… Jersey Shore” producers are stunned after few people show up in Atlantic City to be new cast members on the MTV show.
Pauly D, the Situation and Snooki will be in Seaside Heights this summer to film the latest installment of “Jersey Shore.” But the fate of the rest of the cast is far from certain.
The show held open auditions on Sunday for season three, with reports that cast members J-Woww, Sammi, Ronnie, Vinnie and Angelina could be off the show after the recent tapings in Miami.
There may be one problem: the turnout at local auditions was as popular as Angelina is with her cast mates.
The Press Of Atlantic City only six people showed up at the start of the Sunday casting call in Atlantic City.
One man went by the name “Juice” is a male stripper. Another man, “The Problem,” is a mixed martial arts fighter.

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Word of Grace pastor Russell Alston said he and other organizers plan only to reach out to the children and teens through such visits, but not to preach to them.
“We just want to let them know God loves them,” he said.
For Alston, engaging residents with challenges right in their own element is central to his Christian mission.
“I believe that Jesus meant for the church to be in the streets,” he said. “Much of the church tries to keep itself with those walls.”
Alston stressed, as he has at past events, that the teacher from Nazareth mingled uncritically with the most reviled people of his day – addicts, prostitutes, tax collectors (who were even more hated in his society than in ours) – often in ways taboo to his people.

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Saturday, May 29th, 2010 10:30 am
Judge Paul Herbert used to punish the doped-up, dead-eyed prostitutes who would stand – some, with great effort – in Columbus’ Franklin County Municipal Court to cop a plea and accept fines they couldn’t pay anyway, says the Columbus Dispatch. These women are arrested repeatedly – one of them 36 times. They clog the court system and burden overcrowded jails, where the room rate is $70 a night.
Herbert’s answer was to start a new court that requires the women to get treatment for drug addictions that often underlie their crimes. The experiment, barely nine months old and still small-scale, is already paying off. Of the 29 women who joined the program, 19 stuck with it. Before, those in the group averaged 101 nights a year in jail. They have averaged about nine days in jail since the program began. The county went from spending $205,030 a year to lock up these women to $18,720. More incalculable, Herbert believes, is the value of saving lost souls. “These ladies are the most appreciative individuals I’ve ever met,” he said. “The world has literally crushed them.”

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Halfway through her studies at Drew, Rodriguez transferred to the Theological Seminary at Princeton. She graduated in 2007 with a master’s degree in divinity, $200 in her bank account and a job offer from the United Methodist Church.
She moved to Camden County last July to work with congregations in Pennsauken and East Camden and began her nighttime work shortly afterward.
“She just blossomed,” said Annie Cheatam, a former director of the Urban League program Rodriguez attended. Not only did Rodriguez earn multiple college degrees, Cheatam said, she also turned out to be a great mother.
“Sometimes when you’re abused, you become the abuser too, but with her it was different,” Cheatam said. “She just wanted better for him.”
In Camden, Rodriguez found herself drawn to the homeless drug addicts and prostitutes who came to Asbury United’s free community lunches on Saturdays. She knew there were even more people in need who might never set foot in a church.

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Tired of all this Dallas Stars talk that’s been dominating the airwaves? Here’s a welcome change of pace.
Good morning, hockey fans! Here’s hoping you bet the farm on Jaroslav Halak’s 0-9 record when facing 25 or fewer shots this postseason, and became rich beyond any easily-impressed GM’s wildest dreams. Last week we took science and reason and twisted them to our own nefarious purposes to prove Only-God-Knows-What; this week, I was planning on taking a break from the media circus surrounding the Dallas Stars and getting in a little R&R at my favorite rural Illinois strip club,
Phat Cows, but recent events in el mundo de hockey stayed my course. Of course, I’m talking about the historic Stanley Cup Finals matchup between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers, two teams whose last Stanley Cup victories can be measured in geologic terms.

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Arno — whose later crimes included theft and weapons charges — and Jessica Kisby, 24, of Egg Harbor Township, were charged yesterday in connection to the disappearance of 47-year-old Martin Caballero, a manager at the Stop & Shop in Jersey City.
Prosecutors allege Arno and Kisby followed Caballero into the parking garage at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and carjacked him. His burned-out car was found found hours later in Blackwood, about an hour’s drive from Atlantic City.
According to the Daily News, pieces of Arno’s skin were falling off when he was arrested yesterday, allegedly because of burns he sustained while torching Caballero’s car.
In a gruesome twist, the paper also reports that the motel where Arno and Kisby were arrested at is the same motel where the bodies of four prostitutes were found in 2006.

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… The most powerful tool evolved when the “ducks” would drive people down South Street and quack at the people. The ducks would stop at many of the sites musicians were playing to hear the music. Store owners put displays in the windows with duck heads cut off and once all the people at Jon’s stood up and gave everyone on the ducks the finger. It was like a ‘welcome to Philly salute’. The most asked question when the tourists got off the ducks was ‘how do I get back to South Street?” Cassidy recalled.
In Phoenixville, Cassidy had a clean slate because there was no foot traffic and the street was populated with drug dealers and prostitutes. “I had not had daylight prostitution in my commercial strip since Kensington Avenue” he said. In the ensuing years his efforts transformed Phoenixville to a full fledged Arts and Entertainment District. Property values in the central business district have tripled as Phoenixville Real Estate has prospered even through the recession.

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… We got a bunch of stuff going on,” Cam explained recently. “I got my solo album to do. We got ‘Killa Season 2′ soundtrack. ‘Cousin Bang, the Movie’ soundtrack. To keep it 100, down South, they got a lot of hot beats with no samples. We’re trying to just get a different vibe. I did four of my albums in New York, one in Chicago, one in L.A. But I never did an album recording in Atlanta. So me and Vado came down here to get a different vibe. We’re gonna be down here for a few months recording and working.” (MTV)
Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris credited his hometown for inspiring new hits like “How Low Can You Go.”
“Man, how do my lyrics come to me? I draw inspiration from everywhere but I can definitely say living in Atlanta, Georgia, going to a variety of places, ‘How Low Can You Go’ and ‘My Chick Bad,’ I think I got those just living in Atlanta Georgia and just living every day regular life, strip clubs, beautiful women, ‘How Low Can You Go,’ and ‘My Chick Bad.’ There you have it.” (”Sucker Free Sundays”)

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Police continue to seek information concerning the whereabouts of Martin Caballero, 47, of North Bergen, who has not been seen since he arrived at a Trump Taj Mahal parking facility at about 10:30 p.m. that night.
Caballero’s burned out Lincoln MKS sedan was found around 2:30 a.m. Saturday in the Blackwood section of Gloucester Township, about 50 miles from Atlantic City. The fire was ruled an arson, according to authorities.
Some relatives said they believed that Caballero, a manager at a Jersey City Stop & Shop, had been carjacked. He was in Atlantic City with family members to celebrate his daughter’s 21st birthday.
Police were able to obtain surveillance photgraphs of a possible suspect in the case when Caballero’s ATM card was used a few days later.
The Golden Key motel is the same location that became the focus of a homicide investigation four years ago when the bodies of four prostitutes were found in a ditch behind the motel. Those murders remain unsolved.

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Published Date: May 28, 2010 By Hussain Al-Qatari, Staff Writer
Brothels, markets for stolen goods, restaurants serving expired food, trash bags everywhere and a pool of mud where children play. Meanwhile, a cow stands outside a baqala, its milk sold in re-used plastic water bottles by the baqala owner. Opposite this on the other side of the narrow street piles of fish lie on a table covered with flies. Clothes markets consist of piles of clothes placed on tables out in the open.
This is Jleeb, an area housing thousands of laborers, many of whom have no residencies. Many of Jleeb’s buildings operate with external electricity generators using diesel and kerosene. Crimes in Jleeb occur almost daily. Prostitution, pornography, drugs and local alcohol manufacturing are all too familiar to Jleeb, and the government keeps failing to solve its problems.

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