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My love for coffee knows no bounds.
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I decided to get in touch with my Italian side for this week’s recipe. Inspiration, no doubt, from the best mafia movie of all time, ?“Goodfellas.”
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In a discussion about sex, Justin Garcia made it known he would be comfortable talking about the topic and would be open about the subject.“I talk about sex a lot. I’m wonderful at cocktail parties,” said Garcia, a Kinsey Institute research scientist and assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies.The idea of hooking-up is not a new one, he said.“I hate to break it to you, but your parents were having casual sex,” Garcia said. “Your grandparents were having casual sex.”Garcia and Leslie Fasone, Culture of Care adviser and assistant dean for Women’s and Gender Affairs, discussed hook-up culture on college campuses.The talk took place Tuesday night in the School of Public Health as a sexual well-being event for Culture of Care Week.Hook-up culture is considered exclusive to the age of emerging adulthood, ages 18 to 25, Garcia said, and it is prominent on college campuses.“If we think about hook-up culture, it’s certainly something that has become very pervasive in American culture,” Garcia said.About 75 percent of college students have hooked-up, Garcia said, and movies such as “No Strings Attached” and “Friends with Benefits” have brought the idea of hook-up culture into the media.“I don’t necessarily think hook-ups are a problem,” Garcia said. “Most people are generally happy they did it.”Many people have only one to two hook-ups within a year, he said, but the numbers are scattered across the board.Studies show people from certain groups are more likely to engage in hook-ups, Garcia said.For example, he said, Division I athletes — like the athletes at IU — are more likely to engage in hook-ups and will do so more often.“It’s not uncommon for an athlete to have a sexual partner every weekend,” Garcia said.The behaviors that participants of hook-ups engage in are also across the board, he said, although 90 percent of people engage in kissing during hook-ups.“About one in 10 people are the Julia Roberts that say, ‘We can have vaginal intercourse, just don’t kiss me, that’s too intimate’,” Garcia said.When discussing a hook-up, Garcia said no one ever knows the behavior someone engaged in because hook-up is a term that is purposely ambiguous.“You are categorizing a term which may not be the same way you use the term in your own life,” Garcia said.He said studies show men think women are more comfortable performing particular sexual behaviors such as oral and vaginal sex than they really are, and this is an issue that pairs with consent.Consent was the second topic of discussion. Fasone said it is a topic that comes up in all aspects of a sexual encounter.“You might imagine, if you are waking up next to someone, and you don’t know what to call them, we may be living in a culture where we aren’t discussing what we want and what we like to do,” Garcia said.He said this leads to issues with consent which are seen across the country. If people aren’t discussing what they want sexually, then there are consent issues.“If men are thinking women are more comfortable with certain things, then he may assume going to his room means they will have sex, where a woman really thinks it is just to talk,” Fasone said.She said women are more likely to give verbal cues whereas men are more likely to give non-verbal cues.“In terms of interpreting cues, men interpret using non-verbal cues, and that can get really tricky,” she said.Fasone said the absence of no is not yes. Someone needs to explicitly state if they are comfortable having sex. No one can assume.“Just because someone says yes to one thing, it may mean something else,” she said.She said you need to ask for consent multiple times during any sexual encounter. “And sex can be really good if consent is given and consent is asked for,” Fasone said.Junior Alexandra Lake said hook-up culture is important to discuss because she said she feels there is a stigma behind it and the topic is rarely discussed.“I feel it’s important to talk about because it’s real and it’s happening,” Lake said.Follow reporter Allison Wagner on Twitter @allmwagn.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The people of Hungary have always been taught they belong to a country that does not fear rebellion. That’s according to Laszlo Borhi, IU Fulbright Professor and former Hungarian Chair, who spoke Monday at the Indiana Memorial Union. His lecture, “1989 in Hungary: The Hidden Threads of History,” was the fourth in a series of lectures held by the Hungarian Culture Association. In it, Borhi discussed the events that led to the collapse of the Hungarian single-party system.”In fact, someone once said, ‘If you want to destroy NATO, bring the Hungarians in,’” he said.In 1989, as the single party system controlled by the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party collapsed, this concept became reality.The dissolving of the single-party system led to the liberation of Eastern European countries and catapulted the collapse of the Soviet Union, which happened in 1991.“The events in Eastern Europe changed the environment in which the Soviet Union operated and assured peaceful change in the Soviet Union was indeed possible,” Borhi said.The Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party’s domination in Hungary started to decline when the country’s economy entered a bad state, he said.“In 1989, as the comrades discovered the deficit was so huge, they feared in a few years it would become unserviceable and the country would become bankrupt,” Borhi said.While the country’s unrest grew and the power of the communist party was questioned, Borhi said the party recognized their domination could not last forever. Hungary has always feared national death, he said.“In February 1989, the communist party officially agreed to end its constitutional right to being the only party in Hungary,” he said.He said the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party gave up power, still believing it would win every election, and the other parties would support them.It said it would negotiate the removal of Soviet Union troops in Hungary. And it believed the removal of troops would possibly dissolve the Warsaw Pact.Following the lead of the Hungarian nation, Eastern Europe began to call for change to the communist regime, as well, Borhi said.“The collapse of the Soviet Union did not happen in and of itself,” he said.The Soviet Union’s loss of Eastern Europe, he said, shaped the unwinding Cold War.“It was the single party system that had to be dismantled first,” he said.Borhi said it wouldn’t be enough for the Soviet Union to lose Eastern Europe and pull out its troops. The Warsaw Pact would have to dissolve, as well.“In a nutshell, there was no big bang,” Borhi said. “There was no Soviet-American agreement for the liberation of Eastern Europe.”Eventually, the Soviet Union would fall, as would the Warsaw Pact, but Borhi said the world must understand the importance of dissolving of the Warsaw Pact.As Vladimir Putin’s power in Russia increases, he said the effects of the end of the Soviet Union’s control of Eastern Europe and dissolving of the Warsaw Pact are increasingly pertinent. “If the Warsaw pact still existed, Putin would be in the position to undo everything that happened prior to 1991,” Borhi said.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As Kaelyn Siversky walked along a beach on what she called a first date, her date said he forgot his wallet and needed to go back to his boat to get it, inviting her to accompany him.She was 15 years old.“When we got there, he went from being a very gentle, kind person, to being very overpowering,” Siversky said.As she tried to leave, her attacker began to hit and kick her.“He undressed me. He tied my hands behind my back and he assaulted me,” she said. “I felt very worthless after that.”Siversky is now the executive director of Project Unbreakable, an organization that raises awareness of sexual assault. She and Grace Brown, founder of Project Unbreakable, brought photographs from Project Unbreakable to IU to have a discussion about sexual assault and kick off Culture of Care Week.Brown began Project Unbreakable in October 2011 as a way for sexual assault survivors to take back the words of their attackers and help the healing process. “I started this project as a way of bringing awareness to this issue,” Brown said. “There wasn’t a lot in the media.”The idea came to her in photography school, while she was speaking with a friend who was assaulted at 14 years old, she said.“I could see her eyes and I could see her crumbling,” Brown said.She said when she brought the idea to her friend and she agreed, she decided to begin Project Unbreakable. If her friend did not agree, there would be no project.Brown and her friend posted a photo of her friend holding a poster with a quote from her attacker.After the first photo was placed on the Internet, Brown said people started asking to participate.“I realized it was creating awareness, but it was also part of the healing process,” she said. “It was a way to take back the words that were said to them.”Siversky heard about the project from a friend and was scheduled to be photographed, but said she never went. Instead, she applied to be a part of the Project Unbreakable team.She said the people at Project Unbreakable were the first to fully accept her story as true immediately, instead of questioning her.“There is nothing in this world like that feeling of support,” Siversky said.Brown said survivors of sexual assault are often not believed by their peers or family. One of the reasons she began Project Unbreakable was because she fully believed her friend who was assaulted at 14 years old.Brown and Siversky broke the silence that resonated through the room with shocking statistics about sexual assault.Only 3 percent of attackers will spend a day in jail, Brown said.Siversky said more than one-third of minors who were assaulted will be assaulted again.About 25 percent of male survivors were assaulted by the age of 10, Brown said.The project, Brown said, is not just about statistics.“It puts a person behind a statistic and it makes the concept of sexual assault not this floating object,” Brown said. “It puts a face behind the numbers.”Consent was another subject discussed through the photographs.“One of the things I find most interesting in discussing ways to end sexual assault is the discussion of consent,” Siversky said. “It is a really difficult thing to ask for, and it’s also a really difficult thing to give.”She said through the photos, she notices a common theme about consent.“Just because you’ve agreed to something at one point, does not mean you’ve agreed to it at any other point,” Siversky said.Along with consent and other themes, she said society still has archaic ideas of gender roles. “There is still this pressing idea that (there has to be a) submissive partner in any relationship,” Siversky said.The idea of the submissive and the dominant is often seen in sexual assault and in the photographs, she said.Then, Siversky said, there is corrective rape.Corrective rape is sexual assault in which the attacker rapes the victim in order to “correct” their sexuality or gender identity, she said.“It happens very often and it is considered a hate crime as well as sexual assault,” Siversky said.The silence reigned in the room during the entire presentation. Brown said she understands how difficult it can be to look at the photographs.“I know that sitting in this audience can make you want to lose your faith in humanity,” Brown said. “But you can’t.”She said people are becoming advocates for sexual assault survivors instead of bystanders.The project often brings about questions of hope for sexual assault survivors and how Brown and Siversky find hope in the photographs.“It’s made of hope, it’s made of healing, it’s these people taking these words back,” Brown said.Siversky said giving a voice to the survivors instead of silencing the stories is hope.“These survivors, they are hope,” Siversky said. “These people telling their stories, that’s what hope is.”Follow reporter Allison Wagner on Twitter @allmwagn.