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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Wilmington 1898 — An American Coup

Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.

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Key Ring (software)

Key Ring App
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryDigital Media
Founded2008 (2008)
FounderChris Fagan
Headquarters
Dallas, TX
OwnerGannett, Inc.
Websitekeyringapp.com

Key Ring is a smartphone application owned by Gannett, Inc. that allows users to digitally store loyalty cards, enroll in new loyalty programs, receive localized offers on their smartphone, browse weekly sales circulars, and create digital shopping lists.

Overview

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The mobile application was developed by Mobestream Media,[1] a company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, in 2008.

On February 11, 2011, Key Ring received 1.75 million dollars in Series A funding from Austin Ventures, a venture capital and growth equity firm based in Texas.[2]

In September 2012, the company was acquired by Gannett Inc (GCI) for an undisclosed price.[3] The company operates under the G/O Digital, the digital marketing division of Gannett.[1] Other divisions under G/O Digital include PointRoll, BLINQ Media, Deal Chicken, GannettLocal and Shoplocal.[4]

Key Ring has been mentioned in media outlets such as The Today Show,[5] Time Magazine,[6] Fox Business,[7] The New York Times,[8] Wall Street Journal,[9] Entrepreneur Magazine,[10] Oprah.com,[11] and The Los Angeles Times.[12]

Features

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The mobile application supports the following barcode types: EAN13, EAN8, UPC-A, UPCE, ITF, Code128, Code128C, Code39, Code128A, CODABAR, CODABAR2, CODABAR1, QR code

Cards are stored by either scanning the barcode on the back of the card or manually typing in the UPC number. The app alerts users when one of the loyalty programs they are a member of has an offer or coupon available. Rewards points earned by the user are kept track of within the loyalty card feature as well.[5] Users can share loyalty and membership cards with other users as long as they are registered in Key Ring.[13] Weekly Sales Circulars are digitized, allowing users to view what they would normally find in a newspaper on their smartphone.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gannett Dives Deeper Into Agency Business with 'G/O Digital'", Ad Age Digital, August 13, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  2. ^ "Private equity and venture capital news, data and community". peHUB. 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2013-09-16.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Gannett Buys Mobile Consumer Rewards And Loyalty Platform, Key Ring". TechCrunch. 2012-09-06. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  4. ^ "Gannett Dives Deeper Into Agency Business with 'G/O Digital'", Ad Age Digital, August 13, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  5. ^ a b "Try these 6 apps for all ages - Video on". Today.com. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  6. ^ Newman, Jared (2013-06-30). "Key Ring | 50 Best Android Apps for 2013". Time. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  7. ^ "Hot Apps: 5 Price-Saving Apps for Shoppers". Fox Business. 2013-06-10. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  8. ^ a b "How To Get Loyalty Card Prices Without Loyalty Cards". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  9. ^ Holmes, Elizabeth (2011-05-05). "Exploiting Retail Rewards - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  10. ^ Gwen Moran (2011-10-07). "Create Card-Free Rewards Programs with Apps". Entrepreneur.com. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  11. ^ "Loyalty Cards - New Ways to Save". Oprah.com. 2011-11-17. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  12. ^ "Making shopping more of a snap with your smartphone - latimes.com". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
  13. ^ Gayomali, Chris (2011-09-14). "App of the Week: 'Key Ring Rewards' Puts Membership Cards on Your Phone". Time. Retrieved 2013-09-16.

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CueCat

The CueCat, styled :CueCat with a leading colon, is a cat-shaped handheld barcode reader designed to allow a user to open a link to an Internet URL by scanning a barcode. The devices were given away free to Internet users starting in 2000 by the now-defunct Digital Convergence Corporation. By year-end 2001, barcodes were no longer distributed for the device, and scanning with the device using its original software no longer yielded results. The CueCat can read several common barcode types, in addition to the proprietary CUE barcodes which had been promoted by Digital Convergence.

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Code 128

Code 128 is a high-density linear barcode symbology defined in ISO/IEC 15417:2007. It is used for alphanumeric or numeric-only barcodes. It can encode all 128 characters of ASCII and, by use of an extension symbol (FNC4), the Latin-1 characters defined in ISO/IEC 8859-1. It generally results in more compact barcodes compared to other methods like Code 39, especially when the texts contain mostly digits. Code 128 was developed by the Computer Identics Corporation in 1981. GS1-128 (formerly known as UCC/EAN-128) is a subset of Code 128 and is used extensively worldwide in shipping and packaging industries as a product identification code for the container and pallet levels in the supply chain.

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Codablock

Codablock is a family of stacked 1D barcodes (Codablock A, Codablock F, Codablock 256) which was invented in Identcode Systeme GmbH in Germany in 1989 by Heinrich Oehlmann. Codablock barcodes are based on stacked Code 39 and Code 128 symbologies and have some advantages of 2D barcodes. The barcodes were used mostly in health care industry (HIBC) and presently, Codablock codes are fully replaced by Data Matrix

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Key Ring (software)

Key Ring is a smartphone application owned by Gannett, Inc. that allows users to digitally store loyalty cards, enroll in new loyalty programs, receive localized offers on their smartphone, browse weekly sales circulars, and create digital shopping lists.

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which Supreme Court case ruled state-sponsored public-school segregation unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.