Access to mental health care lacking for children, teens across the U.S.

Apr. 2, 2013 ? Everyday, news reports detail the impact of the deficiencies in the nation's mental health care services. Even more startling, a survey from the University of Michigan reveals that many adults across the U.S. believe children and teens have extremely limited or no access to appropriate mental health care services.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation commissioned the National Voices Project to facilitate a five year study to gauge opportunities available for children and teens at the local level in communities across the U.S. Officials at the National Voices Project based their study on the perceptions held by adults who work and volunteer on behalf of children day-to-day.

"The adults in the National Voices Project survey work or volunteer on behalf of kids. These are the adults who are perhaps best positioned to refer children and teens to the healthcare services they need," says Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., director of the National Voices Project, associate professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School and associate professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Survey participants were asked how much availability there is in their communities for children and teens to receive healthcare services. More than half of all respondents note that there is "lots of availability" for teens to have hospital care (55%) and primary care (56%) in their communities, but across all healthcare services, only 30% of respondents reported "lots of availability" for mental health care. Healthcare availability for children was very similar.

"These findings indicate low availability of mental health care for children and teens in the majority of communities across the U.S.," says Davis. "Even in communities where there are lots of opportunities for children and teens to get primary care or hospital care, access to mental health care is lacking."

In addition, in communities where respondents perceived racial/ethnic inequities, they consistently reported less access to all healthcare services, including mental health, especially for teens.

The full survey shows that where there are perceived inequities at the community level there are also perceptions of diminished opportunities for young children and teens in the domains of nutrition, health, and healthcare.

To read the full report, please visit: http://nationalvoicesproject.org/america-healing-grantees/resource-center/disparities-access-healthcare-teens

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I'm Cory Doctorow, and This Is How I Work

When How I Work was just an idea, the Lifehacker team made a "yeah right, in your dreams, probably not gonna happen" list of people the series would feature. Cory Doctorow was toward the top. He's a hero of ours, and here are a few reasons why: He co-edits Boing Boing, one of the best blogs on the web. He writes award-winning sci-fi novels (as well as other fiction and non-fiction) and releases everything in print and under Creative Commons. He's a leader in the fight to make digital media free and easily sharable. He's been called "the William Gibson of his generation." He has an xkcd comic dedicated to him where he descends from "the blogosphere" wearing a red cape. Seriously. We caught up with Cory to find out what gear he can't live without, the best advice he's ever received, and the reason he jumped the Apple ship after nearly 30 years.

Current gig: Writer, blogger, activist, journalist
Location: Hackney, London, England
Current mobile device: Nexus 4
Current computer: Thinkpad X230 (replace a X220 that I dumped a cup of coffee into while touring last month?has a new 600GB Intel SSD that I just swapped from the old machine to the new)
One word that best describes how you work: Diligently

What apps/software/tools can't you live without?

Ubuntu and the suite of GNU tools in any robust Unix system. A good text editor (currently Gedit)?I keep all of my working files at .txts. A robust, highly configurable browser (Firefox/Firefox for Android). A fast RSS reader (presently Google Reader, likely to be Newsblur next). A tetherable mobile connection?I use EasyTether for Android to circumvent tether-blocking as deployed by some of the carriers I use around the world, especially Rogers in Canada. AirDroid for moving files on/off Android devices in my life. An external USB battery (currently PowerGen 5200mAh External Battery Pack).

A rugged, roomy, weatherproof backpack (currently a Bagjack Skidcat). A moneyclip. A small, six-card credit-card wallet. LibreOffice spreadsheets for bookkeeping. GPG, cryptsetup, and TrueCrypt for information security. A high-performance mailer with functional scripting engine (currently Thunderbird with a ton of rules and a huge black-listed kill file and white-listed address book). A titanium Widgy keychain prybar (pictured at right)?useful as a pocket knife but flies (heh) under TSA/BAA radar. No-name, easy to replace earbuds with integrated mic for phone. Exeze waterproof MP3 player for swimming. AquaSphere Seal swim goggles?I swim everyday for about an hour and listen to last night's CBC's As It Happens news podcast. Exeze + Aquasphere are a reasonably priced, reliable goggles/MP3 combo. GoToob silicone bottles for shampoo/soap for the pool?these have strong, reliable suction cups that stick them perfectly to the shower wall.

A no-name, cheap mini screwdriver set?I get these confiscated about six times a year by airport security, especially the jerks at Gatwick airport, but it's worth buying a new set every time. Catering-sized sachets of Tabasco?these don't show up as liquid on airport scanners, unlike the mini bottles. I put Tabasco on everything. I'd use it for contact-lens solution if I could. Aeropress?the single most versatile and reliable way of making coffee, especially on the road. Perfect when paired with a Porlex hand-grinder.

What's your workspace setup like?

I have a mancave that's almost as big as our flat in East London, right beneath the London Hackspace. I have a desk up on breezeblocks that I can use as a standing desk, or with a cut-down treadmill, or with a tall lab chair. I have a Thinkpad dock attached to encrypted backup drive; high-quality, electrically isolated microphone; large monitor; external keyboard/mouse (Logitech Anywhere MX); external speakers; webcam, etc. Most of the stuff at the office is purely sentimental or storage (authors' copies take up a lot of room), but I couldn't live without my postal scales and stash of postage (minimizing wait-times at the stupid post awful). And my Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which I read through an articulated, illuminated circular magnifying lamp.

Pictured above: A panorama of Cory's workspace.

What do you listen to while you work?

I use Banshee for GNU/Linux, and my daily playlist is a shuffled dynamic list of songs rated 4 or 5 stars that I haven't listened to in 30 days or more.

What's your best time-saving trick?

Anything I type into email more than twice I turn into a QuickText macro that I can invoke with a keyword and tab. I do this especially for repetitive questions and FAQs.

I also generally refuse to do email "interviews" except where I can dictate the answers and send a recording to the interviewer to transcribe at her/his end. I think this is a good balance between the laziness and convenience of "interviewing" someone by sending him a ton of short essay questions ("what is art?" "what is virtue?")

What's your favorite to-do list manager?

~/Desktop/todo.txt

Besides your phone and computer, what gadget can't you live without?

My Exeze underwater MP3 player. Swimming is AMAZING for my awful, crippling back pain, but it gets boring. Adding an hour-long newscast like As It Happens makes it fly past.

What everyday thing are you better at than anyone else?

Making breakfast. I make my family a 3-4 course, hot/cold tailor-made breakfast every morning, in 20 minutes flat, with handmade coffees.

What's your sleep routine like?

I'm an early riser. I get up at 5AM with my daughter. I use Klaxon for Android as my alarm, and an MP3 of a loon call as the alarm tone.

Fill in the blank. I'd kill to see ________ answer these same questions.

Bruce Sterling.

What's the best advice you've ever received?

Write every day. When you write every day, it becomes a habit and you do it automatically. Habits are things you get for free.

Is there anything else you want to add for readers/fans?

I used Apple products from 1979 (Apple ][+) until 2006, when I switched to Thinkpads running Ubuntu and, shortly thereafter, Android phones. It was infinitely easier than I expected, and has been revolutionary in terms of ease, convenience, and reliability.

No computer company in the world has a warranty program to match the extended warranty on the ThinkPads. For about $50/yr, you get next-day, on-site hardware replacement. That means that if your ThinkPad breaks down, the next day, a technician from IBM Global Services will come over to your house or office, pretty much anywhere in the world (IBM Global is GLOBAL) and fix it on your desk or kitchen table.

When I was a CIO, I used to write POs for $1MM+ worth of Apple equipment a year. The best day of AppleCare's life can't touch the worst day of the ThinkPad warranty. When you use something every day and earn your living with it, you need something that fails at least as well as it works.

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The How I Work series asks heroes, experts, brilliant, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Every Wednesday we'll feature a new guest and the gadgets, apps, tips, and tricks that keep them going. Have someone you'd kill to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? Email Tessa.

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Parties carp as Italy's "wise men" seek end to political crisis

By Naomi O'Leary and Barry Moody

ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed despair on Tuesday at fierce criticism of his latest plan to end a post-election deadlock that has raised fears of months of instability in the euro zone's third largest economy.

Two groups of "wise men" appointed by Napolitano to try to forge a policy compromise between squabbling parties to end the impasse since the February 24-25 election started work on Tuesday. Napolitano said they would report back in 8-10 days.

The 87-year-old head of state reacted angrily to suggestions from the center-right of Silvio Berlusconi that his plan, which came after all other efforts to find a government failed, were a useless waste of time that the economy could ill afford.

"After seven years I am ending my mandate in a surreal way, finding myself the subject of absurd reactions, suspicions and incomprehensible paranoias, from the harmless to the unhinged," Napolitano was quoted as saying by Corriere della Sera daily.

Italy is deep in its longest recession for 20 years and although markets have so far remained relatively sanguine about the political deadlock, the economy desperately needs a stable government to unblock decades of sluggish growth.

There are also fears Italy's borrowing costs could rise dangerously if the impasse finally starts to spook investors.

Since the election, the parties have refused to budge at all from irreconcilable positions that "made one despair of the possibility of governing this country", Napolitano said.

Napolitano appointed the commissions after Democratic Party (PD) leader Pier Luigi Bersani failed to gather enough support for a center-left led government despite a week of efforts.

The president's own attempt to dislodge the parties from entrenched positions also faltered last Friday.

The election resulted in three main blocs, none of which has enough support in parliament to govern alone. The center-left holds a majority in the lower house but not in the Senate.

On Tuesday, they restated their positions, with Bersani ruling out a "grand coalition" with the center-right but saying an early election would be "disastrous" and calling on other parties to support a limited package of reforms.

For its part, Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party said Bersani was blocking agreement.

"Obviously if this stalemate continues because the PD is thinking more of their factional interests than of the nation, the only road possible is going to the polls in June," said PDL secretary Angelino Alfano.

TWO WORKING GROUPS

The two working groups, one of which will discuss social-economic reforms and the other institutional changes such as a new electoral law, include representatives of the main center-left and center-right blocs, the head of the national statistics agency, legal experts and a senior Bank of Italy official.

Berlusconi's center-right has been particularly harsh in its criticism of Napolitano's move - unusual in a country where the president is typically treated with great deference.

Bersani on Tuesday again rejected a governing coalition with Berlusconi and said new elections would not fix Italy's problems. He also said Berlusconi's attempts to pick the new president were "unacceptable".

Napolitano's wise men idea was also criticized by populist 5-Star Movement leader Beppe Grillo who called the experts "domestic carers for democracy".

"At the end of the day what is it? A fake coalition government ruled by the president? I have seen the names but my puzzlement remains," Grillo's Senate leader Vito Crimi said.

One of the experts, constitutional judge Valerio Onida, shot backo: "In this parliament they need babysitters more than carers."

The government-forming crisis is now inextricably bound up with a vote next month by both houses of parliament and regional representatives to replace Napolitano by May 15.

Berlusconi's PDL party fears that if no agreement is reached on a government then Bersani could ally with Grillo to appoint a new president hostile to the media magnate, who is seeking immunity from a string of legal cases.

The 76-year-old billionaire is facing an imminent verdict in a trial for paying for sex with an underage prostitute as well as in his appeal against a four-year tax fraud sentence and has large business interests to protect.

Respected political commentator Massimo Franco said fears over the presidential election would explain Berlusconi's pressure for the working groups to finish quickly.

"Above all he suspects a successive phase marked by a Quirinale (presidential palace) hostile to the PDL," Franco wrote in a column in Corriere della Sera.

Napolitano, who cannot call elections in the final months of his presidency, may also be trying to draw things out so that the key decisions are taken by his successor, insiders say.

Details of what the two commissions will propose have not been announced, but they are also likely to include cutting the cost of the bloated political system and reforms to unblock Italy's notoriously stagnant growth.

The key reform is changing the much maligned electoral law, which is a major cause of the current impasse, but politicians failed to agree on new rules despite repeated promises during the outgoing technocrat government of Mario Monti.

Another election with the same law could produce a similar impasse, experts say, but such a reform of the rules would be improbable by June.

One of the members of Napolitano's commissions, center-left Senator Filippo Bubbico, said they would also discuss easing painful tax hikes imposed by the outgoing technocrat government of Mario Monti. "We will work fast," he promised.

Anger over the economic pain imposed by Monti, particularly a hated housing tax, pushed many voters to support Grillo in the election, where his group won an unprecedented 25 percent.

(Editing by Philippa Fletcher and Will Waterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/italys-wise-men-seek-end-political-crisis-president-144743141.html

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How to price your apps, sell them, and earn a living

Former developer tools evangelist at Apple, Michael Jurewitz has been going flat out on the writing circuit this past week, topped off by a an insane final lap consisting of a 5-part series on understanding App Store pricing.

Pricing your app is probably one of the most difficult things you will ever do. It often feels like a shot in the dark at best and a wild-guessing game at worst. It's important to remember that there are a few things you can do ahead of time, and some very interesting things you can do later, to understand how successfully you may have priced your application.

Here's the breakdown, and the links to each part:

Part 1 looks at the phenomena of falling prices, or "racing to the bottom", and graphs the differences between top and median selling and grossing apps.

Part2 looks at the difference between top selling and top grossing apps, and which types of apps actually make money.

Part 3 looks at elasticities, demand curves, revenue maximizations, and the realizations that App Store business really is a business.

Part 4 looks at how all of the above should be factored into determining what price can be charged for any given app.

Part 5 is where Jury puts his own apps where his mouth is, showing how all this thinking was applied to Black Pixel's Kaleidoscope 2, and what the results have been to date.

Read 'em all, and thanks to Jury for sharing his insights, and driving all this across the line. Very nearly at Mach 1.

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Gold does brisk business in Syria war - Morocco World News

ALEPPO, Syria, April 01, 2013 (AFP)

Abu Salem used to sell lunchtime sandwiches to office workers in Syria?s commercial capital. Since a rebel offensive turned Aleppo into a warzone last July, he has been buying up their heirlooms.

In Syria?s northern metropolis, as across the Middle East, those who can afford to have traditionally invested in jewellery for their womenfolk, especially gold, to ward against a rainy day.

As daily clashes between troops and rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad have brought a devastating halt to all normal economic activity, the trade in precious metals has boomed as people struggle to make ends meet.

It was the loss of electricity to power his refrigerators that was the last straw for Abu Salem?s sandwich stall.

The 40-year-old turned to the most lucrative alternative business available, braving the daily threat of robbery by the myriad of armed groups active in the many Aleppo neighbourhoods beyond the control of Assad?s security forces.

?Many jewellers have fled the fighting. They had enough money to flee the country,? he told AFP.

?I buy and sell gold in order to feed my five children.

A few steps away, another gold dealer has set up his scales.

?Every day, people come and sell me 10 or 20 grams (310 or 620 troy ounces) of gold,? Abu Ahmed told AFP.

?Once, a customer came to sell me earrings and bracelets that weighed 200 grams. He was selling off his wife?s jewels.?

Umm Mohammed, 50, is among those looking to sell off their portable wealth.

?I have a gold necklace to sell. How much would you pay for it?? the mother of four asks.

For five grams of gold, Abu Salem offers 24,000 Syrian pounds ($240).

Umm Mohammed goes to his shop every day to weigh her family?s jewellery and check his prices.

?I?ve only got one necklace left now. It?s my son?s gold chain. It won?t be long before I sell it, because we need to buy food and clothes for the children,? she said.

Umm Mohammed?s husband used to work in a factory, but lost his job several months ago when the power supply was cut. Her family has only been able to get by thanks to the jewellery they owned.

Buyers are not hard to come by. Two years of devastating conflict have sent the Syrian pound into freefall and, for those with any money, gold is a popular refuge to maintain the value of their savings.

Before the uprising against Assad?s rule broke out in March 2011, a gram of gold sold for 3,200 Syrian pounds, and the Syrian pound traded at 65 to the dollar.

Today, one gram of gold sells for 4,900 pounds, and the pound trades at 113 to the dollar.

?Those who want to safeguard their wealth are converting their cash into gold,? Abu Ahmed said.

But there are big risks, fellow gold trader Abu Khaldoun underlines.

?Armed men come to steal from us. Some of them are members of the (mainstream rebel) Free Syrian Army,? the 49-year-old said.

?Nowhere is safe, and we are real targets for thieves. Some people are hiding their gold and money in holes in the ground.?

Abu Ibrahim, 45, has been in the jewellery trade nearly all his working life. He says he refuses to take sides in this conflict as his business frequently requires him to cross the frontlines.

He tells of a fellow trader who lost all his stock to an armed robbery.

?He had 12 kilos of gold in his shop. He lost 60 million Syrian pounds last week when armed men broke into his shop and stole the lot.?

Source: http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2013/04/84912/gold-does-brisk-business-in-syria-war-but-at-a-risk/

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Chris Brown sat down for an interview with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show this morning, with mixed reactions from fans. Brown opened up about his controversial relationship with Rihanna, as well as his new single about ex-girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, called “Fine China”. Matt Lauer asked Chris Brown, who was charged with felony assault for ...

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