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The Dance Magazine. September 1929. Cover design—Ruby Keeler Jolson, painted by Jules Cannert.
Following-up on the last entry, as mentioned, author Patrick Watson sourced much of his material for "Ruby Keeler: Queen of Nostalgia" to Herbert G. Goldman's "Jolson: The Legend Comes Alive" (Oxford University Press, 1988).
I recently completed Goldman's book, and re-read all the passages about Ruby and her marriage to Al Jolson. By way of a personal review, I preferred the more compelling narrative of Michael Freedland's biography to Goldman's, but Goldman's volume is superior in value of facts, resources and leads. The material he compiles about Keeler is extensive, and much of it will be cannibalized here.
Goldman states up front that he never interviewed Ruby, "who suffered a burst embolism, [and] did not choose to abet my efforts." Hence he compiles his version from secondary sources, including contemporary 1930s movie magazines (which I will be examining at later postings) as well as the memoirs of others, particularly Mr. Billy Grady, Ruby's first manager and the author of "The Irish Peacock: Tales of a Legendary Talent Agent". In the same fashion that Patrick Watson mined much of his primary material from Goldman's book, Goldman in-turn makes ample use of Billy Grady's memoir as his primary Ruby source. I will be reading the Grady volume in short order. For right now, Goldman's accounts are gold, and I recommend it to any-and-all Ruby fans.
In the version sourced by Goldman, in the spring of 1923, Ruby, then thirteen years old, is hired as a chorus girl for producer George M. Cohan's The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly. The show tours for more than six months before opening at the Liberty Theatre on Broadway on Christmas night, where it runs for 11 weeks.
During Rosie's Broadway run, Ruby wins a beauty and dancing contest run by producer Nils T. Granlund. Ruby is too young to be hired by Granlund, "but Earl Lindsay, one of the contest judges, offered her a two-year contract at seventy-five dollars a week to dance in his new club on the roof of the Strand Theatre."
Several weeks later, Granlund offered Ruby a featured spot as a dancer at the El Fey Club. […] Ruby released from her contract with Lindsay, became a principal attraction at the El Fey before she was fifteen. Larry Fay was the owner, but the club was soon identified with Texas Guinan.
Goldman introduces us to Johnny "Irish" Costello:
A handsome, baby-faced Italian, he frequented the Broadway speakeasies to protect the interests of Owney Madden, a former killer who supplied most of the bootleg whiskey drunk in New York clubs throughout the twenties. Writers have tended to white-wash Ruby's relationship with Johnny, claiming he was just a friend protecting the young girl from nasty characters. The fact, however, is that Ruby was Costello's girlfriend from the time she was seventeen years old. Ruby was, by then, no longer innocent, but she recognized the value of her charm and could appear naïve when the occasion demanded.
Under Johnny's patronage, Ruby's career in night clubs blossomed.
[Emphasis mine.]
Goldman does an excellent job itemizing Ruby's early stage career with Johnny Irish as her suitor, beginning with a floor show at the Silver Slipper, and then headlining at Tex's 300 Club in September, 1926. (The Silver Slipper was a nightclub owned by Johnny Irish and Billy Grady. Goldman does not mention whether there were other owners.) Billy Grady becomes Ruby's agent later that same year.
Goldman continues the stageography:
Ruby returned to the Broadway theatre as a featured dancer in [Earl] Lindsay's Bye, Bye, Bonnie. The show opened at the Ritz Theatre on January 13, 1927, and Ruby won a huge hand for her "Tampico Tap" number. Charles Dillingham, [Florence] Ziegfeld's greatest rival, now wanted Ruby for the part of "Maxie Maxwell" in Lucky, his $313,000 vehicle for Mary Eaton. Bye, Bye, Bonnie was still running, but Lindsay was persuaded to give Ruby her release. It marked the second time she had deserted that producer.
Lucky plays the New Amsterdam Theatre and closes after seventy-one performances. Producer Charles Dillingham then hires Ruby for Sidewalks of New York, at Broadway's Knickerbocker Theatre. The show opens in September, 1927 and runs for 112 performances before hitting the road.
Jolson saw Sidewalks of New York at the Woods Theatre in Chicago on April 9, 1928. He already knew who Ruby was, but that night in Chicago was when he was smitten. Ruby was now eighteen, a five-foot-three, one-hundred-pound beauty.
Ruby returned to New York after Sidewalks of New York closed in Chicago, and Grady booked her for a six-week tour of west coast picture houses at $1,250 a week. Ruby was accompanied by her sister Helen on the trip to California. Al was there when the train pulled into Los Angeles, and William Perlberg, later a producer but then a Hollywood agent, made the introductions.Shortly before production on [The Singing Fool] started, Jolson, William Morris, Bill Perlberg, and a handful of Warner executives went to Union Station to meet Fanny Brice, coming to Los Angeles to make her first talking picture, My Man.
Al saw a wide-eyed girl deboard right after Fanny. [...]
"Hello, kid," Al greeted her.
The startled girl looked up, seemingly surprised that the great Jolson knew her.
Perlberg, who was handling the details of Ruby's picture-palace tour for Grady and the William Morris Agency, told her to drop by and sign the necessary contract the next day. When she got there, Ruby was amazed to find Al Jolson—greeting her like an old friend and insisting he could get her even more money than Grady had. Ruby protested, but Al spoke to Perlberg, made a few calls, and got her a slight increase.
Goldman proceeds to describe how Ruby—Johnny Irish's girl—was shocked and scared by Jolson's interference and advances. Ruby opens at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles on June 15, 1928. For the first four shows Jolson sends secret gifts to her every evening, showering her with roses, toiletries and a lynx fur.
When Ruby discovers the identity of her secret admirer, she freaks. Goldman quotes Benny Rubin, on the same bill, speaking with Los Angeles Herald Express columnist James Bacon in 1971:
[Keeler] was aghast and brought Al all of his gifts, wanting to return them. Naturally, he wouldn't accept them. He then asked that she and her sister go to coffee with them.
"Ruby begged off because she had a date. Al said: 'Is it that important you can't break the date?'
"A voice behind us said, 'Yes, it's that important.' We turned to see Jackie Fields, the famous boxer." Fields, who would win the world welterweight title, was looking after Ruby for Costello.
If Fields was moonlighting as Ruby Keeler's personal bodyguard, he was an especially busy boy. BoxRec's profile shows Fields fighting Don Fraser the week before and Jack Zivic the week after (Fields won both by KO).
Goldman writes Jolson is at Grauman's Egyptian almost every day, that Ruby is horrified by the stalking, and counting down the days till her Los Angeles engagement ends and she could move on to San Francisco and rid herself of Jolson. Goldman, bluntly: "She was wrong." Jolson begins his mashing of Ruby anew, and Keeler again panics, calling her agent Billy Grady and crying. "That guy Al Jolson is out here and keeps sending me flowers and calling me to go out to dinner with him. I don't want to go. I'm afraid. Get Johnny to wire me the money. I want to come home." Five days later Ruby is home in New York.
Jolson is in California filming The Singing Fool for Warner Brothers, his follow-up to the first talkie The Jazz Singer.
In July, Warner said he wanted Ruby for a "gala presentation" at the new Warner Theatre in Hollywood. Grady set the price at $1,500 plus round trip transportation—after getting Warner's word that Jolson was in Florida and would not be near Ruby. Jolson, of course, was still in California, and it was at his suggestion that Jack Warner asked for Ruby.
By the second day of her engagement for Warner she is on the phone crying to her agent, and returns home at once.
Goldman raises a bizarre report in Variety magazine three weeks' later that says Ruby married Johnny Irish, on August 31, 1928, and showed a ring backstage at the Fox Theatre in Washington. The engagement is announced on-stage, with a claim the ceremony was performed by a Rev. Father O'Grady. Keeler later calls the whole thing a joke, and somewhat disingenuously tries to pass the ring off as her cousin's.
When reporters begin asking for more details, Keller calls her agent and says she is with Jolson in Washington; that she is in love with Jolson; and would Grady please pass the heartbreaking news to Johnny.
Goldman writes, "Grady broke it to him, and the gangster took it. Costello's cohort, Tommy O'Neill, and Larry Fay found him outside of Dinty Moore's restaurant in tears."
The only time that Ruby ever talked about her courtship by Al Jolson, she said that a mutual friend invited them to dinner. "I was doing five shows a day," she said, "but I said yes, because you found time to have dinner. Al was at their home and that's how it went. He had a big ring he brought me and I said yes, I would marry him."
Goldman rightly states, "Parts of the true story are still missing." I'm going to eventually pull all the different versions together and work out a spreadsheet and timeline. Re: Goldman's comment above, Marlow-Trump's book provides some newer information (see comments prev. posts). In the preface to his Jolson bio, Goldman mentions his inability to get Keeler on the record; one presumes he would almost certainly have liked to talk about Costello. He continues:
Miss Keeler's reluctance to discuss Al Jolson is familiar to most students of the subject. Less known is her refusal to discuss Johnny Costello. Was the ring that Ruby flashed in Washington the one that Irish gave her in New York, or the one she claims was given to her by Al in Washington? […]
At any rate, she was "Costello's girl" no longer. By the time that Ruby got back to New York to start a two-week engagement at Loew's Capitol on September 1, 1928, she was Al Jolson's fiancée. The engagement, however, was kept secret.
Costello's scary gangster pals are the reason for the secrecy. Johnny Irish spares Jolson's skin, but hardballs him into giving Ruby "a wedding present of one million dollars—payable before the wedding." More mobsters try to extort money from Jolson, thinking him a soft touch, but Jolson gets columnist Mark Helliger of the New York Daily News to use his underworld connections to get heavies to back-off Jolson. Helliger, and photographer Tom Donahue, are later rewarded with a trip on the Jolson's European honeymoon aboard the Olympic and provided exclusive scoops for the Daily News.
Irish had promises Ruby that no harm would come to Al, so he arranges a party for his friends in Atlantic City on the night of the sailing. He figures that would keep any of them from putting Al—and possibly Ruby—to sleep. [...]
Shortly after the Olympic "steamed," someone phoned Johnny Costello at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Atlantic City. As soon as Johnny heard the ship had pulled out, he put down the phone.
"All right, boys," he called out, "the party's over."
Al and Ruby were married at the home of Surrogate George A. Slater in Westchester County, 3:30 p.m., September 21, 1928. On the marriage certificate, Goldman reports Jolson "filled in the space calling for his mother's maiden name, he put down "Ethel Canton," not Naomi. Ethel was Ruby's real name. Once again, Al was, in essence, marrying his mother. Al and Ruby board the Olympic before midnight." Neither Jolson's nor Keeler's names are recorded on the official passenger list. They are jined by columnist Helliger, photographer Donahue, and Als' pal Louis Schrieber.
On the honeymoon, Ruby is offered a role in Florence Ziegfeld's Whoopee, and she agrees to join rehearsals on October 22. Ruby's mother Nellie offers crazy tales (which I'll try to examine closer at a later date) to the New York American about the marriage while the Jolsons' are travelling, including a story about Ruby's threat to kill herself if Jolson didn't marry, and a confirmation (of sorts) about that one-million-dollar dowry. Al and Ruby return aboard the Leviathan and angrily deny the reports.
Whoopee opens in Pittsburgh the first week of November, 1928. Jolson, in California shooting The Singing Fool, begs her to run away from the show and join him without Florence Ziegfeld's permission for a release. She dutifully complies and arrives in Los Angeles on November 14. The couple make a trip to Hawaii aboard the City of Honolulu and return to California in early January, 1929 with tabloid rumours of marital friction.
If Florence Ziegfeld was stung by Ruby's cheeky departure from Whoopee, he nevertheless offers her a starring role in his new production of Show Girl. Ruby begins rehearsals in May of 1929.
Goldman sets it up:
In New York, the fights between Al and his ten-aged wife continued. Al attended almost every rehearsal of Show Girl, giving Ruby more advice than she could possibly absorb and making her even more tense than she would otherwise have been. Ruby, who had never had more than a minor featured role in any show before, was shouldering a big Ziegfeld production. She was not yet twenty, and the knowledge of what was expected, plus the strain of the rehearsals, made her irritable and nervous. Miss Keeler had "a temper to begin with" according to Billy Grady, who was called in to make peace with the Jolsons whenever Al and Ruby had a fight.
Show Girl opens at the Colonial Theatre in Boston on June 25, 1929, with Ruby playing the lead role of "Dixie Dugan."
The best song in the score was easily "Liza," written especially for a second act minstrel number with what one critic described as "one hundred beautiful girls seated on steps that covered the entire stage."
The high point of this number came when Frank McHugh sang the verse and Ruby stepped into a spotlight at the top of a magnificent series of platforms. Miss Keeler had barely gone into her dance when Jolson rose from his seat in the second row, scrambled into the aisle, picked up the refrain, and sang "Liza" at the top of his lungs.
The Jolson-Keller "Liza" has become one of the most famous moments in musical comedy history.
[We'll get to the re-fried version as played in The Jolson Story at a later date. Continuing directly...]
Why did Jolson do it? "I don't know" was Ruby's answer to that question on a 1971 Dick Cavett TV show. "I was just as surprised as anyone. I guess he just liked to sing. But I don't know why he did it. I'm not very bright, you know."
Jolson certainly did like to sing, but he rarely gave extemporaneous performances. The most likely explanation for what happened probably lies in what Matilda Golden, Ziegfeld's secretary, told author Charles Higham. According to Miss Golden, Ruby momentarily froze on the top platform in the dress rehearsal. Dance director Bobby Connolly yelled "Come on, Ruby!" and Jolson, who was out front, started singing the song back at her. It was apparently Ziegfeld's idea to have Jolie repeat the act during performances in order to boost ticket sales. Ruby was not told of the arrangement.
At least one Boston critic found the Jolson-Keeler "duet" an obvious and tasteless blight on what was otherwise a fine evening, and Ruby's friend, Patsy Kelly, was still indignant almost fifty years later. ("That was her show, not his.") Whether Al sang "Liza" as a p.r. stunt to help the show, to steal his wife's thunder, or simply because he "liked to sing" did not help his marriage. The Jolsons were quarreling—again—when Ruby arrived at the Ziegfeld theatre for the Broadway opening of Show Girl on Tuesday night, July 2nd. […]
Al sang "Liza" to his bride again that night, just as he had done throughout the previous week in Boston.
The September, 1929 issue of The Dance magazine (see illustration at top) features a striking Jules Cannert illustration of Ruby on the cover. There is no accompanying feature, but the magazine does run a review written by critic Paul R. Martin. Excerpt:
Probably everyone remembers Show Girl, the magazine serial, novel and motion picture by the adroit J. P. McEvoy. This, then, is the musical comedy version of the same, and it looks like a winner, though certainly not the type of sensational smash Mr. Ziegfeld has come to demand of himself. […]
But the vehicle offers the indubitable advantages of Ruby Keeler Jolson […].
Ruby Keeler Jolson is of course the center of interest, having been elevated to featured position for the purposes of this opus. She displays exceptional promise for the future, with a taking personality and her w.k. ability to buck dance with wooden shoes. That there are many things about filling an ingénue role she does not know should not be held against her. In time, Ruby Keeler Jolson will be a leader, and now she is doing remarkably.
Milton dismisses George Gershwin's score as "a distinct disappointment… dull and undistinguished."
In the same issue, another reviewer "Keynote" (Black and Blue Notes), reckons the show "pretentious."
In [Show Girl], Mr. Ziegfeld, famed for actively disliking "jazzy" music, leaves a straight band in the pit, but bows to public opinion far enough to put Duke Ellington on the stage in two spots.
Ellington is probably the leading dispenser of hot Negro music. His records have been very successful, and he has been a Harlem drawing card for several years. That he is not given a full opportunity to display his wares in the show is not his fault. He is not given the chance, though Show Girl, a very pretentious production, could be a lot livelier.
There is no mention in either review of Al Jolson's "Liza" duet.
Jolson continues with the "duet" for a week and then returns to California. Keeler goes through a series of undisclosed health problems, presumably including exhaustion, and misses several performances. She has an undisclosed operation at Lenox Hill Hospital on August 1st; again, the illness and reason for the operation never disclosed. The show runs without Ruby for several weeks, and Ruby leaves to California to join Jolson.
Future searches: Charles Higham, Billy Grady, more...
Note: Goldman provides different spellings on the name Nils T. Granlund, sometimes on the same page, alternately spelling it "Granlund" and "Granland." To further muddy the confusion, Patrick Watson spells it "Grunland." The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) entry uses "Granlund" as the primary entry, and "Granland" as an alternate. Marlow-Trump's book quotes Ruby in an early interview explaining, "Lord knows I certainly wasn't Granny's [Granlund's] type. He loved the tall, buxom, glamorous chorus girl. I wasn't a beauty, but he hired me, anyway, to dance at the El Fey club." It's a great quote. Moreover, Ruby's use of the nickname "Granny" suggests "Granlund" more than Watson's "Grunland." In future I will use the primary IMDB spelling as the proper form.

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Here's an interesting project wine. A collaborative effort of members who choose to buy in. Those who do so have input into winemaking decisions and their names are even printed on the back label. Furthermore, those involved pick the fruit (although timing eluded the group for this vintage), crush it and are consulted on key decisions during the process. Photo and video updates are also sent through to keep everyone in the loop. A cool concept to engage members and fans of the brand.
A quick look from the Coonawarra Roadshow...
Russian oak was used, "Coz it's gentler on the spice," Steve Raidis tells me. He goes on to say, "We don't want this wine to look like others in the range." And it doesn't. Cabernet with its hipster get-up on.
This is Cabernet dialled back. It's dainty. Pretty even. Waves of fine spices are curled around juicy black fruits. Quite moreish, the plentiful fruits skip about joyously. There's a complexity to it but at the same time it's easy drinking offering a soothing caress.
This will cellar 5-8 years.
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These frequently asked questions (FAQs) can provide you with greater detail about the program and the application process.
The AAD Shade Structure Program provides monetary awards of up to $8,000 for the purchase of a permanent shade structure to schools, day-cares, parks, and other non-profit organizations where children learn and play.
Examples of outdoor locations that are eligible for grant funds can include, but are not limited to playgrounds, pool decks, ball field dugouts, eating areas, etc.
To be considered, applicants must:
To be considered, applicants must demonstrate that they have an active sun-safety/skin cancer awareness program for at lease one year prior to application.
This awareness program can include use of the AAD's Sun-Safety Toolkit, or Good Skin Knowledge Curriculum. Bonus points are awarded for using AAD-branded materials. You may also use re-purposed materials available from other organizations or be original content developed specifically for your audience.
In the application, you will be asked a series of questions about your sun-safety program that include:
Up to $8,000. This includes the cost of the structure and its installation. Funds will be made payable to your organization.
The 2019 application will be available from October 1 - December 31, 2018. The application is available for online submission only.
The number of winners announced each year is dependent on the availability of funding.
Your shade structure manufacturer or contractor must design and install a permanent shade structure with a roof constructed of shade cloth, metal, or wood and provide significant protection from ultraviolet radiation (UVR):
Cloth/textile roof structures:
Hard-top roof structures:
Recipients work directly with their shade structure vendor to select the size and type of structure that best fits the outdoor location and meets the AAD's criteria. If the shade structure your organization is considering does not meet the criteria listed above, please do not complete an application.
Ineligible shade structures are slat-roof structures, slat-roof/trellis gazebos, trellis roofs designed for future plant coverage, shade trees, small cap-roof structures for pieces of playground equipment.
The application requires the following information:
The application requires two color photographs of the area to be shaded. Take photos of the area when there is bright sunlight so your photos demonstrate your need for shade. Submit these photos as jpeg files.
Do not submit photos/images of blueprints or technical drawings that illustrate your proposed shade structure. Also, do not submit "staged" photos of children or teens with signs or posters asking for consideration of the grant.
An AAD member must write a letter of support and submit it to the organization that is completing the application. It will then be uploaded to the online application.
To: AAD Shade Structure Grant Program Review Committee From: AAD Member Name and AAD Member ID Number RE: Recommendation of {INSERT YOUR ORGANIZATION'S NAME} Body copy: As a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, I recommend {INSERT ORGANIZATION'S NAME}
How the AAD member knows your organization. (Please include a mention of your organization in the letter.)
Member signature Beyond the aforementioned letter of recommendation, an AAD member dermatologist has no financial obligation, liability or patient referral requirements to recommend an application. They are also allowed to refer more than one location.
If you are contacting an AAD member for the first time, send a letter or email of introduction and then follow up with a phone call.
If an AAD member dermatologist is unfamiliar with the Shade Structure Grant Program, please direct him or her to the home page for the program. In addition, AAD members can visit a members-only Web page for information about the program, assistance with preparing a recommendation letter and general FAQs.
The AAD member dermatologist should be invited to the dedication ceremony for the installed shade structure (which is a requirement of the grant recipients) to share sun-safety information with those gathered for the ceremony.
The AAD does not endorse or recommend any shade structure manufacturers or vendors. A Web search of "shade structure manufacturers" will result in a list of manufacturers.
No, applications for retroactive funds for a shade structure that already has been installed are not accepted.
No, previous AAD Shade Structure Program recipients are not eligible to apply for additional awards.
Depending on your organization, the state of California may require the Division of the State Architect (DSA) to review and approve your structure. Visit www.dsa.dgs.ca.gov for more information about the additional time or costs that may be incurred due to the DSA approval process. This may affect your organization's ability to meet the grant requirements.
The AAD provides a permanent, free-standing sign:
A dedication ceremony or ribbon-cutting should be held within 60 days of installation to celebrate the completed structure. The dedication ceremony can be informal.
Organizations must invite the sponsoring AAD member dermatologist. The dermatologist can provide a brief presentation about the importance of sun protection.
AAD can provide limited quantities of materials to hand out to the audience.
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Ever heard of a nutty jelly? Well here's one to make your mouth water…Some people dread making homemade jelly, but it's very easy to make. You can use absolutely anything.
Preparation time: 10mins
Cooking time: 15mins
- 1 Fresh pineapple cut into cubes, remove the middle part of it
- 3tbsp sugar
- A pinch of saffron
- 5tbsp water
- 1tsp gelatin in 1tsp water
- Almonds chopped
- Raisins a few
- A few drops of Pineapple essence
In a saucepan, add the pineapple, sugar, water, saffron.
Cook until softened.
Add the gelatin and essence, and remove from the stove.
Drain the sauce into your mould; add the almonds and raisins.Refridgerate until set.


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Review: Paul Schrader's 'Dog Eat Dog'
Paul Schrader goes for the jugular with his latest film Dog Eat Dog. The cult filmmaker who gave us classics like Cat People, American Gigolo and Hardcore - not to mention writing Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and The Yakuza - has seen his reputation change in recent years thanks to a few curious projects. Despite delivering a clear winner with vastly underrated Bret Easton Ellis penned The Canyons, Schrader was involved in controversial release Dying of the Light - a CIA thriller which was apparently hijacked and butchered by the film's producers, leaving no semblance of Schrader's original vision. It's therefore understandable that Schrader goes it alone for Dog Eat Dog, an indie crime thriller which sees him re-team with regular collaborators Willem Dafoe and Nicolas Cage.
Adapted from Edward Bunker's novel, Dog Eat Dog follows three freshly-released career cons hired by a Cleveland mobster to kidnap the child of his competition.
Opening with a highly-charged debate on gun culture, Schrader pans out from a TV to reveal Willem Dafoe's drugged-up con lost in the lights and colours emitted from the TV set. Bathed in an insipid pink light and revealing a warped suburbia, it's clear that Schrader plans on revelling on the these two concepts of ultra-violence and insipid-stylisation combined. Dog Eat Dog does not disappoint in this respect, it is a combination of stylised visuals, grisly-violence, off-kilter humour and wild-eyed energy - elements which are showcased in that very opening scene. When Dafoe's Mad Dog's on/off partner and her obnoxious daughter return, Schrader lifts any potential cap he may have had on the film's garish violence with Mad Dog slaughtering the pair in his a drug-fuelled high. Of course, Dog Eat Dog is drenched in camp with the bloodbath being preceded by an argument in which Dafoe growls "I didn't hear nothing about no cupcakes!" to his partner's petulant shrieking cherub. Dafoe really is the stand out here, delivering a performing that's operating on a level of madness usually delivered by his co-star, Cage, Mad Dog is grubby, deranged and humorously needy.
This highly-charged style reveals Schrader as a filmmaker keen to show he is here to show old pro's can still deliver vitality in the dog eat dog film industry - and those that have seen the sex-packed, violent The Canyons, will be well aware of this. Occasionally this energy can dip as screenwriter Matthew Wilder's narrative progresses and Dog Eat Dog gets wrapped up in needlessly convoluted plot dynamics and mob drama conventionality - dropping its previous aesthetics trumps ideology approach. Dog Eat Dog shines when its being loud, dumb and unrelentingly nasty - something there is a need for in this cinematic landscape soaked in PC ideology and emotional manipulation.
Schrader's Dog Eat Dog lives in a world drenched in a grisly black humour filled with oddball cons, vacuous hookers and dingy neon strip clubs. Watching his cast of unpleasant, sub-human cons drift through this world and their struggle to adapt their former prison/criminal underworld behaviour to the outside world makes for a thoroughly engaging concept. Cage shines as the Humphrey Bogart obsessed 'leader' of the trio delivering a turn which is unexpectedly understated given the highly-charged aesthetic of the film.
Wilder's narrative feels entirely by the numbers as it essentially follows these career criminals trying to score one last big job, but Schrader redeems this thanks to the film's fast-paced, energetic and highly-stylised aesthetics. Further pleasures come from Dafoe's unhinged, and Cage's oddly restrained performances.


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Recent productions include a film for the GMB encouraging members' political involvement, a history of the RMT to coincide with the centenary of the NUR, a promotional DVD for the Morning Star, a campaign film 'Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets', on-line reports on NUT pensions action and a film promoting childrens' centres for Tower Hamlets NHS.
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Last weekend we hosted a family gingerbread house party at our place. It was something we thought up during a dinner the week before that we all agreed would be a cool way to get in the holiday spirit! We all discussed and came up with our ideas of what we wanted to build (my sister planned a holiday camper, Wren wanted to do a log cabin, and Sean wanted to do a holiday car repair shop LOL, and grandpa just decided to watch us all work). I decided on a New Orleans theme, and the best (and easiest) structure for a novice like myself would be a creole cottage.
We did a run to Bulk Barn the night before for all our various candies, and at noon on Saturday we began with making a large supply of dough. By dinner we had made and baked all our pieces and after dinner we began assembling!
chocolate wafers for the roof, spearmint leaves for my tree, Bazooka Bubblegum for my sidewalk and front steps, and various gummies and hard candies for decoration.
A little royal icing and a sprinkle of coconut over the whole thing made it a white Christmas, not the setting you'd expect a creole cottage to be in!
I made the bottle brush trees a couple weeks ago with some green ones I got at the dollar store, you just have to bleach them then put them in some water with fabric dye for a couple minutes to get them any colour you like! It was super fast and easy.
I definitely have some room for improvement on my piping skills, but it was overall really really easy to design (the secret is to add dormers to most standard gingerbread house shapes). We had so much fun planning and making our houses and laughed when they just wouldn't cooperate, and in the end it didn't matter how they turned out.


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Relegen has released a second video showcasing its asset intelligence technology on YouTube.
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)-- Relegen, a leading supplier of people and technology solutions to Defence, maritime, law enforcement, mining and asset-intensive industries, has released a second video showcasing its asset intelligence technology on YouTube. The new full HD video is an assetDNA software quick tour and illustrates some of its advanced capabilities as part of a series of short videos which are being published online progressively.
The new quick tour video clip reinforces the importance of asset data integrity for better strategic and operational decision-making. Central to this message is the video's demonstration of the assetDNA ID that is assigned to each asset, component or part, upon set-up. This is a globally unique identifier that differentiates each individual asset and gives full item-level visibility as they move through workflows, locations, custodians, servicing, lifecycles, part-rotations, supply-chains and more. assetDNA is then able to pass this globally unique ID onto operational assets using 1D/2D barcode or HF/UHF RFID tagging systems and collect field operations data using mobile applications.
The quick tour also shows viewers how assetDNA can be easily customised with user-defined asset structures, fields, and filtered views, and database triggers and alerts. Organisations can take full advantage of this flexible interface to build a complete asset profile and single point of truth. Data fields can be created for any 'thing' that is important for the business, such as asset class, serial numbers, locations, custodians, due dates, photos and videos, links to websites or documentation such as warranties, manuals, inspection and test certificates and much more. assetDNA can also take real-time inputs from infield devices and replicate data from corporate systems for a full 360 degree view.
The assetDNA software quick tour video is free to watch and runs for 6 minutes. It is ideal for those seeking an understanding of how asset intelligence software works to improve organisational asset data quality and their approach to enterprise asset management. It is available for immediate viewing on both the assetDNA and Relegen YouTube channels.
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Developed by practicing engineers in mission-critical environments, assetDNA is a complete asset intelligence technology solution that helps organisations improve their approach to enterprise asset management. assetDNA integrates easy-to-use software, hand-held mobile applications, smart asset IDs [Barcodes, HF & UHF RFIDs, covert security microdots, direct part marking], commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and Relegen professional services. It's easy to integrate with corporate systems – EAMs, ERPs, CMMS's – as well as touch-screens, SCADA and geospatial systems and more. Asset intelligence deployments range from the issue and receipt of armoury and PPE, automated workflows for asset inspections and certification, through to sophisticated systems for managing asset-intensive operations in defence, mining and more. Implementation can be as simple as the out-of-the-box assetDNA Pilot Kit or a fully-customised system finely tuned to business needs. For more information, visit www.assetDNA.com.
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Governor Jon Huntsman Interviews CSPC Trustee Ambassador Thomas Pickering on P.O.T.U.S. Radio About U.S. Response to Ukraine Crisis
Submitted on March 11, 2014 in CSPC in the News
On a March 10th segment of P.O.T.U.S. radio, CSPC Trustee Ambassador Thomas Pickering spoke with host Governor Jon Huntsman about how the United States and its allies should respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pickering commented that the Obama Adminstration has multiple options, including increasing sanctions, which could isolate Russia economically and politically.
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KIRYAT ATTA, Israel — The roll call was startling for a class preparing to take Israel's police academy exam: Mohammad Hreib, Ghadeer Ghadeer, Munis Huwari and Arafat Hassanein, dressed like a hipster and named after the Palestinian leader, whom most Israeli Jews view as a terrorist.
"How did they even let you in?" an astonished colleague asked Mr. Hassanein, 20.
The unusual roster is the result of an Israeli push to recruit into its police force Arab Muslims, who are both vastly underrepresented in its ranks and vastly overrepresented among criminal suspects and victims.
Arab Muslims are currently 1.5 percent of the 30,000-member national police force, and the right-wing public security minister seeks to increase that number in three years by adding 1,350 new ones. Many would work in Arab cities and towns, where the ministry has promised to open 12 new police stations. (There are seven in such areas now, out of 70 across Israel.)
The deep-rooted tension between Israel's police and its 1.7 million Arab citizens — about a fifth of the population — in some ways mirrors the flaring problems over race and policing in the United States. This spring and summer, the public security minister, Gilad Erdan, traveled to London and to New York — where Hispanics make up about 27 percent of the Police Department, African-Americans 15 percent and Asians nearly 7 percent — to study those cities' experiences with diversifying and sensitizing their forces and with using body cameras to address complaints of police abuse.
"They are not going to disappear, and hopefully we are not, either," Mr. Erdan said in an interview, referring to Arabs and Jews.
Alongside the recruitment drive, he promoted a rare long-serving Muslim officer to deputy commissioner, the second-highest rank on the force, holding him up as an example of how high an Arab could ascend in the force. The challenge, he acknowledged, is how to enlist this new population sensitively — to do it "for them and not against them."
Many Palestinian citizens said they felt that Mr. Erdan was pressing forward with the recruitment of Arab officers because the violence that was wreaking havoc in their communities had begun to impact the wider Jewish society. They bitterly noted that Mr. Erdan's plan was announced only after Nashat Melhem, an Arab-Israeli, opened fire on bar patrons in Tel Aviv on Jan. 1, ultimately killing three people. But Mr. Erdan denied that was the impetus for the plan, saying it had been in the works long before the attack.
Building trust is his challenge. Many Arab citizens identify primarily as Palestinian, not Israeli, and see the conservative government, especially its security forces, as hostile to their interests. They are suspicious of a broader government program to invest $3.8 billion in infrastructure, education, housing and other services in Arab communities — an effort to better integrate the residents, who suffer more poverty and unemployment, into society.
The police recruitment has unleashed a particular conundrum for an Arab population that has not quite recovered since officers fatally shot a dozen Palestinian citizens of Israel and one from Gaza during violent demonstrations at the start of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. The feeling on the street is that the disproportionate violence afflicting Arab communities is the result of deliberate police neglect.
"The police don't care for the Arabs," said Amneh Freij, whose son Suhaib, 24, a professional soccer player, was fatally shot in January last year in Kafr Qasim. Adding to their sense of powerlessness, Ms. Freij's husband, Mohammed, is the deputy mayor of Kafr Qasim, an Arab town of 22,000 in Israel. His position made no difference, they said.
Mr. Freij's killer has not been caught. Had the victim been Jewish, Ms. Freij said as she wept in a recent interview, the police would have worked harder to find a suspect. "You would pluck him from between the eyelashes of the townspeople," she said.
Mr. Erdan acknowledged the Freij family's grief, and said having more Arabs on the force would help solve such cases in the future because they could better understand local crime structures and gather intelligence and evidence.
There are plenty of cases to work on. Mr. Erdan said 60 percent of Israel's murders occurred in Arab communities, triple the Arab proportion of the population, along with more than 40 percent of traffic accidents. The Abraham Fund Initiatives, a group that promotes the coexistence of Palestinian and Jewish citizens, said an examination of prosecutions last year showed that Arabs were charged in 58 percent of all arsons, 47 percent of robberies, 32 percent of burglaries and 27 percent of drug-trafficking cases.
While Arab leaders are concerned about crime in their communities, they also complain that police use excessive force. In 2014, Arabs staged a daylong strike to protest the fatal shooting by officers of a 22-year-old as he retreated from their vehicle after banging on its windows with what looked like a knife, and this January, a young man was shot dead and his father beaten during a drug arrest.
And so the sight of an Arab in an Israeli police uniform is, still, visual shorthand for a collaborator, and many argue that the police need reform, not recruits. A popular Arab-Israeli website refused to run the police force's recruitment commercials.
"More police isn't the solution. Changing the mentality of the police is," said Ayman Odeh, who leads a bloc of Arab lawmakers in Israel's Parliament.
Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu, a co-executive director of the Abraham Fund Initiatives, which has led its own initiative to improve relations between Arabs and the police, said there was a contradiction in a government that had been vocally hostile to Arabs while presenting a large budget to improve their lot.
"It's this conflicting trend — very positive on one hand, very destructive on the other," he said. The government "is unhelpful — I'm trying to be gentle here — in its rhetoric and action when it comes to the place and collective rights of the Palestinian minority."
Since the recruitment initiative was announced in April, about 700 Arabs have applied to the police force. Jamal Hakroush, 59, the newly promoted deputy commissioner, said about 200 were expected to make it.
The first hurdle is the entrance exam, which many Arabs have struggled with because of its emphasis on Israeli civics and Hebrew, topics that often get short shrift in Arab-Israeli public school curriculums. So the police created special prep courses for potential recruits, including intensive Hebrew lessons, like the one that Mr. Hreib, Mr. Ghadeer, Mr. Huwari, and Mr. Hassanein took this summer.
These recruits will be bused together to exams, on the theory that they will do better in groups. For their physical exams, they are instructed in Arabic, not Hebrew.
The applicants in class here at an abandoned police barracks in northern Israel have a mix of motivations.
Ahmad Sarhan, 22, said he was inspired by a relative on the force. "My cousin was a shepherd. Now look at him: He has a house," Mr. Sarhan said. "He has a future."
Thekra Darwish, 22, said working as a policewoman would help her fight for equality for Arabs. "If we had a Palestinian state, we would serve that one," she said with a shrug. "But we are here."
Aisha Dahleh, 26, a social worker, wants to help resolve crimes plaguing her town. If selected, according to Commissioner Harkoush, she would be the first ever Israeli police officer who wears a Muslim head scarf.
"There will be those who say, 'She is a girl, she is religious, she is an Arab, she is a Muslim — and she works with the state,'" Ms. Dahleh said. "But I know my goals."
Mr. Hakroush is simultaneously leading a charm offensive with Arab mayors to raise support for the recruitment drive. On a recent day in Taibeh, a town with a particularly violent reputation, he met the mayor, Shuaa Mansour, inside his bulletproof office.
Over coffee and pastries, Mr. Mansour said he would reluctantly support the plan. "Whoever has an alternative to the police — bring it," Mr. Mansour said. "We have no alternative."
Guy Ben-Porat, a professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev who has researched race and policing, said that for decades, the Israeli police and Palestinian citizens mostly sidestepped each other, with tribal elders reconciling conflicts among Arabs instead. As the influence of such elders eroded in modernizing communities, some, like Kafr Qasim, organized their own security patrols.
These volunteer patrols functioned like neighborhood watch groups, mostly cracking down on young men speeding, blasting music and harassing teenage girls. But they could not prevent the killing of Suhaib Freij, even though he was the son of Kafr Qasim's deputy mayor.
Mr. Freij, sitting in a living room crammed with his son's soccer medals, was dubious about the prospects for change, but still offered a small voice of support for the new police initiative because, as he put it, "you have to try and try."
"There are police now," he noted, referring to a newish police station in Kafr Qasim, "and the incidents happen and happen and happen."


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Art Lessons of letting go and breathing life
From the book, Brave Intuitive Painting by Flora Bowley:
Turn your canvas or paper every 15 minutes or even 5 minutes if you are short on time. After every turn step back and see what is emerging. Add new elements with each turn. How does this feel? How does it look? Do you feel anxious or excited? Do you feel any resistance to changing your work?
Turning the paper provides new perspective and forces you, as an artist, to have your original vision be challenged. It frees the air from the feeling of needing to know what will be produced, of being perfect, and the freedom to loosen up. This is a meditative practice of letting go and not attaching to circumstances.
Feel free to add upload photos of your creation and I will update you on my own.
Another version of this project would be working on two canvases or paper, switching between them every 5/15 minutes. Challenge yourself to cover up 3/4ths of what you've previously painted. Work like this for 2 hours to build up four layers on each surface.


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The United States placed troops stationed in South Korea on high alert Monday following an alleged hydrogen bomb test by North Korea.
US troops put on highest alert for any North Korea provocation https://t.co/4yVFjI7Br6 pic.twitter.com/2u3hDxoH4c
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The US responded to the claim by flying a B-52 bomber from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam over Osan, South Korea on Sunday and South Korea resumed its theatrical anti-North Korea propaganda broadcasts on the border.
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The alert was ordered by Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of the UN Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea. Scaparrotti issued the order during a visit to the US and South Korea jointly operated Osan Air Base.
"The United States and South Korea are continuously and closely having discussions on additional deployment of strategic assets," said Kim Min-seok, spokesman at the South Korean defense ministry.
The US is considering the deployment of B-2 bombers, F-22 stealth fighter jets, and nuclear submarines.
There are currently 28,500 US troops in South Korea. The Republic of Korea Armed Forces is one of the largest standing armed forces in the world with a reported personnel strength of 3,600,000 with 700,000 active.
According to the Seoul-based Korea Economic Research Institute North Korea's military personnel strength stands at 1.2 million. It has a large artillery arsenal. It is estimated the communist country can fire 500,000 rounds on Seoul in the first hour of a conflict. Seoul is 25 miles from the Demilitarized Zone and has a population of 24 million people.
Analysts say a war between North and South Korea would end quickly due to the North's lack of airpower and aged military equipment.
Despite its dubious thermonuclear test and customary saber-rattling it is believed Pyongyang would not risk an all-out conflict with South Korea and the United States.


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Print this Page - Comparing Classic ASP to ASP.NETBy Scott Mitchell
ASP.NET, Microsoft's latest Web-server programming technology, was released for public consumption in mid-January 2002. As developers begin to move to the technology, those who have a long background in classic ASP will likely feel a bit alienated, as the way things are done in an ASP.NET Web page can be confoundingly different than in a classic ASP page. Personally, I think these different ways of doing things are better, often requiring far fewer lines of (more readable) code to accomplish a task in ASP.NET as opposed to accomplishing the same task in ASP.
Over the past few months I've been adding articles to ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com, articles that contain information about ASP.NET and are written using ASP.NET Web pages (as opposed to classic ASP pages, which the majority of articles on 4Guys are created with). A couple years ago I wrote a "Print this Page" script (written in VBScript for an ASP page, naturally) to allow a printer-friendly view of the articles here on 4Guys. (To try the printer-friendly view out, simply click on the Printer icon in the upper-right hand corner of any 4Guys article. Note that the printer-friendly view removes the links on the left and right, the table formatting, excessive graphics and banners, etc.)
In this article, I will briefly examine how the classic ASP printer-friendly script works, and how a new, ASP.NET version I created works. Hopefully examining these two approaches will show some fundamental differences between the way to accomplish tasks in ASP vs. ASP.NET.
The Classic ASP Print this Page Script
In August 2000 I wrote an article detailing how the "Print this Page" script works. Essentially, the script is its own ASP page (
and must be called with the URL to the page to be printed passed along in the querystring, like
/ASPScripts/PrintPage.asp?REF=/webtech/030602-1.shtml. The script then reads the
querystring information and uses the FileSystemObject to read the contents of the physical file that
maps to the passed-in virtual filename.
Once the contents of the file have been read into a string, a printer-friendly header and footer is
outputted and the contents of the string are placed inbetween. Realize that this approach has
one serious side-effect that can be viewed as either a bug or a feature. Any in-line ASP code,
such as
<%=Date()%> or
<% Response.Write str %>) is
simply not displayed since the browser interprets it to be an unknown HTML tag. Since the user can
do a View/Source on the printer-friendly page and see the ASP code of the page, this could be a potentially
disastrous situation if the ASP page contains sensitive information, such as database connection strings,
passwords, etc. However, since none of the articles here contain such information (all such information
being safely tucked away in include files or separate demo ASP pages), it's no big deal.
Another downside of this side-effect is that if there are any in-line demos in the ASP page, they will not be displayed in the printer-friendly version. Simply put, the printer-friendly version takes the source code (script code and HTML) from a target ASP page and dumps the source wrapping it with a printer-friendly header and footer. Hence, if there is ASP code that needs to be executed within the page, it will not be executed in the printer-friendly page. As I mentioned earlier, this is not an issue with 4Guys articles, but it may be an issue for you and your Web site. (For more information on the "Print this Page" script be sure to read: How the "Print this Page" Script Works.)
An ASP.NET Implementation of the Print this Page Script
With the ASP.NET implementation I wanted to be able to have the ASP.NET contents of the script execute. The reasoning behind this stems from the fact that in a number of the articles found at ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com contain in-line demos; hence, not showing the output of these in-line demos in the printer-friendly version would make the printer-friendly versions less readable.
Before I continue onto how I surmounted this problem, let me first explain the general format of
articles on ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com. Similar
to the article layout on 4Guys, each article on ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com has a header and a footer
surrounding the body of the article. On 4Guys, server-side includes are used to read in the header
and footer files; on ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com, user controls are used. These user controls are nice
because they can be treated like Web controls themselves - that is, user controls can have properties
and methods, just like the standard Web controls (
On option I batted around was to have the user controls that emitted wrapper HTML around the article
body support a property named
ViewMode, which could be set to either
ViewMode was set to
ViewMode was set to
Normal it would emit
the standard, graphics-intensive HTML. Then, in each article, I could have the
event handler check the querystring. If the querystring contained the key
mode with
the value
While this is one valid approach, I vetoed it because I didn't want to have to add
event handlers to all of my existing article pages (and new ones). Rather, I wanted the user controls
themselves to be smart enough to determine whether or not they needed to display printer-friendly or
normal HTML. To accomplish this, I simply added two panel controls to my user controls,
panelNormal and
panelPrint, which, when used, look like:
The panel control can be used to logically group HTML code and ASP.NET Web controls. Once we have this
logical group, we can show or hide the group by simply setting the
Visible property of
the panel control. (For more information on using the panel control, be sure to read:
ASP.NET Feature Saves Development Time.)
Next, in my user controls'
Page_Load event handlers, I add a quick check to determine if
the querystring contains a key named
mode and a value named
panelNormal.Visible to False and
panelPrint.Visible to
True; otherwise, I set
panelNormal.Visible to True and
panelPrint.Visible to
False. The code to do this check is fairly straightforward and can be seen below:
With these few lines of code, I can toggle an article's printer-friendly view on by just appending
?mode=print to the querystring of the article. To allow the user to toggle this setting,
on each article page on ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com you'll find a small printer icon in the upper-right
hand corner of the article text. This IMG tag is surrounded by an HREF tag with the following code:
Note that I essentially take the path of the current page (as given by
and then append to it
?mode=print. So if the user is visiting the URL:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/020402-1.aspx, and they click the printer
icon, they'll be taken to
which will cause the user controls to emit printer-friendly HTML. Curious how it looks? Try
visiting the normal view of an
article at ASPNET.4GuysFromRolla.com, and then check out its
printer-friendly format.
Hopefully this article helped shed a little bit of light on how ASP.NET and classic ASP pages can differ in their design and makeup. Note that with classic ASP, we used a separate ASP page to handle the printer-friendly display. While I could have used a similar approach for the ASP.NET articles, I decided to make the user controls that normally emit the "standard" HTML a bit smarter by making them capable of emitting printer-friendly HTML as well, and knowing when to emit what. (Of course the classic ASP approach could have been written this way too, but when I wrote the original classic ASP "Printer This Page" script, it didn't occur to me to do it this way. However, the more one works with ASP.NET the more one thinks about encapsulating the complexity of various tasks within page-level abstractions (such as user controls) as opposed to going to an entirely new Web page.)
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With another Meal Garden Healthy Eating Bootcamp underway, I'm continuing to learn more about why people are struggling to eat healthy - and what sort of help they're looking for.
The evidence from our new users is clear: they are looking for a way to get healthy and actually stick with it. Here are the top 5 things we've found people are searching for when it comes to getting help for healthier eating:
Devising a rotational menu that suits their entire family's nutritional and dietary preferences.
Eating together as a family.
Saving money - minimizing food waste and spending less money on takeout.
Losing weight.
A regime they can follow every week that's simple, but also flexible and not boring!
You'll notice that some goals are personal, whereas others relate directly to an entire household. Here at Meal Garden, we're all about making big goals and having the support of others to help you achieve success. In fact, researchers at the American Psychological Association have shown that it's actually a lot easier to stick with a weight loss plan when you have social support - such as being able to share tips on diet and exercise, and having a buddy to encourage and receive encouragement from.
That's one of the main reasons why we created our open Facebook group - Meal Planning Made Easy! - as a network for our users to connect and become emotional (& hopefully informative) resources for one another. We were lucky enough to team up with the expert Culinary Nutritionist and our head-cheerleader, Kristine Peacock, from Meals That Matter who's helping us facilitate this venture. Kristine has been able to provide an inspirational helping hand for our community (her delicious recipes she's sharing on Meal Garden don't hurt either!).
Take her Sweet Potato Pancakes recipe for example:
Now back to the goals set and sought by our users - chances are many resonate with you as well. After all, getting healthy and organized seems to be on everyone's minds these days!
But with everyone searching for the next best diet or secret ingredient to make their diets - and therefore lives - more successful and enjoyable...have we ended up losing sense of the plot?
Let's take a step back and look at what the data says: while internet ads and TV commercials may disagree, the science suggests that there is no single, perfect formula for healthy eating or for losing weight.
We're not trying to bum you out here...in fact, very much the opposite! See, the thing is, it's not necessarily the DIET part you're failing at, it's the sticking with it part that counts (and arguably the hardest part...unfortunately).
Having a tool to help you make the changes necessary for actually getting into a healthy regime - from planning, right down to execution - is proven to increase your chances of long-term success. Whether it's shedding those few extra pounds, or just having a well-run family household where healthy food is an enjoyable and easy to incorporate aspect (rather than a chore) - Meal Garden can help.
It's great to see our users getting a head start and taking advantage of our ready-made meal plan templates, and then plucking up the courage to go-ahead and create their own.
Hey - don't take my word for it…
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I think Im the next president of the United States, based on the 1.9 million people who have taken the test at isidewith.com. And interestingly, I side with more Floridians and Texans than any other state.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is not very well known outside of his home state, but over the next couple of months the Libertarian Party presidential candidate hopes to send a strong message to the nations political establishment by siphoning enough votes away from Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney to throw off the November general election.
I hope that I would get labeled as a spoiler from the standpoint of people actually focusing on what it is I am saying, and that this changes the way whoever wins governs, Johnson told Sunshine State News in an exclusive interview Saturday at the 2012 Ron Paul Festival.
Johnsons Saturday address at the three-day pow-wow, sponsored by his newly adopted political party, was one of the gatherings major highlights, as he worked a standing-room-only crowd of thousands of disaffected conservatives and libertarians to a fever pitch while knocking off the various planks of his presidential platform.
Libertarians are fiscally responsible and socially accepting, and I think most people in this country fall into that category, he tells Sunshine State News. Libertarians are going to be real good on civil liberties and are going to be dogged on balancing the budget.
Johnson rejects conventional wisdom that says his candidacy will necessarily tip the election, if at all, in favor of the Democratic ticket. This question has been put to a test through polling, he says, Thereve been four states [so polled]: in two states I take more votes from Romney; but in two other states, New Mexico and Colorado, I take more from Obama.
Johnsons appeal to the American center-left is readily understandable when one considers his stance toward some of the issues most contentious even within the so-called liberty movement. Abortion is one example. I fundamentally support a womans right to choose, he declares. My own personal beliefs on this issue mirror the law of the land. The law is that the woman has the right to choose [abortion] until the fetus is viable, when it is possible to sustain the life of the fetus outside the womb, even by artificial means. This was my own personal position even before I understood the law on the issue. My own personal position on the issue and the law of the land are the same.
Still, Johnson insists that his political stance on the matter is virtually identical with that of the staunchly pro-life Ron Paul. I would appoint Supreme Court justices based on their commitment to interpreting the constitution on the basis of original intent, he explains. That needs to be the fundamental criterion for a Supreme Court justice. Though I would not ask them their opinion on Roe v. Wade [the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which declared abortion a constitutional right], it is my understanding that, based on that criterion, that Supreme Court justices would in fact overturn it, thereby rendering abortion a subject for each individual state to legislate on.
But when it comes to homosexual marriage, the Libertarian candidate differs sharply from the Texas congressman. Paul believes the federal government shouldnt be in the business of defining or regulating marriage at all indeed, he believes state governments shouldnt be doing so either, but that they should limit themselves to enforcing contracts, while leaving it to individuals or their voluntary associations (e.g., churches) to define marriage however they please.
Johnson, instead, insists that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to have their relationships recognized as marriages by state governments, and believes the federal government has authority under the 14th Amendment to impose recognition of homosexual marriages on each state. His position on the matter arguably puts him to the left of President Obama and the Democratic Party.
I would like to draw a parallel with the civil rights movement of the 1960s; if it were left to the states, would we have segregation today? he asks. Perhaps.
Johnson is also campaigning on a much less bellicose foreign policy than either of the two mainline candidates. He would withdraw all of Americas troops from their present military engagements; reduce U.S. military presence in Europe, South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere; and reduce the nations nuclear weapons arsenal from 2300 to 500.
Asked what his policy would be regarding the Middle East specifically, he is emphatic: We dont bomb Iran.
Heres what happens when we bomb Iran: were going to make 100 million enemies in this country that we did not otherwise have, and were going to find ourselves in a two-year bombing-maintenance program, he elaborates. We do need to be vigilant against any threats. But we didnt bomb Russia when they were developing nuclear weapons. We didnt bomb Pakistan. We didnt bomb India. We didnt bomb China; we opened up trade with China! How did that work out? I dont think China is a threat to us; theyre re our trading partner. Why cant we apply those same principles to Iran?
Johnson is no leftist, and he hopes other aspects of his reputation and political platform will attract Romney supporters, most especially his fiscally hawkish economic proposals, which would balance the federal budget within the first year of his presidency.
Im promising to submit a balanced budget to Congress in the year 2013, which would contain a 43 percent reduction in overall spending. [That] takes us back to 2003 spending levels, so its not the end of the world, he says. The end of the world in my opinion is continuing to borrow and print money to the tune of 43 cents for every dollar. Doing this is unsustainable and were going to find ourselves without a country if we continue on this path of unsustainable debt.
His immigration policy is not unrelated to his economic. I believe we should make it as easy as possible for someone who wants to come into this country to work to get a work visa not a green card, not citizenship, but a work visa and that would entail a background check and a social security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
But, hes quick to add, he wishes to abolish both the IRS and the income tax. I support the Fair Tax, a single federal consumption [i.e., sales] tax; if we implement that, taxes would not be an issue at all [for legal or illegal immigrants].
He also supports free trade. "When we talk about thetariffsthat may get applied to us [by our government] who ends up paying for that? You and I do. But if we get goods and servies subsidized by another country, which then get sent to us, who ends up benefiting from that in a free market system? We do. Let's buy as much of it as we can; its being given to us at a discount thats artificially created. It will fix itself."
In an appeal to voters who might otherwise be inclined to support the similarly liberty-minded Constitution Party instead of his Libertarian ticket, he points to the widely reported expectancy that his Libertarians will be the only 3rd-party to have ballot access in all 50 of the United States.
Im not sure of how many states the Constitution Party will appear on the ballot, but Im going to guess it will be a maximum of about 20 or so, he explains, recalling numbers reported by various news outlets and by the Constitution Party itself. My understanding is that the [left-wing] Green Party is going to come the closest to the Libertarian Party in that they are going to be on the ballot in a maximum of 30 states, so there is no other 3rd-party that is going to come to close to a 50 state ballot access.
We still have some states to go, he admits, but weve already overcome the worst states. It is an ongoing process. At this point we have twelve more to go, but weve already gotten through the hardest ones.
Johnsons appearance at the Ron Paul Festival was more than a little ironic, as he ran a statistically underwhelming campaign against Paul in the latest Republican primary, before dropping out of that race to join up with the Libertarians. He was effusive with praise for his former rival in his speech before festival attendees.
If I thought back in December Ron Paul was going to be the nominee, I would not be sitting here right now, Johnson says.
When asked why, if he so respected the libertarian hero in whose honor the festival was being held, he ran against him in the first place, he insists he did it to bring greater attention to the very ideas Paul has stood for his entire life.
I thought it would be a lot harder for the media to marginalize two candidates saying the same thing, as opposed to just one, he says. I got completely marginalized, and I think Dr. Paul continued to be marginalized by Republicans.
But the presidential longshot is quick to qualify his criticism. I speak of the Republican establishment, not Republicans in general. I think the fastest growing segment of American politics today is those who would label themselves libertarian in some way, shape, or form.
He shrugs his shoulders. And those whocontrol the Republicans, the establishment of the Republican Party, dont want to have anything to do with Dr. Pauls message.
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2018 Las Vegas Diocesan
Hope Grows Here –
Crece La Esperanza
Our 2018 Conference logo names our theme and calls us to embrace the words of the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 29, verse 11: For I know well the plans I have in mind for you – plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope.
In the background is our cityscape with the asphalt of Las Vegas Boulevard below. Breaking forth from the asphalt is a flowering plant – new life – encompassed in rays of light.
As we approach the one year anniversary of the tragic events that took place here in our city on October 1st, the Roman Catholic Church of Las Vegas comes together because we know that united in Christ, we are all one. This is our mission, this is our Baptismal call, this is what we believe, Hope Grows Here - Crece La Esperanza.
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