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A 29-year-old accused child molester, whose failure to show up in Queens Criminal Court in January 2006 enraged the Astoria community, was found in the Netherlands last week, the Queens district attorney's office said.
Former Elmhurst Hospital psychiatric technician Peter Belegrinos, who was charged with physically and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Astoria Park in 2005, was arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on charges of bail jumping Feb. 21, the DA said. He was indicted on the charge of jumping bail in March 2006, the DA said.
The arrest was welcomed by City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), who has long been a critic of the $50,000 bail Queens Criminal Court Judge Deborah Stevens Modica had set for Belegrinos, contending it was far too low. Belegrinos had paid the bail soon after he was arrested and arraigned on charges of attempted kidnapping, sexual abuse, assault and endangering the welfare of a child in August 2005, the DA said.
"After five years on the loose, our community can finally rest assured that this predator is behind bars," Vallone said in a statement. "This monster should never have been given the opportunity to flee and endanger children every second he evaded capture."
The low bail for Belegrinos was also criticized in 2005 and 2006 by then state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) and then-state Sen. George Onorato (D-Astoria) as well as community residents.
Belegrinos, whose last known address in New York was at 24th Street near 20th Avenue in Astoria, allegedly approached three children in Astoria Park at Ditmars and Shore boulevards Aug. 8 and asked them to play a "kissing game," the DA said. Two of the children, a 9-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, ran away, and Belegrinos allegedly told the 9-year-old girl who stayed behind to get in his car so they could go after the other children, the DA said.
The 9-year-old girl then ran to the boy and they hid behind some bushes in the park, the DA said. Belegrinos allegedly drove over to the bushes where the children were and then got out of his car and ran toward them, the DA said. When he reached them, Belegrinos allegedly punched the girl in the face, causing her to fall on the ground, then lifted up her skirt and sexually abused her, the DA said. When the girl tried to scream, Belegrinos allegedly placed his hand over her mouth and said to her, "Can't you ever shut up?" the DA said.
Upon seeing this, the 9-year-old boy screamed, alerting passers-by to the incident, the DA said.
Belegrinos was arraigned and posted bail the next day, the DA said. When his next court date came around on Jan. 23, 2006, Belegrinos failed to appear, the DA said.
He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the 2005 charges and an additional four years if convicted of jumping bail, the DA said.
Belegrinos appeared before an examining judge in the Netherlands Feb. 22 for extradition, the DA said. He chose not to waive the extradition process, meaning he will not go willingly, and the DA's office must file papers with Dutch authorities within 60 days to go through the extradition process, the DA said.
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The movie is set during 1979. At the time, the American Embassy in Iran was stormed by a bunch of radicals who violated international law and took everyone in it hostage. There was also a gasoline crunch where the prices rose dramatically in a short period of time. The Soviet Union was invading Afghanistan and the world seemed poised on the brink of madness. The mood of the country was definitely not favorable to those perceived as "outsiders". Mary is a young gal in high school who was born to parents from Iran but has no memory of life there. She has her place in the world and just wants to fit in and have a normal life. Things seem okay until a cousin of hers, Ali, comes to stay with her and her family while attending college. Having just come from Iran, Ali has a different take on the Shah being treated for cancer, and the hostage crisis in general.
To Ali, the Shah was the bad guy and the Ayatollah was a savior working for God (Allah). The hostages were all spies and deserve whatever they get as far as he's concerned. Mary rightfully sees his comments as dangerous and the local backlash against Iranians in general due to the ongoing hostage crisis seems unfair. Suddenly, those who were her friends act like she's somehow connected to the events taking place on the other side of the world. Ali's blind devotion to his faith makes her uneasy and the movie looks at what happens with these two as they fight against what they perceive as wrongs.
The acting by the principle leads, Mariam Parris and David Ackert was generally very good. There were a few times when they seemed to falter and I think the commentary explained much of that reasonably well. The low budget usually wasn't a big problem although it became apparent more than once. I wish the movie had been allowed a bit more breathing room in terms of working out some of the dialogue quirks that didn't quite fit. Otherwise, the story made a lot of sense and helped use current events to drive home its points. Part of what we are as a people is our greater tolerance than many other countries allow (which are almost all more homogenous than we are). By caving in to a mob mentality, we become somehow less than we were and that's a danger in such an open society. On the flip side, those who think they have a right to do as they please without recognizing the responsibilities attached to the rights we enjoy are also to blame for the problems.
So, if you're looking for a movie that explores themes of culture clash and trying to fit in during times that could only be viewed as dangerous, you will likely think of this one as Highly Recommended. It had some flaws that bugged me but overall, it was a solid effort that showed a personal touch to events that seemed anything but tolerable when they took place. I don't pretend to understand how Iranian-American's felt about the events as depicted here but as someone who lived the other side of the coin, I clearly remember the many problems that took place.
Picture: The picture was presented in 1.85:1 ratio anamorphic widescreen color. For a low budget independent movie, it looked very clear with few problems for most of the movie. There were moments where grain was a problem and a few bits of video noise but the colors were accurate and it could easily have been a "made for television" movie on network TV.
Sound: The audio was presented with a choice of either a 5.1 Dolby Digital or 2.0 English track. The vocals and music were both clear although some spots weren't as polished as others. I didn't think either track used the format to its fullest advantage and the 5.1 track seemed almost identical.
Extras: The best extra, by far, was the audio commentary by Director/Writer Ramin Serry and Producer Shauna Lyon. In it, the two describe a lot of interesting tidbits about the movie, it's production, and the setting of the show. There was also a short Behind the Scenes feature, some filmographies, and trailers but no insert.
Final Thoughts: There's a very real possibility that the USA attacks Iran in coming months and already there have been a number of attacks on people of Middle Eastern descent here in the states since September 11, 2001. This might be a good movie to watch for those who conveniently forget that one of this countries greatest strengths is the fact that for all our differences, we're very much alike and judging people based on anything but their individuality is a recipe for disaster. Check it out.


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President Obama will give the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline a green light, Moody's predicts in a new report.
The fate of TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Alberta-to-Texas pipeline is shaping up as a major post-election battle.
"We believe the White House will reverse course and approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship crude from Canada's western oil sands to the Gulf Coast," the ratings agency said in a wide-ranging report Monday on the implications of the elections.
However, the Moody's Investors Service report adds: "[A]pproval will not be quick. A prolonged permitting process risks missing the very oil price boom that inspired Keystone XL in the first place. Still, even if Keystone XL went into operation in 2015 or 2016, Gulf Coast refining and marketing companies would benefit from wider light/heavy crude price differentials."
More broadly, the report says the election will bring risks for the oil industry.
The industry, in the elections, was much more supportive of Republicans, who are seeking to scuttle or nix some environmental restrictions and open up more areas to drilling than the White House allows.
"Energy regulation may tighten in general as well, with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) expanding its regulatory reach. Hydraulic fracturing will likely come under more scrutiny, and federal oversight of deepwater production will remain strict following the tightening of the permitting process for deepwater [exploration and production] after the [BP] Macondo accident in 2010," Moody's states.


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The first library record collection was establish in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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The ALA Executive Board appointed the Committee on Mobilization and War Service Plans (later the War Service Committee). ALA undertook to supply books and periodicals to military personnel, at home and overseas. The initial campaign raised $1M for camp libraries, as well as including a book drive.
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All-knowing music site Pitchfork.com has officially announced their list of the Top 100 Songs Of 2009, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what songs landed in the top spots.
Here's the Top 20:
20. Japandroids - "Young Hearts Spark Fire"
19. Joker - "Digidesgin"
18. The Big Pink - "Dominos"
17. Fuck Buttons - "Surf Solar"
16. The xx - "Crystalised"
15. Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"
14. Joy Orbison - "Hyph Mngo"
13. Neon Indian - "Deadbeat Summer"
12. Grizzly Bear - "While You Wait for the Others"
11. Animal Collective - "What Would I Want? Sky"
10. Washed Out - "Feel It All Around"
9. Girls - "Lust for Life"
8. Phoenix - "Lisztomania"
7 Big Boi [Feat. Gucci Mane] - "Shine Blockas"
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"
5. Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"
4. Bat For Lashes - "Daniel"
3. Phoenix - "1901"
2. Dirty Projectors - "Stillness Is the Move"
1. Animal Collective - "My Girls"
On an indie level, this list is pretty much what I expected outta the peeps over at Pitchfork. It would have been nice to see some metal or deeper hip-hop/rap cuts take up some room in the top 20. Either way, this list really isn't all that surprising.
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This is pretty shocking: Ryan Gosling has suddenly dropped out of Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, in which he was supposed to play Susie's father. Mark Wahlberg stepped in to fill the role on Sunday after reading the script, and the film is still scheduled to start shooting today in Pennsylvania.
I was pretty excited when I heard Gosling had been cast in the film, and he certainly seemed committed to the role, recently gaining weight and growing a beard. Variety said only that "creative differences" caused Gosling to leave on Friday.
I'm a fan of Wahlberg — I thought his performance in The Departed last year totally made the movie, and I've been excited for his upcoming starring roles in The Happening and The Fighter. But I certainly wasn't expecting this. Can you see Wahlberg in this role? And does Gosling's exit make you worried about The Lovely Bones?


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DRAPER El Rancho Grande was open for business on Draper's 12300 South long before the bumper crop of restaurants that now line the street. To me, that means the place must have something going for it.
However, on the recent weekend night that we stopped by for a family dinner of decent but average Mexican food, the main thing I could think of that El Rancho Grande has going for it is simply consistency and being there. Based on our experience, you're not going to get a spectacular or creative dinner, and some of the courtesies and flourishes that bump up a restaurant in my opinion were missing.
On the other hand, if you want a reliable meal of Mexican-style favorites, you could do worse especially if you order the fajitas.
El Rancho Grande is a warm-colored space with just enough south-of-the-border touches to liven the decor. On the evening we visited, crowds were sparse until we were almost finished with our meal, when the place really filled up.
We were seated promptly at a table that was missing all but a couple of place settings, and it stayed that way until we asked our server about it. She was quick to bring a basket of bagged chips and a couple of bowls of tangy, picante-style dipping sauce that burned vividly going down.
For appetizers, we ordered the jalapeno poppers and taquitos. The poppers, though likely pre-made, were tasty and just mildly spicy, with a nice crunchy breading. I liked them with the accompanying mild pepper jam. The taquitos were the star of the course, crispy fresh rolls stuffed with seasoned pulled beef. Though we all liked them, it was hard to pass them around to the kids because we never got appetizer plates.
My husband had the chicken chimichanga, which seemed more like a taco or burrito to me, as it was soft rather than crisp. The chicken filling was serviceable, with lean meat and cheese, and the chimi was topped with red sauce, olives, onions and sour cream.
My meal, the chicken-and-beef fajitas, was the best thing we had at El Rancho Grande. If you're a fajita fan, you know the drill: sizzling platter of dark-seared chicken and steak with sweet caramelized onions and grilled peppers. This dish, with its marinated, grilled meats, tricolor peppers and multitude of toppings, had all the flair and attention to detail that much of the rest of our meal lacked. My only quibble with it was that, though I finished the three warm flour tortillas provided well before the meat was gone, our server never brought any more.
The kids ate basic, no-frills child food: a soft, folded-over cheese quesadilla, hamburger beef enchilada and bean burrito. All of our meals came with refried beans and Spanish rice.Comment on this story
For dessert, we had the fried ice cream, a ball of vanilla rolled in nutty, crunchy topping and sitting in a puddle of chocolate sauce, with a squirt of non-dairy topping on top. We also had a decent flan, not housemade but livened up with fruity caramel and chopped pecans.Appetizers $4.75-$8, salads $6.95-$8.50, platters and combos $6.75-$10.95, American plates $5.45-$8.15, desserts $3.75-$4.75, sides and single dishes 75 cents-$7.25, kids' meals $3.95, desserts $3.75-$4.75.
Rating: **
Where: 372 E. 12300 South, Draper (other location in Kearns)
Hours: 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Monday-Thursday
10:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday-Saturday
Closed Sunday
Payment: Major credit cards accepted
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Whole wheat hamburger buns are a great and healthier alternative to white bread buns. Many brands that you see in the supermarket contain processed ingredients, however, so the best way in knowing what is in your foods is to make them from scratch. Save money and make your own whole wheat hamburger buns with this article.
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1Make the yeast base. In a large bowl, mix the yeast, water, oil, and sugar/honey thoroughly. Set aside for about 15 minutes to rest.
2Use a wooden spoon to thoroughly mix the rest of the ingredients except for the melted butter. You'll want to achieve a dough-like mixture.
3Lightly sprinkle flour on a board or clean counter.
4Roll out the dough to about 3/4 inch (1.9 cm) thickness.
5Use a 4-inch (10.16 cm) dough cutter to create circles.
6Add the dough circles on a baking sheet. Use a baste brush to glaze the tops with the melted butter.
7Set the dough to rise for an additional 30 minutes.
8Bake them for 10 minutes at 425ºF/220ºC.
9Let cool for 5 minutes.
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I waited a long time to write this up because I don't like saying negative things, especially when I'm pretty sure that's how it's supposed to taste. I'd never tried rooibos tea before I ordered this.
I did not care for this, but I can't pinpoint why. It just isn't enjoyable. I tried the other rooibos tea in my package and have came to the conclusion that I just don't like rooibos.
As a side note, I also discovered that I don't like my tea infuser ball. It works fine, but my teas seems to taste better if I just put the loose leaves in my pot and strain them out after brew time is over. So I'm still learning, and if anything this review is a reflection of that, and not a reflection of the tea itself. It is probably fine for someone who likes rooibos to begin with.
If anyone wants some free tea, hit me up. I didn't use very much.


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Every June 16th, readers, writers, and bloggers gather in Dublin to commemorate the journey that James Joyce's character took around the Irish city in 1904 during the novel, "Ulysses."
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Here's more about the project: "'Ulysses 'SEEN" is the inaugural project of Throwaway Horse LLC. Throwaway Horse is devoted to fostering understanding of public domain literary masterworks by joining the visual aid of the graphic novel with the explicatory aid of the internet. By creating 'Web 2.0' versions of these works, we hope to proliferate and help to not only preserve them, but ensure their continued vitality and relevance." (Via Literary Kicks)


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Lord Adair Turner is before the Treasury select committee to explain how the banking sector should be shaken up to avoid a repeat of the economic crisis.
Turner, who last year dismissed the City as "socially useless", will tell MPs how the banking sector should be shaken up to avoid a repeat of the economic crisis.
Turner's evidence is part of the committee's series - Financial Institutions: Too Important to Fail?, which has already heard from Bank of England governor Mervyn King and Barclays' chief executive John Varley.
9.32am: We're back in the Thatcher Room in Parliament's Portcullis House for another session into Britain's financial sector. Lord Turner has made no secret of his concerns over the City in recent months, so we're hoping for some hard-hitting analysis of the changes needed.
With an eye to the election, Lord Turner begins by predicting that this will be his last appearance before the Treasury Select Committee during this current parliament. He tells the MPs that the "too big to fail" question is a vital one, but also warns that it is not enough to just deal with the largest banks.
9.41am: Turner uses his opening address to question whether Barack Obama's tough clampdown on the banking sector is really enough. Obama had proposed new rules preventing retail banks from running up huge risks though investment banking. Turner, though, argues that all banks - not just those playing in the casino - need to be regulated more tightly.
"Far from intelligent radicalism, this is just another example of pre-crisis conventional wisdom," said Turner. "Highly leveraged behaviour need to be regulated better regardless of whether the bank involved takes retail deposits or not."
"We need tighter capital and liquidity controls on all banks and tighter controls to keep banks in check during the upswing."
9.47am: On an optimistic note, Turner predicts that the upfront costs of rescuing the UK banking sector could be less than the huge numbers bandied around during the panic of autumn 2008. The Bank of England may make a profit on its emergency loans to the sector, the government will receive lucrative fees from underwriting the banks, and the taxpayers' stakes could yet be sold at a profit.
"It's quite possible that the overt cost of the banking rescue will be only 5% to 10% of GDP, and possible it will be much less."
However, the wider cost to society could be much, much bigger than realised ...
"Many people have lost jobs, houses, income," pointed out Turner, saying it is "important to realise" that this will happen again unless the banks are put on a fundamentally sounder footing.
9.53am: Turner puffs a speech he is getting ready to deliver in two weeks at the Cass Business School on "the optimal level of credit in the economy". On 17 March he says he is going to raise whether there are different categories of credit to the economy.
9.55am: He's on his favourite subject of social usefulness. Some credit for commercial real estate projects, for instance, might not be socially useful if the loans are for tax purposes. So he tells MPs: "We might need new tools of macro prudential control which might constrain credit in some sectors of the economy, [which] might observe an out of control real estate boom and require more capital [by lenders]."
9.58am: He explains that India and Canada are among the countries that have methods of restraining lending. "You could imagine something where the authorities were decreasing loan to value or increasing capital requirements."
10.03am: Turner is repeating his mantra that the society had become "over fascinated by financial liberalisation". He explains that City types went to India and told them they were "fuddy conservatives" for not wanting to be involved in exotic derivatives. "We've been very arrogant about that," said Turner.
10.04am: Turner is now having a bit of a hard time from MPs about his famous interview with Prospect about whether the City is socially useless. "The size of the financial system was larger than it should be," he said. He is admitting that he might have spoken just a bit too liberally as he has watered down his comments in subsequent speeches. For instance, did he know CDOs were socially useless? Turner thinks people could have spotted this. "I think I would have been warier than some other regulators were," said Turner.
10.10am: "I cannot say I would have necessarily spotted them {financial crises} in advance," he finally concedes. But he says that before the Asian crisis in 1997 people had been talking about the risks of carry trades. He is now being asked to provide a list in writing of risks he would have spotted. He is being asked to justify "his value judgment-laden micro-regulation".
Here's something homebuyers might not like. The price of credit for homebuying needs to go up. "It needs to be more restricted in the boom," said Turner. 80% of UK credit is to housing or commercial real estate, he points out, whereas manufacturers actually make deposits.
10.14am: John McFall has intervened to discuss "socially destructive parts" of the City. He touches upon split capital trusts - missed by the FSA - and now asks Turner if he would have spotted them. He says the FSA is looking again at how to deal with customers and that there will be more information in the regulator's business plan to be published on 16 March. "We are asking searching questions about have we got it right or should we be intervening at an earlier stage. Should we be product regulating?" he asks, explaining that this is how the pharmaceutical industry works. But to do this for financial products would need new legislation.
10.15am: The FSA has just put Turner's opening remarks on its website.
10.24am: Turner is warning MP Mark Todd that product regulation could "increase moral hazard" by making customers feel overly confident about buying products if they are approved in advance by the regulator. Todd is asking again about what types of limits should be put on lending. Turner is again outlining restrictions on types of borrowing on property in Canada. Todd wants to talk about the Glazers' ownership of Manchester United, which is in the news again today because of a possible bid by new financiers. Turner isn't so keen to talk about football.
10.25am: Todd is on to tax now. Turner is pointing out again the tax deductibility of interest in the corporate arena has created a bias to create a high level of leverage that might be necessarily good for the economy. So getting rid of it would be a good idea? Turner is not so sure. "It might be like the qwerty keyboard," he says.
10.34am: Michael Fallon is asking if Turner really does agree with Paul Volcker, who Fallon says wants to "ban" proprietary trading unrelated to customer service, while Turner says he wants to "limit" it. This is a crucial discussion. Turner says he spent 45 minutes discussing this with Volcker and is convinced they agree.
Turner gives a long answer, talking about how the FSA is monitoring trading activities of firms it regulates to try to tell on a daily basis if they are "trading" or conducting business for customers. Firms which are doing more than "market making" will be hit with a demand to hold more capital, Turner said. "We are in exact agreement [with Volcker]."
The agreement appears to be on how regulators achieve this aim of separation of proprietary trading and traditional business for customers such as buying and selling currencies. "I can assure you this something I have discussed on and off with Volcker for the past year," said Turner. He is not convinced there is a difference in opinion. "We are just being misled by top level slogans," says Turner.
10.36am: So, Turner is adamant after this long exchange that he and Volcker are in agreement. Fallon still has his doubts. The Treasury select committee held its own meeting with Volcker and appears to have been left with different conclusions.
10.43am: MP John Thurso takes up the questioning now, and wants to know what his views are on "narrow banking", a phrase coined by economist John Kay who thinks there should be "narrow" banks which take deposits and then banks that conduct commercial banking. Turner thinks this is a "new variant" in the belief in totally free markets which will cause more problems in the future.
10.52am: Back to proprietary trading again. The FSA will restrict this activity by demanding extra capital and Turner again reckons that mechanical splitting up of banks between risky and non-risky activities will not help. "HBOS was not involved in fancy proprietary trading. It was a bank involved in a classic problem of over easy lending to real estate," said Turner.
He has raised the idea of a surcharge on "size" where banks will be forced to put more capital aside if they are big. Turner is now saying that the more banks have separate legal functions "the less we need to go down the route of capital surcharges based on size". Thurso has also asked about an industry wide tax and Turner agrees "there could also be role for taxes on bank balance sheets".
10.57am: MP Jim Cousins is back on the subject of tax deductibility. "Could you ever change it?" "I don't know," Turner said. Again he's back to his qwerty keyboard explanation as too hard to change.
10.58am: Cousins asks short, specific questions. He asks directly if placing bets on credit risk should be banned. This has become a popular topic since the controversy around Greece and its debt problems has raised questions about traders using credit default swaps to bet on whether the country will default on its payments. "I certainly think it's something we should be open about. I do think there are major questions about the CDS market," said Turner. "I think this is an issue we should look at," Turner adds.
10.59am: Cousins also wants to know if the UK has its own version of AIG, the US insurer which had to be bailed out. Turner points out that the bit that AIG failed was not the insurance arm but a $300bn trading book that was not being regulated. "It fell between the cracks," said Turner.
11.05am: McFall is asking about credit default swaps as well. He asks whether this plays into Turner's hands because of the lack of social usefulness. Turner agrees. "That's why I think this is something we should look at seriously ... We have probably not been paying enough attention to the CDS market and not thinking aggressively," Turner said. McFall likes it. "Good answer," says McFall.
11.10am: Turner is now being asked about the difference between his role and that of the chief executive, Hector Sants, who is leaving in July. Turner seems to suggest they muddle through together.
11.14am: He is being asked about political will and international cooperation in driving through change. "Political will is very important. The biggest danger this year is that other issues could crowd [change] off the top political agenda," Turner said. This might be a reference to the upcoming election.
11.17am: Sants, the FSA chief executive, gave a speech the other day in which he said that the UK could not have a tighter regime that the rest of the world has and keep the City of London intact. Does Turner agree? Broadly yes. "There's a trade off. If we have a very tight regulatory regime then some business would leave London," said Turner.
11.21am: That's it. McFall is thanking Turner and says that he hopes to get the report on "too big to fail" out before the end of the month so that the committee which forms after the election can take the work on.


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The iOS 7 jailbreak was released last Sunday, but it was a messy release that had a lot of bugs and compatibility issues. We warned everyone to wait at the time. Today the last major issue with the jailbreak was fixed for newer iOS devices with the A7 chip.
Jay 'saurik' Freeman, the creator of Cydia, has updated Mobile Substrate for iOS 7 and the new 64-bit architecture found in the iPhone 5s, iPad Air, and second-gen iPad mini.


text: I have NEVER done this before… but today I pulled my 9 year old out of class early to go to one of our Acoustic Cafes. This one featured Xander's FAVORITE band, Train. How could I say no when he gets good grades and is a good kid?! Scroll down to see the video with my Train interview and some highlights from our 96.5 TIC event.


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Aiming to make downtown more pedestrian-friendly and more visible to drivers passing through town, the City Council decided Wednesday to study changing Valley Parkway and Second Avenue from one-way streets to two-way streets.
Councilwoman Olga Diaz said the change would slow drivers from Valley Center and other areas who use those roads as an "expressway" across town. Diaz said it would also make it safer for pedestrians who are intimidated to cross three lanes of speeding cars.
The move was also hailed by Thora Guthrie, chief executive of the Downtown Business Association, which represents about 700 merchants in the area.
"People don't even realize there's a downtown worth visiting," Guthrie said, explaining that the Grand Avenue business district is sandwiched between the two three-lane arterials, but not visible from either. "It would unify the whole downtown area and make it more walkable."
The roads became one-way in the 1960s from just east of Tulip Street all the way to Hickory Street, city officials said. Such changes were a prevailing trend in city planning because the one-way streets improved traffic flow, increased gas mileage and reduced pollution.
But the trend has begun to reverse in the last decade, with many cities restoring two-way traffic on such streets to make them more pedestrian-friendly. Examples include Berkeley, Sacramento, San Jose, Tampa and Cincinnati.
Councilwoman Marie Waldron first proposed the idea to city planners this spring. She contends the change would improve commerce downtown.
On Wednesday, Councilman Sam Abed agreed.
"It seems like things were designed to avoid downtown, but it should be the other way around," he said.
Councilman Dick Daniels also supported the idea, but noted that city officials must study all potential impacts, including plans to expand Palomar Medical Center's east Escondido campus in the area.
The debate was part of a wider discussion Wednesday about a proposal to update the city's development blueprint by rezoning roughly 1,600 acres near the Sprinter rail line, Interstate 15 and other major roads as "employment land."
Most of the areas proposed for rezoning have been discussed for years as potential spots for biotech companies and professional office buildings, such as 450 acres near downtown, 275 acres near I-15 and Highway 78, and 80 acres near I-15 and Felicita Avenue.
But the proposal also suggests rezoning 75 acres northeast of the El Norte Parkway/I-15 interchange and 265 acres near the Escondido Auto Park and Nordahl Road Sprinter station.
The proposal would also:
-- create a 300-acre hub for education-related businesses between Palomar Medical Center and Palomar College's Escondido campus;
-- discourage commercial development near I-15 and Deer Springs Road; and
-- encourage more housing on Centre City Parkway near Citracado Parkway, the area just west of the Albertsons/Home Depot plaza and in downtown neighborhoods near Grand Avenue.
City officials said the proposal is a crucial first step toward updating the city's development blueprint, which is called a "general plan," for the first time in 20 years.
The new blueprint would be presented to city voters for approval in 2012 after public feedback and an environmental study of its potential impacts. City planner Jay Petrek said the city would notify residents and businesses that would be affected in May, and that public forums would be held in June and July.
Most of the land proposed for rezoning is already zoned industrial and would be rezoned for employment and office. But the changes would increase the "density" of employees in those areas, Petrek said.
An additional 165 acres would be rezoned from residential to employment and office. Those areas include 10 acres near Nutmeg Street, the 80 acres near I-15 and Felicita Avenue, and the 75 acres near El Norte Parkway.
Abed and Daniels hailed the overall proposal Wednesday.
"This is a wonderful vision for Escondido," Abed said.
"We're really redefining and upgrading the kinds of jobs we'll be able to attract," Daniels said. "It sets the bar higher for our city."
Details on the general plan update can be found at www.escondido.org/gp-update/index.html.
Call staff writer David Garrick at 760-740-5468.


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Motorcycling: Farquhar waiting for an apology over Cookstown 100
Ryan Farquhar will be allowed to compete in the same race as 125cc bikes on his 450 single at the Mid Antrim and Armoy road races — but the row rumbles on.
Farquhar is demanding the return of points and prizemoney after taking victory in the class at the Cookstown 100 then later being excluded from the results.
The Dungannon rider has appealed that decision.
He said: "I felt I was being made a scapegoat. Everything I have done is by the book.
"I'm now waiting to hear where we go from here.
"I would like to think the Motor Cycle Union of Ireland Ulster Centre will be making an apology."
Farquhar sat out the Bush road races after being told that the 450s would have to start separately and have separate prize-money from the 125s.
A statement issued by the Road Race Commission has reiterated that the 450 bikes can be part of the 125cc events.
"As agreed on 26 October 2009, 450 machines will run concurrently with 125cc machines and one grid will be formed as per official practice times," the statement said.
"Prize-money will be paid as finishing position on the road and the championship will be a 125cc/450cc national championship."
The Road Race Commission had discussed the matter at a meeting in Dundalk on Monday night.
Farquhar, who had threatened to boycott the remainder of the Ulster road racing season over the dispute, added: "The guidelines were clearly set out last winter and I built the bike to the appropriate regulations using my own money. I put a lot of effort and money into this bike."
A Motor Cycle Union of Ireland spokesman said last night: "Ryan Farquhar's appeal is with the MCUI so we will not be commenting as it could prejudice the outcome of the appeal."
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|April 15, 2012, 02:56 PM
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Need to lube purchased lead bullets?
I just started reloading 45ACP and my first 150 rounds all performed very well using 230gr FMJ. As with most people who begin reloading, I am very interested in minimizing cost/round and want to try some cast lead bullets. I'm about to order some from Alpha Bravo (http://www.alphabravobullets.com/) and just want to make sure that I don't have to lube them prior to loading.
I've read several articles on casting your own bullets (in addition to several reloading manuals) and understand the need for lubing/sizing after casting but I would assume that anything purchased from a dealer would be ready to load.
(BTW, thanks in advance to all of the people who contribute to this forum! I've learned a ton and like to learn about what other people are working on)
|April 15, 2012, 04:35 PM
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If you want to lube your own give liquid allox a try. I use Lee liquid allox for all of my cast bullets. Stick the bottle in a cup of hot tap water for a few minutes before you use it and it will take less, and dry faster.
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|April 15, 2012, 06:18 PM
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They should come lubed and sized.
The trick with lead bullets is finding the right hardness and size for your gun and you'll probably end up with some that do lead before you find the right brand. Then LLA (Lee liquid Alox) will make them shootable. LLA is very economical.
|April 15, 2012, 06:18 PM
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Virtually all commercial cast bullets will come already lubed. Taking a look at their site, you see the blue band around the bullets they show pictures of? That's the lube.
|April 15, 2012, 08:07 PM
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Thanks all! So if they do come with some lube on them and end up leading the barrel (hope they don't) would additional LLA prevent that?
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|April 15, 2012, 09:16 PM
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josh, as others posted, commercial lead bullets come lubed unless you order without them.
To minimize/prevent leading, you should slug your barrel to determine the groove diameter of the barrel (typical is .451" and some are larger like .452").
THEN you should order your bullets sized .001" larger than the groove diameter of the barrel as bullet-to-barrel fit is key in minimizing/preventing leading.
Next, you should order the hardness that's matched to your powder/load. If you want to shoot max loads, you may need to order 18+ BHN bullets but if you plan on shooting mid-to-high range load data target loads, 12-14 BHN will be soft enough to deform/bump the bullet base to seal with the barrel.
You can find more information on definition/cause/prevention and removal of leading here - http://www.lasc.us/Fryxell_Book_Chapter_7_Leading.htm
Some pistols have tight chambers and you may have difficulty loading them to reliably feed/chamber. What pistol are you reloading for?
|April 15, 2012, 09:29 PM
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|April 16, 2012, 07:42 AM
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I'm reloading for a 1911 and planning on using mid range load data. Thanks again for the help.
Before I started I thought reloading would be a pain but I actually really enjoy it. Cheaper. Making something with my own hands. Buying new toys...I mean tools. Love the tactile feedback from my Lee Classic Turret.
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|April 16, 2012, 11:29 AM
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Bullet fit is key to clean, leading free shooting. As BDS-THR stated, slug the bore of your gun snd use bullets .001" or .002" larger than groove diameter. When shooting/loading a 45 ACP, Brinell hardness shouldn't be much of a concern for you now (I cast my own bullets for several years before I got a hardness tester and everything from range scrap to weel weights shot lead free in my guns if they were correct size). See if you can order the Budget Bullets in .452"...
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|April 16, 2012, 10:50 PM
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Next thing you know, you are going to be ready to take the next step and start casting your own bullets. By that time you will be hopelessly addicted and there is no known cure for that addiction.
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|April 17, 2012, 08:02 AM
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Stick man, I am quickly realizing that paying hundreds if dollars to save money on ammo is kind of strange but I got tired of paying $20 a box go to the range and shoot for 15 minutes, pay my $15 range fee and leave. Now I spend more overall but it is not directly related to "per range trip" cost.
As for lead casting, I'm tempted but I dont really have a good space for it and I have used up most of my leeway with my wife having "dangerous powder" in the garage (she doesn't care about primers or gasoline though, go figure). I dont think I could swing the molten lead/toxic fumes discussion right now, but more importantly I really just dont have a good space for it.
Now I can make 45acp for about $7 box which extends my range time considerably (especially during my ranges "happy hours" when fees are only $5!). I can live with that for a while.
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I think if you're frugal when ordering reloading equipment you can save money, especially with revolver calibers where quality factory ammo costs about $30/50 and the cheap stuff isn't worth shooting.
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The reason they should be larger
First, if they are TOO large, you get more pressure than you should expect.
Why should the bullets be (ever so) slightly larger than the groove diameter?
If smaller, the bore is not sealed will by the bullet. The hot gasses propelling the bullet down the barrel will leak around the sides of the bullet and melt the sides of the bullet, smearing melted lead on your barrel. If the bullet is slightly oversized, the seal is better. Friction melting the lead bullet material is NOT NEARLY as much a problem, especially if there is good lubrication.
Gas checks (a copper disk crimped onto the bottom of the bullet) are the next step up from cast lead in the fight to reduce leading, and then copper plated. Next is jacketed bullets.
Lead fouling is easier to remove than copper fouling (unless there is a LOT of lead).
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Ever try to enjoy a bit of pumpkin custard while your dog cries and looks longingly and pitifully at your food? I felt like the hugest jerk in the world not sharing my my dessert with him. So then I let each pup get a lick. Those darn cute faces get me every time. My dogs own me.
Fortunately, they are not interested in my tea so I don't have to feel bad while I enjoy a cup. :) I had a terribly stressful day at work today. Called someone early in the morning to get some info. She directed me to someone else. That person directed me to yet another person. And so on. Until about 4pm when the last person I get directed to directs me back to the person I had called in the first place. It's such a classic failed bureaucracy situation it's almost funny. Now I've been directed to yet another two people whom I will call tomorrow morning. Someone save me.
Anyway, despite the fact that I know white tea can get me pretty wired sometimes, I really needed something that tastes soothing and delicious. Jasmine tea is perfect for that. And Verdant is guaranteed quality.
First whiff of the dry tea was heavenly. I absolutely love the smell of jasmine. The scent has me practically salivating. It also reminds me of peach. I can just feel the sticky sweet juices from of perfect summer peach. yum. The liquor is a very pale grayish brown. Not the most attractive color, but it's all about the taste! and the taste here is fantastic! Juicy and floral and exactly what I need. There is a pleasant drying effect here as well.
Did I mention how I love the dry leaves? They are like little fuzzy twigs. Awesome!
There is a funny taste here, but I suspect it's my kettle because my mom has a kettle that gives a similar taste to her water. Gotta boil some water in a pot and see what happens. Will withhold rating until then.
I can so identify-going through a similar experience since August with my idiotic health insurance company over a claims processing error due to a glitch in their computer system. They say they are't given access to see the Explanation of Benefits that they send me, which if they could, my problem would be solved. I've been on the phone for hours with them drinking endless cups of tea! Great review-this is one of my two favorite white jasmine teas, the other being from Teavivre.
The reps don't have access to info that's sent out to their customers? Whaaa'? Good thing you have tea to give you the energy for these endless repetitive phone conversations. :)
Mercuryhime, you can't make this stuff up!! I'm an RN and know a little more about jumping through the bureaucratic health insurance hoops than a lot of folks. Yes, I'd go crazy if I didn't have tea. The one representative who had half a brain and was actually giving me some hope is out for surgery. He gave me his private company email address since you can never get the same person twice with this company. By the way, without naming it, this is a large inefficient company whose name starts with U, same name as my country.
I think my wrist may never heal because I refuse to allow my injury to restrict my activities. Just today I had to heave one of those 5 gallon jugs of water into the water cooler so that I could get hot water for my tea. I guess I could have asked someone to help but I have this weird thing about being independent. Anyway, it was a bit painful. Not smart. But tea!
There are tons of teas with this name and they seem to look the same too. I'd wager it's all from the same source. That's good in a way since widely available teas would need to be competitively priced. I'm all for not spending all my monies. It's not a bad tea, but I find the rooibos taste to be prominent and it's not as smooth as it could be. Vanilla is bordering on artificial, but that might be the funky rooibos. I wonder if my non-caffeine only colleague would like this… I have a lot since it was cheap and came at a minimum of 4 ounces.
Edit: I just noticed that there is supposed to be cinnamon in this…. What? I don't taste it at all! And what's with the random almond flakes? Can't taste almond either. This just excludes people with allergies for no good reason. Blah
So I was sipping a cup of tea this morning and somehow managed to drop my iPhone straight into my cup, speaker end first. For now, it has been turned off and placed on top of the heater to dry. Hopefully, it will still work okay. It does smell pretty tasty right now, at least.
Anyway, this tea! I'm a sucker for any tea that naturally has honey notes. Usually, they come in the form of oolong. A black tea with honey notes sounded super interesting. And I'm just delving into the world of black teas too! I do taste sweet apricot honey notes in this tea, but it is not as prominent as I had hoped. It's also a bit chocolatey, but not very much. Overall, it has all the qualities that I enjoy in tea, but in small amounts. I suppose one might say that it is well balanced and subtly tasty. There is no astringency nor bitterness. It's a very good tea, but not outstanding. I'd drink it again without hesitation. :D
Can always try putting your phone into rice….the rice absorbs the water out of the phone. I have a number of friends who have done this when the phone totally wasn't working and were able to rescue the phone this way
Whew, thank goodness for that. I had a similar experience, one time…
One day, I came home and took off my outside clothes and prepared a load of laundry. I started the wash and then had to make a phone call, but couldn't find my phone. I wasn't worried—I'm quite absent-minded and this happens frequently. I used the Find my phone application to locate it. The loud beeping enabled me to quickly locate it…inside the running washing machine. =( I hurriedly paused the wash and took out the phone. It worked for a few seconds and died. I tried all the tricks Google gave me for the next 8 days or so, to no avail. Finally, I made an appointment at the Apple store. They asked me what happened and I told them honestly that I had accidentally laundered it. After they stopped laughing, they gave me a new phone, in spite of the fact that water damage isn't covered by AppleCare. So, I got a happy ending and a good story out of the experience (and a new phone). =) It still makes me laugh to think of the look on my face when I realised the beeping was coming from inside the washing machine.
I FOUND IT!!! Excitement! I thought I had lost this tea and was contemplating getting a new one. Luckily, I thought to look into my tin of hot chocolate. I had forgotten that I had decided to re-purpose the tin for this tea, thinking that the remaining chocolate aroma could only enhance this puer. So happy! I made a big fuss about it to my husband so I decided to share a celebratory cup with him. :D It's also perfect for post holiday binging. The puer soothes the stuffed tummy and the desserty flavor helps you eat less actual dessert. Good stuff! It tastes better luke warm than hot.
I can't find my chocolate strawberry puer. Cry. Where is it? :(
Im drinking this instead. I was really struck by just how pretty this tea is. Cute mini flowers and pink sugar crystals. It's like made for little princesses. :)
I'm still in anguish over my missing tea though! Where is iiiit?
Thanks to Nuvola for this sample! It's quite tasty! I prefer my oolongs greener and less roasted, but still good! It's a comfy tea to help your relax at work. I also detected a bit of fruitiness. Like jam and toast. :) It's like relaxing out in the autumn woods with a comforting hot cup of tea. It provided a nice gentle boost of energy as well, and resteeped very nicely! Good stuff!
I wish I had some of this tea right now because I am exhausted! Baking pies and making creme anglais and washing puppies…ah! Too much after a full day of work! I still have to make chocolate syrup and ginger syrup, but I'll have to do that in the morning. I can't do anymore. Still waiting for a pie to finish baking. :( Then off to sleep. sleeeeeep. Then more cooking. It will be worth it! My whole apartment smells fantastic, by the way. :)
I'm in the office and I smell something thats exactly like SpecialTeas' Almond Cookie tea. Is there a tea lover on this floor? I'm surreptitiously peeking into other people's cubes but I can't find the source of the smell! And its another dept that shares our space so I don't know them well enough to ask. Haha what a unique tea addict problem.
Anyways, I'm having this tea again with three pearls and cooler water. Much better! This leads me to conclude that most people prefer their teas a lot stronger than I do! I'll keep that in mind in case any Steepterites ever show up to my place for tea. :)
Step up and proclaim, "Hey, what smells so delicious in here!" You may get some weird looks, but you may score a real cookie or make a new tea friend!
I had to giggle. I just caught a glimpse of the gossip at the water cooler in your office today…there is some gal sneaking around sniffing peoples cubicles;)
So I heard lots of good things about this tea. Sadly, I don't find it all that tasty. Did I brew this wrong? It was kind of sour. I do some of those chocolate flavors people are talking about but it's also kind of bitter. I think I'll use a lower temp next time. I find the boiling water never really works out for me unless it's an herbal. I suppose I'm sensitive to the stuff the boiling water brings out of teas. And there's a lot of caffeine in this. Holy cow.
I'll try this again before I rate it.
As I was brewing this, husband walked by and said, "I was looking for some tea this morning and I noticed that you have way too much!" He doesn't touch my stash usually. He has no real idea how much tea I have. There's more hidden under my desk. muahaha
I used 5 pearls with 8 oz water for 3 minutes at almost boiling and really liked it. I read that it can be a little tricky to get right. The other alternative is to brew it gong fu style-some teas that I don't like Western are great gong fu style.
I only used 4 pearls with 8 oz. It tasted too strong for me. Though I think I over brewed it since it forgot about it for a few minutes. Usually when this happens, I add more hot water to dilute it and it works out. If not, a lower temp and lower steep time usually fixes things for me. Hotter water leeches out more bitterness and I guess I'm pretty sensitive to that. We shall see next time! I think I"ll bring the rest of my sample pouch to work tomorrow and try it out there!
I'm craving fruit, but there is no fruit at home! So I broke into this melon oolong. Melons are so lackluster this time of year. Thank goodness we have tea to tide us over till summer.
This particular tea is like cantaloupe and honeydew. Smells so sweet! I definitely underleafed. Will fix for next time! The taste is very good. Melony and summery with a nice green oolong base. I still want real fruit though.
I have a feeling that this will be good cold. I'l make the second steep a cold brew. It's time for bed anyhow.
Good night all!


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1. Minnesotans are a quietly proud bunch when it comes to our local celebrities. Songwriter-singer Dan Wilson (Semisonic) cowrote the Adele piano ballad "Someone Like You," and is enjoying it's No. 1 status. He writes a lot in case you didn't know and won a grammy for co-writing the Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready To Make Nice." (story)
2. This is why I don't heroize. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to arrange a sex party during the March on Washington? (ABC News)
3. In case you haven't heard, there was a homicide on 9/11 in NYC that remains unsolved to this day. I suppose the events of that day created the ultimate diversion for getting away with murder. (story)
4. Unreality Magazine published a gallery of celebs without eyebrows to demonstrate how having eyebrows helps us not look like escaped mental patients.
5. This picture pretty much sums up how I feel about politicians right now.
6. An honest letter to New Yorkers from a kid that "didn't really care" about 9/11. (via McSweeneys)
7. Turn game night on its head with these awesome games from the mental_floss store. There are great educational games for the kids available too.
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Atlantic City hotel room nights booked as a result of conventions plummeted 73 percent in June.
Sort of.
That is, if you consider that Atlantic City had a couple of unique events in June 2012 that qualified as conventions by Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority standards.
That month, the authority, now a division of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, included the Phish festival and Metallica's Orion Music + More in the city's convention business, ACCVA President Jeffrey Vasser said. Consequently, without the large-scale festivals in the mix this year, June's convention numbers were dismal compared to a year ago, according to data released Wednesday.
Promoter Starr Hill Presents asked the authority to help secure blocks of room nights at area hotels for last year's festivals. As a result, concertgoers who booked rooms for the festivals through the authority were counted as convention delegates, and their stays were counted as room nights booked as a result of conventions in the monthly tourism barometers.
While the authority does track the number of events booked at Boardwalk Hall, it does not typically measure hotel rooms booked as a result of concerts or other forms of entertainment in the city. Vasser said festival-goers who booked rooms were counted because the ACCVA used the same process for securing the rooms that it uses for convention business.
Asked if the authority considered how that inclusion might skew the data, Vasser said the authority's chief priority is driving business. He defended including the concerts as conventions, saying they were multi-day events that drove significant visits to the resort. The festivals lasted for several hours each day, and Metallica's festival included other components such as skateboarding demonstrations and classic car collections, much like a public convention.
"We don't book business because we're worrying about the barometer," Vasser said. "We're going to book what we're going to book, and there are always going to be spikes. When we have an opportunity to lock in a convention for five years, we do that knowing that you could see a dip when that period is up."
Data released Wednesday by ACCVA show that Atlantic City booked 20 conventions, trade shows or meetings in June, up from 15 the previous year. Yet room nights booked as a result of the conventions plunged from 23,557 in June 2012 to 6,335 in the same month this year. Similarly, delegates fell nearly 88 percent, from 124,160 to 17,134.
The tourism barometers track shows booked at the convention center as well as meetings booked at Atlantic City hotel properties. The concerts at the former municipal airport were included as shows at hotel properties, officials said.
A news release by the authority Wednesday explained the steep decline by saying the previous year's June statistics had been magnified.
"While convention room nights appear to be down significantly this June, last June's room night statistics reflected room bookings the ACCVA Convention Development department made on behalf of the Atlantic City Music Festival that was held at Bader Field last year, which magnified the 2012 June numbers," the release stated.
Just how much of a boost the concerts provided remained unclear Wednesday.
Elaine Zamansky, a spokeswoman for the authority, initially said the Atlantic City Music Festival referenced in the news release referred to Metallica's Orion Music + More festival, and the authority had not included any concerts as conventions previously. Vasser later said that the deal with Starr Hill was reflected in the Metallica and Phish shows — both in June 2012 — as well as the Dave Matthews Band Caravan tour in June 2011.
About 6,700 room nights and 6,200 delegates recorded in June 2012 were associated with the Metallica festival, Zamansky said. The same breakdown related to Phish was not immediately available Wednesday.
That's not to say those figures reflect all of the attendance at those shows. Box office reports showed that on average, 34,762 people were at Phish or Metallica each day. ACCVA's data only tracks those who booked rooms through the authority's room blocks.
Regardless of the concerts' impact, June's convention numbers still likely would have taken a hit. Even without the room nights attributed to Metallica, convention room nights would have been down 62 percent.
Officials noted that several of the events held at the Atlantic City Convention Center this June were small meetings with a limited number of delegates that did not have associated room nights, including union meetings.
While an official breakdown of the Dave Matthews festival's impact on the statistics was not immediately available, ACCVA's summary data show significant increases. In June 2011, the authority noted a 593 percent increase in room nights booked as a result of conventions and a 4,477 percent increase in the number of delegates at the conventions compared to June of the previous year.
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PITTSBURGH (93-7 THE FAN) — The very funny Wayans Brothers (Shawn and Marlon) stopped by The Fan Morning Show to preview their upcoming shows this weekend at the Improv.
It turns out they are HUGE sports fans and have some fun in studio with the guys while talking about upcoming projects and past favorites.
They will have five shows this weekend at the Improv:
Friday – 8pm and 10pm
Saturday – 7pm and 9pm
Sunday – 7pm
For tickets: visit improv.com or call 412-462-5233 (Pittsburgh Improv Box Office)
You can here the full interview here:


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July 2012 | by Joe Pluta
This article series covers the basics of using XML as a communications medium within RPG applications: writing programs that produce XML documents, writing programs that consume XML documents, and getting those documents from one program to the other. The first article was an introduction to XML and how to create XML documents. This one will focus on how to consume those documents.
In the introduction, I presented two options for generating XML: the brute force method of programming every tag yourself and the markup-based technique of CGIDEV2, the freely available toolkit from Giovanni Perotti. While CGIDEV2 was intended originally to help create CGI programs, it's become a favorite tool for XML development in the IBM i community and I highly recommend it for anybody doing anything but the most trivial XML. CGIDEV2 uses templates, and those templates are most easily built using an XML authoring tool.
In article 1, the idea was to generate this request:
Using this template:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- $BalanceRequest -->
I included a simple RPG program, but it stopped short of actually creating the XML document. I had two choices: either generate the XML into a temporary buffer and pass that to the consuming program, or generate a document in the IFS and pass the name of the document. Since this article focuses on consuming the XML, I'll take the simplest approach and add the handful of lines of code that lets me pass the buffer containing the generated XML directly another program. Here's the entire program, with the code required to call another program (and some comments added to help break up the D-specs):
h option(*srcstmt:*nodebugio) dftactgrp(*no) bnddir('CGIDEV2')
* CGIDEV2 prototype and definitions
/copy CGIDEV2/QRPGLESRC,PROTOTYPEB
/copy CGIDEV2/QRPGLESRC,USEC
d C_XML_PATH c '/XMLGen/'
d C_XML_TEMPLATE c 'BalanceRequestTemplate.xml'
d C_XML_SECID1 c ''
d C_SEC_BALREQ c 'BalanceRequest'
*NEW d XmlBuffer ds qualified
*NEW d ptr *
*NEW d len 10u 0
* External prototype
*NEW d PRCBALREQ pr extpgm('PRCBALREQ')
*NEW d BufPtr *
*NEW d BufLen 10u 0
* Mainline prototype
d REQBAL pr extpgm('REQBAL')
d iItem 32
d iQty 10 2
d REQBAL pi
d iItem 32
d iQty 10 2
// Open and parse template
GetHTMLIFS(C_XML_PATH + C_XML_TEMPLATE: C_XML_SECID1: C_XML_SECID2);
// Populate variables and write a section to the buffer
updHTMLvar( 'Item': iItem);
updHTMLvar( 'Quantity': %char(iQty));
*NEW // Get buffer pointer & length, pass to the processing program
*NEW XmlBuffer = GetHtmlBufferP();
*NEW PRCBALREQ( XmlBuffer.ptr: XmlBuffer.len);
*inlr = *on;
The added lines have the word *NEW at the beginning. The first new lines define XmlBuffer, a qualified data structure used to receive the location and length of the generated XML. The data structure contains two parameters: a pointer and a length. The prototype for the XML consumer, PRCBALREQ (PRoCess BALance REQuest), conveniently takes as parameters a pointer and a length. Finally, I add the actual program logic, which consists of a call to the CGIDEV2 function GetHtmlBufferP to load the XmlBuffer data structure followed by a call to PRCBALREQ passing the pointer and length that was just returned. Nothing to it!
Joe Pluta is the founder and chief architect of Pluta Brothers Design Inc. Joe can be reached at email@example.com.
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Climate change, energy supply, and obesity are three major dilemmas in America today. As a prominent cyclist, commentator, and activist, Richard Fries believes that creating an American bike culture could be a big part of the solution. Forty percent of all trips are two miles or less, but 99 percent of Americans choose cars for these bikeable commutes. Fries observes that the bicycle industry will not increase its "mode share" until the industry has increased its "mind share." According to Fries, marketing bicycles requires sexy advertising that appeals to the public's economic and cultural sensibilities. Richard Fries is now working with Bikes Belong in pursuit of a bicycle future. Bikes Belong lobbies for the bike industry, runs ad campaigns, and funds community grants for bike-related projects.
Richard Fries (right) with Todd Holland, Williams Energy Conservation Project Manager


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With a military commission, the government would not be rolling the dice with a civilian jury.
Justice Was Not Done
Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, is a contributing editor at National Review and author of "Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad."
Updated February 1, 2016, 5:24 PM
Critics of the Obama administration's use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday's stunning verdict in the Ahmed Ghailani terrorism trial as a powerful demonstration that the policy is wayward.
Ghailani was acquitted on all but one of the 285 counts, including all 224 murder charges. These numbers are striking, but they shouldn't be overstated. After all, the principal goal of a terrorism prosecution is to neutralize the terrorist, and Ghailani will almost certainly be sentenced to life imprisonment on the one count of conviction, conspiracy to bomb government buildings. Given that the Justice Department chose not to seek the death penalty, Ghailani would not be facing a more severe sentence even if he had been convicted on every count.
But the blunt fact is that justice was not done, as Attorney General Eric Holder boldly promised it would be. This case did not belong in the civilian justice system, and that was abundantly clear long before the jury's compromise verdict.
Construing civilian due process standards, the trial judge denied prosecutors the ability to call the crucial witness who would have testified to Ghailani's purchase of the TNT used in the 1998 embassy bombings. Taking a huge chance, the Justice Department elected not to appeal that decision – betting that its remaining evidence would be enough. The government's reluctance to litigate the admissibility of Ghailani's confession (during which he identified the TNT seller) also meant the jury would learn of neither his admissions nor the fact that he became a celebrity in al Qaeda circles after the bombings. Thus, civilian due process and what now seems like Justice Department overconfidence gave Ghailani an opportunity falsely to portray himself as an innocent dupe, and he exploited it.
He would not have been able to do that in a military commission trial. In a commission, moreover, there would have been a jury of military officers. The government would not have been rolling the dice on the selection of a civilian jury, where it's always possible to get an irrational juror who frustrates the deliberations, which may well have happened here.
Even if the jury had convicted on all the counts, honest observers would still have had to concede that using the civilian court significantly complicated the government's ability to convict a terrorist responsible for killing hundreds of people.
Given that military commissions, a firmly rooted method for handling war crimes, have been approved by Congress and acknowledged as legitimate by the Obama administration, it was reckless to run these risks just to make a political point about the effectiveness of civilian justice -- and, no doubt, to try to lay the ground work for a civilian trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the 9/11 plotters.
In making that political decision, the administration banked on a repetition of the 2001 trial of the same indictment, in which four defendants were convicted of bombing the embassies in Eastern Africa. To the Justice Department, those convictions suggested a high likelihood that Ghailani could be convicted under civilian due process standards. And the prior trial meant the best argument against civilian prosecutions – namely, the need to disclose sensitive intelligence – would be muted because, for better or worse, much of the discovery in the case had already been disclosed in the first trial.
Obviously, the Justice Department expected to be able to crow about 285 convictions as a demonstration of the civilian system's effectiveness. It is irrational to convict on a conspiracy to bomb and not on the actual bombing and related murders, so it was a good bet that finding Ghailani guilty of any counts would lead to convictions on all counts. But because it appears one juror was a hold out, the other jurors had to horse-trade in order to avoid a hung jury and a burdensome retrial. Compromise verdicts, however scandalous they may seem, are an accepted part of civilian justice, elevating our interest in finality over the integrity of the result. Still, the fact that we abide them does not mean they meet our expectations of justice.
The civilian prosecution of Ahmed Ghailani was a misadventure because politics was permitted to trump justice and, predictably, justice was not done.
Military Commissions Aren't Better for Convictions
Robert Chesney, a debater in this discussion, responds to Andrew McCarthy.
Andrew McCarthy argues that military commissions are superior to civilian criminal prosecution in at least three respects, and asserts that the decision to prosecute Ghailani in New York was both unwise and improperly motivated.
There is substantial debate on whether conspiracy charges can be treated as war crimes prosecutable by military commission.
I disagree with his analysis — particularly because his argument does not address a significant weakness of the military commission system when applied to this particular case.
First, Andrew suggests that a military commission would not have excluded a witness who would have given testimony regarding Ghailani's purchase of TNT. He characterizes the grounds for exclusion of that testimony as "civilian due process standards," implying that this exclusion would not have occurred in a military commission proceeding. But it's hardly obvious that this is so.
It remains unclear whether detainees prosecuted by commission at Guantanamo may invoke Fifth Amendment due process protections; at a minimum, a decision to admit testimony in a commission prosecution that would have been excluded on constitutional grounds in a civilian proceeding would be subject to years of appellate litigation on that point. And in any event, the military judge might well have reached a comparable conclusion under the commission's own rules even absent constitutional compulsion. At most we can say there was a prospect for more leeway, but nothing certain.
Second, he argues that Ghailani's own interrogation statements might have been admissible in a commission proceeding. But again, that is not at all certain. Setting aside the constitutional issues, the commission's own rules provide that a statement "allegedly produced by coercion" prior to December 30, 2005 can be admitted only if the judge determines that the statement is "reliable and possessing sufficient probative value" and the interests of justice would be served by admitting the statement; if the statement was obtained by coercion after that date, the judge also must find that the interrogation did not involve methods constituting cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Perhaps what Ghailani said might make it through those hoops, but it is at least as likely that it would not.
The third advantage? That a panel of military officers in a commission would be more likely than a civilian jury to convict. Maybe, maybe not. The only real example we have is the commission proceeding against Salim Hamdan, where the military officers on the panel did convict the defendant on a material support count but acquitted him on the more serious conspiracy charge.
Finally, there is a huge drawback with trying Ghailani in a commission rather than in federal court. While there is no doubt whatsoever that it was legitimate to prosecute Ghailani under various criminal conspiracy counts, there is substantial debate as to whether conspiracy can be treated as a war crime prosecutable by military commission.
When the Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld confronted this issue, several justices explicitly rejected military commission prosecution of conspiracy charges, while others reserved decision. It may be that the court ultimately could determine that commissions may prosecute conspiracy charges, but that involves substantial litigation risk that cannot simply be ignored.


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Review: Kid Kazooey's Umpteen Moons
January 18, 2013 12:00:00 AM EST
For his second birthday, A-Train received Kid Kazooey's album Umpteen Moons and his book The Three-Eyed Dragon from a set of grandparents. A-Train has always been a music lover, and after lots of galloping about while I sang the William Tell Overture last summer, he now particularly loves "horse music."
First off, I love The Three-Eyed Dragon. It is a love story about a knight, a princess, and a three-eyed dragon but there is no fighting and no happily ever after for the princess. It has rich, bright illustrations and can be read aloud or sung by Kid Kazooey and the Ballroom Roustabouts on the Umpteen Moons album.
The album itself is funny and smart. There are many mentions of books and libraries (including an entire song responding to the Dewey Decimal System!) and the general awesomeness of imagination. This is definitely an album written by a librarian! And, most importantly, my kids have fun with the album and A-Train is willing to listen to more than one "horse music" song on the album over and over.
With some rowdy vocals and tight instrumentals, this is an album that kids can go wild to! (And they do! Kid Kazooey's Band Practice and his concerts around town are always full of dancing, spinning, jumping kiddos!!)
Obviously, we enjoy this album - and love that we can go hear Kid Kazooey play LIVE around town (including at The Green Nursery). Find him at TGN every Wednesday at 11:00 for Band Practice!


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TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival Presents:
Buster Williams & Something More - Early Event
Fri · June 30, 2017
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 7:30 pm
Pyatt Hall At the VSO School of Music
Vancouver, BC
$40 (Includes all fees, service charges and taxes)
Advance tickets are sold out for this performance but tickets are available for the 9:30 show!
the 9:30PM show HERE!
This event is all ages
Lobby, Will Call ticket pick up & Day of Show Ticket sales open at 6:30pm.
Methods of payment available at venue Box Office on Day of Show: Cash, Debit, Visa and Master card.
Unless otherwise stated, discounted tickets are available before the day of show only.
For groups of fifteen or more, accessible seating, and Coastal Jazz Members who prefer not to buy online, please call Coastal Jazz at 604-872-5200 ext 5 or 1-888-438-5200 North America Toll Free.
Accessibility Info: This venue is on the second floor and fully accessible with removable seating available in row 5 of the left orchestra. Elevator access is available through the main entrance and the parkade (both P1 and P2) and both floors have accessible washrooms.https://coastaljazz.ticketfly.com/event/1454264/
Buster Williams & Something More
One of jazz's most versatile and esteemed bassists, GRAMMY Award-winner Buster Williams brings his "solid, dark tone and highly refined technique" (AllMusic) to collaborations with a vast range of vocal, post-bop, and progressive jazz artists. A masterful stylist, The New Yorker calls Williams' compositions "modern mainstream at its best." Williams co-founded the great jazz combos Timeless All-Stars and Sphere, worked with Betty Carter and Nancy Wilson, and is revered for his exploratory playing in Herbie Hancock's legendary Mwandishi Sextet. Something More features heavy hitters George Colligan (Cassandra Wilson) piano, Steve Wilson (Chick Corea) saxophones, and Lenny White (Return to Forever) drums.
Thanks to the Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver.
Thanks to the Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver.
Venue Information:
Pyatt Hall At the VSO School of Music
843 Seymour Street
Vancouver, BC, V6B 3L4
Pyatt Hall At the VSO School of Music
843 Seymour Street
Vancouver, BC, V6B 3L4
Sponsored by: Sponsored by The Italian Cultural Centre


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The NSWRL has confirmed Brad Fittler will take the reins as NSW Blues coach for 2018 and 2019!
20 mins ago
Gday all, well as Im sure you know by now the Raiders game up here in Brisbane is only a few weeks away. You probably rememeber from past games how great the support is for Canberra up here, its just that none of us sit together and capitalise on this, we are trying to change that this year.
A group of us Raiders fans are trying to organise for a section to be put aside for us so we can all sit together and make the most noise possible.
If you are interested please contact me ASAP via email at:


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Here are some products we rely on every day in our office. Perhaps you would enjoy them too.
We can't imagine living without our Silvia espresso machine from Rancilio. It does more than turbo charge our caffeine addicts, it gives us an excuse to leave our offices and interact.
We use Counter Culture beans for espresso and Larry's Beans for drip coffee.
It can be tough to find the perfect size or shape of white board. Have no fear, IdeaPaint is here! The freedom of paint with the finish of a whiteboard. The best part is it's performance, it's just like drawing on a laminate dry-erase board; erasing is the same too. We have friends that bought cheaper paint and regretted it. Stick with IdeaPaint.
Noise Canceling Headphones
Whether you work best with a soundtrack or you'd rather work in a library, a set of noise canceling headphones can help drive up your productivity. They cut out the sound of wheezing air conditioning as much as the muffled gossip of neighboring high school students.
Mic Stand and Reflexion Filter
Used in conjunction, the duo produce smooth high quality sound for a reasonable price. This makes recording vocal tracks for video tutorials easier and higher quality.
Google Chrome Extensions
Here's a list of our favorite extensions for Google Chrome. These take internet research to a higher level.
Chrome SEO – This quickly gives an idea of the popularity of a web site.
Resolution Test – Web page testing is made easy with this handy extension.
Sites Preview – This gives you preview thumbnails for Google searches.
TinEye Reverse Image Search – If you keep seeing your favorite photo, chances are someone else has put it up somewhere else too. This tool let's you see where else your images can be found on the internet.
Web Developer – This extension let's you peruse any website's insides. It's like popping the hood for a look at the engine.
We also have an article on other software and service recommendations.