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Blame the Media. Those insignificant sensational story crafters who cart cameras and recorders to every game documenting our every word. Unbelievable. Miami Heat Head Coach Eric Spoelstra has dug himself in a hole and lost the shovel. In a press conference following their disastrous loss to the Chicago Bulls, Coach Spoelstra made the following statement, "There are a couple of guys crying there in the locker room". He later retracts this statement claiming there was no noise or emotion and blames the media for creating what he calls "Crygate". This is why most members of the media carry a recording device in addition to some other form of note taking tool so there is no chance of any coach or player pulling a "Spoelstra". Especially when camera crews record you making the statement, there is no way this is the media's blunder. All he did here was reveal the Miami Heat are softer mentally than first originally thought if indeed there were tears shed in Miami's locker room. As a Head Coach trying to prove his team can compete as an elite team in the NBA, this tops the long list of things you don't talk about. LeBron James is taking responsibility for what he calls letting his team down in the final minutes of Heat games. Finally, someone in that club showing some leadership arising from this mess. But don't get too excited - let's see if actions speak louder than words for the remainder of the season. A team taking this statement to heart? The Los Angeles Lakers. Let's discuss their winning streak since All-Star break, Dwight Howard's suspension and Chris Paul taken off the court on a stretcher.
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What were you doing one year ago today? Well, the Los Angeles Lakers were winning five of their first 10 games after the All-Star break, lost six of their final nine and hung on by a thread to make the playoffs. The Boston Celtics pulled the same prank on us wining as many games as they lost with a 27-27 record after Christmas. But who was in the NBA Final? Boston and Los Angeles.
So this year, no one need be fooled. Sure, the San Antonio Spurs have the best record in the NBA right now (51-12). But as of Tuesday morning, the Los Angeles Lakers are the only team without a loss since the All-Star break. Their win on Monday came after beating San Antonio 99-83. So the Lakers are showing they have not faded into the sunset and are ready to defend their title. Having said this, the remainder of the season won't be easy. Take a look at their upcoming road trip: Atlanta on Tuesday, Miami on Thursday and Dallas on Saturday. No walk in the park that's for sure. When they return home, they start a stretch of 7 home games beginning with the new and improved Orlando Magic. They have a long way to go to make the final dance but at least they are looking ready to face the music.
Van Gundy stands by his man
The NBA has awarded the first league suspension for excessive technical fouls. Pause for a second to think about this (if you don't know already) and say who first comes to mind. If you said Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic, you would be right. If you said his Coach would subsequently read him the riot act, you would be wrong. Orlando Magic Head Coach Stan Van Gundy says he thinks his star center has shown restraint this season and believes his sense of control has been "amazing". Amazing or not, Dwight Howard is a candidate for MVP honours this season and a league first suspension for excessive technical fouls does not look good on a resume. Howard served his one-game suspension by sitting out Orlando's 89-85 loss to Portland Monday night. This comes after his 16th technical foul of the season against Chicago last Friday. Now, for every two technical fouls he receives for the remainder of the season, he will receive a one game suspension. Coach Van Gundy claims (according to a Elias Sports Bureau statistic) Howard has been fouled 593 times this season without any of those calls being labeled flagrant. There's an old saying I learned at a very young age, "You can't control want happens to you but you can control how you react". If the stat Coach Van Gundy is quoting is true, that would make any player upset. But does that give you a license to argue, get in the referee's face and impede the ability of your team to advance in the game at hand? No. I realize there is an inherent inconsistency in the way any infractions are called in the NBA and in any sport for that matter since you don't have the same referee calling each game. But they are all playing by the same rules which govern the league and for the most part, are on the same page. Dwight Howard is not a bad guy and is a talented player. If he has shown restraint as Van Gundy claims, that's great. It just wasn't enough against Chicago and won't be for the rest of the season if this keeps up. Good call or bad call, he is the one who opened his mouth.
Chris Paul taken off on a stretcher
In the Hornet's game against Cleveland Sunday night, Chris Paul left the floor on a stretcher after hitting his forehead on the shoulder of Cleveland guard Ramon Sessions. He was fully conscious the whole time and never lost feeling anywhere according to Hornets management. He was taken to the Cleveland Clinic for precautionary tests and later rejoined the team at the arena, leaving with them on their charter flight to Chicago. He missed Monday's 77-85 loss to Chicago and no word yet on his return. He was diagnosed with a concussion and this is where I become concerned. I realize everyone has varying recovery schedules when it comes to concussions but there needs to be a league standard and strict requirements need to be met before any player is allowed to return. It is very disconcerting to me to watch players let their mouth guards dangle out of their mouths, let alone chew on them during a stoppage in play as if it is an expendable item. This piece of equipment aids in reducing the severity of injuries but does not prevent them. What does not reduce the severity of concussions is returning to the game before you are ready. Once you have been concussed, you are susceptible to more concussions and the level of severity can increase. Right now, there is no clear cut standard across the NBA and some players are able to just walk back on the court with no real hoops to jump through, if you will. This is a real problem in my opinion and if the league is serious about preventing these types of injuries, they need to set standards now before we see players forced to leave the game for good.
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Thanks for the shoutout Danielle. Even if it was in a kind of loving-backhanded way. I disagree the Lakers are the same team they were last year. Yes the faded going down the stretch last year, and no, they won't be fighting for a playoff spot this year, but the sheer amount of games they have played in the past 3 years will wear on them come playoff time. That, and because the west is such a touch conference, ANYONE they play in the first round could upset them. Could the same thing happen to San Antonio? Sure. But with home court meaning so much in the NBA, I like my chances.ReplyDelete
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Yes, I'm alive! I'm terribly sorry for the extended silence, but I've had some big changes going on in my personal life and have been out of the loop for a while (honestly, my feed reader needs to start reading itself–I have over 1,000 unread posts when looking at just 4 financial feeds). So, here's what I haven't had a chance to post…
1. I totally missed the most recent trainwreck of a P.R. move at Citi. There is so much crap going on around Citi… I really intend to write a post that is essentially a linkfest of Citi material that stitches together the narrative of how Citi got into this mess and how Citi continues to do itself no favors. There was also a completely vapid opinion piece from Charlie Gasperino that said absolutely nothing new, save for one sentence, and then ended with a ridiculous comparison that was clearly meant to generate links. I'm not even going to link to it… It was on the Daily Beast, if you must find it.
2. I haven't really had the opportunity to comment on the Obama administration's overhaul of the financial regulatory apparatus. Honestly, it sucks. It doesn't do much and gives too much power to the Fed. You'd think that after that recent scandal within the ranks of the Fed there would be a political issue with giving it more power. Even more interestingly, all other major initiatives from the Obama administration have been drafted by congress. Here, the white paper came from the Whitehouse itself. That won't do too much to quiet the critics who are claiming that the Whitehouse is too close to Wall St. Honestly, if one is to use actions instead of words to measure one's intentions, then it's hard to point to any evidence that the Obama administration isn't in the bag for the financial services industry.
3. The Obama administration did an admirable job with G.M. and Chrysler. They were both pulled through bankruptcy, courts affirmed the actions, and there was a minimal disruption in their businesses. Stakeholders were brought to the table, people standing to lose from the bankruptcy, the same people (I use that word loosely–most are institutions) who provided capital to risky enterprises, were forced to take losses, and the U.S.A. now has something it has never had: an auto industry where the U.A.W. has a stake and active interest in the companies that employ its members. Perhaps the lesson, specifically that poorly run firms that need to be saved should cause consequences for the people who caused the problems (both by providing capital and providing inadequate management), will take hold in the financial services sector too–I'm not holding my breath, though.
4. Remember this problem I wrote about? Of course not, that is one of my least popular posts! However, some of the questions are being answered. Specifically, the questions about how and when the government will get rid of its ownership stakes, and at what price, are starting to be filled in. It was rather minor news when firms started paying T.A.R.P. funds back. However, the issue of dealing with warrants the government owns was a thornier issue. Two banks have dealt with this issue–Goldman purchased the securities at a price that gives the taxpayers a 23% return on their investment and JP Morgan decided that it would forgo a negotiated purchase and forced the U.S. Treasury to auction the warrants.
On a side note: From this WSJ article linked to above, its a bit maddening to read this:
The Treasury has rejected the vast majority of valuation proposals from banks, saying the firms are undervaluing what the warrants are worth, these people said. That has prompted complaints from some top executives. […] James Dimon raised the issue directly with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, disagreeing with some of the valuation methods that the government was using to value the warrants.
(Emphasis mine.)
If I were on the other end of the line, my response would be simple: "Well, Jamie, I agree. The assumptions we use to value securities here at the U.S. government can be, well … off. So, we'll offer you what you think is fair for the warrants if you'll pay back the $4.4 billion subsidy we paid when we initially infused your bank with T.A.R.P. funds." Actually, I probably would have had a meeting with all recipients about it and quoted a very high price for these warrants and declared the terms and prices non-negotiable–does anyone really think that, in the face of executive pay restrictions, these firms wouldn't have paid whatever it would take to get out from under the governments thumb? As long as one investment banker could come up with assumptions that got the number, they would have paid it. Okay, that's all for my aside.
5. I'm dreadfully behind on my reading… Seriously. Here's a list of articles I haven't yet read, but intend to…
- The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts — A scientific look at bubbles, specifically the psychology.
- Sheila Bair, FDIC, and the financial crisis — A profile of Sheila Bair. I find the New Yorker profiles very good and nearly impossibly long.
- Rich Harvard, Poor Harvard: Vanity Fair — An interesting look at Harvard and how its fortunes interplay with its endowment and its in-house money manager.
- Prophet Motive — A profile of Nouriel Roubini. My gut tells me he's a case study in being more lucky than right, but I haven't read it, so who knows.
- The Way We Live Now – Diminished Returns — A NY Times article whose title makes too much sense to pass up!
- Confessions of a Bailout CEO Wife — As close as I'll ever get to US Weekly.
- What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? — Ugh. My gut tells me too much. As a Consumerist reader, I think I know what this is, but we'll see.
- At Geithner's Treasury, Key Decisions on Hold — An article that got a lot of play as a good case study.
- Paulson's Complaint — Paulson claiming Lehman didn't cause the huge problems in the markets and economy that followed its bankruptcy. I don't buy it.
- The Crisis and How to Deal with It — A weird multi-person article in the New York Review of Books.
- The New York Fed is the most powerful financial institution you've never heard of. Look who's running it — A Slate article by Eliot Spitzer. I admit to not really get the Fed system.
- Tracking Loans Through a Firm That Holds Millions — A look at a servicer, I believe.
- Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail — Wow. Based on the title, I must have dangerously low blood pressure that needs boosting!
- The formula that felled Wall St — Another look at Gaussian Copula, I think. Felix, also looked at this.
- Peter Orszag and the Obama budget — Another New Yorker profile.
- Geithner, Member and Overseer of Finance Club — A NY Times profile of Tim.
- HMC Tax Concerns Aided Federal Inquiries — Interestingly, an article that got national press, is an investigative piece, and deals with finance from a college newspaper!
- Treasury Chief Tim Geithner Profile –Portfolio profile of Tim. I'll know everything about him by the end of this list.
- Lewis Testifies U.S. Urged Silence on Deal — I really don't know about this situation. I want to read up and understand all the details.
- The Wail of the 1% — Honestly, not sure. Talking about the plight of the rich?
- Economic View – Why Creditors Should Suffer, Too — The title makes me want to read this. Confirmation bias, perhaps?
- How Bernanke Staged a Revolution — A profile of Ben Bernanke by the WaPo.
- 5 Ways Companies Breed Incompetence — Just five?
- Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world — An opinion piece from the FT by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
- A New Era for Financial Regulation — Megan McArdle looks at the proposed regulatory structure. Honestly, I don't read her, so I'm skeptical about this piece.
- U.S. Plan to Stem Foreclosures Is Mired in Paper Avalanche — Not sure. One of the longer NY Times pieces.
- Bill Gross of Pimco Is on Treasury's Speed Dial — A profile of Pimco's role in fixing the financial problems, conflicts, etc.
- Congress Helped Banks Defang Key Rule — Another fix for low blood pressure.
- Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers – The Case for Financial Regulatory Reform — OpEd by Geithner and Summers.
- SEC Chief Strives To Rebuild Regulator — An article on the problems at the S.E.C.
- A Daring Trade Has Wall Street Seething — A writeup of how a small firm worked the system to make money. Should be interesting.
- President's Economic Circle Keeps Tensions at a Simmer — An interesting case study on how Obama's economic team works.
- Back to Business – Banks Dig In to Resist New Limits on Derivatives — Hey! We're paying banks to spend money to lobby ourselves to not regulate them so they can profit off of our money! Sweet!
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Has Anyone seen All in Good Taste!
Discuss older Jim Carrey movies.
i told you didn't i..........??........
remember this one.........??
you can be bold but classy.....
stylish, not brassy
and the men all love
a funny lassie.........
I think "Alli n good taste" is his best movie ever. Even better than "Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind"
I were only joking! I just wanted to see the reactions. I haven´t even seen "All in good taste". I don´t think I want to. My absolute favourite is "Eternal sunhine of the spotless mind".
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I no its a late reply but i just watch this movie last night and it sucks except 1 part which we all should no what part that is but just in case u don't no its jims part Drool but any way this movie stinks like i said..
I <3 Jim Carrey
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absolutely........lol........ but he had to learn how to do movies somehow......lol
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True But i thought Jim was pretty good no matter he didn't talk which i wished he did but like i keep saying This movie is one of Jim's first films and cut him some slack because he was just starting 2 act and he did have 2 learn somehow...
I <3 Jim Carrey
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I hope he learned not to wag his tail around nudist camps anymore. Unless we're there lol
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Emily Blunt`s new interview with Jim
I don`t know if you`ve read this but here`s the link:http://www.bluntreview.com/reviews/lemonyjim.html
Really great interview!! It was good and it made me laugh out loud a couple of times. Has anyone else noticed that he mentions writing on a legal pad and trying to figure out the universe alot? I heard him say that in a couple of interveiws. hmm..perhaps he does that every now and then..
that uncovered the other side of Jim !!!!!!!!!
i cant explain it!
I LOVE Jim MORE NOW!
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"Can't we just listen to the radio?!"
"Radio?, huh?, who needs a radio?"
"Ready, Harry?"
"Mock!" "Yeah!" "Ring!" "Yeah!".......................
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one more expression
So very fine'n'cute! Such a nice piece of coquetry )))))))) Bravo!
Bravo indeed..............and i think i can speak for a lot of fans when i say it 'touched' a nerve in a lot of us............
Quite simply it's a moving,beautiful piece of work, brilliantly acted and executed........
That part at the end really got me thinking. If someone gave him-say-a Grinch tie for Christmas--I wonder if he would wear it?
I did see him in a Grinch t-shirt somewhere.
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(originally posted as "What if you could buy social justice? Think Pink: Cancer Profiteering" in 2009)
The pinking of cancer is arguably one of the most well-known examples of the cultural misconception that we can buy social justice. Starting out with the pink ribbon, this consumerized think-pinking has, as Ayelet Waldman details in her Salon.com article, made us "awash in a sea of pink":
"Pink ribbons, pink wristbands, pink Cartier watches, pink makeup kits, pink Tic Tacs, a pink Delta airplane, pink nail polish, a pink Montegrappa Micra Pen, pink bouquets, pink tweezers, pink candles, pink jeweled key fobs, pink totes, pink shower gel, pink tea, pink moisturizer, pink Lean Cuisines, pink teddy bears, pink Waterford crystal, pink Post-its, pink M&Ms, pink sneakers, pink umbrellas, pink yogurt, pink golf balls, pink pencil sharpeners, and even pink toilet paper. That's right, wipe for the cure."
Wipe for the cure?!? Ha! I wonder, are there pink condoms so we can also fuck for the cure?
While this pinking of cancer began with the pink ribbon, the history behind how the ribbon became pink is worth considering in more detail. In fact, the cancer awareness ribbon was originally PEACH. This peach ribbon was part of a GRASSSROOTS ACTIVISM campaign, not a corporate profiteering label. As Sandy M. Fernandez details in her excellent article "Pretty in Pink" (read it in full here):
The woman was 68-year-old Charlotte Haley, the granddaughter, sister, and mother of women who had battled breast cancer. Her peach-colored loops were handmade in her dining room. Each set of five came with a card saying: "The National Cancer Institute annual budget is $1.8 billion, only 5 percent goes for cancer prevention. Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon."
Haley was strictly grassroots, handing the cards out at the local supermarket and writing prominent women, everyone from former First Ladies to Dear Abby. Her message spread by word of mouth. By the time Liz Smith printed her phone number, Haley had distributed thousands.
Then Self magazine called.
"We said, 'We want to go in with you on this, we'll give you national attention, there's nothing in it for us," Penney says. Even five years later, her voice still sounds startled by Haley's answer. "She wanted nothing to do with us. Said we were too commercial."
At the end of September 1992, Liz Smith printed a follow-up to Haley's story. She reported that Estee Lauder had experienced "problems" trying to work with Haley, and quoted the activist claiming that Self had asked her to relinquish the concept of the ribbon. "We didn't want to crowd her," Penney says. "But we really wanted to do a ribbon. We asked our lawyers and they said, 'Come up with another color."
They chose pink.
So, the real history is that pink was chosen as a way of STEALING and PROFITING from one woman's idea. Holy pink crap! (And, if you need more proof that Wikipedia is NOT a reliable source, their entry on the history of the pink ribbon does NOT cover this information.)
As Fernandez writes,
"…because of Haley's ribbon, Self and Estée Lauder had traded in a color that was merely peachy for one that was an icon, a semiotic superstar. "Pink is the quintessential female color," says Margaret Welch, director of the Color Association of the United States. "The profile on pink is playful, life-affirming. We have studies as to its calming effect, its quieting effect, its lessening of stress. [Pastel pink] is a shade known to be health-giving; that's why we have expressions like 'in the pink.' You can't say a bad thing about it." Pink is, in other words, everything cancer notably is not."
While peach would have been problematic too, given its false associations with being skin color or "flesh" (thanks for nothing Crayola!), it might have been preferable to the bubble-gum faux-female-empowering and infantilizing pink.
Further, the shift from peach to pink, or from somewhat natural to neon, symbolically echoes the shift in cancer activism. As David Bollier notes in his article "The Pink Ribbon Juggernaut":
"At one time, activists focused on the environmental causes of breast cancer and the importance of prevention. But as corporate marketers came to recognize that breast cancer awareness offers a great way to position one's company as a champion of women, the 'social meaning' of the disease changed. The 'pink ribbon' branding of breast cancer has made the disease an upbeat, emotional celebration of 'survivors,' women's fitness, civic voluntarism – and selling."
Thus, when peach went pink, an activist movement became a consumerist movement. Yet, as noted by Barbara Brenner, executive director of BCA (Breast Cancer Action), "If shopping for pink ribbon products was truly the path to a cure, we'd have solved the breast cancer problem by now." Yeah, and if SHOPPING was a CURE for anything, we would have also saved the environment, the economy, and eradicated poverty!
However, instead of "shopping for the cure," we are ironically "shopping for the spread." Or, as Ayalet Waldman points out:
"There is a particular irony in this corporate sponsorship. Many cosmetics contain parabens, estrogenic chemical preservatives that can disrupt normal hormone functions, and exposure to such external estrogens has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer.
The link between environmental pollutants and breast cancer is also becoming clearer. When absorbed into the body, certain pesticides, plastics additives, and chemicals present in foods, household dust and air act like estrogen, possibly increasing the risk of breast cancer."
Even more ironic, as pointed out by Professor Julia Mason, is that "The largest drug companies who make cures also make carcinogenic products, which cause cancer." Wow, talk about lining your own pockets!!! Give em cancer, then sell em 'cures,' and THEN sell em PINK products that show just what a caring corporation you are!
Along with capitalizing on disease, the think-pink paradigm also works to "pink-wash" products. Akin to "green-washing," pink-washing presents products and the corporations that make them as caring about women in general and preventing/curing breast cancer specifically.
Further, even people, it seems, can be pink-washed. As David Bollier reports, "after a series of prominent NFL players were involved in serious crimes such as rape, domestic violence and DUI, the NFL launched a "Real Men Wear Pink" campaign. This PR effort enabled the NFL to showcase its players as community-minded volunteers who care about women and children."
As this example reveals, there is a serious lack of social critique accompanying the think pink movement. When rape and violence can be pink-washed away, we must question if the pinking of cancer is ultimately doing more harm than good…
In addition to allowing corporations to plaster their image with a pink happy face, pinking also obfuscates critical analysis in favor of feel-good consumerism.
Got cancer due to that toxic waste dump you live near? Forget about it! Put on some Avon pink lip-gloss, some pink tennies, and walk your way to feel good oblivion! Forget that you no longer have the time or energy (and never did have the money) to examine how poverty, racial inequality, and a rabidly unequal healthcare system contribute to unequal rates of breast cancer among different race/class groups. Forget about the economic injustice that translates into you living next to the toxic waste dump and put on your pink happy face already! If the pink ribbon people don't advocate for federal budgets/laws to prevent cancer, and it they are not pressuring corporations to research and then stop using cancer-causing chemicals, who are you to complain? (A disclaimer – there are campaigns and groups that step away from unexamined pinking – notably Think Before You Pink launched by Breast Cancer Action).
So, while Kristin McDonald argues that the pink ribbon is "a symbol of the new spirit of activism that is changing the way we face breast cancer," I disagree. I think instead it is a symbol of the new spirit of commodification that is consumerizing the way we face not only breast cancer, but ALL social issues and injustices.
Pinkwashing will not bring the cure let alone bring about prevention. What it will bring about is "healthier industry," as noted by Penni Marshall in her piece "Pink to Green." As Marshall indicates, this cancer profiteering is not about saving the planet nor the women who live on it, but about allowing industry to continue to use cancerous toxins as it claims to be working towards a cure. As Marshall argues, "Above all else, the bottom line on breast cancer has to be what's healthy for the environment and for women's bodies, not what's healthy for industry."
Perhaps in October, when we are again inundated with pink products, we can reflect on the peach history that has been forgotten, or on the ways in which cancer harms the flesh of individual bodies (and disproportionately harms bodies of color due to systematic poverty/unequal healthcare) and DOES not harm, but BENEFITS corporations – the very same corporations that have put on pink happy faces while their products and manufacturing practices rely on known cancer causing toxins…
This October finds many, many people participating in "Occupy Wall Street" protests. Hurrah! Now this in not only non-consumer-based, it's anti-consumerist, anti-corporatizatoin, and pro-justice. Hurrah!!!


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by Mark D. Mitchell
A new exhibition, now open at Chestnut Hill's Woodmere Art Museum, offers a new perspective on one of the Philadelphia region's own "old masters," the painter John Folinsbee.
A celebrated landscape painter of the early to mid-20th century, Folinsbee spent much of his career in New Hope. Based on his place of residence, Folinsbee is largely – and inaccurately – associated with New Hope Impressionism, an oversimplification that the current exhibition, "John Folinsbee and American Modernism," definitively corrects.
Curated by Kirsten Jensen, director of the Folinsbee catalogue raisonné project, the exhibition offers an insightful selection of works drawn almost entirely from private collections and the privately administered Folinsbee Art Trust.
These rarely-seen paintings include recent rediscoveries made during Jensen's extensive research as well as prize-winning masterworks that were widely published and exhibited during Folinsbee's lifetime but have largely been out of sight since his death in 1972.
Folinsbee's move to New Hope in 1916 was both a blessing and a curse, and so it remains. The artist had been wheelchair-bound since a childhood bout with polio and doubtless enjoyed the area's ready access to scenery along the banks of the Delaware as well as the company of the many other artists he encountered there.
In the eyes of his contemporaries as well as of art historians, however, that move irreversibly aligned him with the stylistically conservative New Hope Impressionists. "John Folinsbee and American Modernism" suggests a new context for Folinsbee's experience there, however, associating him preliminarily with a younger, more forward-looking generation of artists active in New Hope that became known as "the Independents." As Jensen points out in the catalogue, there remains much to be learned about the artists of that group and Folinsbee's relationships with them.
The installation sets out pre-New Hope with Folinsbee's beginnings in a quasi-Impressionist aesthetic – witness his fabulous "Poughkeepsie Bridge" (1913/14) with its Monet-like scene of modern industry in harmony with nature. As Jensen points out, however, the painting also signaled a shift, as Folinsbee here introduced a new style of squared brushwork that led him away from such Impressionist aesthetics, even as they persist in the painting's overall effect. The "tonal" Impressionism that Folinsbee had learned as a young man in Connecticut – another great regional bastion of Impressionist-inspired practice in America – did not stay particularly long in his art and was largely eclipsed by the mid-1920s.
The exhibition's keynote is Folinsbee's powerful "Trenton Platform" (1929), which shows a sweep of train tracks racing into the distance overlooked by a set of gritty urban houses. Presented in a dark, limited palette, the painting has a striking force of design and modeling. The yellow signal lights along the tracks demand caution, but also seem to radiate meaning and elusive symbolism.
We admire shapes of the blocky composition, but also the remarkable echoes, such as the contour of platform's eave that loosely echoes the houses' interconnected rooflines across the expanse of sky. Jensen describes this kind of effect as an interest in creating "interior space" – whatever you want to call it, it is compelling.
Much emphasis in the exhibition is placed on Folinsbee's relationship with the art of the French painter Paul Cézanne, including several works that closely mimic Cézanne's example. Folinsbee's attention to a "constructive" style of painting is framed as the legacy of Cézanne's technique, as is the Folinsbee family's 1926 trip to France to travel and paint in Cézanne's footsteps. Folinsbee's devotion to realism would balance out his more abstract stylistic interests. The complexity of that exchange is beautifully documented in Folinsbee's several quarry scenes, with their planar cliffs jutting up through space.
As Jensen effectively asserts and the paintings bear out, Folinsbee's art maintains an expressive depth that has hitherto gained little recognition. In "Night" (1949), for example, which is one of the show's stars, an eerie town square centered on an old cannon stands empty beneath a tumultuous sky. As the crescendo of a dramatic sweep of late career works, "Night" is an inspired choice that leaves the visitor incapable of contradicting the assertion that Folinsbee was no mere Impressionist.
One of the great and seasonally appropriate delights of the exhibition is its winter scenes. The color in Folinsbee's snow and ice, filling in the spaces among his barges and buildings, softens his industrial scenes, the subjects for which he was best known. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Folinsbee was not motivated to treat modern social injustice or inequality in his work. Instead, he concentrated on the character of his landscapes and the life that filled them. The lushness of his snow flattered the artist's dynamic use of paint as well as his Pennsylvania subjects.
"John Folinsbee and American Modernism" provides an abundance of fresh perspective and useful information for longstanding admirers of the artist's work and newcomers alike. It is not to be missed. Interpretively, in addition to the thoughtful wall texts, the presentation includes the voices of friends, family, and scholars on numerous Acoustiguide stops that are easily accessed by cell phone. And the exhibition's catalogue provides a lasting record of the show's contributions.
The exhibition's installation in the Woodmere's main gallery highlights recent refurbishments made since the appointment of the Museum's new director, Bill Valerio. Installed on both the gallery's main floor and balcony, the exhibition is appropriately scaled to provide each work with breathing room so that it can be given adequate time and attention without spending the day. The paintings included are each representative of a key dimension of the artist's multi-faceted development, with single works standing in for larger trends in his career.
"John Folinsbee and American Modernism" is not the artist's first appearance at the Woodmere. The museum bought Folinsbee's "Shag Rock" for its permanent collection from a group exhibition held there in 1956, and he later received two prizes from the museum in 1961. The present exhibition validates those early accolades for a distinguished painter of our area and also opens a new chapter in the appreciation of his work.
"John Folinsbee and American Modernism" runs through March 6, 2011. For hours and admission information, visit www.woodmereartmuseum.org.
Mark D. Mitchell is Associate Curator and Manager of the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he is organizing an exhibition of nineteenth-century landscape painter George Inness's depictions of Italy that opens in February 2011. Mark and his family live in Mount Airy.


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The story revolves around three main characters and a body. A man fakes his own suicide for insurance money and another man uses the body to fight a gang. With him is a woman who trusts him implicitly. LEE Beom-soo is a former biotech lab researcher and KIM plays the daughter of his senior colleague. KIM Ok-bin's hot pink hair drew a lot of media interest. The film has elements of social satire and black comedy as well as character comedy. At the core of the comedy is various unexpected situations as different characters come ogether. There are also chase scenes shot around Banpo Bridge and the surrounding high-rise apartment blocks. Director WU won the comedy award for the 4th Mise- en-Scene Short Film Festival with My
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Pert, leggy dresses with scalloping, lace, polka dots and floral patterns traipsed down the runways, setting the scene for a very flirtatious spring. Designers including Adam, Jill Stuart and Victoria by Victoria Beckham showed drop-waist dresses in shades of pink, periwinkle and red, and splashy florals and oversized scalloping added the perfect doll-like finish at Christopher Kane and Victoria by Victoria Beckham. Cheeky Mary Jane pumps at Erin Fetherston and Carven added the perfect doll-like finish to these peppy, pop tart dresses.
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oh those are so adorable! love it.ReplyDelete
These darn bunnies. They get me every year and I still haven't made one! Maybe I'll get my act together next year. I loooove looking at your pics if nothing else. One day I'll make one of my own.ReplyDelete
I must revisit this pattern sometime. They are so cute! I made one for my niece ages ago, but I'd like to make some for my own kids to keep em around here. :)ReplyDelete
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oh my! thee little guys are adorable! im definitely going to make them next year!ReplyDelete
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A UFO moves across Brisbane's skyline as the sun is rising on on June 5, 2010. Destin Sparks of Wavell Heights spotted the UFO from Mt Coot-tha about 5:50am AEST. (User submitted: Destin Sparks )
Video: Footage of the UFO above Cordeaux Heights in NSW
The UFO was seen moving through the sky just before sunrise in New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT.
ABC News Online has received dozens of emails, pictures and videos from those who were awe-stricken by the huge white light.
Some described it as a "lollipop-type swirl". Others say it hovered for a while before gradually moving in an eastern direction until it was out of sight. Those who saw the object say photos do not reflect how large it actually was.
Geoffrey Whyatt from the Sydney Observatory says it was probably a satellite, space junk or a rocket.
"The fact that you've got the rotation, the spiral effect, is very reminiscent of the much widely reported sightings from Norway and Russia last year, which both turned out to be a Bulava missile which was being adjusted in its orbit," he said.
"So possibly a rocket, I would say, having some sort of gyroscopic stability rocket fired on its side."
Canberra resident James Butcher says he was driving home from a night out with his brother when they spotted the "strange spiral light in the sky".
"It had a distinct bright centre, much like a bright star, indicating an object shedding light trails, spiralling and fattening out from it," he said.
"The effect lasted only two or three minutes, moving and descending quickly out of view.
"The colour was yellowish but this may have been blurred and tinted by the morning fog."
Wollongong man Eddie Wise says he also saw the light during his morning walk just before 6:00am.
He says he has never seen anything like it.
"It was like a yellowish, greenish light with a light spiral around it," he said.
"It sort of moved around, bobbed up and down and then it went behind a cloud.
"I'm just amazed. I want to know what it was."
A caller to the ABC, Robyn, says she saw the phenomenon from her home on Sydney's north shore just before 6:00am.
She says it was over within two minutes.
"There was this white light up in the sky like a huge revolving moon," Robyn said.
"At first I thought it was the moon but it was travelling so fast, high up above the eastern horizon and twirling as it went.
"It was just amazing and to be quite frank, I was quite frightened and my heart's still pounding."
'Lollipop-type swirl'
A number of people from Morayfield and Caboolture in Queensland have reported that they too saw a white light in the sky about 5:50am.
"It was just the one light. I just came home from my walk and I happened to look up in the sky, and here it was racing across the sky," Linda told 612 ABC Brisbane.
"I bashed on the window for my husband to have a look and he flew out.
"It was spectacular."
Linda described the light as like a lollipop swirl.
She says the light came from the west and was headed east, out to sea.
"It was just unreal. There was a cloud in the sky - just this light with a swirl in the middle," she said.
Peter, from Balmoral, says he saw the light while he was on a ferry terminal on the Brisbane River.
"It certainly had that lollipop-type swirl ... but it was travelling low and fairly fast, and as it went past me and I looked up, it looked like a row of lights, maybe four lights," he said.
Denise, at Pine Mountain, told ABC radio in Brisbane that she saw the lights shortly before 6:00am.
"I got up at about 5:45 to let my horse out of his stable ... and I saw this coming from a north-west direction towards the south-east," she said.
"There was no noise. It was like bands of ribbon coming out of it and it looked like it was coming through a cloud, yet there were no clouds."
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After each entry, the program reports the cumulative sum of the entries to date. The program terminates when the user enters a zero. If your program received as data, the values 2, 7, 3 and 0, your program should display 2, 9 and 12. Be sure to label your input and your output in an appropriate manner.


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The first statewide Amber Alert was sent via cellphone in California this week, but was the system used properly?
In the late evening on Monday, Aug. 5, Californians got their first ever statewide Amber Alert via a cellphone alert -- a shrill, some say startling, notification from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, providing vehicle details for a San Diego-area murder suspect that officials believe may have also kidnapped two of the victim's children. The California Highway Patrol believed the suspect could be en route to Canada or Texas.
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the alert was sent out on an exclusive frequency used to reach large amounts of people simultaneously. Alerts, previously distributed via an opt-in program that reached fewer than 800,000 people, can now reach 97 percent of the country's active cellphones, even if they're in silent mode.
The new system, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been used in 14 states a total of 20 times, according to the Times. And while it is credited with the successful recovery of a missing 8-year-old boy last month in Cleveland, its use has prompted many questions from confused and annoyed recipients who question its efficacy.
"This is among the most unintelligent, histrionic, intrusive programs ever," Sacramento resident Joe Curren told the Times. "I felt like the San Diego police reached into my pocket."
Local police departments can only issue alerts in the case of kidnapped children. Working in conjunction with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, authorities decide when an alert is warranted, and how large a geographic area should be covered.
Cellphone alerts are now in broad use to help government agencies quickly reach large numbers of constituents. New Yorkers were notified of Hurricane Sandy's approach in this manner, while Oklahoma residents were warned as a deadly tornado approached last May.
Despite successful uses of cellphone alerts, the California example may demonstrate a need for some fine-tuning of the program. Some residents reported receiving multiple alerts, while others questioned their contents.
Marc Klaas, whose daughter Polly was kidnapped from her Northern California home in 1993 and later found dead, received the alert twice.
"It's an incredibly harsh sound, and it provides you with almost no information," Klaas said. "That's not going to help anybody. I think the intention is good, but the application itself is pretty awful.


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The husband-wife team of Michael Feigin and Lawson Harris transformed a printing house into the Fitness Guru, a 3,400-square-foot fitness center in Brooklyn, NY, with virtual reality training devices, cardio and Pilates equipment, free- weights, a recording studio, and an exercise video production facility. The club, adjacent to Gleason's Gym, features a cardio and strength circuit.
The U.S. Army named Circular Strength Training® (CST), a health and fitness program consisting of mobility, dynamic flow yoga and natural-athleticism, as an official health and conditioning system. CST will be instituted as a training regimen in U.S. Army Combatives School, the 50th Brigade Special Troops Battalion and the 99th RRC Gun Truck Alley.
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The Robert D. Fowler Family YMCA, which has 5,000 members, is spending $6.4 million on a renovation project to accommodate an increase in membership. The 10-year-old facility in Norcross, GA, will feature a new aerobics room, teen center, senior center, expanded wellness center, more free-weights and more fitness equipment. The construction of the wellness area and senior center will be completed this month. The entire project is scheduled for completion in April.
The 116,000-square-foot, full-service Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club in Greenwood Village, CO, celebrated its 20th anniversary in January. The club features an 82,000-square-foot athletic club, 52,000-square-foot tennis club and a 32,000-square-foot outdoor aquatics area.
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i may as well throw in annother hint:
you will need to do some basic math on the first number(no constants involved really...its not like some stupid "add 359 then divide by 3 and square it" thing)
There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who dont.
8 ball, 3715217-3-1-2-4
I had figured that the numbers were an encoded set of letters (though there's 12 digits there and nine positions). The hyphenated numbers indicated the order, I thought... but that's as much as I've looked at it in-between fires today.
\"Windows has detected that a gnat has farted in the general vicinity. You must reboot for changes to take affect. Reboot now?\"
xmadness - you passed :-D
just for the record, it still hasn't been broken(xmaddness pm'd me and asked how it was done), and i'm still willing to crypt whatever size text you wish if you specify...hell, i'll even crypt any spefic text you want...what i'm really looking for is if anybody can break the algorithm.
8-ball: can you give us a cleartext/ciphertext pair?
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sure, no problem.
the cleartext to the challenge is "break me."
the cleartext is in the above post...i made it hidden incase sombody out there is still crazy enough to try to break it from scratch
annother small hint is that if i was to use a VERY small ammount of text it would actually get much easier to break it. with what i used i'd say its fairly hard from the outside. if i were to do a really big piece of text i think it would probably be really hard to break(although certian aspects would become obvious immeadiatly)
Argh.. what was the cleartext to xmadness' ciphertext?
xmasness' ciphertext is "test" in cleartext.
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So, is this still a photograph or does the degree of traditional "massaging" have a bearing on it's status? Comments? Opinions?
Sorry, if that sounded like a rant. Wasn't meant to be. I just didn't have my yet coffee this morning.
... is this still a photograph...
But then again I also don't understand why you are stressing that you restricted the processing to sort of what one would have been able to to in the darkroom. I often hear people emphasize this as if it would guarantee some special quality which otherwise is lost. IMHO photographer tend to think too much inside the box, i.e. solely in terms of photography.
I like it, regardless of how one classifies it.If one needs to resort to a label, say for the purpose of a photographic competition, it would be probably "digital art," "fine art," or similar. Often photographic competitions have categories, one of which would be as stated. But it would still be a part of a photographic competition. Some competitions would outright state that compositing and heavy post-processing is allowed, regardless of category. Other photographic competitions would not accept it at all, e.g., National Geographic. All fair enough.The bottom line being: do what you have to do to express yourself. Worry about labeling only if you are entering a competition.
As for this - it started in camera so it's a photo. Period.
Is the first etch a "photographic print" on steel? If so, what about the final image? I definitely started with a photo, and I only used standard photo editing techniques. At what point does it cease to be a photo?
Maybe we should go completely back to the roots. The word photograph is made up of photo (light) and graph (drawing, writing), so it is "an image created by light", regardless of whether a camera, darkroom, computer, etc has been involved in the creation. As such, I think the OP's image is a photograph.


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Here's what she built with the four-year-old:
And here's what she and the six-year-old made:
Please do not ask why my kid is out in the freezing cold without a coat in the next photo. But do feel free to ask, "what exactly is she doing in that photo?" Because that question I can answer - she's dancing! With the snowman!
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Openly gay Hartford City Council President Pedro Pedro Segarra is expected to be soon be named the city's mayor. Mayor Eddie A. Perez was convicted on June 18 of bribery and extortion. Perez is expected to submit his resignation on Friday and by law the council president would assume office.
Segarra's journey has been described as a "Puerto Rican-American success story", reports News8.
"Segarra arrived here by bus thirty years ago as a teen aged runaway from New York. He lived at the YMCA and eventually went to law school. He's now faced with closing down the 25 year legal practice he built up himself. Segarra will also become the first openly gay mayor of the city. Pedro Segarra has been on the city council for about four years, but he is not new to city government. He served as Corporation Counsel, the city attorney, during the administrations of Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry and Mayor Mike Peters. City Hall workers and residents need someone steady and everyone says Segarra will be the right person for the corner office on Main Street. 'It is a full time job and it should be a full time job, and I intend to make it a full time job,' Segarra stated. 'They can count on us to make sure that all the business is being taken care of.'"
The announcement is expected to be made Friday.
And tonight: Segarra and partner Charlie Ortiz are hosting a previously scheduled fundraiser for a local community theater and the special guest is Chita Rivera. "The party on the eve of Segarra's rise to City Hall's big office has taken on a little more prestige,' reports The Courant.
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The home energy credit allows you to claim a tax credit equal to 30% of the cost of making energy-efficient home improvements, up to a maximum of $1,500. So if you spent at least $5,000 in 2010, you can get the full value of the credit. (A tax credit, which reduces the amount of tax you owe, is more valuable than a tax deduction, which merely reduces the amount of income subject to tax.) The $1,500 maximum credit is a lifetime amount that applies to 2009 and 2010 combined. So if you claimed a $1,000 residential energy tax credit on your 2009 return, and you made additional home improvements last year, you can claim a credit of only $500 when you file your 2010 tax return. If you claimed the full $1,500 credit on your 2009 return, you are not eligible for the tax credit in 2010.
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To claim the credit on your 2010 tax return, you must have installed the equipment by December 31, 2010. But if you didn't, there's still plenty of time to cash in on this tax break, which is available through 2016. To qualify for the credit, no part of the system can be used to heat a swimming pool or hot tub.
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A simple solution for residency resolution
After taking a few hours off -- presumably to focus on their NCAA tournament brackets -- our elected leaders, electronic media and advertising-supported pundits have resumed their partisan pugilism.
With the budget apparently repaired, they've begun talking about whether or not it's cool for Milwaukee to require its police and firemen to live within the city limits.
The residency requirement -- kind of like collective bargaining for public employees -- has existed for years before becoming a major problem in the last few months.
Apparently, some of the same folks who don't want teachers and custodians and dispatchers to have a say in their working conditions are now working to make sure that cops and firefighters can live wherever they like (as long as it's within a specified five-county area).
Mayor Tom Barrett and a bunch of aldermen are afraid that lifting the residency requirement for 3,000 police officers and firefighters will prompt a bunch of them to flee the city, lowering the tax base and leading to further reduction in services and safety -- not to mention longer response times in emergencies. They point to cities like Detroit and Camden, N.J., as places harmed by similar decisions.
The opposition says that these heroes should be able to pay property taxes on the Wauwatosa side of 60th Street or -- gasp -- in Brown Deer, Hartland or Menomonee Falls.
If I've learned anything from watching the political tennis match play out over the past few weeks, it's this: money talks.
That leads me to humbly suggest a solution to this thorny and multifaceted issue:
1. Let the cops and firefighters (and eventually the teachers) live wherever they choose.
2. If they choose to live in the City of Milwaukee, give them a little something extra in their paycheck or portfolio. It wouldn't have to be much. It could be $50 per paycheck; maybe $100. Or, it could be a slight reduction in their annual property tax bill. It could even be as simple as an extra day off ever…Read more...


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- One of Jay Z's 99 problems might be a pretty big one -- the commander in chief.
After the Internet began buzzing on Monday with rumors that the Washington Post was working on a story about an affair between United States President Barack Obama and Beyoncé, a spokesperson for the paper has said they are false.
According to a report in French newspaper le Figaro, a French photographer made the claim during a radio interview.
"You know, at this time, the United States, there is something big that is happening," Pascal Rostann allegedly said. "Anyway, it'll go out tomorrow in the Washington Post -- we cannot say that it is the gutter press -- [a story about] an alleged affair between President Barack Obama and Beyoncé. I can assure you that the world will be talking about it."
@caityweaver Most important question: would this cement Beyoncé's position as "The New Marilyn Monroe"?— Mr. Right (@2UrRight) February 10, 2014
That's "definitely not true," Post spokesperson Kris Coratti told Poynter.
"I can tell you that this is wrong," Coratti also reportedly told Vanity Fair France. "The Washington Post does not prepare articles like this."
Well that's a relief.
False or not, people on Twitter are enjoying the "story" thus far.
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This Halloween we decided to eat some sleeping swaddled Babies
Posted by vivnidhi on November 2, 2009
Yeah the ghoulish spirits entered our house this year and we ate these babies up with some butter and honey.
This is before baking them……notice the colored little fingers
This month Gretchen of Canela & Comino baked up Tanta Wawas (Peruvian Bread Babies). Now the name itself sounds so much fun and she has made such beautiful loaves (just looking at them will tell you that they were fun to make). She has a lot about Tanta Wawas on her blog. I just remembered " On November 2nd, these bread babies are taken to the cemeteries in town so they can be left as offerings to those that have passed away and then are broken apart and eaten among the visitors. It is unknown when this Andean tradition began but it is known that from long ago, special breads were made and eaten in this manner." I knew I'd be making it on Halloween.
As you can see from the picture above, we had a great time making these. The kids colored their hands well (yeah, there was more color on their hands than on the dough). And since they are a little sweet, they were liked by all.
Look at those hands……project totally worth it
The Recipe:
Tanta Wawa (Peruvian Bread Babies)
Makes 4 small loaves
- sponge:
1 egg
1/2 cup of all purpose flour
1 tablespoon of sugar
1/4 teaspoon of yeast
- dough:
1/2 cup of all purpose flour
1 cup of whole wheat flour
2 cups of bread flour
1/2 cup of white sugar
1/4 cup of brown sugar (I used turbinado sugar)
1 tablespoon of dry yeast
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon of ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon of sesame seeds
2 teaspoons of salt
1/2 cup of milk
1/4 cup of water
1/4 cup of butter (I used smart balance)
2 eggs (at room temperature)
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
1 egg yolk (for painting)
1. In a bowl create the sponge by combining 1/2 cup of flour, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of water, a pinch of instant yeast and 1 tablespoon of sugar. Stir together, cover and let rest for a few hours. …..(Mine was 6-7 hours as it was the day before Halloween)
2. In a bowl, mix the flours, sugar, yeast, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and sesame seeds. Sprinkle over the sponge. Don't stir. Cover and let rest for a few hours. (Mine rested overnight)
3. Add the 2 eggs and vanilla to the flour mixture. Measure the milk, water and butter in a measuring cup. Heat for 30 seconds in the microwave, pour into the flour mixture. Mix well, then turn out and knead for 10-15 minutes, using additional flour if necessary. Divide dough into 4 equal portions. Form them into ovals. Cover and let the dough rest for 10 minutes.
4. Stretch each dough ball into the form of a "fat baby" and place them on baking sheets. Cover with plastic and let the dough babies rise for 2 hours (there won't be too much rise at this point).
5. Preheat the oven to 180C. Brush the egg yolks evenly over the dough babies. Bake bread at 180C for 30 minutes.
I am sending these swaddled sleeping Tanta Wawa, or Peruvian Bread Babies, to YeastSpotting .
So, the oven baked up triplets for us :-))
The husband asked why did you not paint them after baking and I wondered why too.
Thanks a lot Gretchen for a real fun challenge. All the Bread Baking Babes have baked up beautiful babies, a must see.
No new expenses for this one ;-). I had everything at home.
8 Responses to "This Halloween we decided to eat some sleeping swaddled Babies"
November 3, 2009 at 11:50 pm
November 6, 2009 at 12:25 am
You did a great job with these! Thanks so much for participating!
November 6, 2009 at 12:43 am
[…] at Charche Chauke Che baked up some multi-colored bread babies that are certainly artistic and […]
November 6, 2009 at 3:04 am
That is so funny, what a great idea to make little colored blankets for them. So sad the color all seeped out during oven time. Great job on the babies, glad you all liked them.
November 6, 2009 at 4:04 am
[…] Tanta Wawa […]
November 6, 2009 at 11:07 am
Really a wonderful project with the kids.
Beautiful babies … and the hands too.
November 6, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Oh how creative! 😀
November 7, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I love the colours, and that the family got involved in the baby crafting.
Wonderful! Thanks so much for baking with us this month.


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AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code
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Total timespan covered by major open source Evergreen milestone articles: 786 days, or 2 years and 1.8 months.
And Evergreen support still isn't "done", because we are still missing OpenCL, HiZ, UVD, OpenGL 3+, CrossFire, performance closer to Catalyst, ....
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Thanks for reading. This is purely an informational post; I'm not going to cock an attitude here -- except to say that, by the Powers That Be, I really hope that HD 7000 support matures significantly faster. That is all.
Thanks for that awesome summary.
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It's good to know that this is making some real progress. Of course I am aware that the progress has been happening in the background for some time now, but to see it clear the dreaded AMD Legal Review and surface to the light is heartening.
Hopefully Michael will run an article comparing the rate of progress for HD7000 against Evergreen, but since I'm interested, I'll take a shot at that right now. Please note that I am basing these dates on the date of publishing of Phoronix articles, and NOT on the actual date of the event talked about in the article. However, because of Michael's watching the commits like a hawk, we can assume these are accurate plus or minus a day or two.
I title this work (I put quite a lot of effort, for a forum post, into formatting and compiling it all): "A Brief History Of Open Source Evergreen Support (As Documented by Mr. Michael Larabel)". License is GFDL.
November 18, 2009: Milestone 1, Card Release. AMD Releases The Radeon HD 5970 2GB
Note: The Radeon HD5870, the single-GPU flagship card of the Evergreen series, was released on September 23, 2009.
February 1, 2010: Milestone 2, basic kernel and DDX support for new ASIC. Open-Source ATI Evergreen Support Arrives
Note1: This was UMS and KMS only, with no 2d accel or 3d accel
Note2: All of this initial support came from AMD, following a successful legal review. AMD is basically the only contributor at this early stage, because nobody else knows a thing about this hardware.
Note3: Time delta from previous article: 132 days
August 20, 2010: Milestone 3, first-cut 3d accel. The ATI Evergreen Mesa Code Has Now Landed
Note1: This was the "first cut", very rough 3d accel support, and it was providing just a Classic Mesa driver. The Classic Mesa support was later dropped, as was UMS. It is very true that supporting old UMS and Classic Mesa code paths were taking up more developer time than necessary. The 3d acceleration at this time could only do very basic things and entirely lacked a shader compiler.
Note2: All of this original effort (about 15,000 lines of code IIRC) came from AMD, following a successful legal review. AMD is still very much involved at this point.
Note3: Time delta from previous article: 201 days
September 9, 2010: Milestone 4, Gallium3d accel. Did Hell Just Freeze Over? Here's Evergreen On Gallium3D!
Note1: It should be noted that the Gallium3d performance and feature set very rapidly developed from this point onwards. Qualitative performance from around this time, as I remember it, was that all accel was slow and buggy; you would occasionally have GPU soft lockups; and even OpenGL 1.4 compositors like metacity would crash the driver from time to time.
Note2: We owe much of this effort to Red Hat employees and non-employed community members such as Marek Olsak. AMD employees' contributions to Evergreen support at this point started to decline somewhat, and would decline more through 2011 as they went back down into the trenches to work on HD6000 series bringup.
Note3: Time delta from previous article: 21 days
January 31, 2011: Milestone 5, 1D tiling. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=OTA2NQ
Note1: This work improved the performance of r600g for Evergreen significantly, bringing it that much closer to Catalyst (but still a long way off). Qualitative performance from around this time, as I remember it, was that 2d accel and desktop compositors worked well, but most advanced 3d games ("advanced" back then was OpenGL 2.1) ran like crap, if at all. There were some pretty nasty kernel lock-up bugs still in play at this time -- some of them due to missing features/code, others due to human error in the code.
Note2: Thanks to Dave Airlie of Red Hat for this. By now, AMD is serving a bug fixes / code review / advisory role, and is not having its own engineers work to contribute major new features to Evergreen open source support.
Note3: Time delta from previous article: 145 days
October 7, 2011: Milestone 6, "Good" shaders. Shader Optimizations For The AMD R600g Driver
Note1: 3d applications using GLSL started to work really well around this time frame (approximately Q3-Q4 2011). Bugs started to disappear; crashes declined; performance improved steadily throughout this period. Rendering glitches introduced by incorrect or incomplete GLSL feature support started to subside. Qualitative performance from around this time, as I remember it, was what I would call "acceptable" for light OpenGL 2.x gaming, provided that your game didn't require any unsupported features. The composited desktop experience, on the other hand, was extremely good by this time, and the 2d accel was zippy.
Note2: Thanks go primarily to VMware folks, Marek Olsak, Vadim Girlin, and the Red Hat graphics team for finishing the driver that AMD started.
Note3: Time delta from previous article: 250 days
January 12, 2012: Milestone 7, 2D color tiling, a.k.a. topping off the performance. 2D Color Tiling Patches Hit For Radeon R600+
Note1: These patches, once the regressions were fixed in them, essentially brought the Evergreen open source driver to where it is today. It still isn't as fast as Catalyst, but if you're running a higher-end incarnation of Evergreen, chances are that you at least get good enough performance in most OpenGL 2.1 applications. The driver is pretty solid at this point, though there are of course a few conspicuous things still missing (HiZ, UVD to name a few), and every once in a while you'll run into an application that needs some small feature that the drivers don't have yet. But all the major pieces are there.
Note2: Thanks go to the same folks as the previous milestone.
Note3: Time delta from previous article: 98 days
Total timespan covered by major open source Evergreen milestone articles: 786 days, or 2 years and 1.8 months. And Evergreen support still isn't "done", because we are still missing OpenCL, HiZ, UVD, OpenGL 3+, CrossFire, performance closer to Catalyst, ....
I invite Michael or someone else to use my format above, but do something similar with the HD 7000 series: first for what we have so far, and later on (in a year or two), how far we've come. If you want to try such an effort, please try to match up the milestones as closely as possible to the ones I've chosen here. I don't claim to have PERFECTLY highlighted the ideal milestones that occurred during the Evergreen open source bringup, but these are the most publicly-visible things that caused a lot of people to start getting interested in (and using on a day-to-day basis) the open source Evergreen drivers.
Thanks for reading. This is purely an informational post; I'm not going to cock an attitude here -- except to say that, by the Powers That Be, I really hope that HD 7000 support matures significantly faster. That is all.Last edited by allquixotic; 03-20-2012, 09:23 PM.
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It's a whole new architecture. The chips of the next 3-4 years will be based on this, so open source support will probably come sooner with the next generations.
Excellent news!
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Because of this, I just ordered a 7850 card.
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It was looking like it would slip until the next kernel for sure. Good to see they got it out in time for this one.
Now the question is whether it actually works.
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Does this patch set support ZCP (~3W power down mode)? If not, is this on the roadmap?
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AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity CodePhoronix: AMD Publishes Open-Source HD 7000, Trinity Code
AMD has finally released the open-source driver code to support the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" GPUs and next-generation Fusion "Trinity" APUs under Linux with their open-source driver...
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iPhone 5C once again rumored to be the name of Apple's rumored upcoming less expensive, more colorful iPhone
iPhone 5C is once again being rumored as the name for Apple's rumored less expensive iPhone which, if said rumors are accurate, would not only sport a plastic back but a colorful new plastic back. That's right, iPhonechromatic! This time it's Jay Yarow of Business Insider doing the reporting:
After the photos leaked, we heard from a source that the name is going to be "iPhone 5C".
Yarow says his source isn't at Apple, and that it's here-say, but here-say he's fairly confident in. Over the weekend margarine-tubs showed up in China with the name iPhone 5C on them, which didn't look like anything Apple would design or produce, but it did reflect a report from way back in January on the iPhone 5C name from iLounge.
Apple doesn't have to decide on marketing names until just before product launch, so things can and might change, but it is interesting to see the name iPhone 5C popping up more and more often.
It's not as elegant at the Mac Pro/Mac Mini, or iPad/iPad mini dynamic, but it does fit the iPhone 3G/iPhone 4S number/letter pattern. What do you think of the name?
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iPhone 5C once again rumored to be the name of Apple's rumored upcoming less expensive, more colorful iPhone
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