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College Hockey:Harbec Leads St. Lawrence into ECACHL Final
Saints End Harvard's String of Three League Titles
HANOVER, N.H. — A two-period scoring binge and tough defense down the stretch proved to be the winning formula for No. 5 St. Lawrence against No. 6 Harvard in the semifinals of the ECAC tournament on Saturday.
The Saints (28-6-3, 17-4-1 ECAC) beat the Crimson (23-7-2, 17-4-1 ECAC) for the third time this season by a score of 4-3 at Dartmouths Thompson Arena in Hanover, NH. The win snapped St. Lawrence's six-game postseason losing streak to Harvard and ended Harvard's streak of three consecutive ECAC titles.
Obviously were very disappointed, Harvard coach Katey Stone said. It was a very good hockey game. My hats off to St. Lawrence.
The Saints scored what would prove to be the winning goal 18:11 into the second period, as junior center Sabrina Harbec fed a nifty pass to sophomore winger Carson Duggan, who put the puck in the back of the net to give her team a 4-2 advantage. Harbec led all scorers with two goals and an assist.
Even with a two-goal lead, St. Lawrence knew better than to get comfortable against the Crimsons potent offense.
Its Harvard, Harbec said. We can have five goals and they can still come back.
The Crimson attempted to do just that, as it took advantage of a power play opportunity less than a minute later to cut the lead in half. Receiving the puck from sophomore defenseman Kati Vaughn at the right post, junior defenseman Caitlin Cahow made a hard pass across the crease to a waiting Sarah Vaillancourt. The sophomore forward one-timed the puck past St. Lawrences goalie, junior Meaghan Guckian.
With the game at 4-3 after only two periods of play, it appeared that the goals would continue piling up.
At one point I said to my assistants, Its going to be a shootout at the OK Corral here, said Saints coach Paul Flanagan.
But Vaillancourts score would be the last of the game, as St. Lawrence tightened up on defense in the third period, fighting off the Crimsons offensive efforts.
Harvards best chance came in the final minute, when the puck got loose in front of the Saints net and a scramble ensued. But Guckian gained control of the puck, ending any chance of a Crimson comeback. Guckian had 20 saves, including 10 in the third period.
Harvard had plenty of praise for St. Lawrences netminder after the game.
Whenever we play against her she makes some really big saves, said Crimson co-captain Julie Chu.
[Guckian] played really well, staved off a lot of late pressure, Stone added.
The game got off to a fast start. At 4:42 into the first period, Harbec charged through the middle of the Harvard zone with Duggan coming in at her side. Using Duggan as a distraction to the defense, Harbec took it to the net herself for the unassisted goal.
The Crimson responded quickly, as senior winger Katie Johnston launched a shot towards the goal that was deflected by Guckian. Sophomore winger Sarah Wilson was there for the rebound, and tied the score at one.
Harbec struck again for the Saints near the end of the period, though somewhat inadvertently. As Harbec tried to center a pass to Duggan, the puck deflected off of Harvard freshman defenseman Cori Bassetts shin guard and past sophomore goalie Brittany Martin.
It was pretty lucky actually, Harbec said.
[Harbec] planned that, Flanagan joked. Shes been working on that one.
The Crimson tied the score again at 4:39 of the second period on a goal by senior winger Liza Solley, who put the puck away unassisted on a wrist shot.
St. Lawrences third goal came shorthanded, as sophomore winger Alison Domenico made her way into Harvards zone and reclaimed the lead for her team after skating circles around Crimson defenders.
Duggans score padded the lead to two, and turned out to be the winner as Harvard mustered one more goal but failed to complete the comeback.
The game featured an intriguing individual matchup between Harbec and Chu, the ECACHLs top two scorers. Good friends off the ice, the two centers feed off of each others intensity come game time and eagerly look forward to opportunities to play against each other.
We compete really hard against each other but at the end of the day I think we can appreciate the challenge we pose for each other, Chu said.
Were laughing before we go on faceoffs because we know its going to be a hard one, Harbec said. Its just so much fun to play against a good player like that.
This time, Harbec got the better of the friendly rivalry, as Chus Crimson were sent home to prepare for the NCAA Tournament while the Saints moved on to the ECACHL title game against Dartmouth.
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While much of Houston's cycling community was focused on the upcoming BP MS150, two area cyclists died under the wheels of motor vehicles within just four days. Little mention was made of the deaths, perhaps because neither victim lived in the Heights or Montrose. That is quite unlike the wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Chelsea Norman in December.
The first to die was Isidro Martinez Campos, who was killed in the evening hours of April 2 while riding on North Main Street in Galena Park. According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), Martinez Campos was southbound in the 2000 block of N Main at approximately 8:00 p.m. when he "entered the lane of traffic," veering from what the investigating officer termed an "improved shoulder." He was struck by a southbound pickup truck whose driver, unlike the last four drivers to strike a cyclist in Harris County, stopped.
Even a cursory examination of the street on Google Maps shows that any "improved shoulder" is at best intermittent and at worst non-existent. Street view shows short stretches of gutter in a few areas and wide pavement where the street crosses bridges. There are also no lights.
The second to die was Alejandro Benito, killed on April 6, in the 2600 Block of W. Mount Houston; in unincorporated Harris County. Benito was crossing the street at around 9:30 p.m. when he was struck by a westbound vehicle. According to HCSO, Benito failed to yield to the vehicle. Again, the motorist remained at the scene. The accident report notes that the street is not lit and the bicycle did not have lights, although no mention was made of whether the bicycle had the wheel reflectors required by state law. Such reflectors would have been visible to a vehicle approaching from the side.
Perhaps because neither accident occurred within the city limits of Houston (and, perhaps, more to the point not inside Loop 610) no mention has been made of the two deaths since brief reports in the local newspaper. The comment section following the article reporting Benito's death might be particularly disturbing to local cyclists, however, including as it does such sentiments as "thinning the herd" and "guess that's how they ride in mexico [sic]."


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"Some schools feel 'I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't," said Ramona McAfee, assistant dean of military and federal programs and Columbia College in Missouri, a critic of the lists whose school still participates.
But for some lesser-known colleges, such lists can get their names in front of prospective students — which, they say, expands veterans' horizons. Last year, when G.I. Jobs magazine published its list, a flurry of colleges shared the news in press releases, and local newspapers often followed with stories.
"We certainly aren't going to change the landscape of our campus by seeking out tons of veterans but we wanted to make sure we were giving them every opportunity and making this transition easier for them," said Sarah Palace, assistant dean for adult enrollment at one school that put out such a release, the College of Notre Dame in Ohio (not to be confused with the larger University of Notre Dame in Indiana, which also put out a release). The smaller Notre Dame has only about 20 full-time veteran students but hopes to recruit more. Palace listed practices she says make the place military friendly: encouraging transfers, examining military transcripts, working with a local veterans service center.
It's impossible to say whether veterans are widely misled by "military friendly" lists. Some educators say it's patronizing to suppose military people read the lists uncritically.
But there are worrisome signs that, more broadly, veterans aren't making informed decisions and could waste their benefits on low-value degrees. While for-profit colleges may be a good choice for many, on average they cost more, have lower graduation rates and in some cases have accreditation limitations. They also recruit aggressively. In the first two years after the new G.I. Bill was passed in 2008, they enrolled 25 percent of veterans using the benefits and collected 37 percent of the payments to colleges.
After former Marine Cpl. Moses Maddox finished his first tour of duty in Iraq, he started — and ended — his college search with an Internet query.
"I looked up 'GI Bill friendly schools' and it said 'hey, come to the University of Phoenix,'" Maddox said. He won't single out Phoenix, which collected $133 million from the G.I. Bill in 2010-2011, but it wasn't a good fit, and he later dropped out, re-enlisted and returned to Iraq. After his second tour he enrolled in Palomar College in California, but discovered his Phoenix credits wouldn't transfer. He now gives education counseling to veterans at Palomar.
They're "just so lost after getting out that they just show up with a DD214 (military service record) and say, 'I want to go to school. How do I start?'" he said. When the benefit's 36-month expiration passes and they're stuck with credits they didn't realize were worthless, "it's the hardest part of my job to tell these vets you have to start all over again."
The G.I. Jobs "Guide to Military Friendly Colleges" is probably the best known list, with annual circulation of 135,000 and reaching more through its website, militaryfriendlyschools.com.
The publication insists it's far more rigorous than the apparently fly-by-night options that show up for pages in response to a Google search for "military friendly colleges."
G.I. Jobs sends questionnaires to 8,000 institutions, says it gets about half back, and lists the 1500 most military friendly (it claims that's the top 20 percent, though of the responses, it's more than one-third).
Unlike others, G.I. Jobs does share the general formula used to select military friendly colleges: 45 percent in one "effort" category, measuring things like flexible learning programs and academic credit, 35 percent for financial effort (including tuition benefits and the percentage of recruiting budget directed to veterans),15 percent for results (such as percentage of military students enrolled) and 5 percent for a category that includes accreditations.
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Scientists have long known that climate change favors invasive species, but the pine beetle epidemic is far worse than they thought, extending from Canada, south through the Rockies and into southern California and New Mexico.
A new study, from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in The American Naturalist, spells out the grim facts:
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A unique agricultural outreach program directed at Nebraska fourth-graders continues to grow in popularity.
The Nebraska AG Sack Lunch Program takes advantage of the fact that over 20-thousand fourth-graders visit the State Capitol Building in Lincoln each year as part of their curriculum. The Sack Lunch program offers them a free lunch featuring foods produced in Nebraska, and a 15-minute presentation from college-age "Ag Ambassadors" on where their food comes from.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) student Courtney Schardt, who is from Table Rock, is one of this year's Ag Ambassadors.
"The main message is just that Nebraska's agriculture is important and that everything in their lunch comes from Nebraska—from the bread to the corn chips, everything comes from there—and we want them to know that," says Schardt.
Ag Ambassador Catherine Ripp, a UNL student from Ravenna, says they get some interesting questions and comments from the fourth-graders.
"They're really surprised on how the things that their parents do in cities, whether they work at a grocery stores or a floral shop, are related to ag—because one in three jobs in Nebraska is related to agriculture and they don't understand that," Ripp says. "So the comments we get back are 'Whoa, that's awesome!'—and they really enjoy it, I think."
AUDIO: Schardt-Ripp (3:45 MP3)
One of schools participating in this year's program was the Whitetail Elementary School of Gretna, a community just outside of Omaha. Sandy Spethman is a fourth-grade teacher at the school.
"You know, a lot of these kids are city kids and so they're not used to a lot of the agricultural products and the items that come from some of these products—so it's a great way to get them informed," Spethman says. "It's a very nice program and it offers us a chance to get out and not have to worry about lunches that day—so it's great."
AUDIO: Sandy Spethman (1:11 MP3)
Spethman estimates that less than 20 percent of her students live on farms. For fourth-grader Samuel Nelson, the greatest revelation was that not all cows are black and white.
"There are red cows, too," Nelson says.
The AG Sack Lunch Program is sponsored by the Nebraska Soybean Board, the Nebraska Pork Producers Association and the Nebraska Corn Board.
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In celebration of his Grammy nomination, Armin van Buuren, will be hosting a private post-Grammy event at Sound Nightclub in Los Angeles this Sunday night.
Armin van Buuren is nominated in the category Best Dance Recording with the single "This Is What It Feels Like," a song he composed and produced together with Benno de Goeij and John Ewbank. Trevor Guthrie, the vocalist on the track, will also be co-hosting the event.
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Freshman Cassy Issagwa cruised to a five-under 67 final round to help the No. 21 University of Oregon women's golf team place eighth in Pacific Coast Intercollegiate final-round action Tuesday.
The Wailuku, Hawai'i native tied for fifth overall after she shot five birdies (on holes #6, 9, 13, 14, 15) and par scores on the remaining 13 holes in the final round.
Jumping 20 spots in the final standings Tuesday, her final round was one shy of the tourney best (a six-under 66) - carded by Arizona's Manon Gidali Tuesday.
Junior Cheyenne Hickle (28th-tie, 7-277-71-220) added the team's third, under-par round of the tourney with her one-under 71. The Gilbert, Ariz., native shot three birdies on the back nine (#13, 15, 17), added 13 par scores, and only two bogeys (#6, 10).
Freshman Cali Hipp (40t-tie, 77-74-72-223) also carded her best round of the tourney Tuesday, and shot four birdies (#2, 5, 6, 16), 10 par scores and four bogeys (#9, 10, 15, 18).
UO's other entries included senior Ashley Edwards (49th-tie, 76-74-75-225) and sophomore Raphaela Dyer (59th-tie, 72-81-76-229).
In the overall team standings, No. 1 UCLA (280-283-286-849) featured three individuals in the top five overall and won by six strokes over No. 3 USC (second, 290-287-278-855). The Trojans shot the best round of the tourney Tuesday with their 10-under 278 finale.
The national-caliber field featured seven more top-40 teams - No. 40 Stanford (third, 291-294-283-868), No. 19 Arizona (fourth, 295-294-280-869), No. 29 Washington (288-297-286-871), No. 14 California (sixth, 285-301-286-872), No. 23 UC Davis (seventh, 2997-294-284-875), No. 21 UO (eighth, 297-295-285-877) and No. 16 Oklahoma State (ninth, 296-300-282-878).
In the individual standings, UCLA's Erynne Lee (69-68-71-207) held onto her pre-round placing to win by three strokes over USC's Lisa McCloskey (second, 71-70-69-210).
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Parents see a mound of peas on a plate. Toddlers see a pile of tiny grenades that must be scattered around the dining room immediately.
Nowhere does the reality of at-home fatherhood rear its ugly head more that at the dinner table. And while food-throwing is a big problem in most households, it isn't a topic that is typically covered in most parenting books and magazines.
So here's a tip from an at-home dad who considers throwing food the eighth deadly sin: Give your child smaller portions.
My boys love peas. Between them, they can crush an entire can in one meal. But if I give them both a heaping helping, I spend the rest of my day cleaning peas out of the floor vent, the booster seats, and their pants. (I really don't want to know the psychology of why my kids put peas in their pants, but they do.)
Sometimes food throwing is a simple matter of the child getting overwhelmed by too much food on his plate. It's the same concept as having too many people in a room or too much noise around them. They get over-stimulated, and they lash out. With too much food, they throw it instead of throwing a tantrum.
I rarely have a problem when I give them one or two types of food on a plate in small portions, and then just reload their plate if they want more. Yes, this requires a bit more diligence during feeding times. But it saves my aching knees from crawling around on the linoleum, and it preserves my frustration threshold.
Anything at-home parents can do to sidestep stress in the house deserves our attention, but sometimes the food throwing is a boundary issue and cannot be avoided. The child wants to see what he can get away with, so he decides to conduct his own experiment on daddy's patience.
These boundary tests are part of learning his environment and feeling his way through the world. But that doesn't mean his actions should go unpunished.
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Tuesday afternoon's historic semifinal win by Germany, a 7-1 demolishing of World Cup hosts Brazil, has had the football world buzzing. Twitter, Facebook, and myriad other social media have had record traffic over the past few weeks and that traffic peaked on Tuesday. The curious thing about the buzz, or the media's coverage of the buzz, is how it has failed to capture the true nature of the debacle.
But if one reads the social media traffic and the news media coming from Brazil, the clearest of pictures comes into focus. Let's look at three perspectives on the game: the perspectives of Brazil's media and fans, that of the Brazilian Football Establishment, and that of the coverage by the media outside Brazil.
Brazil's media and fans
The perspectives of the Brazilian fans and media about the Brazilian team and coach where expressed loud and clear and early. They were expressed via e-mails, graffiti on streets near the stadiums, on Twitter and Facebook, and in papers from Super Noticia, to O Globo, to Folha de S. Paolo.
The fans and media did not think that Coach Felipe Scolari had chosen his roster well. There was talent missing, creativity missing, and few players knew each other since the roster counted 23 players from 18 different teams. The fans and media thought that the roster choices meant the hosts would field one of the weakest Brazilian sides in eons just as it was ready to host the cup. They also felt that because of those poor choices, should anything go awry, the coach would be left with few tactical options, let alone the ability to present any jogo bonito to its home fans. Guess what?
Brazilian Football Establishment
The Brazilian Football Establishment, via Coach Luis Felipe Scolari's post-debacle press appearances, focused on how to get past the defeat on home soil, since that establishment's leadership now tallies two deeply emotional embarrassments for its two hosting opportunities.
What Scolari tried to do in his press conference—"This is the worst day of my career, my football life, but the rest of my life continues as it does for the players and the fans…"—is distance the Brazilian football establishment from both the anger the fans felt and the disillusionment the players displayed on the pitch after the game. This would have been a big deal if we had won but let's not make a big deal of it now that we have lost, was the message he tried to deliver to those who knew better.
What he could have told the media, fans, and players was simple: I picked a team that was no better than the 12th best side at the cup. We were helped by the refs to get as far as we did. I erred in asking my guys to play bullies at home to make up for the team's technical and tactical deficiencies. This was an avoidable travesty of my own making and now all of you--fans and players alike--have to suffer for it. I am sorry.
Two additional telling things the Brazilian football establishment did are worth noting. First, the nation's sports minister, Aldo Rebelo, one of the good guys trying to better the sport at home, called for the overhaul of Brazil's domestic football. Then, in the same interview he said the 7-1 defeat was not comparable to the 2-1 one in 1950 because the first home loss featured a stronger Brazilian side.
Whether an overhaul is needed is an issue that has been brewing for years, one Rebelo has been working to obtain, but using the semifinals debacle as a tipping point should tell the public just what type of strategic management they have overseeing their favored sport. That a stronger side was available but was not fielded in 2014 seems to have eluded even Rebelo's analysis.
Second, the Brazilian Football Confederation officially asked FIFA to assuage Brazil's troubles by breaking the cup's rules and allowing team captain Thiago Silva's suspension to be reversed, simply because it suited the Selecao. That request was more embarrassing than the loss for it spoke volumes about what former World Cup star Romario has called the "establishment's hubris and myopia" and recently called "talentless moguls."
The disconnect between the debacle on the pitch and the football establishment could not have been any bigger than the disconnect has been between the media and fans and that same establishment.
Media outside Brazil
Throughout a good portion of their coverage of the tournament, the European media's slant has attempted to portray the South American tourney in terms of what-is-happening-to-our-sport-over-there. Articles from the British, Italian, and Dutch press, for example, focused on their teams' tactical miscues, which were routinely thought to be responsible for their losses, rather than the play of their competitors from the Americas who beat them.
So the Brazilian defeat had to be seen from the European penchant for tactical analysis. The consensus was that Scolari decided on the wrong tactics given his missing stars and could not recover once the team fell behind. An outlier article argued that Brazil had earned their defeat by using unsportsmanlike tactics which resulted in Neymar's injury and thus the loss against the Germans.
The U.S. media, as exemplified by ESPN's half-time analysis, focused on the way David Luiz was picked on the corner that resulted in the first German goal. The illustration supported their conclusion that the first half was a disastrous mix of Germany being white hot at the same time that Brazil was making juvenile mistakes. No mention was made of the relative technical skill of the opposing players on the pitch, or the fact that among the Brazilian roster only two players played on the same team while the Germans fielded six Bayern Munich based starters.
Over at Mexican Univision the analysis revolved around the poor performance of Fred and Marcelo and they wondered why these players were not being replaced by Jo and Dani Alves. To their credit, some asked why or if Fred and Jo were the best center-forward options Brazil could muster. Two commentators, in a late night analysis show, asked why Lucas Moura, Lucas Leiva, Pato, and Robinho were left off the squad.
Japan's Yoimuri Shimbun, took the Brazilian players to task arguing that "Brazil's defense collapsed. [In fact] the defense seemed lost from the beginning, giving up space and easy chances to the Germans. Nobody on the Brazilian side could spark its attack. Of the Brazilian's 11 cup goals four were scored by the absent Neymar, no other striker scored, the rest of the goals came from midfielders or defenders."
The truth
When one looks back at the Brazilian journey through this cup two things might stand out as emblematic. In a pre-cup interview Oscar said: "I looked forward to playing the 2014 World Cup with my idol, Kaka, others were dreaming of playing with Ronaldinho. But I know they will be there in spirit." At the cup's opening match, Kaka showed up at the sidelines with his son as the Brazilian players were warming up. Neymar himself led the line of starters who trotted over to give the Scolari reject, the rejuvenated legend, coming off a stellar season at AC Milan, a hug.
In short, Brazil lost because they had an inferior team, managed by a coach who had painted himself into a corner with his roster and tactical choices. This was a team that had no business being in the Group of 16, let alone in the semifinals. When they got there, they were missing their two world class starter-leaders who were the motors of their team, when facing the best team in the tournament bent on a mission. The defeat, if not the score line, should not have been one of this cup's many surprises.


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Looking for suggestion for 2 (round trip) daily tours from Cluj-Napoca with a rented car.
The same for Brasov.
In July i am going holiday to Romania for 10 days. I have read a couple of guide books and post on online forums and i have made a planning for a city trip within Romania.
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Day 2- Oradea
Day 3- Cluj Napoca
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WBTW in Florence reported Feb. 7 that Myrtle Beach Police were called to Market Common on a threats and harassment case on Tuesday. Terry Elvis, the victim, alleged that the passenger in a black Jeep Wrangler yelled a threat at him on Howard Ave. at approximately 1:20 p.m.
"We already have Heather," the man allegedly yelled at Elvis, who owns a printing shop nearby. "Morgan [Elvis' other daugher] is next."
Heather Elvis was reported missing by her father on Dec. 19 after Horry County police found her abandoned car at Peachtree Landing along the Waccamaw River. She was last seen on Dec. 17 and last heard from on Dec. 18.
A police report indicates that she was in contact with an older man with whom she had had a previous relationship in the early hours of Dec. 18. Elvis' roommate told authorities that Heather had appeared upset during their earlier conversation.
No arrests have been made regarding the missing woman's case. No persons of interest have been named to date.
The vehicle police are currently searching for is believed to be a mid-2000 model Jeep Wrangler, flat black in color, with blacked-out rims and a black rag top. The vehicle is lifted, sitting high above the wheels. The vehicle also has a tubular rear bumper.
Terry Elvis attempted to locate the vehicle himself but was unable to do so. He told police he didn't think the Jeep had any type of vehicle registration.
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July 14, 2007. S.P. Korolev RSC Energia,
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Annual General Stockholders' Meeting of Public Company (OAO) S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia convened in the established order by the Corporation Board of Directors' decision was held. The list of the persons empowered to participate in decision-taking on the Meeting agenda items was drawn up based upon the data from the Corporation Register of Shareholders as of May 28, 2007, 17 hours 30 minutes.
The meeting records show 3716 participants representing the interests of the enterprise shareholders who own, in the aggregate, 887433 shares, which amounted to 76,97% of the total numbers of the joint stock company's voting shares.
The Shareholders' Meeting Agenda included 15 items, among which the issues of the Corporation financial-economic activities were compulsory for an annual review, while the other issues came within its competence according to Federal Law "On Joint Stock Companies". The items not put on the Agenda were ignored at the Meeting.
N.N. Sevastiyanov, V.V. Matskaylo, L.E. Fedorin delivered reports on the performance of OAO RSC Energia after S.P. Korolev in 2006.
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Limited Liability Company "Interekspertiza" was approved as the Corporation Auditor.
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So, as women, having to endure menstruation, PMS, pregnancy, childbirth and menopause, did we get the raw end of the deal? In the Garden of Eden when Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, I think God should have rewarded her, not punished her and all womankind for eternity. At least Eve was curious and showed initiative while Adam was content to remain somewhat clueless. Or maybe God, in His infinite wisdom, knew that only a woman had the strength to bear these painful rites of passage. Maybe God also knew that although they might be difficult, the rewards are well worth it. Because what I've come to realize is that with each stage of suffering we give birth to something beautiful, literally and figuratively. Menstruation marks the time when we emerge from the cocoon of childhood and into the mysterious, exciting and confusing world of womanhood; the proverbial caterpillar to butterfly metamorphous. Pregnancy and childbirth catapults us into the realm of awe, fear, love and joy of motherhood. And now menopause, well, I'm not sure yet who or what is going to emerge. Although my ovaries are "drying up", as my doctor so eloquently put it, I am discovering that in other ways I'm blossoming. I'm reaching a new place of self-acceptance and dare I say maturity. Menopause is like a huge exhale; ridding myself of a lifetime of baggage that has weighed me down for so long. I've been holding in my stomach for over 40 years, for God's sake, it's time to let it out, once and for all. I'm letting go of some beliefs I have because I discovered that they were not my own. My relationships with family and children are being redefined. Although this process is sometimes painful it's a necessary one. Besides, I don't have much of a choice. I kind of look forward to seeing what kind of woman rises up from these ashes, left by repeated hot flashes. I hope she has cookies. But, then again, maybe I don't.
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Cake submitted by Kym S. from Australia
I made 3 butter cake mixes and baked in a 20x20 cm pan. Then prepared 2 more cake mixes and poured small amounts into ice-cream cones lined with baking paper. I put the rest into a small square tin, and baked.
To assemble: cut the sides off the smaller cake and tops off the cones, and place on top of the large square cake.
The drawbridge is made with a piece of cut-off cake. Then the whole cake is iced using butter icing made from nearly 1 kg icing mixture and butter.
Water and grass are iced straight onto the board for effect. I placed little fairies purchased at Coles on the drawbridge, and put a big 7 made with little butterflies on the top.
Cake submitted by Suzie S. from Bethlehem, PA
Tools and Ingredients:
Bake double layer cakes using the 12" square pan and the 8" cake pan. Bake a single 6" round cake.
While the cakes are baking, make your royal icing for the ice cream cones or steeples. Add color of your choice and mix in well. Remember, after finishing this icing, to keep a damp cloth over it (the icing does dry out quickly if not covered).
Cut small holes at the top of the ice cream cones for the lollipop stick to fit through. After putting the sticks through the ice cream cones, remove the sticks. You will be adding the flags to these sticks.
Take a spatula with the royal icing and begin icing the ice cream cones. When finished icing the cones, let them dry for a few hours. Using the bottom cake (12" sq.), place the cakes together icing them as usual. Mark a door in the center as marking your windows.
For the curve of the door and windows: if you don't have a marker for your impression on the cake, you can cut a plastic lid to use as a marker, this works very well too.
For the windows: I used a lattice look using a #3 tip, outlined the edge of the window with a #4 tip (if you prefer, use a zig-zag tip #14 or 16 to outline the windows) for that finished look.
For the door: fill in where your impression marks are using a light pink or purple and a #3 or #4 tip. Draw the lines as a wooden door would look, outline the edges of your door for a finished look.
Add vines and rose buds or any other small flowers you prefer on the sides of the castle. Add grass and graham cracker for the bridge. Decorate the following (2) tiers as above. Put all 3 cakes together to make your 3 tier castle. Border the top and bottoms of the cake as you wish.
Fold the flags in half. Use a permanent marker or pen to write 'Happy Birthday Princess' and the young lady's name any artistic way you'd like. Glue the inside of the flag inserting the lollipop sticks inside the flags.
Place the lollipop sticks into the top of the dried ice cream cones. Take the leftover royal icing, and using a #3 or #14 tip make a little rim around the lollipop sticks to hold in place. Allow to dry a few minutes.
Place steeples on the cake. You just made a little princess's dream come true.
Castle cake submitted by Yuko M. from Middleboro, MA
This was made for my daughter's 2nd birthday as she was entering "princess stage".
Bake angel cake using bundt cake pan:
Step 1: Mix all-purpose flour (120g) and baking powder (2/3 tsp), and shift 2-3 times.
Step 2: In a clean bowl, beat 6 egg whites until a bit stiff. Add sugar (60g) in 2 times, and beat until very stiff.
Step 3: In a separate bowl, beat 5 egg yokes. Add a pinch of salt and sugar (70g), and beat until creamy.
Step 4: Add water (200 cc) and salad oil (80 cc) slowly while whisking.
Step 5: Add all-purpose flour and baking powder mix slowly, and mix until smooth. Add 1/2 of egg white mix, and mix well. Add into egg white mix and fold it until smooth. Do not pop the air too much while mixing.
Step 6: Heat oven to 330°F.
Step 7: Put the mix into bundt cake pan. Bake at 330°F for 40 minutes. Cool upside down to prevent the cake from deflating.
Make doors and windows and other decorations with melted chocolate, and cool. Dip the edges of ice cream cones in whipping cream and put sprinkles. Make flags from toothpicks and construction paper. Put whipped cream and chocolate chips on Strawberries for eyes to make "soldiers".
Cover the cake with whipping cream, and decorate with the above items and fruits of your choice (I used cut grapes and pineapple slices).
Most of all, have fun. My kids sure did!
Cake submitted by Angela H. from Salem, OR
The cake was made with the chocolate cake recipe on the back of the Hershey's cocoa container. It was such a yummy moist cake!
I made three batches of it. One batch was for each of the two 10" round cakes, and the third - for the 9" square pan. The extra batter from that batch was made into cupcakes.
The cake was two 10" rounds stacked on top of each other with buttercream frosting in between the layers. I then wrapped those two in plastic wrap and froze them so they'd be easier to frost the next day.
The 9" square was cut into fours and I stacked three layers on top of each other with buttercream frosting in between those layers. Again, I wrapped in plastic wrap and froze them so they'd be easier to frost the next day.
The next day I frosted the whole double layer round cakes and the triple layer square cakes with buttercream, and put them back in the freezer. I made marshmallow fondant with a recipe/instructional video I found on Youtube. I made most of my decorations With the fondant: the roses, diamonds and drawbridge ropes.
After the buttercream had stiffened up in the freezer, I rolled out my fondant and covered the round stacked cakes and also the squared stacked cakes. Then I placed the square stacked cakes on top of the round stacked cakes.
For the towers, I just frosted sugar ice cream cones and then rolled them in dark pink and light pink sprinkles. (You have to snip off the top point of the cone until you get a little hole in the top so you can put a flag in it.)
I piped out a little bit of buttercream icing on top of the cone so the flags would stay put. (I just thought about it...fondant in a ball on top would have worked too.) One of the sprinkle covered cones was placed on either side of the square cakes, and then one on top of the square cakes.
I decorated the blue fondant moat with Swedish Fish and gummy frogs. I also bought candy rocks and sprinkled them. I rolled out green fondant for the grass, and then sprinkled with coconut that I colored with green food coloring.
The princesses on the front of the square cakes were cut out of magazine and laminated so the frosting wouldn't soil the picture. The "stones" around the top of the round cakes were gummy candy cut in half and then two marshmallows all the way around. Graham crackers were used for the drawbridge.
This cake was a lot of work, but my daughter loved it! I had a lot of fun!
Castle cake submitted by Dipali S. from Collegeville, PA
Step 1: Bake 2 layers of 10" square cake with cake mix boxes of your choice. Stack, fill, and cut corners off at 45 degrees. Bake 4 layers of 6" square cake. Stack and fill.
Step 2: Base towers are two ice-cream cup cones joined on end using melted white chocolate. Wrap the cones in fondant and decorate with fondant window and roses. Then attach sugar cones on top, and ice using Wilton tip #18.
Step 3: Make approx. 13 cups of buttercream icing. Color with Wilton "ivory" for icing the 10" square and 6" square. Make approx. 6 cups, color Wilton "teal" for the roofs.
Step 4: Prepare 1 batch marshmallow fondant: 1 cup mini marshmallows with 1 tbsp. water heated in microwave for 30 sec. Remove promptly, stir, mix in food coloring (it should be of soupy consistency). Gradually mix/knead in 1 1/2 cups confectionary sugar.
Use shortening on hands to prevent sticking. Make 3 batches of light ivory fondant to wrap towers, 1 batch of purple and pink for windows, 2 batches of dark ivory for stone coursing shown on cake.
Step 5: Bows, roses, numbers, and lettering are all made from white chocolate candy molds. Flags are fondant on toothpicks inserted into sugar cones.
Step 6: Two tall skinny towers are paper towel rolls wrapped in fondant and topped with ice-cream cones. Stick a wooden dowel down the center to secure them to the cake.
Step 7: Use Wilton Tip #233 to create the grass around the castle.
Castle cake submitted by Katie V. from Richmond, Canada
I made a cherry chip cake (box cake mix). Followed the directions and baked it in a 13x9 inch pan.
Once it was cooled, I cut it into two rectangles: one big and one small. The big one was the base of the castle, and the smaller one I cut into thin rectangles and two triangles to make the castles turrets. Plus two little squares to top the castle base.
Then it was all decorating and "pasting" together with icing.
I made a simple buttercream icing and made it pink. Iced the entire cake pink. Then with the leftover frosting I made it purple and used a piping bag to draw on the windows and drawbridge, as well as to write Happy Birthday. I used a Cinderella candle to top the cake.
Cake submitted by Melani C. from Newcastle, Australia
Cook cakes as directed and put into 1 deep 20-cm round cake pan and 1 deep 13-cm round cake pan. When cooled, level tops of the cake using a serrated knife. Place 20 cm cake top (cut) side down onto a covered cake board approx. 30 cm round.
Put both frostings into a large bowl and color with pink coloring. (I tint both together to ensure I have enough frosting and it's the same color.)
Place a little frosting onto cut side of 13 cm cake and place on top of 20 cm cake. Put rollettes on top of the cakes secured by a skewer through the middle of the rollettes and down into the bottom cake.
Now spread the remaining frosting over the cake. I spread the 2 big ones with a cake spatula as it gives a smoother finish, spread around the cakes. I used a dinner knife and spread upward.
To Make Window Doors and Vines:
On a sheet of baking paper draw outlines of windows, vines and doors. Melt some chocolate and color with food coloring. Pipe using a handmade paper piping bag, or use a ziplock bag that you snip a corner off. When doors are set, pipe some vines on top of these as shown on the picture.
With the ice cream wafers: spread 1 side with a little frosting, then quickly dip into hundreds and thousands. Do this with the ice cream cone as well. Allow to set.
I placed the windows, doors and vines onto the cake first. I used a dinner knife to carefully lift off paper and placed on the cake. Gently press into frosting.
Then start with a wafer at the front of the cake and alternate with a sherbet around the cake. You may have to check the spacing before putting onto the cake.
Place the ice cream cone on the top of the tower, and position butterflies around your castle.
These butterflies were off hair clips, because at the time they were the only ones I could find. I made this cake for my little girl 4 years ago.
Castle cake submitted by Amy W. from St. Louis, MO
This cake was made for my son's 7th birthday. We had a knighting ceremony for all the guests. My son requested a castle cake surrounded by a moat. And since it was a boys only party, the Polly Pockets who tried to enter the castle met their fate instead.
Step 1: A day or two ahead of time, make the blue Jell-O. Pour it into a large pan with a small square Corning Ware dish in the center. If adding Polly Pockets, wash with soapy water first then place them part way through the Jello setting process (otherwise they just fall to the bottom).
Step 2: Mix and bake cake according to box directions. Bake the cake in one regular 13x9x2 pan, and one in a 13x9x2 pan with deeper sides, or three separate bread pans.
Step 3 Once cakes are cool, you can begin assembly. Place the cake baked in the regular 13x9x2 pan on a piece of cardboard covered in foil.
If using two 13x9x2 pans, cut the deeper one into thirds, then cut one of the thirds in half. If using bread pans, cut one of the bread pans in half.
Place the three pieces on top of the large rectangle cake. The two longer pieces are on the side, and the shorter piece is in the middle towards the back of the cake.
Place 2 sugar cones on each long piece of cake. Place a regular cone with a sugar cone on top of the shorter piece of cake.
Step 4: Frosting the cake. Add gray gel coloring to the frosting. Frost all parts of the cake and the cones. Place knights at the castle entry way near the drawbridge. Add a plastic flag to top of the cone that is behind main castle door.
Step 5: Adding the decorations. Cut door shapes out of Fruit Roll-ups. Place doors on front of the cake: two small ones on the sides and one large on back piece of the cake. Use gumdrops around the cones. Tootsie Rolls make cannons to protect the castle from the side.
Wrap pretzel sticks in Fruit Roll-ups. Then cut a roll-up in a triangle shape to add to top of pretzel for a flag. "Glue" the pretzel flag to a gumdrop with frosting, and place on cake between the cones.
Step 6: Carefully place cardboard with cake on Corning Ware dish that is set in the middle of the Jello. Lean a Hershey bar across the Jello from the castle entrance to the edge of the Jello pan (this is your drawbridge).
Castle cake submitted by Tish P. from Grande Prairie, Canada
Bake 2 round cakes (same size), stick together with icing and decorate! I used the Wilton food coloring until I got the colors I wanted, and decorated with pastel Hershey Kisses. The peaks of the castle are ice cream cones and icing.
Chocolate cake recipe:
Beat on low until smooth. Bake at 350°F for 35-40 minutes.
Visit www.easy-cake-decorating.com for even more castle cake ideas.
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The state of Minnesota is one of seven pictured states for which a graphic on the Huffington Post Thursday lists as having introduced legislation to ban the so-called conversion therapy. Wisconsin, Illinois, Washington, New York, Delaware and Virginia are also shown as having had such legislation fail.
MinnPost obviously defines failed differently because that state's legislation is referred to as such but is still alive and thus could be affected by the decision on a similar California law. New Jersey and California are the only two states to have a ban, with both having survived appeal.
Advocates of conversion therapy tend to be fundamentalist Christians. MinnPost pointed out that Representative Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus employs the therapy and mentioned the couple's scandal surrounding accepting state and federal money for it.
Christians had a victory for religious freedom regarding the contraception mandate to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), but no comment was given regarding the decision not to hear this case. SCOTUS again made the correct decision based on the law regarding legislation that was on the right side of more facts.
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A New York Times article quoted Liberty Counsel (a Christian legal aid group) as saying there is no scientific basis to say that the therapy can be harmful. That is simply not true—just because a basis is not conclusive yet does not mean it does not exist. Moreover, there is a lot of it.
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Should California be barred from stopping something that there is more evidence says harms than helps, at least until we know for sure...upon minors only? The Liberty Counsel does not think so:
The minors we represent do not want to act on same-sex attractions, nor do they want to engage in such behavior. They are greatly benefiting from this counseling.
Except minors cannot really consent. They are not given the full rights or responsibilities of adulthood because the judgment center of the brain is not fully developed, and they are dependent upon a guardian. Their motivation could be societal pressure that is exacerbated by attempts to cure homosexuals of their "malady" or because they are seeking parental approval.
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