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2010 Gevrey-Chambertin, Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Christian Serafin, Burgundy
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director
The last few vintages have shown a freshening up of the Srafin style, though absolutely not at the expense of the concentration which is a hallmark of this domaine. The concentration of the fruit comes from their meticulous work in the vineyards, the fresher style from a little less extraction during fermentation. Christian himself thinks that 2010 is notably more concentrated than 2009 and as everywhere else, yields are down this year.
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Domaine Christian Serafin
This domaine was originally put on the map by Christian Sérafin's father, Stanilaus Serafin, a Polish émigré, who settled in Burgundy before the war and espoused 50 per cent whole-bunch fermentation and not too much new oak. He initially worked as a mason, before, in 1947, purchasing some land and establishing himself as a vigneron. His son Christian inherited the domaine in 1988, though he had been making the wine for the previous twenty years.
Christian Serafin has made great advances in recent years and has a keen following in the United States. Like so many of the best producers in Burgundy, the twin peaks of Serafin's philosophy are old vines and low yields. The grapes are fermented at highish temperatures ensuring good depth of colour and fruit. Crucially Christian Serafin's wines are not filtered and recently the levels of new oak have been on the increase, with even the Gevrey village being matured in 50% new oak. These are rich, concentrated, oaky wines which age well.
On Christian's watch the grapes have been completely destemmed and, except the lowliest cuvées, matured in entirely new wood. Much thought goes into matching a particular tonnelier and forest with the character of a given vineyard. He likes the elegance of Taransaud for some and the power of François Frères for others.
This makes for powerful wines with noticeable tannins, which do however emerge with fruit and terroir intact after a decade or more of bottle age. The key is in the vineyard work with strict pruning and de-budding, followed by a green harvest and deleafing on both sides. Christian Sérafin is now past retirement age, but with a niece in the vineyards and a daughter in the cellar and office, continuity is in place.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director and author of the award-winning Inside Burgundy comprehensive handbook.
Gevrey Chambertin
Gevrey-Chambertin is the largest wine-producing village in Burgundy's Côte d'Or, with its vineyards spilling over into the next door commune of Brochon.
Located in the far north of the Côtes de Nuits above Morey-St Denis, classic Gevrey-Chambertin is typically deeper in colour, firmer in body and more tannic in structure than most red Burgundy. The best can develop into the richest, most complete and long-lived Pinot Noir in the world. This is largely thanks to the iron-rich clay soils, though much depends on whether the vineyard is located on either the steeper slopes (Evocelles, Clos St Jacques) or the flatter, richer soils (Clos Prieur, Combottes).
Whereas in the past there have been numerous underperformers in Gevrey-Chambertin exploiting the reputation of this famous village and its iconic Grands Crus, today there are many fine sources to choose from, and overall quality is higher than ever.
Gevrey-Chambertin's greatest Grand Cru is named after the field of the monk Bertin (Champ de Bertin). In 1847, Gevrey appended the name of this illustrious vineyard, Chambertin, setting a trend for the other principle villages to follow. Le Chambertin may not be quite as sumptuous as Musigny or Richebourg, or as divinely elegant as La Tâche or Romanée-St Vivant, but it is matched only by the legendary Romanée-Conti for completeness and luscious intensity.
In all, Gevrey boasts an impressive nine Grands Crus, with the name of Chambertin retaining a regal omnipresence throughout its finest vineyard names. The other truly great Grand Cru is Chambertin-Clos de Bèze which has the right to sell its wines simply as 'Chambertin', and is the only wine allowed to put the Chambertin name before, rather than after, its own. Situated slightly further up the hill, the wines are fractionally less powerful yet full of sensual charm and finesse.
Quality-wise the next best are generally acknowledged to be Mazis-Chambertin and Latricières-Chambertin. The former is incredibly concentrated and very fine, but its structure is a little less firm than Le Chambertin. Latricières is less about power (although it can be explosively fruity) and more about an entrancing silkiness.
Situated slightly higher up the slope, Ruchottes-Chambertin is impressively rich, stylish and slightly angular. The tiny Griottes-Chambertin, which owes its name to the grill-pan shape of the vineyard rather than the wine's griotte cherry aroma, is lower down the slope and boasts a velvety texture and rich fruit reminiscent of Chambertin itself. It is generally better than the lighter, although wonderfully fragrant Chapelle-Chambertin and Gevrey's largest Grand Cru, the pure and seductive (if variable) Charmes-Chambertin.
Gevrey also has some outstanding Premier Crus on the south-east-facing slopes above the town. Les Cazetiers and especially Clos St Jacques produce some exceptional wines. Indeed Armand Rousseau, who pioneered domaine bottling here in the 1930s and is still one of the region's very best producers, often sells his Clos St Jacques for more than several of his Grand Crus.
Drinking dates for these wines vary, but Grand Crus are generally best from at least 10 to 25 years, Premier Crus from eight to 20 years, and village wines from five to 12 years.
- 315 hectares of village Gevrey Chambertin
- 84 hectares of Premier Cru vineyards (20 in all). The foremost vineyards include Clos St Jacques, Lavaux St Jacques, Combottes, Corbeaux, Cherbaudes, Cazetiers.
- 55 hectares of Grand Cru vineyards: Chambertin, Chambertin Clos de Bèze, Latricières-Chambertin, Ruchottes-Chambertin, Mazis-Chambertin, Charmes-Chambertin, Mazoyères-Chambertin, Chapelle-Chambertin, Griottes-Chambertin..
- Recommended producers: Bachelet, Dugat, Esmonin, Mortet, Rossignol Trapet, Rousseau, Serafin, Bernstein
- Recommended restaurants : Chez Guy (good wine list), Rôtisserie du Chambertin (and Bistro)
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.
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Belief, Religion, and Piety in Fiction
Thank-you to Andrew Sullivan for reminding me about that Paul Elie essay about faith and the novel (more specifically, Christian faith and the American novel) that Alan Jacobs commented on so ably at the time and that I had intended to weigh in on, and never got around to. I'll get around to it right now.
In the original Elie essay, somewhat more than passing mention was made of Marilynne Robinson's novel, Gilead – necessarily, as the book would seem to be a huge exception to the rule that contemporary fiction can't "do" religion other than as sociology. Elie disqualifies it on the grounds that it is set in the mid-century past and concerns a member of the clergy – so it isn't really about faith as it is lived now. Inasmuch as there is a reason for it to exist today, in our time, it's by way of contrasting the lost world in which Ames lives with our own: "It presented liberal Protestantism as America's classical heritage; it set Ames's wise, tender reverence against the bellicose cymbal-clanging of George W. Bush's White House."
But that's a peculiar reading of the novel, which is centrally concerned not with Ames's personal history – "belief as a family matter" – but with a theological precept. Specifically, with the doctrine of election as understood in the Reformed tradition, and what that doctrine implies for somebody who is, or appears to be, a "bad seed." All the history that Elie sees as the true purpose of the novel – the "social crisis" of race relations that he sees as "animating" the liberal protestant faith – is there to open out the central theological problem into a social context, but Ames isn't wrestling with his or anybody's views on race. He's wrestling with the reality of a bad seed, one John Boughton, his best friend's son and his own namesake. And John is wrestling, too – indeed, it is his own struggle that puts the question to Ames in the first place.
That question doesn't go away, ever – that's one point of the historical arc that we see in the background. This is a novel about serious Christian belief in a very difficult precept, and how that precept drives action in a personal and a social sphere – but fundamentally it is about the precept itself. If this isn't a novel of belief, then nothing is.
Meanwhile, I want to nominate another relatively-recent novel as a serious novel of belief, and specifically one about how religion is lived now: David Foster Wallace's monumental novel, Infinite Jest.
Elie most clearly lays out his understanding of what makes for a proper novel of belief in this bit about Flannery O'Connor's fiction:
O'Connor called for fiction that dramatized "the central religious experience," which she characterized as a person's encounter with "a supreme being recognized through faith." She wrote that kind of fiction herself, shaped by her understanding that in the modern age such an encounter often takes place outside of organized religion — that in matters of belief we find ourselves on our own, practicing "do-it-yourself religion."
Today the United States is a vast Home Depot of "do-it-yourself religion." But you wouldn't know it from the stories we tell.
Infinite Jest is a complex book, with a baffling (I would argue failed) narrative structure. But the clearest narrative thread in the book is the story of Don Gately, thief and addict, who is saved by the twelve-step culture. Moreover, that culture – and the question of recovery, understood in spiritual terms – saturates the novel, and is central to its most fundamental questions. This is not a nostalgic or elegiac story about recollecting a time when faith "worked." It's about now, and what faith means now. And what it means is deeply wedded to the narrative of recovery.
What Infinite Jest isn't is orthodox in any sense. Indeed, you'd be hard-pressed to provide any description of what "higher power" might be involved in Don Gately's recovery – it's not even clear that Gately himself "believes" in any such power. But that, it seems to me, is a reflection of a certain reality, and I don't see why it's a mark against it as a novel of faith. Faith, in our time, often looks exactly like this – rather the opposite of what it looks like to Marilynne Robinson's minister, but that's just the way things are.
Wallace, of course, did not experience that kind of salvation from the inside. He wasn't testifying. But I think we should distinguish the novel of belief from the pious novel. A novel of belief should concern itself with the lived experience of belief, with showing that experience to us, making us understand it from the inside. A pious novel testifies to said belief. That doesn't mean it has to be a weak novel – Tolstoy wrote any number of magnificent pious novellas – The Death of Ivan Ilych, Father Sergius, etc. – so it's clearly possible to write great fiction in the modern age from a pious position. But I don't think that's a requirement to meet Elie's criteria.
A writer has to write from the inside about what is on the outside – he has to think himself into other minds, other bodies, other ways of living. Gately's inner life comes off as powerfully real, something Wallace understood deeply from the inside, even though Gately's character is far removed from his, and his character arc bore little resemblance to Wallace's own (though perhaps, in a bizarre way, it was aspirationally relevant to him).
I must admit, I both do and don't want to believe Elie is right, personally, about belief and American storytelling today. I both do and don't want to believe it, because one of the scripts I wrote that I'm most fond of is engaged precisely on the territory that he says isn't being tackled. It's about belief – and the transforming power of surrender to the divine – and it's also about the sociology of religion in America today (not at all the same thing). I'd like to think it's a story he'd appreciate. And I've gotten pushback from some producers on the grounds that it's "too religious" or I don't do enough to "explain" this foreign world to audiences. I'd like to think that only means I'm on to something – that I've got a story that "needs to be told." And yet I not only don't feel the script I wrote is foreign to audiences – I don't feel it's foreign to contemporary cinema. Of course I believe it's a unique snowflake; but I don't think it's the only snowflake in the blizzard.
In any event, I'd love to take another turn around the park on this particular topic, with Alan or with any of my respected interlocutors.

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LI restaurants serving Irish fare for St. Patrick's Day
Sullivan's Quay in Port Washington is really going to be beefing up its menu for St. Patrick's Day. And that's no blarney.
"Normally I use about 30 pounds of corned beef in a week. For our St. Patrick's Day week, I use about 900 to 1,000 pounds," says executive chef Jimmy Plante.
All that corned beef is a tall order -- one that has to get placed a week in advance -- as the Irish restaurant/bar prepares for its annual St. Patrick's Day celebration, which begins Wednesday and runs through Sunday. Like other Irish restaurants and pubs across the Island, bulking up on corned beef is a high priority this time of year, but it's only one detail in the weeks-long preparation that goes into gearing up for the four-day fest at Sullivan's Quay (pronounced "key"). Planning a special menu, ordering extra kegs of Guinness and additional plateware, putting up decorations that scream St. Patrick's Day and lining up entertainment to create a party atmosphere are ingredients as essential as the spice rub on the corned beef.
For St. Patrick's Day, Sullivan's Quay usually caters to a lunch crowd of about 175 people and a dinner rush of about 350, about two to three times its normal crowd. To meet the extra demand, the restaurant drops its normal a la carte menu for a set menu of Irish dishes, which includes shepherd's pie, fish and chips, Irish stew, chicken potpie and, of course, corned beef and cabbage.
"Because our St. Patrick's Day menu might be an eight- or nine-item menu, the food you're preparing is a quicker serve time. You're not going to be making everything to order. That's the only way you can manage the extra crowd," says owner Brian Barry.
St. Patrick's Day is also the one time of the year when Irish cuisine has its moment in the spotlight. "It's got a bad rep," says Plante. "They don't have that many different recipes like the rest of the world. It's a lot of homestyle stews and slow-cooked roasts. You don't have very specific dishes like you would in Chinese or Mexican cuisine. In Ireland, you've got a limited choice. But St. Patrick's Day is one of the most celebrated holidays in any culture."
All of those extra meals have to be placed somewhere, which means ordering more plates at least two weeks in advance. Likewise, additional glasses also have to be ordered to accommodate all of the drinks that will be poured.
"The bartender has ordered about one and a half times more than he usually does," says restaurant manager Nick Fischetti. "Obviously, you have to order a lot more Guinness and Jameson's. And wine is going to be a big seller." Patrons can expected green Guinness to be served.
Besides emerald-hued Guinness, there will also be plenty of entertainment on tap. Guitarist Vince Cuneen performs Wednesday night, musicians Two Too Many will perform classic Irish songs Saturday and Sunday and Irish step dancers from the Donny Golden School of Irish Dance will be high-stepping it all four days.
"You get a formula that works and that people expect, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel," says Barry. "They're expecting the Irish dishes, Irish music and dance. If you give them any less than that, they'll be surprised and I don't know what more we could do because sometimes it's a matter of space."
The formula seems to be working. Laura Sonnenclar of Port Washington has spent the past 12 St. Patrick's Days with friends at Sullivan's Quay, and this year won't be an exception. "When you're a regular it becomes a family. All the bartenders know you, and your beer is on the bar before you even sit down," she says. "On St. Patrick's Day, we usually get hear early, maybe 10, so we're sure to get a seat. It's the go-to place in town."
Sharin' of the green
Here are six Irish restaurants where they're sure to be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in grand style:
1. Sullivan's Quay, 541 Port Washington Blvd., Port Washington, 516-883-3122, sullivansquay.com
2. Declan Quinn's, 227 Fourth Ave., Bay Shore, 631-206-2006
3. Finn MacCool's, 205 Main St., Port Washington, 516-944-3439, finnmaccoolsny.com
4. Cannon's Blackthorn, 9 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, 516-594-1222, cannonsblackthornli.com
5. Paddy's Loft, 1286 Hicksville Rd., Massapequa, 516-798-7660, paddysloft.com
6. Irish Coffee Pub, 131 Carleton Ave., East Islip, 631-277-0007, irishcoffeepub.com


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According to the Jan. 8, 2013 news item on ScienceDaily, scientists have used an observation about fireflies to make brighter LEDs (light emitting diodes),
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original.
Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal structure of firefly lanterns, the organs on the bioluminescent insects' abdomens that flash to attract mates. The scientists identified an unexpected pattern of jagged scales that enhanced the lanterns' glow, and applied that knowledge to LED design to create an LED overlayer that mimicked the natural structure. The overlayer, which increased LED light extraction by up to 55 percent, could be easily tailored to existing diode designs to help humans light up the night while using less energy.
The Optical Society of America's Jan. 8, 2013 news release, which originated the news item, describes how the scientists came to make their observations,
"The most important aspect of this work is that it shows how much we can learn by carefully observing nature," says Annick Bay, a Ph.D. student at the University of Namur in Belgium who studies natural photonic structures, including beetle scales and butterfly wings. When her advisor, Jean Pol Vigneron, visited Central America to conduct field work on the Panamanian tortoise beetle (Charidotella egregia), he also noticed clouds of twinkling fireflies and brought some specimens back to the lab to examine in more detail.
Fireflies create light through a chemical reaction that takes place in specialized cells called photocytes. The light is emitted through a part of the insect's exoskeleton called the cuticle. Light travels through the cuticle more slowly than it travels through air, and the mismatch means a proportion of the light is reflected back into the lantern, dimming the glow. The unique surface geometry of some fireflies' cuticles, however, can help minimize internal reflections, meaning more light escapes to reach the eyes of potential firefly suitors.
In Optics Express papers, Bay, Vigneron, and colleagues first describe the intricate structures they saw when they examined firefly lanterns and then present how the same features could enhance LED design. Using scanning electron microscopes, the researchers identified structures such as nanoscale ribs and larger, misfit scales, on the fireflies' cuticles. When the researchers used computer simulations to model how the structures affected light transmission they found that the sharp edges of the jagged, misfit scales let out the most light. The finding was confirmed experimentally when the researchers observed the edges glowing the brightest when the cuticle was illuminated from below.
"We refer to the edge structures as having a factory roof shape," says Bay. "The tips of the scales protrude and have a tilted slope, like a factory roof." The protrusions repeat approximately every 10 micrometers, with a height of approximately 3 micrometers. "In the beginning we thought smaller nanoscale structures would be most important, but surprisingly in the end we found the structure that was the most effective in improving light extraction was this big-scale structure," says Bay.
Here's how the scientists applied their observations to LEDs (from the news release),
Human-made light-emitting devices like LEDs face the same internal reflection problems as fireflies' lanterns and Bay and her colleagues thought a factory roof-shaped coating could make LEDs brighter. In the second Optics Express paper published today, which is included in the Energy Express section of the journal, the researchers describe the method they used to create a jagged overlayer on top of a standard gallium nitride LED. Nicolas André, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, deposited a layer of light-sensitive material on top of the LEDs and then exposed sections with a laser to create the triangular factory-roof profile. Since the LEDs were made from a material that slowed light even more than the fireflies' cuticle, the scientists adjusted the dimensions of the protrusions to a height and width of 5 micrometers to maximize the light extraction.
"What's nice about our technique is that it's an easy process and we don't have to create new LEDs," says Bay. "With a few more steps we can coat and laser pattern an existing LED."
Other research groups have studied the photonic structures in firefly lanterns as well, and have even mimicked some of the structures to enhance light extraction in LEDs, but their work focused on nanoscale features. The Belgium-led team is the first to identify micrometer-scale photonic features, which are larger than the wavelength of visible light, but which surprisingly improved light extraction better than the smaller nanoscale features. The factory roof coating that the researchers tested increased light extraction by more than 50 percent, a significantly higher percentage than other biomimicry approaches have achieved to date. The researchers speculate that, with achievable modifications to current manufacturing techniques, it should be possible to apply these novel design enhancements to current LED production within the next few years.
For those who care to investigate further,
- "Improved light extraction in the bioluminescent lantern of a Photuris firefly (Lampyridae)," [Annick Bay, Peter Cloetens, Heikki Suhonen, and Jean Pol Vigneron] Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 764-780 (2013).
- "An optimal light-extracting overlayer, inspired by the lantern of a Photuris firefly, to improve the external efficiency of existing light-emitting diode," [by Annick Bay, Nicolas André, Michaël Sarrazin, Ali Belarouci, Vincent Aimez, Laurent A. Francis, and Jean Pol Vigneron] Optics Express, Vol. 21 Issue S1, pp. A179-A189 (2013).
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Manchester United manager and UNICEF UK Ambassador, Sir Alex Ferguson, took time out from the club's pre-season tour in South Africa this week to learn about the impact of violence and abuse on the country's orphans.
South Africa has close to 4 million orphans, many of whom have lost one or both parents to HIV. These children often live in extreme poverty and are especially vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.
Sir Alex and young goalkeeper Ben Amos visited a UNICEF-supported Isibinidi ('Courage') project in KwaZulu-Natal. It's a community project developed to care for vulnerable children by providing practical and emotional support, for example through home visits from trained child care workers.
The project also builds and maintains a network of Safe Parks, where children can play safely, study and learn life skills like confidence, home management, and HIV prevention.
"As a UNICEF Ambassador and through Man Utd's 13-year United for UNICEF partnership I've visited many projects. But to hear how young people, especially orphans, suffer is always shattering", said Sir Alex.
"Projects like Isibindi are making a real difference, but to reach the millions of orphans in South Africa UNICEF needs more support. Manchester United is committed to supporting UNICEF in this cause, and I'm calling on others to do the same."
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Humanity Is So Last-Gen: The Sims 4 Announced
EA have decided it's time to hit the reset button on their
DLC sales machine long running franchise with the official announcement of The Sims 4. The big plays this time around are focused on the titular little beggars themselves, promising "these Sims have evolved into beings whose every action is informed and affected by interactions and emotional states." Creepier still we're gifted with enhanced "ability to affect the mind, body and heart" of the poor dears. The promise of never before seen godhood over ever more realistic humans is mighty tempting, I'll admit. Trailer after you've drowned in the pool with no ladder.
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Attitudes toward African-Americans have worsened since 2008, research finds
(Phys.org)—This might not be a "post-racial" era after all.
New research indicates that racial attitudes toward African-Americans have worsened since the election of President Barack Obama.
Many people described America as accepting of all races after Obama was voted as the country's first black president in 2008. However, a new poll shows that anti-black sentiments became more common in the last four years.
Since 2008, explicit racism was more common among Republicans than Democrats. In 2012, the proportion of people expressing anti-black attitudes was 79 percent among Republicans, 48 percent among independents and 32 percent among Democrats.
If the findings hold during next week's presidential elections, Obama's race may play a factor in voters' choices.
The study's authors include Josh Pasek, assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan; Jon Krosnick, professor of communication and political science at Stanford University; and Trevor Tompson, director of the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago.
"It appears that the Obama administration has not been a time of decline in anti-black attitudes in America," the researchers wrote. "Indeed, these data suggest that anti-black attitudes have become slightly more prevalent over those years, especially during the last two years."
Using data from surveys done in 2008, 2010 and 2012, the researchers found that:
- Sizable proportions of both Democrats and Republicans manifested anti-black attitudes, though anti-black attitudes were more common among Republicans than among Democrats.
- People who identified themselves as Republicans in 2012 expressed anti-black attitudes more often than did Republican identifiers in 2008.
- People with more negative attitudes toward African-Americans were less likely to approve of Obama's job performance.
- If both anti-black and pro-black attitudes had been converted to be neutral, the proportion of Americans disapproving of Obama's job performance would have been 1 to 3 percentage points lower in both 2010 and 2012.
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"In an election projected to be this close, the two-point margin we attribute to prejudice may play a critical role in determining our next president," he said.


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Cruz takes heat from fellow House Republicans
After coming under fire for urging House Republicans to stand fast on Obamacare even as he admitted defeat is likely in the Senate, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz vowed Thursday to do "everything necessary" - including a filibuster - to protect legislation that would defund the Affordable Care Act.
Cruz left some House Republicans fuming Wednesday after claiming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would most likely prove to be an impassable roadblock for his efforts in the Senate.
"Harry Reid will no doubt try to strip the defund language from the continuing resolution, and right now he likely has the votes to do so," Cruz said Wednesday. "House Republicans must stand firm, hold their ground, and continue to listen to the American people."
Tied to debt ceiling
Cruz's comments came just after Speaker John Boehner, under pressure from conservatives in his caucus, announced the House Republicans would tie a bill aimed at defunding the Affordable Care Act to the upcoming vote on the debt ceiling.
The statement by Cruz caused frustration in House Republicans.
Mark Jones, chairman of political science at Rice University, said he saw the move as Cruz "simply stating reality."
Jones said that more than likely, Cruz realized Reid had more than enough votes to get the resolution through the Senate without including any language that would defund the Affordable Care Act.
At that point, Jones said Cruz's statement served the dual purpose of reflecting reality as well as "to ratchet up pressure on the House."
"Now they are the only thing standing between the people and Obamacare," Jones said. "This is the last line of defense."
What Cruz did not count on was the backlash he would face from fellow Republicans when he put them in that position.
"We haven't even taken up the bill and Ted Cruz is admitting defeat?" said a senior GOP aide, according to the Huffington Post. "Some people came here to govern and make things better for their constituents.
"Ted Cruz came here to throw bombs and fundraise off of attacks on fellow Republicans. He's a joke, plain and simple."
After the frustrated response, Cruz was quick to return to his passionate rhetoric, even going so far as to evoke World War II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in an interview on Fox News.
"And I can guarantee you one thing," Cruz said while on "Hannity." "Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and I are going to fight with every breath in our body.
"As Churchill said, we will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the streets. We will fight at every step to stop the biggest job killer in America.
Cruz's motive
With his fervor seemingly back, and Cruz vowing once again to fight all the way until the end, the question remains: Given the reality of the situation, what difference does his vow make?
"From a practical perspective it's not going to change anything," Jones said. "More than anything it just allows him to save face."
Jones said Cruz's renewed enthusiasm "wipes way the image of him throwing in the towel."
But it still leaves those in favor of defunding Obamacare short of votes in the Senate.
Even if Cruz and Lee mount a filibuster, they would need another 39 votes to block Reid.
When asked Thursday if he would attempt a filibuster, Cruz said, "I will do everything necessary and anything possible to defund Obamacare."


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Since my return in Feb (called back) my brother-in-law was critical with Prostate cancer which was galloping, I have been constantly in touch with Balakumar. I wish to bring to others a few more positive healings.
My brother-in-law Capt Sundaresan was dying in Coimbatore of prostate cancer. He was in a hospice and waiting for death. He was 79 years old. The whole family was in a depression because he was everybody's favorite person and they could not bear to see him suffer like this. The indefinite waiting was agony for him and others.
I asked Naran for help. He asked us to chant the mantra "KUNCHITA PAADAM SHARANAM" and then "KAALAM NAMAMYAHAM" placed under his pillow and I gave WALNUT too.
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What was very surprising to the hospice staff is that in spite of the cancer spreading to all organs and mouth, why was he not in pain? They never gave any palliative, only care. Everyone said, "He is not in pain because it is the good Karma he accumulated through the selfless life he has leaded. He took so many people's pain away and so their gratitude is helping him stay without pain". No DOUBT.
But in my mind I was sure it is the Chants, The flowers and the constant affirmations, which we were guided by Balakumar, added to the Good Karma.
Capt died peacefully on March 10th, listening to MS Subbulakshmi's song "Kuraionrum Illai" (there are no more regrets for me) and as my sister-in-law was chanting the Gayatri mantra.
Thanks to Naran for this healing.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma--- JRB Art at The Elms presents "Orient Shift" by Mary Ann Strandell. For this exhibit Strandell observes storied ancient and modern culture through the mediation of handmade paintings and through the lens of technology with lenticular prints. The exhibit opens with a reception from 6:00 to 10:00pm on Friday, March 1st during The Paseo's First Friday Gallery walk and runs through March 31st, 2013.
In her second solo exhibition at the Joy Reed Belt gallery, Orient Shift, Strandell uses source material from fine art auction sites and architectural renderings in exploring the re-assertion of meaning through pictorial reflection. From blue and white Chinese dynastic vessels, Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, and European Chinoiserie she presents an array of oil paintings, archival prints, and a large scaled installation made from sumi ink with lenticular print media.
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Benjamin Thomas Cook (1842-1924) Berrien County, GA
Benjamin Thomas Cook came to Berrien County, GA after the Civil War and settled on land near Empire Church, not far distant from the grist mill Thomas M. Ray and Levi J. Knight had established on Beaver Dam Creek, a tributary of Cat Creek in southern Berrien County. Cook was a veteran who had been a prisoner of war, and came to Berrien to join others of the Cook family connection.
Benjamin Thomas Cook was born in Georgia in 1842, a son of Martha Knight and John Cook. His parents were married December 5, 1841, in Wilkinson County, and Ben was first enumerated at eight years old on his father's farm in the 1850 census of the county.
By the time of the 1860 census, John Cook had moved his family to Milledgeville, Baldwin County, GA. John Cook was a miller and Benjamin Thomas Cook was employed as a "common laborer."
Milledgeville was then capitol of the State of Georgia, also the site of the state arsenal, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, and Oglethorpe University. Milledgeville was a bustling city, with a cosmopolitan flair. The Cook residence was near the Milledgeville Hotel, and the neighbors of the Cooks included not only doctors, pharmacists, craftsmen, politicians and state administrators, but also professionals such as editors and engineers from New York, fencing masters from France, merchants from many states and countries, attorneys from Scotland, watchmakers from Ireland, daguerreotype artists from Germany, and many others who simply gave their occupation as "gentleman."
At the age of 20, Benjamin Thomas Cook was a resident of Milledgeville, Georgia, of florid complexion, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and 5 ft, 3 3/4 inches tall. When the Civil War got underway Benjamin and his brother, Henry Cook, joined the Confederate cause. He enlisted May 1, 1862, at Macon, GA with Company A, 1st Confederate Georgia Regiment, according to the Confederate Pension application he later filed. He appears in the National Park Service database of Civil War Soldiers and Sailors as a private of Company A, 1st Georgia Reserves. There were over thirty Georgia battle units incorporating the "First Georgia" title, so Benjamin's unit service record remains unclear.
Georgia Ordinances of 1861 required that "every free white person, who shall be engaged in actual service, military or naval, of the State, and shall take an oath of his intention to continue in such service for at least three months, unless sooner discharged honorably, and, also, the oath of allegiance below prescribed."
"That the oath of allegiance to this State shall be in the following form, to wit: 'I do swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and true allegiance bear to the State of Georgia so long as I may continue a citizen thereof."
Those who were residents of Georgia at the time the Ordinance of Secession was passed were implicitly no longer citizens of the United States, but citizens of the State of Georgia. After the passage of Secession, anyone who came from a Union state to reside in Georgia was required to take the Oath of Abjuration, an explicit statement renouncing their American citizenship.
"The oath of abjuration shall be in the following form, to wit: 'I do swear (or affirm) that I do renounce and forever abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every prince, potentate, State or sovereignity whatsover, except the State of Georgia.'
While in Confederate service, Benjamin Cook was captured at Milledgeville, GA. The Roll of Prisoners of War at Point Lookout, MD shows he was captured November 23, 1864, and held as a POW at the federal prison there at Point Lookout, MD. His brother, Henry Cook, was also among the POWs at Point Lookout, as were John A. Gaskins, John T. Ray, Benjamin Harmon Crum and Aaron Mattox of Berrien County, GA.
Point Lookout had been hastily constructed in 1863 to confine Confederate prisoners of war captured at Gettysburg.
At the end of August 1863, Point Lookout's stockade held more than 1,700 Confederate soldiers. The prison population swelled to 9,000 by the end of the year. During the summer of 1864, the prison population grew to 15,500, well more than the stockade's designed capacity, and reached 20,000 in June 1865. Conditions for the prisoners severely worsened as the population exploded. The military did not construct barracks or other permanent housing; instead, tents provided inadequate shelter from the sweltering summer heat and brutal winters. Contaminated water, meager rations, malaria and typhoid fever, and exposure to the elements led to a high death rate in the camp. Approximately 4,000 of the total 50,000 Point Lookout prisoners died while incarcerated. – National Park Service
Following the Confederate surrender, B.T. Cook swore an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, and was released from Point Lookout on June 10, 1865.It appears from the Point Lookout records that B.T. Cook was transported to Hilton Head, SC arriving on July 1, 1865.
After the War, Ben and his brother, Henry, came to Berrien County, GA. In doing so, Ben and Henry were joining about a dozen or so families originating from Wilkinson county who had made the move to the newly established Berrien County some ten years earlier. These included the families of Ben's cousins Elijah, Tabitha, and Piety Cook. Tabitha married Daniel Avera and Piety married Nicholas Lewis, both of these couples moving to Berrien. Dawson Webb, father of Elijah's first wife, had also moved to Berrien around 1856, and Webb's daughter Louisa Eliza Webb and son-in-law Moses G. Sutton came to Lowndes County (now Berrien) a few years prior.
In Berrien County on 14 December 1865, Ben married Samantha Jane "Mantha" Taylor. Jane was the daughter of blacksmith William Jackson Taylor and his wife, Samantha Jane Rogers, originally from Marion County, SC. The marriage ceremony was performed by Jane's brother, Thomas L. Taylor, Justice of the Peace.
Back from the war, Benjamin Cook endured the conditions of Reconstruction in Berrien County, GA. "It was also a time when the entire nation, but especially the South, was forced to come to grips with the legacy of slavery and the consequences of emancipation." -National Park Service
Congress passed the Reconstruction Act in 1867 requiring the former Confederate states to ratify the 14th Amendment, which "defined all persons born in the United States as national citizens, who were to enjoy equality before the law." States were compelled to adopt new state constitutions, providing "equal protection of the laws" to all national citizens, black and white. Southern states which continued to deny the vote to black men would lose representation in Congress.
W. H. Griffin, Jr., who was born during the Civil War, described the post-war perspective of ex-Confederates in Berrien County:
"Georgia had been placed under military rule, Union soldiers stood guard everywhere, indignities were piled upon the citizens of Berrien county by scalawags and carpet baggers who subjected war worn soldiers to almost brutal treatment in order to force them to take the oath of allegiance." – The unpublished papers of W.H. Griffin Jr., (1863-1932)
In July 28, 1866 The Albany Patriot wrote:
"Unjust and discriminating taxes are heaped upon us, and we are allowed no voice or representation in the councils of the Government. We are invited to degrade ourselves on a level with the most miserable and debauched class of people known among us. With our oaths of allegiance staring us in the face, we are baselessly charged with disloyalty and our motives impugned."
By 1867, white Georgia voters were required to complete the Oath of Allegiance in order to be listed in the register of qualified voters. White southern men whose national citizenship had been renounced by way of the Ordinance of Secession, oaths of abjuration of national citizenship, oaths of allegiance to Confederate states, or acceptance of Confederate citizenship were required to swear a new oath of allegiance to the United States in order to have their national citizenship restored and to qualify for the right to vote. Some whites who had held posts in the Confederate government or the governments of Confederate states were disqualified from having their citizenship restored through the oath of allegiance.
Like many other men of Berrien County, Benjamin Thomas Cook swore to this new Oath of Allegiance, signifying his acceptance on the written oath by making his x mark over his printed name:
I, B. T. Cook do solemnly swear in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a citizen of the State of Georgia; that I have resided in said State for 24 months next preceding this day, and now reside in the County of Berrien in said State; that I am 21 years old; that I have not been disenfranchised for participation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States, nor for felony committed against the laws of any State or the United States; that I have never been a member of any State Legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office in any state, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof, that I will faithfully support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, encourage others so to do. So help me, God"
The 1870 census records show Benjamin T. Cook took up farming next door to his brother-in-law, Thomas L. Taylor, and cousin, Elijah Cook, in the 1148th Georgia Militia District. Ben owned $50 in real estate and $85 in personal property. Benjamin T. Cook was undoubtedly a cousin of Elijah Cook, although the exact relationship is not known. Like B. T. Cook, Elijah was a native of Wilkinson County, GA.
Around 1874 Benjamin Thomas Cook acquired 65 acres of Berrien County land on Lot 219 in the 10th Land District. About that time, Elijah Cook let go of his land on Lot 217, and acquired Lot 198 which was just to the north. In 1879, Benjamin T. Cook had 40 acres on lot 217, and Elijah Cook held 680 acres along Five Mile Creek, on Lots 217 and 198.
In 1880, Benjamin and Samantha Jane "Mantha" Cook were enumerated by L. E. Lastinger in the 1148th Georgia Militia District of Berrien County. Children in the Cook household were William (13), Fannie (11), Mary (9), Henry (5) and James (3). William and Mary attended school. The 1880 census also recorded sickness or disability on the day of enumeration; 11-year-old Fannie Cook was enumerated as at home, suffering from "rheumatism" that left her classified in the census as "maimed, crippled, bedridden, or otherwise disabled."
Next door to the Cooks was the family of Samantha's sister, Emaline Taylor Lewis, and her husband, Joseph Lewis. Joseph Lewis was Ben's cousin, a son of Piety Cook and Nicholas Lewis. Two of the sons of Joseph Lewis and Emaline Taylor Lewis, 14-year-old Thomas Lewis and 4-year-old William Lewis, also suffered from debilitating "rheumatism."
The 1880 population census also shows that three of the children of Ben's cousin Elijah Cook and his wife Arinda Chandler Cook were also disabled. These Cook daughters were Juda, Amanda, and Sarah. These girls were known locally as the "alligator children," and apparently presented a rare, debilitating form of the genetic skin condition ichthyosis. Two of the grandchildren of Elijah Cook also suffered from ichthyosis, and Ben's nephew Andrew Cook, son of Henry Cook, was also disabled (When Henry Cook went to prison for manslaughter in 1907, an application was submitted on behalf of Andrew to receive his father's Indigent Soldiers pension as a dependent.)
Benjamin T. Cook in 1880 had 390 acres on Lot 215. In 1884 Benjamin gave up 160 acres on Lot 215, retaining 130 acres there.
Children of Benjamin Thomas Cook and Samantha Jane Taylor include:
- William Jackson "Jack" Cook – born March 13, 1867; married 1st Annie Laura Mathis (1871-1910), September 25, 1887; married 2nd, Nancy Barker; married 3rd, Carrie E. Sullivan (1878-1942); died February 1, 1951; Jack, Laura, and Carrie are buried Empire Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Lanier County, GA.
- Francis "Fannie" Cook – born April 3, 1868; married Enoch "Bud" Benefield, August 18, 1887, Berrien County GA;
- Mary Elizabeth Cook – born December 31, 1878; married James Elijah Benefield March 24, 1891 in Berrien County, GA; died May 22, 1947; buried Poplar Springs Cemetery, Berrien County, GA
- Henry Cook – born abt 1875; married Fannie Giddens
- James Lewis Cook – born February 7, 1876; married Elizabeth Virginia "Lizzie" Duren, August 24, 1899, Berrien County, GA; died May 31, 1945; buried Pine Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Berrien County, GA
- Elijah "Lige" Cook – born December 10, 1881 in Berrien County, GA; married Eva Studstill, February 9, 1905; died October 19, 1963; buried Union Hill Cemetery, Atkinson County, GA
- Martha Cook – born abt 1884; married Charlie S. Tucker, December 10, 1909 in Berrien County, GA; buried Empire Church Cemetery, Lanier County, GA
Samantha Jane "Mantha" Taylor Cook died on Thursday, June 7, 1888. She was buried at Empire Church Cemetery, about seven miles northeast of Ray City, GA.
Just seven weeks after the death of Samantha Jane "Mantha" Taylor Cook, Benjamin T. Cook married his second wife, Arrilla "Sis" Stone. They were married on Thursday, July 26, 1888, in Berrien County, GA, the bride's name appearing on the Marriage license as "Gurila" Stone. The marriage ceremony was performed by J.P. Patten, Notary Public. Arrilla was a daughter of Elizabeth Harris (1840-1929) and David Stone (1838-1899). The groom was 46 and the bride was 21; she was born in March of 1867. Her father, a Confederate veteran, served with the Okefenokee Rifles, Company G, 26th Georgia Infantry and was wounded in the abdomen at the Battle of Brawner's Farm.
On January 29, 1898, Ben was enrolled into the Berrien County Confederate Veterans Association in Nashville, GA. Ben and Arrilla Cook appear in the 1900 Census in the 1300 Georgia Militia District of Berrien County, GA. In their household were four children: David (7), Elizabeth (5), Nancy (2), Leonard (1). Also living in the Cook home was Fannie Taylor; the census taker recorder her relationship to Ben as "Grandmother" but she was actually the sister of his first wife, Samantha Jane Taylor. Around their farm were the farms of their son, Lewis Cook, and their sons-in-law, Enoch Benefield and James Elijah Benefield.
In the 1910 census records Benjamin T. Cook and Arrilla Cook appeared in the 1300 Georgia Militia District of Berrien County, GA; Arrilla was enumerated under the name "Gorilla." Ben owned his farm, free and clear of mortgage. Ben and Arrilla were listed as parents of seven children: David (16), Elizabeth (15), Nancy 14), Leonard (10), William Harrison (8), and Celia Samantha (2).
Some time between 1910 and 1920, Benjamin Cook became a widower for the second time. Arrinda Stone Cook was buried at Empire Church Cemetery, Lanier County, GA, near the grave of Benjamin Cook's first wife, Mantha J. Taylor Cook. The date death came for Arrinda Stone Cook is not known; the marker for her grave bears only her date of birth.
Children of Benjamin Thomas Cook and Arrinda "Sis" Stone include:
- David"Dave" Cook – born June 22, 1891; married Lou Annie Gray6/22/1891; died April 1, 1957; buried at Empire Cemetery.
- Elizabeth Cook – born September 1894
- Nancy Cook – born October 1897; married Isaac Gray
- Leonard Cook – born February 1899; moved to Alabama
- William Harrison Cook- born September 13, 1902; married Mineola Smith (b.3/10/1904); Died February 1, 1967. both are buried at Empire.
- Celia Samantha Cook- born June 5, 1907; married Eddie Gray November 11, 1922 in Berrien County (Separated and resumed her maiden name.); died December 1, 1997; buried at Empire Cemetery
By 1918, B.T. Cook was 75 years old. He deeded 30 acres of his land on Lot 309 to his son, James Lewis Cook, and four .
Benjamin T. Cook applied for a Confederate Veteran's pension in 1919. His application for a pension was accepted, and he was awarded $6.00 a month.
By 1920, Benjamin Cook was 77 years old. He was residing in the household of his son-in-law James Elijah Benefield and daughter Mary Cook Benefield. The Benefield place was situated on the Milltown & Willacoochee Road. Elijah was engaged in general farming with the assistance of his eldest sons, Willie and Eddie Benefield. Just down the Milltown & Willacoochee Road were the farm places of William J. Cook and Elijah Cook.
Ben died at home on October 5, 1924. The certificate of death, filed in Berrien County, GA, gave his cause of death as "old age & heart trouble." His daughter, Mary Benefield, was the informant and R. N. Mathis was the local registrar. There was no doctor in attendance to sign the death certificate or undertaker to handle funeral arrangements.
Family members who remember Ben recall a man with a temper, who enjoyed family get-togethers, such as barbecues. He was a man who walked with a limp, which was the result of his breaking his leg when he fell from a barn roof. He rebroke it before it healed, thus the limp.
Ben died at his home in the 10th district of the newly formed Lanier County sometime in the early part of 1924. He is buried between his two wives at Empire Cemetery. His home still stands as a reminder of the industrious man who came to Berrien County and carved a home for himself and his large family after the Civil War.
Special thanks to Linda Ward Meadows for contributions of content and images to this article, and for the following selected sources : Tombstones Empire Cemetery; GA Census records 1850 Wilkinson, Co., 1860 Baldwin Co., 1870-1910 Berrien Co.; Interviews with Grandchildren of Ben & Jane Cook; Pension Records from GA Archives; Berrien Co. and Wilkinson Co. marriage records; Interview with Celia Samantha Cook and her sister-in-law, Mineola Smith Cook, at their home on 10/13/1990; Cook family Bibles. Mineola Smith Cook and Celia Samantha Cook went to the Berrien County, GA nursing home shortly after my visit with them in 1990. Both are deceased; GA Death Certificate Berrien Co, GA.: Linda Ward Meadows is a great-great granddaughter of Benjamin Thomas Cook and Samantha Jane Taylor Cook. (9088 Val-Del Road, Adel, GA, 31620. Ph 912-896-3591) firstname.lastname@example.com


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Thinking back to the movie, "The Sound of Music" - the hills were definitely alive in & around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Not so much with music - but just alive in making me ill. I was car sick the entire time I was there. Winding, narrow roads lead Jonathan & I to my Aunt's house in Leechburg, PA. I can't even tell you how happy I was once we arrived & I was able to get out of the rental car. I had a busting migraine that had me feeling like my head was in a vice and my stomach was turning. Seeing my aunt for the first time in ten years though, well...that was totally worth the drive & motion sickness. She was just about to leave her house to go get some potatoes when we pulled up, but walked us in and we got to visiting and catching up on life. My cousin Tressa was home & cousin Autumn came over. My aunt's husband, DJ, cooked us prime rib on the grill while my aunt made the baked potatoes & fresh salad. Aunt Chris is quite the hostess & cook! After dinner & hours of chatting it up, off to bed we went.The next day, my aunt drove Jonathan & I to Greensburg where we met up with my cousins Camille & Autumn along with the other members of The Rotary of Westmoreland for lunch. The Rotary & Blackburn Center Against Domestic & Sexual Violence partnered for the event later that evening, where I presented a case study lecture on my case to their community at Seton Hill University, in hopes of empowering others to speak out while also educating the community on the importance of victims' rights. The lecture went really well as the room was full of very kind, caring, compassionate people who listened intently as I described the events that took place in August of 1990, leading up until now in my journey as I continue to fight for justice for others. Being so far up North, there was no A/C in the room the lecture took place in, so I was sweatin' bullets up there, haha. Afterward, there was a dessert reception in the parlors of Seton Hill - everyone gathered around for the mini cupcakes, brownies & cookies, and I met some of those that attended and answered questions they had. By the end of the night, I was exhausted, had a headache and was still kind of car sick from the ride earlier in the day, so we decided to head back to my aunt's house in Leechburg, about a 30 minute drive away. As we walked to the car, I contemplated taking off my heels, but didn't want to walk on the concrete barefoot, so I kept them on...big mistake. While walking downhill with cupcakes on a plate in my left hand, I started to lose my balance as I almost ate the concrete with my face. Thankfully, hearing me yell "Oh my God!" repeatedly, while going faster downhill than I would've like to, Jonathan grabbed my arm with his hand and stopped the madness of me in my heels before that happened. Whew! My face and cupcakes won the war againt the heels. Score! Too bad I was even more car sick by the time we got home that night to eat anymore, and threw up the ones I had eaten once we got there. It was truly a shame to watch that Red Velvet & Chocolate go to waste as it all came up, but I won't go into any further detail...no worries ;)
In the morning, I came downstairs to straighten my hair and get ready to head to my cousins photography studio, Skysight Photography, in Greensburg to take pictures with Jonathan..and did I notice a cupcake massacre! Icing, sprinkles, and remnants of those yummy mini cupcakes were strewn along the kitchen counter, and there was one guilty little dog named Sunny who looked miserably full standing beside me on the floor. Lets just say, Sunny had lots of "treats" that morning when no one was looking...and wasn't feeling well that day or the next. - RIP mini cupcakes, you were amazing (while you lasted).
I got behind the wheel Friday afternoon and drove to Greensburg in hopes of the car sickness not being as bad & Jonathan and my aunt were with me. We were really looking forward to spending the day with my cousin, Autumn & her fiance, Bill and having Autumn take some pictures of us, as we've never had any professional ones taken. Autumn opened her own studio years ago, and takes amazing pictures. Recently, she even traveled to Morocco and took the most beautiful pictures for National Geographic, and has been very successful at what she does, so proud of her! Autumn was so sweet to take pictures of us in her studio as well as in a few spots around Greenburg.
First, Autumn took pictures of me in my Girleo gear that Tiffany Corbett & Courtney Noelle, owners of Girl ExtraOrdinaire in Los Angeles, and authors of the Sweet Pea The Bumblebee books sent me when they named me their Girleo 2012!
And here are a few of the photos she took of Jonathan & I that day:
After pictures, we headed to Rizzo's for an authentic Italian dinner with our family on our last night in town, and then headed back to my Aunt's home and we packed our things so we'd have more time to visit with all of my family before we headed back out to the airport to board our flight home the next day. Saturday morning, my cousin Camille and her husband Dan, and their two kiddos, Logan & Livia, my cousin Michael and his pup Duke, and cousin Autumn and her fiance Bill, and my aunt & DJ all hung out and took advantage of our last few hours together over some homemade Spinach quiche, fresh berries, apple salad, and bread. Like I said...my aunt knows how to whip up some tastiness in the kitchen :) Then, we sadly said our goodbyes, and Jonathan and I headed to Pittsburgh along those dreaded windy roads. I drove and surprisingly didn't get sick this time - kicked back in the plane, watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and landed home-sweet-home in Houston 3 hours later.
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Climate change has lost all its sci-fi tinge in my lifetime and is now a melancholy and tiresome reality
There hasn't been a year when I haven't written about climate change. It's one of the most obvious things to predict.
It's just kind of a blunt reality that the fossil-fuel enterprise has done a regulatory capture of the entire planet, and we're involved in a war for oil, and it's the curse of oil, and it's a war for a curse that's endless and happening. You know, it gets boring running around being a Cassandra. Starting Earth Day in 1970 was a pretty late start considering the multicentury scope of this problem.
I will pass the rest of my lifetime in the shadow of climate change. It's not about warning people in 2011, or trying to avert or defuse a misfortune. The wolf is beyond the door. The wolf is in the living room. This is the anthropocenic condition. This is how we live. This is force majeure. It's here. It's very obvious.
There are no national forests. You cannot protect a forest with a nation. There are forests that protect nations.
The global climate crisis is the climate crisis and it's global because the globe is an externality. "Don't pollute you, don't pollute me, pollute that fellow behind me." Just throw that into the atmosphere because the atmosphere is somebody else's problem."
The thing that encourages me or sort of offers daylight is there's no pro-climate crisis party. There's no government that actually likes the idea of wrecking the climate. It doesn't really benefit anybody. It really is an externality. It's just something that's entropic.
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If your windows are less than picturesque, perhaps it's time to dress them up. Angie's List Magazine asked two window treatment professionals to point out the essentials necessary to properly accentuate your room. "I compare fine drapery to fine jewelry," says Caryn O'Sullivan, owner of highly rated Drapery Street in Carmel, Ind. "Just like a great necklace, they're that finishing detail — they make a nice room a wow room."
Consider function first — "Function should be considered first," says Lonnice Zemke, window treatment division manager for highly rated Hirshfield's in Roseville, Minn. "Window treatments must address your needs. Light control, privacy, insulation and view are important factors. With so many new innovations and technologies, window treatments can achieve this while still being design savvy."
Look at the architecture — "Pay attention to your room's architecture," O'Sullivan says. "The pewter silk bands in the drapes match the wood trim that separates the windows. These types of details allow your eye to continue to travel around the room and even accentuate the beautiful wood trim."
Pay attention to personal style — "Personal style is key," Zemke says. "Window treatments can enhance and define the decor or create a new look. Deep wood tones with red, brown or gold fabric and bronze finishes create a more formal ambiance, while bright whites with contrasting black fabrics and chrome finishes create a modern look."
Play with textures — "You don't have to have a sharp contrast in color if you use fabric with different textures in the same panel," O'Sullivan says. "In this treatment, the gray silk bands are pleated, so they add another texture to the drape."
Delve into details — "Make it about the details," Zemke says. "Decorative embellishments like finials on the rod, medallions and tie-backs with big tassels make a window treatment look very rich, but not too busy."
Find the right height — "The correct height of the drapes is necessary," O'Sullivan says. "There's no formula, but for a grand room, the floor-to-ceiling drapes create a feeling of elegance and grandness. For a less formal and intimate space, you may want them lower to create a more cozy feeling."
Maintain proportion — "Get the proportions right," Zemke says. "Consider the space around the window, the size of the room and the view from the inside and out. You don't want to overdo or skimp on the window treatment. It should be like a picture frame for the window — it can be embellished and accessorized, but must maintain both function and balance."
Don't forget the hardware — "Hardware is very important," O'Sullivan says. "The rod you use is part of the equation for creating a beautiful window treatment. Here, we used an invisible rod. But if you go with a very simple drape, the rod is a much-needed feature and should make a statement."
Layering adds dimensions — "Layer different materials to add interest and dimension," Zemke says. "It creates movement without a sensory overload."
Blend colors — "Combining colors in the drapery panel is a great way to show you put thought into the treatment," O'Sullivan says. "It can also be a great way to integrate colors in your decor that are difficult to find together in an existing fabric."
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Scar Tissue
By Anthony Keidis
I've never been a rabid fan of The Red Hot Chili Peppers. They've always inhabited a peripheral position among my record collection. I own a copy of Mother's Milk, Blood Sugar Sex Magic and One Hot Minute, but none of them have ever gotten heavy rotation on my stereos over the years. The problem being that, in my mind, the Chili Peppers are masters of the single but struggle to compile enough material to produce a competant album. The closest they came was Blood Sugar Sex Magic, but even that is a struggle to get through in one sitting.
So I was a little apprehensive about reading Anthony Keidis' biography, Scar Tissue. Couple that with my reservations about reading rock and roll biographies about known drug addicts and you have a very reluctant reader. But it came highly recommended, so I gave it a whirl. Since I went in with no expectations, I would rate the experience of reading Scar Tissue as good overall, but just barely.
Turns out Anthony Keidis is either one of the most genuine souls in rock and roll or his years of relapses has turned him into one of the best smooth-talkers in the business, able to sell ice to an Eskimo. While I was rooting for the former throughout the book, by the end I was fairly convinced of the latter.
The first third of the book chronicles Keidis' turbulent childhood straddled between Michigan and California. Growing up with his drug-dealing father exposed the young Anthony to a bevvy of sex and drugs at a very young age (and no small amount of jealousy from this reader). As with virtually every rock and roll biography, this is by far the most interesting part of the book. I had no idea that Keidis was essentially living with Sonny Bono through his junoir high school days.
The second third of the book chronicles the formation and emergence of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the L.A. punk scene in the early 1980s. I liked that they defined convention at the time and played a unique brand of funk in a scene dominated by glam metal and to hell with what the scene dicatated. The rise of the band co-incides with Keidis' descent into the world of heroin and cocaine addiction, which, as I have written before, is such a cliche it's almost boring if it weren't about the very real suffering of a human being. Before he finally kicks his habit (for the first time) prior to recording Mother's Milk the book reads like "Knock Me Down" on perpetual repeat.
The segment devoted to his first clean stint (the time period between the recording of Mother's Milk and the end of the Blood Sugar Sex Magic tour) is also a fun read. Keidis is a bit of a world traveler and I enjoyed is recollections about trekking through Borneo, touring Japan and his irrational and incomprehensible love for New Zealand.
It's when Keidis relapses for the first (of too many to count) times that this book derailed. I hate to complain about the narrative of a biography, but the story went from slightly repetitive to a broken record of scoring drugs, driving to a motel and getting high for a few days then flying somehwere warm, weaning off the drugs, playing a few gigs, attending to a few responsibilities, repeat. I'm not kidding, this formula went on for over 200 pages. In the meantime people were born, people died, he changed girlfriends and guitarists more often then I change my underwear and his band recorded two albums.
This is not to say that the book was without merit. In fact, I found myself revisiting a lot of Chili Pepper albums while reading this book. While I still maintain that they have never recorded a great album, I had forgotten how good many of them were. Also, I found that I had never really given them thir place among the great rock and roll acts of all time, which they most certainly are, if not in the studio, certainly for their brazen live performances. I was especially pleased to not that Keidis wrote specifically about a show in Toronto that I attended in the late nineties (a free show at the corner of Yonge and Dundas). That was kinda cool.
Also, the first half of the book was devoid of that smarmy self-help remorse that so many former addicts have. He's recollections of a childhood and early adulthood consuming drugs and playing rock and roll were entirely without regret or remorse. I liked that he could look back fondly on a time he would not necessarily like to revisit rather than spent that portion apologizing to everyone and their brother about the pain and suffering he put them through. That makes great psych couch conversation but terrible reading.
But the book ultimately falters. It was when the 12-step philosophies began to creep into the narrative that things really took a turn for the worse. While the recollections on band life, touring and his travels remained fun to read, his intellectual musings on the nature of addiction and healing got nauseating (granted, I have never had a heroin problem so who am I to talk). Lots of new-age, self-help mumbo-jumbo and psuedo-religious ramblings that only served to prove that his years of drug intake had done their best on his brain.
As I mentioned to the guy who leant me the book, you can't help rooting for Anthony Keidis throughout the book. He seesms so genuine. Each time he cleans up you are hoping it will be his final detox only to have him disappoint you time and again. But the end when he (supposedly) cleans up for the last time, I could barely manage to feel anything for a guy who had thrown away so many chances.
Anthony Keidis is a really lucky man. Not because he is the frontman of one of the world's most successful rock and roll outfits, although that is certainly pretty cool. He's lucky because he has continuously been surrounded by people that never gave up on him. Despite lying, cheating and abusing them, his family, friends and bandmates never abandoned him. Considering his behavior over time, he should count himself blessed to have a support network as dedicated. If only he was that dedicated to himself.
Scar Tissue. It's the One Hot Minute of rock biographies. Full of promise, an all-star cast, some really, really spectacular moments, but in the end fails to inspire much beyond a curt nod to say, "Yep. I've read that now. What's next?"


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