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From the Friday, April 18 Chicago Tribune:
The Illinois House on Thursday unanimously passed legislation that would allow judges to order GPS monitoring for those who violate orders of protection. The proposed law is modeled on the statute in Massachussetts…”It’s really what the technology does to the mind of the batterer more than anything else, and if they realize that there will be very concrete evidence of their violating the restrictions, they are less likely to do so”, said Edna Erez, head of the criminal justice department at the University of Illinois at Chicago…Massachusetts has been using GPS monitoring for sex offenders since 2005, and in late 2006 started using it for those accused of domestic violence or stalking.
While the Tribune doesn’t mention it specifically, the technology created by GTX Corp. that I am freelance writing about is the first thing I thought of when I read this article. In my considerations of potential uses for a miniature GPS unit that provides a continuous, real-time tracking signal, I hadn’t even thought of domestic violence or stalking victims. In the case of the State of Massachusetts, the offender is fitted with an ankle bracelet that connects wirelessly to a GPS-fitted cell phone. The ankle bracelet transmits location data for the cell phone to tracking centers every five minutes, even warning authorities if the phone’s batteries are low. If the person fitted with the ankle bracelet moves into an area from which they are barred-say, a certain distance from their victim’s home-an alert is set off and a probation employee contacts the person being tracked on the cell phone. If that does’t work, a parole officer can be contacted and an arrest warrant issued.
I would like to see more states, including my own, adopt this program. Victims of abuse or attacks should be free to get on with their lives, not have to constantly be afraid that their attacker will find them and hurt them again. It’s the criminals that should have their lives inconvenienced and monitored, and I hope technology like that of GTX Corp. can be part of that solution.
Congratulations to the randomly chosen winners of the Baby Einstein Baby’s First Sounds DVDs:
Mary from Adventures in Mommyland
Lisa from My Thoughts, Ideas and Ramblings
SJ (no blog)
Rebecca Brown (no blog)
As much as I have loved this giveaway (250 comments! Awesome!), all good things must come to an end. I used random.org’s sequence generator, set the values at 1-250 (two of the comments on the post are mine), clicked get sequence three times (I always shuffle the numbers three times), AND…
The winner is #231, Ellie from Confessions of a Proud Young Parent!! Yay!! I really wished I could have given free Reddi-wip and ice cream to each and every one of you. Thank you so much everyone who commented, subcribed to my feed, faved me on Technorati, added the blog to your blogroll, and/or wrote a post linking to the contest! You gave me serious cravings with your suggestions to put Reddi-wip on waffles with strawberries, on warm chocolate cake, and in my coffee. And I’m pretty sure I gained five pounds just from reading your comments about your favorite flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Thanks again to everyone who entered!!
Thank you so much to everyone who has commented on the previous post. Even though the comments I was referring to weren’t aimed at me personally, we are a community. I can’t just stand by and let other bloggers be called ugly names because they are invited to go to events and have products sent to them by P.R. firms in exchange for reviews. There IS NO CONSPIRACY, I promise. And that’s the end of that.
So, in the interest of remembering that this is MY blog, I’m going to write something about something with some links, and maybe get something for it, and you can choose to read it, and if you do, maybe you’ll click one of the links because they sound interesting and won’t that be peachy? Yes!
So. Katherine Heigl. The lovely lass from Grey’s Anatomy. I’m picturing her on the set of the show, sixteen hours a day, wearing her scrubs costume and thinking to herself “geez, why can’t this be, you know, pretty? If nurses and doctors have to wear these as clothing, why can’t they express some individual personality?” Of course, I have no idea if she actually thought that, but, you know, I’m taking some artistic license here. So ANYWAY, Ms. Heigl has created her very own line of, you guessed it, scrubs, for the website Scrubs and Beyond.
This one has lace insets at the neck and sleeves, isn’t it pretty? I had NO IDEA that scrubs were something that got the designer treatment, so I was so surprised to also find BABY PHAT scrubs on the site!
Remember Dickies jeans? There’s a line of dickies scrubs, in classic red, black, navy and white. The pants look really comfortable!
You know the Cherokee brand that is carried at Target, right? Well, you guessed it, there is also a line of cherokee medical scrubs, and most of the pieces don’t look at all like medical wear. I mean, if you saw a top, with this description-
* Sweetheart neckline.
* Mock-wrap styling.
* 2 side pockets.
* Lace trim at hem.
and it looked like this:
would you think hey, that looks like it comes from the cherokee medical scrubs line? Well, I wouldn’t!
So there you go. Everything you wanted to know about Katherine Heigl’s line of scrubs for Scrubs and Beyond, plus more. Because I like learning new things and sharing them with you. I’m a giver 
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