#Eaton family

[bunnybananasims]

Eaton family, Roaring Heights - #37

For many days, everything in the household felt somewhat "sluggish, stagnant", a huge contrast to their old life when there were still no kids and their parents were still alive. No new adventures and activities, always just work and kids.

This was the reason Kim picked up a new hobby - inventing. Thanks to the improved library, Kim can just drive there with her junk metal and start tinkering in the workshop area there. She saw Sharla the other day messing with junk metal and came up with a beautiful sculpture, so she thought, why not try working with the material, too?

It still didn't satisfy her curiosity and thirst for excitement and new adventures, so she thought another way to solve that - become a vampire.

One early evening, the whole household decided to go to the winter festival grounds for a change of scenery and to have fun. Kim made it first to the festival grounds, while the couple were still with their kids going on a stroll to the park. She saw Alessandro there, a close friend who's also a famous actor and a vampire, so she asked him to turn her. Her arm became a bit itchy for a while.

The next day, before sunrise, the first snow of the season poured down on the dry, clean and quiet streets of Roaring Heights.

[petalsfordany]

Courtney Eaton unintentionally being a comedian and wonderful

[montydragon]

Slightly more detailed doodles of my flightless avian OC, Rooturoo! Bless Jay Eaton for making so many diagrams of these aliens, makes the design process much more fun

[deankarolina]

Courtney Eaton on Celebrity Family Feud

[rhincoart]

(bdg voice) siblings siblings siblings siblings

finally got this lineup of my silly sibling ocs done after two months (+ higher quality individual versions below). their names, ages and heights are written how they would write it themselves

[wildcmbcrsupdates]

Courtney Eaton via Rydel Funk - BABY FUNK OFFICIAL GENDER REVEAL!!! on YouTube, 03/25/2023.

[lottiessidehoe]

Courtney has me dying bring back my family

yellowjackets cast singing let it go

[lifewithaview]

Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) The Path of Duty

S1E4

It's May 1905 and Elizabeth Bellamy returns home after attending finishing school in Germany. At 17, she is attractive and has a keen mind with a variety of interests whether it be literature, art or politics. She is pleased that Rose is to be her personal maid but is not necessarily looking forward to attending an upcoming ball where she will 'come out' and be introduced to the King and Queen. Everyone at 165 Eaton Place is working to ensure that her grand evening is a memorable one but at the ball she is bored not only with the company but with the empty-headed girls around her. Refusing to act the part, she disappears just before she is to be presented.

*Shot in black-and-white because of a labour dispute with technical unions.

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[atyd1960]

Graham and Megan from But I’m a Cheerleader are so Zablack. Narcissa is that sweet quiet girl who lives to please her family and Louise is that badass rebel who in truth just wants to be able to live as her true self and be accepted

[bunnybananasims]

Eaton family, Roaring Heights - #38

It snowed the whole day at Roaring Heights, the cold weather prompting for some hot coco, cozy blankets, warm food and other indoor activities. But a few people had other things in mind.

Kim decided to visit her parents in the graveyard, hoping for some clarity and a sign regarding the life-changing decision she made the other night.

Maybe it's wrong, she thought. Mortal humans shouldn't get too greedy and selfish and seek immortality.

But I want to have a new and exciting life. I don't think it's wrong to try other things.

She didn't get any clarity or a sign. Whatever will be, will just be. She'd just let things unfold and decide from there.

And that day came by so quick. One evening, at the Capp and Shear house party, she finally completed her metamorphosis, and it felt really good - this new life's not so bad after all. She went to bed that night with hope and excitement for the new things to come.

The following morning, Sharla visited her late parents' graves, telling them how much she misses them and asking for their guidance and care from the afterlife.

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[petalsfordany]

Courtney Eaton - Variety’s Emmy’s extra edition

Photograph by Dan Doperalski

[montydragon]

Some sketches of Rooturoo's bugferret family. It's quite small, with only ten adult members and seven pups, and all are botanists/agricultural workers. Rooturoo gets along with them all for the most part, but they're notably close with Kiiwah (given nickname), a young adult who recently married in. Kiiwah lost a hand in a meat processing accident.

[deankarolina]

[fatehbaz]

Good question:

In the United States, many jails and prisons can and will charge you money for every single night that you spend imprisoned, for the entire duration of your incarceration, as if you were being billed for staying at a hotel. Even if you are incarcerated for years. Adding up to tens of thousands of dollars. What happens when you’re released?

In response to this:

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So.

You’re getting charged, like, ten dollars every time you even submit a request form to possibly be seen by a doctor or dentist.

You’re getting charged maybe five dollars for ten minutes on the phone.

Any time a friend or family tries to send you like five dollars so that you can buy some toothpaste or lotion, or maybe a snack from the commissary since you’re diabetic and the “meals” have left you malnourished, maybe half of that money gets taken as a “service fee” by the corporate contractor that the prison uses to manage your pre-paid debit card. So you’re already losing money every day just by being there.

What happens if you can’t pay?

In some places, after serving just a couple of years for drugs charges, almost 20 years after being released, the state can still hunt you down for over $80,000 that you “owe” as if it were a per-night room-and-board accommodations charge, like this recent highly-publicized case in Connecticut:

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Two decades after her release from prison, [TB] feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes. [...] “I’m about to be homeless,” said [TB], 58, who in March [2022] became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state law that charges prisoners $249 a day for the cost of their incarceration. [...] All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars [...]. Critics say it’s an unfair second penalty that hinders rehabilitation by putting former inmates in debt for life. Efforts have been underway in some places to scale back or eliminate such policies. Two states — Illinois and New Hampshire — have repealed their laws since 2019. [...] Pay-to-stay laws were put into place in many areas during the tough-on-crime era of the 1980s and ’90s, said Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California who is leading a study of the practice. [...] Connecticut used to collect prison debt by attaching an automatic lien to every inmate, claiming half of any financial windfall they might receive for up to 20 years after they are released from prison [...].

Text by: Pat Eaton-Robb. “At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt.” AP News / The Associated Press. 27 August 2022.

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Look at this:

To help her son, Cindy started depositing between $50 to $100 a week into Matthew’s account, money he could use to buy food from the prison commissary, such as packaged ramen noodles, cookies, or peanut butter and jelly to make sandwiches. Cindy said sending that money wasn’t necessarily an expense she could afford. “No one can,” she said. So far in the past month, she estimates she sent Matthew close to $300. But in reality, he only received half of that amount. The balance goes straight to the prison to pay off the $1,000 in “rent” that the prison charged Matthew for his prior incarceration. [...] A PA Post examination of six county budgets (Crawford, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lehigh, Venango and Indiana) showed that those counties’ prisons have collected more than $15 million from inmates — almost half is for daily room and board fees that are meant to cover at least a portion of the costs with housing and food. Prisoners who don’t work are still expected to pay. If they don’t, their bills are sent to collections agencies, which can report the debts to credit bureaus. [...] Between 2014 and 2017, the Indiana County Prison — which has an average inmate population of 87 people — collected nearly $3 million from its prisoners. In the past five years, Lebanon’s jail collected just over $2 million in housing and processing fees.

Text by: Joseph Darius Jaafari. “Paying rent to your jailers: Inmates are billed millions of dollars for their stays in Pa. prisons.” WHYY (PBS). 10 December 2019. Originally published at PA Post.

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Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay for their own jail or prison confinement, is being enforced unfairly by using criminal, civil and administrative law, according to a new Rutgers University-New Brunswick led study. The study [...] finds that charging pay-to-stay fees is triggered by criminal justice contact but possible due to the co-opting of civil and administrative institutions, like social service agencies and state treasuries that oversee benefits, which are outside the realm of criminal justice. “A person can be charged $20 to $80 a day for their incarceration,” said author Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of Rutgers' criminal justice program. “That per diem rate can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees when a person gets out of prison. To recoup fees, states use civil means such as lawsuits and wage garnishment against currently and formerly incarcerated people, and regularly use administrative means such as seizing employment pensions, tax refunds and public benefits to satisfy the debt.” [...] Civil penalties are enacted on family members if the defendant cannot pay and in states such as Florida, Nevada and Idaho can occur even after the original defendant is deceased. [...]

Text by: Megan Schumann. “States Unfairly Burdening Incarcerated People With “Pay-to-Stay” Fees.” Rutgers press release. 20 November 2020.

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So, to pay for your own imprisonment, states can:

-- hunt you down for decades (track you down 20 years later, charge you tens of thousands of dollars, and take your house away)

-- put a lien on your vehicle, house

-- garnish your paycheck/wages

-- seize your tax refund

-- send collections agencies after you

-- take your public assistance benefits

-- sue you in civil court

-- take money from your family even after you’re dead

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Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2022 - #Ireland #Family Mary Crowley, #Paranormal #History Roberta Eaton Cheadle, #Thriller #Haiti Mark Bierman

Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair 2022 – #Ireland #Family Mary Crowley, #Paranormal #History Roberta Eaton Cheadle, #Thriller #Haiti Mark Bierman

Welcome to the Smorgasbord Christmas Book Fair with a selection of books from personally recommended authors on my bookshelf I believe will make wonderful gifts for friends, family and for you. The first book today is the release by Mary Crowley, an author I enjoy reading, and my review for Recipes and Tales from the Kitchen of Oceanic Temptations: A Taste of the Wild Atlantic Way About the…