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POSTED: Monday, December 5, 2011 - 4:02pm
UPDATED: Monday, December 5, 2011 - 4:13pm
HARRISON COUNTY — Harrison County deputies on December 4, 2011 at approx. 5:00 PM, arrested Galen Wallace on 2 aggravated assault/ family violence warrants that were issued on 11/28/2011. These warrants stemmed from the assault that is currently under investigation involving Brittany Brice and Donald Salley.
Wallace was arrested in Harrison County near the intersection of Nesbitt Cut-off and St. Hwy. 154. Wallace had been in hiding since the incident and information was obtained from an informant that he was at the location. He was using an abandoned vehicle as shelter and had been sleeping in the vehicle.
He was arrested and booked into the Harrison County Jail. Bond has not been set, at this time. Both warrants are first degree felonies. The range of punishment may be from 5 to 99 years on each offense, if convicted.
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HARRISON COUNTY — Harrison County 911 operators a call on November 28, 2011 at 1:37 AM regarding an injured person and an assault that had just occurred at 4271 Driskell Bridge Rd. in the Northwest area of the county.
Upon deputies arrival, they were met by ambulance personnel and found 2 people had been assaulted and were being treated for chemical burns on their face and body.
They were both splashed around their face and chest area with a chemical drain cleaner that is an acid based product during the assault. The incident began with the suspect, Galen Wallace, W/M/ 03/10/1972, walking through the residence on Driskell Bridge Rd. with a bottle of acid and making angry remarks about the victims and saying that the drain cleaner could cause a lot of damage to a person.
He then went to the bedroom where the victims were and began throwing the liquid onto the bed and the victims. The victims are identified as Brittany Brice, W/F 12/03/1986 and Donald Salley, W/M 10/13/1990. Both victims were transported to LSU Medical Center for further treatment.
As deputies were interviewing the victims and witness, it was learned that the suspect had fled the residence and had taken his 3 year old son, Christian, with him. He fled into a wooded area behind the residence and deputies, with the assistance of K-9 operations, attempted to find the suspect throughout the early morning hours. At approximately 9:00 AM, The suspect went to a relative's residence and dropped-off the child and then left on foot. The suspect is being sought in connection with the assault. The 3 year old child is with other family members.
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The neutral ending is that she leaves and you're left with Hanako at the school gates, the good ending being that you go after her.
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neutral, lilly only has a neutral and a good ending
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I run by a rule of "Do what the fuck you want as long as it doesn't stop anyone else doing what the fuck they want"
I'm perfectly fine with religion and religious people, I stand opposed to some of the ideas and rules that they have, though.
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I don't give a shit what a person believes in (or what they don't believe in) as long as they don't try to force it down my throat.
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Well, I, for one, underwent 9 years of "religious education" mandatory christian propaganda when I was a kid, as did everyone in my country since 1933.
Maybe you can understand that I now have to disagree, call you an idiot and tell you to shut the fuck when you have no idea what you're talking about.
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No, you have no idea. Not the slightest.
People voicing their opinion is not the same as a mandatory brainwash.
No one forces you to listen to them, no on prevents you from telling them to fuck off, no one keeps you from locking yourself in a cellar if they do not.
It's not at all comparable.
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Care to explain how or do you think a baseless statement is sufficient?
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"Well, I, for one, underwent 9 years of "religious education" mandatory christian propaganda when I was a kid, as did everyone in my country since 1933. "
Ta-da, it is.
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Their epic failure doesn't mean they didn't try and intend to, now does it?
You're clutching at straws here.
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I'm not dealing in guesswork, that's your metier.
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9 years of mandatory propaganda lessons have nothing to do with influencing impressionable children, no, not at all.
You're the most gullible thing I've ever met if you really believe that.
Ever dealt with the Roman Catholic church? Any idea how they finance themself where I'm from?
This "religious education" is a mindrape gambit for future profit, nothing else, as seen in many a lunatic sect as well. Anything else is just rhetorics and pretty words to cover up that shameful truth.
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"There's actually a difference between true Christianity and Catholicism. "
Of course there is. Catholics are better organized.
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What the fuck is your problem with technical information?
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There. Find the meaning in that.
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You can see the murals in the KNOxOUT Project: EDSA series on the San Lorenzo Wall between Ayala and Pasay Road, Makati (by Jose Tence Ruiz); the pylons and parapets of the MRT on Ortigas, Pasig (by B+C); the Aurora Cubao underpass, Quezon City (by Tapio Snellman); and under the southbound flyover on Tramo, Pasay (by Erika Tan).
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The great things about this hotel are the comfortable bedrooms with large bath, great service, delicious breakfasts with a huge selection at the buffet, wonderful beach and pool. Room for improvement would definitely be the lobby--my first impression was, "what a racket --with birds in cages chirping loudly to the noise of the large t.v. going full blast next to the bar. This is the area that should entice one to feel comfortable, instead it made me want to run away as it looked so cheap! The restaurant (breakfast room) could also be improved on, as the colors are too dark. In the bedrooms there was hardly enough drawer space for two people (two dresser drawers) and we had to ask for more hangers which promptly arrived. Staff was very friendly and helpful at all times. I would come back again and recommend this hotel for a quiet stay.forgot to include that it is a shame that people don't try to keep the beach clean--there were cigarette stubs and bottle caps everywhere! At least the hotel staff should clean up in the evening, or make an attempt to do so.
Wonderful Resort.. Good Price.. No Complaints
Arrived 1/23/04.... Found room to be very large with fridge, microwave, coffee maker( free coffee), 2 t.v's, large kingsive bed and fold out.
Huge heated pool. perfect beach ( but mostly stayed at Haulover during the day, that was really fun). Very much reccommend this hotel especially if you get the lower internet rates... only complaint was the hot tub closed at 7 pm, other than that.... no problems
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I would have to agree with many of the statements the previous reviewer gave. The hotel was older and needed some minor repairs. The rooms also have a mild smoke stench. To avoid the $6.00/day valet park across the street behind the gas station. It will only take you a minute extra to park there plus you can get your car faster. As for the smell of the pier, well it smells like any other fishing pier that has regular fishing. The best part of the hotel was its location and extra activities that they set up for you. If you like charter fishing I recommend the Therapy 4. The hotel will have them pick you up and a 1/2 day trip only cost $100.00. They also can set you up with snorkeling trips and trips to the Everglades. The pool area was set up nice as was the oceanfront view. I would definetly go back since it was part of a time share however I might recommend searching around if they are looking to get the 200-300 nightly rate.
Did not get our money's worth.
This hotel is trying to "renovate" but their look still "old". They are a bunch of cheapos, trying to squeeze every penny out of you (these guys do not believe in customer satisfaction). Do not leave your car with the valet person. They charge you $6/day but you can go in/out as many times you want during the day -- because of their arrogance do not give them tips until they change their attitute. You can self park across the street, a bit an inconvenience but it's not bad.The rooms are old looking. We asked for a non-smoking room and got otherwise. We complained and got an air purifier (so much for customer satisfaction).
The windows are as old as the building so the wind might keep you awake, specially if you are on the 10th floor. The sheets are old, too.The "famous" pier is a nasty structure. There are people fishing 24/7 and they clean and gut their fishes on the pier so they leave a mess on certain parts of the pier. Lastly since there are people at the end of the pier 24/7 it started to smell like a public bathroom.Their beach is not super clean, the hotel tries to maintain it clean so I give them credit for this. Things we did not like was the cigarrete butts all over the place, plastic wraps in the water and plastic bottle caps in the sand. Water temperature is a lot warmer than San Francisco, that's for sure.To top it off, we asked for a late check-out but they wanted to charge us $50 for a 2PM check-out. What a joke, out of all the hotels around the world that we have been to this was a joke to us.
And when we tried to check out towels at the pool they "reminded" us that we were supposed to check out at 10AM (we corrected the towel attendat that the official check-out time was 11AM) otherwise is $10 to use their towels.Overall, I would not recommend this hotel to anybody.
You have to drive through a tough neighborhood (when you go through 826). Then the hotel is old, and their customer service is terrible. We paid too much per night plus tax and resort fee, personally speaking we did not get our money's worth. If you have to go to Miami, check out Fort Lauderdale/Pomano beach area. The beaches over there are not that great either but the area seemed nicer when we drove by.
Love the Newport Resort
I went their once a couple of years ago with some friends, we all shared a one bedroom suite, the room was really nice and clean, the staff was helpful. I had a really fun time when I went their. I would recommend the hotel to travelers.
Stayed here twice and enjoyed it, but...
I stayed at this hotel with a bunch of my friends from my church. The hotel attempts at a Bahamian feel with their calypso music and vibrant colors (and the exotic birds in the lobby). Not a HORRIBLE attempt, though. Breakfast buffet is AWESOME! The beach leaves much to be desired. The pool is small and crowded. The rooms are decent and clean, but there is no sound barrier between rooms. I heard my neighbors every day when they brought their kids back from the pool. Someone lit an entire box of firecrackers in the hall @ 2am and we opened our front door to smoke and chaos--it looked like 9/11 in the hall. People were panicked and the hotel staff was not helpful. They were sending us back to bed w/o ok from the fire dept. People were angry and scared. Other than this incident the hotel stafff is nice, but not exceptional (I travel frequently.) I honestly would go back if my friends came with me. They were the real life of the party.
Great Time!
We really enjoyed the resort. The rooms were nice and clean. Everything was as we were told it would be. The location was great and the beach BEAUTIFUL!!! The pool and beach were very enjoyable and we will definately return.
DO Not Stay Here!
I took my wife, 2 daughters and their friend to stay here for 3 nites. We checked out immediately after the 1st night! This is in a bad part of town, alot of rough people. Little kids (8 yrs old) yelling obscenities from their balcony, lots of drinking, guards with guns everywhere. No one speaks English! People on patios drinking til 3am loudly! The website is totally different than the resort! We found bubblegum stuck to sheets, they probably were not changed. We reserved a one bedroom, what it actually is, is a hotel room with a glass shelf between the beds! We were afraid too go to sleep at night, being the only people with blonde hair, people were staring at us! Barricaded the door with our cooler. The worst place I have ever stayed!
It was nice, but..
My wife and I stayed here on our Honeymoon in June of 2002. It has a terrific beach, and the only peir we saw on Miami Beach. We had a good time however, all rooms in this hotel are pet friendly, and even though we stayed in an ocean view suite the room had flees. I had a great time at the hotel but was so flee bitten by the end of our stay that I was pretty miserable. If you go, get an ocean front room, the view is spectacular! Also be advised that parking is a problem, and onsite restaurants are simply okay.The price was very fair. It is an older hotel but has some charm. Far enough away from South beach for quiet, but close enough to go partying.
Love this place
I have stayed at the Newport on at least 12 occasions and I have always been happy with the rooms which were really upgraded during the last renovation. The fishing is fantastic and the staff is very friendly. I always recommend this hotel to family and friends. In fact my retired father goes there every year to fish and relax.
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I always keep an eye out for Westy specialists while travelling since we are driving the **** out of a 30 year old van. So far we have had a few bumps in the road with fixing things here or there. It was an expected expense and we kind of look at it like it is our version of rent or mortgage. We have to invest in our home to keep it in good shape just like people who have houses and apartments. To make sure our home is ...
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... setting and I wanted to walk up to overlook the Bay Harbour Islands, but Andy just didn't want to walk anymore, so we got the bus instead back to the hotel. Driving past Haulover Park Marina, Bella Vista Bay and Dumfoundling Bay were all so pretty in the setting sun, it was a shame the bus windows were graffitied and obscured a decent view. Finally back at the hotel by 7.30pm with tired out legs, we crawled back to our room and climbed in the shower to de-sand & ...
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... had more fun writing it than you have reading it, but that's because I find my own jokes funny! But a big shoutout goes to my travel companion Lois, who didn't stay calm during my near crashes or accidents, but was there in some form of support, and managed to laugh about it later. We've loved every minute of travelling about together, and definitely have plans for more, if a little bit shorter trips, especially to South America. Until next ...
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Yes, a baby one - how exciting - they keep their red heads for the whole summer. We get them here, and it is still a thrill every time we spot them. Love their "loopy" flight pattern too
Wills - i grow delphiniums from seed - start off in a windowsill propagator in Feb, pot on to pots in unheated GH in April, and then keep them growing in pots for the whole of their first year (mostly so i can keep an eye on them), and plant out in following spring. Here is one of my babies in its third year ....
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Knew i would miss something .....Stacey - glad you had a good day, but sorry it was not as good as before.... What did you think of the gardens? I don't normally buy lots at shows - prefer to take leaflets and then mail order. Having said that, i did come home with an agastache and three crocosmia (named AnnieMarie - HAD to have them!!) this year - hope they do well. It must be a stressful experience being a plant at a show
Ggirl - your compost bin names made me laugh
John - good to see you back after your epic journey - garden is looking spectacular with all those nasturtiums
potted up my "free" clematis that arrived yesterday, and all my new delphiniums are now in monster pots. I think they would get lost if I planted them out now, so will keep them in pots and wait ti spring, when they will have a fighting chance of growing up with everything else.
just had a power cut, so am posting something i wrote a couple of hours ago - its probably all out of sequence, so apologies if there has been news i have not commented on
Bought a 10 pack of seeds from Eagles at HC this week - didn't realise they were the bees knees
Any tips on how to tackle a greenfly infestation on sweetpea flowers?? I have moved one of the bird feeders over in the hope that the bluetits will find them, but there are a lot there
Sounds like a good day planned OL
Is it just me, or is the forum super slow for others today
Ooops - got my days mixed up Well ditto for Saturday then
Hope you have a wonderful time - its a great garden. My favourite bit is the view of the stripy lighthouse through the hedge - probably because there are so many gorgeous plants to choose from that its impossible to pick one out.
hope Friday is fine, but not too hot. And remember the camera. Maybe Artjak can sweet talk another coach driver
Thanks Dove - its taken a few years, but it makes it all the more special if its one of your own babies
Heres a couple of my patio pots too - as you can see, i always seem to gravitate to the blues
Thats my flower borders this morning, and below is my red corner, and a hydrangea that i grew from a cutting flowering for the first time


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In cool night air
street lamps glow
their mellow lemon best
while stars sleep resting
on a bed of utter jet blackness
there's comfort in the sky
and those lamps are friends of mine
on every inky journey
familiar sights at night
the special signs you look for
to gauge everything's alright
in outback towns
the lights are warm
red dust in your hair
On coastal nights
the lights shine bright
in cool clean atmosphere
I think street lamps
are friendly giants
who serve to guard and guide
visitors and newcomers
who visit towns at night
leading us into the place
where we begin new life
So full of hope and benevolence…xx
I'm so happy this is the feeling you got from this Rosie thank you very much :) xx
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great imagery KT x
Thank you so much Kristi!! :) xx
so glad you liked it!
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what a wonderful writing!!!!. so true. i love the different ways people use lights to make a special place
lights in a place…….. welcoming…… friendly…. warm…… glowing…..
Thanx so much dearest Isa, me also :)) xx
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This is wonderful to read.:)
Thank you Therese, so kind of you :)
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Hmm…. This is an exquisite little biopic of sorts, Karin – magical :) I feel there's also a song in there somewhere also (?) Love it!
Thank you so much Chris, I've been thinking of you lately, I hope you're well! :)
so happy you liked this, I went for a drive tonight and the yellow lights brought back old memories and connections .. Nice warm feelings :)
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Ooh, wonderful!!! I love this one… a different feel to it; your writing usually conjures up light imagery(for me), but this is dark— with the glow & warmth of the street lamps illuminating.
Thanks so muchly Sarah… It was one of those really dark nights with no stars at all yet it felt cost and warm out there in the dark driving … I just tried to capture the feelings and connections/mind associations, I'm so glad you enjoyed it :)
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Cost should read 'cosy' lol
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Thank you so much Yan Gao!! :))
good to see you …
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The Chinese translation sounds nit right Yan Gao, so this is what I meant to say….in English – thank you for reading my poem and I have wondered how you are and missed you also!
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wll done Karin lanp light does guide and keeps things safer !LIZ
thank you very much Liz…so true, so true :) x
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The Illinois Legislature did not pass legislation which would have mandated by legislative fiat that homosexual and lesbian partnerships be given the same legal status as real marriage. We must all become aware of the pattern of the Cultural Revolutionaries and their Press collaborators. They change the language, declare the existence of a counterfeit 'right' and then accuse those who oppose their social experimentation of being against that 'right' and opposing progress. Their plan for the future of this culture is anything but progress.
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6/9/2013 (1 year ago)
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Keywords: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Illinois, marriage, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, bishops, Illinois Legislature, marriage equality, gay marriage, homosexual, pro-Life, pro-Marriage, Pro-Family, Deacon Keith Fournier
SPRINGFIELD, IL (Catholic Online) - On Friday, May 31, 2013, the Illinois Legislature did not pass legislation which would have mandated by legislative fiat that homosexual and lesbian partnerships be given the same legal status as real marriage. Thus, the title of my article, Marriage Won in Illinois.
If you read many of the reports that the Bill did not come to a vote in Springfield, you read something quite different than this article. For example, the multitude of articles in the Huffington Post referred to this anti-marriage legislation as a marriage bill. It reminded me of the backward bizarre world of the Superman Comics of my youth.
This legislation which did not come up for a vote in Illinois was an anti-marriage bill.
Those who opposed the legislation were referred to in many of the same press reports as being against what is now routinely called marriage equality. In fact, they are Pro-Marriage. They defended marriage against a movement which actually opposes marriage.
The Anti-Marriage Bill did not pass because an alliance of Pro-Marriage and Pro- Family voters, facing the perfidy of the propaganda press and the hostility of those dedicated to a Cultural Revolution, defended the common good together. They are a seed of that new alliance of which I wrote about in my article entitled Time for an Evangelical and Catholic Alliance for the Common Good.
We must all become aware of the pattern of the Cultural Revolutionaries and their Press collaborators. They change the language, declare the existence of a counterfeit 'right' and then accuse those who oppose their social experimentation of being against that 'right' and opposing progress. Their plan for the future of this culture is anything but progress.
They followed this approach back when they opposed the fundamental Human Right to Life. That Right is revealed in the Natural Law and confirmed by medical science. They opposed the Right for our youngest neighbors in the womb. So, they manufactured a 'right' to take their life in the first home of the whole human race, at any time and for any reason, through legalizing procured abortion.
Then, they changed the language. They now call this always deadly action an 'abortion right' and have convinced a complicit media to do the same. They changed the public debate with the assistance of collaborators in the propaganda media. Sadly, their terminology is now even used by some who are Pro-Life!
Abortions have no rights, only human persons do. The first Right, the fundamental human Right to Life, is taken away in every procured abortion. The positive law which denies that Right to Life and protects those who take the lives of children in the womb is an unjust law.
Because this kind of verbal engineering has been embraced by much of the media we must not trust their reporting. That is why having alternatives such as Catholic Online and others is so vitally important in our effort to defend the true common good and promote real progress.
What is happening in this hour is a clash of worldviews with competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. We are engaged in a contest to recover the moral foundations of a truly free society. This involves conflicting definitions of true progress and the real common good.
We insist that true marriage and the family have been inscribed by the Divine Architect into the order of the universe. That is because they have. Heterosexual marriage, procreation, and the nurturing of children form the foundation for the family, and the family forms the foundation for civil society as its first vital cell.
Defending marriage serves the common good. Redefining it does not. Those who engage in this movement which wants to call itself 'marriage equality' are opposing marriage. They seek to redefine it out of existence and eliminate its primacy in the social order.
Marriage and the family and society founded upon them are under a frontal assault.
We must reject the Orwellian newspeak of those who oppose marriage. I once again plead with my fellow writers to reject the loaded language of the Cultural Revolutionaries. They frame the debate by calling those of us who defend marriage as being against it.
We must stay crystal clear in our message. We are the ones defending marriage. Homosexual partnerships are incapable of being marriages. The supporters of this kind of legislation are participating in an Anti-Marriage Movement.
To limit marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory now, nor has it ever been. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition. To insist with the police power of the State that we pretend otherwise does not serve the common good.
To confer by governmental fiat the benefits that have been conferred in the past only to stable married couples and families to homosexual paramours is bad public policy. To state this is not to be "anti-gay". It is to defend marriage and the family. It is to serve the common good.
Marriage - and the family founded upon it - is the first society into which children are to be born, learn to be fully human, grow in virtue, flourish and take their role in families and communities. We must not be afraid to make the claim that children have a right to a mother and a father. They do.
Of course we care about the single parent family and the many broken homes and provide a social embrace of them. However, neither their existence - nor our obligation in solidarity to them - changes the norm which is necessary for a stable society. In tact marriages and families are the glue of a healthy and happy social order.
Our claims concerning the right to life and the true definition of marriage are not outdated notions of a past era but provide the path to a future of true freedom and human flourishing. Their recognition and implementation is the path to true progress.
Nor are our positions on these fundamental social matters simply our religious position - meaning in the parlance of the Cultural Revolutionaries that they should be kept within our church walls. There is a Natural Moral Law which can be known by all men and women through the exercise of reason.
This Natural Moral Law gives us the moral norms we need to build truly human societies and govern ourselves. It should inform our positive law or we become lawless and devolve into moral, legal and social anarchy. This is the ground upon which every great civilization has been built. It is the source for every great and authentic human and civil rights movement.
There is a growing intolerance of our rights to free expression, association and participation. This was reflected in the reporting concerning the new alliance which came together in Illinois to defend marriage against the effort to redefine it.
Among the many accurate Press Reports was the fine article from the catholic bishops of the United States entitled USCCB Subcommittee Chair Applauds 'Victory in the Land of Lincoln' It is set forth below.
USCCB Subcommittee Chair Applauds 'Victory in the Land of Lincoln'
WASHINGTON-Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, applauded the "victory in the Land of Lincoln" as the Illinois state House failed to vote on a bill to redefine marriage before the legislative session ended last Friday.
"The fact that the Illinois state House did not vote on the marriage redefinition bill reflects a failure to have the votes to pass the bill," said Archbishop Cordileone."This victory in the Land of Lincoln demonstrates that marriage redefinition - even in the face of intense political pressure - is not inevitable, a likely reason we haven't heard much about it in the national media."
A diversity of faith leaders joined together to defend marriage in Illinois.
"Leaders of various faith traditions spoke eloquently on the reality that nature and nature's God make clear that marriage is the union of one man and one woman," Archbishop Cordileone said."Catholics will continue to proclaim with people of other faiths and of no particular faith that marriage is the one-flesh union of one man and one woman. Indeed, both faith and reason lead us to this truth."
Archbishop Cordileone also addressed the claim that equality requires redefining marriage in law.
"All persons have inherent dignity and must be treated equally with the respect and justice that is their due," he said."That is part of the purpose of the law; it is not the purpose of the law, though, to give people social status, as the advocates for marriage redefinition contend.
"For a well-ordered society, laws must reflect reality; for them to contradict reality would be simply irrational. Our children deserve as much and depend upon all of us, especially our leaders, to protect the reality of marriage, not redefine it in the law. Many thanks go to all those who let their voices be heard in defense of marriage in Illinois," Archbishop Cordileone said.
The bill to redefine marriage that was not brought to a vote in the Illinois state House had passed the Illinois state Senate earlier in the year. Proponents of marriage redefinition in Illinois may try again to advance the bill in the Illinois legislature later this year.
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Down cycle: Evansville pickup slumps, drop-offs up
- The League of Women Voters of Southwestern Indiana is sponsoring a program at 7 p.m. Monday at Evansville's Central Library to discuss recycling. Speakers will be Vanderburgh County Recycling Coordinator Jim Daniels and Patricia Colbert, executive director of the Posey County Solid Waste Management District.
Participation in Evansville's curbside recycling program is on a decadelong slide.
It's a decline that has come even as opportunities to recycle everything from simple materials such as paper to complex items such as computers have increased throughout the area.
The amount of recyclable materials collected at the curb in Evansville decreased by 31 percent from 1997 through 2006, according to the annual collection totals provided to the Vanderburgh County Solid Waste Management District by Allied Waste.
However, during that same time participation in drop-off programs for Vanderburgh County residents not served by curbside pickup has increased.
The amount of recyclable materials brought to various specialty recycling programs also has generally grown or held steady. At least 27 businesses and organizations in the county, according to the district, accept various recyclable items, from used oil and batteries to materials more traditionally thought of as recyclable, such as paper, cans and glass.
So why aren't Evansville residents recycling more at home?
Jim Daniels, the district's recycling coordinator, believes part of it lies with the city's and county's business approach with Allied Waste, which contracts with the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility Department to collect garbage, recyclables and yard waste.
"They (the company) have a disincentive to promote it," Daniels said. "That is one of the reasons we promote it."
Instead of compensating Allied Waste on how much it collects or how many households participate, the contract pays the company a set annual amount, adjusted for the number of private residences built and demolished in the city each year.
As a result, Daniels said, Allied is getting paid for providing the curbside recyclable pickup regardless of whether people participate.
Regardless of whether they participate, city residents also pay for the program through a $10 refuse charge on their utility bills that covers trash and recyclable collection.
Another factor, Daniels said, is people do not see a direct benefit from recycling.
"A lot of people don't see the results right away. The benefits are postponed," he said.
But there are benefits, Daniels said, and they eventually trickle down to the individual.
"The more secondary resources we use, the more natural resources we save," he said.
It is more expensive to extract and develop natural resources for use, Daniels said, than to reuse resources already in the form of usable materials.
For instance, it takes less energy, time and financial resources to melt down and reuse scrap metal than to mine, transport and process raw ore into finished metals or crude oil into new plastic.
It takes 95 percent less energy to make aluminum from recycled cans than from new material, said Joe Ballard, executive director of the solid waste management district.
Tri-State Resource Recovery, a not-for-profit business operated by the Evansville Urban Enterprise Association, receives and processes the recyclables collected at the curb by Allied Waste in Evansville, Newburgh, Chandler and Boonville, as well as materials from many others, such as Wesselman Nature Society and various commercial sources.
"We take all the items that come through the door and recycle as much as possible," said Brian Whitesell, general manager.
Trucks full of cardboard, glass, No. 1 and No. 2 plastic containers, paper, newsprint, aluminum and other metal cans arrive throughout the day.
After being weighed, the loads are sorted into large bays to await baling and shipping, often by railroad.
"We move about 800 tons of cardboard a month through here," Whitesell said. "We work directly with the mills and outlets."
He scours the country for the best deal to sell the materials. Plastics often go to North Carolina, steel to northern Indiana, aluminum to Alcoa and Anheuser-Busch, and paper to a mill in Wabash, Ind. Cardboard often goes to Weyerhaeuser Corporation in Henderson, Ky.
Sometimes the recyclable materials are exported to mills and manufacturers in Mexico and other countries.
Whitesell said he, too, has noticed the decline in curbside recyclables.
"Recycling is a very lean business. Volume is a big part of it. We have to pay the bills no matter how much we make each month," he said. "The volume of the curbside recyclables is especially important to us."
Ballard said another part of the puzzle may be a shift in population outside the city limits where curbside recycling is not offered.
Instead, the solid waste management district offers a monthly drop-off program that rotates between locations on East, West and North sides. The program is promoted by the district and operated by Wesselman Nature Society, which also operates its own drop-off site near the entrance to Wesselman Woods Nature Preserve.
Almost every year since the program began, the amount of recyclables collected has increased, from 21 tons in 1999 to 96 tons in 2006, peaking with 98 tons in 2003 and dipping slightly to 87 tons in 2005.
In addition, participation in annual and semi-annual collection programs such as electronics and tire recycling days and household hazardous waste days, have been good, Ballard said.
"There is some public awareness of recycling and of not wanting to throw some things away," he said.
The key to increasing participation, especially in the curbside program, Daniels said, may be to begin treating recyclables as a resource and rewarding people for conserving it.
"Maybe people should pay for their trash based on how much they throw away, the same way they pay for electricity and water base on how much they use," he said.
This could be done, Daniels suggested, by charging people a flat fee for picking up a certain amount, or weight, of garbage. People would then be charged in incremental amounts for any waste disposed of above the amount covered by the flat fee.
Jeff Merrick, assistant director of the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility, said the city's contract for curbside recycling pickup is being looked at as part of a larger audit by VS Engineering, of Indianapolis. The utility department hired the company to audit and rewrite bid specifications for the city's heavy trash, garbage and recyclable material pickups and street sweeping contracts with Allied Waste.
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An electronic device has a host with a card-receiving slot, and can receive and operate with both low voltage (3 volts) and high voltage (5 volts) IC (integrated circuit) cards. The inner end of the slot has a voltage-discriminating first side, and has a switch (82, FIG. 5) with an actuator (80) lying at a location that is occupied by a discrimination key portion (69) that is present in a low voltage card but not a high voltage card. The electronic device has both lower and higher voltage circuits (124, 130) for energizing lower and higher voltage cards, and the type of card sensed by the switch determines which circuit is connected to contacts at the inner end of the slot.
1. An IC card-receiving host for connecting a received IC card to an electronic device that has circuitry which can be switched to operate at first or second voltages, wherein said host has a card-receiving slot with first and second sides, wherein said slot can receive first and second IC cards where said first card is designed to operate at said first voltage and said second card is designed to operate at said second voltage, and wherein said cards have differently keyed first sides (52A and 52B) that each indicates the designed voltage for that card, said keyed first sides of said cards constructed so they both have corresponding discrimination locations and said second card has a discrimination key portion (66B) lying at its discriminating location but said first card does not have a key portion at its discrimination location, characterized by:
a switch (82) located at said card host first side, said switch having an actuator (80) positioned to be operated by said discrimination key portion (66B) of said second card and to not be operated by said first card, and said switch being connected to said circuitry which can be switched.
2. The host described in claim 1 wherein:
said slot has an inner end portion, said host has contacts at said inner end portion, and said slot has a slot top and a slot bottom;
said first side of said slot inner end portion has top, bottom, and middle regions lying between said slot top and said slot bottom, with said bottom region having a barrier to the inward passage of any IC card portion thereat, and with said top and middle regions being devoid of a barrier but with said switch actuator lying in said middle region.
3. The host described in claim 1 wherein:
said host slot has an open outer end and a primarily closed inner end, and said host has at least one laterally-extending row of pin contacts lying at said slot inner end between said first side and a laterally opposite second side, said pin contacts extending in an outward direction from said slot inner end, with said pins having outer ends extending no further outward from said slot inner end than a predetermined imaginary laterally extending contact line;
said host has a barrier at said first side, which has an outwardly-facing barrier shoulder lying at a shoulder portion which is outward of said contact line;
said actuator has a card engaging part that lies in said slot at a position that is outward of said contact line but inward of said barrier shoulder.
4. An electronic device which has a switchable voltage sensitive circuit and a card host for receiving IC cards that operate at different voltages, wherein:
said host has a slot with an open outer end and an inner end, said slot inner end having laterally-spaced first and second sides and having a top and bottom, said host having a laterally-extending row of pin contacts extending outwardly from said inner end with said pins having pin outer ends, and said host having an orientation key barrier near the bottom of said slot first side with said barrier having an outer shoulder spaced a plurality of millimeters outward of the outer ends of substantially all of said pin contacts;
said host includes a switch coupled to said voltage sensitive circuit and to said host, said switch having an actuator which is positioned to sense the presence of a card portion lying at said first side of said slot inner end, at a predetermined location above said orientation key barrier.
5. An electronic device that can receive low and high voltage IC cards that are each constructed in accordance with PCMCIA standards with keys that permit a high voltage card to be received in a low voltage host but that prevent a low voltage card from being received in a high voltage host, comprising:
a low voltage source for energizing a low voltage IC card, and a higher voltage source for energizing a high voltage IC card;
a card-receiving host which has a card-receiving slot and at least one laterally-extending row of pin contacts;
a switching device which is operable to connect a selected one of said voltage sources to at least one of said pin contacts to energize an IC card lying in said slot, and a sensor which selectively senses keys of cards to sense the presence of a low voltage IC card and a high voltage card and which operates said switching device only when it senses a selected one of said cards.
6. The electronic device described in claim 5, wherein:
said host slot has an inner end portion with laterally spaced first and second sides, with a top and a bottom, and with upper, lower and middle regions that are each of a height of more than one sixth the distance between said top and said bottom;
said pins project outwardly from said inner end of said slot, and said sensor senses the presence or absence of a card portion in said middle region of said first side of said slot, to switch said switching device to connect said at least one pin respectively to said low voltage circuit and to said high voltage circuit.
7. A method for operating a low voltage electronic device with a host that has a card-receiving slot, to receive and energize low or high voltage cards, wherein each of said cards has a front end with at least one laterally-extending row of contacts, with the front end of each card having a laterally extending width with opposite sides and a thickness which is less than half said width, where low voltage cards have card discriminating key portions at a middle location lying at a first of said sides but high voltage cards do not have key portions at said middle location, comprising:
constructing said electronic device so it can operate said low voltage card and can be switched to operate said high voltage card;
sensing the installation in said slot of a high voltage card, including the detection of a card discriminating keyportion at said middle location, and switching said electronic device to operate said high voltage card upon said sensing.
IC (integrated circuit) cards, which are all about the same width and length as a typical credit card, are designed for insertion into a slot of a card-receiving host which may lie in an electronic device such as a notebook computer. The PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) currently specifies two logic voltages that are in general use, these being nominally three volts and five volts. Five volt cards require energization at about five volts and are designed to receive and generate digital signals of about five volts. Many newer electronic devices are able to use three volts in their logic circuits, which saves battery power, and are designed to operate with corresponding three volt IC cards.
At present, different host connectors, or hosts, are required for cards of different logic voltages. A high-voltage host will fully receive only a high-voltage card. A low voltage host will receive both high and low voltage cards, but the high voltage card will not operate when fully inserted. Low voltage cards cannot be inserted into high voltage hosts, because low voltage cards have a card discriminating key portion which will abut a barrier region in a high voltage host. It would be desirable if an electronic device and a single card host therein could fully receive and properly operate both high and low voltage cards.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an IC card-receiving host and an electronic device that holds such host, are provided, which enables circuitry in the electronic device to effectively interact with either a high voltage or low voltage IC card that is inserted into the slot of the host. The slot in the host has an inner end with at least one laterally-extending row of contacts and with first and second opposite sides. The first side of the host slot has top, bottom, and middle regions, with the middle region devoid of a barrier that is otherwise present in prior high voltage hosts to keep out low voltage cards. Instead, a switch is provided with an actuator lying at the middle region, to sense that an inserted card is a low voltage card.
The electronic device has low and high voltage circuits that can each energize and/or interact with different voltage logic signals. When the switch or sensor senses a low voltage card, it connects the low voltage circuit to the pin contacts that lie at the inner end of the host slot. When the switch senses a high voltage card, as when a switch actuator is not operated at a time when a card is fully inserted, the high voltage circuit is connected to the pin contacts at the inner end of the slot.
The novel features of the invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention will be best understood from the following description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a partially section, exploded isometric view of a card-receiving host and an IC card.
FIG. 1A is a view taken on line 1A--1A of FIG. 1.
FIG. 2 is a partial sectional exploded view of a prior art host and card.
FIG. 3 is an exploded sectional view of the host and card of FIG. 2, for the case of a prior art five volt host and card, with a view of the host taken on line A--A of FIG. 2 and a view of the card taken on line B--B of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is an exploded sectional view of the host and card of FIG. 2, for the case of a prior art three volt host and card, with a view of the host taken on line A--A of FIG. 2, and with a view of the card taken on the line of B--B of FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the host of FIG. 1 taken on line 5--5, and also showing circuitry of the electronic device.
FIG. 6 is a sectional isometric view of a portion of the host of FIG. 5, but without showing the pin contacts.
FIG. 7 is a view taken on line 7--7 of FIG. 6, showing some of the pin contacts, and including a sectional view of a partially inserted card.
FIG. 8 is a view of a portion of the host of FIG. 5, with different regions indicated in phantom lines.
FIG. 1 illustrates a card-receiving host 10 of the present invention, which is designed to receive a data card or IC (integrated circuit) card 12. The host has a card-receiving slot 14 that can receive a card inserted in an inward direction I (which is opposite to an outward direction O) until the card lies in a fully inserted position. The slot has an inner end 16, and has two rows of pin-type contacts 18 projecting outwardly from the slot inner end, for mating with card socket-type contacts 19. Each row of pin contacts in the host slot extends in a lateral direction L. The slot has an inner portion 20 with first and second laterally-spaced opposite sides 22, 24. The second side has an orientation key barrier 26 which assures that the card is inserted in a proper orientation (not upside-down) into the slot. The first side 22 is constructed to sense whether the IC card 12 is a high voltage (e.g. nominally 5 volts) card which has a high logic voltage, or a low voltage (e.g. nominally 3 volts) card which has a low logic voltage.
FIG. 2 illustrates a portion of a prior art host 40, and of a present and prior art IC card 12 which can be inserted into the slot so pin contacts 42 of the host 40 can mate with socket contacts 19 in the card. Before the pin and socket contacts can mate, a forward end portion 44 of the card must pass across barriers 26, 46 lying at the opposite sides of the host slot 14. As shown in FIG. 8, which is taken on line A--A of FIG. 2, the first side 22 of the host slot 14 has a top and bottom 45, 47 and three regions therebetween. The three regions include an upper region 60, a lower region 64, and a middle region 62. Each region occupies about a third of the slot height. The presence or absence of a barrier at the middle region 62 of the host slot, determines whether or not a low voltage card can be fully inserted into the host.
FIG. 3 illustrates a prior art host and card 40A, 12A which are designed to operate at a high voltage (5 volt). The high voltage card 12A, is shown in the cross section taken on line B--B of FIG. 2. The card 12A has an orientation groove 50 at a second side thereof, which is designed to receive the orientation key barrier 26 at the second side 24A of the host. The card 12A has a first side 52A which is designed to enter the first side 22A of the host. The first side 22A of the host has a top region 60A, a bottom region 64A, and a middle region 62A. The top region 60A, which is empty, is designed to receive a card lateral positioning portion 54 which forms a key at the first side of the card. It is noted that the card lateral positioning portion 54 assures that the opposite second side 56 of the card will lie closely at the second side 24 of the slot. The lower region 64A of the host slot forms a barrier and is used merely to assure that the card is not installed upside-down in the slot. The middle region 62A also forms a barrier, and is designed to prevent the full insertion of a low voltage (3 volts) card fully into the high voltage slot 14A. The high voltage card has a card middle or discriminating location 66A which is empty, so the discriminating location 66A does not engage the host middle region 62A when inserted into the host slot. The card has a card lower region 68A which is empty.
FIG. 4 illustrates a prior art host and card 40B, 12B which are designed to operate at a low voltage (3 volts). The second side 24 of the host slot is the same as for the high voltage host. However, the first side 22B differs, in that it does not contain a barrier at the host middle region 62B. The upper region 60B is also empty as in the case of the high voltage host. The first side 52B of the low voltage card 12B has a lateral positioning portion 54 that is identical to that of the high voltage card. However, the low voltage card has a card discriminating location 66B which is occupied by a discrimination key portion 69. The key portion 69 prevents the low voltage card 12B of FIG. 4 from being fully inserted into the high voltage host 40A of FIG. 3, since the key portion 69 would abut the host discriminating key barrier at region 62A.
It is possible to insert the high voltage card 12A of FIG. 3 into the low voltage host 40B of FIG. 4, although the card will not "work". That is, if the high voltage card is inserted into the low voltage host, the low voltage (3 volts) applied to energize the card circuitry, will not be sufficient and the high voltage card will not operate properly. As discussed above, it is not possible to insert the low voltage card 12B into the high voltage host 40A, because of the presence of the card discriminating key portion 69 of the low voltage card 12B. Such card key portion is provided because the circuitry of the low voltage card could be damaged by the high voltage.
In the prior art, each host was either a high voltage host of the type 40A of FIG. 3 or a low voltage host of the; type 40B of FIG. 4. If an electronic device should have sufficient circuitry to operate with either high voltage or low voltage cards, then in order to do so such electronic device would require two separate hosts (one for high voltage cards and one for low voltage cards). The present invention permits an electronic device with appropriate circuitry, to interact with either a high voltage or a low voltage card, using a single host and single host slot. Of course, the electronic device may have a plurality of hosts, but in that case, each host may be capable of operating with either a high voltage or low voltage card.
FIG. 5 illustrates a host 70 of the present invention, which has a second side 72 similar to that of hosts of the prior art, but which has a modified first side 74. The first side 74 is similar to the first side 22B of the low voltage host of FIG. 4, except that it contains an actuator 80 of a switch 82. The slot 84 in the host 70 can fully receive either high voltage or low voltage cards of the constructions Shown at 12A and 12B in FIGS. 3 and 4. However, the actuator 80 will be operated only when the low voltage card 12B is inserted. The host of the present invention senses the card discriminating key portion 69B of the low voltage card by the fact that it operates the switch actuator 80.
FIG. 5 shows a switchable voltage-sensitive circuit 100 that is part of the electronic device 102 that contains the host 70 and the circuit 100. This circuit includes a high voltage source 104 and a low voltage source 106. For the particular circuit 100, a high voltage switch 110 is initially closed, while a low voltage switch 112 is initially open. If a high voltage card is inserted into the host, such high voltage card will not operate the switch 82 and the high voltage switch 110 will remain closed. When such high voltage card is fully inserted, a card-sensing contact 114 will sense the full insertion, and will operate an electronic relay indicated at 116 which will close two power switches 120, 122. Only closure of the high voltage power switch 120 will be significant, and upon its closure, current can flow from the high voltage supply 104 through the switches 120, 110, to a high voltage circuit 124 of the circuit assembly 100 (and to the card to energize it).
If a low voltage card of the type shown at 12B in FIG. 4, is inserted into the host 70 of FIG. 5, then the card discrimination key portion 69B of the card will operate the switch actuator 80 to close the card-sensing switch 82. Current passing through the switch 82 will operate an electronic relay 126 to change the states of both switches 110, 112. That is, the high voltage switch 110 will open while the low voltage switch 112 will close. Full insertion of the card is sensed by short contacts 114, 114A, which can connect to relay 116. When the card is fully inserted, as sensed by the card insertion contacts 114, 114A, so switch 122 is closed, current can flow from the low voltage source 106 through a low voltage circuit 130 (and to the card to energize it). Thus, the electronic device has separate circuits 124, 130 that each operate at a different voltage, and with a selected one of the circuits 124, 130 being energized depending upon whether the full insertion of a high voltage card is sensed (by engagement of contact 114 and by absence of operation of switch 82) or a low voltage card is sensed (by contact 114 and operation of switch 82).
Most of the pin contacts 18 such as pin 18A are connected to both circuits 124, 130, as indicated by line 132, so each circuit 124, 130 can receive and send data signals of appropriate voltage to and from the inserted card through the pin contacts. A pair of power pin contacts are connected so power from a selected voltage source 104, 106 can energize the card through the power pin contacts (e.g. pin contact 18X). The circuit assembly 100 includes a large processing circuit 140 that is designed to be energized by a low voltage (3 volts) and which has a corresponding low logic voltage. Interaction of the large circuit 140 with the low voltage circuit 130 is relatively straight forward. The high voltage circuit 124 preferably converts high voltage logic to low voltage logic signals which it transmits and receives to and from the large circuit 140. The large circuit 140 may consume considerable power, and its operation at a low voltage can generally result in a lower power consumption to achieve a longer battery life. The high voltage circuit 124 may contain a limited number of components so that it may consume only a limited amount of power. The high voltage source 104 therefore may be obtained from a high voltage battery of limited capacity, or by electronically boosting the output of the low voltage source 106, for a portable electronic device. Thus, even when a high voltage card is to be interfaced with, the circuit assembly 100 can take advantage of the lower power consumption of the low voltage large circuit 140.
FIG. 7 shows a low voltage card 12B in the course of its insertion into the host slot 84. At the position shown in solid lines at 12B in FIG. 7, the leading edge 150 of the card has passed an outwardly-facing shoulder 160 of a host orientation key barrier, but not yet encountered the switch actuator 80. When the leading edge reaches the position 150A, it will have encountered the actuator 80 and deflected it sufficiently for the actuator 80 to engage a switch contact 152, and thereby close the switch. When the leading edge of the card has reached the position 150B, a card socket contact 19X will first engage a host pin contact 18X. The card leading edge position 150B is slightly inward of contact line 164 which lies at the outer ends of the pins. After further inward movement of the card, a card contact 19Y will engage the card sensing contact 114 of the host. The distance 166 to the position 150A where the switch is actuated, is preferably between 5 mm (which is the distance 168) and 10 mm.
Although a mechanical actuator 80 is shown for use in sensing the presence of a low voltage card to operate a switch, it is also possible to use other switching devices such as a proximity switch to sense the presence of the card discriminating key portion 69 to operate a switch.
Although terms such as "top", "bottom", etc., have been used herein to describe the prior art and the present invention as illustrated, it should be understood that it is possible for the host and card to be used in any orientation with respect to Earth's gravity.
Thus, the invention provides an IC card receiving host, and an electronic device that includes such host, which enables a single host to receive and effectively operate on both high voltage (e.g. 5 volts nominal) and low voltage (e.g. 3 volts nominal) cards. The host has a switch with an actuator which senses a key portion that is normally occupied by a card discrimination key portion of one type of card such as the low voltage card, but not the other card such as the high voltage card. Thus, the presence of only one type of card operates the switch. The electronic device can include both high and low voltage circuits, with only a selected one of them being energized and capable of interacting with an installed card, depending on whether the switch is operated or not.
Although particular embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated herein, it is recognized that modifications and variations may readily occur to those skilled in the art, and consequently, it is intended that the claims be interpreted to cover such modifications and equivalents.
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