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Whataburger suits draws attention of NAN, local humanitarian
By St. Clair Murraine
Outlook staff writer
A national civic rights organization and a local humanitarian advocate suggested a wait-and-see approach before calling for a boycott of Whataburger for alleged discriminatory hiring practices.
Reaction by the Tallahassee chapter of the National Action Network and pastor Lee Johnson came a week after a former manager at Whataburger on Apalachee Parkway alleged in a suit that she was ordered not to hire non-Whites. Vanessa Burrous alleges in the suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that she was humiliated for not following orders that she only hire applicants who didn't sound Black.
The EEOC alleges in the Suit filed almost two weeks ago in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division that Whataburger violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
"We are going to stand behind the complainant because we are trying to deal with any indiscretion with discrimination on employment, wages; the whole nine," said Don Tolliver, vice president of the NAN local chapter.
However, he said before any action could be taken pertaining to a possible boycott of Whataburger, the NAN will conduct an investigation.
"If your policy is to not hire more Blacks and you're telling the managers to do this, that is embedded somewhere," Tolliver said. "That might not just be a store issue. It could be with all the stores and we don't know it.
"You need to investigate and if it's disproportionate you'd clearly see it's not because of the implications or the background; you're discriminating against Blacks as a whole."
The EEOC said in its suit, Burrous was told by regional managers to review the names on applications, identify those names that sounded White, and to interview only those applicants.
After the restaurant manager opposed and refused to participate in the racially discriminatory hiring directive, she was subjected to an ongoing pattern of retaliatory conduct including verbal abuse, intimidation, threats, a drastic change in schedule, and unwarranted discipline. The retaliatory conduct ultimately forced the restaurant manager to resign from her position, according to the suit, An attempt to reach a settlement through its conciliation process was unsuccessful, according to the EEOC suit.
The Tallahassee suit comes after Whataburger was sued by an employee in a store in Texas, where the hamburger giant is based.
In a statement released to the media, Whataburger said it conducted its own internal investigation. It denied Burrous' allegations.
"We did not retaliate against this employee nor did we ask her to use the alleged discriminatory hiring practices," the company said. "We value diversity on our teams and proudly employ family members of all races. Approximately 75 percent of our workforce identifies as non-White."
Johnson, pastor of Loved By Jesus Family Church, said he wasn't surprised by the allegations because of how wide the nation's divide has become between the races.
"In this day and time that we have this (president Donald) Trump thing going on and this Neo-Nazi thing going on, it seems like it's in vogue now to be prejudice.
"What gets me is that it came from corporate Whataburger. This lets me know that this systemic racism is there. They tried to put pressure on this lady and my hat's off to her."


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Have you ever wanted to start a conversation with a fellow dancer, but found yourself tongue-tied?
Here is a list of conversation openers that should get a good response most of the time. I've left out some that would immediately expose you as a novice, such as: "Are you from here, or are you just in town for the dance event?" This one, for example, communicates that you have no idea whether you've ever seen this person, which means you're probably new. You NEVER want to ask this of a rock star, for example.
"Where are you from?" could easily mean that you've seen the person around, but don't remember where they are from. See? It leaves the door open to interpretation. That means the other person can't judge your dance ability by the first thing out of your mouth.
Every single line below ends with a question, most of which are open-ended (this is key!). Most are about dancing. The rest are on subjects I consider safe bets. I've test-driven all of them numerous times. Just use your best judgment to decide who to ask what.
Be sure you can think of more to say after your opener! These conversation starters won't teach you how to be a good conversationalist, but they are good ins.
- Did you have a good time at ILHC? (or other event they went to)
- Are you going to Camp Jitterbug? (or other event nearby)
- I like your hair. Where do you get it done?
- Nice shoes! Where'd you get them?
- I'm thinking of getting a pair of Remix shoes. Do you have a pair? (follows)
- Cute dress. Where'd you get it?
- Have you seen the new Macbook Air? (or other latest gadget)
- Do you have any hobbies besides dancing?
- Is this your first time at this event?
- What do you think of the band?
- Did you go to Frankie 95?
- How was that event? (if they are wearing a dance event t-shirt)
- So where are you from? (when you're out of town dancing)
- Where do you work?
- What's the dance scene like in [name of city]? (after asking where they are from)
- Who do you like to watch dance?
- What events are you going to this year?
- What do you think of Obamacare? (or other recently passed legislation)
- Seen any good movies lately?
- Are you watching Mad Men? (or other popular TV show you watch)
- Check that guy out. Doesn't he remind you of David Tennant's Dr. Who? (or other famous person)
- So how did you get into [non-dance hobby you heard that they do]?
- I saw your blog post on Dance World Takeover. It was awesome! How do you do it??
Remember, your goal should be to make a quick connection and establish yourself as friendly and fun to talk to. You don't need to have a 10 minute conversation to do this. Dancers like dancing with their friends. If you've exchanged a few words, you're more likely to dance with that person again than if you'd stayed silent.
If you are struggling with this, download this course right now: No More Dance Rejection!
Special thanks to my contributor for this post, Elizabeth Tietgen.

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Welcome back Group Leaders! This week will be different. We've got two videos for you to show...one by David Platt at the beginning of the group like normal and then a second video at the end followed by an activity you will lead your groups through. (Resultantly, there will be less discussion questions than normal.)
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Scent is a powerful thing, and Air Wick managed to capture that perfectly with an incredibly moving holiday commercial.
The online video features the Fellers, a military family with six children living in North Carolina. The father, Kearen Feller, has been stationed in the Middle East for the last 11 months. His wife, Cortney Feller, continues to build a loving home for her children but undoubtedly struggles each day while missing her husband.
Having been away for almost a year, Kearen is really starting to forget what it feels like to be home.
So Air Wick joined forces with the Feller family to create candles that smell like some of Kearen's favorite things from home -- the baseball glove he gave his son, the apple pie he bakes with his kids each year and the fireplace where they love to spend time together. The children then sent the candles to their dad in Qatar to help him feel closer to home this holiday season.
"Scent is one of the triggers of the brain that actually changes the physiology of our body," scent expert Thomas Dunn says in the spot. "Every scent we try to capture is a personal journey."
"Scent is a powerful connection to home, and we wanted to help bring one family a little closer to home this holiday season," Air Wick's marketing director Tiffany McLaud told The Huffington Post in an email.
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Max Performer is made from natural ingredients, with the exception of cyanocobalamin.
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In one study, 60% of men reported sexual satisfaction from horny goat weed (compared to just 45% of Viagra users).
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Korean Red Ginseng is an ancient aprohdisiac — known to improve both male and female libido.
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Roughly half of the selenium in a man's body is concentrated in the testes and seminal ducts.
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Zinc is also an essential mineral.
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For the record, most of the vitamin B family can beneficially impact testosterone production.
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Since B6 is water soluble, there is little chance of toxicity.
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Niacin (32 mg)
Also called Vitamin B3, Niacin improves libido and regulates anaerobic metabolism.
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Max Performer contains 200% of the daily value of Vitamin B3.
Extremely excessive amounts of B3 can cause nausea, vomiting and difficulties with vision.
Other Ingredients:
Riboflavin (10 mg) – a.k.a Vitamin B2 – is present at 714% the recommended daily value.
Cyanocobalamin (10 mg) is a synthetic form of B12 – present at 400% the recommended DV.
How Does Max Performer Work
Natural ingredients – such as horny goat weed, cordyceps and Korean Red Ginseng – have both traditional and scientific backings as herbal aphrodisiacs.
By combining these ingredients, Max Performer seeks to deliver improved libido and erectile function.
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How To Use It?
Take two capsules every day, with water.
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Every 3-4 months, take a 1-2 week break. Otherwise, the body may develop counterproductive immunities.
Max Performer Side Effects
There are no reported side effects included on the company website or reported by customer reviews.
However if you allergic to any of the ingredients, you should consult your doctor before using it.
Is It A Scam?
We didn't found any evidence that Max Performer is a scam.
No one ever has reported that he didn't get the product or was auto billed without his knowledge.
These days, as you may already know, it's a popular practice used by shady companies to steal money from people.
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Max Performer Reviews & Complaints
There are a sparse number of customer reviews.
Out of 23 reviews, Max Performer received a 4.1 out of 5.
Only a fraction of the reviews are publicly visible.
James writes:
Ever since my teenage years, my confidence is very low because I realized that there is something wrong with my sexual performance.
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Either the other reviews are exaggerated, or my body just doesn't respond well to Max Performer. I have been using the supplement for three months now. It works a little.
Like I have a little boost in my energy and libido, but still, I can't stay long enough in bed. Anyway, it is still an improvement for me, but not just like how the others described here."
Kevin states:
I cannot feel much difference after taking Max Performer for 4 months. Now I am trying to decide if it is better to stop taking this and just find something else.
Most of the reviews I read have great comments on this product after just a few weeks of using. Right now, I only have the added energy, harder erections at times and nothing else."
Max Performer: Packages, Prices & Where To Buy It
Max Performer can be purchased from the supplement website: www.maxperformer.com.
Each box contains 60 tablets (1 month supply).
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Money Back Guarantee & Refund Policy
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Max Performer Review: Final Verdict
There are many male enhancement supplements available on the market.
Not all are winners.
It's up to you to decide if Max Performer is worth the risk.
Before you do, check with your doctor and get a baseline of your current vitamin and mineral levels.
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Episode 09 - Southfall, Blank Parody & Brass Tongue
It's that time again - welcome to your weekly visit to Dave's World! on this week's show...
- We're joined by hard rockers Southfall who tell us about their debut EP, the tonne of gigs they have booked and what they learned from playing live with Wilson.
- Our song of the week is the debut single from Blank Parody - it's a banger.
- There's a review of the terrible new album by Tonight Alive and the excellent new EPs from John Coffey and Brass Tongue.
- There's a live review of Sleeping With Sirens.
- There's news from Lock and Key, Remembrance Fest, Throes of Autumn, Creeper, Linkin Park, American Head Charge, Animals as Leaders and Napalm Death.
- There's your usual selection of gigs worth checking out over the next few days.
- And we hear how Bring Me The Horizon have been giving music lessons…to a grandma.
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2017 Books That Lived Up to the Hype...And Those That Didn't
After so many years of chasing the right story, at just the right time, you'd think I'd have learned how to sniff out the winners - and losers - from a selection of new releases. Unfortunately, I am not yet completely immune to the wily tactics of marketing firms who lure me in with their promises of spectacular, spellbinding, "for the fans of Gone Girl (or any other blockbuster hit)," reading, but I am learning. I don't seem to fall for as many of them as I used to, and I've become much more aware of my own reading preferences.
Thanks to the team of bloggers who are presenting the fourth annual #AMonthOfFaves event (Girlxoxo, Traveling with T and Estella's Revenge), I have an excuse to share a few of the popular books of 2017 that worked for me and a few that definitely did not.
The Winners
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders - Having been of fan of Saunders's work for several years, when I heard that he had plans for a full-length novel I began scouring the world of book news for details. As soon as the cast for the audio narration was announced, I knew I'd have to listen; certainly, this made my experience of the novel different than those who read it and it is tough for me to imagine having done it any differently. With the voices of Saunders, Nick Offerman (one of my favorites!), Susan Sarandon, David Sedaris, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Don Cheadle and so many more, this was an absolute delight. Even more than the voices, for me, was the powerful description that Saunders was able to conjure of Abraham Lincoln at the grave of his son...and the reactions of the cemetery dwellers who watched, in awe.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward - Maybe the fact that I grew up in Southeast Texas, where racism was (is?) very visible and prevalent, in close proximity to a large prison complex, contributed to my deep connection with Ward's novel; or maybe it is her talent for creating sentences that sound like beautiful songs. This novel will definitely land on my favorites list this year.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - See my previous comment for my lack of surprise that this novel was recently banned by a public school system in Texas; the people who need to hear the message that Thomas shares, through a powerful, yet highly accessible, story, are most likely to resist it. I often forgot that I was reading fiction, as I blazed through this page-turner about 16-year-old Starr Carter and her fight for justice over the death of a childhood friend.
The Losers
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich - At the end of last year, and during the spring of this year, Idaho landed on many must-read lists; I'd pegged it as one of the Top Ten 2017 Debut Novels and highly anticipated its release. While the writing was beautiful, the story fell flat and I found myself feeling a little empty.
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins - I don't even know what to say about this one; did you read it? I truly enjoyed The Girl on the Train; it hit at just the right time, before everyone started comparing their book to Gone Girl, and I couldn't stop recommending it. Unfortunately, Into the Water definitely felt like a sophomore effort; I found it to be highly predictable and uninteresting.
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan - If I had a dime for every "Best of" list that I've seen this one on since it was published in October...I could definitely buy another book! I absolutely loved A Visit From the Goon Squad and was really looking forward to this one; I love the time period during which the story is set and the characters felt compelling. Egan's writing was on point, no surprise, and the historical research was solid. I thought it could have been at least 100 pages shorter (and I probably would not have noticed the dent) and I felt like there were many disparate parts that failed to connect.
Which popular books panned out for you this year?


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Spring soon and then summer – hot days are coming, guys! It means that we should talk about water – not only in green way:). We all need water to live, but there are some funny facts about water. Today we will talk about one.
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Hot days are coming!March 27th, 2014
Eco News #37 – The LifeStrawJanuary 25th, 2013
This device you see here is called The LifeStraw. On the issues of ecology and environment – it's the newest invention which is able to remove at least 99.99999% (how did anyone calculated that? 😉 ) of bacteria living in the water. (more…)
Eco News #29 – streams are affected by urban developmentNovember 19th, 2012
According to the new studies by the USGS, streams are more vulnerable to urban development than it was previously thought. Growing and spreading inhabited areas lead to the indirect contamination of nearby streams. As scientists claim, "streams are not only water – they are communities of aquatic life". And, because of pollution, important and sensitive aquatic species living in the streams die out.
What do you think about it, dear Greenzoners?
Eco News #28 – shrinking glaciers in HimalayasNovember 17th, 2012
Hello Greenzoners!
Geology professor and scientist, Summer Rupper recently stated that the progressing global warming is affecting the Himalayas.
Yes – the highest mountains in the world are suffering from rising temperature, which leads to the shrinking of glaciers by melting, – leading to huge amounts of water coming down from the mountains. (more…)
Vice's Fresh Water in U.S. documentaryNovember 15th, 2012
Hi Greenzoners! We recommend you to watch interesting documentary about water supplies and their quality in United States, directed by Vice, the creator of absorbing, witty and easy to watch documentaries. 😉
To watch go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUVLpFaUoM&feature=g-u-u
Eco News #27 – Habitable Super-Earth?November 11th, 2012
Hi Greenzoners! Any one of you is into astronomy? 😉
A planet that could sustain life was just discovered. It's called HD 40307G and is located in a "habitable zone" – that is in area, where the planet is not too close or too far from its sun, so that liquid water can exist.
Eco News 20# – intensified rainfalls may contaminate drinking waterSeptember 26th, 2012
Hi Greenzoners!
It was recently discovered, that the New York City's water supply is contaminated and may pose a serious threat to the health. As New York is one of the most populated city in United States, this may affect very many lives. (more…)


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10th Anniversary Milonga Viviana! Saturday, Sept 9, Middletown Arts Center! Live music with the Pedro Giraudo trio and great friends Helen Wang y Jose Luis join us to perform!!! All kicks off at 8pm!
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Milonga Viviana! Saturday night, Aug 12!
Saturday night, Aug 12, Milonga Viviana! Featuring great guests & friends, Meredith Klein y Andres Amarilla! And Elven is once again on the ivories! It's gonna be fun!
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June 6, 2010
When he's battling blazes, Capt. Caleb Holt (Cameron) adheres to the old firefighter's adage about never leaving your partner behind; back at home, it's an altogether different story. Caleb and his wife Catherine (Bethea) have been married for seven years, but lately arguments over career, housework, finances, and outside interests have driven the once-happy couple hopelessly apart. Just as Caleb and Catherine prepare to officially dissolve their marriage, Caleb's father John (Harris Malcolm) presents his son with a most unusual challenge: commit to a 40-day experiment called "The Love Dare," and take one last shot at saving his marriage. While at first Caleb agrees to take a chance on "The Love Dare," the discovery that it's closely tied in with his parent's newfound faith causes him to momentarily reconsider. Still, Caleb carries on with the experiment despite being constantly rejected by his skeptical, embittered wife. When Caleb asks his father how he can be expected to love someone who refuses to give him a fair chance, John tells his son that this is precisely the same love that God shows for humankind. Now, with a little help from above, the man who makes headlines for saving lives will fight to be a hero to the one person who matters most -- his wife.


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Social event: This month's social event will be a a members' slides evening and we hope to include some of Fred and Pat's old slides which Simeon has kindly offered to lend us. Have a look at any pictures you have taken in the last year and bring them along on a memory stick. It would also be fun to see some older club pictures if anyone has some. We can probably do both slides and digital images if we know what is needed in advance. Please contact Patience Cooper, Social Secretary if you have pictures to bring.
Venue: Gregson Community and Arts Centre, 33 Moorgate Lancaster, LA1 3PY in the Olive Room (the bigger upstairs function room). Admission is free and you can buy food or drinks at the bar, or bring your own.


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Mini poster print (unframed).
The size is 12″ x 9″.
This art print is digitally printed on thick poster card.
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Entitled "I am with you always", the painting is based around the theme of God caring for His children – "And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age."
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I Don't Pop Molly, I Rock Tom Ford
Ever since reading this post on Kate's blog I've been a slave to the idea of owning a Tom Ford lipstick. Luckily this obsession coincided with my university results and graduation, and I headed to London last month with a hefty sum of reward money (working hard in school pays off kids). First stop? Selfridges, of course. I was intent on owning Vanilla Suede after reading Kate's review but when faced with a wall of Tom Ford beauties was somewhat thrown (kid in a candy store comes to mind). Vanilla Suede looked mighty fine, but oh boy some of those other shades didn't half look tempting... I stayed true to my guns though and headed home with Vanilla Suede tucked safe in my makeup bag.
A pale nude in the bullet, I can see how Vanilla Suede could look boring or be off-putting to some, especially compared to the bolder and brighter alternatives in the collection. With a soft, creamy formula, this lipstick leaves a gorgeous champagne shimmer to the lips (shimmer with a glow as opposed to shimmer with huge chunks of glitter). This stuff works wonders in giving the appearance of fuller, plumper lips. It's not a super slick pigmented wash of colour, but it's not simply a balm/gloss shimmer effect either - looking natural but eye-catching, and just goddamn pretty. Kind of like a highlighter for the lips? Honestly, it's like nothing I've seen before in a lip product and my words are probably not doing it justice. It's easy to see why they say that Tom Ford lipsticks are impossible to dupe.
Within a week of my return home, Tom Ford number two was winging it's way to me, accompanied by a Vanilla Suede for my mum, who couldn't believe how flattering and interesting the shade was. Not just me, see! My second shade of choice being Indian Rose, one of the best-selling colours in the collection. I would personally describe this as more of a traditional English Rose colour. It's a gorgeous dusky pink but with a pop of colour that makes it just that little bit more than your everyday 'my lips but better' pink. Leaving a silkier and more pigmented effect than Vanilla Suede, this shade gives a bold wash of colour which blends in beautifully with my natural lip colour.
Aside from being divine lip products, can we all just take a moment to appreciate that packaging. I know right, it's the epitome of luxe. Cool, weighty and solid to hold, the little black blocks ooze quality, and as for 'the Tom Ford click', oh god. It's safe to say that I, am, obsessed.
Let me know which shades you own if you're a fellow Tom Ford lipstick obsessive! I'd also love to know of any other lipsticks that look even better on than in the bullet - there has to be some more affordable gems out there! To stay updated on future posts you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Bloglovin.
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AuthorsBarriga Nieves, Paulo César
AdvisorsViacava Campos, Gino Evangelista
Issue Date2016-11-26
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CitationBarriga Nieves, P. C. (2016, November 26). Mejora del proceso de formulación de una propuesta de proyecto de infraestructura APP bajo la metodología Lean Project Delivery System. Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Perú. Retrieved from http://repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe/upc/handle/10757/622336
AbstractThe present thesis aims to identify the main reasons why Grupo Graña y Montero has not been competitive in the recent proposals for infrastructure projects presented under the modality of Public Private Partnership (PPP), specifically for road projects. Based on the analysis carried out by expert judgment method, it was identified that there is a deficiency in the planning and direct communication between the stakeholders during the phases of the proposal elaboration, which affects the development of the engineering and the cost of the project. The main objective of the solution proposed by the thesis is to establish integrated management guidelines to leverage multi-disciplinary projects through the application of practical tools, criteria for structuring, execution, and operation of projects based on the Lean Project Delivery System. Len Project Delivery System (LPDS) proposes to improve the stages of definition and design of the project using lean techniques, which have been applied by Graña and Montero Group with great success but only to the project execution stage. Therefore, it seeks to broaden the vision of the use of "lean" techniques. The thesis focuses on achieving the best engineering solution from a collaborative work, continuous improvement, and alignment of the stakeholders, which will ensure an attractive engineering design for the client at a competitive price.
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You're a complete idiot, picking one of the few animals that can talk when you have speech impediment. You'll lisp, even as an animal.
Year Released : 2015
Director : Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast : Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C Reilly, Olivia Colman and Angeliki Papoulia
Sometimes you've never heard of a film and nothing about it looks interesting, right from the cast or the poster, but then you read the plot and all of a sudden you're desperate to watch it. That was the case when I went to watch "The Lobster" just before Christmas (I'm doing a rare write up of this section after the film) as the concept seemed exceptionally original.
It looked very odd and like the sort of film that I would love, but there was something beforehand that I just felt was wrong about the film and ultimately this becomes the first review of 2016 in which I won't be giving an approval stamp to, that despite it's high rating of 7.5/10 on IMDB.
In many ways, likening it to football (actual football, not what the Americans claim as football), it's a film of two halves.
David (Farrell) has recently been admitted to an isolated hotel full of single people. Under the new laws, anyone who isn't in a relationship must find love within 45 days of being admitted, and if they are not in a relationship when their 45 days is up then they are turned into an animal of their choosing. David's choice is a lobster as it has a long life, is always fertile and he likes swimming. He soon befriends a limping man (Whishaw) and a man with a severe lisp (Reilly).
All of David's initial attempts to partner with a woman are unsuccessful and with just a few days left, he takes the desperate move to go for a woman who everyone hates (Papouloia) due her morbid outlook on life. David successfully couples with her with just days to go, but to test his commitment she purposefully kills his dog by kicking it viciously in the stomach (the dog had been David's brother but had unsuccessfully failed to find a partner in the hotel). David can't hide his emotions and the woman tries to drag him to the hotel's owner (Colman) to tell her of David's deceit, something which carries a punishment of being turned into an animal not of his choosing. He successfully subdues her on the way and takes his revenge by kicking her several times. He forces her into the transformation room
David runs away and ends up being taken in by a group of loners, a group where love is forbidden, but he soon starts falling for a short sighted woman (Weisz).
So why no approval sticker?
The reason for this is simply because it's effectively a film of two halves, the bit in the hotel and then after he escapes. The section of the film where he is in the hotel is exceptionally well written, clever, unforgiving and genuinely interesting, but the second half of the film is so boring and bland that I just lost all interest in it whatsoever.
Let's start with the overall premise of the film and what gets people in the hotel in the first place, being single. The film is unclear in a lot of aspects of this law that causes anyone who is single to be forced into a hotel and turned into an animal if they are unsuccessful in finding love. Whilst it is interesting to see numerous animals in a wooded area that wouldn't normally be in that environment, giving you an idea into what people choose (such as a camel), the law is ultimately flawed in that it doesn't make the rules of the law clear.
For example, at what age can you be single and not be forced into the hotel? The youngest person in the hotel appears to be in their mid-20s (she is also the only character that you see gets transformed into an animal, although you only see the after effect rather than the transformation), so at what age are people free until? It's just unclear and there's something a bit uninteresting watching a bunch of middle aged people awkwardly flirting with each other.
The law is ridiculously harsh. For example, the limping man's wife has died just a few days prior and yet he's quickly launched into this hotel for being single. There's no grieving period and no chance for him to be fine again, it's just there.
Whilst I am prepared to cut films a lot of slack when it comes to reality bending, they have to at least make sense on some level and in this sense, I found myself getting less and less interested as the film went on as it was just unclear as to why people are forced into the hotel. I know that's probably part of the idea, leaving people in a bit of limbo when it comes to this sort of thing, but some sort of context would be nice.
As I say, the time in the hotel is actually relatively decent. You see the lengths that some people will go to as the depression sets in and the desperate lengths people will go to (for example, the lisping man threatens to shoot to David after he's escaped to give himself another day of trying to find someone). Even sexually relieving yourself is forbidden, with the lisping man having his hand forced into a toaster by the hotel management for masturbating, with the scene of burning his fingers being my particular favourite in the overall run time of the film.
The dialogue in this half of the film is witty and well written, which is much more than I can say for the second half of the film, which I will move onto now.
When David does eventually get out of the hotel and is in the wooded area, the tone of the film, it's feel and general level of interest serious wains, it, for a lack of a better word, becomes boring. There are long segments in this section which make even less sense that the law mentioned above, and the character of the Loner Leader (none of the characters other than David are named by the way) is played in such a lifeless way by Lea Seydoux that it completely disengages you from her as a mildly antagonistic character.
The Lobster was a missed opportunity in many ways. Whilst this could have been brilliant, the second half of the film completely kills the momentum and interest level that has been gained in the first half. It's reminds me in many ways of Goal of the Dead in that sense, but in that film they had the excuse of different writers for the different halves of the film. The Lobster has no such excuse.
I'm not saying that The Lobster is an awful film by any stretch. There are bits that I genuinely enjoyed, such as the scene with the toaster, but after David escapes the hotel that film just doesn't feel as interesting.
I wouldn't say don't waste your time because the first half is worth watching, but after he escapes you might as well turn off.


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Borrowed breath of brand new life.
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The 2014 Toolooa Athletics Carnival was held on Friday of week one this term and fun was had by all. Like always the day was filled with an array of careport colours and many students even dressed up in costumes to make the day more fun. Some of the highlights were the hordes or year 12's dressed up as tennis players and also a giant red inflatable man. Congratulations needs to go to all students and sports captains who took part during the carnival and participated in the lead-up field events during the last week of term. The level of school spirit and morale was excellent as was the war cries and chants that could be heard all day.
This year Keppel proved too strong against some good competition from all the other carports taking out the competition with 2790 points.
Individual Age Champions are as follows:
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12 years
Dillon Bartlett
Ashley Hare
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Lyncoln Rebel
Chyanne Downing
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Lachlan Warwick
Laine Sunderland
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Jessy Edwards
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Georgia Muir
Michael Ruge
Maddy Dryburgh
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. Keppel 2790
. Curtis 2516
Elliot 2033
Heron 1842
Many thanks go out to all staff that helped out on the day with marshalling, recording, and officiating. Without this dedication an event such as this can never take place. Also huge thanks to the Mr Scott Mercer for his dedication to and assistance in oval preparation and maintenance.
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The students who placed 1st and 2nd in each event then made the school team to participate in the Port Curtis Trials at Chanel College during the Thursday and Friday of week three of this term. All students who participated in these trials need to be congratulated on their excellent behaviour, hard work and effort during these trials.
Many students performed well during the trials but perhaps the standout for the day was Ally Ware who broke the 3000m record.
Congratulations goes to the following students who made the PC team:
Ryan Neale, Lyncoln Rebel, Ken Sagat, Brad Howard, Ally Ware, Georgia Muir, Alex Smith, Tenielle Spencer, Christian Hopkins, Keana Truskett, Chyanne Downing, Pieter De Wet, Janaya Ray, Maddy McPhail, Logan Parrish, Godfrey Henderson, Brad Preston and Joseph Bannan.
Once again all staff and parents need to be thanked for making the day run so smoothly.
Schools Cup Volleyball
Also in other sports news Mr Nathan Elvery and Mrs Laura Kistemaker took a group of our senior students to the Senior Schools Cup Volleyball Competition in Toowoomba. This is a major competition on the volleyball circuit with schools from all around the state taking part.
Both the boys and girls teams played very well throughout the tournament and I am sure they have gathered many valuable skills for their future in volleyball.
Throughout the competition both the boys and girls teams played some hard fought matches with the boys placing 8th and the girls placing 13th in their respective divisions.
Once again a huge congratulations needs to go out to all of the students who participated for their effort and outstanding sportsmanship throughout the competition. Also a big thank you needs to go to Mr Elvery and Mrs Kistemaker for their hard work before and during the competition.
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Sermon at St. Aidan's, Louisa, July 17th, 2016
One of the things I like most about summer is the berries. I can eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. With cereal for breakfast, with yogurt for lunch or with ice cream as a desert for dinner. So when I saw that the reading from Amos started with a basket of summer fruit - not long after Cheryl had come home with the week's groceries which included a whole basketful of fruit - I was immediately drawn to it. And to Amos, about whom I knew little. I have come to like him because he is a very modern prophet.. Who is Amos?
Amos wrote almost 3000 years ago. He lived during the reign of the King Jeroboam II. From a village in southern Judah, Amos traveled to the northern kingdom of Israel. He was not a prophet but a farmer from a little town about twelve miles southeast of Jerusalem. Amos was a shepherd from the desert and a farmer of sycamore figs. He was an unwelcome outsider, who preached from the unpatriotic fringe. He was more blue collar than blue blood. The cultured elites of his day despised Amos as a redneck.
King Jeroboam forged a dynasty through by aggressive military expansion and unprecedented prosperity. The citizens of his day took pride in being religious and God's favoured people. They valued their military conquests, their economic affluence, and their political security. Strange things happen when people suddenly become rich. Like many periods of prosperity, it was brought about on the backs of the poor and powerless.
Amos could not believe his eyes. Poor people were starving in a rich agricultural land. He considered dire poverty in the midst of such prosperity an outrage. The rich plotted to cheat the populace by manipulating the currency and fixing measuring scales. The rich forced the poor into slavery and to eat the refuse of the field.
In the reading, God tells Amos that God is so outraged by the way the Israelis treat the poor that there is no more mercy for them — only wrath. God shows him a basket of ripe summer fruit to illustrate that his wrath is fully ripened and is ready blow.
Amos criticizes Israel's entire culture. He describes how the rich trampled the poor and how the affluent flaunted their expensive lotions, elaborate music, and vacation homes. Fathers and sons slept with the same temple prostitute. Corrupt judges sold justice to the highest bidder, predatory lenders exploited vulnerable families, and religious leaders pronounced God's blessing on it all.
With Israel at the peak of its power, and having good reasons to believe that no disaster could befall it, Amos preached a counter-intuitive and culturally subversive message. To the country's disbelief, he said that Israel was no different from the pagan nations with their corruption and war crimes. Before God, they were equals. He spoke to average citizens in general, but to the nation's leaders in particular — priests, judges, financiers, and state bureaucrats. Amos compared Israel to a basket of summer fruit that was not merely ripe but close to rotten.
Israel had overplayed its hand. They misread the signs of the times. Convinced of the nobility of their own nation and of the inferiority of foreigners, they found it impossible to understand how others saw them. They considered their country superior in every way to the surrounding pagan countries. Under Jeroboam, Israel developed an exaggerated sense of what they could get away with. They invoked this to exempt themselves from the universal standards which applied to their own nation as well as to their enemies.
I imagine that very few people listened to Amos. In his rage and in defence of Jeroboam, the High Priest ran Amos out of town.
The book of Amos contains the much used expression of God's call for justice. "Let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream". It's been quoted by Martin Luther King Jr., Bernie Sanders, and countless others. Amos reminds me of Bernie Sanders.
Wealth brings privilege and responsibility. Money's privilege means freedom from material want. But an abundance of money also brings the responsibility to help others in need. The pursuit of money can blind some to this responsibility; wealth leaves some incapable of compassion.
What do the civil war in Syria, the incredible boom of the housing market in Vancouver, and the explosion of the oil-filled train in Lac Megantic all have in common? They all illustrate the power of large institutions to do great harm. They demonstrate how governments can destroy civil society, how real estate and financial institutions can exploit the lives of everyday people, and how corporations can cause human death and despoil the environment in an unprecedented way.
God cares not only about the private lives of individual people, but also about the moral actions of institutional systems. Personal piety is important to God, but social justice is perhaps even more so. Only large institutions with complex bureaucracies and vast resources — national governments, corporations and unions, large institutions — can create systems of injustice which cause death, manipulate markets and ravage the planet while privatizing profits and spreading the risk around.
Systems of injustice are directly linked to the violence and pain they cause. If we create a society that builds violence into its institutions and systems, we are left with ruined lives and tragedy. We've seen death in the streets recently - Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, police officers in Dallas, mass shootings in schools and night clubs and malls, indigenous teenagers who take their own lives, indigenous women who disappear without a trace, murderous battles between street gangs.
When we look at our own society, we find cycles of marginalization and violence playing out in our midst. Kids who live on the streets in our own cities, native women abused by police or dropped off out of town in freezing weather, poverty in our municipalities. There is direct link from the cultural genocide of indigenous peoples to the modern-day racism against First Nations and Inuit people. We cannot just point the finger at our neighbours to the south.
These things are painful to see. But this is the task of people of faith – to see and to help others see what is happening. God is asking us to see the pain around us. God is asking us to respond by rooting out the injustice in our own environments. When we begin to look with eyes of faith, we see a web of connections where injustices collide, creating not a culture of abundance for all, but absolute misery for some and a picnic for others. When you trample those on the margins, Amos tells us, things don't go well for you. God isn't sending us a basket of fruit.
In the Gospel reading, Luke's story about Jesus' visit to the home of Mary and Martha is straightforward. Martha extends hospitality to Jesus. Mary listens to Jesus' teachings. Martha attends to the duties of hospitality. Martha complains that Mary has neglected the duties of hospitality. Martha asks Jesus to instruct Mary to help her. Jesus responds that Mary has chosen the better activity.
The passage turns on the meaning of "only one thing is necessary." The "one thing" in Jesus' logic is the "what is best" that Mary has chosen. And what is that? Jesus says that hearing the word of God's messenger is the one thing needed, not providing for his physical needs. "God's messenger is, of course, Jesus himself. Thus, however important hospitality is as a social context for the spread of the Christian message, it is even more important to what Jesus has to say. Jesus is asking Martha and us to hear with the ears of faith and to look with the eyes of faith at what is happening in our society and to do what we can, individually, about social injustice. Much like Amos.


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I love Twitter. And I kind of hate it too. I took it off of my phone during Lent, because I felt like I was wasting too much time on the internet and it wasn't time well spent. (I still occasionally checked it on my computer, but for some reason it's not as addictive as on my phone. Portability?) I still haven't put it back on my phone, and that's okay, because if I check it once or twice a day that's plenty.
But I do love it, because I follow some of the coolest people on earth, and they say some really funny, witty, insightful things. I find that authors and bookish people are very responsive on Twitter, which is cool. So this week's The Broke and Bookish Top Ten Tuesday topic is a really fun one for me. I want to share my favorite bookish Twitter people and I want to hear about yours! I thought I'd share a random tweet from my picks just to give you a flavor of what you might be missing.
- Rainbow Rowell (author of Eleanor and Park and Fangirl, among others.)
Me at lunch with my mom: "You know Twilight?" Her: "No." Me: "Books, movies? Vampires?" Her: "No." Me: "Girl loves a vampire?" Her: "No."
- Jess Walter (author of Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of Poets, among others.)
Trump is insane! Cruz more terrifying every debate! And … and … and … ok, I'm not actually watching that shit, just guessing.
- Shannon Hale (author of Princess in Black and Austenland, among others.)
I literally just had to explain to an adult relative that just because something is on the internet doesn't mean it's true
- Anne Lamott (author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies, among others.)
I hate when you're writing, typing away on your iPad, and your little muffin top rolls upwards and starts trying to get in on the act
- Amanda Nelson (managing editor at BookRiot.)
gonna start responding to all comments calling me reverse racist with "nah"
These are all kind of goofy tweets, but that's what I love about Twitter. It's a place where funny, smart people can shine. I'm cutting off my list at five bookish people, but there are many others who I follow and enjoy, like Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Mat Johnson, Celeste Ng, Saeed Jones, Maureen Johnson, Roxane Gay, and Megan Mayhew Bergman. So, tell me – who else should I be following? Do you use Twitter? Or is there another social media platform you enjoy more?


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Guest Post: Lucy Atkins on Fiction's top Five Twisted Housekeepers and Nannies
What happens when the one place you should be safe - your home, and, by extension, your relationships with the people you welcome into it - becomes dangerous? The ever-growing domestic suspense genre is proof positive of the perennial appeal of novels examining this exact question. Personally, I like to think that it's the familiarity we have with these stories' backdrops that make them so chilling; it's as though the authors of domestic thrillers reveal to us just how fine the line is between the perceived safety of our ordinary lives and the myriad frightening ways that things can quickly turn sinister. Perhaps the strongest (and most inventive!) example of this particular vein of suspense that I've read recently can be found in Lucy Atkins' deliciously chilling psychological thriller THE NIGHT VISITOR, which releases in the US today (7/3/18). The driving force of this superb suspense novel is Vivian Tester, a housekeeper and caretaker for an old estate. When Vivian uncovers the rare diary of a female Victorian physician, she makes contact with a popular historian in hopes of sharing her remarkable find. The two women embark on a project together, chronicling the life of the diary's author - but the journey begins to twist and turn towards a claustrophobic and downright sinister conclusion. Vivian is a case study in the trusted individual whose apparent selflessness hides darker motivations. She may look like the kind of person you'd want to welcome into your personal life, but don't be fooled—she has a few tricks up her sleeve that will shock readers as much as they shock the unwitting target of Vivian's laser-focused attention.
With the release of THE NIGHT VISITOR, Vivian Tester joins the ranks of some of fiction's most twisted housekeepers and nannies—and today on Crime by the Book, Lucy Atkins stops by to share her expert opinion on who exactly those "most twisted" housekeepers and nannies are! If you're in the market for a chilling story of should-be "safe" relationships gone very wrong, listen up: Lucy has the reading list for you. (And, while you're at it, grab a copy of THE NIGHT VISITOR—you won't regret it!) Read on for Lucy's picks, and to learn more about her superb new release.
Top Five Fictional Housekeepers and Nannies:
These "helpers" will give you nightmares long after you close the book
By Lucy Atkins
When we think about fictional home help, the woman who probably springs to mind is Mary Poppins. With her umbrella and sparkling eyes, her songs and fun and spoons full of sugar, Mary is the essence of positivity, the mothering outside force brought into the chaotic home to smooth out all the creases, revitalize, organize, and nurture. For suspense writers such sweet and innocent figures are irresistible. We chew them up, give them a twist, and spit them out as something else entirely: the lovely pregnant woman and her unborn demon in Ira Levin's 1967 horror classic, Rosemary's Baby, or Neil Gaiman's "Other Mother" with her black button eyes in Coraline. Sigmund Freud famously explored this effect in his essay on the "unheimlich": the feeling that something supposedly secure and familiar is in fact unsettling and wrong, perhaps even deeply disturbing. When novelists create twisted housekeepers and nannies we are playing with exactly this feeling because few things can be more disturbing than realizing that the woman who looks after you—or your children—is not, after all, a safe pair of hands.
1. Mrs. Danvers in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca
She has to come first: the original, the one-and-only, the crème de la crème of scary housekeepers, Mrs. Danvers has it all. She is supercilious and sinister, fleet-footed, creepy, clever, narrow-eyed, dressed in black—the ultimate dangerous manipulator, guarding her glamorous mistress's legacy, and playing on the nerves and insecurities of our young and naïve narrator. When it comes to menacing housekeepers of a certain age, absolutely nobody does it better than "Danny."
2. Louise in Leila Slimani's The Perfect Nanny
A recent sensation in France, Leila Slimani's The Perfect Nanny features the babysitter all parents dread. The book's brutal opening line tells us everything we need to know: "The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds." But why would Louise, a dedicated, efficient, middle-aged nanny commit such a heinous crime? The devil is in the details here—when Louise plays hide-and-seek she leaves the little children just a bit too long, until they are terrified; when her boss throws out a chicken carcass, she plucks it from the trash and feeds it to the children. Louise's twisted psyche unfolds gradually and grimly. Definitely not for the faint-hearted.
3. Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's Misery
Okay, so she's not strictly a housekeeper, but middle-aged ex-nurse Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's 1987 horror thriller Misery shares so many of scary housekeepers' traits it's impossible not to include her. Played by the truly menacing Kathy Bates in the Hollywood movie, Annie is a literary superfan gone crazy. She plucks our hero, a bestselling author, from the wreckage of a car crash and proceeds to "care" for him in her own home, setting his badly broken legs herself, administering hard drugs, and tending him back to "health." But of course, she is also deeply disturbed: she has blackouts, mood swings, and depressions where she slaps herself, binges, and grows increasingly, and dangerously, paranoid. Annie is the domestic "carer" to end all carers.
4. Eunice in Ruth Rendell's A Judgement in Stone
As with Leila Slimani's French nanny, we know from the very first line that housekeeper Eunice did a very bad thing: "Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write." Eunice comes to the English countryside to look after the nice posh family but—like all the best scary housekeepers—she comes with a shadowy past. A social misfit, she is furiously efficient and completely sociopathic. A chilling creation by the queen of suspense.
5. Nanny in Evelyn Piper's The Nanny
This one's a bit of a wild card since the novel is frankly bonkers and very dated—you'll either love it or loathe it—but sinister Nanny has to be up there with the best of them purely because Bette Davis played her so brilliantly in the 1965 Hammer film. Nanny has all the key ingredients: she's a bossy, helpful Mary Poppins, but with a glint of menace in her eye. The awesome Bette Davis was in her element and Nanny remains a chilling reminder that the woman bathing your child might not be quite what she seems . . .
Plus: Catch My Review of THE NIGHT VISITOR
I absolutely loved Lucy Atkins' THE NIGHT VISITOR - you can catch my full review here, or find an excerpt below!
Every summer that CBTB has been in existence, there's been one out-of-left-field psychological thriller that has snuck up on me and totally blown me away. In 2016, this was BLOOD WEDDING by Pierre Lemaitre; in 2017, it was a book I was lucky enough to work on publicity for - FINAL GIRLS by Riley Sager. This year, I've found my "out-of-left-field" favorite: THE NIGHT VISITOR by Lucy Atkins. Atkins is an award-winning author and journalist, and THE NIGHT VISITOR is her third novel - but it's the first of her work that has ever found its way onto my reading list, and boy, am I so glad that it did. After devouring this exceptional psychological thriller, Atkins has secured herself a spot on my list of must-read suspense writers. So impressed was I with Atkins' writing that I did a little reading about her background, and discovered that she has extensive experience both as a book critic and a teacher of creative writing. Frankly, given the quality of her newest release, I wasn't the least bit surprised. Take it from me: her professional experience shows. Wholly original and utterly unputdownable, THE NIGHT VISITOR delivers a superb story of suspense with a personality all its own. If you love gripping psychological thrillers, quirky and compelling characters, and a story with a totally unique backdrop (an old estate + the world of academia!), THE NIGHT VISITOR belongs on your reading list. In short: every book should be as fun to read as this one.
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Book Details:
THE NIGHT VISITOR by Lucy Atkins
Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Quercus (July 3, 2018)
Language: English
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Holly Golightly, from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, is painted with her cat in richly textured encaustic wax.
Harper Lee's vintage novel To Kill a Mockingbird is the background for this portrait of Atticus Finch. The rich gold patina of the old pages really shines here, as does the high gloss durable finish.
Stephen King's thriller, The Shining, is the background for a chilling scene well known to pop culture. Though the colors are startling, the image seems to fit the starkness.


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The weather has been strange these days. When I moved to the Caribbean, the South had only just become chilly. My body seemed to accept the lack of seasons; the prolonged, never-ending summer.
There's the saying "April showers bring May flowers," but that doesn't exist here. Instead it marches more to the beat of "Well, May rolls around and then there is rain and only rain forever and ever, the end." More specifically, rainy season (otherwise scarily known as Hurricane Season *shutters*), lasts from May to November, and with it comes sporadic showers and storms that come and go whenever they please.
(Also, giant land crabs?! Land crabs that knock on your door in the middle of the night!? I digress: another story for another day.)
The sky has become a temperamental patchwork of clouds, but more often than not, it's overcast. These overcast skies are the "strange." I see the overcast skies, I feel the familiar tropical heat, the usual humidity thick enough to cut with a butter knife, but deep inside, outside of my control, my mind is perceiving these skies as the seasonal change it's used to. A seasonal change I never realized how much I required.
Overcast, dreary skies have always brought with them bright pea-coats and knit scarves and brown boots. Detailed Jack-o-Lanterns and too much candy. Smokey fire pits and an ice cold beer. And Momma's pie and cookies. And family and Christmas trees. But it's none of these things. This year's overcast skies are hot, and it's just me and my little apartment and unwanted land crab visitors. The weather has been strange, and I've been strange - in this weird funk that I just can't shake. Missing him, missing them, and craving cold-weather cookies and things.
So, in a fairly successful attempt to "shake it," I made said cookies, and I shared them with some of my Cayman family.
I decided that I was craving Jam Cookies. And then, as always, I could not decide on just one way to do it, resulting in 4 variations of jam cookies. Behold:
Note :: That top-left Strawberry Preserves variation was supposed to be salted caramel, but the caramel had other diabolical plans.
Old-Fashioned Jam Shortbread Cookies from The Cafe Sucre Farine
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1/2 c. pure cane sugar
2 tsp. vanilla extract (or 2 tsp. vanilla bean paste, or beans scraped from one vanilla bean - I used extract.)
1/2 tsp. salt
2 c. all-purpose flour
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line two sheet pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Beat butter and sugar until soft and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add salt and vanilla extract and mix for a few seconds to combine.
- Add flour and mix for 1-2 minutes, (stopping a few times to scrape the sides of the bowl) until large crumbs form. Pour mixture out onto a work surface and knead several times until a smooth ball forms.
- Scoop small balls of dough, about 2 tablespoons each. Roll the ball in your palms to form smooth, round balls. (If you find that you are having trouble rolling the dough, refrigerate for 10 minutes, then proceed.) Place dough balls on prepared cookie sheets, spacing 2 inches apart and pressing on each one just a bit with the palm of your hand to be about 1/2" thick.
- The next step is really completely up to you and what you plan to do with your cookies. I had over 40 small cookies. I flattened them each with my palm, considered flattening more with the base of a cup, but decided that I liked more of a dome. My plan was to have a dozen jam sandwiches (using 24 cookies), a dozen indented salted caramel cookies, and have the leftovers as regular iced shortbread cookies. I indented the necessary amount, and used a fork to make cute ruffled textures along all of the edges.
- Note: when you make an indentation, you can use your thumb or the back of a spoon. If your cookie cracks along the edges, which it will, just push the dough back together. Your indentation should, in theory, be 1/2" in diameter.
- Place sheet pans with prepared cookies in the refrigerator for 15-20 minutes. This will keep them from spreading out too much while baking.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes or until beginning to turn golden at bottom edges. If you've indented your cookies, when cookies come out of the oven, you can reinforce the indentations a bit, if needed.
- Remove to a wire rack to cool slightly.
As I said, I had planned to use salted caramel, but that didn't work out. I've concluded that I need a candy thermometer, and pronto. My caramel cooked just seconds too long, and hardened and turned into Werther's Originals; equally as yummy, but nonfunctional for what I required. This just meant I was going to have a lot more jam sandwiches.
I chose two flavors, and to differentiate between the two, I cut holes in the tops of half of them. This was no easy task, and I broke numerous cookies. I suggest that you bake larger cookies if you're aiming to cut shapes in them, because small ones just barely cooperate. (To cut the holes, I used a tiiiny tiny-bladed knife to carve a square, and then I spun my knife in that square to drill it into a circle. And then I ate the leftover shortbread crumble because of course I did.
The carved sandwiches housed Dickinson's Pure Pacific Mountain Strawberry Preserves, and the solid sandwiches were filled with Bonne Maman Red Currant Jelly. I topped the cookies with a simple powdered sugar icing.
And here, I leave you with this: the failed caramels of deliciousness.
Next up might be some FrootShoots!
Thanks for reading,