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As both a lauded composer and a world renowned conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen has a restless innovation that marks him as one of the most important artists in classical music. The Boston Globe has said that he displays "a kind of complete musicianship rarely encountered today." Salonen is currently the Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London's Philharmonia Orchestra and the Conductor Laureate for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was Music Director from 1992 until 2009. His pieces Floof and LA Variations have become established modern classics, and new compositions continue to be performed around the globe.
Trained in the austere world of European modernism and enjoying a close relationship with the sunny city of Los Angeles, Salonen composes works that move freely between contemporary idioms, combining intricacy and technical virtuosity with playful rhythmic and melodic innovations. Three major retrospectives of Salonen's original work have been heard by capacity audiences and received critical acclaim: at Festival Présences Paris in 2011; at the Stockholm International Composer Festival in 2004; and at Musica Nova, Helsinki, in 2003. Salonen has completed several works for symphony orchestra, including Foreign Bodies (2001), commissioned by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Insomnia (2002), co-commissioned by Suntory Hall, Tokyo and Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg, and Wing on Wing, which received its world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2004 and was a gift from the composer to the Los Angeles Philharmonic in honor of their new home. In 2007, Salonen conducted the New York Philharmonic in the first performance of his Piano Concerto, dedicated to Yefim Bronfman, who also premiered it. Salonen's Violin Concerto, which premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Leila Josefowicz in 2009, won the 2012 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and was released on Deutsche Grammophon along with Salonen's Nyx in 2012.
September 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of Salonen's debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra. His 2013–14 concert season bookends with the Philharmonia: beginning in September with concerts throughout Europe including the Grafenegg, Berlin, and Lucerne Festivals; and ending in June with several engagements at Royal Festival Hall and on their Chinese tour. Throughout their relationship, Salonen and the Philharmonia have curated landmark multi-disciplinary festivals. Last season, they marked the centenary of the birth of Witold Lutoslawski, Salonen's mentor, with Woven Words: "Music begins where words end." Salonen and the Philharmonia previously created the award-winning RE-RITE installation, which was first exhibited in London in 2009 and has since travelled to Portugal, China, Turkey, Germany and Austria. The digital residency allows members of the public to conduct, play and step inside the Philharmonia Orchestra with Salonen through audio and video projections of musicians performing The Rite of Spring. Their follow-up installation, 'Universe of Sound', based on Holst's The Planets, debuted at London's Science Museum and won the 2012 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audiences and Engagement. Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra, in partnership with Music Sales Group, Rite Digital and Touch Press, recently released a successful iPad app, The Orchestra. Slate hailed the interactive tour through orchestral history as "the perfect classical music app."
As the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 17 years, Salonen is widely credited with revitalizing the organization and bringing the idea of the symphony orchestra into the 21st century. As Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote, "Salonen turned the Los Angeles Philharmonic into the most intellectually lively orchestra in America. … the metamorphosis of the Philharmonic was Salonen's doing, and he thereby gained a place among the visionary conductors of American musical history." During his tenure, Salonen was instrumental in helping the orchestra to open their famed Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Frank Gehry. The iconic hall celebrates its 10th anniversary in fall 2013. Salonen also presided over countless premieres and contemporary work; began the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund; made the Los Angeles Philharmonic one of the best attended and funded orchestras in the country, and became, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, an "open, communicative, imaginative artist—among the most beloved of our town and time." The genesis of many unique festivals and collaborations under his leadership of the Los Angeles Philharmonic included a production of Saint François d'Assise at the Salzburg Festival (1992), and a Stravinsky Festival together with Pierre Boulez at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (1996). This season, Salonen returns to the Los Angeles to conduct a Green Umbrella Concert of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels and performances of his own Violin Concerto with Leila Josefowicz. He will later conduct the concerto with the New York Philharmonic with Josefowicz at Lincoln Center in October and November 2013.
In addition to his work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Salonen performs frequently as a guest with the world's top orchestras. During the 2013–14 season, he will make appearances with the Chicago Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Filarmonica della Scala. Salonen is also an enthusiastic conductor of operatic works. In July 2013, he led an anticipated new production of Strauss' Elektra directed by Patrice Chéreau at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. A previous Chéreau/Salonen collaboration led to a production of Janáček's From the House of the Dead in 2009 at The Metropolitan Opera, which The New York Times described as "a milestone." From the House of the Dead was originally conducted by Pierre Boulez. Elektra is a co-production with La Scala and The Metropolitan Opera, where it will appear in forthcoming seasons under his baton.
Salonen has an extensive recording career. A new album of one of Henri Dutilleux's most important works recorded with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in the presence of the composer was released in 2013 on Deutsche Grammophon on the composer's 97th birthday. Also that month, Sony completed a recording project that began with Salonen and the Los Angeles nearly 30 years ago: a 2-disc set of the orchestral works of Lutosławski, released in what would have been the composer's 100th year. In 2012, he recorded a disc of Saariaho's Passion De Simone with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Dawn Upshaw. Salonen's Violin Concerto and his orchestral work Nyx were released on Deutsche Grammophon with Leila Josefowicz and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2012. Deutsche Grammophon has also released a portrait CD of Salonen's orchestral works performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by the composer, as well as a CD with Salonen's Piano Concerto and his works Helix and Dichotomie. The latter, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Yefim Bronfman, was nominated for a Grammy in 2009. A CD of five of his orchestral works is available on Sony. 2012 saw the release of the first ever recording of Shostakovich's previously undiscovered opera prologue Orango with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Salonen, on Deutsche Grammophon. In 2009, a new collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra's partner label Signum was launched with the release of a live recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder; other recent recordings with the Philharmonia on Signum include Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Mahler's sixth and ninth symphonies. Salonen's 2008 recording of Schoenberg's Violin Concerto and Sibelius' Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra won a Grammy Award. On Deutsche Grammophon, Salonen's recordings include a DVD of Kaija Saariaho's opera L'Amour de Loin (with the Finnish National Opera) as well as two CDs with Hélène Grimaud featuring works by Pärt and Schumann. His first recording with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon (Stravinsky's Rite of Spring – the first CD recording at Walt Disney Concert Hall) was nominated for a Grammy in 2007.
Salonen is the recipient of many major awards, including the UNESCO Rostrum Prize for his composition Floof in 1992 and the Siena Prize, given by the Accademia Chigiana in 1993; he is the first conductor ever to receive it. In 1995, he received the Royal Philharmonic Society's Opera Award and two years later, the society's Conductor Award. Salonen was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal, one of Sweden's highest honors, by the King of Sweden in 1996. In 1998, the French government awarded him the rank of Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Salonen was also honored with the Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland. In 2003, the Sibelius Academy in Finland gave him an honorary doctorate and two years later Salonen won the Helsinki Medal. To date, Salonen has received seven honorary doctorates in four different countries. Musical America named him its Musician of the Year on 2006. He was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He is Artistic Director and confounder of the Baltic Sea Festival, an event that annually invites celebrated orchestras, conductors and soloists to promote unity and ecological awareness among the countries around the Baltic Sea.
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Instead of making the hard choices to fix Social Security's financial problems, policymakers "use it as a tool of political rhetoric," Astrue said.
Astrue, 56, has headed the federal government's largest program since 2007 — he was nominated by former President George W. Bush. By law, Social Security commissioners serve six-year terms, so President Barack Obama will now have the opportunity to choose his own nominee, who must be approved by the Senate. Astrue's last day on the job was Wednesday.
The trustees who oversee Social Security say the program's trust funds will run dry in 2033, leaving Social Security with only enough revenue to pay about 75 percent of benefits. Already the program is paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes.
As commissioner, Astrue served as a trustee. He regularly urged Congress to address Social Security's long-term financial problems but refrained from publicly weighing in on various options to cut benefits or raise taxes — until now.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Astrue said benefit cuts and tax increases are inevitable — despite fierce opposition to both. Yet he questions whether Congress is up to the task.
Q: The president and Republican leaders in Congress have both embraced changes to Social Security as part of negotiations to reduce government borrowing. Should Social Security be part of the deficit and debt discussions?
A: My general perspective is that Washington broadly, and I include the Congress, both parties, the executive branch, the major interest groups, have really walked away from Social Security. … I think that Social Security is a gem. I think it is the most successful domestic program in the history of the United States government and it is fraying because of inattention to its problems. And I think it's a shame that Washington cannot get its act together to look at Social Security in detail in isolation and say, What do we need to do?
Q: There are some in Congress who say only benefit cuts should be considered — no tax increases. Others say benefit cuts should be off the table. Where do you come down?
A: Nothing is going to happen if you establish preconditions for the conversation. I do think that for the people who simply want to tax more, you need to be very mindful of the fact that that tax will fall disproportionately on the younger generation and that if you're not careful, that could be a huge economic drag.
Q: One of the few issues that the president and Republicans in Congress agree on is changing the way the government measures inflation. As you know, this would reduce the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for Social Security recipients. Advocates for seniors hate the idea. They want bigger COLAs, not smaller ones. What do you think?
A: As a general matter I do think that the president and the Congress are right that before you start talking about increases in the retirement age and things like that it's appropriate to try to have a conversation about what we might be able to do in terms of COLA adjustments.
Q: The age when retirees can receive full benefits is gradually increasing from 66 to 67. There are proposals to increase it gradually even more, perhaps as high as 70. What do you think of those proposals?
A: I think there's some historical inevitability that we will move in that direction. How far, I don't think is historically inevitable. Part of this we need to remember is not that the system is flawed or that there are evil people around here. I mean, we should celebrate a little bit of good news. Most of the pressure on the system comes from the fact that we've had great medical advances and people are living a lot longer than before.
Q: Social Security payroll taxes only apply to the first $113,700 of a worker's wages. There have been proposals to increase this threshold or even eliminate it, applying the tax to all wages. What do you think of those ideas?
A: I think there's some historic inevitability on at least some lifting of the (payroll tax) cap. I think that most politicians and I think most economists I've talked to generally think that that would have less of a negative impact on the economy than raising the rate itself.
Q: Applications for disability benefits increased dramatically when the economy went bad. Why did that happen?
A: I think a lot of people applied out of economic desperation. Very few of those people actually ended up getting benefits. If you look at the numbers, it's one of the reasons why our approval rates have dropped dramatically in the last few years.
Q: Aren't most disability claims initially denied?
A: Yes.
Q: Why?
A: Because the statutory standard is so stringent. In terms of the percentage who get on, both in the beginning and at the end of the process, it's somewhere usually in most years in the 35 to 40 percent range. Sometimes people talk like nobody gets approved initially, and that's not true. Some people say, Oh, everybody gets on, and that's not true, either. But the statutory standard is you have to be unable to do work that exists in the national economy for 12 months or more.
Q: If your claim is denied, you can appeal to an administrative law judge, but the process can take a year or more. Tell me about your efforts to reduce these backlogs.
A: We've done, I think, some yeoman's work in reducing the backlogs. … If you look at time to a hearing, what we call average processing time, it peaked very shortly after I started at 542 days and it got down to about 340 (days) and then drifted up a little bit with all the budget cuts in the last couple of years. But it's still about a year on average, and that's a big improvement.
Q: Are you getting enough resources from Congress to address these backlogs?
A: No.
Q: The Association of Administrative Law Judges says that in order to reduce backlogs some judges are deciding more than 500 cases a year. Is that too many cases to do a thorough job on each one?
A: No, not at all. We set for the first time productivity standards in 2007. It was actually done by the chief judge, and it was done looking at best demonstrated practices of existing judges. At that point in time about 40 percent of the judges were doing 500 to 700 cases a year. And so that's what we set as our goal, and that's what it is, it's a goal to shoot for. … Now, about 80 percent of the judges hit that goal.
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Whether you're Richard Nixon or Paris Hilton (or Sean Salisbury) or Reggie Bush, those damn recordings will always getcha.
If there really ARE actual audiotapes of Reggie Bush talking about gifts and cash he received as improper benefits while playing at USC, it's going to be much harder for him to pull a "Who me?" act. (via Yahoo, who as usual have been all over this story)
And, oh by the way: If it all plays out like it looks like it's going to, USC will have its national title(s) vacated and Bush will have his Heisman taken away. (Wait: Is it like Miss
We can argue about whether that's too draconian a punishment, but I assume we can all agree that if there are rules in place and everyone else is (purportedly) following them, there has to be a punishment for those who don't. And I suspect there will be.
Who would have guessed that Lane Kiffin would be in a BETTER position jumping ship from next season's consensus No.1 college football team to coach the most hapless team in the NFL?
But even a 0-16 season with the Raiders will be better than being back with an NCAA body-slammed Trojans, where you can't spell "s-a-n-c-t-i-o-n-s" without an "S-C."
Speaking of Sean Salisbury: ProFootballTalk is all over the latest on his controversy, and this was obvious yesterday: By not 'fessing up right away and simply (and self-deprecatingly) blaming it on his fire-ready-aim speaking style -- and by specifically denying he said what he said -- both Sean and ESPN put themselves in the impossible position of defending what anyone who listens to the clip can obviously hear: He said "Jew." Sean blames the bloggers (go figure), but now the story is getting traction in mainstream media, which is a thornier problem for Sean. Prediction: There WILL be a reversal, but there will NOT be a firing.
NFL Coaching Carousel: The Cowboys want Jason Garrett to be their new offensive coordinator. Wait: Or is that new HEAD COACH? Even if he isn't named head coach now, it's obvious he will be soon enough. You have to wonder if that will affect the Cowboys' ability to hire a head coach whose role would be, at best, interim. Why not just go the trendy route and simply give the job to Garrett now? Sink or swim, baby!
Super Bowl XLI Update: The Thursday before the week before the Super Bowl is the apex (or nadir, I guess) of the coverage. All the storylines have been worn out from Monday through Wednesday and there's nothing new until the teams get to the Super Bowl host city. (I mean, hell: I'm in Chicago right now and I'm struggling to find the big stories that are anything more than more of what you've heard before.)NHL All-Star Game: I actually watched a portion of the second period – in HD, no less! There's no question: HD makes watching hockey a lot better, as all the fans (and league execs) have claimed. But I still couldn't get too fired up.
Aussie Open: It finally gets interesting! Serena will play Maria in the final.
NBA: Shaq returns. And, guess what? It's not like it helped: The Heat lost to the Pacers. Meanwhile, the Suns streaked to their 15th straight win. Yes, it was over the Knicks, but at least NY made a game of it.
Conspiracy nuts, unite: Michael Vick's security tape from
MLB: Willie Randolph given contract extension by the Mets through 2009. That's probably the smartest deal Omar Minaya will pull in 2007 (unless, of course, he gets Dontrelle Willis). I think
College Hoops Parity Watch: Texas A&M looked like a real contender after waxing
NASCAR Preview: (No, this isn't my big one.) As I've alluded, the most intriguing dynamic of the new season is the entry of
You can almost understand Jack Roush's frustration. Almost. Instead, Roush comes across as oh-so-bitter in his criticism of
I can only imagine what it means for the psyche of the sport's longtime owners, drivers and fans that a new team long-associated with Japan -- even though Toyota makes and sells more cars made in the US than the other US car companies do -- is going to come in and kick their asses.
Yesterday, Roush threw out the word "war," which I think is ridiculous on lots of levels. He also used "siege," and I appreciate that Roush himself has developed a "siege mentality," but he sounds ludicrous. I presume his intent is to drum up jingoistic passions among NASCAR fans. As always, the fans will show themselves smarter than that – they'll follow the winners. And that must be what has got Roush so nervous.
(By the way, it's not like I'm a NASCAR fan. Most of you aren't either. But this Toyota-enters-NASCAR storyline is one of the most intriguing in sports this year – and probably of this decade, given NASCAR's rise to prominence. It's certainly the biggest storyline to happen to NASCAR itself in a long time.)
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MARK STEYN: So, Barack asked Michelle, do you think it went well? By the candles she'd never looked fairer. But her tongue was a first and she silently cursed whoever signed off on Jim Lehrer. And she glanced down at her meringue which sat forlornly on her plate, on "Hard Ball," his body language had been rated less than great. He said you do still love me? She said as years flew by I've never looked at another man. And tonight he said, neither did I. His wedding anniversary between Whoop and Beyonce, his crepe time had been cursory, now came his plaintive lay. Do not forsake me media darlings, on this my wedding day. He said, toast to the bride, and Michelle gaily cried, a toast to the groom I submit. And he said with elan, let's toast the best man, and everyone cried, to Mitt. And as champagne cork pops rang in their ears, he gazed at his love and he sighed. Does it really feel like 20 long years? And that's just tonight, she replied.
BLOCK: Some debate poetry from Mark Steyn. And the last word goes to Calvin Trillin, author of the upcoming "Dog Fight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse."
CALVIN TRILLIN: In all this first debate was heavy going. Statistics failed to get the juices flowing. Some pundit somewhere must have sighed that when he said details worked he hadn't meant so many. It got so thick, so lacking in one liners, that people fell asleep in their recliners. Of those awake when all was said and done, most had this thought, the challenger had won. He practiced his debating skills with care and not, it's clear, against an empty chair. Mitt's answers, whether factual or not, were clear and crisp and all those answers got delivered with a quite commanding style. The president seemed listless for a while, less certain of the points that he would share and wishing he were anyplace but there. In spin room chats Mitt's men were all aglow. Barack, they said, no longer has big mo. The press found this a scrumptious dish to swallow. It meant they had a horse race still to follow.
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The 70,000 daily visitors to popular music site RnBXclusive.com were met with a purposely terrifying message on Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) took the site down, arrested its operator, and threw up a splash page that warned downloaders of "up to 10 years imprisonment." Thought statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement in the US were ludicrous? SOCA warns that downloaders from the site could face an "unlimited fine under UK law."
(Yeah, I had to do a double-take too.... the Serious OCA? is there an Un-Serious OCA?) Anyhow back to the story.
SOCA also showed users their own IP address and warned that "the above information can be used to identify you and your location," adding that "SOCA has the capability to monitor and investigate you, and can inform your Internet service provider of these infringements."
Didn't get the message? The warning goes on to say, "You may be liable for prosecution and that fact that you have received this message does not preclude you from prosecution."
SOCA announced separately on Wednesday that the rather theatrical warning (our judgment, not their words) would only stay up for 32 hours, apparently as a way to reach the site's regular visitors. (The notice has now been removed.)
"The website in question specialised in RnB and enabled access to music obtained by hacking, including some which had not yet been released," SOCA said in its statement. "[Global music trade group] IFPI estimates losses to legitimate businesses and artists caused by the site to be £15m a year. During the week running up to arrest phase the website had 70,000 users daily, mainly males aged 18 to 25 years."
The odd thing here is I don't really hear a lot of artists complaining. Labels yes, companies, no.
SOCA agents stress that they have "monitored responses" to the arrest and takedown, including watching people discuss it globally on Twitter. They claim that related sites have already cleaned up their act to avoid similar action.
While RnBxclusive.com might have been a hive a scum and villainy, SOCA agents hardly give the impression of acting as neutral agents of justice. The takedown was clearly pushed by the recording industry, which in itself is fine; all sorts of private parties complain to police when laws have been broken. But the SOCA warning page on RnBxclusive.com went well beyond a mere legal statement and warning.
"As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged," it said. "If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry." What a load. I personally know of artists who WANT their music distributed this way so they don't become another 'cube of ice' in the 'drink' of the recording industry.
The extraordinary statement—opening as it does with the frank admission that this is all unprovable ("may") and concluding with an odd remark (the "music industry" is hardly synonymous with the "recording industry" actually being assisted here)—sounds like the sort of moralizing argument that is more appropriately the domain of rightsholders than the police. The coppers then provide a link directing visitors to pro-music.org, a site actually run by the recording industry.
Even the US government, which we have criticized repeatedly for the process and errors behind their own "Operation In Our Sites" domain takedowns, has recently been a model of professionalism by contrast. Hmmm. What do you think?
By all means, police should enforce the law and the government should prosecute those who violate it. But there's a line between enforcing the law and becoming the publicly funded enforcement arm of a particular industry, uncritically promoting their loss estimates, arguments, and websites.


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I am involved with Forte International Exchange Association an independent non-profit organization designated by the State Department as an "Exchange Visitor Program". We bring international high school students from other countries to the United States to participate in an academic and cultural exchange. This fall, we have a group of Mongolian students coming to the US. We are currently recruiting volunteer host families who have a genuine desire and interest to host an international student. Many different types of families are eligible for hosting. Host families may have small children, teenagers, children who have already left home, or no children at all and may live anywhere in the US. The students attend local high schools for the ten month academic year while living with a host family. By opening ones home to a young student from another country, families have the opportunity to share themselves and their love while gaining broader views of the world and friendships that last a lifetime. If there is any way in which you might be interested in hosting a student, or if there is any way in which you can help us reach out to the community, through a bulletin or newsletter, it would be great. Please spread the word. I myself lived in Mongolia for three years, and have a tremendous love for it. I really am committed to finding a good home for these students. But anyway, if you have any further questions or would like any additional information, you can access our website at www.ForteExchange.org Please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you very much.
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Drop Biscuits with Cheddar Cheese and Garlic Butter
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite... The day began with streaks of terra cotta trailing through the sea of aquamarine that is our early morning sky. It heralded a lovely day to come. We took to the rear deck with morning mugs in tow and sat a spell, admiring the few courageous blossoms emerging from the forest duff. Then we heard birds and realized the winter silence of the forest was also at an end. Winters here are mild and of short duration. Most of the folks who've settled here are transplants and they can be slow to adopt the ways of native Oregonians. Once they're fully assimilated, they're said to have "gone native". I think that's finally happened to me. I found myself complaining about the weather this year. Memories of winter blizzards and sub-zero temperatures have been replaced with the quiet discontent that comes with prolonged periods of gray weather. I am, finally, an Oregonian. As such, I was determined to enjoy every moment of this gorgeous day. We decided to grill a chicken. I loved that, because its simplicity gave me an opportunity to try some highly flavored dishes that would be hard to pair with anything more involved. I've never eaten at Red Lobster, but I've been told their biscuits are extraordinary. I was able to find two copy-cat type recipes for their cheddar biscuits. One uses a baking mix and the other builds the biscuits from the ground up. I chose the more involved recipe because I had no biscuit mix in the house. The recipe comes from Food and Whine and it makes a nice biscuit. They are easy to do and I found myself charmed by their gnarly down-home appearance. I'm happy to recommend these to you, but do be aware they're not meant to be served with delicate food. Think grilled chicken, steak, ribs or pulled pork and you'll be fine. This is grub at its finest, but it is grub. Here's the recipe.
Drop Biscuits with Cheddar Cheese and Garlic Butter...from the kitchen of One Perfect bite, courtesy of Food & Whine
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/3 cup butter, cold, cut into chunks
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 heaping cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
1/2 - 2/3 cups milk
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley
1) Preheat oven to 400° F.
2) Whisk flour, baking powder, salt and garlic powder in a large bowl to combine. Add chunks of butter. Cut butter into flour until mixture is coarse and resembles peas. Add oil, grated cheddar cheese and 1/2 cup milk. Stir together. Keep adding milk a bit at a time, until the dough is just moistened and holds together.
3) Use an ice cream scoop or large spoon to drop 1/4 cup portions onto cookie sheet.
4) Bake for 15-17 minutes. or until biscuits are a light golden brown.
5) While biscuits are baking, melt 3 tablespoons butter is a small bowl in your microwave. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder and the parsley. When biscuits come out of the oven, use a brush to spread garlic butter over tops of biscuits. Serve warm. Yield: 12 biscuits.
38 comments :
- Zurin said...
Grub sounds good to me! I always love wholesome rustic food. It looks more welcoming and warm if you know what I mean. :) n those biscuits have that quality about it...grub at its best.
- January 24, 2010 at 2:18 AM
- Reanaclaire said...
wow... cheddar cheese with garlic butter biscuits.. wish i could taste this..
- January 24, 2010 at 2:23 AM
Mary, I like your scenic descriptions as much as I like your food.
I would serve these for breakfast food. - January 24, 2010 at 2:24 AM
- Alessandra said...
Your description make me feel like visiting Oregon :-).
Lovely recipe, great with a glass of wine! Thank you - January 24, 2010 at 3:05 AM
- Sook said...
Wow those biscuits look perfect. I love the combination of cheddar cheese and garlic. Oh and butter! Yum!
- January 24, 2010 at 3:09 AM
- Unknown said...
What a lovely new window opening onto my drop scones knowledge! We always thought of them as pikelets: a softer mixture cooked in a fry pan. But I like these ones! They are half way to scones and I want some NOW! YumYum
- January 24, 2010 at 3:23 AM
- Wobegon Cottage said...
I think I will have to try these..my family loves those biscuits..you made me homesick with your descrption of the day. I changed the wet,gray winters of Washington for the cold, frozen tundra of Minnesota (at least until retirement)Have a great weekend ..I love all your pictures, you have great presentation.
- January 24, 2010 at 6:30 AM
- susan said...
Mary-I am trying to be thankful for the gray days, but I am longing for spring! I make these and my family loves them!..and they do taste like Red Lobster :)
- January 24, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- D said...
Mary, you paint such a lovely picture, and had it not been for all those Doug firs, I could have seen you relaxing on your deck! ;) A beautiful day indeed as we made another raised vegetable bed, raked, cleared fallen oak branches..., and did way more than our bodies cautioned against. Drop biscuits and grilled chicken sound delightful! Thank you Mary.
- January 24, 2010 at 8:53 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
My daughter made a mini version of these cheesy biscuits recently. The recipe you used is a little different than ours, so we'll have to do a side-by-side taste test. Life is so hard.
ButterYum - January 24, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- George Gaston said...
Mary, you should write for the Oregonian Travel Bureau ~ for your words are pure artistry about the beauty of your state.
What a fabulous biscuit recipe, filled with lots of wonderful things. These would be perfect with any meal, especially soup. Many thanks... - January 24, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- jennifer c. said...
I make these all the time, except that I use pancake mix to make it even easier. When I was in college I was a waitress at Red Lobster, and Bisquik was the base for their garlic cheddar biscuits. Our kids love them!
- January 24, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Kim said...
I love these biscuits!
- January 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Love those Red Lobster biscuits! Step 3 is missing - what should be there? Thanks
Martha in KS - January 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
Did you say cheddar and garlic these are on my list to make:D
- January 24, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- Chef Aimee said...
Forget the appearance being gnarly, the recipe sounds gnarly! Yum! I love biscuits.
- January 24, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Thanks, Martha. I still haven't learned to count :-). I've made the correction.
- January 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Claudia said...
Does that ever look good - all melty, crumbly goodness of bread and cheese. A definite winner.
- January 24, 2010 at 11:58 AM
- SnoWhite said...
Mary, these look absolutely wonderful! Thanks.
- January 24, 2010 at 12:31 PM
My youngest son's favorite and now thanks to you I will make them when he comes home next. :)
- January 24, 2010 at 12:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Mary, I recently discovered your blog and just wanted to register my appreciation for your delicious writing as well as your nummy recipes. I read you more for the former than the latter because I fear the former is rarer! Thanks, sweetie!
- January 24, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Karen said...
I don't care for the taste of Bisquick, so I like that these are made from scratch. They do look good... they'd be great with a bowl of soup!
- January 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- CC said...
I love your recipes, but I love your writing and comments even more.I
always enjoy my visits with you..ooo.just think. Spring will soon actually be here and I can hardly wait. - January 24, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
grub indeed, but what could be better.
Now, these are man biscuits - January 24, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- Nancy Jane said...
This is my favorite biscuit! Your photos are so wonderful...Can I ask what type of camera you're using? Is it an SLR or a point and shoot. My old 1st generation Olympus digital is on the way out and I've got to replace it quickly!
Thanks...Nancy - January 24, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- pam said...
I've made these before, though I try not to make them too often, because I simply cannot stop eating them once I begin.
- January 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Nancy Jane I use a Canon Power Shot A590 IS. It's a point and click.
- January 24, 2010 at 3:58 PM
- Curious Lissa said...
i love the touch of the garlic in this recipe. I bet without the garlic they wouldn't be special. With it too tempting!
- January 24, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- noble pig said...
Love the rustic, knobby look on these and yes Saturday was Beautiful! Today...well, it's beautiful in a dreary, cold kind of way!!
- January 24, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- Velva said...
These biscuits look hearty. I love this kind of drop biscuits. the problem is, I could never just eat 1-2 of them.
The idea of taking your mugs of coffee at daybreak to enjoy the scenery is just blissful. - January 24, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Oregon is a beautiful place--the gray days make you appreciate the sunny ones even more.
The biscuits look delicious--love the garlic and cheese. - January 24, 2010 at 8:33 PM
- theUngourmet said...
I've only eaten at Red Lobster once and I can tell you, the biscuits are the best part of the meal!
This is a wonderful recipe. I love the flecks of parsley showing in them. I am such a biscuit lover and I am never able to stop at just one!
Have a wonderful week! - January 24, 2010 at 11:56 PM
- Coralie Cederna Johnson said...
This is the kind of food I could eat all day long every day! Wonderful recipe, Mary! Thanks so much for sharing!
- January 25, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- Jennie said...
Mary, bring on the grub!!
I love everything about these biscuits! I think I'll add a few chives to mine. :) - January 25, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- Katy ~ said...
Mary, I went to a friend's house for breakfast and she served cheddar muffins. I wished for the recipe but hesitated to ask for it. And here you have one here, that is just exactly what I was looking for. THANK YOU! Saving!!!!
- January 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM
- My Little Space said...
These are perfect for some soup! Love the cheesy flavour of it.
- January 28, 2010 at 4:52 AM
- Jamergurl921 said...
These are delicious!!! I've made them quite a few times and everyone always asks for the recipe! I love them!
- August 26, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Jamergurl, I'm so glad to have found a kindred spirit. I'm glad you like the biscuits. Have a great day. Blessings...Mary
- August 26, 2010 at 2:59 PM


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A reader extension providing precompiled regular expression literals of the form #/[a-z0-9]+/i and #r{^/path/(to)/file$}
Using regular expression literals in the interpreter
Loading regex-literals also loads the regex unit and allows convenient use of regular expression literals as follows:
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[procedure] (read-regex-literal [PORT])Reads a regular expression literal of the form #/.../ from PORT, which defaults to the value of (current-input-port). The literal is converted to a precompiled regular expression object using the (regexp) procedure provided by the regex unit.
Regular expression literals may include one or more options that modify the way the pattern matches strings. The options are one or more characters placed immediately after the terminator:
- #/.../i PCRE_CASELESS: case-insensitive mode; the pattern match will ignore the case of letters in the pattern.
- #/.../x PCRE_EXTENDED: extended mode; complex regular expressions can be difficult to read, so this option allows you to insert spaces, newlines, and comments in the pattern to make it more readable.
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Experts disagree on the practice of papering the Internet with your résumé versus being more selective with where you post it. Some will tell you that anytime a person looks at your résumé, you've got a chance at a job, so you want as many opportunities as possible. Others will say that you want to choose specific sites on which to post your résumé so that you have more control over who sees it. If you want to tailor your résumé to specific job descriptions or have the opportunity to follow up when someone checks out your résumé, be selective about where you post it and pay attention to who's looking at it.
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If you've watched the Super Bowl at all in the last five years, you know about Monster.com. They aren't just good at making amusing commercials, they're also the best known website for posting your résumé. Get your résumé up there and make it public for greater exposure in employer searches. The site will also tell you how many times employers have looked at your résumé so you can assess whether or not you've got enough of the right keywords in it.
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The first two sites might be more well known among employers, but Indeed.com is actually the largest site for posting your résumé. The site is simple, with few bells and whistles, but posting on it is definitely worth your while. It's free for employers to search the database, so you're sure to get a lot of exposure. And, if you're curious about whether or not your résumé has the right keywords, you can do the free search yourself and see if it comes up.
LinkedIn is more than just a job-search site. LinkedIn is a great place to build your network and see how far your current network also reaches. The process for posting your experience is a little different from the other sites, but they make it easy to include keywords and skills and experience that others in your network can endorse. The site will also make your profile into a professional-looking résumé and tell you who's been looking at it so you can follow up.
While those are the four biggest websites for posting your résumé and getting noticed, there are tons more where you can build, assess and post your résumé for employers to find. One thing you should definitely do is look for a site that is specific to your particular industry. There are all kinds of industry-specific sites that can help you hone your search. Sites like BirdDogJobs.com for engineering and construction, Law.com for jobs in the legal field, or OpportunityKnocks.org for jobs in the nonprofit world. Look around a bit and find a site that's directed at the industry in which you want to work.


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Then while I was shopping at the Williams Sonoma outlet with my friend Linda at Nina's Nest, the heavens opened up and a shaft of light fell upon…my French wire egg holder! And…it was even on sale! Woo hoo! Come to mama! You have to admit that is just about the frenchiest thing you have ever seen! Now Claude Monet has nothing on me! I am in love! :-)
And now my big news…why am I showing you my Christmas decorations? They have been up all this time because…I had a magazine shoot at my house! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Yes…pinch me! Country Sampler will be featuring my house all decorated for Christmas in an issue this fall! I am still smiling and it seems like a dream! I was afraid to tell anyone until it was over…just in case it wasn't real! lol It was so much fun! The photographer and his wife/stylist were such interesting people. I felt like some friends had come to play with my toys!
And I must report that our Miss Kitty made a fool of her sweet self over them and managed to work her way into several shots! While the rest of the staff hid under the bed all day, Kitty wormed her way into their hearts and a star was born! Here she is taking a well-deserved nap after a hard day of modeling! Sooo…once the magazine is on the shelves, I will share it with you…but I have a long time to wait! I have a feeling will be excited all over again…so brace yourselves! I hope you don't mind! :-)
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Deptford primary school teacher slated over (inaccurate) '£200k' pay packet
Mark Elms, head teacher of Tidemill Primary School in Deptford, is currently getting a pasting in the national media for earning '£200k a year' ('more than the prime minister!' etc).
Let's get the facts straight first: Mr Elms was paid over £200,000 in 2009/10, including a £51,000 previous-year payment. That takes us to £149,000 which actually relates to 2009/10.
The prime minister is paid £142,500.
Mr Elms' basic salary was £82,714. He was paid around £10k overtime (in the private and third sectors, senior staff aren't usually entitled to receive overtime; I don't know whether this is the case across the public sector too).
Mr Elms was also paid approx. £50k a year for two years' work on a programme introduced by the Labour government to tackle underachievement in disadvantaged areas. From media reports, it's not clear whether this was in addition to his duties as head teacher, or part of them.
According to the school's website: 'Our 2008 results placed us top in Lewisham and 16th in the country for 'value-added' - the measure of the progress children have made since they entered the school. We have been ranked in the top 5 per cent most-improving schools for the last 4 years.'
So, the hysteria over the headline '£200k' figure doesn't appear to be warranted. The wider issue of senior staff pay remains. Schools' governing bodies are free to set senior staff pay levels. Lewisham Council said it had given 'formal advice' to Tidemill's governors; its role in the decision does not extend any further.
However, this does highlight the fact that 'academy' schools - which have opted out of local authority control - are free to act in a more commercially-minded way. Tidemill is considering applying for academy status, according to the GMB union.
Ted Purcell, the GMB union's public services officer, said: 'There is a complete lack of accountability when schools are opted out of local authority control. This demonstrates that opposition to academy status is well-founded, as these new schools will be a law unto themselves.'
Edit: BBC education reporter Hannah Richardson weighs into the debate with some actual facts and background. The two £50k payments were for work on the 'London Challenge and City Challenge project'. This seems to involve helping struggling schools, even going so far as to take a management role if necessary - so yes, he could quite possibly have been doing two jobs at once. The maximum head teacher pay rate for large inner London state schools is £109,000 - well above Mr Elms' £83k basic pay.


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This spring, a group of Princeton students will use paint to learn how art can bring about social change. To lay the foundation for this work, another group of students will fan out across Trenton to engage communities with a message about art and transformation.
Their work is the realization of a multidisciplinary social justice project that has been two years in the making.
The University's Center for African American Studies, Lewis Center for the Arts and Pace Center for Civic Engagement have been collaborating with the city of Trenton and several community groups to help launch the Trenton Mural Arts Project, a volunteer-based organization that hopes to establish a vibrant mural arts program in the city.
Princeton students will help with community outreach and the creation of the mural working with the three University partners. The project is being led by a committee that includes Artworks, the Trenton Downtown Association, the Capital City Redevelopment Corporation and the City of Trenton, with the assistance of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. The partners announced the initiative Friday, Nov. 19, at a press conference in Trenton.
The mural will be created in the spring at the Home Rubber Company in Trenton. Princeton's Atelier program, which brings professional artists to Princeton for intensive collaborative work with students and faculty, will offer a spring course dedicated to the project called "The Big Picture: Mural Arts in Philadelphia and Trenton."
Taught by Jane Golden, the director of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, along with muralist Shira Walinsky, the course will examine the history of mural art, formal issues of design and formal functions of place in public art. Students will help paint the mural as they explore how the mural process has been a powerful tool for social change and how identity, perception and power shift when communities are part of creating and writing their own histories through murals and other public art.
"Art is integral to everyday life and an essential component of social and political engagement," said Princeton Atelier director Stacy Wolf. "This mural project extends the vision and scope of past Princeton Atelier community-based arts courses, which have included documentary filmmaking, dance, theater and photography."
Also integral to the project is the Center for African American Studies at Princeton, whose Arts and Social Justice Initiative forges community partnerships in Trenton and the surrounding areas to broaden and enhance scholarship about how the arts have an impact on social justice issues and community collaboration. Center associate director Noliwe Rooks helped initiate the project two years ago.
"We intend to bring together people whose paths might otherwise never have crossed and build lasting relationships," Rooks said. "The center's arts initiative focuses on important issues in community development, service learning in arts education, new models of practice in community-based arts, and cultural diversity and youth development through the arts."
Students from the Atelier course and the Pace Center, which offers students opportunities to engage in public service, will collaborate with community leaders in facilitating the public outreach and community engagement of the mural project. They will be involved in a series of outreach sessions to be held this winter to inform residents about the project and get their feedback about what they would like the mural to express.
"This project aligns with our desire to support community revitalization and civic engagement," said Don Dailey, the assistant director of civic engagement at the Pace Center. "It will engage our students with the Trenton community in mutually beneficial ways. Students will be exposed to urban culture and support community organizing, focus groups, and the push and pull of community engagement."
"This is an exciting day for the city and for us," said Eva Loayza, a mural project committee member and promotions manager for the Trenton Downtown Association. "The mural arts project is tapping into an already thriving arts scene in the city. We hope the community will embrace this project as their own, and help us produce a mural that will be a source of pride and inspiration for all residents."
Individuals interested in the project can get updates about its progress on the Trenton Mural Arts Project website, www.trentonmuralartsproject.org. The project's organizers also are planning to develop Facebook and Twitter pages to go live later this year.


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When I was at the farmers market picking up the red peppers and the tomatoes for the gemista that I recently made, I could not resist picking some up some eggplants and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. Another one of the more memorable dishes that I tried in Greece was a slow roasted eggplant dish that was covered in a really simple and tasty tomato and onion sauce. Once again I was surprised that something with so few apparent ingredients could be so tasty! Not wanting the eggplant to be left out of the slow roasted vegetable fun I was planning on trying to reproduce the dish at home. I did not catch the name of the dish while I was in Greece but after a quick search I came across a recipe for imam baildi by Peter on on Kalofagas that seemed to have all the right ingredients.
The version of this dish that I had in Greece was very oily and I decided to try to cut down on the olive oil as much as possible. Normally the eggplant shells would have been fried in oil but I went with oven roasting them as I really enjoy oven roasted eggplant and it does not need a lot of oil. Other than the eggplant I used perfectly ripe field tomatoes in the sauce and I let the sauce slowly simmer until it thickened to let all of the flavours come out. The final step was to fill the eggplants with the sauce and slowly roast them in the oven until everything was nice and tender and the tomatoes on the top started to caramelize. The imam bayildi turned out really well! Everything was nice and tender and just packed full of amazing flavour. Though the photo looks a little dry, once you cut into it, all of the juices started to flow and it was actually nice and moist. I served the imam baildi with feta and some crusty bread.
I was thinking that another way to do this would be to use broiled sliced eggplant instead of the eggplant shells. I would place the eggplant slices on the bottom of a baking dish and then just cover everything with the tomato and onion sauce. I will try it this way next time and I imagine that I will need to double or triple the sauce recipe. This way should be a bit easier than having to scoop out the eggplant and use it as a shell.
Imam Baildi
- 2 eggplants
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 onions (sliced)
- 4 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 4 tomatoes (peeled and diced)
- 1 green pepper (seeded and sliced)
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 handful parsley (chopped)
- 2 tomatoes (sliced)
- 1/2 onion (sliced)
- Slice the eggplants in half lengthwise, scoop out the middles and chop them.
- Salt the eggplant shells and chopped middles and let rest in a strainer for 203-30 minutes.
- Roast the eggplant shells in a preheated 400F/200C oven until tender, about 15-20 minutes.
- Rinse the salt from the eggplant and pat dry.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the onions and saute until the onions are tender, about 7-10 minutes.
- Add the garlic and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add the chopped eggplant, tomatoes, green pepper, oregano, salt and pepper and cook until the sauce thickens, about 25 minutes.
- Remove the sauce from the burner and stir in the parsley.
- Place the eggplant shells in a baking dish, fill them with the mixture and top with the sliced tomatoes and onions.
- Fill the dish with hot water until it goes halfway up the eggplant shells.
- Bake in a preheated 400F/200C oven until the water has evaporated and the tomatoes and onions are well roasted and caramelized, about 1 hour.


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Here's the latest on tropical storm Isaac, which could hit Florida this weekend and drench the Republican National Convention in Tampa early next week:
-- The National Hurricane Center says the center of the storm should pass "to the south of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today ... [then] approach the Dominican Republic tonight and Friday."
-- Latest readings indicate Isaac's winds "have decreased to near 40 mph ... [but] restrengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours. ... And Isaac could still become a hurricane on Friday before it reaches Hispaniola." (Update at 11:20 a.m. ET: The Hurricane Center's latest report is here. It is still looking for Isaac to strengthen on Friday.)
-- The "forecast cone" still has Isaac's eye passing over Cuba on Sunday, near or over South Florida early Monday and then up toward Tampa as Monday turns into Tuesday.
Tampa, of course, is welcoming more than 50,000 visitors (delegates, the media and others) and about 15,000 protesters for the Republican convention that's set to officially get started on Monday.
The city's mayor, Democrat Bob Buckhorn, told Tell Me More on Wednesday that "we're prepared to deal with this ... we live with this reality every storm season" and that he's "hopeful that the storm takes a difference course and heads east."
Public safety, Buckhorn added, "trumps politics" and of course could force a cancellation of the convention. But, he said, "we haven't been hit by a storm in 90 years and we're not expecting to be hit by this one."
More of what Buckhorn had to say will be on Tell Me More later today. Click here to find an NPR station that broadcasts the show.
According to The Tampa Tribune, Hillsborough County Emergency Management spokeswoman Holly Wade says that "if a hurricane or tropical storm is bearing down on Tampa, the priority of law enforcement is to evacuate residents, leaving GOP officials to make the decision of when to evacuate delegates."
"We provide the weather information, then we take that to the host committee, which decides if the event goes on or if the event gets altered," Wade told the Tribune.
As for whether the weather will turn nasty or dangerous in Tampa:
-- The Tampa Bay Times writes that "in one scenario, Isaac could turn north over eastern Cuba and skim, or completely miss, Florida and the East Coast. The more likely case, experts said, is that Isaac will turn north later and either hit Florida or drift west of the state and into the Gulf of Mexico."
-- Our colleagues at WUSF warn that while Isaac "could veer harmlessly into the Atlantic, or march through the middle of the Gulf ... most computer models have the storm hitting Tampa, possibly as a Category One hurricane."
Related story on Morning Edition: Hurricane Andrew's Legacy: 'Like A Bomb' In Florida.
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I would like to know how and why atheists can knowledgeably ignore the laws of physics when considering such things as creation?
It's interesting that you would say that, because it turns out that physicists tend to be atheists far more than most people. According to fairly recent surveys, while around 85% of people in the world believe in some kind of God, somewhere around 60% of practicing physical scientists have doubts about the existence of God, and among members of the National Academy of Sciences -- one of the most elite groups of scientists in the world -- only about 7% are believers.It seems that more advanced a person is in scientific disciplines, the less likely they are to believe in God. Maybe you should take up your question with them.all the laws of physics prove that nothing can come from nothing, so how did this universe come into exsistance, if not from nothing, where did that original "something", most often referrred to as matter or ssome other form, come from?
Big Bang theory doesn't attempt to address this question. The universe came to its present state around 14.5 billion years ago. Before that, everything in the universe was compressed into a small enough state that known laws of physics can't be applied properly.
Therefore, the Big Bang is not an assertion that anything came "from nothing." Could have always existed. Could have been generated out of matter from a meta-universe. Could have spontaneously come into existence through a matter/antimatter reaction. The responsible perspective is to accept that we don't know, and won't until a new way to collect evidence is worked out.
You, on the other hand, seem to believe that you do know. And your belief is that the universe was in fact created from nothing, by a being who either always existed or, in turn, came into existence from nothing itself. I think it's remarkable that you don't see the irony in that position.
more importantly, id like you to address cosmological singularity, which has been accepted by most, if not al physicists, concluding that there is, and always has been God,
I don't know where you're getting your information from, although my guess would be that it's from within a certain part of your body. As I've already pointed out, you can get actual information from scientists about how much they believe in god, and it's considerably less than the general public. Besides which, even scientists who believe in God would very rarely claim that this believe is in some way scientifically proven. Most of them hold to some form of Stephen Jay Gould's idea of "non-overlapping magisteria," claiming that faith in god and scientific evidence should be held as dealing with separate domains.Almost no formal papers have been published in mainstream, peer reviewed scientific journals addressing the question of a god's existence, and those that have slipped through are generally not cited as relevant by any other scientific works. This is so widely acknowledged that creationists routinely claim that the "scientific establishment" is involved in a massive conspiracy against their work. This is, of course, baseless paranoia, since the reason that their work doesn't get published is that it's a load of poorly supported, pseudoscientific quackery.
therefore disproving the core of atheist beliefs. in such a society today that is so scientifically based, it is ignorant to ignore such things as cosmological singularity, as well as other laws of physics, including einstiens relativity, and quantum mechanics, which even led einstien to believe in the exsistance of God.
Somebody's been lying to you, dude.
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
-- Albert Einstein, in a letter March 24, 1954; from Albert Einstein the Human Side, Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1981, p. 43.
thank you for your time, tho you'll be wasting your efforts trying to disprove the laws of the universe to justify your living in denial.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. Ta ta!
And here's the reply. Wait for it....
lol you actually wasted youre time to rely to me ??? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!1
THANK YO SO MUCH FOR MAKING MY DAY! hahahahaah! thank you! wow you really would waste youre time like this wouldnt you!!! hahahaha!
im glad to know that you "care" enough about your "public" to reply to this! hahahahahahaha!
(by the way my email contained a virus)
have a "wonderful" life and then die!!!!!


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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New dragons are added regularly!
Gilded Bloodscale Dragons often spend hours investigating every minute detail of caves, making sure their living spaces are arranged exactly how they like. They crave intellectual stimulation and get bored easily. As such, these dragons prefer to lure in their prey using their sharp minds rather than brute strength, often engaging in battles of wits between their two heads to determine how best to proceed. Seen as eccentric by other dragons, they are often shunned by all but their own kind.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.
Two-headed dragons are unique enough to deserve a separate classification from ordinary dragons. They have two necks, two brains, two mouths, but one stomach and one main body. The two heads usually work together, but there are times when they will fight each other, snapping back and forth. Their unique anatomy prevents them from breeding with single-headed dragons.


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In the annals of incumbents failing to get on the ballot, Rep. Thad McCotter's epic fail has some company. Maybe not lots of it since incumbents tend to know, if nothing else, how to work the levers in their favor.
But there have been other incumbents derailed by the requirement to obtain voter signatures to get on ballots even if you sometimes have to go back quite a ways to find them. If it's a wing in the political hall of shame for incumbents, it would be a small room compared, say, to the much larger one for convicted politicos.
As has been widely reported, the Michigan Republican and one-time presidential candidate, failed to get the requisite 1,000 signatures needed to secure a place on the Aug. 7 primary ballot. State election officials determined that only 244 of the 1,834 signatures McCotter submitted were valid.
Among the problems with many of the others was that they were photocopied. A criminal investigation is underway as is McCotter's attempt to hang onto his seat through a write-in campaign.
McCotter's travails resemble those of former Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams.
In 2002, Williams' campaign caused many a jaw to drop around the nation when it accomplish the routine task of getting 2,000 valid signatures to put the incumbent mayor back on the ballot.
Not that the campaign didn't try. It submitted petitions with more than 10,000 signatures.
Unfortunately for Williams, a watchdog group challenged his petitions and election officials found them to be filled with so many forgeries and other defects that the mayor couldn't even reach the relatively modest threshold. So a big-city mayor was forced into the humiliating and virtually unheard of situation of waging a write-in campaign. He won, perhaps giving McCotter something to hold onto, although "Williams" is a lot easier for voters to spell correctly than "McCotter."
The road to the White House can be paved with bad nominating petitions. In a story well known in Chicago political circles, President Obama's Illinois political career began when he challenged the names on the petitions of an incumbent state senator named Alice Palmer. It turned out many of her signatures found to be invalid.
After she was denied a spot on the ballot, Obama went on to win her seat which he used, improbably, as a springboard to the U.S. Senate.
Perhaps, the bar of a thousand or two thousand signatures to get on a ballot is too high, you might say.
Apparently, many states agree. Unfortunately for McCotter and Williams, they weren't running in those jurisdictions.
Richard Winger, one of the nation's top experts on ballot access, told me in an interview that most states actually make it fairly easy to get on the ballot.
"In the majority of states candidates get on the ballot with no petition at all. They just pay a filing fee.
Of course, as Winger notes, even a simple filing fee can be too much for some campaigns to get right. Back in 1984, he says, the check used to pay presidential candidate Jesse Jackson's West Virginia filing fee bounced. State officials let him write a new check even though it was past the deadline, says Winger.
"Thirty-one states require no petition at all and then there's quite a few that require a very small number. There's about five or six states where the number of signatures is so tiny, like in Hawaii, it's 25 for statewide office and U.S. House. In Tennessee it's 25 for all offices. In California it's 40 for district office and 65 for statewide (office.) So those states are almost like having no petition (requirement.)
Sixty five signatures in California. You would think that would be a breeze, right? Think again.
Winger relates the following about a state official who was running for re-election:
"Even in California, our superintendent of public instruction, a statewide office, Wilson Riles, messed up getting the 65 ballot signatures. The court just excused it. They said 'Oh, he was substantially in compliance. He was close enough.' That was 1978."
What's so difficult about getting a few signatures? Winger has firsthand experience.
"Even a small petition is harder than people realize. I remember once in 1976 anyone who volunteered to get 100 signatures to get the Libertarian presidential candidate on the ballot in California got a free subscription for a year to Libertarian Review. So I thought 'I can do that.' I was shocked by how hard it was. It took me a month.
"I'd go out to the movie line of the movie theater in my neighborhood and then the manager comes out and tells me to get off the sidewalk. Well, I refused because I knew I was within my rights. Nevertheless, everybody in line heard that, and then thought I was a bad person and wouldn't sign. It's psychologically hard, kind of like hitchhiking. You're asking strangers for a favor. It's psychologically uncomfortable."
That may explain why some people who circulate petitions wind up making up names and the like. That's definitely the path of least resistance.
But election officials routinely check the signatures as they did in Michigan with McCotter's petitions. And forging or inventing names on ballot petitions is a crime.
The better course for politicians who'd prefer to avoid the signature chase altogether might be to move to one of the 31 states without petition requirements.
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Life in the Spirit
1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.1 2For the law of the Spirit of life has set you2 free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,3 he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus4 from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Heirs with Christ
12So then, brothers,5 we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons6 of God. 15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Future Glory
18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because7 the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,8 for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
God's Everlasting Love
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be9 against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.10 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written,
"For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 8:1 Some manuscripts add who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit)
- 2 8:2 Some manuscripts me
- 3 8:3 Or and as a sin offering
- 4 8:11 Some manuscripts lack Jesus
- 5 8:12 Or brothers and sisters; also verse 29
- 6 8:14 See discussion on "sons" in the Preface
- 7 8:27 Or that
- 8 8:28 Some manuscripts God works all things together for good, or God works in all things for the good
- 9 8:31 Or who is
- 10 8:34 Or Is it Christ Jesus who died . . . for us?
The Glory We Await
Romans 8:18–25 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 53:31 • ID: 3515The Law of God
Hebrews 10:1–18, Romans 8:1–4 Sermon • Includes Transcript • 43:31 • ID: 3282Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.