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Davenport's opulent "Barley Corn Hall" was built with only two years' proceeds from the notorious saloon/brothel "sin tax" in 1895. The marble plaque in the lobby immortalizes the mayor (former saloon association lawyer/lobbyist), police chief (licensed two brothels in his wife's name), and Alderman Malloy (broke the nose and ribs of a citizen who criticized the council for selling out).

BUCKtown BASH!

Bucktown Center for the Arts

Saturday, July 22, 6 p.m.

 

Genesis Health System has been recognized for the third consecutive year for its investment in technology to achieve high standards of patient safety. Genesis was been honored as one of the nation's 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine based on its use of information technology to accomplish key goals, including safety and quality objectives. Genesis Medical Center in DeWitt, Iowa, was recognized for the first time as one of the 25 Most Wired small and rural hospitals.

 

589 cover Last month, a group of 27 business leaders from the Quad Cities sent a letter to the chairpersons of the area's four largest economic-development entities. That, in itself, is noteworthy, but the letter is full of curious features:

Kenny on "Hardware Wars," River Cities' Reader Issue 588, July 5-11, 2006:

What is interesting here is the reasons they need the incentive. The developer, Mr. Raufeisen, stated that in order to get these business (Panera and Ace) into the property, they needed lower rental rates than he could offer, given the price of the land. The land price is clearly over-inflated by the land owner, who in Mr. Raufeisen's words "knows what he has."

So, it seems, to get this deal closed, and keep all the developers in profit, the City of Rock Island will spend our tax dollars to pay the difference. That difference is the fat profit to the landowner, and the developer.

Maybe the site business case doesn't wash?

The developer could not care less what happens after the deal goes down. He will have made his money in one shot. While there is nothing wrong with making money, I do have a problem with Rock Island favoring this developer at the expense of two established businesses. Why do it?

It also seems that the city will need to circumvent the law to even make it happen. That is not right.

If this is such a good thing for Rock Island, and Mr. Raufeisen is concerned at all about the future of the city, let him or the landowner take less profit and make it happen without spending tax money that is needed for schools and firefighters.

 

"There is so much more coming it is breathtaking," an almost always reliable source said recently when asked about the recent flood of news stories about alleged corruption within Governor Rod Blagojevich's administration.

That source wasn't the only one making this prediction. Plenty of others are saying that the Chicago Tribune is sitting on a large pile of explosives. Unlike 1998, when the Tribune mostly sat by while other media outlets ran stories about George Ryan's alleged corruption, the paper is clearly trying to stay out front on this Blagojevich thing. As you may have seen, the Trib published several more stories over the long Independence Day holiday weekend and then published follow-ups for days.

Rapper Aesop Rock and illustrator Jeremy Fish have collaborated on a new limited-edition book aimed at adults but crafted as an old-school children's book, complete with a seven-inch record that tells the reader when to turn the page with the beat. Entitled The Next Best Thing, the Upper Playground release deals with the "creative block" that all artists go through. Fish's artwork is amazing - check out (http://www.sillypinkbunnies.com) - and catch his work on tour this summer and fall in art galleries in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Philadelphia.

 

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Every week Bob and his team have a conference call on Monday at 10am. He must now create the event. He logs into the calendar and clicks on the Month tab. From there he clicks on the 'Add' link for the next Monday to come. The title of this event is 'Team Conference Call' This is of the event type 'Call' The call starts at 10am and usually lasts about an hour

This call will repeat every week and not end in the foreseeable future



Bob clicks 'Save' and can now see his meeting in the calendar




A few weeks later, Bob's boss has scheduled a meeting with him next month on a Monday at 10am. Bob now has to change his team meeting call. Not knowing how long the meeting with his boss will last, he decides to move his team call for that week to Tuesday. He navigates to the date and clicks on the event to view it. Then clicks the 'Edit' button.




He selects 'This date only' as he only wants to change the date of this meeting in particular. He sets the date one day ahead so that it happens on Tuesday and clicks 'Save'



He then realizes his team may not notice the change. Bob edits the event for that date again. He clicks on 'Flag This Event' so that it will be more noticeable to his team members. Bob clicks 'Save' again and sees his meeting is now flagged.




Should Bob's boss cancel their meeting, Bob could reset that instance of the event to it's original state

Notifications

Event notification is a powerful tool that allows you to be informed of updates or additions to a calendar. These are based on notification filters. To configure notifications, click on options at the footer of the calendar, then select the Notifications tab. Note that you must first have at least a primary e-mail address configured in your Contact Options.



To create a notification, click on the Add button at the top of the table. A window will appear that will allow you to search for the calendar you wish to receive notifications for. Click on the Add button next to the calendar and it will be inserted into your notifications list with the default settings.

Once inserted, you may configure a name for your notification filter. This is simply a friendly name used only on this screen so that you may quickly identify filters in the list. You may then configure a category, and title filter (case insesitive). If an event is added or updated in the calendar that matches the criteria in a notification filter, you will receive an e-mail notification.



Note that the display format of the e-mail notification will differ based on your Theme setting.

If an added or updated event matches multiple filters that have the same e-mail address, you will only receive one e-mail. For instance, you may have one filter that checks for the category of Meeting, and another that checks for any event titles that contain 'meeting'. This way you are sure to receive notification of meetings added to that calendar without receiving duplicate e-mails.

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