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by Paige Silveria
08 April 2019, 4:16pm
cali thornhill dewitt confronts the destruction of earth in new exhibition
We talk to the artist about 'War Song,' open this month at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen.
This month, Los Angeles-based artist/creative Cali Thornhill DeWitt, is showcasing his latest exhibition War Song at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. Much like his last show Global Warning, which was presented just two months ago at Mudd Guts in New York, War Song uses just the right amount of humor to confront the hypocrisy and insanity of human beings. One will inevitably leave DeWitt's show with a feeling of conflict, somewhere between laughter and despondence. i-D checked in with DeWitt to chat about the exhibition and ask a few deeper questions.
Tell me about War Song.
War Song originally had the working title "I had him when he was young and pretty," something I overheard a woman say about me one morning while I was getting coffee. I had a goal at the beginning of the process of making the show, I didn't want to think about other people seeing the show. I wanted to get to a free place where whatever it became I was happy and without expectation. I am always grateful when there is an interest from others, but I was trying to get back to a place where that doesn't matter. Anyway, on a personal level I achieved that. War Song is something of an exploration of my negative outlook on the worst qualities of the human race, the selfish destruction of the planet without fear of consequence. It's a reaction to the obsession with self. It kind of started that way and I just let it continue in that direction.
How'd you initially get started with V1?
V1 is a long-standing Gallery in Copenhagen. They reached out to me in 2014 and we've been working together on exhibits and publications and various projects ever since. I'm not sure exactly how we initially came into contact, but we were introduced by a mutual friend and it's been banging ever since.
Do you miss having a gallery?
Not at all. That ship has sailed for me and there is new blood rewriting the rules and making smashing events and exhibits now.
Are you especially concerned with the social/political/environmental state we've found ourselves in? Or do you think that it's a cycle, a swing of the pendulum, that is inevitable throughout time?
I'm always concerned with the environment and it's always littered with villains. Right now, we have a different landscape with a speedier delivery system for sensational idiocy, but it's always been ugly. Now it's just uglier and in our faces constantly. Just because we can see it all the time now, doesn't mean it wasn't always there.
Do you think that humans are progressing?
I don't. If basic human rights and equality for everyone is still a discussion then it's clear that the human race as a species as a whole has not progressed.
What are your thoughts on nihilism? Do you believe there's some sort of inherent, a priori meaning to life? Or do we create meaning for ourselves?
Nihilism hasn't worked for me for over 20 years. I have some of it in me, but it's not practical anymore. I don't know anything about the meaning of life, but I suspect it has something to do with helping others the best you can with what you've got. I think if a person can get in the mindset of seeking out memorable experiences and meeting and talking to all different types of people then they're on the right track.
Thoughts on reincarnation? I'm always afraid I'll come back as a beetle that some kid stomps on or a tree that's forever dying in someone's gray, carpeted office.
I don't know if I believe in reincarnation, but I don't NOT believe in it.
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Q: Windows Service Starts then Stops I have a Windows Service that I inherited from a departed developer. The Windows Service is running just fine in the QA environment. When I install the service and run it locally, I receive this error:
Service cannot be started. System.InvalidOperationException: The requested Performance Counter is not a custom counter, it has to be initialized as ReadOnly.
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A: Check for installer code. Often you will find counters are created within an installation (which is going to of been run under admin privledges on client site) and the code then uses them as though they exist - but will not try create them because they do not expect to have the permissions.
If you just get the source and then try run it, the counters / counter classes do not exist so you fall over immediately. (Alternatively check whether the counter exists / you have local admin if they wrote the code to create it in the service.)
Seen it before so mentioned it.

A: Attach Debugger and break on InvalidOperationException (first-chance, i.e. when thrown)?

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The main new features are the introduction of the super sensitive SiRFStarIII chipset. In 2006, The 60CSx with the SiRFStarIII chipset was widely acknowledged as being the most sensitive and accurate chipset available at the time of writing. The other main addition to the receiver is the introduction of external storage in the form of MicroSD flash memory.
Northland SAR purchased their first Garmin GPSMap60CSx in July 2006. The group now have Eight Garmin 60CSx units and have a longer term plan of building the numbers to Twelve units.
These GPS models typically run the SiRFStarIII chipset which is extremely sensitive and provides great coverage in rough terrain and under bush canopy.
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Authentication, in the law of evidence, is the process by which documentary evidence and other physical evidence is proven to be genuine, and not a forgery. Generally, authentication can be shown in one of two ways. First, a witness can testify as to the chain of custody through which the evidence passed from the time of the discovery up until the trial. Second, the evidence can be authenticated by the opinion of an expert witness examining the evidence to determine if it has all of the properties that it would be expected to have if it were authentic.

For handwritten documents, any person who has become familiar with the purported author's handwriting prior to the cause of action from which the trial arose can testify that a document is in that handwriting.

There are several kinds of documents which have generally been deemed to be self-authenticating documents. These include commercial labels, newspapers and other periodicals, and official publications of an arm of the government.

A special category of evidence called an ancient document will be deemed authentic if it can be shown to be more than twenty years old, and found in a place and condition that a document of that age would likely be found.

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Democrats pour $7m into Raphael Warnock v Herschel Walker Senate runoff
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Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker are headed to a runoff election in December, as neither candidate was able to secure enough votes for a full win under state law.
Having won a shock victory for the Democrats in 2020, Mr Warnock is looking to prevent his Senate seat from being ripped away by the Republican Mr Walker.
Mr Warnock won his seat in a second round in 2021, held the day before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Hoping to disrupt Mr Warnock's goal of a six-year term is Mr Walker, a former University of Georgia running back and Heisman Trophy winner backed by Donald Trump. Mr Walker's biggest battle has been against reports that he paid for two women's abortions despite his vocal opposition to abortion.
Meanwhile, in the race to be state governor, incumbent Republican Brian Kemp has emerged victorious in a showdown with Democrat Stacey Abrams — a rematch of the 2018 election.
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The libertarian candidate who changed the course of Georgia's Senate race
Chase Oliver, who ran for Georgia's US Senate seat, never had a chance at winning. Blame our two-party system for that one.
But the 37-year-old former Democrat did have another notable impact: peeling off votes from the top two candidates, incumbent Raphael Warnock and his MAGA-backed challenger Herschel Walker.
Mr Oliver managed to get just over two per cent of the original vote, likely keeping his Democratic and GOP rivals from securing the 50 per cent share of the votes needed to win an election under Georgia state law.
For more information on the libtertarian candidate, here's our piece from Bill Barrow and Jeff Amy.
Josh Marcus10 November 2022 16:45
In a shocking turn of events, Trump blames media for GOP shortcomings
"Incredible how dishonest the Fake News Media is," Mr Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social early on Thursday. "The Failing New York Times has gone crazy. So many of the people I Endorsed went on to victory on Tuesday Night, nobody was even close, and they literally make up a story refusing to write the facts, and only quoting enemies and losers."
"Almost all of the people I endorsed WON, yet if you read the story from two Trump-hating writers (who only do as they are told!), you would not even recognize the truth. They truly are, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!" Mr Trump wrote.
Gustaf Kilander has the full report.
Did voting activist Stacey Abrams fail to deliver the turnout this time around?
Stacey Abrams became a rising star in the Democratic party for her persistent efforts to register new voters in the state of Georgia.
When Democrats pulled off a shock double Senate victory in the state in the 2020 cycle, many observers argued the party had her to thank.
However, when it came time to Ms Abrams's own 2022 gubernatorial race against GOP incumbent Brian Kemp, she wasn't able to muster enough support, losing by roughly 300,000, or about 8 per cent of the vote total.
In fact, nearly the exact same number of voters turned out for the 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial elections, even though Georgia's population increased by about 300,00 votes and about 500,000 new voters joined the rolls.
Regardless of the true root of the problem, the Abrams race will surely have Democratic strategists thinking hard about where they go from here in Georgia and similar states they're hoping to turn blue.
The Democrats are once again counting on Black voters to 'save the Senate'
Black voters have long been a core part of the Democratic party coalition, and that's been especially clear in recent years in Georgia.
African-Americans helped send Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff to the Senate in the 2020/2021 cycle, securing Democratic control of the upper house.
Now, as Senator Warnock heads to a runoff against his Trump-backed challenger Herschel Walker, Black voters in the Peach State said they feel the weight of the party again resting on their shoulders.
"Now it's back on us to save the Senate," S Dorian Hampton, 41, told NBC News. "We did it once. We can do it again."
Some are seeing the added focus on Georgia as a positive because it means politicians are finally paying attention to the state's sizable Black population, rather than writing it off as a purely white Republican stronghold.
"There's power in our votes. If 2020 hadn't happened, this race would seem like any other old midterms to Black people," Ariel Martin, 5, a tax attorney in suburban Atlanta, added in the NBC report. "But we realized our power two years ago, and now, despite voter suppression, we voted in big numbers because we know our votes matter now. Black people have made it so Republicans have to be accountable."
Is Trump a drag on the GOP after shaky midterms?
In midterm races around the country, Donald Trump sought to use his considerable influence over the Republican base to boost his favoured candidates like Herschel Walker in Georgia.
The former president is still nearly two times as popular as his potential rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, but the slip in popularity is a notable one.
Here's more on the potential 2024 matchup between the two men.
Promising signs from Nevada for Democrats' Senate hopes
In order for Democrats to maintain control of the Senate, they need to win at least two of the three toss-up Senate races this cycle in the states of Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona, according to most observers.
In Georgia, incumbent Raphael Warnock will face off against the Republican Herschel Walker in a runoff this December, though the Atlanta-based pastor got more votes than Mr Walker in the general election.
In Nevada, Republican Adam Laxalt is currently ahead of incumbent Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, but some observers believe she could regain the advantage once predominantly Democratic mail-in ballots are counted.
Democrats throw $7m into Georgia as runoff looms
The Democratic party is putting millions behind Georgia's US Senator Raphael Warnock, as his close race to defend his seat heads to a runoff with Trump-backed Herschel Walker.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is spending $7m on field operations in the state ahead of the December contest, which will fund voter contact efforts and door-to-door canvasing.
"We know talking directly to voters through a strong, well-funded ground-game is critical to winning in Georgia, and we're wasting no time in kick-starting these programs in the runoff," DSCC chair Sen. Gary Peters told Politico.
That's just the beginning of the financial battle that will play out during the runoff, as both candidates will continue seeking individual donations from voters to keep them afloat.
ICYMI: How Georgia's midterm runoff 2022 elections work
With the Senate race in Georgia headed for a runoff, here's what you need to know about how the process works.
Meg Kinnard has the story.
Democrat gaining on Trump-backed candidate in Washington state
Democrat Marie Perez has soared to an early lead over Trump-backed Joe Kent in what was seen as a revenge mission for the former president
Mr Kent, 42, who bettered incumbent congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler in an open primary this summer, was trailing Ms Perez by six points after the first batch of votes were counted.
On Wednesday morning, Ms Perez was at 53 per cent, while Mr Kent was at 47 per cent with 65 per cent of the vote tallied in the race for Washington's Third Congressional District.
Andrew Buncombe reports from Seattle.
A runoff means more Warnock text messages
Outside of all the big-picture implications—control of Congress, the future of issues like reproductive freedom, that sort of thing—a runoff in Georgia also means more pesky text messages from the candidates.
As Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker headed to a second matchup, UC San Francisco physician joked on Twitter that it's "looking like another month of twice daily texts from Raphael Warnock."
"Only 2X a day? You must be lucky," responded writer Dan Tynan. "I'm just so happy that all the others will stop. (They will stop, won't they?)"


This paper describes a method for localizing the members of a mobile robot team, using only the robots themselve as landmarks. That is, we describe a method whereby each robot can determine the relative range, bearing and orientation of every other robot in the team, without the use of GPS, external landmarks, or instrumentation of the environment. Our method assumes that each robot is able to measure the relative pose of nearby robots, together with changes in its own pose; using a combination of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and numerical optimization, we can subsequently infer the relative pose of every robot in the team. This paper describes the basic formalism, its practical implementation, and presents experimental results obtained using a team of four mobile robots.
Andrew Howard, Maja J. Matarić and Gaurav S. Sukhatme. "Localization for Mobile Robot Teams Using Maximum Likelihood Estimation". In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 434-459, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct 2002.


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This opportunity is ideal for someone who's already started out in their market research career and now looking for their second commercial role within the industry to further broaden their experience and understanding of the world of healthcare market research.


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"Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" is the lead single released from Mystikal's fifth album, Tarantula.

The song was Mystikal's third consecutive top-40 single produced by The Neptunes. While it wasn't as successful as his previous two singles ("Shake Ya Ass" and "Danger (Been So Long)"), "Boucin' Back" nevertheless proved to be the album's most successful single, peaking at 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, while entering the top-10 on both the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (number 8) and Hot Rap Singles (number 7). At the 45th Grammy Awards, it was nominated for Best Male Rap Solo Performance, but it lost to Nelly's "Hot in Herre", which was also produced by The Neptunes.

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"Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" (Extended Version)- 4:15
"Bouncin' Back (Bumpin' Me Against the Wall)" (Instrumental)- 4:15

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"Pussy Crook"- 4:32
"Pussy Crook" (Instrumental)- 4:32

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Water hyacinth is a widespread invasive aquatic plant, and it is problematic in the region of Lake Nokoué in Benin where it blocks waterways, hinders fishing and travel, and creates an environment for breeding malaria-carrying mosquitos. Green Keeper Africa, a local company, has developed a method to turn water hyacinth into a material that absorbs oil-based waste. The company developed a business model around hiring local people to collect water hyacinth, and they are interested in using engineering methods to detect and predict where water hyacinth will grow. In support of the vision of Green Keeper Africa, this research investigates two methods for monitoring water hyacinth. Low-cost water quality sensors are used to collect salinity, temperature, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen information, which are then processed with a microcontroller and transmitted wirelessly to analysts. Agent-based modelling is used to simulate the interactions between human behavior and water hyacinth growth, which provides a platform to test different hypotheses and situations. These techniques are found to provide more insight into water hyacinth growth in Benin, and the methods could be applied to monitoring other types of aquatic vegetation in other geographic contexts.


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Ath Consultancy Llp was registered at Registrar of Companies Ahmedabad on 11 February, 2017 and is categorised as Limited liability partnership firm.
Ath Consultancy Llp registered address on file is SHOP NO. 7/10, KRISHNA COMPLEX LATI PLOT MAIN ROAD MORBI Rajkot GJ 363641 IN, - , , .
Ath Consultancy Llp currently have 2 Active Directors / Partners: Manish Savjibhai Chapani, Ashvinkumar Laljibhai Ghodasara, and there are no other Active Directors / Partners in the company except these 2 officials.
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El Campionat d'Europa de scratch femení és el campionat d'Europa de Scratch, en categoria femenina, organitzat anualment per la UEC. Es porten disputant des del 2014 dins els Campionats d'Europa de ciclisme en pista.

Pòdiums dels Guanyadors

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 Campionat del món de scratch femení

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There is a global shift in municipalities, urban areas, city planning, mobile semi-permanent camps, and African "bandwagon" governments (it looks good to go green) moving away from conventional street lighting technologies powered by outdated high-pressure sodium lamps (HPS), to more modern solutions such as LED street lights.
In this infographic we'll 'shed light' on the stark differences between these two lighting technologies for you to discover why making the switch to LED is the most sustainable option moving forward.
What follows is a detailed comparison, LED vs HPS. If you're still not convinced get in touch with one of us at Provident and we can tell you more or direct to our detailed LED Lights page for more information.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2017 AT 10:30 A.M.
Using taxpayer funds, government officials in Orange County have spent the last 16 years arguing the most absurd legal proposition in the entire nation: How could social workers have known it was wrong to lie, falsify records and hide exculpatory evidence in 2000 so that a judge would forcibly take two young daughters from their mother for six-and-a-half years?
From the you-can't-make-up-this-crap file, county officials are paying Lynberg & Watkins, a private Southern California law firm specializing in defending cops in excessive force lawsuits, untold sums to claim the social workers couldn't have "clearly" known that dishonesty wasn't acceptable in court and, as a back up, even if they did know, they should enjoy immunity for their misdeeds because they were government employees.
A panel at the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit this week ruled on Orange County's appeal of federal judge Josephine L. Staton's refusal last year to grant immunity to the bureaucrats in Preslie Hardwick v. County of Orange, a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages. In short, judges Stephen S. Trott, John B. Owens and Michelle T. Friedland were not amused. They affirmed Staton's decision.
But to grasp the ridiculousness of the government's stance, read key, Oct. 7, 2016 exchanges between the panel and Pancy Lin, a partner at Lynberg & Watkins.
Who Masterminded The Wood Chipper Murder Plot Against A Judge, Prosecutors and FBI Agents?
Now that Lin and county officials have been alerted by the Ninth Circuit that lying by powerful bureaucrats is bad, the civil case resumes inside Orange County's Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse in Santa Ana.
R. Scott Moxley's award-winning investigative journalism has touched nerves for two decades. An angry congressman threatened to break Moxley's knee caps. A dirty sheriff promised his critical reporting was irrelevant and then landed in prison. Corporate crooks won't take his calls. Murderous gangsters mad-dogged him in court. The U.S. House of Representatives debated his work. Pusillanimous cops have left hostile messages using fake names. Federal prosecutors credited his stories for the arrest of a doctor who sold fake medicine to dying patients. And a frantic state legislator literally caught sleeping with lobbyists sprinted down state capital hallways to evade his questions in Sacramento. Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club and been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists.
Jaycox's problems began when he invested his and his significant other's life savings with a crooked real estate operator. This led him to a doctor who did what most doctor's do – he gave him a medication. This medication had a side effect – i.e. the unrelenting spasms! Of course without terminating the medication the side effects continued as did the massive unrelenting attempts to find an organic cause. The little money that Jaycox had soon disappeared, and so did the benefits of private and public health care. However, an Esformes controlled nursing home was available and Jaycox was transferred.
To access the money available from government health care, papers had to be signed. Jaycox was not incompetent and smelled a rat. He refused to sign – he was not happy with being a commodity. No problem – the nursing home had the Court "wired" and the Office of the Public Guardian was summoned and they petitioned for a guardian to be appointed for Mr. Jaycox. His significant other, Jaycox, and family members were of course threatened with eviction but there was government money available and the Political/Judicial elite were not going to allow a dime to escape.
Within days Mr. Jaycox had an real fatal disease – Aspirated pneumonia – this plus the recovery from "falling out of bed" and breaking a hip made him helpless. The mission was completed – every dollar was extracted from every source, and especially the government!
Footnote: when Jaycox died, he was cremated post haste!
Between the start of 2014 and the end of last year, cameras in the suburbs brought in a total of nearly $170 million, according to records obtained from suburban governments throughout the area.
And the Sun-Times/ABC7 analysis of those documents shows suburban red-light revenues are rising sharply every year, as more and more local governments install cameras at intersections. The total collected from cameras in the suburbs increased almost 50 percent between 2014 and 2016.
Of the 10 suburbs whose cameras rang up the highest revenue totals during the past three years, nine have contracts with SafeSpeed LLC, a Chicago company that's a growing force in the red-light enforcement industry. From its downtown offices, SafeSpeed has built a roster of more than 20 suburban clients. Though the competing RedSpeed has deals in far more suburbs than any company, SafeSpeed operates what are by far the most lucrative cameras, the Sun-Times and ABC7 found.
In an unprecedented study of cameras across the Chicago area, reporters sent Freedom of Information Act requests to government officials in about 100 towns that have received permits for cameras from the Illinois Department of Transportation. A few communities never installed cameras, while some officials said they once had them but removed them.
But nearly 90 suburbs now have red-light cameras churning out more than 770,000 tickets a year.
No communities have benefitted financially from the cameras more than Berwyn, Melrose Park and Hillside, records show. Those suburbs collected more than $8 million each from red-light camera violators in the three years ending Dec. 31.
Berwyn and Melrose Park have contracts with both SafeSpeed and RedSpeed. But in both suburbs, SafeSpeed's cameras account for the vast majority of the fines collected.
Other SafeSpeed clients whose cameras are bringing in large amounts include North Riverside, Lakemoor, Hillside, Country Club Hills and Skokie. These communities reported getting more than $2 million each from red-light camera tickets last year, records show.
Matteson collected more than $4 million in the first 13 months since SafeSpeed began operating five cameras at two intersections in February 2016, village records show.
Chris Lai, SafeSpeed's chief operating officer, declined to disclose how much the company makes. The privately held company is owned by him and three other investors.
Under its deals with Chicago suburbs, the company gets nearly 40 percent of the money from tickets issued by its cameras. Records show suburbs that use SafeSpeed took in a total of more than $70 million from its red-light cameras over the past three years.
Lai says the company has been successful in luring suburbs away from its competitors because SafeSpeed is "better" and "more effective" at catching violators. In some cases, as in Skokie, the company gave municipalities the chance to try out its cameras, and officials saw they were issuing 25 percent to 30 percent more tickets than their previous red-light camera vendors, according to Lai.
Because SafeSpeed is local, its crews can quickly replace any cameras that aren't functioning properly, maximizing revenues, he says.
SafeSpeed CEO and co-founder Nikki Zollar is a former head of the Chicago election board and was director of the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation under former Gov. Jim Edgar. She also was a trustee of Chicago State University until stepping down last month.
Zollar formed SafeSpeed with Lai and two others, Omar Maani and Khaled Maani, in 2007, after she was involved in a crash in which another driver ran a red light and T-boned her car, injuring her mother-in-law, Lai says.
"We've very proud of what we do," Lai says.
But some drivers who showed up to contest tickets issued by the company's cameras say they did come to a complete stop — and, in many cases, the video evidence backs them up.
At a hearing this month in Melrose Park, Rick Koch, a 20-year-old from Villa Park, showed up with his grandmother, whose car he was driving when a camera photographed him making a right turn at North and 25th avenues. That corner generates huge revenues for Melrose Park and SafeSpeed.
"Originally, I was going to pay it, get it out of my way," Koch says.
Instead, he took time off work to fight the ticket and found the video proved he stopped before turning. Koch slumped his shoulders in relief when the adjudicator for the village dismissed the case, saying he may have been unjustly cited because he stopped the car well short of the white line in the right-turn lane.
There were other cases with similar findings in evidence at a recent hearing in Berwyn. Bryant Anderson's car was recorded making a right from Cermak Avenue onto northbound Harlem Avenue just after 2:45 p.m. Feb. 11. A little over a month later, Anderson got a citation from Berwyn, which said SafeSpeed's camera caught him breaking the law.
Rather than pay the $100 fine by mail, he challenged the ticket, showing up for a 3 p.m. hearing at the Berwyn police department on April 18. The video showed his car clearly stopped before turning onto Harlem.
"I shouldn't have had to come here to contest this ticket because, once your wheels come to a complete stop, you are stopped," Anderson said after the hearing.
That same afternoon in Berwyn, Sejal Shah of Oak Brook also got his ticket tossed after being accused of running a red with his Tesla at the same intersection. Again, the video vindicated Shah, a 44-year-old doctor who had to leave work at MacNeal Hospital early to attend the hearing at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday.
"It should have been dismissed to begin with because I did make the stop before moving forward," Shah says.
In Berwyn, as in other suburbs, officials say a police officer reviews the video sent by the red-light camera vendor before tickets are sent out.
Berwyn's attorney, Anthony Bertuca, is the adjudicator in the town's red-light camera court. He starts every session by calmly lecturing all of the defendants, then reviews the evidence on a screen that the defendants also are invited to look at.
He advises everyone to make a long stop on red if they want to make sure to avoid having to come to court again or pay another fine.
Mark Wallace, a radio-show host who's executive director of Citizens to Abolish Red Light Cameras, notes that the law only requires a stop at a red light — not that drivers must stop for an extended time, as Bertuca advises. Wallace says he thinks many people pay to avoid the hassle of fighting the tickets, even when they aren't at fault.
The Sun-Times and ABC7 found that fewer than 5 percent of those cited based on the cameras fight the tickets.
About 95 percent of suburbanites getting tickets are accused of making illegal right turns against a red light, Wallace estimates. Bertuca, the Berwyn attorney, agrees that about 95 percent of the cases he sees in traffic court involve drivers turning right.
"The number who are ticketed who came to a complete stop is actually very, very small," Lai says.
Although a federal study in 2010 found that right turns were factors in just 1.2 percent of crashes, red-light camera operators and municipal officials say the cameras are about safety first, not money.
Jen Donahoo — who successfully contested a ticket she got from a SafeSpeed camera in Melrose Park — doesn't buy that argument.
Contributing: Jason Knowles, Ann Pistone and Madeline J. Scott of ABC7 Chicago. To read the ABC7 report, click here.
Illinois is on the verge of Bankruptcy. The State owes billions, yet Illinois fosters corruption a War on the Elderly and the Disabled, tax cheats (including a candidate for the Democratic Nomination of Governor, *******.
Our current governor promises us that he would 'Shake up Springfield!' We all imagined fire and fury, instead we get platitudes about duct tape and MORE TAXES! Of course the State Income taxes owed by the political elite who are fostering and supporting a real shooting was against the ELDERLY and the Disabled are given a pass on the 'booty' that they join in stealing from Federal and State Health Care programs as well as the millions that are stolen from the individual elderly and the disabled. This "booty' is the result of a breach of the public trust and because Federal crimes are involved 18 USCA 371 makes all the participants liable – jointly and severally. Thus, Jerome Larkin owes taxes on every guardianship he has participated in the cover up. This for instance includes 3 million dollars from the Sykes case alone.
The Lanre Amu case is a blot on the integrity of the State of Illinois and the United States of America whether you are able to quash media coverage of the Jim Crow or not. As Crain's Chicago Business made the same averment as Mr. Amu, it is clear that Mr. larkin committed perjury. Perjury is a felony! Denial of Mr. Amu's civil rights by a public official is similarly a serious Felony! The use of the mail to accomplish these felonies is indeed the felony of MAIL FRAUD!
Maybe Mr. Larkin's clout will protect him now – but, there is an new Sheriff in town! Maybe – the US Attorney will feel obliged to see that every citizen – including those with dark skins – will enjoy equal protection of the law and in particular protection from public officials who breach their public trust!
What do I want? I want the Illinois attorney registration and disciplinary commission to do what they were designated to do — tell the truth, protect the public from corrupt judges, lawyers and judicial officials and conduct itself with honor, honesty and integrity!
I realize that with Mr. Larkin as the administrator this is a great deal to ask – but it is not too much! Reinstate the license wrongfully taken from Amu and Denison now! The Lynching of Amu makes Illinois live in infamy! It is something that cannot be tolerated.
Mr. Larkin should be disbarred and prosecuted for his 18 USCA 371 co-conspiracies and his other criminal acts! An Honest investigation will reveal his perfidy! The COVER UP cannot continue.
And that secrecy is a thick blanket, with family members and others saying that in addition to difficulty getting information, they have been threatened with fines and penalties for revealing matters they learned in their own cases.
In theory, only a docket sheet in a guardianship case is considered a public record. But many clerks don't know the law. The docket sheets have not been posted online, as they are supposed to be, and in a recent case a printed copy of a docket sheet obtained by the Journal had a questionable redaction by district court personnel – the name of a paid medical professional.
And as a practical matter, there isn't even a simple provision that requires guardians, conservators and other for-profit professionals to adhere to fee schedules to keep costs to estates low. The fees are reviewed "ad hoc" – meaning at the judge's discretion and measured against an unknown standard.
As for the commission itself, it has taken the troubling position that people who testify or submit material by email cannot use names and if they do so in written communications those communications will be returned. While the commission and the judicial system isn't equipped and shouldn't be expected to "redo" past cases, this procedure could be interpreted as not wanting to know if bad apples are playing the system. Wouldn't it be useful if patterns emerged? Patterns that could be forwarded to the appropriate disciplinary boards? Perhaps there is a middle ground on this issue.
But there is no wisdom in throwing out the good and holding out for perfect. Other states have taken on the hard work of reforming the guardianship system, and identifying secrecy as a reform topic is right on point. This commission is doing important work at the Supreme Court's direction and under York's leadership.


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