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Sleep and sleep disordered breathing (obstructive sleep apnea [OSA]) are known to affect the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor (GH/IGF) axis. There are few relevant population studies in this area, particularly in the elderly. We conducted this study to investigate the relationship between sleep (architecture and OSA) and circulating IGF-I (insulin-like growth factor-1), IGFBP-1 (insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1), and IGFBP-3 (insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3) levels in an elderly population.
Cross-sectional analysis of participants from the year 9 visit of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) who were enrolled in the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS).
1,233 elderly participants from the CHS and SHHS.
The mean age of males (n = 526) and females (n = 697) was 77 years. The mean value of IGF-I (ng/mL) in males was 112.4 vs. 97.1 in females (p < 0.01). Mean IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 levels were higher in females than males (p < 0.01). As expected, slow wave sleep was better preserved in females compared to males (22% total sleep time vs. 9% total sleep time, p < 0.01). Furthermore, as expected, OSA (apnea-hypopnea index [AHI] ≥ 5/h) was more prevalent in males compared to females (60% vs. 46%, p < 0.01). Multivariable linear regression was used to determine the relationship between objective sleep parameters and circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels, with adjustment for age, sex, race, BMI, diabetes, estrogen use, progestin use, and physical activity. We did not detect a significant association between slow wave sleep (SWS) (per 5 min) and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels (ng/mL). We found no significant linear association between OSA (AHI ≥ 5/h) and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels. Gender-stratification of the entire cohort did not alter these findings. Sensitivity analyses excluding diabetics revealed that moderate OSA (AHI ≥ 5 and < 15) is inversely associated with IGFBP-3 levels in women.
The relationship between SWS and GH/IGF system is not significant in the elderly. Furthermore, OSA does not appear to adversely influence the GH/IGF axis, as reported in younger individuals. Whether our study findings are due to diminished GH/IGF-I axis activity in elderly needs further investigation by replication in other large population based elderly cohorts.
Shah N; Rice T; Tracy D; Rohan T; Bůžková P; Newman A; Kaplan RC. Sleep and insulin-like growth factors in the cardiovascular health study. J Clin Sleep Med 2013;9(12):1245-1251.
The growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor (GH/ IGF) system comprises a complex endocrine system that is involved in embryonic development, growth, and normal adult physiology. A key mediator of this system, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I), is important in modulating cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival/apoptosis, and also has insulin-like metabolic effects. GH is the main signal controlling liver production of IGF-I, with reciprocal inhibitory effects of IGF-I on GH secretion. Physiologic regulation of circulating IGF-I is controlled mainly by growth hormone (GH). GH has a pulsatile secretion that varies markedly in a diurnal fashion, with most GH produced during slow wave sleep (SWS) or stage N3 sleep (formerly stages 3 and 4). While GH is known to be pulsatile and the pulsatile secretion seems to be important in some GH effects, it appears that IGF-I levels are more strongly associated with basal GH levels than with pulsatile GH.1
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: While it is known that sleep and sleep disordered breathing may affect the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis, there are few relevant population studies in this area specifically involving elderly individuals. We conducted this study to investigate the relationship between sleep (architecture and obstructive sleep apnea) and circulating insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1, and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 levels in an elderly population.
Study Impact: Due to the substantial dependence of the growth hormone/ insulin-like growth factor axis on age, it is important to understand the impact of sleep architecture and sleep disordered breathing on circulating insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein levels among elderly patients. This study helps understand the independent impact of sleep architecture and sleep disordered breathing on the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor axis in an elderly population.
Prior studies in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and other cohorts have implicated circulating levels of IGF-I and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (e.g., insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 [IGFBP-1], insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 [IGFBP-3], which affect bioactivity of IGF-I), in risk of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, functional status, and mortality.2–4
While it is known that sleep and sleep disordered breathing may affect the GH/IGF factor axis,5–7 there are few relevant population studies in this area. Prior studies have shown there to be an inverse relationship between the severity of sleep disordered breathing (as measured by the apnea-hypopnea index [AHI]) and IGF-I, and that this relationship appears to be independent of BMI and age.5–7 Due to the substantial dependence of the GH/ IGF axis on age, it is important to understand the impact of sleep architecture and sleep disordered breathing on circulating IGF-I and IGFBP levels among elderly patients for several reasons. First, understanding this relationship may help in determining the cause of altered levels of IGF-I in some older adults.8 Second, IGF binding proteins have also been linked with circadian regulatory mechanisms9,10 and these IGF-BPs are of proven relevance to risk of diabetes and death in older adults.11–13,14 Third, sleep quality, duration, and sleep disordered breathing have been implicated as a risk factor for diabetes and metabolic disorder, and effects of sleep on IGF-I and related mediators may possibly explain this association.15–21 Fourth, emerging evidence suggests a positive influence of diminished GH/IGF-I axis on longevity (via improved cancer and diabetes related outcomes).22–24 Whether this is partially mediated by the influence of sleep architecture and sleep disordered breathing on the GH/IGF-I axis is unknown.
We therefore investigated the relationship between sleep architecture and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels in an elderly population of CHS participants who were also involved in the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS). We examined the relationship between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and its associated characteristics, namely hypoxemia and arousal, and circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels among elderly participants. Due to the major impact of gender on SWS,25 sleep disordered breathing prevalence,26 and on the GH/IGF axis,27–29 we present our primary analyses in a gender stratified manner.
The CHS is a longitudinal cohort study that enrolled 5,888 adults, 65 years and older, from 4 US communities. It consists of an original cohort of 5,201 individuals recruited during 1989-1990 and an additional cohort of African American individuals recruited during 1992-1993. Participants were invited to repeated examinations for collection of data and blood specimens. The examinations were conducted annually through 1999, and again in 2005-2006 on surviving participants. As part of the year 9 CHS visit cycle (1998), a total of 1,350 CHS participants were enrolled into the SHHS. Briefly, the SHHS is a multicenter prospective cohort study evaluating the natural cardiovascular consequences of sleep disordered breathing.30,31 The study includes 6,441 participants ≥ 40 years of age from multiple population-based cohorts. All SHHS participants underwent a baseline examination that included portable sleep monitoring. Our study sample for the present analyses consisted of 1,233 older adults who had objective sleep measurement as part of the SHHS evaluation, as well as circulating IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels measured as part of an ancillary study to CHS.
All participants provided informed consent, and institutional review board approvals were obtained at all participating institutions.
The SHHS as described above collected objective sleep data on 6,441 participants (1995-1998) who underwent a full-montage unattended polysomnogram, which provided measurements pertaining to sleep architecture and sleep disordered breathing. Additionally, they completed questionnaires about sleep habits. Apnea was defined as an absence or near absence of airflow ≥ 10 seconds. Hypopnea was defined as 70% decrease in airflow plus ≥ 4% desaturation lasting > 10 seconds. The AHI was calculated as the number of apnea and hypopnea events divided by total sleep time in hours. Hypoxemia variables included average oxygen saturation, lowest oxygen saturation, and T90 (time spent with oxygen saturation less than 90%). Sleep fragmentation was assessed using the arousal index variable. In the SHHS, the arousal index was defined as the total number of arousals per hour of sleep. We excluded arousal index data from sleep studies coded as "sleep wake only" in order to account for technical issues related to EEG scoring of arousals. All sleep studies were scored by the SHHS reading center according to Rechtschaffen and Kales criteria.32
Physical and cognitive function tests, questionnaires, laboratory panels, and other key covariates were collected during the CHS study examinations. Laboratory measurements were performed using blood collected using standard procedures after an overnight fast and stored at -70°C. Measurements of IGFBP-1, IGFBP-3, and IGF-I were performed at the Jewish General Hospital (Montreal, Canada) after an extraction step using ELISA methods (Diagnostics Systems Laboratory, Webster, TX). Assay coefficient of variation was 4% to 6% for IGF-I concentration, and 3% to 5% for IGFBP-3 concentration.33 Other laboratory measurements such as fasting glucose were measured at the CHS Central Laboratory using standard methods.
Participants were considered to have diabetes at baseline if they reported use of insulin or an oral hypoglycemic agent or if they had fasting serum glucose ≥ 7.0 mmol/L (126 mg/dL). Participants were considered to have impaired fasting glucose if their fasting serum glucose level was 110 to 125 mg/dL and they were not on insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents. BMI was calculated as the measured weight in kilograms divided by the square of measured height in meters. Physical activity was measured in the CHS using a validated questionnaire-the Modified Minnesota Leisure-Time Activities Questionnaire.34,35 The questionnaire was administered by trained interviewers, and inquired about the frequency and duration of participation in 15 leisure-time activities in the 2 weeks preceding a physical examination.
Descriptive statistics including demographic, clinical, and sleep characteristics are reported as mean or median (± standard deviation or range, as appropriate) and are stratified by gender. Skewed variables were log transformed. IGF concentrations (IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3) are similarly described. Gender-based comparisons of the above noted variables were made using χ2, t-test, or Wilcoxon rank sum analyses, as appropriate. We used linear regression to model sleep variables as predictive of IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels. Models were adjusted for known determinants of circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 concentrations, including sex, race, BMI, diabetes mellitus, physical activity, and use of sex hormones. Because of known gender dimorphism in regulation of the IGF system, we also stratified these analyses by sex. To better assess the relationship between OSA and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3, the regression analysis was examined in a restricted sample of non-diabetics and obese participants (obesity defined as a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2).
The study population (n = 1,223) had a mean age of 77.5 years and included 697 women and 526 men. Mean IGF-I levels were higher among men than women (112.4 ng/mL vs. 97.1 ng/mL, p < 0.01); however, mean IGFBP-3 levels were higher among women (3835 ng/mL vs. 3460 ng/mL, p < 0.05). Overall, women in our cohort had better sleep quality than men. SWS was better preserved in females than males, with females spending 76 min on average in SWS compared to males who spent 29 min (p < 0.01). The mean AHI in females was 5.5/h vs. 9.3/h in males (p < 0.01). Since the distribution of the AHI variable in our study sample is not normal, we report the log-transformed AHI with addition of 0.01 to those records with a value of 0 for AHI (n = 14). The prevalence of OSA (AHI ≥ 5) in males was 60% and in females was 46% (p < 0.01). The prevalence of moderate OSA (AHI ≥ 15) was 29% in males, and16% in females (p < 0.01). Women also had a lower arousal index than men (16.8 vs. 20.1, p < 0.01), suggesting less sleep fragmentation among women (Table 1).
Baseline characteristics of the study sample
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Tables 2, 3, and 4 show the association between various sleep parameters and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels. Table 2 shows the entire cohort, and Tables 3 and 4 show gender-stratified results. We quantified associations as Beta (B), reflecting change in IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 for each "unit" change (5 min) in stage 2, slow wave, or REM sleep. After adjustment for age, gender, race, BMI, diabetes, estrogen use, progestin use, and physical activity, there were no significant associations between measures of sleep disordered breathing and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels. Sleep architecture was also not significantly associated with IGF-I and IGFBP levels. Time spent in stage 1 sleep (5-min increments) was not significantly associated with IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels. Time spent in stage 2 sleep (5-min increments) was inversely associated with IGF-I levels (B = -0.2, CI = -0.4, 0, p = 0.03) but not with IGFBP-1 or IGFBP-3 levels. Time spent in SWS was also not significantly associated with IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels in the multivariate model. Time spent in REM sleep was significantly associated with IGFBP-3 levels (B = 10.5, CI 1.2, 19.9, p = 0.03) but not with IGF-I or IGFBP-1 levels. Beta (B) in the above mentioned analyses reflects change in IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 for each "unit" change (5 min) in stage 2, slow wave, or REM sleep.
Multivariable associations of sleep measures with IGF-I, IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 for all participants
Multivariable associations of sleep measures with IGF-I, IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 for females
Multivariable associations of sleep measures with IGF-I, IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 for males
Table 3 shows the association between sleep measures and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels among female participants. After adjustment for age, race, BMI, diabetes, estrogen use, progestin use, and physical activity, there were no associations between measures of sleep disordered breathing and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels. The association between time spent in REM sleep and IGFBP-3 levels was similar among females compared to the entire cohort, albeit with attenuated level of statistical significance (B = 12.2, CI -0.3, 24.7, p = 0.06).
Table 4 shows the association between sleep measures and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels among male participants. After adjustment for age, race, BMI, diabetes, estrogen use, progestin use, and physical activity, there were no associations between measures of sleep disordered breathing and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels. The association between stage 2 sleep and IGF-I levels was not significant in males (B = -0.2, CI -0.5, 0.2, p = 0.36). Similarly, the association between REM sleep and IGFBP-3 was not significant in males (B = 8.6, CI = -5.5, 22.8, p = 0.23). However, unlike females, there is a significant inverse association between REM sleep (5-min increments) and IGFBP-1 (B = -0.03, CI = -0.04, -0.01, p < 0.01).
Table 5 shows the association between sleep measures and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels in non-diabetic individuals. Beta (B) in Table 5 is changed in IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels (ng/mL) for each unit of the predictor variable. After adjustment for age, gender, race, BMI, diabetes, estrogen use, progestin use, and physical activity, there were no significant associations between SWS or sleep disordered breathing and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels. However, moderate OSA was inversely associated with IGFBP-3 levels (B = -185, CI = -358, -13, p = 0.04). When we stratified this non-diabetic cohort by gender, this association persisted only in females (B = -256, CI = -504, -8, p = 0.04) and not in males (B = -136, CI = -375, 104, p = 0.8) (Data not shown). None of the other sleep disordered breathing variables were associated with IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels in this gender stratified analysis of non-diabetic individuals. Finally, we investigated the relationship between OSA and IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels in a restricted sample of obese patients (n = 270 with BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2). In this sample of obese patients, we found no significant association between OSA and IGF-I levels (data not shown).
Multivariable associations of sleep measures with IGF-I, IGFBP-1 and IGFBP-3 for non-diabetic participants
This study evaluated the relationship between sleep (architecture and disordered breathing) and the GH/IGF-I system in an elderly population of patients who were enrolled in the CHS and who also participated in the SHHS. The major findings of our study are: (a) No significant association was found between SWS and circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels after adjusting for confounding variables (b) No significant association was detected between measures of sleep disordered breathing and circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-3 or IGFBP-3 levels. (c) Among non-diabetic females, an inverse association was detected between moderate sleep apnea (AHI of 15-30/h) and IGFBP-3 after adjustment for confounding variables.
Numerous studies27,36,37 support a strong relationship between SWS and increased GH secretion. Increased SWS has also been associated with increased IGF-I levels.38 In our study of elderly individuals, to the contrary, we found no significant correlation between SWS and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels. Based on our study findings, we conclude that the relationship between SWS and the GH/IGF-I axis is not as robust in the elderly as among younger individuals. We found weak yet significant associations between non-SWS and circulating IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels (Tables 2–5). For instance, we found that increased time in stage 2 sleep is associated with reduced IGF-I levels, suggesting an adverse influence of increased stage 2 sleep on IGF-I levels. There was evidence of gender differences, with significance only among females and not males. This suggests that in females, increased stage 2 sleep is associated with reduced IGF-I levels. Similarly, we saw a significant association between time in REM sleep and IGFBP-3 levels, suggesting a positive influence of REM sleep (surrogate for consolidated sleep) on the GH/IGF axis. Gender did not appear to modify this relationship.
We also did not detect a significant association between sleep disordered breathing and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels; an association that has been described in prior studies.5–7 Ursavas et al. has reported a negative correlation between measures of OSA (arousal index, AHI, average desaturation) and IGF-I levels.7 In that study, the mean age of the study sample was 48.8 years among the control participants and 52 years among those with sleep apnea. In comparison, the mean age of our study sample is 77.5 years. Therefore, our study is better designed to assess the relationship between sleep and GH/IGF axis in the elderly. Our study is further strengthened by adjusting our multivariable models for important confounding variables including age, BMI, physical activity, and use of sex hormones. We also conducted gender-stratified analyses in addition to sensitivity analyses, excluding obese and diabetic individuals in order to better assess the relationship between sleep and GH/IGF axis. In doing so, we found that although the association between sleep disordered breathing and IGFBP-3 was not significant in the entire cohort or the gender-stratified cohort; there was a significant association in female non-diabetics, where moderate sleep disordered breathing was inversely associated with IGFBP-3 levels. This was not seen in male non-diabetic participants. Therefore, our study demonstrates that the associations between sleep disordered breathing and IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 are not significant in an elderly cohort and that sleep disordered breathing likely does not adversely affect the GH/ IGF axis (as seen in younger individuals). Our study suggests an inverse association between moderate sleep apnea and IGFBP-3 among female non-diabetics. However, this finding should be interpreted with caution, as a similar association was not seen with mild or severe sleep apnea.
A limitation of our study is that sleep and IGF measures were not collected on the same day but rather within one year of each other. However, in additional analyses we found strong correlation among IGF-1 levels within individuals between two study visits conducted 12 months apart (r = 0.86). Thus, because IGF-I levels are relatively stable over the short term in the elderly, the measured IGF-I levels used in this study are likely strongly correlated with the measurements that would have been obtained on the same day as the sleep examination. Although we adjusted for potential confounding variables in our regression models, residual confounding by unmeasured variables is possible. In addition, given multiple influences in the elderly that result in relatively low levels of IGFs, it is possible that we may not have had adequate statistical power to detect relatively subtle effects of sleep variables on IGF levels. On the other hand, our study has numerous strengths. It is the first study of its kind to assess an association between sleep architecture and OSA and circulating IGF levels in a population-based sample of elderly participants. The methods of measurement for sleep and IGFs were rigorous as part of two large epidemiological studies namely, the CHS and the SHHS that mutually shared roughly a third of their sample. We were able to adjust for important confounding variables including physical activity which further strengthens our study findings. Finally, our robust sample size with adequate numbers of males and females allowed us to conduct several important secondary data analyses among gender-stratified diabetes and obesity-restricted samples.
In summary, our study did not detect an expected (as seen in younger individuals) significant positive association between SWS and circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-1, or IGFBP-3 levels in our elderly cohort of participants. We also did not observe a significant relationship between various indices of OSA and circulating IGF-I, IGFBP-1, and IGFBP-3 levels among the elderly (as expected among younger individuals). Collectively, our study findings suggest that the relationship between SWS and the GH/IGF system is weaker in the elderly, and aging appears to dilute the adverse influence of sleep disordered breathing on the GH/IGF system. Future studies are needed to clarify the role of aging on the relationship between sleep and GH/IGF system in order to better understand the implications of circulating levels of IGF-I and IGFBPs in risk of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, functional status, and mortality.
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest. This research was supported by contracts HHSN268201200036C, HHSN268200800007C, N01HC55222, N01HC85079, N01HC85080, N01HC85081, N01HC85082, N01HC85083, 01HC85086, and grant HL080295 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), with additional contribution from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Additional support was provided by AG023629 from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). A full list of principal CHS investigators and institutions can be found at http://www.chs-nhlbi.org/PI.htm. In addition, this work was supported by SHHS grant HL53934 (for CHS sites of SHHS, i.e. Pittsburgh and Sacramento). Finally, Dr. Shah has received research grant funding from the American Sleep Medicine Foundation (2011-current). Work was performed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
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New York, NY–We were led to an old gymnasium, decorated with an odd juxtaposition of colorful murals of the NYC skyline – including a tragically ironic depiction of the Statue of Liberty – and plastic chairs arranged in neat rows, which were sorted by the number of seats for visitors. We were pointed to a set of three chairs across a round plastic table facing a lone seat – a setup designed to ensure our being physically separate from Mark. We were allowed to hold his hands (and did so – the entire time) but couldn't move closer to him or sit on the floor near him.
We waited in anticipation for a few moments, and then, suddenly, there was the lovely, bearded man walking slowly across the room towards us, a wide smile breaking his somber face as he saw us. The three of us engulfed him in an amazing group hug (a corrections officer chuckled that we were going to suffocate him), and then long, lovely individual hugs before sitting down. His hugs are still super wonderful and feel as they always have – teddybearish, heartfelt, and huge. He looked a bit thinner (by, he later told us, about 8lbs), but bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, and ostensibly healthy overall.
We started out conveying individual greetings and messages from a plethora of supporters who had asked us to give their regards. We told him about the solidarity actions outside Rector Coopers' house and which are ongoing outside of Trinity Wall Street. We related the story of a comrade who had been turned away by corrections officers on a previous visit due to insufficient ID, and how a visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles had left him so frustrated that he had three-quarters of the DMV pumping their fists in the air shouting "[expletive] the system!" And we talked about the amazing community meeting that empowered the Otter Solidarity Team to set up his visits, and all the collaborative organizing throughout the community that has gone into supporting him while he's gone. He was especially moved by this: "That might make this all worthwhile, in some way," he said.
And Mark shared quite a bit with us – in fact, he spoke about as much as the three of us did, combined. We'd gone in somewhat concerned that he would be withdrawn, but found him to be extremely present and coherent. What he told us, though, was at times difficult to hear. He described feeling that he had left part of himself behind when he was taken to jail, and explained that "in here, this isn't the real Mark Adams." He expressed some anxiety about being able to rejoin his full self upon release, but it felt to us like the stories we brought from the outside had already relit – at least, momentarily – Mark's internal Roman-candle-in-waiting. He grinned when we assured him that the Mark we know and love is very much outside the barbed-wire fences, in our hearts and conversations and on our signs, and will be waiting for him along with the rest of us when he gets out.
He said that he knew our visit would leave him happy for the next few hours but then he would go back to how he usually is. He spends most of his time in his bunk, reading, doesn't go outside and tries to keep to himself.
He's received quite a bit of written correspondence – so much, in fact, that the corrections officers remarked to him that he was getting mail "like Lil Wayne did when he was in Rikers!" Some of the letters came from quite a distance, and Mark said he was particularly tickled by some childrens' drawings of the D17 courtroom – a big round judge, and Mark sitting on a bench with a big beard. He again reiterated that he doesn't often feel up to writing back, and we assured him that every time this statement from him has been passed along, everyone's all "pssh" and that he shouldn't feel any sense of obligation.
An interesting and useful bit that came up: he loves all of the books he has been receiving but he doesn't know who any of them are from because the packages are opened and discarded before he receives the books. In the future, if you are sending him a book and want him to know it's from you, write a note inside the cover for him. He also voiced some amused bafflement at the amount of communist literature he had received: "whoever keeps sending those books – I get it!" he told us grinningly. He stores the books in a large tupperware under his bed- it is completely full and he is trying to figure out what to do with the surplus books. There is no library at Rikers and if they get left around, books often wander off with the corrections officers.
Mark brought up his hunger strike, and how it has helped him bring his protest to Rikers. "I came to Occupy Wall Street to march and hold signs, and I can't do that in here," he explained. His hunger strike has brought him the power to fight back against the trauma and disempowerment of his sudden abduction, and to politicize his time in jail. The heightened medical attention he has received has brought him many people – doctors, counselors – with whom to discuss his politics and Occupy Wall Street. We shared some of the community's concerns about his hunger strike – related to his well-being, the outside-jail politics of it, and the impact it may have on the OWS community – and he welcomed the "honest" feedback and promised to consider the concerns. "I'm not one of those comrades who won't listen," he promised, and we assured him that we already knew that about him.
Mark described his perception that officers at Rikers were somewhat taken by surprise by his adamant refusal to agree to any normal medical treatments given to inmates upon admittance (many of us already know of Mark's avowed dislike of allopathy) and even more by his decision to pursue a hunger strike during his incarceration. One of the results is he sees a doctor twice a day, a different doctor each visit, which gives him many people to talk to about his statement. He is on some semblance of a juice fast, but the only juice available comes from powder – so, it's basically flavored sugar water. The healthiest thing he has access to is three bottles of Powerade he's allowed from the commissary each week. His sugar levels are being monitored by doctors to keep his glucose at healthy-ish levels. He told us of the awful food available to inmates, and even if he wasn't on a hunger strike there wouldn't be much for him to eat. All meals involve mostly meat dishes. There are two options- regular, and kosher/halal, but no vegetarian or vegan choices, and what few vegetables accompany the meal would not constitute appropriate nutrition on their own.
We tried to run the visiting schedule by him, but Mark has enjoyed the surprise of not knowing who is coming, and trusts our judgment. "I mean, you guys know who my friends are, right?" he said with a big old Mark Adams grin on his face. And he knows who his friends are, too, and feels very loved.
We were given no warnings as to how much time had passed during the course of our visit, and seemingly out of the blue, the C.O. who had led us in handed us back our boarding passes. We looked at him quizzically, not ready to understand what that signified. "Time to go," he explained. And that was it. We took our time for another minute of loving squeezes, and watched Mark shuffle back to the door through which he came (we caught him making a goofy face at a C.O. on his way out), as we were escorted back out the door we had entered, out past security and onto the bus. For all the hours of waiting and negotiating the Rikers bureaucracy to see Mark for that one bittersweet hour, the exit was rapid and painless. By around 5:30 we were back on the city bus and headed off of the island.
The contrast was stark, and tragic: we returned to our lives of freedom and companionship; he to his of confinement and isolation. We decompress, together, in a comfortable living room, while Mark – along with 14,000 other Rikers inmates, and another 7 million across the country – are left alone to process the injustice and dehumanization perpetuated by mass incarceration.

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After agents saw a car make a short stop at the home, they stopped the driver and Kathleen Grimes, 28, was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence, according to the release. Agents found 0.6 grams of methamphetamine in the car.
Steven Woods, who was also in the car, was arrested on suspicion of possession of 0.1 grams of methamphetamine and a hypodermic syringe. Woods, a transient from Orland, admitted to agents he had recently used methamphetamine.
Two people later seen leaving the home were pulled over by Willows Police Department.
The driver, Brandon McWilliams, 37, ran away after the stop, but was arrested a short distance from where he was pulled over.
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Moleskine fun
So here is an experiment -- just trying something out, with india ink and gouache, seeing what works or not. (Click on the image for a closer look.)
And with all things that have a following, there's a Moleskine blog called Moleskinerie, with the accompanying Moleskine Flickr group.
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She deffently works, beautiful colours and style of this drawing. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
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Gotta try one of those. Nice little painting.ReplyDelete
I joined the cult of Moleskine a few months ago with one of the little 4x6 pocket notebooks. You're so right man, there's just something about it that makes you want to use it. And that clever little pocket is so stinkin' handy. Reminds me of when I used to use a Newton PDA... Being organized was actually fun!ReplyDelete
That's great! I've always been tempted to jump on the Moleskin-bandwagon, but I've always been hesitant to start "another sketchbook" without giving my other 32 the proper attention. I've seen some really cool Moleskins that have pre-printed storyboard panels too. Ooooooo...ReplyDelete
Hello Ward!ReplyDelete
Wonderful! The gouache with line work gives this a great 'Ben Shahn' feel. Makes us want to get some of those moleskins too...
We also love Ava's "booboo" drawing. Thanks for sharing it!
She's adorable! She looks so happy with her book.ReplyDelete
I got a moleskin notebook not long ago too. It's beautiful, I love carrying it around. And it's so small and so easy to just make little doodles at the bus stop.
That there's a happy drawing! Hmmm.. I'm tempted to try a Moleskine after your post. The pages always felt glossy and I didn't know they were so water-friendly!ReplyDelete
interesting to know the paper doesn't buckle - never knew that. i've always wanted a real one too - and have put it on my long want list. nice illustration - nice use of colors.ReplyDelete
Hi Ward,ReplyDelete
I'm Gangadhar from India...
I came here via boingboing..I just acidentally seen your link on BB..ang got impressed with your work...nice job..
Hey Clio, yeah, the paper is kinda smooth -- there is no real watercolor papery "tooth" it -- but the paper is tough and doesn't buckle that much at all. In fact, with the "elastic enclosure" the entire thing can be kept together, without the pages getting out of hand.ReplyDelete
The paper will buckle at first when it's wet, but then settles when the paper dries.
I forgot to mention that you can buy these at Borders and Barnes & Noble bookstores, where I got mine. (Andrea has one, too!)
love your grafic style of the girl.ReplyDelete
and Moleskines are great notebook and sketchbooks...:+)))très classe!.
ward, I LOVE THIS. really, I've told you over and over again, but I do. I love the colors, I love the personality of the character, the line quality.ReplyDelete
so glad you are enjoying the moleskin. that makes me happy.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Lipscomb tennis teams continue a busy weekend of Atlantic Sun play Saturday when Mercer visits.
The Bisons are feeling streaky at this stage of the season.
When Mercer visits the Huston-Marsh-Griffith Tennis Center for a 10 a.m. match the Bisons will be seeking their fourth straight match win and third consecutive Atlantic Sun victory.
The Bisons beat Kennesaw State 6-1 Thursday.
Miguel Cortez, playing in the No. 5 spot, has been one of the players that the Bisons have rallied around.
"Miguel Cortez brings energy and a level of intensity all the time that just raises up everybody else," Lipscomb coach Andrew Harris said. "We really want to continue to look for leadership from him on the court."
Oliver Strecker, Daniel Hernandez, Stuart Tierney, Cortez and Shaw all won their singles matches against Kennesaw State.
The Bisons swept the doubles matches with Cortez and Tierney, David Salazar and Strecker and Colby Shaw and John Tougher teaming up for the wins.
The Lady Bisons face Mercer at 2 p.m. LU has won two of its last three matches.
In a 6-1 loss to Kennesaw State Jenny Borck won a singles match playing at the No. 4 position. The doubles team of Shilpa Naruka and Melissa Kromer won, but the Lady Bisons did not get the doubles point.
Harris is counting on Lorena Djuknic, who joined the team in January, to be a spark for the Lady Bisons for the rest of the A-Sun season.
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DUBLIN (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny is leading a global St. Patrick's Day charm offensive that seeks to woo investment from the United States, China and other countries to debt-crippled Ireland.
Kenny arrived Friday in Chicago to begin a five-day U.S. visit that concludes Tuesday with St. Patrick's Day festivities in the White House. The Washington events are happening three days late because this year the March 17 holiday falls on a weekend.
Kenny has deployed 16 of his government's ministers to Canada, China, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, nine European neighbors and several other American cities from Boston to San Francisco.
Most of his other 13 ministers are presiding over the dozens of parades, performances and celebrations at home, particularly in Dublin, where a four-day festival started Friday and will peak Saturday when a half-million spectators are expected to line the main Dublin parade route.
The focus on boosting Ireland's image abroad reflects the stark economic challenges facing the one-time Celtic Tiger. Today the Irish are struggling to reverse 14.4 percent unemployment, slow a renewed wave of emigration and rebuild a battered credit rating that forced the country to negotiate a humiliating 2010 bailout.
"Now is the time to invest in Ireland's recovery," Kenny said. "The government will use the unique global opportunity of St. Patrick's Day to bring that message to all our key global markets and to Ireland's many friends around the world."
Ireland's diplomatic efforts are double the size of St. Patrick's Day missions last year, when Kenny had just taken power following a landmark election that devastated the previous government. It was blamed for leading Ireland to the brink of bankruptcy by fueling a runaway construction market fed by tax breaks and cheap credit from Ireland's ill-regulated banks.
When Ireland's property boom went bust in 2008, the government sought to save those banks from collapse by promising to ensure all their debts against default. That gamble failed to stem a tide of fleeing capital from Ireland and left taxpayers on the hook for repaying potentially €70 billion ($91 billion) in bank losses.
That bill, far too big for Ireland to finance, required a €67.5 billion ($88 billion) credit line with the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The money is supposed to cover Ireland's bills until late 2013, by which time Kenny's government hopes to resume normal borrowing from bond markets.
But economists agree that Ireland's recovery depends on forces beyond its control, particularly whether the U.S. economy gets rolling again.
More than 600 American multinationals already have made Ireland their European Union base, providing more than 5 percent of the nation's jobs and 12 percent of its entire gross domestic product, or GDP. American companies favor Ireland's English-speaking work force, participation in the euro common currency, and particularly its low 12.5 percent rate of tax on corporate profits.
Economists are counting on export-led growth by U.S.-focused multinationals to compensate for the debt crisis overshadowing most, if not all, of Ireland's 4.5 million people.
The existing bailout deal requires Ireland to slash its deficits to 3 percent of GDP by 2016. The 2011 deficit stood at 10 percent. The target this year is to reach 8.6 percent. But this means yet more spending cuts and tax hikes in a country where hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs, are trapped in negative-equity mortgages and are clamping down on spending.
The government expects to spend more than €55 billion this year but collect just €38 billion in taxes.
But Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan, attending St. Patrick's-related events in France, said Friday if U.S. economic growth expands, Ireland's own economy should "take off like a rocket."
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text: Potchefstroom - Highveld Lions left-arm spinner, Aaron Phangiso, will be relying on the support from his home fans when he makes his debut for South Africa in the final ODI against New Zealand here on Friday. Phangiso, who will come in for the injured Robin Peterson, says he will draw inspiration from playing at his franchise home ground, which will help quell the match-day butterflies. "I will be more comfortable because I know the conditions really well," he said about Senwes Park. "It will probably calm me down, I'm more familiar with the supporters there as well and that is all you need for your first game, supporters being behind you." His rise to the national team came after his excellent performance for the Lions in the Champions League T20 in September, where he was the joint second-highest wicket-taker of the competition with 10 wickets at an economy rate of less than six.He made his T20 debut against New Zealand in December last year, and was wicket-less in the match, giving away 42 expensive runs. He followed up the performance with an excellent showing in his second match, taking three for 25 in his four-over spell. "I was happy with the way that I bowled in my first game," he said about his debut. "Even though I got hit a bit I believe that it was out of good lengths so it didn't bother me much, it's not like I bowled a lot of full tosses or a lot of bad balls. I had confidence and the backing from Gary (Kirsten) and Russell (Domingo) going into the second T20 also helped a lot."An ODI debut comes with the prospect of longer bowling spells, an opportunity that excites Phangiso as he hopes to make a good impact when given the ball. He missed out in the first two matches of the current series, but says has used his time constructively, especially tapping into the experienced brains in the team to work on his game. "I have been working with Robbie P (Peterson) who has shown me a couple of things, strategies that I can work around during the game and how to work out the batsmen. Gary (Kirsten) and Allan (Donald) have also been great; we have worked out some good plans." A 'batters paradise' is expected at Senwes Park, with the wicket "unlikely" to offer much assistance to the spinners.


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New joke going around Washington: "Republicans hike the Appalachian Trail; Democrats hike your taxes. Either way, someone's getting screwed." As, the old saying goes -- some of the truest things are said in jest.
Washington Republicans -- more in the minority than they have been in decades -- are somewhat haplessly hoping that the Democrats mess up their own policies, rather than figure out how to stop them themselves. So, in the meantime, they keep themselves busy by getting busy -- usually with women not their own wives.
So, that means the Democrats are hard at work doing the business of governing, right? Alas, only partly right. They have actually taken fully the "responsibilities" that Republicans had when they were in the majority for twelve years that ended in 2006. Yes, that means the Democrats are now the ones in charge of the "culture of corruption."
The poster child for the new world order? House Ways & Means Chairman Charlie Rangel. He's been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for close to a year now on a whole passel of charges. This week, the committee announced a new line of inquiry, involving trips down to the Caribbean, which may have been corporately-funded. Especially embarrassing is that it also involve four other Democrats with significant seniority and influence:
In addition to Rangel, other lawmakers who participated in the Caribbean trips include Reps. Carolyn Kirkpatrick (D-Mich.), Donald Payne (D-N.J.), Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Delegate Donna Christian-Christensen (D-V.I.).
All five Democrats are members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and two — Rangel and Thompson — wield full committee gavels at Ways and Means and Homeland Security, respectively.
A conservative nonprofit group, the National Legal and Policy Center, has charged that the trip may have broken House rules on corporate-sponsored travel.
Hmmm...nice ethics probe there: Five for the price of one!
Meanwhile, proving that the Democratic corruption meme is spreading to the local level, Monica Conyers, the president pro tem of the Detroit City Council just plead guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery. Now, normally such a local bit of corruption wouldn't create much of a ripple on the national level except for two things: First, Detroit is a city falling apart because of corruption -- by Democrats, as this is a one-party town.
It's former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick is currently in jail because of a wide ranging sex, perjury & conspiracy scandal. Secondly and much more significantly, Monica Conyers happens to be married to John Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Yes, that a wife turns out to be a crook on the local level doesn't mean that he's one too. But the fact that two Democratic chairman are being investigated by the House Ethics Committee and a third has a wife who's just plead guilty to bribery?
Well, let's just say that it doesn't look too good.
In much the same way that the Democrats vow to "clean House" after what the GOP did hasn't reaped much results over the last couple of years.
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Greg Dobbs hit a three-run homer and Marcell Ozuna drove in four runs and was a home run shy of the cycle as the Miami Marlins crushed the New York Mets, 11-6, to earn the team's first sweep of the season in the finale of a three-game series at Marlins Park.
Chris Coghlan and Ed Lucas both had four hits and drove in two runs apiece for the Marlins, who last swept New York in a three-game series in Miami on May 28-30, 2009. Wade LeBlanc (1-5) earned the win after relieving starter Kevin Slowey in the fifth.
"The first couple of days here I was just getting acclimated," said Lucas, who was called up to the Marlins on Monday. "We've been winning. I saw my name in the lineup today and it was the first time I got to the park and I thought, I'm here, let's play baseball. Let's get a win. It's not so much about me anymore, it's about the team."
Slowey allowed six runs on six hits over 4 1/3 frames for Miami, which has won three straight following a season-high nine-game losing skid.
"First and foremost, it's another win for us and that's huge," said Slowey. "It's a big series sweep at home."
Lucas Duda, Ike Davis and Omar Quintanilla all homered for the Mets, who held a 6-4 lead through five frames, but saw the club's bullpen give up a combined seven runs to close out the contest. Scott Rice (3-4) absorbed the loss after blowing a save in the sixth. Rice walked four and was charged with three runs in 2/3 of an inning.
Matt Harvey could have made franchise history by becoming the first Mets pitcher to ever remain unbeaten through his first 12 starts of a season (5-0), but the right-hander has just one win over his last eight starts. He lasted a season-low five innings and tied a season-high by yielding four earned runs on 10 hits.
"I'm not happy about the start at all," said Harvey. "I've got to be better, I've got to move on. I'll take my 24 hours and get ready for Friday."
With one out in the fifth and the score tied 4-4, LeBlanc forced Duda into a fielder's choice, putting runners on first and third, but Marlon Byrd followed with an RBI single. Davis kept the rally alive with another run-scoring single down the right-field line to give the Mets a 6-4 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth, though, Miami took the lead in similar fashion and jumped on Rice.
The lefty issued four walks and allowed Ozuna's two-run double which tied the game, and Coghlan's run-scoring groundout that gave the Marlins a 7-6 advantage.
The inning proved to take the wind out of the Mets' sails, as the hosts poured on one run in the seventh and three runs in the eighth. Dobbs' blast in the eighth blew the game open.
Miami surprisingly got to Harvey in the first inning, scoring three runs.
Juan Pierre and Lucas smacked consecutive singles to start the action and came home on Ozuna's triple over the head of Mets outfielder Rick Ankiel, who misjudged the ball in center. Coghlan, made it 3-0 with an RBI double to shallow right.
Duda answered for the Mets in the second by opening up the inning with a shot to right, however, Miami added another run in the home half on Lucas' RBI single up the middle that made it 4-1.
New York fought back over the next two innings and tied the game thanks to a pair of homers. Quintanilla hit one-out bomb in the third and Davis came through in the fourth with a two-run shot to center, his first home run since April 25, knotting the game at 4-4.
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New York dropped three straight following a five-game winning streak ... All of Duda's 10 homers this season have been solo shots ... Miami is 6-3 versus the Mets this season ... Harvey also struggled against the Marlins on April 29, lasting a then season-low 5 1/3 innings and allowing one run with seven strikeouts in a 4-3, 15-inning road loss.


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Don't look now, but the 2012 election is turning into a national referendum on what to do about Medicare.
Democrats want to run on the issue — and to charge that Republican proposals to change Medicare into a voucher-based system would end the current guarantee of virtually unlimited healthcare for the elderly.
The chairman of their House campaign committee, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), has told candidates to stress three issues: "Medicare, Medicare and Medicare."
At least some Republicans — such as Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), author of a leading GOP Medicare proposal — say they welcome that fight. "Medicare is the issue," Ryan told reporters last week.
Ryan believes Republicans can only lose if they play defense and allow Democrats to "scare seniors." Instead, he argues that if the party spells out its ideas clearly, it can win a mandate to transform Medicare from a government-run plan to one run mostly by insurance companies.
That means voters may face a choice this fall not only over who should be president but also over how Medicare, the biggest driver of the federal deficit, should cut its costs: through government jawboning and regulation (the method prescribed by President Obama's healthcare reform law) or via free-market pressure applied through insurance companies (Ryan's prescription, endorsed by the GOP presidential candidates).
In simplified terms, Ryan's plan issues every senior citizen a voucher to buy a private insurance policy and relies on insurance companies to keep costs down. Last month he added a new element: the option of retaining old-fashioned Medicare. But the system would still rely on competition to keep basic costs below the value of the voucher, which would rise within a limit set by Congress.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has signed on to cosponsor Ryan's latest scheme, but most Democrats reject it, charging that it would shift much of the burden of rising costs onto the elderly.
In his budget proposal last week, Obama suggested cuts of about $300 billion in Medicare spending over the next 10 years, but said they should be borne mostly by drug companies and other providers. And he called for strengthening the new Independent Payment Advisory Board, a federal panel that is supposed to make healthcare spending more efficient but is barred from recommending restrictions in benefits.
"What I will not support are efforts to turn Medicare into a voucher," the president said, planting his feet in opposition to the Ryan-Wyden plan.
And there, in a nutshell, is the problem: A heated, polarized election campaign isn't the best forum to debate complex, competing proposals for bringing down healthcare costs.
Presidential and congressional candidates aren't likely to look for ways to combine the best of each approach. Instead, they're heading into their ideological corners.
There's a lot of merit in the Ryan-Wyden proposal. "It's a good compromise," notes Alice Rivlin, an early proponent of Medicare vouchers and the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Clinton. "It preserves traditional Medicare; it gives people more options. But now that the Republican presidential candidates have endorsed it, the Democrats feel they have to reject it."
There's a lot of merit in Obama's advisory board too. Republicans denounce it as an unelected board of 15 that would dictate healthcare decisions, but that's not true; the healthcare law limited its influence over medical practices, and Congress retained the right to overrule the board's recommendations.
"These plans will have bad results only if you implement them badly," Rivlin said. "There's no reason to assume the worst outcomes."
Which is no doubt what both sides will do. Last week Mitt Romney attacked Obama for failing to "take any meaningful steps toward solving our entitlement crisis," even though the healthcare act does just that. He also slammed Obama as "the only president in modern history to cut Medicare benefits," even though Romney's proposals cut benefits too.
There's a shred of good news buried in this shrill debate: Both sides agree that Medicare's costs need to be reined in. Many on both sides support raising the eligibility age and increasing the cost of Medicare for affluent users.
Both sides recognize that Medicare spends billions of dollars wastefully and that some mechanism must be found to end that waste. Most Americans, however, still don't think Medicare needs to be cut at all. In a National Journal poll released last week, 80% said just that.
It would be a great service if the presidential candidates of both major parties disabused voters of that notion and helped them focus on the real choices we face. But don't hold your breath.
In the end, unless one party wins big and takes both halves of Congress as well as the White House, there won't be a very clear mandate at all — and the difficult work of Medicare reform could be even harder than before.


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Monday, May 15, 2006
a dessert montage
Last Saturday, my lovely partner Michael and I had a dessert party. Michael has been relatively silent on my blog but is extremely important for he is often reading, editing and sampling new dessert recipes and ideas. It's a tough job but someone's got to do it.
Michael recently completed his master's degree; so it seemed like a wonderful opportunity to invite some people over from his degree program to celebrate. With the plans in place, I set to work developing a list of the desserts that I wanted to prepare. I initially intended the dessert sampling to be interesting, simple and as little stress as possible. It didn't quite turn out as simple as I had intended. The dessert list constantly changed and expanded. In the end, I made approximately twenty different desserts for a party of twenty guests, who had no prior knowledge of what was in store for them. Here is the menu:
Apple Crumble
Blackberry Hazelnut Financiers
Blueberry Tarts
Candied Nuts
Caramel Hazelnut Chocolate Bar
Cheese Plate with Fruit
Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
Chocolate Mousse (Lactose Free)
Cream Puffs with Chocolate and Coffee Cream
Cream Puffs with Hard Caramel and Vanilla Cream
Earl Grey Tea Ice Cream
French Macaroons
Grapefruit Granita
Lemon Blueberry Madeleines
Lemon Tarts
Orange Shortbread
Pineapple with Basil Cream
Strawberry Juice
Vanilla Crème Brûlèe
The desserts took about three days to prepare. On the last day, we had the help of Carly, Chizuru and Emily, three friends of ours. They helped to make a cheese plate, dip strawberries into chocolate, pipe cream into the cream puffs, and sprinkle gold dust on numerous goodies and much more. Thank you Carly, Emily and Chizuru!
We set a table with 12 of the desserts, while the other goodies were brought out every ten minutes or so. Because all the desserts were "mini" in size, most of our guests, who were certainly adventurous, brave and sugar-resistant, tried almost all. The evening was fun, relaxed and casual, with a group of happy graduates enjoying dessert and each other's company. We thank everyone for coming, as Michael and I had a wonderful time.
Here is a slide show of the evening's desserts. Hope you enjoy; we certainly did!
19 comments:
- Ivonne said...
I fell out of my chair when I saw those desserts. After I picked myself up and stopped weeping because I didn't have the chance to try them, I composed myself enough to write this comment.
You're brilliant, Sam. You're definitely a dessert master and you inspire us all!
- Mon. May 15, 08:18:00 p.m. EDT
- linda said...
They all look so gorgeous! And my god, the time it took to make them all!
And congratulations to Michael for completing his master's degree.
- Mon. May 15, 11:15:00 p.m. EDT
Wow... what an amazing night for our tastebuds, eyes and tummies! I wish I could describe it better, but words are not enough. The slideshow was a wonderful way of experiencing it all over again. Thanks so much, Sam. It was great to celebrate with Michael and the others.
- Tue. May 16, 10:20:00 a.m. EDT
Ah, they were so sweet and beautiful... Thank you so much Sam and Michael for hosting such a wonderful party... You guys are just GREAT! Sam, I still want to become your apprentice!
- Tue. May 16, 10:50:00 a.m. EDT
- Tania said...
Sam, once again, you have made my jaw drop!! These desserts look and sound fantastic. Well done!
And my sincere congratulations to Michael on his tremendous accomplishment. What a sweet and wonderful way to celebrate!
- Tue. May 16, 12:28:00 p.m. EDT
- Anita said...
Wow Sam,
That looks amazing! I wish I could have been there! Everything looks so perfect and delicious.
Great job!
- Tue. May 16, 01:05:00 p.m. EDT
- Sam said...
oh you tease. stop teasing me.
- Tue. May 16, 07:46:00 p.m. EDT
- sam said...
Hi Ivonne,
We Toronto food bloggers should get together sometime. Thanks for your comment and your continual support Ivonne.
Hi Linda,
Thanks Linda. I love your blog.
Hi Shelly,
Thanks for coming and I'm glad you enjoyed the slide show. I hope that everyone had a good time.
Hi Chizuru,
Thanks for all the great help Chizuru. You can be my apprentice anytime.
Hi Tania,
Thanks for your lovely comments. I think I should have you and Ivonne over sometime.
Hi Anita,
Thanks Anita. Coming from a dessert expert such as yourself, thats a sweet compliment.
Hi Sam,
Hmm I'm not sure that last time I was called a tease. lol. If you were in TO Sam, I would have definitely invited you. I love your enthusiasm for food.
- Tue. May 16, 09:51:00 p.m. EDT
- Raspberry Sour said...
Having trouble typing due to drool... It all looks utterly beyond amazing. Words fail me, apart from mmmmmm, yummmmm, oh my god, and, of course, more drool.
- Wed. May 17, 09:23:00 a.m. EDT
- Dianka said...
Wow! I am so impressed! No easy task, indeed, but looks like you mastered it perfectly. The desserts look fantastic.
- Wed. May 17, 02:43:00 p.m. EDT
- Kristina said...
The slideshow was divine! Your pastries and desserts are really a feast for the eyes as well as for the mouth (I'm sure). It makes me happy to see someone who is passionate about desserts...
Keep up the inspiring photos and recipes!
- Wed. May 17, 02:46:00 p.m. EDT
- sam said...
Hi Raspberry,
Thanks for your mmm yum and drool.
Hi Dianka,
Hi Kristina,
Thanks, for your lovely comments. I will definitely keep posting recipes and desserts.
- Thu. May 18, 07:42:00 p.m. EDT
- bea at La tartine gourmande said...
oh my god!!! This is Heaven! SO much work and a beautiful party! How long did it take you to prepare so many goodies??? Beautiful!
- Fri. May 19, 01:00:00 p.m. EDT
- Alana said...
What a dizzying array of goodies! I can't imagine the work required - congrats to your partner on the master's, and you on these beautiful creations!
- Fri. May 19, 04:10:00 p.m. EDT
- T said...
Oh my goodness, it all sounds so scrumptious! I've been to a dessert party before, and while it was good, it was definetely not as gourmet as yours! I am planning on making financiers for another party- did you use individual molds for yours or did you make a pan and then cut them into mini serving sizes?
- Fri. May 19, 07:29:00 p.m. EDT
- sam said...
Hi Bea,
It took me two evenings and one day to make these desserts. I did pick recipes which were relatively simple to prepare. Thanks for your comments.
Hi Alana,
Thanks for visting and your lovely comments. I'm sorry you got dizzy!
Hi Tanvi,
Thanks for visting. I used silicon rubber mini cake molds, they are incredibly useful. Good luck with your financiers.
- Fri. May 19, 10:49:00 p.m. EDT
- Bron said...
Oh my! They all look so perfect Sam! So pretty, so adorable and so very very delicious!
Can I come to your next event... please, pretty please?
- Tue. May 23, 07:02:00 p.m. EDT
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