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A hand up, not a hand out
By Tony Malcolm| 2018-10-21T15:46:30+00:00	October 21st, 2018|Inspire|0 Comments
John Bird MBE is about to speak at The Duke Street Church (as I write) about how he launched The Big Issue from an office on Richmond Green back in 1991.
This triggered memories of the time I was first introduced to the notion of a magazine to help homeless people, allowing them a level of independence with a job and income that came from somewhere other than begging. Giving them a hand up, not a hand out as John was at pains to point out.
I was introduced to this new approach to the homeless issue as a copywriter at an agency called Still Price: Lintas, based in Victoria.
One morning an account man bustled into our office saying he had a meeting in the afternoon with a guy called Gordon Roddick, husband of Anita of Body Shop fame, who was launching a magazine to help homeless people from a concept he stumbled upon in the streets of New York. 'Can you crash out some concepts to present in a few hours?' he cheekily asked.
My creative partner and I were renowned for working fast, but with quality. This was honed through years of working for one of the toughest task master creative directors in the industry. Woe betide anyone walking into his office with one piece of paper for his consideration. We would always go in with what we'd describe as 'half a rainforest' of A3.
So, after just a few hours of beavering away, we went into this impromptu meeting with our headlines and scribbles, hoping we had hit the right tonality in the absence of a formal brief.
It transpired that Gordon and John had been working for months with another agency to crack the brief and when we started throwing down ad after ad, in an attempt to impress with our creative enthusiasm, Gordon decided there and then that we had won his business.
As I recall, John was a much tougher cookie to crack. Little did I know at the time, his background was of a London based Irish Catholic who had fought his way out of poverty, drug abuse, imprisonment and homelessness. He took no prisoners in his brash manner, but here was a guy who was determined to make a difference with the help of Gordon and his financial firepower.
What followed was an immersion into the world that didn't adhere to the rules of polite Richmond society. We heard mortifying stories of the descent into homelessness, sometimes purely from unforeseen circumstances. We saw the depravity, the mental health issues, the lying, cheating and stealing in order to survive and the dependence on alcohol and drugs in order to escape the nightmare of this torrid existence.
The ads you see opposite were shot with genuine homeless people out on the streets of London in the dangerous underworld where gangs and unscrupulous people control the territories and supply chains that entrap homeless people in this level of poverty.
The pictures were by eminent photographer David Tack who gave the harrowing prints to Anita to keep.
We also produced a commercial highlighting how easy it is to descend into this world and how the Big Issue offered a hand in pulling people out of it.
On my way home to my warm cosy house in East Twickenham, I would often bump into John on Richmond Green. I would visit his office to see the good works and even had an input designing the now iconic masthead.
The talk will be the first time I've seen John in many years and maybe time and success has mellowed him. I hope not. He has talked of having not a sentimental bone in his body for people in poverty, as within every family history will be a person who has endured hardship but used it as motivation to change the fortunes of future generations. He refuses to see it as a handicap or drawback.
My own grandfather, from Irish stock, is an inspiration to me in that regard and we should all be thankful those people exist in our midsts and in our pasts..
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ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Veteran musher Nicolas Petit, who was leading the Iditarod race for many checkpoints, sat down for an emotional interview with the Iditarod Insider this weekend explaining what happened this year.
Petit cried several times when talking about what his dogs went through shortly after leaving the Shaktoolik checkpoint.
Petit's team stalled on the ice shortly after leaving the checkpoint, and eventually the musher was able to get the team to a cabin, called Shelter Island Cabin, where they took refuge for hours before he was able to contact race officials to register his intent to scratch. He and his team were transported by snowmachine back to Shaktoolik.
"We're done with the problems, we are not out here to make them do anything -- not out here to push them to do anything -- we're out here to have a good time with them," said Petit during the interview with the Iditarod Insider.
Petit says no one would've believed that his team was tired if they saw them in Shaktoolik.
"This dog team was not tired, this dog team was not overexerted, this dog team was flying towards a place, where the worst run of their lives began last year. We had a very, very tough run last year, we had to find our way through something that we're not expecting," he said.
It's the same stretch of trail where Petit faced misfortune last year, going off trail and losing time, and the race lead.
"I can't blame them for not wanting to go back where their last experience was the toughest run of their lives, toughest for me too. I was bawling, I wasn't upset at them at all, I was so sorry for them that I wasn't able to keep them on the right path, so that they could come in here first and show what they are made of," Petit said in the interview.
He says at that point he had to make a tough decision.
"Do you give them another toughest run of their lives, or do you go home? We go home and then we're going to fix it."
Petit said he's not going to get rid of his dogs. He told the Iditarod Insider that he plans to take his dogs out to the Bering Sea to show them that there is nothing to be afraid of.
"They don't know that it can be fun to be on the ice, whether there is a race organized or not , my dog team and I will fly out to Unalakleet or someplace close to there, running through there with steaks and T- bones, going to have a good time, going back and forth. Why stop there? Golovin can be a tough place too, we are going to lollygag all the way to White Mountain and back, we're going to show them that this is our new backyard, and there is nothing to be scared of, and everything is fine," Petit said.


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Review: Green Day: Rock Band
By Brittany Vincent On June 29, 2010 In Review, Xbox 360 With Comments Off on Review: Green Day: Rock Band Permalink
The Beatles: Rock Band was an admirable tribute to one of history's greatest musical forces. Stepping into the shoes of the venerable Fab Four proved to be an entertaining and equally respectable trip. Just as it attracted established Beatlemaniacs, it created new ones through bystanders and gamers searching for a new music game to rock out to. Harmonix sensed they were onto something here, and thus allowed another band to take center stage for another band-centric adventure. Not long after, Green Day: Rock Band was announced. While not as epic in scope, it's an enjoyable trip from the early, angst-ridden days of the band's career all the way through their politically charged creations American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. It brings nothing relatively groundbreaking to the series (and builds little on The Beatles: Rock Band's feature set) but those needing their Rock Band fix should find plenty to like here.
Review: Snoopy Flying Ace
By Brittany Vincent On June 27, 2010 In Review, Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade With Comments Off on Review: Snoopy Flying Ace Permalink
When you think of the Peanuts gang and that lovable beagle Snoopy, it's likely you don't immediately recall Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. It just doesn't seem too likely of a union, now does it? But wait. Toss Snoopy's vicious nemesis into the mix, the Red Baron, and his penchant for World War II-era dogfights with the venerable fighter pilot. Starting to make more sense now? It should. In Smart Bomb Interactive's highly enjoyable yet sufficiently challenging downloadable title, Snoopy Flying Ace, the meshing of Crimson Skies and the cast of Peanuts seems like a match made in heaven. Even more of a definitively arcade-type experience than Smart Bomb's previous outing, Snoopy vs. The Red Baron, this adventure borrows more than a few pages from the cult Xbox hit and writes a fantastic story all its own.
Impressions: Princess Fury
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A side-scrolling brawler is a tough game to completely screw up. When all else fails, bombard the player with enemies, an interesting graphical interface, and enough gore to beat the band. Use a combination of two or three of these elements and you should find you've got an enjoyable diversion on your hands. Princess Fury, $1.99 worth of 16-bit button mashing for your iPhone or iPod Touch from developers Mo-Star, demonstrates that a delectable blend of all of these things makes for a highly addictive experience that you'd be mad to pass up, especially at such a reasonable price.
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RosePortal Games has quite the hit on its hands with the stunning Whisper of a Rose: Gold. As a devout follower of the ways of the staunchly traditional role-playing game of old (yes, including Japanese RPGs) I found it to be a magical departure from the modern mechanics of beauty before substance and million-hit-points before character development world we've somehow found ourselves in with newer titles, and one that managed to transport me back to the innocent days of after-school grinding rather than yawning over news of the next "big" game. And for that, I pronounce it a smashing success. It's not perfect, but it's compelling, familiar, and depressing all at once. It's been a while since a game has evoked such emotion from me, and so I must praise it.
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By Brittany Vincent On June 10, 2010 In Review, Xbox 360, Xbox Live Arcade With Comments Off on Review: Rocket Knight Permalink
Back in the '90s, spunky mascots were a dime a dozen. These loveable yet snarky critters ruled the roost. Luckily, this trend did tend to die out over the following years, but the enduring classics live on; particularly, an endearing and memorable title known as Rocket Knight Adventures. An impossibly adorable yet suave marsupial armed with a jet pack and the attitude of heroes three times his size captured the hearts of lucky Genesis owners time and time again. The awesome opossum known only as Sparkster makes his triumphant return in Rocket Knight, an Xbox Live Arcade revival that jams a lot of style and gloss into an exciting little downloadable packet.
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Prepare at least a little bit for your long ride
10.11.2009 by Ray Niekamp // 6 Comments
On Saturday, my wife Pat and I were out in rural Texas, volunteering at the first Mamma Jamma ride for breast cancer research. The ride featured routes of 10, 27, 46, 70 and 100 miles. I was part of the route safety crew for the 46-mile route. I teamed up with another volunteer and sat at two intersections, directing riders to the correct route, and warning of any safety hazards up ahead.
So I was able to get a good look at a large number of riders. About an hour went by from the time the first group passed us until the last rider showed up. And I was once again perplexed that otherwise intelligent people seem to think they can ride a challenging distance like 46 miles without putting in the training miles beforehand.
Our first post was at 17 miles. As might be expected, those passing us for the first half hour or so looked almost fresh. The day was overcast, the temperature was stuck at 54 degrees, and there was almost no wind. But the forecast called for a high of around 70, and many of the riders were underdressed.
The fresh riders made the turn, and accelerated toward a nice downhill. But then, some slower riders started coming by. They labored up the slight rise to our location. Most were relieved to hear that the next rest stop was only six miles away. A few stopped, took a drink from their water bottles, or chewed on an energy bar.
Many of these slower riders were on hybrid or mountain bikes. They were pushing more weight than the road bike riders, which tired them faster. Some were on the chunky side. It was clear most of them didn't realize what they were getting into when they signed up for the 46 miles.
I thought of an email from a reader that I received on Friday. She had signed up for a metric century, but had just learned through a Google search that she would be riding 62 miles.
"I am now officially nervous as I am not a regular rider," she wrote. "When I have ridden I think the most I have gone is like 10 miles. I am not in cycle shape. My bike is 18 years old. I maybe get on the thing once every six months or so."
Back at the Mamma Jamma, the last rider struggled up to our post. He rode an old non-suspended mountain bike, and several layers of cotton shirts. He was done. A SAG vehicle just happened to pull up at the same time. He asked for a ride back to the start. They told him they could take him to the next rest stop, but because he was less than halfway through the route, they couldn't take him all the way back.
Rider tries to convince a SAG truck to take him back, just 17 miles into a 46-mile ride.
"We have to keep moving forward," the driver said. "We could call for medical. They could bring you back."
He wound up riding with them to the next rest stop, and called medical for a ride back from there.
Entered in the 46-miler, but unable to finish half that. What's missing here? And my email correspondent? It turned out that her ride was Saturday, too — and she hadn't prepared for it at all. I don't know whether she finished — or even rode.
Evidently, biking just don't get no respect. We all rode when we were kids; we know it's a simple thing to pedal a bike along a road. Forty-six miles might be a more challenging distance than we have done in the past, but heck, just keep turning the pedals and you'll be done in no time.
Folks, for any kind of physical challenge, you have to put in the time. I wonder how many of those ill-prepared riders won't be back, because they've decided that biking is too tough. The rest of us know that they'll be missing out on a fun and rewarding activity.
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331miles says
17 miles in and gives up? My 7-year old daughter gutted out 10 miles on her 20″ wheeled bike in 90F temps. My very first backpacking trip, I was miserably out of shape and ignorant, yet I carried 40 lbs. to the South Rim of the Chisos Basin, ascending 2000 ft. over 6 miles. Once I was on my way, there was no giving up.
Most of us aren't superathletes, but we know that completing a long ride is not just a question of training, but a question of focus and dedication.
Rick Ankrum
Rick Ankrum says
I agree with your observations. At some of the rides I go on the unprepared bikers stick out. On a ride many years ago there a teenage boy riding a Kmart bicycle without any water bottles out in the middle of no-where. There was a brutal headwind coming off Galveston Bay. He was having a lot of trouble. Unfortunately this was a lightly supported ride and the SAG vehicle was non-existent. I am not sure what happened.
On the MS150 rides in the late 80's I was amazed at the bikes and riders that were on the ride. No preparation to ride anywhere near the mileage.
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gtinla says
Unfortunately there always will be individuals who either don't have the capacity to judge their strength and/or wildly overestimate their abilities.
I agree with you that preparation is essential and applaud you for volunteering on this ride!
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Sine Botchen says
Nothing surprises me (much) anymore. I tend to be just the opposite and have passed on several charity rides because I didn't feel road-worthy enough to do even the 20 mile loop (though I regularly ride 30-40 miles several times a week). Okay, that, and the fact that I'm a total slacker and can't possibly be expected to be out of bed and at the starting line by 8am.
Yes, there does seem to be a never ending supply of people who really don't think those sort of things through. Recently on a tour of one of the local caves I saw a woman wearing high heels and another couple pushing a baby stroller, trudging along even after being warned that the cave floor was wet, muddy, and uneven. Oh well.. who ya gonna call?
Jeremy Mazur says
This is an interesting topic. I've done a number of rides where some participants had no idea of what they were getting into. The most notorious in my mind was the Shiner BASH, where some braved a 90+ mile ride on a street Schwinn wearing sweats, tennis shoes, and even sandals. I think that the offer of free beers at the end of the ride was too alluring to some. More recently, at the Waco Wild West Century, I remember passing what seemed to be a troop of Cub Scouts on the 40 mile route. They seemed somewhat dispirited. There really ought to be a disclaimer to these rides — like what they've posted for the Hugel in November — that the bite to these things is much worse than the bark.
Fun topic, thanks for sharing!
-jbm
cwcushman
Charles Cushman says
You have to be careful about how far you push yourself though. Recently I rode around Lake Tahoe (70 miles unsupported). I made it, but bonked with 10 miles to go. I ended up getting pretty sick because my body was so worn down from the ride.


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New Orleans Ankle Monitors
The U.S. Constitution requires judges to be objective when deciding whether to deprive a person of his or her liberty or property. When judges have a personal, political or financial interest in a case, they violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of due process. Hakeem Meade, Marshall Sookram and too many others in New Orleans know this all too well—they were ordered to ankle monitoring by a judge who has personal, political and financial ties to the company that provided and charged for this service.
Hakeem's story is tragic. He took his car in to be repaired and, after he and the auto shop owner argued about the repairs, the owner shot him six times, including in the head. The man then shot Hakeem's pregnant girlfriend, who lost their unborn twins. The shop owner and Hakeem were charged for the altercation. After he turned himself in, Hakeem appeared for numerous pretrial proceedings in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. Eventually, his case came before Judge Paul A. Bonin. Even though Hakeem had never missed a court date and had passed all of his mandatory drug tests, Judge Bonin ordered Hakeem to ankle monitoring. An order of ankle monitoring is a common judicial act. What made Hakeem's situation unusual and unconstitutional, however, was that Judge Bonin ordered this pretrial monitoring to be carried out by a specific company—ETOH Monitoring, LLC (ETOH)—with which the judge has personal, political and financial ties.
Judge Bonin ordered Marshall to ankle monitoring in October 2017. Marshall initially used another monitoring provider, but he switched to ETOH—the company to which Judge Bonin gave Marshall's lawyer a referral—in February 2018. Marshall remained on ankle monitoring by ETOH for nearly eight months, paying the company $100 in installation fees and $10 for every day of monitoring. On October 19, 2018, Judge Bonin's staff told ETOH that "Mr. Sookram will be able to have the monitor removed once his balance is paid in full." He paid at least $500 that day, and the monitor was immediately removed.
What Hakeem and Marshall did not know is that both of ETOH's principals—one of whom is Judge Bonin's former law partner—had together contributed over $9,000 to Judge Bonin's judicial election campaigns and had even loaned money to the judge's campaign. Judge Bonin did not disclose these personal, political and financial connections to Hakeem or Marshall, or to the other pretrial defendants that Judge Bonin ordered, steered or permitted to use ETOH.
By ordering, steering or permitting defendants before him to use ETOH without disclosing his connection, Judge Bonin and ETOH deprived these defendants of due process under the U.S. Constitution. Now, Hakeem and Marshall are fighting to ensure that ankle monitoring decisions in Orleans Parish and elsewhere are made without bias or the appearance of bias. This is especially important now that COVID-19 has led many municipalities to monitor defendants with ankle monitors instead of jailing them. Hakeem and Marshall have teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) and the Law Office of William Most to file a civil rights class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The suit seeks an order declaring that judicial decisions influenced by a judge's ties to a private party violate the Constitution, and requiring the company to disgorge the fees it has collected from defendants appearing before Judge Bonin and cancel any remaining fees.
Meade v. Bonin and ETOH Monitoring
Pending Cases
Amended Complaint
Case Team
William R. Maurer
Managing Attorney of the Institute for Justice Washington Office
Jaba Tsitsuashvili
Dan King
Communications Project Manager
Hilary Loya
Paralegal and Office Manager (WA Office)
Download Amended Complaint PDF
Download Order Denying MTD PDF
Order Denying MTD
Get in touch with the media contact and take a look at the image resources for the case.
Dan King Communications Project Manager dking@ij.org
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When judges make decisions that affect the liberty or property of defendants appearing before them, the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires these decisions to be free from bias or the appearance of bias. This requirement means that judicial decisions must be, and must appear to be, based on the pursuit of justice and the protection of the public, and not on the personal, financial, political or institutional interests of the judge or others.
Judge Paul A. Bonin is a judge on the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court who routinely requires defendants to wear ankle-monitoring devices. This is a normal judicial function. What was unusual about Judge Bonin's orders, however, is that he required, steered or otherwise permitted defendants appearing before him to enter into ankle-monitoring service agreements with ETOH Monitoring, LLC ("ETOH"), a private company with which he has long-standing personal, political and financial ties. This violated the defendants' rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. So Hakeem Meade and Marshall Sookram, two defendants in Judge Bonin's court who paid substantial ankle-monitoring fees to ETOH, have joined with the Institute for Justice (IJ) and the Law Office of William Most to bring a civil rights class action lawsuit seeking to end this practice and force ETOH to return the fees it collected from the defendants in Judge Bonin's courtroom.
Ankle Monitoring—Where Criminal Justice and Private Enterprise Meet
When a judge orders a defendant to wear an ankle monitor, a government entity or a private company working with the government places a GPS device on the defendant's ankle, allowing the device to record the defendant's location. The device allows the monitoring entity to determine, among other things, whether a defendant is following a curfew or is staying within geographical confines. Like many municipalities, Orleans Parish does not run its own ankle monitoring service. Instead, when judges on the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court order defendants to ankle monitoring, the defendants may choose from among three ankle-monitoring providers operating in the Parish, one of which is ETOH.
Companies charge high fees for ankle monitoring, particularly for indigent defendants or when judges order several months of monitoring. ETOH, for instance, charges defendants (for their own governmental oversight) a $100 installation fee plus up to $10 per day (i.e. between $280 and $310 per month).
Use of ankle monitoring has exploded in recent years. According to the Pew Charitable Trust, in 2005, 53,000 Americans were monitored electronically. By 2015, that number rose 140% to over 125,000. 1 This number is expected to rise after the federal First Step Act of 2018, which includes provisions for the greater electronic monitoring of released individuals. The risks of incarceration posed by COVID-19 also are likely to expand the use of ankle monitoring.
The rise in the use of ankle monitors coincides with the expansion of private companies in the criminal justice system. Governments increasingly contract out government functions to private parties—debt collection, parking tickets, property code enforcement, probation and ankle monitoring are some of the functions now routinely performed by private companies. When government performs government functions, there is no question that it must follow the Constitution. How constitutional protections apply when government gives its powers to a private party is much less well-established. There are relatively few cases on this topic, and private companies exercising governmental power often fail to act as if they are bound by the same constitutional constraints as the government.
Judge Bonin and ETOH Monitoring LLC
Judge Bonin was first elected to the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in 2016. He was formerly a traffic court and Louisiana Court of Appeal judge. Prior to becoming a judge, Judge Bonin was the law partner of Leonard L. Levenson, one of ETOH's two principals.
In 2018, court observers from judicial watchdog organization Court Watch NOLA (CWN) examined a decade of campaign finance disclosures and found that over the course of three judicial elections (2008, 2012 and 2016), Judge Bonin's campaign received over $9,000 in donations and loans from Levenson and ETOH's other principal, Christian Helmke. Levenson and Helmke made four contributions to Judge Bonin's campaign in 2016 alone and loaned the judge's campaign money. 2 CWN did not find contributions to Judge Bonin's campaign from anyone associated with the District Court's other private ankle-monitoring provider. 3
CWN found that while ETOH executives also donated to four other District Court judges, they gave significantly more—and significantly more often—to Judge Bonin, who was also the only judge to whom they made a loan. Moreover, "Judge Bonin was the only judge found to have required a defendant to use an ankle monitor and then steered the defendant to pay a specific ankle monitoring company (over other companies) from which the judge had received campaign contributions or a loan." 4
Judge Bonin "made it a regular practice of recommending defendants use ETOH" and emailing defense attorneys "on how the defendant could sign up for ankle monitoring services," while including ETOH executives on the emails. Judge Bonin also required his staff to "provide the defendant or the defendant's family members with the contact information for ETOH." 5
In addition, on "several occasions, Judge Bonin refused to release the defendants from jail until the family had arranged for ETOH to set up ankle monitoring," and he regularly refused to release defendants from ankle monitoring "solely because the defendants had not paid ETOH all the remaining fees." Judge Bonin made release from ankle monitoring explicitly contingent on "financial obligations owed to the ankle monitoring company." And he "threatened to put defendants back in jail and set bond for their failure to pay their remaining debts." 6
Investigations and public record requests have revealed dozens of other defendants Judge Bonin ordered or steered to ankle monitoring by ETOH. These records and CWN's report show that from 2017 to at least 2019, Judge Bonin sent defendants to ETOH and coordinated closely with the company, including to ensure that ETOH collects its fees under threat of jailing—from a population of defendants that is overwhelmingly of modest means or indigent, and overwhelmingly Black. 7
Hakeem Meade and Marshall Sookram Were Ensnared in Judge Bonin's and ETOH's Tainted and Unconstitutional System
Hakeem Meade and Marshall Sookram paid fees to ETOH as part of Judge Bonin's and ETOH's unconstitutionally tainted system of ankle monitoring for profit.
Hakeem Meade
Hakeem's story is tragic. In 2016, after an argument about his car, an autoshop owner shot Hakeem six times (including in the head). The man then shot Hakeem's pregnant girlfriend of the time, who lost their unborn twins. While still hospitalized and recovering from his injuries, Hakeem was shocked to learn that he was charged with a crime after being the victim of this horrific attack. He turned himself in. After being held in pretrial detention, he was released without ankle monitoring. Over the next several months, he went to pretrial proceedings before multiple judges in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, without any incidents. In February 2017, Hakeem was transferred to Judge Bonin's court. He made several appearances before Judge Bonin without missing any court dates, and he passed several court-ordered drug tests.
Suddenly, in August 2017, Judge Bonin ordered Hakeem to pretrial ankle monitoring by ETOH. Hakeem asked why, but Judge Bonin did not explain. The judge told Hakeem "exactly where to go" and ordered him to have the monitor attached within 24 hours. Hakeem had to pay ETOH $10 per day. This weekly amount of $70 in court-ordered fees was significant for Hakeem, who was then a truck driver and now works in maintenance dredging on the Mississippi River. Appearing at monitoring check-ins also required him to take time off work and negatively affected his employment—so much so that he had to change employers.
Judge Bonin kept Hakeem on ETOH monitoring for two months, and Hakeem paid ETOH nearly $300. To this day, ETOH continues to pester Hakeem for the remaining fees—over $300 more than what he already has paid. He should never have suffered this indignity and this deprivation of his liberty and property just so ETOH could profit off his custody.
Marshall Sookram
In September 2017, Marshall was charged with three crimes in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court: simple criminal damage, possession of a weapon by a person with a felony conviction and aggravated assault with a firearm. He contested the charges and was briefly held in pretrial detention. He was released on bond by a magistrate judge, without ankle monitoring.
More than a month later, on October 13, 2017, Marshall appeared for arraignment before Judge Bonin. Judge Bonin ordered Marshall to ankle monitoring that day. Judge Bonin asked for Marshall's public defender's email address, which was consistent with Judge Bonin's practice of instructing attorneys via email how their clients could sign up for ankle monitoring with ETOH.
Marshall did not receive the instructions for signing up with ETOH, and a bondsman signed him up with another company. Marshall appeared for at least two more pretrial hearings before Judge Bonin without incident. Then, on February 23, 2018, Marshall's attorney told Judge Bonin that Marshall intended to switch to "another company that you had given me the phone number of." That company was ETOH, which offered to put Marshall "on a more graduated payment plan."
ETOH charged Marshall a $100 installation fee and between $8.50 and $10 per day of monitoring. At the time, Marshall worked in food delivery, and these fees were a significant financial burden.
On October 19, 2018, ETOH emailed Judge Bonin and his staff "to confirm that Mr. Sookram is allowed to be released from the GPS monitor." Judge Bonin's administrative assistant responded that day: "Mr. Sookram will be able to have the monitor removed once his balance is paid in full." ETOH then told Marshall that Judge Bonin's chambers had conditioned Marshall's release from ankle monitoring on paying all of ETOH's fees. Marshall paid at least $500 and was immediately freed from ankle monitoring. Over the course of about eight months, Marshall paid ETOH well over $1,000.
In February 2020, in order to get out from the specter of his criminal case—which by then was ongoing for over two years—Marshall pleaded guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace and his other charges were dropped. Judge Bonin sentenced Marshall to four days of probation, without ankle monitoring.
The Legal Claims
This is a class action lawsuit brought under the federal civil rights statutes. 8 It alleges that Judge Bonin's and ETOH's actions violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. On behalf of themselves and those similarly situated, Hakeem and Marshall are asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to declare that judicial decisions influenced by a judge's ties to a private party violate the Constitution, require ETOH to disgorge and return to the members of the class the fees it has collected from defendants appearing before Judge Bonin and cancel outstanding fees.
Due process requires all judicial decision-making to be free of any self-interest—whether personal, professional, institutional or political. The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that the integrity of the judicial process is undermined, and due process is violated, when a judge's interests give rise to bias or the appearance of bias. Under these constitutional rules, it is not necessary for a judge's personal finances to be implicated: While decision-making systems that directly affect a judge's income or salary are obviously unconstitutional, so are those that benefit the court system itself or a judge's professional or political interests.
This case will extend these due process principles to judicial decision-making systems that benefit private parties with personal, political or financial connections to a judge. When deciding whether to restrict people's liberty or deprive them of property (including money), judges must act only in the interests of individual justice and public safety—not in their own professional or political interests or the interests of private parties.
The Court and the Parties
This case is brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and has been assigned to Judge Carl Barbier.
IJ and the Law Office of William Most are representing Plaintiffs Hakeem Meade and Marshall Sookram. The Defendants are Judge Paul A. Bonin of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court and ETOH Monitoring, LLC.
The Litigation Team
This case is being litigated by IJ attorneys Bill Maurer and Jaba Tsitsuashvili, who litigate property rights and fines and fees cases nationwide. Joining them is local counsel William Most of the Law Office of William Most.
About the Institute for Justice
The Institute for Justice is the national law firm for liberty and the nation's leading advocate for property rights. This case is the latest in IJ's nationwide initiative to end abusive fines and fees and to ensure that the justice system operates for health and safety, not for profit. To vindicate these principles, IJ is currently litigating fines and fees cases in California (Indio and Norco), Georgia, and Missouri. IJ also launched a nationwide database surveying and grading state laws for their role in facilitating fines and fees abuses. And IJ's Project on Immunity and Accountability litigates cases to hold government officials and those who act in concert with them accountable for violating peoples' constitutional rights.
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Q: Loading Google Analytics after page load by appending script in head doesn't always work In the EU, there's a cookie law that requires you to load third-party scripts after the user expresses consent, by clicking, scrolling or navigating for instance. So I load 3 scripts by executing a function that's called after document loads. This is the code:

The problem is that it doesn't always work, nor always fail. I see sessions and activity but I also know for a fact that there are visits that don't trigger the scripts because when I tested it myself on several other computers, not all activity was saved in analytics.
What should I fix in the function to make it work all the time?

A: If you have a look at this post, you can modify it slightly to achieve what you want:
<script type="text/javascript">
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  _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
  _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

   var loadGoogleAnalytics = function(){
     var ga = document.createElement('script');
       ga.type = 'text/javascript';
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       ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

       var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
       s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
    }
</script>

Then just call loadGoogleAnalytics() whenever the user agrees with your Cookie Usage display

A: Other response seems to be targeting ga.js which is legacy, whereas your question seems to be oriented towards analytics.js (current).
Studying the analytics.js snippet a little you can easily find an answer (below, formatted with prettier):
(function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {
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    function() {
      (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments);
    }), (i[r].l = 1 * new Date());
  (a = s.createElement(o)), (m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0]);
  a.async = 1;
  a.src = g;
  m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m);
})(
  window,
  document,
  "script",
  "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js",
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);

ga("create", "UA-XXXXX-Y", "auto");
ga("send", "pageview");

The trick is easy : Google creates a global var GoogleAnalyticsObject which is a string representing the name of the global GoogleAnalytics. You can see that by default it's "ga".
So, at loading you need to create two global vars : GoogleAnalyticsObject which is a string and window[GoogleAnalyticsObject] which is the function ( which just accumulates events, this function is replaced when the lib is loaded I guess ). Then when your user accepts the cookies you can load the lib and you're done :)

A: You can try use this function that works fine to me:
function loadGoogleAnalytics(trackingId) {
                var deferred = $q.defer();

                function loadScript() {
                    var scriptId = 'google-analytics';

                    if (document.getElementById(scriptId)) {
                        deferred.resolve();
                        return;
                    }

                    var s = document.createElement('script');
                    s.id = scriptId;
                    s.innerText = "(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');ga('create', '" + trackingId + "', 'auto');";

                    // most browsers
                    s.onload = initGA();
                    // IE 6 & 7
                    s.onreadystatechange = function () {
                        if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
                            initGA();
                        }
                    }

                    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);
                }

                $window.initGA = function () {
                    deferred.resolve();
                }

                loadScript();

                return deferred.promise;
            }

A: Could you try adding the following instead of a call to .innerHTML()
//...text above...
TheAnalyticsScript.text = ['ga-script-string', 'fb-script.string','hotjar.string'].join('\n');
$('body').append(TheAnalyticsScript);

Please let me know if that works.

A: Here's my pick on the problem. The solution simply patches the default scripts to return function which then adds the script tag  only after the consent is granted. Have a look:
// for GoogleAnalytics
var loadGA = (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {
  i['GoogleAnalyticsObject'] = r;
  i[r] = i[r] || function() {
      (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)
    },
    i[r].l = 1 * new Date();

  // call this function after receiving consent
  return function loadGA() {
    a = s.createElement(o),
      m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];
    a.async = 1;
    a.src = g;
    m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)
  }
})(window, document, 'script', '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js', 'ga');

// for Facebook
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
  FB.init({
    appId: 'your-app-id',
    autoLogAppEvents: true,
    xfbml: true,
    version: 'v2.10'
  });
  FB.AppEvents.logPageView();
};

var loadFB = (function(d, s, id) {
  //- call this function after receiving consent
  return function loadFB() {
    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
    if (d.getElementById(id)) {
      return;
    }
    js = d.createElement(s);
    js.id = id;
    js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js";
    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
  }
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));

// for HotJar
var loadHJ = (function(h, o, t, j, a, r) {
  h.hj = h.hj || function() {
    (h.hj.q = h.hj.q || []).push(arguments)
  };
  h._hjSettings = {
    hjid: 1,
    hjsv: 5
  };

  return function loadHJ() {
    a = o.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
    r = o.createElement('script');
    r.async = 1;
    r.src = t + h._hjSettings.hjid + j + h._hjSettings.hjsv;
    a.appendChild(r);
  }
})(window, document, '//static.hotjar.com/c/hotjar-', '.js?sv=');

// finally when you receive the consent
function onConsentReceived() {
  loadGA();
  loadFB();
  loadHJ();
}

//- meanwhile you can continue using ga(), hj() whatever here...

Each of the loader can be in it's own script tag but make sure about the ordering of those tags.

A: $(document).ajaxComplete(function() {
        var _gaq = _gaq || [];
      _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']);
      _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);

       var loadGoogleAnalytics = function(){
         var ga = document.createElement('script');
           ga.type = 'text/javascript';
           ga.async = true;
           ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

           var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
           s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
        }
    });

A: Rather than appending the entire analytics script, you could have it included always but remove the following line:
ga("send", "pageview");

Then, when the user accepts the cookies.. fire the analytics function that sends the beacon using that same line above. Analytics does not actually send any data unless being told to specifically. That would be the most logical way of doing what you are attempting.

A: Thinking about what your code does, this function:

*

*Creates a <script> element filled with strings

*Adds it to the <head>
Note that the <head> is afaik supposed to be loaded only at the initial load. Depending on the browser implementation etc it might be the case that some of your visitor's browsers ignore the <script> tag you add after the page load is completed.
If I understand when you want to do right you want:

*

*To load the page without the tracking scripts

*Show a consent modal/popup

*On 'agree' click trigger this function without a page reload

note: many EU websites reload the page after cookie consent because they add the <script> tags with tracking to the page using backend rendering. Often clicking 'I agree to cookies' they store a agreed: true type cookie that changes what webpage their server sends.
If you don't care about reloads:

*

*Set a cookie when the user agrees

*Reload the page

*Have your backend (php/node/ruby/whatever) add a script tag based on this cookie

If you do care
Change your function to run the tracking codes instead of adding them to the DOM.
Just look at the tracking codes and break them down into easy to read code. For example the Ga code is actually simply:
var ga = document.createElement('script')
ga.type = 'text/javascript'
ga.async = true
ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);

And then
function addTrackers() {

// Execute the tracking things instead of adding them to the DOM

}

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In 2005 the United States Supreme Court in Kelo v. City of New London upheld the actions of the City of New London, Connecticut (the "City") in forming a non-profit corporation to redevelop the Fort Trumbull area of the City. In order to capitalize on Pfizer, Inc.'s ("Pfizer") private development of an adjacent research facility, the New London Development Corporation prepared a detailed development plan which included 115 privately held parcels. The Supreme Court upheld the City's right to take the privately held properties in order to complete its development plan.
Although the 5 to 4 decision was in line with a long history of Fifth Amendment eminent domain cases, it ignited a backlash throughout the country. 42 states enacted legislation placing further restrictions on the use of eminent domain for economic development. In Ohio, the Ohio Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Horney that the use of eminent domain merely for economic benefit violated the Ohio Constitution. The Ohio legislature also amended Ohio's eminent domain law to make the "slum" and "blight" standards more stringent. Horney and the legislative changes tie the hands of government and swing the Kelo pendulum too far to the side of private property owners.
Although tax credits given to Pfizer were not a part of the Kelo litigation, Pfizer's announcement last week that it would pull out of its research facility when its partial tax abatement ends re-ignited the discussion on Kelo. Those opposed to a public entity's right to take property for private economic development point to the fact that, not only was the City's plan never enacted, leaving the Fort Trumbull area vacant, but now Pfizer is leaving and taking over a thousand jobs with it.
However, in urban areas, it is often impossible to complete any project of scale without involving private property owners. Often times these private property owners are able to hold an entire project hostage by demanding excessive values for their properties. Although the development in New London never came to pass, other developments which have civic value should not be permitted to die on the vine due to the self-interest of one property owner.


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By Bill Bradley
We've all been Rick (Grimes) rolled.
"The Walking Dead" Season 8 trailer made people freak out with a bizarre scene that seems to hint at the worst theory ever: that everything is just Rick's coma dream.
You may have heard by now that some fans have suggested Rick Grimes never actually woke up in the hospital at the beginning of "The Walking Dead." They think he's still there in a coma and everything that happens is just part of his dream.
Despite creator Robert Kirkman shooting this theory down, in the Season 8 trailer we see a shot of an older-looking Rick Grimes waking up in a bed very similarly to how he supposedly woke up when the show began.
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There's even a shot of flowers, which Rick has near his bed in Episode 1, too.
And people could not handle it.
Absolutely love it. I had predicted Rick Grimes to wake up from his coma in the hospital. He had dreamt it all.
— Shelly Sturgell (@shelsturgell) July 21, 2017
the preview for the walking dead s8?? if I've acc watched 7 seasons of this show for rick to wake up from his coma and everything is a dream
— onyaaa 🥀 (@aine_dob) July 21, 2017
Bruh, the trailer for The Walking Dead season 8, don't tell me everything that happened was just a dream when Rick was in a coma
— Miko Mikotto (@MikhaelDapat) July 22, 2017
So is it all in his head?
Nah. The show just wants us to think so.
After Rick's war with his nemesis Negan, there's a time jump in the comics. That's probably what we're seeing here.
As a tip off, there's also a shot of a cane before we see Rick in bed. Comicbook.com points out that Rick's leg is broken during the conflict with Negan in the comics. A cane would probably come in handy for that.
So everyone losing it over the scene, don't worry about "Walking Dead" being in Rick's head. AMC is likely just messing with us.
This scene is either a time jump similar to the one in the comics or perhaps it's a hallucination since it has a glowy look to it. Or maybe it was Tim Allen who fell off a roof and now Rick Grimes is the new Santa Claus, which would explain the beard.
We'll find out sometime after Season 8 premieres on Oct. 22 because we're never gonna give you up, "Walking Dead." We're never gonna let you down.
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Memorable quote of the night at Orgle Manor? "Well sure, sweetie, it's possible that Willingham could hit two grand-slams in the game, but that almost never hap--.....Well, I'll be damned!"
You'll note I've never offered to bet on the outcome of the series, primarily because you most likely would not let me bet on the Nats to take it.
This is the Brewer's traditional slump to the end of the season. Given that the Nats play six or seven more games against us before the end of the season, they may indeed beat the 100 loss bogey.
Actually, I think you have higher expectations of the Nats in the series than I do. Our offense isn't usually as powerful as it was last night and I couldn't help noticing how big and scary a lot of the Brewer players looked.
Also, John Lannan can't pitch every night, and you never know what you're going to get with the rest of our starting rotation (to say nothing of our bullpen).
3rd NL player to hit 2 grand salamis in one game, and the 13th overall. Apparently, the double grand slam is ever rarer than the perfect game.