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© - Steven A. Cerra, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
Texas tenor saxophonists ... "Texas tenors."
The first time I heard the term described as such was on a Riverside Records LP entitled The Sound of the Wide Open Spaces: James Clay and David "Fathead" Newman [12327].
I thought that it might be fun to use one of its tunes as a soundtrack for a video tribute to some of the better known practitioners of the Texas Tenor style and to have the video serve as an introduction to a re-posting of earlier features on David and Curtis Amy
Texas tenor saxophonists ... "Texas tenors."
The first time I heard the term described as such was on a Riverside Records LP entitled The Sound of the Wide Open Spaces: James Clay and David "Fathead" Newman [12327].
I thought that it might be fun to use one of its tunes as a soundtrack for a video tribute to some of the better known practitioners of the Texas Tenor style and to have the video serve as an introduction to a re-posting of earlier features on David and Curtis Amy
"The Texas Tenor style" is defined by
Ted Gioia in The History of Jazz as:
"A blues-drenched tenor sax style … characterized by honking', shoutin', riffin', riding high on a single note or barking out a guttural howl." [p. 341]
Cannonball Adderley once referred to the Texas tenor sound as "a moan within the tone."
Orrin Keepnews in his insert notes to James Clay's Double Dose of Soul [Riverside RLP-9349/OJCCD-1790-2] states it this way:
"For Clay becomes the most recent addition to a long tradition of outstanding tenormen from the big state (among them: Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Budd Johnson, most of whom seem to share the same compelling Texas 'moan' in their tone)."
Jerry Atkins in his magnificent treatment on the subject for The International Association of Jazz Record Collector's IAJRC Journal [Vol. 33, No.2, Spring 2000] puts it more succinctly when he states:
"What is a
Tenor? In the world of Jazz, it's a saxophonist born in or near the Texas and playing with uniqueness in sound and ideas that many have tried to describe." Lone Star State
Jerry includes in his essay on Texas Tenormen, Herschel Evans, Buddy Tate,
Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, Don Wilkerson, Booker Ervin, John Hardee, James Clay, David 'Fathead" Newman and Michael Ivery. Budd Johnson, Illinois
David "Fathead" Newman: Tough Texas Tenor
"It's always been a mystery to me why David "Fathead" Newman isn't one of the most popular instrumentalists of the second half of the twentieth century.
He's got the intellectual chops to play be-bop, ballads or blues with a backbeat and with feeling, creativity and authority. He's got more taste than most living musicians; his sparse obbligatos behind Ray Charles on the magnificent live version of "Drown In My Own Tears" should be required listening for anyone licensed to carry a horn.
When he plays a note with the unique
tenor tone, every cell in my body comes alive. Texas
tenor sound is a phenomenon in itself. David, Don Wilkerson, Booker Ervin, James Clay, King Curtis and Texas Felder were some of its major exponents to emerge in the fifties. As different as their styles were, they shared a rich, hard, vibrato-less sound and a clear, deliberate articulation. Wilton
The sound is strong, sure and prideful, but with an underlying vulnerability. It's passionate. … Cannonball Adderley described it as 'a moan inside the tone.' …"
Michael Cuscuna, 1997
"When I was coming up in
, all the older guys, especially the saxophone players, had a big, wide-open sound." Dallas
- David "Fathead" Newman
tenor sound and concept is very much unlike, and in advance of, the Coleman Hawkins of 1929 and beyond. It is a more fluent, more melodic and blues tinged approach, perhaps more elegant, too." Texas
- Günter Schuller
During an interview with him, I once asked Orrin Keepnews, who for many years was the proprietor and co-owner of Riverside Records, why he labeled the album he co-produced with Cannonball Adderley for David "Fathead" Newman and James Clay, The Sound of the Wide Open Spaces [Riverside RLP 1178; OJCCD-257]?
"Because," he said, " like
Jacquet, Bud Johnson, Buddy Tate, and a bunch of others, David and James seem to have the same compelling Arnett Cobb, Illinois moan in their tone." Texas
Even now, after all these years, when I listen to the music of tenor saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman, it always calls to mind Orrin's phrase – "a compelling
moan." Texas
In his notes to David's recording entitled Resurgence, which along with Still Hard Times has been reissued on CD as David "Fathead" Newman: Lone Star Legend [Savoy Jazz SVY 17249],
Michael Cuscuna offered these insight on the Texas tenor sound, David Fathead Newman's relationship to it and the salient features of David's career up to when these recordings took place for Muse in 1980 and 1982, respectively.
© -
Michael Cuscuna, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
The legend and aura surrounding
saxophonists is clearly based in fact. Whether from Houston in the south or Dallas-Fort Worth in Central Texas, that state has spawned an array of impressive artists for generations, all toting a hard veneer and a soul that can embrace the world. Only listening can reveal the bond that links Herschel Evans, Texas Jacquet, Booker Ervin, Wilton Felder et al. Arnett Cobb, Illinois
A geographically genetic genre. An oral tradition and a testament to environment.
Consider the dramatic differences between David Newman, James Clay, King Curtis, and Ornette Coleman, all within a couple of years of the same age, all in Dallas-Fort Worth revolving around the band of the legendary saxophonist Red Connor in their teens.
Dig beyond their obvious stylistic differences, and you will hear the same voice, the same cry, the same bending of the note, the same powerful, but vulnerable sound.
On one end of the spectrum in the forties was Ornette Coleman, the oldest of the bunch. Red Connor would often scold or fire him for memorizing and perfectly executing Charlie Parker solos, an exercise that Connor felt to be uncreative. On the other hand was King Curtis (Ousley), mastering and crystallizing the rich blues and R & B tradition, but snubbed by Connor and the Beboppers of the day. History would vindicate men as their visions focused and their contributions became irrefutable. Fusing both extremes and all the riches that lie in between were men like David Newman, a master who has yet to receive his due.
Still in his teens, David built a strong reputation around
before going on the road with Lowell Fulsom and T-Bone Walker, a road that rarely led far beyond the borders of Dallas . He was playing alto and baritone saxophones at the time. He and Ray Charles had crossed paths on several occasions in the early fifties. When Charles put together a permanent working band in 1954 with the effective instrumentation of two trumpets, two saxophones and rhythm, he recruited Texas tenorman Don Wilkerson and David Newman, playing primarily baritone, but occasionally doubling on alto. A year later, Wilkerson left. David was offered the tenor saxophone chair. Of course, he accepted the new position and the new instrument. And the rest, as they say, was hysteria. Texas
David's solos, obligate fills and ensemble voice were stunning testaments to the art of R & B. His understated, soulful creations matched the essence of Ray Charles perfectly. Charles recorded a couple of instrumental albums that featured Newman's talents. The band's repertoire was beginning to include pieces by James Moody, Horace Silver, Max Roach and Milt Jackson.
By 1958, Memphis-born Benny Crawford, primarily a pianist and alto saxophonist, secured the baritone saxophone chair with the Charles band, bringing into it his own ideas and sound. A few months later, Detroiter Marcus Belgrave would assume one of the trumpet chairs. In July, the Ray Charles band would perform (and record) at the Newport Jazz Festival. In November, at Ray's instigation,
Atlantic would record the first album by David Newman with the Charles band of the time minus the second trumpet. And that meant David on alto and tenor, Crawford on baritone (and contributing three tunes), Belgrave on trumpet, Ray Charles himself on piano, Edgar Willis on bass and Milt Turner on drums.
In 1959, Charles added Leroy Cooper on baritone sax, freeing Crawford to return to alto saxophone. In the process, he changed his first name to Hank and affirmed his own startling identity. He too began recording for
Atlantic, maintaining the essence and style of that original Ray Charles instrumentation throughout his ten year stint with that record company. On the first three albums (1960-62), he used the band minus Charles intact. And that meant more opportunities to hear David.
But for David Newman, any outside activity after his first album seemed to be an opportunity to break away from the Charles mold. In 1960, he recorded a straight-ahead date for
with James Clay and his second Atlantic album. Although Marcus Belgrave contributed a tune, the setting was strictly quartet with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Charlie Persip, a clear statement of hard-core jazz. His third album schizophrenically offered a hard bop quintet with Belgrave on trumpet and a funky, blusier quartet with Crawford at the piano and Ray Charles' bassist and drummer. Riverside
In 1964, David left Ray Charles' organization, which had been since 1960 a full-fledged and less personal big band. He gigged locally around
and turned his attentions to his family in its crucial years. By 1967, he began commuting to Dallas . By this time, he was playing soprano sax, as well as alto, tenor and flute. He re-established his ties with Cedar Walton, who was his pianist on local New York gigs when they were both still in their teens. He also re-established his relationship with Atlantic Records. Dallas
In March, he made his first album in five years, using a
guitarist who had recently migrated to Texas . His name was Ted Dunbar, and that was his first recording session. The tune that drew attention to the album was one that Walton had just given to him, when they were working out on a friend's piano. It was "To The Holy Land[Recorded on the 1967 House of David Atlantic LP 1489]." A month later, Newman and Walton would appear together on a Lee Morgan session for Blue Note, recently released as "Sonic Boom." New York
Throughout the late sixties, David continued to record a succession of albums under his own name and appear on dates led by organist Don Patterson, Lonnie Smith, Shirley Scott and Charles Kynard. After rejoining Ray Charles briefly in 1970, he became a member of Herbie Mann's Family of Mann, a vehicle that allowed his tenor saxophone and flute work to shine and allowed him to contribute to the band's book of compositions as well. It was this band that first recorded "
Davey Blue."
Although he left Mann in 1974, David continued to record albums of his own for
Atlantic (and its sister label Warner Bros.) until 1977. He did studio work for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Cornell Dupree, Nikki Giovani, T-Bone Walker and Ben Sidran and made occasional live appearances. But David's emphasis shifted back to Dallas during the late seventies except for three heavily arranged albums for Prestige that were misguided in the sense that they obscured the identity of the man whose name appeared on the record cover.
In the summer of 1980, David arrived in
and transcended his shyness, calling all his old friends in town to announce his presence and his availability. We all responded with delight, and many things grew out of it. Among them is this record date, his first pure effort in years. The cast featured old associates, including Hank Crawford who came to the session with "Carnegie Blues" freshly written and tucked under his arm. New York
There could not have been a more appropriate date to record this album than September 23, the birthdate shared by Ray Charles and John Coltrane. Welcome back to
, "Fathead." New York
It had been my plan to use the 1967 version of To The Holy Land from The House of David Atlantic LP as the audio track on the following video tribute to David "Fathead" Newman, but WMG had other ideas and muted the audio when the video was uploaded to YouTube.
So instead we turned to the 1980 version of the tune Michael references in his notes to the Resurgence LP with David on tenor sax, along with Marcus Belgrave on trumpet, Ted Dunbar on guitar, Cedar Walton on piano, Buster Williams on bass and Louis Hayes on drums.
And if you are in the mood for contrasts, with the help of the crackerjack graphics team at CerraJazz
LTD, I also developed another video that shows actual images of The Holy Land, in this case, , with a big band version of Cedar's tune for the sound track as provided by the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw. Peter Beets does the solo honors on piano. Jerusalem
Curtis Amy: Testifyin' Texas Tenor
© -
tenor sound is a phenomenon in itself. David "Fathead" Newman, Don Wilkerson, Booker Ervin, James Clay, King Curtis and Texas Felder were some of its major exponents to emerge in the fifties. As different as their styles were, they shared a rich, hard, vibrato-less sound and a clear, deliberate articulation. Wilton
The sound is strong, sure and prideful, but with an underlying vulnerability. It's passionate. … Cannonball Adderley described it as 'a moan inside the tone.' …"
Michael Cuscuna, 1997
One could certainly add the name of Curtis Amy to the above list of Texas Tenor saxophonists.
Soul and Funk were the big, new discoveries of a number of Jazz record companies in the early 1960s. With their heavy backbeats and simple melodic refrains, the soulful and funky Jazz styles appealed to a wider audience, particularly those who liked their Jazz laced with a heavy dose of rhythm and blues.
The origins or "roots" [an "in" word for those times] of soulful and funky Jazz supposedly were to be found in their connection to the religious music that was sung and played in southern Baptist and Pentecostal churches. Music, as well as, prayer was one means of penitence, or, in the parlance of the times, testifyin or signifyin' one's spiritual allegiance.
Bluesy albums set to a boogaloo beat were another by-product of this era of Jazz commercialism and words like "funky" and "groovy" and "soulful" were plastered all over LP covers.
It was a fun music to play, especially if you were a drummer. Nothing complicated. Music played at slow-to-moderate tempos, with melodies mainly derived from 12-bar blues and lots of rim shots or two-beat shuffles tapped out on the snare and bass drums.
The vocal epitome of this style of music was "brother" Ray Charles whose tambourine-totting background singers were always there to show the audience where to clap their hands or stomp their feet on the second and fourth beats of every bar of the music.
But, hey, even Jazz musicians have to eat and pay the rent and the popularity of Soul and Funk provided lots of gigs until the dramatic rise of Rock 'n Roll took things in a different direction in the 1960s.
Tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy came to prominence during this era and the titles of some of his recordings – The Blues Message, Meetin' Here, Way Down, Groovin' Blue, - are reflective of it.
With the exception of Katanga which was issued as a limited edition CD in 1998 by Blue Note as part of its West Coast Classics series [CDP 94580], none of Amy's output for Pacific Jazz was reissued digitally until
Michael Cuscuna and his team at Mosaic Records collected all six of the Amy Pacific Jazz LP's and put them out as a 3-CD Mosaic Select boxed-set in 2003.
Here is the text from mosaicrecords.com announcing this set.
The Bluesy Drive of a Great
Tenor. Texas
"There's nothing quite like the mournful cry or the bluesy drive of a great
tenor saxophonist. Curtis Amy was of the same generation as Booker Ervin, David Fathead Newman, James Clay and Wilton Felder, but his time in the jazz spotlight was brief. Amy had a beautiful sound and a style that was both muscular and lyrical. Although he had a long and successful career in his transplanted home of Texas , much of it was spent doing high profile studio work and working with his wife, the extraordinary Merry Clayton. Los Angeles
During his years with Pacific Jazz (1960-63), he recorded six superb albums that revealed an artist who constantly challenged himself as an improviser and as a composer. After The Blues Message and Meetin' Here, two soulful collaborations with organist Paul Bryant, he moved into more textured hard bop surroundings, fronting sextets with varied instrumentation. He and Frank Butler co-led Groovin' Blue, which features Carmell Jones and Bobby Hutcherson. Way Down includes Roy Ayers, Marcus Belgrave, Victor Feldman and valve trombonist Roy Brewster among others.
Tippin' On Through was recorded live at the Lighthouse with Ayers and Brewster among others. Amy's final album for the label
is regarded as his masterpiece; it featured the legendary trumpeter Dupree Bolton as well as Ray Crawford and Jack Wilson. From the furious be-bop of the title tune to the lament "Lonely Woman" to the hypnotic, extended performance of " Katanga ", Amy's work as an improviser and composer is at its zenith. Trumpeter Dupree Bolton, who made an impressive debut on Harold Land's "The Fox" three years earlier, is absolutely dazzling with a brash attack, formidable chops and very original ideas. Native Land
Although he made two more albums (in 1966 and 1994) and recorded with Gerald Wilson and Onzy Matthews, the six albums that he made for Pacific Jazz – all contained in this Mosaic Select set represent his greatest legacy. Amazingly, five of them make their appearance on CD for the first time."
Thomas Conrad offered the following review of the Mosaic Select: Curtis Amy set in the May 2004 edition of JazzTimes.
© -Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes, May 2004, copyright protected; all rights reserved.
"For all those who have regarded Mosaic boxed sets as the gold standard among jazz reissue programs, the recently introduced Mosaic Select series requires some spirit of compromise. The seventh release in the series, for example, provides only six short paragraphs of current retrospective on the career of tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy. In a "real" Mosaic collection, we would have gotten a full-size catalog, an extravagance of session photos and a new in-depth essay by a leading Amy authority with voluminous discographical data. In this three-CD set, we get only the undistinguished original liner notes.
But if the Select series is budget-challenged, it is also free to go where big Mosaic boxed sets cannot-for example, to artists whose recorded output is sparse, and/or whose appeal is limited to (in Mosaic founder/producer
Michael Cuscuna's words) "a relatively small but discerning audience."
Case in point, Curtis Amy. He came out of
-a fact that is announced with his entrance on the very first track of disc one, "Searchin'." After Paul Bryant's plaintive prologue on Hammond B3, Amy emerges with a huge, long, braying wail, a sound that only emanates from one (Lone Star) state. Houston, Texas
Unlike the other great
tenors who came up in the '40s and '50s (Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb, Booker Ervin, David "Fathead" Newman, et. al.), Amy went west. He settled in Texas in 1955, became active on the Los Angeles scene and recorded six LPs for Richard Bock's Pacific label between 1960 and 1963. All six are here, and only one of them, L.A. !, has ever been previously reissued on CD. Between 1963 and 1994, Amy recorded only once under his own name. During these years he played in Katanga big bands, toured with Ray Charles, and worked as a studio musician, record company executive, and actor. He died at the age of 72 in 2002. L.A.
Amy was more than just a special player. He was a commanding figure with a big, blustering sound and chops to burn, a teller of definitive tales of the soul. The first two albums represented, The Blues Message and Meetin' Here, with the little known Bryant, are examples of the tenor/organ combo genre as powerful as anything that ever came out of
. Amy could testify with anyone, and he was also an exceptional ballad interpreter ("Come Rain or Come Shine," "Angel Eyes"). New York
The progress of these six albums moves from deep blues grooves to more textured and sophisticated-but still soulful-approaches. Along the way, a door is opened to a subset of West Coast jazz much earthier than the famous "cool school," while still reflecting a sunnier environment than that of East Coast hard bop. Amy surrounds himself with some of the best players of that time and place, like Carmell Jones and Dupree Bolton and Frank Strazzeri and Frank Butler. But his own clarion, assertive voice always dominates.
The collection culminates in what
Michael Cuscuna calls "Amy's masterpiece," !. It is indeed an album where everything magically works, from inspiration through execution. Pianist Jack Wilson and guitarist Ray Crawford use their allotted space beautifully, and Amy, in a stunning purity of tone, introduces his new instrument, soprano saxophone. But Katanga ! will always be remembered as the last documented appearance on record of trumpeter Dupree Bolton, one of the most mysterious and tragic figures in the history of jazz. Katanga Bolton could spit fire and turn the flames into music on a level approaching Clifford Brown. But after ! he disappeared into prisons, institutions and a life on the streets." Katanga
The following video montage features Curtis Amy on soprano saxophone playing his original composition Lonely Woman. The tune is included on the Mosaic Select set and the
CD. Curtis is joined by Dupree Bolton on trumpet, Ray Crawford on guitar, Jack Wilson on piano, Victor Gaskin on bass and Doug Sides on drums. Katanga


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August 5, 2010
Carrot & White Bean Salad
Serves 6
- 1 pound carrots
- ¼ pound dried white beans
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley or lovage
- 2 tsp finely chopped mint leaves
- Soak the beans over night.
- Cook the beans, and then give a cold rinse.
- Peel and grate carrots.
- Mix the lemon juice with the salt, and then whisk in the oil.
- Toss with carrots, beans, parsley and mint and season with pepper to taste.
Kale and Rice and Nori
- 1 head of Kale
- about 2 cups leftover cold rice
- 1 or 2 sheets of Nori
- about 4 tsp rice vinegar
- about 2 tsp soy sauce
- white pepper to taste
- Wash Kale, chop it into thin strips and wilt it in boiling water/steam it over boiling water for 8 minutes.
- Dump the Kale into a colander, run cold water over it, and then press out the excess water.
- Break the rice apart so that it's not in big chunks.
- Cut the nori into thin strips and mix the rice, kale, and nori together.
- Add seasoning.
Serves 6
- 2 bunches beets with greens (about 8-9 medium beets)
- ½ cup chopped onion
- One-pound can stewed tomatoes
- 3 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/3 cup vegan sugar
- vegan sour cream to taste
- dill to taste
- Scrub and clean beets, but don't peel them. Save the greens.
- Place beets in large pot, add onion and cover with 3 quarts of water.
- Simmer for one hour, or until beets are very tender. Remove beets from water, but SAVE the water.
- Discard onions. Finely chop beets and return to water. Wash and chop greens and add to water. Add tomatoes, lemon juice, and sweetener.
- Cook over medium heat for 30 minutes or until greens are tender. Chill for at least 2 hours before serving.
- Add a dollop of sour cream and sprinkle with the chopped dill.
Plum Crisp
- 3 lbs plums
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp cloves
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup rolled oats
- ½ cup flour
- 6 tbsp Earth Balance
- Chop plums.
- Mix with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
- Mix the rolled oats, flour and sugar, and cut in the butter.
- Pour the fruit mixture into a buttered baking pan.
- Top the fruit mixture with the flour mixture.
- Bake at 375°F for 30-45 minutes.
July 29, 2010
Spicy cumin couscous
Serves 4
- 1 cup couscous
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp salt (start with less than that and add more to taste)
- 1 cup corn kernels
- ½ cup red onion, finely chopped
- ¼ cup fresh cilantro, minced
- 1 jalapeño, minced
- 3 Tablespoons roasted garlic olive oil
- 3 to 4 Tablespoons lime juice
- Place couscous, cumin and salt in a in a large heatproof bowl or storage container and pour 1 cup boiling water on top.
- Cover tightly and let sit until all the liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes.
- If the couscous is not quite tender, add an additional 1/4 cup of boiling water, cover, and let sit for a few minutes longer.
- Fluff up with a fork.
- Toss in corn, red onion, cilantro, jalapeño, garlic and lime juice.
Hot and Sour Chickpeas
Serves 6
- 12 oz chickpeas
- 2 med onions (minced small)
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 8 oz tomatoes (peeled and finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp ground coriander
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground fenugreek
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp onions (minced very small)
- 2 jalapeños
- 1 inch cube ginger, grated
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp chopped coriander
- Soak chickpeas overnight.
- Drain, cover with water, and simmer 1¼-ish hours until deliciously tender (reserve cooking liquid).
- Fry the two onions vegetable oil till tinged with brown (about 10 min).
- Add tomatoes and fry for another 10 minutes at medium low heat, stirring and mashing tomatoes.
- Add ground coriander, cumin, fenugreek and cinnamon, and stir and fry for about 30 seconds. ***careful! This is where it will start to stick, keep the heat low and stir like crazy.
- Add the chickpeas and 1½ cups of the cooking liquid, and simmer gently for ~20 min (make sure the chickpeas are really soft and delicious. If they are even a little bit crunchy, just keep them going. The more simmering the more delicious they will be. But don't let them fall apart. ***be even more careful! This is where it will want to burn. Don't let it!
- Mix separately the 2 tbsp onions, jalapeños, ginger, lemon juice and fresh coriander.
Kachumber (Indian Cucumber Tomato Carrot Salad)
- 2 carrots, grated
- 2 firm tomatoes, chopped
- 1/3 red onion
- 1 big cucumber finely chopped
- ¼ cup fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp white vinegar (seriously. White.)
- 1 tbsp white sugar (yep.)
- ½ tsp chili powder
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 6 mint leaves, chopped
- Mix everything besides the mint and chill overnight.
- Garnish with the mint.
Peach Cake
(recipe might be found eventually)
July 15, 2010
Young beet salad with lemony-dill vinaigrette
- 5 young beets, with greens included (average beet diameter 1 inch)
- 3 beets without greens (average beet diameter 2.5 inches)
- a few sprigs of dill
- 10 mL lemon juice
- 10 mL apple cider vinegar
- 15 mL olive oil
- Trim the stems off the beets, leaving a stub, and set the leaves aside in the refrigerator.
- Boil the beetroots; large and small beets must be cooked in separate pots, or added at staggered times, because smaller beets cook faster. Boil until tender.
- Once cooked, plunge into cold water. This will loosen the skins.
- Remove the skins and taproot with hands, and slice off the remaining stem tops.
- Wait until the beets cool, and dice them into cubes smaller than 1 cm.
- Wash the dill, and mince finely, leaving out stems.
- Mix together with the olive oil, the lemon juice, and the apple cider vinegar. Whisk thoroughly, and set aside for about an hour.
- Pour approximately half the dressing over the warm beets.
- Wash the leaves, and remove the stems below the leaf.
- Slice the leaves into 2cm wide sections.
- Steam the leaves for no more than 30 seconds, until just tender.
- Mix in with the rest of the salad, and add the remaining dressing.
Parsley pesto pasta salad with beans and sweet peas
- 50 grams pasta (farfalle or rotini)
- a small bundle of parsley
- a small bundle of arugula
- 6 or 7 cloves of garlic
- 15 green and yellow beans
- 15 sweet peas
- 5 mL rice vinegar
- 25 mL olive oil
- Skin the garlic, and halve.
- Wash the parsley and chop coarsely.
- Wash the arugula and mince.
- Put the garlic and parsley into the food processor until they form a paste, and slowly add the olive oil.
- Mix in the arugula and set aside in the fridge.
- Wash the beans and peas.
- Trim the beans' ends, and chop the peas into 1cm sections.
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and add pasta.
- Cook for about fifteen minutes or until al dente.
- Rinse under cold water.
- Sprinkle with the rice vinegar.
- Combine the beans, peas, pesto and pasta, mix well, and refrigerate. Serve chilled.
Broasted barbecue tofu with purple mustard leaf
- 2 pounds, or 1 kg of tofu
- 2 small cans, or 500 mL, of tomato paste
- ½ cup tamari or Braggs
- ¼ cup blackstrap molasses
- ¼ cup nutritional yeast
- a few chipotles in adobo
- 2 heads purple mustard leaf
- ½ cup olive oil
- Whisk together the tomato paste, tamari, molasses, nutritional yeast, adobo chilies, and 1/3 cup of olive oil.
- Wash the tofu and slice into 1-cm-thick slabs.
- Lightly oil each slab and place into a tub, covering each layer with barbecue sauce.
- Preheat the ovens to 400 degrees
- Bake/roast/broast the tofu for about 15 minutes, turning occasionally.
- Ladle a little of the left-over barbeque sauce over the broasted tofu.
- Wash the mustard leaf thoroughly.
- Slice into very thin strips, and arrange on top of the broasted tofu.
Apricot cinnamon coffeecake
- 1½ cup berries or fresh fruit, diced
- 1 cup soy or rice milk
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sucranat sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 8 tablespoons Earth Balance
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1¼ teaspoon baking soda
- Wash the fruit.
- Slice to remove the stone, and mince into small pieces.
- Toss the fruit in 3 tablespoons of flour until coated.
- Preheat the over to 350, and use small amount of Earth Balance to grease the pans.
- Combine the rice milk and vinegar and set aside.
- Grind the flaxseed, and mix with 3 tablespoons of water. Set aside.
- Mix together 1/3 cup flour, ¼ cup sugar, and the cinnamon. Cut in ¼ cup cold Earth Balance, until crumbly. Put in cold fridge.
- Sift together the rest of the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In a very large mixing bowl, cream the rest of the Earth Balance with the rest of the sugar. Alternate adding flour and milk, mixing only enough to combine. Fold in the flaxseed mixture, and then the fruit.
- Spread the batter into the pans, and cover with crumbly topping.
- Bake about 35 minutes or until done.
June 10, 2010
Quinoa Soup with Vegetables and Charmoula sauce
Quinoa was used in place of Couscous for this recipe. Feel free to experiment with different grains.
8 servings
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- ¼ tsp hot red pepper flakes
- 1 cup quinoa
- 1 leek, trimmed and diced
- 1 carrot, diced
- 1 zucchini, diced
- 1 sweet red pepper, diced
- 1 cup diced sweet potato
- 8 cups vegetable stock
- 2 cups peas, fresh or frozen
- Charmoula sauce (recipe follows)
- Soak and rinse the quinoa for 10 minutes.
- Heat oil in stock pot. Add onion and garlic and cook until tender. Add paprika, cumin and hot pepper flakes. Cook for about 30 seconds, or until fragrant.
- Add quinoa and stir to coat well. Do not let it toast for too long.
- Add leek, carrot, zucchini, red pepper, sweet potato and stock. Bring to boil. Cook for about 15 minutes, or until quinoa is almost tender.
- Add peas. Heat thoroughly. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
- Ladle soup into bowls. Swirl spoonfuls of Charmoula into each serving.
Charmoula sauce
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp cayenne
- ¼ tsp pepper
- 1 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Puree garlic in food processor. Add paprika, cumin, salt, cayenne and pepper and combine. Add parsley and blend in. Add lemon juice and olive oil and puree (you should have about 1/3 cup / 75mL).
Vegan Tzatziki Sauce
Makes roughly 2 2/3 cups
- 1 pkg silken tofu (the firmer the tofu, the more viscous)
- juice from 1 lemon (about 1/4 cup)
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp canola oil
- 1 tsp salt
- freshly ground pepper
- 3 tsp dried dill
- ¼ tsp paprika
- pinch of cayenne
- 1 cup finely chopped cucumber
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
- Blend tofu, lemon juice, garlic, oil and spices together in a blender, or with an immersion blender in a container.
- Place diced cucumber in a towel and squeeze out excess moisture. Add to sauce along with the parsley. Pulse the blender several times to incorporate. Refrigerate until needed.
Falafel Patties
- 1 15-oz. can chickpeas, drained
- 2 gloves garlic
- ½ small onion
- 3 tablespoons sesame tahini
- ½ cup flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- ¼ cup quinoa flour, plus more if needed
- 1 tsp sea salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ¼ teaspoon ground coriander
- olive oil for brushing on patties
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- In a food processor, combine all of the ingredients except for the olive oil. Process until smooth and there are no large pieces remaining. Using hands, roll into golf-ball sized pieces. If mixture is too dry, add a bit of oil; if it's too wet, add a bit more quinoa flour. Flatten into patties, and lightly brush both sides with a bit of olive oil.
- Arrange falafels on a baking sheet. Oven temperatures will vary, cook for roughly 15-20 minutes, then flip the patties and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Each side should be slightly browned and crispy.
- Alternatively, you may pan fry the patties on high-heat, and cook each side until lightly browned. Transfer to a plate with paper towel on it.
Saffron Rice Pudding - (Sholezard)
Shole Zard is a sweet Iranian dessert made of saffron, sugar, and rice.
12 servings
- 2½ cups of rice
- 12 cups of water
- A pinch of salt
- 2½ cups of sugar
- 1 cup of rose water (optional)
- 1 teaspoon of saffron
- ¾ cup of slivered almonds (optional)
- ¾ cup of whole/chopped/crushed pistachios (optional)
- 2 tablespoons of cinnamon
- Rinse rice in cold water. Change the water every now and then until the water stays relatively clear. Avoid draining.
- Place rice and water mixture in pot and bring to a boil.
- Cook for 20-25 minutes, or until rice is tender. When cooking, skim the top occasionally.
- Add the sugar while you continue to stir constantly and boil gently. The mixture will thicken, like a custard, and you will not longer be able to see the grains of rice.
- Dissolve the saffron in another small bowl or a cup in the hot water and add to the pot.
- Optional: Stir in rose water and slivered almonds.
- Stir over medium or low heat until mixture becomes thick.
- Pour the mixture into a separate bowl, sprinkle the cinnamon and optional toppings on the mixture.
- Cool before serving.
May 27, 2010
West Indies Soup
- 1 medium onion
- 3 roughly chopped carrots
- 1 roughly chopped quarter celery root
- 8 cups of water, broth, beer, or some combination of those
- 1 large diced yam
- 1 squash (pick a type)
- 1 can coconut milk
- leafy greens
- dry roasted coriander, cumin, cinnamon
- In a large pot fry onion until translucent.
- Add carrots and celery root. Sweat them until they begin to caramelize.
- Add liquid, yam and squash.
- Bring to boil, cover and simmer until yam is cooked and squash is mushy.
- Turn to low heat or take off heat.
- Add one can coconut milk, leafy greens and spices.
- Cover and let sit for ten minutes or so.
Caribbean Rice with Red Beans and Chiles
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small red onion, minced
- 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 or 2 small, fresh hot chilis, seeded and minced
- 2 garlic gloves, minced
- ½ teaspoon peeled and minced fresh ginger
- ½ teaspoon brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground allspice
- ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup couscous
- 1 cup water
- 1 15 oz. can dark red kidney beans
- Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the onion, bell pepper, chiles, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, salt, allspice, thyme, and nutmeg.
- Cover and cook, stirring, until the bell pepper has softened, about 10 minutes.
- Stir in the couscous to coat with the oil.
- Stir in the water, cover, and let stand for five minutes.
- Stir in the beans and cook until hot, about five minutes.
- Taste and adjust the seasonings.
- Serve hot.
Turkish Tomato Salad
- 2 large tomatoes (or 4 medium), chopped
- ½ large cucumber, peeled and diced
- ½ yellow pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ cup parsley, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Spicy V-8 (or tomato juice)
- generous grating black pepper
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon cumin
- salt to taste (optional)
- Combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Serve immediately or chill for an hour.
- Try it in a pita with hummus or on top of a green salad.
Chai Latte Cupcakes
- 1 cup soy or rice milk
- 4 black teabags or 2 tablespoons loose black tea
- ¼ cup canola oil
- ½ cup plain or vanilla soy yogurt
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- pinch of ground white or black pepper
- ½ cup confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Preheat oven to 375 and line tin with cupcake liners. In a small saucepan heat soy milk till almost boiling, add tea bags, cover and remove from heat. Let sit for 10 minutes.When ready to use stir teabags and thoroughly squeeze to insure as much tea is dissolved in milk as possible.
- In a large bowl whisk together oil, yogurt, sugar, vanilla and tea mixture until all yogurt lumps disappear. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cardamom,
- ginger, cloves, and pepper into wet ingredients. Mix until large lumps disappear; some small lumps are okay. Fill tins full and bake about 20 to 22 minutes until a sharp knife inserted comes out clean.
- Make sure cupcakes are completely cooled before adding topping, or the sugar will melt.
- To assemble, sift confectioners sugar over cooled cupcakes first, then mix cinnamon and nutmeg together and sift onto each cupcake.
Thanks as always to our wonderful photographer Jono.
Happy cooking and hope to see you next Thursday!

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A survey on narcotics in two border districts of Arunachal Pradesh (AP) has disclosed the widespread cultivation of opium and its rampant addiction among the people, including security personnel.The survey was conducted by the Institute of Narcotics Studies and Analysis on behalf of the state government in Anjaw and Lohit districts, which border China and Myanmar.It has come out with disturbing findings. According to India Today, an overwhelming majority (90 per cent) of the villages in Anjaw had all families cultivating opium, while in Lohit, the corresponding figure was 63 per cent.According to the 2001 census, Anjaw has a population of 18,428 while Lohit's population stands at 1.43 lakh and as many as 186 villages out of a total 226 in Anjaw and 95 villages out of 232 in Lohit said opium was their main source of income.The survey, which took seven months to complete and has been submitted to the state government, states that opium cultivation in these districts has been going on for ages and the villagers object strongly to any government's step to destroy the cultivation.A source involved in the survey said the government was not serious about eradicating the narcotics trade from these villages despite the fact that opium addiction was increasing by the day.There is around 3,460 hectares of land in Anjaw and 12,981 hectares land in Lohit, which produces opium.The survey expressed its surprise over the fact that "those villages which had benefited most from development were the ones cultivating opium on a commercial scale". When asked why they cultivated opium, 59.5 per cent villages in Anjaw cited "huge money in a short period" as the main reason, followed by over 15 per cent which said it was their main source of income. The corresponding figures for Lohit were 36 per cent and 15.1 per cent respectively. As many as 87.8 per cent of the villages in Anjaw and 96 per cent in Lohit said opium cultivation was more profitable.In Anjaw, 36 per cent villages and in Lohit, 15.1 per cent villages had buyers who were government employees or from the armed forces.In Anjaw, 47.7 per cent villages and in Lohit, 39.9 per cent villages reported that they are ready to give up opium cultivation if any viable cash crop was introduced with the support of the government.The approximate number of male addicts reported in Lohit was 7,825 while the figure was 1,703 in Anjaw. The survey found 1,075 female addicts in Lohit and 210 in Anjaw.Romesh Bhattacharji, president, Institute of Narcotics Studies and Analyses, said the two districts had borders with China and Myanmar and were exceedingly attractive. "If rural tourism is encouraged, many people will benefit. Of such a development there is still no sign, neither are there many facilities," the former narcotics commissioner of India said."All encompassing development that covers all villages fairly is essential. Most villages in the interiors are still not electrified, have no roads or access to medical facilities," he added.
Ikato Y Kiho, first Naga to join National School of Drama in New Delhi
I must be the perfect role model: Ikato Y Kiho is the first person from Nagaland to study in the prestigious


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A quick 4 hrs to paint them up.. but dedicated to the slime gods indeed. I had a lot of fun painting them up, and below are some of the step by step photos of the work on them. Really easy to paint up in the end.
Also I have to give credit where credit is due here.. Ron from fromthewarp Blog fame ( who is taking an undetemined hiatus from the blog-o-sphere ) was the one that helped me come up with the color scheme for the guys here. Starting with Rakesh Flesh, and washed with Delvan mud a few times to give it the appropriate shade. Then just streaking it with green, brown and black accordingly.
Hope you enjoy, and have a great weekend! I'm off to Mersin to attend a wedding/engagement/2-people-joining-together-for-the-rest-of-their-life-ceremony with the family. Should be fun!
WIP shots below..
Initial layer of Rakesh flesh primed over black with the airbrush.
Initial wash of Delvan mud ( Army painter Strong Tone now )..
Boltgun metal for all metal parts..
Tallern Flesh for the organic pieces..
More Army Painter Strong, and Dark Tone washes applied here..
Some details picked out like the vials backpack, and the streaking of goo begins..
And again, finished produce with rush effects added. Lenses all done with Forged Monkey Laser Red pigments!


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Za Pizza
Casual, Comfortable and Low-key
by alanna hale on May 28, 2009
As the cable car rattles by, regulars flow in and out in steady rotation, with as many people sitting down to eat as picking up orders to go. One server attends to the five tables on the floor, while six stools offer seats at the counter. There is often also a table outside.
On the night of our visit we were able to snag a table immediately. A whiteboard at the counter listed the four slices of the day: each day offers one vegetarian and one meat special in addition to pepperoni and cheese. The menu for the whole pies is slightly larger, with seven specialty pizzas ($22/$26) and the option to customize your own. With names like Da Vincis Palette and Vincent Van Dough, the specialty pizzas utilize tried and true combinations. If you follow the menus prompt to Create your own masterpiece, there's a nice array of toppings to chose from, comfortably hovering just above or below two dollars each.
Not noted on the menu was the restaurants beverage list: four beers on tap ($4) and just two options for wine, red or white. Our server couldnt say where the wines were from -- only that theyre both available by the glass ($5) or bottle ($14). Beer seemed the appropriate and obvious choice.
We began with the Monet's Garden Salad ($6/$8), one of the two salads on the menu. A simple, straightforward salad with assorted veggies and a housemade basil vinaigrette, the small salad was enough to feed three as a first course. It arrived at the table nearly overflowing out of the bowl.
Our pizzas arrived shortly after, taking up most of the table space. Two medium pies yielded four slices per person -- big slices, too, with a stiff cornmeal crust that could easily be folded. The gritty cornmeal provided a seriously crunchy counterpart to the slightly sweet dough. Though one diner among us compared the bits of cornmeal to sand getting stuck in their teeth, everyone sincerely enjoyed the pizzas.
The Potesto ($22) sported thin but substantial slices of red potato, cloves of roasted garlic, fresh pesto and mozzarella, with ground pepper speckling the surface. The thin dough had no char, but the crust had nice golden color at the edges, slightly springy beneath the perfectly cooked potatoes.
Our second pizza was slightly thicker and with more color on the bottom, but the doughs flavor stayed nearly the same. As the meat special of the day, the Sweet Van Damn ($22) had sausage and thin strips of basil atop a thick layer of red sauce and cheese. The sausage was too finely ground and too crumbly -- more caramelization on more substantial chunks of meat would have bumped up the flavor. Nevertheless, we were pleased to see that the ingredients were scattered evenly over the pizza and up to the edge of the crust.
Our friendly if utilitarian server commended our efforts to finish both pies, but we were happy to have two slices left to take home. Though they were fine the next day, they were unquestionably better straight from the oven.
Za Pizza is everything youd expect from a neighborhood pizza joint: the atmosphere is casual and low-key, the people friendly, and theres free delivery to boot. All in all, it is not a pizza worth traveling across town for, but if youre in the neighborhood -- and in the mood for pizza -- certainly stop in for a slice. Your mind wont be blown, but neither will your budget, which is a bonus for dining in this neighborhood.
Russian Hill
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by alanna hale on May 28, 2009
Photo credit: Alanna Hale
Photo credit: Alanna Hale
Photo credit: Alanna Hale


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So 'I haven't written for a while' would be kind of an understatement. Yes, I do realize that I have been neglecting you all for quite some time. I still have my queries as to whether anyone ever actually genuinely reads this ... well if you are, then people must. But who are you? Where do you come from? Do I know you? I suppose I will never know.
So since you have gone to all the trouble of reading this far, I suppose I had better tell you what's been going on in my life recently. Well, let's start with everything that has happened (everything major that is ... I don't expect you to be interested in every minute of my life as that would just be sad and kind of creepy) since I last wrote. Let's see, well I went to see Jane Eyre again and ... well, let's just say it wasn't really much better the second time. Oh, and the Julia Child cookbooks arrived and they are AMAZING!! I haven't actually read through them yet but I have flicked through the pages and they look simply divine.


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CD: "The Good, The Bad & The Queen"
I have an image of Damon Albarn (frontman of Blur and Britpop super-group The Good, The Bad & The Queen, and the creator of Gorillaz) as a man who is unable to sit still. This image is reinforced by his powerful cockney phrasing, his rabid piano playing, and the wide terrain of music that he manages to cross with the rest of TGTB&TQ on this eponymous debut.
The high production values of the record, courtesy of Dangermouse, make these rich and luxuriously baroque compositions blend in vibrant and rewarding ways, although what ultimately holds the album back short of greatness is Albarn's creativity. With the exception of the hyper-ballad of instruments on the title track, and a few short but memorable acoustic riffs on the first half of the album, the sound isn't very catchy and the lyrics, lost in gloom and doom, fall far flatter than the uplifting musical experiments. For all that, TGTB&TQ have former Clash bassist Paul Simonon propelling tracks like "History Song" through the pipes with reggae influences and a liberal use of dub technique; there's rarely a chance to catch one's center of gravity. As a result, most of the songs (especially the solar sound of "Baby Bunting") wind up floating in zero-G; lovely, but inaccessible.
Here's the catch: this is still a great album, moody and atmospheric (perhaps a little too much), and though there are many sections that come across as premeditated jams, the first six tracks of this album are some wild tunes. Tony Allen, who is supposedly the best drummer in the world, is horribly underused, and Simon Tong, guitarist from The Verve, is caught in backup, which stifles his acoustic talents. The latter part of the album starts to drift in and out of itself, with natural doubles like "Nature Springs" and "Soldier's Song" lulling the audience into an inattentive bliss. Far better to be surprised by the doo-wop that suddenly cuts into "'80s Life" or to enjoy the techno B-sides of a Gorillaz's album in "Northern Whale."
As for Albarn's political lyrics, they enhance the quality of tracks like "Kingdom of Doom" and "Herculean"; their only problem is their infrequency. There aren't any choruses, and no catchy jingles, which is either a parable for life or just another example of Albarn's restlessness. In any case, if you're looking for some slow, experimentally-driven rock (think Radiohead), and if you like any of Albarn's previous work, this is a rich soundscape for you to delve into.
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As of late I've been comforting myself during these cold, dark winter months with thoughts of what I will (hopefully) be doing next year; this has resulted in endless conversations beginning with, "I wish I was in (insert anywhere but London)..." and "I can't wait to...". Whilst it's wonderful to have something to look forward to and these small things can help boost our morale, it can be harmful and destructive to become so consumed with planning the future that we forget to enjoy the here and now. Let me repeat: it can be harmful and destructive to become so consumed with planning the future that we forget to enjoy the here and now.
I caught myself typing, "I can't wait to..." before I deleted the words and replaced them with a much more fitting, "I look forward to...." At that moment I realised just how damaging this mindset had the potential to be; the truth is I love my life at present, I enjoy what I do and I am blessed to have amazing people around me. Whilst I have every reason to believe that the future will be even better, it's important for me to enjoy the journey.
So next time you find yourselves placing too much emphasis on the future and indulging in escapism, take the time to stop, think and reconsider just how much you have to be grateful for and embrace the now!


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This blog is about the New Testament and Early Christianity. Initial thoughts are not final thoughts, and almost everything here is up for discussion...
Friday, May 23, 2008
Xenophobic Attacks in SA
Finally - Achtemeier!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Review of Green
To read 1 Peter is to be told not how we might think about God, but what God thinks of us. Here in 1 Peter is an invitation to adopt God's way of seeing things and to live accordingly; perhaps better, 1 Peter offers not so much an invitation as an exercise in formation in the character and ways of God. This entails allegiance to Jesus Christ, and not Caesar, as Lord.
Following the Christ who was crucified on a tree determines both internal and external relations; it is profoundly political and missiological act (external) and a commitment to indwelling a terrain determined by the sanctifying Spirit and intramural hospitality (internal). The homeless people of God comprise God's household under construction, and a priesthood whose vocation it is to mediate God's presence wherever they find themselves. As they journey through suffering in hope of eschatological honour, they bear witness in the present to the coming new age.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Review of Elliott's Commentary
Book Reviews
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Fee on Galatians
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Top 10 Influential Scholars
- N. T. Wright. Jesus and the Victory of God awoke me from a deep ignorance concerning the historical Jesus, exegesis, and what good scholarship looks like. The New Testament and the People of God is a must read for every student of the NT. And, his work on the resurrection is WOW! Then add his Romans commentary, his work on Colossians, and his popular commentaries that my wife loves! Wright is the most influential person in my thinking.
- Gordon Fee. I remember spending hours and hours as an undergrad reading his 1 Corinthians commentary and his popular hermeneutics book: How to Read the Bible for All it's Worth. Great commentary on the Pastoral Epistles, even if it was far too short. Excellent exegete, always fair, and never boring.
- Richard Bauckham. Singlehandedly Bauckham has shifted the focus of NT studies in such diverse fields. His work on Jesus and the Eyewitnesses is stunning, 2 Peter and Jude, probably the best commentary on those letters. His stuff on James is great, and the theological reflection exceptionally helpful. The man is a legend, and a contender for the greatest NT scholar alive. Never following the trends, he carves the evidence and shows how things worked back then. Brilliant.
- Craig Evans. Solid historian, opened my eyes to the backgrounds of the NT. Loved his book: Jesus and His Contemporaries, and his new work on Jesus and the Satan will be very good.
- I. H. Marshall. The Dean of NT studies. I remember reading an article on predestination in the NT, which changed my whole understanding. His Luke commentary is still great, and it was published the year I was born! All his commentaries are worth consulting, and his NT Theology is very helpful and informative. Can't wait to read his commentary on John, and his work on Romans.
- Ben Witherington. He's probably taught me more about rhetorical aspects of interpretation than anyone else. Very helpful commentaries that are always close to my research. Always makes me think about the context of the NT letters.
- Wofhart Pannenberg. Proved to me that systematic theology wasn't an utter waste of time. His three volume Systematic Theology is the best systematic theology I've ever read, although Stanley Grenz come's a close 2nd. Pannenberg showed me how exegesis and theology can work together, and exegesis is the building blocks of Systematics.
- Joel Green. I've not read too much of his stuff, but what I have read has shaped my thinking. His commentary on 1 Peter is the best I've read so far, and his commentary on Luke is also probably the best. His book on the atonement really helped me think through the issues.
- Richard Hays. The Moral Vision of the New Testament and his The Faith of Jesus Chrst are exceptional offerings from a scholar who has a clear passion for Scripture and the Church. I'm always happy and challenged when I read his commentaries on Galatians and 1 Corinthians. Hays convinced me that the subjective genitive is the best solution to the Pistis Christou debate. Sorry Nijay!
- C. K. Barrett. One of the best scholars ever. Barrett's commentary on John persuaded me that biblical studies was far better than systematics and philosophy. His commentaries on Paul's letters are all worth serious scrutiny, and his latest offering on Acts is kick ass good.
- Greg Boyd. I first read Boyd's Cynic, Sage or Son of God, and thought it was a helpful response to the Seminar's mistakes. Then I read his popular book: Is God to Blame? which caused an intellectual conversion, and shaped my whole theology. It's one of the most influential books I've ever read.
So, who's your most influential scholars?
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Redemption from the New Perspective?
1 Peter 1:1-2
Πέτρος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐκλεκτοῖς παρεπιδήμοις διασπορᾶς Πόντου Γαλατίας Καππαδοκίας Ἀσίας καὶ Βιθυνίας κατὰ πρόγνωσιν θεοῦ πατρός ἐν ἁγιασμῷ πνεύματος εἰς ὑπακοὴν καὶ ῥαντισμὸν αἵματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη πληθυνθείη
- Are these terms metaphors for the community, or are they legal terms suggesting a definite people group?
- Do they refer to people that held this status before becoming followers of Jesus, or as a result of following Jesus and becoming part of the Christian community?
- And finally, does it have to be either/or or is it possible that writing to such a large group of people would probably entail a mixture of the above views?


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Our Firm is a partnership of two highly respected and long established law firms who came together to form Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace in 2004. Today we have grown to become one of the largest legal firms in the North East of Scotland with a staff of over 150. We have our Head Office and Property Shop in Aberdeen and a strong network of branch offices in Banchory, Ellon, Inverurie and Stonehaven.
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated and efficient Legal Secretary to undertake the following duties:-
Prepare and process legal documentation and forms, using case management systems and databases where applicable;
Audio and copy typing;
Diary management;
Communicating with clients and third parties;
Document management and filing;
Production of accounts and fees;
You will further be required to carry out general administration and reception duties, when required
The Square, Ellon
18 hours per week as follows:-
Mondays and Tuesdays from 09h00 to 17h00 (inclusive of a 1 hour lunch break) and Wednesdays from 09h00 to 13h00.
There is a specific requirement to cover your Job Shares Holidays.
Previous experience as a Legal / Conveyancing Secretary preferred;
The successful applicant should possess above average audio typing and communication skills, excellent attention to detail, a good work ethic, the ability to function well under pressure and the ability prioritise workload accordingly.
Strong IT and administrative skills essential.
Applicants with an HND or similar in Legal Services and/or Law and Management preferred.
It is our practice i) to acknowledge applications; and ii) issue written confirmation if your application is not to be progressed further. However, on grounds of business efficiency, it is not our practice to provide any feedback to any candidate on any unsuccessful application and/or interview.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Christmas All/ Help the kids with a Vote
NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP VOTING TILL DEC 30th! MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL and to ALL a GOOD NIGHT! (Please VOTE) http://www.refresheverything.com/trickrtrot
Take out 2 mins and text 110134 to 73774
Christmas Day Run/Walk
Where: Family Video Auburn, NY
When: 1pm
Get there early to get coffee and hot chocolate
Bring canned goods for the food pantries as registration!
Course is 2 mile run to and around Hoops Park. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
So What If It Hurts?
"There are cases in which it is necessary to inflict pain now to avoid greater pain later on, or to gain future pleasure that is worth the current pain." -SUSAN HUBBARD
So What If It Hurts?
That is exactly how I feel. I sat on those sidelines long enough. I came back with a vengeance and left no stone unturned. I started of on labor day running a 22:47 which is much better than I thought I would do from 15 months of couch sitting. I then gave myself 2 weeks of leeway and then 1o hard weeks on the TW2G plan. So what if it hurts!
So What Is TW2G?
Ten Weeks to Greatness is a plan devised by myself and Jeremy West. This plan also used the teaching of Kevin Collins of the 1st Marathon program in Syracuse which I am a graduate of. This is a plan anyone can try that already has 15-30 minutes of consistent running under their belt. Everyone that has tried the plan has set personal records the week after the program. So how did I do? I customize the plan for the runner and their goals.
So How Did I do?
I started at the classic running a 22:47 which was good for how broken I was then. I really thought if anything I would only be able to improve 1 minute due to the permanent injuries I have sustained. Halfway through the program I was running a 5:50 mile and I was very excited. I set my goal of taking a minute off my time and running 21:47 yesterday. I ended up doing the following:
1 Mile Time: 5:38.37
1.51 Time: 10:02
5k Time: 20:14
Sad thing is I ran with a severe dislocation in my left rib and what feels like a small fracture again for the 4th time over the area of my seat belt. I am proud of how far I came in just 10 weeks and all I have to say is:


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text: After completing some last minute Christmas shopping, I came across a sign at H&M stating another scratch off give away for the first 100 customers the day after Christmas. H&M did the same scratch off on Black Friday, we missed out on it. But we made sure to make it this time. We waited since 5 am, with the store opening at 8 am. Honestly, the wait was not that bad. There was hardly a crowd, Black Friday was 10 X worse. So, I was one of the lucky ones, received a $200 shopping spree and a friend received $300. We decided to split since we came in this together... $250! It all had to be spent that day... Honestly, I always thought that it would be easy, but it really wasn't. Spent a little over 2 hours shopping. Here is my haul.


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(^because it's Thursday::more revealed
Thursday, June 18, 2009
(^ wokin' shoes for gum chewers
(^ long long ago, i had this odd conversation on the coming of a new era.
(^ meanwhile, the way things were was frustratingly implausible
(^ to get past testing beta blockers and then I realized why:
(^ folk were trying to make a living.
(^ and that sometimes meant making sure others
(^ couldn't undercut their bids.
(^ it upset me to no end to know that
(^ the main reason things were done the way they were was because
(^ the older "masters" had clunky old outmoded
(^ (and overpriced)equipment and storage /studio rental costs
(^ that made letting go of it as a biz loss and starting fresh
(^ with a cheaper faster BETTER biz models was unlikely from the outside.
(^ anyone offering it would be hushed over with the "2 out of 3 ain't bad" line.
(^ .. so I started ranting at insiders.
(^ just because i cared.


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I've just finshed piecing the quilt top, and am about to sandwich it ready for quilting - after I collect Eleanor from her kindergarten visit and James from his first school excursion (they went on the train to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens). They'll both need a good nap once they've had some afternoon tea, which should eb plenty fo time to sandwich and start quilting. I still haven't settled on a quilting design yet, though I do have a few ideas. It can't be anything too complicated, because I'm running out of time! In the meantime, here's a third star:
This one uses both the turquoise prints with silver highlights, and has a lovely, glittery sheen. I'm thinking of using silver thread to quilt the stars.
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Another star
4 comments:
- LynCC said...
Silver thread would be perfect! I saw a quilt with snowflakes at the longarmer's being done that way, and the effect was really, really neat.
- 7 June 2011 at 22:27
- Ann Marie said...
I was going to suggest quilting snowflakes with silver thread, but LynCC said it first.
- 7 June 2011 at 22:52
- Peta said...
sounds like a perfect quilting solution. How big is the final quilt going to be?
- 8 June 2011 at 00:16
- Miss Nancy said...
What can I say, this is absolutely stunning! Gorgeous!
Have a super great sewing and stitching day.
- 8 June 2011 at 01:24
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Friday, July 12, 2013
eBay can kill you
To refresh your memory, we wanted to have an induction cooktop on the boat, because they work so much better than conventional resistive electric burners, rivaling gas in the level of control and speed of response. They also use less energy, which is important to us because we plan to run it with the inverter on battery power while we are at anchor.
Were it not for this desire to power the cooktop from the inverter, we could simply have connected it to a 240-volt circuit; both the shore power and generator supply 240 volts, split phase. Our inverter, however, is a 120-volt only model. We briefly considered getting, instead, the 240-volt split-phase version of the same unit (a Magnum Energy Magna-Sine 4024), but that version is not marine-rated, has no neutral-ground bonding relay, and, most importantly, can only supply about 80% of rated output when used for strictly 120-volt loads -- the majority of our planned usage.
Another option was to forgo the dual-burner unit I had my eye on, and instead get two single-burner, US-spec 120-volt induction units. The problem here was that our very limited counter space could not accommodate two units front-to-back, and if we put them side-by-side one unit would be partly under a fairly low overhead cabinet, creating a possible fire hazard as well as the possibility of damaging the cabinet with steam and other cooking fumes.
Instead I opted to convert the 120-volt inverter output to 240 volts just for the cooktop circuit. This is a pretty straightforward process, done all the time in industrial settings by using a simple device known as an autotransformer. This is nothing more than a transformer where the primary and secondary sides share a common winding, and these can be used to step voltage up, from say 120 to 240 volts, or, by connecting the same device the other way around, to step voltage down, for example from 240 volts to 120 volts.
Commercial autotransformers in the three kilowatt range, what we needed for our cooktop, can be quite pricey, so instead I bought mine on eBay. I chose a vendor with a shipping warehouse in the U.S., but there was no question that I was buying product from China, almost directly. In fact, I buy quite a few items direct from China when I need them -- some of the quality is actually quite good, and there are bargains to be had. And it's not as if one can buy, for example, a video camera made in the U.S. -- it just doesn't exist.
The brand turned out to be "Seven Star," even though the seller had carefully blocked that out on his listing photos. There were quite a few auctions for what appeared to be identical units, and I am guessing any seller I chose would have shipped me the same "Seven Star" model.
I tested the unit as soon as it arrived, carefully checking input and output parameters such as voltage, and I even boiled some water on the induction cooktop to make sure it would all work together. Then I set it all aside until I was ready to install the cooktop.
As part of the cooktop project, I had to source a circuit breaker and some appropriately rated wire to hook up the whole system. I wanted a toggle-type breaker mounted near the unit, so we could shut off power to the transformer itself when the cooktop is not in use. Otherwise, the transformer would be using a small amount of power all the time, even with the cooktop off, dissipated as waste heat -- not where you want your battery power to be going.
It was then that I realized that the European-style power cord on the transformer, which also came with an adapter to connect it to North American outlets, was suspiciously thin. The size stamped on the cord was 2mm2 (the rest of the world sizes wire in square millimeters of cross-section), which works out to around 15 AWG. That's about right, at 240 volts, to carry the transformer's rated 3,000 watts, which would be just over 12 amps. But the way this particular model works, the cord is used on the input side for both step-down and step-up modes, with a selector switch determining which mode is operative. At 120 volts, this cord could be carrying as much as 25 amps.
By any standards of safety, that much current requires at least 12 AWG (4mm2), double what was provided. Here in the US, code mandates that it actually be 10 AWG (6mm2), treble what was provided. I decided it would be unsafe to use the transformer as delivered, but I hoped I could resolve the issue simply by replacing the power cord with 10-gauge boat cable. I had already planned to cut the plug off the cord and hard-wire it anyway.
The real surprise came when I opened the unit up to replace the cord. What I found inside was appalling. For starters, not only was the cord 2mm2, but so too was all the internal wiring between the cord, the switch, the fuse holder, and the outlet built into the back side of the unit. This outlet is a "dual mode" type, which will accept both European style 220-230 volt plugs (two round pins) or North American style plugs with two blades and an optional ground pin.
It gets worse. As long as I had the unit open, I had a careful look at all the parts. The transformer windings themselves looked fine, and the transformer pigtail looked to be about 12-gauge, acceptable as AWM. The aforementioned selector switch, which, by its very nature is involved in both the high current and low current side of the equation, was rated at just 3 amps at 125 volts, or 2 amps at 250. That would be suitable for a device capable of, at most, 500 watts -- just one sixth of the intended capacity of the transformer. Worse, the rating in our intended use, in the step-up mode, is just 375 watts, one eighth of what we need.
To top all this off, the inline fuse holder, providing a false sense of security to any unsuspecting consumer, is rated at just 15 amps, but was pre-equipped with a 30-amp fuse. Two 30-amp fuses were supplied as spares. The 15-amp rating would be fine for 3,000 watts in step-down mode, but then the fuse should also be at most 15 amps. The installation of the 30-amp fuse confirms that the manufacturer well understood that the unit would be expected to carry 25 amps in the step-up mode. Yet they deliberately chose significantly undersized components in the assembly.
To make matters worse, the (undersized) wire connecting all these items was merely soldered to the tangs, as you can see in the photos. It was not first twisted through holes or in any other way mechanically secured before soldering. This would pretty much guarantee that, in a prolonged 3,000-watt usage episode, the tiny connecting wires and maybe even the undersized parts themselves would heat up to the point of softening the solder considerably, which might lead to an internal wire coming loose and possibly creating a short circuit.
In short, this transformer is a serious hazard, possibly a death trap. I've broken the warranty by opening up the case, so I am stuck with it, but I did alert the seller through eBay's system. He was blasé, telling me simply to "contact the manufacturer" (yeah, right -- in China), you know, the one whose name he deliberately obscured in his listing. And I have a good mind to file a complaint with the CPSC.
As for my own application, I opted to completely remove both the under-rated switch and fuse holder, and run my 10 AWG boat cable directly to the transformer inputs. We don't need the switch because we will only use the transformer in one mode (step-up) and the fuse is redundant for the magnetic-hydraulic circuit breaker I've installed in line with the supply wiring. I added better case grounding to the unit, but left the output wiring alone as it was sufficient for the lower current on the output side. We needed the special outlet to accept the European plug from the induction cooktop -- I did not want to void another warranty by cutting the plug off that, too.
I will remain a bit nervous about this until we have a solid track record of use. In the interim, I will keep an eye on things using my infrared pyrometer, ensuring that operating temperatures remain in an acceptable range. I also made sure to install the case with plenty of free air space around it.
The lesson here, of course, is caveat emptor. There are plenty of unscrupulous sellers on eBay, and plenty of off-shore manufacturers, out of reach of US laws and codes, willing to supply them with inferior and outright dangerous products. eBay does have some buyer protection policies in place, but the average consumer would have no way of looking at this product, without disassembling it, and knowing just how dangerous it is.
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- Phil L.Jul 12, 2013, 4:11:00 PM
Wow - I've run into some under-sized wiring component issues in the past, but your example takes the prize. This unit - as delivered - is merely waiting to surprise anyone who would use it anywhere near its full rating.ReplyDelete
I agree with your approach: I suspect that the transformer windings themselves - based on your inspection - are up to the task. I'll wager the transformer probably came from a different factory than the final, completed unit. The transformer factory likely supplies units for many different applications, some of which will draw the full current rating - so they're configured to meet standards that other assembly-only entities don't bother to meet.
I applaud your intent of notifying the supplier, but I'd sadly agree that the manufacturer cares little.
Once again: Thanks for going to the trouble to share what you learn on each project. I pay close attention, and plan to make use of these lessons in the future!
How long can you cook without depleting the batteries?ReplyDeleteReplies
That's a great question. The answer depends on what we're cooking. I expect that, as now, we will seldom use both burners together, and even the single burner will rarely be on its maximum setting (1,500 watts). Typical usage is more like 500 watts, which comes out to about 23 amps at 24 volts (accounting for losses). As the batteries, once they are replaced, should give us about 700 amp-hours, of which 80% is usable, that would let us cook at that rate for a full 24 hours continuously. Alternatively, if we cranked both burners up to the full 3,000 watts, we could cook for four straight hours on a full charge, assuming nothing else is using any power.Delete
In practice, on the bus, with a single 1,300-watt induction hob, we never worried about its effect on the battery capacity. Cooking for a half hour or so is just in the noise level. When we want to cook longer that that, we are probably using the crock pot anyway, which uses maybe 100 watts or so. Again, eight hours of crock pot cooking is almost in the noise level, but, generally, we were under way anyway, and the juice was coming from the engine alternator.
- AnonymousJul 12, 2013, 8:58:00 PM
You should see chinese cell phone chargers ;) Almost as badReplyDelete
- AnonymousJul 12, 2013, 10:47:00 PM
Thanks for the detailed account of your adventure.
If you still need a standard EU socket I have a few and could send you one for shipping costs.
We are out in our Motorhome and won't be back to our fixed home for about 2 weeks.
Thanks. To clarify, there is already an EU receptacle on the transformer (on the side opposite the one pictured above, with the instructions and ratings on it), and that's all we need. The transformer is mounted in the cabinet below the cooktop so that the cord reaches easily.Delete
- AnonymousJul 15, 2013, 1:12:00 AM
Very timely. I am getting ready to buy a step-up transformer through Ebay probably. I have installed a 230 volt mini-split AC on my Cityliner. The Cityliner is set-up primarily for 115 volt with a Trace 4024 and a Honda 6010 although I will have a couple of 230 volt circuits when it is available on the pole. The mini-split draws 8 to 10 amps with 13 on rotor lock-up. I am planning on a 5,000 watt transformer and will probably hard wire the transformer its self after you experience.ReplyDelete
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Most people I know will have Santa or the Easter Bunny call their kids and remind them to behave but me? Nope I just call Bebop (grandpa)! Heck I can even pretend to call him by dialing the numbers and hitting the end button instead of send and they will usually straighten right up. If that doesnt work then I can make a real call and he will tell them he is coming on over to check on them later. Works every single time! **Disclaimer. This is only on those really bad days where you feel like you wanna pull your hair out! Not a daily basis. I am thankful to have family that will stand up and help when its needed!**
Case in point. "M" and "V" have been fighting with me lately on cleaning the house. So today we had to stop by and drop some stuff off at Grandma and Bebop's house so Bebop told them he was going for a haircut later on and would stop by to check on them. Every 20-30 mins or so "V" would ask me "Is he here yet?" My answer was always "I have no clue when he is stopping by but we better get to work before he shows up." I really didnt and come to find out he didn't go and get a hair cut so he isnt coming by but hey their chores are done for the most part!
So tell me. Do you have a "trick" of making your kids behave when they just don't want to listen to you?
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Fake Phone Calls
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This is actually a very important topic and something I need to revisit every day or I will undoubtedly listen to the voice that tells me (at least several times a day, sometimes in a whisper, sometimes a deafening scream) that I am not…And that I can, in fact, drink or use in moderation.
Over the past several months, as a consequence of starting on Campral (which is a medication designed to curb cravings for alcohol, and I've found works similarly for other cravings, like food binging), it has been increasingly difficult to convince myself I am an alcoholic. Why? Because when I slip and drink now, I actually AM able to stop after "only a couple." Campral appears to help with preventing my 'MORE MORE MORE' switch from getting flipped as soon as I have 'just one.' It's not a cure and it certainly doesn't stop me from making other poor choices as being under the influence to any degree causes disinhibition, but it does temper my prior need to satisfy the 'ALL' on my all-or-nothing spectrum.
So, as you can imagine, my disease really enjoys this newfound 'manageability' and focuses on how because I am able to drink more moderately, I can't be an alcoholic. Right? Well…, if I force myself to remember the not-at-all distant past and am honest with myself (and others), I am quickly reminded of what makes me an alcoholic. For starters, the fact that I'm f'ing taking Campral. Non-alcoholics don't usually end up getting prescribed this medication. Oh, um, right. Things got bad enough that I couldn't control myself on my own, so in addition to therapy, meetings, other psychiatric medication (Prozac), and err, inpatient rehab and intensive outpatient treatment, it was suggested I give Campral a try.
What was that, self? Rehab? Yeah, that's another thing people who aren't alcoholics/addicts don't end up including in their "30 things to do before I turn 30" lists. And if that wasn't enough, let's consider in detail some of the additional ways I can be sure, I am in fact, an alcoholic and an addict.
There's the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-TR criteria for alcohol dependence I just happen to fit perfectly (I know, I say I/we can't do anything PERFECTLY, but this time I'd say I come pretty damn close)…It classifies dependence as:
A maladaptive pattern of alcohol use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period:
(1) tolerance, as defined by either of the following: (Check)
(a) a need for markedly increased amounts of alcohol to achieve intoxication or desired effect (Check)
(b) markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of alcohol
(2) Withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following: (Check)
(a) the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for alcohol (Check)
(b) alcohol (or a closely related drug such as valium) is used to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms (Check)
(3) alcohol is often used in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended (Check)
(4) there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use (Check)
(5) a great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain alcohol, use alcohol, or recover from its effects (Check)
(6) important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of alcohol use (Check)
(7) alcohol use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by alcohol (e.g. continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption) (Check)
Then there's the nice little CAGE questionnaire I can reference to be extra, extra sure I don't try to find a loophole…
Two "yes" responses indicate that the possibility of alcoholism should be investigated further. The questionnaire asks the following questions:
1. Have you ever felt you needed to Cut down on your drinking? Yes
2. Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking? Yes
3. Have you ever felt Guilty about drinking? Yes
4. Have you ever felt you needed a drink first thing in the morning (Eye-opener) to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover? Um well, yes, I've done that too.
I would actually classify myself as Polysubstance Dependent. In addition to alcohol, over the course of my life (and often at the same times), I have been actively dependent (according to the above criteria) on several other drugs…benzo's (Xanax, Ativan), amphetamines (Ritalin), opiates (Hydrocodone/Oxycontin), and dextromethorphan (mood-altering ingredient in OTC cough medicines like Robotussin). GO ME.
And now, some personally relevant points to really drive it home.
Note: I am going to use 'addict' as an all-inclusive term here, pertaining to those whose substance of choice is chemical (drug/alcohol) as well as non-chemical (food/exercise, people/relationships). It is good for me to conceptualize it in this way because, as I have struggled with all of the above, such a view helps me not to compartmentalize my addictions.
Compartmentalization is a wonderful rationalization tool that anyone with multiple 'substances of choice' is apt to use throughout the recovery process …For example, I'm just out of control with food, or THIS particular drug, but THAT one, THAT I can use in moderation…Thinking in these terms only results in substitution and gives me permission to 'just' work on my addiction to THIS while in the meantime, THAT is spiraling out of control to become my next THIS. I hope that made sense.
Ok, moving on to a few examples that help me keep my powerlessness 'up front.'
1. Non-addicts do not feel compelled to keep using until their substance is gone, even after they feel physically and mentally sick from it.
2. Non-addicts do not go to bed at night swearing on everything they love that they will not use the next day and then not even make it halfway through the day before they break their promises and end up using.
3. Non-addicts do not use (to the point of impairment) and drive.
4. Non-addicts don't seriously consider injuring/killing themselves in an effort to end the cycle (and they don't steer their car into a guardrail so they don't have to go to work because they feel so out of control).
5. Non-addicts do not go from store to store, sometimes completely out of the way, in order to prevent store proprietors from thinking they might have a problem (SO many people I've seen in liquor stores appear to be alcoholics that I have often wondered what owners/employees think when they see how their business is so obviously contributing to the destruction of lives…no, I'm not saying they are to blame for our use as we have the choice to recover and all of that, but I imagine they have to think about it)…This one also applies to my history of frequenting multiple fast food drive-thrus and convenient/grocery stores to stock up on binge foods.
6. Non-addicts don't hide bottles (empty or opened) or leftover pills around the house for their next use.
7. Non-addicts don't use in the morning or in excess, alone.
8. Non-addicts stop using when they experience significant medical issues that are likely the direct result of their use. They don't, while being fully conscious of the relationship between using and health problems/risks, continue to (frequently) use dangerous amounts.
9. Non-addicts don't lie ALL-THE-FREAKING-TIME to protect their addiction(s).
10. Non-addicts don't sneak off from whatever activity they are doing at various points throughout the day to use.
11. Non-addicts don't use at work.
12. Non-addicts don't go through people's medicine cabinets and steal their pills.
13. Non-addicts don't put their substance before everything else they value and end up losing (or come incredibly close to losing) relationships, jobs, homes, and ultimately lives because they continue to use despite experiencing or facing these losses.
I could go on. And on. But I'm tired and it's pretty damn clear to me that I am an addict. Well, I said I was going to be honest. Does it make sense why I might have some guilt and shame to work through?…Oh, I guess for those who don't know, I should add I was doing these things, at times, while working with people struggling to recover from their own addictions…This hypocrisy ate me alive and kept me sick for far longer than if I hadn't been a professional 'in the field.' Because I just couldn't tell…how could I tell?


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17 February 2010
On The Road
I know a couple who drive a BMW and aren't pretentious D-bags, and I know quite a few pretentious D-bags who don't drive BMWs, but given the frequency that they seem to be found together leads me to wonder if pretentious D-bag isn't a BMW target demographic.
At any rate, riding my bumper and flashing your lights won't get me to pull over on a narrow 2 lane road so you can pass. It will just get me to slow down to 35 in a 45.
Which leads me to my next question, am I an A-hole because I drive a Pontiac, or do I drive a Pontiac because I'm an A-hole?
Whatever. It's the wife's car anyway.
4 comments:
- James said...
Is it that we're not pretentious or not d-bags? Just so I know which to work on...
Seriously, I think it is a different version of the entitlement attitude. I'm driving a luxury car, ergo I am important. You Pontiac-driving peasants need to cower in the face of my obvious supremacy.
Good on ya for taking the twit down a peg.
- Larry said...
Work on both, that way you have all the bases covered.
My unworthy Pontiac shudders before the mighty awesomeness that is BMW. Either that or it's the front struts needing replacement.
Thanks for dropping by!
- cary said...
Beemers are a pain. As a cab driver on some days, they seem to be the ones who are surprised the most by A) speed limits that are enforced, B) Traffic Lights that are red, and C) cab drivers who think nothing of boxing them in when they are acting like idiots behind the wheel.
Heh heh heh.
- Larry said...
Cab drivers wouldn't do that, would they?
Thanks for dropping by Cary!