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About Nara Thai
Founded in 2006 by Thai businesswomen who love cooking and eating street food, Nara Thai has had phenomenal success both in Thailand - where it has consistently been on Thailand Tatler's Best Restaurants List - and in Singapore, with the opening of its second outlet at Westgate Mall.
The restaurant aims to bring the best of Thai street food to customers in a comfortable restaurant dining environment. The dishes at Nara are all derived from authentic recipes, evoking a sense of culture and comfort that are sure to delight Thais and Singaporeans alike. We were there recently to see if their food lived up to the hype.
The Food at Nara Thai
When the first dish, Kung Chae Nampla ($13.90) arrived, I felt my heart beat a little faster. I've never had raw prawns of this size before. But you can't call yourself a foodie if you're not willing to be adventurous with your palate and try new dishes, so I quite literally bit the bullet and I actually really enjoyed this!
The super spicy and tangy sauce compliments the sweetness of the raw prawns, which were marinated in fish sauce. The texture was a little slimy but not unpleasant when eaten with the crunchy cabbage. The contrast in texture and flavour really showed how well put together this dish was.
The next appetizer was the excellent Deep Fried Shrimp Cakes ($13.90). They were so plump and juicy, totally blew any other Thai shrimp or fish cake I've had before out of the water.
As for mains, their Stir-fried Soft Shell Crab with Yellow Curry ($18.90) is one of the star dishes at Nara Thai. The curry was luxuriously thick and goes perfectly with rice. They were also very generous with their soft shell crab, which was light and crispy despite being slathered in that decadent gravy.
Their Tom Yum Fried Rice ($13.90) is available exclusively at the Westgate outlet. The rice had a good spicy kick to it but for the price, I didn't find this anything special and would stick with plain white rice instead.
Nara's coconut ice cream with assorted Thai sweet condiments, I-Thim Nara ($8.80), really stole the show for me and was my favourite dish of the entire lunch. For just $8.80 you can choose the topping for your ice cream - be it Attap Chee, Jackfruit, Peanuts, Nata de Coco, Chendol, Corn, Sticky Rice or Red Rubies.
This dessert gives you bang for your buck. Even after I was done with my ice cream, I was still happily munching on the remaining red rubies, which are made in-house and are so delicious.
If you're more into hot desserts, their Bua Loy Sam Si ($4.80) is worth a try as well. The Thai dumplings come in 3 different flavours - Taro, Pumpkin and Pandan - and have the same chewy texture as bubble tea pearls. The piping hot coconut milk was also very comforting after a spicy meal.
Interview with John Wangwanitkul
I had the opportunity to do a quick interview with John Wangwanitkul, the Managing Director of Nara Thai Cuisine, to find out more about the man behind the brand.
Q: Why did you choose to open a Nara Thai branch in Singapore after all your success in Bangkok?
Singaporeans have high spending power and they love eating Thai food. We can see it in Thailand, where you'll see a Singaporean next to you in every restaurant. Especially Nara in Erawan, there's lots of Singaporeans who go there.
I remember coming to Singapore when I was younger and how there weren't many good options for Thai food. The good options - for example, those at Orchard Towers - were not as easily accessible and the ones accessible to most people, I feel, were not something I considered Thai in spirit.
Q: What then makes Nara different from other Thai dining establishments in Singapore?
Brand wise, I think Nara is already very established and well known. Most of my Singaporean friends always ask me to bring them to Nara once they touch down in Bangkok. There was such a hype when Nara first opened its doors in Singapore.
After that hype dies down, the main thing I wanted to focus on was getting people to come in and try the food and realize that the food is authentic. Then again, I'm very hesitant to use the word "authentic", because what exactly is authentic Thai food? To me, authentic is something that a local would say is good. Even in Thailand, there are so many ways of making the same dish.
If a Thai person comes to my restaurant, they'll say that this tastes like home. That's my version of authenticity, and I'd happily say that is when we've successfully recreated Thai food in Singapore.
Q: What's your favourite dish at Nara?
I have so many favourite dishes here at Nara! In Thai cuisine there are so many flavours so it really depends on my mood. I eat here every day - I have to, as part of quality control. I'll randomly select stuff under the radar so that the staff thinks that it's actually a customer.
There are so many things I would order on a regular basis, but my default is still Basil Chicken with Rice and a Fried Egg. I also like the Plaa Goong and all the appetizers. The Boat Noodles are good as well and make an excellent hangover cure.
Q:Just to conclude, why don't you tell our readers what they can expect when they dine at Nara Thai?
Authentic food! Most of our staff are Thai and they act as a check and balance as well. If I taste something wrong with the food, I'll actually get the staff to taste and tell me what they think as well. The Thai staff know what it's supposed to taste like at home and this helps me to check my palate as well.
I can comfortably say that our food is very authentic to what you will find in Thailand.
So does Nara really deliver on their promise of providing Singaporeans with authentic Thai street food? My answer is a resounding yes! While it is pricier than establishments at Golden Mile where most Singaporeans get their Thai food fix, the quality of the food, service and ambiance makes up for it.
Nara is a place I would bring my Mum for a special treat, and their portions are also generous enough for a family to share. With outlets at ION Orchard and Westgate, Nara is also easy to get to when you have a hankering for Thai food.
Getting to Nara Thai
Address: Westgate, 3 Gateway Drive, #03-07 | ION Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn, #B3-21
Hours: 11.30am - 10pm (Monday to Sunday)
Phone: 6634 5787
Website: NaraThai.com.sg
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Discussion in 'Ask Baldy, Blame Cannonshot' started by tkitna, Jul 31, 2018.
Is it me or is everything small on the site now?
Hold down your CTRL key and scroll upwards with your mouse wheel.
Thanks. Had no idea. This was the only site I had issues with. Again, thanks.
Your browser can now remember if you changed the setting for a specific site. CTRL+0 is the short cut to restore to default. This is also available in the menus somewhere.
While we are on usability: Only on this site with my iPad, do I have to double click thread titles to go there, I have no reply box under threads and when I "like" something, it takes me to a second page to click like and then back to the thread. These things started a few months ago..I am thinking it is some stupid Apple thing but again, it only does this on this website....


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Jason Sanville Flies to 3rd Win of Season
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Lacey Hanson Scores 1st career win in Sprint Cars of New England
Jason Sanville flew to the front at the drop of the green flag in the Peanuts Auto Sportsman Modified Feature and was never really challenged, leading all the way to take the win, his third of the season. Ricky Sanville finished a solid second with points' leader Derek O'Hearn crossing the line third. O'Hearn had to come from the rear as he was part of the races' first caution. Brian Whittemore recovered from a mid race spin to finish fourth with Matt Lashua completing the top five.
The Sprint Cars of New England were on hand for the final time this season and ended up with a first time winner. Just last week at Bear Ridge Speedway Lacey Hanson's machine received frame damage in a wreck. Steve Hutchinson was on the sideline due to a broken rear end. This week Hanson and Hutchinson combined their cars to make one and that is what Lacey Hanson drove to the win with Friday night, it was Hanson's first career win in SCoNE action. Hanson started 7th and had the lead by lap four. Tyler Austin finished in the second position with Chris Donnelly, who started 12th claiming third. Donnelly was actually second as the white flag flew and made a bid for the lead but the all out effort cost him a position in the end. Ryan Avery and Dan Douville rounded out the top five.
Petro Mart of Enfield Super Street action saw a good battle up front between Donald Ottati and Toby Start before Ottati claimed the lead for good with 11 laps complete in the caution laden event. For Donald Ottati it was his 1st career win. Matt Pike worked his way to second at the checkers with Hunter Nutter third. Doug Boucher and Tim Martin completed the top five.
The Enfield Garage Outlaw Mini Stocks ran twin 15 lap events, combining the finishes for the overall winner. No results were available at press time, pending technical inspections.
The Granite State Mini Sprints will be making their last appearance of the year this Friday night, joining the regular divisions of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Twilight Racing Series
The Legion Speedway goes Green every Friday Night at 7:00PM and is located on Route 25 at the Rumney/Wentworth, NH Town line.
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Scene Noir:
December 2, 2012
Launch of Spice Market's New Lounge at W Atlanta Midtown
The Cocktail Crowd Mingles in Midtown
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Chef Jean-George's Vongerichten's exotic Spice Market restaurant at the W Atlanta Midtown got a spicy new Pond Room lounge, which was inaugurated with a cool cocktail party.
Party Notes
More than 75 VIPs enjoyed signature cocktails such as ginger margaritas, wine and munched on passed hors d'oeuvres from the new Spice Market Lounge men such as charred chili rubbed beef skewers and salmon sashimi. Guests entered through the secret stairwell entrance and grooved to music by DJ Mike Zarin, whose floating DJ booth hovered over the pond feature in the center of the room. Other cocktails on the new menu include the Cherry Blossom with Tanqueray gin, cherry yusu and Thai Basil and a Passion Fruit Whiskey Fizz composed of Maker's Mark bourbon, passion fruit, and ginger ale. Spice Market is the brainchild of acclaimed international chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. The sophisticated cuisine is inspired by the vibrant street life of Southeast Asia.


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You have started your own business, and are determined to make it work. You're in it for the long haul – this is not a hobby or stop-gap whilst your babes are young, and this is not a networking marketing business where you have no control over the brand and messaging. Your service is excellent – you're an awesome practitioner – and you are creative and focused. You have fabulous ideas and want to be recognised for your brilliance whilst adding value to others' lives. You need to share your message and value as far and wide as you can but also be compensated well for your work. You are ready to be seen as a thought leader…someone whose opinion is valued, who is sought for their ideas, who stands firm in their beliefs.
Ideally, your clients will arrive on your doorstep already in alignment with your philosophy so you don't have to waste time with tyre-kickers or those who you can't help. You work with people from all around the world, and love the independence that technology and your business offers. You're itching to be ahead of where you are now, tasting the spoils of your success, but you also know you have to lay a solid foundation for your business to truly grow into the best version it can be.
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You need to expand your client base – more clients = more opportunities to help = more money = more lifestyle choices.
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You've tried heaps of different marketing activities, but it all feels disconnected and hard. You get distracted by the shiny new kid on the block so your approach is sporadic at best. You see others posting articles and sending e-mails and doing challenges and video series and, and, and…. and it is frustrating because you know you should be doing that! Instead, what you are sending out is getting little feedback, if you are sending anything at all. Your current marketing materials are not personal and don't provide enough value, which is partially because you have trouble articulating your message clearly, and also because you've been scared to really put it out there. You are really only getting clients one at a time, mostly from referrals. You want better results, faster.
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Nancy Silverton's Thanksgiving Dinner
When I was growing up in the 1950s, my mother was the kind of experimental cook who was more likely to make beef bourguignon from a Julia Child book than the chicken tetrazzini all the other mothers were making. She enjoyed the challenges of making these exotic dishes as much as she loved the delicious results, so it almost goes without saying that cooking the Thanksgiving meal was not something that interested her. I don't think it would have occurred to her to change the dishes offered or how those dishes were prepared, so instead, she left Thanksgiving to our Aunt Fey, who turned out the typical spread of dry turkey, marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes, overcooked green vegetables, and an unremarkable pumpkin pie.
To this day, I don't think you can find a way in which Americans are more traditional than when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner. Every November on the fourth Thursday of the month, all across the country, families of all different ethnicities sit down to more or less the same spread, which invariably looks a lot like the one I just described. While I do like the elements of the Thanksgiving feast, at the risk of seeming unpatriotic, I must admit that I take after my mother in that I don't generally care for the way those elements are prepared. Thankfully, times have changed. In recent years, looking for new ways to interpret these dishes has become practically a new American tradition.
I didn't have to look far. I own two restaurants in Los Angeles, Pizzeria Mozza and Osteria Mozza, and although they are Italian, and pretty traditional at that, when it comes to the vegetables and desserts we offer, we draw much of our inspiration from the produce we find at our local farmers markets. When this time of year rolls around, we find ourselves serving the very elements and flavors — granted in a different context — that have come to represent Thanksgiving.
Brussels sprouts sprinkled with prosciutto-laced breadcrumbs are the most popular antipasto in the Pizzeria. Crostini topped with butternut squash, bacon, and bitter greens has all the elements of the autumnal palate in one bite. And although the Ribollita da Delfina's direct lineage is a restaurant in the hills outside Florence, hardly a day goes by when I don't see it in the restaurant and think what a wonderful Thanksgiving dish it would make, especially for vegetarians. (These recipes, plus one for a pumpkin-date tart that we serve with a really boozy bourbon gelato, are all in my recently published Mozza Cookbook.)
I like to think that, if my mother were here to make Thanksgiving dinner, she would find these dishes sufficiently interesting and delicious to warrant the time and care I know she would have taken to make it.
Crostini with Butternut Squash, Applewood-Smoked Bacon, and Bitter Greens
We try to stick with strictly Italian flavors when we're thinking up dishes for the restaurants, but I can promise that you will never find anything like these crostini...
Ribollita is a classic Tuscan soup traditionally made with leftover minestrone thickened with chunks of stale bread...
Brussels Sprouts with Sherry Vinaigrette and Prosciutto Breadcrumbs
Brussels sprouts get a bad rap. People say they hate Brussels sprouts more than any other food, other than lima beans...
Pumpkin and Date Tart with Bourbon Gelato
When you've worked with food as long as I have, you get to a certain point where many of the dishes you construct are compilations of things you've done previously...
For more turkey talk, visit The Daily Meal's Guide to Thanksgiving!


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Morning Sickness
If reading about someone being sick makes you feel sick... stop reading now!
Morning sickness should not be called morning sickness. It's no secret that you can get it at any time of the day, but I had no idea that the feeling of sickness would last all day and all night and being physically sick only took up 20 minutes of my day. I found that my day would either begin with puking in the morning and feeling sick the entire day until the sweet release of going to sleep. Or that I would feel sick all day and have my head in the toilet just in time for bed - I'm not sure which was worse.
Factoring in the two PregnaCare tablets a day I took that I picked up the same time I got my Clear Blue test - that were Omega 3 and Folic Acid among other vitamins that were for good development in the early stages - my situation was about to get so much worse. I can usually knock back tablets like no tomorrow and have never made a fuss. But deciding what time of day to take these tablets in order to avoid my gag reflex going insane and puking was the most difficult part of my day. If I took the tablets when I was feeling sick, it would induce sickness and the tablets would come straight back up... but if I took them after I'd just been sick, it would take about 10 attempts not to spit the tablets back out as I was still traumatised by the puking to swallow anything that dry. I tried for two days (yes two whole days) to put the tablets in a smoothie every morning but I do not have the patience, organisation or love for kale to be a 'morning smoothie' kinda gal. I found the best thing was to eat something heavy in carbs such as a thick sliced ham and cheese sandwich (I without a doubt had one of these everyday throughout my pregnancy) to settle and stodge out my stomach and then take the tablets with an enormous gulp of the thickest milkshake I could find - the Frijj milkshakes I found worked best. The liquid was so thick that I couldn't even feel that I was swallowing the tablets.
Brushing my teeth I found made me really sick and couldn't even hold toothpaste in my mouth for longer than a second before it made me gag. Your sense of smell also becomes incredible. I couldn't feed the dogs in the morning because the smell of raw meat made me vomit. I struggled to cook dinner with raw meats. And old people with hideous breath became unbearable. Not to mention having pedicure clients and the smell of other people's feet drove me insane - I was lucky I didn't puke into the foot spa.
I didn't find anything that helped me stop feeling sick, but found that the odds of being physically sick was reduced dramatically if I ate as many carbs as I possibly could... bread, crackers, cereal bars, cakes, biscuits... good job I didn't get hung up on worrying about the baby weight. I even used to take plain Jacobs water crackers around with me in a tub just to make sure I was constantly full and stocked up with carbs.
Luke and I were lucky enough to go on holiday twice during my pregnancy, the first holiday was when my sickness started. I was about 11 weeks pregnant and was armed with my pregnancy books to read around the pool. I was feeling pretty smug up until 11 weeks as the only symptom I had had was tiredness. Not the sort of tiredness that I felt like I needed sleep but that my body was really weak and I had no energy. I felt really sluggish and didn't want to do anything other than watch TV (or maybe that part was just me being lazy). It was on our third night on holiday that at 4am I woke up and immediately had to be sick, I was then sick again in the morning around 9am and felt like crap the whole day. I put this off as maybe just dodgy Spanish food but it continued when we got home and felt like it was never going to end.
I had morning sickness from end of month 3 to end of month 5 as I remember reading all the books saying morning sickness would end by the end of the first trimester and I was nearly at the end of the second wondering when it would ever end! I wish I hadn't of been so naive to think that if a book told me my morning sickness would be over by the end of the first trimester. I had 8 weeks of 'THE BOOK SAID!!!!' as I continued to be violently sick. I was so fed up and thought I would be sick for the rest of my pregnancy. The first month was the worst as I couldn't explain to anyone why I wasn't leaving the house as much as normal and was missing so much. I ended up being a pretty crappy friend on some occasions as 'being sick' was so uncommon to make you cancel your plans ten minutes before, but I never knew when it was coming so ended up cancelling a bunch of plans.
The sickness finally started to curb and I got a new lease of life and was full of energy. Months 6 and 7 were probably my favourite as you're confident everything is OK with the baby, you've seen your baby twice, your bump is obvious so you look pregnant not just fat, labour and birth are far away enough that you don't need to worry too much and for me, it was just coming into the end of summer so I was getting bigger as the sun was going in so I was far more comfortable. I can't imagine being in blistering heat with a huge bump!!
I know lots of pregnant women who had no morning sickness, but that got acne, their hair became straw-like, their bladder turned to pure crap, etc, etc. So I really do think you win some, you lose some. I may have had morning sickness but my hair was amazing, my nails grew super fast, my spots all cleared up, my boobs got bigger - I really was the best version of myself I've ever been - plus a bump and a few stone!! (More on weight gain later!)
I can remember being sick in the toilet so much and Luke, bless him, just stood next to me, either holding my hair back or standing from a distance saying, "I love you!". Watching or hearing someone else be sick makes Luke gag so it really wasn't ideal for him. But we got through it together ;) It's really made me think about baby number 2. Was my morning sickness so bad because I had all day to sit around and think about how bad I felt? If I was in a 9-5 job would I have just got on with it? What if my morning sickness is bad with my second pregnancy but I've got to run around after a toddler, take care of two dogs and keep together a household!
After the morning sickness stopped, I only vomited once between then and the end of my pregnancy but boy was it crazy different having a huge, huge bump and being sick and not being able to keep anything down. We were on holiday in Greece and I was roughly 6 months pregnant. I had awful sickness and diarrhea (TMI) and honestly thought I was going to die. I have never felt so uncomfortable sat on a toilet with my bump meaning I can't sit comfortably, am terrified because I'm in another country, thinking is my baby OK or have I eaten some dodgy meat and being 100 degrees because I have twice as much blood in my body as normal (a lovely pregnancy side effect) and we're in a hot, humid country!
Despite the nightmare of my morning sickness, I still think I got off pretty lightly. I was used to having my head in a toilet from all my nights out previous to getting pregnant and having one too many tequila shots. This part of my pregnancy definitely felt like a big, fat hangover. But one that you couldn't tell your friends about. A big, fat, secret hangover.


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DeCanio, S. (2011) Populism, Paranoia, and the Politics of Free Silver. Studies in American Political Development, 25(1), 1-26.
In 1896, a Democrat politician named William Jennings Bryan realized that people were very angry at banks and existing monetary policy. He then set out to get elected as President of the United States on the basis of exploiting their anger.
His core idea? Free silver. In modern terms, inflationary policy (i.e., the state's ability to print money in an unlimited manner in order to have control over the economy). Whilst Bryan never got elected, his ideas are said to have changed the Democratic party.
What DeCanio wants to do is to trace the process by which free silver became such a massive item in the political agenda. He believes that the key lies in understanding two interrelated events: the 'Coinage Act of 1873', which demonetised silver and caused economic struggle, and the subsequent debate about why said act passed. Three alternative explanations exist.
- Act was the results of politicians acting upon bribes from Eastern U.S. and European bankers.
- Act was good politics and the rest was result of impersonal economic forces.
- There was a conspiracy, although one internal to the US focusing to protecting the Gold Standard rather than tales of European bribery.
Populists typically come out of this story as having been paranoid for siding with explanation #1. DeCanio wants to show #3 (i.e., there is evidence of bribery, although not the one thought by populists).
Two characters are at the centre of DeCanio's explanation. Henry Linderman, director of the Mint at the time of passing the act. And William Ralson, William Ralston, president of The Bank of California, who was involved in various schemes to protect the financial empire he had constructed from his control of Nevada's Comstock silver mines" (p. 4). The former drafted the bill at the behest of the latter. When things did not go to plan the very same representatives bribed, in fear of their careers, echoed accusations made in newspapers.
What a beauty!
In the rest of the article DeCanio deepens into this issue. Since this is not a review, however, I will just note a couple golden nuggets:
Ralston was neither 'cool' nor smart (p. 7):
Ralston's business empire depended upon the stability of The Bank of California, which was in turn dependent upon the value of the Comstock silver mines. The stability of Ralston's bank was constantly an issue because Ralston's extensive business investments left him perpetually overextended. Lacking the self-control of many financiers, Ralston was prone to invest in many enterprises that proved unprofitable, and he often masked the nature of his risky investments with bookkeeping gimmicks.
But he was surrounded by similarly not cool guys. Great! Including Linderman, but also Senators, high ranking officials in US Departments, and many business people. Linderman, in particular, was the point of reference for the matter because of his understanding of economics. He was, to put it in Machiavellic terms, the best person to bribe.
DeCanio gives compelling evidence of bribes having taken place. Really compelling. I was expecting a good argument, but he goes as far as to include snapshots of payments and conversations that leave no room for doubt. Everything was kept under wraps.
As it turns out, Ralston managed to manipulate politics, but he was so clueless about economics that the result was not what he wanted. To the point that he managed to bankrupt his own bank (although he died before its collapse). Since almost no one but Linderman really understood what was going on, everyone in the country was basically clueless about what had happened.
Therein the need for explanations. Therein Ralston's (and allies') ability to play out a fantastic narrative.
Anyway… DeCanio continues to explain the situation at length but at this point providing more details seems like plagiarism. The full story is, quite honestly, too captivating as to not read in full!
Everyone was wrong. Populists were blaming the wrong people. Those who denied that anything happened were naive. By the same token, nobody was entirely wrong. And populists were right to be paranoid but wrong on the reasons to be paranoid.
Also, the analysis highlights the importance of a well informed electorate, and the difficulty of one such thing happening when even politicians can be supremely ill-informed.
My [probably irrelevant] comments
Well, that goes to show that what we think happens may not be what's happening. Great! Now I'm the one paranoid.


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Students in auto collision and auto service technology work with licensed technicians to refurbish cars for families in need. Washburn Tech was the first educational institution in the nation to participate in Recycled Rides, a National Auto Body Council program, in which students and their mentors repair donated vehicles. It's real-world work that's touching real lives.
Our next Recycled Rides Rideaway is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on April 30 in Building K on the Washburn Tech campus. We will be giving away our 26th and 27th vehicles!
Recipient qualifications for a vehicle through the Recycled Rides Program are:
Check-out this video about the Recycled Rides program, thanks to KTWU Channel 11 located on the Washburn University campus.
Nonprofit groups in the community encourage qualified clients or groups to apply for the program. Since Washburn Tech began participating in Recycled Rides, we've given away nearly 20 vehicles to folks in need. It's one more way we support our mission of delivering innovative educational and training opportunities to strengthen the communities we serve.
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Imagine a three-year-old boy growing up in San Juan, Puerto Rico, imitating the musical acrobatics of the iconic Michael Jackson. Those melodious antics helped the young Fernando Varela develop a strong, tenor voice, paving the way for his discovery on YouTube by one of Jackson's producers, hit-maker and 16-time Grammy Award winner David Foster. Ultimately, Fernando won Foster's "Born to Sing" contest culminating in a guest appearance with David Foster and Friends at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Fernando's performance was reviewed as a show stopper and has been followed by numerous appearances with Foster, singing alongside an incredible list of super stars including Barbra Streisand, Lionel Richie, Neil Diamond, Peter Cetera, Babyface, Carole Bayer Sager, Kelly Clarkson, Keith Urban, Seal, Chris Botti, Jewel, Chaka Kahn, Ruben Studdard, Jessica Sanchez, Robi Draco Rosa, Charice, Australia's Delta Goodrem and British superstar Katherine Jenkins.
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Australian speedway rider Chris Holder has claimed his maiden World Speedway Championship at the Marian Rose MotoArena in Poland. Holder entered the final round with a slim two-point lead over Nicki Pedersen and their night would be closely fought and heated.
In the second-semi final, Pedersen and Holder faced off. Holder launched from the inside gate when Pedersen leaned heavily from gate two to force Holder to back off. The Aussie held his line and the two bumped; then Holder collided with Pedersen, sending Pedersen to the ground. Some thought Holder would be excluded from the event but the referee ruled that all four riders would restart.
Pedersen, a known hothead with a short temper, was less than impressed. The two exchanged words before Holder's younger brother stepped in and was shoved by Pedersen. This fired up Holder who saw red, shoving Pedersen and exchanging heated words while Pedersen was dragged away. Fellow Aussie and former world champion Jason Crump took Chris Holder away from the carnage to clear his head as the semi-final would be rerun.
Holder would qualify via the semi-final rerun and make it into the night's final while Pedersen, who'd made it to the semi via a count back, could only manage a third position and was unable to continue in the night's events.
Holder's bike would expire in the final race of the night, while Antonio Lindback, Tomasz Gollob and Greg Hancock would round out the podium. Chris Holder's points rewarded him with the 2012 World Speedway Championship.
1 Chris Holder 160
2 Nicki Pedersen 152
3 Greg Hancock 148
4 Tomasz Gollob 142
5 Emil Sayfutdinov 133
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Friday, April 06, 2018
Review -- Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
[Liza Featherstone. Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation. New York: OR Books, 2017.]
This is a fascinating history of the focus group and related technologies of consultation written by journalist Liza Featherstone.
Since its inception, the form of listening made possible by the focus group has been about allowing elites to understand the experiences and desires of ordinary people, and therefore to respond to them in limited ways while keeping actual power in elite hands. From its origins in social democratic political milieus before the middle of the 20th century to its increasingly avid use by the advertising industry starting in the 1950s and by political campaigns starting especially in the 1980s, the details of that listening and the use to which it has been put have shifted. Especially towards the end of the 20th century, the focus group and the broader culture of consultation of which it is a part have been central to the neoliberal project of making changes in law, policy, and society that are consistently harmful to ordinary people, through a combination of giving elites the information they need to better figure out how to use image and spectacle to sell their agenda (often portraying themselves as the exact opposite of what they are actually doing) and of providing a platform to perform the act of listening which makes people feel heard even as they are increasingly shut out of any actual collective power over what happens in their lives. Though the book is almost exclusively about the US context, I repeatedly thought about the antics of Justin Trudeau and his government, particularly their dedicated performance of listening and sympathy when it comes to things like climate change and the environment, even as they approve the pipelines and other extraction projects that industry wants and that will contribute so much to frying the earth.
At the same time, there has always been an elite disdain for focus groups and for consultation that has grown in the early 21st century and has increasingly manifested in the authoritarian masculinist rejection of listening to anybody about anything seen in figures like George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Yet even as they do this, and as it meets with the approval of a certain segment of the public, their campaigns and regimes are no less dependent on listening to figure out how to sell their agenda (sometimes still via focus group, sometimes using other methods) than those that listen performatively, like Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, or Justin Trudeau. Part of why this elite rejection of focus groups and consultation can work as a brand is because there is also a popular suspicion and even disdain for it, and not just on the right or among white men angry at having to occasionally listen to everyone else for once. Featherstone argues that this represents a broadly misdirected anger – on some level, we recognize focus groups and consultation as part of a project of elite deception, yet so often that comes out as popular disdain for other ordinary people and for listening to them, rather than recognizing that the problem is elite maniuplation and the growing inequality that makes focus groups and performative listening so crucial to the maintenance of elite power.
Today, social media provides elites with more data than ever before to allow them to listen to the rest of us when it comes to certain details while keeping politics firmly non-threatening to elite interest, while focus groups persist because of the power of face-to-face interaction within small groups in illuminating not just opinions but the feelings and rationales underlying them. In some ways, the current scare about foreign interference in Western elections through strategic social media interventions based on prior mining of social media data is just a refinement of what our own elites have been doing to us for decades.
Featherstone argues that much of the culture of consultation that dominates politics and the commercial world today was appropriated from the movements of the New Left, significantly including the women's movement, but that in movements today there is also a way in which the legacy of New Left culture mimics its corporate up-take in the excessive emphasis on "giving voice" and "being heard" and the relatively little attention that many movements today pay to building and exerting power. She argues that we need to learn from the power that focus groups and other approaches to listening hold, but we must re-orient away from an emphasis on voice and consultation towards actual organizing. Which is a reasonable point in a lot of ways, though at least as it is made in this book it paints with too broad a brush, both in terms of its characterization of actually existing movements and in terms of its advocacy for how to do things differently. In fact, in some ways I thought this was the weakest part of the book because it smuggled in assumptions from the author without making them explicit or defending them. My sense is that she holds particular democratic socialist understandings of how we should relate to the state and to power, and that we should "take power" in that sense. And certainly that analysis needs to be part of the conversation, and certainly seems to be one useful element of a broader response to the decades of defeat under neoliberalism. But there are also other ways to think about organizing and about building power that don't necessarily fit within the newly re-forming democratic socialist tradition but that don't belong under the somewhat caricatured picture of movements seduced into liberal ineffectualness that the book paints. Frankly, I think this section of the book would have been significantly strengthened if it had itself been based on a lot more consulting and listening – to the many conversations about related issues already happening in many different movements, and informed by a range of radical traditions and perspectives. So: Some good ideas, but needs a much longer and more nuanced discussion, and inclusion of other radical perspectives as well.
Overall, though, I thought the book was really good. Its examination of the how of an important piece of late-capitalist governance is very important and I learned a lot. And as I've alluded to before on this blog and on social media, the recent re-orientation of one of my own major writing projects involves paying much closer attention to the politics of listening, and this book has definitely been helpful to me as I develop my thinking about at least some aspects of that work. Definitely worth a read.
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Sheila Adamos is an Associate Project Manager at the CRE Group, Inc., bringing over 2 years' experience in the commercial real estate industry working on projects and marketing with the leasing team in the Bay Area. Prior to joining the CRE Group, Sheila worked as an Executive Assistant for the CEO of a U.S. and Canadian Electronic Product Design company. Her experience encompasses a variety of industry sectors including retail, technology and healthcare. Sheila received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from San Jose State University.


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It was the opportunity that arose to purchase land after Scott Construction dealt with demolition of the un-safe Methodist Church building on Neale Avenue in Stoke, that Justin Candish, Managing Director for Scott Construction couldn't look past.
The land was zoned residential, the location was perfect, there was a gap in the market and Justin's in-laws were looking for a new place to live.
It was the first time that we had engaged in a residential development like this where we owned all the risk, but we believed in our ability to deliver quality affordable townhouses and that they would be well received.
This kind of development was not a foreign idea to us. Having been the main contractor for major retirement villages in the region, we knew we could turn around a quality product in a short time frame, on budget and on time.
It was important to us that the 1,200 square meter site blended with the space, yet provided functionality and a sense of "home". The two blocks, each containing two units (150m2 each), achieved this perfectly and the public agreed with us, as all units sold before the build commenced.
There were specific covenants that needed to be applied, like most builds. One of the main considerations specified by the Nelson City Council, was the need for green space and ensuring there was enough of it, driving past, you can see that this requirement has not only been met, but has been used to really maximise the visual appeal of this development.
The exterior, framed by Pohutakawa Trees and Nikau Palms is a mix of textures. Rockcote cladding is not only durable but looks great, this accompanied by cedar weatherboard cladding, exposed aggregate and acid etched concrete all add to the developments visual appeal. This, alongside the homely feel of the development, and the fact that these high quality homes were marketed at between $420,000 and $400,000, really added to the project's success.
The brief to deliver "not just another apartment block" has been exceeded, with standalone homes now housing four very happy tenants. And, more importantly, the in-laws love it.
The Technicalities
Client changes were worked through before the build with purchasers. Having the flexibility for owners to have a say in design really personalised this development. For example, the in-laws changed to gas for water heating and hobs. One owner even got a purpose made kitchen from their father-in-law. It is this level of flexibility not often seen with residential developments.
One of the technical considerations at the commencement of the build was the drainage, with the units lower than street level, this was important. Working with Aaron Walters Design, we installed a flush drainage channel to ensure drainage wasn't a problem.


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A makerspace is coming to Hodges Library. We've been polling students to capture their vision for what's to come.
Makerspaces provide tools and space where people with shared interests gather to work on projects while trading ideas and knowledge.
There are makerspaces for arts and crafts, and makerspaces for rapid prototyping of new products, just to name a few scenarios.
A makerspace may allow the novice to explore woodworking, metalworking, and electronics in the same workshop. CAD software, 3D printers, legos, lathes, laser cutters — any or all of these might be found in a makerspace.
In April, we celebrated National Library Week with a makerspace fair in the Hodges, Pendergrass, and Devine libraries. Booths set up along the Hodges second-floor hallway showcased gaming, 3D printing, and other "maker" crafts, and let students try their hands at traditional crafts such as origami or Japanese stab binding.
We used the opportunity to gather students' ideas for the makerspace. Any student who filled out our survey got a ticket for a free makerspace t-shirt from our on-site screen-printing operation. T-shirts featured the custom designs our Marketing and Communication team created to generate interest in the makerspace and the Libraries in general as a space for everyone ("A space for the visionary," "A space for the naturalist," "A space for the mad scientist," etc.).
Ours won't be the first makerspace on campus. The Innovation and Collaboration Studio hosted by the Tickle College of Engineering and the College of Architecture and Design's downtown Fab Lab are already allowing students to turn their ideas into prototypes.
The great thing about a centrally-located Libraries makerspace that is open to all students is the opportunity for multidisciplinary collaboration. Bringing together students with different skill sets and differing perspectives — especially students who aren't traditionally prompted to work in this type of space — can spark innovation.
Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library gave away its own limited-edition t-shirt, as well as samples from the library's 3D printing operation.


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Item #: SCP-2288
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2288 is contained in special quarters in Site-███ ((Note: See added containment procedures)), with padded walls and a ceiling containing two separate vents to allow for the introduction of an inhalational anesthetic. Subject is provided with bedding and reading material in the form of softcover books and a television bolted to the wall behind secure cover. Specialty remote control is to be provided, made of softened materials incapable of being utilized as a deadly weapon.
Subject is to be monitored at all times. In the event instances of SCP-2288-A begin to manifest, sevoflurane and desflurane anesthetics are to be vented into containment chamber until SCP-2288 and/or living instances of SCP-2288-A are incapacitated. At such time, living instances of SCP-2288-A are to be terminated, while SCP-2288 is to be kept anesthetized until containment chamber is repaired. SCP-2288 is not to be kept anesthetized longer than necessary due to risk of containment breach.
SCP-2288 is to be fed three times a day in the form of easily portable meals not requiring the use of utensils. Amount of food and drink provided is to be sustained at appropriate levels for one. SCP-2288 is to be observed finishing its meals and is not allowed to hoard food or drink apart from a single 500mL container of water per day.
Terminated instances of SCP-2288-A are to be scanned for contraband and placed in mortuary storage on-site. If an instance of SCP-2288-A poses a biological, radiological, or anomalous threat to SCP-2288 or any other individuals, it is to be incinerated following a standard autopsy and/or toxicology report.
Addendum: As of 08/21/2014, SCP-2288 has been relocated to Site-299. Site-███ is subject to an ongoing process of mass body disposal to prevent an NK-Class scenario. Relevant details are restricted to personnel assigned on-site.
Description: SCP-2288 is a 19 year old Caucasian female, formerly a student at the University of ████████, who under certain life-threatening conditions produces deceased duplicates of itself. Copies of SCP-2288 (labeled SCP-2288-A) appear to initially occupy the same time and space as the subject, coming away when the subject is moved. Additionally, instances of SCP-2288-A have contained copies of inanimate objects on their persons which the subject SCP-2288 may have come into contact with, with a presumed time of between 12 and 18 minutes after last touching the object. Duplicated objects have not been found to be anomalous and are identical to their "original" counterparts in every way.
Subject has displayed no voluntary control over the apparition of these duplicates, which appear to be related to physical altercations in which the subject''s life is in peril. Despite full cooperation and compliance from the subject, no method currently exists to ensure complete cessation of its anomalous effect.
This anomaly was first discovered when SCP-2288 suffered a serious injury on-campus, when an instance of SCP-2288-A emerged as students moved in to aid and re-orient the subject. Local authorities were called, and the incident drew the attention of Foundation agents in the police force. After receiving medical treatment, the subject was taken into Foundation custody, and amnestics were administered to students and faculty. Subject was in a highly agitated state, claiming no knowledge of its anomalous behavior.
While in containment SCP-2288 began to resist Foundation personnel, necessitating use of force in restraining the subject. Subject sustained serious injury in the scuffle, necessitating medical attention. While receiving treatment, an instance of SCP-2288-A emerged from the subject. An autopsy determined SCP-2288-A sustained an identical wound to that received by the subject, which proved fatal in SCP-2288-A''s case. Further instances of SCP-2288-A continue to bear signs of injury consistent with trauma SCP-2288 has experienced which have proven fatal for the duplicates.
Autopsies performed upon deceased instances of SCP-2288-A have failed to determine a likely source for the instances, or any anomalous features inconsistent with SCP-2288 itself. Instances of SCP-2288-A have been found to be genetically and physically identical to SCP-2288. Scars and lingering injuries have accumulated on instances of SCP-2288-A consistent with the original subject at the time of duplication.
Experiment Logs: Despite the misgivings of several researchers (names will not be included in official report), authorization was given to conduct a series of experiments upon SCP-2288 to determine the following:
- Whether the subject has direct control over its anomalous effect.
- Whether subject has indirect control over its anomalous effect (such as self-harm for the purpose of manifesting instances of SCP-2288-A).
- Whether subject is capable of manifesting individual objects alone.
- The circumstances under which living instances of SCP-2288-A manifest. Inconclusive
Experiment-01: SCP-2288 is physically restrained within its chambers, and left for alternating periods of 6 hours. Subject is fed and allowed to watch television. Schedule continues for 4 days before subject becomes uncooperative. Subject forcibly sedated, and experiment continues another 9 days without major incident. Subject then released and treated.
Prognosis: Instance of SCP-2288-A manifested after end of experiment. Rigor and discoloration placed time of death between 6-18 hours prior to experiment''s end. Subject complains of pain and numbness, but was at no point during the experiment near death.
Experiment-02: SCP-2288 equipped with a ██████ brand ballistic vest and fired upon with a ██████ 9mm pistol. Subject falls to the ground, shouting in pain. No instance of SCP-2288-A manifests. Blood determined to be from the subject appears at site of impact, but no perforation of subject''s skin is found.
Prognosis: Subject suffers bruising of the chest and coccyx. An additional instance manifests during medical treatment. Subject expected to fully recover.
Experiment-03: SCP-2288 placed in medically induced coma and monitored carefully. [DATA EXPUNGED]. Clean-up efforts take several weeks. Damage to medical bay estimated at ██,███.
Prognosis: Subject recovered from the mass without further loss of personnel.
Experiment-04: SCP-2288 given steady doses of arsenic and monitored. Subject displayed signs of acute arsenic poisoning and is quickly given treatment. While subject turns aside to vomit into a container an instance of SCP-2288-A manifests, apparently asphyxiated. ██ more instances manifest before subject is stabilized via chelation therapy.
Prognosis: Subject stabilized with some difficulty, as instances of SCP-2288-A began exerting pressure on the subject while restrained, threatening to violently overturn the operating table. Subject held upright by personnel, allowing instances to fall away without disturbing the subject.
Experiments end after this point
Addendum-1: On ██/██/2014, a living instance of SCP-2288-A manifested, unlike prior incidents, dressed in civilian clothing and carrying a backpack. The living instance was unaware of its surroundings and became belligerent, necessitating physical restraint.
Medical examination of the living instance (reclassified SCP-2288-B) shows no past signs of physical trauma consistent with all prior instances recovered thus far. Found in the subject''s backpack were textbooks and writing instruments, along with a personal [REDACTED], and a student identification from the University of ████████, listing the subject''s name and the current year.
As SCP-2288-B displays the same abilities as the original subject, SCP-2288-B is to be retained and housed with SCP-2288 to ensure psychological health. All conversations between the subjects is to be monitored, and future requests for entertainment devices are to be considered more favorably, pending further compliance and good behavior.
A list of items recovered from SCP-2288-B''s backpack include:
- Two history textbooks, published by [REDACTED], sixth edition.
- A five-subject notebook. Each divider contains a syllabus for a different class. Classes include: "History of the World up to 1650", "Introduction to Thermodynamics", "Reinventing the Wheel" (out of print), "The Red Dragon: The Qing Empire from 1644 to Today", "Blood, Broads, and Bastards: Medieval Lives in West Europe"
- A handwritten letter, presumably written by SCP-2288-B, addressed to an "Ana"
Addendum-2: On 08/21/2014, SCP-2288-B requested and was granted a meeting with SCP-2288. During the meet, SCP-2288-B began to manifest deceased copies of itself. SCP-2288 took advantage of the situation and assaulted and killed SCP-2288-B. Despite its death, instances of SCP-2288-B continued to manifest from its body. The floor was temporarily evacuated as bodies continued to mount. As of ██/██/2014, SCP-2288-B has not been recovered, and all personnel and SCP-2288 have been relocated to nearby Site-299. Recovery teams continue to actively search Site-███ for SCP-2288-B''s corpse. A portion of SCP-2288''s interrogation has been attached.
Interview conducted by Dr. Esterhazy.
Extraneous content has been redacted for brevity.
(Begin log)
Dr. Esterhazy: I don''t have to explain to you why you''re here.
SCP-2288: I broke your prison building. Sorry. At least now you know it doesn''t stop if I die.
Dr. Esterhazy: What prompted it? What were you thinking?
SCP-2288: Isn''t it obvious?
Dr. Esterhazy: Killing is killing, no matter if you''re killing someone who looks like you.
SCP-2288: I''ve seen myself dead more than enough times. You think I gave a shit about another one?
Dr. Esterhazy: You didn''t kill all the others.
SCP-2288: Yeah I did. They''re dead and I''m not, and they die when you try to kill me.
Dr. Esterhazy: We aren''t trying to kill you —
SCP-2288: I killed her because I''m smart. I''ve come to see your way of viewing the world.
Dr. Esterhazy: What''s that?
SCP-2288: You ''contain'' me because I''m an abomination. A freak of nature. You''ve also had a rough time handling me. You''ve tortured me, subjected me to ''experiments'', and have me imprisoned with no sign of my ever going home. You expect me to play along with you forever? Her, meanwhile… she was new. Never been subjected to what I''ve been subjected to. Probably from a completely different world. She''d prosper here, safely contained and cared for.
Dr. Esterhazy: You think then that we would kill you and replace you with her?
SCP-2288: Who the fuck am I? An anomaly. If there were two of me, you wouldn''t have to deal with me. But now you do. Forever. And if another living one comes through, I''m going to break her neck as soon as she pops out.
Dr. Esterhazy: We don''t kill people —
SCP-2288: What do you do with all those people? Those prisoner people you have working and ''helping'' with tests? Your peons for your world-wide secret gulag? Why do I never see the same people every month?
Dr. Esterhazy: They''re transferred to different facilities on a monthly basis, depending on their tasks and importance to certain projects. You think we kill them, too?
SCP-2288: You call me ''subject'', ''it'', ''they'', ''SCP-2288'', never ███████. I think the moment a fresh-faced new 2288 drops from my quantum-ass-hole, you''re going to bury me in a box and leave me and myselves to feed the worms. Fuck you, I''m not talking anymore.


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NVIDIA lauched their reinvented SHIELD Tablet version into the market as the SHIELD Tablet K1. On its release the tablet was bundled with an Android Lollipop software system, with the company promising an upgrade to Android 6.0 Marshmallow by the end of the year. With just a month since, NVIDIA has seemingly kept their promise with the the update said to be on its final testing phase.
Through YouTube the company placed a video showing a sneak peak of the Marshmallow software running on the Tablet K1. Some of the features that can be seen include the Google Now on Tap functionality, the enhanced app permissions, a vertical launcher drawer with a search bar, NVIDIA's GeForce Now function which is a cloud gaming service, as well as Android Marshmallow's ability to allow the application of the MicroSD as the tablet's internal storage. However, the only addition that is specific to the NVIDIA is a new camera app that applies NVIDIA's own K1 processor for making enhancements and adding effects to your photos.
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India and Green Investing
The concept is new in India.
The Government is planning to set up a green investment bank to support renewable energy-based power plants. This bank will be powered by the coal tax that the government introduced in 2010.
- In the Budget 2010, the Indian finance minister unveiled a $1 per ton tax on coal mined domestically or imported into the country.
The finance ministry expects to collect 5,000 Crore (about $1.1 billion) this fiscal year. This fund would be used for providing financial incentives to the project developers who wish to set up power plants based on renewable energy. The Indian government has announced several financial aid packages to spur investment in the renewable energy sector. Subsidies are being offered at various stages of the project execution.
There is huge demand for clean energy investments in our country, but there is no single entity to provide easy financing options to the project proponents. At present, financial support for the renewable energy power plants is provided by the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) which has access to tax-free bonds worth $55 million and loans from banks through direct collaborations. The new entity would either originate from IREDA or would complement it.
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Though many cultures use the banana-esque plantain as a starch source in their meals, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rican styles of mofongo are among of the most delicious ways to eat the green, unripe fruit (known to some as cooking bananas). These starchy relatives of our sweet-snack bananas are tasty when fried, roasted and, in this case, smashed with garlic and cannabis oil.
Green Mofongo
Makes 4 servings; 14mg THC per serving
3 unripe green plantain
1 head garlic
2 shallots
4 cups vegetable broth
2 tablespoons cannabis-infused olive oil*
1 cube vegetable bullion
Sofrito/salsa (optional)
Salt and pepper
Oil for frying
Cilantro for garnish
In a small saucepan, add a drizzle of cooking oil. Crush half of the garlic and one of the shallots and heat until translucent. Pour over the broth and add one cube
... read more at: http://www.seattletimes.com/life/spiked-green-mofongo-shakes-up-a-caribbean-classic-cannabis-recipe/


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It's a Girl!
Congratulations to Sedra and Kathryn Razafinamanina. Their baby girl, Hephzibah Jewel, was born on Monday evening, Sept. 25. She was 6 lbs. 10 oz.
Living Out Your Faith
The Apostle Paul has great encouragement for us in his letter to the Philippians. He expresses great confidence in us. Not because we are so good, but because God is so good. "I am confident of this, that the One who began a good work in you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ." What is God doing in your life? What is he healing or making new in you? How are your thoughts and actions more like Christ? This October our Sunday sermons will draw upon Paul's work in Philippians.
Oct. 1 - Your Faith 'work out' Philippians 2
Oct. 8 - Knowing Christ Philippians 3
Oct. 15 - Don't worry. Pray! Philippians 4
Confirmation Sunday - Oct. 15 at 10:30 AM
Come support our youth affirming their faith.
Cantata - Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM
It's that time of year again! Choir is starting to rehearse this year's Cantata for December. Consider joining us even if you are not a regular member. Come, sing a new song to the Lord for Advent season.
New Picture Directory is in the Making
A team is working to make a Paper Picture Directory and it will be available as soon as possible. We're taking family pictures of those wanting to be in the directory. Now through October 8th, cameras will be ready to take your picture during Fellowship and after Second Service. For more information see Jeanette Gould, Dick Cole or Chris Cooper.
Church Fall Workday
Thank you to all those who joined us for our "Fall Workday". We were able to do several outdoor projects in preparation for winter!
Fair Trade Products - October 1
Coffee, tea, hot chocolate mix and chocolate will be sold between services! Please come and check it out! The money for the products sold goes directly to Lutheran World Relief's support of Fair Trade products. For questions or if you would like to order something and you can't make church that Sunday please be in touch with Lisa Simms.
Bake Sale - October 1 between services. Proceeds will bless the Orphans, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, whom our Missionary Didi Panzo serves!
Confirmation Sunday - October 15 during the 10:30 AM service.
Being Confirmed are:
Madison Hanson
Zachary Regennitter
Brendan Gould
Audrey Leonard
Stephany Knox
Avory Kvale
Katelyn Gurnett
Kirsten Hinderberger
Kamdyn Hinderberger
Joshua Westphal
Jacob Westphal
Kori Woods
New Member Reception - October 22 - Between services.
Wear your nametags.
October 29 - Reformation Sunday wear red.
Our New Courtyard
Please be sure to visit our beautiful new courtyard area on the west side of the church. Bill & Mary Montie, with the help of many others, have been working hard to make it a space for us to delight in the Lord. In addition to several new plants and flowers, it has a path, table and chairs to enjoy. Thank you all who have contributed to this project!
Senior Group Luncheon/Potluck - Thursday, October 19, 11:30 AM
October Wedding Anniversaries
Ken & Lori West 2
Stan & Electa Beckner 5
Thomas & Angela Morlan 6
Robert & Susan Stewart 11
Glen & Linda Cope 14
Jon & Susan Rummel 20
Ken & Carol Palmen 21
Errol & Donna Reiner 21
Barton & Donna Ewers 23
Vincent & Tammie Anderson 25
Bob & Shari Draeger 25
Kevin & Heidi Mellon 29
Jim & Marie Merrick 30
BFLC Book Group
In October we'll be reading Standing in the Rainbow by Fanny Flagg
Discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 1:00 PM
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her tenyear-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.
All are welcome to join us at the church for discussion and refreshments. Copies of the book on loan from the Pikes Peak Library District Book Club Collection are available in the church office to be signed out.
Book Stew 2018
The Book Stew is scheduled for January 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th, 2018. If you would like to donate books we will be collecting them in the Fellowship Hall starting December 10th. This year's proceeds will be donated to Springs Rescue Mission. Thank you for your continued donations and support.
Travel Group Calendar of Events
Tuesday - October 10 - Glen Eyrie Castle Tour ($9 per person paid ahead to Nancy Storey) Lunch @ Marigold's Restaurant following tour
November - Date to be determined - (after Thanksgiving weekend)
Lunch At the Broadmoor Hotel, enjoy the Christmas Decorations and visit the Carriage Museum
We will visit GEORGETOWN'S 57th Annual Christmas Market which will be held the first two weekends in December. We will enjoy the town's festivities, which start off at noon, and perhaps make an early dinner reservation at some place on our way home. Give it some thought and check your calendar.
Relief for Those Affected by Storms/Fires This Summer
We have all seen and heard about the devastating hurricanes and fires across the U.S. this summer. Here are a few ways we recommend helping:
Donations for the victims of Hurricane Harvey can be made via the North American Lutheran Church's (NALC) website at https://www.thenalc.org/projects/hurricane-harvey/.
Thrivent members can make donations via Thrivent at: https://www.thrivent.com/. In some cases, Thrivent may match your gifts.
The NALC also has a 'Disaster Response Fund' for domestic disasters which you can contribute to on-line at https://thenalc.org/nalc-disaster-response/. Click on the 'Disaster Response Fund link to donate.
The Social Ministry Committee asks that you please keep the victims of these disasters in your prayers and that God aides the relief workers.
2017 Stewardship Drive - October 22 - November 12.
"Live Simply – Being the Arm of the Lord" This year's Stewardship Drive focuses on how we can simply be good stewards by being the "Arm of the Lord". It doesn't take huge efforts to help others and spread the love of Jesus. At the four Sundays, you will hear how several members reach out to others and share God's love and care. You will be asked to ponder and pray about: How can I be the arm of the Lord? How will I serve God today? What talents can I use for God? What does God want me to be? Also, watch "The Estimate of Giving Tree" blossom in the narthex as estimates are submitted for the 2018 budget. Will we surpass 2016's 88 submissions???
BFLC's Mini Fair
As you plan your Christmas shopping, keep our mini fair in mind. BFLC's mini fair has been scheduled for Sunday, November 12 between services. The following items will be available for purchase: Olive wood from the Holy Land Jewelry, aprons, scarves, & handbags from Uganda, a variety of Fair Trade items through Lutheran World Relief, 18" hand made doll clothes
All sales go toward the Zoughbi scholarships. We can take checks, but are not able to process charge cards. Remember, by purchasing these gifts, you give a great gift in addition to improving a life! Invite your friends for worship, to share a donut and then shop!
Christmas Tea Workshop - Saturday, October 18, 9:00 AM
Bring scissors.
Mark Your Calendar! Christmas Tea is Saturday, December 2 at 10:00 AM
Thanksgiving Eve Worship - Wednesday, November 22 at 7:00 PM
Thanksgiving Food Drive
We will have our traditional food offering for Black Forest Cares. All items are appreciated for a turkey dinner.
The church office will be closed Nov. 23 & 24.
Bible Journaling - Date TBD, 6:30 PM in the Fellowship Hall. A new approach to Devotional time . . . Coloring at its best . . . No need to be artistic . . . this is another way to explore God's Word. Be with other gals . . .teenagers too (Kirsten and Madison love it!) All you need to get started is to consider your favorite Bible verse or a verse that has special meaning to you and ask how the Lord may have you express it through coloring/journaling. It allows you to show off that verse so it stands out and makes it easier to remember. You'll be surprised what He sometimes reveals!!! You can rediscover God's Word through journaling in your own Bible, purchase the Inspire journaling Bible at Mardels, or separately on a blank sheet of paper – whatever you would like! Join Lisa Regennitter in this opportunity to combine fun, fellowship, and Bible exploration in one activity.
Box Tops Support Education
Box Tops for Education (BTFE) started by General Mills in 1996, has a simple premise: Purchase a product with the BTFE logo, clip the box top and bring it to BFLC. There is a drawer marked for Box Tops in Fellowship Hall under the bulletin board. We then give them to Wolford Elementary School. In return, the school receives 10 cents for every box top! NOTE: To date, Box Tops has contributed $840 million to more than 70,000 American schools. Let's fill that drawer!
Special Ad-Hoc Committee Formed by Council
Your Church Council wants to make you aware that it has formed an ad-hoc committee of congregation members to conduct a special study. The purpose of the study is to consider our mission and who we are as a congregation and then to make proposals regarding our mission statement and our future direction. During this study, they will seek God's will for this congregation as we continually work to be disciples of Jesus. We anticipate having some recommendations for the congregation to consider in December with a vote at the next annual meeting in January. The eleven members of the committee are: Laura Cavanaugh, Tiffanee Greenwood, Jay Guhlke, Tom and Tara Gustin, Misty Hopp, Jim Kent, Tracy Kosman, Maureen Lang, Steve Lord (team facilitator), and Lisa Simms.
Please keep this committee in your prayers and look for additional updates in the coming months. Questions may be directed to Steve Lord or David Reily (council liaison to the committee).
MOPS (Mothers-of-Preschoolers) is meeting every other Friday in the fellowship hall.
Friday, October 13 at 10:00 AM is our next get together. Come and see how we can support each other as we navigate motherhood.
October Calendar
1 - Coffee and Bake Sale
15 - Confirmation Sunday
18 - Christmas Tea Workshop
22 - New Member Reception and Stewardship drive begins
25 - Senior Social
26 - Senior Group Luncheon
Senior Social October 25, 1:00 PM
Join us for our monthly get together to socialize, play dominoes, or do crafts. There is no obligation to participate in the games. Individuals bring their own crafts to work on. Others use the opportunity to just sit and talk. Light snacks are provided.
Special Thanks
I would like to thank you for your love and care for me after my recent surgery.
May God bless each of you,
Lydia Zelones
Dear BFLC,
Thank you for your donation of $1,000 to Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity.
Kristina Medina
Executive Director
Dear Friends,
What a blessing! We enjoyed visiting your church. Thank you so much for your donation of $600.
Kay Owens-Larson
Crossroads Ministries USA
Dear BFLC,
Thank you for your Generous Donation of $500 to SCTF for the Prevention and Intervention of Gang Involvement in El Paso County.
Lisa Medina
Second Chance Through Faith
Dear Friends of LFS,
On behalf of LFSRM, thank you for recently donating 3 olive wood pieces for our 2017 Innkeeper Dinner.
James Barclay
Lutheran Family Services
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ Jesus,
Thank you for your partnership in the Gospel. Locally, domestically and globally-your faithful witness to the Gospel blesses us personally and as the NALC. Most recently-your incredible generosity benefitting the Great commission Society will and is changing lives. Thank you! Please know you all will remain in our prayers. NALC
Dear Member of BFLC,
On behalf of LMVFM I would like to thank you for your donation of $121.63 to our ministry.
Chaplain Leslie Haines
Lutheran Military Veterans & Families Ministries, Inc.
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The Scribe is the semi-monthly newsletter for Black Forest Lutheran Church.
May 2019


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Following Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, we now have a film from Spain that might credibly be called Death and Friendship. In fact it's called Truman, after a maudlin old pooch kept by a lead character, but death is a constant presence in this story.
We see such an astonishing quantity of death at the movies it's almost surprising to realise how casually we accept the endless round of murders, accidents and mass exterminations. In the moronic superhero genre it's common for entire cities to be vaporised by some über villain. In the most recent Star Wars film a planet is incinerated.
One wonders what this frivolous attitude to life and death is doing to the minds of movie-goers. Do they see incidents on the nightly news as merely another form of Hollywood stunt? It's an old question as to whether too much movie violence leads to psychic desensitisation, but there has never been a satisfactory answer.
The confusion is at its worst in movies such as Down Under, a new Australian comedy that supposedly demonstrates the futility of racism. Instead it demonstrates the inability of writer-director, Abe Forsythe, to distinguish what is humorous from what is merely nasty and stupid. If you think it's hilarious to see people getting beaten with baseball bats and shot, you'll have a ball with this latest proud offering of the local film industry.
Truman, a story all about death, is genuinely funny in a low-keyed manner. We may not be shaking with laughter, but there's rarely a moment when the viewer can't smile, albeit with mixed emotions. Director, Cesc Gay, gives proper weight to the concept of death, and manages to be both serious and amusing – a combination that seems like oil on water for so many Australian filmmakers.
The film begins with Javier Cámara's Tomás leaving his home in wintery Canada, and taking the long flight to Spain, where he knocks at the door of his old friend, Julián (Ricardo Darín). It's a warm reunion, although we realise straight away that Julián is on the skids. It takes about 15 minutes before it is revealed that he has inoperable lung cancer and is planning his departure from this world. I hope 15 minutes is brief enough not to count as a spoiler because Truman is not a suspense thriller.
It would be more accurate to describe it as a buddy film – a return to the themes of masculine insecurity explored by Gay in his previous feature, A Gun in Each Hand (2012). We can empathise with Tomás's awkwardness as he tries to understand how Julián is feeling and respond in the appropriate manner. It's not a simple matter. While Julián insists on being cheerful and philosophical there is no telling when he will drop the mask and grow bitter. He has an unsettling way of springing surprises on Tomás, as if he can only go through the motions of settling his affairs if he doesn't discuss them beforehand.
During the days they spend together Tomás is wary of triggers that will cause changes in his friend's mood. Julián is upset when ignored in a bar by friends who don't know what to say to him any more, and touched by the good wishes of another acquaintance who owes him no favours. He could prolong his life with more chemotherapy but has decided that it is better to vanish quickly. His main concern is to find a new home for Truman, for whom he cares more than almost anyone else.
Julián's other strong affection is for his son, Nico (Oriol Pla) who is studying in Amsterdam. On an impulse the two friends fly to the Netherlands to acquaint Nico with the truth of his father's condition, but the trip doesn't go as planned.
Julián's attitude towards his illness is infuriating to his cousin, Paula (Dolores Fonzi), his closest relative in Madrid. She sees his unwillingness to extend his life as a kind of betrayal, as if he is being callous to those who care most for him. Tomás can't seem to decide if Julián is being brave or selfish, as the situation is completely unfamiliar to him. He has lived in Canada for so long that he is struggling to recapture the feelings that previously existed between him and his friend.
If Truman is the only being to whom Julián can give unconditional love and devotion it is because all of his human relationships are scarred by guilt and shame. Only a dog forgives every slight and every betrayal, or puts up with every black mood. So while he can make arrangements for his funeral in a business-like manner, Julián agonises about what to do with his old companion. No potential owner seems quite right because a brand new household will contain nothing of Julián, no residual memory of the years they spent together. This is the part of himself that Julián truly values, the last ineradicable trace to which he clings. We begin to realise that only when Julián can say farewell to Truman can he be serious about taking leave of life.
Directed by Cesc Gay
Written by Tomas Aragay & Cesc Gay
Starring Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Dolores Fonzi, Oriol Pla
Spain/Argentina, rated MA 15+, 108 mins
Published in the Australian Financial Review, Saturday 13th August, 2016.
Following Whit Stillman's Love and Friendship, we now have a film from Spain that might credibly be called Death and Friendship. In fact it's called Truman, after a maudlin old pooch kept by a lead character, but death is a constant presence in this story.


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The Jamestown Community College Jayhawks women's basketball team (NJCAA Div. II, 8-0) hosted the Wolfpack of Westmoreland County Community College (NJCAA, 6-4) as part of the Tom D'Angelo Memorial Tournament. The Jayhawks started out hot, more than doubling the output of the Wolfpack to take a 49-24 first half lead. The Wolpack offense gained momentum and outscored the Jayhawks 33-32 in the second half but it was too late, and the Jayhawks took the win 81-57. The Jayhawks were led by #11 Elle Reed's (Sherman) 27 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals; #21 Alex Sullivan's (Southwestern) 18 points and 3 assists; #20 Nakisha Saintval's (North Miami Beach) 11 points, 6 steals, 4 assists, and 3 rebounds; #24 Akiah Luceus' (Victory Collegiate) 8 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists; and #40 Corri Hannon's (Falconer) 6 points.
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
Munch, Edvard quotes
Quotes :
- Aaron Siskind – Photography "Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." ~Aaron Siskind
- Clint Eastwood Quotes "They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning." ~Clint Eastwood"We boil at different degrees." ~Clint Eastwood?????? ????? ??????THANK YOU ?????? ????? ??????
- Kylie Roberts – Photography "Photography is a hobby for me but I do spend most of my free time rising early for sunrises and chasing sunsets and the occasional storm when I can. I tend to only photograph nature in all its wonderful elements as being immersed in nature has been a wonderful healer for me – mind, body and soul." ~Kylie Roberts (Nikon)
- "In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the… "In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell." - William Booth