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Movies again. Further down you go on the list, the more I liked it. What did you see?
Salomè (1972), directed by Carmelo Bene, is an Italian is a neon arthouse extravaganza featuring raucous debauchery in King Herod's palace and vampire Jesus. Apparently I have an artsiness threshold because I could not finish this one. I can't even review it because I didn't watch enough of it to make any sort of assessment. But I include it here because, although it may not have been my cup of tea, it sure was weird and people, at minimum, should know this thing is out there. I'm sure it's for someone, but I guess I wasn't in the mood for psychedelic ass slapping.
Italian schlock cinema is notorious for ripping off other films, but perhaps O.K. Connery (1967) is remarkable in how brazen it is. Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery, plays the brother of the famous fictional secret agent, James Bond. I genuinely felt bad for the goatee'd Neil as I'm sure he's been compared to his brother outside of this travesty of a film. It's a bad 007 knockoff, but I will admit to liking the theme song.
I got on a weird Soviet fantasy flick kick and watched Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1961). Directed by Aleksandr Rou, t's based on a collection of short stories by Nicolai Gogol. I enjoyed the charming innocence of the stories and the dated special effects. There's a romance and some comedy and a few fun creatures. I wish I had been able to find a cleaner copy.
Purveyor of big-titted camp cinema, Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), and legendary film critic, Roger Ebert (Siskel & Ebert), worked together in 1970 to bring to life the legitimately bonkers musical satire Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. This is one wacky movie with insane melodrama and hilariously awkward dialogue delivered with incredible earnestness and ineptitude. This is a cinematic endurance test, but the zaniness and relentlessly disorienting editing make this oddity anything but boring.
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is maybe too arty and winky to laugh out loud at for its entire run time. Enter Neil Breen. Neil Breen is the writer, director, producer, and star (in addition to credits for "music department" and "production design"—which might explain why there are so many bleached human skulls and leg bones along the roadside of the Nevada desert) of Double Down (2005). And this perfect storm of incompetence, naivete, and delusional hubris is just what makes this one of the best movies you could ever see. Self described as an "edgy action thriller", most of the film is spent observing a paunchy, uncomfortable middle-aged man skitter around the desert and pretend to type on five laptops (plugged into nothing) as he eats cans upon cans of tuna fish while his nonsensical inner monologues try to explain what the hell he's doing. Haunted by his past and obsessed with what comes after death, he plans some sort of biochemical terrorist attack on Las Vegas. He writes himself to be the smartest and best at everything but the script's betrayal of how little the writer actually understands regarding how the world functions is just adorable. It's like if Donald Trump made a movie.
Back on the Soviet fantasy wagon is Viy (1967). Based on another Nicolai Gogol story, the plot concerns a recent seminary student, Khoma, who ends up killing a witch, whose father makes him stand vigil alone, praying over her corpse for three nights. Each night, more menacing things happen to haunt Khoma. Flying coffins and goblins abound. I'll admit it's a little slow, but the ending was crazy enough for me to recommend. The special effects are, again, very dated, but I found the quirky and charming. There is also a more loose adaptation of the same story made in 2015.
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When I first saw Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) I was perhaps too young to appreciate it. It freaked me out to be honest (as did the show. Chairy?! Come on! Nightmare fuel.). Having since matured, I decided to revisit the quirky road movie of the weird man-child's quest to find his stolen bicycle. While I may not have the same nostalgia many associate with Burton's feature directorial debut, I can finally say I get it. The character (played by its creator, Paul Reubens) is annoying and the world he inhabits is a plastic, colorful explosion of 80's tackiness. The story is episodic and the humor very odd. But it's subversive and great too. Glad I gave it a re-watch.
Not sure many have heard of Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever (1984). Produced by Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live), this never released oddity stars Zach Galligan (Gremlins) and features Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Mort Sahl, Imogene Coca, Sam Jaffe, and Futurama's Lauren Tom. Designed to emulate the cinema of the 1930s and utilizing copious amounts of stock footage, it follows one young man's saga to become an artist. At turns cutting and funny, at others rather slow and aimless, it doesn't always work, but it's good-natured oddness and cast make this Guy Maddin-esque journey of self-discovery that takes you from New York City to the Moon and back worth a look for the curious movie consumer.
The Raid (2011) is an Indonesian martial arts action thriller about cops trying to get a bad guy in a very tall building. That's all you need as an excuse for the impressive fight choreography that follows. The best action movies sometimes have the simplest setups. A few twists and turns keep things interesting and absurd amounts of shooting and punching keep it exciting throughout.
Iconic entertainer Josephine Baker stars in Princess Tam Tam (1935), a French melodrama that would probably be considered culturally insensitive today, but is charming nevertheless—thanks to Baker's infectious exuberance. A French novelist takes a shine to a free spirited but uncouth (by Parisian standards) Tunisian girl named Alwina (Baker). He takes her back to Paris and tries to introduce her to society as Princess Tam Tam. Think My Fair Lady meets Dersu Uzula (but instead of an old Siberian mountain man, it's a vintage Manic Pixie Dream Girl). Baker dances and sings and exhibits a wildly playful and extremely likable screen personality (more than can be said of much of the rest of the film). It's occasionally stilted, but it has some great moments peppered throughout.
Here's the Jim Henson Company and cult filmmaker Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches (1990). Anjelica Huston (The Addams Family) stars as the leader of a coven of witches that meet at a hotel to plot to kill children…by turning them into mice. Irritating child acting aside, this is a lot of fun. This is one of those kid's movies that's not afraid to be scary. And the grotesque makeup and ghoulish transformations certainly work well, as does the puppetry. Co-stars Mai Zetterling and Rowan Atkinson.
Cult filmmaker John Carpenter (The Thing) directs the Lovecraftian thriller, In the Mouth of Madness (1994). Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) stars as an insurance investigator sent to track down a Stephen King type author in a fictitious town where evil lurks behind every corner. The film, while imperfect, boasts some fine atmosphere and Lovecraft inspired creatures. I quite enjoyed it. Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner, and Charlton Heston co-star.
Beautiful Girls (1996) is a sweet little movie featuring Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Lauren Holly, Rosie O'Donnell, Martha Plimpton, and Uma Thurman. Old high school friends meet again in a snowy Massachusetts town for their school reunion. It's a quiet slice of life built out of good feelings, love, and wistfulness, but more than anything it's just a pleasant experience to spend some time with these characters that somehow all feel familiar.
By far my favorite premise for a movie on this list. In Jaco Van Dormael's The Brand New Testament (2015) God is a grouchy old fart with a wife he dislikes and a headstrong daughter. They live in a crappy apartment in Brussels where he capriciously manipulates the lives of tiny mortals. When his rebellious daughter, Ea, sneaks into his office and onto his computer she decides to text everyone on Earth the dates of their deaths, plunging the world into a chaotic existential crisis. She then escapes to Earth and enlists the aid of a homeless man as a scribe to write a Brand New Testament. If Jesus rewrote the Old Testament, Ea is determined to one up her big brother. The story is a series of episodes surrounding Ea's new disciples and the rules of physics and nature she eschews.
From Lethal Weapon to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, writer/director Shane Black knows how to make a solid buddy action comedy. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe star in The Nice Guys (2016). And it is loads of fun. A broke gumshoe (Gosling) – and his daughter (Anjourie Rice) – and a brutal enforcer (Crowe) find each other at adds as they unravel a murder mystery set against the backdrop of gaudy 1977 Los Angeles. The dialogue crackles and the plot allows plenty of room for comedy and danger. Kim Basinger and Keith David co-star.
Frank Oz deserves more respect as a comedy director. More than a celebrated member of the Jim Henson Company (famously voicing Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Grover, Yoda, and more), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Shop of Horrors, What About Bob?, and Death at a Funeral are just a few of the gems he directed. In & Out (1997) tells the story of a high school English teacher (Kevin Kline) in a small town, days before his wedding (to Joan Cusack), who is outed as gay by a former student (Matt Dillon) on national television. While it may not be as progressive as it was 20 years ago, it does give the always enjoyable Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) a chance to play another high-strung character. It's the sort of positive, feel-good comedy I sort of miss and the social commentary is handled with the right amount sensitivity to balance the broader comedic strokes. Maybe it just hit me at the right time, but I really liked it. Co-stars Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, and Bob Newhart.
Debonair Carey Grant (North by Northwest) and titillating Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady) star in Charade (1963), directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). When Regina Lampert (Hepburn) returns from a ski trip to discover her husband has been murdered and that the killers and the CIA (led by Walter Mathau) are after a missing $250,000, she becomes entangled in one of the more stylish comedy-romance-thrillers this side of Alfred Hitchcock. Mrs. Lampert must locate the money, avoid getting murdered, uncover hidden identities, and look fabulous doing it while she seduces a mysterious American (Grant). If you love classic Hollywood (and I find it hard to dislike Audrey Hepburn or Carey Grant and their very specific styles for line delivery) then check this one out. It's colorful, suspenseful, and sexy. Also features James Coburn and George Kennedy.
Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) writes and directs the truly brilliant and chilling horror/satire Get Out (2017). Brimming with cutting racial commentary and a mounting atmosphere of suffocating paranoia, this is a perfectly pitched and very prescient horror. Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) goes to the country to visit his white girlfriend's family. Subtle and not-so-subtle racist comments are made with seemingly good intentions, but there's something off about all the black people in the house and Chris, though trying to keep calm, is getting nervous. Turning important social topics into an effective genre film is an excellent way to communicate to a general audience. And it handles its subjects with great intelligence. It's a perfect execution of its premise and talking points. See it in theaters. Also stars Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Lil Rel Howery, and Stephen Root.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic fable gets a respectful retelling and a built-in sequel in computer and stop-motion animated film The Little Prince (2015), directed by Mark Osborne. I could gush about the brilliant character design and clever architecture of the adaptation or the clever art direction and sensitive performances, but I was perhaps most touched by its thematic depth and wealth of imagination. The story follows a young girl (Mackenzie Foy) who escapes her mother's rigidly organized plans for her life by befriending an old aviator (Jeff Bridges) who met the Little Prince many years ago. At each encounter the old man reveals more of the story and ruminates on life and its meanings. The movie also goes beyond the original narrative and embarks on a quest to figure out what happened to the Little Prince after his final meeting with the snake. Somber and adult while also also being playful and childish is a tight rope to walk, but the filmmakers succeed here and deliver a thoroughly beautiful and emotionally resonant work of art. The voice cast also includes Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Paul Rudd, Bud Cort, Albert Brooks, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti, and James Franco. Osborne is supposedly adapting Jeff Smith's graphic novel, Bone, and I hope it is a success.


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The Interior Department is working to give employees access to IT resources anywhere, anytime with any device enabled by cloud computing through DOI's data center consolidation initiative.
"I view cloud computing as helping us meet the needs of our dispersed workforce," said Interior CIO Bernard Mazer.
With 2,400 locations, DOI is all over the place, Mazer noted. "We are there where [telecommunications] carriers are; we are there where carriers aren't," he said. As a result, DOI has to use a variety of tools to ensure that employees are supported no matter where they are located – in a refuge, a Bureau of Land Management office, a Bureau of Indian Affairs' project or a national park in a remote hinterland. This support also includes access to the business applications associated with contract, financial and human resource management systems.
Mazer spoke to an audience of government and industry representatives at a Nov. 8 briefing held by FCW and other technology companies on how data center design and cloud computing are transforming agency operations. Mazer gave a brief overview of four areas that highlight Interior's progress with the cloud, an on-demand approach to pooling and sharing computing resources:
Unified messaging: DOI is on course to move 72,000 employees to Google Apps for Government by the end of the year. Although Interior started this migration before the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program was available, it has followed all the FedRAMP security control guidelines.
Office of Management and Budget eCPIC: Interior uses the General Services Administration's Electronic Capital Planning and Investment Control (eCPIC) system for capital planning. This Web-based application helps agencies automate the selection, control and evaluation of IT and non-IT projects and prepare and submit budget data to OMB.
IMARS training and testing: DOI's enterprise system for law enforcement, the Incident Management, Analysis and Reporting System, is hosted by Verizon Federal/Terremark in its cloud environment. Interior is considering having the system's production environment hosted the cloud.
Cloud acquisition: Interior has an acquisition plan and a solicitation for cloud-based hosting services, which is expected to be awarded vendors by Dec. 31. It will streamline access by Interior Department offices to a full suite of advanced storage and software services, Mazer said.
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Candles twinkle in the windows of the 286-year-old French Castle. Outside the imposing stone structure, lanterns line Old Fort Niagara's walkways as soldiers in cocked hats and wool coats prepare their muskets to perform a grand feu de joie, a firing of joy, in honor of the holiday season. Fifes and drums play traditional music and artillerists prepare their cannons to join in the salute.
This is the scene that will greet visitors to Old Fort Niagara on Saturday evenings, Dec. 15 and 22, as the historic site presents its annual "Castle by Candlelight" program. In addition to the outdoor activities, there will be plenty to see within the walls of the great stone house. Cooks will prepare traditional holiday fare, including wild game, while period characters entertain visitors with tales of winter in the 18th century. A recollect priest will recite the Christmas story in the traditional Latin in the fort's chapel while fur traders and French soldiers downstairs pass the winter evening in more boisterous pursuits.
Elsewhere, Native Americans and frontier residents from 250 years ago discuss how they survive the long Great Lakes winter. Visitors will also witness demonstrations of woodworking, horn smithing, and the preparation of traditional hot chocolate, and will have the opportunity to write with a quill pen and play a traditional game.
The castle will feature holiday decorations created by the Youngstown Garden Club. This year's theme is "upstairs/downstairs." Holiday arrangements on the building's second floor will be regal, while the first floor will offer more rustic decorations.
The event takes place from 7 until 8:30 p.m. each night. Visitors can arrive anytime between these hours. The grand feu de joie, featuring the rolling fire of muskets and cannons, will be performed by the massed garrison at 8:30 p.m. The fort's log cabin will also be open, offering hot beverages and live holiday music.
Admission to the event is $8 per person with proceeds benefiting the fort's educational programming. Visitors are encouraged to dress for the weather, wear walking footwear and bring a flashlight.
Visit OFN at www.oldfortniagara.org.


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KGHM to shutter Sudbury-area mine
Blaming a long slump in metals prices, mining company KGHM on Wednesday announced it was shuttering its Levack Mine's Morrison Deposit, throwing more than 100 people out of work.
"This is not an easy situation for the employees and families impacted," general manager Steve Dunlop said in a release. "We are a small company and we all know each other quite well. This announcement hasn't been a surprise for many of our people as this is a cyclical industry and we have been openly working with them on solutions to our financial challenges at Morrison — but that certainly doesn't make this any easier.
"We were really hoping the mining sector would have recovered by now."
KGHM, a Polish-owned company, said the commodities market has been struggling and slow to recover, which is putting immense financial pressures on resource-based companies around the world and locally — as witnessed by cutbacks with other local operators in the past year.
"This is considered to be one of the longest mining down cycles in recent history, pushing almost 10 years in Sudbury," the company said.
To deal with this, KGHM Sudbury said it has begun the process of moving its Levack Mine's Morrison Deposit into care and maintenance mode, with completion in the spring.
Care and maintenance means the company won't be mining ore at the mine, but will keep it open with reduced employees until markets improve making mining ore at Morrison profitable again.
It is still working through the project plan of putting Morrison into care and maintenance and determining final impact on the workforce; however, initial estimates show a reduction of about 120 employees.
KGHM also said it will be increasing its operations at McCreedy West Mine where a number of the Morrison employees will be transferred. McCreedy West has been a profitable operation and KGHM said it is looking to focus on McCreedy West and maximize its potential.
When markets improve, KGHM said it has plans to bring Levack production back on line.
KGHM has a number of Sudbury operations, including McCreedy West Mine and the Victoria Mine project.
KGHM had already cut 22 jobs from its Morrison operation, also due to low metals prices.
Nickel prices have been up and down over the past year, touching US$7 a pound about six months ago, before dropping to below $5 a pound at times in recent months. On Wednesday, it was selling for about $5.2 a pound.
Analysts, however, are predicting stronger nickel, copper and other metal prices due to increased demand for electric vehicles. Those metals are important components in the batteries that power electric vehicles.
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The mine's history
- The Morrison mine is located on the western border of the richly mineralized North Range of the Sudbury igneous complex. Extraction is through two production shafts: Levack and Craig.
– The Levack mine, which mainly produced nickel, commenced its operations in 1915. The mine was closed in 1997.
– KGHM acquired it in March 2002 and renewed production five years later.
– In addition, exploration was carried out on the acquired property that resulted in the discovery of the Morrison deposit, rich in polymetallic ore with high-grade copper, nickel and precious metals and the subsequent commencement of production.


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If I am in a class where the teacher asks "illegal questions" (an "Ein Lomar"), what must I do?
- If I stay, I would now have those questions - very bedieved.
- If I close my ears I would have violated - Lishmoya Ozen.
- If I leave, I would now have violated the prohibition of "Chatzi Shiur" - which is biblicaly prohibited.
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Back to normal tomorrow. It's always a pleasure hanging with you kids for the day and I appreciate all the support: positive, negative, otherwise. So let's wrap this up nicely.
But...one lady still sent me a picture of an unsolicited cock photo she received in the morning last week. Christ. What is it with dudes doing this? They're shameless! If the girl doesn't ask for cock or hint that she wants to see a cock shot, then don't send the cock. It doesn't help.
Here's the top half.
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Ethics Information for Public Employees (AS 39.52)
This is an introduction to AS 39.52, the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. This guide is not a substitute for reading the law and its regulations. State employees who have further questions should contact the "designated ethics supervisor" in their agency.
The Ethics Act applies to all current and former executive branch public employees and members of statutorily created boards and commissions.
Scope of Ethics Act (AS 39.52.110)
Service in a public office is a public trust. The Ethics Act prohibits substantial and material conflicts of interest. Further, public employees, and their immediate family, may not improperly benefit, financially or personally, from their actions as public employees. The Act does not, however, discourage independent pursuits and it recognizes that minor and inconsequential conflicts of interest are unavoidable.
Misuse of Official Position (AS 39.52.120)
Public employees may not use their positions for personal gain or to give an unwarranted benefit or treatment to any person. For example, public employees may not:
- use their official positions to secure employment or contracts;
- accept compensation from anyone other than the State for performing official duties;
- use State time, equipment, property or facilities for their own personal or financial benefit or for partisan political purposes;
- take or withhold official action on a matter in which they have a personal or financial interest; or
- coerce subordinates for their personal or financial benefit.
- attempt to influence the outcome of an administrative hearing by privately contacting the hearing officer.
Bob uses the phone each day to make a brief call to check on his children at the babysitter.
Megan regularly reads the Wall Street Journal at the office to learn about her investments and often calls her stockbroker during work hours.
Russ chairs his local symphony board. Russ asks his secretary at his State job to type board letters and reports.
Pat's live-in friend, Sandy, is applying for a State loan. Although Sandy has been out of work for months, Pat knows that Sandy is good for the loan. Pat lets the State loan examiner who works for Pat know that there had better be no trouble with the loan.
Darlene made copies of political campaign advertising for her legislative candidate on a State copier after work hours.
Elizabeth called her friend in Florida twice last month from her State phone. She did not bill the call to her personal phone number.
Jim spends part of his duty hours most days exchanging email relating to his family business from his state email account.
Improper Gifts (AS 39.52.130)
A public employee may not solicit or accept gifts if a person could reasonably infer from the circumstances that the gift is intended to influence the public employee's action or judgment. "Gifts" include money, items of value, services, loans, travel, entertainment, hospitality, and employment. All gifts from registered lobbyists are presumed to be improper, unless the giver is immediate family of the person receiving the gift.
A gift worth more than $150 given to a public employee or the employee's immediate family must be reported within 30 days if:
- the public employee can take official action that can affect the giver, or
- the gift is given to the public employee because he or she is a public employee.
The receipt of a gift worth less than $150 may be prohibited if a person could reasonably infer from the circumstances that the gift is intended to influence the public employee's action or judgment. Receipt of such a gift should be disclosed.
Any gift received from another government, regardless of value, must be reported; the public employee will be advised as to the disposition of this gift.
A form for reporting gifts is available at www.law.alaska.gov/doclibrary/ethics or from the ethics supervisor.
This restriction on gifts does not apply to lawful campaign contributions.
The Little Theater presents Allen with complimentary season tickets. Allen is reviewing its grant request.
Alexander is negotiating a contract with the SBS Company. At noon, they invite him out for a quick lunch at a nearby deli.
Harriet has been a State auditor for years, and one of her job duties has been to audit the NABB books. One of the company's managers offers to let her stay at the company's condo in Maui for free during her next vacation.
John schedules a field trip to look at a company's mining operations. The company flies up to the site every Monday and offers to fly John up for free. John notifies his ethics supervisor who gives him permission to take the trip.
Improper Use or Disclosure of Information (AS 39.52.140)
No former or current public employee may use or disclose any information acquired from State employment if that use or disclosure could result in a financial or personal benefit to the public employee (or immediate family), unless that information has already been disseminated to the public.
Dave just finished reading a comprehensive report on a new technique for tracking animals. The report was prepared by a biologist in his section and has not been reviewed and released by the section supervisor. Dave thought his son, Jerry, who bids on State Fish and Game contracts, might find the report useful and makes a copy for Jerry.
After he leaves State service, Fred responds to a State request for a proposal. He includes in his proposal information on a study the State did a few years ago. The study is a public record, but has not been published, and its existence is unknown to other applicants.
Improper Influence in State Grants, Contracts, Leases or Loans (AS 39.52.150)
A public employee, or immediate family, may not apply for, or have an interest in a State grant, contract, lease, or loan, if the public employee has authority to affect the award or administration of that State grant, contract, lease, or loan.
A public employee (or immediate family) may apply for or be a party to a competitively solicited State grant, contract or lease, if the public employee does not serve in the same administrative unit awarding or administering the grant, contract, or lease and so long as the public employee does not take official action in the award or administration of the grant, contract, or lease.
A public employee (or immediate family) may apply for and receive a State loan that is generally available to the public and has fixed eligibility standards, so long as the public employee does not take (or withhold) official action affecting the loan's award or administration.
Public employees must report to their designated ethics supervisor any personal or financial interest (or that of immediate family) in a State grant, contract, lease or loan that is awarded or administered by the agency the public employee serves. A form for this purpose is available at www.law.alaska.gov/doclibrary/ethics or from the designated ethics supervisor.
Hal administers contracts for his department. He hasn't seen his daughter for nearly ten years, so he figures that it doesn't matter when she bids for a contract that is being negotiated by his division.
Anne's daughter has been accepted to a college and she is now applying for a loan from the Post Secondary Education Commission. Anne usually evaluates these loan applications. She asks her supervisor to assign another loan officer to evaluate her daughter's application. When her daughter gets the loan, Anne notifies her designated ethics supervisor in writing of the loan.
Improper Representation (AS 39.52.160)
A public employee may not represent, advise, or assist a person in matters pending before the employee's administrative unit for compensation or if the representation benefits the employee's personal or financial interest. This section does not allow a public employee to engage in any conduct that would violate a different section of the Ethics Act.
This prohibition does not apply to collective bargaining matters.
Richard works for the department's public information office and is also on the board of the local Audubon Society. The board decides to apply for a public education grant being offered by the department's public information office. They ask Richard to prepare a grant application and to put his name on it as the group's contact person. They figure that Richard knows all the ins and outs and will give them a better shot at the grant.
Outside Employment (AS 39.52.170)
State employees may not work (paid or unpaid) for a person or organization or provide services that benefit their own interests in addition to their State job, if that outside work or service is incompatible or in conflict with the proper discharge of their official State duties.
A public employee must report outside employment or service for which he or she is paid to the designated ethics supervisor. Volunteer service must be disclosed only if it is a potential conflict with State duties or if the employee receives any compensation, including travel or meals. Changes in paid outside employment or services must be reported as they occur. A form for this purpose is available at www.law.alaska.gov/doclibrary/ethics or from the ethics supervisor.
Debby, a State cartographer, works on the weekends for a local ski resort as a member of the ski patrol. She reports this outside employment to her designated ethics supervisor.
Larry is the head of data processing for his department. As part of his job, he evaluates State computer needs. Larry asks that he be excused from heading a study determining which computers to buy for the department because he sells computers in his spare time.
Restriction on Employment After Leaving State Service (AS 39.52.180)
For two years after leaving State service, a former public employee may not provide advice or work for compensation on any matter in which the former public employee personally and substantially participated while employed by the State. This prohibition applies to cases, proceedings, applications, contracts, legislative bills, regulations, and similar matters. This section does not prohibit a State agency from contracting directly with a former public employee.
With the approval of the Attorney General, a Commissioner may waive this prohibition if the Commissioner determines that the public interest is not jeopardized.
Some senior public officers are also prohibited from working as registered lobbyists or for companies they were involved with while in State service for one year. See AS 39.52.180(d) and (e) for positions affected by these restrictions.
As a State employee, Andy worked exclusively on road permits for mining companies. After he retires, a mining company wants to hire him to work on the permits for a harbor. He accepts, but states that for two years he will not work on any road permits that he had previously reviewed.
Aiding a Violation Prohibited (AS 39.52.190)
Aiding another public officer to violate the Ethics Act is also prohibited.
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When a public employee is involved in a situation that may violate AS 39.52.110-190, the public employee must not take official action related to that situation and must immediately disclose the matter in writing to their designated ethics supervisor and the Attorney General. A form for this purpose is available from the ethics supervisor or at www.law.alaska.gov/doclibrary/ethics. The designated ethics supervisor will determine whether a violation may or does exist and advise the public employee and the Attorney General in writing. The supervisor may reassign the public employee's duties to avoid the violation (where feasible), or direct the public employee to remove the conflicting personal or financial interest, or find another solution.
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Ethics supervisors may request a written advisory opinion from the Attorney General interpreting the Ethics Act. A former public employee may also request written advice from the Attorney General. These opinions are confidential. Versions of opinions without identifying information may be made available to the public.
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All complaints are reviewed by the Attorney General, except for those alleging violations by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or the Attorney General, which are handled by independent counsel appointed by the Personnel Board. If the Attorney General determines that a complaint does not warrant investigation, the complainant and the public employee will be notified of the dismissal. The Attorney General may refer a complaint to the public employee's designated ethics supervisor for resolution.
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Complaints and investigations prior to formal proceedings are confidential. If the Attorney General finds evidence of probable criminal activity, the appropriate law enforcement agency shall be notified. If there is evidence of a probable violation of AS 15.13, the Alaska Public Offices Commission will be contacted.
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The Personnel Board reviews the hearing officer's report and is responsible for determining whether a violation occurred and for imposing penalties. An appeal may be filed by the public employee in the Superior Court.
All penalties under the Ethics Act are in addition to discipline that may be imposed by the employee's agency.
The Personnel Board may order a public employee, who is violating the Ethics Act, to stop engaging in actions related to the complaint. It may order divestiture, establishment of a blind trust, restitution or forfeiture, and may recommend disciplinary action.
If the Personnel Board finds that a former public employee violated the Ethics Act, the Personnel Board will issue a public statement about the case and will ask the Attorney General to pursue appropriate additional legal remedies.
The Personnel Board will report to the President of the Senate a violation of the Ethics Act by a public officer who is removable from office only by impeachment.
State grants, contracts, and leases awarded in violation of the Ethics Act are voidable. Loans issued in violation of the Act may be made immediately payable.
Fees, gifts, or compensation received in violation of the Ethics Act may be recovered by the Attorney General.
The Personnel Board may impose a fine of up to $5,000 for each violation of the Ethics Act. In addition, a public employee may be required to pay up to twice the financial benefit received in violation of the Act.
Criminal penalties are in addition to the civil penalties listed above.
Please keep the following definitions in mind:
Administrative Unit - a division or other official subcategory of an agency.
Agency - a State department, a public corporation, the University of Alaska, the Alaska Railroad Corporation, and all statutorily created boards and commissions.
Benefit - anything that is to a person's advantage regardless of financial interest or from which a person hopes to gain in any way.
Designated Ethics Supervisor - for employees of a department, the commissioner or the commissioner's designee; for staff of boards or commissions, the executive director of the board or commission.
Financial Interest - any property, ownership, management, professional, or private interest from which the employee or a member of the employee's immediate family receives or expects to receive a financial benefit. Holding a position in a business, such as officer, director, partner, or employee, also creates a financial interest in a business.
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Official Action - advice, participation, or assistance, including, for example, a recommendation, decision, approval, disapproval, vote, or other similar action, including inaction, by a public officer.
Personal Interest - the interest or involvement of an employee (or immediate family) in any organization or political party from which a person or organization receives a benefit.
For further information and disclosure forms, visit our Executive Branch Ethics web site or please contact:
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The afternoon before the hearing, LTC Steven Brodsky told LTC Lakin's counsel that Lakin must report hours before the hearing to his duty post at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in order for him to be "transported under escort" to make sure he showed up at the arraignment "to avoid embarrassing his unit." Brodsky rejected all pleas from Lakin's counsel that this was not merely highly unusual and that an enlisted man facing similar charges would not suffer such indignity, but that there was zero chance that Lakin would not attend a hearing when he had, quite literally "invited [his] own court martial." Brodsky told Lakin's counsel that an Army Colonel had been detailed to be Lakin's escort and that he, Brodsky, would not reconsider. However, Brodsky is a judge advocate, and as such his job is to prosecute LTC Lakin. He has no role -or at least should have no role-in deciding the manner in which Lakin relates to his commanders, and vice versa.
However, the following day, outside the courtroom, Brodsky went far beyond interference with Lakin's commanders. While Lakin was waiting near the courtroom, Brodsky and COL Melanie Craig (Lakin's "escort") stood around the corner in the main hallway and in voices easily audible to LTC Lakin, spoke about the need to prevent Lakin after the hearing from speaking to the media, "signing autographs or kissing babies". Brodsky then said to Craig "just taser him and throw him in the van."
Lakin says of the incident: "LTC Brodsky meant for me to hear those words, no question. When COL Craig returned to where I was, she said to me 'you probably heard all that, didn't you?' I replied it would have been hard not to. After the hearing, my lawyers asked COL Craig for permission for me to speak to the press, since both CNN and NBC had sent camera crews, but she rudely refused, and she ordered me back into her vehicle to be transported back to Walter Reed." Lakin concluded his remarks today with: "DON'T TASE ME 'BRO'!"
Lakin is a Lt. Colonel with almost 18 years of unblemished service to the Army, with six tours of duty abroad, including tours in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He is a physician and has been awarded the Bronze Star for his service. He believes that his oath to support and defend the United States Constitution has compelled him to act as he has, because President Obama's eligibility under the Constitution to hold office has been seriously questioned, and the President has refused all requests to release documents claimed to exist which would prove his eligibility.
Immediately prior to Lakin's refusal to deploy, his commander, COL Dale Block wrote of Lakin "Dr. Lakin is an extremely talented, highly knowledgeable senior Army clinician...he can always be counted on to provide me with expert advice...LTC Lakin is clearly one of the top clinicians in the Northern Regional Medical Command. He has superb clinical skills, rapport with patients and staff...Terry is the best choice for tough assignments...Already on the promotion list to Colonel, he should be groomed for positions of greater responsibility." COL Block concluded by describing LTC Lakin as "best qualified" and recommended that LTC Lakin be selected for duty as a Clinic Commander (in other words, Block's own position).
At the brief arraignment, the Court set dates for motion hearings on September 3rd and 14th at 11:00 a.m., and for the trial to be held from October 13-15, 2010 starting each day at 9:00 a.m. LTC Brodsky has stated that these hearings will be held at Ft. Meade, Maryland.
MG Hawley-Bowland commands all of Lakin's superiors, and should have prevented them from being improperly influenced by the prosecuting attorney who is NOT in the Walter Reed chain of command. She can, and should, order that Lakin not be singled out for persecution and that his rights to speak to the media, and even to "kiss babies," to paraphrase LTC Brodsky, should not be infringed. She should be told, frankly, "DON'T TASE HIM, 'BRO'!"
It should be noted that the Military Judge in Lakin's case has no authority over Lakin's supervisors, and that therefore the Judge is NOT the one Lakin's supporters should contact. Rather, supporters are asked to only contact MG Hawley-Bowland, because it is she who not only has the power to command Lakin's company commander and others not to permit the prosecutor to interfere, but who SHOULD do so.
The American Patriot Foundation, a non-profit group incorporated in 2003 to foster appreciation and respect for the U.S. Constitution, which has established a fund for Lakin's legal defense to LTC Lakin. Further details are available on the Foundation's website, www.safeguardourconstitution.com.
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In the recovered footage posted here, citizen journalists get a chance to question Oliver North about REX 84 and COG, the supposed plan for the continuity of government in the wake of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. For daring to do so, these citizen journalists, bearing media credentials, were assaulted at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville by thugs who stole their camera memory cards, thus refusing to honor the First Amendment, as fascist thugs are wont to do. Questioning drug runner and convicted criminal Oliver North — not speculation, but documented historical fact — about REX 84 and and COG, members were told "this is not a press conference," in other words, they had no right to ask North questions. Again, for daring to do so they were physically assaulted and robbed.
North essentially dismissed any assertion that he was instrumental in cooking up plans to suspend the Constitution. "North's exercise, which reportedly contemplated possible suspension of the United States Constitution, led to questions being asked during the Iran-Contra Hearings. One concern then was that North's plans for expanded internment and detention facilities would not be confined to 'refugees' alone," writes Peter Dale Scott. As we know, North's treasonous plan is alive and well under the Department of Homeland Security's so-called ENDGAME, a plan that expands "a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798." Scott notes: "Since 9/11 the Bush administration has implemented a number of inter-related programs, which had been planned for secretly in the 1980s under President Reagan. These so-called 'Continuity of Government' or COG proposals included vastly expanded detention capabilities, warrantless eavesdropping and detention, and preparations for greater use of martial law," currently well established beyond mere proposals and fleshed out last year in PDD51.
PDD51, or NSPD-51, National Security Presidential Directive 51 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20) was signed into law on 9 May 2007 and was kept from Congress. "President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president," explains Jerome Corsi. As James Sterngold wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle a few days later, "senior government and military officials and other experts" had gathered behind closed doors to take "a step forward," under the aegis of the Preventive Defense Project, to plot against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including "the possible suspension of some civil liberties" under the bogus and entirely absurd prospect of "al Qaeda or some other terrorist group producing a working nuclear weapon" and attacking an American city.
"It is no surprise that these policies are being hatched behind closed doors, by elites, and military-intelligence operatives and other 'architects of reality', with no involvement from the citizenry. It is, however, yet another ominous sign of things to come," writes Larry Chin. "Nothing has been done to undo the Patriot Act, or end such things as illegal domestic spying and surveillance of American citizens. Nothing will be."
Congressman Peter DeFazio, featured in the video here, and who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, complained that he was refused access to the continuity of government plans, contrived behind closed doors. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio said last July. "We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America. I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee." In response, Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive."
Indeed, the planned suspension of the Constitution and "some civil liberties" is so "highly sensitive" that journalist citizens will not be allowed to ask former government officials about it. In doing so, they may face what We Are Change faced in Louisville — physical assault and the theft of their camera memory cards. Such is a glimmer of what Americans can expect to face when COG, under the ludicrous pretext of al-CIA-duh attacking the "homeland" with a nuke, is implemented. Of course, as we know, there is no al-Qaeda and the fascists currently in control of the government are simply building the structure required to impose martial law.
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MOLINA JIMENEZ, Iván. Literacy and School Coverage in Latin America: The First Costa Rican Educational Expansion (1750-1830). Desacatos [online]. 2011, n.37, pp.125-144. ISSN 2448-5144.
This article argues that from 1750 to 1830 Costa Rica experienced the first expansion of the school system encouraged by the Borbonic Reforms, the Constitution of Cadiz (1812) and the new political order after independence from Spain (1821). Literacy mainly expanded between small and medium producers male children from urban and rural settings. However, starting in the 1830's, Costa Rica experienced a decline in literacy product of three processes. First, the colonization of new land separated the immigrants from existing educative infrastructure. Secondly, the gap created by the lack of investment in education and its relation with demographic growth. Thirdly, the reduction of the amount of municipalities created on an expanding country (municipalities were in charge of the administration of elementary schools).
Palabras llave : education; literacy; Bourbon Reforms; Cadiz Constitution; Costa Rica.


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Vouvray is like the girl with the Scarlett Johansson sweetness, Bette Davis wit, and knockdown Grace Kelly beauty that made all the boys in high school too dumbfounded to ever ask out (except for the dumb jocks, who'd never get a yes).
Vouvray is a thinking man and woman's white wine because it takes brains to see through the flowery, intoxicatingly perfumed qualities of the Chenin Blanc (the required grape of this AOC), and look into the wine's soul: the effortlessly acidic spine of the fruit grown in the Loire River Valley's cold yet maritime moderated climate, and the deep, almost poetic substrata of flavor contributed by the soil (layers of flinty stone and clayish limestone over a plateau of solid limestone – the ultimate grape growing medium).
Earlier this month I ran into one California's more intelligent, and artistically multiplisitc, winemakers named Larry Brooks (a founder of Acacia, former GM of Chalone, and now proprietor of Campion). I hadn't seen Brooks in about six years, but the first thing he said to me was: "Everytime I see you, I can't help but think of that incredible wine we shared, what, over fifteen years ago? I'll never get that wine out of my mind." Me, too. It was, in fact, a 1989 Vouvray Moelleux Cuvée CC by Champalou – a dessert style Vouvray exploding in a plethora of honey, scintillating acidity and minerality in spades– that will always bewitch both Brooks and me (and undoubtedly, is still doing that to wine drinkers today… I doubt that it would fade sometime soon).
Which brings us to our organic wine match of the day: the 2007 Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau Vouvray Sec Cuvée Silex (about $21; distributed by Andy Lum's Unity Selections in Colorado). Sec refers to this Vouvray being "dry," and Cuvée Silex refers to the flinty stones that make up a large part of the vineyard's chalky soil, contributing a minerally, almost sea-briny nuance beneath the Vigneau-Cheveau's honeyed apple aroma, wildflower fragrance, and mildly tart, lush, flowing, refreshingly balanced, medium bodied feel on the palate.
There is, in fact, a strong sense of terroir in the Cuvée Silex because this 69 acre vineyard has been cultivated more than organically, but also biodynamically for most of the past twenty years (receiving ECOCERT'S biodyvin certification in 1999); very much akin to the vivid, penetrating expressions of minerality and grape common to other biodynamic producers in France (some famous examples: Maison Chapoutier in the Rhône Valley, Domaine Ostertag and Marcel Deiss in Alsace, and Domaine Leflaive and Domaine Leroy in Burgundy).
Biodynamic viticulture demands turning vineyards into biodiverse farms, and applications of no less than nine specific herb and compost tea preparations in harmony with the natural rhythms of the earth, sun, moon, and seasons, observed as faithfully as the farmers who have followed the Old Farmers' Almanac for over 200 years. But if there ever was ever any doubt about the efficacy of biodynamic growing, a simple comparison of Vigneau-Chevreau's Vouvray with any number of other popular Vouvrays would put it to rest.
My culinary mantra has always been to fear no wine and food match: there is a perfect wine for any dish from any part of the world (I don't believe there's such a thing as a wine-unfriendly dish – only a lack of imagination and organoleptic openness), just as there is a delicious food match for every wine in the world. But with a wine as pure as Vigneau-Chevreau's Cuvée Silex, I'd almost want to stick to an equally pristine, terroir expressive food match: like an artisanal, regional cheese. It needn't be from the Loire Valley, although a Sainte-Maure de Touraine AOC goat milk cheese, coated in a slightly acidic, gunflint-gray ash, offers up an earthy purity of taste and zestiness in perfectly natural balance with this Vouvray's earthy, crisp edged fruitiness.
Here in Colorado, I'd reach for a raw milk cheese like Windsor Dairy's Melville; a cow's milk cheese with a cider washed rind that positively bursts with fat, creamy flavors, with nuances of the native grass and wildflowers consumed by the Brown Swiss cows on this organic farm. Sprinkle a tiny bit of cumin on the Melville, with dabs of honey on the plate, and you'll have wine and food match that doesn't come down from heaven, but up from the earth so strongly expressive in both wine and cheese.
Otherwise, fresh, pearly white Chèvres like Colorado's Haystack Mountain, Tennessee's Bonnie Blue, Alabama's Belle Chevre, and Georgia's Sweetgrass Dairy (I guess you can tell that I've spent some time in the South in recent years) will all offer that combination of acidity and earthy, grassy fruitiness to effortlessly match this style of Vouvray. My only caveat: other than ash, steer gently away from logs crusted with pungent herbs or cracked peppercorn. You'll want an unfettered taste of the terroir in the cheese; and generally, simple accompaniments like figs, champagne grapes, ribbons of dried apricot, or umami rich charcuterie like duck prosciutto and pork rillettes will do just fine.


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Youth Café
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The same year its "customers" voted Electronic Arts the worst company in America, the game publisher also released the best-reviewed titles on average, according to review-aggregation site Metacritic.
In 2012, EA had an average critic score of 75.2 on Metacritic, which collects the average score from dozens of different reviews for each game. That was enough to put it ahead of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo as its best-reviewed game publisher of the year. The company's best reviewed game was Mass Effect 3 with a 93. It's best original published game was Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning with an 81. It's worst-reviewed game was Medal of Honor: Warfighter with a 53.
Electronic Arts decided to pull the plug on future Medal of Honor games based on Warfighter's poor performance at retail. The fact that it was the company's worst reviewed game of the year probably didn't help.
Electronic Arts beat out Microsoft's average review score by almost 2 points. The Xbox 360 manufacturer's published games came in second, followed by Sony and Nintendo. You can see the full list on Metacritic's rundown 2012's best game publishers.
Interestingly, EA's most direct competition, Activision, only just cracked the top 10. The Call of Duty publisher only managed an average score of 64.4 on the strength of Diablo III's average review of 88.


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The celebration of confirmation is divided into three rituals. RCIA 233 directs the minister of confirmation to address the newly baptized "briefly … in these or similar words":
My dear newly baptized, born again in Christ by baptism, you have become members of Christ and of his priestly people. Now you are to share in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit among us, the Spirit sent by the Lord upon his apostles at Pentecost and given by them and their successors to the baptized.
The promised strength of the Holy Spirit, which you are to receive, will make you more like Christ and help you to be witnesses to his suffering, death, and resurrection. It will strengthen you to be active members of the Church and to build up the Body of Christ in faith and love.
A short invitation follows, followed by a "brief" silent prayer.
RCIA 234 instructs the minister of confirmation toextend hands over the whole group of newly baptized. Associated ministers stand with the bishop or priest and do likewise. The text of the prayer:
All-powerful God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by water and the Holy Spirit
you freed your sons and daughters from sin
and gave them new life.
Send your Holy Spirit upon them
to be their helper and guide.
Give them the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of right judgment and courage,
the spirit of knowledge and reverence.
Fill them with the spirit of wonder and awe in your presence.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
"Fear of the Lord" has been adjusted to wonder and awe. Part 3 is the anointing with chrism. Let's look at the rubrics:
235. A minister brings the chrism to the celebrant.
[When the celebrant is the bishop, priests who are associated as ministers of the sacrament receive the chrism from him.]
Each candidate, with godparent or godparents, goes to the celebrant (or to an associated minister of the sacrament); or, if circumstances require, the celebrant (associated ministers) may go to the candidates.
Either or both godparents place the right hand on the shoulder of the candidate and either a godparent or the candidate gives the candidate's name to the minister of the sacrament. During the conferral of the sacrament a suitable song may be sung.
The minister of the sacrament dips his right thumb in the chrism and makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of the one to be confirmed as he says:
N, be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
Peace be with you.
And also with you.
236. At the Easter Vigil the renewal of baptismal promises by the congregation (RCIA 237-240) follows the celebration of confirmation. Then the neophytes are led to their places among the faithful.
[Outside the Easter Vigil, the neophytes are led to their places among the faithful immediately after confirmation. The general intercessions then begin (see RCIA 241).]
Small details are significant. The confirmation candidates ordinarily go to the minister, not he to them.
Notice also the signation of the cross: this is not done with the post-baptismal anointing with chrism. Remember, that was done on the crown of the head, presumably on the person's hair.
Notice the placement of the community's renewal of baptismal promises after confirmation. In many places, I've seen this placed before confirmation, a pragmatic gesture to give soaked neophytes a few minutes to dry and dress before returning to the assembly. It would seem that the song of RCIA 231 might better serve this purpose.


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Yes they need to stay there for long, at least as long as you do not have another protection system, and are confident about the whole system (amp DC, human errors on filtering or cabling, turn on/off noises of amps and other equipements, etc).
You need such caps for the tweeter and also for any compression driver tou will use (but you would need a higher value caps for these, because they will be cut lower in frequency).
For the voltage 100V would be more than enough, but bigger than that would not hurt either.


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Apr 2014
See Olivia Culpo in "The Other Woman"
Former Miss Universe 2012, Olivia Culpo has a role in "The Other Woman." After discovering her boyfriend is married, a woman (Cameron Diaz) tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets the wife he's been cheating on (Leslie Mann), she realizes they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When yet another affair is discovered (Kate Upton), all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on their cheating, lying, three-timing SOB. In theaters this Friday. Learn more about the movie here.
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- Miss Universe Gabriela Isler Presents at the 25th Annual Billboard Latin Music Awards
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My question involves bankruptcy in the state of: KY
I filed chapter 7 in 2005 with some credit card debt on 3 banks. I recently pulled my credit report because I was told that these charge offs were current when I thought they were off my report in 7 years (this year).
I discovered that 2 of the banks have reported the accounts charged off a total of 3 times, including 1 this year. This appears to be resetting the 7 year clock with the credit reporting companies. I know they are not allowed to collect the debts, but this seems to be a way of punishing me past the 7 years.
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The almighty symbol of terribad.
For at least the next two days, I'll be caught up with everything the SCCSAV terribad watch group has completed. (They've seen scattered episodes of Musashi Gundoh and Reign: The Conqueror, but as of this writing, they're not finished with either.) Now that I've completed this utterly useless task, I figured why not put my newfound knowledge of awful anime to good use?
So here I present a (highly biased) guide to terribad — from the ones I enjoy most to the ones I enjoy least, because that is obviously how such a list should progress. Enjoy!
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"The greatest meals, like the greatest musical performances, must always seem simple, no matter how complex the execution of them really is. Strive for the good rather than the fancy…cook to please your guests, not to edify or amaze them. Your dinner party is an act of love, not a lecture on gourmandise."
The Supper of the Lamb is a cookbook (first written in 1967 and recently republished), but also a glorious literary treat. No fast food here! There is one whole chapter devoted to the peeling and chopping of an onion! When I was re-reading it, I went to write down a recipe from it (for pan frying fish), and found the recipe was already word for word in my recipe book! I had put it in 10 years ago when I read it the first time. I use the recipe all the time, but had forgotten where it came from.
His directions are simple, but with a flourish so you are motivated to follow them. He celebrates the everyday and common, but points you to eternity and the heavenly realms. Like watching Julie & Julia, you just want to go to the kitchen and cook and eat and when you do, it is a spiritual experience! You learn how to shop for knives, not to fear fat, to be smug if you cook on gas instead of electric, and with this cookbook there will be no need to run out for a can of Campbells or a block of Philadelphia. The ingredients are wholesome and basic, and likely something you already have in the house. And I love what he says about wine:
"Wine. . .the way it complements food and enhances conversation; and its sovereign power to turn evenings into occasions, to lift eating beyond nourishment to conviviality, and to bring the race, for a few hours at least, to that happy state where men are wise and women beautiful, and even one's children begin to look promising."
One reviewer said reading Capon's book feels like you are sitting on a bar stool in his kitchen, listening while he cooks. How true! Bon appetit!