Discussion in 'Tools - Machine Polishers, Pressure Washers, Detai' started by Dave KG, Apr 25, 2008.
Above is a guide written by me covering all the general points of Dual Action polishing. It is designed as a download and print out and keep guide for anyone wanting a guide to the use of a DA, mainly aimed at beginners but also at anyone who would find it useful.
Please be aware that these are "Beta Versions" of the guide, there are a few spelling mistakes and I am constantly working to fix these.
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This is an amazing guide for us beginners. Thanks for sharing. Maybe this can get stickied?
Thanks Dave, i just bought 7424XP, your guidance will be very useful.
Just seeing this now. I'm sure it will come in handy.
Dual Action Polisher will make your car maintenance safer and more simple, because compare with rotary buffing machine, it produce less heat during polishing. While reducing the damage to the paint, and removal of minor scratches, Dual Action Polisher can easily remove swirl marks, very good performance. Dual Action Polisher will improve the texture and gloss car paint. For auto detailing people, enthusiasts and professional beauty technician, Dual Action polisher machine is their best choice; it will bring them a wonderful detailing and polishing experience.
Dual action polishers are excellent tools for improving the appearance of automotive paint. The motion of the pad is described as dual action, hence the name of these polishers. The pad rotates and orbits. The constant, off-center motion keeps heat from building up under the pad. Damaging the paint is extremely unlikely with a Dual Action Polisher. For this reason, many beginners start with a dual action polisher. Dual Action Polisher is the machine with head movement. Polishing in the rotation and orbit has a beat movement. This exercise can prevent irregular polishing machine burning car paint.
The dual action polisher that allows you to safely remove swirl marks, light scratches and achieve a high quality finish on your paintwork. It greatly reduces the time and effort required to polish and protect your car and is suitable for use on all paint types including clear coated .


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Military veterans new interpreters at Bighorn Canyon NRA
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There are a couple of fresh faces behind the counter at the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area visitor center, and both are military veterans.
New to the interpretive staff at the Cal S. Taggart Visitor Center are Lovell native Jerry Anderson and Todd Johnson, who recently retired as a lieutenant colonel following a 22-year career in the U.S. Army.
Both Anderson and Johnson are park guides and are working their first jobs with the National Park Service.
After his retirement from the Army, Johnson was working in Allentown, Penn., when he decided to look into a Park Service career and heard about the opportunity in Wyoming.
"It was something I definitely wanted to pursue," he said.
Born in Minnesota, Johnson grew up in Wisconsin and upon his graduation from high school attended Ripon College in Wisconsin on an ROTC scholarship, double-majoring in history as well as politics and government. He even spent a semester in England, which he said was a great opportunity and piqued his interest in seeing the world.
Jerry Anderson (left) and Todd Johnson are new park guides in the Interpretive Division at the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. Both military veterans, the two started work last week.
David Peck photo
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and an armor officer at Ft. Knox but said all of his operational experience was as a scout and operating Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
And see the world he did. Johnson said he was able to serve in a variety of echelons all over the world including South Korea, Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky and Italy, earning a master's degree in the process, then serving deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a tour at the Pentagon. He served as the aide-de-camp to the commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division, visiting forward operating bases throughout the country, and he worked with NATO in Afghanistan.
After his deployment to Afghanistan, he served as a battalion commander in Hawaii for two years, then taught at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., in the National Security Affairs Dept. for two years before retiring as a lieutenant colonel in September of 2016.
He received the Legion of Merit Award upon his retirement and the Bronze Star for his service in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
He got a job in finance in Allentown, Penn., but decided to do something different.
"My family and I have been lucky enough to travel, and we've been to over 120 national parks," Johnson said. "I've always loved national parks, the whole concept, and I love the mission. I've developed an affinity for what they do. I thought this was an opportunity to pursue something really cool."
Johnson and his wife, Amy, have two daughters, Emma, 12, and Audrey, 9. The family remains in Pennsylvania for now but will join him in Wyoming soon.
Jerry Anderson
Jerry Anderson grew up in Lovell and is a 1971 graduate of Lovell High School. He played football for Snow College in Utah as an outside linebacker for a year, then served a two-year LDS mission in Tulsa, Okla. After his return, he earned a B.A. outdoor education with an elementary ed and professional agency emphasis and worked as the Lovell Community Education/Recreation Director for more than 10 years before returning to school at MSU-Billings to earn a certificate in special education, health and physical education.
He worked in special education at School District No. 1 for about six years through 2000, in the process earning a master's degree from Lesley College. He coached football for head coach Ben Smith at Rocky Mountain High School and was the head middle school wrestling coach in Deaver.
Anderson moved on to School District No. 2 in Lovell in 2000, continuing in K-12 special education and coaching football and wrestling until his retirement in 2013.
A member of the Wyoming National Guard since 1984, Anderson was deployed to Iraq for a year in 2004-05 as a liaison network operator tracking troops as they ran their missions, then retired from the Guard in 2006.
Asked why he decided to "un-retire" after four years, Anderson noted, "I liked the free time, but I missed being around people. My main goal was to get back in circulation a little bit. You miss the routine and the schedule. And this was an opportunity to practice my outdoor recreation stuff."
A scoutmaster for 12 or 13 years, Anderson still served on the Scout Committee for Troop 18 and is a merit badge counselor. He said he will try to design programs at Bighorn Canyon around merit badge qualifications.
Jerry and his wife, Terri, have five children: Kimberly Cutler of Rock Springs, Lindsay Lindsay of Cowley, Matt Anderson of Springfield, Mo., Nick Anderson of Billings and Tyler Anderson of Pocatello, Idaho.
"These guys are both military veterans and will do a great job," Bighorn Canyon Chief of Interpretation Christy Fleming said of her new staff members. "In
addition to running the visitor center, they will be working with schools, volunteers, the website, social media, programming and public outreach. I am super excited to have both of them on. The extra year-round visitor center person helps us to do more outreach and school programming.
"Teachers can start calling and scheduling school programs in November after the guys get settled in. Jerry is great because he already knows the area, and Todd will be a great addition with new perspectives and ideas."
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cdk_scroll − curses scrolling list widget.
The Cdk scroll widget creates a scrolling list. The following are functions which create or manipulate the Cdk scrolling list widget.
activates the scroll widget and lets the user interact with the widget. The parameter scroll points to a non-NULL scroll widget. If the actions parameter is passed with a non-NULL value, the characters in the array will be injected into the widget. To activate the widget interactively pass in a NULL pointer for actions. If the character entered into this widget is RETURN or TAB then this function will return a value from 0 to the number of items-1, representing the item selected. It will also set the widget data exitType to vNORMAL. If the character entered into this widget was ESCAPE then the widget will return a value of -1 and the widget data exitType will be set to vESCAPE_HIT.
allows the user to add an item into an existing scrolling list. The scroll parameter points to the scrolling list to add the item to. The parameter item is a char * representing the new item to add. The item is always added to the end of the list.
allows the user to add an item into an existing scrolling list. The scroll parameter points to the scrolling list to add the item to. The parameter f2position is an int which specifies which element to remove.
draws the scroll widget on the screen. If the box option is true, the widget is drawn with a box.
returns the current item's index.
returns the current item number in the scroller.
returns the top line of the scroller, counting from zero.
fills the parameter itemList with the contents of the scrolling list. It returns the number of elements in the scrolling list.
the function returns a value ranging from zero to one less than the number of items, representing the item selected. The widget data exitType is set to vNORMAL.
allows the user to add an item into an existing scrolling list. The scroll parameter points to the scrolling list to add the item to. The parameter item is a char * representing the new item to add. The item is always added before the current item in the list.
parameter is the screen you wish this widget to be placed in. The parameter xpos controls the placement of the object along the horizontal axis. This parameter may be an integer or one of the pre-defined values LEFT, RIGHT, and CENTER.
controls the placement of the object along the vertical axis. This parameter may be an integer value or one of the pre-defined values TOP, BOTTOM, and CENTER.
which puts the scroll bar on the left of the scrolling list.
NONE which does not add a scroll bar.
control the height and width of the widget. If you provide a value of zero for either of the height or the width, the widget will be created with the full width and height of the screen. If you provide a negative value, the widget will be created the full height or width minus the value provided.
is the list of items to be displayed in the scrolling list.
is true if you want the items in the list to have a number attached to the front of the list items.
is true if the widget should be drawn with a box around it.
lets the programmer modify certain elements of an existing scroll widget. The parameter names correspond to the same parameter names listed in the newCDKScroll function.
sets the index for the current item.
set the current item number in the scroller.
set the top line number of the scroller.
sets the contents of the scrolling list.
sets the current item in the widget to the given position.
sets the upper left hand corner of the widget's box to the given character.
sets the upper right hand corner of the widget's box to the given character.
sets the vertical drawing character for the box to the given character.


This is a Q&A session with the director of "A Cadaver Christmas" Joe Zerull.
IDS Rising had its world premiere at the Oshkosh Horror Film Festival 2012. The Final Cut was there to catch the Q&A with the Cast and Crew.
The cast and crew of "The Green Goo" talk about their experience making their first feature film.
This was a longer Q & A session with a number of the makers of the various short films shown at the festival.
Session with the man behind OTHER and the two men responsible for TEDDY.


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Q: Batch File to check folder contents and restart print spooler not working We have an issue where a 24in plotter keeps freezing up and the only way to fix it is to stop the print spooler, delete the printer contents, then restart the spooler. For non-technical people this is quite difficult so I thought I'd write a simple batch file (below) to assist...
@echo off
echo Press any key to fix Plotter frozen print queue.
pause
sc stop Spooler
echo Spooler service stopped, please wait.
timeout 5
if exist "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*" (
echo Files are in the print queue
echo **check no other printer is being used before continuing**
pause
del "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*"
) else (
echo There are no files in any print queues
)
sc start Spooler
echo Spooler service restarting, please wait.
timeout 5
pause

Now this works all apart from the feedback from the folder... if the folder is empty it still says that there is something there!?
I know it's a question within a question but I can't also see a way of checking the spooler status when it is running... so I've used timeout to delay things
The service has states but I don't know how to check these in a batch file, I also don't know the states of running and stopped :/
STATE              : 2  START_PENDING
STATE              : 3  STOP_PENDING

Thanks in advance

A: To know, if there are files in the folder:
dir /b "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\*" | findstr "^" 2>nul && (
  echo files found
) || (
  echo no files found
)

To get the spooler state:
for /f "tokens=3,4" %%a in ('sc query spooler ^|find "STATE"') do set "state=%%a %%b"
echo Spooler state: %state%

(probably you need %%a only for numerical comparison or %%b only for string comparison)

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Tantilla nigriceps es una especie de serpiente de la familia Colubridae. Miden aproximadamente de 18 a 38 cm de largo, con un color tostado uniforme a gris parduzco. Sus escamas ventrales son blancas con una línea media rosada o anaranjada. Se distingue fácilmente de T. wilcoxi y T. yaquia por la ausencia de un collar ligero.

Hábitat
La serpiente se encuentra en los estados estadounidenses de Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma y Nuevo México y en México.

A menudo se encuentran en praderas rocosas o cubiertas de hierba, o en laderas aquí donde el suelo es húmedo. De vez en cuando se encuentran en sótanos.

Comportamiento
Tantilla nigriceps es a menudo reservada y se puede encontrar buscando refugio en la hojarasca o en pequeñas madrigueras, mientras permanece activa durante la noche. Se ha recolectado de febrero a septiembre en Arizona, pero la mayoría se encuentra en agosto. Es susceptible a la desecación y es poco probable que se encuentre activo en la superficie o debajo de los escombros de la superficie en períodos o estaciones secas.

Crianza
Se presume que ponen hasta tres huevos en la primavera o principios del verano, donde las crías comenzarán a emerger durante el verano.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

nigriceps
Reptiles de México
Reptiles de Estados Unidos

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What later became known as the 'Tripoli Enterprise' describes the Italian conquest and occupation of North Africa. The 'Enterprise' aimed at acquiring Tripoli and Cyrenaica from the Turks, partly in order to assuage Nationalist feelings within Italy, and partly to establish North African colonies alongside her rivals, Britain and France. As a military operation the campaign was not a remarkable success, for the Turkish forces were already preoccupied with troubles nearer home against the Balkan States. Nonetheless, the expedition gained the close attention of a Europe already straining towards the greater conflict of 1914, and the author was one of many correspondents sent to relay news of the war.
Italy in North Africa includes contemporary accounts of the conflict along with vivid descriptions of the area of operations, supported by many interesting photographs and several maps. Together these form a unique record of a period of history vital to the development of North Africa.


One of the few places that was a non-negotiable on my list of New Orleans places to visit? Cochon Butcher. Chef Donald Link's artisanal butcher shop/sandwich joint/wine bar is next to Cochon, his homage to all things Cajun, porky, and meaty.
My favorite sandwich is the Cochon Muffuletta ($12), a cheffy version of the classic New Orleans sandwich first made in Central Grocery in the French Quarter. The classic uses a sesame seed flat loaf with a firm texture, but Cochon's has a fluffier, softer sesame bun that was browned to a crisp on the bottom. The house-cured meats were all good, especially the smoky ham and the pastrami with plenty of black peppercorns. The olive tapenade had just the right mix of briny and tart.
All sandwiches come with a generous serving of perfect fried potato chips and house-cured pickles, which are sweet, not too sour, and sort of a cross between half-sours and full-on pickles you find at some Jewish delis.


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June 17th 2014:Early Intervention in Life on the Autism Spectrum
Tasha Kheiriddin, writer and broadcaster based in Toronto, Canada, highlights her career in law, politics, media, public policy and communications. She discusses her family caregiving for her daughter Zara, who lives on the part of the autism spectrum called Asperger's syndrome. She describes Asperger's syndrome and how it began for Zara. She identifies its challenges for young children and their family caregivers. She discusses the interventions and when and why these are needed. She describes the interventions Zara received, and explains which of her challenges changed for the better and whi
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Tasha Kheiriddin
Tasha Kheiriddin is a writer and broadcaster based in the greater Toronto area. Her columns appear weekly in the National Post and on iPolitics.ca and she can be heard regularly on CTV NewsChannel, CBC Radio's The House, and in French on RDI's Le Telejournal. Born and raised in Montreal, she has led a varied career in law, politics, media, public policy and communications. She has produced and hosted television programmes, co-authored the best-selling 'Rescuing Canada's Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution', served as Director of the Fraser Institute in Quebec, and lectured on conservative policies at McGill University. She has received several awards for her media work including


FreeNAS is free to use and deploy without cost. It's an open source project published under the BSD license. The software is popular enough to have gotten more than 20,000 downloads last month.
I downloaded the FreeNAS 0.66 ISO image and burned it onto a CD. To get started with FreeNAS, you need a PC or server with at least 96MB of memory, a network adapter, and at least one hard disk. I used an older PC with four IDE drives attached. I wanted to install FreeNAS on one of the disks and use the other three as a RAID 5 set. My test machine supports only four IDE drives, so I temporarily changed one of the drives for a CD-ROM drive, installed FreeNAS, and swapped back the hard disk before configuring the disks.
Booting the PC from the CD gets FreeNAS up and running, but you still need to configure it. Follow the instructions in the FreeNAS setup and user guide.
One thing to watch while doing the initial configuration is that the FreeNAS server doesn't do any auto assignment of the network card. I assumed that since I only had one network card, it would automatically be assigned as the network card for the system. I was wrong. I only realised the problem after an hour of checking connections and cables. You must assign the network card as laid out in the "LAN interface and IP configuration" section of the user guide.
Once you have the box working, enter the IP address you assigned the FreeNAS server into the address bar of a Web browser. You'll be prompted for a username and password. The defaults are "admin" and "freenas". The start page shows some system information such as the version number and memory usage, with a menu on the left side.
The first thing I wanted to do was get the RAID disks working. Once again, the user guide is your friend, with clear, step-by-step instructions for the process.
Only whole hard disks can be used for RAID sets, so if you install the FreeNAS server onto one of your disks (rather than onto a USB pen drive) then that disk can't be used as part of a RAID set. Also, to get the maximum space from your RAID sets, use disks of the same or similar size. Some versions of FreeNAS insist on the drives being exactly the same size due to some bugs in the software.
One other thing to watch while creating a mount point for a RAID set is that you must change the the partition type to Software RAID. I didn't do this on my first attempt to set up RAID and had to scratch my head for a while when the RAID set didn't work.
The final step to making the volume available on the network is to configure the network services such as CIFS and FTP. Windows machines use the CIFS protocol to access files over the network. CIFS is configured on the CIFS page in the Services section. To enable it, tick the Enable box at the top right and then set the workgroup name. Anonymous authentication is the easiest to get up and running, and you'll find options for authenticating locally defined users and using domain-based authentication. After clicking Save, I was able to access the FreeNAS server from a Windows machine. I watched the hard disks while I copied over some files, and the little LEDs all blinked rapidly as the disks worked in unison. My FreeNAS server was fully functional!
FreeNAS's web management interface is comprehensive enough that to administer the server you don't need to use the command line. There is provision for full shell access via SSH but I didn't find the need to try it. Reading the forums on freenas.org, which are the primary venue for support, shows that some people do use the command line for some more exotic configurations, but for the basic user the Web management interface will be sufficient.
In my testing, the core FreeNAS system was stable, but it is possible to get the system configuration into a confused state. For example, when creating my first local user I ignored the message that a group must be created first and blindly went ahead and tried to create the user. This resulted in some internal errors, and from that point on all local user authentication failed. The only way to fix the situation was to restore the FreeNAS server to the factory defaults and reconfigure the system from the beginning. If you respect the warnings and messages, you shouldn't have any problems.
To secure your server you need to change the default password for the Web management interface. It also might be worth disabling the console menu if physical access to the server isn't limited.
One limitation of the software is the lack of granularity in setting access rights to shares. The local user authentication model is an all-or-nothing affair. You can't set some users to be read-only or others to only have access to certain shares. Once a user is authenticated, he has full access to all the shared storage.
The FreeNAS server has lots of potential and is under active development; there were 11 point releases in the first four months of 2006 alone. It's a good alternative for building a simple network server without having to install a full-blown version of Linux or FreeBSD. It is also a good way to make use of aging hardware, as its system requirements are quite modest by today's standard.
Gary Sims has a degree in Business Information Systems from a British university. He worked for 10 years as a software engineer and is now a freelance Linux consultant and writer.


At best 15 years away! That is if it is approved at all.
Good, but a fair warning to the US to look at them with a serious eye on cooperations.
The Centre approval to India's manned mission to space finds expression in the Union Budget.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's "pre-project initiatives" to propel an Indian into space have been sanctioned Rs 50 crore for 2007-08.
Top ISRO sources said the flight is likely to be in 2015, followed by an Indian stepping on the Moon in 2020. An orbiter to Mars in 2014 is also among the ISRO's initiatives during the 11th five-year plan.
ISRO's intention to hoist an Indian into space was first reported by the HT on November 2, 2006. ISRO formally unveiled its plans for the manned space flight at its headquarters in Bangalore on November 7.
The budget for such a mission will be about Rs 10,000 crore, spread over eight years, sources said. The funds will enable construction of new facilities to develop technologies and train people to endure zero gravity.
The ISRO will also list the R&D organisations, like the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) and medical research institutes, which will be involved in the mission.
The space agency plans to send a GSLV-MK II (Mark two with an indigenous cryogenic engine) rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, with a three-ton space capsule (two people onboard, complete with life support systems etc).
About 16 minutes after lift-off, the rocket will inject the capsule into an orbit, 300 km-400 km from the earth. The capsule would orbit the earth and return for a splashdown in the Bay of Bengal.
The Moon voyage will entail a mission of longer duration with the capsule taking about five days to reach its destination after the GSLV rocket injects it into space. Sources said the Centre had hiked ISRO's annual budget by 30 per cent, from Rs 2, 997 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 3, 858 crore in 2007-08.
For the first time ever, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has allocated Rs 50 crore for ISRO's manned space initiatives in an indication that India is very serious about its manned space faring ambitions.
If all goes according to plan, a 50 metre tall and more than 400 tonne rocket will put an Indian in space.
The Geostationary Launch Vehicle is being fine tuned by ISRO for India's first manned space flight, possibly in 2014 from Sriharikota.
The new national effort was announced by the Finance Minister in his budget speech.
ISRO is also developing a fully autonomous orbital vehicle to carry a two-member crew into a low Earth orbit.
The mission, which will place India in the league of Russia, USA and China, is estimated to cost about Rs 10,000 crore but will be a boon for the domestic industry.
"We have carried out a detailed feasibility study of carrying humans into orbit and bringing them back using existing vehicles. We feel by using the GSLV Mark II it is possible to undertake this mission but a lot more technology has to be developed. This is quite exciting and challenging for our youngsters who are joining and hopefully we feel we will be able to do it by 2014," said B N Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram.
Work has begun at the highly guarded facilities at Thiruvananthapuram. NDTV was shown the first drawings of the crew module and the escape vehicle if something goes wrong in the manned flight.
It is the life support system that will take most development.
Hardware like heat resistant tiles to protect astronauts on the return to Earth have already been developed and the success of the satellite recovery experiment earlier this month demonstrated India's capability in re-entry technology.
Finally a capsule six times heavier will take Indians into space.
A new race to space has begun with India and China vying to find their place. All what happens at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre will decide how soon and how fast India moves in this demanding area.
I hope they get to accomplish their goals at least to LEO. More players in space can only help spur others to strive for more (e.g. US).
"NDTV was shown the first drawings of the crew module and the escape vehicle "
I have looked everywhere for this image... any clue where it can be found ?
By the way how much is Rs 50 crore ? $ 10 millions ?
No idea but just because they were shown them doesn't mean that they are online, yet. The already retrieved Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SCRE or more commonly SRE or SRE-1) looked like the old corona capsules or t/spaces CXV but obviously much smaller.
I have created an article on the program but for some reason a guy wants absolutely to remove it. Is it me or is it a valid wikipedia entry ?
manned mission to earth's satellite in 2014, landing on Mars in 2020 and perhaps colonisation of the red planet later.
"The day time temperatures are about 20 degrees Celsius though night time temperatures are low. We should be able to build an atmosphere without much problem.
Then, we could send half our population there,"
said Physical Research Laboratory council chairman and former Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief Prof U R Rao on Monday.


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Murphy's Law: December 25, 2003
: There's another war going on in Iraq, one that you don't hear much about. This is the struggle to rebuild the place after two decades of wars and corruption by Saddam Hussein and his henchmen. Progress has been made, a lot more than is generally reported.
Electrical power generation in Iraq surpassed the pre-war level of 4,400 megawatts on October 6 (reaching 4,518 MW). There's a tremendous amount of work going on to repair and replace electrical power equipment. Saddam basically starved the system of money for repair and maintenance for the last decade. To keep Baghdad lit up, he would divert power from other areas of the country (small generators were provided for his loyalists in those areas.)
The main airport at Baghdad, the nation's principal international airport, has been repaired and equipped with passenger screening security equipment. Currently, there are about 50 arrivals and departures a day, a number that will grow enormously in the next few months. Many bridges have been repaired, or temporarily replaced with military bridges. The railroads are running again. The main port at Um Qasr has been dredged and docks repaired. Large, ocean going ships are now arriving. New telephone equipment has been installed and brought online. Health care has a lot of catching up to do. Although the UN allowed Saddam to buy things like vaccines for children, he refused to do so (except for the children of his key military, police and government workers.) Some 30 million doses of vaccines have been imported and administered, to children and others in need, since the coalition arrived. Hundreds of hospitals and clinics have been repaired and staff hired and trained. Nearly 2,000 schools were repaired or rebuilt and furnished with books and equipment. The water system has been repaired and is now providing more people with clean water than before the war. New currency has been introduced and the banking system restored. There's more food in the country, and more people are getting it, than when Saddam was in power.
Local government has been reformed, with the old Baath Party officials dismissed (most of them fled areas where Sunni Arabs were not the majority) and new ones selected. Local elections nation-wide are in the works, with voter registration capabilities being installed. Some towns have already held elections for local officials. Most of the countries have been reopened, and new construction is underway in many of them. And much, much more. While many foreign aid organizations (including the UN) have fled the country, the U.S. Army has several Civil Affairs brigades in action, providing technical advisors and managers for reconstruction projects. For more details, go to;
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/updates/dec03/iraq_fs11_121603.pdf
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Modular audio mixing console Polaris evolution is being showcased, with the focus on a new DSP engine.
The individual components of Polaris are connected via a standard Ethernet network and recombined with each other for mixing projects.
The components include the control surface Polaris access, which has 16 faders, 16 dual rotary encoders, 48 buttons and a display screen strip across the width of the console. The Polaris view touch screen upgrade can be docked at an angle onto Polaris evolution and provides a convenient user interface.
Polaris scala is the DSP engine of the mixing console, able to run up to 256 inputs, 128 matrix channels and 256 output busses. This can be increased to 640 inputs or beyond by cascading further frames.
Polaris access surfaces. This enables different shows/productions to be run concurrently using only a single DSP core. The company said each input and output bus can be allocated freely per project to use the DSP capacity to its fullest extent.
Polaris scala is equipped as standard with the Live software package. There are also optional theatre and broadcast modules available, offering functionality such as show automation, N-1 and audio-follows-video. The company claimed that, because these modules run on the DSP, theatre/broadcast functionality is no longer limited by the console surface employed, but just by the scala DSP channels available .
The thermal design of the Polaris scala makes it completely fanless and noiseless, while the component comes with a redundant power supply.


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Carol Mitchell (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2011 representing the riding of Huron—Bruce. She was a cabinet minister in the government of Dalton McGuinty.

Background
Mitchell was born in Clinton, Ontario in Huron County and was educated at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. She is a past member of Girl Guides of Canada. She worked in retailing after her graduation, and ran stores selling children's clothes in Clinton and Bayfield.

Politics
She was elected to Clinton's town council in 1993, and became its reeve later in the decade. She also served on the Huron County council, and was elected as the first reeve of the amalgamated municipality of Central Huron. She was elected as warden of Huron County in 1999 and 2000.

In the 2003 provincial election she ran as the Liberal candidate in the riding of Huron—Bruce and defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Helen Johns, a cabinet minister, by about 3,000 votes. On October 23, 2003, she was named parliamentary assistant to Steve Peters, the Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food. In March 2006, Mitchell was named parliamentary assistant to David Caplan, the Minister of Public Infrastructure Renewal. Upon re-election in the fall of 2007, Mitchell was named Government Caucus Chair and parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, with a concentration on Municipal Affairs.

On January 18, 2010, Mitchell was named Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs as part of a cabinet shuffle by Premier Dalton McGuinty.

She was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Lisa Thompson in the 2011 election.

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How is your July going so far? What types of fun things have you been up to? This week, I've been taking some extra time for rest, as I let my body heal and recover. I've also been swimming quite a bit, with the kids (we've been to the lake, river, and ocean, all in this one week!). I love to swim, and to spend relaxing time outdoors.
I've also been giving myself some encouragement, as this week's links will show. Sometimes you just need a little boost, to realize that you really are on the right path. Enjoy this week's findings, and have a blissful weekend!
Why is it that we so often think about how far we have to go, rather than celebrating where we've been? Here are some wise ways to recognize your progress.
Are you following your calling in some way? Are you sharing your talents with the world? Whether you are or not, here are some key questions to ask yourself.
We often think of education as something done in a classroom. Truly, you are learning in each moment, and from the things you choose to focus on. And so is everyone else.
Here are some seemingly simple, yet profound, ways to improve your life and have more fun in the process.
Do you love inspired quotes? You can probably tell that I do. Here's a collection of some awesome quotes to fire you up!
I love metta (loving-kindness) meditation, and I incorporate it into my regular spiritual practice. Here's a lovely guided metta meditation that will take you less than ten minutes. Try it and see what happens!
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Frank Wright Jr.
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Wright Jr., Frank E.
Frank E. Wright, Jr., age 98, of Groveland, MA, passed away on October 23, 2012, at Penacook Place in Haverhill MA. Mr. Wright was the devoted husband of the late Virginia Ruggles Wright to whom he was married for 69 years. Born in Swampscott, MA on April 15, 1914, he was the son of the Frank E. Wright, Sr. and Grace Osgood Wright. Mr. Wright was a graduate of Tilton Academy, Bailey Military academy and the General Electric Apprentice School. He worked as a design specialist at GTE Research & Development and as a machine designer for General Electric before his retirement in 1979. He was a member, trustee, church school superintendent and a member of the Education Committee of the Universalist Unitarian Church in Haverhill, MA. He was a trustee of the Langley Adams Library, a volunteer driver for the Northern Essex Elder Transport, former board member of the West Newbury Forum, a member of the New England Genealogical Society and the Haverhill, Groveland and Georgetown Historical Societies. Mr. Wright was also a direct descendent of Robert Clement who was one of the original founders of Haverhill, MA. Mr. Wright is survived by his children, Mary Kranyak and her husband Michael of Stratford, CT, Frank W. Wright of York, Maine and Timothy R. Wright of Groveland, MA; three granddaughters, Lisa Morris(Andre) of Salem, NH, Connie Demko(James) of Stratford, CT and Margaret Wright of Durham, ME, two great grandsons, James and Michael Demko, and several nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by his wife Virginia R. Wright, brother Kenneth Wright and sister Joan Romnes. A Memorial Service was held on April 15th 2013 in Haverhill. Private internment will be held at Pine Grove Cemetery Lynn, MA
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I have an ESP32 running a HTTPs-Server with a self-signed certificate. It provides status information about some homeautomation-devices.
Now I built a Vue-based PWA that is served from a public HTTPs-Server with a regular certificate.
The PWA requests data from the ESP in the local network via https://192.168...
After installing the PWA on my mobile device, Chrome warns me that my PWA accesses content from an untrusted-cert https (which is perfectly reasonable for me).
As a workaround I have to do the following (only once): Access https://192.168... in Chrome, where I get the warning for 'NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID' and allow this untrusted access.
After this workaround the PWA works great with the ESP32 even after restarting and updating it.
I want to use the PeriodicSync-API to get the status from my ESP32 once a day and show a notification on my mobile device if something's not ok.
I setup the service-worker to listen for the periodicsync-event and then fetch() data from the ESP32 via https.
Problem:
This works correctly if I connect to my device via chrome://inspect/#devices and simulate the 'periodicsync'-event.
But if I leave the app alone for 12-24 hours and the regular periodicsync-event is finally triggered then fetch(...) catches an error with the following reason: TypeError: Failed to fetch
My guess (after spending many hours on that issue) is that this error relates to the untrusted certificate. It seems that chrome remembers that I agreed on the unsafe access as long as the PWA is open but it does not adopt this agreement for the service-worker.
Question:
Any ideas how to trust a self-signed-certificate in the service-worker or tell the service worker it should use the same permission as the PWA?
A no-go is:

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*using a paid long-term-certificate on the ESP32


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Hamilton è un centro abitato (city) degli Stati Uniti d'America, situato nella Contea di Pembina nello Stato del Dakota del Nord. Nel censimento del 2000 la popolazione era di 73 abitanti. La città è stata fondata nel 1882.

Geografia fisica
Secondo i rilevamenti dell'United States Census Bureau, la località di Hamilton si estende su una superficie di 0,80 km², tutti occupati da terre.

Popolazione
Secondo il censimento del 2000, a Hamilton vivevano 73 persone, ed erano presenti 21 gruppi familiari. La densità di popolazione era di 87 ab./km². Nel territorio comunale si trovavano 40 unità edificate. Per quanto riguarda la composizione etnica degli abitanti, il 100% era bianco.

Per quanto riguarda la suddivisione della popolazione in fasce d'età, il 21,9% era al di sotto dei 18, il 4,1% fra i 18 e i 24, il 20,5% fra i 25 e i 44, il 21,9% fra i 45 e i 64, mentre infine il 31,5% era al di sopra dei 65 anni di età. L'età media della popolazione era di 48 anni. Per ogni 100 donne residenti vivevano 82,5 maschi.

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Thou (American band)
Louisiana sludge metal band
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Robotic Empire
Southern Lord
Andy Gibbs
Matthew Thudium
Mitch Wells
Bryan Funck
Tyler Coburn
KC Stafford
Terry Gulino
Josh Nee
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Thou is an American sludge metal band formed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2005. [1] The current line-up of the band consists of Bryan Funck (vocals), Andy Gibbs (guitar), Matthew Thudium (guitar and vocals), Mitch Wells (bass), KC Stafford (guitar and vocals), and Tyler Coburn (drums).
Style and artistry
The band was formed by guitarists Andy Gibbs and Matthew Thudium, bassist Mitch Wells, and drummer Terry Gulino. Thou released their first full-length effort, Tyrant, in 2007 after the arrival of the vocalist Bryan Funck. [1] These were followed by their second studio album Peasant in 2008 and a string of EPs, including Malfeasance - Retribution (2008), The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature (2008), Through the Empires of the Eternal Void (2009) and Baton Rouge/You Have Much to Answer For (2010). Their third full-length album, Summit was released in 2010. [1]
The band's fourth studio album, Heathen , released in 2014, was met with critical acclaim. [2] [3] This album marked the first time in the band's career that the band had featured cleanly sung vocals from collaborator Emily McWilliams. [2] The album was named the best metal album of 2014 by music website Pitchfork. [4] Thou has toured with and collaborated frequently with fellow sludge metal band The Body, whom they most recently collaborated with on the album entitled, You, Whom I Have Always Hated. [5] On October 30, 2020 they released a collaboration album called May Our Chambers Be Full with Emma Ruth Rundle. [6]
Thou's style has been labeled as "experimental doom", stoner metal and sludge metal. [1] On the band's style, AllMusic critic Gregory Heaney stated that "the band's sound blends the shuddering heaviness of doom with the oppressive atmospherics of black metal, giving the band a monolithic sound that feels, at times, inescapable." [1]
Thou has taken a 'do it yourself' approach to touring which has become a defining characteristic of the band and its aesthetic. [2] Thou's lyrics often espouse anarchist views. Thou also has covered artists from various rock music genres, including Nine Inch Nails' "Terrible Lie" (with The Body) [7] and Nirvana songs "Something in the Way", "Sifting", and "Aneurysm". [8]
Bryan Funck – vocals (2007–present)
Andy Gibbs – guitar (2005–present)
Matthew Thudium – guitar (2005–present)
Mitch Wells – bass (2005–present)
Tyler Coburn – drums (2018–present)
KC Stafford - guitar/bass/vocals (2018–present)
Terry Gulino – drums (2005–2010)
Josh Nee – drums (2010–2018)
Tyrant (2007, One Eye Records)
Peasant (2008, Level Plane Records)
Summit (2010, Gilead Media)
Heathen (2014, Gilead Media)
Magus (2018, Sacred Bones Records)
Collaborative releases
Released from Love(collaborative EP with The Body) (2014)
You, Whom I Have Always Hated (collaborative album with The Body) (2015)
May Our Chambers Be Full (collaborative album with Emma Ruth Rundle (2020)
The Helm of Sorrow(collaborative EP with Emma Ruth Rundle (2021)
Myopia(collaborative album with Mizmor) (2022)
Thrive and Decay(Split 7" with Black September) (2008)
We Pass Like Night... From Land to Land(Split-LP with Leech) (2008)
Reincarnation Prayer(Split 7" with Haarp) (2009)
Our Enemy Civilization(Split-LP with Salome) (2009)
Degradation of Human Life(Split-LP with Mohoram Atta) (2009)
Dwell in the Darkness of Thought and Drink the Poison of Life(Split EP with The City is the Tower) (2010)
Tears That Soak a Callous Heart) (Split EP with Moloch) (2010)
A Faire Quarrell(Split 7" with Human Intruder) (2010)
War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning: A Two Part Analysis of Personal and Inter-Personal Conflict(Split-LP with Cower) (2011)
4th of July(Split 7" with Kowloon Walled City) (2012)
Resurrection Bay(Split 7" with Hell) (2012)
Wingwalker/Prayer to God(Split 7" with Great Falls) (2015)
Eyehatethou(Split EP with Barghest) (2015)
I Have Become Your Pupil(Split with The Hirs Collective) (2018)
Let Our Names Be Forgotten(Split EP with Ragana) (2018)
Call No Man Happy Until He Is Dead (2005)
Demo (2007)
Singles and EPs
Malfeasance-Retribution(10") (2008)
To Carry a Stone(7") (2008)
The Retaliation of the Immutable Force of Nature(EP) (2008)
Through the Empires of Eternal Void (2009)
Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For(EP) (2010)
Big City (2011)
To the Chaos Wizard Youth(EP) (2011)
The Archer & The Owle(EP) (2011)
The Sacrifice(EP) (2014)
Only You Deserve Conceit(7") (2015)
The House Primordial (2018)
Inconsolable (2018)
Rhea Sylvia (EP) (2018)
Compilation albums
Oakland (2010)
Rendon (2010)
Ceremonies of Humiliation (2014)
Algiers (2014)
Blessings of the Highest Order(Nirvana covers) (2020, Robotic Empire)
A Primer of Holy Words (covers) (2020, Robotic Empire)
Hightower (2021, Robotic Empire)
Compilation contributions
"Well Fed Fuck" (originally by Born Against; Compilation "Clone - Play Slow, Die Fast, Vol. II" (2009, Blind Date Records)
"Milk It" (originally by Nirvana; tribute album In Utero, in Tribute, in Entirety ) (2014, Robotic Empire)
"Endless, Nameless"/"Even In His Youth" (originally by Nirvana; tribute album Whatever Nevermind ) (2015, Robotic Empire)
"Eyehatethou" (Adult Swim Singles 2015) (2015, Adult Swim)
"Floyd the Barber" (originally by Nirvana; tribute album Doused in Mud, Soaked in Bleach ) (2016, Robotic Empire)
"Don't Let It Bring You Down" (originally by Neil Young; Compilation "Many Waters: Baton Rouge Flood Relief 2017" (2017, Thrill Jockey)
"Maps" (originally by Yeah Yeah Yeahs); Compilation "Save Stereogum: An 00's Covers Compilation"
Sludge metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that originated through combining elements of doom metal and hardcore punk. It is typically harsh and abrasive, often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting tempos. The Melvins from the US state of Washington produced the first sludge metal albums in the mid-late 1980s.
Houdini is the fifth studio album by the Melvins, released in 1993 on Atlantic Records. The album was the band's major label debut after releasing their previous albums on the independent label Boner Records.
Boris is a Japanese experimental music band formed in 1992 in Tokyo and composed of drummer Atsuo, guitarist/bassist Takeshi, and guitarist/keyboardist Wata. All three members contribute vocals. Boris has released more than twenty studio albums on various labels around the world, as well as a wide variety of live albums, compilations, EPs, singles, and collaborative albums. They have collaborated with acts such as Sunn O))), Merzbow, Keiji Haino, and guitarist Michio Kurihara.
Black Tusk is an American sludge metal band from Savannah, Georgia, formed in 2005.
Liturgy is an American black metal band from Brooklyn, New York. The band features Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Mario Miron (guitar), Tia Vincent-Clark (bass) and Leo Didkovsky (drums). The band have described their music as "transcendental black metal," which was especially described in a manifesto written by Hunt-Hendrix; in the process of transforming their style of black metal, they have experimented with other genres including progressive rock, hip hop and electronic music. In the band's early days, Hunt-Hendrix expressed her interest in the work of Swans, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, La Monte Young and Lightning Bolt as influences.
Witch Mountain is an American doom metal band from Portland, Oregon.
"I Hate Myself and Want to Die" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. It was first released in November 1993 on the compilation album The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.
Botanist is an American black metal band based in San Francisco. The band was founded by American musician Otrebor who formerly ran the online music magazine Maelstrom.
Pallbearer is an American doom metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, formed in 2008.
The Unnatural World is the second studio album by Connecticut post-punk duo Have a Nice Life. It was released on February 4, 2014, via The Flenser and the band's own record label Enemies List Home Recordings. It is a follow up to 2008's Deathconsciousness and 2010's Time of Land EP.
Foundations of Burden is the second full-length album by the American doom metal band Pallbearer. It was released on August 19, 2014 by Profound Lore Records. On June 24, 2014, the track "The Ghost I Used to Be" from the album was made available for streaming on NPR, and can be purchased as a digital download from the band's Bandcamp site.
Full of Hell is an American grindcore band from Ocean City, Maryland and Central Pennsylvania, formed in 2009. They are currently signed to Relapse Records. They have released five studio albums – Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home (2011), Rudiments of Mutilation (2013), Trumpeting Ecstasy (2017), Weeping Choir (2019), and Garden of Burning Apparitions (2021) – as well as three collaborations – Full of Hell & Merzbow (2014) with Japanese noise artist Merzbow and One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache (2016) and Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light (2017) with sludge metal band The Body – aside from numerous EPs and splits.
I Shall Die Here is the fourth studio album by American sludge metal band the Body. Released on April 1, 2014, through RVNG Intl. record label, the album was produced by British electronic musician the Haxan Cloak.
Abyss is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and her eponymous band Chelsea Wolfe. The album was released on August 7, 2015 through Sargent House and was produced by John Congleton. It also features guest contributions from Mike Sullivan of Russian Circles and Dan Phillips from True Widow.
Heathen is the fourth studio album by American metal band Thou. It was released on March 25, 2014 through Gilead Media.
You, Whom I Have Always Hated is a collaborative album by American sludge metal bands the Body and Thou. Released on January 27, 2015 through Thrill Jockey record label, the album was included on the reissue of bands' first collaborative effort, Released from Love EP (2014).
Rheia is the third studio album by Belgian band Oathbreaker. The album was produced by Jack Shirley and released through independent record label Deathwish Inc. on September 30, 2016. Oathbreaker toured internationally in support of Rheia from September until December with Skeletonwitch and Iron Reagan. The title references Rhea, mother goddess in Greek mythology.
"Post Self" is an industrial metal song by the band Godflesh, taken from their 2017 album of the same name. It was released ahead of Post Self on 31 October 2017 through frontman Justin Broadrick's own label, Avalanche Recordings, as a digital download.
Rhea Sylvia is an extended play (EP) by the American metal band Thou. It was released on July 27, 2018 through the independent hardcore punk label Deathwish Inc. Except for the cover of "The Lasting Dose", the songs on Rhea Sylvia are Thou versions of band member Matthew Thudium's solo material. The EP's musical style is a mix of the band's signature sludge metal sound and grunge artists such as Alice in Chains.
1 2 3 4 5 Heaney, Gregory. "Thou". Allmusic . Retrieved February 6, 2015.
1 2 3 Kelly, Kim. "Thou: Heathen". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
↑ Gotrich, Lars. "First Listen: Thou, 'Heathen'". NPR.org. npr. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
↑ Stousy, Brandon. "The Best Metal Albums of 2014". Pitchfork . Retrieved February 6, 2015.
↑ Currin, Grayson. "The Body / Thou You, Whom I Have Always Hated". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
↑ "Archived copy". YouTube . Archived from the original on October 7, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2020. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ Nelson, Michael. "The Body & Thou – "Terrible Lie" (Nine Inch Nails Cover)". Stereogum . Retrieved February 6, 2015.
↑ Gotrich, Lars. "About A Song: Thou On Nirvana's 'Something In The Way'". NPR.org. NPR.org . Retrieved February 6, 2015.


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From JONATHAN COULTON, the singer-songwriter behind Code Monkey and the Portal songs; MATT FRACTION, the writer of SEX CRIMINALS, CASANOVA, and ODY-C; and ALBERT MONTEYS, the award-winning Spanish artist of Universe!, comes SOLID STATE, a graphic novel companion to COULTON's Grammy-nominated album of the same name. Two guys, connected by a name and hundreds of years, somehow stand at the end of man's beginning, and the beginning of man's end. Most of all, though, it's a funny science-FACTion nightmare about the end of everything-but how that's all kind of okay. Available for the first time, this oversized hardcover edition of the graphic novel accompaniment to musician, singer-songwriter, and internet superstar JONATHAN COULTON's new concept album, SOLID STATE, is signed by COULTON on a special signature page. PLUS: each hardcover includes a free download code for the album. Allocations may occur.
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"Have you got this on your mobile? The moment your friend died? You can post it on the Internet. Should get you a laugh or two. Seems fair to me - one death for two laughs. I don't care. Ridding the world of a little s**t like this just means that there is one less of you to go."
I had been walking down the High Street when I'd witnessed an incident that had become known as 'Happy Slapping'. A new trend working its way into society, a nasty attitude brought by a nasty element. Copy cats exist everywhere. Not an original idea of their own. Simply not bright enough to think of anything. Led by the nose by simple suggestion. What advertising says is fashionable. TV doesn't even require the ability to read. Things that are acceptable to a twisted mind.
"Hey, Mister, we were only 'avin' a bit of fun."
I had followed this group for a little way up the street. They were all too dumb to imagine that there may be consequences.
"Your idea of fun is assaulting an innocent member of the public who you've never seen before. Just a child. Doubtless you've never heard of ABH. Actual Bodily Harm. Your idea of 'Happy Slapping' is to punch someone in the side of the head. In the ear and maybe make them deaf or worse?"
That's the nasty act I'd witnessed: a young girl maybe only fifteen or sixteen years old. Hit around the side of the head from behind. An easy victim for a street thug. A common assault in broad daylight.
"Well, you are going to find out what an assault really is. Big Boys games and no more kids' stuff. You want to play with the Big Boys, don't you? Whether you like it or not I'm in your game."
One of the gang was laying on his back in front of me on the ground with my foot across his throat. I wasn't pressing hard. Yet. This animal could still breath, but he was pinned down nevertheless. I'd struck him from behind with the palm of my right hand. Just behind the right ear. Instantly disoriented. No lasting effect, but totally dazed maybe for only a few seconds, but he had dropped to the floor as though poleaxed.
"Hey Mister, what are you doin'. Let him up, will yer?"
What a ridiculous request. Clearly, this youth had no conception of where this was going. No conception of the gravity of their situation or what had caused it.
"Do what? Let this cowardly piece of rubbish up? You don't just look stupid then, you really are stupid, aren't you? Don't waste your time trying to work that one out because I really don't care what you think."
After the young girl had fallen to the ground unconscious the thug carrying a mobile phone, the type of phone that contains a camera, went up to the girl and took her picture to add to those already taken of the attack itself.
"I want you to take a photo with your mobile of each of your friends. And don't forget to take one of yourself. If you act quickly, you might be able to save your friend's life. You can show the police the evidence of you beating up a child. And me standing over a live body - at the moment alive anyway."
By this time a small crowd had gathered. The commotion had interested a lot of people. Each thug being carefully watched and scrutinised. Faces remembered. Details noted. The young girl had come around and was being looked after by some passersby. These thugs were caught in a circle of spectators and were clearly becoming very agitated and frightened.
"What's the matter with you lot? You aren't saying much. I know what it probably is. You have no idea what to do. This bit of dirt underneath my foot must be your leader. The one who tells you all what to do. Amazing. A collection of morons."
The look on their faces suggested I was right. The blank look of terrified kids. I felt quite sorry for them, but only for a fleeting moment. Until I looked over at the young girl. One of their numerous victims. With any luck, the stupid morons would have kept the photographic images of their cleverness on the mobile camera phone. Pictures of their triumphs.
"So that's how you imagine the uniform looks. Hoods up during the day as though you're cold. Baseball caps under the hood, I expect. Orange will suit you all quite well when you go out into the community to do good things. Yellow would be more appropriate though. No hoods, I'm afraid. Take your hoods down."
"Take your f***ing hoods down," I shouted.
That got an instant response. Baseball caps were revealed in every case. All good little soldiers, dressed properly in uniform: dirty white trainers, coloured sports trousers and the ubiquitous baseball cap.
Movement stirred underfoot. I trod a little heavier.
"If you move again, you will definitely not even see this afternoon. The police should be here any minute now. Your friend with the camera phone just called them for me."


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By now we've all heard the chilling tale about Jaycee Dugard being kidnapped at the age of 11 and held captive for 18 years. During that time her alleged captor, Phillip Garrido, fathered two girls with Dugard and forced her and their children to live in a hidden section of his backyard. Two Berkeley police officers deserve the lion's share of recognition for the rescue of Jaycee Dugard and her daughters.
Officer Lisa Campbell first met Garrido at The University of California on August 24th. Garrido had his daughters with him when he approached Campbell to discuss setting up an event on the college campus. Campbell noticed that something seemed very unusual about the girls, and noted that they should have been in school. She asked Garrido to return the next day to discuss his event.
Garrido returned to the Berkeley campus on August 25th, and Lisa Campbell brought along fellow police officer Allison Jacobs to meet him. During the meeting, Jacobs spoke with the girls and was told that they were home schooled along with a third sister who was not present. Jacobs noticed that the girls exhibited strange behaviors such as only giving one-word answers and either staring intently at the officers or Garrido. Both girls also looked very pale and sickly.
After the meeting, Jacobs called Garrido's parole officer to explain what had happened. The parole officer informed her that Garrido didn't have any children - a fact that Jacobs claimed stopped her "dead in her tracks". This phone call led to the scheduling of another meeting with Garrido, along with Dugard and their daughters. Dugard was introduced as Garrido's wife 'Allissa', but eventually he admitted that he had kidnapped her years ago. The FBI was called in, and the 1991 disappearance of Jaycee Dugard was finally solved.


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In celebration of Lil Wayne's long-awaited album release, the rapper dropped by The Tonight Show studio to talk shop with Jimmy Fallon regarding all things Tha Carter V. Already off to a sizzling start, the project is expected to hit the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart next week as it quickly approaches hitting a half-million units earned.
Ready to appease both those in the audience and tuned in at home, Tunechi joined The Roots on stage for a riveting performance of his track "Dedicate" off Tha Carter V. Part of the chat involved speaking on the artist's songwriting process, to which Wayne clarified his lack of writing, choosing instead to hit the booth in a freestyle frenzy. Lil Wayne even went as far as to thank Fallon's staff for writing the lyrics to his song for him to rehearse to. Be sure to check out the performance above and chat below for a closer look.
In case you missed it, Travis Scott, Chance the Rapper, Earl Sweatshirt and more are booked for upcoming Mac Miller tribute.
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Q: Nary an X or/nor a Y It is a well-known rule of English grammar that either takes or and neither takes nor. Nary comes from the phrase "ne'er a" and is considered a non-standard variant of not, e.g.:

Nary a soul had I seen for three days... (source)

What if I also hadn't seen a star-nosed mole for three days and I wanted to communicate this very significant piece of information in the same sentence? How would I write this?
What conjunction should nary take?
Thanks in advance!

A: Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003), a resource that tends to be parsimonious with its usage labels, identifies nary as a dialect word:

nary adj {alter. of ne'er a} (1848) dial : not any: not one {I must have it back as I have nary other copy —Flannery O'Connor} — nary a or nary an : not a single {survived the accident with nary a scratch}

Dialect words tend to appear in settings where the speaker or writer is less concerned with grammatical nicety than with matching perceived common usage—and in the case of "nary a X nor/or a Y," results on the ground seem to vary.
Thus, for example, "Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington, Esq." in London Society: An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature (January 1875) has this instance:

'So yeu've come here [to a small town outside New York City] to see our glorious American constitootion. Wall, I guess yeu'll be pretty considerable surprised—tarnation surprised, doggoned if you won't. We're an almighty nation, we air. Going a-shooting, air yeu? Wall, I calkerlate we've got more game hereabouts than would fill all London, and enough ships in our little river the Mississi-pi to tow your little island across the broad Atlantic—we hev, indeed, stranger. There's lots of grouse; but nary a buffeler, bar, nor alligater about here. But I s'pose yeu means to take up yer fixins here in this feather-bed bully hotel afore yeu makes tracks?'

And from Ray Johnstone, Maude Blackstone: The Millionaire's Daughter (1901):

I says tu brother Joshua when we left the ranch to go tu bed, 'Let ius get up before daylight an' harness up our nags, Betsy and Nancy, an' go an' see the elephant'; an' now we've been out on the prairie fer four hours, an' nary an Injun nor nary an' elephant nor tiger have we sot eyes on' ceptin' yerselves, meanin' no offense.

But contrarily, "One of the Towns" in The Western Literary Messenger (Buffalo, New York: February 1857) has this:

Men and women marry, and have children born unto them, and die in the town of German. But there is nary a priest or minister of the gospel, of any denomination, within her borders, to bless the banns, or christen the child, or o give ghostly comfort in the parting hour.

And perhaps most beguilingly, from M.G. McClelland, "Mac's Old Horse," in The Century (July 1888):

Mac cussed hard as he peered around him, / Nary a thing could he find or see; / Never a ghost, nor a witch, nor spirit, / Nor even the trunk of a blasted tree.

This last instance is striking because the writer juxtaposes an instance of "nary a ... or ... with an instance of "Never a ... nor ... nor ... nor ..." Notice, though, that the "or" is used to conjoin two verbs (find and see), whereas the "Nary a" refers to a noun (thing). In contrast, the "Never a ... nor ..." series applies to a set of nouns (ghost, witch, spirit, and trunk) comprehended by the the "Never a" opener. So the usage here may not be inconsistent as a matter of grammatical usage.
Searches for fairly recent instances of the simple case of "Nary a[n] X or/nor Y" yield plenty of matches for both "or" and "nor" forms. The following examples are by no means exhaustive, and most come from a fairly narrow range of publication dates (2002–2008).

Recent examples of 'nary a[n] X nor [a] Y'
From Jerome Lofgren, "Nary a Nose nor Tail," A Town Called Isle (2002):

And the old man would say, "Ne, nary a nose nor tail were seen."
...
"Ne," Grandpa replied sadly. "Nary a nose nor tail were seen." He gave his grandson a wink.

From Joseph Citro, Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries (1994):

At last the fatal day—March 25, 1844—came and went with nary a bang nor a whimper.

From Robert Sprecht, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness (1982):

"No race, no stop," he repeated. "C'mon, boy, it's an easy mile, nary a bump nor a bang. How about it?"

From Mae Henderson, Borders, Boundaries, and Frames: Essays in Cultural Studies (1995):

At least, it was something of a shock for me to glance over this year's program for the English Institute and realize that in all the twelve titles for the current talks there was nary a parenthesis, nor a pun, nor a hyphenated term, nor any inverted or disinverted commas: no, there was no point of punctuation more complicated than a colon.

From Dean Budnick, "Jam Bands": North America's Hottest Live Groups (1998):

The Emma Gibbs Band features nary an Emma nor a Gibbs, but the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sextet does provide some upbeat, jaunty grooves.

From Carolyn Dunn, The Winter Garden Mystery (2001):

Nary a cabbage nor a Brussels sprout dares show its head in the front gardens.

From a 2000 translation by David Assaf of Journey to a Nineteenth-century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik (2002):

Of all those coming to her father-in-law's house there was nary a rabbi nor a scholar, nor a pious one among them.

From David Barker, Rushed to Judgment: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior (2002):

In today's political climate, nary a political nor a policy-related decision is made without great consideration being given to how that decision will play out with the electorate[.]

From an unidentified article in Chicago, volume 54 (2005):

It is a sad commentary on an institution we have loved for so long which has let us down time and again with nary an apology nor the accountability of bishops who stand as guilty as perpetrators.

From Thomas Fahey, Considering Aaron Sorkin: Essays on the Politics, Poetics and Sleight of Hand in the Films and Television Series (2005):

To add to the film's emphasis on intelligence rather than beauty or physical attraction, there is nary a love scene nor a scantily clad body in the entire movie.

From Steve Hockensmith, Holmes on the Range (2007):

But there was nary an oyster nor a drop of Scotch, of course.

From Jim Bernhard, Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names (2007):

It is not a comprehensive list of every English-language general-interest newspaper in the world, nor is it a scholarly study with footnoted documentation—nary an ibid. nor an op. cit. will be found in these pages.

From Curtis Badger, A Natural History of Quiet Waters: Swamps and Wetlands of the Mid-Atlantic Coast (2007):

There was nary a blade of grass nor a sprig of sedge to be found.

From Christopher Wren, Walking to Vermont: From Times Square into the Green (2007):

Further ahead, a maroon sign gilded with gold paint announced a new development for Salmon Daily Brook Farm, though nary a brook nor farm nor salmon were in sight.

From Taylor Clark, Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture (2007):

Nary a chair nor a stool was in sight.

Recent examples of 'nary a[n] X or [a] Y'
From Dana Fewell, Reading Between Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible (1992):

It is all good, very good (Gen 1:31), not marred by evil or by any negative; there is nary a no, a not or a nor in Genesis 1.

From Richard Mohr & George Ohr, Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick (2003):

Nary an eagle, elk, salmon, or Douglas fir is to be found in the inventory of the Kirkpatricks' Nature.

From Mereille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat (2004):

Supermarket cookies and pints of ice cream were always on hand, but nary a fresh vegetable or fruit.

From Steven Raichlen, Raichlen's Indoor! Grilling (2004):

The Rendezvous grills its ribs over an open charcoal fire, with nary a log or hickory chip in sight.

From Michael Nystrom-Schut, Keeping It Real in an Unreal World: Staying as Real as Possible in a World of Illusion (2004):

What's sometimes amazing is how we quietly succumb to the leadership, incredibly so, with nary a whimper or a cry of "foul."

From Elbert Maloney, Chapman Boater's Handbook (2005):

Not only do they stay soft and cozy the whole week long , with nary a rip or tear, they also store in about a quarter of the space taken up by ordinary bed linen.

From Vern Madison & Connie Madison, Living the Dream: Sailing the South Pacific and Southeast Asia (2005):

Our wind vane piloted us flawlessly, with nary a vibration or rattle in the struts, which I had overhauled in Noumea.

From Charles Swartz, Understanding Digital Cinema: A Professional Handbook (2005):

It is interesting to note that many directors pose for photographs, pictured in front of editing devices or sound mixing consoles, albeit with nary an editor or mixer, their necessary collaborators and oftentimes saviors, in frame.

From Fran Sorin, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening (2007):

Never had I envisioned that the ground would be completely bare—with nary a flower or tree in sight!

From Jessica Auerbach, And Nanny Makes Three: Mothers and Nannies Tell the Truth About Work, Love, Money, and each Other (2007):

... Elle Macpherson, "the Body," producing two beautiful sons with nary a stretch mark or increase in the size of her minuscule, butt-hugging, belly—baring jeans; ...

From Tristan Egolf, Kornwolf: A Novel (2007):

But nary a phone call or visit.

From Larry Carlson, Before the Colors Fade: God, Cebu and War (2008):

He swallowed the Garmale with nary a shudder or grimace.

Matt Telles, Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (2008):

The early Internet Web pages were plain text, with nary an image or graphic to be seen.

And from David Gilbert, The Normals: A Novel (2008):

Nary a sprain or dislocation, a tear or rupture.

Conclusions
The fact that few of the preceding examples are self-consciously dialectal indicates to me that the word nary is becoming a part of accepted nondialect English, at least in the United States. But because the "nary a[n] X or/nor a Y" formulation arose out of dialect use, it doesn't seem to have benefited (or suffered) from formal enforcement by publishers of a standardized treatment on the question of "or" versus "nor."
One interesting distinction that may not be immediately obvious in the examples I've listed above involves the presence or absence of an indefinite article before the Y term in the phrase. Of the fifteen recent examples of "nary a[n] X nor" listed, twelve conclude with "nor a[n] Y," one with "nor the Y," and two with "nor Y." In sharp contrast, of the fourteen recent examples of "nary a[n] X or" listed, two conclude with "or a[n] Y" and twelve with "or Y." This difference doesn't strike me as being the result of random variation or chance. To the contrary, I think, that most English speakers and writers probably naturally gravitate toward "or" when they are dealing with a "nary a[n] X or/nor Y" situation and toward "nor" when they are dealing with a "nary a[n] X or/nor a[n] Y."
Applying this insight to the poster's original question, I would recommend using either the the wording

Nary a soul or star-nosed mole had I seen for three days ...

or the wording

Nary a soul nor a star-nosed mole had I seen for three days

to the situation he originally proposed. Since souls and star-nosed moles do not make a comfortable natural pairing of similar things I would prefer the second option. But if the situation involved "a white-eyed vireo" instead of "a soul" as the paired object, I don't think you could go wrong with either

Nary a white-eyed vireo or star-nosed mole had I seen for three days ...

or

Nary a white-eyed vireo nor a star-nosed mole had I seen for three days ...

A: In COCA, there are 50 results for nary followed by or, but only 8 for nary followed by nor. The iWeb corpus is similar: ~300 results for nary/or and ~50 for nary/nor.
I would say then that both are acceptable, but or is preferred.
Here's the search I used, which can be used on any of the English-corpora.org corpora (though you may not get enough results):


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Actual Harm Not Required to Sue Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Law
By Nadine C. Abrahams, Jason C. Gavejian, Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jody Kahn Mason, Jeffrey L. Rudd and Jason A. Selvey
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that individuals need not allege actual injury or adverse effect, beyond a violation of his or her rights under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), in order to qualify as an "aggrieved" person and be entitled to seek liquidated damages, attorneys' fees and costs, and injunctive relief under the Act. Rosenbach v. Six Flags Entertainment Corp. et al., No. 123186 (Jan. 25, 2019).
Potential damages can be substantial, as the BIPA provides for statutory damages of $1,000 per negligent violation or $5,000 per intentional or reckless violation of the Act. To date, no Illinois court has interpreted the meaning of "per violation," but the majority of BIPA suits have been brought as class actions seeking statutory damages on behalf of each individual affected.
Following this significant decision from the Supreme Court, companies that have not already done so, should immediately take steps to comply with the statute. These steps should include reviewing their time management, point of purchase, physical security, or other systems that obtain, use, or disclose biometric information against the requirements under the BIPA. (Biometric information is any information, regardless of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared, based on an individual's retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry used to identify an individual.) If there are technical or procedural gaps in compliance, they should be remedied quickly. Examples of such gaps include not providing written notice, obtaining a release from the subject of the biometric information, obtaining consent to provide biometric information to a third party, or maintaining a policy and guidelines for the retention and destruction of biometric information. For additional information on complying with the BIPA, please see our BIPA FAQs.
In reversing and remanding the case, the Illinois Supreme Court held:
The duties imposed on private entities by section 15 of the Act (740 ILCS 14/15) regarding the collection, retention, disclosure, and destruction of a person's or customer's biometric identifiers or biometric information define the contours of that statutory right. Accordingly, when a private entity fails to comply with one of section 15's requirements, that violation constitutes an invasion, impairment, or denial of the statutory rights of any person or customer whose biometric identifier or biometric information is subject to the breach. Consistent with the authority cited above, such a person or customer would clearly be "aggrieved" within the meaning of section 20 of the Act (740 ILCS 14/20) and entitled to seek recovery under that provision. No additional consequences need be pleaded or proved. The violation, in itself, is sufficient to support the individual's or customer's statutory cause of action.
The Supreme Court's decision is likely to increase the already significant number of suits, including putative class actions, filed under the BIPA. In the words of the Illinois Supreme Court, "[c]ompliance should not be difficult; whatever expenses a business might incur to meet the law's requirements are likely to be insignificant compared to the substantial and irreversible harm that could result if biometric identifiers and information are not properly safeguarded; and the public welfare, security, and safety will be advanced."
Jackson Lewis attorneys are available to assist employers in achieving compliance with the BIPA.
Nadine C. Abrahams
Nadine.Abrahams@jacksonlewis.com
Jason C. Gavejian
Jason.Gavejian@jacksonlewis.com
Joseph J. Lazzarotti
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Jody Kahn Mason
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Jeffrey L. Rudd
Jeffrey.Rudd@jacksonlewis.com
Jason A. Selvey
Jason.Selvey@jacksonlewis.com
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Call Edition 2012
laureates and nominees
laureates students
Marianne hubeau
laureates researchers
Aimé kakudji kyungu
nominees students
Molly steinlage
John Paul kaswija
Tefera Darge delbiso
Claire debucquois
nominees researchers
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Trinh Hai le
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Have a look at all the laureates and nominees of the previous editions
A new edition of the Prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation has been launched. This call is open until March 31st, 2011. You can read in the regulations whether you comply with the criteria for participation.
I would like to submit my application
The Prize Belgian Development Cooperation was created in 1998 on the initiative of the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation (DGD) in order to raise public awareness concerning international solidarity. The Prize is financed by the Belgian Development Cooperation.
The purpose of this prize of encouragement is to invite young people from the North and the South at a decisive moment of their lives to take an interest in international cooperation, and to stay committed after completing their studies. The Prize is aimed at students and young scientists. They can compete for a prize by submitting either a Master's or postgraduate thesis, a Ph.D. thesis or a publication. In order to be eligible, the works are to show sufficient relevance for development, i.e. they should provide an important contribution to the knowledge which can be applied in the pursuit of sustainable development in the South. Participation is open for both citizens of the partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation and Belgians (or persons with a right of permanent residence in Belgium).
The organization of the Prize is entrusted to the Royal Museum for Central Africa as part of the Cooperation Protocol with the DGD, which regulates the funding of various actions by the museum in the field of development cooperation.
The jury consists, among others, of representatives from Belgian universities and from the Belgian Development Cooperation. For the evaluation of the works submitted, external experts are also called upon.
Since edition 2010, some substantive changes were introduced to the Prize. The Prize is 2-yearly and is organised around a central theme, which can be studied from all scientific fields. The geographical focus has been strengthened. The number of categories and laureates has been reduced while the prize per laureate increased significantly.
The Prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation will award candidates in the following 3 categories:
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(2) students from a Belgian university/college of higher education/research institute, on the basis of a Master's thesis
(3) young researchers from a university/research institute in a partner country of the Belgian Development Cooperation (who have carried out the larger part of their research in a developing country), on the basis of a Ph.D. thesis or a publication.
The Prize of the Belgian Development Cooperation will nominate maximum 9 candidates in these 3 categories. The nominees will be invited to a second selection round in which the 3 laureates are chosen. The nominees also participate in an international theme day in Belgium, organized in the framework of the awarding ceremony.
The prize per laureate consists of a line of credit of 5000€ for students (2 laureates) and of 15000€ for researchers (1 laureate). This line of credit can be used for the continuation of research activities or for career development (participation in seminars, trainings, …).


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Today we are taking a look at all of the gear that is to be used with our next Overnight Adventure, 'Up In The Clouds.' There are two parts to this loadout, the gear that I will carry (HIS) and the gear that my wife will carry (HERS). Both parts are available today to watch.
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Illinois Seized More Than $300 Million From Residents
Sarah Zimmerman
A new study from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Illinois Policy Institute show that between 2005 and 2015, Illinois police have seized at least $319 million worth of cash and property from civilians suspected, but not convicted, of a crime.
Law enforcement agencies have the right to take money, cars, or other types of property from civilians without actually filing formal charges against someone, according to CBS. A person needs only to be suspected of illegal activity to be vulnerable to seizure.
"The burden is on you to prove your innocence. If you do nothing, you will lose your property," says ACLU Criminal Justice Policy Attorney Ben Ruddell to CBS.
This practice is known as civil asset forfeiture, according to The Rock River Times, and without regulation could possibly lead to police corruption. Law enforcement agencies keep 65 percent the property they take which, according to the ACLU, serves as an incentive to take even more in order to increase their budget.
Over 10 years, Illinois police officials have taken at least $319 million from suspected criminals. But, as The Rock River Times notes, this could be a conservative estimate. Reporting forfeiture statistics is not required under state law, meaning the actual monetary worth of all property taken could be much higher.
Police claim that the state's forfeiture laws mean that authorities can seize money and property that would be used to "fuel" street gang violence. Police Chief Gary Lemming tells CBS that those who do have their property taken do have a day in court to prove their innocence.
The problem, according to Lemming, is that "many times these people never show up for court."
Lemming also notes that the seized property funds police department expenditures, and allows for the purchase of one to two new squad cars each year.
But this fact is troubling to Ruddell, who says that the fact that law enforcement can keep the seized property means that they have more incentive to take from citizens without regard for due process.
"The burden of proof needs to be where it belongs — with the government to prove that there was a crime before they can take it away," he said, according to The Rock Ridge Times.
Sources: CBS, The Rock River Times / Photo credit: Steven Depolo/Flickr
Civil Asset Forfeiture$320 million taken from Illinois residents suspected of a crimeACLUIllinoisPolice