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Happy New Year. When I think back to all of my new years, this one will always stand out as the worst. It's not to say that it was an awful day in the context of being on the submarine, but in the context of celebration, it definitely was. I work the night shift, called "Mids", so I was up for the switch to 2015. It consisted of the cooks frying up some jalapeno poppers and frozen burritos. Don't get me wrong here — that's a real feast when it comes down to food at sea, but I try to think about all the other good times instead. If anything, it will always be the New Years I spent out to sea away from the real world (and stone sober!).
Most importantly, I think about my New Years with Carissa, at home, doing nothing except hanging out, and I am thankful for those times because they are my favorite New Years. I sent Carissa an e-mail through a service called LetterMeLater, telling her to go out and have fun; I really hope she did. I also recall all the parties with Mikey over Christmas break in college; those were good times too, though I regretted every morning after.
New Years was a couple weeks ago now, strung loosely together in my mind by a container of C4 (the popular pre-workout energy supplement we use to stay awake), burned coffee, and administrative work. Time is continuing to warp as the days go on. I know that I've been at sea for a long time but I can't explain where the time has gone. To me, it is still August 8th and I am trapped in the same day. It makes me wonder if things have changed in the real world. Seven months is a long time to be away. I don't know how people make this a career.
It's a bummer knowing that you're going to be stuck out to sea, so when something breaks on-board, most people optimistically hope it'll be broken enough to have us pull in. (In reality, though, we do our jobs to fix the boat and apparently we're good at it, which is why we're one of the few boats able to support what we're doing right now). It's more of a fantasty dream than anything; if only we got to pull into blah port for x days. When we do get news of a schedule change, it starts up as a collection of rumors pieced together from the radiomen, cryptic squadron e-mails, and occasionally chain of command updates. All these things mix together for a very unstable schedule, and everyone is clinging on the next big news.
So who really knows where to and when next.

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I've been looking for an excuse to share this (amazingly simple, utterly delicious) recipe with y'all.
My husband's father was a Naval Submarine Nuclear Tech (not sure if that is the official term, but I'm going with it). At that time, the Navy was not a very family friendly division of the military. Unlike the Army, which just sent my dad oversees for a year at a time, Sean's father was out to sea for months and months every year for the duration of his military career. (I say just sent my dad oversees for a year at a time tongue in cheek, although I do love the military; I'm an Army Brat)
Because he was out to sea so often and for so long, she was a married single mom for a lot of the years Sean and his brothers were growing up. Add to that, the fact that the Navy wouldn't just send his dad's check to his mom (so they'd go months without checks) and this meant having to wing it a lot when it came to meals.
Some of my favorite meals come from things his mom made up or adapted in order to stretch their food while his dad was out to sea. And this is one of them. It's basically chicken noodle soup with a twist.
1-2 large cans of chicken broth (depending on how many noodles you use)
1 bag egg noddles
1-2 cans chicken
Boil the noodles in the chicken broth. Add a few sprinkles of pepper if desired. Add chicken about 1 minute before done cooking – long enough to heat the chicken.
In the meantime, make some mashed potatoes. If you really want simplicity, use instant potatoes. Make them a little thicker than normal.
When all items are made/cooked, put some mashed potatoes in individual bowls. Then add soup over it. (Hence the reason for making the potatoes a bit thicker.)
Oh my goodness – I love this meal. It quickly became one of my favorite comfort meals and it's perfect for last minute meals.
*I know that makes it sound as if there is tuna in this… (thanks Jessica Simpson) But: Chicken noodle soup + the fact that this twist was born out of the times my father-in-law was at sea = my corny post title.


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Volume 20, April 1946, Number 2
Editorial Board
The Interest on Interest Rule in New York
Harold F. McNiece
The Authority of the Trial Court Upon a Retrial to Vacate and Set Aside the Verdict of a Jury
William F. McGinn
Estate Taxes--Inter Vivos Transfer with Possibility of Reversion
Newcomb B. Pines
Ademption by a Committee of an Insane Testator
Gerard P. Ohlert
Recent Developments in New York Law
Contracts--Landlord and Tenant (Belasco Theatre Corp. v. Jelin Productions, Inc., 270 App. Div. 202 (1st Dep't 1945))
St. John's Law Review
Federal--State Statute of Limitations in Federal Equity Suits (Holmberg v. Ambrecht, 90 L.Ed. 590 (1946))
St. John's Law Review
Jurisdiction--Arbitration--Contract Providing Arbitration in New York (Red Line Commercial Co. v.Pastene Co., 269 App. Div. 632 (1st Dep't 1945))
St. John's Law Review
Labor--Fair Labor Standards Act--Overtime Compensation--Bonuses Regularly Paid (Walling v. Richmond Screw Anchor Co. (154 F.2d 780 (2d Cir. 1946))
St. John's Law Review
Master and Servant--Soliciting Former Employer's Customers (Kleinfeld v. Roburn Agencies, 60 N.Y.S.2d 485 (1st Dep't 1946))
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Municipal Corporations--City Home Rule--Local Law of City of New York Imposing Penalties for Violations of Regulations of Price Administrator (People v. Lewis, 295 N.Y. 42 (1945))
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Municipal Corporations--Negligence--Failure to Maintain Fire Department and Equipment (Steitz v. City of Beacon, 295 N.Y. 51 (1945))
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Attorney's Lien Upon Client's Judgment
Richard van Steenburgh
Entry of Order and Final Judgment in Action to Annul a Marriage or for Divorce
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A Nicely PRESERVED ornate and illustrated, Antique Roman Catholic - Douay Rheims - family Bible adorned with amazing chromolithographs (color engravings). The Bible has a beautiful decorative cover which consists of thick leather covered boards with intricate artwork, a (gold gilt) cross and other gold decorations showing Bible related scenes. Attractive gold-decorated 5-band spine with the texts "Holy Bible - Douay & Rheims" and "Rev Geo Leo Haydock's Notes and References - Illustrated". Gold gilt pages. The text of this Bible is the Douay-Rheims Bible (or Doway Rheims Bible or D-R Bible), being the English translation from the Latin Vulgate ("
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This holiday season, and all year long, if you have a car and few hours to spare, you can make a difference in the life of a cancer patient as a Road To Recovery driver. The American Cancer Society is now recruiting volunteers throughout Maine to ensure that all cancer patients have transportation to and from their treatments. Whether you are available once a month or once a week, even for an hour, you can be a Road To Recovery volunteer.
"Every driver has what it takes to help save lives," said Elisa Madore, program manager for mission delivery at the American Cancer Society. "We're urgently asking drivers to volunteer to take cancer patients to treatment. One cancer patient requiring radiation therapy could need between 20 to 30 trips to treatment over the course of six weeks. A patient receiving chemotherapy may need weekly treatment for up to a year."
Many cancer patients don't own a vehicle or can't afford the extra gasoline. Some patients may be elderly and unable to drive or have no family members or friends who are able to provide regular assistance with transportation. Some patients don't have access to transportation at all, and public transportation is not ideal for those who are in treatment and who are fatigued, sick, and often at risk of infection.
"Even the best treatment can't work if a patient can't get there," said Madore. "Access to care is a big problem in our country, with low-income and minority persons and those living in outlying communities suffering the most from disparities. Transportation programs are vital for these patients to get the treatments they need and deserve. The Road To Recovery program not only helps patients, it's also rewarding for the volunteers."
The Road To Recovery program provides transportation options for patients in these situations and currently is in need of volunteer drivers in Maine; Penobscot County is an area of particular need. Volunteer drivers donate their time and the use of their vehicles so patients can receive the cancer-related treatments they need. Drivers sometimes also provide encouragement and support.
To volunteer, you must have a valid driver's license, a safe and reliable vehicle, and proof of automobile insurance. Drivers must be at least 18 years old and have a good driving history. They arrange their own schedules and can commit as many or as few hours or as many hours as their schedule allows. The American Cancer Society provides free training to drivers and conducts criminal background, driving record and vehicle checks.
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Is the United Nations running the same risk as its predecessor the League of Nations of being made marginal or even irrelevant? Why or why not?
- Introduction
- The League of Nations
- It's creation
- The League inefficiency and the large range of difficulties it faced
- September 1931: Japanese attack on Manchuria
- 1934: The case of Ethiopia
- The setting up of the UN
- The differences between the UN and the League of Nations
- The power to veto a decisions
- The decisions taken within the Security Council are binding
- Significance of post Cold War events like in Somalia
- COnclusion
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'The League is dead, long live the United Nations!' This is with these words that Lord Robert Cecil, one of the architects of the League of Nations, commented on the dissolution of the organization, in the spring 1946, expressing the apparent readiness to write the League off as a failure and to regard the UN as a brand new organization with a new look on world problems of peace and security. Established on 24th October 1945 by 51 countries as an outcome of the initiatives taken by the United States, the USSR, Great-Britain and China, it had, according to its Charter, four purposes: to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, to cooperate in solving international problems and in promoting respect for human rights and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations . Still there after sixty years of existence, the UN can, therefore be seen as a successful organization, but some recent events, for instance the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq without the approval of the Security Council, ask the question of its current efficiency and relevance. Is it, like the League, running the risk of being made marginal or irrelevant? As A.Leroy Bennett explains 'the success of modern International organizations is most often judged on the basis of their handling of disputes and their utility in avoiding wars' . This is why I will mostly focus on this peace maintenance and security issues when dealing with the subject.
[...] Then, the UN is as well characterised by the absence of its own army. Indeed, the 'blue helmets' that represent its armed force are constituted of member states' contingents and therefore depend on their will to supply troops. This can have terrible consequences like when the Belgian 'blue helmets' withdrew in 1994, in Rwanda, right in the middle of the genocide. But the UN, also face difficulties linked with the structural differences it implemented to distinguish itself from the League. [...]
[...] Another criticism usually used against the League was that it had upheld treaties, most of all the Treaty of Versailles, which many members saw unfair, then 'the function envisaged for the League was not so much to keep peace, but to keep a specific peace, to legitimize and stabilize a particular world settlement based upon victory' Finally, the organization also had a slow decision-making process problem related to its structural difficulties. Indeed, the Covenant set up an Assembly of all member states and a Council, which gathered nine members among which five permanent (Great-Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Germany), but all of the members could veto decisions and all economics sanctions had to be decided in assembly by unanimous vote which often blocked any decision procedure. [...]
[...] This ended in the full-scale invasion of Ethiopia by Italy on October The League of Nations has definitively failed in achieving its main goal of preventing war but can also be seen as the first experience of collective security that represents a crucial link between pre1914 international organizations and wartime cooperation essential to the post- Second World War creation of the United Nations. The UN was set up with the idea of being an association of 'peace-loving' nations, who were combining to prevent future aggressions and for others humanitarian purposes. [...]


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As a young boy, Jimmy loved baseball. He could hit a ball far and throw it hard. But his father, Jim Morris Sr., was a Navy man. His job required the family to move from base to base.
Sometimes those moves were on short notice. One move brought the Morris family to Brownwood, Texas where the high school had no baseball program. Jimmy had to "make do" with high school football, the town's passion. As a second-string quarterback for the Lions, he could throw a football 95 yards. He could punt 50 yards, into the wind.
If Brownwood High had given Jimmy Morris an opportunity to play baseball, perhaps his life would have taken a different direction. But the school's football coach, Gordon Wood, believed that baseball would have detracted from the school's football program. As Morris observes in his book, The Oldest Rookie:
It is no exaggeration to say that my entire story is built on the consequences of that belief. If Brownwood had fielded a baseball team—well, there's no rational conclusion to the thought. Everything would have been different. Sometimes you choose your own destiny, and sometimes it chooses you. (Morris, The Oldest Rookie, page 44.)
Playing football for the Lions, Jimmy Morris had no clue about his true destiny. But then, who among us ever really does?


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Tastes like heaven, looks like...
THE owner of a Melbourne cafe says the activated charcoal fish and chips dish on her menu is extremely popular, despite some customers telling her it looks like "something you'd see at the bottom of a toilet".
Social media has lit up today with images of the $19 dish from Port Melbourne's Long Story Short cafe, which comes with beetroot labneh, chips and salad.
"I'm sure it tastes great but looks very unappealing to eat, I wouldn't eat it based on that, it looks like a burnt poo on a plate," one commenter wrote on the cafe's Instagram account.
Another commenter wrote: "Despite how it tastes, it looks terrible. And the health benefits of the addition of activated charcoal would be negated by the cooking process, the fats and oils in the food."
Others said "that looks like deep fried poo" and described the dish as "a turd on a plate".
The fish batter is made with activated charcoal, is a popular health food ingredient renowned for its cleansing, purifying and detoxing properties.
Japanese women have been using it for centuries in their skincare routines, but lately it's become a trendy "superfood", sold in tablet or powder form and is often mixed with water or in a smoothie.
Long Story Short owner Ly Nguyen said while her cafe had received lots of negative comments on social media, the dish was selling well.
"People are saying 'This looks like something you'd see at the bottom of a toilet', but in saying that, the response has been phenomenal. We get loads of people coming in to order the dish, so we knew we had to stick it out," Ms Nguyen told news.com.au.
"We wanted to incorporate fish and chips into our menu, but we don't do standard dishes. We always like to have a twist to our dishes ... that's one of our points of difference," Ms Nguyen said.
"It tastes like regular fish and chips, it's nice and crispy on the outside. We use all premium products. We don't compromise on quality. We support local suppliers ... you get what you pay for.
"If you look, there are a lot of negative comments. Some of them are very hurtful as well, but we notice hundreds of people are ordering it. There's a shock factor, but people are intrigued. Everybody who orders it finishes it," she said.
Other items on Long Story Short's menu include a deconstructed souvlaki ($21), a deconstructed fruit salad ($16) and a cold drip coffee tiramisu ($17).


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Date of Birth: August 25, 1943
Date of Death: December 19, 2012
Dr. Orlando Pacaoan Tinaza was a hard working doctor, and a family loving man. He was born in Bugayong Binalonan Pangasinan on August 25, 1943 to the late Narciso and Prisca Tinaza. He passed away at the age of 69, on December 19, 2012 in Baguio City.
Orlando attended and graduated from Binalonan High School. After high school, he went on to pursue his medical degree at Far Eastern University in Manila. He and his wife Loreta were married for more than 40 years and raised their family in Bugayong Binalonan.
Orlando had been a hard working doctor for his whole life, serving the people of Binalonan, Pozorrubio, and Urdaneta City.
He and Loreta were long-time residents of Bugayong, Binalonan. He was a loving and caring father, and was very proud of their achievements.
Beloved husband of Loreta Quintos for more than 40 years. Dear father of Dr. Nylofar Tinaza of Metro Manila, Dr. Therese Raquel Tinaza of Baguio City, and Ezer Rex Leo Tinaza of Bugayong, Binalonan.
The family will receive friends beginning Thursday, December 20, 2012 at their home in Bugayong, Binalonan.


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Jack is a failing singer who is about to give up on his dream of becoming a star. But when a strange phenomenon wipes one of the greatest bands of all time from everyone but Jack's memory, he decides to claim their songs as his own… Lily James, Ana De Armas, and Himesh Patel star in this musical comedy featuring many of the Beatles' greatest songs.
Struggling singer Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) has an incredible voice, but every gig he plays at is a flop. After his latest failed set, he's considering giving up on his dream. But Ellie (Lily James) still has faith in him – she's convinced that to achieve success, he just needs a stroke of luck.
After being hit by a bus during a worldwide blackout, Jack awakes in a hospital bed. And his life is set to take a dramatic turn.
After his stint in the emergency room, Jack's friends throw him a 'welcome home' party. He begins to sing his favourite song – Yesterday, by the Beatles. But when he's met with awe and applause, he begins to realise that the world has forgotten the greatest band of all time…
As the only person to remember the Beatles, Jack decides to claim their classic anthems as his own. But his skyrocket to fame might have devastating consequences for his relationships, and the life he knew before…
Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Baby Driver, Cinderella), Ana De Armas (Blade Runner 2049, Hands of Stone, Overdrive), and Himesh Patel (Damned, Eastenders) star in this musical comedy that features a selection of the Beatles' all-time classics, brought to us by Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (T2: Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, The Beach).
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Last year, I adopted the Anglican taxonomy of "low church / high church" as an improvement on the prevailing "liberal / conservative" taxonomy. 1 I conceded, however, that doing so
would not solve every problem. It is certainly possible, for example, to have a very orthodox ecclesiology (high church) while preferring the most extremely modernist ars celebrandi with which one can get away under the rubrics (low church). But that is no real objection, first because it is a theoretical possibility rather than a common occurrence, and second because it is equally true whether one uses the high-church/low-church taxonomy or the conservative/liberal taxonomy. While ambiguity and exception would remain, that is an inherent defect of general labels, and so—stipulating that we need such general labels, as it cannot be gainsaid that we frequently do—the question is not whether the shift would solve every problem but rather whether it would solve any problems without imposing disproportionate costs. 2
I yield to the lessons of experience, which has shown that the acknowledged imprecision in the taxonomy—does it refer to substantive doctrine, ecclesiology, or liturgy?—is more acute than I had anticipated. For example, in terms of the old conservative/liberal lexicon, Pope Francis appears to be doctrinally conservative, but ecclesiologically moderate and liturgically liberal. I have, moreover, encountered with increasing frequency people who are ecclesiologically conservative but liturgically liberal. Some refinement is therefore needed.
In its original Anglican setting, the taxonomy's focus is primarily ecclesiological, and is liturgical only in a secondary and subsidiary manner. 3 High churchmen
see the Anglican Communion as a branch of the apostolic catholic church, believing their priests share apostolic succession with Roman Catholic priests. They also share an elevated sense of the Eucharist, "the real presence" of Christ in the elements and a liturgical focus on the Eucharist. High Church liturgy respects the liturgical solemnity of Catholic worship. … [Low churchmen] are the descendents of the Puritans, who are decidedly Protestant in their doctrine. These are the evangelicals, who are apt to be more informal and even "contemporary" in their worship, and place an emphasis upon personal faith. This is the tradition of folk like John Newton, George Whitefield and the Wesley brothers. 4
Historically, then, the high church party was preserving and the low church party protestantizing. Today, and practically-speaking, "[t]hese labels reflect, rather inadequately, the difference between those whose faith is centered first on the church with its liturgy and sacraments and those whose faith centers primarily on the Bible and the preaching of the Word." 5 Liturgy is an integral part of this complex, but only a part. And it is subsidiary insofar as, for example, the low church party could hardly insist on the comparative unimportance of the church and the sacraments and yet retain a church-centered sacramental liturgy: An ecclesiological commitment to a flat church focused on preaching obliges the marginalization of ritual forms. So long as liturgical and ecclesiological views remain integrated together in a single parcel, the taxonomy can afford some ambiguity—or rather, in the Anglican context, it is not actually ambiguous, insofar as it refers to the parcel of attitudes as a whole rather than any of its component attitudes especially. But as soon as those attitudes diverge—I might even go further and say, when the context allows the possibility for those attitudes to diverge—the taxonomy begins to creak and crack under the strain.
Nor, I think, ex vi terminorum, may we appropriate the words and confine them to denominating liturgical attitudes. The "high church" party emphasized the Catholic aspects of Anglican identity, placing a "high" value on tradition, ritual, the church hierarchy, and sacraments, and the "low church" party emphasized the Protestant aspects of it, placing a "low" value on those things just mentioned and instead emphasizing preaching, evangelism, individualism, and the common priesthood of the faithful. 6 What is meant by the adjectives "high" and "low" is the value placed upon, among other things, liturgy. It was fair to say that the low churchmen placed low value on liturgy; it is not fair to say that those who have restless and modernizing attitudes toward liturgy don't value on liturgy (although it is fair to say that they place a low value on ritual), they just have a different view on how it ought to be done. Indeed, the very insistence with which they defend the postconciliar framework implies that they, too, place high value on the liturgy. It is one thing to use old words in a new context, even to use them more restrictively than they were once used; quite another to use them in ways that are inconsistent with the etymology of the words!
This is not to say that the high/low church taxonomy cannot be used in the Catholic Church. Rather, it should be used to refer, mutatis mutandis, to that which they have always referred: The package of ecclesiology, liturgy, and doctrine, not just one part of it. And this restriction must be observed even though it makes them much less useful in a Catholic setting than they might be in an Anglican setting! I can define myself as a "high church Catholic" because I place a high emphasis on those things upon which the high churchmen of Anglicanism placed high emphasis, but against whom? The distinction will not often come into play, it seems to me, because there are relatively few "low church Catholics" within the organic meaning of the term. (Or are there? One immediately thinks of Hans Kung, Gary Wills, and other self-described catholics who, if we were to accept their self-identification, would undoubtedly be low church catholics. But what of the young? Polls and anecdotal evidence seem to suggest that there is a not insignificant de facto low church Catholic party which is faithful and yet which does not place significant value on the sacraments or the liturgy—they may say otherwise in the abstract, but revealed preference says otherwise—and which sets the magisterium at some remove from their lives.) But it is a risky business to uproot words simply to increase their utility.
For these reasons, I will henceforth confine the high/low church taxonomy to uses consonant with its original meaning. More thought will have to go into framing a taxonomy for liturgical questions, and I reserve that question for another day.
- See Terminology note, 2 MPA 22 (2012). ↩
- Id., at 25. ↩
- See, e.g., id., at 23-24; Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought 195 ff., 257 ff. (Blunt, ed., 2003); 2 Encyclopædic Dictionary of Religion 1666, 2171 (Meagher et al., eds., 1976); Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 636, 824 (Cross, ed., 1958). ↩
- Dana Huntley, Whither the Church of England, 34 British Heritage no. 2 (May 2013), pp.22-23. ↩
- Christopher Webber, Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An introduction to its history, faith, and worship 72 (1999) (parentheticals deleted). ↩
- See, e.g., An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church 241, 312 (Armentrout et al., eds., 2000). ↩


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This post comes from reading John Kessler's commentary about sending food back to the kitchen in restaurants. In his blog, he reports on a particularly unsavory sort of individual who makes a career out of feeding free at restaurants. The M.O. involves most every meal not meeting his exacting specifications. After consuming a majority of the served portion, this lout would then send it back as being unsatisfactory, expecting the restaurant to comp the meal. There's a special place in hell for people like that, and Kessler digs into the notion of sending food back to the kitchen for some rework or replacement.
As an aside, I use the term exacting specifications with a sense of self-amusement. The term comes from a waiter called "Bob", at the Ruth Chris Steakhouse in Crystal City, Virginia. I had a business meal there many years ago, and, by luck of the draw, we got Bob, The Obsequious Waiter. I've had my share of good meals, but Bob was really over the top of the ramparts. If you asked for extra bread, his response was "I'll dash right on it." And, of course, once the food had been served, he would trot over and ask "Is everything up to your exacting specifications?" To this day, I've never been able to figure out if Bob was for real or not. It still remains possible that he made us out to be a bunch of hicks from Atlanta visiting the nation's capital and was performing for the collective amusement of the wait staff. Regardless, Bob lives on in my memory.
Back to the matter at hand. In my years of enthusiastically consuming wine, I've only run into two bottles of bad wine. I've had more than a few that didn't taste all that great, but only two bottles of truly bad wine You know it the moment you open the bottle. Instead of a soft wind blowing through the vineyard, you get the smell of death. One peculiarity of Georgia law is that you cannot return beer, wine or liquor to the place that you bought it. When you do run into a bad bottle of wine, most stores will simply replace the bad bottle with another. In virtually all cases, this is sufficient.
Food, of course, is considerably more complicated, and Kessler addresses the issue well. And, food is important enough that I've blogged about it on a few occasions, such as Mom's Cooking and Done In By a Low-Level Minion. Generally, I leave food criticism to the critics. My exacting specifications aren't all that stringent. Yes, I will refuse to eat bad food but, no, I'm still reluctant to send it back. Usually, I write off the experience and move on.
I do have two memories of returned food that are worthy of mention. The first involves a fish restaurant that was located at Lenox Square; it was a very high-end place with a very good reputation. I went there in the 1980's with my late mother and one of her buddies, two polite women who were very independent. Mind you, these women did not suffer fools lightly, but, in theory, I was up to the task. As we stood outside the restaurant, waiting for the other lady's daughter to join us, both of them sidled up to me and slipped me cash, because the man always pays. I knew better than to argue, quietly pocketing the money. Finally, the daughter arrived and we made our entrance into the restaurant.
We were seated promptly and the meal began. Once seated, however, I realized that I was in the presence of three independent operators. I had learned from my mother that in situations such as this, it was best to sit back and enjoy the show. Unlike my mother and her friend, the daughter was still getting her footing in the style department. She already enjoyed a reputation for being temperamental, but had no humor to leaven it. I quietly held on.
When the food was served, my meal was as I expected it to be, a generous portion of fine food. My mom and her buddy were happily crunching away when the daughter pushed her meal back from her seat. She had ordered shrimp salad and the shrimp was still in its shell. I know enough about food to know that some chefs consider this to be the highest form of cuisine, but she was not having it. The wait staff quickly came over, whisked the offending meal away and returned with a menu so that she could order again.
Her replacement meal was delivered, Tuna Salad, New York Style. She took one bite and pushed it away, saying "I should never have ordered anything with the name New York in it". The tuna salad was returned to New York; the waiter was getting nervous. Management was also beginning to hover at the edge of the scene. Finally the table was cleared. Management came over and profusely apologized, and a complimentary Mississippi Mud Pie dessert was delivered to the table. Truly a class act.
At the other end of the spectrum is another meal in the 1980's. The locale was a long-gone restaurant in a bohemian section of Atlanta. My friend Bill Thomsen and I had eaten several satisfactory meals at this restaurant. So, we returned with several associates for presumably another good lunch. We ordered, and when the food was served, Bill took one bite of his burger, put it down and started looking around for the waiter. "I ordered this hamburger to be rare", which tells you how long ago this event happened. The offending burger was swept away back to the kitchen.
The waiter returned with the burger, saying:
"The cook says she's sorry, but all the meat's that color."
Everybody at the table froze, and meals were quietly pushed away. We paid our bill and left, never to return. When we got back to the office, Bill called Ron Hudspeth. I called the local Health Department. After a stunned silence, the Health Department person quietly observed that she was at a loss as to what to do. If it had been an insect or a piece of glass, they could send out an inspector, but there was no clear protocol for this situation. My reply then still holds true: "I'm just informing you of the situation. I'm not going back there again." Of course, on an intellectual basis, I understand that rosy red beef is a temporary state on the way to brown, but it also illustrates one axiom of dining out.
You really don't want to know what's going on in the kitchen.


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Oregon – in the Pacific Northwest of the USA – is one of the world's youngest and most promising wine regions. The state first earned a place on the international wine map in the late 1960s and has secured its position steadily ever since. Although production volumes have remained relatively low-key, the reputation of Oregon wines has not. In the early 21st Century, Oregon is regarded as a world-class wine region, particularly for its Pinot Noir. The classic Oregon Pinot has a deep cherry-red color and aromas of spiced black cherries, stewed strawberries and fresh-cut field mushrooms.
Unheard-of 50 years ago, Oregon Pinot Noirs (particularly those from the Willamette Valley and its tiny Dundee Hills sub-region) now rank among the very finest American wines. The best examples are remarkably similar to their equivalents from Burgundy – a fact pivotal to their continued success. The mutual affinity between Oregon and Burgundy has led a number of Burgundian wine icons to set up operations in the state. The movement was led by Maison Joseph Drouhin in the late 1980s, when he established Domaine Drouhin Oregon in the Dundee Hills – right next door to David Lett (aka 'Papa Pinot') at his Eyrie Vineyard. In 2013 and 2014, such prestigious names as Louis Jadot, Liger-Belair and Meo-Camuzet joined the list, confirming beyond doubt that there really is something 'Burgundian' about Oregon.
Of Oregon's total vineyard area (21,000 acres / 8,500ha), just over 60 percent is devoted to Pinot Noir. Outnumbered 5:1 by its dark-skinned cousin, the next most widely planted variety here is Pinot Gris, with 2800 ha. Although Oregon Pinot Gris, with its rich scent of spiced pears, is held in relatively high regard, its financial value (dollars per ton) is almost half that of Pinot Noir.
Pinot Gris is followed by two other internationally popular cool-climate, white wine varieties – Chardonnay and Riesling, before the acreage pendulum swings gently back in favor of red wine grapes. These are led by the two classic Bordeaux varieties Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. If the price paid per ton of grapes is anything to go by, the "next big thing" in Oregon wine will be Cabernet Sauvignon, which now commands the same price per ton as – and sometimes more than – Pinot Noir. Also on the radar, although barely audible above the clamor for Oregon Pinot, is the state's bright, spice-tinged Syrah.
The majority of Oregon vineyards are located in state's western one-fifth, within 80 miles of the Pacific coastline (although those of the Columbia Gorge and Walla Walla Valley in the north should not be ignored). Here, a broad, shallow valley is formed between the low-lying mountains of the Coast Range and the much larger Cascades to the east. Temperatures are moderated by proximity to the ocean, which also leads to relatively high rainfall; moderate, long summers and wet autumns are the norm. Warmer, drier conditions are found in the Rogue Valley, at the state's southern edge near the border with California.
Oregon has the most marginal climate of the West Coast's three wine-growing states. Vintages can vary quite considerably, but growers have adapted their viticultural techniques and grape selection to suit the climatic variations.
Oregon's wine industry stands in stark contrast to that of its southern neighbor, California. Where California is the long-established, dominant force of American wine, controlled by just a few companies, Oregon is a relative newcomer composed of smaller, family-run, boutique wineries. Where California's 150 AVAs span 600 miles from north to south and 150 miles inland, Oregon's 25 AVAs are all located almost exclusively in the western fifth of the state, near the Pacific coast. California's warm, sunny climate produces rich, robust wines, where Oregon's moist, cool climate creates finer, more delicate wines.
There are also obvious differences between Oregon and its northern neighbor, Washington, which produces more than 10 times as much wine and is the USA's second most important wine region by volume. Almost all Washington wine comes from grapes grown under contract in the state's dry, continental interior, before being shipped to the wineries located around Seattle. Oregon wine, by contrast, comes almost exclusively from grape grown by the wineries themselves, in cool, rain-refreshed vineyards located relatively close to the coast.
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Is anyone aware of the phrase: Irish Exit?
My understanding is that it is an idiom used to describe the situation where someone is out drinking with friends and then leaves without saying goodbye. (He made an Irish exit!") Presumably the implication is that due to intoxication, the person left the pub abruptly.
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By Marjorie Johnson, J.D.
An African-American employee failed to plausibly allege that his employer violated the ADA by denying his request to telecommute and terminating him after he provided a doctor's note saying he would benefit from working from home because he had a musculoskeletal problem that required "sedating medications." Granting the employer's motion to dismiss, a federal court in Texas held that his claim that the company failed to engage in the interactive process could not stand on its own and he failed to plausibly allege that he suffered an actual or perceived disability. His claim of race bias was also tossed since he did not allege that he was treated less favorably than a similarly situated Caucasian employee who was disabled (Stewart v. AutoRevo, Ltd., November 8, 2017, Boyle, J.).
Telecommute request denied. In January, the employee was hired to serve as one of his employer's three national dealer consultants, which entailed telemarketing its products to car dealerships. On May 7, he presented a note from his doctor which stated that he "would benefit from being able to work from home especially while he is being treated for an acute musculoskeletal issue that requires sedating medications." He was fired the next day.
Concern over "sedating medications." The employer claimed that it was concerned about the sedative nature of his medication; it had never allowed employees to work from home indefinitely. The employee saw it another way, asserting that his employer unlawfully refused to accommodate him and regarded his taking "sedative medications" as so physically or mentally impairing that he could not make telephone calls or drive a car. His lawsuit alleged that the company failed to participate in an interactive process, denied him a reasonable accommodation, and discriminated against him based on his actual or perceived disability and his race.
No "interactive process" claim. The court first tossed his individual "interactive process" claim because it said that failure to engage in an interactive process is not itself a violation of the ADA. Though EEOC regulations suggest that to reasonably accommodate a disabled employee "it may be necessary for the covered entity to initiate an informal, interactive process," employers are not required to engage in an interactive process under all circumstances, the court found.
When an employee specifically identifies the disability and resulting limitations, and suggests the reasonable accommodations, then the employer is obligated to engage in an interactive process. But even then it is the resulting failure to accommodate that constitutes the ADA violation, not the failure to engage in an interactive process, said the court. Therefore, even if the employee adequately pleaded facts to suggest the employer was obligated to engage in an interactive process, its alleged failure to do so did not support an ADA claim.
No actual disability. The employee also failed to plausibly allege that he suffered an actual disability under the ADA. The employer argued that his vague allegations of a "painful back/neck condition" described generally by his doctor as "an acute musculoskeletal issue" fell short of alleging a "specific disability," particularly since he provided no detail as to how his vaguely worded condition limited his activities. The employee countered that the ADA required only that he assert that his disability limited major life activities.
The only facts that he asserted to demonstrate that he was actually disabled were that "he began suffering from a painful back/neck condition that substantially limited his sleeping, sitting, lifting and bending." This fell short of establishing that he was actually disabled; he did not provide any context from which the court could draw a reasonable inference that his alleged back and neck pain rose to the level of a physical impairment.
Rather, he stated only that it was "painful" and that his doctor described his condition as "acute." He also failed to plausibly allege that his major life activities were substantially limited. Merely making a conclusory statement was not sufficient. Instead, he needed to allege facts about the actual or expected duration and impact of the impairment, which he failed to do.
Not "regarded as" disabled. The court also tossed his "regarded as" disabled claims since he failed to adequately assert that he had a "perceived physical impairment." His contention that the employer "regarded his taking 'sedative medications' as so physically or mentally impairing that he could not make telephone calls or drive a car" was insufficient. It was his alleged back and neck condition that constituted the perceived physical impairment, not the medication.
No race bias. Striking a final blow, the court also tossed his race discrimination claim. The employee failed to assert that he was treated less favorably than a similarly situated Caucasian employee who was disabled—simply stating that he was African American and that his replacement was Caucasian was insufficient. Moreover, he alleged that the other two national dealer consultants and his replacement—who were all Caucasian—were not disabled.
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Each summer, the First U.P. Church of Crafton Heights, through its Open Door Youth Outreach, sponsors a free five-week day camp for as many as 50 neighborhood children. Because we invite these children and their families to worship, we often try to have a theme for our time together on Sundays. In 2016, we have been listening to the story found in the book of Ruth. Our texts for Sunday July 17 brought us to the end of the story in Ruth 4 as well as Paul's statement about the redemptive work of Christ in Ephesians 2:14-17.
Did you hear the debate? It was quite a while ago, but – WOW – was it powerful! I wanna tell you, it was a real scorcher.
The fellow on the right – the old guy with the white beard – he made a strong case for what we might call "traditional values": you know, a return to the things that made the country great back in the day. He was particularly tough on immigration and what we might call "multiculturalism", and he was campaigning on a platform that proposed legislation that would not only prohibit marriage to foreign-born people, but would declare any such marriages to be invalid and would immediately deport the foreign wives and any children from such marriages.
It's all there in the Old Testament book of Ezra, chapter 10. Ezra, and his buddy, Nehemiah, said that the anger of God had descended on the nation because so many foreigners had come and led people away from the truth. The legislation that they proposed won in a landslide – there were only four people who went on record as opposing their action. And so they built a wall and sent the immigrants packing.
But then the woman started speaking. It was hard to understand her because of her accent, but she talked about the idea that there is no single perspective that can capture the entirety of God's majesty. She didn't say this in so many words, but she sort of implied that if anyone thought that he or she had God fully figured out and understood God completely, then that person had to be wrong because God is so much more than any human mind can comprehend.
She went on to say that we are better off when we walk together toward the truth, and that when we are vulnerable to each other and those around us in love and humility we are more likely to be able to hear the ways in which God might direct our steps. One man, hearing what she had to say, summarized it this way:
[God's activity in the world is amplified as people go] beyond the limits placed upon them by society. The social definitions of ethnicity and gender are not only unhelpful but they block the successful solution of life's problems. Inclusion and the violation of role limits become the proper ways of living out one's faith in the midst of a pluralistic world.[1]
To be honest, the woman didn't speak nearly as much as the man did in the debate, but she sure showed her intentions and her heart in the ways that she acted. She demonstrated her heart for God and for God's people in the way that she lived.
This was not, of course, a "real" debate – at least, not one that we saw in person. On the right, as I've mentioned, we have the historical figures of Ezra and Nehemiah, two of Israel's leaders who brought the nation back from a punishing time of exile in Babylon. Ezra and Nehemiah understood, rightly, that much of what had led people into the place of exile and separation from God was the pagan practices that they had learned from their neighbors as they gave up on following God and instead followed the selfish desires of their own hearts. They reasoned that much of what had led God's people to engage in such pagan practices was their willingness to enter into marriage with non-believing, foreign-born spouses, and so the solution that they proposed was simple: ban foreigners, end mixed marriage, and thus stay pure as God's holy people in God's holy land. As I mentioned, you can read a lot more about where these folks are coming from in the books that bear their names.
The author of the Book of Ruth gently counters this logic by reminding people that if it weren't for foreign women, Israel would not have the greatest leader it ever knew, King David. This man who captured Israel's heart and who led the nation into new places of obedience and success was at least 1/8 Moabite. In David's story, we find a stunning bit of irony, in fact. A strict interpretation of the law as found in Deuteronomy 23:3 would declare Ruth's marriage to Boaz invalid, and that any descendants of that marriage (up to the 10th generation) were to be excluded from participating in the worship of God. Since King David was Ruth's grandson, that means that he should not have been allowed anywhere near the tabernacle. And take a look at the Psalms – the hymnbook that we've carried around for 3000 years: all of the best songs were written by someone who, according to the strict reading of the Law, wasn't even supposed to be here.
What do we do?
Let's look at Boaz.
Boaz' role in the Book of Ruth is to serve as what is called a "guardian-redeemer". This role is well-defined in Leviticus 25 and other places in the Law. When an Israelite man dies, it falls to his brother to take responsibility for the man's widow and to do everything that he can to ensure the survival of the family, even to the point of providing a son who will continue the dead man's legacy. If there is no brother, then the next closest relative is responsible to make sure that the widow is cared for and that the line continues.
In the book of Ruth, we have seen a young woman, poor and humbled and despised for her status as a foreigner, come to Boaz and ask him to fulfill the role of "guardian redeemer" in her situation. Even though Ruth represents a family that has acted against the strict interpretation of the Law, Boaz acts in grace toward Ruth and Naomi and so presents to them, and to us, a picture of the face of Christ. Boaz sees these widows as those who are forced to contemplate a life of poverty, fear, exclusion, and homelessness and who then takes steps to offer himself to them in the hopes of correcting that.
As you might imagine, not everyone can do that. In Naomi and Ruth's case, there was a man who was, legally, more responsible for their care than was Boaz. He could have, and perhaps should have, said "yes" to their plea, but he did not. He passed the torch to Boaz and said, "If you would do this, you'll not only be helping these women, you'll be helping me, too." And, as you saw, Boaz was able to act in the interest of Naomi, Ruth, and the entire community by offering himself.
Many scholars have looked at the way that Boaz embraced the role of "guardian redeemer" and have seen an example of Christ. One writer puts it this way:
Through his actions, Boaz communicates Christ. His person and character illustrate the incredible hesed (compassionate loving-kindness) that Christ possesses for his people, as well as the great measures he is willing to take to redeem his bride. Though Ruth arrives at Boaz's bed empty-handed and humbled to the core, Boaz treats her with respect and kindness (3:10-13). Disgraced by her position and despised for her ethnicity, the young Moabite woman appears to have little to offer. Yet, despite all this, Boaz views her as a worthy woman (3:11). Though Ruth comes from a family that has turned their backs on the Lord, the Lord turns his face towards Ruth and reveals himself to her through Boaz. Boaz foreshadows Jesus Christ, the ultimate kinsman redeemer who will redeem a bride for himself—the church.[2]
Jesus, like Boaz, took on a problem that was not his so that we could have a chance to become what we were created to be.
In this way, I'd suggest that Boaz and Jesus ended any debate between Ezra and Ruth. Each of them acknowledges the truth that when we leave God's intentions, we can die; when we seek out less than God's best, we are diminished. It is possible, but surely not wise, for us to pollute ourselves and our world by embracing things that are counter to God's purposes. Yet as they call us to remember this truth, they also remind us that it is God, not us, who gets to define those purposes. It is God, not us, who sets the boundaries for the world.
The solution for Ruth and Naomi and Boaz was not to build higher walls, to spark more violent protests, or to shout louder than their adversaries. That was clearly not the solution for Jesus, either. And that makes me wonder why I would imagine that it's a solution that would work well in my own life.
It would seem to me as though this story of Ruth invites me to look across at someone whom I might identify as being "other" and do my best to discern in what ways I am called to walk – with that "other" – into the intentions of the One who created us both.
I think that there is a word here for the protester and for the policeman… for the light-skinned and the dark-skinned… for the one who trumpets adherence to "family values" (however that one chooses to define that term) and to the one who wears all the colors of the LGBTQ rainbow… to the one who just got off the boat and to the one whose great-great-great grandfather was born here… To the born-again, sanctified Christian and to the Muslim as well as the Jew and the atheist… It seems to me that the key is not to push against each other and yell and scream more loudly, or, worse, to blow up more of theirs before they have the chance to blow up yours… but rather to walk in the steps that God has laid out for you in the hopes and in the expectation that God knows God's heart, God's purposes, and God's intentions and that if we are able to submit to those things we will discover how to live more Christ-like lives ourselves.
Can we embrace the concept of redemption? Can we acknowledge that things are a red-hot mess in the world right now, but that the best hope through this mess lies not in violence and the extermination of the "other", but in the transformation of each of us? Author Anne Lamott posted something incredibly true on Facebook Friday morning:
There is no healing in pretending this bizarre violent stuff is not going on, and that there is some cute bumper sticker silver lining. (It is fine if you believe this, but for the love of God, PLEASE keep it to yourself. it will just tense us all up.) What is true is that the world has always been this way, people have always been this way, grace always bats last, it just does–and finally, when all is said and done, and the dust settles, which it does, Love is sovereign here.[3]
I know that this sounds incredibly idealistic. I know that you may think me to be naïve; and yet it is apparent to me that the way of Boaz and Ruth and the way of the cross requires me to choose to act first out of love and humility and inclusion rather than in hostility or revenge. I confess that my heart is not pure, and that one way for me to make it purer is to learn to sing some of the songs that were written by the descendant of a Moabite woman. I want to offer the strength of my arms and my back and my legs, not to wreak havoc or inflict judgment or mete out revenge, but to protect the weak and restore the broken and search out the lost. And I've come here, to this congregation and to the Church of Jesus Christ in the world, to meet with those who, like me, are called to walk in the way of the cross. May we remind each other, and the world around us, that grace does bat last. That the game isn't over. And that love always, always, always wins. Thanks be to God for the One who sought to reach out to us when we were so far away. Amen.
[1] Jon L. Berquist, Judaism in Persia's Shadow, A Social and Historical Approach, Fortress Press, 1995, pp 223-225.
[2] Stephanie Van Eyk, "The Ultimate Kinsman-Redeemer" in Ligonier Ministries blog: http://www.ligonier.org/blog/ultimate-kinsman-redeemer/
[3] https://www.facebook.com/AnneLamott/posts/894203970709247


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Breanne Benson is taking a shower when Johnny walks in. Apparently she didn't know it was a co-ed shower. He tells her how great her tits looked and how hard it made him. They kiss, then he sucks her tits and plays with her pussy before she blows him.
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"… Gather up now the fragments (the broken pieces that are left over), so that nothing may be lost and wasted" (Jn 6:12, Amp).
In 1970 Francis Schaeffer wrote Pollution and the Death of Man and said, "… Christians who believe the Bible are not simply called to say that 'one day' there will be healing [for the pollution dilemma], but that by God's grace, upon the basis of the work of Christ, substantial healing can be a reality here and now" [1]
In 1987 the large garbage barge Mobro from Long Island traveled to six states and three countries trying to get rid of its load. The barge finally went back to New York and the trash was burned in a Brooklyn incinerator. [2]
Just about everything can be recycled; even orange peels can be used in animal feed. It only takes 5% as much energy to make aluminum from old cans compared to making it from scratch using bauxite. Some cities, such as Freeport, IL, charge more for an extra bag of trash. If creating trash cost us something would we be such litterbugs? [3]
Turning trash to energy is one way to reduce pollution. Yes Virginia, there is profit in garbage. One incineration plant in Florida made $15 million from its electricity generation. [4] An incinerator makes ash that takes up one tenth the volume as the original trash:
Triencon is on the cutting edge of the waste-to-energy industry. They use gasification-oxidation which is different from incineration and does not harm the environment. The Fischer–Tropsch process (F-T) can convert carbon monoxide and hydrogen into synthetic lubricants and fuel. Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and other trash can be converted into many useful products:
What about the carbon dioxide produced by waste-to-energy plants? When combined with hydrogen (abundant in the ocean) it can make methane gas. Waste to energy works!
Consider these thoughts from Francis Schaeffer,
Beauty does not have to have pragmatic reasons to have value. … When we have learned this - the Christian view of nature – then there can be a real ecology; beauty will flow, psychological freedom will come, and the world will cease to be turned into a desert. [5]
Be praised, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air,
and clouds and storms, and all the weather,
through which you give your creatures sustenance.
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water;
she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.
Francis of Assisi
"And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth" (Rev 11:18, NASB).
1) Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer by Francis Schaeffer, (Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 1982), Vol. 5: p. 39, emphasis added.
2) "Talking Trash" by Virginia Postrel and Lynn Scarlett, Reason Aug/Sep 1991, p. 24.
3) Ibid., pp. 27, 28, 31.
4) "Cities Give Waste-to-Energy Plants a Second Look" by Ilan Brat, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6-7, 2008, p. A3.
5) Schaeffer, p. 55.
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2) "Talking Trash" by Virginia Postrel and Lynn Scarlett, Reason Aug/Sep 1991, p. 24.
3) Ibid., pp. 27, 28, 31.
4) "Cities Give Waste-to-Energy Plants a Second Look" by Ilan Brat, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6-7, 2008, p. A3.
5) Schaeffer, p. 55.
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John Silber, president of Boston University from 1971 to 1996, died on Thursday. Combing the obituaries and appraisals of his life and career, one senses a positively titanic figure in the world of academia—a man whom it would be impossible to ignore, and precisely the kind of person one could simultaneously hate and respect. A man almost beyond understanding.
That is the essence of America, and the point Orson Welles evoked with Citizen Kane, whose subject's life was likened to a jigsaw puzzle. We fool ourselves when we say our leaders should be Superman-like cardboard cutouts with absolute moral clarity. Complexity is the new black.
I did not attend Boston University during Silber's long tenure as president, although he was still hanging around campus as president emeritus. (He also served as Chancellor from 1996 to 2003.) The legend of President Silber rang loudly in the halls and the dorms, both from those who experienced his leadership firsthand and those merely passing along rumors in a 16,000-person game of "telephone."
In many young minds, Silber's legacy was and will continue to be predominantly defined by his extremely turbulent relationship with all matters relating to homosexuality. It was not merely that, as acting president in 2002, he disbanded a gay-straight alliance at the Boston University Academy (a BU-affiliated high school), but that he condemned members of the group as practitioners of "evangelism" and "homosexual militancy" for purposes of recruiting and training young cadets to engage in unspeakable sexual exploits.
It would be nice if the BUA incident were the sum total of Silber's executive accomplishments and we could simply write him off as a wretched human being with not a shred of human empathy or any discernible connection with the real world.
But then we read that Silber had a son, David, who was gay and died of complications from AIDS in 1994, and realize the enormously complex role the subject of homosexuality must have played in Silber's life—that it was more personal to him, for good or ill, than we might ever know.
We also cannot dismiss him outright because, as the record makes clear, he presided over, and was largely responsible for, a veritable renaissance in the life of his university. During his rule, Boston University's endowment exploded from $18 million to $422 million, its research grants from $15 million to $180 million, and he balanced every one of its budgets. The school's total real estate holdings tripled, with $700 million going towards various construction projects, and the pedigree of its personnel took a definite upward turn.
I have always reserved a soft spot in my heart for people who say exactly what they think about controversial subjects without fear of what might happen to them personally or professionally. People who, like Joan Jett, don't give a damn about their reputations. Silber was such a man, to put it in the mildest possible terms.
I was tickled to read how, for instance, Silber's initial BU job interview consisted of him ticking off his myriad complaints about the state of the university at the time. As reported in his New York Times obituary, "He called the campus ugly, bemoaned a faculty laden with 'deadwood' and said the university might be dying." He was hired on the perceived strength of his ideas.
Having watched on YouTube a fairly recent interview with Silber by the Texas Tribune, I found a man who still very much lived up to the title of his first book, Straight Shooting, and—to my mild surprise—a man with whom I could find much common ground on matters of bureaucracy in education. (His views on the dangers of political correctness in academia are well worth debating.)
Silber was also a man of irrepressible bluster. Asked for self-assessment by a local TV reporter during his 1990 run for Massachusetts governor, he cited "honesty" as his primary strength, and then proceeded to stonewall the question of personal weakness. As Mitt Romney has learned in 2012, the public is not terribly impressed when the second half of a sentence contradicts the first half.
I mentioned Citizen Kane as an entry point into understanding the lives of certain men—or rather, into realizing they can't be understood at all. John Silber's was one that might make a decent film in its own right, and he seemed to share many qualities with Charles Foster Kane himself. "Here's a man who could have been president," we are told in Kane, "who was as loved and hated and as talked about as any man in our time."
I would be very interested in what a search for Silber's childhood artifacts might dig up.


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@ApolloGod Ha... too right... I suck. Thanks again.
Well when I won with my list, I remember my delver opponent having Cage in play. I had oath in play. I drained a gush, on my turn oathed Griselbrand to top of tempo deck, drew it for turn, then proceeded to hardcast via Drain mana
To each their own. I was undefeated in events vs mentor...which seemed like your concern
@tattoocek Yeah... I love that tech... honestly, I don't fear Cage much at all for that exact reason. Priest is a huge pain though...
Yeah I mean. I'm probably not just going to switch to your list wholesale or anything. I hope that's not what you want, but I'm certainly going to try it. I think I'm going to main board a Deluge for a start. I do like beating Mentor.
I just think in order to go landstill route at all, you need more main deck removal. Because if they land a threat before you play Standstill, you'll need a removal or oath. I'd definitely start there...good luck!
@tattoocek That's interesting again... yeah. I think this thread is gonna really help me. I'm realizing that the main difference between our builds is that my Oath package is a lot beefier, while your Board removal is way beefier... It's great to realize that tension in these builds... do you plan to remove the opponent's board, or try to just punch em in the throat? Presumably there is a sweet spot here... Ok... testing again now, I'm going to see if I can find it. (hell, maybe it's just exactly what you have... IDK)
@tattoocek I very much appreciate someone posting this primer, but I have to admit that I like your list much better.
If you could post your list here Josh, I think it would really be beneficial to everyone.
I posted it above if you scroll up a little...I haven't touched the deck in a few months so the list could potentially use some tweaking
So I tested your list and my list each a little bit last night and again this morning against Gush/Mentor. The Oath deck won each time. (My wife and I played 8 quick matches, switching decks after each.) And each time we switched builds, I made a some card switches. I tried Deluge swap for Channel first. That was ok. I don't think I'll run it that way. In one of those games ended up drawing Deluge and Emrakul together... and waiting. And then eventually Deluging some monks. When Deluge resolved (we traded Fow's on that), I'll admit I was a little disappointed, because that meant Channel would just have resolved and the game would have been over. I eventually landed Jace on the board and won pretty easy. So it can't be that bad... Idk, that one's unclear.
I tried a single Show and Tell in your list in the place of a Decay. That was great. I used it 2 times in 3 games and each time just Grized and won. (Once she showed a Blightsteel, and it didn't even matter. I draw a bunch of cards, chumped once with a Factory, found Jace and killed her) I'm really a fan of Show, given that people run a lot of nature's claims in their boards because they're good against Shops and Oath. Full disclosure, My wife landed a Priest, and it got Deluged, so score one for that card.
Then we tried more Decays in my main board. Yeah. You are right. You basically can't lose game one. So much ammo. I just cut Channel and Show for this one... This is a really hard choice for me, because I really don't want to neuter the Oath side of the deck. I think it really helps Standstill to be able to weather the inevitable barrage when they break the Standstill, then counterattack with something much worse... That being said. Dang you just shoot whatever you don't like with Decay. So... again, that's not yet clear to me. I suppose I should start testing against Shops, Dredge, Storm and other stuff to see which way is best. I think the internal tension between Board Removal and the number of Kill Cards is where the meta-game tuning happens in this deck. One would think that the more Mentor/Hatebear/Tezz type decks you see, board removal would be better. The more Dredge/Storm you see, the more important being explosive would be? That's my working theory anyway.
Lets see what else... We cut a Jace from your deck next for Cruise. (Why don't you run cruise anyway?) I saw no discernible difference. Though in that one my wife was playing the OathStill. She walked over me turn one with an unending sequence of Standstills and Decays. I got game 2 but only because she made a mistake with Library of Alexandria, then she just walked me in game 3 again. (PS... playing the Mentor side sucks. It feels so defensive.)
So... that's what I got. My guesses about your deck are, I think Top should be Cruise. I think a Jace should be a Show (two black tutors you really want a Show in there). And I think there are too many Drains, because they are hard to play.... Maybe cut one for a 5th Decay?... just kidding. I dunno. Yours is certainly better tuned to play against a lot of Mentor though. So I'm going to work on leaning out my kill and putting in more board removal. I'm also going to make a Sphinx into a Griz and see what that does, if anything.
@tattoocek I've been playing with your deck all day. The thing that's best about it is that it can reach truly absurd levels of inevitability late game with all the hard counters and control. The thing I don't like about it is that it feels slower to get started than what I'm used to.
It rarely does much on turn 1. I can see why you're so high on Decay for that reason. It really shines in your build where you can let threats resolve and then shoot them in the face. It is often the second deck to play a spell in the game. I did some math so see the differences.
I defined a good proactive first turn as any turn where one of the following five things happened. Play a Library of Alexandria, a Standstill, an Oath, Dropping a Jace, or a Chalice set at 1 (Chalice at zero after playing some moxen is about the same thing so I just skipped it) To be fair, I didn't include plays like Channeling an Emrakul, Tinkering a Sphinx, or Showing one or the other into play.
My deck as is (Rough %s for turn 1)
Library = 11%
Playing Standstill = 12% (39% Standstill + Blue Source 82% + A mox or lotus 37%)
Playing Oath = 11% (Oath 39% + Green Source 76% + A mox or lotus 37%)
Playing Chalice@1 = 3% (Chalice 11% + Any mox or lotus 37% + Another mana source 92%)
Playing Jace = 1% (Jace 11% + Lotus and other mana source 10%)
Your Deck as is (Rough %s for turn 1)
Library = 11%
Playing Standstill = 39% Standstill/ Blue Source 84%/ A mox or Lotus 30% = 10%
Playing Oath = Oath 39%/ Green Source 79%/ A mox or Lotus 30% = 9%
Playing Chalice@1= 0%
Playing Jace = 2%
That made me wonder what the result would be of adding Ruby to my deck for… IDK, just something that wouldn't change the other %s too much. Lets just say a Sphinx.
My deck with Ruby for a Sphinx
Library = 11%
Playing Standstill = 39% Standstill / Blue Source 82% / A mox or lotus 43% = 17% roughly
Playing Oath = Oath 39% / Green Source 76% / A mox or lotus 43% = 13% roughly
Playing Chalice@1 = Chalice 11% / Any mox or lotus 43% / Another mana source 92% = 4%
Playing Jace = 1%
SO… my take away is, this build should at least be looking at running more artifact mana because it turns on the aggressive lines much more, much earlier. My build with Ruby in should be doing something pretty annoying, approaching 50% of the opening hands, when you include the rarities like Tinkers, Channels, Shows and broken turns off Ancestral. I think that will mitigate a lot of need for board removal, since in many of those games, the initial advantage will just be too big for opponents to overcome?
In total fairness, your build does a lot of other little turn one things. Like dropping a Top, or the requisite Brainstorm or Ponder. I didn't factor these in either. I probably should have, but its tough because now I'm calculating drawing to other good things, and all those things involve potential Misstep lines... woof
What do you think about this? How did your games in that 16 player tourney go? Slow and grindy? Did you feel like you fell behind and then took stuff off their board a lot? Why not just run more acceleration… is it fear of pitching moxen under the Standstill?... and why the heck not run a Chalice if you only run 4, zero mana artifacts, and 3 one mana spells not named Misstep or Flusterstorm?
(PS. Loved watching you play on the Mana Drain League)
Too much to respond from thoroughly at the moment, but I will say this. I tested Cruise and don't like it without playing Dack Faydens. Dig is just better. I chose top to I could smooth my draws better. I don't want more artifact fast mana because I play this as a landstill/grindy control deck first and foremost. The worst thing would be playing a Standstill and drawing moxes. My list is a direct reflection of my playstyle. If I wanted a more aggressive oath list with faster and more aggressive plays, it certainly wouldn't be a landstill variation.