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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Marc Kelly Let Free For Political Graffiti
19 comments:
Graffiti is a crime; surely you don't feel it's your right to express your view on other people's property?
Besides... it's such ugly graffiti at that.
- January 25, 2009 at 7:27 PM
This is vandalism, you idealistic idiot. Private property. Get it?
- January 26, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Banksy wannabe.
Marc Kelly needs to just go away and get a job or something.
Stop bothering us.
- January 27, 2009 at 5:07 AM
Have you ever lived in a country where political,or social expression wasn't allowed? Consider yourself lucky to live in a country like Canada who lets even you condemn intellectual institutions- merely because you are trying to 'diversify' your portfolio.
Try travelling to a repressive country- and then think about ALL of the rights and freedoms you have here- that you so blatantly oppose.
- January 27, 2009 at 5:10 AM
Not sure about the great campus civil rights movements, but this will certainly rank among the looniest!
Keep up the good work, I was starting to get concerned you had given up. Your emails are much too entertaining to give up now.
- January 27, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Ever tried to study instead of shit-stirring?
- January 27, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Ever tried thinking instead of mindlessly complying?
- January 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I want to see the video of you getting arrested at the Senate *with sound*. Those soundless clips are inconclusive.
Right now I'm inclined to believe that you brought all this on yourself with your graffiti. If you want to do something illegal like that you have to be discreet about it.
- January 28, 2009 at 6:42 AM
Undergraduate student, you need to finish the sentence:
Ever tried thinking instead of mindlessly complying WITH THE COMMANDS OF THE CULT LEADER, DENIS RANCOURT?
- January 28, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Stop sending me those stupid emails I don't care maybe if u listened, and didn't break the law you wouldnt get arrested?
- January 28, 2009 at 6:41 PM
This is the guy I was telling you about earlier tonight, I think you might enjoy some of his artwork. See you on monday!
- January 30, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Banksy= anonymous artist, who puts his life on the line creating massive public works on places like the Israel-Palestine separation barrier. He brings awareness to issues by presenting through symbolism, irony, and keen sense of artistic design and originality.
Mark Kelly= failed student with a stencil who's doing it for the personal recognition (hence posting it online).
- January 31, 2009 at 1:22 PM
dear art student:
Have you met Marc Kelly personally? I have, infact I met him last night. He had never heard of Banksy before and I felt that here was the best place to post a link to the artist's website. I was not trying to draw a comparison between the two of them. However, somehow, you have been able to pass judgement on Marc based on a blog, some emails and a photograph. Besides, I believe Banksy would encourage public art in all it's forms.
By the way, what are you doing on this site? Do you browse it daily to find comments which you can shoot down? Does it keep you up at night that there are people who are trying to live a life that you don't understand?
- January 31, 2009 at 6:34 PM
- Marc Kelly said...
Did Bansky go to University?
University destroys your creativity.
University destroys your creativity.
University destroys your creativity.
- January 31, 2009 at 8:57 PM
Look we can speculate at what Banksy would like, but ultimately he and Marc Kelly are quite different, let's leave that at that.
Secondly, I think it is absolutely possibly and reasonable to form a perception and criticize a person based on the communications they write and publish about themselves and their ideology. I haven't actually met alot of politicians, but I still disagree with their public stated opinions and stances.
Lastly, I'm here the same reason you are, to argue one position or another in what has become a sort of informal forum for several different perspectives on our education system. I don't view some of the opinions on this website as harmless so to "live and let live"; I think some of the reforms proposed are intellectually bunk and unsound. I would hope to challenge people who propose them.
Kelly, we don't know if Banksy did given that his identity is secret, so you can't make a point there. Furthermore a University fine arts program is the farthest thing from a destroyer of creativity: I would know.
- February 3, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Hey Marc Kelly...
Thanks for the "informal forum for several different perspectives on our education system" about time we had one of those!
- February 8, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Marc Kelly is a loon. Hey Marc you finish that UNDERGRAD PHYSICS yet ? I've finished a chem eng degree and a biochem degree in less time than it has taken you to NOT finish your physics degree.
Stop emailing us you little prick.
- February 18, 2009 at 9:35 AM
fuck you you goof marcs got something to say and your heads too far up your ass to listen
- February 22, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- Liam Kennedy-Slaney said...
dear art student:
"University fine arts program is the farthest thing from a destroyer of creativity"
That's is very interesting, what kind of work do you do in the fine arts program? It would be wonderful if some of the pedagogical techniques employed in your arts program could be applied to science programs.
- March 9, 2009 at 7:43 PM


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Friday, March 23, 2012
Finished Knits: Mitts and a Baby Sweater
This was the exclusive in the Squam store last month--the yarn is by Jill Draper and the pattern, Pinehurst, is by Natalie Selles, just for Squam. I didn't have even the least tug toward buying either, overwhelmed as I am by the bins of yarn in my basement and more than happy with my modified-to-suit-myself Evangeline mitts. (I've lost count how many times I've knit those mitts as gifts. I can nearly knit them in my sleep.)
However, when Jen mentioned in the Squam Ravelry Group that she'd pay someone to knit them for her, I offered to do it. For free, of course. I've pretty much decided not to knit for money, ever, because knitting needs to stay a centering activity for me (we're not talking about that unflattering sweater, remember?), not a stressy thing for income. So she had the yarn and pattern sent to me, and I asked, in return, that she learn how to knit.
The yarn is absolutely gorgeous, lovely and soft. The pattern gives lots of choices--type of cuff, length of arm, plus three sizes. This is the horizontal cuff, long arm, size medium. Supposedly you only need one skein to knit these in any size, but see that itty tangle of yarn in the photos? That's all I had left. I was weighing as I went. I did have some trouble with the numbers given for this size/cuff combo, and I emailed the designer as suggested in the pattern. Normally I'd just work it through on my own, not email, but I really wanted to send Jen the mitts exactly as designed. But I never heard back to my email--maybe it got caught in spam? Regardless, I reworked the numbers in question, referring to the numbers given for the small size as my starting point, and after that it was smooth sailing. (Ravelry project notes are here.)
Is it weird to offer to knit something for a relative stranger? I dunno. I don't think so...I wanted to offer, so I did. Not too long before that, she'd sent me a really nice email, out of the blue, about what I'd been struggling with as far as Lyme (this after I posted my February DDD of walking, to help with the pain and fatigue). It happened to land in my inbox on a day I'd been particularly discouraged with Lyme out in the real world. Would I have offered to knit for her if she hadn't made that connection? Dunno. I do know I like to knit, and I was more than happy to, well, make her happy. Good enough, right? It's kind of a people thing, in that, people should do nice things just because we're all people.
So anyway, that's the mitt story. Before them, I knit this:
That's the Baby Yours sweater (project notes here), knit for one of my son's teachers, whose wife is due with a boy early next month. I won't lie; I am not crazy about this sweater. Oh, it's cute enough (and isn't that little gift tag I made adorable?), but I'm worried it's too small, and it's wicked fussy to sew all those pieces together, plus the end result doesn't look comfortable to me, with seams at the shoulders, down the arms (and I don't like those increases either, the arm looks like it tapers too much toward a too-narrow cuff), and on the sides. I knit the smallest size because I figured, how long will a baby due in early April wear a sweater anyway? (Especially this year, geez!) But it looks super small to me. Maybe I've forgotten how tiny new babies are? Although I'm not sure my full-term babies were ever that small. (The preemie, yes, but even he was a good size for a 34-week birth.) I really hope the parents get at least some use out of this.
My original plan was to knit two of these, one for another upcoming baby, but now I'm not so sure. I bought enough Socks That Rock Mediumweight (colourway In the Navy) for two, but either I'm going to have to make some mods to get rid of those uncomfy-looking seams, or I'm going to have to find another boy-suitable pattern in sport weight.
Also, kind of random, but I kept wanting to ink up that cable and make a print of it. So I may be knitting that cable again either way, just to ruin it.
Anyway, there you go. Proof that I occasionally still knit, too.
6 comments:
- Sally said...
Those mits are in the most adorable colour yarn. Gorgeous!!!
- March 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM
- lamina @ do a bit said...
Those mittens are just gorgeous.. LOVEthe yarn... such a great colour too :) I think it's so lovely that you knitted them for her for no other reason than you wanted too... I like to do things like that too! It makes you feel good hey :)
- March 24, 2012 at 3:04 AM
- Rose Red said...
I think the mitts look great - better on than off, actually.
I agree on the baby jumper - it looks a bit short, to me. But I've forgotten already how small newborns are, and my baby isn't even 2 yet!
- March 24, 2012 at 6:17 AM
- Jen said...
The mitts are gorgeous! It's not weird at all to offer to knit for a stranger! You taught a stranger to embroider! :-) If more people were like you to offer their time & talent with no expectations back the world would be a better & much more joyful place!
- March 24, 2012 at 8:02 AM
- Bells said...
The mitts are - wow! Colour, pattern, everything. Love!
I'd say don't make another Baby Yours. Forget it. I'd totally go for a BSJ - the little boy I made one for last year wore it all winter and into spring and it was fabulous. Sportweight would give a good one that he could grow into nicely.
- March 25, 2012 at 6:32 PM
- Olivia said...
As far as making things for others - trust your instincts! Sounds like good karma. The baby cardie is very sweet, but I kind of agree about seams. I made one baby garment that required seaming and ever since then I've just gone for seamless patterns. They're quicker that way, small enough to never be bulky while knitting, and it's not like you need the seams for stability or to make it hang right - everything looks kind of lumpy and wrinkled on babies anyway, right?
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Miami Hate
Make no mistake: I couldn't care less what anyone in America thinks of the Miami Heat. For me, the fact that they're almost universally, though still somewhat inexplicably, loathed is part of the fun at this stage. But I can be kind of an asshole.
Still, Bill Plaschke of the L.A. Times makes a really great point -- one that I know a lot of Miami Heat fans have pondered during this entire post-season run.
"Imagine a basketball team whose three biggest stars have sacrificed money and ego to assemble on one team for the sole intent of winning a championship.
Two of those stars' craving for a title was such that they left homes they loved and fans who loved them. The third star made an equally difficult move by stepping aside and welcoming them.
Imagine this collection of players then playing an entire season under a national microscope unmatched in the history of team sports. Every itch is documented, every scratch is scrutinized, every star is questioned about every public act, every day is another chance for them to embarrass or enrage.
But imagine they don't. They endure the media's perfect storm with uncommon dignity and grace. They don't publicly criticize others. They don't publicly fight among themselves. Off the court, they are a model of restraint. On the court, they are an example of unselfish determination, three guys trying to figure out a way to meld their three incredible talents for the good of this team.
Imagine this collection of stifled egos and textbook teammates growing together for nine months until they are within two victories of an NBA title.
And imagine all of America cheering against them.
This is the Miami Heat, and you hate the Heat, and I can't figure out why."
And that's before he gets into the reasons why the Mavericks maybe aren't so deserving of everyone's sudden endorsement, even if it is only by default.
The Los Angeles Times: It's Not Hard To Imagine the Heat as the Good Guys/6.11.11
35 comments:
- Luke Weiss said...
His assertion that race has something to do with it is ridiculous. People like Dirk, and recognize that he likely won't have another shot at the title. Everyone knows the heat will be there the next 5 years at least. To suggest race has something to do with the lebron hating is questionable at best, but as I said, I think it is not only questionable, but ridiculous.
I like lebron though. And I am a knick fan. I just like Dirk more.
- Chez said...
I think the race argument is absurd, too. But his other points are spot-on.
If your using Bill Plaschke to argue a point...hell any modern day wannabe Grantland Rice inspired idiot, your shooting yourself in the foot.
Seriously...what "points" did Billy get right?
As a fan of the Wizards, I will gladly tell you why I am pulling for the Mavs....
1- Mark Cuban not only has been good for Dallas, taking historically the WORST team in North American sports and turning them into a successful franchise, he pissed off a lot of the owners and David Stern in the process. Owners like Donald Sterling...which alone should make people like Cuban.
2- Even before he left the Cavs, I was sick and tired of the praise lauded on Lebron James. At least now he has no excuse for not being clutch. The near constant attempts by the sports media to call him the next MJ is insane. He has not done a damn thing. As a Heat fan, can you honestly say that in the 4th quarter, you want Lebron to have the ball? He is averaging TWO points in the 4th quarter this series! He is, for all the hype, commercials, and PR blitz, overrated.
3- Florida, outside of college football, is a close second to only California as having shittiest fans in sports. The Rays have to give away American League finals tickets, the Jaguars on the moving block if the owners get their way, and even the Dolphins regularly black out games. The Panthers average 3000 viewers per home game this season. That is less than the average for infomercials at the same time, in the same region. Outside of Dwayne Wade and Lebron James, the average Heat "fan" can't list another player, including Bosh.
So yeah...I guess I get annoyed hearing from super great "fans" of a team telling everyone how great their team is...when prior to them making the finals or getting really good, they have never been mentioned by the person in any context. That alone makes me hope the Heat loose so that next year, we don't have to hear anything about them until the end of the next NBA playoffs.
Are they?
It's all a matter of perception, and this guy doesn't know his elbow from his a-hole. They didn't just leave there homes, fans, etc...
First of all, they travel most of the year, home is a state of mind, as well as location. They didn't give up all that much money because 18 mil a year is plenty, plus the endorsements will make up for any more they could've gotten.
Bottom line, they colluded, and well before "the decision." In fact, they probably worked it out over a year prior, easily explained considering the contract extension signed by Wade to coincide with Bosh and James' free agency.
As a pseudo-expert on D-bags, perhaps as a Miami-an, you choose to give them a pass, but many won't.
I don't really care, but the article hits it. There were "miss-steps", but overall not much wrong with what Lebron/Bosh/Wade did. Would you rather have him be Kevin Garnett, wasting away for years before being rescued onto a legit team...
And yea, the race thing was not useful, and all I could think when I read it is "you just gave them the easy line to dismiss your entire article."
- Chez said...
Loving the anonymous indignation. It's a beautiful thing.
First Anon -- it's "you're," not "your" and "lose" not "loose." Everything you say goes out the window when you have a the grammar of a fourth grader.
Second Anon -- that's such horseshit about how the players "colluded," and anyone who makes that tired argument also immediately loses to some extent. Three players -- as opposed to a group of owners for once -- made the decision to work together in an effort to win. That's not collusion in the traditionally nefarious sense; it's players taking control of their own destiny for a change.
As for "The Decision," yeah, everyone knows it was a grotesque spectacle -- but are you sure that all of that was LeBron's doing? Do you really not think the sports media -- like, say, ESPN -- didn't have a hand in trying to play up a huge free agent move to their advantage? They created an hour-long narcissism-fest starring LeBron because they knew people would watch and it would make a lot of money. I'm honestly not sure LeBron gave a shit either way.
I never understood the hate for Miami, seem like good guys on and off court. I was gonna say it don't look good for the home team... but actually it is over.
Wow. Well Dallas deserved that win coming out as hard as they did tonight, I gotta say. I definitely do see how ESPN, et al had a hand in the Decision, but eh. I don't know. Something about someone who gives himself a nickname really kinda kills it for me. My bf said it was gonna be Dallas' year, but I have no doubt Miami will come back better next year. Hopefully not better than my preferred team, but eh.
- John Foley said...
I found the Decision to be an absurd display of ego of dignity. Is that all LeBron's fault? No. But he's also not blameless. It was vulgar, and the buck has to stop with James on that one. Do I think he "colluded?" No, I think that's silly. I don't think he colluded and I don't think he did anything wrong. As a sports fan, however, I would have liked to see King James build his own dynasty instead of trying to ride Wade's coattails. The true greats want to beat everyone and exert their will on the league. James opted to play with a proven winner instead. Not illegal, and not wrong exactly, but not as admirable as doing it on his own.
The Decision was smarmy, and their bizarre "victory party" the next day was ludicrous. It's very easy to see why people rooted against the Heat. They placed a target on their backs with such silly showoff actions. The way to silence their critics would have been to win it all. They couldn't do it. They couldn't win an elimination game on their home court, and the supposed Greatest Player on Earth had another humdrum showing when his team needed it most.
Also, Bill Plaschke is a horrible excuse for a sports columnist.
Anyway that's just my opinion.
I don't 'hate' the Heat. But I cheered against them. Why? Well, I've found LeBron James to be arrogant, entitled and whiney for years. He's not the only athlete I feel that way about, and I don't lose sleep when the guy wins. But if it's LeBron against a team I'm generally indifferent to (like the Mavs), I'll cheer against LeBron.
Honestly, I didn't really have a problem with him leaving Cleveland (he'd put in his time and fulfilled his contract), but The Decision was obnoxious and lame. And if I were a Cavs fan, I'd be annoyed that James left after saying this:
"I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland. And I won't stop until I get it."
I think I'd feel insulted and abandoned if I was a Cavs fan, which quite fortunately I'm not.
But for me, I choose not to cheer for LeBron because I find him to be an immature jagoff. Again, I don't hate the guy-- but I'd rather the Mavs win than the Heat.
One more quick note-- Chez, good for you for cheering on your team (that seriously wasn't sarcastic-- kudos for standing by your team), and I'm quite certain that the Heat will win multiple titles in the next few years. But folks are also allowed to kid you for having egg on your face for smugly tweeting about how sure you were that the Heat would win. You were cocky in your pro-Heat tweets, just as LBJ, Wade and co. were cocky all year long. When all's even, people generally cheer against cockiness.
People who follow sports closely don't like Lebron because they see how supremely talented he is - arguably the most skilled basketball player to ever live (as even Scottie Pippen has suggested) - yet he seems to lack the will to harness those talents and commit himself to winning the way Jordan and Kobe did. His heart seems to be more that of Vince Carter than Jordan or Kobe. We all wanted him to be the latter, but with his performance last year against the Celtics, then his decision that he needed to have two superstars by his side rather than helping management in Cleveland build a team organically around him (as opposed to around a three-headed group of relative co-equals), he proved to our dismay that he was the former.
Add to that the debacle that was the Decision and you've got the end result of a lot of disillusioned people who discovered that Lebron wasn't who we thought, wanted, or projected him to be.
You're right, in the end the Decision was nothing worse than an immature 25 year old being an immature 25 year old. And maybe we will forgive him in time, but not this season. When he's 27 or 29 or 31 or whatever, and he's got a title or two to his name and he's come through in the 4th quarter of just one pivotal game, and it seems that he's maximized the gifts that we all wish WE had, then we'll forgive him.
- The Bacon said...
Don't be so bummed out Chez....it was fixed just like the other NBA playoff series.
If the league wanted the Heat to win, they would have.
The league isn't happy about the way Lebron left Cleveland and made an ass out of himself (and the league for that matter.)
He may one day be allowed to win a championship, but it wasn't this year.
- Jody said...
I don't necessarily hate the heat, but I was hoping Dallas would win. I hate the NBA with the burning passion of 1000 suns, but jumped on the Dallas bandwagon when SportCenter showed James and Wade making fun of Dirk being sick (coughing) while they were walking out of the tunnel. That's simply classless and there's no excuse for such behavior. Additionally, I never held it against James for leaving. He did his time and honored his contract with Cleveland. Again, I believe it was narcissistic and classless to devote an entire show on ESPN for 'the decision.' You aren't Jordan and never will be, at least until you lead your team to 4 or more championships.
My favorite part is the bit about the trio giving up money and ego for lofty altruistic goals!! That's a hoot - I'd bet all three of them were LTAS as they drove their Ferrarris to their private island homes.
The other kinda funny, but kinda sad, thing is the blogmaster comment above (itself rather indignant) that the trio's teaming up (as opposed to "collusion") was them taking control of their own destinies - but the vulgar spectacle by which they announced this heroic decision was not any reflection on them because thy succumbed to the control of ESPN. Yeah, sure. Whatever.
- Chez said...
Aw, that's precious. More surly commentary from the ever-popular anonymous.
- The Bacon said...
Here's why America hates the Heat
- Chez said...
Yup. Because he's certainly the first professional sports star to be cocky. He's breaking real ground there.
- The Bacon said...
It's about degree Chez....and I would say he/they are definitely the first to take it to that degree.
Most signings, even for superstars, are a press conference where the athlete makes a statement and takes press questions from behind a podium.
Lebron did break ground. Show me another one like this and I'll eat my words. Show me another professional athlete predicting 8 championships and saying it will be easy. (he at least should have checked with the commissioners office to see who the champion would be before he said that.)
but chez... these anons are dropping pretty strong points, as well as several other commenters. you dismissing these remarks based on their anonymous status or the fact that they mistook "you're" for "your" is pretty weak.
- Chez said...
Of course it was spectacle -- and it was overdone. But look at boxing; nobody gave Muhammad Ali crap when he ranted about how he was the greatest or how he was going to be the greatest. Yeah, the introduction was over-the-top, but since that moment there's been no drama on the court, no bullshit infighting, just a pretty good amount of focus. LeBron really screwed up in the finals and he's now rightfully eating a little humble pie because of it. But the number of people who just automatically jumped all over his ass from day one for leaving Cleveland(!) for Miami(!!!) -- an obvious career and status move for somebody like Bron -- was just silly. Sorry, but once again, sports these days are all about ego; LeBron and the Heat's early hubris only should've surprised you if you'd just returned from 15 years on the International Space Station.
- Chez said...
I think I've made myself about as clear as I'm going to, Lupe. The arguments seem to be that a) LeBron is an egomaniac, b) Miami doesn't deserve to win because its fans suck, and c) the Wade/LeBron/Bosh deal was underhanded and unfair.
Answers: Most sports stars these days are rich egomaniacs; a lot of Miami fans do suck but that doesn't mean the ones who show a lot of support and love deserve to get shafted; bullshit, they did something management has done for years.
Nobody gave Ali crap? Seriously? Ali is now remembered fondly and treated as a national teddy bear, but at the time a good chunk of the country hated him. You think a smack-talking, draft-dodging black guy with a Muslim name was universally popular?
Also, I might respect LeBron a tad more if he did something 1% as ballsy as Ali's draft refusal.
And obviously most sports stars these days are rich egomaniacs. That's why it's fun to cheer for the humble ones (Dirk, Durant, Nash, etc.) and against the ones whose egos dwarf everyone those of everyone else (LeBron).
To Anonymous 8:47 from one of Florida's shittiest fans:
I often do not attend NFL, NBA, and NHL events from November to May because I also have the choice of fishing, the beach, golf, tennis, yard work, or hanging out at the backyard pool with my family. Were I a residence of the village of Cousinfuck, in Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana,Wisconsin, New York, or some other God-forsaken winter state, those options would be unavaialble to me. Your dissatisfaction with your own geography is not a very good excuse for the vitriol expressed to the Heat or its players, other than James, and to its fans.
- Chez said...
Comment of the Week for Namron. That's why everybody gives LA shit, too -- there are a lot of things to do there besides gather in the cold to watch your crappy team lose.
Fella, I suppose time will tell then, won't it?
- John Foley said...
Meant to write "ego over dignity" but I didn't proofread.
Yes, absolutely, time will tell. In thirty years this season may be forgotten or considered just a minor speedbump in LeBron's career. Maybe LeBron will learn from it and turn himself around and shed the 'arrogant' and 'choker' labels-- for years many thought Jordan was simply a dominant scorer who couldn't win a title, and he obviously proved them wrong. Perhaps LeBron will do the same.
But in the present, he's going to be cheered against and widely considered to be an arrogant choker. And many people enjoyed watching him lose. This article was written wondering why the Heat are disliked now, or during the just-completed NBA Finals, not in the near or distant future.
Wait-- you slam a guy for a your/you're error and then want to make out with Namron despite his multiple spelling/grammatical errors?
Just makes the your/you're comment look even weaker. Calling out mistakes made by people you disagree with but not those on your side is lame, no matter what city or state you may be a 'residence' of.
- Chez said...
"Residence" is a typo, and I know Namron knows the difference because he's a regular commenter. Screwing up "you're" and "your" more than once means you don't know the difference.
- Josh said...
No, just ... no. Plaschke's article is only barely defensible if you replace "NBA Championship" with "cure for cancer." For an athlete, winning a title is a personal pursuit that ties in with one's legacy; the particular team/city for which they play while pursuing the title gets to come along for the ride. Playing for his hometown while pursuing that championship was part of the LeBron narrative--self-constructed and otherwise. Then he very publicly dumped those fans for an easier situation. It comes down to the fact that LeBron would rather take the easy route to win "not six, or seven, or eight" but even more championships than that, rather than fewer championships for the crowd he endlessly and publicly said he identified with, and for whom he would never stop working until he had delivered a title.
Sure, it's a totally acceptable business move. It was also incredibly tasteless, vulgar, and self-centered--and no, he doesn't get a pass. Why should he get a pass for that just because other outlets also benefited financially? The whole idea for 'The Decision' came from camp LeBron, not ESPN. Sure, lots of athletes are egomaniacal; those tend to be the ones most people dislike. We're not watching robots, we're watching people. In this case, we're watching an insanely talented (which is not to say great) player who decided to take the easy way out, showed himself to be afraid of the spotlight in the biggest moments, and in the process tarnished his legacy.
So, in closing, fuck LeBron. The fact that he's playing for Miami now is incidental (though GODDAMN did that team's management screw the pooch with that pep rally--the punchline to a never-ending number of jokes).
- Luke Weiss said...
Jordan was 28 when he won his first championship. Lebron is only 26. He has plenty of time to prove his greatness. But this first major test was an utter failure.
However, Jordan's numbers in his first finals:
31.2 points on 56% shooting from the field, 11.4 assists, 6.6 rebounds, 2.8 steals and 1.4 blocks
Hubris is a product of youth, let's see how Lebron grows up.
and everyone in this comment thread ought to stop throwing their poop at each other.
As the anonymous that screwed up "your/you're", I want to personally apologize to you Chez.
I furthermore want to apologize for noticing the utter hilarity of a member of the sports media implying that 1) an entire team is a group of thugs because two of them were once in trouble with the law (because we know all members of the media never get in trouble with the law or treat their families like shit), 2) that Mark Cuban bullies officials (vice voicing what most NBA fans and the feds later discovered -NBA officials were rigging games), or 3) that it makes no sense that Americans would identify with a hard working immigrant finding success on our shores. Obviously Bill Plaschke is a serious journalist and not some hack that attempts to write controversial crap to drive up comments and views (like causally implying that anyone who points out that Lebron doesn't deserve the accolades showered at his feet is racist).
SOME of us don't like the probability that the "collusion" will always favor Miami, LA, and NY City over other cities. Maybe that's a good thing, and eventually only such places will have NBA teams, leaving the rest of us to find something useful to do in the winter. It can be like the old Soviet hockey league, in which almost every rising young star found himself turned into a "lieutenant" and playing for Red Army Moscow.
- Chez said...
It's staggering that this relatively unimportant topic has elicited this much back-and-forth.
It's the emotion of it, Chez, which is sort of what following a pro sports team is about. It's not a logical process. Hey, I understand the motivation for LeBron. He worked in Cleveland for several years, watching other teams win while his never could figure out how to get him any help. He saw Boston put together their "big three" and thought maybe he could do the same thing by a different technique, in a better place to live. Bottom line is he probably would have done it without much complaint if he'd just done it with some humility.
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Louis Galambos, holder of the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the John W. Kluge Center, discussed "Business in History."
In light of Enron and other recent corporate scandals, there is a heightened awareness today of ethical business practices. In his lecture, Galambos places in historical perspective society's concern for business ethics, ranging from the early 20th century to the present day, sweeping through periods of prosperity and depression. He explains why Americans have been so concerned and yet have done so little about corporate accountability during the past century.
Speaker Biography: Louis Galambos is a professor of history and editor of "The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower" at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively on U.S. business history, business-government relations, the economic aspects of modern institutional development in America and the rise of the bureaucratic state. Galambos received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He was a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and business history fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration. In addition, he has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center and at Princeton University.


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More than 1,000 homes could be at risk in the Fens following a billion pound flood management scheme, councillors have warned.
It comes as the Environment Agency published the 'Great Ouse Tidal River Baseline Report' with fears that its findings have 'important implications' affecting the Downham Villages Ward.
The Environment Agency estimates a £1bn shortfall to protect the Fens.
East Cambridgeshire District Council has now agreed to back the Environment Agency in its case to government.
In a motion put forward at a council meeting last month, concerns were raised that 1200 homes were at 'serious risk' if there was to be a North Sea surge or the breaching of the Southern Level Barrier Bank.
The motion, put forward by Councillor Mike Bradley and seconded by Councillor Anna Bailey, stated: "The Environment Agency has recently published the 'Great Ouse Tidal River Baseline Report' and its findings have important implications for our community especially affecting the Downham Villages Ward.
"There are approximately 1200 homes at serious risk if there is a North Sea surge or the breaching of the Southern Level Barrier Bank.
"The Environment Agency estimate a £1bn shortfall to protect the fens and its source of funding competes with IDB's who have their own essential infrastructure priorities."
"It will be important for this Council to stand alongside the environment."
It was also announced that Councillor Bradley will be appointed as Member Champion for Flood Prevention.
He added: "I am thrilled that councillors unanimously have come together to show a united front so that East Cambs District Council will give our residents a voice and I am proud to be the lead on behalf of the Council to help the Environment Agency promote the serious risk of flooding in the Fens, especially the Downham Villages ward."
Paul Burrows, environment agency flood risk manager, said he was 'delighted' with Councillor Bradley's involvement.
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La Chinga Muerte Ch. 02byDecayed Angel©
My friend finally convinced me to go to the police, which wasn't easy for me. I mean I've never fucked around on my wife ever before and I'm certainly not proud of the fact that I did that night. It was just so strange, I knew what I was doing and I knew I shouldn't be doing it but I just couldn't help myself. And so, before I had any idea what was happening I was watching her slide up and down on my cock. Thank God she made me put on a condom otherwise there's no telling what kind of trouble I might be in.
Telling my wife I had to go into work early to clean up after the Christmas party I worked the night before, I went to the police station instead. When I began talking to the police officers about what happened they immediately showed a lot of interest, calling together a number of other detectives in to listen to my story. They were sympathetic about the problems I would have if my wife found out what happened, but they weren't able to promise anything.
The group of detectives listened to my entire story, throwing in a question or two, but for the most part letting me take my story to the end. Once I finished one of the detectives asked where I worked.
"Mariott Gateway, on Twelfth Street," I replied.
"Do they have security cameras in the banquet areas or near the restrooms you passed."
"I'm not sure, they have cameras, but I don't remember if there are any near the banquet rooms," I replied as the detective nodded to a younger man who rushed out of the room.
"Do you remember what you did with the condom?" he then asked.
"No... wait, there was a small trash can there, I just wanted out of there, so I tossed it in. I didn't come, so it was relatively clean," I replied. Two more of the police quickly stood up and grabbed their cell phones. I heard them saying something about "securing the crime scene" and "banquet area and restrooms." "Oh hell," I thought to myself, "My boss is really going to be pissed if the police shut down the banquet areas."
"Okay look, we need to check some things out and then want to talk to you again. If you want to go home and come back later, that will be fine," one of the detectives said as the rest quickly hurried out of the room.
"My wife thinks I'm at work, it will be hard to explain going home and then leaving again. How long will you be?"
"I can't be sure, but you are welcome to wait here at the station. I'll see if I can find a room for you to wait in," he said, leading me down the corridor. "Look, this is an empty interrogation room, the door locks automatically, but I'll but this chair here to leave it open. If you need something to drink or need to go to the bathroom you are free to go. I must ask that you don't talk about this case with anyone until I get back with you. You okay with all that?" he asked, putting a chair between the door and the door frame. I nodded to him.
Sitting in the interrogation room I thought about the evening before, trying to recall anything that might help the police. It is odd, when I think of it, I don't remember that many details about her. Auburn hair, where did that come from? What made it strange is that I've never used the word auburn when describing hair before, I mean it was red, just like on her pussy, but all I remember about the hair on her head was that it was auburn, and she wore it up, and two strands curled down the back of her neck.
I think I remembering trying to see her breasts and then of course, I remember her pussy, but no, I don't remember her pussy, I remember her red pubic hair and how it looked enmeshed with mine. Enmeshed? That's another word I normally wouldn't use, I just don't understand it.
After about an hour, the detective who set me up in the interrogation room said, "They were able to recover the security tape and they did find a condom in the trash can. Hopefully this will help us a lot." I then mentioned what I had been thinking about, the words I used in the description and the officer replied, "Look, I can't talk about it with you right now, but let us sift through the information when it gets here and I will tell you more about what we believe is happening. Do you need to call home or something?"
"We have caller id at home, I don't want her to see I'm calling from the police station."
"We've got a line that has no caller id information."
"No, she'll expect to see the hotel name on the id."
"Okay, suit yourself, please make yourself comfortable and we'll get in her as soon as we can," he said. "You know with your information and the video, we may be able to break this case."
I leaned back in my chair, wondering just what in the hell I had gotten myself into.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso announces an additional 400 million euro aid for Syria and neighbouring countries.
"The Commission will deploy a comprehensive package of assistance with humanitarian and non-humanitarian support, mobilising an additional 400 million euros for Syria and neighbouring countries in particular Lebanon and Jordan. Including the host communities there, which are also most severely affected. It is important that other donors can also raise up to the occasion. However we know that humanitarian support is only a palliative. What we need is to put a solution to the conflict that guaranteed a halt to the violence. We need unrestricted and unconditional humanitarian access and we need a transitional inclusive government. The situation in Syria is a stain on the world conscience. We all have a duty to act," said European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barraso.


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The all new Ford Mondeo which is due to go on sale in Europe this year is to feature an air filter system that could help prevent blind driving after sneezing behind the wheel. The new filter system has been aimed at people who suffer from respiratory conditions such as asthma and hay fever, and might struggle with driving when their allergies hit. It is said that when you sneeze whilst driving it could result in 'blind driving' for up to 20 metres making it difficult to keep total control of the car.
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The barmaid is great, the second time we went up for a round she'd memorised our order from before so all I had to do was give a nod. She got a bit excited when we didn't tell her our glasses were empty though.
Apart from two loud girls by the door, behaving like it they were auditioning for an episode of Sex and the City, it was a jolly good night.
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Tiny, that pretty much sums it up to be honest. Impressive service form the barmaid, and a really nice atmosphere I would love to come here again, however as there are only 5 or 6 tables in the place there might be a pot luck for entry let alone getting a seat during a mildly busy time.
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Murakami is both media-shy and simultaneously verging on over-exposed. His fiction is variously described as surrealist, mystical, fatalistic, and melancholic. These are adjectives that I agree with using, but find that by distilling his work into four words, it smoothes out the complex minutiae that recur throughout his oeuvre. I haven't read all of his work, as I wasn't introduced to him until late in my university career. I couldn't indulge in the binge-reading escapades I might have entertained had I been a high schooler when I first read him. The kind of addictive tingles that flooded over me as I read Norwegian Wood have not been replicated since. It was a type of first time, and those are eternally unable to be re-created.
Murakami's stories are full of unexplained malaise, unexplained mystical or supernatural occurrences; there are often cats, and sometimes they talk; there is often jazz, beer, cigarettes, and food—as both fuel and ritual. The characters within his worlds often exist in somewhat disconnected worlds; worlds that are both very corporeal, with plenty of sex and bodily functions, but perhaps most distinct about these characters is their emotional and social isolation. There is forever a longing that flows out of his characters.
Last month, Murakami's earliest works were translated into English for, largely, the first time. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are the first two books of what is referred to as "The Rat Trilogy". With A Wild Sheep Chase concluding the series, each story follows the fortunes and misadventure of the same nameless narrator, and his friend "the Rat". They were first published in 1979, 1980, and 1982 respectively, and while A Wild Sheep Chase has been published in English since 1989, the first two stories' translations were not widely available until now, at Murakami's insistence.
Wind/Pinball: Two Novels combines the two stories, and in a somewhat appropriate twist, are printed in different orientations—a surreal book experience. These are Murakami's first stories; they were the product of an epiphany that, myth has it, occurred during a baseball match. It was 1978 at Jingu Stadium, and Murakami was watching the game between the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp, when an American, Dave Hilton stepped up to bat. The moment he hit a double, the story goes, Murakami realised he could write a novel, and began doing so that very night. This epiphany is the basis for the introduction to the two novels, as he contextualises this period in his late twenties.
The stories of the unnamed narrator, and his friend the Rat, find them drinking at J's bar, frequently; beers and cigarettes fill the cracks of the stories. There are beautiful musings that occur in the same beat as a distinctly real image of drinking beer or playing pinball. The anonymity of the narrator seems like an explorative venture in ascertaining who is telling the story; Murakami seems to be enacting a question around the act of narratives.
In the first book, the unnamed narrator is 21 and returning from college for summer, he listens to the radio, drinks, thinks about the girls he has slept with, and pursues a relationship with a girl who doesn't remember meeting him.
By the next book, the same character has moved to Tokyo to start a translating company, where he finds himself living with twins while the Rat didn't make the move—we still hear his stories, and the unnamed narrator begins to become obsessed with the days he spent with the Rat playing pinball at J's bar.
In all honesty, the story didn't seem to stick—as I read through the brief chapters and then the following novel, I felt like I slipped through it, never finding a footing or something to grab hold of. You can see the beginning of so much in this book.
It seems perhaps Murakami is opening up—the beginning of the year saw his website engage with fans through the Agony Uncle persona, which allowed fans to ask of Murakami their biggest and smallest fascinations about him and his work, or simply seek his advice. He recently created a virtual tour of his desk, where you can see the many hundreds of records that don his wall, the very particular pencils he uses, and the baseball bobble head he prides—it's a guide to Murakami organised really neatly.
The introduction to Wind/Pinball meditates on his reluctance to translate these into English—he explains his feelings of discomfort that they aren't as sophisticated as his later work, he is embarrassed by them; they're his first. In this way, both the introduction, and the stories themselves, reveal a glimpse behind the curtain of someone who has so avoided the media.
Definitely worth a read for all those Murakami fans out there: it's not his best, nor does it need to be.
Translated by: Ted Goossen
Publisher: Random House


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Art Galleries
Agios Nicolaus Gallery:
Club Mykonos, Langebaan. An exhibition space run by the West Coast Arts Guild and filled with local fine art. Open every day from 9.30am to 4.30pm.
Tel: 022-707 7000, (022) 772-2101.
Fax: (022) 772-2303.
Alfred Mall Gallery
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. Opposite the entrance to the luxurious Victoria & Alfred Hotel. A diverse gallery hosting exhibitions and selling work by top artists. Open daily from 9am to 9pm (Sundays from 10am to 9pm).
Shop 1, Alfred Mall Shopping Centre, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
Tel: +27 21 421 4800, Fax: +27 21 421 4800
Email: i...@fineartportfolio.co.za
Top floor, Radio House, 92 Loop Street, Cape Town. Showcases local and international photography, imaging and fine art. The photographs explore aspects of "women and eroticism". Open Mondays to Fridays from 10.30am to 8.30pm, Saturdays from 10am to 2pm.
Tel: (021) 422-1321. Fax: (021) 422-1431.
Brundyn + Gonsalves
Brundyn + Gonsalves previously known as iArt Gallery.
71 Loop Street, Cape Town, 8001
P.O. Box 16191, Vlaeberg, 8018
Telephone: +27 (0) 21 424 5150
Email: i...@brundyngonsalves.com
Art and Toy World
102 Sarel Cilliers Road, Napier. Local watercolours and an antique toy museum. Open seven days a week from 9.30am to 5pm.
Tel: (028) 423-3894.
DC Art:
Riebeeck Square, Long Street, Cape Town. Various exhibitions of South African artists' work. Open on weekdays from 9am to 5pm and on Saturdays from 9am to 2pm.
Tel: 082 679-0603. Fax (021) 422-1768.
E-mail: dc-...@global.co.za
Errol Boyley's Bordeaux Street Gallery:
Bordeaux Street, Franschhoek. Vibrant landscapes, seascapes, bronzes, paintings & ceramics, wildlife sculptures and African crafts. Open Mondays to Saturdays from 9am to 5pm and Sundays from 10.30am to 5pm. Errol Boyley 42 Huguenot Street - Tel: (021) 876 2165 Fax: (021) 876-3794.
The Framery Art Gallery:
Trafalgar Place, Regent Street, Sea Point 8001, Cape Town. Works by both emerging and established artists. Abstract paintings on canvas also available at The Framery Gallery, Sea Point. Open Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 5.30pm and Saturdays from 9.15am to 1pm.
Tel: (021) 434-5022. Fax: (021) 434-5022.
Hout Street Gallery:
270 Main Street, Paarl. Houses a broad range of art by South African artists, including glassware, paintings, graphics, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery. Open on weekdays from 9am to 5.30pm, weekends from 9.30am to 5pm.
Tel: (021) 872-5030. Fax: (021) 872-7133.
E-mail: zet...@icon.co.za
Leeurivier Gallery:
Leeurivier Farm, Wellington. Features a wide selection of South African fine art. Open Mondays to Saturdays from 9am to 6pm.
Tel: (021) 873-2371. Fax: (021) 873-2371.
Pat Bird Gallery:
44 Huguenot Road, Franschhoek. An upmarket gallery filled with original paintings, glassware and ceramics. Open seven days a week from 10am to 1pm and from 2.30pm to 5pm, or by appointment.
Tel: (021) 876-2633. Email: PatB...@SouthAfricanArtists.com
Castle of Good Hope William Fehr Collection
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Windsor Gallery:
Royal Centre, Main Road, Hermanus. Tends towards more traditional art, with a number of landscapes and seascapes. Includes work by local artists. Open Mondays to Fridays from 9am to 5pm, Saturdays from 9am to 1pm and Sundays from 10am to 1pm.
Tel: (028) 312-4209.
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The speaker of the Mississippi House is strongly re-stating his call for a pay raise for all Mississippi teachers. MPB's Jeffrey Hess says speaker Phillip Gunn considers a pay raise as one of the most effective ways to get state dollars directly into the classroom.
Its been seven years since Mississippi teachers have seen their base pay increase and Speaker Gunn says it is time for that to change.
"I think it will enhance the quality of education in Mississippi. It will help us retain our best students and give them an incentive to go into the field of education. and it will reward those good teachers who have hung with us for quite come time. And until we can identify who that group of bad teachers is, then I think it is something we need to look at," Gunn said.
Gunn made the comments at a Stennis Press luncheon in Jackson yesterday.
However, Gunn says it will be weeks before lawmakers will know how much money is available to put into raises.
The proposal has received early support by those in and out of the legislature.
Kelly Riley with the teacher's group Mississippi Professional Educators says many teachers trained in Mississippi's universities are leaving for better paying states.
"That's a complement to our universities and colleges but it is a loss to our state in an investiment of resources that we have made but we don't get the benefit of that student training on our Mississippi campuses because those teachers are going to other states," Riley said.
Speaker Gunn says he also supports merit pay to increase the pay of the best teachers, but does not think a base raise should be delayed any longer.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Gray Tollison of Oxford thinks a raise is likely.
"Certainly we are going to look at that. And I think at the end of the day you are going to see something once we adjourn the session," Tollison said.
Mississippi's average teacher pay is second lowest in the nation at 42-thousand dollars according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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ALT Linux Bugzilla – #1074
add other ways to get the permission to configure
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Now the only way that is suggested by consolehelper to get the permission to
perform a privileged operation (probably a kindd of system configuration) is to
enter the root\'s password.
1. sudo is a popular way to manage administration permissions. So I suggest to
add another option: \"Use sudo\" to the consolehelper\'s menu
(appears only if sudo is installed).
2. Often a user needs some change in the system he uses, but he doesn\'t have
the permission to do this. When he tries to configure something, he comes
across the \"root password\" prompt of consolehelper. He may want to
communicater his wish (what he wanted to change) to the system administrator;
so I suggest to add one more option to consolehelper menu: \"Send a
request to the admin\", which will invoke a mailer and provide the user a
quick way to compose a message to the admin. (I think, the admin should be able
to disbale this feature.)
(In reply to comment #0)
> Now the only way that is suggested by consolehelper to get the permission to
> perform a privileged operation (probably a kindd of system configuration) is
> to enter the root\'s password.
This statement is not correct. The user whose authentication to check is
specified by a USER= option in appropriate /etc/security/console.apps/* file.
By default, if no USER= option is specified, the user invoked consolehelper
will be tried to authenticate.


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Contemporary-style villa with panoramic sea, golf and mountain views situated in a peaceful area of El Paraiso Alto, within a gated community with 24-hour security, only a 10-minute drive from Puerto Banús.Built to high standards and distributed over 2 levels, accommodation comprises, on entrance level: living room with dining area and fireplace, panoramic sea views and access to a large terrace with breakfast area; kitchen with top quality appliances and separate laundry room; master en-suite bedroom with walk-in wardrobe and access to a south-facing terrace with panoramic sea views; guest toilet. Lower level: lounge with bar and access to the garden and infinity pool (heated in winter); two en-suite bedrooms and a double bedroom with separate bathroom with hamman, all bedrooms have access to the garden and pool. Separate guest house with en-suite bedroom and Finnish sauna. Extras: under-floor heating throughout and air conditioning hot/cold with independent thermostats in all rooms; Bang & Olufsen TV and sound system throughout; electric shutters and curtains in all bedrooms; solar panels for hot water; dimmed lights; luxury Italian furniture; and video surveillance with live WiFi access; garage for 2 cars and car port for 4 additional cars. A fabulous family home with fantastic views in a secure area!
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donderdag 27 mei 2010
Daring Bakers Challenge: Piece Montée
Third Daring Bakers Challenge!
The May 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Cat of Little Miss Cupcake. Cat challenged everyone to make a piece montée, or croquembouche, based on recipes from Peter Kump's Baking School in Manhattan and Nick Malgieri.
When reading the first line of this month's challenge I was very surprised.. a piece montée.. never heard of it before ! But when reading more my smile became bigger and bigger: profiteroles !! If course I know cream-filled puff pastries !! When I was a kid i loved to make profiteroles !
The recipe for the Piece Montéé had of three main components: the pate a choux, the crème patissiere, and the glaze used to mount/decorate it.
I decided to make a small but cute Piece Montée. I filled the profiteroles with my favorite chocolate cream. This cream is made with a ISI gourmet whip and is very easy to make but absolutely great! The chocolate cream is flavored with instant coffee powder, cacao powder and some spoons of Cognac a great combination ! My profiteroles are decorated and mounted with chocolate glaze and small Smarties. The Piece Montée was a big success we really loved it I could have better made a bigger one :)
Equipment required:
• several baking sheets
• parchment paper
• a whisk
• a pastry brush (for the egg wash)
• a pastry bag and tip
• a flat surface such as a baking sheet or cake board/stand on which to assemble your piece montée
• some of the items you may want to use to decorate your piece montée include ribbons, Jordan almonds, fresh flowers, sugar cookie cut-outs, chocolates, etc.
Pate a Choux (Yield: About 28)
- ¾ cup (175 ml.) water
- 6 Tbsp. (85 g.) unsalted butter
- ¼ Tsp. salt
- 1 Tbsp. sugar
- 1 cup (125 g.) all-purpose flour
- 4 large eggs
For Egg Wash: 1 egg and pinch of salt
Preparing batter:
1. Combine water, butter, salt and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and stir occasionally.
2. At boil, remove from heat and sift in the flour, stirring to combine completely.
3. Return to heat and cook, stirring constantly until the batter dries slightly and begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
4. Transfer to a bowl and stir with a wooden spoon 1 minute to cool slightly.
5. Add 1 egg. The batter will appear loose and shiny.As you stir, the batter will become dry-looking like lightly buttered mashed potatoes.
6.It is at this point that you will add in the next egg. Repeat until you have incorporated all the eggs.
1. Transfer batter to a pastry bag fitted with a large open tip (I piped directly from the bag opening without a tip).
2. Pipe choux about 1 inch-part in the baking sheets. Choux should be about 1 inch high about 1 inch wide.
3. Using a clean finger dipped in hot water, gently press down on any tips that have formed on the top of choux when piping. You want them to retain their ball shape, but be smoothly curved on top.
4. Brush tops with egg wash (1 egg lightly beaten with pinch of salt).
1. Pre-heat oven to 425◦F/220◦C degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Bake the choux at 425◦F/220◦C degrees until well-puffed and turning lightly golden in color, about 10 minutes.
3. Lower the temperature to 350◦F/180◦C degrees and continue baking until well-colored and dry, about 20 minutes more. Remove to a rack and cool.
Chocolate cream:
- 400 ml cream
- 2 teaspoons instant coffee powder
- 8 spoons cacao powders
- 3 spoons Cognac
Preparation chocolate cream:
1. Stir the cream, coffee powder, cacao powder and Cognac together. Make sure nothing of the powder is cluttered together anymore.
2. Pour the cream mixture into the cream whipper.
3. Prepare your cream whipper with the cream charger so it is ready to use.
4. Fill the pastry bag with the cream prepared by the cream whipper.
5. Use a plain pastry tip to pierce the bottom of each profiterole. Fill the profiteroles with chocolate cream using either the same tip or a star tip, and place on a paper-lined sheet. The profiteroles can be refrigerated briefly at this point while you make your glaze.
Chocolate Glaze:
1. Melt 200 g. finely chopped chocolate in microwave or double boiler. Stir at regular intervals to avoid burning. Use the best quality chocolate you can afford. Use immediately.
2. Dip the top of each choux in your glaze (careful it may be still hot!), and start assembling on the board/plate/sheet
Decorate the Piece Montée however you like. I uses small Smarties to decorate mine.
I really liked this challenge, thanks Cat!
Great to make profiteroles again after so many years! Now I won't forget them anymore and I am sure that I will make them more often !
Gepost door Femke op 11:00 a.m.
Categorie: Daring Bakers, Taart en gebak
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What a fun piece montee you created! The colordul candies make it look so friendly (can food be friendly?)! Great job!BeantwoordenVerwijderen
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Paloma's Monthly Reads: #amreading The Breeds by Lora Leigh
My love for Shifter Romances began with Lora Leigh's Breeds.
All of the books in the series revolve around the activities of the Genetics Council, which operated secret labs where scientists experimented with combining human and animal DNA. The series begins after some of these Breeds escape and go public. Each book tells the story of one couple from their first meeting to attaining soul-mate status.
Here is Leigh's description of the World of the Breeds, included at the beginning of most of the books: "They're not shifters or werewolves. They are experiments in genetic engineering. Created to be super soldiers and the advanced lab rats needed to research new drug therapies for the human population. They weren't created to be free. They weren't even created to live. They existed to serve the men and women who created them, tortured them, filled them with rage and a hunger for freedom. Now they're free, they're living and they're setting the world, and their mates, on fire."
There's a blending of elements... suspense, fantasy, mystery, romance and, of course, sex... that has put this series at the top of it's genre. Leigh is masterful at creating the ultimate alpha male while pairing him with a strong, though somewhat subservient, female. Oh, and it would be just wrong if I didn't mention that these Breed males carry some of the sexual characteristics that occur when he consummates his sexual relationship with his soul mate. Intense - that's the best word to describe some of these mating stories.
This month, I caught up by reading books 26, 27, 28 and 29 in the series, finally getting some answers to on-going story lines in the series. I'd finally gotten to stories about some of my favorite characters. While reading a book on one couple's story, Leigh incorporates clues about future matings. And though I've gotten some answers, there are still more couples I want more about. I can't seem to get enough of these Breeds.
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In many situations, it is helpful to back up and archive your desktop virtual machines. You have spent a great deal of care creating these desktop virtual machines, and you never know when they might be useful again. The easiest way to archive your virtual machine is to use a product called WinRAR to accomplish this task. You can download WinRAR by following the link or by clicking the download button.
Figure A
Archiving a virtual machineOn the Compression Method drop-down menu, choose a compression method, and on the split to volume bytes, choose 650 if you are planning to burn to CD-ROM or 3,500,000,000 (you can choose higher, but I like to play it safe) if you plan to burn to DVD. By choosing to split your files, you are able to archive to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM. Once you have chosen your options, click OK. Figure B shows the archiving process in action.
Figure B
Archiving in progress
Once WinRAR finishes creating the archive, you can burn it to CD-ROM or DVD-ROM and store it for safekeeping.


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It Only Takes A Spark
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 9:27AM
This video slideshow highlights the Outreach efforts of the UofL Micro/Nano Technology Center (MNTC). Every year approximately 1000 school kids tour the facility. The students range from as young as 5th grade through undergraduates. Via a partnership with the Louisville Science Center, the MNTC is expanding its outreach beyond the surrounding counties. Students from as far as Peoria, IL have been able to gain access to a world class research cleanroom and spend time with working engineers. It is believed that this exposure to current, working engineering research will excite the participants about Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
This facility is the home of the Kentucky Nanonet, an NSF-funded project.


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Kölsch is a local specialty beer brewed in Cologne (Koln), Germany. In 1997 Kölsch became a protected designation of origin. Reissdorf Kölsch is a Kölsch style beer brewed by Brauerei Heinrich Reissdorf.
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Watch how to make this recipe.
Spray a 9 by 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray. Slice the baguette into 1/2-inch slices and arrange the slices in a single layer in the baking pan. Whisk together the eggs, egg whites, milk and vanilla. Pour the egg mixture over the bread in the pan. In a medium bowl, toss peaches with the lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of the brown sugar. Scatter the peach slices evenly on top of the bread. Combine the remaining brown sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the top. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Uncover and bake for 40 minutes.
Serving suggestion: Top with a dollop of vanilla yogurt, a drizzle of maple syrup and a side of Canadian bacon.
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Fire in The Belly Restaurant was voted Australia's best pizza place. The restaurant which specialized in Australian and Italian food and has a giant wood oven shaped as a dragon. The place has a cool vibe - funky, young and modern, and has enough space to seat 135 people inside the restaurant and on the terrace with a beautiful city view of Lismore. Park your car hire and remove the famish in your self.
Armisteads Gallery is a gallery of oil paintings which also offers oil painting lessons. Monthly, the gallery presents an exhibition of local artists' oil paintings and supports the local artists, not only painters, but also sculptors and print makers from Lismore.
Damien Lucas Sculpture and Design is another exhibition gallery of local young sculptors and designers to visit in their car hires. The gallery exhibits portraits, figurative pieces and abstract works of art for decoration of indoors or outdoors. Experience Damien Lucas and also young artists form Lismore sculpture lessons.
Alan Ussher Glassblowing Studio is another creative place in Lismore to drive your car hire to. Allan Ussher is the designer, creator and seller of beautiful artwork made entirely from glass. He also designs, makes and sells glass jewelry beads, which he fits on sterling silver, gold or any other materials, as the client wishes.
Chocolate Massage Pamper Session is a great massage you can have while in Lismore. Experience the ultimate massage which is done with chocolate melted directly on your body, chocolate oil, chocolate to eat while relaxing under the hands of the professional masseur and at departure you will get a chocolate body lotion, as a gift.


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I may have mentioned that I do agility with my dogs and as it is Crufts week I thought it would be a good time to introduce them! I have done agility for about 4 years with my anti-social mongrel Dan and for about 18 months with my gregarious lurcher Myrtle who are both rescue dogs (hence Dan's temperament). It took 3 years of training before Dan finally stopped panicking if he did something wrong and he's now really getting confident even if he is still a velcro dog. Myrtle is the polar opposite; she took to it immediately and is incredibly quick (she is a medium lurcher, after all!) so it's taken me a while to get used to handling such a fast dog. She still likes to do laps when she gets over excited and this won her the "Most Entertaining Round" Trophy at a show last year (it was funny, you just have to let her run it out of her system!). I've got a good feeling about this show season; Dan was getting a lot of clear rounds last year, but too slow for a place and as he's speeded up considerably as his confidence has grown we may get placed at last. Myrtle is more "suck it and see" some days she works very well, others she looses the plot completely! We'll find out at the UKA AJAXS Show on Sunday… Anyway, here they are:
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In addition to modern and contemporary art & design, a small number of TEFAF New York Spring dealers will exhibit jewelry, African & Oceanic art, and antiquities. The inclusion of African & Oceanic works and classical antiquities will cement the coherent aesthetic that is popular among contemporary and modern collectors.
"TEFAF is committed to a unique standard of excellence in all aspects of the art fair experience, which has made it a beloved cultural event in Europe and most recently in New York this past October. We are excited to introduce a second Fair in New York, which will focus on 20th Century and contemporary works, but also maintains the distinctive TEFAF character," said Patrick van Maris, CEO of TEFAF. "Modern and contemporary art have long enjoyed a presence at TEFAF Maastricht, and we are looking forward to celebrating this on a larger scale in the United States."
"The United States is recognized for the sustained vibrancy of its art market and New York is considered the global capital at its heart," commented Michael Plummer, Managing Director of TEFAF New York. "In addition, modern and contemporary art account for the two largest segments of art sales. This, combined with the Fair's prime location on Park Avenue and TEFAF's reputation for excellence, has given us and our exhibitors high expectations for success."
The Fair's dealers will showcase their objects in the Drill Hall and rooms along the first and second floors of the Armory. Dutch architect Tom Postma will transform the Armory for the Fair, adding new design elements that reflect the spring show's special focus.
"It is tremendously exciting for dealers in the Modern and Contemporary sector to finally have a TEFAF-quality fair here in Manhattan," said Christophe Van de Weghe, owner of Van de Weghe Fine Art. "We expect the Park Avenue Armory will be the central meeting place for serious collectors gathering for the week's renowned art events, especially given the high caliber of exhibitors who will be showing this May."