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The First President to be born in a hospital, a student of Nuclear physics and a speed reader who can read almost 2000 words a minute, Jimmy Carter once panned for Gold too. At the age of five he was punished by his father for stealing from the collection plate at a church, a penny. The draft resisters that belong to the Vietnam War were also pardoned by him. Before he entered the world of politics, he used to ride motorcycles. Jimmy Carter is said to be the first President whose mother was sent on a diplomatic mission. After his father's death, he ran very successfully his family's peanut farm. Received 2002 Nobel Peace Prize in the Oslo, Norway. He said about Iraq war: "I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false."
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Same-sex couples denied EU right to freedom of movement
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Whatever the name of the union – this union should give same rights as marriage and be accepted within the european union
Simply !!!
Zazou, that's not going to happen. I blame the EU Commission for not mandating all member states to ratify same-sex recognition across the board. The political will just isn't there I don't think. The only countries in Europe that enjoy full recognition in one another's countries are Holland, Belgium, Spain and soon Norway. Those marriages are also recognised in Canada, New York State (even though that state doesn't yet have marriage equality), the state of Massachusetts and I believe the state of Connecticut. South Africa, another country that allows gay couples to marry I'm sure reciprocates with those nations and states I've mentioned.
The only way that the EU is going to resolve this huge problem is to mandate same-sex recognition in every member state without except or regard to cultural differences, but I don't think we'll be alive to ever see that come to fruition.
Hmm. 10 comments on Eurovision, 1 comment on this issue. We should demand more from our MEPs. I have to admit I have no clue who mine is.
Matt, check out the link below. Select the constituency and it will provide you with a list of who is who. Hope this helps.
Only countries with the same attitude concerning things like same-sex couples, abortion, euthanasia etcetera should have been allowed to be members of the EU. There's still too much religious meddling in some countries.
Ireland should hurry up and introduce that legislation. Then I may live in my sweetie's home country…
the EU should impose a single law to legalize LGBT unions.
this then would be valid acroos all the EU lands
thus full equality, so stop talking just do it !
i'm actually quite hopeful. Initially Spain didn't recognise British civil partnerships, probably because they were hung up on the word marriage, but after a bit of negociation British Civil Partnerships are recognised as equal to Spanish gay marriages, I'm sure that as discussions are already taking place between Britain and France, civil partnerships will be accepted by the French in the same way PACS are accepted by the British, And as the article say 14 states don't yet recognise other members gay partnership legislation, that means 11 do…I agree there's not a lot of hope with some of the new member states , though Hungary and the Czech Republic and Slovenia are already way ahead of countries like Poland and Latvia. It'll happen certainly. But what would make the biggest difference is for America ( and Australia ) to join the rest of the civilised western world by legally recognising gay partnerships at a national level….here's hoping
I believe that it is important that as many people as possible write to their MEPs and ask them to sign up to the Sharon Bolwes MEP declaration mentioned in the article. It is really easy to do. Go to http://www.writetothem.com and enter your postcode. The wbsite then enables you to write to all of your MEPs with one email.
It's probably best if you write your own email, but if that sounds like too much trouble then you could cut and paste the following:
"Could you please let me know, as my MEP, whether or not you have signed Sharon Bowles' MEP declaration calling for Member States with existing same-sex partnership legislation to recognise the arrangements of other Member States that have also made provisions for same-sex partnerships. It also calls upon the Commission to draw up guidelines for such mutual recognition by Member States with existing same-sex partnership legislation.
If you have not yet signed this declaration, I would urge you to do so.
If you feel as though you can't sign the declaration, I would be grateful if you write back to me with your reasons why.
Thank you for your assistance on this request."
Writetothem will then send you an email which you have to respond to, and your email will be sent to all of your MEPs.
Everything is so perfectly written in European Directives and I am sure EU Commision makes efforts to help all these poor and so pathetic eastern and mediterranean countries to get out of their conservatism but when it comes to homosexuality everyone remembers all of a sudden he/she is religious. One month ago, civil partnership came into force in Greece only for straights. Freedom of movement, my ass.. Bulgaria is gonna do the same.. And no European court can help us.. Civil law is restricted to EU states. They don't care about discrimination. In Greece, where military is still obligatory for all males (despite the fact it constitutes violence of human rights) all gays are going there extremely scared because if one finds out they are homosexual then they are classified as mentally disturbed, and this means they are condemned not to find ever a job in Greece where every employer asks for discharge papers. Gays are kicked out of the military and humiliated before their parents and the society. Many soldiers in Greece commit suicide cause they can't stand the pressure. EU human rights and European courts, huh? It's ridiculous. Many western Europeans think EU is a uniform culturally community, they are unaware of the hell we're going through every day because we are just second class citizens.. From a gay greek guy who'd love to give up his shameless nationality and still cannot do it 'cause he hasn't got discharge papers.
I believe that it is important to get as many of our MEPs as possible to sign up to the declaration mentioned in this article. The easiest way to do this is via the website writetothem.com . All you do is type in your postcode and you can email all of your MEP's with one email. On Friday I sent the following to the London MEPs:
"Could you please let me know, as my MEP, whether or not you have signed Sharon Bowles' MEP declaration calling for Member States with existing same-sex partnership legislation to recognise the arrangements of other Member States that have also made provisions for same-sex partnerships. It also calls upon the Commission to draw up guidelines for such mutual recognition by Member States with existing same-sex partnership legislation.
If you have not yet signed this declaration, I would urge you to do so.
If you feel as though you can't sign the declaration, I would be grateful if you write back to me with your reasons why.
Thank you for your assistance on this request."
Already I have an email from John Bowis (Conservative) and Mary Honeyball (Labour) to say that they have signed the declaration.
Give it a go and let your MEPs know that they have constituents who care about this issue.
Just got another email to say that Charles Tannock (Conservative) has also signed the declaration.
It's completely mental that these countries won't let people in because of their sexuality!!!!! If they did the same to another minority group e.g.Latinos, then all hell would break loose about racism & equal rights, they should wake up and realise that discriminating against LGBT people is just as bad as any other minority group in the world!
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GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — State Rep. Lee Gonzales and State Sen. John Gleason missed the most roll call votes in the state Legislature of any area politicians, according to a new report.
Gonzales, D-Flint Twp., missed 45 out of the 682 roll call votes in 2009, while Gleason was absent for 30 of 716 votes, according to the report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Neither missed votes on highly contested issues, they said, and they were well below the legislators missing the most 2009 votes — Howell Republican Valde Garcia in the Senate (304 missed votes) and Muskegon Democrat Doug Bennett in the House (311 missed votes).
Meanwhile, two other area state representatives — Jim Slezak, D-Davison, and Woodrow Stanley, D-Flint — racked up perfect voting records last year, the report said.
Gonzales said most of his missed votes came in December, when he was in Minneapolis, representing the Legislature on a potential Midwest high-speed rail project and at a national environmental conference for legislators. His voting record is the 13th worst in the state House.
"My missed votes, I was doing other state business," said Gonzales, who missed 35 votes in 2008.
Gleason improved his voting record from the previous year, when the center reported he missed 108 votes. Still, he had the 10th highest number of missed votes in the state Senate last year.
Gleason, who also serves as the Senate's assistant Democratic caucus chairman, said that missing votes shouldn't necessarily be perceived as a negative thing.
"They say well you're missing this vote — well, that's because you're preparing for another piece of legislation that's hung up in the House," he said. "You've got to be effective."
Gleason said he's learned to prioritize his time and — rather than vote on legislation that doesn't have a shot of getting to the governor's desk — work on matters that could become law.
Nevertheless, legislators know they're under the microscope when it comes to their voting records.
"It's important (to vote)," said Prudy Adams, Genesee County Republican Party chairperson. "I think it's something we should continue to monitor."
Other local lawmakers missed just a few votes each: Rep. Richard Hammel, D-Mt. Morris Twp., missed one vote; Rep. Paul Scott, R-Grand Blanc, missed three; and Sen. Deb Cherry, D-Burton, missed five.
On the whole, legislators are missing fewer roll call votes than they were earlier in the decade, said Jack McHugh, editor of the report.
"I firmly believe this is because this information has become so easy to access on Michigan votes, legislators know this can be used politically against them," McHugh said.
Legislators say that good voting records show they're doing their jobs.
"The way I see it, I represent 90,000 people," Scott said. "The people in Grand Blanc and Fenton get one voice on these issues. They get one voice in Lansing and they send me there to lend that voice. I think it's the most important part of my job."


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Plant of the Week
Decumbent Trillium (Trillium decumbens)
By Mark Pistrang
All trillium species belong to the Liliaceae (lily) family and are rhizomatous herbs with unbranched stems. Trillium plants produce no true leaves or stems above ground. The "stem" is actually just an extension of the horizontal rhizome and produces tiny, scalelike leaves (cataphylls). The aboveground plant is technically a flowering scape, and the leaf-like structures are actually bracts subtending the flower. Despite their morphological origins, the bracts have external and internal structure similar to that of a leaf, function in photosynthesis, and most authors refer to them as leaves.
Trilliums are generally divided into two major groups: The pedicellate and sessile trilliums. In the pedicillate trilliums, either the flower sits upon a pedicel that extends from the whorl of bracts, "erect" above the bracts, or "nodding" recurved under the bracts. In the sessile trilliums, there is no pedicel and the flower appears to arise directly from the bracts.
The decumbent trillium is one of the sessile trilliums and is very similar in appearance to the more common Trillium cuneatum with the exception that upon first glance it seems to have no above ground "stem". The rhizome of this species is often "s" shaped, arising from the ground several inches from where the leaves lay flat on the ground surface. Known only from a limited range in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, this species often appears to have been "plucked" from its stem and laid flat on the ground along the side of a trail. Decumbent trillium typically blooms from mid-March through April and is found in mature deciduous woodlands or on thin, open rocky wooded slopes, adjacent to and along stream floodplains.
For More Information
- PLANTS Profile - Trillium decumbens, decumbent trillium
- Flora of North America: Trillium decumbens
- Case, F.W., R.B. Case. 1997. Trilliums, Timber Press, Portland, OR.


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A gifted young artist from St. Tammany Parish who recently won a contest to paint a mural in Olde Towne Slidell was killed during the weekend in a one-vehicle crash in Lafourche Parish.
Blake Kenworthey, 20, was driving west on U.S. 90 on Saturday about 8:10 p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve west of the Des Allemands overpass, said Bryan Zeringue, spokesman for State Police Troop C. The 1999 Ford Explorer that Kenworthey was driving veered left off the highway and into the median, where it flipped and ejected Kenworthey, who was not wearing a seat belt, the trooper said.
The reason for the accident is unknown, Zeringue said. Troop C is awaiting the results of toxicology tests from the Lafourche Parish coroner's office to determine whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident.
Kenworthey had spent the morning of the accident in Slidell, where he had just finished his prize-winning mural, a Louisiana marina scene, on a building at 155 Robert St., across from KY's Olde Towne Bicycle Shop, said Kim Bergeron, director of Slidell's Cultural and Public Affairs Department. The department hosted the contest as part of the Festival of Murals, held in conjunction with the city's Arts Evening event.
Kenworthey, who lived near Abita Springs, was a passionate artist whose age belied his talent, those who knew him well said. In addition to being the youngest artist to win the mural contest, his work was chosen in 2010 to grace the covers of the Pelican Pages telephone directory and the AT&T Yellow Pages, both in St. Tammany Parish.
A fine arts student at Nicholls State University, Kenworthey won the respect of both the faculty and his fellow students with his dedication to his craft.
Gaither Pope, an assistant professor of art at Nicholls, taught Kenworthey in painting class. He said Kenworthey painted all the time and "had converted his dorm room into a studio."
Kenworthe's biggest interest was in portraiture and, in addition to completing a large self-portrait, Kenworthey had undertaken a project to paint the portraits of the entire art department faculty, a task that was about half-complete, Pope said.
"I think a lot of art students were in awe of him because he was so talented," he said. "I hate that he's gone because there's no telling what he would have done. He certainly had the gift."
Kenworthey was also an entrepreneur, often looking for ways to profit from that gift, Pope said.
He had a website where he offered paintings for sale and sought commissioned artwork on subjects ranging from pets to people to landscapes. And he even set up a screen-printing shop in his room to sell T-shirts to the fraternities on campus, Pope said.
Kenworthey graduated from Fontainebleau High School, where he participated in the talented art program, and spent much of his free time working on his art.
"He was prolific," Pope said, noting the amount of work the young man turned out. "He loved to paint. He loved everything about painting."
In high school, Kenworthey was president of the Slidell Art League Teens and was the organization's Artist of the Year. He competed among the adults in the art league as a teenager.
He won many accolades for his work, not the least of which was his selection as the poster contest winner for the Mandeville Seafood Festival in 2008. Kenworthey also won first place in 2007 in the senior division of the Louisiana Junior Federal Duck Stamp Contest and on several occasions at Salad Days, Slidell's juried student art competition.
"We first met Blake in 2004 at Salad Days and were just blown away by his talent," Bergeron said. "I think the other kids sighed a collective breath when he became too old to compete. If Blake entered, Blake was assured of winning one or more of the top prizes."
She called Kenworthey a good person from a good family who lit up a room with his smile. As he grew older, he had begun to mentor his little sisters, who had started to follow in his footsteps, but Bergeron couldn't help but think of Kenworthey as the kid she used to know.
A memorial service will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1 N. Marigold Drive in Covington.
Christine Harvey can be reached at email@example.com or 985.645.2853.


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The 9th Massachusetts Light Artillery, a Civil War reenacting group based in Western Mass., recently returned from the 150th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg.
"Along with 15,000 other re-enactors, we spent four days under similar conditions as those of early July 1863 – 95 to 100 degrees and high humidity," Capt. Elliot M. Levy of Longmeadow wrote in an email to The Republican. "We fought in battles Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with the last battle being Pickett's Charge.
"Our two cannons were part of 140 pieces firing. In addition, we conducted ceremonies at our three monuments on the battlefield and a ceremony in the National Cemetery over the two graves of 9th members who died on July 2, 1863.
"Also, we are part of the Gettysburg 'Adopt a Position' program whereby we help take care of our three monuments," Levy wrote.
The photos in the slideshow included in this story of the 9th Massachusetts' participation in the Gettysburg 150th anniversary reenactment were provided by Levy.


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It has always seemed to be an automatic assumption that since women do not possess as much muscle mass (or muscle mass potential) as men that somehow resistance training is less important and less well suited for them. As it turns out, proper resistance training is even more important for women because they possess less muscle mass.
There are a couple of new research articles out that I hope will illustrate this point. I will discuss the underlying physiology of my theory on this after we look at these articles. The first article is entitled Effect of Exercise Training Intensity on Abdominal Visceral Fat and Body Composition. The authors are Irving BA, et al. It is published in Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Oct 8.
This article looked at twenty-seven middle-aged (51+/- 9 yrs) obese women with the metabolic syndrome comparing either no intervention, low intensity exercise below the lactate threshold, or high intensity exercise above the lactate threshold. Remember from our discussion in BBS, high intensity exercise is characterized by producing pyruvate from anaerobic metabolism more quickly than the mitochondria can use it. Pyruvate stacks up, and then gets acted on by lactate dehydrogenase producing lactic acid. When this occurs, you are above the lactate threshold.
The really cool thing this article did is that it adjusted the workout times so that the caloric expenditure was identical in both exercise groups. Exercise time was adjusted so that 400kcal was expended per session. This clearly would show that any changes could not be attributed to burning more calories in a particular session. Actually, the calories burned would actually favor the low intensity group since they performed more 400kcal sessions per week.
The subjects' body composition was evaluated using single slice CT scan at the L4-L5 disc space and mid-thigh to determine abdominal fat and thigh muscle cross-sectional areas. Percent body fat was assessed by air displacement plethysmography (a Bod Pod).
The results were very clear. The high intensity group significantly reduced total abdominal fat, abdominal subcutaneous fat, and abdominal visceral fat. There were no changes observed in the non-exercise group or the low intensity group. The part not mentioned in the study is the most important part. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: THE RESULTS ARE CORRELATED WITH INTENSITY NOT CALORIES BURNED. Each exercise session was controlled to expend the same number of calories, AND based on total calories burned, the low intensity group had the advantage since they worked out more days per week. Despite this advantage, the low intensity group did not lose fat. This is a key concept: when it comes to losing body fat you cannot achieve it by "burning calories" in an attempt to influence the calories in/calories out equation. Fat will be mobilized when you use an exercise modality that mobilizes glycogen out of the muscle, creating a need for replenishment via the insulin receptors. As insulin sensitivity improves, serum insulin levels drop and body fat can be mobilized. As this scenario is repeated, triglycerides can be tapped from fat cells to supply energy for high intensity exertion, compounding the fat loss effect.
A similar study was conducted in 2004: The effects of exercise training on abdominal visceral fat, body composition, and indicators of the metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal women with and without estrogen replacement therapy: the HERITAGE family study. Green, JS et. al. Metabolism. 2004 Sep;53(9):1192-6. This study used the same methods for evaluating body composition as the study above. However, the variable studied here is the presence or absence of hormone replacement. There were no significant changes in body composition in either group. The problem with this study is that a low intensity exercise routine was used. Since hormone replacement was the variable studied, it may have been incorrect to conclude it had no value, because it was evaluated in the context of low intensity exercise. If the exercise protocol had been of high enough intensity to actually stimulate results, then perhaps the magnitude of the results would have actually been different with hormone replacement. This illustrates how a study can go awry when it evaluates a given independent variable while using the wrong dependent variables as a backdrop.
Let me take the opportunity to anticipate and address a potential objection to the use of these studies. One objection might be that the high intensity exercise was not done with weights. This is true. But from a metabolic standpoint what is important is that the intensity was high enough to exceed the lactate threshold. Exceeding this threshold is the variable being studied, how that variable is achieved is not important — except that this variable can be achieved much more efficiently and aggressively done the Body By Science way. You must remember that when we use a study to support the premise of BBS, it does not have to be a study that uses exactly the protocol we advocate. We are using studies that look at independent variables that are part of the Body By Science approach. The variable in this case is the concept of high intensity training done above the lactate threshold. Also, Body By Science is not just based on the scientific literature; it is based on an understanding of basic science that has been well ahead of the research curve for over two decades. Stated differently, John and I (and others like us) have relied on an understanding of basic science to construct our exercise philosophy and have shouted our theories from the mountaintops and argued with keepers of the status quo over the decades. Indeed, we have made enough noise throughout the years that our theories are now actually being tested, and there is now data accumulating to support our approach. These are the studies that you will find referenced in Body By Science.
Let me now discuss the basic science that explains why high intensity exercise is even more important for women than for men when it comes to changes in body composition. The metabolic syndrome and the body composition changes that result from it are due to derangements in carbohydrate metabolism. We evolved from an environment of food scarcity where carbohydrate was the least abundant macronutrient, and where high intensity exertion was required to acquire the food we needed. In our modern environment, carbohydrate is very abundant and high intensity exertion is very rare. Most of the carbohydrates consumed are refined and are quickly/easily absorbed. Our evolutionary background has produced a mechanism for signaling energy storage that is predicated on an abundance of what would be the least abundant macronutrient in our ancestral environment. That macronutrient is carbohydrate. What happens in the metabolic syndrome is something that would have been very foreign to our ancestors. We are exposed to very high levels of carbohydrate. This is rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream causing blood sugar to rise, which triggers the pancreas to release insulin so that glucose can be moved into the cells of the body. This normalizes the blood glucose level, and stores the glucose as glycogen for future use. However, your body has limited glycogen storage capabilities. An adult male can store about 70 grams in his liver, and 220 grams in his skeletal muscle. If more glucose than this is present, insulin will then drive synthesis of triacylglycerol, which will, in turn, result in the glycogen being stored as body fat.
The average American consumes way more than 290 grams of carbohydrate in a 24-hour period, even when they are "cutting back" or "watching what they eat." As this situation compiles on a day-by-day basis, the body adapts by decreasing insulin sensitivity on the muscle cells. This protects the metabolic machinery of the muscle from being jammed with "glycosylation products" by basically binding sugars to proteins within the cell. As a result, insulin sensitivity on the fat cells remains relatively preserved so that excess carbohydrate can be more efficiently shunted towards fat storage. At this point your body has now become a fat-producing factory. You are now in the throws of the Metabolic Syndrome. Now your fat cells are a tissue colony with a competitive advantage. Any nutrition you intake now gets shunted directly to the fat cells. You now suffer from "internal starvation." You may take in 4,000 Calories per day, but none of it supplies your lean tissue. Your muscle mass, total protein and albumin all drop despite a gluttonous intake of food stimulated by your chronically elevated insulin levels. Why a gluttonous intake? Because LOW insulin levels are needed to tap energy out of fat cells, and with insulin levels being so high, immediate energy needs have to be obtained by the intake of more food (acquired by stimulating hunger)…which then gets shunted to the fat cells. AARRGGHHH!! You are now in the vicious cycle of the metabolic syndrome – but it gets worse: Many of the circulating hormones your body relies now will have glucose attached to them and your body recognizes them as foreign and begins attacking them (this is my theory) and the glands that produce them (thyroid hormone being a prime example).
An article from the Journal of Nutrition and Health A discussion of the relationship between selenium, thyroxine and indigestion. Nutr Health, 1998;12:131-4., suggests that agricultural wheat products have a low selenium content which depresses the activity of the diodinase enzyme crucial to the production of thyroid hormone. Whatever the mechanism, hypothyroidism commonly occurs in tandem with the metabolic syndrome. Now the cycle is truly in lock-down mode. When Oprah asks on the cover of her January 2009 issue of "O" magazine, "How did I let this Happen Again?" I think she might find the answer in the above paragraph.
This situation is more likely to occur in women simply because they DO have less muscle mass than their male counterparts. As a result, their glycogen stores become full more easily and more quickly and the process described above occurs more easily and more aggressively. This is why high intensity exercise is even more important for women. Only high intensity exercise activates the adrenaline-stimulated amplification cascade that mobilizes huge amounts of glycogen out of the muscle. This is a survival mechanism that provides emergency energy for on-site use in our muscles. When you work out HARD (as detailed in Body By Science) you activate this process and empty your muscles of excess glucose. This creates a scenario where glucose needs to be replaced within the muscle. This is done by the action of insulin. Insulin receptors on the muscle surface then become restored, serum glucose can then drop and Insulin levels drop. When insulin levels drop, hormone sensitive lipase can then become active and mobilize fat stores for immediate energy needs. You no longer have to rely on a ravenous appetite to meet immediate energy needs. Before, elevated insulin levels would cause you to misinterpret ANY discomfort as hunger. Now, only energy needs that cannot be met by fat mobilization through hormone sensitive lipase actually stimulate hunger AND it is a subtle signal that it is time to eat (rather than a sense of ravenous panic).
Having detailed the role of high intensity exercise in reversing the metabolic syndrome, I must devote some attention to the dietary aspect of the problem. No exercise program (even high intensity strength training) can compensate for a bad diet that is too high in refined carbohydrate. High intensity exercise certainly gives you more latitude in your diet, but it cannot do it by itself. The diet we advocate is basically a hunter-gatherer diet, which focuses on healthy meats, fats, and carbohydrate derived from fibrous vegetables and low-sugar fruits. What is absent are agricultural-based refined carbohydrates. Anything derived from the seed-head of plants must be ground into flour which is high in rapidly absorbable carbohydrate. Also, seeds of plants contain phytotoxins which help to protect the plant's reproductive elements from being eaten. These toxins keep animals from reproducing and thriving by disrupting their hormone function. High intake of refined carbohydrate will create the cascade described above. By eating a natural, hunter-gatherer type diet and combining high intensity exercise you can begin reversing the metabolic syndrome.
The important fact to remember is that all of these derangements and their correction occur more quickly in females BECAUSE they have less muscle mass. When eating a modern diet and not exercising, the glycogen stores fill more quickly because less muscle means less storage capacity. When eating properly and performing high intensity exercise, the situation is turned around efficiently because a given amount of glucose mobilization represents a larger percentage of total glycogen stores. Once the situation is reversed, the larger muscle mass represents a larger storage reservoir and more glycogen storage capability. Thus in the future there is more latitude for slip ups before the metabolic syndrome gets a foothold.
When diet and exercise are properly understood, body composition auto-regulates in the ideal range. You are no longer ravenously hungry, to the point that you will often forget to eat. Gone will be the days of weighing food, counting calories, and plodding along on the treadmill for hours. When you eat a proper diet, and partake of high intensity exercise, you set into motion a vicious positive cycle that makes the body you desire easy to achieve.
Compare this to the advice Oprah's fitness expert gives on page 152 of the magazine shown above when asked to address her relapse:
"Instead of thinking, I've failed over and over again, why bother trying again?, take your relapse in stride and stay positive no matter how many attempts it takes you. Each new effort brings you closer to the one that might really work. The key is to stick with it until you achieve your weight and health goals — that's my definition of a true success story."
Apparently Mr. Green has not heard the old yarn that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing that has failed you over and over again, and expecting different results this go 'round.
So to any woman out there who is fed up with trying the same thing over and over, I offer this suggestion, instead of getting back on the treadmill "one more time," try this: Alter your diet so that you eat no grain-based carbohydrate: no flour, no sugar, no bread, no pasta, and no high fructose corn syrup. Then go to the gym and perform a workout of leg press, pulldown, chest press, row and overhead press. Lift slowly and smoothly but with as much effort as possible. Go to complete fatigue, or as close to it as you can tolerate. Work out once, or at most, twice a week. Make sure your workouts last no longer than 20 minutes. Then sit back and watch what happens.
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Hi everyone! Welcome to a new month and another look at my blogging income. This month was a slight increased over June. I was expecting to have more of a WOW number to show you, but I'm still waiting on a big check. Oh well. August's income is going to look sick! Let's look at July though.
The Breakdown
Income | $350.00
Clever Girls Collective – MommyJuice Wine $100
SocialSpark – Avocados from Mexico & Rick Bayless $250.00
Expenses | $30.99
Photobucket $2.99
Pingraphy $28.00
Total Income $319.01
First I want to look at my traffic for July & June. There's a difference. I big difference for me, and I'm excited. We'll talk about why I think this happened next. First July:
OMG that I'm over 2,000 views per day a bit. It's been forever – or at least it feels that way. But let's take a look at June & July and maybe you'll understand why I'm so excited for the increase.
Way lower in June. Maybe numbers are more your thing, not graphs.
Only 20,000 page views of doubling June's views. That's huge! {for me} My referral traffic is the usual. Tons and tons of traffic from Pinterest. A good push from Something Swanky. Yay for contributing. Some traffic from Chef in Training, Frugal Foodie Mama, and Mom's Test Kitchen – all thanks to their collection posts I'm in. I always think it's fun to see what search words are bringing readers my way. Let's look!
Good to know Jack Daniel's and I are still friends. 🙂 Okay, so let's talk why I'm thinking this traffic push happened. It wasn't just a couple day spike, it's been keeping up. Which is extra awesome since I've not on the back to school bandwagon. I still have another year or two before I have to freak out about giving my baby to someone else.
I'm 97% sure this all has to do with Pinterest, and 3% sure it's what on the blog. I made some changes to my Pinterest boards at the beginning of July, and I got a little more proactive with them too. Check it.
First thing I did: Finally make myself a blog pin board. I've always pinned my blog posts to my specific recipe boards – Beef, Cake, Drink Me, etc. It wasn't that I'm against pinning my own stuff (quite the contrary), but I didn't know why I would need a board for all my stuff in one place. Now I get it. Not only that, I moved all the boards for things on the blog (GYCO, Menu Plans, and Bacon Month) to the top so they get the most exposure. WLOW, Menu Plans, and GYCO will always be at the top, and then I can rotate whatever current thing I have going on in the 4th spot – like the board for my contributors. Then the boards progress into food categories – I'm a food blogger primarily and people expect to see that from me. Then I move to blogging, my stuff, wedding dreams (what girl doesn't have this?), beauty, fashion, stuff around the house, and then all my group boards (in the same general progression). The group boards are at the bottom. I want readers to see just me boards first so they can get a feel for me, before seeing what everyone and their mom is pinning. Hi Mom!
I started scheduling them using Pingraphy. They would go live every 10 minutes between 7pm and 9pm. But Pingraphy didn't always work right so I just started pinning them myself. I would do 10 posts, one right after the other, in the morning or evening (or both) when I could find time. I really didn't see certain pins getting more exposure just because of the "peak pinning time," so I just did my own thing. Getting your old posts back in the mix will work wonders. I've had post do better than all the others. My it's the whole Christmas in July attitude, but I'll take it.
The pin on the top is the one on my WLOW board. It was one of the board, and one of my older posts – I started at the beginning (bad pictures and all) and pinned forward – from December 8, 2011. The pin on the bottom is the original pin. I pinned it to my Christmas board when I wrote the post, and had A LOT less Pinterest followers. See the difference? It's never to late to start.
Oh! And big props to vertical pictures. If you are giving a vertical picture option in your post, you are doing yourself a HUGE disservice. Vertical pictures take up more real estate on your Pinterest streaming page, and that my friends gives you a better chance to get noticed, pinned, and repinned.
Next, group boards. Yes, I'm in some group boards. I used to be in a lot more, but I got picky. I'd see crap in my Pinterest stream – shoes on food boards, pins that only go to theiving give other people's hard work away so they get ad revenue sites, stuff I didn't like at all. So I cut the fluff. I only kept the boards with content I liked. If there were two dinner boards, I kept the one with the higher follower number. Simple. Now here's the important thing – Don't Forget to Pin to These Boards. Group boards can help get tons of exposure. They reach a wide audience, widen than your own, and one little pin can go off!
Taking my own advise, I finally starting pinning to the Something Swanky Contributors board Ashton made us. This board is for Meghan, Becca, and me to pin our posts to and Ashton's 24,000+ followers of that board get to see it. Score! I only pin desserts to this board since that's Ashton's niche. Gotta give the people what they want. It's be great, and I can see the repin results.
So where does all this lead? New readers (hopefully), exposure, getting the WLOW name out there? Yes, but also it helps my end game goal > blogging as my full-time income. More traffic = more ad money and a leg to stand on when I ask more money for sponsored posts. July was the first month I legitimately made over $100 on AdSense. As in no $50 drop from my estimated earnings giving me a heart attack. It's kind of a big deal for me since you need $100 minimum to get paid each month, and I've been running every other month on cashouts. So yay for money every month! {knock on wood}
I'm really excited to announce I have my first Virtual Assistant client – Cindy from A Living Balance. Okay, it's my aunt, but I'm getting paid and starting to do the blog services I'm good at. And and and…since I had a contributor spot open up, Cindy is going to be sharing health and wellness posts with all of you. She'll be sharing healthy recipes, and other good for your mind and body information. Mike and I are trying to make strides in our weight loss and I know a dietary change is in order. I'm looking forward to Cindy's help.
I'm also helping my girlfriend Kerri start a blog – from scratch. We're using Blogger so she can get her blogging feet wet. But I'm SUPER excited to help her, do her blog design, and give her all the knowledge to start the best way possible from square one. This will also give me the change to put together a "Start Your Own Blog" series to share later. I'll be including not only all the tips I'm giving Kerri, but also her questions, impressions, and thoughts on the process.
July was a good month. Lots of stuff in the works, a big check in the mail (soon hopefully!), and my first blog design gig. So excited. Be on the look out for a big announcement on Saturday too. It's going to make August the happiest month ever!


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November 23, 2011
European Union: Water Is Healthy, After All
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Last week the EC controversially ruled that manufacturers could not advertise bottled water as helping to prevent dehydration because the claim was not backed up by clinical evidence.
Although scientists insisted the ruling was technically correct, it was widely ridiculed and compared to other embarrassing edicts from Brussels including the so-called "bendy banana rule".
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Just not enough to care for the two hours Hummel's twice-reconstructed right knee and the rest of the road-weary Boilermakers were on the Breslin Center court.
The Michigan State senior didn't just own Saturday's marquee matchup with Hummel, he owned Hummel in the Spartans' 83-58 thumping of Purdue.
While Green flirted with a triple-double — eight points, 12 rebounds, seven assists — Hummel lived through embarrassment. His words, no one else's.
The Purdue senior forward missed all 11 of his shots, six from the behind the arc, one from point blank, many with Green defending him.
Hummel, who finished with two points on free throws, has never been so offensively inept, having always made at least one field goal in a collegiate career that dates back to 2007.
"It's frustrating," Hummel said. "It's embarrassing that I didn't make a shot."
Said Green: "I just didn't want to let him come out and get going, get a couple 3s. If he hits a couple 3s, he's liable to snap for six or seven.
"To leave at 5 (a.m.) and come up here and play a game at noon, that's tough."
Purdue didn't intend it that way, of course. But a scheduled 4 p.m. departure by plane Friday ended with the Boilermakers sitting on the tarmac at midnight.
Saturday morning, they loaded a bus and trekked up to East Lansing.
"If our travel was perfect, I think the score is somewhat close (to this)," Purdue coach Matt Painter said. "Maybe some guys' legs aren't quite under them. I think that's (just) an excuse.
"I think if our travel was perfect, we would have got beat today."Whatever steam Purdue had, it ran out by the second half against a Michigan State squad waiting more than three days to rid itself of the taste of Tuesday's defeat at Michigan.
Michigan State (16-4, 5-2 Big Ten) outscored the Boilermakers 30-12 coming out of halftime, ending all hope for a Purdue club that played a spirited first 20 minutes, albeit with bags under its eyes.
"That's an incredible effort on their part," Izzo said of the Boilermakers, who out-worked MSU 12-1 on the offensive glass in the first half and trailed only 31-24 at the break, despite shooting 25 percent. "They played with the cards they were dealt. I thought the energy level was off the charts. They had 10 offensive rebounds in the first six, seven minutes.
"I think a good coach takes adversity and grinds it and yet eventually I think they wore down a little bit."
Izzo was quick to praise his own club, too, including freshman Branden Dawson, who scored a game-high 14 points in 19 minutes and center Derrick Nix, who scored 12 in 17.
MSU 83, PURDUE 58Records: Michigan State 16-4, 5-2; Purdue 14-6, 4-3
Big shot: Spartan senior Austin Thornton hit two 3-pointers in the first few minutes, helping Michigan State weather a sloppy start and overcome a hustling-but-tired Purdue squad. Thornton finished with 11 points, scoring in double figures for only the third time this season.
Too much snow: Michigan State center Derrick Nix wasn't the first big man off the bench Saturday, watching as redshirt freshman Alex Gauna replaced Adreian Payne instead. Nix wasn't told about the move but knew why it happened. "I was late for a meeting last night at the Kellogg (Center)," Nix said. "I woke up and it was snowing like that and I had to dust my car off."
Another injury for Byrd: Oft-injured MSU redshirt freshman Russell Byrd finally made the playing rotation Saturday. But in the first minute of playing time, Byrd landed awkwardly after grabbing a rebound and had to be helped to the bench with a sprained left ankle. He returned in the second half.
Izzo-ism: "We hit two tuba guys and one cheerleader, so they couldn't get fastbreak baskets." -- Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, explaining why early turnovers didn't cost his team.
But Green was again what made it all work, on both ends of the floor.
"I was very impressed with Draymond Green," Izzo continued. "He had to guard Robbie Hummel and (D.J.) Byrd, two guys that move very well without the ball.
"Day-Day (Green) was so unselfish today it was a joke. He did just about everything a guy could do. He threw that lob for (Adreian Payne) that could have been a shot. Just incredibly unselfish. He's making his big guys better and I think they're responding by doing more."
The Spartans shot 60 percent for the game (30-for-50), snapping a two game losing streak overall and preventing the first three-game home skid to an opponent in the Izzo era.
Purdue beat Michigan State each of the last two seasons at Breslin.
"We really needed one like this," Green said. "It's been a tough last couple games."


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"These days, I don't use optical discs - period. Nearly everything I use is online, or on my QNAP NAS - but that hasn't stopped the world of optical discs from moving forward. We're now staring down the barrel of 1TB of data on a single optical disc. Fujifilm have developed a new recording method which is reportedly capable of delivering up to 1TB per disc. This is done through 25GB per layer, which is the same amount of data a single-layer Blu-ray disc holds. But Fujifilm's new tech can cram in up to 20 layer of 25GB, amounting to 1TB in total.
"The 29th of July, how scary is that? - One month already down into the second half of the year and what a start to the back end of the year it's been. Really, out of nowhere we've seen NVIDIA bounce back with a model that everyone wants to get their hands on and while ATI at the moment continue to hold the value for money cards, when it comes to the high budget folks it looks like NVIDIA may have taken it in the most important category, the $200 bracket.
"With a company like Thermaltake we are used to seeing a unique take on things and normally at very affordable hits to our wallets. In our preview of their new cooler, the Jing, we are going to see yet another product from them that is both unique and budget friendly, but also accomplishes them with very little noise, hence the name of the cooler. For those not so brushed up on their Chinese to English translation, the word Jing means Silent. Along with this silence is the overall theme of being "green".
"Epic.... That's a word I'll be using a lot over the next week.
"I look at the GTX 465 and see a real opportunity for NVIDIA to do something big; giving people the chance to use this card as a PhsyX card in ATI based systems would be a simply fantastic idea.
If you haven't heard already, the 257.15 Beta ForceWare driver set from NVIDIA accidently had the ability for ATI users to again use an NVIDIA card as a second to do PhysX. The whole ordeal created a bit of drama around the web; as soon as it was discovered by NVIDIA they yanked the driver and put another one up that disabled the ability.
The Intel Core architecture is one that has not always been a performance leader. The original Core CPUs were decent, but not that great. Starting with the Conroe based Core 2, things changed. We saw Intel push the limits on performance at both stock speed and also for overclockers. With the launch of the Nehalem and Lynnfield CPUs we saw Intel greatly improve stock performance, but overclocking, while still pretty good, was not the same as it had been, especially for the top of the line CPUs.
G9X, XAI, Abyssus and SideWinder X8
"CPU? Check. Memory, mainboard and video card? Check. Oh, I had better also budget for a quality PSU, case and a HDD large enough to last me a while before I can call it a system.
Crap, did I forget the monitor? Hrmm, I did. Well, ok, the budget can stretch a little bit more I suppose (don't look at me like that Mr. Power Bill, I'll get to you soon enough).
A few days after our review of the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, we received a call from AMD. The call was some commentary on the actual review (okay, really it was of complaints).
There is no doubt that the hottest solid state drives on the market right now are those that use the new SandForce SF-1200 controller. Back in January we were starting to get our first look at SandForce products and were even lead to believe those products were the real deal, retail ready, but those claims were later retracted. At the time it looked like SandForce SSDs were going to be faster than anything else on the market, but most attention and anticipation rested on a very well marketed controller from Marvell that Crucial later used in their RealSSD C300 line.
"When Thecus asked me to take a look at their new N4200 small office NAS, I wasted no time agreeing to get the unit in for review. I had seen the press release and the email announcements and upon glancing over them could see right from the start that it was a little different than some of the other NAS appliances I reviewed in the past, but it was just another day at the office so to speak.
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Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.
Wednesday, July 3
7:20 p.m. Officers responded to a domestic dispute near Pleasant Beach. A married couple were arguing and agreed to separate for the night to cool down.
Thursday, July 4
12:23 a.m. A man was asked to leave the bar at Isla Bonita. He did, but hung out in front of the bar for the next couple hours. Eventually, another man assaulted the ejected patron outside.
A third man intervened and was knocked down. Officers arrived after the fight and were unable to find the man who started it. The ejected patron was intoxicated and kept telling officers that he was assaulted for "standing his ground."
He did not provide any information about his attacker, rather, continually told officers that he was tough from years of playing ice hockey. Other patrons at the bar could only give basic descriptions of the fight, but could not identify the attacker.
9:44 a.m. A woman living on Fletcher Bay Road reported that, though she locked her car the previous night, she found it that morning with all the windows rolled down and the sun roof open.
3:07 p.m. A volunteer at the July 4 fair in Winslow reported that his backpack containing his checkbook, motorcycle keys and a computer was stolen. The volunteer placed the backpack in some bushes behind his booth on Winslow Way.
Friday, July 5
9:20 a.m. A bicycle was stolen from a business on Eagle Harbor Drive. It was valued at $700.
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UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS -- The federally funded South Belvoir Boulevard resurfacing project will include traffic-calming improvements for John Carroll University.
On Nov. 5, City Council authorized Mayor Susan Infeld to enter into an agreement with JCU for reimbursement for the improvements. Council also passed a separate resolution asking Cuyahoga County to proceed with the improvements.
The project covers University Heights, South Euclid and a small portion of Shaker Heights. City Engineer Joe Ciuni said South Belvoir will be repaved from Fairmount Boulevard to Mayfield Road.
Ciuni said JCU is part of that South Belvoir corridor and asked if it could have some traffic-calming items, such as pedestrian crosswalk signals, added to the project.
"John Carroll cannot request the enhancement funds from the county," Ciuni said. "The city of University Heights has to do that.
"Our agreement with John Carroll is if we request those funds, (JCU) has to pay for it, even though (the city) gets the bill."
Ciuni said 80 percent of the project is federally funded, with the remaining 20 percent to be divided among University Heights and South Euclid. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency determines how federal transportation dollars will be spent in the region, Ciuni said.
But University Heights previously reached an agreement with the county that the county will pick up the city's share of the construction costs if the city pays for the engineering costs.
Those engineering costs are about $60,000, Finance Director Larry Heiser said, and have been paid by the city.
Ciuni said NOACA also agreed to cover the cost of 80 percent of the traffic-calming enhancements for JCU through federal dollars. The city would be responsible for the remaining 20 percent, and that is what JCU has agreed to pay.
The university has separately paid for the design costs of those amenities, Ciuni said.
The estimate for the total cost of the enhancements for JCU is about $500,000.
"The whole block between Carroll Boulevard and Washington (Boulevard) is basically going to be redone," he said.
According to Infeld, the city will monitor these improvements in the future because they're in the roadway.
Infeld said even though the resurfacing project is not scheduled until 2014, the county will be seeking bids for it soon. She said it was originally slated for next year but was pushed back, due to the number of projects already scheduled.
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I'm not one of those moms that easily rolls with the punches or goes with the flow. I like keeping my toddler on a schedule and if things get shaken up and he responds poorly, my stress level goes through the roof.
Last week I joined my mom and a few sisters for an impromptu road trip to Yellowstone National Park. It was beautiful (pictures here, here, and here), fun, and great being with family, but it was also stressful. I didn't deal well with the toddler who was up 4 hours past his bedtime or who didn't want to be in his car seat anymore. A two day trip left me very frazzled.
What is wrong with me? Is it because I'm a first-timer? Or is it just my personality? Either way, I want to be a much more easy-going mom and I'm trying to work on it.
Interestingly, the challenge of building, frosting, and photographing an ice cream cake before it melts is something I very much enjoy. This is stress that I relish. Maybe it's because it doesn't involve the fluctuating moods of a tiny human being, or maybe because at the end I get to eat a few pieces of ice cream cake (you can't just throw them out).
I've come a long way being comfortable with baking and cooking. A few years ago I would have had no idea how to execute a layer cake with ice cream, at least not well. I know that motherhood isn't going to get any easier, but I'm hoping that I will at least get a little more comfortable with it. That it will get better with practice.
Let's talk about this ice cream cake real quick. It's my favorite chocolate cake sandwiched around a layer of ice cream flavored with fresh mint and speckled with mini chocolate chips, all iced simply with whipped cream. It's an elegant and refreshing treat for the summertime.
Stabilized Whipped Cream
Whipped cream is a foam-based solid, therefore its structure is weak and temperamental. It can collapse and weep when left at room temperature for too long or if is frozen and thawed. Stabilizing whipped cream with gelatin reinforces the structure and helps it keep its shape. It's an easy additional step that ensures your desserts stay beautiful and fresh.
- 1¼ cup (295 ml) coffee, hot
- 1 cup (110 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2½ cup (300 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1¼ teaspoon (5 grams) salt
- 2½ teaspoon (11 grams) baking soda
- 2 cups (400 grams) sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1¼ cups (282 grams) sour cream
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons (267 ml) vegetable oil
- 2 cups (475 ml) heavy cream
- 1 cup (235 ml) whole milk
- ¾ cup (150 grams) sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 1 bunch of fresh mint
- Green food coloring, optional
- 1 cup (170 grams) mini chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
- 2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
- 2½ tablespoons water
- 2 cups (475 ml) heavy whipping cream
- ½ cup (57 grams) powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour 2 9-inch cake pans and line bottoms with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the coffee and cocoa powder until no lumps remain. In another bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, beat the sugar and eggs together until smooth and pale yellow in color. Stir in the sour cream, followed by the vegetable oil. Add the flour mixture in two additions, alternating with the cocoa mixture and mix until smooth.
- Divide the batter evenly between the prepared cake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 25-35 minutes. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove and place on a wire rack to cool completely. Chill in the fridge for 2 hours or overnight.
- In a large saucepan over medium low heat, warm the heavy cream, milk, sugar, and salt. Stir to dissolve sugar. When mixture is steaming and bubbles appear at edges, remove from heat and add the fresh mint, stirring until it is all submerged. Cover and let sit at room temperature for 1 hour.
- Remove the mint and pour into a large bowl. Stir in the green food coloring, if using, until desired color is reached. Chill completely in the fridge for several hours or overnight.
- Freeze the ice cream in an ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions, adding the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate during the last 5 minutes of churning.
- Meanwhile, place one layer of the chilled chocolate cake into a 9-inch springform pan. Wrap parchment paper or wax paper around the chocolate cake, lining the inside of the springform pan.
- When the ice cream has finished churning, spread it evenly on top of the bottom layer of cake. Cover with the top layer of cake. Immediately place in the freezer, leaving it to harden for several hours.
- Place the water in a small saucepan. Sprinkle the gelatin over the water and let sit until thick, about 5 minutes. Warm the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin dissolves. Allow to cool to room temperature (but do not let set).
- Whip the heavy cream and sugar until it starts to thicken. While mixing on low, slowly add the gelatin to the whipped cream. Whip on high speed until stiff. Mix in the vanilla.
- Remove the sides from the springform pan and the parchment paper. Ice the cake with the whipped cream topping. Store in the freezer until ready to serve.
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Mmm this is gorgeous!!
Mr. & Mrs. P says:
This is amazing.. Love the mint surprise inside…
Oh, girl. This is fantastic! Fun for the summer months ahead for entertaining!
Barbara Schieving says:
What a fantastic cake for summer!
Deborah says:
I am so the same way, Annalise! I was actually just thinking today about how we are on such a good schedule right now, but how difficult it is if we ever have to leave the house. 🙂 This cake is absolutely beautiful!
Annalise says:
So happy to hear I'm not the only one! Thanks, Deb. 🙂
Heidi @foodiecrush says:
Aha! Gelatin is the key to the whip cream. You're a fountain of knowledge! And a gorgeous cake fit for a summer birthday party at our house.
Flavia says:
And once again, I wonder why I don't live in SLC so we can cook and bake together. 😉 I love this and I really love your tips. I had no idea gelatin is the trick to stabilizing whipped cream icing.
Annalise says:
If only we lived closer! Maybe someday. 🙂
Nessa says:
This looks incredible! I bet it would be gone in a couple of minutes at my house 🙂
Mouth-watering photos to say the least! We would love to publish them on World in a Cupcake if you would like to submit some.
Là says:
What a recipe! It seems delicious!
Stephanie says:
Made it this weekend, none left. Will be making it again, I didn't have time to make the ice cream, but still yummy!
Annalise says:
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the comment!
Mrs. Bee says:
I made this cake for my husband and me. It was our joint Birthday cake. It is absolutely delicious. Mint is not in season here, so I used peppermint extract from Trader Joe's. I also put a tidge of peppermint extract in the whipped cream frosting instead of vanilla. Your cake and ice cream recipe is amazing!
Annalise says:
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, thank you for sharing!
Kristin says:
What is the purpose of the gelatin in the whipped cream? I've made whipped cream about 25+ times, but I've never seen gelatin in the recipe. Is there a hidden benefit to adding it that I'm unaware of?
Annalise says:
Hi Kristin! I explain that in the baking tip above. Gelatin is added to stabilize the whipped cream, which will help keep it from weeping as it moves from freezer to room temp for serving. Not necessary, but a nice safety net to have. Hope this helps!
Gillian says:
Do you think Agar Agar would work as well as gelatin? Loving the look of this cake for an upcoming birthday.
inbouwspots says:
I have found very useful information over there, thanks for sharing this.
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Born On The 4th Of July: 12 American LGBT War Heroes
Sgt. Leonard Matlovich
In the 1970s, when the gay-rights movement was picking up steam, the cause of gays in the military was fairly low on the totem pole—thanks in part to the Left's disagreement with the war in Vietnam. Leonard Matlovich, who received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his efforts in Southeast Asia, put the issue on the front page—literally—when he appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I am a Homosexual."
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Despite his exemplary military record, tours of duty in Vietnam, and high performance evaluations, he was recommended for a less-than-honorable discharge (which was eventually upgraded to honorable).
Matlovich sued for reinstatement but the case languished in the courts for five years before the U.S. District Court finally demanded he be reinstated. The Air Force instead offered Matlovich a financial settlement. Realizing the military would just concoct another reason to discharge him if he returned to service, Matlovich accepted.
In 1987, he announced on Good Morning America that he had contracted HIV and became an AIDS activist, before succumbing to the disease in 1988 at age 44. His tombstone in the Congressional cemetery (in the same row as J. Edgar Hoover) bears the following inscription:
"A Gay Vietnam Veteran: When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
Kirsten Gillibrand is D-NY not D-NH. As she is my Senator, I claim her proudly.
To miagoodguy (above), both of those "attention seekers" put a face on TV calling out the evils of DADT. Opportunistic or not, they both fought for the change as well as for our country. Demeaning their contribution doesn't serve anyone.
Also, enough with the slut-shaming. He's a free, gay man who has a constitutional right to be a slut if he wants to be.
and I have the right to call a spade a spade.
I live close to the University of Notre Dame. There is a statue of Dr. Dooley close to the famous grotto with a letter he wrote from Indochina telling the president of the universtiy how in times of discouragaement he remembered the grotto and drew strength. The current catholic wing nuts wanted to remove the statue because he was gay. But the university refused to remove it. There is hope.
@miagoodguy: Do I have freedom of expression, like if I point out you are a vapid plebeian with the opinion worth of a pubic louse?
@2eo: what ^they^ said, MiaGoodGuy (and that name belies your hatorade). If assuming someone who owns his sexuality and is sexually active is a "pretty much a slut", we can also assume someone who enjoys belittling his other accomplishments by pointing it "pretty much is jealous because he doesn't get any."
I;ve been involved with GITM (Gays in the Military) for 25 years.
All of these 13 people have been my role models and personal heroes. Over the years I I have met most of them. Their personal stories and sacrifices have
been instrumental in overturning DADT. This couintry and all of us
owe them a huge debt of gratitude. We should continue to honor them,
not denigrate them.
I would like to offer the names of a few more heroes for your next
list. Sgt. Miriam Ben-Shalom, Sgt. Perry Watkins, Sgt Jose Zuniga,
Cliff Arnesen and Chuck Scchoen
Jim Darby
Being a slut doesn't make you a hero, but it doesn't disqualify you either.
I get more than the average gay guy. I just don't go randomly having sex with every tom, dick, and harry. my partner is enough sexually for me. I'll take being called a vapid plebian as a badge of honor knowing that I don't fall at the feet of "hot" gay men and say that they are wonderful human beings when they are far from it.
An excellent, inspiring article. Thank you Queerty for publishing it. I honor the service and sacrifice of all Americans in the military!
@miagoodguy: so u u know from personal experience he is a slut? must make u a whore.
Look I'm no hero, but I served and did my duty which was to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. Be aware that includes the right to freedom of speech and expression. I don't have to agree with someone to try and understand their point of view. Nonetheless, I served during the late sixties and early seventies and was discharged (honorably due to an excellent career) for being gay. It was really difficult to deal with at that time…thank goodness we have made much progress and with a little understanding(of each other) we can continue to do so. Happy Fourth weekend everyone and bring our sons and daughters home from Afghanistan now.
@mlbumiller: dude if you have a "partner" then I am Tom Cruise. Your bullshit would be more believable if you FIRST deleted you Match.com profile.
BUSTED you f*cking DOUCHE
And there ARE plenty of these heroes! More than some people would like to admit.