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A platter of the most nectarous ingredients, Pink Champagne & Exotic Fruits can only be described as ambrosial with delicious passion fruit and guava notes at the heart, and pink grapefruit adding a sweet richness to this complex blend.
Top Notes: Pink grapefruit, bergamot and lemon
Middle Notes: Guava, passion fruit and pink champagne
Base Notes: Vanilla, elderflower and oriental jasmine
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The Term 2 High Achiever has landed!
The Term 2 High Achiever, our newsletter that celebrates all that our HBHS family has achieved this term is here. We hope you enjoy our coverage of the term and wish you all a safe and happy holiday. See you all in Term 3.


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Antibiotic may selectively kill dangerous skin cancer cells
University of Edinburgh scientists have discovered that an old antibiotic, called nifuroxazide, could also selectively kill dangerous cells within melanomas, the deadliest type of skin cancer.
Professor Liz Patton and colleagues at the MRC Human Genetics Unit and Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre found the drug showed promise for complementing existing melanoma therapies.
The drug's effect on melanoma cells was tested in mice and samples from human tumours, though the scientists caution more research is needed to determine if it will be effective in people.
Selective activation
Within a single tumour there can be variation in the properties of the cells, with some more dangerous than others, in terms of their potential to support growth or become resistant to drug treatment. Many of the more dangerous cells in melanoma tumours produce a lot of an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1).
Current research into therapies has focused on blocking ALDH1, but in this study the researchers went a step further and aimed to selectively kill cells producing high ALDH1.
The antibiotic nifuroxazide is taken up by cells in an inactive state, and is only activated inside the cell by the enzyme (ALDH1). This means that the drug only becomes toxic once it is inside melanoma cells producing ALDH1.
The researchers showed that the nifuroxazide therapy killed the tumour cells that produced a lot of ALDH1, without significant toxicity to other cells in the body.
Drug could be used alongside existing treatments
The researchers hope that the strategy may complement existing melanoma treatments, called BRAF and MEK inhibitors.
Currently, some people's tumours develop resistance to BRAF and MEK inhibitors and the researchers found that some of these resistant tumours were high in ALDH1.
In the lab, the researchers simulated this by treating cancer cells lines with BRAF and MEK inhibitors, which increased the number of cells with high levels of ALDH1 and made the cells especially sensitive to nifuroxazide treatment.
There won't be one magic bullet for targeting melanoma – the variations that exist within the cancers mean there will need to be combination therapies. When people are given BRAF or MEK drugs to treat melanoma it can result in the tumours having more cells with high levels of ALDH, so we think that's a really important target. We've shown this antibiotic that's used mostly to target intestinal bacteria can also target and kills cancer cells high in the enzyme ALDH1.
It's great that this antibiotic is approved for use in humans, but it wasn't designed as a cancer drug, so we still need to find out if it's safe and effective for cancer in humans. We're also starting to look into if nifuroxazide could be helpful in other types of cancer that have high ALDH1, such as ovarian cancer.
The researchers were primarily supported by the MRC, the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre, the European Research Council, and the L'Oreal-Melanoma Research Alliance.
Research article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.09.005
L'Oreal-Melanoma Research Alliance: https://www.curemelanoma.org/


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While the papacy is a religious position, it is hard not to miss Pope John Paul II at a time when Russian forces are supporting and fighting a war in Ukraine simply for the geopolitical machinations of a former KGB colonel.
John Paul understood how to use his influence rather than just mouthing the words expected. Why Pope Francis would waste his breathe lecturing Vladimir Putin on the need for real efforts at peace in Ukraine is a mystery because even a dilettante of the world stage like Francis couldn't possibly think it would have any effect.
There are several versions of the following story, but one has it in 1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was trying to dissuade Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin from seizing control of Poland by invoking the Vatican's interests, to which Stalin replied, "How many divisions does the pope have?"
Expecting a different tack from Vladimir Putin is the essence of naivety.


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Jeffrey Tate has died of a heart attack while visiting the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, to the east of Milan. He was 74.
At 2 o'clock, near the gallery's cloakroom, he fell ill, but by the time the ambulance arrived there was nothing that could be done. He had been conducting the Haydn Orchestra on 30 and 31 May, in Bolzano and Trento .
The English conductor was born on 28 April 1943 in Salisbury, and even though he lived with both spina bifida and kyphosis he still managed to be one of the world's most successful conductors, a notoriously strenuous profession. Though in an interview with The Guardian in 2011, he said,
It's immensely therapeutic. I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
Tate's international conducting début was at the Met in 1979. In 1985, he became principal conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra and in 1986 the principal conductor of the Royal Opera House. He was also principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1991 to 1995, and music director of the San Carlo Theatre of Naples from 2005 to 2010. In 2009, he became chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, a contract which was later extended until 2019.
Tate's partner of 40 years was Klaus Kuhlemann, a German geomorphologist. In 1998 Tate told The Weekend Australian,
I'm an outsider on two scores… The gay world is immensely hung up with physical perfection for some curious reason … Therefore, being disabled in that world is harder.


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Memorial service held for flats boat innovator
A memorial service was held Wednesday for flats boat pioneer Bob Hewes, who died Sunday in Miami at the age of 86.
The memorial at Miami Shores Presbyterian Church took place on what would have been his 64th wedding anniversary with wife, Ida. Longtime friend Bob Stearns spoke of the genesis of the design and Hewes' philosophy on boats in a remembrance story published today by the Miami Herald.
An avid angler, Hewes launched in 1969 the 17-1/2-foot fiberglass Hewes Bonefisher - the first production flats boat, featuring a lapstrake-style hull, transom baitwells and a modified, deep-vee hull. Hewes later added the elevated stern poling platform to the boat design that remains a staple to flats fishing today.


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Asian Woman of Achievement Awards
We were on hand to deliver the hugely successful Asian Women of Achievement (AWA) Awards. The Asian Woman of Achievement Awards was set this year at the May Fair Hotel in London, with over 600 in attendance. The awards celebrate Asian women's contribution to the UK across different sectors in society.
This is a complex event to deliver. Production for us is one of the key elements. You want to ensure that who you're working with have the same passion as you, and we get that through Blitz|GES. They provide a full service across all elements of the production, and they also provide us with passion, attention to detail, so you always know you're in a safe pair of hands. This is the eighth year that we have delivered the event. We were called upon to deliver our entire suite of products; ranging from the lighting and
to the set design and on-screen graphics presentations. Gemma Nunn, director of operations, Women of the Future Ltd
The high profile Asian Women of Achievement Awards celebrate the contribution of Asian women to British society. Over 600 guests attended the glittering ceremony which is hosted in association with Natwest and held at the prestigious Hilton on Park Lane in London. Blitz|GES was appointed to deliver the full suite of event production services.
This is the eighth year that Blitz|GES, the UK's leading provider of AV and technical staging, has delivered the event and the team provided services ranging from the lighting and sound to the set design and build to on-screen graphics.


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Islamic preacher charged with promoting ISIS in UK
A prominent preacher, lawyer, and regular British talk show guest, Anjem Choudary is known for openly expressing his pro-Islam political and religious views.
The UK has been clamping down on terrorism in recent months, amid growing fears of becoming a hotbed for radical militants.
On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Anjem Choudary, a well-known radical Islamic preacher, with enticing support for Islamic State (ISIS) through lectures published online, The Washington Post reports.
Mr. Choudary and one of his followers, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, each face charges under Terrorism Act 2000 for their alleged pro-ISIS efforts between June 29, 2014 and March 6 this year.
Prosecutor Sue Hemming accused the two of stirring "support for ISIS in individual lectures which were subsequently published online," a statement said.
Choudary has been out on bail since last September, when he, Mr. Rahman, and seven others were arrested as part of an investigation into Islamist terrorism.
A high-profile preacher, lawyer and regular British talk show guest, Choudary is known for openly expressing his political and religious views.
He co-founded an Islamist group, al-Muhajiroun, which was banned in 2010, and went on to form several other organizations such as Ghurabaa and Islam4UK, which have also been proscribed, reports the Guardian. "Proscription means membership of the militant group is a criminal offence, and that the organisation cannot lawfully operate in the UK," according to the BBC.
With over 32,000 Twitter followers, he regularly posts statements criticizing Western governments, discussing the latest cases involving detained Muslims (including his own followers), and preaching radical Islamic creeds.
The preacher sparked controversy in recent years by protesting against British soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, in his efforts to defend slain Muslims, The Wall Street Journal reports. He has also been linked with a number of British nationals who were subsequently convicted on terrorism charges.
Choudary follows a fundamentalist Muslim doctrine called Salafism and is an ardent believer in Sharia, Islamic religious law. Over the past year, he has broadcasted audio lectures online through video chats and social media applications like Whatsapp and Twitter.
Despite his contentious past, Choudary has never been convicted of anything beyond organizing an unlawful demonstration, the Post reports. He has regularly denied supporting violence in the past and has claimed he hasn't broken any laws.
His case is one of the first of its kind to come up since British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a comprehensive five-year plan to combat homegrown radical extremism last month. Mr. Cameron plans to introduce stricter legislation later this year that will tighten the government's grip on online activity in order to monitor those who try to radicalize British citizens.
The plan is one of many efforts to keep people away from ISIS's recruitment and outreach tactics. One of the terrorist group's most famous militants, Mohammed Emwazi, also known as "Jihadi John," was a British national. He made international headlines last summer over his high-profile beheadings of hostages, including American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.
The Kuwaiti-born Londoner has since left the terrorist organization and is wanted for murder by the United States and Britain.


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This is from the NYPost.
Read more here.That is the move to make to bring stability to this fractured franchise. That is the move for the Wilpons to finally show good faith and spend money for the betterment of the team and for the fans.DeGrom, the ace of aces, is a free agent after the 2020 season and there is a contingent out there wanting to trade deGrom for prospects, thinking that would jump-start the franchise.The right-hander stuffed the Rockies, 12-2, on Monday night at Coors Field to up his record to 5-2 and drop his ERA to 1.51, the best in the majors. He allowed five hits and one earned run over eight innings.
MG- I have to agree with this. The Mets need stability with this team and if you sign deGrom for 3-5 more years, you will have a player that you can trust for that time to pitch well. Who knows what you will get in free agency or in the draft in the next half decade. Tell you the truth, I would trade Syndergaard before I trade deGrom.


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Texas. The "Lone Star State". The nickname made notable by the single star on the state flag. Texas has a long history of notable flags. Have you ever been to a Six Flags theme park? It is said that the name comes from the six nations that once ruled over the state. The history of the flag of Texas is as rich and beautiful as the state itself.
The flag of Texas is a resounding symbol of the history of Texas. It is a symbol of how hard they had to fight for their land. That they would make the great sacrifice like at the Alamo. It makes sense that Texas is the only state whose flag once belonged to a sovereign country. While Texas had gone through its last official flag change in 1870, it should be noted that in 1939 the Congress of Texas voted to change the state flag. It went from a flag with a bright yellow star in the middle of a dark blue background to the flag we know today.
The official description of the Texas flag, recently adopted by the state legislature, specifies the exact proportions of each of its elements.
"The state flag consists of a rectangle with a width to length ratio of two to three containing: (1) a blue vertical stripe one-third the entire length of the flag wide, and two equal horizontal stripes, the upper stripe white, the lower red, each two-thirds the entire length of the flag long; and (2) a white, regular five-pointed star in the center of the blue stripe, oriented so that one point faces upward, and of such a size that the diameter of a circle passing through the five points of the star is equal to three-fourths the width of the blue stripe."
What is the history of the Texas Flag?
The history of the flag of Texas begins with the colonization of the state, but it was Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda who first mapped the coastline back in 1519. Afterward, a few Spanish explorers met with the natives but they did not stick around to establish any sort of government. The colonization began in the late 1600s by French explorer Robert de La Salle. La Salle established Fort St. Louis in 1685, but the French were not long for the state of Texas and the Spanish took over.
While under Spanish rule, many missions were established throughout Texas and Mexico to teach the natives Christianity. Little did the Spanish know that they would build a mission that would become a major symbol in the history of Texas, The Alamo. Just like the Americans, the people of Mexico were becoming restless about being ruled by a King overseas and in 1821 won its independence from Spain. In 1825, an American named Stephen F. Austin came to an agreement with the Mexican government to allow him to settle a colony with 300 people. The colony grew extremely fast and with that came animosity between the Mexican government and the colonists. By 1835 the two came to blows at the Battle of Gonzales, which sparked fighting to take place all through Texas.
The Battle of the Alamo in 1836 is where the war took a turn in favor of the Texans. Even though the battle was technically a loss with 180 Texans including legendary men such as Davy Crocket and Jim Bowie, held off an army of 4,000 Mexican troops for nearly two weeks before being overcome. After this loss, on March 2nd, 1836, Texas declared independence from Mexico and formed the Republic of Texas giving them their fourth flag. It was under this flag and under the battle cry, "Remember the Alamo," Sam Houston and his army defeated the Mexicans at the Battle of Jacinto.
Texas remained a country until 1845 it was decided it would be better if Texas joined the United States for protection and trade. On December 29th it became the 28th state, establishing the Republic of Texas flag as the state flag.
The admission of Texas as an American state angered Mexico and would end up being the cause of the Mexican American War. It took the Americans a year and a half to defeat the Mexican Army and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was signed in 1848. Peace was enjoyed throughout Texas until 1861 when it seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States giving Texas its sixth national flag.
Even though there was little confrontation in Texas during the Civil War, it should be known that the slaves in Texas did not know that they were free until June 19th, 1865, or as we know it now, Juneteenth. It was not until 1870 that Texas was readmitted to the United States of America.
What do the Texas flag colors mean?
The flag of Texas has an incredible history. A history quite unlike any other state. Over the years Texas has been under the rule of six different countries. Over the years of fighting and hardship, Texas has come to have an identity of its own and that can be seen in the colors of the Flag. In 1939, the congress of Texas voted to change the colors of the flag from a yellow star in the middle of a dark blue background to what we see today. Todays flag has a single white star on the left-hand side in the middle of a blue bar. There are two horizontal bars on the right the top being white and bottom being red. While these colors do match that of the United States, it is said that the blue stands for loyalty, the red for bravery, and the white for purity.
Is Texas the only state that can fly its flag at the same height as the US flag?
It is well established that Texas has a very unique history. So many nations have called it theirs, including the short-lived Republic of Texas. It is also well known that Texans are proud people, and there are many who believe that the Texas flag is the ONLY state flag that can fly at the height as the US flag. This is however not the case. Under the United States Flag Code it is said that if the US flag and a state flag share a pole, the US flag must be on top, if the two have separate poles the flags can be at the same
What does the lone star of Texas signify?
When one first hears the word Texas, their minds automatically go to the flag and the lone star. What does it mean exactly? As everyone knows, Texans are very proud people. Given the history of Texas it is not hard to recognize why they are so proud. Just like the US flag the stars stand for all the states standing together under one country, the lone star stands for the unification and the solidarity of the people of Texas under "God, state, and country".
Who created the Texas Lone Star flag?
The creation of the "Lone Star" flag of Texas is shrouded in mystery. It does not seem that there is one person who can claim the title of the creator. Over the years there have been many legislative rulings on the matter. In fact, in 1989 it was ruled incorrectly and recognized Dr. Charles B. Stewart as the flag's designer and also incorrectly recognized that Thomas Barnett, Sterling C. Robertson, Thomas J. Gazley, and Richard Ellis, Lorenzo de Zavala, and William B. Scates were on the committee to create the flag. This mistake was corrected in 1992 when it was ruled that the actual creator of the flag was unknown and recognized Senators Wharton and Jones in their efforts to adopt the flag.
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I sell CDs online and want to provide sound samples for my customers on my website. I have about 1.2 millions CDs that need 20-second samples recorded for each track.
Is there software that will allows me to set a start and end time for a 20 second segment of the CD to be ripped into mp3? For example, perhaps my sound samples should always start at 0:30 and end at 0:50 in each track. If this software doesn't exist, then is there software that will allow me to trim the tracks in the same way after I've ripped entire CDs to mp3?
Thank you.


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Our PhD programme is designed to allow students to transition smoothly from course-based study towards independent research.
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Programme overview
The standard route of our PhD programme is full time (3-4 years). PhD research may also be done on a part time basis in exceptional cases (5-6 years). Upon admission, part-time PhD students should commit to attending the College (typically one day per week) and meeting their supervisor regularly (once or twice a month).
Students need to complete the following 'milestones' to demonstrate that their work is progressing well:
- Within 3 months of starting:
Submit a short research plan , summarising the problem they have been set, and their proposed plan to work on it.
- Within 9 months of starting (18 months for part-time):
Submit a report summarising the first year's work, including courses taken. There is a short oral examination to assess this.
- Between 18 and 24 months of starting (36-48 months for part-time):
Submit a report describing progress so far, and a work plan for completing the thesis. Assessed with a short oral examination.
Please visit the PhD Progression Milestones guidelines for a complete picture of the programme.
In the first two years students should satisfy 100 hours of postgraduate courses in their research topic and related areas. These courses can be workshops, conferences and/or postgraduate lectures in many areas of Mathematics, including:
- Any of our MSc programmes
- The Taught Course Centre (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
- The London Taught Course Centre (Statistics)
- The London Graduate School in Mathematical Finance (Advanced courses in mathematical finance, primarily but not exclusively for first-year PhD students)
- The MAGIC group, a partnership of 20 UK universities


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Part 1 of the two hour Bruce Jenner special of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Keeping Up With the Kardashians: About Bruce, aired last night on E!, giving viewers an emotional glimpse into the family's reactions to Bruce's transition. Here are some of the most important things we learned...
Bruce wasn't wrong when he said Khloé took it the hardest:
While insisting that Bruce has to be honest with the family, Khloé says that what really hurts is the secrecy. "We want you to do what makes you happy," she says. "We all do, and we're going to support you and be there for you, but you have to be honest with us, even if it hurts you, 'cause it's going to hurt all of us"
Kendall is scared of losing Bruce:
"[I] think it's just scary when someone says that Bruce is going to be 'gone' and you're not going to be, like, you anymore," says Kendall, crying. Bruce responds with: "I never said that Bruce is going to be gone. I'll probably be closer to you."
Kendall and Kylie thought Bruce was having an affair:
"I just remember being little and not really knowing what was going on," remembers Kendall. "We would find things like makeup or lipstick, and we thought he was having an affair at one point. We didn't know what to do, we didn't want our family to be broken up."
Nail-painting was a source of comfort, making that #PaintYourNailsForBruce trend even more touching:
At one point in the special, Bruce removes his socks to show Kim his painted nails. "I do all my nails myself," he says, before revealing that he'd been painting his toenails for years. "I would always just wear socks. There's just little things you can do that make you feel a little bit better about yourself."
And, why Bruce decided to go public now, at the age of 65:
"I'm so tired of lying, about my life about who I am, about everything," he tells Kim. "After a while it just kind of wears your ass out. I just want to be honest."
The family have reacted to the special on Twitter and Instagram, posting more heartfelt messages of support for Bruce.


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You've spent the time installing Linux. It went well, and it's ready to roll. You boot your machine from the LILO: prompt and your machine arrives at the login prompt. Now what do you do? Where do you go? Let's find out.
Linux 101 installments are intended to bring IT professionals unacquainted with Linux up to speed on the alternative operating system's more basic features and uses.
Depending on which distribution you have chosen and what release of that distribution, you will have different options. For example, Caldera Open Linux and Red Hat Linux offer options of either booting directly into a graphical or a console login. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of both types of logins.
Graphical login
The graphical login (also known as runlevel 5) for both Caldera and Red Hat Linux offers a well-designed, easy-to-use login screen. It allows you to choose which login to use and then enter a password. Both the Caldera and Red Hat graphical login offer similar options; you can pick languages and default bash shells and default desktop environments. From the Red Hat login screen, it is just a simple matter of typing in your user name, followed by the password, and hitting [Enter].
The Red Hat login screen differs only from the console screen in that obviously there is a GUI involved and there are more choices. The Caldera login screen allows you to simply click a user icon, enter the password, and hit the login button.
The benefits to graphical login are obvious: simplistic graphical interface and more choices at login time.
The disadvantages are not so obvious. The slim possibility exists that a user could break the X server, thereby rendering the GUI useless. Thus it's advisable to have your Linux box set at run level 3, which means that the boot stops at console (user must activate X Windows). By stopping the machine at console, you are guaranteed fail-safe use.
Changing the run level
There are two ways to change the run level of your machine, allowing the machine to either boot directly into X or console.
- Re-run (as root) Xconfigurator (by running the command Xconfigurator from a console) and choosing to either start X at boot or not.
- The simpler way is to manually edit your /etc/inittab file. Within the /etc/inittab file, there is a line:
towards the top of this file. It is set to 3, which stops the boot process at the console mode. To change this to 5 (graphical mode), simply alter the line to:
and reboot your machine. After this change, you will then be booting automatically into X Windows.
Console login
Console login is a very basic login that halts with this prompt:
xena login:
(Notice the name xena; this is the name of the machine being logged into.)
From this point, there is very little difference from the Red Hat GUI login. All you need to do is enter your user name and password, which will deposit you into your bash prompt:
[jwallen@xena jwallen]$
At this point, you can stop to do console-based computing, which is many times faster than GUI-based, or start up their X server with the
command. When the above command is run, the X Windows system will begin and the chosen desktop environment will boot up as well as the chosen Window manager.
Jack Wallen, Jr., is pleased to have joined the TechRepublic staff as editor-in-chief of Linux content. Prior to his headfirst dive into the computer industry, he was a professional actor with film, TV, and Broadway credits. Now Jack is content with his new position of Linux evangelist.
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First the Young America's Foundation list of the 10 worst examples of Political Correctness in Academe. My comments are still "awaiting moderation" so may be deemed too upsetting for them. Anyway, here's the long one in defence of West Point inviting one of their alumni to speak. An alumnus who is transsexual:
No-one with an ounce of rationality would disagree with most items on the list. Except, perhaps, to say that even more egregious examples can be found, such as the infamous banning of funding for Cystic Fibrosis because it was a "White Male" disease.Onto GetReligion, where I do something few people discussing Christianity do - actually read what the Bible says, instead of believing what "everyone knows", including many preachers who are no theologians. I quote the usual - Matthew 19:12, Isaiah:56:3-5, but also John 9:1-12, which I think is particularly relevant to some Intersex conditions - my own included.
One item though detracts from the article's credibility. It's usually Moonbat liberals who are - if not ignorant, then not well versed in scientific issues, and who allow emotion and irrational belief to cloud reason.
I refer to the item about West Point. No facts are adduced as to why this is so awful. It rather reminds me of the articles that were published prior to 1950, and the de-segregation of the armed forces, denigrating black veterans. As conservatives, we should not deny the errors of the past - we leave that to Moonbats. And the facts are that about 60% of transgendered people, mostly women, have served in some capacity in or with the armed forces. I can think of no other minority group that has such a high level of service to the country, or to whom the words "Duty, Honor, Country" mean so much.
So what is "transsexuality"? Is it some peculiar sexual perversion? An "alternate lifestyle'? Yet another Liberal attack on our cherished institutions - and goodness knows, there's enough of them?
I better explain from the basics. "Men are Men, Women are Women", everyone knows that. It's as obvious as the world being flat, and the Sun orbiting the Earth. And for most purposes, all three statements are true. When we navigate using a map, we can treat the Earth as being locally flat. We talk about "sunrise" and "sunset". They're both good enough approximations for most purposes. Similarly, 98.3% of the population is either wholly and unambiguously male, or wholly and unambiguously female. Of the 1.7% who aren't, it usually takes a laboratory or extensive medical tests to find that out, and most are effectively asymptomatic, though they may be infertile or even sterile.
Such people are "Intersexed", and there's hundreds of Intersex conditions, ranging from the negligible (does it really matter if 10% of your body has female chromosomes when 90% has male ones?) to the spectacular. The most spectacular are the conditions such as 5alpha-reductase-2 deficiency (5alpha-RD-2) and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-3 deficiency (17beta-HSD-3) which cause all infants to look (somewhat, mostly, or completely) female at birth, but the genetic males change to look (somewhat, mostly or completely) male by the time they're 25. Male to female natural changes happen too, but they're less than 1% of such changes in humans, and are not well understood as yet. In fact, about 30% of Intersex conditions are "Idiopathic", meaning "we have no idea what the cause is", just that they happen.
So what has this to do with Transsexuality? Autopsies and MRI scans have confirmed that transsexuals have cross-gendered neuro-anatomy. They quite literally have male minds and brains and female bodies, or the reverse. Often they have other Intersex conditions too, but this isn't universal.
This isn't exactly common knowledge. Such indelicate and embarrassing matters are hardly the topic of breakfast conversation, and few people include "Psychoendoneurology" or "The journal of endocrinal obstetrics' in their bedtime reading. But the data is there, on the Net, through PubMed and other sources.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, so here's a small selection of the articles on the subject to show that I'm not trying to sell the usual Leftist snake-oil. Please research the matter yourself.
Gender change in 46,XY persons with 5alpha-reductase-2 deficiency and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-3 deficiency. by Cohen-Ketternis
A Sex Difference in the Human Brain and its Relation to Transsexuality by Zhou et al.
Male-to-Female Transsexuals Have Female Neuron Numbers in a Limbic Nucleus by Kruijver et al:
fMRT zur Diagnose bei Transsexualität geprüft (An Examination of the use of fMRT for diagnosing Transsexuality) (ArzteZeitung, 2006)
A sex difference in the hypothalamic uncinate nucleus: relationship to gender identity by
A. Garcia-Falgueras A and D.F. Swaab.
Male-to-female transsexuals show sex-atypical hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids. by Berglund H, Lindström P, Dhejne-Helmy C, and Savic I.
And so on and so on. Most of the hard proof has come in in the last 10 years, though a biological cause has long been conjectured. Before 1996, it was assumed (in the absence of evidence to the contrary) to be a purely psychological issue.
Transsexuality causes *intense* distress. The issue is not so much about sexuality as other instinctive behaviour - maternal instinct. natural gait, communications skills, instinctive ballistic calculations and so on, all areas where sexually differentiated thinking patterns are obvious, and which are not culturally conditioned. There's no biological reason why "blue is for boys, pink is for girls", that's cultural. But despite what Moonbat Gender Studies departments hold as articles of faith, men and women do differ in their neurology, and no neurologist disputes this. The trouble is, some women are born looking like men, and some men are born looking like women. This feels terribly perverse to someone so afflicted, and the only cure is to align body and brain/mind through hormonal and surgical intervention.
Having such a person, who has overcome such challenges, has a long and distinguished military career, and wishes to "give back" to her alma mata speak about the issue isn't "political correctness" in any way, shape or form.
Zoe E Brain
(Naval Combat System Architect, former tutor at the Australian Defence Force Academy, and one of the handful of well documented cases of natural male-to-female transitions on record)
Not that I'm a Christian. I just believe in many of His teachings, the ones that haven't been too distorted by misinterpretion and Pharisaic "obey the letter of the law while ignoring the intent" philosophy. I remain an Agnostic with a tendency to commit Buddhism.
And finally over at Queerty, the Gay news blog. "Should Doctors Still Consider Transgenders to Be Suffering a 'Disorder'?"
Well, yes and no. I describe my answer in detail as follows:
The distress caused by having a brain (actually the lymbic nucleus) cross-gendered (in some ways) compared to (most or all of) the rest of the body is a very real and serious psychological condition, comparable to the distress caused by some hideous congenital anomalies, coupled with biologically-based sexual dysfunction. But the neural mismatch itself is not, it is a natural variation caused by any of a number of genetic predispositions, coupled with an anomalous hormonal environment in the womb. Both the genetic, and the hormonal anomalies are necessary, either on their own has no effect. We think. We're not absolutely sure, it's just that we have lots of good evidence for this, and only a paucity of extremely poor evidence against.That did lead to a follow-up question, on the nature if gender, which I think deserved answering at length.
Until the distinction is made between the congenital biological variation that is acute transsexuality, and the syndrome of distress it causes, then the social stigma and moral opprobrium will remain. Worse, effective treatment may be withheld, either because of unfounded doubts as to its effectiveness, or concerns that anyone who is "mentally ill" cannot possibly give informed consent for radical surgery. Such problems exist today, simply because GID in its totality is erroneously seen, and described in the DSM's later incarnations, as purely a psychiatric concern.
Transsexual people are strongly gendered, but a significant number of Intersexed and non-Intersexed people are not. So although Transsexuals fit a binary model of gender extraordinarily well (for if they didn't, they wouldn't suffer the distress they do), we must be aware that the binary model is an approximation that fits most, but not all. It doesn't fit everyone. Most Intersexed people in particular fit a binary model, but some don't. We must be careful to respect Intersexed men as being men, Intersexed women as being women, but also that minority of Intersexed people who identify as neither.NeoCon, Religious, Gay... all need information, then they can make up their own minds. From the Sacred to the Profane.
Many transsexual people, being strongly gendered, and having had their masculinity or femininity questioned in the most disrespectful terms by others, object to any "in-between' category, a category they have often been forced into by others; "men, women, transsexuals". Which is exactly wrong, the opposite of what the situation truly is. It's because they fit the binary model so well, so much so that even having a cross-gendered body is insufficient to coerce them into an inappropriate gender "box", that they have the issues they do.
We must not force people into arbitrary boxes against the principles of medical facts, objective biology and even common humanity, strictly on ideological grounds.


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Widerøe is banking on the launch of an all-electric, sub 50-seat aircraft by the end of the next decade in order to maintain its deep footprint in the domestic Norwegian market.
"I really believe that we will have a major technology shift in this turboprop segment, and I think, in fact, there could be a possibility for flying all-electric … in the timeframe around 2030," Stein Nilsen, Widerøe chief executive, told me last week during the ferry flight of the airline's new Embraer E190 E2 from Aberdeen to Bergen.
Nilsen was responding to a question about Widerøe's 25 Bombardier Dash 8 Q100s and Q200s – small turboprops with 39 seats that the airline mostly deploys on Public Service Obligation (PSO) routes within Norway...


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Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie or TV show and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it's just for fun.
"Peut-être I shouldn't have asked that cute stewardess to pull my finger…":
Music Box Films tells us about the movie:
Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius ("OSS 117- Cairo, Nest of Spies")' ultra-stylized spoof follows suave secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath – better known as OSS 117, the pride of French Intelligence (French comic superstar Jean Dujardin in the title role) – as he travels across Brazil in 1967 with a beautiful Mossad agent (Louise Monod) on the trail of a hidden, high-ranking Nazi.
Twelve years after his exploits in Cairo, OSS 117 is back on a new mission at the other end of the world. As he tracks down a microfilm that is compromising for the State, France's most famous secret agent will have to capture a Nazi blackmailer. From Rio´s sunny beaches to luxuriant Amazonian forests, from the depths of secret grottos to the top of Corcovado's Christ, a new adventure is about to begin. Whatever the danger, whatever the stakes, whatever the indelicate remark, you can always count on Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath to find a way out…
Hazanavicius' films are satirical reinterpretations of the popular French series of post WW2 spy novels and films featuring agent OSS 117. As in his first installment, Hazanavicius pays impeccable visual homage to 1960s films and TV shows a la James Bond and "Get Smart" while making his hero outrageously politically incorrect.
I haven't seen the first film, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, yet, but I think I need to soon…
OSS 117: Lost in Rio opens in New York and Los Angeles on May 7. It is already available on Region 1 DVD in Canada from Amazon Canada and will be out next week on Region 2 DVD; preorder at Amazon U.K.
Visit OSS 117: Lost in Rio's IMDB page or official English-language site for more info.
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I wish there was a larger version of this image available, so you could really see the wonderful genius and humor in it (if you click on it, it gets slightly larger, which helps). I first saw Ray Fenwick's work while looking through some illustrations on flickr one day. Even at thumbnail size, I could tell how cool his lettering was. But, Ray's work is not just about great hand-lettering. It's about observation, pattern, the exquisite line and having a wonderful (and somewhat cynical) sense of humor. I absolutely love it and am always delighted by what Ray posts. My favorite set on his flickr page is a typographic comic called the Hall of Best Knowledge, which is going to be published in early 2008 by Fantagraphics. Yippee!
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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KENTWOOD, La. - The Town of Kentwood's Road Maintenance Crew took a working vacation last week as they attended the Potholes and Potheads Conference in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The conference, which was co-sponsored by a Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the National Asphalt Pavement Association, which represents the producers of hot mix asphalt industry, was a three-day affair mixing challenging talks and lectures, provocative roundtable discussions -- and just plain fun, at least if you are a road maintenance worker.
The primary purpose of the conference was to teach municipal street maintenance people from around the country which substances mix with asphalt and ready-mix concrete -- and which don't. But Kentwood RMC's Mayson Seale said they all learned a lot more than that. The News & Musings James "Jimmy" Foster interviewed Seale just a day after the RMC crew returned.
"When writers go on vacation, they take a pad and a pencil. When photographers go on a holiday, they take a camera along. So, we thought we'd take our tools along too. Boy, we had no idea. You think its a pain when you try to get a pair of fingernail clippers through security, you ought to see the look on their faces when you put a jack hammer on that conveyor belt. They just freak, every time.
"Ralph Deaking, our supervisor, is very thorough, very organized. He's the one who filled out the application to get us a grant to go the P&PC to begin with. Anyway, he had printed out the the entire section of the TSA handbook on which stuff you can and can't carry on a airliner. He would hold it up and show it to them. Nothing in there says you can take on board a jack hammer, or a dump truck, for that matter -- not that we'd be dumb enough to do that. The overweight fees were plenty bad as it was.
"We had to change planes in Detroit. That's one dang big airport, I'll tell you that. We sure did like them people-movers though. Everybody kept saying the whole time we was there, 'We oughta put one of these on Main Street in Kentwood.'
Through the whole trip whenever somebody would ask, where you guys from, and we would say, Kentwood or Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, everybody would say, that's where Britney Spears is from, do you know Britney, what was she like, when did you know she would be famous? We had no idea she was so popular. She's just little Brit to us.
"The most fun on the trip was the competitive events they had: asphalt rolling, hole digging, and Ralph's favorite, shovel leaning. Some of those guys could roll asphalt with a Gallion 20 Ton Roller like it was filo dough. Which reminds me of another highlight, Antonin's on Ninth Street, the Greek place just down from the Wallace P. Haste Convention Center. Man, they had good baklava. Anyway, those guys from Juneau never should have gotten on that roller when they had never seen one before. We think everyone came out alright.
"Bob thought we could compete in hole digging. No way. We didn't have clue even how to start on frozen dirt. The guys from St. Paul kicked butt on that one.
"Ralph entered the shovel leaning contest, and we were sure he would do alright. But boy, oh, boy, it was tough. It was sort of like that dance marathon the Kentwood VFW holds for the AmVets every year but you had to lean on a shovel with one foot off the ground on, get this, a marble ballroom floor. Nobody lasted more than seven minutes and Ralph finished tied for fifth at three and a half.
"The funniest thing, well, it's not funny, but when we were coming out of the hotel the last day, Ralph stepped in a pothole and broke his ankle. Because of that, we didn't get back 'til Tuesday.
"Overall, the trip was a lot of work but it was a rewarding learning experience for all of us. One the main things we learned is how many colorful nicknames there are for marijuana besides grass and pot: Mary Jane, bud, The Green Guy, weed, reefer, ganja, stuff, boo-ya, chronic, herb and dope. And those guys from Juneau sure showed us why they call it dope.
"When we got back to the Hammond Municipal Airport, when we got off the plane, we all kissed the tarmac, we were so glad to be home. It's only after a trip like this that you realize that Tangipahoa may not be much, but it's a lot better than most everywhere else."
On Tuesday night at 7 pm, the RMC will host a talk, slide show and question-and-answer session about the Potholes and Potheads Conference. Refreshments will be served courtesy of Kentwood Livestock Kitchen.
Reprinted with permission from News & Musings from Tangipahoa Parish (Louisiana): The Birthplace of Britney Jean Spears
Copyright 2006 Douglas Salguod


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Boston—Thirteen outstanding documents on topics ranging from climate solutions and the distribution of K-12 state resources to the geography of poverty and hands-free driving laws will be honored by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) during its 43rd annual Legislative Summit in Boston.
The Notable Documents Awards are presented annually by the Legislative Research Librarians staff professional organization. The award recognizes excellence in documents that explore topics of interest to legislators and legislative staff, and present substantive material in an outstanding format. For purposes of the award, a "document" is one produced by a federal, state or local government. Eligible formats include print and electronic publications, periodicals, serials or websites.
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Yorkville drug lab stuns neighbors
After hazardous chemicals and a possible drug-making operation were discovered in a Yorkville apartment Tuesday evening, neighbor Valerie Gates said she's glad to be moving out of the area.
"We have three boys, and it's just not where we want our kids growing up, with stuff like this going on," 31-year-old Gates said as movers carried boxes from her apartment. "The badness over in Utica is slowly coming this way, and that's kind of why we're moving."
Gates' family was among about 10 families who were forced to evacuate their homes for about 10 hours overnight while the New York State Police Contaminated Crime Scene Emergency Response Team cleaned 1004 Champlin Ave. of any hazardous materials.
Around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oneida County probation officers discovered containers filled with unknown chemicals in the second-floor apartment of Michael Shecter.
Shecter, 33, had been arrested at the time for violating his probation, state police said.
Further investigation revealed the chemicals appeared to be ether, a volatile substance used in the processing of psychedelic mushroom narcotics, state police said. Other materials in the apartment — including roughly 100 mason jars and petri dishes of possible mushroom spores — also were recovered.
Until the seized substances are tested, however, their exact nature and purpose in Shecter's apartment still is unclear, state police said.
"We don't know if he was growing hallucinogenic mushrooms, but the chemical leads us to believe he was attempting to manufacture some illicit narcotic," state police Troop D Capt. Frank Coots said. "The amount of, or specific types of, narcotics that may have existed at that apartment is undetermined at this time until further chemical analysis."
Additional charges against Shecter are pending those laboratory results and further investigation by the state police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team, or CNET, Coots said.
But current charges against Shecter in Saratoga County, more than 100 miles away, indicate he already has some familiarity with hallucinogenic mushrooms, prosecutors said.
Shecter was free on at least $100,000 bail at the time of Tuesday's arrest after he was indicted earlier this month in Saratoga County on several charges related to the possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms with the intent to sell, Saratoga County Assistant District Attorney Alan Poremba said Wednesday.
Shecter and another co-conspirator were arrested June 5 while Shecter was in the process of receiving 10 pounds of mushrooms from the other individual in the town of Wilton, Poremba said.
Tuesday's Yorkville arrest likely will result in Shecter's bail being revoked, he said.
In the meantime, Saratoga County prosecutors await further information to clarify whether Shecter's activities in Yorkville are at all linked to his pending drug allegations, Poremba said.
Although Gates was shocked by Tuesday's discovery in Shecter's apartment next door, she said nothing surprises her anymore about what goes on around the area, which is a short distance from the West Utica border.
But the reality of such a potential danger still is chilling, especially when firefighters told her and her family to leave their home immediately, she said.
"My first thought was that he had some type of drug lab that would explode," Gates said. "There's a family that lived downstairs from him, and that guy could have killed them if that was the case."
And that was the possible worst case scenario that immediately concerned state police and Yorkville firefighters who first arrived at the scene, Yorkville Fire Chief Joe Morosco said Wednesday.
"We didn't really know what we had," Morosco said. "But we knew it was something that wasn't safe."
The discovery of hazardous materials Tuesday was unlike anything the village has ever seen, Morosco said. Now he's left wondering what might be going on behind closed doors elsewhere throughout the village, he said.
"We've been driving past that house for how long now, and we didn't know that's going on," Morosco said. "Now, we're just waiting for the next time."
Such potential drug-making operations are rare in suburban areas such as Yorkville, but Tuesday's incident shows that no area is immune to drug activity, police said.
"It just signals that everybody needs to be vigilant against this type of activity in their neighborhood, and they should always be on the lookout for suspicious activity," state police Troop D public information officer Trooper Jim Simpson said.


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Seasonal Brunch Ideas with an Original Farm-to-Table Ingredient
(Family Features) Brunch with family and friends can be a treat any time of the year, but spring's fresh, seasonal ingredients and warmer days practically beg loved ones to gather for the morning meal.
These cute, kid-friendly Bunny Oatmeal and Easy Egg Casserole recipes are simple and made with real foods like milk, bringing richness and flavor, and ingredients you can feel good serving to kids.
Whether it's skim milk for lighter lattes with friends, 2% milk to wash down birthday cake or strawberry milk for a sweet celebration surrounding the game-winning goal, milk's already a part of the foods – and meaningful moments – that matter.
For more kid-friendly, seasonal recipe ideas, visit milklife.com.
Bunny Oatmeal
Recipe courtesy of Tiffany Edwards of Creme de la Crumb on behalf of Milk Life
Servings: 1
- 1/3 cup instant oats
- 3/4 cup fat-free milk
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 2/3 small banana
- 2 fresh blueberries
- 1/2 small strawberry
- chocolate syrup (optional)
- 1 glass milk (8 ounces)
- In microwave-safe bowl, stir oats, milk, cinnamon, vanilla and brown sugar. Microwave on high 30-60 seconds and stir.
- Cut banana in half crosswise. Cut 1 1/8-inch thick coin slice from flat ends of each banana half. Place two banana slices in upper third of oatmeal bowl, side by side, to make eyes. Top each banana slice with one blueberry.
- Place remaining banana halves at top of bowl, hanging out, to create ears.
- Place strawberry in middle of bowl to make nose then drizzle chocolate, if desired, to make mouth and whiskers.
- Serve with 8-ounce glass of real milk for added nutrition.
Nutritional information per serving: 320 calories; 2 g fat; 10 mg cholesterol; 18 g protein; 59 g carbohydrates; 5 g fiber; 190 mg sodium; 550 mg calcium. Nutrition figures based on using fat-free milk and include 8-ounce glass of milk.
Easy Egg Casserole
Recipe courtesy of Milk Life
Servings: 1
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 1 cup lean ham, cubed
- 1 cup frozen seasoned potatoes with fresh onions and peppers
- 3/4 cup fresh spinach, chopped
- 1/2 cup low-fat cheddar or Swiss cheese, shredded
- 6 eggs
- 3/4 cup fat-free milk
- 1 glass milk (8 ounces)
- Heat oven to 375° F. Lightly coat 8-by-8-inch casserole dish with nonstick cooking spray. In bottom of casserole dish, arrange ham, potatoes, spinach and cheese.
- In large bowl, beat eggs and milk. Pour mixture over ingredients in casserole dish. Bake 25-30 minutes, or until lightly browned and puffed.
- Serve with 8-ounce glass of real milk for added nutrition.
Nutritional information per serving: 350 calories; 9 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 350 mg cholesterol; 32 g protein; 34 g carbohydrates; 2 g fiber; 630 mg sodium; 500 mg calcium. Nutrition figures based on using fat-free milk and include 8-ounce glass of milk.
Source: MilkPEP
8 Breakfasts with Protein to Power Your Morning
(Family Features) Make it easy to stick to your resolutions by starting every morning with a breakfast with more protein. Did you know the average breakfast bowl or plate contains on average only 13 grams of protein, yet some nutrition experts recommend getting 20-30 grams at each meal?
Spreading out your protein throughout the day (rather than in one large amount) can help optimize how your body uses it. That means getting enough protein at breakfast! A breakfast with enough protein can help you feel fuller longer so you're more likely to stick to your healthy eating routine. One easy way to get eight grams of high-quality protein is to add milk to your breakfast routine – whether in a cup, bowl and in your favorite recipe, an 8-ounce glass of milk contains 8 grams of high-quality protein!
Here are eight delicious breakfast ideas with protein to kick-start your new year.
Savory Oatmeal with Sunny Side Up Egg + Bacon
Make your oatmeal with milk instead of water to add milk's high-quality protein to your morning meal. This twist also adds the classic combo of bacon and eggs to shake up your morning routine – serving up a total of 25 grams of protein.
Grab-and-Go Mini Breakfast Casseroles with Cheddar and Spinach
Need a quick breakfast for busy mornings? These grab-and-go mini casseroles have a few simple ingredients, like lowfat milk, spinach and cheddar cheese – with a ton of palate payoff. Pair two mini casseroles with a cup of milk for 24 grams of protein.
Apple-Cinnamon Whole-Grain Pancake Muffins
Try this yummy twist on your morning go-to pancakes filled with delicious apple slices and cinnamon and made with 100% whole-grain pancake batter. Pair with an 8-ounce glass of milk to add an extra 8 grams of protein to the meal, for a total of 13 grams.
Spinach Mushroom Breakfast Crepes
These savory crepes made with milk and filled with veggies and Swiss cheese for a delicious way to kick-start your day with 23 grams of protein.
Skillet Eggs and Polenta
Breakfast takes a flavorful twist in this recipe that uses traditional Italian flavors of polenta and marinara to create a delicious dish. Pair with a glass of milk for 25 grams of protein.
Creamy Green Goddess Smoothie
Lowfat milk and avocados make this smoothie extra creamy for 7 grams of protein per serving, and it's packed with spinach, pineapple and bananas so it's a choice you can feel good about.
Nutty Blueberry Quinoa Oatmeal
Spice up your morning meal by adding quinoa and blueberries. Pair this dish with a glass of milk for 21 grams of protein power to start your day!
Chicken Sausage Scramble
Sweet potatoes, lowfat milk and chicken sausage combine in this tasty egg scramble to give you a protein boost to start your morning right. Add a cup of milk for 22 grams of protein.
For more recipes, visit MilkLife.com or check out Pinterest.
Source: Milk Life
Boost Your Breakfast with Protein-Packed Recipes
(Family Features) Whether you're a casual exerciser, a professional athlete or just looking for a nutritious breakfast, kick off your day with protein-packed recipes.
As an expert in the nutritional needs of professional athletes, Megan Chacosky, chef and registered dietitian for the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team, stresses the importance of protein in any fitness enthusiast's diet. Protein helps build, maintain and repair muscles while increasing energy and endurance, which can help strengthen the body and avoid injuries. Adding a protein beverage like Rockin' Protein, made from fresh Shamrock Farms milk with up to 30 grams of protein per serving, into healthy breakfast recipes is one way to increase the protein level and nutritional benefits of your breakfast.
These recipes are quick to prep for grab-and-go mornings to start your day with proper nutrition. To learn more, visit rockinprotein.com.
Chocolate-Hazelnut Granola
Servings: 30
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) Chocolate Rockin' Protein Builder
- 12 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 3/4 cup oil
- 2 cups roasted hazelnuts
- 1/2 cup raw pumpkin seeds
- 1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
- Heat oven to 325° F.
- In large bowl, combine protein builder, rolled oats, maple syrup, oil, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds; mix until oats, hazelnuts and seeds are coated. On baking sheet, spread granola in thin layers and bake until golden brown, about 45 minutes, stirring every 10-15 minutes.
- Cool completely then sprinkle in chocolate chips and serve with yogurt, on smoothie bowl or as cereal.
Nutritional information per serving: 295 calories; 32 g carbohydrates; 7.5 g protein; 16 g fat; 6 g sugar.
Blueberry Cornbread Muffins
Servings: 12 muffins
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 egg
- 1 cup Vanilla Rockin' Protein Builder
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 lemon, juiced
- Heat oven to 400° F. Line muffin tin with 12 paper or foil muffin liners and set aside.
- In medium bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; once mixed, toss in blueberries to coat.
- In separate bowl, combine egg, protein builder, oil and lemon juice. Pour liquid ingredients into dry mix and stir until just combined. Divide into lined muffin tins and bake until golden brown, about 20-25 minutes.
Nutritional information per serving: 245 calories; 25 g carbohydrates; 5 g protein; 15 g fat; 6 g sugar.
Source: Rockin' Protein
Reimagine a Creative Breakfast
(Family Features) Mornings for many people start with snoozing, scrubbing and hustling in a rush to get out the door on time, making it easy to fall into a rut when it comes to breakfast. From grabbing a cup of coffee or breakfast bar on-the-go to eating the same cereal every day, your morning meal could benefit from a little imagination.
Break from the mundane and reimagine breakfast for something a little more creative in the mornings. Upgrade bland breakfast toast with unique toppings and flavor combinations, like Peanut Butter, Bacon and Banana Toast. The smokiness of Smithfield bacon pairs perfectly with the sweetness of peanut butter and banana for a flavor-filled breakfast. Available in a wide variety of flavors and cuts, like Cherrywood, Thick Cut and classic Hometown Original, it's smoked and cured to perfection so you can incorporate it into breakfast recipes all week long.
Better yet, you don't have to wake up early or spend hours in the kitchen to have a scrumptious start to your day.
With an easy option like Smithfield Anytime Favorites Ham, the work is done for you so you're well on your way to a wholesome breakfast in minutes. This Ham and Blueberry Toast can be the fresh take your morning needs.
For more creative and filling breakfast ideas, visit Smithfield.com.
Ham and Blueberry Toast
Servings: 4
- 3/4 cup cream cheese
- 1 cup blueberries, divided
- 4 slices sourdough bread
- 1 cup Smithfield Anytime Favorites Hickory Smoked 8-ounce Boneless Ham Steak, cooked and cut into cubes
- 1/4 cup pistachios
- 1/2 cup microgreens
- In food processor, blend cream cheese and 1/2 cup blueberries until smooth.
- Toast bread until brown. Spread with blueberry cream cheese mixture. Top with ham steak cubes, remaining blueberries, pistachios and microgreens.
Bacon, Peanut Butter and Banana Toast
Servings: 4
- 4 slices whole-wheat toast
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 2 medium bananas
- 1/3 cup shelled pistachios
- 4 slices Smithfield Cherrywood Bacon, cooked and cut into pieces
- Toast bread until brown. Spread with peanut butter.
- Cut bananas into thin slices and place on top of peanut butter. Sprinkle with pistachios and bacon pieces.
Source: Smithfield
Sweet Ways to Welcome Warmer Days
(Family Features) Warmer, longer days are made for quality time with friends and family. There's no better way to cap off an afternoon in the sun than a good meal followed by a great dessert. Plan to end your next gathering on a sweet note with these fruity desserts to conclude a day spent with loved ones.
Fruity treats are hard to resist, especially when paired with tasty, complementary flavors and textures. If you're looking for a treat that travels a bit off the beaten path, this pie may be just the answer. A crushed pretzel crust and creamy peanut butter filling provide a salty, savory background for plump, sweet strawberries. Or serve up a taste of the tropics with a cream pie that celebrates a medley of textures and flavors from lively blueberries to toasted coconut.
When you make fruit the star of the dessert, there's no question you need top-quality ingredients. Each of these desserts features Lucky Leaf Fruit Fillings, which are made from fresh fruit, contain no high-fructose corn syrup and are GMO-free, for a delicious dessert every time. With a variety of flavors to choose from, including apple, blueberry, cherry, peach and strawberry, there are plenty of convenient, versatile dessert options for any occasion.
Find more tasty treats for entertaining and beyond at luckyleaf.com.
Strawberry Peanut Butter Pie
- 1 1/4 cups crushed pretzels
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups frozen whipped dessert topping, thawed
- 1 can (21 ounces) Lucky Leaf Premium Strawberry Fruit Filling and Topping
- Combine pretzels and granulated sugar then stir in butter. Press crumb mixture onto bottom and sides of 10-inch pie plate. Cover and chill.
- With electric mixer on medium speed, beat together peanut butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar. Fold in whipped dessert topping.
- Spoon 1/2 cup pie filling into crust-lined pie plate. Carefully spread peanut butter filling over top. Top with remaining pie filling. Cover and chill 2 hours before serving.
Fluffy Blueberry Cream Pie with Toasted Coconut
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 can (21 ounces) Lucky Leaf Premium or Organic Blueberry Fruit Filling or Topping
- 1/2 cup toasted coconut flakes, plus additional for topping, if desired
- 1 graham cracker crust (9 inches)
- In large bowl, beat together cream cheese, sugar and milk until creamy, about 1-2 minutes. Add whipped topping, pie filling and coconut; carefully fold together until no streaks remain.
- Spoon filling mixture into graham cracker crust. Sprinkle top with additional coconut flakes, if desired. Cover and chill 2 hours, or until firm.
Source: Lucky Leaf
Cool Down with Patriotic Frozen Pops
The perfect treat to celebrate and escape the heat this summer
(Family Features) With backyard barbecues, pool parties and patriotic celebrations in full swing leading up to the Fourth of July, kids are constantly on the go with summertime activities. For long summer days in the sun, a cool treat is the perfect way to help keep kids energized for all of their summertime activities.
These homemade red, white and blueberry frozen pops are the perfect patriotic summer snack for active kids. Made with wholesome ingredients like fruit and milk, they're a great way for moms to add quality nutrition to snack time with flavors their kids already love. Plus, with milk as an ingredient, this delicious recipe is a creative way to help the whole family get added nutrients they need, like calcium and protein.
Whether celebrating Independence Day or relaxing following an afternoon in the sun, this tasty and nutritious summertime snack is one the whole family can enjoy together. For more inspiration and recipes to serve up summer fun, visit milklife.com.
Red, White and Blueberry Frozen Pops
Servings: 10
- 1/2 cup granola
- 2 teaspoons brown rice syrup
- 3/4 cup reduced fat milk
- 6 ounces fat free vanilla Greek yogurt
- 1 cup whole strawberries, tops removed
- water
- 1 1/4 cup blueberries, divided
- In small bowl, stir granola and brown rice syrup until combined. Using end of wooden spoon, press approximately 3/4 tablespoon granola into each frozen pop mold. Granola should be packed tightly into bottom of molds.
- In another small bowl, stir together milk and yogurt; set aside.
- Using small food processor or high-powered blender, puree strawberries until smooth. Stir water into each puree so they are pourable, about 2 tablespoons each, more if necessary.
- Set aside 30 blueberries and puree remainder. Add water, as needed, to make pourable.
- To layer pops, start by pouring, piping or syringing 1 tablespoon milk and yogurt mixture into each mold, covering granola layer. Put each mold in freezer until firm, at least 1 hour.
- Layer 1 tablespoon strawberry puree on top of frozen yogurt layer in each mold. Cover top of molds with foil, insert sticks and freeze again until solid. Remove foil, add another layer of yogurt and freeze again.
- For final layer, add 1 tablespoon blueberry puree and 3 blueberries to each mold. Freeze until solid. Keep frozen pops in molds until ready to eat. Run each mold under lukewarm water for approximately 10 seconds to loosen and remove frozen pops. Pops can be made 1 day in advance.
Tip: For clean lines between frozen yogurt layers, use small syringe.
Nutritional information per serving: 70 calories; 2 g fat; 0.5 g saturated fat; 3 g protein; 11 g carbohydrates; 1 g fiber; 20 mg sodium; 48 mg calcium (4% of daily value). Nutrition figures based on using reduced fat milk.
Source: MilkPEP
A Spring-Inspired Easter Brunch
Sweet ideas for a bright, seasonal spread
(Family Features) Spring is blooming on your Easter table. From yellow chick cupcakes to blueberry French-toast casseroles, there are plenty of ways to wow your brunch guests with simple seasonal recipes.
"Between hiding eggs and preparing baskets, you may be tempted to fall back on brunch basics like pancakes and scrambled eggs, but that's no fun," McCormick Executive Chef Kevan Vetter said. "With simple pantry staples – like food color – and a little planning the night before, you can enjoy a fun and tasty holiday brunch."
These simple tips from Vetter can help you transform a boring brunch into a colorful Easter feast.
- Waffle art is a fun way to get kids (and adults) involved during breakfast time. Try tinting the waffle batter orange by using McCormick Color from Nature Food Colors. Cut them into wedges hot out of the iron and pipe green frosting for the stems to create these Carrot-Shaped Waffles.
- Making French toast for a crowd can be a hassle. Instead, make a sweet breakfast casserole the night before to pop in the oven Easter morning. Add fresh, sweet-tart blueberries to celebrate spring.
- Rather than splurging on designer cupcakes, just pipe yellow marshmallow creme on mini cupcakes for a baby chick then decorate with sprinkles for the nose and cut up wafers to look like a hatching egg.
For more recipes and tips, check out McCormick.com and visit McCormick Spice on Facebook and Pinterest.
Baby Chick Cupcakes
Prep time: 30 minutes
Servings: 24
- 1 package (12 ounces) white confectionary coating wafers
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 box (16 ounces) confectioners' sugar
- 1 jar (7 ounces) marshmallow creme
- 1 teaspoon Sunflower color from McCormick Color from Nature Food Colors
- 2 tablespoons milk, plus additional (optional)
- 48 unfrosted mini yellow cupcakes, baked in white paper liners
- sprinkles (optional)
- additional McCormick Color from Nature Food Colors (optional)
- To make broken egg shell pieces: melt coating wafers as directed on package. Spread on large foil-lined baking sheet to 1/4-inch thickness. Refrigerate about 10 minutes, or until firm. Break into small, irregular pieces. Set aside.
- In large bowl, beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add vanilla; mix well. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar, beating until well blended after each addition, frequently scraping sides and bottom of bowl. Beat in marshmallow creme until well blended. In small bowl, stir food color into milk until dissolved. Add colored milk to frosting; beat until light and fluffy. Stir in additional milk, as needed, to reach desired consistency.
- To decorate cupcakes: spoon frosting into large pastry bag fitted with large round tip. Pipe two dollops of frosting on top of each other to form baby chick. If desired, insert sprinkles into face for eyes and beak. Or tint any remaining frosting with food colors to pipe out eyes and beak.
- Place coating wafer pieces around bottom of baby chick to resemble broken egg shell.
Carrot-Shaped Waffles
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 20 minutes
Servings: 6
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 2 cups all-purpose waffle and baking mix
- 1 1/3 cups milk
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 teaspoons McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract, divided
- 1 1/4 teaspoons Sunflower color from McCormick Color from Nature Food Colors, divided
- 1 teaspoon Berry color from McCormick Color from Nature Food Colors
- 1/2 teaspoon Sky Blue color from McCormick Color from Nature Food Colors
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- Heat round waffle iron. Spray with nonstick cooking spray. In medium bowl, mix together waffle mix, milk, egg, oil, 2 teaspoons vanilla and 1 teaspoon each sunflower and berry colors until blended. Let batter stand 5 minutes to allow color to fully develop.
- Pour about 1/3 cup batter onto center of waffle iron. Close lid. Cook about 3 minutes, or until no longer steaming. Carefully remove waffle. Repeat with remaining batter. Cut each waffle into 8 triangles. Set aside.
- In another medium bowl, stir sky blue color and remaining sunflower color into cream. Add confectioners' sugar and remaining vanilla; beat with electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form. Spoon into re-sealable plastic bag. Cut piece off one bottom corner.
- To decorate and serve waffles, place waffle triangles onto serving plates and pipe green colored cream on wide side of each triangle to resemble carrot tops.
Overnight Lemon Blueberry Muffin Casserole
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Servings: 12
Streusel Topping:
- 1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons McCormick Cinnamon, Ground
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) cold butter, cut into chunks
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup, plus 2 tablespoons, milk, divided
- 1/4 cup, plus 2 tablespoons, granulated sugar, divided
- 1 teaspoon McCormick Cinnamon, Ground
- 1 loaf French bread, cut into 1-inch cubes
- nonstick cooking spray
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 tablespoon McCormick Pure Lemon Extract
- 2 cups blueberries, divided
- To make Streusel Topping: In medium bowl, mix together brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cover. Set aside until ready to assemble in the morning.
- To make Casserole: In large bowl, mix together eggs, 1 cup milk, 1/4 cup granulated sugar and cinnamon with wire whisk until well blended. Add bread cubes; toss gently to coat. Pour evenly into 13-by-9-inch baking dish sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
- In medium bowl, mix together cream cheese, remaining milk and sugar, and lemon extract until well blended. Gently stir in 1 cup blueberries. Spread evenly on top of bread cubes. Top with remaining blueberries. Cover. Refrigerate overnight.
- Heat oven to 350° F.
- Remove casserole from refrigerator. Let stand 10-15 minutes.
- Cut butter into Streusel Topping mixture with pastry blender or two knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over casserole. Bake 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.
Source: McCormick
Sweet Spring Desserts
(Family Features) When the scent of fresh blooms begins to fill the air, it's a sure sign that spring has sprung. It's the perfect time of year to gather loved ones for a leisurely meal, then linger over dessert as you enjoy this season of refreshment.
No dessert menu is complete without an array of treats, and these creamy, homemade Blueberry Key Lime Cheesecake Bars are the perfect way to put a sweet finishing touch on your celebrations. Or go for a crowd pleaser with this Cherry Cheesecake Lush Dessert and its smooth, velvety texture and plump, juicy cherries.
The secret ingredient in each of these desserts is Lucky Leaf Fruit Fillings, which are GMO-free and contain plenty of fruit – and no high-fructose corn syrup – for exceptional tasting desserts every time. With popular flavors like apple, blueberry, cherry and strawberry, you have plenty of convenient, versatile ways to dress up desserts.
Find more tasty treats for all your spring entertaining at luckyleaf.com.
Blueberry Key Lime Cheesecake Bars
Recipe courtesy of Inside BruCrew Life blog
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 45 minutes
Servings: 24
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 30 vanilla cream-filled cookies
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 3 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup key lime juice
- 1 tablespoon key lime zest
- 1/4 cup flour
- 3 eggs
- green gel food coloring (optional)
- 1 can (21 ounces) Lucky Leaf Blueberry Pie Filling, divided
- 1 container (8 ounces) whipped topping, thawed
- key lime slices (optional)
- Place baking sheet on bottom rack of oven. Fill halfway with water. Heat oven to 325° F. Line 9-by-13-inch pan with foil and spray with nonstick spray.
- Using food processor, pulse cookies until crumbly. Stir together crumbs and butter. Press evenly into bottom of prepared pan.
- Beat cream cheese until creamy. Add sugar and sour cream, and beat again until smooth. Add key lime juice, zest and flour, and beat until mixed thoroughly. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat gently after each. Add green food coloring to cheesecake mixture, if desired.
- Spread cheesecake batter evenly over crust in pan. Add 1 cup of blueberry pie filling over top of cheesecake. Use butter knife to gently swirl pie filling into cheesecake. Do not let knife go through to crust.
- Place pan on oven rack above tray of water. Bake 45-48 minutes. Remove immediately and place on wire rack for 1 hour then place in refrigerator until completely chilled.
- Cut into 24 squares and serve with whipped topping, remaining pie filling and key lime wedges.
Cherry Cheesecake Lush Dessert
Recipe courtesy of Lemon Tree Dwelling blog
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Servings: 12
- 1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 16 ounces whipped topping, divided
- 2 small boxes cheesecake-flavored pudding
- 3 cups milk
- 1 can (21 ounces) Lucky Leaf Cherry Pie Filling
- 1/2 cup. chopped pecans
- Heat oven to 350° F.
- In medium mixing bowl, combine vanilla wafer crumbs, finely chopped pecans and butter.
- Press into 9-by-13-inch baking pan; bake 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
- In separate mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, powdered sugar and 1 1/2 cups whipped topping. Mix until smooth; spread evenly over cooled crust.
- Combine cheesecake pudding mix, milk and 1 1/2 cups whipped topping, and mix until smooth. Spread evenly over cream cheese layer in pan.
- Top with pie filling, remaining whipped topping and chopped pecans.
Source: Lucky Leaf
A Sweet Celebration!
Celebration Lime Cheesecake Bars
Quick Raspberry Sauce
Quick Berry Sauce
White Chocolate Glaze With Toasted Coconut and Pecans
Mixed Fruit Salsa
Magic Lemon Pie
Coconut Macaroons
(Family Features) - It's been called "magic." At least that's how it seemed in 1856 when Gail Borden transformed fresh milk into safe and shelf-stable sweetened condensed milk.
A return voyage from London in 1851 prompted Borden's invention. He saw children fall ill from lack of fresh milk and set out to find a way to preserve milk while maintaining its taste and quality. Borden developed a vacuum method to remove water from milk, adding sugar as a preservative.
Eagle Brand first became a staple during the Civil War, when troops needed milk that wouldn't spoil. It is also credited with significantly reducing the infant mortality rate in North America. When the two World Wars brought rationing and shortages to American households, Eagle Brand proudly provided a "magic" way to make desserts. Today, Eagle Brand is still America's most trusted sweetened condensed milk.
For more delicious recipes, visit www.eaglebrand.com.
Celebration Lime Cheesecake Bars
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 7 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 egg yolk, beaten
- 1/3 cup flaked coconut, packed
- 2 (8-ounce) packages plain cream cheese, softened
- 1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- Preheat oven to 400°F. With mixer fitted with flat paddle, combine flour and sugar; add butter and egg yolk; blend until combined. Mix in coconut. Press dough evenly into bottom of greased 13x9-inch glass baking dish.
- Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until edge of crust is golden brown. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.
- With mixer, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Add eggs; mix until just combined. Stir in lime juice. Pour batter over baked crust. Once oven has cooled to 350°F, bake 17 to 22 minutes or until center is set.
- Cool. Cover and chill 2 hours. Serve with toppings (optional, recipes follow). Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.
Preparation Time
20 minutes
Makes 18 to 20 bars
Notes, Tips & Suggestions
Optional Toppings:
White Chocolate Glaze With Toasted Coconut and Pecans
Quick Raspberry Sauce
- 2 (12-ounce) packages frozen raspberries, thawed
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons water
- Combine all ingredients in food processor or blender and mix until smooth. Store covered in refrigerator.
Makes 3 cups
Quick Berry Sauce
- 1 cup raspberries
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons sugar or to taste
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup diced strawberries
- In large bowl, combine raspberries, lemon juice and sugar.
- Using large fork or potato masher, smash berries to make puree.
- Fold in blueberries and strawberries. Store covered in refrigerator.
Makes 2 1/2 cups
White Chocolate Glaze With Toasted Coconut and Pecans
- 4 tablespoons butter or margarine, divided
- 1/2 cup flaked coconut
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 1 1/4 cups white chocolate chips or white vanilla chips
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- In skillet, melt 1 tablespoon butter. Add coconut and pecans; continue mixing until coconut is light brown. Remove from heat. Cool.
- In large bowl, combine chips, lime juice and remaining butter. Microwave on medium-high 30 to 40 seconds. Mix until smooth.
- Pour glaze over bars, spreading evenly. Top with coconut mixture.
Mixed Fruit Salsa
- 1 mango, peeled, pitted and diced
- 1 cup chopped pineapple
- 1 cup diced strawberries
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Mix all ingredients in bowl. Chill at least 1 hour. Stir before serving.
Makes 2 1/2 cups
Magic Lemon Pie
Created in the early 1900s, this pie was touted as "magic." Adding lemon juice to Eagle Brand creates a rich, creamy filling, without cooking, that is easy to make, delicious every time and never fails, even for first-time bakers.
- 1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind or 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
- 2 eggs, separated
- 1 (8- or 9-inch) graham cracker or baked pie crust
- 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- Preheat oven to 325°F. In medium bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice, lemon rind or extract and egg yolks; stir until mixture thickens. Pour into chilled graham cracker crust or cooled pie crust.
- In medium bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar on high speed until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in sugar on medium speed, 1 tablespoon at a time; beat 4 minutes longer or until sugar is dissolved and stiff glossy peaks form.
- Spread meringue over pie, carefully sealing to edge of crust to prevent meringue from shrinking. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until meringue is lightly browned. Cool. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.
Marinate Time
10 minutes
Makes one (8- or 9-inch) pie
Coconut Macaroons
A macaroon recipe with Eagle Brand was featured in magazines as early as 1919. Developed for simplicity, it can be made and baked in minutes - no flour, baking powder, rolling or cutting needed.
- 1 (14-ounce) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 1 egg white, whipped
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 (14-ounce) package flaked coconut
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line baking sheets with foil; grease and flour foil. Set aside.
- In large bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk, egg white, extracts and coconut; mix well. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets; slightly flatten each mound with a spoon.
- Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until lightly browned around edges. Immediately remove from baking sheets (macaroons will stick if allowed to cool); cool on wire racks. Store loosely covered at room temperature.
Preparation Time
10 minutes
Makes about 4 dozen
Notes, Tips & Suggestions
Macaroon Kisses: Prepare and bake as above. Press solid milk chocolate candy piece in center of each macaroon immediately after baking.