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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736/Sin-bins-for-worst-families Thursday July 23,2009 THOUSANDS of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday. The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes. They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction. Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far. But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million. Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless. Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them. He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.” But Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is all much too little, much too late. “This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.” Mr Balls also said responsible parents who make sure their children behave in school will get new rights to complain about those who allow their children to disrupt lessons. Pupils and their families will have to sign behaviour contracts known as Home School Agreements before the start of every year, which will set out parents’ duties to ensure children behave and do their homework. The updated Youth Crime Action Plan also called for a crackdown on violent girl gangs as well as drug and alcohol abuse among young women. But a decision to give ministers new powers to intervene with failing local authority Youth Offending Teams was criticised by council leaders. Les Lawrence, of the Local Government Association, said they did “crucial” work and such intervention was “completely unnecessary”. =============================================== http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201462/Thousands-Englands-worst-families-placed-sin-bins-improve-behaviour.html Thousands of England's worst families to be placed in 'sin bins' to improve behaviour By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:15 PM on 22nd July 2009 Families will be given intensive 24-hour supervision to make sure children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals More than 20,000 of the worst families in England are to be placed in Government 'sin bin' care to improve their behaviour. Yobbish families who refuse State help in raising their children face being made to give up their home - though they are still likely to be re-housed elsewhere. The Government has decided that focussing on the country's most disruptive families - many of them beset by domestic violence - is the key to tackling youth crime. Under the so-called Family Intervention Projects, they will be given intensive 24-hour supervision to make sure children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. Parents are also given help to stop them leading dysfunctional lives and to combat drug or alcohol addiction. Around 2,000 families have gone through the projects already, but ministers intend to increase its scope to 20,000 more in the next two years - each costing between £5,000 and £20,000. The projects are operating in around half of all council areas, but Children's Secretary Ed Balls said he wanted every local authority to fund them. Councils were today sent letters by Mr Balls and Home Secretary Alan Johnson demanding they all take part. Mr Balls said: 'This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem.' He added: 'The families know that if they don't use this support they could risk losing their home, go to court, prison or youth custody.' In most cases, families will be placed under round-the-clock supervision in their own home. But in extreme cases, they are moved into residential blocks, dubbed 'sin bins'. Some families will be made to move home, in order to make a 'fresh start'. Others are threatened that - if they do not take part - they will lose the tenancy on their social housing. ====================================== http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/government-wants-more-cctv-cameras-in-homes-622368 The UK Government's Children's Secretary Ed Balls has announced a controversial new CCTV monitoring scheme, in which thousands of problem families are to be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Balls claims that the £400 million "sin bin" scheme will put up to 20,000 problem families under 24-hour surveillance in their own homes, to ensure children go to bed and school on time and eat proper meals. "Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction," reads a report in the Sunday Express. Family Intervention Projects Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund such 'Family Intervention Projects', noting that: "This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. "There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support." Pupils and their families will have to sign 'Home School Agreements' which set out parents' duties to make sure their kids attend school. However, privacy campaigners are already up in arms over the latest government plans to install surveillance tech within people's homes.

Unless you're one of the Kinks, you must be an "Apeman."

*wild swing* "Turnabout Intruder"?

Every time you think you've seen it all among what was done in twi, you read something like this....

Correct! Your turn.

"Tried rewiring her, tried re-firing her, I think her engine is permanently stalled." "Who would believe you were a beauty indeed When the days get shorter and the nights get long?" "When I touched her, my hand just froze!" "I think she was born in an Arctic Zone" "I'm the burning bush, I'm the burning fire, I'm the bleedin' volcano!" "Put your hand on the heat, put your hand on the heat, Aw, come on baby, let's GO!"

The first entry is "Jeff Sjo Viewing Profile" http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/user/3254-jeffsjo/ That works just fine, as does the cached entry. The SECOND entry is " which DOES say it's been removed, and goes to some cybersquatting company site. http://url123.info/441664b1 The cached entry works just fine. Oddly enough, if you cut-and-paste the URL I just posted here (...topic/15985-hi-everyone/) , into the address bar, you will get the correct page on the GSC. As for viruses, I checked the lot with Dr Virus Link Checker, and they all came up "clean." The only thing that concerns me is the redirected page. I suspect there's a LEGAL PROBLEM here, and that other company is BREAKING THE LAW. The GSC may want to confer with Google and see what the appropriate response is.

There was this well-mannered fellow I met in twi. I don't know how he's been for decades now. His name is B3rn@rd I. We were at a meal, and he ran a table in a "blind corner", where you couldn't see the head table, and they couldn't see you. Once, by chance, I ended up at this table. I discovered some people planned to sit there so they could just skip all the usual twi "protocol" and relax at a meal. I also "read" his face. He wanted to say something, but he saw that relaxing was important to the others, so he said nothing. I responded by telling him a joke, since I appreciated what he was doing (or wasn't doing), and paid him back the best way I could at that moment. Besides, it gave him something else to focus on for a moment. :)

And, word for word, it's the same answer everyone ELSE in twi gives to the same question.... especially if the answer doesn't actually ANSWER THE QUESTIOM, but EVADES it.

"Tried rewiring her, tried re-firing her, I think her engine is permanently stalled." "Who would believe you were a beauty indeed When the days get shorter and the nights get long?" "When I touched her, my hand just froze!" "I think she was born in an Arctic Zone" "I'm the burning bush, I'm the burning fire, I'm the bleedin' volcano!"

Thanks so much, all of you. :)

Indeed. Your turn.

"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."-George Santayana. As long as there's one person suffering from twi (an insider, a family member outside cut off from an insider, and so on), twi is relevant to someone. twi is making a lot FEWER people suffer- and was never a large organization to begin with- but to have ONE person suffer is still too many. On the other hand, twi's legacy is an excellent source of suffering, if one wishes to find more modern, up-to-date suffering. Some of its successors have taken "the best" of the tools for suffering still available, and have started over, without apology and without concern they won't end up the same way as the group they left.

vpw considered other people as either "things to be used" or "expendable". He was well aware program members were getting raped and whatever. He addressed it- on tape- to the corps. When talking about hitchhiking to LEAD, he brought up concerns women would be raped. His reply? They could be raped anywhere. (Therefore, he was not going to lift a finger to make it less likely.) If it cost money- and meant less money he would be able to dip into whenever he wanted- he flat out vetoed it. Even if it would have been a sensible expense.

"Tried rewiring her, tried re-firing her, I think her engine is permanently stalled." "Who would believe you were a beauty indeed When the days get shorter and the nights get long?" "When I touched her, my hand just froze!" "I think she was born in an Arctic Zone"

"Deliverance?"

"Tried rewiring her, tried re-firing her, I think her engine is permanently stalled." "Who would believe you were a beauty indeed When the days get shorter and the nights get long?"

That's it. Robin Lefler was played by Ashley Judd, if you can believe it.

Next song. "Tried rewiring her, tried refiring her, I think her engine is permanently stalled."

======================================= Ok, here's how the quotes went... "He has joined the cult of Baba Bebe." "Baba Bebe? You mean the one who brainwashes young people? My kind of guy!" "My name is Abu Kareem Hassan. What is, is. What was, will be. What will be, was, but will be again." "We better hurry up, I'm startin' to understand him." Arnold Horshack repeated this mantra a number of times in the same episode. ...miracles cannot be rushed." "Look, Arnold, I am... Arnold, what you just said, that was beautiful. It made a lot of sense." "Of course! Births cannot be rushed. For example, first, the stork has to be notified." You have one character, a bit naive, named Arnold.... "What's that?" "That's a Bicentennial Knish." Show aired in 1976, when EVERYTHING was Bicentennial THIS and Bicentennial THAT... That line got a LOT of laughs in 1976. (Epstein was trying to quit smoking. Finally, he made a deal with Kotter: if Kotter gave up snacking on knishes, Epstein would give up cigarettes. The rest of the scene, they pulled cigarettes and knishes out of hiding all over the classroom. Kotter had this knish behind the US flag in the corner. "..what's that satchel for?" "It's for the money. What am I gonna do, stuff 250 G's in my pocket?" "Hey, Juan, um, they gonna give us a check." "Oh, no, I don't take checks. Checks bounce." "Well, this one's gonna be from New York State." "Especially those!" One character's named Juan, the show is in New York State.... "Teaching this class is about as much fun as root canal work." "I thought all the routes to your canal dried up a long time ago!" This is a school... "Oh, but Mr. Woodman, Rembrandt painted plenty of nudes." "Well, I wanna see Rembrandt in my office, too!' Mr Woodman's one character- the Vice-Principal. " 'James Buchanan' is not anywhere. It's in Bensonhurst, which is in Brooklyn, which is where I spent four degenerate years as a student. You know how rough that is? The gangs there don't use guns. They insert the bullets manually." The name of the school, and its location in Brooklyn. During the opening of the show, the sign displaying the name "Brooklyn" was featured. "So nobody did it. I think we should put a candle in the window, because the last time this happened, three wise men came from the east." "I feel like this is just the beginning. Today, Buchanan, tomorrow, who knows? Governor Barbarino, Senator Barbarino, Emperor Barbarino! You know, Julius Caesar was an Italian." Vinny Barbarino, the first big role for John Travolta. "Now, now, now, Juan, you hot-blooded young turk!" "I'm a Puerto Rican Jew!" "Same thing. Your blood is hot." Juan Epstein was a Puerto Rican Jew. "Julie, baby, did I ever tell you about my uncle Ben?" "No. Did he make rice?" At the end of EVERY episode, Gabe Kotter told his wife Julie a joke, supposedly a story about one of his uncles. Your turn, hiway!

But you DID get it!

Ok, you have the location, you have the setting, you have one year it aired, you have the names of some of the characters.....

Of course.

"Chocolate ice cream. Chocolate fudge. Chocolate chips. You're not depressed, are you?" "I'm fine, Commander." "Did you want to be alone with that?" "No. You can join us." "I don't like fudge." "Really. I never met a chocolate I didn't like." "Quomodo tua Latinitas est?" "Praestat quam prius." "Oppido bonum. Your Latin has improved." "You don't need this." "Yes... I... do..." " 'Commander Riker to the Enterprise. I've got a problem down here on Risa!' " "I'll try modifying the planetary scanners." "Just make sure we keep enough data lines open for stellar physics." "No problem. I'll compress the signal flow... Now why won't these register... ?" "You might try calibrating them manually." "Excuse me?" "The detectors. They tend to get temperamental. Try calibrating them by hand." "Are you kidding? It's gotta be done by the computer." "No, it doesn't. Here... This subroutine will let you do it from the panel... Law Seventeen -- When all else fails, do it yourself." "It's working...Thanks." "Sure." "I'm Wesley, by the way... Wesley Crusher." "I know. Just came back from the Academy." "That's right." "Robin Lefler."