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With a focus on responsible energy development, Governor Robert Bentley has accepted the chairmanship of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. Governor Bentley is the first Alabama governor to serve as chairman of the IOGCC.
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Gary King
Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University
1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138
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Research Group
King, Gary
. 2014.
Restructuring the Social Sciences: Reflections from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science
PS: Political Science and Politics
47, no. 1: 1-8.
The social sciences are undergoing a dramatic transformation from studying problems to solving them; from making do with a small number of sparse data sets to analyzing increasing quantities of diverse, highly informative data; from isolated scholars toiling away on their own to larger scale, collaborative, interdisciplinary, lab-style research teams; and from a purely academic pursuit to having a major impact on the world. To facilitate these important developments, universities, funding agencies, and governments need to shore up and adapt the infrastructure that supports social science research. We discuss some of these developments here, as well as a new type of organization we created at Harvard to help encourage them -- the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. An increasing number of universities are beginning efforts to respond with similar institutions. This paper provides some suggestions for how individual universities might respond and how we might work together to advance social science more generally.
King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret Roberts
. 2013.
A Randomized Experimental Study of Censorship in China
Chinese government censorship of social media constitutes the largest selective suppression of human communication in the history of the world. Although existing systematic research on the subject has revealed a great deal, it is based on passive, observational methods, with well known inferential limitations. We attempt to generate more robust causal and descriptive inferences through participation and experimentation. For causal inferences, we conduct a large scale randomized experimental study by creating accounts on numerous social media sites spread throughout the country, submitting different randomly assigned types of social media texts, and detecting from a network of computers all over the world which types are censored. Then, for descriptive inferences, we supplement the current approach of confidential interviews by setting up our own social media site in China, contracting with Chinese firms to install the same censoring technologies as existing sites, and reverse engineering how it all works. Our results offer unambiguous support for, and clarification of, the emerging view that criticism of the state, its leaders, and their policies are routinely published whereas posts with collective action potential are much more likely to be censored. We are also able to clarify the internal mechanisms of the Chinese censorship apparatus and show that local social media sites have far more flexibility than was previously understood in how (but not what) they censor.
King, Gary, and Justin Grimmer
Method and Apparatus for Selecting Clusterings to Classify A Predetermined Data Set
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
. US Patent 8,438,162, filed 2013.
A method for selecting clusterings to classify a predetermined data set of numerical data comprises five steps. First, a plurality of known clustering methods are applied, one at a time, to the data set to generate clusterings for each method. Second, a metric space of clusterings is generated using a metric that measures the similarity between two clusterings. Third, the metric space is projected to a lower dimensional representation useful for visualization. Fourth, a "local cluster ensemble" method generates a clustering for each point in the lower dimensional space. Fifth, an animated visualization method uses the output of the local cluster ensemble method to display the lower dimensional space and to allow a user to move around and explore the space of clustering.
King, Gary, and Maya Sen
. 2013.
The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities (with comments from five scholar-administrators)
PS: Political Science and Politics
46, no. 1: 81--113.
The American system of higher education is under attack by political, economic, and educational forces that threaten to undermine its business model, governmental support, and operating mission. The potential changes are considerably more dramatic and disruptive than what we've already experienced. Traditional colleges and universities urgently need a coherent, thought-out response. Their central role in ensuring the creation, preservation, and distribution of knowledge may be at risk and, as a consequence, so too may be the spectacular progress across fields we have come to expect as a result. Symposium contributors include Henry E. Brady, John Mark Hansen, Gary King, Nannerl O. Keohane, Michael Laver, Virginia Sapiro, and Maya Sen.
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King, Gary, and Maya Sen
. 2013.
How Social Science Research Can Improve Teaching
PS: Political Science and Politics
46, no. 3: 621-629.
We marshal discoveries about human behavior and learning from social science research and show how they can be used to improve teaching and learning. The discoveries are easily stated as three social science generalizations: (1) social connections motivate, (2) teaching teaches the teacher, and (3) instant feedback improves learning. We show how to apply these generalizations via innovations in modern information technology inside, outside, and across university classrooms. We also give concrete examples of these ideas from innovations we have experimented with in our own teaching. See also a
video presentation
of this talk before the Harvard Board of Overseers
King, Gary, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E Roberts
. 2013.
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
American Political Science Review
107, no. 2 (May): 1-18.
We offer the first large scale, multiple source analysis of the outcome of what may be the most extensive effort to selectively censor human expression ever implemented. To do this, we have devised a system to locate, download, and analyze the content of millions of social media posts originating from nearly 1,400 different social media services all over China before the Chinese government is able to find, evaluate, and censor (i.e., remove from the Internet) the large subset they deem objectionable. Using modern computer-assisted text analytic methods that we adapt to and validate in the Chinese language, we compare the substantive content of posts censored to those not censored over time in each of 85 topic areas. Contrary to previous understandings, posts with negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state, its leaders, and its policies are not more likely to be censored. Instead, we show that the censorship program is aimed at curtailing collective action by silencing comments that represent, reinforce, or spur social mobilization, regardless of content. Censorship is oriented toward attempting to forestall collective activities that are occurring now or may occur in the future --- and, as such, seem to clearly expose government intent.
King, Gary, and Margaret Roberts
. 2013.
How Robust Standard Errors Expose Methodological Problems They Do Not Fix
"Robust standard errors'" are used in a vast array of scholarship to correct standard errors for model misspecification. However, when misspecification is bad enough to make classical and robust standard errors diverge, assuming that it is nevertheless not so bad as to bias everything else requires considerable optimism. And even if the optimism is warranted, settling for a misspecified model, with or without robust standard errors, will still bias estimators of all but a few quantities of interest. Even though this message is well known to methodologists and has appeared in the literature in several forms, it has failed to reach most applied researchers. The resulting cavernous gap between theory and practice suggests that considerable gains in applied statistics may be possible. We seek to help applied researchers realize these gains via an alternative perspective that offers a productive way to use robust standard errors; a new general and easier-to-use information test statistic which is easier to apply appropriately; and practical illustrations via simulations and real examples from published research. Instead of jettisoning this extremely popular tool, as some suggest, we show how robust and classical standard error differences can provide effective clues about model misspecification, likely biases, and a guide to more reliable inferences.
Imbens, Guido, Donald B Rubin, Gary King, Richard A Berk, Daniel E Ho, Kevin M Quinn, James D Greiner, et al.
Brief of Empirical Scholars as Amici Curiae
Filed with the Supreme Court of the United States in Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al.
In Grutter v. Bollinger, this Court held that a state has a compelling interest in attaining a diverse student body for the benefit of all students, and thatthis compelling interest justifies the consideration of race as a factor in university admissions. See 539 U.S. 306, 325, 328 (2003). In this, the latest case to consider the constitutionality of affirmative-action admissions policies, Professor Richard H. Sander, along with lawyer and journalist Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., filed a brief amici curiae arguing that social-8science research has shown affirmative action to be harmful to minority students. See Brief Amici Curiae for Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. in Supportof Neither Party ("Sander-Taylor Brief") 2. According to them, a "growing volume of very careful research, some of it completely unrebutted by dissenting work" has found that affirmative-action practices are not having their intended effect. Id.; see also Brief Amici Curiae of Gail Heriot et al. in Support of Petitioner ("Three Commissioners Brief") 14 ("The Commissioner Amici are aware of no empirical research that challenges [Sander's] findings."). But, as amici will show, the principal research on which Sander and Taylor rely for their conclusion about the negative effects of affirmative action—Sander's so-called "mismatch" hypothesis2—is far from "unrebutted." Sander-Taylor Brief 2. Since Sander first published findings in support of a"mismatch" in 2004, that research has been subjected to wide-ranging criticism. Nor is Sander's research "very careful." Id. As some of those critiques discussin detail, Sander's research has major methodologicalflaws—misapplying basic principles of causal inference—that call into doubt his controversial conclusions about affirmative action. The Sander "mismatch" research—and its provocative claim that, on average, minority students admitted through affirmative action would be better off attending less selective colleges and universities—is not good social science. Sander's research has "significantly overestimated the costs of affirmative action and failed to demonstrate benefits from ending it." David L. Chambers et al., The Real Impact of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools: An Empirical Critique of Richard Sander's Study, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 1855, 1857 (2005). That research, which consists of weak empirical contentions that fail to meet the basic tenets of rigorous social-science research, provides no basis for this Court to revisit longstanding precedent supporting the individualized consideration of race in admissions. Cf. Grutter, 539 U.S. at 334 ("Universities can * * * consider race or ethnicity more flexibly as a 'plus' factor in the context of individualized consideration of each and every applicant.") (citing Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 315-316 (1978) (opinion of Powell, J.,)).In light of the significant methodological flaws on which it rests, Sander's research does not constitute credible evidence that affirmative action practices are harmful to minorities, let alone that the diversity rationale at the heart of Grutter is at odds with social science.
Amici Brief
Hopkins, Daniel, Gary King, and Ying Lu
System for Estimating a Distribution of Message Content Categories in Source Data
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
. US Patent 8180717, filed 2012.
A method of computerized content analysis that gives "approximately unbiased and statistically consistent estimates" of a distribution of elements of structured, unstructured, and partially structured source data among a set of categories. In one embodiment, this is done by analyzing a distribution of small set of individually-classified elements in a plurality of categories and then using the information determined from the analysis to extrapolate a distribution in a larger population set. This extrapolation is performed without constraining the distribution of the unlabeled elements to be equal to the distribution of labeled elements, nor constraining a content distribution of content of elements in the labeled set (e.g., a distribution of words used by elements in the labeled set) to be equal to a content distribution of elements in the unlabeled set. Not being constrained in these ways allows the estimation techniques described herein to provide distinct advantages over conventional aggregation techniques.
Thomas, AC, Andrew Gelman, Gary King, and Jonathan N Katz
. 2012.
Estimating Partisan Bias of the Electoral College Under Proposed Changes in Elector Apportionment
Statistics, Politics, and Policy
: 1-13.
Statistics, Politics and Policy (publisher version)
In the election for President of the United States, the Electoral College is the body whose members vote to elect the President directly. Each state sends a number of delegates equal to its total number of representatives and senators in Congress; all but two states (Nebraska and Maine) assign electors pledged to the candidate that wins the state's plurality vote. We investigate the effect on presidential elections if states were to assign their electoral votes according to results in each congressional district,and conclude that the direct popular vote and the current electoral college are both substantially fairer compared to those alternatives where states would have divided their electoral votes by congressional district.
Iacus, Stefano M, and Gary King
. 2012.
How Coarsening Simplifies Matching-Based Causal Inference Theory
The simplicity and power of matching methods have made them an increasingly popular approach to causal inference in observational data. Existing theories that justify these techniques are well developed but either require exact matching, which is usually infeasible in practice, or sacrifice some simplicity via asymptotic theory, specialized bias corrections, and novel variance estimators; and extensions to approximate matching with multicategory treatments have not yet appeared. As an alternative, we show how conceptualizing continuous variables as having logical breakpoints (such as phase transitions when measuring temperature or high school or college degrees in years of education) is both natural substantively and can be used to simplify causal inference theory. The result is a finite sample theory that is widely applicable, simple to understand, and easy to implement by using matching to preprocess the data, after which one can use whatever method would have been applied without matching. The theoretical simplicity also allows for binary, multicategory, and continuous treatment variables from the start and for extensions to valid inference under imperfect treatment assignment.
King, Gary, Richard Nielsen, and Aaron Wells
. 2012.
Letter to the Editor on the "Medicare Health Support Pilot Program" (by McCall and Cromwell)
New England Journal of Medicine
366, no. 7: 667.
New England Journal of Medicine version
Published Letter
Soneji, Samir, and Gary King
. 2012.
Statistical Security for Social Security
49, no. 3: 1037-1060 .
Publisher's version
The financial viability of Social Security, the single largest U.S. Government program, depends on accurate forecasts of the solvency of its intergenerational trust fund. We begin by detailing information necessary for replicating the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) forecasting procedures, which until now has been unavailable in the public domain. We then offer a way to improve the quality of these procedures due to age-and sex-specific mortality forecasts. The most recent SSA mortality forecasts were based on the best available technology at the time, which was a combination of linear extrapolation and qualitative judgments. Unfortunately, linear extrapolation excludes known risk factors and is inconsistent with long-standing demographic patterns such as the smoothness of age profiles. Modern statistical methods typically outperform even the best qualitative judgments in these contexts. We show how to use such methods here, enabling researchers to forecast using far more information, such as the known risk factors of smoking and obesity and known demographic patterns. Including this extra information makes a sub¬stantial difference: For example, by only improving mortality forecasting methods, we predict three fewer years of net surplus, $730 billion less in Social Security trust funds, and program costs that are 0.66% greater of projected taxable payroll compared to SSA projections by 2031. More important than specific numerical estimates are the advantages of transparency, replicability, reduction of uncertainty, and what may be the resulting lower vulnerability to the politicization of program forecasts. In addition, by offering with this paper software and detailed replication information, we hope to marshal the efforts of the research community to include ever more informative inputs and to continue to reduce the uncertainties in Social Security forecasts. This work builds on our article that provides forecasts of US Mortality rates (see King and Soneji,
The Future of Death in America
), a book developing improved methods for forecasting mortality (Girosi and King,
Demographic Forecasting
), all data we used (King and Soneji,
replication data sets
), and open source software that implements the methods (Girosi and King,
). Also available is a
New York Times
Op-Ed based on this work (King and Soneji,
Social Security: It's Worse Than You Think
), and a replication data set for the Op-Ed (King and Soneji,
replication data set
Honaker, James, Gary King, and Matthew Blackwell
. 2011.
Amelia II: A Program for Missing Data
Journal of Statistical Software
45, no. 7: 1-47.
Amelia II is a complete R package for multiple imputation of missing data. The package implements a new expectation-maximization with bootstrapping algorithm that works faster, with larger numbers of variables, and is far easier to use, than various Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches, but gives essentially the same answers. The program also improves imputation models by allowing researchers to put Bayesian priors on individual cell values, thereby including a great deal of potentially valuable and extensive information. It also includes features to accurately impute cross-sectional datasets, individual time series, or sets of time series for different cross-sections. A full set of graphical diagnostics are also available. The program is easy to use, and the simplicity of the algorithm makes it far more robust; both a simple command line and extensive graphical user interface are included.
Amelia II software web site
Goldstein, Edward, Benjamin J Cowling, Allison E Aiello, Saki Takahashi, Gary King, Ying Lu, and Marc Lipsitch
. 2011.
Estimating Incidence Curves of Several Infections Using Symptom Surveillance Data
PLoS ONE
6, no. 8: e23380.
We introduce a method for estimating incidence curves of several co-circulating infectious pathogens, where each infection has its own probabilities of particular symptom profiles. Our deconvolution method utilizes weekly surveillance data on symptoms from a defined population as well as additional data on symptoms from a sample of virologically confirmed infectious episodes. We illustrate this method by numerical simulations and by using data from a survey conducted on the University of Michigan campus. Last, we describe the data needs to make such estimates accurate.
Link to PLoS version
Bischof, Jonathan, Gary King, and Samir Soneji
. 2011.
AutoCast: Automated Bayesian Forecasting with YourCast
King, Gary
. 2011.
Ensuring the Data Rich Future of the Social Sciences
331, no. 11 February: 719-721.
Massive increases in the availability of informative social science data are making dramatic progress possible in analyzing, understanding, and addressing many major societal problems. Yet the same forces pose severe challenges to the scientific infrastructure supporting data sharing, data management, informatics, statistical methodology, and research ethics and policy, and these are collectively holding back progress. I address these changes and challenges and suggest what can be done.
Grimmer, Justin, and Gary King
. 2011.
General Purpose Computer-Assisted Clustering and Conceptualization
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
We develop a computer-assisted method for the discovery of insightful conceptualizations, in the form of clusterings (i.e., partitions) of input objects. Each of the numerous fully automated methods of cluster analysis proposed in statistics, computer science, and biology optimize a different objective function. Almost all are well defined, but how to determine before the fact which one, if any, will partition a given set of objects in an "insightful" or "useful" way for a given user is unknown and difficult, if not logically impossible. We develop a metric space of partitions from all existing cluster analysis methods applied to a given data set (along with millions of other solutions we add based on combinations of existing clusterings), and enable a user to explore and interact with it, and quickly reveal or prompt useful or insightful conceptualizations. In addition, although uncommon in unsupervised learning problems, we offer and implement evaluation designs that make our computer-assisted approach vulnerable to being proven suboptimal in specific data types. We demonstrate that our approach facilitates more efficient and insightful discovery of useful information than either expert human coders or many existing fully automated methods.
Supplemental notes
King, Gary, Richard Nielsen, Carter Coberley, James E Pope, and Aaron Wells
. 2011.
Avoiding Randomization Failure in Program Evaluation
Population Health Management
14, no. 1: S11-S22.
We highlight common problems in the application of random treatment assignment in large scale program evaluation. Random assignment is the defining feature of modern experimental design. Yet, errors in design, implementation, and analysis often result in real world applications not benefiting from the advantages of randomization. The errors we highlight cover the control of variability, levels of randomization, size of treatment arms, and power to detect causal effects, as well as the many problems that commonly lead to post-treatment bias. We illustrate with an application to the Medicare Health Support evaluation, including recommendations for improving the design and analysis of this and other large scale randomized experiments.
King, Gary, Richard Nielsen, Carter Coberley, James E Pope, and Aaron Wells
. 2011.
Comparative Effectiveness of Matching Methods for Causal Inference
Matching is an increasingly popular method of causal inference in observational data, but following methodological best practices has proven difficult for applied researchers. We address this problem by providing a simple graphical approach for choosing among the numerous possible matching solutions generated by three methods: the venerable ``Mahalanobis Distance Matching'' (MDM), the commonly used ``Propensity Score Matching'' (PSM), and a newer approach called ``Coarsened Exact Matching'' (CEM). In the process of using our approach, we also discover that PSM often approximates random matching, both in many real applications and in data simulated by the processes that fit PSM theory. Moreover, contrary to conventional wisdom, random matching is not benign: it (and thus PSM) can often degrade inferences relative to not matching at all. We find that MDM and CEM do not have this problem, and in practice CEM usually outperforms the other two approaches. However, with our comparative graphical approach and easy-to-follow procedures, focus can be on choosing a matching solution for a particular application, which is what may improve inferences, rather than the particular method used to generate it.
Blackwell, Matthew, James Honaker, and Gary King
. 2011.
Multiple Overimputation: A Unified Approach to Measurement Error and Missing Data
Social scientists typically devote considerable effort to reducing measurement error during data collection and then ignore the issue during data analysis. Although many statistical methods have been proposed for reducing measurement error-induced biases, few have been widely used because of implausible assumptions, high levels of model dependence, difficult computation, or inapplicability with multiple mismeasured variables. We develop an easy-to-use alternative that generalizes the popular multiple imputation (MI) framework by treating missing data problems as a special case of extreme measurement error and correcting for both. Like MI, the proposed "multiple overimputation" (MO) framework is a simple two-step procedure. First, multiple (≈5) completed copies of the data set are created where cells measured without error are held constant, those missing are imputed from the distribution of predicted values, and cells (or entire variables) with measurement error are "overimputed," that is imputed from a predictive distribution with observation-level priors defined by the mismeasured values and available external information, if any. In the second step, analysts can then run whatever statistical method they would have run on each of the overimputed data sets as if there had been no missingness or measurement error; the results are then combined via a simple procedure. We also (will) offer open source software that implements all the methods described herein.
Wand, Jonathan, Gary King, and Olivia Lau
. 2011.
Anchors: Software for Anchoring Vignettes Data
Journal of Statistical Software
42, no. 3: 1--25.
When respondents use the ordinal response categories of standard survey questions in different ways, the validity of analyses based on the resulting data can be biased. Anchoring vignettes is a survey design technique intended to correct for some of these problems. The anchors package in R includes methods for evaluating and choosing anchoring vignettes, and for analyzing the resulting data.
Ho, Daniel E, Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth A Stuart
. 2011.
MatchIt: Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference
Journal of Statistical Software
42, no. 8.
MatchIt implements the suggestions of Ho, Imai, King, and Stuart (2007) for improving parametric statistical models by preprocessing data with nonparametric matching methods. MatchIt implements a wide range of sophisticated matching methods, making it possible to greatly reduce the dependence of causal inferences on hard-to-justify, but commonly made, statistical modeling assumptions. The software also easily ts into existing research practices since, after preprocessing data with MatchIt, researchers can use whatever parametric model they would have used without MatchIt, but produce inferences with substantially more robustness and less sensitivity to modeling assumptions. MatchIt is an R program, and also works seamlessly with Zelig.
Iacus, Stefano M, Gary King, and Giuseppe Porro
. 2011.
Multivariate Matching Methods That are Monotonic Imbalance Bounding
Journal of the American Statistical Association
106, no. 493: 345-361.
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Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Laogai was an underground facility operated by the Dai Li agents and run by the Grand Secretariat, Long Feng. It consisted of several chambers and tunnels, which held prison cells and training facilities for both Dai Li agents and Joo Dees. The chambers also held equipment used to brainwash people who did not adhere to the rules enforced by Long Feng and his agents. Since these rules made it absolutely forbidden to mention the war against the Fire Nation within the city walls, those who did were usually arrested and reeducated using the brainwashing technique.
The secret headquarters was presumed to be destroyed, as discovered by Team Avatar when they tried to convince Earth King Kuei of Long Feng's conspiracy. In an attempt to expose the facilities, Toph's raising of the ground under the lake with earthbending uncovered only a destroyed entrance to the base.[2]
- The term Laogai is an abbreviation for Laodong Gaizao, 勞動改造 (simp. 劳动改造), which means "reform through labor", and refers to the use of prison labor in the People's Republic of China. The Laogai are a series of camps where opponents of the Chinese Communist Party are sent to work as slave labor.
- After the Hundred Year War, a pro-bending team named the Laogai Lion Vultures was formed.[3]
- ↑ Hedrick, Tim (writer) & MacMullan, Lauren (director). (November 6, 2006). "Lake Laogai". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 17. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ O'Bryan, John (writer) & Spaulding, Ethan (director). (November 17, 2006). "The Earth King". Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 2. Episode 18. Nickelodeon.
- ↑ Welcome to Republic City. Nickelodeon (May 11, 2012). Retrieved on May 11, 2012.


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couple of bombs from Ellsbury today off AJ
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Sweet Melissa Sundays: Bee Stings!
This week's Sweet Melissa Sundays recipe was chosen by Jaime of Good Eats 'n Sweet Treats: bee stings! Melissa created the bee stings out of her love for doughnuts. They're basically brioche buns filled with vanilla pastry cream which are dipped in a honey caramel glaze and topped with toasted almonds. They sounded delicious and I was excited to try them!
Unfortunately, luck (and perhaps skill?) were not on my side with this week's recipe. I started off by making the brioche dough and found it pretty tricky to work with. I added a lot more flour than the recipe listed (I lost track of how much extra but at least 1/4 cup and probably even more) and I kneaded close to 20 minutes with my stand mixer, but the dough hadn't really formed a ball and was still sticking to the sides of the bowl. I was weary about adding more flour, so I gave up and stuck it in another bowl for its first rise. It didn't look like it rose much (even after 3 hours) but it was late and I was tired so I shaped into rolls and went to bed. The next morning, I put the rolls in the oven for the second rise. They spread a bit but didn't rise much. I baked them anyway, and fresh from the oven I tried one. I thought it was tasty, however, as the rolls cooled they became quite dense.
I didn't know if they could be salvaged but I wasn't optimistic and didn't want to waste time and ingredients making pastry cream so I skipped ahead and made the honey caramel glaze. The glaze was really yummy and thickened up nicely as it cooled. I didn't have any sliced almonds but I found some slivered almonds hiding in the freezer so I toasted those and topped the buns with them. I hope to make these again at some point with better results - perhaps with some of the pointers I pick up from the other bakers this week!
I always have trouble when a recipe indicates a baked good is best the day it is made. There are only two of us here so I always need to find someone to pass the treats along to and that's a challenge on the weekends when coworkers aren't an option :) I planned to give at least 4 of the bee stings to my mailman (see below) so I was pretty bummed when the mail truck pulled up and I discovered my mailman was on vacation. His replacement was much less receptive to my baked goods so I guess I'm going to find out how the bee stings are on the second day.
Thanks, Jaime, for a fun selection this week! You can find the recipe on her blog or in The Sweet Melissa Baking Book. Stop by the Sweet Melissa Sundays site to see the other bee stings!
26 comments:
- Elyse said...
I'm sorry that this dough was so difficult to work with. Your bee stings sure turned out pretty, though! Too bad your mailman was on vacation :( I hear you with the "what do I do with these baked goods" problem; it's only Todd and myself in the apartment, and I often have way too many goodies around!
- May 31, 2009 at 1:22 AM
- Snooky doodle said...
- May 31, 2009 at 2:20 AM
- Steph said...
I can't believe your mailman wouldn't take your bee stings! Sometimes I have trouble passing off my food too. I hate it when people think I'm trying to poison them...hahaha. That's so cool you have a mailman. We just have a box outside of my street.
You can't go wrong with honey glaze and pastry cream! - May 31, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- Katrina said...
I love honey and I love the name of these. They look great!
- May 31, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- spike. said...
I had the same problems with the dough but yours look a lot prettier than mine!
- May 31, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Shari@Whisk: a food blog said...
These look beautiful! And how generous of you to give them away after all that effort!
- May 31, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Jaime said...
thanks for baking along with me this week! don't be shy adding more flour to a yeast recipe. i thought they were more dense than i had imagined too. oh, and i only baked up 4 and then froze the rest - that solves the problem of "best when eaten the day they are made" :)
- May 31, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Stephanie said...
Mine didn't rise and were dense, too! :( Sadness. Maybe we'll have to try them again in the future
- May 31, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- margot said...
They look great, despite all the problems they gave you. I was happy to see your comments on the P&Q section of the SMS site about the dough being sticky, so I knew to add a extra (procrastination paying off). Sorry the substitute mailman didn't take any off your hands; I would think most people would be happy to try these!
- May 31, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- PheMom said...
I had such a hard time even getting this recipe for the pastry cream to work that I had to bail this time. Kudos to you for making them! They still look really nice!
- May 31, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- vibi said...
Nicely done, Travey! Although you had trouble with it... it is in those times one can tell who had fairy fingers and not, for it turned out perfect looking! Bravo!
- May 31, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- karen said...
You got a lot further than I did. My dough didnt rise at all and i totally gave up. Props to you for going foward -- they look fantastic!
- May 31, 2009 at 9:17 PM
- Nancy/n.o.e said...
Your substitute mailman rejected your baked goods? That's adding insult to injury! Sorry they didn't work; that always annoys me.
- May 31, 2009 at 10:00 PM
- Every Day Blessings said...
I had the same trouble with the dough. The cream did make them taste better and I loved the glaze. We'll all do better next time. Yours look great, they look acutally perfect.
- May 31, 2009 at 11:24 PM
- Claudia said...
I love the mailman story! He should have been receptive to baked goods. Is he nuts? They look truly lovely and I probably would ahve had a hard time with brioche dough - any problem you had diud not show up in your photos.
- May 31, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- Megan said...
The first time I made these, they were dense and biscuit like. This time, they were much better, but still not something I would make again.
And who ever heard of a mailman refusing sweets? The nerve! - May 31, 2009 at 11:39 PM
- Cristine said...
Sorry you had trouble with these. They look great, though!
- June 1, 2009 at 4:34 AM
- natalia said...
Ciao ! I've never heard of Bee Stings and even if they were not the easiest thing to make they look very nice !!
- June 1, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- pinkstripes said...
Your bee stings look great. Too bad it didn't quite work out for you. I don't know why I perservered and tried again. I was so ready to throw in the towel.
- June 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM
- Flourchild said...
They look great. Im sorry I missed this one but am kind of glad cus of the dough issues!
- June 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Fit Chick said...
Your Bee Stings look delicious! Too bad they gave you a bit of trouble; I passed on this weeks recipe.
- June 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Cathy said...
They look delicious! So, how were they on day 2, anyway? Actually, I'll just ask you on Twitter! I can't believe your backup mailman didn't want your bee stings - hope the regular guy is back soon! You did a fantastic job with these!
- June 1, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- notmicrowavesafe said...
That's odd that your mailman didn't want them- maybe he has a nut allergy? I have the same problem with baked goods saying they should be eaten the same day- when I made the sour cherry pie, it was eaten over several days and I left it with my parents (my dad said it still tasted good a few days later). I wonder if she just says that because she owns a bakery, so everything is always so fresh? Anyway, your bee stings look wonderful, and it's too bad that the dough didn't rise as much as you'd hoped.
- June 4, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Mermaid Sweets said...
I love that you give treats to your mailman. I have to give things away too since its just the hubby and I, so I agree with baked fresh that day stuff. They look good and tasty to me.
- June 4, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- Katiecakes said...
Your bee stings are super cute! I had the exact same problems with the dough :S
Katie xox - June 5, 2009 at 4:02 AM
- Jeannette said...
i would have GLADLY accepted those baked goodies!! the mailman didn't know what he was missing :)
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It's not uncommon to have a drop in blood pressure during pregnancy. Many women don't realize that pregnancy can have an effect on blood pressure. It occurs because the circulation expands during pregnancy and hormonal changes cause the blood vessels to dilate, leading to a lowering of blood pressure. The blood pressure begins to fall in early pregnancy and is usually at its lowest sometime in the middle of the second trimester. For many clinicians, low blood pressure is defined by the blood pressure that gives a person the symptoms described below and not by a standard measurement.
Not surprisingly, women may experience symptoms of low blood pressure during pregnancy. These symptoms are similar to symptoms that anyone with low blood pressure might feel. Most commonly, symptoms of low blood pressure in pregnancy include dizziness and even fainting. The lightheadedness can be worse when standing up suddenly or rising from a reclining position.


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-Small and Mid-Sized Companies utilize iCIMS for their end-to-end talent management lifecycle–
HAZLET, N.J. (December 28, 2009) - iCIMS, the third-largest provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, announced today that the company has seen an influx in the number of clients adopting the iCIMS Talent Platform for Employee Data Management. Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation (SASF), QuadraMed and Pangia Technologies are just a few of the growing number of small and mid-sized organizations that have signed on to use the Talent Platform as their end-to-end candidate and employee management solution.
The recent trend is a direct testament to the superior business model offered by the SaaS provider, which ensures clients don't run into hidden costs for maintenance, upgrades or service fees. These typically small and mid-sized organizations recognize the long-term value the Talent Platform offers, as iCIMS' software allows users to manage their entire talent lifecycle through a single web-based system and eliminates the need to ever purchase costly, disparate modules or migrate to new databases. iCIMS offers these customers a highly configurable solution that is not only powerful enough to meet their talent management needs today, but flexible enough to grow with their future organizational objectives.
From candidate management features like Applicant Tracking and Onboarding to employee management tools like Performance Management and Employee Data Management, clients from all industries can automate and streamline their talent initiatives within one system. Beyond the management of demographic information and position history, iCIMS' employee data management software enables human resource professionals to automate a myriad of once cumbersome, paper-intensive tasks such as W-4 forms, employee surveys, performance appraisals, and exit interviews, among others. iCIMS' Employee Data Management features can also help facilitate one of the strongest sources for quality talent – employee referral programs. Instead of forcing participants to request referral documents from recruiters, iCIMS offers automated iForms which empowers employees to retrieve the proper documentation online within the Talent Platform. By automatically sourcing the origin of every candidate, iCIMS enables the monitoring of all referrals through the platform. Coupled with a three-tier reporting center, the iCIMS Talent Platform provides for quick and easy reporting in one, centralized location, allowing users to track, store and manage all information throughout the employee lifecycle.
"While HR departments in all industries are struggling to streamline their talent initiatives across multiple databases, iCIMS is providing a best-in-breed solution that facilitates HR processes while also providing value to any company seeking efficiencies," said Director of Sales, Adam Feigenbaum. "We expect this growth to continue into 2010 as more and more small and mid-size businesses seek one solution to grow with all of their HR initiatives."
iCIMS also boasts industry-lauded Customer Support, most recently being named the Customer Service Department of the Year by the Stevie Awards, as well as being recognized by the Sift Media Software Satisfaction Awards for superior customer support levels. Since 2003, iCIMS has boasted a 97% client retention rate due in large part to dedicated, multi-tiered support for all users. Available 24 hours a day, five days a week, iCIMS' service teams offer enterprise level support to all users of the Talent Platform, which powers talent management initiatives for corporations around the globe.
About iCIMS:
iCIMS, a leading provider of innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, is an Inc. 500 and Software Satisfaction honoree focused on solving corporate business issues through the implementation of easy-to-use, scalable solutions that are backed by award-winning customer service. iCIMS' Talent Platform, the industry's premier candidate management solution, enables organizations to manage their entire talent acquisition lifecycle from sourcing, to recruiting, to onboarding all within a single web-based application. With more than 1,700 clients worldwide, iCIMS is one of the largest and fastest-growing talent acquisition system providers with offices in North America, UK, and China. To learn more about how iCIMS can help your organization, visit http://www.icims.com or view a free online demo of the iCIMS Talent Platform.


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The week-long deer-gun hunting season begins Monday morning at sunrise across Ohio. John Windau, of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife, expects as many as 85,000 deer to be taken by the 420,000 hunters who'll be out this week.
Deer-gun season is a big deal in Ohio; Windau says hunters contribute $266 million to the state's economy each fall through the purchase of fuel, food, lodging and equipment. The white-tailed deer is Ohio's most popular game animal.
It's also a dangerous time of year, with the expectation that there will be injuries and even deaths. Windau reminds hunters to wear blaze orange and to always keep an eye on what's around their intended target. In addition, hunters who are in tree stands should consider wearing a safety harness in case they fall.
The deer-gun season runs through Sunday, December 2, and includes an extra weekend of hunting December 15-16.