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If this case goes to trial the $64,000 question is can OJ and his lawyers find an impartial jury? Simpson's lawyers would need jurors that were not born or too young to remember the infamous televised white Ford Bronco slow speed police chase that was indelibly etched in the public's mind.
[OJ Reprise]
Without Cochran and jurors seeking vengeance for his murder trial acquittal can OJ pull another surprise or is the case, as his lawyer suggests, very questionable and weak?
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson is again in legal troubles.
On Sunday, OJ was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, burglary, two counts of assault, kidnapping and coercion all with a deadly weapon.
Allegedly, OJ and others he met at a reception went to reclaim some of his sport memorabilia stolen from him years ago which were conveniently in collectible dealer Alfred Beardsley's Las Vegas hotel room.
Here we go again! It was reported that he did not want to involve the police in the operation because since his acquittal law enforcement have not wanted to work with him. This time there's no Johnnie Cochran. He is facing serious jail time. OJ was held without bail until his Wednesday arraignment. A flight risk and no ties to Las Vegas community are the reasons sited for the no bail decision.
He was released when he made his $125,000 bail through a bond bailsman. No plea was entered at this time but OJ in due back in court on October 22, 2007.
All this some 13 years after the double murder trial dubbed "The Trial of the Century" held the nation's television programming hostage and the civil case's verdict which interrupted President Clinton's State of the Union Address.
Many people thought, hoped and some may have prayed, that that was the last the public would be forced to hear about OJ, his children, Nicole Brown, her family and the Goldman family.
In 2006, OJ wrote a book called "If I Did It". After a firestorm, the original release was cancelled and its rights were awarded through a Florida bankruptcy court to the Goldman family to satisfy an unpaid civil judgment. The Goldman family has renamed the book "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer".
If this case goes to trial the $64,000 question is can OJ and his lawyers find an impartial jury? Simpson's lawyers would have to select jurors that were not born or too young to remember the infamous televised white Ford Bronco slow speed police chase that was indelibly etched in the public's mind.
The lengthy trial that dragged the public along kicking and screaming as OJ modeled a glove, witnesses smiled for the cameras, a judge cried and quit and the media critiqued Marsha Clark's hairstyles ending in the verdict that left a bitter after-taste with far too many people whether they were "pro OJ or not".
This pool of jurors born on or after 1994 would be further reduced so that it did not include any of those that have read "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" which is currently on sale on Amazon.com.
Any hope of finding people that are not biased is either slim or now dashed. That's why OJ will have to pay his lawyers the big bucks. It's a good thing he has his pensions totaling up to $30,000 a month coming in now. He flew home to Florida economy class.
You never know how long this trial will last and with each billable hour the price tag goes up. It was reported that the Goldman family are interested in obtaining the memorabilia that OJ went to reclaim. This latest OJ saga will continued to unravel for sure. This could be the most media covered robbery case ever.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of 19 series, reflecting the Institute's functions and activity. Folder or publication titles are listed in chronological order under each series heading.
Series I: About the Institute
Series II: Local Government Series and Salary Surveys
Series III: Public Policy Reports
Series IV: Conference Proceedings
Series V: Taxation and Finance
Series VI: Governor's Studies
Series VII: Studies of Legislatures
Series VIII: Voting and Elections
Series IX: Administrative Studies
Series X: Community Improvement and Economic Development
Series XI: Manuals
Series XII: Compilation of Information on Laws in Iowa
Series XIII: Police
Series XIV: Training
Series XV: Miscellaneous Publications
Series XVI: Title VIII Housing Act of 1964
Series XVII: Contemporary Public Affairs
Series XVIII: Newsletters and Annual Reports
Series XIX: Letters for Leaders
Organizational History
The Institute of Public Affairs was founded in 1949 as a part of the Division of Extension, State University of Iowa. It was established in order to provide consultation, research and training services to public officials and concerned citizens "toward the goal of maintaining quality state and local government in Iowa," according to a 1970 publication. The bulk of the titles listed below are those of publications released by the Institute, including their year of issuance.
[D. McCartney, 6/2007]
Box Contents List
Box 1
Iowa 2000: The Time of Our Lives
Iowa 2000 Final Report
A Perspective of Iowa 2000: The Time of Our Lives
Iowa's Resource: The University of Iowa
Institute of Public Affairs pamphlet (2)
40 Years of Outreach
Institute of Public Affairs pamphlet
Services to Iowa Governments
Horizons in Personnel Development, 1975
----, 1976
Assistance to Iowa Governments from Your University in Iowa City through The Institute of Public Affairs
Institute of Public Affairs pamphlet
Iowa Local Government In-Service Training Program (3)
Municipal Public Relations: A Correspondence Study Course, 1968
Iowa Model Ordinances, 1973
Institute of Public Affairs pamphlet, 1985
A Decade of Service to Iowa Government 1949-1959, 1959
The Convener- 11 issues, 1967-1969
The Institute of Public Affairs: serving you and your community, 1970
----, 1972
Horizons in Personnel Development- 3 issues, 1973-1974
Governor's Conference on Iowa in the Year 2000, 1974
Iowa 2000: The Time of Our Lives, 1977
30 Years of Service to Iowa Government, 1979
Training and Consultation Services, 1979
Training and Consultation Services to Iowa Governments, 1980
Quality Circles: A Productivity Enhancement Program, 1981
Helping People Make Cities Work: A Summary of 1984-1984 Institute of Public Affairs' Services to Local Government, 1985
Series II: Local Government Series and Salary Surveys
Refuse Collection and Disposal for Iowa Communities, 1951
Iowa Municipal Salaries, 1951
----, 1953
County Salaries in Iowa, 1954
----, 1956
Iowa Municipal Salaries, 1955
----, 1957
----, 1959
County Salaries in Iowa, 1960
Iowa Municipal Salaries, 1960
----: Cities Over 6000, 1961
----: Cities Under 6000, 1961
Home Rule for Iowa, 1962
Iowa Municipal Salaries: Cities Over 6000 Population, 1962
----: Cities Under 6000 Population, 1962
County Salaries in Iowa, 1963
Iowa Municipal Salaries: Cities Over 6000 Population, 1965
----: Cities Under 6000 Population, 1965
County Salaries in Iowa, 1966
Iowa Municipal Salaries: Cities Under 2500 Population, 1968
----: Cities Between 2500-4000 Population, 1968
Box 2
Iowa Municipal Salaries: Citites Between 4000-6000 Population, 1968
----: Cities Between 6000-10000 Population, 1968
----: Cities Over 10000 Population, 1968
County Salaries in Iowa, 1969
Local Government in Iowa: Problems and Perspectives- Working Paper No. 1, 1970
----: Problems and Perspectives- Working Paper No. 2, 1970
----: Problems and Perspectives- Working Paper No. 3, 1971
Iowa Municipal Salaries: Cities Under 3500 Population, 1973
----: Cities Between 3500-7500 Population, 1973
----: Cities Over 7500 Population, 1973
Working Papers on the Iowa State Civil Service Law 1973 & Recommendations for the Iowa State Civil Service Law 1976, 1973
Home Rule for Iowa Counties, 1974
County Home Rule, 1978
State Mandates on Local Government in Iowa, 1983
State Government in Iowa, 1985
----, 1990
Series III: Public Policy Reports
Iowa in the World
Box 3
The 1950 Census...Its Effects on Government in Iowa, 1950
Mental Health Facilities in Iowa, 1952
A Report Concerning State Laws Regarding Organizations That Solicit Funds from the Public for Charitable or Benevolent Purposes, 1954
State Control and Administration of Atomic Radiation, 1957
Initial Report on Water Pollution in Nine States, 1963
Iowa's Investment in Child Welfare Services, 1968
Genocide, 1971
Iowa Court Reform, 1972
Women and Public Policy: A Humanistic Perspective, 1974
The 1974 EEOC Guidelines on Testing: A Brief Explanation and Commentary, 1974
For the Record, 1975
Planning Iowa's Future, 1977
Annual Report and New Directions, 1981
Annual Report to Iowa Governments, 1982
----, 1983
Annual Report, 1984
----, 1985
----, 1986
----, 1987
----, 1988
A Decade of Adjustment, 1988
Annual Report, 1989
Series IV: Conference Proceedings
Juvenile Delinquency: Iowa's Problems and Resources, 1956
Proceedings of the 1964 Urban Policy Conference, 1965
Urban Development: Proceedings of the Second Annual Urban Policy Conference, 1966
Proceedings of the Iowa Conference on Mobility in the Public Service, 1966
Community Leadership and Decision-Making: Third Urban Policy Conference, 1966
----: Proceedings of the Third Annual Urban Policy Conference, 1966
Improving Human Relations in Iowa: What Next? Official Conference Report sponsored by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, September 27, 1967
Cities of the Future: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Urban Policy Conference, 1967
Report on the Iowa Commonwealth Conference on Human Rights, 1968
Box 4
The Politics of Redesigning Community Governmental Structures, 1968
The Changing Concepts of Community, 1968
The Emerging Patterns of service for Communities, 1968
Strengthening Government Organizations in Changing Communities: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Urban Policy Conference, 1969
Plans, Programs, & People: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Iowa Housing and Redevelopment Association, 1970
Conference on the Future of the State of Iowa Resource Paper No. 1: Land Use Policy, 1973
We the People: A Report of the 1975 Iowa Commonwealth Conference, 1975
Performance Appraisal Conference, 1979
Iowa Government Series- Issues 1-38, 1980-1987
Series V: Taxation and Finance
Memorandum Regarding the Need for and the Results of the Special Tax Program Adopted in Iowa in 1934, n.d.
A Manual of Accounting and Financial Procedures in Iowa Towns and Cities, 1954
State Sales Taxes on Services, 1954
Financing Iowa's Highways, 1954
Presentation to the Iowa Taxation Study Committee by the State Board of Regents, Sept. 28, 1955
General, Special and Highway Revenue, summary tables 1940-1955
A Half-Century of Local Governmental Finances: The Case of Iowa - 1910-1960, 1963
Technical Appendix to Iowa Local Governmental Finance Studies, 1963
Box 5
A Half-Century of Local Finances: The Case of Iowa, 1964
Trends and Variations in Local Finances: The Case of Iowa Counties, 1965
Financing Services on an Area Basis: Some Background Ideas, 1971
Revenue Sharing, 1971
City Debt in Iowa, 1978
A Survey of Municipal Fees and Charges in Iowa, 1980
A Study of Federal Revenue Sharing in Iowa, 1980
Iowa Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1983
Iowa State Government Revenues and Expenditures 1950-1983, 1984
Iowa Local Government Finance Reports: City Tax Levies in Iowa, 1984
----: Local Government Debt in Iowa, 1984
----: City Finances in Iowa, 1986
----: City Property Tax Summary, 1986
States' Tax Capacities and Tax Efforts
1985 Update: Iowa Property Taxes, 1985
Standardized Measures of Municipal Property Tax Dependency in Iowa Fiscal Years 1985 & 1986, 1986
Iowa School Finance Issues: Property & Income, Capacity & Effort, 1987
What Does "State Debt" Mean in Iowa?, 1987
The Short Ballot in Iowa, 1987
Iowa School Finance Reform: Issues and Options, 1987
Iowa Local Government Property Tax and Local Option Sales Tax Capacity and Effort: County Based Indicators of Local Government Fiscal Potential, 1987
Initiative and Referendum in State Governments -- A Possibility for Iowa?, 1987
Iowa Local Government Finance Reports: School District Property and Income, Capacity and Effort, 1987
Iowa Local Government Finance Reports: 1987 City Property Tax Summary, 1987
Tax Increment Financing: A Proactive Economic Development Tool, 1989
1989 City Property Tax Summary, 1989
Report to Governor Thomas E. Dewey on Permanent Personal Registration of Electors, 1952
The Governor's Commission on Economic and Social Trends in Iowa, 1958
Statutory Provisions Relating to the Aged, 1958
Gubernatorial Staffs: Function and Political Profiles, 1969
Box 6
Series VII: Studies of Legislatures
Appointment of State Legislative Committees
The Iowa Lawmaker
Partisan Politics on Campus, 1950
A Report on Presidential Primary Laws, 1952
The Use of Sifting Committees in the 48 State Legislatures, 1952
Iowa Law Review: Iowa Senatorial Districts can be Reapportioned - A Possible Plan, 1954
Stenographic Assistance for State Legislators, 1955
An Analysis of Constitutional Provisions Relating to "Single Work or Object" Sections with Special Reference to the Constitution of Iowa, Nov. 14, 1958
State Constitutional Conventions: The Legislature's Role Preparing for a Convention, 1960
Facts and Opinions About the Shaff Plan, 1963
The 1964 Iowa Constitutional Question, 1964
Proceedings of the Commonwealth Conference on Legislative Research, 1964
A Look at Nine Pending Constitutional Changes, 1966
State Legislatures in American Politics, 1966
Five Constitutional Amendments Proposed to the Voters, 1968
Final Report, 1968
Three Constitutional Amendments Submitted to the Voters, 1972
1980 Iowa Constitutional Issues, 1980
Box 7
Series VIII: Voting and Elections
A report of The Iowa Conference on Preparing College Men and Women for Politics, 1953
Voting in Iowa, 1955
----, 1956
A Citizen's Guide to Iowa Municipal Elections, 1956
A Citizen's Guide to Iowa Municipal Government and Elections, 1959
A Preliminary Report of an Analysis of the Effects of the Use of Voting Machines in Voting on Special Questions in Iowa- 1920 to 1956, 1960
Teacher's Guide for use with Voting in Iowa, 1962
Effects of the Use of Voting Machines on Total Votes Cast: Iowa - 1920-1960, 1964
Voting in Iowa, 1968
Lost Votes: Effects of Methods of Voting on Voter Participation Iowa 1920-1984, 1986
Series IX: Administrative Studies
Dubuque Traffic Survey, 1950
A Survey of Municipal Organization and Administration - Davenport, Iowa, 1961
Iowa Falls, Iowa Survey of Municipal Government and Administration: Trade Area Survey, 1962
Study of Mobility of University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and State College of Iowa Graduates, 1964
A Survey of Municipal Organization and Administration - Des Moines, Iowa, 1965
Box 8
Grinnell Municipal Government: Part I - An Administrative Survey, 1965
----: Part II - A Position Classification Plan, 1965
----: Part III - A Salary Plan, 1965
Operation Profile - Waverly, Iowa, 1967
----. Adel, Iowa, 1967
Training Needs Survey, 1968
Public Employment Recruitment and Selection Practices in Iowa State and Municipal Governments: A Two-Year Effort at Researching, Recommending, and Modernizing, 1973
Municipal Employee Survey: Discrimination Against Minority Group Members by Municipal Governments, Employee Attitudes on Working for the Cities of Burlington, Des Moines, Sioux City, Muscatine, Iowa City, Mason City, 1973
A Survey of Energy Conservation Practices in Iowa Local Governments, June 1975
Series X: Community Improvement and Economic Development
Traditional Methods of Regional Cooperation and Local and Area-Wide Governmental Reorganization
A Handbook for Improving Iowa's Communities, 1957
Iowa Citizenship Clearing House, 1958
A Guide to Annexation and Subdivision Control, 1959
Iowa Municipal Information Service - 5 Issues, 1959-1964
Iowa City in the Future: A Proposal for the Renewal of the Central Business District of Iowa City and Adjacent Areas, 1960
Community Theatre Handbook, 1961
Institute on Community Planning and Development, 1964
New Dimensions in Community Development, 1966
Multi County Development, 1966
Box 9
Human and Community Resource Directory - 3 Issues, 1966-1968
Community Development in Transition, 1967
The Community School Concept, 1968
Hospital-Based Ambulance Service, 1968
A Study of Iowa Ambulance Service, 1968
Education for Community Development: A Two Year Program, 1972
Potential for Metropolitan Reform, 1975
Approaches for Governmental Cooperation and Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas, 1975
Implementing Metropolitan Reform, 1976
Guides for Clerks
Resources for Iowa Local Officials
A Handbook for Iowa Mayors, 1942
A Handbook for Iowa Councilmen, 1950
A Handbook for Iowa Mayors, 1951
A Reference Manual for Iowa City and Town Clerks, 1952
Iowa Model Ordinances, 1955
----, 1956
----, 1957
----, 1958
----, 1959
Municipal Licensing and Regulation of Electrical Installations, 1959
Your Job as Councilman, 1961 Notes to
The Ordinance: Drafting, Adoption, Publication, 1962
Regulation of the Sale of Liquor, 1962
Box 10
Iowa Model Ordinances, 1953; rev. 1964
A Profile of the Iowa Legislative Process, 1967
Iowa Model Ordinances, 1969
A Handbook for Iowa Mayors, 1971 Changes to
Your Job as Councilman, 1971 Changes to
Box 11
Guides for Iowa City Clerks, 1973
Iowa Model Ordinances, 1973
Labor Relations Student Manual, 1973
A Handbook for Iowa Council Members supplement, 1974
Planning for Disaster, 1975
Disaster Services Management: Local Government's Role, 1975
A Handbook on Intergovernmental Cooperative Agreements in Iowa, 1978
A Manual for Clerks of the Iowa District Courts, 1979
Guides for Iowa City Clerks, 1980
Economic Development Handbook, 1981
A Manual for County and City Assessors of Iowa, 1981
Box 12
A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned: An Investment Manual for Iowa County Treasurers, 1981
A Tax Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1982
A Handbook for Iowa Council Members, 1982
A Tax Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1983
October 1983 Revisions for A Tax Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1983
A Manual for County Supervisors of Iowa, 1983
Changes in the Handbook for Iowa Council Members, 1983
A Handbook for Iowa Mayors 1983-1984, 1984
An Election Manual for County Auditors of Iowa, 1984
A Handbook for Iowa Mayors, 1985
Handbook for Iowa Council Members, 1986 (2)
An Investment Guide for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1986
Box 13
A Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1986
A Manual for County Recorders of Iowa, 1986
A Manual for County Supervisors of Iowa, 1986
Handbook for Iowa Mayors, 1987
Handbook for Iowa Council Members, 1987
A Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1988
A Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa: Directions for New Page Insertion, 1989
Policy Leader Handbook: Guide for Iowa Mayors and Council Members, 1989
An Investment Guide for County Treasurers of Iowa, 1990
A Manual for County Recorders of Iowa, 1991
Box 14
A Manual for County Treasurers of Iowa: Directions for New Page Insertion, 1991
Municipal Policy Leaders' Handbook, 1994
Series XII: Compilation of Information on Laws in Iowa
Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Iowa
New Iowa Laws Affecting Local Government, 1951
New Iowa Laws, 1953
New Iowa Laws Affecting Local Government, 1955
----, 1957
----, 1959
----, 1961
Iowa Fire Laws, 1962
Iowa Laws Affecting Local Government, 1963
----, 1965
Explanation of New Iowa Laws Affecting County Officers, 1967
A Subject Matter Arrangement of the Constitution of Iowa, 1970
Working Papers on the Iowa City Civil Service Law, 1973 / Recommendations for the Iowa City Civil Service Law, 1976
State Government in Iowa, 1974
----, 1977
A Guide to Iowa Laws Concerning Children and Youth, 1979
State Government in Iowa, 1982
----, 1985
Box 15
Armed Robbery, 1949
The Police and the Public, 1950
Protection Against Burglary, 1953
Recommended Forms for Indictments and True Informations, 1961
Selection of Police Officers, 1969
Cutting the Loss to Shoplifting, 1973
Cutting the Loss to Bad Checks, 1973
Management Training in the State Administration of Iowa
An Evaluation of Work for Iowa Municipal Governments: City Employees Look at Their Employers
Discrimination Against Minority Group Members By Municipal Governments: The Views of Municipal Government Employees
Handbook for Preparing Job Classifications
Summary Report: Local Government Training Programs, Problems, and Needs in Iowa, 1968
Local Government Training Programs, Problems, and Needs in Iowa, 1968
Education Plan for Iowa Local Government In-Service Training Program, 1970
A Program of Personnel Development and Training for the Iowa Department of Revenue, 1971
Employee Training and Development for Iowa State Government, 1972
Performance Evaluation: Participant's Training Manual, 1977
Municipal Policy Leaders' Handbook, 2000
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Series XV: Miscellaneous Publications
Extension and Service Activities, 1960
Laboratory for Political Research, 1966
Adult Involvement with Youth Problems in Selected Iowa Communities, 1970
Pocket Guide to Iowa Government, 1977
Iowa 2000 State Commonwealth Conference, 1977
City Government, 1978
We Are Iowans First, 1984
Iowa Governmental Series - 10 Issues, 1985-1987
Iowa City Management Association, 1989
----, 1990
----, 1991
Box 17
Series XVI: Title VIII Housing Act of 1964
Reports, 1968-72
Box 18
----, 1972-73
Box 19
Series XVII: Contemporary Public Affairs
Iowa's Transportation System: The Role of State Government, 1973
Campaign Finance Reform: Public Financing of Elections, 1974
No-fault Automobile Insurance, 1974
Victimless Crimes, 1974
Probate Reform, 1974
Cable Television, 1974
Iowa Court Reform, 1972
National Health Care, 1972
A National Presidential Primary Election, 1973
Discussion Program: China, the U.S., and the U.N.
----: Genocide
----: Revenue Sharing
----: Wage Price Controls
Iowa Administrative Reorganization
Box 20
Series XVIII: Newsletters and Annual Reports
Annual Reports, 1966, 1980-85, 2007-
Resource Guides, 1959-68
Horizons in Personnel Development, 1971-76
The Convener, 1967-69
One Minute Message, 1983-85
Publications order information
Series XIX: Letters for Leaders (one folder)


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Camp Boardwalk
There are two plaques in Atlantic City which commemorate the 50th Anniversary of "Camp Boardwalk." One is located on the front of Boardwalk Hall, and the other on the dining level of Resorts Casino by Gallagher's Burger Bar.
Boardwalk Hall plaque text:
In commemoration of Atlantic City's finest hour ...
Dedicated to the thousands of men and women of the United States Armed Forces who trained, served and recovered here from their wounds of battle during World War II—and to the devoted citizens of Atlantic City and Atlantic County who served and helped to make them feel at home.
The marker located in Resorts Casino
Resorts plaque text:
This plaque commemorates Merv Griffin's Resorts as site of Thomas England General Hospital, the largest hospital in the United States during World War II.
From June of 1942 through November of 1945, more than 300,000 men and women worked, trained and recuperated in Atlantic City also known as "Camp Boardwalk." During that time, more than 4,500 war casualties were treated at England General.
With this plaque, we salute those brave men and women and their contribution to the United States of America.
Additional information:
When the United States entered World War II in late 1941, no time was wasted in readying troops and facilities for combat. In 1942, Atlantic City became occupied by the military, with 47 different hotels and hostels being repurposed for the war effort. Atlantic City, now nicknamed "Camp Boardwalk," was an ideal location for military training and soldier rehabilitation. Since its once-high visitation rates were in decline, many of the resort's hotels were nearly empty already, meaning displacement was minimal. Atlantic City's coastal location ensured that valuable training exercises could be performed on the sand, something troops needed for later beachfront battles in France and Japan. The Boardwalk provided a perfectly even path for injured soldiers going through physical therapy, especially those who were now amputees learning to use prosthetic limbs. Many amputee veterans later expressed that without the help and environment given to them at Camp Boardwalk, re-entering society would have been almost impossible. From 1942-1946, Atlantic City housed over 300,000 soldiers. Boardwalk landmarks were renamed, as the massive Convention Hall became the Army Air Corps Technical Training Command Center, and the Haddon Hall hotel (later Resorts Casino) became the Thomas England General Hospital. Originally encompassing 5 different beachfront hotels before being reduced to just the Haddon Hall, England General was the largest hospital in the world at the time. The environment in the city was different too - beaches were closed at noon so that soldiers could do calisthenics on them, lights had to be turned off at night or windows covered with blue cellophane, and no girl under 18 was allowed on the Boardwalk unescorted after 9 pm. Despite the changes, however, Atlantic City's residents embraced the military presence. Many families invited soldiers into their homes for Sunday dinners, and training exercises on the Boardwalk drew large crowds. The Saturday Evening Post quoted Private Herb Dotten as saying that the spectators "give... an added snap and makes you feel the importance of a job you otherwise might think as a lot of drudgery." The military presence, in turn, helped Atlantic City return to its former glory. Celebrities once again turned out in droves to visit the soldiers; famous names visiting the resort included Bob Hope, the Andrews Sisters, Abbott and Costello, and Joe DiMaggio. Many military families also came to vacation in Atlantic City in order to see their boys off before going to war. Winners of Atlantic City's famous Miss America Pageant participated in War Bond tours nationwide during these years. In 1992, the 50th Anniversary of Camp Boardwalk was marked by a reunion of soldiers at Resorts, many of whom met again for the first time since the war's end.
For more information, see articles from:
The Sun, November 5, 1986 and February 14, 1986
South Jersey Advisor, April 10, 1992
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 28, 1986


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The city of New York City exists strongly. Within New York, the smallest sounds are amplified as they break through the barriers of thin drywall. The coastal weather can be bitter, biting and unforgiving and still, the easiest way to get around New York is by foot and, in effect, immersed in the unchangeable climate. Even the most basic interactions occur more frequently in New York and tailing behind them are the trivial and yet infuriating conflicts that complicate daily life. The minutiae of life is a swift dagger, taking whole days hostage at the hand of an unfriendly DMV employee – I once broke down sobbing at the DMV on 34th street in Manhattan after an employee had repeatedly accused me of forging a signature for my vehicle registration all afternoon. She pointed out an apparent discrepancy in the loop of the letter 'D' and called me a liar, and then eventually said something mean about my mother. I didn't move away from New York because of her, of course. I moved away because of all of it. I was tired of fighting for my own oxygen; I was tired of fighting battles I felt never should have been started to begin with – even if the battle was as trite as My Long Skirt vs. The Torrential Downpour.
The idea that other people in other cities, albeit smaller cities, were enjoying more fulfilling lives had been haunting me. A fantasy had been unraveling in my head for years of the yard and hammock and dog I could have in another city and I couldn't shake it. Other people were paying less in rent. Other people had sunshine most days of the year while my core was being whittled away by "The Best City In The World." Learning about H.A.A.M. in Austin, Texas, a healthcare program that provides medical services to area musicians, was the last straw for me. On top of all other New York stresses, I was playing the freelancer-without-healthcare lottery. I packed up my 1996 Honda Accord and drove south for four days, finally landing in Austin, Texas.
%Gallery-169276%I promptly moved into a charming three-bedroom house with an expansive, private back yard. I signed up for H.A.A.M. and began going to the doctor, dentist, chiropractor and therapist. I made a lot of friends and got married. I became the proud mother of two dogs and I took them hiking and swimming regularly. I overdosed on Vitamin D during the day and saw a lot of live music at night. I paid less for just about everything and saved my money. But despite having tackled and conquered so many goals that I felt would guide me toward truer happiness, I'd been battling an internal war since the moment I arrived.
Optimism blanketed my experience in Austin at first. I was living the life I had told myself I wanted and, even if I had to lie through my grinding teeth, I was determined to enjoy it. Despite my greatest efforts, something was missing. I could say that the "something" was this or that, that it was the electricity, anonymity, intensity, creativity or autonomy, but these are all subjective qualifiers, containing as much falsehood as truth. What I was really missing while living in Austin was much more basic and primal than any intellectual or abstract rendering of what a city like New York does or doesn't offer. What I missed most was what I'd left behind – the chaos, the conversation, the cold chill of winter and the relationships forged under such conditions. What I was missing was my home.
Although I didn't grow up in New York, it was the only home I had ever known. I was naive and young when I first arrived at age 18 and the city had powerfully shaped me. I hated it and loved it, like most New Yorkers, but I identified with its insanity and pulse – I felt as though the city and I were moving at the same pace, quickly and manically approaching each day. With each new street corner that staged a lifelong memory, my psyche had become more entangled with New York, and thus, less separable than I'd ever realized before living someplace else. But this seemed incongruous to me with my insatiable longing for new scenery, with my work as a travel writer. If I couldn't easily pull down a new backdrop with a new landscape and a new context and carry on without missing a beat, then what business did I have feigning an adventurous spirit? But now that I'm living in New York again, with a yard and hammock and dogs no less, I recall the words of a friend's father when he learned that I wanted to leave the city a year before I actually did.
"Everyone needs a home. You leave, you travel, you learn, but home is the place you come back to."
At the time, I dismissed his words because home is supposed to be where the heart is and I believed my heart was everywhere. What I didn't account for were the tiers of the heart; the difference between the comforting core and the fleeting nature of curiosity. The stakes and circumstances are different for everyone, but one thing is certain: nothing, absolutely nothing, compares to the warm inner swell of, for better or for worse, getting back to where you once belonged.
[Photo Credit: Elizabeth Seward]


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Developer: NEKKI
Inspired by the practice and principles of Parkour, Vector's intuitive controls please players of all levels, and sophisticated level designs challenge the most demanding players with fast-paced timing puzzles as the traceur "flows" over the dystopian rooftops.
Game Features:
- Arcade gameplay from the makers of the hit Facebook game
- Astoundingly lifelike Parkour-inspired moves made possible by Cascadeur animation tools
- 20 challenging levels (40 in the "Deluxe Version")
- Quick to learn, challenging to master
The best parkour-inspired action game! Vector lets you break free and run! Don't get caught!
The Press Loves Vector:
"The way Vector mimics the movements of real-life parkour practitioners is quite impressive... I can't wait to be entrapped in Vector's promising mix of direction and magnitude." (appadvice.com)
"Vector is thrilling, rich in variety and it reminds us of Stick Run, but offers much more elaborate animations." (fbgamer.de)
"The only cool way to run from all your problems." (Gamezebo.com)
"The game looks smashing … " (idroidplay.com)


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Connecting to data sources through Power BI is an easy way to get analytics and insights on data that is important to you. Power BI is designed to work well with a variety of data sources including Oracle.
Important considerations for connecting to data in Power BIhttps://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/475435-important-considerations-for-connecting-to-data-in
Had a Customer that was having issues connecting to his Oracle data source via Power BI Desktop and then publishing it to his Power BI site.
This got me thinking, what is the way to connect to Oracle using the Power BI Desktop and Power BI site?
So I am going to explain how to get Oracle data published from the Power BI desktop to the Power BI site.
On the client machine you are going to create your Oracle report from, make sure you have the correct Oracle Service ID setup as that will be the connection information you will need to connect to Oracle as your data source when creating a connection in Power BI Desktop. In this case I found my Oracle Service Id to be "SPORTS".
Now that we know what our Oracle Service ID is from the TNSNames.ora file, we can go to Power BI Desktop and connect to the data we want from Oracle.
Go to your Power BI site and download Power BI Desktop
Once you download you should see an icon on your desktop that looks like the one below:
Open the Power BI Desktop application Once the Desktop icon appears.
Once the application opens up you should see a window that gives you an option to "Get Data". Go ahead and click on that so we can get started creating our data source
Then once you clicked the "Get Data" option you get a list of all the data sources you can choose. Go ahead and choose the "Oracle Database" option then click "Connect".
Now here is where some people could get confused. As with most oracle type connections all you need for the server name is what is in the TNS.Names file we referenced earlier. So even though my Oracle server name is Oracle11gMG, all I need to connect to my Oracle server is the name "SPORTS".
Then when it prompts you for access type choose "Database" and type in the in the actual Oracle database credentials to access the database you want.
So if all this was entered correctly you should get a list of tables to choose data from such as below. So now we can start creating a report with an Oracle dataset to Publish to the Power BI site and setup Scheduled Refresh.
We are going to create a visualization using the "Mark.NFL" table. And as you can see when you select a certain table the data is previewed on the right.
Then on the right are the fields you can show and present
You will now see in the space that a visualization will appear based on the Oracle data you chose.
Now we can publish this data to our Power BI site. So after clicking the Publish button at the top save the pbix file. I am naming mine Oracle NFL.pbix.
When completed as you can see the process above you will see on your Power BI Site that you will have a report under "Reports" name "ORACLE NFL" and under the Datasets section you will also have a dataset named "ORACLE NFL" as well
Now we are ready to setup "Scheduled Refresh". Under the DataSets section, click on the ellipses then SCHEDULE REFRESH:
Then you will you get a screen for Settings for setting up Schedule Refresh:
Verify that your Personal Gateway is online and active and that the credentials are correct:
To verify Credentials, click on "Edit credentials" and fill in what they should be. With Oracle you have to use a Basic Authentication Method. Then after that just fill in the Database's Username and Password and Sign in.
After that click on the "NO" button (to change it to "YES") under Schedule Refresh to start configuring then click Apply.
After all that has been setup and configured you will see that Refresh is active.
by: Mark Ghanayem | Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence


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Captain America and Black Widow: An Unexpected Camaraderie
We've been waiting for Captain America: The Winter Soldier for quite some time. Thankfully, the film starring Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson is finally hitting theaters April 4! At last year's Comic-Con, Chris and Scarlett discussed the developing camaraderie between the Captain America and Black Widow — who are now our two favorite Avengers. Below, learn more about the duo's budding friendship and Scarlett's thoughts about how women are represented in Marvel movies.
Scarlett and Chris dished on why the characters form an unlikely bond in Captain America: The Winter Soldier:
- Scarlett Johansson: "They're both agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. We're both fighting on the ground, we don't have superpowers, and we have a similar shorthand between us. It's definitely a working relationship. We fight in a similar style. They find themselves in a situation where their working relationship becomes a more intimate friendship. They have unexpected similarities between them. They have their trust issues. They've been working for 'the man' for their entire professional careers. An unexpected friendship starts to form when they begin questioning their own identity."
- Chris Evans: "The first Captain America film gives him the opportunity to be a soldier. Now that he's been given the ability to serve, the question is about what's right in a modern society. Who am I serving? With modern technology and the access, where's the line? It's not about just doing the right thing — it's what is the right thing? As a result . . . something happens. These two people need to rely on one another, and they find a lot of common ground. What's interesting about Black Widow is that she doesn't always do the right thing."
Scarlett also touched on why Joss Whedon is a pioneer in portraying female characters.
- SJ: "Superheroine movies were just not very good. They had this hands-on-hip kind of thing. And while we had a bit of that in the movie, Joss really set the bar and celebrated female characters that aren't ornaments or bookends. He was such a pioneer in fleshing out Black Widow and making her a character that could get punched in the face and could throw a punch and was an intelligent, complex, and strong female character. It's been a real pleasure for me to be able to act and not just pose. We're not just the romantic interest anymore."
Source: Disney


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The J-160E was introduced in 1954 and had the more conventional look of the popular J-45 and Southern Jumbo models.
While Gibson had been making electric archtop and steel guitars since the 1930s, it wasn't until the early '50s that the company electrified a flattop. The first electric flattop produced by Gibson was the CF-100E, which made its debut in 1951. This guitar was based on the small 14 1/8" cutaway flattop introduced the year before. Although cutaway flattop electrics would become popular decades later, this innovative guitar was discontinued by 1959, due in part to the more impressive sales figures of its descendant—the J-160E.
The J-160E was introduced in 1954 and had the more conventional look of the popular J-45 and Southern Jumbo models. But looks can be deceiving: To function as a usable electric guitar, the J-160E had to be very different structurally from a standard Gibson flattop. While the J-45 (or even the CF-100E) had a solid spruce, X-braced top, J-160E needed a 3-ply laminated spruce top with ladder bracing to make it more rigid and less prone to feedback. The neck joined the body at the 15th fret (instead of the 14th) to allow room for a P-90 pickup between the end of the fretboard and the soundhole.
The early J-160E pictured this month can be distinguished from later versions by its odd adjustable bridge, which allowed you to raise or lower string height by turning the large screws on either side of the bridge. These screws were replaced with smaller, more conventional adjustment screws by the late 1950s. This J-160E also has straight-sided "speed" knobs for Volume and Tone controls (replaced by "bonnet" knobs in 1956).
You can find more on the J-160E's history in Gibson's Fabulous Flat-Top Guitars: An Illustrated History and Guide by Eldon Whitford, David Vinopal, and Dan Erlewine, as well as in Gibson Electrics—The Classic Years by A.R. Duchossoir.
Dave 's Guitar Shop
Dave Rogers' collection is tended by Laun Braithwaite and Tim Mullally and is on display at:
Dave's Guitar Shop
1227 Third Street South
La Crosse, WI 54601
Photos by Mullally and text by Braithwaite.


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[NOTE: The call for papers submission deadline has been extended to 17 January 2011, according to @JackGConrad.]
A call for papers has been issued for ICAIL 2011: The 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, to be held 6-10 June 2011 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The conference is organized by IAAIL: The International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.
A mentoring program is being offered for authors wishing to submit papers to the conference.
Here are the submission deadlines:
- "Mentoring program request deadline: November 8, 2010
- Mentoring program paper deadline: November 15, 2010
- Submission of workshop and tutorial proposals: December 6, 2010
- Submission of abstracts (optional): January 3, 2011″
- Submission of papers extended deadline: January 17, 2011
Papers are invited on the following topics:
- "Formal and computational models of legal reasoning
- Knowledge acquisition techniques for the legal domain, including natural language processing and data mining
- Computational models of argumentation and decision making
- Legal knowledge representation including legal ontologies and common sense knowledge
- Computational models of evidential reasoning
- Modeling norms for multi-agent systems
- Modeling negotiation and contract formation
- Computational models of case-based legal reasoning
- Conceptual or model-based legal information retrieval
- Automated information extraction from legal databases and texts
- Intelligent legal tutoring systems
- Intelligent support systems for the legal domain
- E-discovery and e-disclosure
- Automatic legal text classification and summarization
- Machine learning and data mining applied to legal databases"
For more information, please see the call for papers.
HT Jack G. Conrad.


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John McAfee: Let me go to the USA - or old Blighty
You can trust what I say - I don't use McAfee AV
Former anti-virus mogul turned fugitive John McAfee has appealed to be allowed to return to the United States rather than deported from Guatemala to Belize.
Authorities in Belize want to question McAfee as a person of interest in the murder of his neighbour, Gregory Faull. McAfee went into hiding with his 20-year-old girlfriend Samantha following the start of investigations into Faull's murder on 11 November.
McAfee become the target of a bizarre* and highly publicised man hunt over the subsequent three weeks before finally surfacing in neighbouring Guatemala, where he was arrested for illegal entry to the country. McAfee's location just before his arrest was spilled by the metadata embedded in a photo published by the online lifestyle mag Vice. Reporters from Vice were traveling with McAfee around the time he crossed the border from into Guatemala.
Arrest last week failed to dampen McAfee's spirits. He was given access to a computer and an internet connection, allowing him to update followers of his blog (which he started on the run) to his assessments that the local jails were better than those in Belize and the coffee was "excellent". McAfee requested asylum in Guatemala but the request was turned down by Guatemala's foreign minister: however a judge granted a stay of execution against deportation. McAfee was subsequently rushed to hospital with what at first appeared to be a minor heart attack but turned out to be only the results of the 67 year-old losing consciousness due to dehydration and ill-advised chain smoking during which he fell against a wall and further injured himself.
During a press conference on Sunday McAfee answered questions from reporters via a video stream from an immigration detention centre in Guatemala City. The one-man Hunter S Thompson tribute band said he'd decided he wanted to return to the US rather than continuing his quixotic anti-corruption blogging campaign while trying to stay one step ahead of the Belizean authorities, who McAfee claims are corrupt and want to do him in.
"The odyssey that Samantha and I have been on did not begin after the death of Mr Faull," McAfee said in a prepared video statement. "It began on 15 October after an abortive raid by the police of San Pedro and Belize City and since that time we have been on and off the run. After the death of Mr Faull we went underground in earnest."
McAfee, who looked sweaty but otherwise reasonably well, went on to deny reports he was paranoid or that he took "bath salts" (a potent synthetic, narcotic drug) or any other drugs for that matter.
"Our intent is to return to America, if at all possible, and settle down to whatever normal life we can settle down to under the circumstances," McAfee said in a Q&A session. "The intent to question me has nothing to do with Mr Faull's murder. Since April of last year the Belizean government has been trying to level charge after charge against me, all of them groundless. This is simply the latest in that chain. The government is however getting very serious. While I was in hiding there were eight raids on my property."
Corruption in Belize ranges from bribery to ex-judicial execution, McAfee claimed, adding that the accusations he has raised in his blog will have hurt tourism in Belize and further inflamed the anger of authorities against him.
"There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize," he said.
McAfee denied any involvement in Faull's death, insisting he'd left Belize to escape police persecution. McAfee moved to Belize in 2008, years after he made his fortune by selling his share in the computer security business he founded. He sold his share in McAfee Associates in 1994, seven years after founding the company.
McAfee is no longer much of a fan of the software that still bears his name. He told the FT that he took the software off his own computer. "It's too annoying," he told the FT.
The tech tycoon was born in the UK and continues to hold British citizenship. He said that he'd also be willing to go back the the UK, where he hasn't lived since he was a child.
Meanwhile authorities in Belize continue to express exasperation about McAfee's conduct, while reiterating that he has nothing to fear should he decide to return home.
"He's really gone out of his way to make the country look bad," Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez has said about McAfee. "We just believe he should, if he's innocent as he's saying he is, he should bring in his lawyer, and let's get to the bottom of this and say what he needs to say and let's move on." ®
*McAfee's activities on the run included shooting and burying his dogs after they were allegedly poisoned by police, donning various disguises including blacking up with boot polish and sticking a tampon up his nose to impersonate a Guatemalan trinket salesman and sending a look-alike over the Mexican border with a forged North Korean passport as a decoy.


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I would like to replace the bearings in my front and rear WTB Laser Disc Lite
hubs. I'm interested in upgrading the OEM steel bearings to a ceramic hybrid. I've hear that Enduro is a quality manufacturer of ceramic hybrid bearings.
So, does Enduro make a ceramic hybrid bearing replacement kit for WTB Laser Disc Lite
I was unable to find any information on Enduro's site (http://www.endurobearings.com) or on other sites selling Enduro wheel bearing kits.
Please provide information on part numbers and where to buy.


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There were no updates of Jewels for a longer time. During my work on other games I was still thinking about adding some more fun to Jewels.
So here it is: new Jewels v0.74 for Android!
Currently it is available only in Google Play and Slide Me but I will also release it to Samsung Apps (it may take up to 7 work days to pass the certication).
I hope you will enjoy new Jewels! :)
The main new features are:
- new levels! - there are a lot of new levels :)
- collect stars for completing levels
- now you can pass the level even if you don't remove all the jewels from the board
- smoother (and a little faster) gameplay
- better backgrounds handling (there should be no OOMs)
- 3 new backgrounds added (will be more ;))
- updated to the latest Android
- better jewels quality in the main screen


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I have a GPS localizer (TK102). I've set it up to send responses over GPRS to particular IP and over particular port. I was told that, it uses UDP.
It seems that something is being sent (paid transfer registerd on connection list for phone number used by localizer), but it did not reach server (probably).
Seems that my listener, run on server, isn't receiving any responses from the localizer.
Listener itself is working fine (listening for UDP only on ports 3333 and 7777), because I can send UDP packet from any other client and they are being correctly catched up and registered in DB. I tested NetCat and UDP Test Tool on two various ports. All works fine.
My question is, is there any tool or service, that I can run on my server to scan this particular or all ports, on UDP or all protocols, to see if I'm getting anything from that localizer? In other words, if this is localizer or server problem or anything in between.
BTW: I'm using a very limited server (actually NAS device), so I'm not able to run many tools or system commands, that normally can be found right in the distro.


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My wife and I have 2 cars. We are very fortunate. One of these was a gift. Free. We talk a lot about how incredible it is that we have 2 working vehicles. Most people on this planet would be extatic to have one, and we have two. I have a silver pickup truck that we named "Cecil" and my wife has a 4 door green sedan called "Louie." They are both mazdas and they were both made in the same year: 1991. Yikes. That is old. 19 years to be exact. They are both just shy of 200,000 miles. They are also both running great. It's incredible. However, they both have their share of battle scars. My truck has slammed into the guard rail twice due to icy conditions and poor Luoie has duct tape for a window. (The story behind that is another can of worms). The paint is also oxidizing and fading badly.
Every now and then we have a small repair to do and yesterday something happened. We drove Louie to church and after the service offered to take our friends Kellie and Caleb home. We all hopped in and as I turned the key…nothing happened. Dead. As a door nail. Not choking, not struggling or trying whatsoever to turn over. Dead. After attempting to get a jump from some very kind strangers we decided to give up. We got a ride with our friend Tessa and decided to tackle the problem with a tow truck on Monday.
Later that evening my brain started to storm. I thought maybe Louie's battery needed an overnight charge and so I drove the pickup back out to the chuch parking lot to retrieve the battery. Before removing the battery from the stranded car I thought to myself, "What the heck, I'll just try to start ol' Louie. " Sure enough, she fired up the first try with a loud Vrooooooooooom! Well, since I drove to the church alone, I obviously couldn't bring Louie back with me. I went straight home and picked up Jenna so we could get the car home. When the 2 of us got there we noticed Louie had a low tire and spotted a nail. We then headed straight to the gas station to fill it. Jenna drove the truck behind me as we pulled in to the station to fill the tire. I almost turned the car off but decided quiclky that I shouldn't in case it wouldn't start again.
The following morning I took Jenna to work and came back to drive Louie to the shop. Vrooooooooooom! She started right up again! The tire had lost air through the night so I pulled into the BP around the corner to give it one last breathe before heading to the shop. Like an idiot, I turned the car off. Wouldn't you know, as I attempted to start her again she refused. Great. Back to the drawing board. Unbelievable. What was I thinking?!?!?! I put Louie in neutral and began pushing her to the edge of the parking lot. Just as I was about to call the tow truck and older man came up to me. He was filling his old red truck at one of the pumps and said, "What's wrong with it?"
"It won't start," I replied.
"turn your headlights on, " he said as he walked towards me.
This guy looked kinda like Bubba from the movie Forrest Gump. He was probably about 60 years old and wearing overalls. His hair was graying and all of his front teeth were gold. We talked back and forth about the symptoms and what we thought the diagnosis should be. Turns out he was a retired mechanic and it seemed like he knew what he was talking about. I popped the hood and he began poking around. He said the batterry was fine because the headlights didn't dim when I tried to turn the engine over. After wiggling some wires and getting pretty greasy we agreed that it was most likely a bad starter.
He said we could just pop the clutch and I would be on my way. He climbed back into his red truck and pulled up right behind me. Our bumpers were touching. I put the key in the ignition to gain contol of the wheel and he started pushing me with his truck out into the street. About 20 yards down I let the clutch out and Vroooooooooom! Louie started right up! I pulled over and got out of the car. He rolled his window down and I said my thanks. I reached into my wallet and found a crisp five dollar bill. I handed it to him and he said "Now go get that thing fixed!"
I thought back to our tour wiith Sanctus Real. There was another band on the bill from Portland, OR called Above the Golden State. They have a song called "The Golden Rule." The lyrics are a simple reminder of the greatest commandement. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. And the second-love your neighbor as yourself." That guy did just that. he helped me emmensly and got my car to the shop. Louie was fixed within a couple of hours and she's running like a champ. Keep your eyes open for someone in need today. Love your neighbor. Pay it forward. This sums up the Faith that we hold onto. This sums up how we should live.


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Two of the stores are in the 6abc viewing area.
They are the Sears located at 150 South 69th Street in Upper Darby and the Sears located at 351 West Schuylkill Road in Pottstown.
There were no New Jersey or Delaware Sears stores on the list.
No K-Mart stores were listed for our entire area.
Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after poor sales during the holidays, the most crucial time of year for retailers.
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The closings are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try to fix a retailer that has struggled with falling sales and shabby stores.
In an internal memo Tuesday to employees, CEO and President Lou D'Ambrosio said that the retailer had not "generated the results we were seeking during the holiday."
Sears would not discuss how many, if any, jobs would be cut.
The company has more than 4,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada. Its stock dropped $8.67, or 18.9 percent, to $37.18 in morning trading. The shares dipped to their lowest point in more than three years at $36.51 during the first few minutes of trading.
The company's revenue at stores open at least a year fell 5.2 percent to date for the quarter at both Sears and Kmart, the company said Tuesday. That includes the critical holiday shopping period.
Sears Holdings said the declining sales, ongoing pressure on profit margins and rising expenses pulled its adjusted earnings lower. The company predicts fourth-quarter adjusted earnings will be less than half the $933 million it reporter for the same quarter last year.
Sears Holdings also anticipates a non-cash charge of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion in the quarter to write off the value of carried-over tax deductions it now doesn't expect to be profitable enough to use.
Sears said it will no longer prop up "marginally performing" stores in hopes of improving their performance and will now concentrate on cash-generating stores.
"These actions will better enable us to focus our investments on serving our customers," D'Ambrosio said.
The weaker-than-expected performance reflects what analysts say is a deteriorating outlook for the retailer.
The results point to "deepening problems at this struggling chain and renewed worries about Sears survivability," said Gary Balter, an analyst at Credit Suisse. "The extent of the weakness may be larger than expected but the reasons behind it are not. It begins and some would argue ends with Sears' reluctance to invest in stores and service."
Balter also said Sears' weakening performance may lead its vendors to start to worry about their exposure.
The company has seen rival department stores like Macy's Inc. and discounters like Target Corp. continue to steal customers. It's also contending with a stronger Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, which has hammered hard its low-price message and brought back services like layaway, which allows financially stressed shoppers to finance their holiday purchases by paying a little at a time.
The tough economy hasn't helped, either. Middle-income shoppers, the company's core customers, have seen their wages fail to keep up with higher costs for household basics like food.
But the big problem, analysts say, is Sears hasn't invested in remodeling, leaving its stores uninviting.
"There's no reason to go to Sears," said New York-based independent retail analyst Brian Sozzi, "It offers a depressing shopping experience and uncompetitive prices."
Sears Holdings Corp., based in Hoffman Estates, Ill., said that the store closings will generate $140 to $170 million in cash from inventory sales. The retailer expects the sale or sublease of real estate holdings to add more cash.
Sears Holdings appeared to stumble early in the holiday season, as it opened its Sears, Roebuck and Co. stores at 4 a.m. on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. Rivals including Best Buy Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Toys R Us opened as early as Thanksgiving night. Sears stores had opened on Thanksgiving Day in 2010. Kmart has been opening on Thanksgiving for years.
A hint that trouble might be brewing came in mid-December when Sears Holdings unexpectedly announced that 260 of its Sears, Roebuck and Co. locations would stay open until midnight through Dec. 23.
Kmart's 4.4 percent decline in revenue at stores open at least a year was blamed on diminished layaways and a drop in clothing and consumer electronics sales. Part of Kmart's layaway softness likely stemmed from competitive pressure. Wal-Mart had said that its holiday layaway business had been popular. Toys R Us expanded its layaway services to include more items. Kmart's grocery sales climbed during the period.
Sears cited lackluster consumer electronics and home appliance sales for its 6 percent dropoff. Sears' clothing sales were flat. Sales of Lands' End products at Sears stores rose in the mid-single digits.
Sears Holdings said it also plans to lower its fixed costs by $100 million to $200 million and trim its 2012 peak domestic inventory by $300 million from 2011's $10.2 billion at the third quarter's end.
D'Ambrosio acknowledged in his internal memo that criticism over Sears Holdings' performance was likely to come, but that the company was prepared for the days ahead.
"We will bounce back and become stronger than ever," he said.


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If there's one thing that vendors and channel partners agree on, it's selling. More or less. Everyone agrees that more selling is better, but the discussion can diverge greatly from there. Vendors and their partners are not immune to the virus that affects direct sales people. We often hear direct sales people say their leads are no good and we hear marketing say that sales doesn't follow up. Sound familiar? Of course it does.
The name of the game in sales is finding the fastest route to the cheese, so to speak, and anything that slows down the transaction — or the mouse — is suspect. In the real world, we all know that customers are not simply purchase order generators and that selling takes work, but this shouldn't be taken to mean that the marketing and sales process can't be improved.
Marketing gets a lot of attention because today's marketing automation platforms bring some scientific rigor to the process. Better marketing makes better leads, and better leads make for shorter sales cycles and happier partners. That all sounds good, but how do you get there? Here are some tips.
Nurture Leads
First, stop giving every lukewarm bit of customer response to a sales person with a directive to bring in the business. It's not a lead — yet. If a prospect downloads a white paper for instance, it certainly shows some kind of interest, but what kind? Is the prospect looking to buy something, or is a grad student writing an MBA thesis?
Marketing automation is popular today because it provides lead nurturing. Instead of handing over such "leads" to sales people, marketers hold onto them and put them through nurturing processes that aim to capture more information — such as who the buyer is, what the business problem is, and whether there is a budget.
Only when such information is in hand does a modern marketer release the lead, but this brings up a challenge for the vendor-partner relationship — namely, who is responsible for lead nurturing?
The answer is, it depends. It depends on the nature of the product, relationship and market. Ideally, both parties should engage in some kind of nurturing. Partners can't expect all their leads to come from the vendor. This means vendors and partners ought to come to some agreement on how to approach the market and define leads. This is part of the value a vendor brings to the relationship.
Standardize Lead Handling
Second, and many partner programs already have this down, a vendor needs to have some standards about lead handling. There should be mutually agreed service level agreements, or SLAs, in the channel that define how quickly a partner will contact a vendor lead AND report back on it.
There's nothing worse than nurturing good leads only to have them ignored. A modern PRM system usually can handle this, and it is one of the best reasons to have one.
Analyze Partner Data
Third, the vendor must be able to track and report on lead disposition. Metrics for first touch, follow-up, close rate, wins, losses, no-decisions and similar things can help a vendor in determining how to share leads and ultimately participate in stack ranking vendors. Having your PRM integrated tightly with your CRM and marketing automation platforms makes this effort much easier.
Of course, partners should have the ability to accept or reject leads once they've done their due diligence. This is completely analogous to direct selling, where marketing generates a marketing qualified lead (MQL) and sales verifies it as a sales qualified lead (SQL). Sadly, it is not yet state of the art in many partner programs.
Rejection is often a good indicator of the lead generation process' effectiveness. If too many leads get rejected, it might indicate that they're too raw going out the door and that better nurturing is needed. However, if an individual partner has a consistently high reject rate, along with a poor win/loss ratio, it might say something about that partner. That's why it's important to capture partner data throughout the deal funnel and to analyze it.
Inexact Science
Too often we hear that marketing and selling are not exact sciences — like physics, for example — and that's right. They are sciences nonetheless — just more like economics or sociology, or anything that relies on a Bell curve.
Using analytics and metrics to understand the fat middle of your curve and to identify your long tail outliers can help any organization improve marketing and sales, and that will improve the effectiveness of your channel.


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In honor of Firefox 3.0 download day, Waxy.org has posted the full Code Rush documentary. It spans March '98 to April '99, as the Mozilla team publishes the first source code and then the eventual AOL acquisition of Netscape. Embedded above is a short clip of [Jamie Zawinski] pushing the code live at 10AM on March 31, 1998. The hour documentary is well worth watching.
If you're unsure about moving from FF2 to 3, MultiFireFox still works perfectly fine with the new release.


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One of the reasons I wanted to return to journalism after a long career as an insurance company PR man was to keep an eye on the implementation of the new health reform law. Many journalists who covered the reform debate have moved on, and some consider the writing of regulations to implement the legislation boring and of little interest to the public.
But insurance company lobbyists know the media are not paying much attention. And so they are able to influence what the regulations actually look like -- and how the law will be enforced -- with little scrutiny, much less awareness.
At a January meeting of several hundred patient and consumer advocates in Washington, a top aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius all but pleaded with those in the audience to bombard the Obama Administration with messages insisting that the law be implemented as Congress intended. Rest assured, he told them, that the insurance industry's lobbyists were relentless in their demands that the regulations be written to give them the maximum slack.
One example: a section of the law expanding the rights of consumers to appeal adverse decisions made by their health plans.
"The Affordable Care Act will help support and protect consumers and end some of the worst insurance company abuses," read an Obama administration fact sheet from last summer.
The fact sheet went on to assure us that the new rules would guarantee consumer access to both internal and external appeals processes "that are clearly defined, impartial, and designed to ensure that, when health care is needed and covered, consumers get it."
"In implementing this law, we have worked to end the worst insurance company abuses, preserve existing options and slow premium increases," an administration official said. "Through it all, protecting consumers has been -- and remains -- our top priority."
The rules, originally scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2011, were actually written by the National Association of [State] Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), which was tasked by Congress to develop several important regulations required by the law. If the law is implemented as the NAIC recommends, patients will be able to get an external appeal of a broad range of coverage denials, including denials that result from an insurer's decision to rescind, or cancel, a patient's policy -- not just denials made on the basis of "medical necessity" as determined by the insurer.
The NAIC's standards also say that insurers must provide consumers with clear information about their rights to both internal and external appeals, and that the companies must expedite the appeals process in urgent or emergency situations.
Insurers Push Back Hard; is the White House Capitulating?
Well, surprise, insurers don't like being told what to do by regulators. So they're pushing back hard. Consumer advocates who have been in meetings at the White House in recent weeks say they believe the administration is bending over backward to accommodate the insurers.
"We have reason to fear that the external appeal regs won't be very consumer friendly," said Stephen Finan, senior director of policy for the American Cancer Society Action Network.
Finan and representatives of several other consumer and patient rights organizations, including Consumers Union, the National Partnership for Women and Families and the American Diabetes Association, wrote officials in the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services in late January pleading with them to "stand firm for consumers" in rejecting several of the insurance industry's demands.
They expressed concern that the final regulations would allow insurers to stack the decks against patients by allowing health plans to deem a second-level internal appeal of a denial as meeting the requirement for an independent external appeal. They're also worried that health plans will not be required to provide clear and understandable information to policyholders about their denial decisions, that the plans will not provide adequate translation of written communications into other languages (insurers are claiming this would be too burdensome), and that they will be able to take as long as 72 hours (instead of the recommended 24) to decide an urgent appeal.
Equally as frustrating for the consumer advocates is the administration's indication that they will give the insurers until January 1, 2012, rather than July 1, 2011, to comply with the regulations.
Consumer advocates say the administration has told them that the reason it is proposing to delay the effective date of the new rules for half a year is to accommodate the health plans' enrollment cycles and marketing needs. Health plans do need adequate lead time to make changes to their systems and to prepare materials to inform their customers of new procedures, especially in multiple languages, so some of their push back is understandable. The new regulations will also add to the insurers' administrative costs, and the new law limits how much they can spend on overhead.
But the consumer groups believe the administration itself has caused some of the problems by taking so long to finalize the regulations. The NAIC got its work done comparatively swiftly.
"There is a clear pattern of leaning toward the insurance industry more than consumers," one of the patient advocates told me.
Industry Lobbyists Outnumber Consumer Advocates 100 to 1
The consumer advocates, most of whom not so long ago were applauding the Democrats for getting reform enacted, even if it fell short of their original goals, are becoming increasingly discouraged, partly because there are so many more lobbyists for the insurers than for consumers. It's hard to compete with them.
"We're outnumbered 100 to 1," said one of the consumer advocates.
It's clear," he added, "that the insurers are willing to make life more difficult for patients" by trying to weaken and delay the consumer protections.
It's also clear that, at least for now, the insurers seem to have the upper hand in dealing with the White House.
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Remember when Lauren's go-to hairstyle was the bang braid? Well, lately this little lady's had a new favorite. Check out this gem. It works on literally any hair type – short, long, curly, pin straight, anything! It's so great for those mornings when you're in a rush, but need something to pull your look together. Think of it as a french braid, but you only add in new hair from one side (the top). Follow these steps + be patient! You'll get it…
- we like to part slightly off-center for this. on the heavier side, grab a section at your hairline. split it into three.
- start it just like you would a regular french braid.
- next add in a piece of hair from the top, still like a regular french braid.
- now skip the part where you'd grab a new piece from the bottom + keep braiding instead.
- then take another piece from the top + add it in.
- continue with this pattern until you have 5-7 sections added in.
- once you're just past the ear, stop adding in new hair. Just do a regular braid + tie it off with a clear elastic like Lauren's in the top picture.
How are you guys doing with ALL these BRAIDS?? Once you get the hang of this one, tweet it to @TBDofficial and I'll retweet the best ones!


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Fat Head's Beers Shines Despite GABF Snafu
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DENVER — An Ohio brewer saw a brewery of the year award taken away due to a mistake by another entrant at this year's Great American Beer Festival competition.
On the strength of winning three medals, Fat Head's Brewery & Saloon of North Olmsted initially was named the 30th competition's Mid-Size Brewing Company of the Year. Following the initial announcement, however, GABF staff discovered that Karl Strauss Brewing Co. had mistakenly registered as a mid-size brewpub; GABF competition guidelines classify the San Diego brewer as a production facility, placing it in the Mid-Size Brewing Company category. The results were recalculated, resulting in Karl Strauss' three medals, two golds and a bronze, trumping Fat Head's gold, silver and bronze to win Mid-Size Brewing Company of the Year.
"All of us with the Great American Beer Festival and the Brewers Association deeply regret this error," said the Brewers Association, GABF sponsor, in a statement. "Fat Head's Brewery & Saloon, which had originally been identified as the Mid-Size Brewing Company of the Year, had a very strong performance in the competition … . They were among the top medal-winning breweries in the 2016 competition."
Despite the mix-up, Fat Head's was one of only four breweries to win three or more medals, including a gold medal for its AlpenGlow in the German-style Wheat Ale category. Fat Head's silver medal was for Black Muddy River in the Other Strong Beer category and the bronze went to IBUsive in the Fresh or Wet Hop Ale group.
Ohio's only other gold medal went to Millersburg Brewing's Doc's Scotch Ale in the Aged Beer category.
Another Fat Head's location, in Middleburg Heights, won two medals: silver for Midnight Moonlight, an American-style black ale, and bronze for Hop JuJu Imperial IPA, which was the second most competitive category with 211 entries.
Two-year-old Maize Valley Craft Brewery in Hartville won a silver medal for Monk in Public in the Belgian-style Strong Specialty Ale category, while Going Plaid from Cincinnati's Fifty West Brewing Co. took bronze among the Scotch ales.
"We couldn't be happier about this win," said Bobby Slattery, co-founder and director of Operations for Fifty West, which opened in 2012. "It just further proves that we have what it takes to be a world-renowned brewery."
This year's Great American Beer Festival competition featured a record 7,227 entries — up 9 percent from 2015 — from 1,752 breweries hailing from 50 states plus Washington, D.C. A panel of 264 judges from 12 countries awarded 286 medals in 96 beer style categories. Since 2002, the most-entered category has been American-Style India Pale Ale, which saw 312 entries this year compared to 336 entries in 2015.
In addition to Karl Strauss, other Brewery of the Year awards went to Brown Truck Brewery, High Point, N.C., Very Small Brewing Company; Uberbrew, Billings, Mont., Small Brewing Company; Pabst Brewing Co., Los Angeles, Large Brewing Company; ZwanzigZ Brewing, Columbus, Ind., Small Brewpub; Boxing Bear Brewing Co., Albuquerque, N.M., Mid-Size Brewpub; and The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co., Austin, Texas, Large Brewpub.


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