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I saw this article on Twitter this week. Written by Sir Ian Blair. The above link takes you to the article online. He raises some very good points. Clearly he has only spent his whole life in Policing and he has never been a rail regulator so this government will ignore his concerns.
This is of course the same government that have now performed U turns on a number of their budget policies. The same government who have been found to be riddled with corruption, nepotism and general incompetence. The problem with messing with Policing is that once you've made the experienced staff redundant, slashed the wages and lost the infrastructure you can't just do a quick U turn. The organised criminals will be stronger, richer and more confident than ever. The cuts and radical reforms must be stopped now. Join in with the #AntiWinsorNetwork. Sign the E petitions http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/32177 and speak to your MP's.
The Conservative-led coalition government has taken a series of connected decisions about the police. First, it has consistently rehearsed the view, returning to their 1993 white paper on the subject, that "the main job of the police is to catch criminals". That is indeed a crucial part of policing but there are many others. By concentrating so narrowly on crime and detection, the Conservatives have inexplicably ignored the preponderance of criminological theory and professional police opinion across the world. This categorically suggests that crime can be best controlled through a wider approach by the police, attempting to interact with the whole community in order to build legitimacy and consent.
Second, the government has reduced funding for the police more severely than for most other parts of the public sector, requiring the service to eliminate 20 per cent of costs over the next four years. This will probably force the police to retreat to an outdated method of working, reacting to crime after it has occurred rather than trying to minimise what gives rise to it. The combination of the first two decisions will drive the service to reduce its involvement in neighbourhoods, take police officers out of schools and put most of them back into their cars responding to emergency calls.
Third, it has deliberately reduced professional police involvement in policymaking and the development of the doctrine of evidence-based policing. It openly criticises the Association of Chief Police Officers, to the point where coalition-run police authorities have begun to starve it of funds. For no coherent reason, the Home Office is scrapping the National Policing Improvement Agency, an organisation that was trying to do what it said on the tin.
Last, in their drive to roll back the state, the Conservatives have legislated to place chief constables under the direct control of individual politicians in a manner never seen in Britain. This will endanger the long tradition of operational police independence.
These four moves threaten with extinction the primary model of British policing – or, more correctly, of policing in England and in a very reluctant Wales, because Scotland has rejected the idea.
Over the course of nearly two centuries, Britain developed a new model of policing, usually described by criminologists such as Robert Reiner as social democratic. This may now be in its death throes.
Policing and politics are inextricably linked. In the end, both are about power and the use of force. Within all nation states, the police are the sole institution empowered to use force on free citizens without needing to seek prior legal permission. Even the words are linked etymologically, through the Greek polis, or "city": consider politician, political, politic, politics, polity, policy, police and politicised.
Just as with the absence of the rule of law, the absence of an effective police service, as in post-invasion Afghanistan or Iraq, is an emblem of
a failed state. For the police to serve only one political party or politician is a symbol of dictatorship. Precisely because it is so important, policing is a political issue.
However, all democratic states go to great lengths to prevent policing from becoming politicised, especially by stopping one politician or ministry gaining sole control of the police. England and Wales have had (although only until this November) a balance of powers between the home secretary, 43 local chief constables and police authorities, which are made up of local politicians and independent members. Many other countries, such as the United States, Germany and Australia, divide control between federal and local jurisdictions. Others, such as France and Italy, have national forces that answer to competing ministries.
Dr Justice Tankebe, born in a police barracks in Ghana and now teaching at Cambridge University, has defined police legitimacy as depending on "the recognition by citizens of the moral rightness of the police's claim to authority". And, in Britain, home of the first force founded on such a principle, that position is in danger.
There is abundant research indicating that citizens grant their consent to the police on fulfilment of two conditions – that "the rules" are both fair and fairly enforced. Two aspects of that fairness are now under threat in the UK. First, there is copious evidence that policing is concerned with far more than crime-fighting, and yet that is how the coalition is defining its role. Second, the police should be independent of party politicians, a position that will be fundamentally altered by the first direct election of police and crime commissioners in November.
Not everything about British policing is in good shape. Moreover, it is a difficult business. Policing deals daily with confrontational and intractable problems; it is a necessary evil, concerned with some of the least pleasant aspects of human behaviour. Yet it is important to recollect that Britain created a style of policing widely copied and respected around the world.
In 2006, during the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, David Triesman, then a minister at the Foreign Office, visited Sudan. Hundreds of miles inland, in one of the world's most remote and underdeveloped areas, he met a group of refugee women. When they found that he was from Britain, they asked him not only for medicine and blankets, but for British bobbies to protect them.
That single scene points up the extraordinary revolution in policing that Robert Peel achieved in 1829. Before Peel, all policing functions (usually military in nature) were designed to protect the state and its established leaders against peoples subjugated by aristocratic rule or by conquest. The police were concerned with maintaining order and not in any way with protecting the rights of individuals. In Ireland, India and their other colonies, the British already had such constabularies, armed, usually mounted, living in barracks, commanded by commissioned officers. They continued to develop such forces as the empire expanded. It was during Peel's time as chief secretary for Ireland that the Royal Irish Constabulary was established; the RIC fitted this description exactly.
Safe, just and tolerant
What Peel and the first two Met commissioners, Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, created in London was something different: an unarmed organisation, without military-style uniforms, low in powers and relatively low in numbers, living in the community and officered not by those who could buy commissions but by those who were promoted on merit. Nor did Peel interfere much in his creation, other than to insist that the primary objectives of the force were the prevention of crime and the maintenance of public tranquillity (not the detection of crime or punishment of offenders).
Four years after the establishment of the Metropolitan Police came the first big test of non-interference. In 1830, after the fall of the Tory government in which Peel served, Viscount Melbourne had taken up Peel's old job as home secretary in a Whig administration. The Whigs disliked the new police force and were determined to clip its wings.
In 1833, a proto-Chartist demonstration was called in Cold Bath Fields in Clerkenwell, London. Melbourne ordered the commissioners to have it broken up. In the ensuing confrontation, a police officer was killed. The commissioners told the subsequent parliamentary inquiry about the home secretary's orders and how they had objected to them. Melbourne denied this. The MPs believed the commissioners and backed their authority. A new, independent entity had appeared in the state.
Over the next 40 years, the London model of policing spread throughout Britain and to the large cities of the Anglo-Saxon empire and the United States. But the model also spread as an idea, through the novels of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. In 1874, one of the foremost Royal Academicians of the day, Frank Holl, exhibited his painting Deserted – the Foundling, which shows two officers from the Met rescuing an abandoned infant – probably the first depiction of policing concerned not with the requirements of rulers but the needs of citizens. And steadily, not without difficulties and false turnings, a benign and rather bucolic model of policing began to emerge.
The Met would be sent to break strikes in the Rhondda and Sherlock Holmes would mock Inspector Lestrade; but the British took to their police. The direction of travel was discernibly linear, developing away from control of disorder and crime towards the protection of the public from all manner of difficulties. Egon Bittner, the first academic to study policing from a sociological perspective, was surprised to find that it was concerned much less with crime control and much more with low-level maintenance of order. He gave his landmark 1974 police study the title "Florence Nightingale in Pursuit of Willie Sutton" (a notorious American bank robber in the 1930s) to make the point that the role of the police in practice was enormously wide, and declared that "the police officer and the police officer alone is equipped, entitled and required to deal with every exigency in which force has to be used". Bittner defined exigency as "something which ought not to be happening and about which someone had better do something NOW".
This American analysis shows that common-law policing had moved steadily in the direction of helping the public, as the 1962 British royal commission on the police defined part of its task. Shortly afterwards, a new generation of police leaders became persuaded by the "broken windows" theory, put forward by George Kelling and James Wilson in 1982. This suggested that crime and antisocial behaviour occur most frequently in areas neglected by institutions and in physical decline. But doing something about this requires the police to be accompanied and supported by other agents and agencies of social cohesion – bus conductors and park-keepers, trade unions and housing associations. During the Thatcher years, these institutions began to weaken and disappear. The police would be alone.
In 1997, seemingly following this theory, the incoming Labour government declared that the task of the police was to "build a safe, just and tolerant society" and it passed legislation placing a duty of crime reduction on local authorities. Not only did this good intention fail to turn the tide, however, but it was rendered almost irrelevant by the impact of Tony Blair's mantra "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".
Blair understood that crime had most impact on Labour voters and so he wrested law and order away from the Conservatives. Successive Labour home secretaries engaged in political battle after battle to be tougher than their Conservative opponents and the police found themselves having to handle the rafts of new criminal offences which characterised policy by the New Labour government. Under these pressures, and acting largely alone, the police service decided that its main response should be to reintroduce an emphasis on neighbourhood policing.
The New Labour years coincided with the Macpherson report into the 1993 racist murder of Stephen Lawrence and then the emergence of Islamist terror. As after the Brixton riots of 1981, the police were pushed further to pursue a quest for renewed legitimacy. A witness at the Macpherson inquiry declared that African-Caribbean people in Britain were "overpoliced and underprotected"; the leaders of British Muslims described themselves as a "watched community". The effort to overcome this distrust – to become more inclusive of diverse and challenged communities – is the epitome of social-democratic policing.
And this is what is now under threat. It had been hoped that "independent" candidates would run for election as the new elected police commissioners. No chance: these will be party slates. At the Conservative party conference in October, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, produced Colonel Tim Collins of Iraq war fame as the prospective Conservative candidate for commissioner in Kent. He received applause for his view that the police needed to be rat-catchers rather than social workers – although he abruptly withdrew from the race last month.
Not all commissioners will hold such views. But they will be elected on tribal lines and, seeking re-election, they will put continual pressure on the police to deal with matters of concern to their supporters, irrespective of where crime is occurring. How many times will a chief constable, with now almost no security of tenure, stand up to that pressure or insist on dealing with matters such as organised crime or forced marriage, about which the commissioners' electorates do not care?
There is an old joke that describes how, in heaven, the administrators are Swiss, the cooks are French, the engineers German, the lovers Italian and the police British. In hell, on the other hand, the cooks are British, the Swiss are the lovers, the Italians run the place, and so on. Such jokes are not accidents. The British police do not have the qualities of a celestial constabulary, but something precious in the genetics of the nation is being lost under this government, perhaps irretrievably.
In policing, we are about to regress to the mean. It is particularly ironic that Peel's own party is involved in driving the partial destruction of his greatest legacy.
Ian Blair was commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 2005-2008 and now sits as a cross-bench peer. He gave a speech, based on this article, at How the Light Gets In, the festival of philosophy and music at Hay, on 9 June.


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I know I should be living and breathing this special US Senate race.
I love politics. I'm an issues nerd. Debates over tax policy, gun control, abortion rights, the environment — these are usually major boat-floaters for me.
And yet, the nitty-gritty of this election makes me want to go nighty-night. Every time I contemplate the candidates, I . . . Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
What? Huh? Oh, sorry.
The primaries are April 30. The general is not till June 25. But already, I feel as exhausted as the Democratic candidates look. Really, you could store small nations in the bags under their eyes.
I can't blame those guys for being tired. Ed Markey has been in Congress for 36 years. Stephen Lynch arrived in 2001, but it wears on you, bucking your delegation.
Neither Democrat is known for his electrifying personality. Still, chances are the senator we send to Washington will be one of these two — a guy who has already been down there for years.
(Whatever happens, it's going to be a guy. Not a single woman put her hand up for the job on either side. Apparently, having reached a grand total of two, we've hit the limit on Massachusetts voters' tolerance for women in the Capitol.)
Though GOP political veteran and former US attorney Michael Sullivan is about as riveting as Markey and Lynch, there's a little more intrigue on the Republican side. Representative Dan Winslow, on whom more later, can be entertaining. And former Navy SEAL and private equity investor Gabriel Gomez seemed like the kind of candidate who might have Democrats quaking, given a certain special Senate election of yore. But then came the revelation that, in an attempt to be appointed interim senator after John Kerry was named secretary of state, Gomez wrote a letter kissing up to President Obama's agenda on gun control and immigration, claiming positions he apparently doesn't agree with. Or does. Who knows?
He's not the only candidate with identity issues. Sullivan's people grafted their candidate's head onto former congressional candidate Richard Tisei's website, and their fund-raising efforts onto former senator Scott Brown's e-mail list.
How do you get excited about a race where getting a handle on the candidates is like trying to pin Jell-O to a wall?
(While we're on the topic of borrowing: People have Internets, Representative Lynch. They can see the striking similarities between your "I am Stephen Lynch" ad and the clever "I'm a Mac" spot your opponent ran in 2010.)
But maybe I'm being unfair. After all, Gomez and Lynch do have compelling back stories. Sullivan and Markey have impressive resumes. Winslow is smart on the case for GOP moderation.
Perhaps it's not this campaign that's my problem. Perhaps it's campaigns, period. For years, we've been in continuous election mode. The special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's US Senate seat started in 2009. A pitched presidential battle began shortly thereafter. The gazillions poured into the Senate contest between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren made that ugly battle inescapable. Uncle!
It's also hard to get excited about who will represent you in Washington when Washington is such a disgusting mess. After all those elections, lawmakers are still kicking the heck out of one another, getting little done. As we learned last week, not even the slaying of 20 first-graders moves them. Assault weapons ban? Nah, they'd rather stay in the deep pockets of the NRA. It's so dispiriting, I don't want to think about it. Yet these Senate candidates keep trying to make me.
I called Winslow to tell him all of this. He seemed genuinely upset. If junkies like me are feeling this way, how will he convince sane people to pay attention? "I've got to get you excited about this race," he told me. "You're my target demographic: a woman, a millennial, a new American."
A millennial? When all else fails, try flattery.
"Don't be co-opted by apathy," he urged. "This race in Massachusetts, especially on the Republican side, is a race of national historical significance. You just don't know it yet."
It's not you, Dan. It's me.
I need more. Or maybe less. You got a truck?Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at email@example.com.

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This recap covers events in the house from noon Saturday to noon Sunday, Big Brother Time
Yet again, my shift begins with the pre-POV jitters. Rachel and Jordan are in the Purple Room, and Rachel still feels nauseous. Jordan tries to tell her it's just nerves, but Rachel insists it's not - that when she's nervous her heart beats fast, and that's not happening now. They discuss lucky outfits.
Rachel: "I always wear glitter when I want to win"
Jordan: "Of course you would"
Adam and Jordan have a brief chat in the bathroom... Jordan lets him know that if she and Rachel do come off the block, she won't vote him out. "But I know who I will vote out" singsongs our golden girl. For good measure, Jordan does some more tossing of our resident hag under the bus. (That's Shelly, for anyone who's been under a rock lately). Jordan says she's done with her, she thinks outside of the house Shelly is probably very nice, but in the context of the game she is not to be trusted. Adam tells Jordan that he knows Shelly hasn't fully had his back either. Adam trusts Jordan, but makes it clear once again that he just can't get on board with Rachel. Jordan makes it clear that she will not vote for Shelly at the end. Careful hon, you could be giving these people a great reason to want to take ol' Hagamuffin to the finals. I do like this new game-talkin' Jordie though. Adam says to Jordan, everything else aside, that he was truly hurt when Jeff questioned his vote Thursday night. Jordan says she will be sure to let him know, but that she thinks Jeff was just shocked at everything that was going on. Jordan apologizes for that, then continues to say how she feels so stupid for getting duped by Shelly, and that she's just not talking to her anymore. She reiterates to Adam to watch his back. "I see a lot more than I let on" replies Cruddy.
It's all well and good, but as we know when we get to this point in the game, we don't know what these people are really thinking until they get into Diary Room.
They've been told the POV will be at 5:00, which is still several hours away, so Rachel and Jordan head to the Purple Room and decide to start talking about positive things to get pumped up. "I can't wait until Brendon and I get married" chirps Vegas. Oh boy. She launches into talks of wedding plans and such. It just makes me sad, because I like who Rachel has become without Brendon and I don't like listening to her talking about how wonderful their marriage will be. *sigh*
Cruddy heads upstairs to the HOH room to hang out with Whorsha, who fills him in on parts of her earlier conversation with Rachel. Cowlia joins them and the discussion turns to making fun of Jordan and Rachel. She laughs at Jordan for saying she hopes the POV involves running since she and Rachel have been working out. Kalia complains about Jordan and Rachel underestimating them. Umm. The bashfest continues, and I don't think there's much point in listening anymore. I hate them all. Blah, blah, and blah. Literally. One hundred percent. I'd rather go outside and play with Hurricane Irene than listen to these losers.
My feeds are on mute but a few minutes later, out of the corner of my eye, I see Haggy McHaggerson join her Nerd Herd 2011 cronies. I'm sure the conversation will continue to spiral even further downward so sorry, I'm not listening. If there's anyone out there who actually cares to listen to the witchiness and bitchiness, feel free to watch it on flashback.
After about half an hour, I peek out and unmute the feeds, just in time to hear them laughing about the possibility of Rachel being pregnant. "I'll feel sorry for that baby" says Hagbomb. Ironic considering that people are currently calling for Child Protective Services to take her daughter away from her (check the Shelly thread if you want to hear more about that garbage.
Around 3:00, Shelly goes to the Purple Room and notices the "Do Not Disturb" sign is no longer on the fortune teller, so she starts fiddling with it, pushes a button, and it springs to life. Kalia comes in and Hagmeister tells her not to tell anyone. I'm trying to decide which face is better looking - the fortune teller's or Shelly's. I'll let you guess what I decided. Hagtastic says she's praying it will spit out a power that will save her. She begs the fortune teller to tell her something, give her a clue. "I've been good" she wheedles. Uh, yeah, not so much, precious.
Shelly pleads her case
Kalia heads into the Candy Room, I suppose the plan is to keep an eye on Jordan and Rachel to make sure they don't try to go into the Purple Room. She spies Mr. Quackers sitting on the table and acts all surprised "Ohhh, you found him! Where was he?" Puhleeze. Jordan tells her about Porsche hiding him the toilet tank and Kalia says she suspected Porsche had taken him but she wasn't sure. Stop. Just stop. I want to smack you. Kalia makes herself comfy for some girl talk and I'm back on mute.
I'm still enjoying Hagmonster staring down the fortune teller on the other camera (still on mute) and the feeds switch to Adam and Porsche up in the HOH room. I figure I'll see if they're talking about anything interesting (not likely) and sure enough, this is what I hear come out of Whorsha's mouth: "Talking to her [Jordan] is like talking to a ham sandwich." Well sweetie, talking to you is probably like talking to a rock wearing velour. I think it's time to fix dinner.
I still have the feeds on mute, and we're at just over 2 hours of Shelly berating the fortune teller. It's pretty funny to watch on mute, actually. She'll lie down for a bit staring at it, then get up and push the buttons and talk at it for a while, give up, lie down, lather, rinse, and repeat. It's good stuff.
aaaaaand, shes still at it!
We finally go to trivia at 5:45. (Hagwart is still staring down the fortune teller at this time, in case you were wondering, which puts it at almost 3 hours).
2 hours later, we come back to find that Rachel won! Oh happiness! Kalia is bandaging her arms, says she has rope burns., and our favorite hag can barely move. Aww. The competition was endurance, and involved them hanging onto a dummy fashioned into a likeness of their former duo partner. So much irony I don't even know where to begin, so I won't. Adam was the first to fall at 5 minutes, followed by Jordan at 9. Then Shelly, Porsche, Kalia. After such a long setup time, the whole shebang lasted a whopping 33 minutes. I'm sure production is thrilled about that. Chatter among the houseguests tells us they're pretty sure the powers that be were thinking it would last a lot longer. They could see all kinds of contraptions that never even came into play, such as rain machines, etc. Oh well. I guess maybe that makes it the 2nd shortest endurance comp ever, after the infamous Janelle & the Volcano incident
Rachel is pep-talking Jordan about how they have to work together from now on, they have to win HOH this week, and so on and so forth. Jordan keeps apologizing to Rachel for doing poorly in the competition. Rachel tells her not to be silly. "Jordan, I'm glad you're here, I'm glad you're my friend." Jordan shares her concern - that in her season everyone said Jeff just carried her, and she doesn't want Rachel to have to carry her this season. Rachel says no way. They suspect Kalia and Porsche will try to push to get Adam out instead of Shelly. (They're right). They see through the plan - Kalia and Porsche want to keep Hagadoo to final 3 because they think they can beat her more easily at the end. Jordan is insistent that Shelly be the one to go this week and Rachel is down with that plan.
Kalia: See all this food on this side? This is MINE. You can have the stuff over there
When Hagaloon comes out of the Diary Room, she's playing all happiness and sunshine, acting resigned to the fact that she's leaving. Rachel and Jordan walk through the kitchen and after they pass, her bitterness quickly pops up again. Seems her new attitude is that she's above this game. Mmmmkay, whatever makes you feel better, Hagster. She claims she dropped off in the competition because she didn't want to mess up her back - that being able to pick up her kid is more important than the game. She has a semi-smile on her face but it's a forced one and not reaching her eyes. She states that she's accepted she's leaving, she's not going to stoop to Rachel's level, she'll be keeping her dignity, reputation, and integrity. Um, okay. When are you gonna return Rachel's stuffed dog?
She continues giving Adam and Kalia a speech about how to play the game, be smart, not play personally, don't lose your dignity. Rachel walks through the kitchen and Shelly continues to talk, saying don't act trashy, because people will see it. I can't even listen to her self-righteous nonsense anymore Furthermore, the dog stealing hag says she's not giving Rachel her dog back. She plans to take it with her to jury and put it in Brendon's stuff there. But hey, as long as you're holding onto your class and dignity that's a-okay.
nom nom nom
Moving forward into the evening... I check in with Porsche and Kalia up in HOH. They're practicing their pitch to Rachel and Jordan about keeping Adam over Shelly, and using the little colored pieces to go over scenarios. Matt and his assorted ducks were much more fun last year to watch. Shelly says she is going to ask BB if she can come back in and host a veto since she never got to host one. Mmmmkay. Downstairs, Adam, Rachel, and Shelly are touching up the nail polish on the teabag cards. The next few hours pass with mostly random chit chat, ranging from their initial impressions of the other houseguests to whether or not they'd ever do Big Brother again. When Kalia first saw Adam, she thought he was a white supremacist, and Rachel is retiring from reality TV because "Brendon won't allow it."
The lockdown ends around midnight and everyone except Shelly goes running our. Hagadelic stays inside a while longer, parannoying about the purple room and all the power it holds (in her head). She and Kalia discuss their concerns that Rachel already got a power from the fortune teller. Then Kalia tells her that out of nowhere, Adam is suddenly talking about the fortune teller. This sends our resident hag into a tailspin about flushing out the power by voting Adam out this week. Kalia then heads outside and tells Adam about the fortune teller springing to life. Heh. Along with Porsche, they discuss that Shelly was in there most of the day with the door closed so nobody could see it. Adam chimes in that the Do Not Disturb sign has been gone since at least Wednesday.
And then.... and then... the moment we've all been waiting for. The Talk between Jordan and Shelly. Or, as I picture it in my head, Cinderella and the wicked stepmother. For the full conversation, flashback to 8/28, 1:30 am, Feed 3. I'm gonna hit the highlights:
- Before Hagarooni can really even get started, Jordan jumps in and says she should start by apologizing. Shelly accepts her apology but doesn't apologize right back. Of course not.
- Jordan talks about how betrayed she and Jeff felt, that they trusted her completely, and that then Shelly took that knife and stabbed her in the back. But according to Shelly, she stabbed Jeff in the back, not Jordan. (Whatevs)
- Shelly says she's never said anything bad about Jordan or Jeff in the Diary Room. You didn't have to, honey, you've said plenty outside of the DR. She gets choked up and said she had put Jeff and Jordan on a pedestal, that before she even came in the house she said they were her heroes (true).
- Shelly says she overheard Rachel and Jordan calling her a bitch in the bathroom yesterday. Jordan says she never called her that (true, they were talking about Dani)
- Shelly throws Rachel under the bus (shocker!). Tells Jordan Rachel was completely on board with the "keep Dani" plan until she saw she could use it as an opportunity to be the hero. (we'll probably never really know if Rachel was ever truly on board with this plan).
- Shelly, still in tears, says she came into the house with one alliance, her family, and that in the last week, it became clear to her that she was pushing Jeff and Jordan ahead of her own family. She says she realized she couldn't beat them, started discussing it with Adam, and that she was the one that started it all, not Dani (all true).
- Shelly outlines her plan for the game - she knew she couldn't win competitions, so she was going to have to rely on social moves and strategy.
- Shelly points out that week 2, Jeff and Jordan went back on their word by nominating her. Jordan points out they had to, it was a duo. She launches into descriptions of all the times that Jordan and Jeff doubted her allegiance.
- Shelly continues to cry and says what hurts her most is the possibility of losing Jeff and Jordan as friends, for making a game move. (This is where it starts getting deeper. If Hagalala really felt that way, she wouldn't have been talking trash about Jeff and Jordan this past week. That's not a game move, sweetie pie)
- Jordan says they were always open with Shelly and doesn't understand why she never came to her and said she wanted to try other options. (good point - Jordan gave her several openings to do that)
- Shelly talks about how arrogant Porsche and Kalia are, and how badly they talk about everyone. Says she doesn't want to be on that side, but that's the only option she has at this point. (Oh please, you're saying things just as nasty as they are).
- Shelly complainsthat Rachel has stabbed Jordan in the back many times, and Shelly only did it once. And furthermore, Rachel is just overall a bad person, and that's who Jordan has chosen to align with.
- The tears keep coming, blah blah blah. She brings up the phone call. At this point, it seems to me that the manipulation is in full swing. Shelly's trying to make Jordan feel bad. She's all on and on about how much she just loves Jordan. Guess watch Hagbitch, Jordan's just gonna be hurt all over again when she sees what you've been saying about her lately. Such as saying after the show when Jordan calls to apologize, she won't even answer the phone.
- Jordan steers the conversation to how everyone followed Dani. Shelly steers it right back to Adam, and they start discussing the big fight that happened before the live show. Shelly says Jeff and Jordan believed Adam, but Adam was in on the plan all along. (Nope, you just thought he was. You're not the only one that can lie!)
- Shelly claims that when she told Rachel about Jeff throwing the veto, it just "slipped out" (another lie, OBVI)
- We finally get an apology, as Shelly says she's truly sorry for ever hurting Jordan. She'll have her back until the end of time. (blah blah blah)
- Shelly reverts back to her old sayings about how she wants to do whatever she can to advance Jordan in the game, that she hopes she wins. She claims she is not on "their" side (Kalia/Porsche). More BS.
- I'm having a hard time believing any portion of this is sincere since all her "apologies" are interspersed with these blatant lies.
- Shelly tells Jordan about the little colored pieces that "they" are using for strategy.
- Jordan points out that she could tell that Shelly was pulling for Porsche to win HOH. Good girl, she's not buying everything Shelly's selling.
- Shelly asks Jordan, if she had come and told her what was going on, that it would have really been okay. Jordan emphatically says yes, and points out that she even told Shelly that. (She did)
- Jordan brings up Dani's speech, and claims that there was never any guarantee that Jeff and Jordan were going to make it to the end. Shelly agrees that Dani's speech was wrong, and claims that she didn't support it at all, and she never "followed" Dani. Jordan says Jeff only made the move against Dani because he checked with everyone, and everyone agreed that was the best move.
- Shelly plays the "I'm alone" card, saying she doesn't hang out with the others, and she has no desire to sit and listen to them (huh?). She says ever since all this went down, all she's wanted to do was come and talk to Jordan, but she wanted to give her space. (Um, like the space you gave her Thursday night immediately after the show, charging in and yelling at her in the purple room? Right).
- Shelly saysshe wants Jordan to win, gets all teary and choked up again saying to remember that she and Jeff are going to have a family one day, and it's so special, blah blah blah. Jordan says she doesn't care about winning this year, and Hagtoots launches into a pep talk. I've been listening to this old hag blowing smoke for 45 minutes and my skin is absolutely crawling at this point. "Win this game" she says. (She was telling Kalia and Porsche the same thing mere hours ago). Body language from Jordan shows she's also tired of hearing this nonsense, as her leg is swinging off the edge of the bed.
- Jordan says she's embarrassed at how she acted during the fight, that her family, people at church, etc, will see that. Ironic. Jordan is so worried about how she acted over the span of 10 minutes, and meanwhile Shelly's been trashing her for days and is still lying about it. Jordan says she forgives Shelly, and she does not hate her.
- Jordan confesses that one thing she said in Diary Room is that Shelly took the knife and stabbed her in the back, and she's going to take it out and stab it right back in Shelly's. Shelly says that's fine, she gets it. I'm amazed. Jordan has completely acknowledged the minor things she feels guilty for, and Shelly is just in complete denial about all the hateful things she's been saying about Jordan. Makes me want to
- They end with mutual tears and a hug.
For a portion of this time, Kalia and Rachel were also chatting it up in another room, and Kalia took the opportunity to let her know that quite a few houseguests have indicated they will never vote for Rachel to win in the end. Once they finished, Rachel overheard a lot of the talk between Shelly and Jordan. When Jordan finishes with Hagly, a gloomy Rachel starts her questioning. Were you ever really in an alliance with us, are you going to keep Shelly now, etc etc. Rachel has a mini meltdown, about how based on last summer, nobody wanted to give her a chance this summer. That everything she says always gets turned around to make her look bad. "I could tell someone your hair looks nice and they would turn that against me!" Jordan promises she would take Rachel to the final 2, and thinks that she does have a great shot at winning.
Kalia and Porsche head to the HOH room for bed (Kalia is planning to sleep up there), and talk about Shelly's duplicity and shadiness, and how they will continue to try to work all angles with Rachel and Jordan. Sleepytime finally takes over.
Sunday morning starts slowly. Kalia and Porsche sleep in, Rachel and Adam work out, ChimneyHag smokes, and Jordan gets laundry together. As my shift winds down, BB has put them on outside lockdown (probably to fix the door to the Purple Room).
Whew. And thats it, folks. Hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to add more suggestions on what to call the hag. And tune back in tomorrow as Waywyrd will summarize what we have no doubt will be a whole lotta suckin up!


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The dispute over immigration policy is being fought in an Alabama federal court Wednesday.
The state's Republican leaders say they passed the toughest immigration bill in the country to preserve jobs for Alabamians. But critics say the law goes too far, criminalizing all kinds of contact with undocumented residents and putting an extra burden on small business.
A Birmingham federal judge is hearing arguments from a host of litigants — the U.S. Justice Department, civil rights groups and even some churches. They are trying to block Alabama's immigration crackdown from going into effect on Sept. 1.
The uncertainty surrounding the new law has the state's businesses scrambling to prepare. Business owners filled a Montgomery auditorium last week to hear what could soon be required of them.
"Employers should not expect those lawsuits to block the provision that are most relevant to you, says attorney Ted Hosp, who wants businesses to be ready no matter what the court does.
That means knowing how to fill out an I-9 form, and being able to check all new hires through the federal government's e-verify system.
"Even if you hire your mother," one lawyer advised, "e-verify."
"Unfortunately, it is an HR nightmare," says Jay Reed is president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Alabama, and co-chairman of a coalition of business groups putting on the compliance workshops. He says if his members aren't up on the complicated new requirements, it could cost them thousands of dollars in fines.
"It is the most comprehensive and strict piece of immigration legislation that's been passed anywhere in the U.S. and it's right here in Alabama," Reed says.
Coming out of the session, Glen Leuenberger of Auburn, who works in the timber industry, says he's afraid the immigration law will end up driving up costs.
"I think in a down economy, this is just really bad timing because the last thing we need to do is put more burden on businesses," Leuenberger says.
But Republican state Senator Bryan Taylor says it's not an added burden --simply state enforcement of what's already on the books.
"Alabama didn't create the law making it illegal to hire undocumented workers," Taylor says. "That's federal law. Alabama just now requires a certain method of compliance."
The immigration bill was part of a Republican legislative agenda called the "Handshake with Alabama." It's aimed at protecting jobs for Alabamians.
"Maybe not at the depressed, low wages that illegal immigrants have been willing to do them," Taylor says. "And that's kind of the point. So there may be an adjustment period where we begin to have to reevaluate how much we pay for certain jobs."
Even before the law goes into effect, that wage pressure is being felt at A and P Farms in Gallant.
"It's a mess right now," says Andy Kemp. "Goes to pot when you don't have any help."
Kemp and his wife Paula farm about 15 acres, growing fresh fruits and vegetables they sell at seven farmers markets in the Birmingham area.
Now weeds are overtaking their sweet potato crop, and tomato vines are falling to the ground. In July, their two part-time farm workers, who were legal immigrants, left for higher wages at a larger tomato farm.
"It just put us out of business overnight," Kemp says. "Thursday we were farming. Friday we were out of farming. That quick."
They've since let go of five other employees. Paula Kemp says no matter what happens with the law; she doesn't see how they can get back in business.
"The workers are gone," she says. "They may come back. They may not come back. But we can't plan for 2012 in January starting to start seeds and that sort of thing with the hope that we can get farm help."
For a small farm like theirs she says, paying higher wages is not an option. And at middle age, she adds, they can't do the work alone.


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In the world of rock 'n' roll, it's common for bands to come and go. Many groups don't last long enough to mature as musicians, discover their sound and find their footing.
For the Chicago-area band Makeshift Prodigy, the simple act of survival has allowed this quintet to realize their potential and come to terms with their identity as a rock band.
Makeshift ProdigyWhen: 7 p.m. Friday, April 5
Where: Reggies, 2105 S. State St., Chicago, (312) 949-0120 or reggieslive.com
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
When we last caught up with keyboardist and singer Brandon Fox back in 2009, Makeshift Prodigy was in the beginning stages of growing pains. "You're trying to figure out who you are as a band and trying to get your feet wet," says Fox, a native of Elk Grove Village. "A lot of the growing stages involve figuring out exactly what direction you want to go."
Fox and his band mates took everything they learned from forming and maintaining a band into their first two releases, "Welcome to the World" and "Mathematica," which came out in 2008 and 2010, respectively. With their most recent effort, 2012's "Illuminate," Makeshift Prodigy stood ready and equipped to fully spread their creative wings.
"When we did 'Illuminate,' there was a lot of inside stuff that went into it," explains Fox. "We were recording in the studio for almost a year. After 70-something songs, number 71 and 72, those are the ones that started clicking. And before we knew it we had an EP."
The intricacies and production value can certainly be heard on the record's finely crafted pop/rock anthems.
"It's always a process," says Fox. "You hear a lot of bands say 'Oh you know, we're in the studio and did all this work.' But really, that's what it takes."
If there's anyone who knows about work ethic, Fox is it. Setting his sights on music from the age of 16, he juggled his love of R&B with the complexities of a football schedule at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis.
"I started recording R&B tracks when I was 16, and then I went to school and played football, which I focused on for a while," says Fox. "I ended up meeting our lead singer (Anthony Bagnera) through football at college and from there he introduced me to rock music."
They joined with South suburban natives Jacob Foy, Christian Kwitkowski and Joe Bauer to form Makeshift Prodigy.
The band has played all over the country, but performing in the Chicago area holds a special place in the band's heart. They're part of the just-announced Lollapalooza lineup, playing Aug. 4 in Chicago's Grant Park.
"Chicago's always had its uniqueness. It has a diverse, melting-pot type of feel to it. I think that's what separates it from most cities. That's what Chicago brings to us," explains Fox.
Now, following a major tour, Makeshift Prodigy will perform a homecoming gig tonight at Chicago's Reggies.
"It's awesome to play our new songs, but it feels so cool to play tracks that we did from 2009 and still get chills on the back of your neck," says Fox. "We're gonna try to make it a fun, eventful night for everybody. We always like to give our fans something to look to."
And the band has been at it for more than five years.
If you ask Fox the secret to their longevity, he would no doubt point to a foundation of camaraderie. "We all have our idols, we all have our prodigies. But for us, it's more like a friendship," explains Fox. "Before we even were a band, in a sense, we were more like best friends that just hung out and jammed."


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Brynn Grant, whose duties at the Savannah Economic Development Authority have ranged from marketing and public relations to directing the Creative Coast Alliance to playing a pivotal role in bringing a World Trade Center to Savannah, was named chief operating officer for SEDA on Tuesday.
The announcement, made by SEDA interim president and CEO Trip Tollison at the organization's monthly meeting, drew a standing ovation from staff, board and advisory council members who crowded the meeting room at the World Trade Center Savannah.
"Brynn Grant has been a tireless advocate for SEDA for many years, and we have always counted on her when the hard work needs to be done," said David Paddison, chairman of the SEDA board.
"I expect great things from SEDA in the future with Brynn as a member of the executive leadership team."
Tollison agreed.
"In her 12 years here, Brynn has been instrumental in the successes of SEDA and was the natural choice to become SEDA's Chief Operating Officer," he said.
"She not only has led SEDA's award-winning marketing efforts, she also spearheaded the establishment and growth of The Creative Coast Alliance and World Trade Center Savannah. She is genuinely interested in doing whatever is best for the advancement of this community, and we are very grateful to have her here at SEDA."
Grant, formerly vice president of competitiveness for SEDA, will continue in her role as interim vice president of World Trade Center Savannah.
A graduate of the University of Georgia, she first served as SEDA's director of marketing and public relations, producing programs and materials that have been recognized nationally and internationally. In 1998, she was a member of the SEDA team named one of the Top Ten Development Groups in North America by Conway Data/Site Selection magazine.
From 2008 until 2010, Grant served as executive director of The Creative Coast Alliance, a SEDA affiliate, and vice president of marketing at SEDA.
She has spearheaded the organization's Competitive Analysis and Target Industry Study, working to integrate Savannah's assets, efforts and organizations for the greatest possible economic success.
After working with a small team of SEDA board members to evaluate professional and proactive strategies and structures for international development, she was asked to lead the startup of the World Trade Center Savannah and was appointed by the city of Savannah to serve on the first board of the Greater Savannah International Alliance.


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More than 500 students, one the largest graduating classes ever, will receive degrees during Palm Beach Atlantic University's spring commencement at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The event is open to graduates and guests who hold tickets.
Candidates for associate, bachelor's, master's and professional degrees from both the West Palm Beach and Orlando campuses will participate in the ceremony.
A total of 52 students will graduate from the Orlando campus, more than twice the number of graduates in any previous class. The Orlando campus was established in 2001 and offers bachelor's degrees in ministry, psychology and organizational management and master's degrees in leadership and counseling psychology.
The School of Nursing on PBA's main campus will award 51 degrees, the largest class in recent history. Palm Beach Atlantic offers one of the top nursing programs in Florida and the only nationally accredited Christian nursing program in the state.
One of those nursing graduates, Gabriel Monfiston of Miami, is scheduled to receive his commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army after graduation. Also receiving a commission this spring is PBA ROTC cadet and communication major Trisha Storck of Lake Worth.
Senior Alexandria Wensinger of Melbourne, Fla., will be the first student to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in public relations from the School of Communication and Media. The school also offers majors in cinema-television, communication, journalism and theatre.
Also this spring, June Casey of West Palm Beach will become the oldest student to graduate from PBA at age 75. Casey, who serves as a mental health counselor at the Royal Palm Beach campus of Christ Fellowship Church, will receive a Master of Science degree in counseling psychology.


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Last week, I planned on helping care for this girl in the shelter, Reggie. The first time I saw her, I knew I couldn't spend more time with her because I would be hooked. The ears, the piggy little face... she was too perfect. The next time I saw her, I took her out to get pictures and spent some time playing with her. I was with a girl who does some pit bull rescue, and so we talked about what we could do for her. She was starting to get sick but we had no where to take her. We knew she would need surgery for her cherry eye, but I was willing to pay for that surgery, as well as any boarding she would need until a foster home could be found. We discussed back and forth about what we could do for her for the next few days. There wasn't a worry about her safety, they were supposed to call if she was urgent, and the shelter seemed to have plenty of space.
Unfortunately on Monday I got a message saying she was euthenized. There must have been some misunderstanding... she had too many medical issues... and being a pit bull, who was sick... she lost her space. It really broke my heart, as I had been so excited about helping her. She deserved a good home. She didn't deserve to die.
I'm sorry I didn't take you home that day, Reggie. I'm sorry your owners didn't think you deserved a chance. I'm sorry that people think you aren't worth it. I'm sorry you didn't get to spend the rest of your life happy and warm.
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One of the people accused in the February homicide of a Morgan County couple is bound for circuit court.
One of the people accused in the February homicide of a Morgan County couple is bound for circuit court. Derrell Spellmeyer, 43, of Eldon appeared in court Oct. 18 for a preliminary hearing. He is charged with two counts of first degree murder and armed criminal action in the Feb. 4 deaths of Freddie and Carol Wilson of Versailles. At the preliminary hearing, the state, represented by Morgan County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Doug Kinde presented its case that Spellmeyer committed a felony. The defense did not present evidence. Judge Kevin Schehr concluded found probable cause that a felony had occurred and the defendant may be guilty of a crime. Spellmeyer was arrested along with Garland Mitchell, 45, and Mandy Mitchell, 28, near the Wilson's home on Dorsey Lane south of Versailles on Feb. 4 shortly after a 911 call from Carol Wilson reporting that she had been shot. According to the probable cause statement issued by the Morgan County Sheriff's Department, a white van with Spellmeyer and Garland and Mandy Mitchell inside swerved and hit a patrol car as it responded to the call. The trio were taken into custody at the scene of the crash where officers also reportedly recovered a .32 caliber hand gun, a bottle of Hydrocodone belong to Carol Wilson and a .32 caliber casing. Officers also reported blood on Spellmeyer's hands and clothing. In a later interview with detectives, court documents state that Spellmeyer admitted to shooting the gun and inflicting knife wounds on Freddie Wilson, telling officers "they made me do it." Court documents also state that the Mitchells told detectives that they drove Spellmeyer to the Wilson residence to obtain drugs. Although they did not enter the home, the Mitchells recalled hearing gunshots a short time later, according to the probable cause statement. All three then fled the scene in the van before encountering officers. The court ordered a mental evaluation of Spellmeyer in May to be done at the Fulton State Hospital. The exam was filed with the court on August 29. Spellmeyer is represented by Sedalia attorney James Gray.


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Gangstarr's Guru undergoes successful surgery
A nice follow up to some bad news: Gangstarr's Guru had a massive heart attack this past weekend but underwent successful surgery and seems to be recovering well according to a report at AllHipHop. This is good news for fans of Guru, Gangstarr, and hip hop in general. We should figure out some way to celebrate. OH I KNOW HOW:


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(WEAU) - Some area students will soon have a safer way of getting to school.
Governor Scott Walker approved the 2013 Safe Routes to School grant totaling more than $3.3 million Monday. The money will go towards 17 Wisconsin communities, including Barron and La Crosse.
The program encourages kids in grades K-8 to walk or bike to school when safe and practical.
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Governor Walker approves more than $3.3 million for Safe Routes to School projects
Governor Scott Walker today announced grants totaling $3,388,573, which will assist 17 Wisconsin communities with Safe Routes to School projects in 2013. The federally-funded reimbursement program encourages children in grades K-8 to walk or bike to school, when safe and practical.
"We are proud to partner with local communities to develop safe bicycling and walking accommodations for our students," said Governor Walker. "Promoting these forms of transportation creates healthy habits at a young age."
2013 projects include multi-use trails, bike racks, traffic calming, sidewalk improvements, bike and pedestrian education, and enforcement activities. Of the 17 projects, five are for planning purposes, while 12 are for infrastructure improvements to support existing Safe Routes to School programs.
Since 2007, WisDOT has distributed approximately $13 million in federal funds for projects that make biking and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative.


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- Already juggling four kids' hectic schedules, a rambunctious dog, an attention-craving husband, and a part-time reporter job, Lucy Stone can't possibly squeeze in another responsibility. . . or can she? When Sue Finch asks for help planning her daughter Sidra's wedding to Internet millionaire Ron Davitz, loyal pal Lucy willingly dives into the world of white lace, roses, and chair rentals. What could be more perfect than a backyard summer wedding in the Stones' newly-built gazebo? Live doves and a hot air balloon, according to overbearing climber Thelma Davitz. But the groom's mother's elaborate ideas and constant complaints are the least of Lucy's troubles. With the nuptials looming along with her latest deadline, the arrangements are in utter chaos -- and so is Lucy's investigative piece on lobsters. Meanwhile, Ron is making enemies at every turn, including the bride's father, several local lobstermen, harbormaster Frank Wiggins, and the Stones' friend, Geoff Rumford -- who still happens to be carrying a torch for Sidra. When the groom's body is found floating beside his yacht, Lucy isn't convinced it was an accidental drowning. From the picturesque waterfront to Norah Hemmings' mansion on toney Smith heights Road, Tinker's Cove is awash with suspects. Now, fresh from planning Sidra's wedding, Lucy finds herself contemplating her own funeral as she launches the harrowing pursuit of a killer who will do anything to keep from being unveiled.
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So I just restarted my Tama bc my other Tama was spoiled and overweight I think. I was so excited bc I got a girl, Snat©h. I was being very attentive to her but she got sick after 1/2 hr. I fed her and played with her. Is this a bad sign?
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no, that happens to all babies its just like their baby jab


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N01 (The one that was in Transformers) or No2 (the 90s version). Not sure which I'd prefer, No1 would definitely be displayed with my Transformers :-)


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Minecraft Reality App Arrives For iOS, Brings Your Creations Into the Real World 25
An anonymous reader writes "Following the news that Minecraft has been ported to the Raspberry Pi, Mojang has announced a new augmented reality iOS app. The app uses your iOS device's camera to track your surroundings before projecting creations onto the landscape. Not only can you see the results on your screen, but you can change their size as you please, and also walk around them to view from different angles."


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He's done.
I havent been following the last week as I was traveling but what happened to Tom Gamble being one of our top choices for GM? I would have liked the pick.
He's done.
Gamble was only being hyped by the NY Tabloids due to his last name. Word is, the headline writers had already come up with thousands of puns involving his last name and potential questionable personnel moves and couldn't wait to use them.
My guess is that Polian informed Gamble of his converstion with Woody. Then Gamble either came in overconfident not realizing the detail that Jed Hughes planned for this process or due to the timing of season's end and how early Gamble came in and interviewed, was not as prepared as some of these other candidates that may have had an additional week.
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The local non-profit group SEEDS (Sustainable Energy Education & Development support) announces the hiring of its first executive director, Jocelyn Cramer.
— The local non-profit group SEEDS (Sustainable Energy Education & Development support) announces the hiring of its first executive director, Jocelyn Cramer.
Cramer comes to SEEDS from a varied background in theatre, and human resource and business management.
She was chosen from a field of highly qualified applicants for her proven administrative and fundraising abilities, her enthusiasm for the work SEEDS does, and her outgoing personality.
"We are very excited about this next phase in the life of SEEDS," said Katharine Dodge, the current chair. "We think that Jocelyn's management and people skills coupled with her understanding of the need for a more sustainable approach to energy use and conservation spell a bright future for SEEDS."
Cramer was born and raised in Dalton in Lackawanna County. Her father is a local piano teacher, and Cramer developed a lifelong love of music and the arts.
She attended The State University of New York in Binghamton, where she received a bachelor of the arts in theatre, and went on to conservatory training at Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, R.I.
She started her first theatre production company in Boston and directed or acted in every production while simultaneously leading all fundraising, marketing and publicity efforts for the fledgling company.
After several years she moved to New York City and soon started the award - winning Ground Floor Theatre Lab, serving as executive director for over seven years.
The theatre company operated out of a former public school building on Manhattan's lower east side. Cramer led all fundraising, marketing, press and production efforts. When the Ground Floor Theatre was placed on the public auction block, Cramer decided to round out her skills by pursuing a business career, accepting a management position with a human resource company in midtown Manhattan, where she was promoted to the position of VP of Operations.
She oversaw payroll, benefits and immigration compliance. She was the client manager for new accounts, wrote and produced all marketing materials, planned all business travel and recruiting events, including a two week executive recruiting trip to South Korea in the fall of 2002, where she and several of her business colleagues launched a recruitment pipeline with South Korea's equivalent of our U.S. Department of Labor.
During her years in New York, Cramer also volunteered with the International Refugee Committee and the International Center.
In 2005, Jocelyn was hired by one of the Board of Directors at Bear Stearns and Co., to provide administrative and project support to his department. When the firm was acquired by JP Morgan Chase in 2008, Cramer was offered an administrative and project support role.
Cramer chose to resign from JP Morgan Chase three years later, moving back to northeastern PA in the summer of 2011. She married Michael Rollison of Lake Ariel, whom she had met the year before. She soon became involved with SEEDS as a volunteer and was inspired to apply for the executive director position.
This is the fifth year of the SEEDS organization and it promises to be a very productive one. Do-It-Yourself Solar workshops, the continuation of our Wayne Businesses Conserve program and our free home energy assessment program, The Energy Awareness Action Movement – TEAAM, will be among our priorities.
"I am proud to serve with our passionate SEEDS Board of Directors and members," says Cramer. "I encourage residents and businesses alike to come visit our new office on the second floor of The Cooperage Building, at 1030 Main Street in downtown Honesdale."
Office Hours are: Mondays 9 a.m.–noon; Wednesdays 2–5 p.m. and evenings and Saturdays by appointment only.
Please contact Cramer at email@example.com or by calling 570-245–1256 for more information or to become a SEEDS member today.


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Tigers dominate opponents on opening night of new season.
Defending state champions have a hard time finding teams they'd be underdogs to on the opening night of a new season.
Kirksville found two - Columbia Hickman and Columbia Rock Bridge.
Challenge accepted.
The Tigers won 12 matches by fall, including three in less than a minute of mat time, in a pair of routs Tuesday night in Kirksville, 57-24 and 51-22 over Hickman and Rock Bridge, respectively.
Prior to the season, head coach Kevin Powell said he wasn't certain if his team full of new faces would look to carry the banner of defending Class 2 state champs. Tuesday night, he may have found his answer.
"We're just trying to get these guys to visualize what defending champs look like," Powell said. "I think they're wanting to take on that identity and keep it rolling."
Makenna Cook, a defending state silver medalist himself, was please with his team's solid start to the season.
"It's an amazing place to be at the beginning of the year. The last two years we've lost to Rock Bridge. These wins mean a lot to the team and a lot to me," he said.
KHS got off to a quick start in its opening dual against Hickman, with Ethan Rentschler beating Cooper Lee by fall in 2:29, Branden Beeler topping Jeremy Strawn by fall in 40 seconds, Evan Aljundi pinning Aaron Henry in 5:41 and Ryan Merenda pinning Matthew Kyle in 5:11.
Tre Stewart notched a 13-8 win over P.J. Green at 152 pounds, stretching the KHS lead to 27-6.
At 170 pounds, Kylan Easley won by fall in 1:43 over Ibraim Mushtalov. Easley stayed steady late in period as his opponent tried numerous wild maneuvers before succumbing to the pin.
"I was just trying to keep control. I didn't want to get flipped. I was just staying as calm as I could and once I saw my chance, I took it," Easley said.
Cook followed with a pin of Christian Navarro in 1:39, and Kade Proctor pinned Marshall Willingham in 1:39 to give KHS a 45-12 lead. Joe Brawner pinned Chris Zachary in 1:03 at 285 pounds and Gavin Bedford won by forfeit at 106 pounds to round out the Tiger scoring.
The nightcap dual against Rock Bridge started much different for the Tigers, as the visitors won the first four matches, including three by pin, to open a 22-0 lead. Stewart put KHS on the board at 152, grinding out an 11-8 decision over Sabien Cook., and Dorian Sneddon followed with a pin of Genaro Cabrera at 160 pounds to make it 22-9.
Easley then battled to a 3-0 win over Kyle Johnston at 170 pounds, this time using a flip of his own during a third period escape that left his opponent staring.
"He's a good wrestler," Easley said. "I think I just had more juice in my body."
Cook followed with another dominant performance, pinning Cody Maly in 2:32 after dominating from the opening whistle. He credited his aggressive approach to the KHS coaches.
"I'd like to thank my coaches. It's my coaches teaching me that," he said. "They're giving us the mentality to go, go, go, never stop, do your moves, think about it and be a good wrestler all around."
Cook's pin set off a while 54 seconds of actual wrestling, with Proctor pinning Grant Maledy (195 pounds) in 32 seconds and Logan Summers pinning Harry Stanton (220 pounds) in 21 seconds. The quick action gave KHS a 33-22 lead, which Brawner built upon with a 9-2 decision over Joe Boettcher at 285.
Riley Stewart (106), Bedford and Rentschler won matches by forfeit to make the final score 51-22.
Powell was especially pleased with the efforts from Stewart, Brawner and Merenda, while noting Cook managed a feat three-time gold medalist Travis Lang never did in his match against Maly by winning by fall.
"We're weeding out a lot of junk," Powell said of the overall performance. "We're all starting to hone in on what our go-to, high-percentage stuff is, and our philosophy of trying to beat them up with what works and then surprise them once a while. I think it's starting to click. I was impressed. We had some really good matches tonight."
Kirksville will wrestle in the Helias Kick-Off Classic Saturday in Jefferson City.