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Libertarianism vs. Postmodernism and "Social Justice" Ideology 2
This is a fantastic discussion that gets to the heart of the problem with PC/SJWs/totalitarian humanism. The discussion of "corporate leftism" is particularly important. There's a surprisingly high level of anti-capitalism in this, which is unusual coming from an orthodox libertarian program. This comes close to my own perspective.
The Syria Withdrawal: Three Cheers Reply
Scott Horton is interviewed by Tom Woods. Predictably, this is the best overview and discussion of Trump's withdrawal from Syria so far, including a discussion of Rojava and Chomsky's endorsement of US intervention on behalf of the Kurds. Listen here.
Scott Horton joins me to discuss the reality of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, and the hysterical establishment response, from center-left to center-right. We also discuss fears about the fate of the Kurds, whose safety has been used to justify a continued U.S. presence.
About the Guest
Scott Horton, managing director of the Libertarian Institute, is the host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, and Opinion Editor of Antiwar.com. The Scott Horton Show features daily interviews on foreign policy from a libertarian perspective.
Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-1309-the-syria-withdrawal-three-cheers/
Universal Basic Income: For and Against Reply
Antony Sammeroff, co-host of the Scottish Liberty Podcast, argues that the idea of a Universal Basic Income is a very bad one, and for reasons you may not have thought of. Listen to Antony's interview with Tom Woods here. Download the book here.
The Present and Future of the LP (and the Problem of "Libertarian Socialism") Reply
Tom Woods interviews Joshua Smith on the libertarian capitalist vs libertarian socialist conflict in the Libertarian Party. Listen here.
Joshua Smith, who secured a spot on the Libertarian National Committee at the party's recent convention, joins me to discuss the party's present and future, the controversy with "libertarian socialists," and much more.
Cultural Marxism and the Frankfurt School 1
Paul Gottfried is interviewed by Tom Woods. Listen here. For those who are unfamiliar with Paul Gottfried's work, he is well worth checking out. Probably the best right-wing critic of the Left out there. You don't have to be a right-winger to get something out of his work.
Is there such a thing as "cultural Marxism"? If so, what is it? And what was the Frankfurt School, and what was it trying to accomplish? Paul Gottfried, who holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale and has written extensively on these subjects, joins me to get to the bottom of it all.
About the Guest
Paul Gottfried is professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.
Selected Books by the Guest
The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium
Fascism: The Career of a Concept
Previous Appearances
Ep. 977 Left, Right, and Charlottesville, with Paul Gottfried
Ep. 947 Divided Republicans, Unified Democrats, and Our Future
Ep. 889 The Biases of Historians, Beneath a Magnifying Glass
Ep. 862 The Alt Right
Ep. 650 Fascism: The Career of a Concept
Ep. 574 Neocon Says Word Neoconservative Is Outdated Now; I Remain Unmoved
Ep. 496 Wilsonianism: The Legacy That Won't Die
Ep. 386 What Fascism Is, and Why It Isn't Just a Name for Everything People May Oppose
Ep. 87 World War I: Sleepwalk to Suicide
North and South Korea Making Peace? Reply
Tom Woods interviews Michael Malice, one of the West's most insightful commentators on North Korea. Listen here. I'd like for the upcoming Trump-Kim summit to be a "Nixon Goes to China" moment, and for Kim Jong-Un to become the DPRK's Deng Xiaoping. But I'm not holding my breath.
Michael Malice joins me to discuss the recent summit meeting between North and South Korea, in which a North Korean leader set foot in the South for the first time ever. What does it all mean?
About the Guest
Michael Malice is an author and celebrity ghostwriter. He is also a frequent guest on Kennedy on the FOX Business Network.
The Truth About War Powers, the Military-Industrial Complex, and Militarism in American Culture Reply
Tom Woods interviews leading antiwar commentator Scott Horton. Listen here.
This is what our so-called "antifascists" should be attacking, rather than forming a neoconservative-liberal international-human rights imperialist-antifascist axis in service of the Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahhabi empire.
In something of a potpourri episode, Scott Horton and I discuss the real truth about presidential war powers under the Constitution, plus the empire's highly successful propaganda apparatus, the military-industrial complex's tactics, and much more.
The Totalitarian Jean-Jacques Rousseau Reply
Tom Wood and Gerard Casey discussion the philosopher on whose ideas most modern political theory is based. The "social contract" is modernity's version of the god-emperor and the divine right of kinds. Debunking social contract theory is fundamental to the advancement of the anarchist position. Listen here.
The ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) have been profoundly influential — and not for the better. We'll discuss his views on the origins of inequality, the role of the legislator, and the place of the individual in political society. Not an episode to skip, trust me.
About the Guest
Gerard Casey is professor emeritus of philosophy at University College, Dublin, where he served as department head. He is an associated scholar of the Mises Institute.
DEBATE: Is There Anything to "Russiagate"? Reply
Tom Woods hosts a debate on "Russiagate." Listen here.
My take on Russiagate is that I couldn't possibly care less if Russia "interferes" in domestic US politics or not. Israel and Saudi Arabia interfere in US politics to an infinitely greater degree than Russia, and it's not even an issue. The US interferes in the politics of just about all other nations. Turnabout is fair play.
David Pakman of the David Pakman Show, and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, square off in a discussion of allegations of collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian officials and operatives.
Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors: The Built-In Bias Against the Accused 1
Tom Woods interviews Professor William Anderson joins to discuss the perverse incentives in the American legal system that work against the accused and their ability to fight back against abuses and outrages perpetrated against them.
Tom Woods on Syria Reply
Some relevant comments from leading Rothbardian libertarian Tom Woods on Syria:
"Well, Woods's Law is on full display these days:
No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up with John McCain.
It's as if the President, in his scramble to imitate Jeb! and Graham, forgot that he's the one who spared us those dolts.
What drives me especially bonkers is to hear conservatives, of all people, cheering for war in Syria.
Here are people who (are supposed to) believe in the fallen condition of humanity, have finite political goals (not "an end to evil," in David Frum's preposterous, anti-conservative formulation), and leave the utopianism to the Left.
They are likewise supposed to understand how precarious is the human condition, and be appalled at the hubris of the wise planner who thinks societies can be taken apart and reassembled like Tinkertoys.
And if they're going to pretend that they just want to respond to a "gas attack" — come on.
Even if such an attack had been perpetrated by Assad, how can I be morally lectured to by people who have connived at the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen? First Obama supporters, then Trump himself, aided or turned a blind eye to Saudi outrages there. (Trump's belated, feckless objection amounted to nothing.)
Contra the Altright part 3: Non-Solutions Reply
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Anarcho-Reign to finish my series on the Altright by talking about their lack of workable solutions moving into the future.
Libertarians Have a Class Theory, Too (and It's Better Than Marx's) Reply
A great interview of Gary Chartier by Tom Woods. Listen here.
I can't recommend Gary's book more highly. It's available at Amazon. These classical liberal class theorists along with the early anarchists and "libertarian socialists" are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern state-capitalism developed as a class system. I generally refuse to participate in mainstream economic debates because they're usually rooted is assumptions that are based on a false dichotomy, i.e. the "conservative" and "libertarian" view that "big business" is somehow being oppressed by the state, or the "liberal" view that the state somehow acts as a restraining hand on big capital. Doing away with this false dichotomy is the first step in establishing a genuine critique of how the economic aspects of "the system" actually work.
With the idea of class so central to Marxian theory, libertarians might be tempted to ignore class as a category. But there is in fact such a thing as libertarian class theory, because in libertarian theory there are distinct groups of exploiters and exploited. Gary Chartier joins me to discuss the history and development of libertarian class theory.
About the Guest
Gary Chartier is Associate Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics at the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University, and holds his PhD and LLD from the University of Cambridge.
Debate: Can the Free Market Provide National Defense? 5
This is a great discussion between Todd Lewis and Bob Murphy about the viability of non-state/private "national defense" services. I have an old essay about this topic here.
Economist Bob Murphy (Ph.D., NYU) and podcaster Todd Lewis square off in the central debate of anarcho-capitalism: is government truly necessary for national defense, or could the free market provide this service?
Cliches of Statism, and How to Answer Them 5
Tom Woods and Stefan Molyneux discuss many of the cliches libertarians find themselves having to answer, involving child labor, labor unions, monopolies, the environment, and more. Listen here.
I generally agree with the content of this discussion, except, like most mainstream libertarians, they're going far too easy on historic capitalism in terms of the role of the state in fostering it, and the degree to which corporatism and statism continue to be interconnected.
Dave Rubin on the Left's Drift, and Striking Out on His Own Reply
Dave Rubin is interviewed by Tom Woods. Listen here.
Rubin talks about how the Left has become a totalitarian monolith, while conservatives and libertarians are now the free speech/diversity of ideas camp. I'd argue that this is because the Left is an ascendant force, and the Right is shrinking demographically, culturally, and generationally. The groups who are out of power are usually the ones who are the most pro-freedom. During the period between the 1950s and 1980s, it was the Left that tended to be the pro-freedom forces. That started to change with the ascendancy of neoliberalism in the 1990s, and the rise of PC on the Left during the same period.
Dave Rubin, host of the hugely successful Rubin Report, alienated former colleagues (e.g., at The Young Turks Network, where he had been an on-air host) when he openly disapproved of what he saw as an authoritarian, anti-free-speech drift among the Left. Today his YouTube channel has nearly 567,000 subscribers and his show reaches an enormous audience.
The Truth About the Vietnam War, with Gareth Porter 1
A great discussion between Gareth Porter and Tom Woods on Vietnam. Listen here. This is a must listen for anyone who is interested in how US imperialism actually works.
We've all heard the usual arguments: the U.S. government entered the Vietnam War because of the domino theory, or because of SEATO treaty obligations, or whatever. The recent Ken Burns PBS series on the war, for example, repeats many conventional arguments about the war.
Gareth Porter, on the other hand, joins me to discuss rather a different interpretation of the war. We cover the origins of the war, the nature of the war (were civilians deliberately targeted?), the Cambodian incursion, and a lot more.
American Foreign Policy #8: End of History and the War on Terror Reply
Todd Lewis and I will wrap up our eight part series on US foreign policy covering the "End of History" and the War on Terror.
Debate/Discussion: Should Libertarians Support a Basic Income Guarantee? 1
An interesting discussion of this question between Matt Zwolinski (pro) and Tom Woods (con). Listen here.
Some voices in the libertarian world have argued that a basic income guarantee for everyone would be better than the current welfare state from a pragmatic point of view. Matt Zwolinski adds that it is morally required, given the dubious origins of so many existing property titles. Result: an engaging exchange of ideas I know you'll enjoy. But be sure to listen all the way to the end, since that's where the best parts can be found.
About the Guest
Matt Zwolinski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego and a co-director of the University's Institute for Law and Philosophy.
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Social Justice Warriors: Who They Are, and How to Deal With Them 1
Vox Day is interviewed by Tom Woods. Listen here. This is a great discussion.
What exactly is the ideology of the "Social Justice Warrior"? What do you do when you're targeted by one, whether at work or in general? Vox Day — popular blogger, author, SJW slayer, and polymath — joins Tom Woods for background and strategy.
Book Discussed
SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police
Related Episodes
Ep. 701 President of College Republicans Goes Libertarian: Plus, Why Milo Matters (Tom Ciccotta)
Ep. 625 Feminism vs. Free Speech and a Free Economy (Christina Hoff Sommers)
Ep. 618 Confronting the Social Justice Warriors (Lauren Southern)
Ep. 576 Feminism: Enemy of Liberty? (Milo Yiannopoulos)
Ep. 550 Lunatics Running the Asylum: University Edition (Ilana Mercer)
Ep. 512 Are the Tolerant Millennials the Least Tolerant of All? New Research Asks Some Tough Questions (April Kelly-Woessner)
Ep. 495 There's No Such Thing as Social Justice
Ep. 200 "Social Justice" and Christianity (Jason Jewell)
Previous Appearance
Ep. 684 Debate on Free Trade, with Bob Murphy and Vox Day
Our Politically Correct Totalitarians: Keith Preston interviewed by Tom Woods Reply
The homepage for this episode is here.
Keith Preston, who is neither a conservative nor a libertarian but who's never dull, skewers political correctness in this provocative episode. According to Herbert Marcuse, on some things there is no other side to the argument worth considering, so it's all right to suppress alternative voices. That's the key to understanding the enemies of free speech today.


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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
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"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking your Juice in the Hood" is a parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Menace II Society", "Higher Learning" and "Juice". We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. Crazy stuff happens. For example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Actor: Shawn Wayans , Marlon Wayans , Tracey Cherelle Jones , Chris Spencer
Director: Paris Barclay
Writer: Shawn Wayans , Marlon Wayans , Phil Beauman
Country: USA
Release: 1996-01-12
Duration: 89 min
Quality: HD
Rating: 0

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When I know I am going to need to go to the store and try on clothing, I like to have in mind what I am looking for. In this case if I am shopping for dresses I will choose about 4 or 5 options and grab them in 2 sizes to compare and then head to the dressing room to try on. Most stores will not let you try on more than 6 items at once. Make sure if that's the case take 12 items with you and divide it into 2 fittings. Be sure to find a helpful salesperson as well so you aren't stuck waiting for your second batch for too long. Also, helpful sales people are important in case you are shopping alone, and you need someone to help you find another size in the piece you want. (Don't forget to shop when you have time. Don't shop when you are in a hurry, you will tend to buy things you don't really like or need.)
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the3million fact-checked Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's claims about EU citizens' rights after Brexit to EU27 Governments.
The rights of Portuguese Citizens living in the UK is enshrined in law. That is what the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva in a meeting in Brussels.
This is NOT true and it is worth examing this in details to understand how the British Government misleads the EU27 Governments.
Jeremy Hunt claimed that "the British Parliament has already approved the law that enshrines the rights of European citizens living in the United Kingdom on 29 March this year, in accordance with the terms agreed and set out in the exit agreement."
One simple look at the UK Government webpage reveals that Settled Status has actually not been legislated yet:
"[...] is still subject to approval by Parliament."
And that is not what the UK Government plans in a no-deal Brexit: Shortened application period and reduced family reunion rights are just two areas they want to change.
Nothing has been agreed by Parliament. The opposite is happening. The British Government is pushing through the Immigration Bill that will remove our citizen's rights without providing a status until the 3.6 million EU citizens have successfully applied for Settled Status in case of no-deal.
EU27 Governments should question everything UK officials tell them regarding the citizen's rights of their citizens in the UK. Not everything mirrors reality.
Yes, Number 10, we are reading foreign press. In the same way that EU27 Governments read the British press.
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On a hot day with PROMAX about to kick off in NYC, thought we'd focus on some big marketing news. Let's begin in the aforementioned Apple, where cable channel Fuse has expanded their marketing department with the naming of two vice presidents. BOB MITCHELL (that's him on the right) is the new Vice President of Consumer and Affiliate Marketing. Bob comes form a slot at 4Kids Entertainment where he honchoed the consumer, affiliate and ad sales marketing areas. He's experienced, with his resume listing Warner Bros DC Comics, NBC, Sony Pictures Television, ABC's Good Morning America and MTV. He's a biz grad of Rhode Island's Bryant College.
Also at Fuse MARCELLE KARP joins as vice president/creative director, Creative Services. The Queens College grad has such an interesting background. Besides working for HBO and Lifetime, she also co-founded Bust Magazine and is finishing her second book. Cool.
Over in Boston, Sunbeam's NBC affiliate has promoted KAREN FEINBERG to Creative Services Director. While in LA, JOHN MOCZULSKI (he's on the left) has come onboard at Trib's KTLA to hear up Programming and Promotion. More info on these two hires is available by clicking here.
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Medical product alert: falsified rabies vaccine - PhilippinesA report of falsified rabies vaccine circulating in the Philippines
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Schoolchildren show 'What makes Burton brilliant' with event celebrating the town's diverse culture
Hundreds of schoolchildren have gathered for a special cultural celebration at Burton Town Hall to showcase 'What makes Burton brilliant'.
The event was supported by Central England Co-operative and was the culmination of a month-long project held across the five Central Co-operative Learning Trust schools in the town and partner schools.
Pupils showcased the work they have developed as part of the What makes Burton brilliant project in interactive exhibitions of arts and crafts, music, singing and dancing – all highlighting the diverse cultures which make up modern Burton.
This included a fantastic Gamelan demonstration, showcasing the skills developed by the youngsters on the Indonesian percussion instruments, as well as opportunities to try a range of delicious foods from South Asian cuisine and Mehndi artists were also on hand to offer unique body art designs.
Deb Bacon, Chief Operations Officer at the Central Learning Co-operative Learning Trust, said: "Over the past month around 2,250 children from across the seven Trust schools have been taking part in a range of activities to celebrate and improve their understanding of the diverse range of cultures that have settled within Burton.
"The What makes Burton brilliant project has enabled the children to explore a range of areas including religion, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, food and much more, sharing their own culture with their peers and also holding this great event to showcase their talents.
"Every child in every year group has engaged in an activity with a range of staff, professionals and artists to help them express their creativity, and it was great to be able to invite parents and carers to the event at the culmination of the project to celebrate the work of the children and learn more about the various cultures that make up this vibrant town."
The celebration event at Burton Town Hall was supported with funding from the Western Membership and Community Council (MCC) at Central England Co-op and James Knight, Member and Community Relations Officer at the Society, said they were delighted to get involved.
He said: "We welcome the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives and education of local children and as a co-operative we are always keen to work alongside other co-operatives for the benefit of the communities we serve.
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Central England Co-operative has over 400 trading outlets across 16 counties including; West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. The Society has an ambitious food store development programme for 2019.
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Garlic Lover's Crockpot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes (Video)
The generous amount of garlic is sweet and delicious in this Garlic Lover's Crockpot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes. And this delicious stew is low-glycemic, gluten-free, dairy-free, South Beach Diet Phase One, and can easily be Paleo or Whole 30 approved. Use Stew Recipes to find more recipes like this one.
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Garlic Lover's CrockPot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes!
I have so many cookbooks that invariably a book I really like gets pushed to the bottom of the pile, and later I rediscover it. That's exactly what happened when I made this Garlic Lover's Crockpot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes, inspired by a recipe from The Olive and the Caper, a book about Greek Cooking written by Susanna Hoffman.The inspiring recipe calls for 100 cloves of garlic, and although I used less than that, this is a stew for people who really like the flavor of slow-cooked garlic. If you've never had garlic that's been cooked for a long time, it's sweet and delicious, and this stew smelled amazing while it was cooking.
Besides the garlic, there are Kalamata Olives, capers, bay leaves, Greek Oregano, and a touch of red-wine vinegar adding a lot of flavor to the tomato-based stew. I cooked this on high for a little over four hours, but if you're looking for something that can cook on low all day, this recipe would be perfect for that. I do recommend browning the beef, which you can do the night before and keep it in a container in the fridge overnight, just in case daylight savings time is making your mornings a little more rushed than usual!
Cut the beef into 1 inch pieces and brown well in olive oil. Prepare one cup each of sliced Kalamata Olives and Garlic Cloves. (I used peeled Christopher Ranch Garlic Cloves for the garlic, which made it easy.)
Deglaze the pan with the beef stock and then simmer until it's reduced to 3/4 cup. Gather the capers, bay leaves, diced tomato, tomato sauce, tomato paste, red wine vinegar, and also some Greek Oregano (which didn't make it into the photo!) You can do all this preparation the night before and keep ingredients in the fridge in a covered container if your mornings are busy.
Here's the stew at the beginning of the cooking time and how it looked when it was done.
So, so delicious; hope you will try it if you like garlic. For a tasty low-carb meal I'd love this with Pureed Cauliflower with Garlic, Parmesan, and Goat Cheese.
More Recipes for Garlic Lovers:
World's Easiest Garlicky Green Beans Stir-Fry ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Steamed Shrimp with Garlic Oil from Rasa Malaysia
Roasted Broccoli with Garlic ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Garlic-Lover's White Bean Soup from Farmgirl Fare
Cauliflower with Garlic and Lemon ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
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Garlic Lover's Crockpot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes
The generous amount of garlic is sweet and delicious in this Garlic Lover's Crockpot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes.
- 2-3 lb. beef chuck roast, cut into pieces about 1 inch (I used 2 1/2 cups beef cubes)
- 1-2 T olive oil (for browning beef)
- 1 can reduced-sodium beef broth (or use 1 1/2 cups homemade beef stock)
- 1 cup garlic cloves, peeled and cut into lengthwise slivers
- 1 cup Kalamata Olives, cut in half lengthwise
- 2 T capers, rinsed
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 tsp. dried Greek oregano
- 1 can (14.5 oz.) diced tomatoes with juice
- 1 small can (8 oz.) tomato sauce
- 2 T tomato paste (optional, but it does bump up the tomato flavor)
- 3 T red wine vinegar
- fresh ground black pepper to taste
- In heavy frying pan, heat 1 T oil over medium-high heat and brown half of beef cubes, turning several times so it's well browned on all sides. Put beef in crockpot and brown the rest of beef, adding more oil if needed. Put second batch of browned beef cubes in crockpot.
- Add beef broth (or homemade beef stock) to frying pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan, and simmer until beef broth is reduced to 3/4 cup. Add reduced broth to crockpot.
- While beef is browning, cut the garlic into slices and cut the Kalamata Olives in half.
- Add garlic and olives to crockpot along with rinsed capers, bay leaves, oregano, canned tomatoes and juice, tomato sauce, tomato paste (if using), red wine vinegar, and pepper.
- Cook on high for about 4 hours or a little longer, until meat is tender and flavors are well blended. (This could also be cooked in the slow cooker on low for 8-9 hours.)
- Serve hot.
I used my Crock-Pot 3-1/2-Quart Slow Cooker (affiliate link) for this recipe, but it could have been a little smaller. This freezes really well, so if you only have a big slow cooker I'd just double the recipe. You could also cook this on top of the stove in a heavy dutch oven if you have a stove that will simmer at very low heat. I haven't made it on the stove, so I don't know exactly how long the cooking time would be.
Recipe adapted from The Olive and the Caper by Susanna Hoffman.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Served alone, this Garlic Lover's Crockpot Beef Stew with Olives, Capers, and Tomatoes is a perfect main dish for a low-glycemic eating plan or any phase of the South Beach Diet. With approved ingredient choices it's also Paleo or Whole 30 approved.
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know historically in enough
instances; but he is pathetic in that simplicity which survives in him
and almost makes good the loss of innocence in Latin souls. He keeps
with him the young girl who is the daughter of his youth, and whom
it cuts him to the soul to have those opprobrious canons imagine his
mistress. He is one out of the many figures that affirm their veracity
in the strange world where they have their being; and he is only the
more vivid as the head of a hierarchy which he rules rather violently
though never ignobly.
But the populace, the underpaid domestics and laborers of the strange
ecclesiastical world in their wretched over-worked lives and hopeless
deaths are what the author presents most vividly. There is the death
of the cobbler's baby which starves at the starving mother's breast
which the author makes us witness in its insupportable pathos, but his
art is not chiefly shown in such extremes: his affair includes the
whole tragical drama of the place, both its beauty and its squalor of
fact, but he keeps central the character of the refugee, Gabriel Luna,
in the allegiance to his past which he cannot throw off. When he
begins to teach the simple denizens of the Cathedral, some of them
hear him gladly, and some indifferently, and some unwillingly, but
none intelligently. He fails with them in that doctrine of patience
which was his failure, as an agitator, with the proletariat wherever
he has been; they could not wait through geological epochs for the
reign of mercy and justice which he could not reasonably promise the
over-worked and underfed multitude to-morrow or the day after. His
brother, who could not accept his teachings, warns him that the
people of the Cathedral will not understand him and cannot accept
his scientific gospel, and for a while he desists. In fact he takes
service in the ceremonial of the Cathedral; he even plays a mechanical
part in the procession of Corpus Christi, and finally he becomes one
of the night-watchmen who guard the temple from the burglaries always
threatening its treasures.
The story is quite without the love-interest which is the prime
attraction of our mostly silly fiction. Gabriel's association with the
English girl who wanders over Europe with him is scarcely passionate
if it is not altogether platonic; his affection for the poor girl for
whom he has won her father's tolerance if not forgiveness becomes
a tender affection, but not possibly more; and there is as little
dramatic incident as love interest in the book. The extraordinary
power of it lies in its fealty to the truth and its insight into
human nature. The reader of course perceives that it is intensely
anti-ecclesiastical, but he could make no greater mistake than to
imagine it in any wise Protestant. The author shares this hate or
slight of ecclesiasticism with all the Spanish novelists, so far as I
know them; most notably with Perez Galdуs in _Doсa Perfecta_ and _Lean
Rich_, with Pardo-Bazan in several of her stories, with Palacio
Valdйs in the less measure of _Marta y Maria_, and _La Hermana de San
Sulpicio_ and even with the romanticist Valera in _Pepita Jimenez_.
But it may be said that while Ibaсez does not go any farther than
Galdуs, for instance, he is yet more intensively agnostic. He is the
standard bearer of the scientific revolt in the terms of fiction which
spares us no hope of relief in the religious notion of human life here
or hereafter that the Hebraic or Christian theology has divined.
It is right to say this plainly, but the reader who can suffer it from
the author will find his book one of the fullest and richest in modern
fiction, worthy to rank with the greatest Russian work and beyond
anything yet done in English. It has not the topographical range of
Tolstoy's _War and Peace_, or _Resurrection_; but in its climax it
is as logically and ruthlessly tragical as anything that the Spanish
spirit has yet imagined.
Whoever can hold on to the end of it will find his reward in the full
enjoyment of that "noble terror" which high tragedy alone can
give. Nothing that happens in the solemn story--in which something
significant is almost always happening--is of the supreme effect of
the socialist agitator's death at the hands of the disciples whom he
has taught to expect mercy and justice on earth, but forbidden to
expect it within the reach of the longest life of any man or race of
men. His rebellious followers come at night into the Cathedral where
Gabriel is watching, to rob an especially rich Madonna, whom he has
taught them to regard as a senseless and wasteful idol, and they
will not hear him when he pleads with them against the theft. The
inevitable irony of the event is awful, but it is not cruel, rather it
is the supreme touch of that pathos which seems the crowning motive of
the book.
* * * * *
The dawn was just rising when Gabriel Luna arrived in front of the
Cathedral, but in the narrow street of Toledo it was still night. The
silvery morning light that had scarcely begun to touch the eaves and
roofs, spread out more freely in the little Piazza del Ayuntamiento,
bringing out of the shadows the ugly front of the Archbishop's Palace,
and the towers of the municipal buildings capped with black slate, a
sombre erection of the time of Charles V.
Gabriel walked for some time up and down the deserted square, wrapping
himself up to his eyes in the muffler of his cloak, while at intervals
his hollow cough shook him painfully. Without daring to stop walking
on account of the bitter cold, he looked at the great doorway called
"del Perdon," the only part of the church able to present a really
imposing aspect. He recalled other famous cathedrals, isolated,
occupying commanding situations, showing themselves freely in the full
pride of their beauty, and he compared them with this Cathedral
of Toledo, the mother-church of Spain, smothered by the swarm of
poverty-stricken buildings that surrounded it, clinging closely to its
walls, permitting it to display none of its exterior beauties, beyond
what could be seen from the narrow streets that closed it in on every
side. Gabriel, who was acquainted with its interior magnificence,
thought of the deceptive oriental houses, outwardly squalid and
miserable, but inwardly rich in alabasters and traceries. Jews and
Moors had not lived in Toledo for centuries in vain, their aversion to
outward show seemed to have influenced the building of the Cathedral,
now suffocated by the miserable hovels, pushed and piled up against
it, as though seeking its protection.
The little Piazza del Ayuntamiento was the only open space that
allowed the Christian monument to display any of its grandeur; under
this little patch of open sky the early morning light showed the three
immense Gothic arches of its principal front, the hugely massive bell
tower, with its salient angles, ornamented by the cap of the Alcuzon,
a sort of black tiara, with three crowns, almost lost in the grey mist
of the wintry dawn.
Gabriel looked affectionately at the closed and silent fane, where his
family lived, and where he himself had spent the happiest days of his
life. How many years had passed since he had last seen it! And now he
waited anxiously for the opening of its doorways.
He had arrived in Toledo by train the previous night from Madrid.
Before shutting himself up in his miserable little room in the Posada
del Sangre (the ancient Messon del Sevillano, inhabited by Cervantes)
he had felt a feverish desire to revisit the Cathedral, and had spent
nearly an hour walking round it, listening to the barking of the
Cathedral watch-dog, who growled suspiciously, hearing the sound of
footsteps in the surrounding streets. He had been unable to sleep; the
fact of returning to his native town after so many years of misery and
adventures had taken from him all desire to rest, and, while it was
still night, he again stole out to await near the Cathedral the moment
that it should be opened.
To while away the time he paced up and down the front, admiring again
the beauties of the porch, and noting its defects aloud, as though he
wished to call the stone benches of the Piazza and its wretched little
trees as witnesses to his criticisms.
An iron grating surmounted by urns of the seventeenth century ran in
front of the porch, enclosing a wide, flagged space, where in former
times the sumptuous processions of the Chapter had assembled, and
where the multitude could admire the grotesque giants on high days and
The first storey of the faзade was broken in the centre by the great
Puerta del Perdon, an enormous and very deeply-recessed Gothic arch,
which narrowed as it receded by the gradations of its mouldings,
adorned by statues of apostles, under open-worked canopies, and by
shields emblazoned with lions and castles. On the pillar dividing the
doorway stood Jesus in kingly crown and mantle, thin and drawn out,
with the look of emaciation and misery that the imagination of
the Middle Ages conceived necessary for the expression of Divine
sublimity. In the tympanum a relievo represented the Virgin surrounded
by angels, robed in the habit of St. Ildefonso, a pious legend
repeated in various parts of the building as though it were one of its
chief glories.
On one side was the doorway called "de la Torre,"[1] on the other side
that called "de los Escribanos,"[2] for by it entered in former days
the guardians of public religion to take the oath to fulfil the duties
of their office. Both were enriched with stone statues on the jambs,
and by wreaths of little figures, foliage, and emblems that unrolled
themselves among the mouldings till they met at the summit of the
[Footnote 1: Of the Tower.]
[Footnote 2: Of the Scribes.]
Above these three doorways with their exuberant Gothic rose the second
storey of Greco-Romano and almost modern construction, causing Gabriel
the same annoyance as would a discordant trumpet interrupting a
symphony. Jesus and the twelve apostles, all life size, seated at the
table, each under his own canopied niche, could be seen above the
central porch, shut in by the two tower-like buttresses which divided
the front into three parts. Beyond, two rows of arcades of inferior
design, belonging to the Italian palace, extended as far as those
under which Gabriel had so often played as a child when living in the
house of the bell-ringer.
The riches of the Church, thought Luna, were a misfortune for art; in
a poorer church the uniformity of the ancient front would have been
preserved. But, then, the Archbishop of Toledo had eleven millions of
yearly revenue, and the Chapter as many more; they did not know what
to do with their money, so started works and made reconstructions,
and the decadent art produced monstrosities like that one of the Last
Above, again, rose the third storey, two great arches that lighted the
large rose of the central nave. The whole was crowned by a balustrade
of open-worked stone following the sinuosities of the frontage, between
the two salient masses that guarded it, the tower and the Musarabй
Gabriel ceased his contemplation, seeing that he was no longer alone
in front of the church. It was nearly daylight, and several women with
bowed heads, their mantillas falling over their eyes, were passing in
front of the iron grating. The crutches of a lame man rang out on the
fine tiles of the pavement, and, out beyond the tower, under the
great arch of communication between the archbishop's palace and the
Cathedral, the beggars were gathering in order to take up their
accustomed positions at the cloister door. The faithful and "God's
creatures" [1] knew one another; every morning they were the first
occupants of the church, and this daily meeting had established a kind
of fraternity, and with much coughing and hoarseness they all lamented
the cold of the morning and the lateness of the bell-ringer in coming
down to open the doors.
[Footnote 1: _Pordioseres_.]
A door opened beyond the archbishop's arch, that of the tower and
the staircase leading to the dwellings in the upper cloister. A man
crossed the street rattling a huge bunch of keys, and, followed by the
usual morning assemblage, he proceeded to open the door of the lower
cloister, narrow and pointed as an arrow-head. Gabriel recognised him,
it was Mariano, the bell-ringer. To avoid being noticed he remained
motionless in the _Piazza_, allowing those to pass first through
the Puerta del Mollete,[1] who seemed so anxious to hurry into the
Metropolitan church, lest their usual places should be stolen from
them and occupied by others.
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I know this is nothing new, I just thought I would show you mine.
Oh, I love not throwing perfectly good things away.
This taupe sweater (below) was not tall enough, so I used
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Lavender Tub Tips: Make the pillows to fit tight since they have a lot of stretch. This doesn't mean to stretch them out, but you might make a test pillow first to give you an idea how loose or tight it will fit before you cut several at once.
Also, when stitching the bottom opening closed, do a fairly loose hand stitch. I stitched my first nice and tight like I normally would, but popped the stitches when I tugged on them to shape the pillow.
If you have a serger definitely use it.
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"Cooking is an act of love — an ancient primal gesture," Executive Chef Marissa Iocco opines. "Like all acts of love, it is deeply gratifying and like all ancient primal gestures, it's good for the soul." Executive Chef Marisa Iocco is a cook at heart as well as by vocation, but she doesn't look the part. Slender, tall, sporty and tanned to perfection, as she sits in the sun on a glorious morning at one of the wooden tables in Old North Square, she could pass for a cyclist on a break. She is, in fact, taking a break — ...Read More »
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More specifically, he targeted chiropractors' claims that their services could help children with asthma or colic, and of course they were making a fortune off these claims. Responding like the scientific professionals they are, the chiropractic community sued this man for libel and took him to court.
The Backfire:
Most anywhere in the civilized world, you're within your rights to criticize a profession as long as you don't wave your penis at people while doing it. When the courts began to investigate Singh and found that his accusers didn't really have any sort of a case, they turned their attention back to the chiropractors.
"Oh yeah, this'll cure the shit out of your AIDS."
The Fallout:
What began as the opinion of one man soon became the interest of the British government, as it began to discover that a lot of chiropractors were indeed not helping anyone but themselves. As a result, about 1 in 4 chiropractors in the UK are now under investigation by regulators for making bullshit claims.
As for the unfortunate Mr. Singh, he had to pay over 200,000 pounds ($311,000) in court fees, almost lost his job, and has been relentlessly badgered by the chiropractic community. But in the end, he did win his court case, and as a final dick-punch to the chiropractors, the judge ended the ordeal by stating that what was originally Singh's opinion should now be considered fact in light of the new evidence uncovered.
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Sam is one spirited little girl, convinced that she can do big things without anybody's help, even her big brothers. So she sets out to prove it, showing she's a real fisherwoman early one summer morning at her family's lake cottage. When things seem to go awry, families will cheer for Sam as she faces each new challenge with a can-do attitude. But will this spunky little girl catch her fish?
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Wing Commander is the kind of game that truly shines when it comes to the way it was produced, and the way it was deployed. It's definitely very well organized, very well polished, graphically, gameplay wise, and controls wise. What it never really gotten recognized for was the modern physics that it used, to create the feel of moving through space. It has, for its time (1990) an absolutely fantastic set of physics, that affect your ship, but also the ships of the enemy and any other kind of elements that are moving through space. And, also, it paved the way for games such as X Wing to come and create their own blend of space shooting, navigation and action, with a penchant for gameplay that was never too serious not to be easily to digest and internalize. But, most of all, what Wing Commander does great is create a feeling of satisfaction in terms of the way it moves, it's definitely a well produced gem of a game, and, without a doubt, it's got a lot of staples down for the first time for the entire gaming community.
Classical flight simulation featuring multiple endings
Flight simulations games kicked off or became famous due to this game which is really a top notch flight simulation. It is basically an installment of the great series that is still played by modern gamers. Staring of with the tons of features, it has some very good flight dynamics which are very realistic and thrilling. You can control your armed aircraft very easily and do a lot of moves and action with its the theme is pretty conventional where you will be going all guns blazing with your aircraft and destroying enemy targets and bases in the process. The user interface in the form of the flight controls are very good and you can catch in on all the options easily. Though it's an arcade style action simulation but is quite fun and addictive. The graphics in the game are very appropriate and facilitating for a flight simulation and you really get engaged in the gameplay. The best feature which is quite unique if you go for games of those times is the fact that it features multiple endings and those endings are dependent on your performance in the game. So you won't get bored when you have completed the game once as it will give you a different ending the next time you play it. X-wing and games like this one are the flag carriers of this genre.
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Meet Our Team
Hans Ostrem
Executive Director
Executive Director
Hans serves as the Executive Director for Upward Sports Canada. Together with his wife Brandy, they have four children: Alexis, Kristopher, Rowan and Erikson. In addition to having an educational background in medicine, Hans also has degrees in Christian leadership and public relations. As a family, they spent 6 years in North Africa and the Middle East as Hans worked in hospitals and clinics. Now living in Canada, he has heart and passion to see families and communities connected to Jesus. Hans enjoys many sports, but soccer is his favorite and has been since childhood.
Meredith Howell
Administrative Director
Administrative Director
Meredith joined Upward Sports Canada in 2016. She serves as the Administrative Director, leading Upward's Administrative Operations. Meredith also works closely with our community partners to coordinate events. She has over 20 years of business leadership experience as an Insurance Broker, Realtor and Franchise Business owner. Meredith is passionate about connecting the youth to the community and building future leaders through sports. She is a mother of three young adults, and a proud baseball mom.
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Originally from Madrid, Spain and with an impressive career in both playing and coaching multiple sports over the last 25 years (including being a licensed basketball coach with the Spanish Basketball Association), David now serves as the Operations and Training Director for Upward. Along with his wife and two children, they proudly call Mississauga, ON home. In addition to his role with Upward Sports Canada, he is the lead pastor for Fellowship Church Streetsville.
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Now this was a difficult and painful gig to organise.
Promotion was wrong, website was wrong. Result was a crowd who mostly
didn't know what the f**k was going on.
That's partly due to not building up the atmosphere or letting it down
in the right way.
Most people turned up for house or pop or whatever else happens there.
This made it immensely hard to get things moving, making the crowd as
cold as it gets.
But still, good quality music and a very careful Ghostly eye on the
crowd. meant it DID work, very, very well.
Yet again , I'm proved right when it comes to this stuff. Still don't
want to listen do you?
The problems here are all about management and promoters panicking.
"You have to play this = instant dancefloor". You can build a house
from stone or straw, which do you choose??
So I took the people on a journey of stuff they'd never heard as well
as camouflage for the more familiar.
The packed floor suggests I got it bang on, wouldn't you say?
But when you do a night that means the WHOLE night , not just 2-3 hours.
Build up from the very first tune, then don't just destroy what's been
built with frigging house music.
An understanding of a real quality night is a long way off here….
I take my cue from the best nights come from the music, NOT from the DJ
who mixes with his dick on 4 decks and uses a drum machine with his
tongue. The DJ bit is over rated ( yeah I know I am one, but it doesn't
make my head big, trust me).
If you love those tunes and you try to make the people love em, they
will, otherwise they have no f**kin' soul…
Then they deserve all they're going to get…..
Nevertheless congratulated by owner Benjamin on a really good job,
simply because it was unheard of music, the first time there, on making
it work….
Hmmm, and I could have just played James Brown all night couldn't I????
Paul Bishop
The Ghost That Walks
Feb 25th 2006: Motown/Soul @ Soho, Shenzhen, China
Now this was a difficult and painful gig to organise.


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Even if you don't eat meat, dairy, or use leather, you might not be thinking about whether or not your Halloween candy is vegan. But believe it or not, there are a lot of animal products that can go into the making of candy.
Did you know that gelatin (found in Candy Corns and marshmallows) used in candy manufacturing is made from animal bones and tendons? Milk fat and lard are also used in some candies. Carmine, an artificial color used in Junior Mints, is made from beetles! And even something as simple as refined cane sugar can be processed with charred bone fragments. It is hard to believe, but true.
Well don't worry, you can enjoy non-animal candy this Halloween and you might be surprised to find out that these candies are vegan!
Cracker Jack Original Caramel Coated Popcorn and Peanuts
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Congressman Cohen Applauds Inclusion of SEAT Act in FAA Reauthorization Package
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Subcommittee on Aviation, today applauded the inclusion of the Seat Egress in Air Travel (SEAT) Act in a consensus bicameral, bipartisan Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization package, H.R. 302, that is expected to be considered by the House and Senate soon. The SEAT Act will require the FAA to establish minimum seat sizes and distances between rows to ensure the safety of the flying public.
Congressman Cohen introduced the bipartisan SEAT Act, H.R. 1467, with Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois). Congressman Cohen offered the legislation as an amendment during the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's consideration of FAA reauthorization legislation last year. The amendment was adopted by voice vote, prior to full House passage. in April. He originally introduced the measure in February 2016.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
"Safety must never take a backseat, much less a shrunken seat, to profits. The SEAT Act will ensure that this won't happen when it comes to shrinking seats on airplanes. I commend my colleagues for recognizing the need for this safety legislation, and including it in the FAA reauthorization package."
Congress has passed five short term extensions of FAA authorization and must again meet a September 30 deadline to extend or reauthorize current FAA operations. Key House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement late Friday evening and released the text of H.R. 302, a consensus, 5-year FAA reauthorization with $1.7 billion in federal disaster relief.


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Episode 12 · July 7, 2014
A look into user accounts, registration, login, forgot your password, and more
In this episode, we're going to talk about using the devise gem to add user registration, log-in, log-out and other features to our bookstore application.
The devise gem is one of the most popular gems that's out there, there's 2,000 forks of people working on it themselves, and the commits to master in the gem are as recent as three days ago. It's really actively being developed, I've written some code for it in the past and absolutely enjoy working with it.
We're going to talk about how we can add this into our bookstore application, so that only registered users can add a new book, we don't want people coming to the site and spamming it with new books, for example.
We're going to add devise so that we can track who created the book. That is what we're going to do in this episode and let's begin!
As always, the first thing we need to do is hop over to RubyGems and grab the line from the gemfile. I just wanted to point out here that there have been seven million total downloads for devise which is pretty impressive and kind of shows you exactly what I was talking about with how popular this gem is.
As usual, we're going to open up our Gemfile, jump into the bottom, paste in devise, run bundle (in the terminal), restart our rails server and we can run a couple commands to install devise and set it all up.
The first thing we need to do is run
rails generate devise:install
This command is going to install a config file in the initializers folder and then it will also install some messages that you can customize for the notices that you see in the application.
Now, once this is done, it makes some messages here such as the config action mailer options and this is for when it sends out an email and you want to make sure that they put in the right host name in the URL. So when you're in development they recommmend... If you're using localhost:3000, to go and operate with that URL.
And then they recommend having a route in your Rails application and putting in notices and alerts so that you can see what's going on.
If you also want to customize the views you can run
rails g devise:views
and this will install the views, the html.erb templates for all the different devise screens that you can have. I recommend doing that because I almost always customize it and add bootstrap-html around the form fields so that it looks pretty. And then lastly, we need to run
rails generate devise User
This is going to generate a User model for us, and it will populate it with an email address and a password, and a bunch of other automatically tracked options, such as the last time they signed in, the last IP address they signed in, and a bunch of things like that, and we're just going to use the defaults and generate this. Now that we have that we can run
rake db:migrate
to create our users, and if we refresh our application after generating on the devise stuff, you will get an undefined method 'devise' for User When you create your users with devise it adds a line in there that says devise and the options that it's going to run:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, :recoverable, :reemberable, :trackable, :validatable end
Now, if you get this error, you just need to restart your rails application again and that will fix it because if you have installed the devise initializer and that hasn't been reloaded you need to make sure that that gets reloaded first, so that that is available.
So our application doesn't look any different we now have users, but we haven't actually done anything with them so that is going to be our next step. We're going to add a signup and login buttons to the top right here and then when you're signed in we'll change those to your account page and a log out page.
To add those links to the top right corner we need to open up our nav bar partial that we created before
and if you look at the bottom here, there is a line that says navbar-right as the class. This is going to be the links on the right side of the nav bar. We can see there's the link and then this is all the html for the dropdown that we have.
We're not going to use the drop down, so I'm just going to delete that and we're going to take this link and replace that with a "Sign Up" link.
Now the link_to that we want to create is going to be called "Sign Up" and we're going to send it to the new_user_registration_path
Now this is a URL path that has been generated by devise, when you installed devise, the routes file added a line called
devise_for :users. This is something that devise generates and automatically sets up, but it's similar to the resources routes in that it adds a bunch of URL's, so it adds a registration path, forgot your pasword (path), it adds log in (path), log out (path) and a bunch of things.
If you go into your terminal and run
rake routes | grep user
You can see all of the routes that devise generates, and they will be the ones that the controller starts with the name devise
We're going to use the new_user_registration_path, we're going to add the new_user_sessions_path for log in, and we will also add the destroy_user_session_path to log out.
You can play with all of these, they're all available, you don't necessarily need to link to some of these because they're sort of internal; when you log out it handles it or when you create your registration.
You can play with those and learn more about that but inside our application we want to add in the log in method here and this is the new_user_session_path.
And if we save that and reload our application, we can now see there's a sign up and login link here. We go to sign in or sign up, we can have our email address and password form and our sign in is the same set, same thing, but without a password confirmation. This is what devise generates and these views are located inside the gem itself, so when we come into our terminal and run
rails generate devise:views
This will copy all of those views into our application and we can go customize them. Let's customize our sign up form:
and see exactly what we're looking at. This has a bunch of stuff that they automatically generate, it's pretty close to bootstrap, so if we add a

around the form, we get this new form. We've added the form control class to each of these options and I've done the same with the Sign In in the edit_registration_path. Let's take a look at this:
If I register with my email address and password and sign up, we get taken to the homepage, it looks like everything may have worked, but I'm not really sure, we didn't get any message and these links at the top didn't change either, so one of the devise things that I mentioned when we installed it was to make sure to put the notice and the alerts in your app/views/layouts/application.html.erb, so let's do that
Bootstrap provides a class called alert and we can add that both for the notice and the alert, so I'm just going to put

<%= notice %>

<%= alert %>

We can put those in here, and they will show up every single time, because we need to check if there's a message of not before we display it. However, you can see immediately in the notice that we signed up successfully. This is a message that devise provides and it only shows up one time so if we refresh the page it goes away, and because we don't want those alerts to show up if the message is empty, let's add an if statement here and only display the notice when there is one and the alert the same way.
If we save this and come back to our browser, now those only show up when they're available.
If we go back to our nav bar, we can take a look at this code here because we added the links, and we're signed in now, but we're actually not saying a different UI, it doesn't seem any different, and we need to make it so you can Log out as well.
Now devise provides a method called user_signed_in?. This is a method that devise uses to provide you a helper to check to see if the user is signed in or not. And what it does is it looks at the cookie session and determines if there's a user stored in there as currently logged in, so if you were to clear your cookies you would become logged out.
When the user is signed in, we want to have a separate menu; otherwise we will display the Sign Up and Login links. When you are logged in, we'd like to have a list item here, with a link to the "Log Out", and this is going to go to the destroy_user_session_path, and this one is a bit special because we need to have
method: :delete at the end of it. And the reason why we need to do this is because devise requires you to make a delete HTTP request to Log Out and the reason why they do that is because it needs to come from you. You don't want to click on a malicious link from another website that logs you out because that is unintentional and it's not really a good thing.
(This last bit of code looks like this:)
<% if user_signed_in? %>
<%= link_to "Logout", destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete %>
 <% else %>
<%= link_to "Sign Up", new_user_registration_path %>

<%= link_to "Login", new_user_session_path %>
 <% end %>
The AJAX call will take when you click on this link the jQuery UJS that comes by default with Rails and you can see that in the application.js it requires jQuery UJS which looks for those methods or links that say:
method: :delete or
method: :post or
method: :put and that will intercept it and it will initiate an AJAX request to make a delete link and submit that across so now if we save this and refresh our browser we can see that we have a "Sign Out" or "Log Out" link. If we click that, we get signed out successfully and we can refresh the page and that message goes away. We can log back in and see that everything is properly working.
The last thing I would like to add here is a link to your user account, and we're going to display your email address that you're signed in as here and we can do that by accessing
current_user.email. This is going to link to the edit_user_registration_path. When you use devise and a user is signed in you have access to a method called current_user which returns a user object and that happens to be the one that the user is signed in as, if you add anything to your user model in here, you add associations or anything like that, it's going to be directly accessible off of the current user so you'll be able to talk to all of those books that I might own as a user and so on, and one way to do that for the email address is to grab it off the user, so we can refresh the page now and see that now my email address is displayed and if I click on it I get to devise's user registration form which I've styled some of it
(This last bit of code looks like this:)
<% if user_signed_in? %>
<%= link_to current_user.email, edit_user_registration_path %>

<%= link_to "Logout", destroy_user_session_path, method: :delete %>
 <% else %>
<%= link_to "Sign Up", new_user_registration_path %>

<%= link_to "Login", new_user_session_path %>
 <% end %>
This is your account page and you can update your password and change your email address or cancel your account, this comes by default with devise and you're able to go through everything pretty simply like you don't have to do too much work and have all this functionality already built for you which is great.
Of course, having user accounts, doesn't benefit anyone if you're not really using them; so what we're going to do next is we're going to take the new book and create methods and we're going to make it so that only registered users can add a book in our system and we're also going to take the books and record who created it so that we can keep track of that information.
Inside our books controller we can add
before_action :authenticate_user!
and this is going to call a devise method called authenticate user every time one of these actions inside the books controllers is accessed and what that's going to simply do is it's going to check the same thing as user signed in. We want to make sure that a user is signed in, and if they're not, it redirects them to the sign in or sign up page and we can test this by logging out, and when it comes back to the homepage when you log out it immediately takes you to the sign in page. That seems kind of weird, however, that's because our index and show actions are also being protected by this, so if we way we want to protect everything except the index and the show actions, we can go back into our application and go to the home screen now, and if we click into a book, everything is fine, but if we click on edit, we're asked to sign in and that is one of the simple ways that you can start adding some security to your application by requiring a user to be signed in for any for any of these actions, and you want to make sure that this is:
before_action :authenticate_user!, except: [:index, :home]
is a whitelist of actions that are allowed for public users, so you want to protect everything by default, and essentially poke holes through that so that the public users or the people who aren't signed in can actually do certain things, with that change we've made it so that if you click on adding a new book when you're signed out, it will make sure that you're signed in when you do that, so this requires users to be signed in and we can simply sign in and continue with adding the new book, so we've set it up properly so that everything is protected now we kind of want to automatically add the user to the book as we create the book so then we want to record who created the book so we can kind of keep details on that, see who our power users are, for example.
The way we're going to accomplish that is by generating a migration:
rails g migration AddUserIdToBooks user_id:integer
rake db:migrate
Our next step is to add the associations into the user and book models and we can start in the
has_many :books
belongs_to :user
This allows us to say that a user has many books, so
user.books is a method that we have available now.
And inside of our controller for books, our create action can now instead of being a global
Book.new, we can scope it to the current user, (by modifying that line:)
@book = current.user.books.new(book_params)
and this will automatically assign the user ID into the new book, so this is really cool and we can automatically assign the book and we know who was the user that created it, so we know who de owner is.
So to wrap up with devise, we've created a user model that we've configured our rails application to take advantage of, we've added registration form and edit registration form, added the session, login, log out, we've also configured our books model to integrate with that user who's currently signed in, so this is something that will bleed into all aspects of your application as you move forward and with devise you have a very simple way of configuring it so there's a ton of benefits to using devise and I highly encourage you to dive deeper into it.
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