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The woman arrested at Ellen DeGeneres' Beverly Hills home was discovered hiding behind cushions on the kitchen deck ... this according to prosecutors.
Karen Sjoden just pled not guilty to misdemeanor trespassing in an L.A. courtroom. During the hearing, prosecutors claimed she was carrying a list of celebrity names -- and a rambling letter to Hilary Clinton -- when a private security team took her into custody around 5 AM Thursday morning.
Cops say Sjoden's list consisted of 10 to 12 famous names -- along with addresses.
Prosecutors claim Karen had been spotted at Ellen's place around 3 AM that morning and was asked to leave ... but she came back.
The judge told Sjoden, "You end up in someone's backyard at 3 in the morning ... then you are asked to leave ... and you come back later with no legit purpose whatsoever and secrete yourself ... you are probably up to no good. It only takes one time to be a threat."
Karen argued that she's a private investigator who was hired to follow the comic -- and says she has a badge to prove it ... to which the judge stated, "I don't know if it's fraudulent or not."
UPDATE: Cops say Karen was carrying pages of "delusional language" ... including mentions of telepathic imaging machines, alien crystaline, the CIA and the FBI.
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Scary. I went up to Ellen's gate when I was visiting Beverly Hills. I got out with my camera - to photograph the gate, all excited - and heard a booming voice from nowhere telling me to move on. Goodness knows how this lady got by the security in the first place. I'd sake them!
Private Investigator? More like a "privates" investigator. Who would want someone to investigate Ellen? What'd she do? Skip paying her cellphone bill or what?
you really gotta hand it to the lesbians in the gay folks category when it comes to crazy, cuz no one beats a lesbo. gay men need to take a couple of lessons from the lesbos when it comes to crazy, cuz they are seriously really far behind on that one!!
I am a licensed California Private Investigator. We carry a state issued enhanced Photo ID. We are specifically prohibited from carrying a badge. We are not sworn law enforcement. We are licensed to investigate crimes on the same basis as the police, to include carrying guns, but we only have the power to make an arrest that a citizen has. Felonies only. That said, we have benefits the poiice do not have like client confidentiality, and as long as we don't do breaking and entry for instance, our seraches are legal without a warrant.But to represent ourselves as sworn lwa enforcement is loss of license at a bare minimum.
It is illegal to represent oneself as a Private Investigator in California absent a state issued license.
It is unloawful to display a badge as a private investigator in California.
This woman has just added two three new charges.
The two above, plus, possilbly Perjury.
Oh, I almost forgot. If she lied to Law Enforcement, she's up for another hit. Think Martha Stewart.
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California LIcensed PI 29170
The update makes it sound like it was Tila Tequila stalking Ellen. I really wouldn't be surprised if it was either.
Since when is talking about ailens, and CIA and FBI covering up stuff, and telepathic images considered "delusional language"? Seems normal to me, oh wait, hang on, gotta go, E.T is here, time to fly!!!


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Babe of the Day: Rachel McAdams
Rachel stars in The Notebook.
Babe of the Day Rachel McAdams is the only chick on the planet who could get many a guy to submit themselves to a date night involving The Notbeook and not feel less manly about it. Ever since she played one of the Mean Girls and co-starred oppostie Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers, the McAdams has become a significant blip on our Babe-dar. Check out the pics of Rachel below, and be sure to ogle at her next big screen appearance, Married Life, a comedy hitting theatres this weekend.
MINI-BIO: Rachel McAdams has appeared in the feature films Perfect Pie, My Name Is Tanino and Rob Schneider's The Hot Chick. Her TV credits include Earth Final Conflict, Star Babes, and the TV movie, Guilt by Association. She also has had a recurring role on Disney's Jett Jackson. Rachel recently appeared in The Family Stone and Red Eye.
BEST WORK: Mean Girls, The Notebook.
UPCOMING PROJECTS: Rachel can next be seen in Married Life, which opens this weekend.
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You suspect your teen is using drugs. Maybe they're not acting like themselves. Maybe they're cutting school or shirking other responsibilities. Maybe their grades are dropping. Or their behavior is worsening. Maybe they've started hanging out with a bad crowd.
Maybe they're being secretive and have even stolen money from your wallet. Maybe their physical appearance has changed with rapid weight loss or red eyes. Maybe you've noticed a change in their sleep habits, energy level and mood. Maybe you've actually found marijuana or other drugs in their room.
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Hi, I would like to see an extention of this article where it was discussed how to talk to your kids about the drugs you want them to take and not the drugs you don't want them to take. After a life long pressure to make them take drugs for their ADHD or ADD so that they "act better" and "feel better". After a life long of being pushed on Prozac to reduce their anxiety and make them feel "happy" or "not depressed". After a life long of watching their parents used coffee, sugar, nicotine, and alcohol (as well as a society where the commercials make "getting high" on these drugs appealing), how do YOU talk to them about drugs? I keep seeing that 1980′s commercial.. "where did you learn to do this!!?" "I learned it by watching you alright!" At the moment you suspect your kids are on drugs, you have already had a major failure as a parent. How do you recover from that?
You are not a failure as a parent! It seems to me you have great insight. You cannot force your children to take medications that will help them. They just be willing to make the choice on their own.
I am an advanced placement student, in highschool on my way to being a doctor. I'm was the precalculus student of the year and the top in my anatomy and physiology class. I have a great relationship with my family and I occasionally smoke a little weed. I've been smoking ever since I was 15(never cigarettes!) Sometimes I smoke in the evening to relax but I spend long periods of time completely sober. I've never had any trouble with addiction. From about April to June I do not smoke at all because of the end of the year tests and honestly doesn't alcohol cause millions of deaths? Yet it isn't as looked down upon as pot. Perhaps your child isn't a just following what his friends are doing. As long as they are at least 15 and their not negatively effected.
I find it amazing that you are at the top of your class and started smoking weed at 15??? you have to have a good head on your shoulder in order to achieve such high (no pun indented) but what abt the young adults that think that getting high and NOT applying themselves in doing better in life ie, getting a job and better themselves??? just wondering- i have a 23 yr old that is back home and can't pass a simple drug test in order to work at a convenience store?? any suggestions???
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She has an oval face, tilted almond-shaped crystal green eyes and a freckled nose. Her golden brown hair is very long and curly, and is worn pulled back in a loose ponytail bound with a narrow black satin ribbon. She has fair skin and a slender figure.
She is tall for an Elothean.
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¤ Born the 28th day of the 7th month, 370 AL.
¤ Took the surname Summerfield from a distant branch of her large, extended family.
¤ Prefers to go by the shortened version of her name, Chass.
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Yay! I got my grades earlier this month! Here they are: Science: A E.L.A: A French: A- Math: B Social Studies: A G.P.A: 3.69 (A-) Overall, GREAT!
You did not GET IN A your a- jk There way more better than mine.
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The cervical spine is the part of the spine in your neck. The spinal cord sits inside a tunnel created by the vertebrae (bones making up the spine). It is also protected by a soft layer of tissue called the dura. The epidural space is the area between the boney canal and the dura layer of the spinal cord.
An epidural injection is a procedure to deliver medicine into this epidural space. The medicine may include an anesthetic that will numb the pain and a steroid that can decrease swelling and irritation.
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An epidural injection may be done if you have pain in your neck and upper limb that is not responding to conservative treatment, such as oral medicines and physical therapy.
Damage to local joints or discs of the spine can irritate the nerves exiting the spinal cord. This can cause inflammation around the nerves, which leads to pain. The pain may be in the neck or may travel down to the shoulders and arms, and even to the hands and fingers.
The injection may provide relief for a few weeks or even a couple months depending on the exact cause of pain.
This procedure may help manage the pain until the injury that caused the nerve irritation has time to heal.
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You will be awake during this procedure. A local anesthetic will be used to numb the skin before the injection. Your doctor may also give you medicine to help you relax.
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The doctor will inject a contrast dye. This dye will help highlight the area to guide the needle. This is done using a type of x-ray called fluoroscopy. Next, when the doctor has reached the epidural space, the steroid will be delivered.
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Cervical epidural steroid injection. University of California San Diego website. Available at: http://health.ucsd... . Accessed March 18, 2012.
Cervical radiculopathy: non-operative treatments and cervical epidural steroid injection. Hospital for Special Surgery website. Available at: http://www.hss.edu... . Accessed March 18, 2012.
Epidermal injections. American College of Radiology website. Available at: http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=epidural . Accessed March 18, 2012.
Spinal injections. Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Spine and Sports Rehabilitation Center website. Available at: http://www.ric.org/conditions/sportsmed/SpinalInjections.aspx . Accessed March 19, 2012
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IMO, South Park is not what it once was. It still has funny episodes and funny moments within episodes, but I haven't seen what I consider to be a consistently good season in a very long time.
If you look back circa Seasons 8, 9, 10, nearly every episode is a classic. For the past two or three years, I haven't even been able to remember what happened in most episodes a week or two after they've aired.
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A two-vehicle crash closed the southbound lanes of the Stevenson Expressway near southwest suburban Joliet before rush hour early Thursday.
No one was injured when two vehicles crashed about 5:55 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-55 near Black Road, Illinois State Police Sergeant Jeff Lisk said.
One of the vehicles overturned in a ditch and the other vehicle was disabled in the left lane following the crash, Lisk said.
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U of M computer science researchers provide insight into the future of how we understand social networking
Time and space to play key roles in analyzing people's lives on the social web
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MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/28/2011) —The rise of social media has allowed people to connect and re-connect with friends, colleagues and family from across the world. A new paper by University of Minnesota computer scientists in the College of Science and Engineering provides insights into how the analysis of our social networking interactions could discover things like the emergence or decline of leadership, changes in trust over time, and migration and mobility within particular communities online.
The paper, "Computational Modeling of Spatio-temporal Social Networks: A Time-Aggregated Graph Approach," was co-authored by computer science and engineering professor Shashi Shekhar and research assistant Dev Oliver. The researchers recently presented the paper at a national workshop hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, in conjunction with the National Science Foundation and Army Research Center. The paper is available online at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/docs/Shekhar-position.pdf.
In most cases, social network analysis today is limited to discovering friend connections, community leaders and outlines, influential people and personal friend recommendations using a static or snap-shot method. The authors say that if new factors could be taken into consideration, specifically changes across time and space, this could help social network analysis better understand why, when and how we are "friends" with people.
These time and space findings are particularly valuable for businesses and software developers, for example on the career networking site LinkedIn. Most people use the site to see who in their network knows and might endorse whom, but human resources professionals might cross-reference and checking a person's contacts by their work history to discern if a specific contact was established at one timeframe versus another.
Shekhar and Oliver say this points to the need for "a central role for computation and computational models, not only to scale up to the large and growing data volumes, but also to address new spatio-temporal social questions related to change, trends, duration, mobility and travel."


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The last year ended in a somber mood. The country was gripped with the grief that a young lady had lost her life because of the brutal attack and rape in a bus in the capital of the country. Students and others vented their anger through spontaneous demonstrations. I am not sure whether the anger is against the brutality or rape because everyday rape cases and atrocities on women reported in media could not do what a single incident has done. In general, our reaction to physical injuries is much sharper than our reaction to attack on human dignity or humiliation inflicted on an individual.
Moreover, disrespect and atrocities on women are so entrenched in our society that such incidents do not pain us the way an incident of brutality pains us. One may argue that the Delhi incident is a wake up call and Indians will fight to build a society where human dignity will be respected. It is a huge challenge.
The recent comments by members of political parties demeaning the dignity of women vindicate the fact that such comments are taken lightly by those who vote for them, that is we the common people of this country.


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Rated 3 out of 5 Great facility and staff showing some age
The facility, staff, and cleanliness were great. Internet came at an extra cost. These days I think it should be included, especially in a premium hotel. The only real problem I had was hot water. I'm an early riser, so that might play into it, plus I was near the end of a hallway, but I had to turn on the hot water in the shower at least 10 minutes before the water would warm up enough to be comfortable, and every day took a shower using ONLY the hot water. In most hotels, the hot water comes on instantly. I don't know how they do it. Here, it was the opposite and a real problem. I was here with a group of over 200 for five days. I've stayed in many hotels with much lower rates that were as good. Still, other than the water issue, it was a nice stay.
March 8, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by kathy63 Hotel Staff
The accommendations were great and the Tampa Staff exceptional, helped anywhere was needed. Problem was with any buffet that was served, the food was always cold unless you spooned from the bottom of the serving dishes. need to get that system regulated and working correctly.
March 5, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by JNI33 Staff having Fun, guests were not
Bar and front desk service was slow and too relaxed. No sense of urgency or concern for guests time. The room smelled like mildew. The water was broken by 11pm and no notice was given to the guests until almost an hour later and then it was out for the night. No accomodations made or offers for the inconvenience. Bartender was distracted and we ended up waiting on lunch for over an hour. Terrible customer service.
March 3, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 Quiet Locatiom - high price for internet
Nice hotel, quiet and peaceful. Courteous staff. The room was nicely appointed, the bathroom was roomy but not well lit. Unless you are an elite member there is an overpriced charge for the internet.
March 4, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Illbeback Awesome Experience
I was really pleased with my stay and will recommend to any friends and family in the future.
March 2, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by Peachi40 February Stay
The only negative I had was there was no hot tub at the poolside. Everything else was good.
February 26, 2014
Rated 3 out of 5 by BigBill Qualified Review
Good for families and roadside travelers, this is one of the lower end Sheratons that needs work. New in the building for a year, drinks served awkwardly, lounge basic but no alcohol (wines, etc.). Platinum recognized and Jr. suite given with acces, but facilities marginal. It was annoying to get an up whisky in an eau de vie glass, very odd. Very mixed bag.
January 27, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5 by LittleRascal Comfortaable bed and quiet room
Overall this is a good place to stay. There are however a couple of areas that need improving. First is the lighting in the room. is poor. Second it is a long walk to find ice and vending.
The staff was great and overall staying here was a good experience.
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Homosexual orientation in twins: a report on 61 pairs and three triplet sets. | |
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PMID: 8494487 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Twin pairs in which at least one twin is homosexual were solicited through announcements in the gay press and personal referrals from 1980 to the present. An 18-page questionnaire on the "sexuality of twins" was filled out by one or both twins. Thirty-eight pairs of monozygotic twins (34 male pairs and 4 female pairs) were found to have a concordance rate of 65.8% for homosexual orientation. Twenty-three pairs of dizygotic twins were found to have a concordance rate of 30.4% for homosexual orientation. In addition, three sets of triplets were obtained. Two sets contained a pair of monozygotic twins concordant for sexual orientation with the third triplet dizygotic and discordant for homosexual orientation. A third triplet set was monozygotic with all three concordant for homosexual orientation. These findings are interpreted as supporting the argument for a biological basis in sexual orientation. |
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Title: Archives of sexual behavior Volume: 22 ISSN: 0004-0002 ISO Abbreviation: Arch Sex Behav Publication Date: 1993 Jun |
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Created Date: 1993-06-14 Completed Date: 1993-06-14 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-2101. |
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Career mobility is a fact of life these days and workers are switching jobs more frequently than in the past. For those who are changing jobs and are members of a defined benefit (DB) pension plan, among your first decisions should be what to do with the plan from your former employer. It's a decision to be weighed carefully, and involves various financial and non-financial considerations.
If you have paid into a DB plan with your former employer, you will have to choose whether to leave your pension entitlements within the pension plan, or to transfer what's called the "commuted value" to an individual locked-in registered plan. Commuted value is the lump sum present value of the pension benefits to which you are entitled under the pension plan. The value is calculated by an actuary and takes into account several variables such as life expectancy and interest rates.
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Officers said the robber moved quickly and was targeting mom and pop-type businesses for fast cash.
Authorities said that before Friday morning, the suspect had a clean record. Police described the man as needing cash to pay off some bills, which leave many wondering why he didn't apply for a job at the places he allegedly robbed.
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Wilson said one of the officers spotted the suspect's vehicle in the parking lot of a nearby Wal-Mart. He said officers recovered the suspect alone with a weapon as well as the money that was allegedly taken from the stores.
The suspect told police that he was behind on his bills and was just trying to make ends meet. Now, the man is facing aggravated robbery charges.
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Eyes have always been a great source of inspiration for me, for their mystery and their ability to convey and receive. My goal was to create an eye only using only the leaf and vine brushes, with no color. Thoughts? This is my first drawing on here.
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u did sooo well just using da leaf n vine brushes- makes it dat much more unique xD really luv da effect-welcome :3 fave
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Prison doesn't have to be a black hole
We are all more likely to be victims of crime because prisoners are leaving custody illiterate and unskilled
Stevie, a stocky but hollow-cheeked 20-year-old lad serving 18 months in Feltham Young Offenders' Institution for burglary, is talking about his kids. "My first two are in Amsterdam. I never see them. But I see my other one every week, and I'm going to be close to the two on the way." Twins? "No. My girl's having a baby in three months, and her cousin is having my baby a few months later too." He grins. He has been banged up 20 times since he was 13. Rat-boy, feral child, a mini-Kray of the council estates: fill in your own dehumanising cliché, Stevie matches them all.
Stevie, a stocky but hollow-cheeked 20-year-old lad serving 18 months in Feltham Young Offenders' Institution for burglary, is talking about his kids. "My first two are in Amsterdam. I never see them. But I see my other one every week, and I'm going to be close to the two on the way." Twins? "No. My girl's having a baby in three months, and her cousin is having my baby a few months later too." He grins. He has been banged up 20 times since he was 13. Rat-boy, feral child, a mini-Kray of the council estates: fill in your own dehumanising cliché, Stevie matches them all.
Stevie has thick encrusted scars running up both his arms. "Yeah, I started cutting myself when I first got banged up," he says quickly. "I don't know why. I would just cut and cut. Everything was doing my head in. My girl used to get freaked out because she would try to disinfect the wound - I never went to the doctor - and she would be touching the bone."
He dropped out of school when he was seven. He was expelled, but he can't remember what for. He never found his way back. "I started doing silly things. My dad was in cram [prison], and I smoked crack for the first time when I was 10. That's when it went totally mental," he says. The staff in Feltham say it's a familiar story. Almost all the lads here have a similar background. A third come to prison straight from care homes.
So is this just another feel-bad tale of the British underclass, a lament for the 10,000 Stevies across the land? No; there's an unexpected coda to this story. Three years ago, Stevie's current home, Feltham, the south London remand centre holding 650 young offenders, was the absolute nadir of the British prison system. After the long death march of several young men to their suicides in dank cells - and an epidemic of men slashing their own flesh to mush - Feltham tanked on 21 March 2000. A racist psychopath called Robert Stewart was placed in a cell with Zahid Mubarek, a troubled, drug-addicted Asian thief. Stewart beat him to death with a table leg.
Since the scandal, Feltham has been inundated with hard cash and a determination on the part of politicians to turn it around. It is therefore a rare - and critical - exception to the tide of failure in British prison policy.
For more than a decade, under both Tory and Labour governments, the overall prison budget has been slashed, even while the number of prisoners has grown like yeast. The effect has been well documented and scandalous: over-crowded prisons are providing very limited education and resettlement services. We are all more likely to be victims of crime because prisoners are too often leaving custody illiterate, unskilled and homeless (80 per cent of 18 to 25-year-olds walk out the gates to "no fixed abode").
But Feltham shows that another criminal justice system is possible. The turnaround in the juvenile wing - which has had the bulk of the investment - has been drastic. There hasn't been a suicide here for three years. The self-harm bacillus is now under control and falling rapidly. There's a flash new detox unit, so that kids aren't going cold turkey alone and unhelped in their cells. The education centre was given a 100 per cent excellence rating by Ofsted inspectors last year. The prison inspectorate raved about the changes in its latest report.
Stevie explains the practical effect of all this. "I learned how to read here. They've given me lots of attention. They train me every day. I know it isn't a good thing to say that prison's good but this prison has done me good. Everywhere else I've been there's been no education - or what they had was shit - and basically no help with drugs neither."
I heard similar stories about Feltham from most of the young men I spoke to, all selected randomly to ensure I wasn't being shown the most impressive individuals. Yet I could almost hear right-wingers splutter when I saw that some of the offenders are given PlayStations in their cells if they excel at education and good behaviour. Why lavish resources on offenders? What about the victims? This right-wing ranting is easily slapped down. There is no contradiction between spending money on offenders and spending money on victims. All the academic research shows that if you spend money on offenders, there will be fewer victims, dummy.
The real choice in law and order isn't tough vs soft - who wants to be soft on rapists, muggers and killers? - but smart vs dumb. The "tough" approach to Stevie would be to slam him into a dark, damp cell, give him no drug treatment and no lessons, provide no incentive for him to learn how to behave well and structure his time, and then push him out at the end of it on to the streets, alienated and homeless. This is what happens in most American prisons.
Sure, it's tough; it is also dumb. He would be far more likely to reoffend. The idea that abused kids from violent homes (or no home at all) cutting their own bodies to bits are in need of even more hammering is not just stone-hearted. It creates more victims in the long term. Yet thanks to the neglect of prison reform by all parties, most of Britain's jails are closer to the failed American model than to the crime-cutting centres of rehabilitation we desperately need.
Tony Blair, even when his thoughts are benign, has not made prison reform a priority. Once offenders enter the Black Hole of Calcutta that is our penal system, the current Government - terrified of idiotic headlines claiming that prisoners are all given plasma-screen televisions - does little for them. Does every prison have to wait for a neo-Nazi to batter an Asian to death in one of its cells for the Government to open the funding and reform flood-gates?
Penal reform should be the dream subject for a Labour Home Secretary. Here are some of the poorest, most excluded people in Britain - and the Government has the power to transform their lives. Yet Feltham's rejuvenation remains only a small exception; a shaft of light in the penal darkness. Even there, the treatment of under-18s is far better than for 18 to 21-year-olds, who are housed in a separate, underfunded wing and suffer far more limited access to education.
Feltham's juvenile wing shows what a large increase in investment could achieve across the British penal system. Every prisoner in Britain, not just young offenders, should be equipped with literacy and numeracy skills, and set up with a home and a job following their release. Most Labour politicians agree, but it takes hard cash to get there - and far from putting in the cash, they are actually whittling existing funds down.
If money and good management can turn around Feltham, they can turn around anywhere. A brave government would shift spending away from shallow "eye-catching initiatives" with no proven track-record (random drug-testing in schools, "bobbies on the beat", punishing the parents of truants) to these low-key but proven techniques.
Stevie asks: "Y'know, in some of the nicks I've been in, it's like they want you to go out and keep on being a criminal. They don't teach you nothing. They don't help you with getting a job or a flat or nothing. Why can't every nick help you get yourself sorted out? Don't they want us to go straight?"
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Series: Anna (#1)
Publisher: Tor Teen
Release date: August 30, 2011
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Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.As soon as I started reading Anna Dressed in Blood, I was completely sucked into the story. At first, I wasn't too sure about Cas having to find a hitchhiking ghost who kills people, because that's a well-known urban legend, but I loved what Kendare Blake did with it. She took the urban legend and made it interesting, and she pulled me into the story and kept me there until the last page.
So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.
I love ghost stories, as long as they're fiction (ghosts tend to really creep me out). Anna Dressed in Blood is no exception. As far as ghost stories go, this is one of my favorites. I loved all the layers of Anna that we got to see as her story developed. I loved it that even though she had this incredible power and rage and had done some horrible things, I still liked her. She had a scary side, but she also had an innocent side, and I felt so much sympathy for her.
All the characters in this book were great. Cas was an awesome narrator. He was strong and determined. He knew what he wanted and he went after it. But he didn't have all the answers, either, and I appreciated that. The supporting cast of characters was equally awesome. I enjoyed watching the relationships among all the characters develop, and I loved it that not all the characters knew everything, but what one character didn't know, another character did. The characters were able to share their knowledge with each other to come up with solutions, and as a result they all complemented each other so well.
The best part of Anna Dressed in Blood is that Kendare Blake doesn't hold anything back. Murder is gruesome, and she doesn't gloss over it. When we find out how Anna died, we don't get a pretty little picture of it. We get the whole, horrible, gruesome image. It would have been so easy for Kendare Blake to tell us in one sentence who killed Anna and why, but she doesn't do that. Instead, she lets us actually see it happen. I loved that, because it made Anna's character that much better for me. It helped me understand Anna better.
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BARNSTABLE PARODY: Publisher ceases Parody after decade
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April 01, 2009
Volume 1, Issue 1 - April 1, 1999
In a now-familiar tale of today's newspaper industry, the publisher of the decade-old Barnstable Parody declared that the fun was over.
"These are pretty serious times," E. Connie Mize said. "It'd be kind of irresponsible to keep it going. That's what my bank told me, anyway."
Along with plummeting advertising revenue, the Parody traces its recent financial woes to a series of investment missteps, including backing an upstart toll-booth manufacturer in Sagamore.
"I guess we kind of misread that one," Mize said.
She said the public also lost faith with the entire concept of such a specialized publication: "It's pretty tired. I mean really, what's next, sock puppets?"
First Amendment arguments that town government required an independent watchdog -- and that public funding of the Parody was an option -- were quashed when the Barnstable electorate rejected the most recent charter revision and municipal rule defaulted to the authority of Cape Cod Regional Government.
"It will just make us a little busier in the public information department," said the region's Grand Vizier, Paul Niedzwiecki, now serving also as editor and publisher of the Cape's renamed and repurposed daily, the Cape Cod Commission Reporter. "We may bring back Dan Hamilton to help out."
Niedzwiecki added that Barnstable Today TV host Mark Mumford had declined an offer to anchor county commissioner meetings on a weekly basis, opting instead to tour with a Hall & Oates tribute band.
The Parody announcement set off a media chain reaction, with several radio stations announcing layoffs in their Rip and Read departments. A number of political blogs were converted to fan sites for former town managers.
A slew of cost-saving measures in its waning days failed to save the Parody.
Stealing a page (literally) from an earlier era, editors snipped copy from bound volumes and rearranged it as new stories. In another attempt, every fifth word was eliminated to save space and paper. Staff photographer Grafton "Graf" Hicks was let go, replaced by "imaginographers" who supplied simple yet colorful visuals.
"I thought they would be pretty transparent to our average Joe reader," Mize said of the changes. "Joe's our last subscriber. We talk daily, and frankly, he's not too bright."
Parody editor Seth Pool seemed unaware of the publisher's decision.
"Really?" a puzzled Pool asked. "Did she say anything about me?"
She didn't. Given a moment to consider his career, Pool had no regrets.
"In this era of 24/7 coverage of everything imaginable, I'd like to think we've covered the unimaginable," the award-lacking editor beamed. "I'm proud of the news we've broken and keep breaking."
There will be a push in these final days to drive traffic to the Parody's Web site.
"In our annual survey of residents, traffic has always been the number one concern," Barnstable Division Manager John Klimm said.
Chronic Parody letter writer Emily Litella questioned the decision.
"I don't like it," Litella scribbled in a longhand missive. "I mean, who cares what the intern et? Why should he consume all the journalistic glory?"
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