The exact privacy measures taken as stated on the TSA's website

Strict privacy safeguards are built into the foundation of TSA's use of advanced imaging technology to protect passenger privacy and ensure anonymity.

To that end, the officer who assists the passenger never sees the image the technology produces. The officer who views the image is remotely located in a secure resolution room and never sees the passenger.

The two officers communicate via wireless headset. Once the remotely located officer determines threat items are not present, that officer communicates wirelessly to the officer assisting the passenger. The passenger may then continue through the security process.

Advanced imaging technology cannot store, print, transmit or save the image, and the image is automatically deleted from the system after it is cleared by the remotely located security officer. Officers evaluating images are not permitted to take cameras, cell phones or photo-enabled devices into the resolution room.

So basically the possibility of someone taking a picture of the image with their phone as Kat was saying is not very likely.

Does knowing the privacy measures change anyone's view on the scanners?

Vocab. 14 and 15

I'm not sure if we're aving a test this week or not but I might as well post the vocab.
Vocab 14
1. Adept - very skilled or proficient at something
2. Assiduous - showing great care perseverance
3. Behoove - a responsibility for someone to do something (like homework or a school project)
4. chagrin - distress or embarassment at having failed or been humiliated
5. Discern - percieve or recognize (something)
6. Ennui - a feeling of listlessness and general dissatisfaction resulting from a lack of activity or excitement, i.e. how you feel at school (minus Tonya's class)
7. Errant - erring (which means doing something you shouldn't) or straying from the proper course or standards
8. Hedonist - a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification
9. Lascivious - (of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
10. Usurped - take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force

Vocab 15
1. Contrive - to plan with ingenuity
2. Dissipation - scattering or dispersion
3. Emasculate - make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective
4. Indifference - lack of interest, concern, or sympathy
5. Irrevocable - not able to be changed, reversed, or recovered; final
6. Metaphysical - highly abstract, subtle, or abstruse
7. Peripheral - of, relating to, or situated on the edge or periphery of something
8. Soliloquy - an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play
9. Stealthy - behaving, done, or made in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard
10. Unsullied - not spoiled or made impure

Ms. Jones!!

Ms. Jones, Why do you keep having us read books with depressing endings?? I just finished "Of Mice and Men" and the ending was horrible and made me want to cry. Can we read a happy book next, Please?!

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Turkey day

Whats everybodys favorite thanksgiving dish?

Cleaned out my garage today. Spent hours on it. But now I sit down in the living room and realize that no one can even see the garage so the rest of my house is still dirty and it looks as though I've done nothing. Sigh.

Project help

So I have to do this project in my allied health class and I got assigned the reproductive system. We have to have a product, in this case it would have to be the male reproductive organ and the female reproductive organ. I need help on finding a good product to make. I figure since everyone in fourth block has many disscusions about this I figured you guys can help. I really need it to be good.

1920's

JONES, since we've been talking about the 1920s a lot lately i thought I'd throw this out there, the HBO series Boardwalk empire, in my opinion, is actually very educational in learning about prohibition and the overall way things looked back then. Now, there is a good helping of sex, alcohol, and rock n' roll haha. But, it is very interesting. I figured you could probably rent it if you thought it was worth watching.

Great Gatsby on Itunes?

is it the podcast one or is it one of the audiobooks

Vocab 12 and 13

Vocab week 12
1. Diatribe - a forcefull and bitter verbal attack against someone or something
2. Esthetics - concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty
3. Fortify - strengthen (a place) with defensive works so as to protect it against attack
4. Interminable -endless (often used as a hyperbole)
5. Inured - to accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant
6. Mordant - (especially of humor) having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting
7. Pragmatic - dealing with things sensibly and realistically
8. Specious - superficially plausible, but actually wrong
9. Surreptitiously - kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
10. Vernacular - The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

Vocab week 13
1. Ascertain - find (something) out for certain; make sure of
2. Cogent - (of an argument or case) clear, logical, and convincing
3. Dissuade - persuade (someone) not to take a particular course of action
4. Exorbitant - (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high
5. Furtive - attempting to avoid notice or attention; secretive
6. Impervious - incapable of being influenced, persuaded, or affected
7. Impute - represent (something) as being done, caused, or possessed by someone; attribute
8. Nebulous - (of a concept or idea) unclear, vague, or ill-defined
9. Obstreperous - noisy and difficult to control
10. Sinuous haveing many curves and turns; lithe and supple

wait, why doesnt the poll have an option of 0 books?

"that first car"

ok so as i have noticed, half the kids i see pulling up in the parking lot at school are driving their nice new cars mommy and daddy bought them. Then there's my car, that im purchasing on my own. Now i love my car but it dont exactly have the new car thing going for it. As of yesterday i have to get in on the passenger side of my car because the driver's door is jammed sht for whatever reason. SO, who else has a gangster ghetto cool mobile with issues like mine??? humor me please haha

Okay. So we should get this blog thing going.

Gatsby is a good place to start.

Would you attend a huge party next door to your house (if invited by the owner of the house) even if you didn't know him OR ANYONE ELSE?

vocab guys

Week 11 Vocab
1. corrugated - shaped into alternate ridges and grooves
2. defunct - no longer existing or functioning
3. dilatory - slow to act
4. disheveled - untidy, disordered
5. distraught - deeply upset and agitated
6. laudable - deserving praise
7. lethargic - sluggish and apathetic
8. menagerie - a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition
9. meretricious - apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity
10. notoriety - infamous

THE GREAT GATSBY PROJECT

ummmm.....Ms. Jonesss when are we suppose to do the presentation??

Ms. Jooooooonnnnneeeesssss!!!

We are all confused on the outline part.