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By Ted Spoon, tedspoon.com - The year is 1985 and Nat Fleicher's fires up his time-travel machine for the first time. Inexplicably playing havoc with the chronology of boxing, two men are matched. Devised solely for the purpose of creating fantasy fights, its juxtaposing has altered the horizon on the 160lbs division. Out of the electrical jolts and dust of time manipulation arrives a 24 year old motor-mouth called James 'Lights Out' Toney
Over at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, WBC middleweight champion Thomas Hearn's drops himself into his leather seat, ridding his head of perspiration with a towel that drapes around his neck. He cuts a sharp figure within the fussy confines of the post-fight press-conference and hits every reporter that begins to rise with a stern leer..
A gratingly direct voice is heard amongst the noise:
Tommy! Do you not think this latest defence was just a poor substitute for the fact Marvin Hagler has decided to chase Michael Spinks at light-heavyweight?
(That these two men have never fought is the biggest gripe the media have with the hitman.)
Hearn's usually jiving voice retorts slowly and surely, The fact Marvin left my division says more about his fear of facing me than me of facing him.
But in doing so Marvin is at least seeking credible opposition up at 175lbs whereas this latest 3rd round KO over a ballooned Julio Cesar Chavez can hardly be deemed noteworthy. shoots back at the champion.
Hearn's sags a little and then begins, Chavez came to fight; you can't take anything away from him. If he wants to step up and challenge the best at higher weights then that's his decision. I'm not the match-maker, I just do the punching.
Hearn's trainer Manny Steward pipes up and declares, We're not concerned with going up in weight just yet. Tommy's strong here at 160lbs. We've only had a couple of defences and are looking forward to tackling many opponents during a memorable reign. We feel this is the right time and place for Tommy to make his mark. We don't need Marvin.
With Steward's speech many of the waiting questions lose their relevance and the room calms
For a moment that is.
The fight was a joke and sows tha' champ! bellows from a far seat. Sitting there is none other than James 'Lights Out' Toney, who must be close to 190lbs, boldly decked out in a green, pin-striped suit. Cigar, naturally.
Attention comes all his way as he begins to roll.
That's right baby, I'm ready to do the business. I ain't here to lay down like the long list of chumps Tommy's been fighting. Chavez looked like a damn egg with legs coming out of it. This isn't sumo
A reporter jumps in to interject, But James surely your own weight is no small problem. Hearn's has said he is not moving up in weight!
Toney locks on the reporter with a look of utter disinterest, dissolving him into silence to then re-address his amused audience.
Yeah, so I haven't been far from cheese burgers, but this ain't nuthin' but baby fat, ain't nuthin' that's gonna cause a problem. Bring me the champ and I'll whoop him. I'm rated number three by WBC so I deserve my shot. In a few weeks I'll be ready and I'll fight as often as possible, an old school router baby.
Your man here is looking for a beating says a revitalized Hearn's if he wants a fight at my weight then he don't need to ask twice!
Under any other circumstances Toney's raucous spiel would not be taken seriously, but out of protection for Tommy's fragile image and not up for losing face, Steward agrees to a fight if James can, as he says, get his weight down to 160lbs.
Don King is there to christen the bout with a fully charged assault on the English language as Hearn's sits there brooding:
There you have it ladies and gentlemen! A stupendous and tremendous showdown between two extraordinary athletes of indomitable wills. The fearsome 'Hitman' against the hustle and muscle of 'Lights out' Toney! Tune in to your television, switch on the radio, close your curtains and lock your doors, it's gonna be a majestic exhibition in warfare!
And just like that team Hearn's file out of the room with their new assignment in mind while Toney happily asks a few more questions before making his exit.
A week of rest is allowed before the 5 weeks of training is underway. The wait for Hearn's has served little purpose. He hangs about his place of living in a subdued state. A week later Tommy eagerly awaits to start his engine for the daily grind. Manny Steward comes from one end of the Kronk gym all kitted up and greets his pupil.
'Bleep' goes the timer.
Hearn's moves around the pads with a learned caution and flashes his feinting mannerisms as he sees fit. With the speed of a veteran gun slinger he stabs the curved hand cushions of Manny's to prick everyone's ears with the resounding slapping noises. The jab is streamed out to a jittery rhythm, uneven, imagining the release to crash into Toney's pug nose every time. When the distance is made and the jab is sticking in comes the 3 shot cluster-bomb combinations. Manny is forced to seize up and squint at the impact. In between the furious exerts the champion skips ever so slightly away to reassess the task with dogged focus.
It's early morning and the Hitman is looking good.
That's it, pump the jab, don't let Toney catch a breath barks Steward, keep moving and he'll go into his shell. Long punches; two's and three's.
Stay sharp, keep ring centre, don't be caught snoozing!
Hearn's finishes his work out with plenty to spare. The sweat flies but he breathes through his nose. He fills the brief moments in between the exercises with shadow boxing where he is in his own world and the honed movements of his craft are neat and explosive.
Toney is a different cat.
James' does not have that pump-action style but a smoother, unsuspecting approach. He's in his element sparring today with light-heavyweight Antonio Tarver. He grunts as he redirects the punches off his sloping shoulders. Ussh, come on baby, I got one for ya and as he calls it a right hook comes out of his shell to nail Tarver. He is at home on the ropes and trickles in little episodes of short punches as Tarver works in vain to straighten him up. Every now and then a stray shot tags James and causes him to sarcastically drop his hands or gander outside the ring.
Just before their six rounds are up, Toney's doubles his hook to the body to drop Tarver. Wooo baby, sleepy time!......
.you ok boy? Tarver gets up unscathed as Toney does his school-boy swagger to the corner to get a blast of water. He's still a good 15lbs overweight but never lets such things worry him. 15lbs, what's that? I'll shit that out.
A couple of weeks later and James enters a room choc-full of fans, reporters and cameramen for the weigh-in. As challenger Toney is the first to the scales and tips them at an unsatisfactory 169lbs leaving him two hours to shed the excess 9lbs. Ah fuck it, the scales are broke! Despite his reasoning Toney is forced off the scene towards a skipping rope, the ring and a sauna to keep this a title fight.
WBC middleweight champion Thomas Hearn's looks all business as he comes into the room clothed head-to-toe in the Kronk gold. Manny Steward keenly examines him as he steps on the scales. Extending his long, slender arms into the air his chiseled body hits 160lbs dead.
An hour later Toney returns to hit 164lbs. Man, you jokin' now. He once again leaves the scene abruptly to spar a few more rounds. Back with ten minutes to spare he weighs in at 156lbs. Somehow he managed to lose 13lbs causing his seconds faces to turn wide-eyed in concern. That's right baby, under, I'm under!
Don King has the pair to face-off and then holds their hands up as pictures are feverishly taken. Will it be light's out for the hitman or will the champion shut the mouth of the challenger?! Hearn's vs. Toney tomorrow night!
The next stop is the ring where Hearn's is trying his best to burn a hole though Toney with his icy stare. Hearn's remains quite still, exemplifying seriousness in all its arresting nature. Toney creaks back his head, creating the bulldog like-creases on his neck to meet Hearn's burning eyes with an image of pure arrogance.
You ready for this paper champ?! shoots Toney after the instructions. Hearn's immediately squares right up to Toney as if he expected the snide remark. Manny Steward gets right in the middle of it as Toney bounces back to his corner while Hearn's lets his posture linger for a few seconds much to the crowd's pleasure.
Don't let him hustle you, you're better than that. Remember what we went through in the gym. This is no different from another one of those sessions, now stay alert and get that jab going. instructs Manny as he inserts the mouthpiece.
Toney has some vaseline applied to his heavy brow and the bell dings.
The champion does a quick march with his long legs and begins to bounce when he hits ring centre. Toney casually makes his way there for Hearn's to start flicking his 78 reach near his face. The spearing left of the hit-man forces Toney to go through some interesting lateral movements who throws a few body punches to try and keep him off balance.
Toney misses some telegraphed head shots in an opening round which Hearn's sweeps up with some, if nothing else, disruptive jabbing. Just like we planned, he cannot take your movement. If he starts to get fresh with big shots drop the right hand. says Manny in the corner.
Toney is as unphased as ever and welcomes the cold sponge over his bald head. Vasaline is again applied over his face and he struts from his corner to begin the second round. Hearn's comes out, all fiery, throwing the left regular. The cross-armed defence of Toney looks less fool-proof than usual as Hearn's shotgun movements keep him confined to that shell. When Toney sees it fit to retaliate his swings are easily spotted by Tommy. James decides to rush into the open guard of Hearn's and barge him into the ropes. Hearn's clinching forces referee Richard Steele to separate the pair.
Toney is again out of sorts and Hearn's takes the second with his outside game.
He cannot handle you speed or your movement. Step up the pace this round. Hearn's takes the advice and clamps down on the mouthpiece with a severe look on his face.
Toney teeters on the edge of his stool, looking up at the lights. He looks somewhat flustered as the vaseline is applied. When the bell goes for round three he stretches himself out.
Hearn's starts to mix in the right to the body. Toney is no better equipped to deal with this one and is backed up to the ropes where the champion gets lively. Hearn's throws his punches generously at Toney's head but he reads the blows well and causes a stream of misses. Hearn's comes back at the challenger with a swooping one-two but is again made to miss. Right here boy! exclaims Toney and Hearn's backs off. The round is Hearn's but Toney pulled some moves.
It's our round again but don't follow him to the ropes, keep this fight out of reach in the centre. Hearn's is warned before the start of the fourth. The next two rounds sees Hearn's repeat the first and second stanzas with a safe, long-range mastery over Toney. The size of the obstacle begins to dawn on the challenger.
The sixth round starts fast and furious; Toney throwing himself at Hearn's with homerun hooks. One of them cuffs the top of his head to which the champion retorts with cracking body punches before chasing him back to the ropes with both hands. Toney's mind is working very quickly, looking for the counter when Manny shouts back at Tommy don't follow him to the ropes, stick the jab! Hearn's hears him and gets back to boxing to ride out a round Toney deserves a share of.
A big gulp of air is taken in by Hearn's before the start of the seventh. He is way ahead but it is not getting any easier as Toney roars back into his space. The challenger wages a scrappy attack on Hearn's body. A punch goes low and Tommy hits the deck. Get up you bitch, come on boy! is directed at Hearn's as Steele gives Toney a good telling off. Hearn's uses 3 of the 5 recovery minutes and the crowd boos.
Back into action and Hearn's asserts himself brilliantly with the same fast and sharp kryptonite that has Toney chasing his tail. Tommy takes the round again but is a bit worse for wear.
Don't let this son of a bitch hustle you! Keep your distance and if he hits you low you hit that mutha fucker low! Steward begins to get a bit ticked off with Hearn's. Now back to boxing, just like we did before.
Toney's left eye bares a little swelling, but it's no problem. The Vaseline is slapped on again and he starts the eighth round with a bit more optimism. He meets Hearn's in the centre and times his body punches under a few lunges by the champion. Hearn's lifts the head of Toney with a jab then smashes his cheek bone with a right hand. It's a good shot, but Toney sells it to Hearn's, staggering over to the ropes. Steward is convinced as well and tells Hearn's to go for it!
The hit-mans combinations flow and have Toney on the defensive but, intoxicated in his quest for a knockout, Toney spots Hearn's right falling after a punch and leaps off the ropes with a huge left hook. The punch is not the cleanest but rattles the champions jaw and has the same effect on his body a split second later which crumbles to the floor.
Stay down for nine! yells Steward. Hearn's does so but is battered around the ring to fall again with 30 seconds to go in the round. He rises to clinch, clinch and clinch again. Steele deducts 1 point and Hearn's stumbles back to his corner.
The fight may have been considered as good as done but with a learned exhibition in survival, Tommy hides behind his jab for the next three to keep his head above water whilst dropping the rounds as Toney hunts him constantly.
How you doing? asks Manny. Hearn's nods his head with a slightly worried look. When he gets wild grab a hold of his arms and don't let go. We're still ahead, don't get stupid.
The last round comes up and they touch gloves. Mine now bitch utters Toney. I got one for ya" replies Hearn's. Toney goes all in, kamikaze in every effort. The smart money looks to belong to a late round stoppage for James, yet amazingly, Hearn's fights back just as hard. His snaking left hand and cluster-bomb combinations bounce off Toney's head as they had Manny's pads. The power of the punches startles James who is again beaten into a shell as the crowd applauds graciously.
A couple of high shots criss-cross Hearn's legs. It looks desperate but again he lunges back into the danger zone, committing to every big punch. Through a climatic cheer he makes it through the late rallies of Toney and puts his signature on the round.
Both finish on their feet.
Toney tuts to himself; scrunching his moody face up that little bit more as the ring fills up with nobodies to leech off the atmosphere. Hearn's is tired but wears a big smile as he punches the air a few times. The cards are read out and Hearn's retains his title by way of three rounds on two cards and two on the other. The sudden loss of weight on Toney's behalf is discussed following the result but gets phased out for the event was too grand to bare such a scar.
Don King powers his way through the bodies, pocket sized flags in hand, and heads towards both men. Commandeering the scope of a camera screen he blurs out, Ha Ha! Two fine specimens put on a spectacular for the ages. So nice they'll have to do it twice! Yes! A rematch for the history books to find out who is the true cham-pi-ooown!
King's words conclude the festivities and both teams leave the arena to meet their respective destinies.
Nat Fleischer is wired the news of the big bout as he tinkers with a few features on his prized device. Unleashed back from the 18th century, Jack Broughton questions the ethics of these time-altering activities. Fleischer permits the London Prize Rules to exist within the law and all is forgotten. A potential new clash bubbles inside his scholar mind
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Sunday, 24 April 2011
Bolsover Castle
Andy has relatives who live just around the corner from Bolsover Castle, so we've now been there a couple of times. It's a beautiful place to wander around on a spring afternoon. On this occasion the castle's own car park was full, so we only had a short-stay space at the side of the road outside, which meant we had to do a whistle-stop tour.
As well as some of the spectacular ruins that I mentioned previously, there's also a well-preserved section with some impressive surviving interiors. Can you imagine having rooms of sufficient stature to get away with this kind of gilded wood panelling?
9 comments:
- Welshcakes Limoncello said...
I've never been there but it does look beautiful. The doors are fantastic!
- 24 April 2011 21:06
- Emma said...
I only live about 30 minutes away and have never been....think that I shall have to make the effort now!! x
- 24 April 2011 21:09
- Galit Breen said...
Beautiful! And I love that it's just around the corner for you!
- 24 April 2011 21:29
- Kathryn Magendie said...
Wow! I love these shots - ohhh, a castle ....!
- 24 April 2011 23:07
- Elisabeth said...
I can't imagine living in such a castle. Stunning Rachel. How their lives must have been, cold and drafty I expect but ever so beautiful.
- 25 April 2011 04:26
- ladyfi said...
Wow - what stunning shots of this lovely castle.
- 25 April 2011 06:19
- Scientific Housewife said...
Wow, how beautiful!
- 25 April 2011 14:31
- Rachel said...
The wooden panelling is astonishing, isn't it.
Wood would be warmer than stone, I guess...
- 25 April 2011 14:36
- becky said...
- 25 April 2011 22:09
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Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.: "The Kids for Cash scandal was a wakeup call for our justice system. We simply cannot accept a system that puts non-violent youth offenders on a on a path to a lifetime of incarceration. This legislation will take appropriate steps to reform the juvenile system, make it smarter, more just and fairer" Find out why Kids For Cash the movie has become a movement for change. Watch. Learn. Take Action.http://ow.ly/BQ3lH
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Every year in the United States, an estimated 250,000 children under the age of 18 are tried, sentenced or imprisoned as adults. And of these, around 100,000 actually end up in adult jails and prisons, with many spending time in solitary confinement. This is despite the fact that the US Supreme Court has agreed that children are less deserving of blame than adults and usually deserve a chance at redemption. While the United Nations says that children who commit crimes should be placed in a closed facility as a measure of last resort. We take a closer look.
Center for Investigative Reporting's article on solitary confinement: http://cironline.org/reports/teens-ri...
Private Prisons: How US corporations make money from locking you up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQxtR...
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Monday, 25 August 2014
The True Cost Of Juvenile Justice: Life On GPS
In this video commentary, 16-year-old Manuel Velazquez shares the experience of a day in court, waiting to find out if he will get his GPS monitor taken off. This video is a part of Youth Radio's special coverage, Double Charged: The True Cost of Juvenile Justice, a year-long investigation into the U.S juvenile justice system and its impact on low-income youth and their families.
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Produced by: Denise Tejada, Chaz Hubbard
Filmed by: Chaz Hubbard, Michael Prizmich
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SB 260: Don't deny yourself a chance at life
by Kevin Curley
There may be hope after all. Back in 1995, I was a juvenile, tried as an adult, tried and convicted of first degree murder. Everything in my case attracted corruption from the LAPD – not allowing my mother to be present in the interrogating room to me being railroaded and unjustly convicted to 35 years to life from the case I caught in October 1995.
The public pretender, who rode a 10-speed in a suit carrying a suitcase to each and every court hearing, did not properly put up a fight to the courts, juvenile or adult. He should have argued the issues of whether I was thinking on an adult level or a juvenile level when the crime occurred and whether a crime occurred at all.
The public pretender never challenged my maturity level – I was 17 years old when arrested – to show if I should have been fit for my case to be bound over to adult court. It's obvious I lost, and now here I sit 18½ years later, still serving the 35-life sentence, 25 for murder and 10 for an enhancement.
You can say I kind of lost hope at another chance at freedom. But new hope was found after catching many RVR115s (rules violation reports) and sitting on over 400 points . (Points are "based on the prisoner's background, sentence length and any prior misbehavior in jail or prison," according to Prison Law Office, and determine his security level assignment – Level IV, the highest level, for 60 points or more. – ed.)
On June 9, 2014, at 6:00 p.m., I was sitting in the cell in Ad-Seg putting finishing touches on a book I wrote, going over a letter from this husband and wife explaining to me they will not be able to assist me on putting my urban book together to start it up so I can self-publish. But I did not let that knock the wind out of me. Everybody has a dream.
Let's just say my dream somewhat became real when I received a letter from a Human Rights Watch attorney explaining to me Senate Bill 260, which became part of the Penal Code effective Jan. 1, 2014. It's called California Youth Offenders Parole, Penal Code Sections 3041, 3046, 3051 and 4801.
The new youth offender parole process in this new law applies to people who were under the age of 18 at the time they committed their crime, were tried as adults and sentenced to life or a determinate sentence. Reading this new law, I found it clearly explains that starting from Jan. 1, 2014, the parole board was given 18 months, until July 1, 2015, to catch up on the backlog of hearings (PC 3051(I)).
I received a letter from a Human Rights Watch attorney explaining to me Senate Bill 260, which became part of the Penal Code effective Jan. 1, 2014. It's called California Youth Offenders Parole.
I share this news with all people, especially those adults once found unfit for juvenile court who were tried as adults, being I was tried as an adult and fell into the trap of prison and so-called keeping it "gangsta." When anyone is placed in a corrupt world to have to survive and protect yourself, you will easily be lured into fitting into a lifestyle that has no meaning. In prison, being dedicated to the streets and the homies only attracts negative attention.
No one really held my hand walking me through this prison b.s. It was something easily adapted to, attracted by the violence, but I learned that trying to fit in with the "Joneses" only digs yourself a deeper hole. But who is to blame?
I never wanted to become anyone's fool or victim. When all odds are against you, being caged and oppressed by the boys in green and in blue, you create an identity. There's no education, vocational programs or anything to pull people together on Level 4. We stay 180 yards away from paying attention to each other.
You can't make one mistake, following the nonsense of most of these cats in here. Not being able to create a life other than claiming a street owned by the state, they will continue to be owned by the government.
When you are foolish and ignorant you will follow anything, and if and when you find yourself in this dump called prison, for the 90 percent good you do, the 10 percent bad will outweigh it all. No rules are being followed in here on both sides. All you really witness is men trying to impress each other.
They know what's on "Big Brother" and who was sent home on "Survivor," but they can't tell you what's going on in the reality show of life. It sickens me to follow behind a cancer, because it grew on me. Growing up without a father is a sad thing to have experienced, because the older homies of the ghettos were also misguided, being that they also came from broken homes.
I dug deep and really tried to find myself. A light switched on in my head when I received a letter from my mother while in the L.A. County Jail. A cat put his hands on her and she defended herself. The dude ended up in a coma, and after a year of being in the coma the victim's family pulled the plug on him.
My moms was tried for the murder, lost the trial and was sentenced to 15 years to life. I was housed in High Desert State Prison at the time, really letting the time do me, and boy was it beating my butt in a five month Ad-Seg stay, being validated as being part of a disruptive group known as the Crips.
I racked up too many points and rode hard on the infested slime balls in green. I caught over 16 RVR115s by biting on their cowardly acts of being tough toward me while I'm behind cell doors and cuffed, sitting with the emotions of my mother going through concrete beat-downs.
I began questioning myself. I was never able to cry or complain. Emotions weren't my friend, and the reality check of thinking about not having anything good my moms and family could say about me, or some sort of life achievement they could be proud of, whupped my butt.
So I sat with my thoughts and wrote. I apologized to my mama and sister for not listening and came to understand the real talk from both as well as the discipline. To the homies I was just a memory. But to family I was kidnapped and jacked of my innocence.
There was never any meeting on the turf explaining that death and prison can become an end result from being in love with the streets. But I cheated on them.
As I sleep with prison, I think hard now on whether I can have a future out of the concrete temptations. This SB 260 law states I will need to get an education, take classes or participate in groups, develop some sort of personal growth, ground myself, show maturity on an adult level, stay connected to positive family and friends on the outside, stay away from trouble, RVR115s, 128s, push negativity to the side and create a sincere me.
The law and SB 260, California youth offender parole, gives hope to us prisoners who were juveniles tried as adults.
People can get the SB 260 law at www.fairsentencingforyouth.org to learn more, and prisoners can get the case law and guide from any prison law library and from Prison Law Office. An associate, Haki, gave me a book called "From Miseducation to Education." In it I read, "If you want to hide something from a Black person, put it in a book."
When I read that, after Haki asked me who I was and I couldn't answer his question, I put knowledge and education before everything to be able to identify with the real me and to break away from the slang use of the "N" word with every sentence and the "you know what I mean" and "you know what I'm saying" after every sentence. How could anyone know what I am saying if I don't understand me?
The law and SB 260, California youth offender parole, gives hope to us prisoners who were juveniles tried as adults. I request that all of you wanting to go home get the prisoner's guide, read it – heck, study it – allowing a fire to be lit under your butt to get into life making good changes. The homies will be there and others will come.
If keeping it "gangsta" put you in prison and others under the dirt, I request you grab another chance at life and hope and pray the board don't keep their foot on your neck. Don't deny yourselves a chance at life.
Send our brother some love and light: Kevin Curley, K-46348, SVSP, D2-112L, P.O. Box 1050, Soledad, CA 93960. A guide to SB 260 for prisoners and their loved ones and the law itself are available athttp://fairsentencingforyouth.org/legislation/senate-bill-260-justice-for-juveniles-sentenced-to-adult-prison-terms/.
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Thursday, 26 June 2014
Capping a year of reporting about teens held in solitary confinement, The Center for Investigative Reporting is releasing our documentary "Alone," which can now be seen on our YouTube channel, The I Files.
This follows stories we've done in print, for broadcast on the PBS NewsHour, as part of CIR's new "Reveal" radio show, and in an animation ("The Box") and graphic novel.
With the publication or broadcast of each version of our reporting, we have seen the issue of teenage solitary confinement become part of a growing national debate.
In May, after more than a year of lobbying by youth advocates, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called on states to end the excessive use of solitary confinement on juvenile inmates.
CIR began investigating the solitary confinement of teenagers in prisons, jails and juvenile halls across the U.S. in March 2013. Juvenile justice experts had been pressing the Department of Justice to flex its muscle on behalf of young inmates, to no avail. Holder's shop declined all interview requests by CIR.
Our reporting quickly zeroed in on Rikers Island, the massive jail complex in New York City, where last year about a quarter of juvenile inmates were held in isolation for 23 hours a day. We spent almost a year requesting to see Rikers' teen solitary units, but the city's Department of Correction denied them, as did officials at Cook County jail in Chicago and five county jails in Florida. We figured out quickly that juvenile solitary was an often secretive practice, largely unregulated and rampant in most states.
Our investigation early on pointed to thousands of American teenagers held in solitary every day. We wanted to show what that looked like and how it affected kids. We talked to criminal justice experts in California who said virtually every juvenile hall in the state used some form of prolonged isolation.
That's when we remembered Santa Cruz County Juvenile Hall. Covering juvenile justice over the years, Trey Bundy had heard again and again that officials in Santa Cruz had created a model that had reduced the use of isolation so much that corrections officials around the country routinely traveled to California's Central Coast to see how they did it.
Santa Cruz Chief Probation Officer Fernando Giraldo, and Sara Ryan, the hall's superintendent, allowed us to film inside their facility for five days, unescorted, and talk to anyone we wanted. Our resulting documentary, "Alone," toggles between New York City and Santa Cruz, where young people tell their own stories of isolation and how the justice system can do better.
Now that Holder has said he wants to end excessive solitary for youth, we'll keep watching for changes. In the meantime, watch "Alone" and see for yourself what it's like for kids in isolation and how one facility is trying to keep them out.
"Alone" was produced Daffodil Altan. It was reported by Altan and Trey Bundy, edited by David Ritsher and Andrew Gersh, and filmed by Marco Villalobos. The senior producer was Stephen Talbot. The executive producer was Susanne Reber.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Description A number of ongoing initiatives of the OECS Juvenile Justice Reform Project are bearing fruit. The project seeks to strengthen the existing Juvenile Justice Systems of the Six (6) independent member States through the application of several reform measures.
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LaShunda Hill on Growing Leaders in Juvenile Justice Reform
This month, we spoke with LaShunda Hill, state strategist at the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (an NJJN Partner). She is a fellow in NJJN's Youth Justice Leadership Institute (http://bit.ly/uMuJ9q), a year-long program that aims to create a more effective foundation for the juvenile justice reform movement by developing a strong base of well-trained and well-prepared advocates and organizers who reflect the communities most affected by juvenile justice system practices and policies.
(NOTE: the Connecticut legislation Ms. Hill speaks about at 1:30did not, unfortunately, pass in 2014.)
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I was raised in suburban Boston, attending some liberal Protestant churches, but living in a world in which homosexuality was a fairly normal way of being a person—even if it didn't feel that way in middle school—guns were not something people besides cops should have, evolution was the way we had come to be, religion was a private affair that ought not be shoved into other people's faces, and government ought to take an active role in keeping things running smoothly and fairly. There were plenty of conservatives around, but they were more interested in keeping taxes low than in making sure every kid read the Bible in school. I suppose I knew that lots of people had very different notions, but it wasn't until I taught school that I actually had to figure out a modus vivendi with any of them. It wasn't my student, but when I first started teaching English and history a parent complained about one of the books we assigned in our freshman English classes. The book had never seemed very objectionable to me. Like a lot of the books for high-school English classes, it was a coming-of-age story. The story of a boy wrestling with his Catholic faith. He is torn between his ardent church faith and the competing faith of his grandmother. She relies on a more indigenous faith, a mixture of Christianity, Native American religions, and animism. As the boy bungles his way through adolescence, he finds too much in Catholicism that doesn't make sense, and a lot more in his grandmother's earth religion that does. Seemed pretty innocuous to me. What teenager—at least what sensitive, intelligent teenager of the sort we wanted our students to be—didn't have to wrestle with those questions of faith and doubt?
One of my colleagues spent most of an academic year going back and forth with one parent who found the book outrageous. She was Catholic, her son was Catholic, and she thought that the book was nothing more than an attack on her faith. Nothing could be more despicable, in her opinion, than a school in which students were taught to question their beliefs. A school in which students were expected and encouraged to investigate and possibly abandon the verities of their religion.
As I remember, the parent made these points in a particularly unpleasant way. She was personally hostile to my colleague, suspicious and accusatory toward our principal, too. Her attitude was one of a self-righteous pioneer in an ugly and evil land.
Nevertheless, the adults worked it out. The student didn't read the book. But there were a lot of bad feelings all around. The whole encounter made me examine my own assumptions. First of all, it made me realize that I had been operating with an implicit "progressivist" world view. That is, I believed without thinking about it that our society was moving in a more and more secular direction, and that our society was getting more and more equitable and just. Not that it was perfect, but that we were moving away from an ugly past of witch hunts and white supremacy. I noticed that I was surprised that there were "still" parents like this one, who expected to raise her kid free from confronting fundamental questions about his faith.
I also had to admit that she had a point. I had taught the same novel in my classes, and it really did encourage students to see traditional Catholic faith as a kind of racket, a bill of goods that intelligent people shouldn't fall for. I had to admit that if I had shared that version of the Catholic faith, I would certainly not want my kids reading that book. Plus, I noticed for the first time my own implicit mission as a teacher. I had assumed without thinking much about it that my goal was to help my adolescent students wrestle with such questions in a productive way; a way that helped them to understand the moral ambiguity of the world. Again, I realized that a parent who didn't want that kind of education for her kids would be correct in thinking that her son's teachers was trying to accomplish some sort of brainwashing.
Looking back, I assume that one of the reasons why this parent was so hostile and personally aggressive may have been because she had been reading and listening to folks telling her horror stories about the aggressively, insidiously secularizing schemes of "progressive" teachers like me and my colleagues. And we certainly must have seemed at best condescending when we spoke to her. I remember our faculty chats about the incident, and I believe people used such terms as "nutjob" and "wacko."
Now, looking back, I don't think it's unreasonable for a parent to be involved in the kinds of literature her kids will be reading. At the same time, I don't think it's unreasonable for me to try to expose high-school students to ideas that will challenge their comfortable preconceptions. Even in this particular case, we managed to work it out. But only with angry feelings and hostility all around.


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Your 15-point tax-return checklist
Face it: The tax fairies aren't going to file your return for you. Here's a step-by-step guide to finding and filing those forms you've been avoiding.
It's time to start thinking about getting those taxes done. Maybe you're in a panic. Not to worry. Just follow Schnepper's 15 steps to getting your taxes done, and you'll be much happier. Ready? Here they are:
1. Get serious. Unless you're focused, you're going to see that receipt six times rather than the once you need. This is all mental now. Schedule a time to get to work and commit to that time. Then . . .
2. Get started. Remember that commitment to get to work? Keep it! This step requires action. Get your pencil and take the blank forms out of the envelope where you've been hiding them, praying that the tax fairies would make them go away. My father reminds me of the old Brooklyn proverb, "A trip of a thousand miles begins with a traffic jam." Get in that "jam," and your tax return will begin to jell. Now . . .
3. Get organized. Something has to go on those returns. Get your W-2s together to report wages, your 1099s to report interest and dividends, your 1099Bs for reporting stock and bond sales, and your 1098s for deducting your interest and taxes. The Internal Revenue Service and your accountant both want final numbers. It makes it easier for them and less painful financially for you. Bring either one a shopping bag full of receipts and you're going to feel the pain . . . especially in your wallet.
4. Get informed. Have you been following all the changes the U.S. tax code has seen in the past decade? In April 2011, IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman reported that there had been about 3,500 tax changes since 2000, including multiple tax measures passed last year and this year. The Bush cuts and many of the "extenders" were scheduled to expire this year. But Congress again extended many of the expiring provisions and continued most of the Bush cuts for those with taxable incomes of not more than $400,000 ($450,000 for a joint return).
For example, have you looked at the new American Opportunity Tax Credit, which can give you as much as $2,500 in tax savings? If not, get educated! Congress has renewed this one through 2017.
Jeff Schnepper
If you're "tax simple," the IRS can actually do the return for you, or you can have your return done online -- sometimes even for free. Alternatively, if you're tax-savvy, do your own return after learning the new rules. A good place to start: the IRS' absolutely free Publication 17. It's hundreds of pages of everything you need to know about your 2012 tax return and your planning for 2013. If that's too much, go to a professional.
5. Get help. You might remove a splinter from your own finger, but you wouldn't perform heart surgery on yourself. A trip to a tax professional should at least tell you what you're missing. Don't hesitate to ask for help; it's deductible. But call for an appointment now! The later your accountant does your return, the more tired that tax preparer will be. You want your return done when she's at her best.
6. Get status. Decide how you're going to file. The lowest rates are with joint returns, but if there are potential high medical or miscellaneous deductions, married filing separate may yield a lower total tax. Do it both ways. Alternatively, a single mother may qualify for the head-of-household rates, which are better than the rates for filing as a single. Sometimes, when a joint return isn't practical, even a married person with a dependent child can qualify for head-of-household rates, which are much better than married filing separate. You need to know the rules.
7. Get adjusted. There are certain deductions that are allowed regardless of whether you itemize. Such deductions include IRA and qualified pension contributions, student loan interest, moving expenses, alimony, medical savings account deductions and, for the self-employed, the health insurance deduction and deduction for half the self-employment taxes paid. These are known as "above the line" deductions. The infamous "line" is your adjusted gross income -- line 37 on Form 1040.
8. Get itemized. Which is bigger -- your standard deduction or the sum of your itemized deductions? We're now "below the line." The instructions for Form 1040 for 2012 list your standard deduction. Compare this amount to your total allowable itemized deductions. That's the sum of your allowed medical expenses, taxes, interest, charitable contributions, casualty and theft losses, and miscellaneous itemized expenses. Always do it both ways -- and, subject to the alternative minimum tax (and don't even try to get into that), always take the higher amount.
9. Get exemptions. For 2012, you get to take off as much as $3,800 from your income for each qualified exemption you have. Despite myths to the contrary, these include children who are full-time students under age 24, regardless of how much income they may have. For 2012, increases in income will no longer decrease your exemption deduction. The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 restores both the phaseouts for personal exemptions and itemized deductions (Pease limitations) for those with incomes of $250,000 or more ($300,000 for joint returns).
10. Get credit. A tax credit is the best expense to have. It's a dollar-for-dollar reduction in your taxes. A deduction reduces your tax by your marginal rate. For example, at a 25% rate, a $100 deduction reduces your tax by $25. A credit would reduce your tax by the full $100. Review the potential credits you may be eligible to claim. If you have children, you may qualify for the child tax credit or the child and dependent care credits. Did you adopt? There's an adoption credit. With or without children, you may qualify for education credits and a credit for foreign taxes paid (check your 1099Bs). Don't forget the credit you get for estimated taxes paid, withholding and, if you worked for two or more employers, excess Social Security withheld. Remember the credits for energy improvements and education.
11. Get cash. Decide how you're going to file. That's going to affect how quickly you're going to get that refund. If you e-file, and make the IRS happy, you're going to get your money back faster. Alternatively, if you file on paper, direct depositing your refund eliminates mail delay and speeds your access to cash. It also eliminates checks lost in the mail. The only reason I can see for not choosing direct deposit with a paper filing is if you just don't have a bank account.
12. Get filed. None of this matters if you don't actually get your return to the IRS. If you owe money, interest and penalties accrue for not filing, in addition to interest and penalties for not paying. You've done the hard work, now get it off your desk! Or file for an extension with Form 4868.
13. Get receipts. If you filed on paper, get a receipt. I always mail my IRS correspondence certified, return receipt requested. If the IRS doesn't get your return, it wasn't filed. It may have been lost in the mail or lost by the IRS itself. But unless you can prove that it was filed, if the IRS doesn't have it, legally it wasn't filed. Prudence today can avoid disaster tomorrow.
14. Get planning. It's not too early to start your planning for the 2013 tax year. You can check out tax brackets, standard deductions and exemptions for 2013. Once tax season is over, your financial adviser is going to have the time to review your wealth accumulation strategies. Don't put it off. People don't plan to fail; they merely fail to plan.
And finally . . .
15. Get real. It's only your taxes -- not life or death! Do your best, but don't obsess. Even the IRS understands that only those with tombstones over their heads never make mistakes. Remember, it's the new, friendly IRS. But it will charge interest and penalties.
Jeff Schnepper is the author of the best-selling book "How to Pay Zero Taxes," which is in its 30th edition. He is a former professor of taxation, accounting and finance. Schnepper now has a full-time tax planning and legal practice in Cherry Hill, N.J. Click here to find Schnepper's most recent articles.
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"Whoa, yeah –
Kickstart my heart, hope it never stops –
Whoa, yeah, baby … "
- Motley Crue, "Kickstart My Heart" (video after post)
The question took me by surprise a few weeks ago during a bike ride with my 13-year-old son:
Dad, who is Motley Crue?
Although he caught me somewhat off-guard, I had a pretty good idea where the question came from. One of the best decisions I ever made was to keep my stash of favorite cartoon treasuries from my childhood; once my own kids discovered them, they became transfixed by wild imagination of Calvin and Hobbes*, the absurd lunacy of The Far Side, or the pure emotion of Peanuts.
(*This is the unanimous favorite, and it's no exaggeration to say that Calvin and Hobbes actually inspired each of my children to learn how to read. The wonderful drawings and the zany antics were absolutely mesmerizing, and my kids wanted nothing more than to figure out the words so they could follow along. Each child read the books multiple times over, and I'd even say the collection has helped shape their own personalities and sense of humor. And they say nothing important comes from the funny pages.)
Since I was also aware that my son had been making his way through my Bloom County archive in recent months, it only took me a few seconds to connect the dots to recall the source of his inquiry:
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Knowing the reason for the question didn't make the answer any easier, though. I mean … how much do you really want to tell your kid about Motley Crue? Yes, I was a huge fan of theirs – but I was also a complete idiot back then. And as far as the band goes, there are a lot of things better left unsaid. So I decided to keep it simple:
They were a metal band that was super popular in the 1980s. They were pretty hardcore and did all kinds of wild, inappropriate stuff both on and off stage. Oh, they also wore makeup, skin-tight leather, and a ton of hair spray …
… they made some pretty killer music, though.
And for all I knew, that was the end of it. The bike ride ended, we climbed in the car and returned home, and I didn't hear any mention of Motley Crue again.
Until Super Bowl Sunday, that is.
During the fourth quarter of the game, Kia's A Dream Car for Real Life commercial came on, and about 20 seconds later I heard my son exclaim, "Hey Dad – it's Motley Crue!" And sure enough, it was.
|Screngrab from Kia commercial
Even though the band is something of a relic now, I stand by my earlier assertion: they made some pretty killer music. And when he heard the riffs to "Kickstart My Heart", my son immediately agreed – and later that evening I found myself downloading some Motley Crue songs for his iPod.
As typically happens, though, I got carried away with things, and before I knew it, a few songs tuned into an entire 80s rock playlist. In my humble opinion, it's a thing of hair metal beauty*, so of course I had to put the list on my own iPod as well – which explains why I spent most of last week punching the steering wheel to Back in Black, Livin' After Midnight, and We're Not Gonna Take It, (pretty classic 80s video on that last link) among other gems.
(*If there's interest, I'll publish the list here; I'm not above some self-inflicted ridicule every now and then.)
Yes, this kind of behavior is nostalgic and juvenile, with no tangible benefit to suggest any redeeming quality at first glance. And yet, there's this …
Last Thursday morning I woke up at 1AM and couldn't for the life of me fall back asleep. I got out of bed and did some work, then returned to lie under the covers for another 30 minutes or so. Finally, with the full moon shining through my window, and with a Motley Crue song bouncing around my head, I climbed out of bed, threw on some clothes and a hydration pack, and headed out into the moonlight. By the time I returned home at 6:30, I had covered 23 miles of road and trail, giving me the first 20-miler of the season on my way to my first 70-mile week in several months.
I don't know if it was the full moon, or the mojo of Motley Crue, or simply one more idiotic thing in a long list of them I do on a regular basis - but whatever the cause, my training had definitely been kickstarted. All of a sudden, I feel like I'm in training mode again.
And hey – it's Valentine's Day! Kickstart someone's heart tonight.
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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma works best as a retail politician, a phrase that does not exist in South Africa but probably should. He has immense charm but narrow ability. His governing style veers uneasily between overreach and lack of ambition. And he is now less popular than ever — according to a poll released in July, a majority of the country's youth have no faith in his leadership and consider him incompetent. They see his policy proposals as lacking in substance and question his contribution to the country over the past three years.
Like much of the public sector, Zuma is widely perceived as being inefficient, unfocused, and compromised. To survive politically, he has aligned himself with the South African Communist Party (SACP), which is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Yet South Africa's significant leftist and labor factions are angry with an ANC government that "talks left and walks right": promising socialist policies while acceding to big business and fiscal conservatism.The government will have to make some concessions to the Communists. To ignore them would be to make the same mistake Mbeki made; the SACP helped oust him in 2007.
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MJ's Mom Gets Temporary Custody of Kids
A judge has granted Michael Jackson's mother Katherine's request for temporary guardianship of his three children.
According to TMZ, the court documents filed say the kids -- 12-year-old Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., 11-year-old daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, and 7-year-old Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson II -- have "no relationship with their biological mother," Debbie Rowe, but do have "a long established relationship" with their grandmother.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled this morning, and a hearing as to whether she can be the children's permanent guardian is set for August 3.
TMZ also reports that in the documents where the name of Blanket's mother is to be indicated, it is written "none." It is widely reported that Jackson's third child was born via surrogate.
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Yeah.. let Joe Jackson help raise the kids.. that is a smart move.
Maybe he can beat them like he did to Michael.
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PIA 747's Engine Catches Fire in Karachi Just Before Takeoff
Tense Moments on Board as Smoke from Fire Made its Way into Cabin According to Reports
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 747 had to abort its flight on Sunday when one of its engines caught fire as it was taxiing down the runway in preparation for takeoff.
PIA Flight 308, with 402 passengers on board, was bound for Islamabad and preparing for departure when the incident occurred. Members of Pakistan's national assembly and a Federal Minister where on board the jet:
'Talking exclusively to Geo News, Federal Minister, Maula Bux Chandio, who was on board PK-308, slammed PIA for its mismanagement and utter incompetence.
"Smoke billowing out of the burning engine escaped into fuselage after they opened the emergency exit hatch. It was so asphyxiating in there. I saw many passengers, who were not feeling well at all, gasping for air", said he.'
Another Parliamentarian, Yousuf Talpur, who was also on the plane, picked apart PIA for risking passengers' lives by using planes which should have been retired by now.
'"The entry of this very aircraft we were on board is banned in Europe and America. PIA flies it domestically only" he revealed.
He said the passengers remained trapped in the plane for nearly two hours that too without fresh air to breathe.
Secretary Production, Gul Mohammad Rind, who was also among the passengers, lamented PIA officials' apathy at the time of distress.
"No PIA officer bothered to console us. They seemed so indifferent to this whole ordeal. They were pathetic" Rind told Geo News.
He also added that the doors of the plane auto-locked and they could find no way out.
"The captain also locked himself in the cockpit", Rind added.'
According to sources, Minister for Defence, Syed Naveed Qamar, taking prompt action, has tasked the PIA authorities with an immediate report over the incident.
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I remember a time when engine failures were few and far between. Now it is almost an everyday occurrence along with system failures.
I blame outsourcing and lack of accountability. We want to know what happened here? Where is this aircraft maintained and who is going to be held responsible?
Questions questions and no answers!
Rich Wyeroski
There was no fire in the engine, the a/c 4th engine failed to start due start valve stucked in close position. The engineering worked on the engine valve and told the Capt to start it again and during start the unburned fuel in the engine made a fire flash which was seen by some pax at the back and reported as a fire. The media in Pakistan is uncontrolled nowadays and they don't have any aviation expert people to cover aviation news so what ever they hear from people they broadcast it with a breaking news without verifying it and want to be first to air the news.
I have read the original report by clicking '…more', it is a word in blue below the article that if people bothered to find then a more balanced response can be facilitated.
The article above is flawed but the original report was balanced and in my opinion rare to see given current issues with the press here in UK. They wrote that the aircraft was enroute to the runway, not taxi-ing down the runway, they wrote that unburnt fuel ignited during an effort to start the engine concerned. I think that anyone that has observed the start up of turbines, a flare of flame sometimes occurs as a normal effect of obtaining combustion and thus the perpetual motion necessary for a jet engine to operate.
Sadly some of the passengers saw this as an engine 'fire' and the local reporters milked it for what they could to get a 'story' that has impact, an irresponsible act that fails to inform truth and educate those that do not know better.
Finally, the original report mentioned that the airline continues to operate some 'elderly' examples of Boeing 747's though not mentioning that it was a -300, the last example of which I saw at my local airport ( BHX ) 12 years ago!!
Very true, Pakistan media reports naively on aviation but there are few who confirms it first from any aviation expert and then air it. Few days back one of PIA's A-310 engine stalled on takeoff from Karachi for London which was again reported as an engine fire by the media which was again reported by a passenger after landing who saw the flash in the engine when it stalled. The story was so highlighted that a talk show was organised by the media in which the president & GS of the pilots association were called.
The aircraft landed safely with stalled engine in IDLE & other engine running normally. As per the DFDR and cockpit voice recorder, all the actions were as per the book but none of the media reported that because that news would not attracted people and would not raise there rating.
Very similar to the media in the U.S. as well.