dress- required by Islam- that has attracted hate messages online.

“Messages about how horrible I am to follow such a horrible religion,” Khabir explained.

Khabir says she and other women in her community are concerned they are becoming targets after a female gunman- Tashfeen Malik- was shown to take part in the San Bernardino Shootings.

“There’s a female face so now, people feel justified in saying it’s not just the men, it’s all of them,” Khabir told Eyewitness News.

“The rhetoric in the country right now is so bad. That it is showing targeted acts of discrimination and injustice,” Rue Landau said.

Report: New Jersey Drivers Among Best In Country

Report: New Jersey Drivers Among Best In Country

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Despite perceptions from neighboring states, New Jersey drivers are actually some of the best in the nation, according to a report.

The Garden State, according to www.carinsurancecomparison.com, has the seventh best drivers in the country.

The report says, “The statistics may be a surprise to you… or maybe they will confirm what you knew all along.”

The rankings for the study are based on statistics by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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President Obama To Urge Americans Not To Give Into Fear Of Terrorism

President Obama To Urge Americans Not To Give Into Fear Of Terrorism

  

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama on Sunday night will urge Americans to not give into fear following attacks in Paris and California, while trying to assure the public that he takes the threat of terrorism seriously.

Obama was not expected to announce major policy changes for targeting the Islamic State group.

Administration officials said the president’s remarks would focus on how the terrorist threat has evolved and what steps the government is taking to keep Americans safe.

“I think what you’re going to hear from him is a discussion about what government is doing to ensure all of our highest priority — the protection of the American people,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“This horrific attack has people on edge and frightened. We’ve lost so many victims and people were wounded. People are concerned and we understand that,” Lynch said.

She said Obama may ask Congress to “to review measures and take action” to safeguard national security, though she did not offer specifics. She suggested he might reiterate his call for stricter gun laws. “Dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent crime issues that we have in this country,” Lynch said.

With the prime-time address, Obama was turning to a tool of the presidency that he has used infrequently. He’s made televised statements from the Oval Office just twice, the last in 2010.

His speech comes amid criticism that he has underestimated the threat from an extremist group that claimed responsibility for last month’s deadly attacks in Paris.

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Local Church Celebrates Anniversary Of The End Of Slavery

Local Church Celebrates Anniversary Of The End Of Slavery

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) —  December 6th marks 150 years since the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, making slavery unconstitutional in the United States.

To celebrate and to highlight some our area’s role in abolishing slavery, St. Paul’s Elkins Park Church is hosting weekend events including concerts, historical reenactments and presentations.

“It’s a perfect storm that we’re having it this weekend in a house of worship in this area because it was their staunch beliefs, linked to their passion for justice and freedom, that brought these people together,” church historian Marita Krivda Poxon told Eyewitness News, speaking about some figures who will be highlighted at the events.

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Lack of sound in Chicago police videos raises more questions

Lack of sound in Chicago police videos raises more questions

Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke leaves the Cook County Jail after posting bond on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015, in Chicago. Van Dyke has been locked up since Nov. 24, when prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

  

CHICAGO (AP) -- A police dash-cam video that captures a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times has no sound, nor do videos from four other squad cars at the scene. But department protocol indicates all the cruisers should have been recording audio that night.

The silence is almost sure to figure into the ongoing federal investigation of the case, and it raises questions about whether officers were careless with the recording equipment or, worse, attempting a cover-up.

"When you've got a standup cop with nothing to hide, the dash-cam is his friend," said Gregg Stutchman, who has specialized in video forensics in California for 23 years. "But for cops who aren't quite as standup, it would make sense that they wouldn't want things recorded."

Several experts on the type of equipment commonly installed in police vehicles told The Associated Press that it's plausible for a single squad car to have a glitch preventing sound recording. But they could not imagine how an entire fleet of cars would ever lose audio at the same time and place by mere happenstance.

"I've never heard of it before," Stutchman said. "It raises a red flag." The more likely explanation is that audio was intentionally switched off, he said.

The silent video at the core of the shooting case in Chicago shows officer Jason Van Dyke stepping out of his car on Oct. 20, 2014, and almost immediately opening fire on Laquan McDonald as he walks away from officers. Van Dyke continues to fire on the 17-year-old even after he crumples to the ground.

On the same day that the video was released last week by the city, the Cook County State's Attorney's 

Office charged Van Dyke with first-degree murder.

Dash-cam video and audio should switch on automatically when a vehicle's emergency lights are activated. If the lights are not used during an incident, officers should turn on the system manually, according to a directive on the police department's website.

Sound can be central to understanding what happened at a crime scene, said Ed Primeau, a Michigan-based audio and video forensics expert.

In the Chicago shooting, audio would have enabled investigators to gauge the level of anxiety among officers as they pursued McDonald, Primuea said. And sound could have been critical to piecing together how things played out in the minutes before the shooting as officers spoke to each other or to a dispatcher over their radios.

"That gives you a whole play-by-play, like who is coming around the corner in a chase or which officer is going where," he said. "It can help with the entire narrative."

Without sound, it's hard to know just when the shooting started and stopped. Did the shots come in quick succession or was there a pause between bursts of gunfire? And just what did Van Dyke and fellow officers say in the seconds before Van Dyke opened fire? What, if anything, did McDonald say to them?

Neither police nor state prosecutors have offered a detailed explanation of why there is no audio with the video.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi suggested that the absence of audio was probably an unforeseen technological fault. In an email to The Associated Press, he wrote: "As with any technology, at times software issues or operator error may keep the cameras from operating as they normally should."

Ensuring the audio system is fully functional also requires that officers, usually at the start of their shifts, place a unit that includes a microphone and transmitter on their bodies and make sure it's synced with the audio system, Stutchman explained.

Some departments have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to required recording.

Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Chitwood described in a Justice Department report how one officer constantly claimed his body camera malfunctioned at the very moment he allegedly engaged in questionable behavior. Forensics later showed he had simply turned off the device. He was pressed to resign.

Said Chitwood, "Our policy says that if you turn it off, you're done."

Videos from five Chicago police cars have been released by the city, and none has functioning sound. Videos from three other cars that responded have not been released.

Patrol officers have never liked the idea of being electronically monitored, regarding it as something imposed from the upper brass, Stutchman said.

But, he added, in his experience, better officers are meticulous about making sure at the start of each shift that their audio and video equipment is working.

Darrel Stephens, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association and a former police chief in North Carolina, echoed that. He said there are malfunctions, or in some cases, officers who forget to switch audio on.

"It's not a perfect technology. There are times that it doesn't work very well," he said.

Texas-based Coban Technologies supplies the dash-cams to Chicago, as it does to Los Angeles. Messages seeking comment from the company were not returned Wednesday.

Some of the Chicago videos released do contain faint buzzes, some of which sound similar to an engine or a siren. Stutchman said those are probably electrical pulses picked up by the dash-cam system that are not actual audio but could mimic sounds of sirens or engines.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has not specified what issues it is investigating.

Primeau said it's likely that federal authorities would bring in forensics experts to determine why no useable audio seems to exist, with other investigators probably reviewing logs for any notes about how the systems were operating before and after the shooting.