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Did I pick a crazy weekend to go out of town or what? The Pirates extend their losing streak to 12, fire a pierogi, then win twice in a row. Pedro Alvarez gets his first hit too. To quote Han Solo, "I'm out of it for a little while and everyone gets delusions of grandeur."A wrap up of things I missed this weekend:
The Pirates broke their twelve game losing streak by beating Cleveland Saturday and Sunday. Lastings Milledge and Andrew McCutchen had big games, but the moment that everyone was waiting for finally happened in the 5th inning when #Pedropalooza broke out a ground rule double for his first hit and RBI. After three games I was getting worried that he might reach Aramis Ramirez territory so this is great news.
The team also celebrated the 50th anniversary of their 1960 World Series win over the Yankees. Lots of giveaways and old players on hand. Really wish I could have made it to the 'Burgh for this.
On Sunday John Russell was ejected for only the fourth time in his three two-plus years of managing the Pirates. Call him the anti-Bobby Cox.
Zach Duke has a mild elbow strain and will miss his scheduled start on Tuesday. Monday's off day means no spot starter will be needed. Duke is expected to be fine for his next turn on Saturday, but that could change later in the week.
Up Next: Interleague play wraps up with a six game road trip to Texas and Oakland.
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With the Marvel Cinematic Universe currently in what they call "Phase Two", the Marvel Movie Studio is following the philosophy of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Such is the case with their latest film, THOR: The Dark World, starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman and directed by Alan Taylor.
Picking up where MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS left off, THOR: The Dark World bring us up to speed on what the God of Thunder has been up to since he and his new allies stopped Loki from destroying New York City and taking over the world. It also introduces us to a new (or in this case ancient) villain named Malekith – played by former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston – who is another one of those vengeful baddies with an axe to grind against our heroes.
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More scenes showing that Natalie Portman's Jane Foster character is really a brilliant scientist and not just another pretty face? Yup.
More of Idris Elba (as Heimdall) being a total badass? Hell yeah.
More scenes with Chris Hemsworth shirtless? Ummmm…okay, the movie failed to deliver on that, giving beefcake fans the same ration of Thor's pecs and abs as the last film.
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Even though the third act lacks the epic scope of the previous two, and the villain ends up being severely underused, the overall tone and roller-coaster-ride experience of the film makes up for it.
I mean, the little kid in me was simply agog during the battles where director Alan Taylor showed how war in the Nine Realms was very much like Lord of the Rings with laser cannons. I'm so buying those toys!
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The February unemployment rate is 8.9 percent. The broader Bureau of Labor Statistics U6 jobless rate is 15.9 percent. The report shows a net increase of 192,000 jobs. However, we need 127,000 new jobs every month to keep up with population growth. At this rate it will take 11.2 years to get back to full employment.
A Wall Street billionaire, a unionized public employee, and a Tea Party member are sitting at a table eying a plate of a dozen delicious cookies. The financier reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy. He wants your cookie."
How did this happen? How did we get to the point where governors all over the place are blaming the economic crisis on working people?
We're here because we didn't take the fight to Wall Street. The White House, Congress, and even trade unions let Wall Street off the hook. And now working people and the middle class all over the country are paying a heavy price.
The battle actually started thirty years ago when our nation embarked on a real-time experiment: Would wholesale financial deregulation and tax cuts for the super-rich drive a massive investment boom that would make all boats rise? It turned out, no. Instead, working families' incomes stalled. But the wealthy were left with such thick wads of cash that they didn't know where to spend it all. So they bought up Wall Street's new toxic "financial innovations." And presto: the largest financial crash since the Great Depression. (My apologies for the self-promotion but please see The Looting of America for an accessible account of the meltdown.)
Remember a couple years back, when Wall Street was on its knees, begging for our support? That was the perfect moment to reverse the 30-year trend and create a new kind of financial system that wouldn't gamble away our nation's wealth. Instead we resurrected too-big-to fail institutions and bailed out virtually every Wall Street investor.
And now, the right wing, which has been banging its drum against unions, government, and taxes for years, is having a field day using our recession-induced budget problems as a cover for slicing their enemies -- the unions -- to smithereens.
There's plenty of blame to pass around.
The White House:
President Obama started out with populist rhetoric that reflected America's disgust with Wall Street's greed. But soon, he tucked behind his Wall Street-friendly corps of advisors -- Geithner, Summers and Bernanke -- who told him there was only one way to avert another Great Depression and start generating jobs: Resurrect Wall Street with trillions of dollars in loans, asset swaps and guarantees -- and throw in a modest stimulus program.
So Obama stopped talking about shrinking Wall Street's profits and wages. He stopped talking about how our best and brightest should forgo Wall Street and instead build productive careers in education, science and medicine. He stopped talking about how appalling it was to be bailing out the very people who'd brought the economy to its knees. What could he say given how much the administration had done for the Wall Street billionaires? Now it's hard even to remember that our cocky financiers were so recently on their knees begging for survival.
It turned out that Geithner, Summers and Bernanke were only half right: The US did avert (or postpone) a Great Depression -- but jobs did not follow. Thanks to the US taxpayer, Wall Street's profits and bonuses went back to record levels, as if nothing much had happened. People stopped talking about financial nationalization and "hair cuts" for investors.
Obama squandered the progressive moment. Because had had refused to make Wall Street pay for the damage it had caused, we had no way to fund serious job creation. As a consequence, the "nationalization" we saw was of deep, persistent unemployment in every corner of the country. And the people getting the hair cut were the Democrats. They were pummeled in the mid-terms not because of health care reform, but because the traditional "Party of Jobs" failed to create them. In my opinion, they were punished for being the Party of Wall Street.
After the massive electoral defeat, the President turned into a deficit hawk, pushing the entire debate to the right. When he called for freezing public employees' wages, he fired the first shot in the war against workers on Main Street.
Of course the President had many fainthearted enablers on Capitol Hill. Congress failed miserably to build on Main Street's anger against Wall Street. Lawmakers couldn't even bring themselves to close a simple loophole to force the richest hedge fund financiers -- people making $2.4 million an HOUR -- to pay normal income taxes. Instead these hedge honchos still only pay 15 percent -- a lower rate than their own office cleaners. Closing that loophole on the top 25 hedge fund managers alone would have reduced the deficit twice as much as Obama's two-year wage freeze on federal employees.
Congress members also couldn't bear to break up too-big-to-fail institutions. They couldn't stomach windfall profits taxes or transaction taxes on the financial sector to help pay for our continuing bailout. (Who do you think now owns and guarantees hundreds of billions in toxic assets? You do!) And of course, the Capitol Hill crew didn't have the nerve to put Americans back to work through visionary moves like free higher education or the nationwide weatherization of all our homes and businesses.
The Labor Movement
Unfortunately, most trade unions also missed the moment. They were so invested in Obama and the Democrats that they didn't want (and maybe forgot how) to mobilize en masse against Wall Street. Americans needed a clear narrative explaining how Wall Street caused the financial crisis and a coherent program to create millions of sustainable jobs. They got neither from organized labor.
To be fair, labor had its hands full. With union jobs rapidly evaporating, it had bet the farm that a Democratic administration and Democratic Congress would pass the Employee Free Choice Act. (EFCA aims to level the playing field so that workers who want unions can form them without being fired.) This reform, they hoped, would unleash a great new surge of union organizing. But the bill didn't even come up for a vote. Now, in state after state -- even in old union strongholds like Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan -- politicians are hacking at workers' basic collective bargaining rights, as if somehow those workers caused the financial crisis. As one savvy union staffer quipped, "Workers don't make synthetic CDOs!"
So let's square up. Where we are, and how did we get to this fateful moment?
1. Because we bailed out Wall Street banks and then let them off the hook, they're now back to collecting record profits. Hedge fund managers are making billions for themselves thanks to our blanket bailout of the financial sector. Not only are they not paying reparations, they're fighting hard to roll back even more regulations so they can run their financial casinos with full impunity. Their contribution to deficit reduction is minuscule. Equality of sacrifice is a joke on Wall Street.
2. Because of the financial crisis set off by Wall Street and Wall Street alone, 8.75 million jobs were lost in one year. With economic growth still feeble and corporations hoarding their money, it will take over 11.2 years to reach full-employment again at the rate we're going.
3. Because of high unemployment and the resulting drop in tax revenues (as well as years of tax cuts for the wealthy and large corporations), state and local government budgets are having a fiscal heart attack. It's open season on public employees, the last bunch of American workers who are a) unionized in large numbers, b) still have decent health care benefits and c) still have defined benefit pension plans (which don't force workers to shoulder all the financial risks in retirement). Meanwhile, no one's going after the ultra-rich for shirking their state and local taxes. In every state of the union, the richest one percent of residents pay a lower percentage of their income in total state and local taxes than do middle- or low-income residents.)
4. Political demagogues are playing working people against each other with the rhetorical cry, "Why should taxpayers pay for public employee benefits that they themselves can only dream of?" The obvious answer is that private sector workers should also have decent health care benefits and pensions. Meanwhile, a windfall profits tax on Wall Street could close every state budget gap in the country.
Thank goodness for the intrepid workers and students in Wisconsin, Indiana, and elsewhere who are resisting the assault. And thank goodness most Americans are on their side, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll. It showed that a majority support public sector collective bargaining, favor tax increases over cuts in public sector benefits, and don't think unions are too influential.)
The bagpiping firefighters camped out at the Wisconsin capitol are blocking the maniacal march to lower our standard of living. But that's not good enough. It's time for the bagpipes to march on Wall Street... and for the rest of us to join them.
Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009. He is currently working on a new book, How to Earn $900,000 an Hour: The Rise of Wall Street Billionaires and the New Class War, (hopefully to be published in 2011).


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Vivienne Tam will stage a special show and possibly also host a party sometime during the week. This season's line up will also include Versus Tokyo, an all-night music and fashion event that will be semi open to the public. Versus participants will include several up-and-coming men's labels such as Phenomeon, Mr. Gentleman and C.E., a brand that was started by veterans of A Bathing Ape (BAPE) and Billionaire Boys Club.
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The meeting, the first between the KIO and government peace negotiating team in two-months, is intended to be a discussion rather than political negotiations, said a high ranking KIO officer in Mai Ja Yang.The previous meeting with government peace negotiating team led by U Aung Thaung, in Ruili (or Shweli), in China's southwest Yunnan province, failed to achieve any lasting results. The government wants to sign a ceasefire with the KIO before they will discuss political solutions to the conflict, which started on June 9, after they ended a 17-year ceasefire. There are an estimated 75,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), most living in KIO-controlled territories.
Moreover, Naypyidaw's leading peace negotiator is scheduled to hold informal talks with a senior member of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) on Friday amid ongoing fighting between Kachin and government troops in northern Burma.
Although government and KIA officials say they are hopeful they can reach an agreement, there have been reports in recent days that the conflict has spread to the well-known jade mining center of Hpakant. The escalation of the conflict comes less than a month after the formation on May 3 of a new government peace-negotiating team led by President Thein Sein. The new lineup consists of a working committee and a central committee that includes Thein Sein and Burma's military chief, Vice Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing.
Meanwhile, Aung San Suu Kyi has embarked on her first international trip since 1988. She feared that if she ever left Burma's military government would never let her return home. She put up with 15 years of house arrest rather than risk becoming an exiled irrelevance. Suu Kyi is currently in Thailand to attend a World Economic Forum summit on Friday. Around 2.5 million impoverished Burmese have fled their country to Thailand in search of jobs. Next month she will travel to Europe, collecting while there the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to her in 1991.


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Teacher - Home Economics (FIF17176)
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Interview Date: Wednesday 25 November 2020
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October is a month of great music at the Northfield Arts Guild and Mark Allen is honored to be opening for Six Mile Grove as a part of the 411 Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Northfield Arts Guild Theater. Tickets are $25 and are available at: northfieldartsguild.org/event/six-mile-grove-411
Mark Allen – Tavern Lounge, Northfield, MN
Friday, October 13 you'll find Mark Allen playing some familiar tunes and fan favorite originals. All you have to do is come on in, grab a drink, and listen to some great music! First chord is strummed at 8 pm.
Mark Allen – Jersey's Bar & Grill, Inver Grove Heights, MN
Thirsty Thursday just got a whole lot better! Mark Allen heads to Jersey's Bar & Grill on Thursday, October 12 for a night filled with all your favorite tunes and original songs that are sure to get you dancing and singing! Music starts at 6. See ya'll there!
Mark Allen – Northfield, MN
Hop on to the Lilly PADio at Froggy Bottoms on Saturday, September 23 from 6-10. Live music will be served up by Mark Allen and great food and beer by the always awesome staff! (show moved inside 9-12 if inclement weather)
Mark Allen – Maple Grove, MN
Get your weekend started off right at Wild Bills Saloon in Maple Grove on Friday, September 22. Mark will be playing you all your favorite songs and original tunes from 2-8. Happy Friday ya'll!
Mark Allen – Walker, MN
Mark heads to beautiful Walker, MN Friday and Saturday, September 15 & 16. Join him at the Chase on the Lake, in the 502 pub, with music starting at 8 pm.
Mark Allen – The Marina Lodge, Fairmont, MN.
There's a plan for you on Saturday, September 1 and it's joining Mark Allen at The Marina Lodge. He'll hit the first cord at 7:30.
Mark Allen – Wicked Wort Brewing Co., Robbinsdale, MN
Grab a pint of craft beer and listen in on Mark Allen playing you all your favorite tunes at the Wicked Wort Brewing Company this Friday, September 1. Live music starts at 7:30.


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Joyce Benignia Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Van Patten was born in New York City, the daughter of Josephine Rose (née Acerno), a magazine advertising executive, and Richard Byron Van Patten, an interior decorator.
She is the younger sister of actor Dick Van Patten, and aunt to actors Vincent Van Patten, James Van Patten and Nels Van Patten. She was formerly married to the late actor Martin Balsam, and is the mother of actress Talia Balsam, who was briefly married to actor George Clooney. She is divorced from actor-director Dennis Dugan, who has directed several films starring Adam Sandler.


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A cast featuring Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is generally more than enough to get two hours of our time, but throw in a Paul Dano and we're all-in.
Dano has joined the cast of "Looper," the upcoming sc-fi thriller, reported Variety. The film is about... oh, hell, it's too confusing, let's let director Rian Johnson explain it:
"Looper is a time travel movie, set in a near future where time travel doesn't exist but will be invented in a few decades. It's pretty dark in tone and involves a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future. Their bosses send their targets hogtied and blindfolded back in time to the Loopers, and their job is to simply shoot them in the head and dispose of the body. So the target vanishes from the future and the Loopers dispose of a corpse that doesn't technically exist, a very clean system. Complications set in from there."
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Willis and Gordon-Levitt will play the same character at different ages, and it's a safe bet they'll ultimately face one another.
We've said it before, we'll say it again, we love Johnson. "Brick" (which starred JGL) was a remarkably original debut and "Brothers Bloom," though fraught with pitfalls--like a terrible, "blame the test screenings" ending--was brimming with charm, and even made Rachel Weisz fun. He's only three films into his career, but Johnson has shown that he's unlikely to ever tread the same ground twice.


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How's this for a love triangle? Jason Ritter, who most recently romanced Lauren Graham's character on NBC's Parenthood, will next woo Graham's former TV daughter Alexis Bledel on the Fox pilot Friends and Family.
Graham, 45 — known to many fans as Lorelai Gilmore — played the young, hip mom to Bledel's Rory Gilmore for seven seasons on the now-defunct WB dramedy Gilmore Girls. The series ended in 2007, three years before Graham took on the role of Sarah Braverman on Parenthood, where she and Ritter have been steaming up the screen as an on-again/off-again couple for four seasons.
Speaking to reporters and fans at Parenthood's PaleyFest panel on Thursday, March 7, in Beverly Hills, Calif., the actress opened up about her feelings on losing Ritter to another show — and to Bledel, 31. "Jason has been part of this family for a long time. Every year it has been hard to imagine the possibility of saying bye to him," Graham said.
"I'd feel better if he was sleeping with my TV daughter. Oh wait — he is!" she quipped. Later, she joked, "They always change them for someone younger, don't they!"
Graham admitted that the thought of her Gilmore Girls and Parenthood worlds colliding on TV unnerved her. "It really freaked me out because I have such specific relationships with these people and these characters, and it didn't occur to me that they'd ever meet each other," she explained.
Now that it's happening, though, she thinks there could be potential for more overlap. "Alexis' old love interests from Gilmore Girls should now be Sarah's love interests [on Parenthood]!" she joked.
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I have the SL2; (stiletto 2) which was purchased 2yrs ago. about three weeks ago Sirius sent out an update which upon completion gave me an error message when I tried to connect to the satellite signal, and powered the unit down.
I have tried the following:
Spoke with customer service; nothing.
Took the battery out for 20-60 seconds; nothing
Reset system; nothing
Did a system recovery; nothing
Did a system recovery twice; nothing
I go to settings select device, choose antenna aiming; states "Press options to turn on your Satellite Radio" when I select the option it gives me an error message showing a clock and powers down.
Any suggestions? Or knowledge of third party that might be able to fix the unit?


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Seems Boing Boing reader "Pete" played a little prank on his wife for April Fool's Day using a changed Contacts file, knowledge of her love for the AP Mobile app and pure, pure malice.
If a significant other had done something like this to me, knowing what they know about my love for space and the unknown...well, I guess I wouldn't divorce them but the thought would have certainly crossed my mind. [Boing Boing]


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Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
Having learned goodness and maintaining continence in all things, / you were arrayed with a good conscience as befits a priest. / From the chosen Vessel you drew ineffable mysteries; / you kept the faith, and finished a course equal to His. / Bishop martyr Dionysius, entreat Christ God that our souls may be saved.
Kontakion — Tone 8
As a disciple of the apostle caught up to the third heaven, / you spiritually entered the gate of heaven, Dionysius. / You were enriched with understanding of ineffable mysteries / and enlightened those who sat in the darkness of ignorance. / Therefore we cry to you: Rejoice, universal Father!


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Solutions: PC-based control technology from Beckhoff enables the whole process chain including prepress, printing and downstream processes such as conveying and production to be automated.
Applications: The application reports illustrate application options for Beckhoff products and technologies in practice.
TwinCAT – the control plattform: TwinCAT integrates real-time control with PLC system, Motion Control and programming environment in a single package. Programming is based on the IEC 61131-3 standard.
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Inventories were cut MORE in Q2 by businesses than in Q1, $141.1 vs. $113.9. No green shoots there.
GDP has now *officially* been negative for five of the past six quarters. And Q1 was revised waaaaay lower, even lower than the *advance* estimate we received in late April, -6.4 vs. -6.3, making Q1 of 2009 WORSE than Q4 of 2008 (at -5.4), the opposite of what had been previously assumed. No green shoots there.
For 2008: Q1 was revised sharply lower, to -.7 from .9; Q2 to 1.5 from 2.8, and Q3 to -2.7 from -.5. No green shoots there.
Gross private domestic investment fell for the seventh quarter in a row, the past three quarters seeing declines of 24.2, 50.5 and 20.4 respectively. Residential fixed investments have now been negative for a stunning 14 consecutive quarters, with the past 13 showing double-digit declines. The past three have shown retrenchments of 23.2, 38.2 and 29.3 respectively. No green shoots there.
What has picked up the slack? Why government spending, of course. This was most pronounced in Q2 2009. Gov't consumption and expenditures rose 5.6. At the Federal level, spending rose a whopping 10.9 in Q2, national defense jumped 13.3 (more wars anyone?), nondefense jumped 6.0 while state and local government spending climbed 2.4. Yes, bankrupt governments across the land INCREASED spending in the prior quarter. That's smart. You can call these numbers green shoots if you are a corporate-fascist-state admirer; that's your prerogative, Bobby Brown.
So there you have it. Once again, down is the new up.
Since both Point and myself are so tired of having to write about their revisions instead of the economy, I'm going to repost Chris Martenson's Chapter 16 of his Crash Course . Chris's video is simply an EXCELLENT summation of the distortions which are now even MORE distorted than when he made this video…
As Davos, at Chris Martenson's site, says, "What an Enron farse!" On that I agree completely.
I'll repeat what I said in the previous post: The BEA, the BLS, in fact ALL government reports are suspect. All reporting of government statistics should be scrapped. The Fed should be abolished, The central banks and bankers should be removed – as in gone, a new money system should be put in place, there should be a Constitutional Amendment dictating the SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS AND THEIR MONEY FROM STATE, and finally, there should be a new government agency responsible for collecting and reporting economic statistics and that agency should have a mandate to develop data collection methods that cannot be changed over time and there should also be a mandate to release RAW DATA with every report, there should be absolute transparency in that all the calculations and all collection methods should be easily viewable by anyone. Oh, and NO ONE, not even the President should have access to the information before the public!


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In 2000, an 18 year-old Hana Lee fled North Korea on foot. For five years, she hid in China, and after five long, difficult years, she arrived at Kansai International Airport, located outside Osaka City.
Japan and the freedom it enjoys, to say the least, surprised her.
Hana Lee (a pseudonym) is currently living in Japan and attending university. She is what's known as a "dappokusha" (脱北者) or "person who has fled North Korea", and will be the first (or one of the first) to graduate from a Japanese university.
In Japan, there are around 300 dappokusha living in the country. Lee's parents were Japanese-born Koreans, who moved to North Korea during the late 1970s, hoping for a better life. At first, things were good. The family lived in a house and had their own car, which was a rarity in North Korea.
But then, things got bad. In the 1990s, a relative got implicated in a crime, and even Lee's family was to be banished to the countryside. In a country where food is scarce, this was the equivalent of a death sentence. The family was able to stay in the North Korean city of Sinuiju by moving between friends' houses and bribing officials. This continued until all the family's savings ran out. Lee, her mother, and her younger brother all made a run for the Chinese border, successfully crossing it and hiding in China until 2005.
Lee began blogging about her experiences in North Korea and is releasing a version of it in Japan. She recounted seeing a public execution as a little girl, recalling how it disturbed her so much that she threw up. Her transition was difficult, and she hid her North Korean background from her classmates, instead saying she was from South Korea.
"The thing that surprised me most about living in Japan is that people can freely say bad things about politicians," Lee told Weekly Playboy (Eds note: This is not the American publication). "I was also suprised that the Japanese prime minister keeps changing on a yearly basis." (Eds note: It doesn't take living in North Korea to be surprised by that!)
"Early on, the first time I saw cosplay," Lee recalled with a laugh, "it was a shock." Cosplay, of course, is short for "costume play", and it is the act of dressing up as video game, anime, and movie characters.
"But, a unified society will be built, even with the criticizism of politicians, the cosplay, people behaving freely and debating," said Lee. "That's a truly great thing." Lee added that a situation like this is "improbable" in North Korea; it makes her think that this was what made a democracy. What better way to express your freedom than by criticising politicians and dressing as video game characters?
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Officials have reached a $210 million settlement with Ivy Asset Management, a BNY Mellon subsidiary that advised clients to invest with Wall Street multibillion-dollar swindler Bernard Madoff.
The settlement of lawsuits filed by the New York attorney general, U.S. Labor Department and private plaintiffs also provides for about $9 million in payments by other defendants. Combined with anticipated future payments from Madoff bankruptcy proceedings, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said it is expected to return nearly all of the original investments to those who were defrauded, including union pension funds from upstate New York.
"Ivy Asset Management violated its fundamental responsibility as an investment adviser by putting its own pecuniary interests ahead of the interests of its clients," Schneiderman said. "Ivy deliberately concealed negative facts it uncovered in its due diligence of Madoff in order to keep earning millions of dollars in fees. As a result, its clients suffered massive and avoidable losses."
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said the agreement "provides a measure of justice for those Americans who worked hard to prepare for their retirement and then saw hoped-for stability disappear."
BNY Mellon referred questions to Ivy Asset Management, which has been winding down operations.
"Ivy is pleased to have reached an agreement that allows it to put these matters behind it," said Douglas Squasoni, chief restructuring officer.
Between 1998 and 2008, authorities say Ivy was paid more than $40 million to give advice and conduct due diligence for clients with large Madoff investments.
Michelle Hook, spokeswoman for Schneiderman, said the losses included about $138 million by the 78 upstate New York pension funds, and most will be recovered. The settlement included fees and expenses for the government lawyers and plaintiffs.
The Beacon and Andover funds will get about $99 million in the settlement from their former outside investment adviser Ivy, attorney Arthur Jakoby said. That includes some union pension holdings, he said.
Internal Ivy documents showed the firm had deep but undisclosed reservations about Madoff, authorities said. Its clients lost more than $236 million after Madoff's Ponzi scheme collapsed.
In 2010, then New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a civil complaint, alleging fraudulent conduct by Ivy in connection with securities sales and breach of fiduciary duty.
Ivy said then that its advisers raised questions about Madoff with clients and urged them to reduce their positions.
Authorities have said Madoff's Ponzi scheme cost investors an estimated $17.3 billion. He pleaded guilty in 2009 and is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C.
Irving Picard, the trustee in charge of liquidating Madoff's assets, estimated this summer he had recovered $9.1 billion, but had not yet distributed most of that.


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In one of my FB groups, this was asked: "If you can request God for a talent, what is it?"
I replied and said, "I've always wanted to learn how to play an instrument." It's my frustration. I never learned to play the piano, because I'm impatient to learn the basics, LOL. Maybe I should have prayed for more patience eh? Anyway, the thread starter replied to me. She said she wants that too but will just probably convince her kids to do it. Well, that's my plan also. I've been convincing K to like the violin but for now, she's interested in the xylophone and once she told me she wants the flute and drums too. The drums, that's not feasible at the moment so perhaps a beginner flute will do for now? Maybe she'll want that for Christmas.


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Kodak announced 4 new Easyshare digital picture frames at CES to be released in March this year.
I like their two WiFi versions, the EX1011 (10") and EX811 (8"). Both frames feature 128MB of internal memory, 800x480 LCD displays and photo streaming from a PC folder or their proprietary service. While most models fill their spec sheets with standards like memory card support and USB connectivity, these models can support MP3/MP4/mov/avi with audio playing out of their built-in speakers.
Look for them in March for $279 and $229.
Their non WiFi MP3 model runs $129. Video models start at $179.
But while I was impressed by Kodak's line, most of us at CES have noticed a trend:
Digital Picture Frames are everywhere.
Seriously. Kodak claimed that this is because of consumer demand, and then she quoted a study by (the CEA?) that I have since heard again from other manufacturers. 70% of consumers are on their 3rd digital camera purchase. 70% of these purchasers are women. Along with that, most digital photos never make it to any sort of viewable medium. To Kodak, the influx of digital frames is "natural progression". Philips supported the idea, adding that their product availability was very scarce over the holiday season.
I think that displays got cheap.


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Number 1 sex appeal of all time for a man to a women is confidence! If men would simply study women and about women; they would understand so much more and have to do so little! However, one must practice!
With dissociative disorder and amnesia! I remembered my name! But wasn't allowed to remember much else! I new the basics! " Im here now on meds" What happened! Everything else was blocked off to me!
So, I had to relearn everything! How to be attractive, how to notice if I was bing attractive to women! How to approach them, get them to face me, open things up!, have a story, be a performing artist! Close; " your cute, I godda go, give me your number"!
And much more; how to make myself sound and look interesting and mysterious! How to turn it all around on to her, make her seem grandiose and fantastic; then get her to prove it to me! Then get her number; female preselection and leader ship quality! And how to work a room to appear to own it and all the people in it and the women! How to pull one women in; thus pulling the curiosity of the rest!
How to get them to come to me! Im still working on this one; Im doing it, more skills!
Anyway: At the end of the day; it looks like this! " If I see a women, any women I think is cute anywhere! I must decide what I want! And what I want is; I will see a women I think is cute, walk over to her, approach her, start up a conversation! Im talking with her to find out if she is a flake or oK to date"! Im putting her through the interviewing process, not the other way around"!
My point; confidence rules all things! It means no fear and Im a sexy, confident animal that is wanted by all! Everyone wants me!!
Why is this important! Its great to see some hot chick! And be able to walk over to her, with an open stance and be myself! I have a sexy smirk! Much like a movie star! I don't smile like Im needy!
However, all of this sounds good! But its about practice! First you spend the years learning what you need to learn to approach someone! And then you keep studying and practice !
Nothings better then getting on a dating coaching site; listening to how to pick up women in various situations, knowing you've got 80% of down! Your just learning new ways and tips and trix! And in the end, with enough practice, you begin to open up around women, and be open and be yourself! And this around hot; really hot women!
Today, I was very open to a young women; hot hot hot! smok'n by any mans means! But you know how hot girls are; they throw up b-tch tests! And with her looks, its scares of most men! But not me! Ive seen her before! and walk up to her in a specific situation and ignored her and walked off! later, did this again and said; bye or something! today, I was much more open and strait forward! not scared, and she was nervous when she saw me, and ducked her eyes with her hand over her eyes! perfect! she's hiding something; I wonder what it is; maybe she likes me! So, I walk strait up to her and said something and walk around her and took care of business! Then I handed her something; it caught her off guard! And said goodbye to her as if I was not attracted to her to friendly and open; not needy! Of course, she could see my face, and those signals; she knows Im attracted to her! But fearless like a loan shark!
The point; Im not their yet! And it matters not if women finds me attractive; what I mean; if Im attractive to women; you need more then this; you need confidence!
Why is it important; all of this!
1. your never alone; you can ask a women out to coffee, or anyone out to coffee!
2. Your not alone to the opposite sex! life is; O, so much better with women in it! They make up 50% of the population! they make life worth living! life would be boring with out women! women make life exciting!
3. resentments must all go; forgiveness must all come in; and a new way of studied successful thinking must be the future!
4. Hobby it; Hobby, the study and art of picking up women! and science based succesful thinking! Add to this an athletic work ethic; meaning, In the gym and on a mountain bike most of the time! your life will never be boring!
No confidence; no go!
The other day a women caught me off guard and got close and looked me in the eyes! It freaked me out; I have allot of PTSD, and I looked at her in shock and horror and fear! That women wont come near me never again! She is totally creeped out! And thats the way it goes! Nothing is free, and the outcome is not mine!
What I must do; keep practicing, keep on studying and keep taking it all to God!
In the end, my world becomes a much more friendly place!
Practice successful thinking visualization techniques with women as the subject! see myself with them, shaking hands, talking, laughing, touching! everything! all success! run this through the emanation about 100 times in real firsts person POV; see what happens in the real world
One type of practice is asking women out for coffee dutch! Spend an hour 1/2 with them! Ive been doing it! Im having good luck but a very hard time connecting emotionally! Ive just started; it will take time
Practice random conversations with women! Short 3 minutes routines! Do not hesitate around them; hesitation is what causes creepiness! Be spontaneous and direction from the start! Have a script in your mind with your passion of confidence to go with it and go practice !
Practice is the key to success in this game! Its all about using techniques that ultimately loosen your fear that you be bold and yourself around women with no negatives!
Ultimately I have a final goal for a soulmate! But all this other stuff must be mastered first before I discover my soulmate down my trail!
Whats most important;
You're trying to get rid of your negative attitude! Negative does not build success! Thats the problem!
Someone owes me; Im a victim; Im instilled! All this stupid non-sense! wont work! has to be changed with positive thinking! I use 12 step groups to get rid of the resentments! and positive business science thinking techniques for success!
The ultimate is my future Asian wife! And that wont happen until Im willing to show the Universe Im willing! Show God Im willing to try! God sends me the coaches! I then pray and go try it!
And in this game; its about experiences; experiences builds confidence!
Keep up your standards! do not drop them!
1. Why is a person always thin and in shape! They see themselves as athletes!
2. How do people make money; simple! they see themselves; their standard as someone who is always making money and having money! They seem to find a way to make money regardless!
3. How does a person get fearless! simple! they are dedicated to the science and study of how to loose fear in any situation! they must study it; because fear is the mind killer! and it destroys all success!


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I'm determined to get all of our varieties sauced and photographed by the end of the 2017 season! I haven't missed one yet … fingers crossed these next few weeks let me acoomplish my goal! Up today is the Macoun. The macoun is my mother-in-law's favorite apple. It is crisp and tart but not too tart. Definitely a great apple for fresh eating. As you can see in my picture above something was happening with my 10+ year old peeler/slicer/corer. Jared took the blade off and discovered a chip which was causing it to miss spots while peeling. Oh well – a little peel never hurt anyone!
In just over an hour on high heat in my mini crock pot I had some chunky applesauce. I was not impressed by the flavor of the sauce – it was sweet but without much depth. So … after the taste test I mixed it up with the Jumbo sauce I had made earlier and the two flavors together made a great sauce my kiddo's just gobbled right up!
Jumbo Apple–Applesauce Analysis
This is the time of the season that I still need to sauce the most apples … because of course this is the busiest time and we have the most apples in. I'm determined to sauce the rest of our varieties THIS YEAR though so wish me luck! We have a newer variety of apple called the JUMBO. I've recently had many folks ask me how we decide the names of the apples – well, WE don't. Whoever discovers/creates them are the lucky ones that choose their name. The Jumbo apple is appropriately named though – it is HUGE!
The Jumbo was too big to put through my peeler/corer/slicer so I had to do prep this apple by hand for the sauce. The resulting applesauce was smooth, juicy and tart! Not too bad – I would add it with other varieties for sure but I was surprised at how well it cooked down. (sorry I didn't get a picture of the sauce)
Cox Orange Pippin–Applesauce Analysis
I made some more applesauce the other day for my Saucesational Analysis. This time I took a new customer favorites – the unique and tasty – Cox Orange Pippin. This particular variety has such a unique taste with a real depth of flavor. It made a chunkier sauce which I enjoy. The flavor was really sweet at first, then tangy, and then a hint of tart … definitely a winner!
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We've had a few people stop in the shop to ask where they can find our sunflower field. Well .. the picture below is our sunflower "field" this year …
Sadly, the sunflower field did not grow as it has in the past. We planted the seeds when it was too wet and we had a fail in this department. Sorry everyone! We'll try again next year!
We do have some volunteer sunflowers that have sprung up around the orchard though … and some are TALL.
And the flowers around the shop are absolutely stunning!
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This is a neat little problem that I was discussing today with my lab group out at lunch. Not particularly difficult but interesting implications nonetheless
Imagine there are a 100 people in line to board a plane that seats 100. The first person in line realizes he lost his boarding pass so when he boards he decides to take a random seat instead. Every person that boards the plane after him will either take their "proper" seat, or if that seat is taken, a random seat instead.
Question: What is the probability that the last person that boards will end up in his/her proper seat.
Moreover, and this is the part I'm still pondering about. Can you think of a physical system that would follow this combinatorial statistics? Maybe a spin wave function in a crystal etc...


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Dealing With a Data DelugeBy Pete Boergermann Print
Citizens & Northern Bank implemented a log management system to address compliance concerns, but found the system provided additional benefits.
With the advent of Web 2.0 and cloud computing, organizations across all industries are drowning in data. While this data explosion presents logistical challenges from a data management perspective, it also offers a wealth of opportunities for organizations that are able to leverage this information effectively.
A number of advanced analytics techniques are emerging in the business intelligence field, but many organizations overlook the most basic—and vital—aspect of successfully leveraging data for a competitive advantage: collecting and retaining all your log data.
At Citizens & Northern Bank, based in Wellsboro, Pa., we use a log management system to ensure the collection and retention of all our syslog data. We purchased our log management suite from LogLogic in 2006 with the intention of using it as a fail-safe for compliance purposes. Since then, we've discovered a wealth of other ways to leverage the data stored in our logs and ensure maximum ROI. Here they are:
Streamlining IT operations: One of the greatest benefits of using a log management system is being able to automate the collection of all your syslog data from various systems. We have 24 branches, and all of them have their own routers and switches.
In the past, we had to log on to each system manually and gather all the log information we needed. Now that information is collected in a single, searchable Web-based interface, saving our IT team countless hours in the process. In a typical week, we spend approximately 30 to 60 minutes checking the logs. Without our log management appliance, the same process used to take several hours each week.
Event management: Many executives do not realize that log management systems can also be used for SIEM (security, information and event management). We recently had an event in which our log management system saved our IT team considerable time.
One of our servers started pumping out 14,000 events per minute on the network. Our log management application allowed us to identify the affected server quickly and fix the problem. Otherwise, it would have been a tedious and time-consuming process of searching more than 150 servers. Our log management suite allowed us to restore the network performance to normal levels, and our business operations continued with minimal interruption.
Another challenge for us is low disk space. In the past, we were unable to consistently get to drives running low in disk space in a timely manner, and they would fill up. Now we have a trigger that issues a low-disk-alert e-mail when an event comes in and the disk is near capacity. This allows our IT team to address these issues proactively, rather than after the fact.
Security: Most experts agree that the greatest security threat organizations face today comes from inside their own networks. So it's necessary to have a security infrastructure that flags any suspicious activity and allows IT teams to quickly scan the entire system and pinpoint the source of any threats.
One of the biggest things Citizens & Northern Bank has done to deal with that is looking at firewall statistics and identifying unusual activity. We monitor traffic going in and out of our firewalls, and our log management appliance gives us custom reports on how many and what types of connections are denied. It gives us a good sense of what is trying to exit our network.
We also monitor VPN connections. A lot of our employees are using broadband thin-client laptops to gain access to our internal network. Now we can see when they connect or disconnect, and even be alerted in real time when they type in the wrong password.
As technology manager, I'm pleased with the ROI Citizens & Northern Bank has seen since deploying the log management suite four years ago. Compliance has never been a headache for us as it has been for many other organizations. We have faith in our logging system and know that whatever data we may need will be there and be readily accessible.
In short, logs allow us to comply with regulations without having to spend enormous amounts of time and money. Additionally, we have been able to leverage our log data in a number of creative ways that are not possible with a traditional SIEM appliance.
Pete Boergermann is assistant vice president and technical support manager at Citizens & Northern Bank, based in Wellsboro, Pa.
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My first real r/c truck, NR w/ 2.5TRX , no upgrades YET! Bought Proline CP body this weekend, simple paint,and the wife likes it too:
Last edited by ajjd76; 01-10-2006 at 06:34 AM.
Revo, Brushless, 50mph, $800, No You Cant
heres she is pretty much stock.
Been on here for a while but forgot my original username.
Here is my rusty as of now. I have recently done alot of work to it, including the addition of my O.S. .15. Here is the link to website, which is still under construction. It will have pictures and info on all my major toys, Dirt bike, both RC's and my z-28.
Rustler with O.S. .15 | RC-18T
Heres my beater, its got RPM A-arms, Boggers, some proline tires on the front, steel driveshaft yokes, the orange boner thing on my exhaust..not much else. Only future mods are 3.3, new body and a failsafe so it doesnt go full out into a lake again.
Im posting pictures of my fathers Rustler...theres nothing really done to it. Its a First generation Rustler. It has the Pro.15 engine, Graphite top plate, Aluminum berring carriers, and Proline tires. I dont know what his future plan for it (if he has any) truck isnt that bad. It was fun to drive while i had it...well enough talk here it is
The Truck:
The Topplate (not the best picture sorry):
Nothing really special...just your regular Rusty.
Revo 3.3-Center diff w/300k,Rear Brake,PL 23mm wheels w/B-T, MS Filter, Trinity Pipe, Extended WB Rear arms, Spektrum DX-3. More to come Jato 2.5- Dual Resonator, 2.2 wheels and tires, Alum. Turns, RPM A-Arms and bumper, Spektrum DX-3 and Servos. More to come
Here are a few pics of my Rusty with all aluminum copper and a few other goodies. Sorry its a little dirty just tried out the new tiers today
Well I have finally got some updated pics. I Also took it on the road with a few friends the other day and totally kicked Butt! My friends Jato couldn't touch me. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions and the help with the configurations. Shocks, wheels etc.
Here's the Pic's:
Now I am going to play with a Dirt Track setup. Need some new wheels and tires. Love this hobby!
Last edited by OrionNE; 05-17-2006 at 12:33 PM.
My sons and my E-rusty and nitro Rusty
"Suicidemachine" Savage XTM 457 racer
RS4 18SS drifter/E-Rustler that wheelies
Nitro Rustler .15 with 8 cut button mod
Please PM me if anyone has any questions...
i think its the only 2.5, soon to be a 3.3, with a stinger exhaust
still have the old rusty!!! new aluminum on the way
Only one where?Originally Posted by bbfao
"Suicidemachine" Savage XTM 457 racer
RS4 18SS drifter/E-Rustler that wheelies
Nitro Rustler .15 with 8 cut button mod
My RC Stable ..... nothing special, just alot of fun
T-Maxx, NRustler, Ofna MBX, Ofna HyperST
its my stock rusty except for the tires they r proline dirt paws. i plan on getting a, resonator, power tune head, steel yokes, 22t clutch bell, and a carbon brake and when i get all of that im getting proline bowties for the track
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Getting back into the hobby
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http://www.rcpics.net/member/NRusty505my rusty with big air you can delete my other pics if u want these are a lot better
I have cleaned out this gallery of all the dead links. I also deleted several posts of just chit-chat and oversized pictures.
Pictures larger than 640x480 need to be links. Posts with oversized pics will be deleted. With several gallery threads to keep up with there is no time to edit the threads to make oversized pics into links.
Questions about a users Rustler needs to be done in PM or email. Posts with just chit-chat will be deleted.
For those that need help posting pictures here is a handy tutorial.
Pain is Temporary, Pride & Achievement is Forever.
its my first nitro my rustler and i love it.
race,flip,crash,break.....= r/c
just upgraded from a Revo. it hasnt arrived in the mail, but let me assure you, i have a full shopping cart of aftermarkets at towerhobby.com
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Once again, for the hard of hearing...
Questions about a users Rustler needs to be done in PM or email. Posts with just chit-chat will be deleted.
For those that need help posting pictures here is a handy tutorial.
Be vewy vewy quiet,
I'm hunting trolls...
Hey everyonee, heres some pics of my rusty after about 3 hours of spray paint. haha. it was impossible because i had to take pretty much everything off to get the top plate and shock towers off. but hey, it looks cool.
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updated pics...check em out
my collection....
Revo 3.3, Nitro and E Rusty, T-Maxx project
Here's what my Rustler that I converted from my old Nitro Sport looks like, it's almost ready to go:
Here's my Rustler. Still more to go.
Too many to list! Just ask if you want to know!
Most of the Performance parts are still stock, but i am doing a bit of custom work.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Just a plain ole rusty 2.5 with ND Aluminum A arms, and Rear Shocktower. Also had The bigger aluminum rear shocks from traxxas.
The inspiration: my daily beater.
The whole crew
Here are some updated pics of my 2.5 Rusty... Tell me what you think!
Last edited by smg323; 11-11-2006 at 12:02 PM.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Here's what it looks like all done ready for break in of the new 2.5r:
The body is ugly, but it was only $5
Last edited by pioneer_56; 11-25-2006 at 11:06 PM.
This car started life as a Nitro Sport that I bought off eBay. Over the past year or so she grew up and became a 2.5R Nitro Rustler. Upgrades include (a side from the Rustler stuff) Atomik Body, DuraTrax Evader shocks front and rear, Dirt Dawg tires, Chrome Traxxas Rustler rims, Associates Dif Balls in the slipper clutch, Venom 6volt rechargable battery for the receiver, venom Smart Temp Fail Safe and lots of little stuff!!!
Last edited by mike505; 04-30-2007 at 11:52 PM.
Man i need more than 50 characters.
Man i need more than 50 characters.
Here's Pics of my Rusty with a brand new body.. (for now)