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WTF CookbookMy fellow Chicagoans will recognize the name...
Ann Sather's Cinnamon Rolls
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/01/11/on-a-roll-56/
ANN SATHER’S CINNAMON ROLLS
Makes 12 rolls
1 envelope (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 cup warm water (110 degrees)
1 cup milk, scalded, cooled
1/4 cup (2 ounces) butter, melted
1/3 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 1/2 to 3 cups all-purpose flour
4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) butter, room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Powdered sugar glaze, optional, recipe follows
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In a large bowl, stir the yeast and 1 teaspoon of sugar into the warm water and let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in milk, melted butter, 1/3 cup sugar, salt and 1 cup flour. Beat with a spoon or an electric mixer until smooth.
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Gradually stir in 11/2 cups flour, keeping the dough smooth. If the dough is still moist, stir in 1 tablespoon flour at a time to make a soft dough. Cover with a dry cloth and let it rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
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Heat oven to 350 degrees. Divide the raised dough in half. On a lightly oiled board, roll out (with a lightly floured rolling pin) and stretch 1 piece of dough to make a 12-by-8-inch rectangle. Spread 2 tablespoons of the soft butter over the top of the dough. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Beginning on the long side, roll up tightly, jelly-roll fashion. Repeat with remaining dough.
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Cut the dough into 2-inch slices. Place on greased and floured baking sheets. Let the dough rise (in a warm place) until doubled in bulk, about 45 minutes.
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Bake in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Take the baking sheets out of the oven and place the cinnamon rolls on a wire rack to cool.
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Top rolls with a sugar glaze immediately, if desired. Serve warm or at room temperature.
POWDERED SUGAR ICING
Makes 1/2 cup
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon milk, plus additional as needed
- Combine sugar, vanilla and 1 tablespoon milk in a small bowl. Stir in additional milk, 1 teaspoon at a time, until icing is loose enough to drizzle.
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When you've lost Alex Jones...Alex Jones, the former owner of InfoWars, on Tuesday said President Trump must be impeached over the Iran conflict, describing the situation as “absolutely out of control” and warning that the administration is preparing for a national draft.
“The big issue is how to stop Trump. And we have to have Congress go for the war powers. They’ve tried three times to vote on war powers — they’re supposed to authorize a war. This is a war; they’re getting the draft ready. If this isn’t a war, nothing’s a war. I mean, this is absolutely out of control,” Jones said during a live segment broadcast on the social platform X.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5996424-alex-jones-trump-impeachment-iran/
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Whitefish numbers crashingGreat tasting fish. Have had my share of smoked whitefish, fried whitefish, and fish boil whitefish up in Door County.
The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/lake-whitefish-great-lakes-invasive-mussels
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Check this New Yorker article outThe topic is interesting. Death bots.
The graphics are very innovative.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/can-ai-keep-a-parent-alive
eta: Looks like you need a subscription to see the graphics. But give it a shot anyways....
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Gosh, I'm so relievedPresident Donald Trump told a crowd in Michigan that the White House has ordered 250 Cadillac Escalades, the flagship sport utility vehicle in the luxury auto brand’s lineup, for his presidential motorcade.
Trump revealed the purchase in a speech delivered at a General Motors testing facility in the Detroit suburb of Milford.
“The one and only Escalade,” he said toward the beginning of a roughly one-hour-long address. “You know we ordered, I think, 250 Escalades, right? We ordered 250 Escalades…. We look sharp in those Escalades.”
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McConnellKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear called on Monday for Sen. Mitch McConnell to either "verbally" show proof to Kentuckians that he can still serve in the Senate or to resign from Congress.
"Important events are happening in our country right now during your absence," Beshear, a Democrat, wrote in a letter to the Republican senator, according to a copy obtained by ABC News.
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Real customer service isn't dead yetWe remodeled our bathrooms back in 2008. The "hall bath" (vs the en suite in the primary bedroom) has Danze plumbing fixtures. We started to have a pipe thumping problem in the Danze tub/shower valve in that bathroom when another faucet in the house is turned off; I noticed it when I turned off the vanity faucet in the same bath.
When I pulled the handle and escutcheon off and diddled with the shutoffs that are built into the valve, the cold water side was leaking a little. And some black rubbery bits came out of the spout when I turned the water on. Looks like the stops are failing and need to be replaced. Figured that out thanks to a commenter on Amazon who was trying to find the right replacement parts for his pipe thumping problem.
I have all the documentation from the original install, including the parts diagram with replacement part numbers for the various components. A lot of the part numbers changed after Danze was acquired by Gerber some years ago. I couldn't find a direct match for the Check Valve Set in question when I did my own searches, and Claude and DuckDuckGo's AI bots tried to help but I wasn't confident they were giving me accurate part numbers so I could order something.
I called Gerber this morning and a very nice CS lady (not AI) listened to my story, asked a few questions, and processed an order to send me replacement stops under warranty. Gerber didn't even require a copy of the original purchase receipt (which I have). Took less than 10 minutes and I'm pretty sure I'll get the parts I need. She said 5 to 7 days for the order to get here.
Now off to look for our infrequently used metric socket set I'll need next week to get the old leaky stops replaced and the new ones in...
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Kim Philby, on the recordI think the video that's in the BBC story is only watchable in the UK. Or via VPN for us non-Brits.
On 30 July 1963, Kim Philby's defection from MI6 to the Soviet Union was made public. In 2016, the BBC broadcast previously unseen footage of his lecture to Stasi operatives in which he revealed the secrets behind his treachery.
"Almost all my life I have spent trying to avoid publicity of any kind," says Kim Philby in a 1981 video unearthed by the BBC from the archives of East Germany's spy service. It's something of an understatement. Philby was a British double agent whose defection to the Soviet Union was made public on 30 July 1963. In the video, he is seen giving a seminar to Stasi operatives on how to succeed at espionage.
As the BBC's former security correspondent Gordon Corera explained in his 2016 report on the previously unseen footage, "Philby offers a masterclass in betrayal, from his recruitment by Soviet spies after Cambridge to his joining Britain's secret service MI6, whose secrets he stole." It is the only known video in which the leading member of the so-called Cambridge Five KGB spy ring discusses his betrayal – a rare recording that is revealing on many levels.
WATCH: 'My advice to you is to tell all your agents that they are never to confess'
"I'm looking back on my career in the enemy camp, this 30-year career in the enemy camp," he says in the grainy video, standing behind a lectern in thick-rimmed glasses and a suit and tie. "Every evening, I left the office with a big briefcase full of reports which I had written myself, full of files taken out of the actual archives. I used to hand them to my contact in the evening. Next morning I'd get the file back, the contents having been photographed, and take them back early in the morning and put the files back in their place. That I did regularly, year in, year out."
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The Finnish sand batteryA small Finnish town has turned to the world’s largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.
The giant sand battery can cover almost one month of the town’s heating demands in the summer and as much as one week in the winter.
“Hopefully a big portion of those storages could be sand battery-type of storages where we don’t need rare earth materials,” Tommi Eronen, CEO of Polar Night Energy, told CNBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/finland-sand-battery-renewable-energy-storage.html
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100 days to midtermsSwing States Remain Underwater
The most politically significant story lies in the states that regularly decide national elections.
Trump is now underwater in every major battleground state:
Arizona: -11
Georgia: -21
Nevada: -16
North Carolina: -13
Pennsylvania: -12
Wisconsin: -14
Florida: -9
Ohio: -8
Several of those states have crossed important thresholds since Trump took office. Florida has moved from +9 to -9. Ohio has fallen from +8 to -8. Nevada has shifted from an even 0 to -16, while North Carolina has gone from 0 to -13.
The deficits are not insurmountable, but they underscore a consistent pattern heading into the midterms: Trump’s standing remains weakest in the states likely to play the biggest role in determining control of Congress.
Where Approval Has Fallen The Most
Every state in the tracker shows a lower net approval rating than it did on January 20, 2025.
The biggest declines have often occurred in states where Trump initially enjoyed some of his strongest support.
Among the largest drops:
Kentucky: +23 to -1 (down 24 points)
Wyoming: +47 to +26 (down 21 points)
Florida: +9 to -9 (down 18 points)
Idaho: +34 to +14 (down 20 points)
West Virginia: +35 to +18 (down 17 points)
Tennessee: +25 to +8 (down 17 points)
Texas: +6 to -10 (down 16 points)
Nevada: 0 to -16 (down 16 points)
Georgia: -4 to -21 (down 17 points)
Ohio: +8 to -8 (down 16 points)
The pattern is striking because the largest shifts are not concentrated only in Democratic states. Many have occurred in places where Trump started his second term with a substantial cushion.
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Spent oyster shellsWhat once looked like waste has become a powerful tool for restoring marine life along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Between 2007 and 2024, the state returned more than 500,000 tons of recycled oyster and clam shells to the Gulf of Mexico as part of a long-term effort to rebuild damaged oyster reefs and coastal habitats. Rather than coming straight from the ocean, the shells were collected from seafood restaurants and processing plants.
Instead of ending up in landfills, the shells were placed in areas where natural oyster reefs had steadily disappeared over the years. At first, the project drew criticism, with some questioning whether it amounted to dumping waste into the ocean. In its early stages, there was little visible evidence that it was working, and even researchers were uncertain whether the effort would succeed. But beneath the surface, critical ecological processes had already begun.
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It's so hot in Japan, they invented a new name for it
