![]() ![]() The Take: Detroit spent wisely on Jerami Grant.Įvery offseason seems to produce a "He got how much?" contract. If Porter can stay on the floor-he logged a season-high 40 minutes Tuesday night-he might be the most natural No. Jamal Murray has long encountered hot and cold streaks, and those won't automatically disappear just because he had a great 2019-20 postseason. Nikola Jokic can be hesitant to call his own number, which should perhaps be expected of the best passing big man this league has ever seen. And the Nuggets might quietly have an opening for the former top prospect to jump to the top of the point-production pecking order. That's an understandable approach for a coach, but Porter is a bucket-getter at heart. Head coach Michael Malone has played it more cautious with the sophomore forward, forcing him to earn minutes by showing he can positively impact the game in areas beyond scoring. should pace Denver in points.ĭenver's front office hasn't wavered in its belief in Michael Porter Jr., who's effectively been off-limits in trade talks. Still, calling for an All-NBA first-teamer to simultaneously set personal bests in all three categories while posting a stat line only twice seen in league history should qualify as a hot take-even for Doncic. Incredibly, even a prediction of historic proportions may not qualify as a super-bold take to some since Doncic nearly pulled this off last season (28.8 points, 9.4 boards and 8.8 dimes per game). Oh, and let's tack on a career-best 30-point scoring average to the stat line because the Mavs might need all the point production they can get with Kristaps Porzingis battling a knee injury and the roster lacking a clear-cut third option. Let's predict that Doncic will become just the third player ever to average a triple-double across an entire season. Want to say he'll pilot a historically efficient attack? He did that last year. Want to predict an MVP honor for the 21-year-old? Yeah, so does everyone else. Two-plus years into what's already shaping up to be a legendary career, Luka Doncic is in that rarefied air in which hyperbolic speech seems impossible. The Take: Luka Doncic is about to make (more) history, this time by averaging a 30-point triple-double. Rather than waiting for 2021 free agency, Charlotte should aggressively attack the trade market in search of the center who could get this club into at least the play-in tournament.Ĭould the Hornets pry Nikola Vucevic from the Orlando Magic? Would a move for LaMarcus Aldridge make sense? Can the money match up for an Al Horford exchange? We're not sure how this gets done, but a bold trade for a notable 5 could transform that hum into a full-fledged buzz. ![]() They need an impact big man in a bad way-and that was true even before starting center Cody Zeller fractured his hand. Now, the Hornets need to correct the critical imbalance of this roster. Buzz City isn't quite buzzing yet, but it took two major steps in that direction this offseason with the drafting of LaMelo Ball and the signing of Gordon Hayward. There's a distinct humming sound bouncing off the buildings in the vicinity of Charlotte's Spectrum Center. The Take: The Hornets should unload assets for an impact big man. With Dinwiddie out, head coach Steve Nash should put even more on the plates of his stars and, in turn, produce the first set of top-five scoring teammates since Durant hit that mark with then-Oklahoma City Thunder running mate Russell Westbrook in 2011-12. They are collectively providing 56 points per game on shooting rates even NBA 2K legends couldn't match: 53.2/69.2/84.0 for Durant and 61.1/56.0/100.0 for Irving. You know, because they're Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.īrooklyn's uber-dynamic duo has masterfully looked the part so far. While we could turn this take into something Beard-related, we'll instead gamble on the Nets solving this in-house by juicing the offensive oranges of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. But with Spencer Dinwiddie likely shelved for the season with a partially torn ACL, that depth isn't nearly the same. When debating whether Brooklyn should make a move for James Harden, one of the loudest dissenting opinions revolved around the Nets' impressive depth. ![]() The Take: Brooklyn's offense features a pair of top-five scorers.
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![]() Poggi put it thus: "Picasso was able to subvert the notion of realism from within the very genre most frequently concerned with visual description and the actuality of the referent", the letters that make up the pun in this example. "JOU" is a slang abbreviation that could be part of a number of French words - Jouailler (to play a musical instrument badly) Jouasse (the initial rush of taking drugs) Jouer (to act the fool) Joueur (a participant in a game) Joujou (a plaything or toy) Jouissance (reach orgasm) - and Picasso used the pun as a device for making his viewer question the pictorial meaning of the work. ![]() He had explored the idea of the pun for its potential to exploit misunderstandings between words that are alike but which have different meanings. Not for the first time, Picasso included the painted letters "JOU", here in the guise of the title of a newspaper. The image proved iconoclastic in that it confused the viewers' idea of where the line between popular culture and fine art stood. As Poggi noted, "The rope, in marking the edge of the collage as a picture of a café table, also makes the oval canvas itself synonymous with that table, thus conflating the literal object with the table that it represents". This oval canvas, framed by a piece of common rope, posits itself as a table, while a painted and multi-faceted tableau of items - a knife, a pipe, a slice of citrus - are arranged on a piece of oilcloth, printed with a chair caning pattern. Gris, who believed that there was more to art than just replicating scenes from the bland material world, also drew on a more expressive palette to produce his works. His works allowed for the methods of papier collé to develop more compositional depth and optical distortion than his esteemed colleagues. Of the three men, it was Gris who produced Synthetic works that retained closest ties to what one might call "anti-pictorialism" (or abstraction).It was, certainly for Picasso, a politicized art in that its "makeshift" quality presented an affront to the time-honoured values of the art establishment. Synthetic Cubism was a self-conscious attempt to "deintellectualize" fine art by appropriating objects and signs from the realms of commodity culture.The viewer was then invited to think about how these elements synthesised as a whole. The technique of creating new structures out of the already familiar asked the viewer to consider, not just the content of the image, but also the texture, the color, and the materials of the work. With papier collé, Synthetic Cubism took scraps from the material world and pasted them into the constructed world of painting and drawing.Indeed, the prefix "synthetic" referred to the idea that by juxtaposing fragments from the real world with the painterly the artist creates a synthesis something completely new out of a marriage of seemingly incompatible elements. This is not to imply, however, that Synthetic Cubism lacked conceptual rigor. The revolutionary practice of presenting mundane materials as fine art introduced a more relaxed and more playful aesthetic option for the artists involved. ![]() ![]() Synthetic Cubism is thought to have peaked by 1914 when World War One took many French artists (including Braque) away from their studios to fight in the conflict. To achieve its ends, Synthetic Cubism brought together - or "synthesized" - a variety of mixed media through collage and its signature papier collé technique. Synthetic Cubism embraced a broader palette, simpler geometric planes, and more representable subject matter too. Through experiments in collage using newspaper print and printed patterns, the Synthetic Cubists moved away from the multi-perspective (Analytic) approach in favor of "flattened out" images that all-but dispensed with their earlier allusions to three-dimensional space. Most scholars are agreed that the former covers a two-year period that ended around 1912 and by which time it had evolved into what became known as Synthetic Cubism. In an attempt to account for the most important advances in avant-garde art made by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris, historians have tended to split the Cubist movement into two key phases: Analytic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism. But since we usually make gingerbread cookies in the winter, sometimes the butter stays on the cool side. First, the butter can warm up during mixing. It needs to chill for at least 30 minutes. ![]() If the dough looks crumbly, turn it out onto a lightly floured (use the gluten-free baking flour to dust your counter) surface and knead a few times.Īfter mixing the dough, you might be ready to bake, but, unfortunately, the dough isn’t. Don’t fret! This is normal - especially if you’re using a handheld mixer. Sometimes the dough doesn’t come together. Once the flour has incorporated, increase the speed to medium and mix until a dough forms. There’s no need to add the flour in stages. And please don’t use blackstrap molasses it’s bitter and too high in sodium and won’t give you a good flavor. (I use Grandma’s Molasses with the yellow label.) Don’t use dark molasses in the recipe because it’ll make the cookies unpleasantly bitter. Ingredient note: For the molasses, use an unsulfured molasses. (Doing this ensures you won’t get any odd-shaped cookies.) And run the mixer for a few seconds to incorporate the thick butter-sugar paste. Beat the mixture until it’s smooth and fluffy. Stop the mixer and add the egg and molasses. If you have a KitchenAid mixer, take care to run the spatula around the ‘nub” at the bottom of the bowl. Use a rubber spatula to incorporate the butter-sugar paste that’s clinging to the side or bottom of the bowl. It took mine about two minutes, but that’s just a rough guideline, not a hard-and-fast rule.īe sure to stop the mixer once or twice during creaming. I hesitate to say how long this takes because the time varies depending on the temperature of your butter and the speed of your mixer. (If you want a gluten-free molasses cookie, I’ve got a recipe for that.)Ĭream everything together until it lightens in color. It adds a nice, almost-caramel flavor without making the cookies too molassesy. Since we’re using both brown sugar and molasses in these cookies, I prefer to use light brown sugar. While we don’t often think of gingerbread cookies as rising, we want them to rise a bit to prevent them from being too hard to bite into. Along with the baking powder and eggs, this step helps the dough to rise. ![]() If it’s too cold, it won’t get fluffy when creamed. If it’s too soft (or worse, melted) the cookies will spread. The temperature of the butter is important. Cream together butter and dark brown sugar.Ĭombine butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. You want to spend about 30 to 45 seconds whisking everything together. This seems like such a simple step, doesn’t it? Why not skip it and add the ingredients directly to the mixer? But this step helps evenly distribute all the ingredients. I recommend baking with table salt, as it blends easily into dough. The salt enhances the other flavors, without making the dough taste salty. Some gingerbread cookie recipes use a lot of different spices, including black pepper, but I prefer to keep my gingerbread cookies simple and ginger-forward. Start by sifting or whisking together gluten-free flour with the baking powder, spices, and salt. If you’ve ever made gluten-free sugar cookies or chocolate chip cookies, the method is similar. Gingerbread cookies start with a simple cookie dough. How to Make Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies: Explained These cookies don’t spread much as they bake, so you can put them pretty close together. Preheat the oven and bake the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet. If you want to use different shapes and sizes, no problem - just put them on a different baking sheet. To prevent burning, cut cookies out with similar-size cutters. Roll out the dough until it’s about 1/4-inch thick. Generously dust your counter and rolling pin with gluten-free flour. This reduces grittiness and thickens the dough and prevents spreading. Scraping the bowl ensues the cookies bake evenly. While making the dough, stop the mixer and scrape the bowl at three important points: after creaming the butter and sugar together, after adding the egg, and after mixing in the flour. Both “robust” (dark) and blackstrap molasses are too strong for these cookies. Be sure to use unsulfured baking molasses. ![]() There’s a small amount of molasses in this recipe. If you don’t have this blend on hand, be sure to use a blend that contains xanthan or guar gum (these ingredients prevent the cookies from spreading). This recipe was developed using Bob’s Red Mill 1:1 Gluten-Free Baking Flour. Instead of blending different gluten-free flours and starches, use a gluten-free all-purpose flour. How to Make Gluten-Free Gingerbread Cookies: The Basics These sweet and spicy cookies are perfect for Christmas. Easy gluten-free gingerbread cookie recipe. ![]() The Psychic was arrested in New York on 24 September 1991 so for the escape from my father of the Cathedral (July 1992) I had been arrested in the us a long time for falsehood of documents. If the writers don’t even know the favorite team of Pablo, how dare to tell you the rest of a story like that and sell it as true? Do everything okay?ģ. My Father was not a supporter of Atlético Nacional, but of the independiente medellín. But not happy with that, placed him at another time and place in the history of my father, and made it seem that his death was the product of a legitimate confrontation between police and narcos, when in reality it was an injustice, his death, while this is She violates the right to good name, to the honor and the honor of a man who was very dear and respected in medellín in one piece. How sad that Netflix has shown so many corpses with the posters of los pepes hung up, and they forgot to publish the images of the body of my uncle Carlos tortured in that respect they were identical and also public. He was kidnapped and tortured with Francisco Toro, another innocent man and decent. Carlos Henao wasn’t ever drug dealer or lived in Miami. It was not drug dealer and the Netflix to malign him and with it to all of us that we are his entire family, with total impunity and tranquility. Always talked about escape, not to attack anyone. He was always talking about making peace, not war. It was Bible salesman, acrylics and MOPS. Was never convicted in Colombia or any country for any offence. Empirical was an architect who helped build some houses, roads and bridges of the hacienda Naples to my father, but never got involved in illegal activities. In fact it was a great man, a hard worker, honest, noble and good father of the family. was my maternal uncle and it was not a drug dealer it’s cracked up to be in the series. On behalf of my country and in honor of the real truth of the incidents which took place between the 80’s and 90’s I see in the obligation to make serious mistakes of a series that claims to be as truthful, when Is a lot to be insulting, so the story of a whole nation and of so many victims and families:ġ. This is why I invite those who really interested to know the real truth about my dad to read my book: The Tedium of to see the series can be avoided. The original post is in Spanish, but you’ll get the idea of his 28 issues from the auto-translation which I’ve copied and pasted below:ĭear friends and friends, here I share my personal reflection of the second season, so beware of the veracity of its content. (He was born Juan Pablo Escobar.) Marroquin, now an architect in Colombia, is also the author of “Pablo Escobar: My Father,” which is well-reviewed on Amazon. He has taken to Facebook to “fact check” the show. The show has one notable detractor-Escobar’s son, Sebastian Marroquin. Escobar was ruthless and helped launch a drug war that killed tens of thousands of people, crashed an airliner and shipped tons of cocaine every day into the U.S.A. But, to put it mildly, Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar does not come off well. ![]() Like most “true crime” stories, it takes liberties with timelines, characters and dialogue. It even has a disclaimer at the top of the show to that effect. It has scored a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, outscoring the 78% it received in season one.īy no means is Narcos a documentary. This season has been an exciting one, showing the trouble with the War on Drugs and the complex relationship between the DEA, the Colombian government and the Colombian drug cartels. The series’ second season is now out, and it focuses on Escobar’s flight from the law and the DEA. Narcos, the Netflix series about the war on drugs in Colombia, has at least one major detractor: Pablo Escobar’s son. ![]() Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. 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From a noise exposure prospective, our ears don’t really care about how nice or not nice a sound is for it to be harmful. ![]() While I wouldn’t describe it as a particularly pleasant sound, it’s otherwise benign.įor example, because it’s good at “blocking out” other sounds, it’s a pretty common treatment for people who suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears). It could also be to improve privacy, such as overhearing a confidential phone call or really any sensitive information. It could be they implemented it to avoid distractions, such as the guy clicking his pen next to you. That is to say, it’s fairly effective at distracting from or covering up other sounds. Because of that, it’s great at “masking” noise. “White noise” is essentially a roughly equal amount of sound at a lot of different frequencies or pitches. Help! We just got a “white noise” system installed in our office and it’s really bothering me! Can you tell me anything about the drawbacks of this white noise madness? It makes me want to go home. However, if you’re having a similar problem with white noise machines in your workplace read on. The concerned party in that case wanted to know if using white noise machines to improve your child’s sleeping habits had the potential to cause hearing loss. ![]() The Ask an Audiologist series has addressed white noise machines before. Hearing Solutions CASLPO (College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists) registered Audiology Manager, Andreas Seelisch, answers this question from an online request in social media. What is white noise? What does a white noise machine do? It also unlocks the amp’s included 60-second looper. There's also an optional seven-button footswitch available with individual bank up and down functions and easy effects selection, making GTX a true live performance amp. Stereo XLR line outputs and stereo effects loop let you interface with PA, recording and outboard gear. 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