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Restaurant review: Oak Long Bar and Kitchen

Fairmont Copley Plaza Last week a business dinner with my team allowed me the opportunity to have my first dinner at the newly remodeled Oak Long Bar + Kitchen.  This was the space formerly occupied by the iconic Oak Bar and Restaurant in the Fairmont Copley.

The dark wood paneling associated with the former restaurant is now gone and replaced with a brighter interior that also includes one of the largest bars (with some of the most comfortable seats you’ll find) in the Back Bay.  The opening of the new restaurant has coincided with the completion of a $20 Million renovation project for the entire property.

Dinner started with a delicious chopped shrimp cocktail – $16, served on a slate platter which includes a dash of horseradish on top, chili cocktail sauce, cucumber, red onion and charred lemon.

The highlight of my dinner was the main course, which was suggested to me by Adam, blogger for Adam’s Hospitality and Tourism blog.  I would certainly recommend the Tagliatelle dinner – $28, which comes with thick chunks of Maine lobster, braised short ribs, diced zucchini and cheese.  Nearly everyone at the table agreed this was the winning plate both in terms of flavor and surprise (who would’ve thought of pairing lobster and short ribs?).

Because I was out with colleagues we shared a few desserts.  Although there was a lot of loving terms associated with the cheesecake ordered, I ended up loving the fruit crumble topped with vanilla ice cream.

Overall the dining experience lived up to the hype and expectations. Main plates range from $19 (burger)  to $39 (bone out ribeye).  If that will break your budget, plan on coming for a cocktail and a few appetizers or flatbread which have a lower price point and are also very satisfying.   The Oak Long Bar + Kitchen is located in The Fairmont Copley Plaza in the Back Bay.
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The legend of the Lady of the Lake demystified

As a result of my recent work on the Physicians of Myddfai, which coincides with the redevelopment of our Apothecary’s Garden, I have become curious about the significance of legends involving fairies and the role they occupy in the ancient culture of Wales.

It seems to be universally claimed that the Physicians of Myddfai were descended from a fairy that emerged from lake Llyn y Fan Fach, near the village of Myddfai, in north-east Carmarthenshire. While watching his mother’s cattle grazing on the hillsides near Llyn y Fan Fach, a young farmer came across a beautiful girl sitting on the surface of the lake. He is said to have instantly fallen in love with her but, before she would accept his proposal of marriage, he had to successfully complete two tasks: firstly, to produce a perfectly baked loaf of bread and, secondly, to be able to distinguish her from her identical twin sister. When both tasks were satisfactorily completed, the girl agreed to become his wife. However, on the day of their marriage, she warned her husband that if he were to strike her three times, she would return to the fairy kingdom beneath the lake.

The young couple lived happily for many years and produced three sons. The husband took great care never to strike his wife, but with the advent of three seemingly innocuous incidents, a tap on the shoulder while preparing to attend a christening, another tap on the shoulder at a wedding and finally, a touch on the arm at a funeral, all perceived as blows, the wife returned to the lake, taking with her the animals she had brought as dowry.

The grieving husband spent much time gazing into the lake hoping to catch a glimpse of his lost wife. On one occasion she did, indeed, emerge but only for one day, and for the purpose of handing to one of her sons her secret herbal remedies, based on the herbs that proliferated on the nearby mountainsides.

The son’s name was Rhiwallon and together with his own sons, Cadwgan, Gruffydd and Einion, he founded the celebrated, unbroken, hereditary line of healers known as the Physicians of Myddfai who are said to have practiced from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century.

From the distant and relatively rational perspective of the twenty-first century, what are we to make of this story?

First of all, it is certainly not the only one of its kind and there are examples relating to other Welsh lakes with fairy inhabitants, for example Llyn Rhos Ddu in Anglesey, Llyn Eiddwen in Cardiganshire and Llyn Cŵn Llwch in south Powys. Taken together, these and other stories form a substantial heritage of Welsh myths and legends that contribute to defining the ancient culture of a small and often embattled nation. Additionally, the story reflects the belief systems of the time.  People did believe in magic as a powerful force in daily life.

For the Physicians of Myddfai the legend may have significance other than medical. Their supposed fairy ancestry would most certainly have enhanced their reputation and prestige and contributed to their historical status. It is highly probable that there have been many respected and eminent healers in Wales but, seemingly, none who can claim an ancestry that originated in a fairy kingdom set in the dark and silent waters of a remote mountain lake.  For this reason, their work is lost to us.

The fairy has served the Physicians well … in more ways than one!


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No treatment of feline asthma is complete without your veterinarian's involvement. If you suspect your cat may be suffering from asthma, taking them in for a checkup is essential.

Your veterinarian can run tests to determine if your cat suffers from asthma. They will perform a physical exam and do specific diagnostic tests to determine what is causing the breathing problem.  These tests can include radiographs (x-rays), blood work, parasite tests for heartworm,  and bronchial samples.

Once asthma is diagnosed, your veterinarian will prescribe medicine and outline the best therapy for your cat.

Humans are not the only ones who can suffer from asthma. It is a condition that can also afflict cats. Feline asthma is similar to human asthma, in that it is a chronic inflammation of the airways inside the lungs. During an asthma attack, these airways become constricted, and the lungs create mucus and release it into the airways. This makes it difficult for the cat to breathe.

Asthma Symptoms

Cats suffering from feline asthma can experience labored breathing in many forms. Some endure wheezing, rapid breathing, open mouth breathing, or gasping for breath. Others manifest a persistent cough and may gag up mucus while coughing. This can leave a cat with a pronounced lack of energy and put them in a weakened state; cats can die from an asthma attack.

Asthma Causes

Most cases of feline asthma can be traced to an allergic reaction that occurs when a cat breathes in any substance that stimulates their immune system. The lungs suffer inflammation resulting from an over-reaction by their immune system to the foreign substance in their bodies.

Several common factors can trigger asthma attacks in cats. These include exposure to allergens like pollen, mold, dust, and cigarette smoke. It can be a result of ingesting  foods to which the cat is allergic. Other health problems sometimes play a role.  Heart problems, obesity, or infection with parasites can exacerbate asthma signs. Stress can also induce asthma attacks in felines.

Asthma typically develops in cats who are two years and older. Female cats have been found to develop asthma in higher numbers than male cats.

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There is no cure for feline asthma, but there are ways to reduce symptoms in your cat. Medication prescribed by a veterinarian is one tool cat owners can use to help their pets manage asthma attacks. Veterinarians can prescribe oral medications, or even have you use an inhaler on your cat.
Cat owners can also make things easier on their pet by reducing their exposure to chemicals and allergens that serve as asthma triggers. Keeping your cat fit through exercise and a healthy diet will also reduce the risk of suffering asthma attacks. Finally, reducing stress for your cat can be helpful as stress tends to worsen asthma symptoms when an attack occurs.

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Knowledge is Power, but Power is no Substitute for Knowledge

W.J. Astore

Francis Bacon is famous for the aphorism, “Knowledge is power.”  Yet the reverse aphorism is not true.  The United States is the most powerful nation in the world, yet its knowledge base is notably weak in spite of all that power.  Of course, many factors contribute to this weakness.  Our public educational systems are underfunded and driven by meaningless standardized test results.  Our politicians pander to the lowest common denominator.  Our mainstream media is corporate-owned and in the business of providing info-tainment when they’re not stoking fear.  Our elites are in the business of keeping the American people divided, distracted, and downtrodden, conditions that do not favor critical thinking, which is precisely the point of their efforts.

All that is true.  But even when the U.S. actively seeks knowledge, we get little in return for our investment.  U.S. intelligence agencies (the CIA, NSA, DIA, and so on) aggregate an enormous amount of data, then try to convert this to knowledge, which is then used to inform action.  But these agencies end up drowning in minutiae.  Worse, competing agencies within a tangled bureaucracy (that truly deserves the label of “Byzantine”) end up spinning the data for their own benefit.  The result is not “knowledge” but disinformation and self-serving propaganda.

When our various intelligence agencies are not drowning in minutiae or choking on their own “spin,” they’re getting lost in the process of converting data to knowledge.  Indeed, so much attention is put on process, with so many agencies being involved in that process, that the end product – accurate and actionable knowledge – gets lost.  Yet, as long as the system keeps running, few involved seem to mind, even when the result is marginal — or disastrous.

Consider the Vietnam War.  Massive amounts of “intelligence” data took the place of knowledge.  Data like enemy body counts, truck counts, aircraft sorties, bomb tonnages, acres defoliated, number of villages pacified, and on and on.  Amassing this data took an enormous amount of time; attempting to interpret this data took more time; and reaching conclusions from the (often inaccurate and mostly irrelevant) data became an exercise in false optimism and self-delusion.  Somehow, all that data suggested to US officialdom that they were winning the war, a war in which US troops were allegedly making measurable and sustained progress.  But events proved such “knowledge” to be false.

Of course, there’s an acronym for this: GIGO, or garbage (data) in, garbage (knowledge) out.

In this case, real knowledge was represented by the wisdom of Marine Corps General (and Medal of Honor recipient) David M. Shoup, who said in 1966 that:

I don’t think the whole of Southeast Asia, as related to the present and future safety and freedom of the people of this country, is worth the life or limb of a single American [and] I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty bloody dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own design and want, that they fight and work for. And if, unfortunately, their revolution must be of the violent type…at least what they get will be their own and not the American style, which they don’t want…crammed down their throat.

But few wanted to hear Shoup and his brand of hard-won knowledge, even if he’d been handpicked by President Kennedy to serve as the Commandant of the Marine Corps exactly because Shoup had a reputation for sound and independent thinking.

Consider as well our rebuilding efforts in Iraq after 2003.  As documented by Peter Van Buren in his book “We Meant Well,” those efforts were often inept and counterproductive.  Yet the bureaucracy engaged in those efforts was determined to spin them as successes.  They may even have come to believe their own spin.  When Van Buren had the clarity and audacity to say, We’re fooling no one with our Kabuki dance in Iraq except the American people we’re sworn to serve, he was dismissed and punished by the State Department.

Why?  Because you’re not supposed to share knowledge, real knowledge, with the American people.  Instead, you’re supposed to baffle them with BS.  But Van Buren was having none of that.  His tell-all book (you can read an excerpt here) captured the Potemkin village-like atmosphere of US rebuilding efforts in Iraq.  His accurate knowledge had real power, and for sharing it with the American people he was slapped down.

Tell the truth – share real knowledge with the American people – and you get punished.  Massage the data to create false “knowledge,” in these cases narratives of success, and you get a pat on the back and a promotion.  Small wonder that so many recent wars have gone so poorly for America.

What the United States desperately needs is insight.  Honesty.  A level of knowledge that reflects mastery.  But what we’re getting is manufactured information, or disinformation, or BS.  Lies, in plainspeak, like the lie that Iraq had in 2002 a large and active program in developing WMD that could be used against the United States.  (Remember how we were told we had to invade Iraq quickly before the “smoking gun” became a “mushroom cloud”?)

If knowledge is power, what is false knowledge?  False knowledge is a form of power as well, but a twisted one.  For when you mistake the facade you’re constructing as the real deal, when you manufacture your own myths and then forget they’re myths as you consume them, you may find yourself hopelessly confused, even as the very myths you created consume you.

So, a corollary to Francis Bacon: Knowledge is power, but as the United States has discovered in Vietnam, Iraq, and elsewhere, power is no substitute for knowledge.

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  1. In the US today I think we can safely say that “ignorance is power”. We see one of our two political parties has raised ignorance to the the level of wisdom. And both parties have defunded the public school system in order to make education a profit center rather than a learning center.

  2. I was surprised by the absence of the simple word “wisdom” in the original article. The US Military Beast believes its power obviates any need for wisdom, surely, and even for much knowledge. If you keep stomping on your designated enemies like Godzilla long enough, you will eradicate them in time. Gee, that hasn’t worked so terrifically well against “The Islamic State,” has it? The crew working the levers inside the machine is an utterly lost cause in terms of enlightenment. Its members are rewarded for only seeing what they are instructed to see. Perpetual war guarantees their ongoing comfortable existence. The machine, the Juggernaut of War, needs to be toppled and smashed to bits. The notion of reform is a bad joke.

    1. Hi Greg: the “wisdom” word appears once, in the sentence on General Shoup. I was focusing on the difference between data — raw information or an aggregation of info — with knowledge. True knowledge informs judgment and contributes to right action. And wisdom — the voice of experience — also informs judgment and action. Knowledge of that sort truly is power.

      To me, our various intelligence agencies (I think there are 17, but who knows) substitute raw data collection for true knowledge. They might be good at sweeping up everything, but they can’t tell the wheat from the chaff. Even worse, they call the chaff “wheat” if it serves their purposes to do so. And their tangled lines of responsibility — and their compromised agendas — only serve further to skew the data.

      So — lots of power, lots of data, but not much knowledge. Thus the power is compromised — often misdirected even when the intent is good.

      1. Looking at the actions of the US colossus in the world today–indeed, since 1898–from a simple perspective of Human Rights…I can’t find a track record of good intent. Though you express criticism of this or that specific policy or action, Bill Astore, I believe you remain emotionally (yes, I’d have to say that’s the right term) too close on the whole to the subject we’re trying to scrutinize here. I see that as the legacy of your 20 years of faithful service to the US Air Force. No fig leaf of good intent is large enough to cover the crimes of the USA, nay, even a small fraction thereof.

      2. No apology sought, Bill! Pardon my bluntness but it’s what I call keeping it real. I think it’s important readers grasp where the editor of this site is coming from. They of course will doubtless form their own opinions.

    2. The United States has been the biggest collection of god-bothering self-righteous pesterers of everyone else since the fist cast-outs arrived in Jamestown. The only thing “exceptional” about the United States is the exception stupidity, that has never ever ever ever learned a damn thing from any experience ever.

  3. The points made in this piece, and thank you for the effort, have to be known and fully understood by more than a few presently employed in the various agencies and service branches responsible for “intelligence”, including some who willfully create and direct alternative spin resulting in perhaps incalculable net cost, to human life, rate of progression of planetary civilizational advance, and probably neither last or remotely close to least, the American taxpayer entrusting the best interests of our country to this group and receiving such a terrible return for this trust. Corporations, their investors, and particularly primary stockholders and the minions they appoint as CEO’s & attorneys & other primary sycophants – er, ataff, profit spectacularly, though, do they not? Small wonder whistleblowers are hunted game and media coverage is carefully steered to sell an alternative fiction to that taxpaying public. A public which, as WJA notes, may be so fact deprived and dumbed down that it is already incapable of requiring more from it leadership.

  4. ?? Knowledge is only potential power, unless you have absolute knowledge.

    Short of that, potential or presumed power only counts if it’s accompanied by action, and continuously tuned by immediate feedback (usually about unanticipated inter-dependencies and unexpected consequences).

    And power itself doesn’t always deliver Desired Outcomes, as anyone who’s hammered their thumb should remember. 🙂

    1. ‘… continuously tuned by immediate feedback.’ Elegantly succinct, it’s mine, now, if you don’t mind.
      Not to claim as originally conceived by me, no, but to utilize in aid of refuting both libertarian laissez faire anti-regulatory regime doctrinal puritans and anti-scientific methodology Iron Age-thinking know-nothings. Just to name two types of stifling dogmatic mind sets.

      1. Please restate as often as possible, regardless of whom you quote. Lord knows we need our aggregates to get the message, regardless of the sources.

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Building the Bond Between Pets and Families

The companionship of a pet enriches our lives. Studies have shown that the presence of a pet in your life can lower your blood pressure and reduce stress. Studies also show that the number one cause of pet euthanasia is the direct result of behavior problems that lead to surrendering of the pet. Our goal at Broad Ripple Animal Clinic and Wellness Center is to prevent behavior problems before they happen through early training, socialization, education, and bonding of the pet to the members of the adoptive family. This desire culminated in the Responsible Pet Partnership program (for kittens and puppies), available at Broad Ripple Animal Clinic, as well as the creation of Bark Tutor School for Dogs.

We are very pleased with the progress we’ve seen since opening Bark Tutor School for Dogs. Students benefit from individualized training, group classes and socialization, while their families learn how to get the responses they want from their dogs. Clients have been so pleased with the relationships they’ve been able to develop with their dogs that they are asking for more!

Later this month, we will be expanding our classes to include three new group classes that focus on enhancing you and your family’s relationship with your dog. The first class is Bark Tutor Kids Club. This class is designed specifically for kids between the ages of 5 and 12. The class will be similar to our obedience classes, but will allow things to be slowed down for younger family members. The class will also cover topics that relate to building bonds between kids and dogs, and preventing problems: handling exercise, how to play properly, bite prevention and more. All students must be accompanied by an adult. The Bark Tutor Kids Club will be meeting Wednesdays at 6:30pm.

Therapy Dog Preparation is a class that more and more people are interested in pursuing, especially after they’ve experienced success with their dog’s training. This class is designed to prepare the dog and his handler for work as a therapy dog. There are many types of therapy work a dog can do, and many people are interested in enhancing the lives of others who can’t have a pet in their lives due to assisted living, hospitalization, etc. Bark Tutor’s Therapy Dog Preparation class does not certify nor does it guarantee that a dog will be certified, as each therapy facility has their own set of requirements. At the end of 8 weeks, we will facilitate evaluations with a Delta Society Evaluator for our students. All dogs enrolling in Therapy Dog Prep must have a Canine Good Citizen, which Bark Tutor also offers. This class will be meeting on Thursday evenings at 7:45pm with a 6-dog limited enrollment.

Rally O is an exciting new dog sport. We feel it’s the ideal sport for dogs and their families who have enjoyed the training process and want to continue working with their dog in a fun, learning environment. Follow this link to view video examples of Rally O at http://tinyurl.com/p7u7at. The beginner Rally class will be on Sundays at 2:00pm, with a strict 6-dog maximum enrollment. All dogs enrolling in Rally O must have completed level 3 skills at Bark Tutor and have a Canine Good Citizen.

For more information about the programs available at Bark Tutor School for Dogs, visit our website at www.barktutor.com or call the school directly at 317.259.8336.

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MLA 2016 Panel: The Anthropocene and Deep Time in Literary Studies

At this year’s MLA Convention in Austin, Texas, I will be on a panel on The Anthropocene and Deep Time in Literary Studies. I have included the information on the panel and an abstract for the paper I will be presenting below.

670. The Anthropocene and Deep Time in Literary Studies

Saturday, 9 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 6B, ACC

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American

Presiding: Heather Houser, Univ. of Texas, Austin

Speakers: Gerry Canavan, Marquette Univ.; Bradley J. Fest, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Kristin George Bagdanov, Univ. of California, Davis; Rebecca Wilbanks, Stanford Univ.

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The notion of the Anthropocene was coined in 2000 to highlight that human beings’ transformation of the planetary environment will be visible in the geological strata. Beyond its crucial influence in the environmental humanities, the Anthropocene links to discussions of deep time in literary studies. This session taps into and elaborates on these two ongoing discussions.

“Fictional Quantities That Make Themselves Real”: Speculation, Petropolitics, and Deep Time in Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia

Since its publication in 2008, Reza Negarestani’s experimental work of “theory-fiction,” Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, has become somewhat of a literary touchstone for a variety of writers and thinkers revolving in the orbit of speculative realism. Resembling what would happen if Deleuze and Guattari collaborated with H. P. Lovecraft, Cyclonopedia is a serious, albeit ironic encounter with non-correlationist thought, with speculation, deep time, and hyperobjects of all kinds. It is also a rigorous literary attempt to think through climate change, the War on Terror, and the petropolitical realities of the twenty-first century. This paper will explore a variety of issues that converge in Negarestani’s remarkable book. Beginning with Cyclonopedia’s implicit emphasis on how speculation is necessary for thinking the present (rather than, say, rationalism, measurement, or management), this paper will argue that Negarestani’s encounter with geology and nonhuman hyperobjects indicates that experimental literature may be uniquely suited to thinking about deep time and the realities of climate change in a way unavailable to more conventional narratives. If Steven Shaviro has recently suggested that “at its best, speculative philosophy rather resembles speculative fiction,” then Negarestani’s “novel” is evidence of what might happen when speculative philosophy becomes speculative fiction. Cyclonopedia is not only an important text for thinking about nonhuman entities and deep time in an age of observable climate change, it is also an important entry into the ancient debate between poetry and philosophy. Less a “novel after theory” than theory as novel, Cyclonopedia demonstrates that literature will continue to play an important role for understanding the Anthropocene.

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LOVE doesn’t WIN when we bash each other

Path Broken Between People

Even God’s people don’t always get along…

If you want a post with some sizzle, post something about Chick-fil-A.  If you want it to generate a lot of conversation, make it controversial.  If you really want to make it provocative, recast a story of something that took place in Chick-fil-A with the words “Spiritual Molestation” as the title. (we’ll see, cuz I’m doing it right here!)

Recently there was this experience in a Chick-fil-A that went a bit viral on Facebook.  You can read what happened here.  A blogger from Love Wins Ministries didn’t see what happened as good, but called it spiritual molestation, and later in his blog called it a “story about power and control.”  You can read his blog here.

I think I get what Hugh Hollowell is trying to say.  As Christians we offer love and that Gospel of Jesus without strings and  without obligation.  We give a cup of water, feed the hungry and clothe the naked without obligating them to something.  But I think he goes too far; and I think he forgets…

I think he forgets Jesus and how God has often operated in the world as we see in Scripture.

If what happened in a Chick-Fil-A, then what about: God causing Jonah’s only shade to shrivel up? Isaac’s trauma at being placed on the altar? Hosea being told to marry a prostitute?

While I understand that Hugh is concerned that the man in the story is being “used,” I think it would be helpful to look at the ministry of Jesus for a moment.

In Mark 12:41-44 Jesus a very poor widow give all she has (making her maybe poorer than the man in Chick-fil-A).  Instead of letting her giving pass by in secret, Jesus uses her as an object lesson.

In the beginning of Matthew 9 some people bring a paralyzed man before Jesus, and out of love he forgives the man’s sins.  But the man is still paralyzed and lying on his matt.  The teachers of the law were mumbling to themselves about Jesus.  Knowing the evil in their hearts, Jesus uses the man and his paralysis to demonstrate his power to forgive. Healing the man Jesus says this to those around him, “I will prove to you the Son of Man has authority on Earth…” It could have been anybody with any ailment.  The paralyzed man isn’t central in the story – it is about power and control between Jesus and religious leaders.

Even Paul, in prison, when he is told others are boldly proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus only so Paul suffers more, says as long as Jesus is proclaimed he is good with it.

But all of this is an example, a microscopic example, of the fracturing taking place in the Church in North America.  Rather than being busy about the work of the Gospel, we fight, nitpick and shoot our own.  And we justify ourselves by saying the truth must be known – about those other people – who love Jesus – the same Jesus we love – and maybe love him more than we do.

Church, hear this! The world is not impressed with our inbred divisive bickering.

Hugh is right.  The Gospel of John is clear.  God so loved the world. Period.  The Gospel is Love.  God is Love.  Jesus is God and all Jesus did, and does, was done in love. Even when he heals a man only to make a point to someone else, it is Love.

Dear Church, let us love one another, for love comes from God.

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