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June 29, 2011 1:29 pm ET
Adding pressure on Governor Perry to sign the Texas TSA "Anti-groping" Bill the legislature there passed last week is news that the Department of Homeland Security Agency's TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, has been covering up a surge of its workers developing cancer, strokes and heart disease -- employees working in close proximity to radiation-firing devices according to latest FOIA documents obtained by Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) had filed a lawsuit to suspend the deployment of body scanners at US airports, pending an independent review. The organization had applied for information in its legal case investigation.
EPIC's legal case argues that the federal agency "has violated the Administrative Procedures Act, the Privacy Act, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Fourth Amendment. EPIC cited the invasive nature of the devices, the TSA's disregard of public opinion, and the impact on religious freedom" it reported Tuesday.
"One document set reveals that, even after TSA employees identified cancer clusters possibly linked to radiation exposure, the agency failed to issue employees dosimeters - safety devices that could assess the level of radiation exposure," says EPIC.
Airport security machines, also referred to as "body scanner", "whole body imager (WBI)", and "security scanner," are the latest way travelers are being radiated.
Another document EPIC received evidences that the Department of Homeland Security "mischaracterized the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stating that NIST 'affirmed the safety' of full body scanners. The documents obtained by EPIC reveal that NIST disputed that characterization and stated that the Institute did not, in fact, test the devices."
EPIC notes that a Johns Hopkins University study revealed that radiation zones around body scanners could exceed the "General Public Dose Limit." (See: EPIC: EPIC v. Department of Homeland Security - Full Body Scanner Radiation Risks and EPIC: EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program) June 24, 2011)
TSA backscatters are not only a virtual strip search, they are irradiating.
Since backscatters were introduced, they have been raising privacy concerns about what is seen by the person viewing the scan. Some worry that viewing the image violates confidential medical information, such as using a colostomy bag, having a missing limb, wearing a prosthesis, or is transsexual.
The ACLU and Electronic Privacy Information Center are also opposed to this technology, presently used in the U.S. at 78 airports, four court houses, two correctional facilities, with another 12 airports scheduled for them.
The ACLU refers to backscatter x-rays as a "virtual strip search."
The British newspaper The Guardian has revealed concern among British officials that the use of such scanners to scan children may be illegal under the Protection of Children Act 1978, which prohibits the creation and distribution of indecent images of children. (See: Travis, Alan, "New scanners break child porn laws". The Guardian (London). Retrieved January 6, 2010.)
Even in very small dosed, energy emitted by a backscatter X-ray is still a type of ionizing radiation that damages chemical bonds and is considered carcinogenic. Many officials have tried to refute this but, with the new evidence from EPIC, those supporting the radiation devices might have less of a leg to stand on.
Michael Chertoff, Former Department of Homeland Security and now Chertoff Group head, was led the" Full Body Scanner Lobby" and was promoting the radiation scanners days after the underwear bomber. In 2009, Chertoff went on a media tour promoting the scanners, without disclosing he was getting paid by Rapiscan, one of the two companies TSA is contracting to provide the scanners.
Another EPIC Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security was filed for DHS unlawfully withholding documents concerning mobile body scanners.
Human rights defenders claimed victory over DHS and its TSA in Texas this week as the Texas legislature passed the "TSA "Anti-groping" Bills that critics agreed blatantly violating human rights at US airports.
EPIC broke the news that the new mobile scanners can be used to monitor crowds, peering under clothes and inside bags. EPIC had obtained documents describing DHS's plan to expand the use of these systems at railways, stadiums, and elsewhere.
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.It publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age - the EPIC Alert.


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It opens from both sides—that's why we call it "magic." Exterior pockets for credit cards and ID. Interior features elastic bands, perfect for holding cash and business cards.How To Win
If you would like to win the magic wallet, all you have to do is e-mail me by midnight tonight. If that link doesn't work, you can e-mail me at jadorethesestores AT gmail DOT com. I will randomly pick a winner and announce it tomorrow morning. Good luck!

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It's no wonder that American artist Michael Heizer chose the quiet, empty, remote mountain-surrounded basins of Garden Valley in southern Nevada to site his largest sculpture, "City." The monumental, mile-and-a-half-long collection of mounds and abstract forms — created from earth, rock and concrete — is still unfinished but its intention is clear: the evocation of ancient ruins, sacred spaces and modern urban forms bound to an endless open stretch of desert, sky and mountain; a glimpse of human civilization framed by the natural, sublimely beautiful and uniquely American landscape called basin and range.
In this isolated region, Heizer is making art of the land. Nearly the entire sculpture is formed from the material at hand. Built mounds are balanced by depressions to create an unusual and constantly shifting visual experience. Subtly colored ancient river rocks, moved to Nevada from far-off places during the ice age, have been mined to cover the compacted earth forms. That same rock has been made into concrete for linear curbs that catch light and shadow and will stabilize the sculpture for centuries if not millenniums.
Size and scale are important aspects of our aesthetic experience in art and in nature. Within its perimeter, Heizer's "City" seems massive as experienced from our human point of view; yet from the entrance to Garden Valley, his low earthen "City" is nearly invisible against the vast, horizontal desert.
Heizer has been constructing his masterwork for nearly 50 years in solitude. "City" occupies a privately owned parcel that, once the sculpture is finished, will be open to the public. But it is inseparable from what surrounds it — government property that is mostly controlled by the federal Bureau of Land Management. All of it, including Heizer's artwork, is fragile, endangered and worthy of protection.
This part of Nevada has narrowly escaped ruinous development in the past. It was once earmarked as a staging ground for the MX missile and later as a railroad route for transporting nuclear waste. Those projects have receded, but the region is still vulnerable to energy exploration, oil and gas drilling, mining claims, road building and other uses. It's time to protect "City" and its surroundings once and for all.
Conservationists have long sought to safeguard Garden Valley and its neighbor, Coal Valley, and the connections among eight nearby mountain ranges. They propose a Basin and Range National Monument. Its approximately 700,000 acres would contain a unique variety of Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basin vegetation communities. It would shelter at least two dozen threatened and sensitive species, including ancient bristlecone pines, some more than 2,000 years old. The area also provides crucial winter range for elk and animals that rely on sagebrush habitat to survive — mule deer, pygmy rabbits and the greater sage grouse.
Native Americans lived here for thousands of years. Remnants of their use of the land remain in the form of ancient trails, petroglyphs and rock shelters. Most of these nationally significant cultural sites have no protective status and remain vulnerable to vandalism.
Setting aside this land would help to rectify an imbalance in Nevada's and America's parklands. Past conservation efforts in this part of the country have focused on the range part of basin and range territory, but not on the basins, the valleys. They've been fragmented by roads and development, with few enjoying conservation status.
Michael Heizer's "City" is a simple yet deeply complex and elegant artwork that deserves to last through the ages. It relies on — it cannot be separated from — the basin and range landscape in which and from which it has been created. With the proposed national monument, we have a rare and historic opportunity to protect an important expanse of public lands, a beautiful and pristine environment, and a world-class artwork for future generations.
Michael Govan is director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Brian O'Donnell is executive director of the Conservation Lands Foundation.
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Guest Posts, Interviews
Want to read more of my writing and interviews?
Here's some of my guest posts and interviews I've done for other book and writer websites. Enjoy!
@ Prairie Rose Publications: Quilts Play a Role in the Trail of Thread series
@ The Romance Room: author interview
@ The Muffin: Stop by for an interview!
Guest Blog for the Women-Writing Newsletter
@ Writers Inspired: Learn about "Writing Fiction Based on Factual Events" from historical fiction auithor Linda K. Hubalek.
Guest Blog for the Writers Inspired Website
@ Aunt Pitty Pat's: Have you ever wondered about the life of pioneer women? Linda K. Hubalek, author of four historical fiction series about pioneer women, will be giving readers the facts. She'll also be giving away an ebook of Trail of Thread, a book about Kansas, quilting, and family.
Guest Blog on Aunt Pitty Pat's Website
@ Fresh Fiction: Stop by today to learn a bit more about historical novelist Linda Hubalek!
Guest Blog on Fresh Fiction Website
@ Lori's Reading Corner: Stop by for a surprise guest post.
Guest Blog on Lori's Reading Corner
@ Cathy C's Hall of Fame: Will you inspire your descendants? Historical novelist Linda Hubalek writes about how her ancestors inspired her series Trail of Thread!
Guest Blog on Cathy C's Hall of Fame
@ The Book Tree: Stop by for a book review of Trail of Thread today!
Book Review on The Book Tree
@ Caroline Clemmons: Caroline reviews Trail of Thread by Linda K. Hubalek today. Book Review by Caroline Clemmons
@ Quilting Gallery: Linda tells us about how quilting is intertwined in her historical series.
Guest Blog on the Quilting Gallery
@ Caroline Clemmons: Stop by for an interview with historical fiction author Linda Hubalek!
Author Interview by Caroline Clemmons
@ Words from the Heart: Linda posts on "The Meaning behind Quilts".
Guest Blog on Words of the Heart
@ Bringing Stories to Life on a Page: Stop by for a guest post.
Guest Blog on Margo Dill's "Read These books and Use them"
@ A Slice of Life Writing: Stop by for Linda's guest post on "When Your Family History Inspires You to Write Fiction".
Guest Blog on A Slice of Life Writing
@ Books, Books, The Magical Fruit: Learn more about Linda Hubalek, author of the Trail of Thread historical series, as well as three other historical series.
Interview and Book review on Books, Books, The Magical Fruit
@ Thoughts in Progress: Learn more about Linda Hubalek, author of the Trail of Thread historical series, and her books.
Book review and blog on Thoughts in Progress
@ Family Literacy and You: Tina "the Book Lady" reviews the Trail of Thread historical fiction book series, and recommends families read it together as a project.
Book review on Family Literacy and You


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The last few days I keep stumbling on the same issue that either some of you are expressing to me, or I see others struggling with, which is easy to summarize in the following statement:
"Oh, I want to write a book, but I have no time. There's ... (insert a valid-sounding reason like "millions of dollars to chase for my American dream" or "twenty elderly aunts to take care of" or "scores of TV shows to catch up on" or "hungry triplets to feed from three bottles at once" or whatever.)
So here's the deal. Life is full of busy shit. We're like muckworms squirming in it, fighting for that bit of sun to warm our slimy hides (you can tell writing TUBE is influencing my imagery here). And life is full of people. These people will demand things from you, like help with their own dreams of millions of dollars, or help with changing diapers of their forty elderly uncles, and on and on and on. Unless you employ a stopper for this chatter, IT WILL NEVER CEASE.
And since I've been lately very good at keeping the gates to my mind closed and as a result producing a good amount of writing every day and even accomplishing my 100-pages-a-day reading goal (I set it upon myself), I have decided to share with you this wisdom, so next time you whine and plead and beseech and moan on having no time to write, I can refer you to this post and spank you till you write me a Pulitzer. Or two. Or ten.
The rules are simple.
1. Minutes add up.
You might not realize it and not even see it, until it's evening, and you're exhausted, and there's still a shit-ton of stuff to do, and your brain is wrung dry and you can't produce squat. What writing? Fuck that. You want to drop into bed and expire. And yet you can't, that nagging question swirling in your head. "Where did the day go?"
Ever had one of those? Yeah, I know, me too. It seems you're running around all day like your ass is on fire, and nothing gets done. How is that possible? Minutes. Minutes of wasted time eat into hours eat into days.
I have recently resolved to read poetry and was breaking my head over how to find time to do it. Then I have noticed that every time I go pee, I take my phone with me. What do I do? Oh, check this and that. So I stopped doing it and decided to read a poem every time I pee. Or 10 poems every time I poop, depending on the length of the poop. The results astounded me. Little by little I have been able to read 20-30 pages of poetry a day! Granted, we girls pee more often than you guys, and we sit down, but I suppose you can easily hold your precious member in one hand and a book in another and your mom won't scream at you (in your head) for tinkling on the seat, right? You'll still retain your aim. Try it. It'll magically show you the passage of minutes.
2. If you let things sit, some of them will resolve themselves.
I occasionally would get private messages from you. DMs on Twitter, or messages on Facebook, or on Goodreads or on Wattpad. Or emails. And sometimes those would be requests of some sort. Actually, they're requests 80% of the time. "Can you read my story?" "Can you give me advice?" "Can you look at this link?" "Can you wash my dog?" "Can you dance for me naked?" Whatever it is, it lodges in my mind the moment I see it, and I start thinking about it, therefore it pushed everything else out of my mind. And if there's a bunch of these? My mind starts boiling.
So, I'm now checking these things only once a day, AFTER I'm done with my writing. An interesting phenomenon occurred. One person sent me a message, and then when I didn't respond, a few messages containing "???" All right. You see where this is coming from? From being instantly available. And that's what I mean by keeping the gates to your brain closed: keep this stuff out. In the evening I responded, and all was well. Then I got another message, and by the time I responded, the request resolved itself. Here is your new mantra (repeat after me):
Whatever it is other people want from you, you can't give everyone everything. There's only you! You'd burst to pieces! You yourself know how much energy you have every day. Ration it. If you have 1 hour a day on engaging with people, open your gates, talk to everyone who's there, and then when the hour is up, close them. You're done. No more. You have a finite amount of time, and if you won't keep it protected, it'll be squandered by others on trifles.
3. The world won't die without you.
This is my biggest struggle still. This worry about everyone else. The kids to feed. The squirrels to make faces at. The tweets to tweet. The emails to answer. I'd get to the point of a nervous tick, compulsively reaching for my phone thinking that life as I know it has ended. Well, it didn't. In fact, it's all the better because I'm spending time on writing: it's making me happy which is making people around me happy which is making the world happy.
Whatever it is you think is draining you, push it out and close the gates! For me it's news. I don't read news. I have no capacity to deal with news and then write. If some horrible shit happens somewhere (and some horrible shit always happens somewhere) I want to drop everything and run and save everyone and fight for the right thing, and so on. Forget about writing. My mind is gone. Once I noticed it, I stopped. I was ashamed of it for a long time. "Did you hear about this-and-this?" "Nope." "But it's been all over the news!" "I don't read news." I'd get these strange accusing looks. Well, this doesn't bother me anymore.
To make a change in the world we must start with ourselves. And that's what I'm working on, that's my contribution. If one day I'll have enough mental space and ammunition to fight along with others, I will. This is not my fight right now. My fight is to learn English so I can express what I feel with such power that it will ring through your skulls and lift you up to the Moon and bash you at the stars till you'll be consumed with desire to scream my powerful words on every corner. Until then, I'm learning my craft.
I suggest you look at your life and pick your battle. And if your battle is to write a book, then set everything aside, close the gates, AND BLOODY DO IT. You don't know when you'll die.
4. It's your life. Spend it how you want to spend it.
If writing is what you want to do, as soon as you declare it to people, there will be always those who will try to stop you, dropping their own fears and unaccomplished dreams on you. KEEP THE GATES TO YOUR MIND CLOSED. Don't let those people in. Cut them out of your life. Whatever people tell you you ought to do, it's their view of your life. Well, they can go stuff their ideas up their asses. You'd be surprised how harmful words can be, how easily someone's harsh comment can dissuade you from writing and, on top of it, make you lose precious time. See the pattern here? Minutes. Once you glance at some message telling you that maybe you should drop this writing idea and go look for a job, you won't be able to get it out of your head.
So, again. Gates. Gates. GATES!!!
What you put in your head stays there. What you see you can't unsee, what you hear you can't unhear. I have noticed that one negative line can wreck me for hours. Hours! That's hours of lost writing time. We creatives are fragile girls and boys. We can pretend all we want to be thick-skinned, but we hurt, oh we hurt badly when we hear our art is worth nothing. We want to give up. We cry all day. We mop and sop and hem and haw. That is why many of us never read our book reviews (though I read every one of mine). Again, time. The minutes are ticking. Your book won't write itself, will it?
5. Don't give a flying fuck about what people think.
In case you decide to employ my method of "keeping gates to your mind closed," chances are, someone will ridicule you for it. Especially if before people have gotten used to you being constantly available. I bet they'll tell you what they think about you. I bet they'll call you names. I bet they'll throw tantrums just to show you how upset they are. Family members are especially good at this. What to do? Let them. The times of you making other people feel better are over. If you want to find the time to write, you'll have to banish all those little time suckers. Funny enough, once you start this process, people who genuinely love you will support you. It's good weeding, I tell you. True friends stay, the rest fall off. GOOD RIDDANCE.
6. Practice, practice, practice.
Like with any skill, this thing of shutting gates takes practice. You'll slip. It's okay. I slip too. But with time you'll get better, and better, and better. Ever wonder how some people you admire get it all done? It's not like they have more time than you. They have the same old 24/7, but they have learned to shut the gates and keep them closed until they get their work accomplished, whatever that work is, and open the gates only for the amount of time they can give and not a minute over. You can do the same. Once you start doing it, you'll notice people respecting your time more and more. It's an amazing feeling, to see it. You'll be nagged less. You'll be bothered only for important reasons. The world will sort itself out and adjust to you and leave you alone to create.
P.S.: Oh, and as requested by Ryan in the comments on the book pricing post, I will write another one, with a more detailed breakdown next. So hang tight, Ryan, it's coming.


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Miami-Yoder Schools Scores High Marks with New Security!
Highway 94, which runs a ruler-straight path between Colorado Springs to the west and Kansas to the east, is about the only thing that breaks up the vista of lush green alfalfa fields and cattle ranches here in eastern Colorado. The town of Rush is one of several unincorporated towns that dot the highway, and is the rural home to a population of less than 750 people.
Located 40 miles east of Colorado Springs – the state's second most populous city, nestled at the base of the iconic Pikes Peak in the Rocky Mountains – Rush is also home to the only school building in the Miami-Yoder School District, which for years struggled with many issues relating to its remote location and the poor conditions of its facilities. The district, which serves a 500-square-mile area of three counties in this rural part of Colorado, was spending a significant percentage of its budget on busing students elsewhere to provide them with services not available at the school because of its challenging facilities, location and budgetary constraints.


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A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director. Read on for Dijkgraaf's take on the importance of curiosity-driven research, how we can cultivate it, and why Flexner's essay is more relevant than ever.
The title of the book, The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, is somewhat enigmatic—what does it mean?
RD: Abraham Flexner, an educational reformer and founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study, wrote an essay with this title for Harper's magazine in 1939. He believed that there was an indispensable connection between intellectual and spiritual life—"useless forms of activity"—and undreamed-of utility.
Cited as a philanthropic hero by Warren Buffett, Flexner was responsible for bringing Albert Einstein to America to join the Institute's inaugural Faculty, just when Hitler came to power in 1933.
A true visionary, Flexner was acutely aware that our current conception of what is useful might suffice for the short term but would inevitably become too narrow over time. He believed that the best way to advance understanding and knowledge is by enabling leading scientists and scholars to follow their natural curiosity, intuition, and inquiry, without concern for utility but rather with the purpose of discovering answers to the most fascinating questions of their time.
Flexner's 1939 article is reprinted in the book along with a companion essay that you have written. What did you realize in revisiting Flexner's ideas?
RD: One large realization is that while the world has changed dramatically in terms of technological progress since Flexner's time, human beings still wrestle with the benefits and risks of freedom, with power and productivity versus imagination and creativity, and this dichotomy continues to limit our evolution and sometimes leads to abhorrent behavior as we saw during Flexner's era and which continues to haunt ours today.
A significant difference is that in the twenty-first century, we are increasingly creating a one-dimensional world determined by external metrics. Why? Our world is becoming ever larger and more complex. In order to provide some clarity, we try to quantify that world with share prices and rankings. In the process, we have exiled our intuition and have lost contact with our environment.
We need to return to timeless values like searching for the truth, while being honest about the things we don't understand. There is also a great need for passion. I wake up every morning with the thought: I want to do something that I feel good about. As a society, we have largely lost that feeling. We need to reconsider: what kind of world do we want exactly? And what new systems do we need to do good things?
Why is curiosity-driven basic research important today and how can we cultivate it?
RD: The progress of our modern age, and of the world of tomorrow, depends not only on technical expertise, but also on unobstructed curiosity and the benefits of traveling far upstream, against the current of practical considerations. Much of the knowledge developed by basic research is made publicly accessible and so benefits society as a whole, spreading widely beyond the narrow circle of individuals who, over years and decades, introduce and develop the ideas. Fundamental advances in knowledge cannot be owned or restricted by people, institutions, or nations, certainly not in the current age of the Internet. They are truly public goods.
But driven by an ever-deepening lack of funding, against a background of economic uncertainty, global political turmoil, and ever-shortening time cycles, research criteria are becoming dangerously skewed towards conservative short-term goals that may address more immediate problems, but miss out on the huge advances that human imagination can bring in the long term.
The "metrics" used to assess the quality and impact of research proposals—even in the absence of a broadly accepted framework for such measurements—systematically undercut pathbreaking scholarship in favor of more predictable goal-directed research. It can easily take many years, even decades, or sometimes, a century, as in the case of the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity that were only detected last year, for the societal value of an idea to come to light.
In order to enable and encourage the full cycle of scientific innovation, we need to develop a solid portfolio of research in much the same way as we approach well-managed financial resources. Such a balanced portfolio would contain predictable and stable short-term investments, as well as long-term bets that are intrinsically more risky but can potentially earn off-the-scale rewards. The path from exploratory basic research to practical applications is not one-directional and linear, but rather complex and cyclic, with resultant technologies enabling even more fundamental discoveries. Flexner and I give many examples of this in our book, from the development of electromagnetic waves that carry wireless signals to quantum mechanics and computer chips.
How do curiosity and imagination enable progress?
RD: An attitude aimed at learning and investigating, wherein imagination and creativity play an important role, is essential not only in scientific institutions but in every organization. Companies and institutions themselves need to develop the inquisitive and explorative approach they would like to see in their employees. Organizations are often trapped in the framework of their own thinking. Out-of-the-box thinking is very hard, because one doesn't know where the box is. At the basis of progress lies a feeling of optimism: problems can be solved. Organizations need to cultivate the capacity to visualize the future and define their position in it.
What conditions are necessary for the spark of a new idea or theory?
RD: If we want more imagination, creativity, and curiosity, we need to accept that people occasionally run in the wrong direction. As a business, institution, or society, we need to allow once again for failure. Encourage workers to spend a certain percentage of their time on the process of exploration. A brilliant idea never appears out of the blue, but is generated simply by allowing people to try out things. Nine times out of ten, nothing results, but something may emerge suddenly and unexpectedly. That free space and those margins of error are increasingly under pressure in our head, our role, our organization, and our society. I am worried about the loss of that exploratory force.
What don't we know, and how does uncertainty drive advancement?
RD: How did the universe begin and how does it end? What is the origin of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the cosmos? What in our brain makes us conscious and human? In addition to these fundamental questions and many others, we are struggling with major issues about time and space, about matter and energy. What are our ideas on this and what questions are we trying to answer? In science, a long process precedes any outcome. In general, the media only has time and space to pay attention to outcomes. But for scientists it's precisely the process that counts, walking together down that path. It's the questions that engage us, not the answers.
Abraham Flexner (1866–1959) was the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading institutions for basic research in the sciences and humanities. Robbert Dijkgraaf, a mathematical physicist who specializes in string theory, is director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. A distinguished public policy adviser and passionate advocate for science and the arts, he is also the cochair of the InterAcademy Council, a global alliance of science academies, and former president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are the authors of The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.


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Thing A: When I started this new job, the one I super like, the person I replaced was a small, dark haired woman who left to go write books. Since I am a small, dark haired woman who enjoys putting pen to paper (and using douchey sounding cliches, apparently), people actually called me her name a few times when I first started. (Ok, their confusion was likely a hair/size thing, not a writing thing, because I didn't really talk about that. Not that I don't want you reading this, dear coworkers! (Just kidding, I super don't. Leave, please.))
Anyway, she's back and I dig her and I'm wondering how much of it is just plain self absorption on my part. (I like me. I know, I'm subtle about it.) She's a cat person, though, so obviously there are some key differences.
Thing B: I hung a vinyl bull skull decal in my loft this afternoon. I was going for super tough, but then they ruined it by including vinyl rose decals too. Like I WASN'T going to make the bull skeleton wear a rose, right? What kind of willpower do they think they're dealing with here?
Thing C: A girlfriend of mine and I decided to go full paleo for a month, and support each other through it. She's trying to be healthy, I'm mostly focused on going to Mexico in a month and feeling awesome in one of the seven swimsuits that I found while I was going through my drawers to try to justify buying a swimsuit for the trip. (Is there a sensible justification? Nope. SEVEN. But I might get a new one anyway.)
It's terrible. I actually took it lightly when we made the call, because I thought I was eating pretty close to paleo already, but I have been cranky and headachey and achey and I'm sure a real joy to be around since about six hours in.
I realized I eat a lot of chocolate in the morning. And the afternoon. And after dinner, also. Plus, Grape Nuts. And french bread.
Do you think Grape Nuts spread in melted chocolate on french bread would be, like, at all good? I'm asking for a friend.


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EXPLODE!!! - That's how my friend cheered me on. I did it; lifted more explosively and it worked. I spent many training sessions practicing speed deadlifts. I focused on lifting with power, speed and explosiveness. Do you know what happened? The bar started flying off the ground. Even on my 1 RM attempts the speed off the floor was incredible! Some time later, while interpreting at Boris Sheiko's seminars I had to think of my explosiveness experience. Boris Sheiko stressed several times that powerlifting isn't about explosiveness and that the weight should be lifted slowly. I couldn't wrap my brain around it. Why is it wrong to be explosive? Explosiveness helped me to lift at least 10 kg more off the floor after all (to be fair I should mention that it was much more weight than I could ever lock out :P ).
As you may know, I am scientist, analytical thinker, problem solver…I put on my thinking cap and thought about explosiveness for a while.
It seems to me that there is a difference between explosiveness and speed the maximal force a lifter applies when going for the maximal attempt. Imagine, you apply your maximal force to your 1RM lift. The bar will move slowly, because it is heavy as hell. If you apply the same force to 50% of your 1RM, you will get speed and explosiveness. The bar will fly off the ground, because you apply your maximal strength to a sissy weight. The point is that you don't need to put your maximal strength into a 50% lift. Apply just as much force as needed for a particular lift. Anything above is waste of energy. Boris Sheiko pointed out that experienced lifters put just as much energy into a lift, as it is required to move the weight, no matter if 50% or 100% are on the bar.
My personal conclusion from the explosiveness confusion is that a lifter needs to learn how to apply maximal force in order to lift more. Doing speed lifts with light weight might be helpful for getting the feeling how to apply maximal force. However, it is not necessarily optimal. Explosive movements have the tendency to be fast, chaotic and imprecise. When you go for your maximal attempt; however, you should aim for perfect technique and optimal bar path. Rushing (= being fast and explosive) at the beginning of the movement increases the risk of getting into a suboptimal position and missing the lift. Does it make sense?
All good things must come to an end, so does my Boris Sheiko UK seminar series. I would like to complete it with Boris Sheikos powerful (but not explosive ;) ) advice for successful training:
"In my opinion, some of the most important factors are the ability to work hard and self-belief. I tell my students: "Hard work never goes to waste." In other words, hard work always yields good results. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, doesn't believe in his abilities and that he can reach his goal, then he won't achieve anything."
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Yen and Euros fall from sky. Can Dollars be far behind?
Yen and Euros fall from sky. Can Dollars be far behind?
10,000 yen notes rain down into Tokyo
About 30 or 40 10,000 yen notes were spotted floating down from an area near a bridge over the Sumida River in Tokyo on Friday, police said, adding that several residents apparently walked off with the cash.
Police arrived and recovered four 10,000 yen notes, one 5,000 yen note and one 1,000 yen note after receiving a call from a resident at about 11 a.m. saying that about 30 or 40 10,000 yen notes had fallen down from an area near the Kototoi Bridge over the Sumida River in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.
"A few people picked up the notes and left the area," the woman who alerted police was quoted as saying.
Investigators suspect the notes fell from a vehicle traveling along route No. 6 on the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway. As of 1 p.m. on Friday the owner of the cash had not turned up.
People who picked up the money could face charges of misappropriation if they didn't take the cash to police, law enforcers said. (Link)
Money falls from sky
BERLIN – A German motorist surprised by euro notes swirling in the air around her car hit the brakes and collected a "substantial amount of money" before turning it over to police, authorities in Worms said on Thursday.
A police spokesman in the small western town said the 24-year-old woman saw the money flying through the air in her rear view mirror late on Wednesday. She pulled over and tried to collect all the notes, unsuccessfully.
When police went with her to the scene they could not find any more cash.
A spokesman at Worms city hall said police were withholding details on the exact sum and location of the find in the hope of learning more about the money's origin. (Reuters)


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When we got the packaging in the post I thought they looked really odd and couldn't quite work out how they worked? The premise is you can have felts but not really worry about those pesky lids. So we got them out. And then? We popped the bottom thingy me bob (technical term) and it was hilarious. My girl screamed with glee!
The base spreads out and the felts go into like a little hedgehog. Which with two? Is fab for sharing as they can both grab them. With no need for felt lids you can just take the colours out wherever you like and put them back in wherever you like. No felts lids rolling under the couch, or being eaten by the dog or mysteriously disappearing into the world where odd socks live.
I will say however this may be aimed at slightly older children as my two found it quite hard to pull the felt tips out. Which is good as it means they are in there nice and stable. So it could be used with younger children but only if you are helping. I think for those who are at school, and maybe have a little work area? This is a really fun product. My two made me pop the thingy me bob (technical term remember) in and out about five times!
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But it is a good mayhem. The kind that makes you want to tuck away your worries and cares. Put them in your top drawer just for this month, and enjoy life. To kick it off, we had our annual party.
I don't know what it is, but no one ever seems to come. Just one family. Every year. I think next year actual invitations (rather than word of mouth) are in order. I made way too much food, expecting more people than actually came. And guess what, it was still a success.
The Rat Pack. To be wooed by cream and butter voices that talk so slowly and significantly could really do something to fix those cares and worries that currently reside in the drawer at the back of my closet.. When the show was over, we looked at the table and the magnitude of food was a little overwhelming. I couldn't figure out how between the four of us (two adult women fighting the eternal battle with the pre pregnancy jeans and two toddlers who would rather play than eat) we could put a dent in that bounty.
Halloween Ghost! We made up a few plates,
Nap time then ended the festivities with much kicking and screaming on both sides. Faye had a trial run of cupcake in preparation for her birthday cake. I think she liked it!
General Conference. That in and of itself would make this month memorable. I am so excited to hear the words of a prophet of the Lord!


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12 Moons Solo Saxophone Project Day 324
Date: 11/20/2013
Instrument: Tenor saxophone
Location: Home studio in Clinton, WA (Whidbey Island)
Yesterday Bad Luck ended out Fall tour by driving from Kettleville, CA (about 3 hours North of LA) back up to Seattle. After staying the night in the city, I made it back home to the island this morning. Doing chores around the house and practicing, I found myself filled with a duel feeling, both of the joy of being home and a desire to be back on the road meeting new people and exploring new places. I decided to embrace dualism in my improvisation today.
During this improvisation I used a primary melodic figure in medium tempo. The fingerings contained inside this melody then became the source material for faster, more indeterminate figures that I explored freely. The melody opens the improvisation and is played 4 times, the 4th being a springboard for the improvised material. The second and eight pitches in the melodies were the roots of larger chords, the former being a minor chord and the latter a major. I used the dichotomy of minor to parallel major as a means to bring about my dual state of mind. These two chords also became a point of reference during the piece to bind the improvised material to the full melody. The fingerings used for the primary melody were as follows (written below in the order they were played):
Pitch G: (Left Hand) 1-2, Low B // (Right Hand) 2-3
Pitch Bb: (Left Hand) 1-2, Palm Eb key only, Low B // (Right Hand) 2-3 *This was a tight, clustered minor chord*
Pitch C: (Left Hand) 1-2, Low B // (Right Hand) 2-3, Side C
Pitch D: (Left Hand) 1-2, Fork F, Low B // (Right Hand) 2-3, Side C
Pitch C: Same as C fingering above
Pitch Bb: Same as Bb fingering/clustered minor chord above
Pitch G: Same as G fingering above
Pitch B: (Left Hand) 1-2, Low B, Palm Eb only, Low B // (Right Hand) 1-2-3
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"And He came home, . . ." Mark 3:20
Why are we, as a church, doing this, reading through a book of the Bible? Wouldn't it be easier if we were to cherry pick some verses each week? We would pick the pleasant joyous, happy verses, arrange them around an appealing topic and package them in a clever way; such as grace and call the series Graceland and have all the house church pastors standing at the auditorium doors dressed as Elvis. Why not build a Sunday around Psalm 34:8 "O taste and see the Lord is good; . . ." and begin our gatherings by passing out donuts to everyone, so you could taste and be impressed at our theatrics. Why don't we go to such great lengths?
Because, what we are called to do is something so simple, so pure, and something so uncluttered. We are to straight forwardly read the text and live it. Our spiritual lives are not formed by randomly assembling favorite verses. That would be like letting your kids raise themselves on a diet of coke and cookies, although tasty, not very healthy.
We are not in charge of disciplining ourselves, but this is what has happened. We have chosen personal experience over scriptural reading and living. We need to come home, back to the word of God.
As a church, when we feed on a buoyant reading of scripture and as we listen to its claims, lean into its call, and let God's word have us, we are fed. As food nurtures the human body, the word of God is assimilated. When taken into our lives, it gets metabolized as acts of love through local and global missions, in house church, in ministries that bring healing and justice in Jesus' name.
We read verse by verse, line by line, because all of it is meant to be lived. Reading together as a church keeps our identity focused, our lives Spirit filled, our discipleship authentic and our hope fresh. Reading corporately places living, speaking and acting in the ways of Jesus in the center of our life.
The Holy Word reveals the words which created heaven and earth; they reveal the Word that became flesh. God's word was written down and translated so we could enter the story. We hold a Bible in our hands and read so we can listen and respond, so we can experience the life creating, lifesaving work of God.
Take some time to refresh yourself with the gospel of Mark, read chapters one and two. Step back into the flow of the ministry of Jesus.


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12.20.2016: The Los Angeles Times published an article detailing how outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became an admirer of Michael Heizer's artwork, and describing Reid as having orchestrated the creation of the Basin and Range National Monument to protect the 700,000 acres surrounding Heizer's monumental artwork, City.
12.15.2016: As reported in the Las Vegas Review Journal and Elko Daily Free Press, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has accepted a conservation easement protecting Heizer's monumental artwork, City. The easement permits the title to the work and the immediately surrounding land to maintain in the possession and control of Heizer's foundation, while ensuring that the artwork will be protected into the future. Notably, the easement also contemplates public visitation of the artwork upon its completion, which is anticipated no later than May 1, 2020.
Senator Reid's office posted a video of the signing ceremony at which the federal government accepted the easement, including an appearance by Senator Reid and Michael Heizer himself.
For more detailed information, see the documentation regarding the BLM's decision, including the terms of the easement (originally granted by Heizer's foundation to the L.A. County Museum of Art), or the BLM's decision accepting the donation.
09.30.2016: Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971, an exhibition focusing on the career of gallerist Virginia Dwan — and featuring works by Michael Heizer as well as other earth artists including Robert Smithson, Walter DeMaria, and James Turrell — opened in the newly renovated East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Dwan was the organizer of the first exhibition of earth art ("Earthworks"), an early patron of Michael Heizer's, and the original owner of the work Double Negative.
The exhibition will be on view at the National Gallery until January 29, 2017, and will subsequently be on view at the L.A. County Museum of Art from March 19 until September 10, 2017.
08.29.2016: The New Yorker magazine published an extensive profile of Michael Heizer, entitled "A Monument to Outlast Humanity." The profile features numerous recent photos of City and documents recent developments in the construction of City as well as Heizer's personal life.
It is just not my inclination to make small work.
-Michael Heizer


text: Share: Comments Print May 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM Man accused in wrong-way fatal crash pleads not guilty Posted by Sara Jean Green Michael Robertson is seen leaving a King County Superior Courtroom this morning after pleading not guilty to vehicular homicide stemming from a drunken driving, wrong-way, head-on crash that killed Morgan Williams on April 4. (Photo by John Lok / The Seattle Times) A 25-year-old Tacoma man accused of killing a woman in a wrong-way crash on Highway 520 in Seattle on April 4 pleaded not guilty to vehicular homicide this morning in King County Superior Court. Michael Anthony Robertson, who was injured in the crash that killed Morgan Fick Williams, 58, was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair. He appeared to be wiping away tears during the brief hearing. About a dozen family members and friends attended the arraignment, including Williams' brother and two adult children. Friend Bill Carlone, who grew up with Williams in Oak Harbor, was among those who came. "I wanted to see the guy who did this to Morgan. It just tore me up," he said. "She was very well loved by everybody." King County prosecutors say Robertson made a U-turn on Highway 520 moments before his SUV slammed head-on into Williams, who died a few hours later. When state troopers arrived, Robertson "kept trying to exit the car and 'go home,' " King County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Amy Freedheim wrote in charging documents. Investigators found a near-empty bottle of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky in his front-passenger seat, according to the documents. Robertson's breath smelled of alcohol, and he had "bloodshot, watery eyes and thick, slurred speech," the papers say. Robertson's blood was drawn at Harborview Medical Center about 90 minutes after the 5:23 a.m. crash, and prosecutors are awaiting the results of toxicology tests from the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab, the papers say. Freedheim wrote that test results are expected to show Robertson's "blood alcohol content was significantly above" the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Williams, mother of two grown children, was on her way to work in Bellevue at Eddie Bauer's corporate headquarters, where she was the manager of accounts payable. In December, Robertson was arrested in Tacoma for DUI after he allegedly hit another vehicle and drove away, according to a Washington State Patrol report. Comments | More in The Blotter | Topics: DUI, vehicular homicide


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I go into the operating room on Wednesday and am a little unsure about my recovery time; I know this is hardly a deadly experience, but for me, it does qualify as life-altering, simply because I've never been injured. Any support would be appreciated.
In the meantime, I'm starting to work on reformatting and redesigning the blog. The name will stay, but I hope to have something a little more accessible to people looking to move to Japan.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Surgery and Reformatting
Posted by Turner at 7:28 AM
3 comments:
- Ali la Loca said...
Good luck! I am petrified by the idea of surgery, and freak out every time I have to have even a minor procedure.
Hope everything goes well. :)
- Jan 20, 2008, 8:11:00 AM
- Tori said...
Hi Turner,
Hope all goes well with your surgery.
- Jan 21, 2008, 1:24:00 AM
- Harvey said...
Hope everything goes without a hitch man!
- Jan 21, 2008, 8:39:00 AM
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text: Game Under Ep.070 August 15, 2015 Thanks for Listening. We pour one out for Sean Price, get into Dre's new album and not much else really. LA in 1990. This is downtown, about twenty minutes from Compton. This was the first and last tiem I saw a cop directing traffic in LA. I mean, what's going on here, there are functioning traffic lights behind him. Interesting note, you can see the LA Raiders banner on the bus, the team had just defected from Oakland. They went back of course, and since then LA has not had an NFL team. ← Tim Keenan Duskers InterviewGame Under Ep. 069 →


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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an order Monday aimed at cutting regulations on businesses, saying that agencies should eliminate two regulations for every new one.
The White House later released the text of the order, which added that the cost of any new regulation should be offset by eliminating regulations with the same costs to businesses. It excluded regulations regarding the military.
The impact of the order was difficult to judge based on the president's remarks. It could be difficult to implement under current law, and would concentrate greater power in the Office of Management and Budget, which already reviews federal regulations.
Trump signed the document — which he called ''a big one'' — at his desk in the Oval Office surrounded by nine small business owners, who earlier this morning met in the Roosevelt Room.
''This will be the largest ever cut by far in terms of regulations,'' Trump said. ''If you have a regulation you want number one we're not going to approve it because it's already been approved probably in 17 different forms. But if we do the only way you have a chance is we have to knock out two regulations for every new regulation. So if there's a new regulation they have to knock out two. But it goes way beyond that.''
But experts on government policy said Trump's formulation made little sense. ''There's no logic to this,'' William Gale, a tax and fiscal policy expert at the Brookings Institution, said before seeing the executive order. ''The number of regulations is not the key. It's how onerous regulations are. This seems like a totally nonsensical constraint to me.''
Trump said the move would help both large and small businesses. ''Regulation has been horrible for big business, but it's been worse for small business,'' he said, noting that small businesses cannot hire the talent and compliance personnel that larger businesses do.
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''There will be regulation, there will be control, but it will be a normalized control where you can open your business and expand your business very easily and that's what our country has been all about,'' Trump said.
Administration members who attended the signing included White House counsel Donald McGahn; chief of staff Reince Priebus; Jared Kushner, domestic policy director Andrew Bremberg; and National Economic Council director Director Gary Cohn.
The president was surrounded by small business leaders as he signed the order in the Oval Office Monday morning.
Trump says that the order is aimed at ''cutting regulations massively for small business.''
He says it will be the ''biggest such act that our country has ever seen.''
Earlier, White House officials called the directive a ''one in, two out'' plan. It requires government agencies requesting a new regulation to identify two regulations they will cut from their own departments.
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"Pulled From The Ruins," the longest EP in the world, is here!
We've compiled all the singles which accompanied "The Ruins of Tropicalia" (plus many bonus tracks) have been compiled into a very long EP called "Pulled From The Ruins." Click Play above, or go to Bandcamp to download (pay what you want, including free). You can also download it at iTunes or Amazon, or stream it at Rhapsody or Spotify.
"The Ruins of Tropicalia" has also been compiled into a single volume. Details on that here.
Here are the liner notes from "Pulled From The Ruins":
Pulled From The Ruins is the longest EP in the world (probably), clocking in at just over 70 minutes. Everyone knows--having been proven long ago and time and again by MATH--that quantity equals quality. So...you're welcome.
We didn't want to tout it as a full album because only the first nine tracks are new, original songs; and only the first seven are studio recordings (the other two were recorded live in generally less-than-ideal circumstances in Tropicalia without the full band). These nine songs comprise a soundtrack of sorts to The Ruins of Tropicalia, the serialized book which I co-wrote and edited. But they're also meant to stand on their own. The first seven songs in particular are us rediscovering our collective voice after a too-long period of inactivity, partially caused by my retreat to Tropicalia. And a lot happened down there that needed more than mere words to properly describe. Thus, we began the hard but rewarding work of rescuing what we could from the ruins of Tropicalia.
PFTR begins with those seven full band songs. They're followed by two "field recordings" made in Tropicalia during the events described in the book. "'Hey,' Regina Said" came about when Regina Porter (a fellow TROT co-writer) told me she had a rebuttal to the song we recorded on our first album that might have been about her. I wrote "Satellite Delay" in Tropicalia as my world (and the wider one) began falling apart. Instead of re-recording it with all the guys, we included the raw, live, solo version recorded while some of the climactic events of the book occurred in the background.
There was still a lot of available album space after the nine new songs. We realized we had a lot of material we wanted to share that we hadn't yet made widely available. "Heroine" is our attempt to create something new by combining elements of two classic songs--"Heroes" by David Bowie and "Heroin" by The Velvet Underground. "Hold Me Up" was released on a now-unavailable EP called Signal. "Hey My" is a raw rock song that happened to be one of the very first songs we wrote as a band--though it's mostly Drew's baby. "Sweetheartbreaker" is another early song; one of the few I sang before I realized it was better to leave the singing to the pro. The final track on PFTR includes several renditions of already-released songs from Amends live shows, but ends with an impromptu guest vocal performance by Nigel Bumberpatch...
We hope you enjoy these songs, and we thank you for your continued support.
Watch the skies.
- Tyler (& Drew, Chris & Shay)


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The Most Asked Job Interview Questions
Posted March 4, 2013 by Marcy Twete in Career Moves
If you're preparing for a job interview this week, you'll want to do some "practice questions" with a friend or your spouse, or perhaps just talking to yourself in the shower. Great interviewers rehearse regularly asked questions. But how do you know which questions are coming or most common? Enter this infographic from Sample Questionnaire.
Get rehearsing, gals!
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Cloverleaf Rolls
These Cloverleaf Rolls have a rich buttery flavor and a fun pull-apart clover shape.
Are you looking for the perfect roll recipe to go with a soup or chili dinner before the weather warms up and it feels like spring is really here? Or, is it already warm where you live and you'd like a some delicious homemade bread to accompany a main dish salad? Then I highly recommend that you try these cloverleaf rolls. They are soft and buttery, and the cloverleaf shape is a nice touch for a pretty presentation.
Cloverleaf rolls are now one of my two favorite dinner roll recipes, along with these Honey Yeast Rolls. I love the sweetness of the honey yeast rolls, but when I want more of a rich butter flavor I make these cloverleaf rolls. While cloverleaf rolls make a great accompaniment to soups, stews, and chilis, they are also perfect for serving with other meals. My sister, Karen, served them with Thanksgiving dinner and they went really well with the turkey and other side dishes. Enjoy!
- ¾ cup skim milk, heated to 110 degrees F
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 packet (2¼ teaspoons) rapid rise (or instant) yeast
- 1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 3½ cups all-purpose flour (up to half of the all-purpose flour can be replaced with white whole-wheat flour)
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces and softened, plus 2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
- Adjust oven rack to the middle position and preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. When the oven reaches 200 degrees, turn it off. Lightly oil a large bowl.
- Whisk the milk, sugar, and yeast in a liquid measuring cup until the yeast dissolves. Then whisk in the egg and egg yolk.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, mix the flour and salt until combined. With the mixer on low speed, add the milk mixture in a steady stream and mix until the dough begins to form, about 1 minute.
- Increase the speed to medium and add the 8 tablespoons of softened butter, 1 piece at a time, until incorporated. Continue to mix until the dough is smooth and comes away from the sides of the bowl, about 10 minutes.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly to form a smooth, cohesive ball. Transfer the dough to the prepared bowl and turn to coat. Cover with plastic wrap and place the bowl in the turned-off oven until the dough has doubled in size, about 45 minutes.
- To shape the rolls: Brush a 12-cup muffin tin with 1 tablespoon of melted butter. Punch down the dough on a lightly floured work surface. Divide the dough into thirds. Roll each third into an 18-inch long rope. Then cut each rope into 12 equal pieces and cover the pieces with plastic wrap (there will be 36 pieces of dough).
- On a clean, dry, un-floured work surface, roll each piece of dough into a smooth ball. Place 3 balls, seam side down, in each muffin cup. Cover the muffin tin loosely with plastic wrap and let rest in the turned-off oven until doubled in size, about 20 minutes.
- Remove the rolls from the oven and discard the plastic wrap. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Bake the rolls until golden brown, about 15 minutes, rotating halfway through baking. Brush the rolls with the remaining 1 tablespoon of melted butter. Cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack. Serve warm.
Recipe adapted from Cooking with Karen, originally from Cook's Country Magazine, October/November 2010.
Post updated 11-22-14 with new photos and an updated recipe.
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(Posted Mon. Apr 11th, 2016)
The National Corn Growers Association today joined more than 220 national and state food and agriculture organizations in expressing support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and urging Congress to pass the agreement in 2016.
In a letter to Senate and House leaders, the organizations write, "Delaying the launch of TPP by even a year would represent a $94 billion permanent loss… to the U.S. economy. With net farm income at its lowest level since 2002, the costs of inaction are too high to ignore. We must act now."
Last year, the United States agreed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement with 11 Asia-Pacific countries representing 40 percent of the world's economy. TPP countries currently account for 42 percent of U.S. ag exports, at a value of $63 billion annually.
"The TPP presents a valuable opportunity for U.S. agriculture; one that we cannot afford to miss. TPP Is important for the future of rural America, and we urge passage of TPP during this session of Congress," the letter concludes.


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Seen You heal
A hundred deep wounds with one glance
From Your spectacular eyes,
While your hands, beneath the table,
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Dear world, I can offer
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For our suffering,
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To no one here,
And come morning,
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The Devastating Impact of NAFTA on Workers/
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To say that I wasn't ecstatic when Erica e-mailed me about taking photos of her and her husband, that would be a lie. Erica and I have been friends/following each other's photography online for such a long time. I was so happy to finally get to meet and hang out with Erica and her husband. They are both such lovely and kind people. First we took photos at their beautiful old farmhouse in Bellefontaine, and then we headed to a quarry to end the shoot. Check out Erica's work - Erica Lee Photo


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One of the world's leading climate scientists has outlined a radical plan to hold temperatures to a 2C rise, the threshold that governments have agreed to limit rises to – but he accepts it may cause consternation among the very rich.
Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester and deputy head of the Tyndall Centre, has argued previously that industrialised countries may need to go into recession to reduce emissions enough to ensure temperatures do not rise over 2C.
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Brandywine River Bridge ~ Inspired by Alfred Sisley/
One of my favorite coffee table art books is Alfred Sisley, edited by MaryAnne Stevens. On the cover is a beautiful bridge painting entitled, The Bridge of Villeneuve-la-Garenne. A number of other bridge paintings are scattered throughout the book along with numerous river scenes that always catch my attention when I flip through it. Sisley is known as a pure landscape painter. He was inspired by his surroundings, living in Marly-le-Roi and Moret-sur-Loing, France, for significant periods in his life.
Sisley was known for his rhythmical brushwork, vibrant colors and strong compositional balance. There is an immediacy to the application of his paint, often his paintings completed in a day.
In 1995, I had a little time to kill in the Wilmington, DE area. I had heard that the Brandywine River was picturesque, so Jen and I spent a few hours driving around looking for painting material. We stumbled upon this Wilmington bridge arching over the Brandywine River and it immediately reminded me of some of the paintings in my Alfred Sisley book
After reviewing some of the brushwork by Sisley in this book, especially in his painting The Provencher Watermill at Moret, I was inspired to paint this painting in a similar style. I was going for strong lighting and implied movement in the water by applying the paint the way Sisley might have. Sisley used white highlights to create movement in the water and create a sense of bright light. I carried this technique over into the trees to create a rhythmic sense of light throughout the painting.
I especially appreciate how Sisley dealt with strong architectural perspective, being structurally accurate while at the same time impressionistic in style. When asked by Matisse "Who is a typical impressionist?" Pissarro named a single artist, Alfred Sisley! He was appreciated by his fellow artists but struggled to get recognized during his lifetime.