Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has announced $1.6 million in federal grants to allow municipal, county, and state law-enforcement agencies in northern Illinois to acquire in-car computer equipment to help improve access to criminal records during traffic stops and enhance public and police safety. Recipients from Henry County include the Geneseo Police Department ($17,400) and the Kewanee Police Department ($11,092). Rock Island County recipients include East Moline ($8,503), Milan ($11,792), Moline ($8,022), and Rock Island County ($10,646). In addition to data access, law-enforcement officers can use the terminals for note-taking and report-writing, as well as wirelessly entering incident, accident, and arrest information.
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a small, dark stage, Venus slowly materializes, walking silently
toward us in a diaphanous robe, holding a chalice and a sheath of
wheat, her eyes distant. Jupiter, looking like Dionysus, sits on an
invisible chair holding a jester's toy, laughing at something he's
just heard from sly Mercury, who slowly floats by. Neptune the mystic
crouches, bare-headed, waiting, looking beyond us.
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you pick up a book or magazine, your conscious mind is almost
certainly looking at the cover and the text inside.
