ChristineIsCooking.com: Reuben Dip (Microwave, Crock Pot or Oven)

Have a little leftover corned beef from St Patty's Day? This is a great easy use for it! ?You can make this with corned beef leftovers or corned beef from your deli.

This made about 6 cups of dip.

Ingredients:
2 cups of?jarred sauerkraut, drained? (I used the Gundelsheim brand)

12 oz of softened Philadelphia cream cheese (this is 1 and 1/2 of the bricks)

1 1/4?cups of shredded Swiss cheese (I used the Sargento brand)

2 cups shredded cooked corned beef

1/2 cup of thousand island dressing (I used the refrigerated Marie's brand)

1/2 teaspoon of pepper

1/4 cups of water

Directions
Mix well all of the ingredients.? ?Microwave, oven bake or heat on low in your crock pot until heated through. ?If using a slow cooker, turn to "warm" once heated.

Serving Suggestions:
Traditionally this is served with toasted cocktail?pumpernickel?bread.? I also think it would be good with tortilla chips, celery sticks and green pepper.

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California Man, 32, Finally Adopted | KTXL FOX40

A boyhood wish finally came true. But Maurice Griffin had to wait until he was a man for it to happen.

At age 32, the California man was adopted Friday.

?It was the best day in my life,? Griffin said after the proceeding in San Diego Juvenile Court. ?I fought for 10 years and finally the day came.?

Adopting the burly, muscular, mohawk-sporting man is Lisa Godbold, his one-time foster mother.

?I was just overwhelmed with emotion,? Godbold added.

With a few pen strokes by Griffin, Godbold and Judge Richard Monroy, the adoption became official.

?This is going to be quite quick,? the judge told mom and son, all seated at a table. ?If you blink, you miss it.?

Then son hugged mom. Mom cried.

?Congratulations to you both,? the judge declared.

Then a deputy took a photograph of three of them, a tradition that the judge noted is always done with small children and their adoptive parents.

Good time

The story dates to the early 1980s, when Godbold and her husband saw Griffin at an orphanage near their Sacramento home.

The smiling child seemed to fit perfectly with their family: Godbold is white. Her late previous husband was black, and the couple had two children who were, like Griffin, biracial.

The couple took Griffin in as a foster child. He quickly bonded with their sons, Gideon and Spencer.

?We were best friends,? Griffin said. ?We?d run around, we did mischievous things and fun things. It was a good time.?

He lived with the family as a foster child for four years, until he was 13. Then, just two months shy of being adopted by them, it all fell apart.

Griffin said wanted to be treated like a ?real? son: He wanted to be disciplined like the couple?s other sons. He wanted to be spanked, he said.

So he innocently told a social worker that was what was going to happen.

The social worker then told her superiors, and soon Griffin was about to be removed from the household, he said.

Family ripped apart

One day, foster care officials took Griffin away, saying he could not live with Godbold?s family anymore.

?You can?t spank foster children. Maurice very much wanted that,? Godbold said. ?We wanted him to feel like the rest of our kids. And there was a difference of opinion with some of the (child welfare) supervisors.?

Godbold said she fought to keep Griffin and was told she could lose her biological children, too.

CNN contacted the state agency responsible for the case, but its officials would not comment because it?s still considered a juvenile matter.

So Godbold had to let go. And as time moved on, Griffin says, he lost touch with what he felt was his only family.

?It was just an emptiness,? he said. ?I couldn?t talk to anybody about it because nobody was there. I couldn?t call somebody; there was just a void in me.?

Griffin said that he acted out every chance he got in hopes the state would reunite him with the people he considered to be family.

He bounced from one foster home to another, never finding what he lost.

?I didn?t let anybody get close to me again,? Griffin said, holding back tears. ?I hurt a lot of people. It was a rough road.?

Searching for each other

Despite several obstacles, Griffin and Godbold never stopped searching for one another.

Godbold?s husband died in 1998. She remarried and changed her last name, and moved.

But six years ago, Godbold found Griffin on social media. They communicated online and then one day she called him.

?She said, ?hey baby,? and I said I got to call you back,? Griffin said, trying to explain how overwhelmed he was by the reunion.

As she entered the courtroom Friday, Godbold harbored fear that a surprise would halt the proceeding.

?I was actually really nervous before walking in, even though signing on the line was a formality,? Godbold said. ?I thought something might happen to keep it from becoming official today.?

Griffin is an example of triumph in foster care.

?I?m a living example of it, that I have been through it,? Griffin said. ?I just never stopped. It will all work out.?

By Paul Vercammen and Michael Martinez

Source: http://fox40.com/2013/03/15/california-man-32-finally-adopted/

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PFT: Vikings have deal with ex-Packer Jennings

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Regardless of the machinations or the motivations, blame for the fact that defensive end Elvis Dumervil no longer is a member of the Broncos falls on all parties involved.

The NFL, like many businesses, runs on deadlines.? When making decisions up against a deadline, both sides need to allow enough time to get the deal done.

And if the deal doesn?t get done in time, both sides share the blame equally.

If Dumervil?s agent, Marty Magid, needed more time to study the revised documents, he needed to say so.? If the Broncos needed more time to process the paperwork, they needed to say so.? The end result was a clusterfudge that makes everyone look bad.

That said, the real question is whether one side or the other was up to something.? The Broncos had nothing to gain by creating the impression that they were forced to cut Dumervil, unless they somehow decided from a P.R. perspective that the accidental departure of Dumervil would be received more favorably by the fan base than the intentional release of Dumervil.

In contrast, Dumervil could have duped the Broncos into guaranteeing his entire contract if the team failed to cut him before the end of the business day.? Alternatively, Magid may have decided to force the release after word got out that Dumervil would make $8 million in 2013 ? and after possibly hearing from another team that would be willing to pay Dumervil more than that.

We suspect the latter, based on Magid?s comments to Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com.

?We haven?t talked yet, but I think we all needed to take a deep breath and then we?ll see where it goes,?? Magid said.? ?Unfortunately, it didn?t work out the way we wanted, but everything happens for a reason and it?s not like this anybody?s fault. This wasn?t just a case of an agent taking too long to send something.? It?s not anyone?s fault, but Elvis is a free agent now and we?ll see how that process plays out.?

If both sides intended to honor the deal that was negotiated on Friday, both sides will promptly fix the situation and move forward with a new deal.? It was painted as an accident; any other outcome indicates that the accident really wasn?t.

Still, if the truth is that the Broncos were snookered, they helped make that happen by not establishing a clear deadline and ensuring that all documents were signed in sufficient time to permit the revised contract to become official.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/15/vikings-agree-with-greg-jennings/related/

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S&R Honors: military historian John Keegan democratized the study of war

When John Keegan died on August 2, 2012, it escaped me ? I?m embarrassed to admit that I was unaware of his existence. Keegan, a lecturer in military history of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and later military affairs editor at the Telegraph, wrote influential books on military history designed to appeal to the public, as well as historians. An obituary in the Washington Post spoke of Keegan, ?whose groundbreaking book ?The Face of Battle? cast a fresh look at warfare, capturing the fears, anxiety and heroism of the front-line soldier.?

In a 1994 interview with Brian Lamb on C-Span, he speculated on his popularity in the United States.

I think Americans like ? they like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. I like to try and pick problems to pieces in a practical way and also pick them to pieces in a human way. And I think that?s perhaps ? it?s not a deliberate formula, but it may be the formula that appeals to American readers.

This was exactly the approach Keegan took in The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme (Viking, first edition 1976), which I read recently. He quickly dispenses with the military command?s planning to focus on both the soldier?s experience on the battlefield and the details ? such as equipment and positioning ? which may play an even larger role in determining victory than the overarching strategy.

It?s as if Keegan transports readers to the battlefield in a helicopter where they can hover and observe in detail the myriad linchpins on which the outcome of the battle turns. I fail, however, to do him justice. An excerpt might help.

For example, at Agincourt in 1415 during the Hundred Years War, the French forces vastly outnumbered the British. But that advantage worked against them. Why? The ?enormous press of the numbers,? Keegan writes. At a critical point, the French (emphasis added)

? numbering some 5,000 in all, those in the base a shapeless and unordered mass amounting to, perhaps, another 3,000 ? and all of them, except for the seven or eight hundred in the leading ranks, unable to see or hear what was happening, yet certain that the English were done for [because they were outnumbered -- RW], and anxious to take a hand in finishing them off.

Worse ?

No one ? had overall authority in this press [the operative word here -- RW], nor a chain of command through which to impose it. The consequence was inevitable: the development of an unrelenting pressure from the rear on the backs of those in the line of battle, driving them steadily into the weapon-strokes of the English, or at least denying them that margin of room for individual manoeuvre which is essential if men are to defend themselves ? or attack ? effectively. This was disastrous, for it is vital to recognize, if we are to understand Agincourt, that all infantry actions, even those fought in the closest of close order, are not, in the last resort, combats of mass against mass, but the sum of many combats of individuals ? one against one, one against two, three against five. ? At Agincourt, where the man-at-arms bore lance, sword, dagger, mace or battleaxe, his ability to kill or wound was restricted to the circle centred on his own body, within which his reach allowed him to club, slash or stab. Prevented by the throng at their backs from dodging, side-stepping or retreating from the blows and thrusts directed at them by their English opponents, the individual French men-at-arms must shortly have begun to lose their man-to-man fights, collecting blows on the head or limbs which, even through armour, were sufficiently bruising or stunning to make them drop their weapons or lose their balance or footing. Within minutes, perhaps seconds, of hand-to-hand fighting being joined, some of them would have fallen their bodies lying at the feet of their comrades, further impeding the movement of individuals and thus offering an obstacle to the advance of the whole column.

In the C-Span interview, Lamb posed a provocative question to Keegan.

LAMB:?Are you a pacifist?

KEEGAN:?Ninety five percent.

LAMB:?What?s the 5 percent?

KEEGAN:?There are certain wicked people in the world that you can?t deal with except by force.

LAMB:?That 5 percent, then, allows what?

KEEGAN:?It allows the use of extreme force in a measured way ? if possible, in a measured way in order to curtail or extinguish the activities of these wicked men we?re talking about.

His definition of pacifism grew even broader.

KEEGAN: ? I will never oppose the Vietnam War. I thought that the Americans were right to do it. I think they fought it in the wrong way, but I think that they were right to oppose the attempts by Ho Chi Minh and Giap to make the whole of Vietnam into a Marxist society.

LAMB:?Let me go back to your thing about being a pacifist. Is that your 5 percent coming out?

KEEGAN:?Yes. I wouldn?t have felt it was the end of the world if the Vietnam War hadn?t been fought. It?s not that kind of war. I don?t think it?s a war like fighting Hitler, but I think it was a correct war, a right war, and it had indirect effects of the greatest importance as well.?

LAMB:?Does that make you a conservative?

KEEGAN:?I did vote conservative in the last two or three elections. ?

LAMB:?With American conservatives hearing you say, ?How could he be a pacifist, almost, and be a conservative at the same time??

KEEGAN:?No difficulty at all. Even a pacifist, I think, should admire the military virtues. And, indeed, the best pacifists have those virtues themselves: self abdication and willingness, if necessary, to sacrifice their lives for what they believe. ? ?I would say a soldier has mortgaged his life. He said, ?Here is my life, and I can only have it back again when the end of my service comes and I salute for the last time and take my pension.? I think a pacifist is the same, except, perhaps, his willingness to sacrifice his life never goes.

Whichever the case, Keegan was concerned with how the risk to troops increased in rough proportion to how technological the military was becoming. He was also troubled by the gap between how civilized peacetime society ? we?ll put aside mass murder in the United States for the moment! ? has become compared to war?s increasing lethality (the ability of military medicine to snatch soldiers from the jaws of death notwithstanding). From the Face of Battle again:

The modern Western state accepts the responsibility not merely to protect the individual?s life and property, traditionally the legal minima, but to educate and heal him, support him in old age and when unemployed, and increasingly to guarantee his prosperity. [Remember: This is 1976. -- RW] Might the modern conscript [again, remember that this is 1976] not well think, at first acquaintance with the weapons the state foists on him, that its humanitarian code is evidence either of a nauseating hypocrisy or of a psychotic inability to connect actions with their results?

A final note on Keegan: he was a literary stylist of the first order.?

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Google Acquires Web Application Server Talaria To Enhance Its Cloud Platform

Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google. The Talaria team will become part of the Google Cloud Platform team. For the most part, the Palo Alto-based company was flying under the radar until now. The company was co-founded by Austin Robison in 2011 and was apparently still in private beta when Google acquired it. A Google spokesperson just confirmed the acquisition to us: “The Talaria team has developed cutting-edge technology that helps people build and run websites more efficiently, and we think they?ll be a great addition to our Google Cloud Platforms team.? While Talaria had a grander visions for its server, it only supported PHP so far and allowed developers to run applications like WordPress and Drupal. The company claimed that its technology allowed developers to “handle more users with fewer boxes, without changing a line of code.” Talaria also claimed its ” server lets you keep your favorite high-productivity languages, but with the scalability and performance you’d expect from a compiled language.” All of this is obviously a good fit for Google’s Cloud Platform, and Talaria’s announcement notes that the team will work to “help even more developers build and run their sites better.” Here is the full announcement from Talaria: At Talaria, we set out to fix the way people build and run modern web sites and applications. Over the past two years, we’ve proven our technology by powering some of the most popular sites on the web. Now, by joining forces with Google’s Cloud Platform team, we’ll be able to help even more developers build and run their sites better. We’d like to thank those people that helped us get here. Our investors and advisors that stood behind us, both in good times and bad. Our beta customers that pushed us, kicked the tires, and warmly invited us into their organizations. And finally, our friends and family that have gotten less attention and time than they deserve while we’ve been busy. We’re excited about what we’ll deliver together with the Google Cloud Platform. The Talaria Team

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Five convicted after hatching moviemaking tax fraud scam

LONDON (AP) ? The clue was in the title.

In some ways "A Landscape of Lies" was a typical indie film, with a tiny budget, a B-list cast and an award from an American film festival.

What made it special is that it was created solely to cover up a huge tax fraud.

Five people in Britain face jail sentences after being convicted this week of attempting to bilk the government of 2.8 million pounds ($4.2 million) in a moviemaking scam reminiscent of Academy Award-winning hit "Argo" ? without the heroic hostage rescue.

Prosecutors and tax authorities say the fraudsters claimed to be producing a made-in-Britain movie with unnamed A-list actors and a 19 million-pound budget supplied by a Jordanian firm.

In fact, officials say, the project was a sham, set up to claim almost 1.5 million pounds in goods and services tax for work that had not been done, as well as 1.3 million pounds under a government program that allows filmmakers to claim back up to 25 percent of their expenditure as tax relief.

Britain's tax agency, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, said that the filmmakers had submitted paperwork and already received 1.7 million pounds when checks revealed "that the work had not been done and most of the so-called suppliers and film studios had never heard of the gang."

The self-described movie producers were arrested on suspicion of tax fraud in April 2011 ? and decided their best shot at avoiding criminal charges was to hastily make a film.

Paul Knight, a true-crime writer turned low-budget filmmaker, was hired to write and direct "A Landscape of Lies," described in its Internet Movie Database entry as a crime thriller about a Gulf War veteran out for justice for a murdered comrade.

Just as in "Argo" ? in which the CIA dreams up a fake sci-fi movie, complete with screenplay, posters and advertisements as cover for a hostage-rescue mission ? the production was announced in film industry magazines. The casting of Andrea McLean, a host of talk show "Loose Women," as a troubled, bisexual therapist was reported in the tabloid Sun. The producers also recruited a former soap actor ? Marc Bannerman from the BBC's "EastEnders."

Neither the stars nor Knight were accused of knowing about the fraud.

"A Landscape of Lies" was released straight to DVD in Britain in 2011. But it did garner some fans, winning a commendation called a Silver Ace award at last year's Las Vegas Film Festival.

That wasn't enough to deter the tax authorities. Five producers from various parts of Britain ? Bashar Al-Issa, Aoife Madden, Tariq Hassan, Ian Sherwood and Osama Al Baghdady ? were convicted Tuesday of conspiracy to cheat the public revenue at London's Southwark Crown Court. They will be sentenced March 25.

Tax officials said the case marked the agency's first-ever prosecution for film-tax fraud.

"We are pleased that instead of this film flop going straight to DVD, these small-screen z-listers could go straight to jail," said John Pointing, the revenue agency's assistant director of criminal investigation.

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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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