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One of the most popular pastimes for American women is discussing how men think and feel and then assigning those assumed thoughts and feelings (which are typically detrimental to women) to "all" or "most" men, whether they are real or not.
In fact, this activity is so popular that when those assumed thoughts and feelings are presented to men who recognize them to be false, the women who participate in this grand old American pursuit will argue, rage and attempt to intimidate.
Weak little Nancy boys will simply accept the assumed thoughts and feelings and try hard to act accordingly.
But men who are still men stand up to the assuming women, even in the face of being told that they hate women and/or that they must be gay, which are the only two responses in the absence of any real basis for argument.
One goofy woman emailed me claiming that most men cheat and that women rarely do. When I pressed her for the basis of her claim, she danced around it, giving me the result of four men and a small group of friends, but finally railing against my request for a basis by claiming that she doesn't have to have one because she's not a journalist.
Of course, intelligent people want to have a basis for views that they spread to others, but when it comes to relationship issues, the goal for many people, is to spread whatever feels good.
And, of course, as a journalist, I research issues before presenting my position, but most of the foundations I use are readily available to anyone. Yet, many people prefer to argue and spread their unfounded views as though they are valid, simply because they have thoughts.
Instead of acknowledging the difference between what they believe and what is actually in existence, these people want to assert their opinion over anyone's well-founded position.
For them, the axiom "I think, therefore, I am" becomes "I think therefore it is," or "I believe, therefore, it's the truth."
One of the best responses I've ever given to one of the most popular questions occurred at a relationship seminar I conducted. Several of the female audience members wanted to know why men cheat. My response, simple and plain was this: "The same reasons why women cheat."
My focus is to get more people to deal with the fact that not only do both sides cheat, but even when men cheat, they cheat with a woman. If that woman knows that the man is committed to someone else, then she is also cheating.
Being unfaithful is not and has never been a male phenomenon. Yet, the focus is always on men who cheat, and typically, the speakers are women claiming to know how men think.
Thank God there are still some American women who realize that men know better how men think and feel and that if a woman wants to understand, she would do better to ask men.
And thank God that there are still American women who understand that not everything is a man's fault.
Like cheating, for example.
American women who pretend that they understand men better than men, also pretend that anytime a man cheats, it is only because all or most men are dogs and cheating is simply what dogs do.
Of course, they come up with various and sundry reasons why women cheat, because, after all, women have "reasons" for bad behavior and men only have "excuses."
Giving her view of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's call-girl crisis, syndicated radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger asserted that when men cheat, the girlfriends and wives have to take part of the responsibility.
"When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he's very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs," the popular psychologist and radio personality said on a panel for NBC's The Today show.
Other panelists (including an anthropologist, no less) and viewers began to dog Dr. Laura for being a traitor to the gender and daring to speak in contradiction to what many women "know" about men. The one male panelist who almost spoke up tried to remain as neutral as possible.
Now, to be fair, Dr. Laura made it clear that Governor Spitzer took the cheating action on his own.
"The cheating was his decision to repair what's damaged and to feed himself where he's starving," she said.
Yet, she was still attacked.
And none of the attackers could present any foundation for their detractions, even though Dr. Laura is a psychologist who was clearly trained to understand interpersonal relationships.
Not only is it silly for unqualified women to argue about why men cheat, but even worse, the detractors are speaking on relationships they were not privy to. Some of these stupid people were actually trying to determine whether the wives of men who cheat were right or wrong for staying by the man's side.
An outrage was displayed and directed at Governor Spitzer's wife for choosing to stay by his side through the public debacle.
Funny, but two things stick out brazenly.
1.)If Dr. Laura were saying the same thing to MEN about cheating WOMEN, there would be no outcry.
2.)Why the F are women so outraged? Really, what married women do is none of any other woman's business. If the wife who was cheated on decides to stay, no one has a right to comment. This kind of "entitlement" to comment on other people's relationships, without any kind of qualified basis is why relationships are so difficult to maintain. Dr. Laura is a psychologist, but lay people want to argue with her.
Let's deal with some realities. Many humans decide to step outside of a committed relationship to find what they are not getting inside of it. That is not new. However, what is new is that many American women think it is horribly sinful for a man to cheat, but try to paint a cheating woman as a victim.
Cheating is cheating-by a man or a woman.
Further, too many American women (mostly over 30) have gone far, far overboard with expecting the world from men, but giving nothing. Even in simple dating, many women over thirty are quick to list the things they want, but recoil when a man speaks of his desires or needs.
One response to this has been for fewer women over thirty to get married.
However, when men do marry women who demand everything and give little in return, the relationship runs a short course to disaster.
Men in relationships with these women may find themselves at some point, seeking "everything I miss at home," to quote an Alexander O'Neal song.
Ask men fresh out of relationships what their chief complaint is and outside of the primary difficulties, the chief complaint is that the woman was unforgiving and was not understanding.
Dr. Laura gets it though: "Yes, I hold women responsible for tossing out perfectly good men by not treating them with the love and kindness and respect and attention they need."
Of course her position isn't popular, but it is based in reality.
There is simply too much propaganda spread about how men should treat women, and too little attention paid to how women should treat men.
But the bottom line is that both sides have to focus on treating each other with dignity and respect. And, if one party can not meet the other party's needs, of course, the end result may be infidelity or abandonment of the relationship, which is not at all gender-based.
Men cheat and so do women. There are myriad reasons, but each individual has his or her own.
As long as American women continue to pretend that cheating is a "man thing," there will be less understanding and possibly more cheating.
Darryl James n is an award-winning author who is now a filmmaker. He released his first mini-movie, "Crack," and in Spring of this year, will release his first full-length documentary. James' latest book, "Bridging The Black Gender Gap," is the basis of his lectures and seminars. Previous installments of this column can now be viewed at www.bridgecolumn.com. James can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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You watch your cuddly kitty every day of her life, so you know her every step. One day, when she is in her teens, you notice she is not as spry as usual.
At first you attribute this to her growing age, but then you notice that she isn't grooming herself as much as usual and is more reclusive. You take her to your veterinarian and discover that she has been dealing with arthritis.
Your senior cat may suffer the pain of arthritis without indicating it to you overtly. The earliest signs that your cat is feeling arthritic pain are often behavioral. This includes litter box avoidance because the box is difficult to get into and out of, lack of grooming herself because she can't reach certain areas of her body (if her spine or hips are affected), and reclusive behavior. Cats in pain may also be more irritable.
The terms arthritis, osteoarthritis, and degenerative joint disease (DJD), are often used interchangeably, and each indicates an inflammation of the joints. Although many things – such as injury or infection – can cause arthritis, most cases are simply due to aging. As cats age, the normally smooth cartilage surfaces of the bones erode and wear thin. As this erosion takes place, the body repairs it, but the new surface becomes increasingly irregular, or may be incomplete. These surface changes in the joint cause pain and additional inflammation when the bones meet each other.
Large joints, such as the shoulder, elbow, hip, and ankle are the most frequently affected. However, all joints, including those of the spine, can be involved. Obese cats tend to be especially prone to arthritis, as excess weight places a greater strain on joints.
Most geriatric cats will experience some degree of arthritis and exhibit symptoms including stiffness, pain, and loss of muscle. Arthritis is a progressive disease, meaning symptoms usually worsen with age.
Other signs include:
Arthritis and its accompanying symptoms are not life threatening, but they often worsen throughout your cat's life. Many cats simply live within the limitations caused by arthritis. For many, treatment can improve the quality of life.
You can also do a lot in your home to help your arthritic cat access her favorite spots comfortably. Make sure food bowls are easily accessible. Choose litter boxes that are large, easy to get into and out of, and place them in the living area where your cat spends the most time. For instance, if your cat dwells mainly on the first floor, don't put the litter box in the basement. Use a pet ramp or stair steps to help her access a favorite perch or warm space.
See your veterinarian if you suspect your cat has arthritis. Each cat with arthritis will need a management program specifically designed for her needs. Watch your cat and work with your veterinarian to determine what is best for your cat.

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wikiHow to Spring Clean Your Skateboard
When spring has sprung, and the sound of skateboards is in the air, it's time to clean up the old board and get it running like new again. Here's how.
1Gather all your tools and towels and other items. These are listed below under "Things You'll Need.
2Remove the grimy old wheels. The biggest part to a smooth running skateboard is clean, functional bearings, so grab your wrench, and unscrew the bolts.
3After you have the wheels off, you'll need to get to the bearings. There are a couple ways to get the bearings out of the wheels, but they're all pretty similar. Make the skateboard work for you – use the tip of the trucks, and carefully but firmly pry them out. You can put a lot of weight on the board that you can't get with a wrench or screwdriver.
- Note: a little olive, sunflower, or canola oil around the outside of the bearing helps shimmy it out!
- Note: a little olive, sunflower, or canola oil around the outside of the bearing helps shimmy it out!
4Once all of the bearings are out, fill a dish with olive, sunflower, or canola oil and drop them in to soak for a little while.
- CAUTION: If you use water or WD-40, your bearings will rust and not work for long!
- WD-40 is only good to get parts unstuck, not to grease them up for extended use.
5Now that the bearings are lubed up, clean all the dirt and sand off them. Roll them around a little. Get them moving again and use a cloth or paper towel to rub them off.
- Tapping some of the dirt out of them works a little bit too. And depending on the bearing construction, a cotton swab is a good idea to get in the groove to reach spots that a towel can't get to.
6Start the reassembly. The easiest way to get the bearings in the wheels again is using your skateboard. Place the bearing face down on the trucks' wheel post and then push the wheel over it, squeezing the bearing into the wheel. Do this until all the bearings are in.
- Note: if your bearings have metal spacers make sure you put them in before you put both bearings in your wheel.
7Before you screw the wheels back on, if you have washers to put on the outside and inside, do that now. And clean off the posts of dirt and grease from last summer.
8So your skateboard is all back together. Time to readjust your trucks' King pin. This is the mega-screw in the middle of your trucks. It adjusts how stiff or loose your turning is.
- Note: If you're new to skateboarding, try a firm setup. If it's too loose, your ride will be wobbly.
9Make sure you check your hardware screws too. (They're the screws that hold your deck to the trucks.) They should be nice and tight.
10Ride off into the sunset! Your wheels should be spinning much smoother and faster now.
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- Test the board out after setting your King pin. nothing worse then trying a new setup and getting to the park and finding out your board isn't responding how you want it to. also, bring tools along for a day at the park after setting up your skate-If you don't need to use them, surely someone else there will.
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I bought this as part of my first order ever from 52teas. I had gotten two bags.
On my first cup of this blend I was sort of underwhelmed. I oversteeped it a bit and had too much mate flavour. Then I tried it again the next day, studied the flavour more and how the whole cup felt when finishing it and it showed me more of its wonder. I could pick out the hints of malt and chocolate but what really stood out is how smooth this one is. Frank seems to know how to make his blends really flow well. I did this again the next day and before I knew it, I was missing it and/or looking forward to it.
I had gifted my second bag to a friend who loves tea as well and have more coming for myself in the mail.


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The weather expected for the coming week is oddly similar to last week (hopefully without the tornadoes). Like last week, after a dazzling weekend, the week gets off to a promising start. But then we cloud over, and a strong frontal system teams up with a decaying tropical system to deliver rain and even some thunderstorms midweek. We clear out and cool off to close the week. Sound familiar?
Today (Monday): We see more in the way of mid-and-high level clouds compared to the weekend due to a weak front in our vicinity. But not a bad day...at all. Highs reach the low-to-mid 70s and a light breeze from the west at 5-10 mph. Confidence: Medium-High
Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy and not as chilly as the last several nights. Lows range from the upper 40s in the cooler suburbs to the mid-50s downtown. Confidence: Medium-High
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Tomorrow (Tuesday): Perhaps partial morning sunshine, but then the cloud deck slowly lowers and thickens as low pressure approaches from the south. We should stay dry, with highs 70-75. Confidence: Medium-High
Tomorrow night: Rain probably develops, especially after midnight. Lows range from 52-57 (suburbs-city). Confidence: Medium
Wednesday is likely to be the wettest day of the week with low pressure moving through the region. Depending on its exact track, we may experience heavy rain (1-2"+) and thunderstorms, or more showery conditions with lesser amounts. Clouds should hold high temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60s. Rain pulls away Wednesday night, with clearing late. Lows range from the upper 40s to low 50s (suburbs to city). Confidence: Medium
The big difference between this week and last week is that this Thursday will be more tranquil, relatively speaking. No tornadic thunderstorms this time around. But as low pressure deepens to our north, it may well be quite windy. High pressure building in means partly sunny skies, with cooler highs in the upper 50s. Winds slowly subside Thursday night, with lows from the mid-to-upper 30s in the cooler suburbs to the low-to-mid 40s downtown. Confidence:Medium
Friday through Sunday look outstanding at this point, with mostly sunny skies and highs moderating from near 60 Friday to the upper 60s Sunday. Overnight lows Friday and Saturday night range from the low-to-mid 30s in the colder suburbs (possibly the first frost of the season) to the low 40s downtown. Confidence:Medium


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What do an urban planner in California, a dentist in Texas, and an engineer in New Jersey have in common? They use math every day.
Whether you realize it or not, mathematics is central to many occupations. According to the UC Regents, the governing board of the University of California, math is the backbone of more than 80 career tracks, ranging from health record administrators to landscape architects to computer systems analysts. As we look towards celebrating Math Awareness Month in April, it's a good time to reflect on a critical problem facing our nation today -- the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills gap.
The ACT reports that only 44 percent of 2013 U.S. high school graduates were ready for college-level math, and 36 percent of them were ready for college-level science. If we fail to adequately prepare our students before they enter college -- where they'll have access to a plethora of collegiate study options ranging from cycling to postcolonial literature to biomedical engineering to statistical inference -- keeping them on a STEM path will be even more difficult. And, in a nation where 20 percent of all U.S. jobs -- 26 million positions -- require knowledge in at least one STEM field, ensuring student interest and engagement in these subjects is critical for filling these well-paying jobs with U.S. employees.
Samsung, the largest consumer electronics company in the world, has more than 8,000 employees in the U.S. alone, nearly all of whom work on or engage with STEM projects every day. As we look to maintain our American workforce, ensuring that the students of today are prepared for the challenges of tomorrow is a top priority for us. Studies from organizations like the Buck Institute for Education show students do vastly better when they're engaged and motivated in the topics they're learning. But how can teachers adequately prepare and engage students when only one fifth of educators report having the right level of technology in their classrooms?
To help address that question, Samsung launched the Solve for Tomorrow competition -- a nationwide challenge for students and teachers to use STEM to improve their communities. Schools can win a variety of classroom technology, ranging from tablets to smart boards in each phase of the competition. But more than the technology, community-based learning really makes STEM come alive for students.
Take Meera Petroff, for example. She first got involved in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition as the narrator for her school's video submission. (See all the finalists' videos for this year's Samsung Solve for Tomorro...s). In this role, although she was more interested in the arts than the sciences, she soon realized that STEM was interesting and cool. She loved the way she could apply the math and engineering skills learned in her high school classroom to address the impact hydroelectric dams are having on salmon fisheries in her community. Her team went on to win the Solve for Tomorrow competition and she continued her interest in STEM by using her school's new technology to apply for other STEM competitions.
Today, Meera is majoring in engineering at Oregon State University. Our hope is that through the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition, we can help inspire more students like her to discover their passion for STEM.
Ann Woo is director of Corporate Citizenship at Samsung Electronics North America.
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Polish produce comes in many fun varieties
Our friend Suzanne relishes her Polish heritage to the delight of all. Whether it is breaking into song, admittedly at inappropriate times, or impishly flirting with startled men half her age, she inspires us all by never growing old. However, it is Suzanne's food that wins every heart, with pierogi, kielbasa soup, or, best of all, stuffed cabbage or golumpki.
So it always seems to come back to food, and what better than to plant a Polish garden?
Tomatoes are America's favorite garden vegetable, with the average American eating 13 pounds of tomatoes each year. Poland gives us several delicious heirloom tomatoes. The Polish Linguisa tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) bears three- to four-inch-long pointed red fruits one to two inches in diameter that are meaty, with few seeds, making them ideal for sauce or drying. They are delicious to eat out of hand or slice into salads and sandwiches. Linguisa tomatoes mature in just 73 days from transplanting.
The Polish Soldacki Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an heirloom from Krakow, Poland, brought to Cleveland, Ohio, around 1900. This is a dark pink, flattened beefsteak that can weigh up to one pound each. Soldacki tomato has solid, meaty flesh yet a very thin skin so they are always tender. They can become somewhat vulnerable to cracking. They are low-acid tomatoes with an intense sweet flavor that should begin bearing at 75 to 80 days from transplant.
Opalka tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) puts out large quantities of three-inch by six-inch red paste tomatoes on vigorous, flimsy-looking vines. Opalka tomatoes are famous for their outstanding flavor. Because they have very few seeds, they are a great processing tomato. Luckily, the huge crops hold well on the vine, so you can pick them over a long period. They will begin bearing about 85 days from transplant.
No kitchen is complete without garlic, and Poland gives us Carpathian garlic from the Carpathian Mountains of southwest Poland. Carpathian has huge, uniform bulbs with classic garlic flavor described as almost tangy. This hot and spicy garlic holds up in cooking.
One of the most unusual garden plants form Poland is Aunt Mollie's ground cherry. Ground cherries (Physalis pruinosa) are also known as Cape Gooseberry or Husk Cherry. Aunt Mollie is prized for its strawberry-like flavor. The warm golden half-inch fruits can be cooked into pies, preserves and jams or just eaten fresh from the garden. The short 18-inch-tall plants are productive and easy to harvest. Just let the fruit fall to the ground. Like all ground cherries, each fruit is encased in a paper husk much like the decorative Chinese lantern. Aunt Mollie's ground cherry begins fruiting in July and continues right up until frost.
For nut lovers, the Carpathian walnut (Juglans regia 'Carpathian') is one of the most cold-hardy English walnuts around. They come from the Carpathian Mountains of Poland. The flavorful nutmeats are thin-shelled and easy to crack. Carpathian walnuts can be successfully grown anywhere peaches thrive. Unfortunately, they take awhile to be established and will begin bearing in eight to 10 years. For a much quicker Polish crop, try radishes. The Polish Zlata radish (Raphanus sativus) is ready to pull from the ground in just 30 days. This soft-skinned radish is a charming flaxen yellow. The medium-sized roots are round to plum shaped. Zlata radishes have a crisp, dazzling white interior and a crunchy texture. The flavor is mildly spicy. It resists going to seed (bolting) and the roots are always perfect without splitting.
If you like hot peppers, the Polish pepper Cyklon (Capsicum annuum) is a bright red-hot five-inch long pepper. Because it is very thin fleshed, it dries easily and is widely used in Poland as a dried pepper. Cyklon bears fruit just 80 days from transplant.
The Polana Everbearing Raspberry (Rubus Idaeus Polana) is ready to pick by mid-August in northern areas, about four to six weeks earlier than most fall-bearing raspberries. Polana has shiny red conical firm berries with a fresh, bracing raspberry flavor. Because Polana fruits earlier in the season and has buds that produce two fruiting laterals, the yields are fantastic. Polana is a good choice for anywhere raspberries are grown, but is especially useful in short season areas.
We all can't be Polish but we can put a little Poland in our gardens and a little Suzanne in our hearts.
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The Diagon Alley expansion to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando opened Tuesday to packed crowds.
Diagon Alley joins Hogsmeade, which opened in 2010. Parkgoers can now take the Hogwarts Express between the two attractions with a Park-to-Park admission ticket or annual pass.
Like the first Harry Potter park, the new area is richly detailed, bringing to life characters and settings from the series.
Included in the attractions are the Harry Potter and the Escape From Gringotts ride, Ollivanders wand shop and other stores, and the Leaky Cauldron and other eateries.
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The traditional understanding of religious liberty protected free exercise; that is, religious institutions could freely act on their beliefs and the state would not interfere.
That central understanding of the American constitutional system no longer holds.
A recent state statute proposed in Colorado strikes directly at the heart of the free exercise of religion. The statute, called House Bill (HB) 1080, would prohibit "discrimination" in employment in institutions that receive government funding, and explicitly includes religious charities that receive government funds.
That means that the state may now require Catholic institutions to cease preferring hiring Catholics for roles concerning its mission, or any other function.
The Colorado statute is only one of numerous similar laws being considered across the nation, and they follow closely on the heels of other laws passed in states such as California and New York under the guise of "equality."
These laws — which have been upheld by the courts — required religious institutions such as hospitals to provide contraceptives as part of their health insurance, unless these institutions could show that all of their employees and patients were of the same faith — an impossibility, given Catholic institutions' mission to serve the entire community.
The Colorado law goes one step farther, and reaches inside the institution itself. As Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver put it, the law has two problems.
First, the mere transfer of money from government to these charities does not violate the Constitution's Establishment Clause. This reasoning in fact confuses an institution's receipt of government funds with being a part of government itself. As Archbishop Chaput notes, government gives money to religious charities precisely because they perform functions better and more efficiently than the government can; if the government now wants to perform these services itself, it had better be able to bear the costs and burdens associated with them.
Secondly, HB 1080 is contrary to American historical practice. Government money often flowed to religious institutions without any concern for improper proselytization and partnerships between government and religious groups was (and is) common.
The false presumption behind laws such as HB 1080 that religious groups need to be carefully regulated for fear they will harm the common good is "enormously offensive to religious believers."
It is hard to underestimate the threat these laws pose to religious freedom. They not only silence unique voices religious institutions bring to public debate, but they also impermissibly interfere in the internal workings and governance of religious communities. These laws privilege one value — "nondiscrimination" — over religious freedom.
But in this context, nondiscrimination loses much of its value because it ultimately will mean whatever shifting coalitions of legislators want it to mean. Further, these laws deprive religious institutions of the clear constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. They in effect discriminate against religion.
Catholics especially should be concerned. As the religious denomination with the largest network of hospitals, schools, charities, and other entities, these laws clearly target the Church and will have the result — intentionally or not — of reducing the Church's mission and the reach of its charitable efforts.
Already, in places like Massachusetts, Catholic Charities has had to stop placing children for adoption in light of a law requiring agencies to consider same-sex couples.
Should laws like HB 1080 be allowed to stand, Catholic institutions such as those in Denver will be forced to renounce government funding — and thus reduce their effectiveness — or compromise their beliefs. This will harm not only those who rely on the Church's assistance, but the cause of religious liberty itself.
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DirecTV's launched a new satellite this week, giving them beaucoups bandwidth for the world's first all-HD 3D channel. The satellite provider plans to populate that channel with movies, sports and other 3D programs.
There's not much technical information about what kind of 3D they'll be satcasting, but the company does say its HDTV satellite receivers will be able to show 3D content after a firmware upgrade. More details will be forthcoming at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 7.
Oops, there's one catch: To watch this stuff, you'll need to choose a brand-new 3D-capable HDTV from Panasonic, Sony, Samsung, LG or others — set to go on sale after their rollout next month. So what's the point of this 3D onslaught? Is it to bring us a richer viewing experience, or sell more TV sets? Our answer: It's a little of the former, and lots of the latter.
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Decorating By Cakepro Updated 6 Apr 2016 , 10:46pm by WhiskandZest
I'm glad I read this! I'm putting together my first wedding cake tonight which includes some gumpaste flowers I've made and would need to apply with wires, and although I didn't plan on inserting the wires into the cake I did get some good alternate methods from reading this post. Besides the gross factor, I never knew WHY we couldn't insert wires - but lead poisoning is more than reason enough!
I got the Duff Decorative Wires that is labeled as food safe. I wish I could find what wire they use and get more for other projects like wiring chocolate branches.
I just use coffee stirrers or regular drinking straws and insert the wires into those, then stick that into the cake. No big deal.
My neighbours brought us a piece of their wedding cake that had real flowers in it. It smelled nice but I was wondering about the safety of real flowers in the cake. A while later, I was feeling really poorly and had the worst bout of diarrhoea! I forbade my daughter to eat any when she got home from school. She was crying but at least she did not get ill. I really wanted to say something to the neighbours but not spoil their heart. I ended up saying nothing. But I am wondering about the pastry shop in the vicinity that makes these cakes. I have eaten from them before and they use non edible glitter (the Edable version... the one that caused the scandal and was shut down by the UK Food authorities. I had warned my decorating supply shop about Edable glitter and they put up a notice afterwards that it was meant to be used for removable decorations that will not be eaten, but it was a hard fight to persuade them and explain that edible and edable are not the same and that non toxic does not mean food safe. Sigh.)
i'm sorry that happened to you, shockolata -- it happens more often than we think/know because just like you most of us including me do not report and that mostly because we are not 100% sure --
all that to say activated charcoal is a godsend -- available over the counter -- if your local pharmacy doesn't carry it you can have them order it or get it online --
best to you
Thank you K8memphis. We live and learn. I hope to be making more and more cakes for people in the future so they get to enjoy the taste of real ingredients. Used a bit of ready frosting (an American well known brand) the other day and almost threw up - it was that nasty! And to think that only a few years ago I used to eat it by the spoonful ...
silly question speaking of wires and not using those, how come you can use stamens inside the edible flowers, are those safe as well>?
ive seen them all over the craft store and all you tubes say to use them but they also say use wires and tape.... all which in this thread, say aren't safe, so what Do you use?
There's a difference between edible flowers (say, out of buttercream), and "edible" flowers, out of gumpaste. You *could* eat the gumpaste flowers, but most people would never WANT to. So the flower is edible/food safe, but since they are typically removed before serving, the stamens are used. Same idea as the wires: most people use the wires in teh flower, but use a barrier such as a straw to keep the wire from touching the part of the cake people actually eat.
Hello i am new to this forum and also a self taught newbie cake maker.... I wanted to ask. if you want to place only one wire into the cake what is the safest way to insert it and make sure it stays upright? i want to achieve what the pictures shows that i have attached :) [postimage id="3477" thumb="900"]
Hello and welcome to the cake community!
The easiest way to stick the wire in the cake (which would also give it strength to hold the balloon up) would be to pipe some chocolate, candy melts, or almond bark into a narrow coffee stir straw and insert the wire into that. The chocolate will harden and anchor the wire into the straw. Make sure that the straw goes into the cake perfectly straight up and down, and just bend the wire to the desired angle where it meets the level of your cake. :)
What size styrofoam ball are you using for the center of the balloon?
Thank you for replying so quickly!
Is it safe to use the coffee stir straw purchased online as i don't think i can find there anywhere in my local shops..
also as for the size of the styrofoam ball I'm not 100% sure yet want to have a look at the size options in person to give a better idea.... thinking not to big so there isn't to much weight to it... :)
You could probably find coffee stir straws in any fast food restaurant or convenience store that sells cups of coffee. :)
When you do decide on what size ball to use, you can make the wire stick in there very well if you use a small pair of needlenose pliers to bend the end of the wire into a small shepherd's hook (about 1/4 inch in length) and apply hot glue to the hook before you stick it in the ball. That's also a handy trick for using styro balls as the center of heavy gumpaste peonies. :)
Well done for resurrecting this zombie thread, its as pertinent today as it was then and at least new cakers will see it x
thank you for the advice i will have to get myself a hot glue gun and give it a go! first time making it but it looks so fun I'm looking forward to it.
will also keep an eye out next time i grab a coffee :D
I was actually watching a few tutorials on youtube and thought.... It can't be right to put wire in a cake or even the flower stems.... and then i found Cake Central! :D such great ideas on concealing foreign items in a cake.


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This was good, but I don't care for grapefruit. Although, it had more of just a general citrus flavor. (Which I don't prefer either.) Don't get me wrong though – it was still pretty good.
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DC Public Library Associate Director Named PLA Leadership Fellow
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Chang Liu, Associate Director for Neighborhood Library Services at the DC Public Library, has been awarded the Leadership Fellows Scholarship from Public Library Association (PLA). Liu will attend Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government's "Senior Executives in State and Local Government" program this June.
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Violence is the only language Israel understands (in public)
This posting has these items on the responses to the disappearance of the three Israeli boys – and Israel's aim in the operation:
1) Tikun Olam: Expect IDF Operation Gaza Punching-Bag Imminently, Richard Silverstein (and see photo of Israeli missile strike on Gaza city in item 5);
2) AFP: Israel aims to break Hamas as hunt for missing youths intensifies;
3) Ma'an news: Israeli forces kill Palestinian during Ramallah arrest raid;
4) +972: Analysis: How Israel taught Hamas that violence is effective, Michael Omer-Man;
5) +972: The kidnapping is indefensible – but Israel helped provoke it, Larry Derfner;
Facebook page calls for murder of Palestinian prisoners
Expect IDF Operation Gaza Punching-Bag Imminently
By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam
June 15, 2014
On social media, some have jokingly anticipated call-up of the IDF reserves and preparations for a new military operation in Gaza. Knowing the precedent in similar past circumstances, I expect the chances of a major incursion into Gaza at better than 50-50. To spare the IDF the trouble, I've already named it: Operation Punching Bag.
Yediot's Alex Fishman alludes to this in today's column. Here he writes of a potential Gaza connection:
If say, the IDF destroys the building in which the kidnappers are hiding, or if it continues attacking Gaza from the air, Hamas will not be able to continue biting its lip. Then Israel will not shed a tear or resist the option to strike, thus reminding the world of Hamas's real image as a terrorist entity. And at the precise moment when Hamas returns fire, we'll then be in the heart of battle. That will help the world to forget the days of the non-violent Palestinian unity government.
It's no accident that the IDF moved an Iron Dome battery to Ashdod. There is an expectation at a certain point that Hamas will make a mistake. The expectation of such a mistake will prime the IDF for a [military] response. Israel has been following for some time Hamas' arming itself with hundreds of long-distance missiles which threaten Tel Aviv. From its [Israel's] perspective, this presents a golden opportunity: both to destroy the image of the Palestinian unity government and deal with Hamas' rocket arsenal.
This is precisely the sort of grandiose thinking which got Olmert into the Lebanon war mess in 2006 and the Operation Cast Lead mess in 2009. It's the notion that every few years Israel has to "mow the grass" represented by Hamas, as if this was regular lawn maintenance and not an assault on real human beings. Just as a hammer never sees any problem except as a nail meant to be struck, so Israel never sees Palestine as anything but a military problem whose solution is more force. This bankruptcy of strategic thinking leads to nothing but misery for the victims and Israel itself. Because Israel has reached a certain phase in which it cannot use its military power without losing. The more power it uses the worse Israel's image becomes. So while Alex Fishman and the IDF think they're going to tarnish the Palestinian unity government's image, they're really going to do the most damage to Israel.
I think that Bibi doesn't mind this very much. He doesn't care what the world thinks of Israel, as long as it thinks just as badly of the Palestinians. He has so far succeeded in this. The world may think Israelis are butchers during wartime, but it hasn't come round to the idea that the victims are worthy of outrage or urgent action. As long as such a gap exists, Bibi is content.
Netanyahu began today's cabinet meeting with the breathless news that Hamas is responsible for the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank:
Israel believes that Hamas, or an Islamist cell linked to it, is responsible for the kidnapping
It doesn't matter that the army hasn't publicly breathed a word about any of this. Bibi has his own intelligence which tells him what he needs to know (or wants to believe). Blaming Hamas kills several Palestinian birds with one stone. Note that "an Islamic cell linked to it" covers virtually any militant operating anywhere in Gaza or the West Bank (or anywhere in the world, for that matter). Let Israel not be constrained by reason or moderation.
Not a single piece of evidence has been offered to support this claim, nor will any ever be. Gullible Israelis believe virtually anything their generals and politicians tell them regarding Palestinians. Normal standards of proof are unnecessary.
Sheera Frenkel quotes Israeli and Palestinian sources with a much different story to tell:
The kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers was likely carried out by a small group of militants with no direct orders from Hamas, ISIS, or any other regional terror group, said senior Israeli and Palestinian officials Sunday.
"What we do know, is that this was likely an opportunistic move. The men behind this may have ties to a larger terror group, but this does not have the markings of a well-planned, complex operation…"
So in weighing who to believe, Bibi's source or Frenkel's, I'll take hers all the time.
Blaming Hamas serves many useful political purposes. First, Bibi needs to throw the U.S. and international community off its "blame Israel" narrative regarding the failure of the Kerry peace talks. If he can associate the Palestinians with terrorism then they won't associate Israel with rejectionism. Second, the Palestinian unity government, which has been gaining favorable reviews from foreign governments, will look like terror-lovers. Third, Netanyahu, who just suffered an ignominious political defeat when Reuven Rivlin, won the Israeli presidency despite Bibi's machinations, will be politically relevant once again.
There is clear evidence of police ineptitude in managing the case. The victims called 911 and were able to say that they'd been kidnapped before they went silent. Then one of the parents called an emergency police hotline. A patrol car responded to the scene of the kidnapping an hour after the call. But by then, the kidnappers and victims were gone. Neither one of these calls elicited the proper response and authorities lost four hours in beginning their search.
Readers of this blog won't be surprised by police malfeasance. They don't seem able to prevent or resolve many cases involving Israeli perpetrators (though they have a better record in resolving Palestinian crimes since they're more motivated to do so). Remember the Bar Noar gay massacre? Not to mention hundreds of price tag attacks, almost none of which have been investigated, let alone prosecuted. The murders of two Israeli policemen, for which Jack Teitel was once suspected, also have not been solved.
In response to the kidnapping and Israel's inability to quickly solve it, I expect a broad military adventure in Gaza. It is Bibi's punching bag whenever he needs someone to blame. After the Eilat terror attack, Israel murdered the head of the Gaza militant group which Israel falsely blamed for the attack. 30 innocent Gazans died on the altar of Bibi's expedience.
Perhaps the most troubling official statement was this one by senior minister Naftali Bennett:
"…From the dawn of Zionism, the Arabs and Islam are out to kill Jews. We shouldn't be confused or beat ourselves up."
This is nothing less than the Protocols of the Elders of Arabia. Disgusting Islamophobia. Israel can be proud to have leaders spewing such malevolent hatred all over the Israel and international airwaves.
Along the same lines, Israelis have created a Facebook page dedicated to the proposition that Israel should kill a Palestinian terrorist every hour until the Israeli kidnap victims are returned.
Israel aims to break Hamas as hunt for missing youths intensifies
An Israeli soldier aims his gun during clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron on June 16, 2014. Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP
By AFP
June 17, 2014
Israel stepped up efforts to crush Hamas in the West Bank on Tuesday as the hunt for three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped by the Islamist movement entered its fifth day.
Thousands of Israel troops engaged in the search for the youths turned their attention during the night to the northern West Bank city of Nablus and surrounding area, arresting 41 Palestinians, the army said.
So far, Israel has arrested around 200 Palestinians, most of them Hamas members, as it conducts a vast search operation for the students, two of them minors.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused militants from the Islamist movement of kidnapping the youths last week.
"We are here in the midst of a complex operation. We need to be prepared for the possibility that it may take time. This is a serious event and there will be serious consequences," Netanyahu said on Monday evening.
Israel has said it holds Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas responsible for the safe return of the three, with Netanyahu phoning him to demand his help in the search efforts in what was their first direct political contact since 2012.
So far, there has been no formal claim of responsibility, and Hamas has dismissed Israel's accusations as "stupid".
– Smashing Hamas –
At a meeting of the Israeli security cabinet on Monday, ministers decided to expand moves against Hamas in order to smash its political and social infrastructure in the West Bank, officials said.
"As long as our boys remain abducted, Hamas will feel pursued, paralysed and threatened," said Lieutenant Peter Lerner, the military's official spokesman.
"We are committed to resolving the kidnapping and debilitating Hamas terrorist capacities, its infrastructure and its recruiting institutions," he said in a statement.
A series of punitive steps aimed at decapitating Hamas in the West Bank were discussed on Monday by ministers, who examined the possibility of banishing its senior members to Gaza and demolishing their West Bank homes, Israeli media reports said.
Ministers were reportedly meeting again on Tuesday.
"Israel has decided to perform a root canal to uproot everything green in the West Bank," said army radio, referring to the colour representing Hamas.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, who was at the meeting, told the radio Israel had decided to "dramatically" change its approach to the Islamist movement.
"We will bring about a situation in which Hamas people will become a nuisance for the Palestinian population, and that their presence in Judaea and Samaria (the West Bank) will cause harm everywhere," he said.
'Entry ticket to hell'
"In other words we will turn membership in Hamas into an entry ticket to hell."
Writing in the top-selling Yediot Aharonot, Alex Fishman said the kidnapping had created a "one-time operational opportunity" which Israel would use "to castrate" Hamas and suppress its "strongholds in Palestinian Authority territory to the greatest extent possible."
Pundits said Israel was also seeking to bring about the collapse of a newly-formed Palestinian unity government backed by Hamas, the firstfruits of a reconciliation deal between rival leaders in the West Bank and Gaza which has been furiously denounced by the Netanyahu government.
"The purpose of the Israeli actions … is to drive a wedge between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and stop the reconciliation process that began some two months ago," wrote Amos Harel in Haaretz newspaper.
By crushing Hamas's infrastructure, it would weaken the movement ahead of Palestinian elections which under the unity deal are supposed to take place before the end of the year, Fishman said.
"Removing the political leadership from the West Bank is supposed to weaken Hamas in advance of the Palestinian presidential elections," he said.
But as the manhunt entered its fifth day, commentators voiced concern about growing reports of clashes around the West Bank, sparking fears that an already tense situation could rapidly escalate.
On Monday, a 19-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by troops during clashes in Jalazoun camp north of Ramallah. And during the night, troops shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian who was trying to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in the same area, military radio said.
In Gaza, the Israeli air force carried out a fourth straight night of air strikes after militants fired more rockets over the border.
Members of the Palestinian national security forces carry the bodies of Nadim Seeam Abu Kara and Muhammad Abu Da'har during their funeral procession in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 16, 2014. Abu Kara and Muhammad Abu Da'har were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes the previous day outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison following a protest commemorating the Nakba. Foreign press published that the two died in a Ramallah hospital after being shot in the chest during a protest to demand the release of thousands of Palestinians held by Israel. Photo by Activestills.org.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian during Ramallah arrest raid
By Ma'an news
June 16, 2014
RAMALLAH — Israeli troops shot dead a young Palestinian man in al-Jalazun refugee camp north of Ramallah during overnight clashes with locals, medics said.
Palestinian Red Crescent officials said the victim, 20-year-old Ahmad Sabarin, was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest.
Local residents told Ma'an that clashes broke out after midnight as a large group of Israeli forces raided the camp. Sabarin and two others were injured and taken to hospital for treatment, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
Palestinian security sources could not immediately say whether the army had intended on arresting Sabarin. They noted he had been released from Israeli prison one week ago.
Earlier, Israeli forces raided al-Bireh and Beitunia, clashing with local youths.
Young men hurled stones and empty bottles at Israeli soldiers, who fired tear gas canisters at rubber-coated steel bullets.
The raids took place as part of efforts to locate three settlers who are suspected of being kidnapped near Gush Etzion settlement on Thursday.
The Israeli army could not immediately comment on the al-Jalazun shooting, but said it was continuing its campaign of detaining dozens of Palestinians throughout the West Bank as part of its efforts to locate the missing settlers.
The youths, one of whom also holds a US passport, are students at Jewish seminaries in the West Bank, believed to have been kidnapped late Thursday from an area between Bethlehem and Hebron while hitchhiking.
They have been identified as Gilad Shaer, 16, from Talmon settlement near Ramallah, Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon, and Eyal Ifrach, 19, from Elad, both in central Israel.
Israeli search efforts were focused on the southern West Bank Hebron area but increased military presence was felt throughout the entire territory, with dozens of Palestinians being detained for questioning.
Late Sunday night Israeli forces had blasted through the door of a Hebron house and arrested two of its inhabitants, wounding one person, Palestinian eyewitnesses said.
Analysis: How Israel taught Hamas that violence is effective
The Islamic group has good reason to believe that violence will work for it, and maybe even set the stage for diplomatic engagement with Israel: it has in the past, both for itself and the PLO.
By Michael Omer-Man. +972
June 15, 2014
It is ironic that Israel rushed to point to the kidnapping of three Israeli teens as the reason it cannot negotiate with a Palestinian leadership affiliated with Hamas.
Indeed, in the wake of the kidnapping — regardless of the outcome — Israel will very likely use the event as an excuse to stay away from the already comatose peace talks with the Mahmoud Abbas's moderate, Fatah-dominated PA and PLO.
However, if Hamas is indeed behind the kidnapping, and it carries it out with the professionalism, patience and successful strategy that it used with Gilad Schalit, it will in all likelihood lead to direct talks between Hamas and Israel. (Hamas has not explicitly denied being behind the kidnapping, but it did describe accusations that it is responsible as "stupid.")
Israeli soldiers arrest Abdel Aziz Dweik (left) – speaker of the Palestinian parliament and a senior Hamas figure – at his home during a huge military operation to search for three missing Israeli teenagers. Photo by AP.
Israel actually has a long track record of contact and negotiations with Hamas, a group whom it lobbies the entire world to boycott. Those negotiations and contacts have taken place in the context of a prisoner swap, but are far more regular regarding cease fires and understandings about security protocols.
Following nearly every escalation, military operation and round of violence involving Israel and the Gaza Strip since 2007 when Hamas took full control of that territory, Israel has, through Egyptian and other intermediaries, negotiated explicit and implicit agreements with the Islamic political and militant movement. Those agreements have covered ceasefires and general arrangements under which Hamas would prevent other armed groups from attacking Israel, as well as very specific and technical ones regarding the size and depth of Israel's "buffer zone" along the land border and access to Gaza's territorial waters.
The fact of the matter is that Israel, like it loves to claim about its neighbors and cohabitants of this land, also understands force when push comes to shove. Israel has a long history of negotiating with terrorist organizations in order to release its own captured soldiers and civilians. Such negotiations take place when its own superior but conventional force is not, or is no longer a viable option.
Whereas Mahmoud Abbas's commitment to non-violence for the most part allows him and his government to take the higher ground and increase international support and empathy, that very same non-violent engagement in the international diplomatic and political arena has given Israel a domestic excuse to cut off direct ties with him. Hamas's adherence to armed resistance and terrorism, on the other hand, is a surefire and proven way to guarantee Israel's attention and to bring it to the negotiating table.
It must be mentioned that Abbas was only given the opportunity and platform for a non-violent approach in large part due to the violent acts of his predecessors, which put the PLO and cause of Palestinian national self-determination on the world agenda and consciousness. The world's recognition and acceptance of the PLO followed a wave of violent terror attacks and hijackings in Europe. It is easy to forget that the Oslo peace process — and ultimately, the widespread acceptance of the two-state solution — came at the heels of, and as a direct result of the First Intifada.
This is of course not an endorsement of violence in any way, shape or form. It is, however, important to understand how violence has worked for Palestinians in the past. It has not fully achieved their goals, to which the 47-year-old occupation attests, but it has certainly advanced them. As a marginalized movement in Palestinian politics and internationally, it is no wonder that Hamas keeps violent tools in its pocket. They give it legitimacy — vis-a-vis official Israel.
Let there be no mistake. Palestinians will suffer as a result of the kidnapping of these three Israeli teenagers, who have done nothing to deserve the suffering they are enduring. And if whatever violent group is responsible ever wants to fully participate in a diplomatic process with international acceptance it will need to eventually abandon those violent tools. However, from Hamas's strategic standpoint, there is no reason to believe that time is now.
Israel's disengagement from the peace process with a non-violent partner certainly doesn't help.
Post script from the author:
If Hamas is behind this kidnapping and if it achieves tangible results, it will almost certainly strengthen its position in yet-to-be-scheduled Palestinian elections. Like its violence that played a huge part in pushing Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and like the Gilad Schalit prisoner swap, violent or armed actions that bring about tangible results are easily transferable to political capital, which Hamas desperately needs at the moment.
The kidnapping is indefensible – but Israel helped provoke it
By Larry Derfner, +972
June 15, 2014
The pain Israelis feel over the three missing boys must be respected, but the fight to end the occupation – including a major BDS effort in America this week – must not stop.
The three boys kidnapped in the West Bank Thursday night are innocent victims. And given their youth (Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaer are both 16, Eyal Yifrah is 19), there's absolutely no justifying this attack. Youngsters should never be targeted, no matter the political cause.
But while the three boys are innocent and their kidnapping wrong, that doesn't mean Israel is innocent or right in what it does to the Palestinians; the opposite is the case. Israel is running a military dictatorship in the West Bank, which means Israel shares in the blame for the kidnapping because Israel's treatment of the Palestinians was at least one of the things, probably the main thing, that provoked it. So ultimately the answer to kidnappings and other acts of terror against Israelis is to end the occupation, let the Palestinians have their state, put up a border between Israel and Palestine like there's a border between Israel and the other neighboring states, and such attacks will end – especially if Israel has a peace treaty with Palestine like it does with Egypt and Jordan.
A long time ago there were influential Israelis making this argument, even in the wake of terror attacks. But you don't hear them today, because anybody who says such a thing in 21st century Israel is by definition a person without influence. Outside of Arabs and Jews on the left-wing margin, who weigh nothing in the Israeli body politic, nobody is going to be influenced by such an appeal; nobody wants to hear it. Israelis are convinced they offered the Palestinians everything they could ask for – first with Oslo, then with disengagement from Gaza and the prospect of more withdrawals from the West Bank – but the Palestinians turned it down both times, so Israel is off the hook. That's not true – Israel never offered the Palestinians anything anywhere that could be called independence, sovereignty or statehood – but that's what Israelis believe.
So the virtually unchallenged view today is that Palestinian terror comes out of the blue – it has nothing to do with the occupation, or Israel's stance in the just-ended peace process, or its policy toward Palestinian prisoners, or anything at all. It follows, then, that there's nothing really wrong with the occupation, or our stance in the peace process, or our policy toward prisoners or whatever else we do. What we do to them is irrelevant, it's not worth any attention. The Palestinians act out of "motiveless malignity," like Shakespeare's evil character Iago.
Damage: Palestinians inspect the rubble of a home after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City early Tuesday morning. Photo from AP.
This belief that Israel is a passive innocent and the Palestinians relentless evildoers leads the public, led perfectly by Netanyahu, to make endless demands on the other side while ignoring theirs. And when the Palestinian Authority keeps the peace year after year in West Bank cities, villages and refugee camps in the face of the most contemptuous, unyielding Israeli government in 30 years, Israelis don't find anything remarkable there – that's the way it should be. So when a terror attack does occur, Israelis are stunned: why are they doing this to us? Where does such evil come from?
I imagine that in the rest of the world (except America), the reaction to the kidnapping, to the extent that there is a reaction, is: "What does Israel expect?" Because the world (outside America) sees what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, which Israelis don't.
An example of this one-eyed view is the resentment here being directed at PA leader Mahmoud Abbas because he hasn't publicly denounced the kidnapping. What escapes Israelis' notice, though, is that on Wednesday night, a day and a half before the news of the kidnapping, it was reported that a highly credible autopsy found that 17-year-old Nadim Nawarah, one of the two Palestinian boys killed in a Nakba Day protest, was shot with live bullets, despite the IDF's claim that its troops shot only rubber-coated ones – yet not a word was heard from the Israeli army or government. First a video shows that Israeli troops shot and killed Nawarah and Muhammad Salameh, 16, while they were doing nothing but walking down a road, and the IDF denies responsibility. Then an autopsy proves the IDF wrong, and Israel reacts with a blank stare. Yet in Israel people are offended that Abbas, whose forces are reportedly combing the West Bank for the kidnappers, hasn't spoken out publicly against the attack.
Members of the Palestinian national security forces carry the bodies of Nadim Seeam Abu Kara and Muhammad Abu Da'har during their funeral procession in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 16, 2014. Abu Kara and Muhammad Abu Da'har were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes the previous day outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison following a protest commemorating the Nakba. Foreign press published that the two died in a Ramallah hospital after being shot in the chest during a protest to demand the release of thousands of Palestinians held by Israel. (Activestills.org)
Members of the Palestinian national security forces carry the bodies of Nadim Seeam Abu Kara and Muhammad Abu Da'har during their funeral procession in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 16, 2014. Abu Kara and Muhammad Abu Da'har were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes the previous day outside the Israeli-run Ofer prison following a protest commemorating the Nakba. Foreign press published that the two died in a Ramallah hospital after being shot in the chest during a protest to demand the release of thousands of Palestinians held by Israel.
This selective blindness only gets worse – every Palestinian act that's not to Israel's liking, from terrorism, to forming a unity government with Hamas, to going to the UN, to refusing to recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, just makes the Palestinians more evil, and Israel the more injured party, which in turn makes Israel more rigid, and the Palestinians more frustrated and desperate. This is what's been going on for many years, and the kidnapping is another low point in the process, one that will almost certainly have bad consequences for both sides.
The pain that Israelis feel over the three missing boys is something that must be respected; this was a horrible act. But it does not mean that Israelis' political outlook must be deferred to, even now when sensitivities are very raw. The fight to end the occupation is a fight for Palestinians and Israelis both, so this is no time to stop. And since Israelis remain unwilling to end it, they must, unfortunately, be coerced into doing so.
The Presbyterian Church USA is voting this week on divesting from Caterpillar, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard because these companies equip the Israeli occupation, and I hope the church votes "yes." The kidnapping of the three Israeli boys doesn't discredit the BDS movement; it's another harsh reminder of why it must succeed.


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No. 2 Florida (16-1, 4-1 ALC) lacrosse will begin post-season play Friday afternoon when it takes on Ohio State (7-9, 1-4 ALC) in the semifinals of the American Lacrosse Conference Tournament at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The Gators earned the number one seed and a first round bye in the tournament for the second consecutive year after defeating Northwestern in its regular season finale. As the tournament's fifth seed, the Buckeyes had to play their way through the quarterfinals, defeating fourth seeded Johns Hopkins 10-9 on Thursday.
Florida defeated Ohio State 13-7 in the regular season meeting between the two squads on March 23rd at Donald R. Dizney Stadium. While the Gators will not be in Gainesville for Friday's match up with the Buckeyes, Florida head coach Amanda O'Leary says the contest is almost like a home game as 16 of the players on her roster are from the state of Maryland.
The Gators have not played since April 20th when they beat Northwestern 22-4, and they did not know for certain who their first opponent in the ALC tournament would be until Thursday night. However, Florida senior midfielder Brittany Dashiell does not think the team will miss a beat and says it was well prepared to face either Ohio State or Johns Hopkins.
Ohio State is led by sophomore attacker Jackie Cifarelli and junior midfielder Cara Facchina who have 61 and 51 points on the season respectively. Those two should have their hands full on Friday as they will face a Gator defense that ranks near the top of the nation giving up less than seven goals per game.
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This week ATI sent an advisory out to its OEM partners announcing the details of the new Radeon X1950 and X1900 graphic cards. Both of these new cards are based on the same R580 core, but with some fundamental differences.
R580, the 48 pixel-shader processor version of the R520 (Radeon X1800),
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have both jumped on the GDDR4 train with revenue shipments beginning several weeks ago. The new GDDR4 variants of R580-based Radeons are now called Radeon X1950. Radeon X1950 will retain all of the features of the Radeon X1900, and really only have the added benefit of a new cooler, GDDR4 memory and different frequency clocks.
Radeon X1950 at launch will come in two flavors: a high clock "XTX" version, and a CrossFire version. Both cards feature 512MB GDDR4, and the only major difference between the two is that the CrossFire X1950 houses the composite engine and input interfaces for CrossFire. Just yesterday, ATI issued an advisory to its partners claiming "Clock frequencies for RADEON X1950 family products are pending and will be provided at a later date." However, in March of this year ATI released a new policy for AIB partners to
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The new Radeon X1900 is a low-cost version of the existing Radeon X1900 that only uses 256MB of GDDR3, enabling the card access to the $300 price point. The Radeon X1900XT 256MB will use the same clock frequencies as other Radeon X1900XT cards: 625MHz core and 1.45GHz memory.
ATI's advisory documentation claims the Radeon X1950XTX will begin sample availability on August 7, with the CrossFire sampling beginning exactly one week later. Sampling of the Radeon X1900XT 256MB will begin immediately.
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text: Canada open Olympics with victory August 6, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next Follow Canada's quest for gold by viewing our special Beijing 2008 page. Jeff Blair (The Globe and Mail) Oh my goodness, but this is going to be tough for the Canadian women's soccer team. Oppressive heat. Respectful, but ardent and vocal Chinese fans. Wednesday night brought a win - a 2-1 win over Argentina, in fact, in the first-ever Olympic appearance by Canada's women's team - but it's nothing compared to what waits for Canada on Saturday when they play China. "Oh for sure. The crowd's going to be amazing," Vancouver Whitecaps striker Christine Sinclair said after Canada staved off a late charge by the Argentines in 30-plus degree temperatures and 70-plus per-cent humidity and a thick, soupy, smelly blanket of grey goo hanging over the Tianjin Olympic Centre. "They're one of the best teams in the world," added Sinclair. "They will keep the ball and we're just going to have to run and chase and chase." Several of Canada's players stayed around after their game to watch the Chinese play Sweden. The chills when 40,000-plus Chinese sang each syllable of their anthem with so much force that the Swedish players stared in awe and even smiled was one of the few breaks available from the oppressive climatic cloak. True, both teams have to deal with it. But still… "We were getting winded going up the stairs," said Canada's Rhian Wilkinson. "We've been here before. Everyone's suffering the same amount. I don't see how anybody can adapt to that. If anything, their lungs are deteriorated more and we should be running them off the field." For the ninth-ranked Canadian team, it was their first-ever Olympic appearance. Canada's match began before most of the crowd started filing in to the 60,000-seat venue for China's game, and was played under a dirty, low-hanging sky that had threatened rain earlier in the day. These are supposedly the 'sold-out' Olympics, but huge sections of the venue were vacant when the Chinese game started. Much of the crowd at Canada's game - which was bipartisan and cheered loudly whenever either team made a move towards the opposing goal - fanned themselves with gold-colored hand-fans, as the play continued. The game was the first official athletic competition of the Olympics, kicking off two minutes before Germany and Brazil in Beijing. And Canada was predominant in the first half, taking the lead on 27 minutes when Whitecaps midfielder Candace Chapman skipped a ball past Argentine goalkeeper Vanina Correa. They could have had at least two more goals, not including one that was wiped out on the offside. They tried to take advantage of their size difference against the smaller Argentines and Sinclair was particularly effective, drawing a finger-tip save from Correa. Whitecaps forward Kara Lang was also beating the Argentines down the right side all night. It paid off in the 72nd minute when Lang's glancing header put Canada 2-0 up. Argentina's Ludmila Manicler tallied in the 85th minute after teammate Mariela Coronel dispossessed Wilkinson of the ball. But the first half exacted a physical toll as well when Melissa Tancredi was pulled down to the right of Correa. Tancredi stayed in for the next 20 minutes, but was limping noticeably and was finally substituted in the 42nd minute. Her replacement, Whitecaps forward Jodi-Ann Robinson, turned in the individual play of the game and brought the loudest roar from an announced crowd of 23,000. Knocked on her backside to the left of the Argentine goal, Robinson coolly used both legs to pull the ball away from the Argentine defender standing over her before scrambling to her feet to keep possession and set up Diana Matheson's shot. The Canadian women will not be marching in Friday's opening ceremonies ahead of their game against China on Saturday. "The ceremonies run late," said Sinclair. "We knew it a long time ago, so we could deal with it then. We can go to the closing ceremonies, instead." Canadian head coach Even Pellerud was as laconic as ever. "We were nervous," said Pellerud, "and they (Argentina) did a good job of settling the tempo down. We had chances and didn't score enough, that was the biggest problem. "The players were a little more tense than normal." Pellerud called Tancredi's injury 'an ankle issue' and said 'she is in pain. "But," he added, "I hope she will be able to play." CANADA 18.Erin McLeod; 3.Emily Zurrer, 4.Clare Rustad, 6.Sophie Schmidt, 7.Rhian Wilkinson, 8.Diana Matheson (17.Brittany Timko 80'), 9.Candace Chapman, 10.Martina Franko, 12.Christine Sinclair (C), 14.Melissa Tancredi (2.Jodi-Ann Robinson 42', 16.Jonelle Filigno 83'), 15.Kara Lang Subs not used: 1.Karina LeBlanc, 5.Robyn Gayle, 11.Randee Hermus, 13.Amy Walsh ARGENTINA 18.Vanina Correa; 2.Eva Gonzalez, 4.Florencia Mandrile (3.Yesica Arrien 91'), 5.Marisa Gerez (C), 6.Gabriela Chavez, 9.Maria Potassa (7.Ludmila Manicler 56'), 10.Mariela Coronel, 11.Fabiana Vallejos, 13.Maria Quinones, 15.Mercedes Pereyra (8.Emilia Mendieta 79'), 16.Maria Blanco Subs not used: 1.Guadalupe Calello, 12.Daiana Cardone, 14.Andrea Ojeda, 17.Analia Almeida Previous Next


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"I'll see you on the beach."
The squishy feel of the sand; sounds of whizzing bullets and flesh tearing; the sight of violence and resulting carnage; echoes of profanity; the overwhelming feeling of dueling bravery and fear; visions of ghosts of teachers and truck drivers; sons, brothers, boyfriends, fiancés, husbands and fathers; and, of course, the smell of sweat and blood mixed with salt water and vomit.
No, I didn't just rent Saving Private Ryan. I once again have the privilege and honor of being in the presence of greatness. Thanks to Laura Leppert and the dedication of Daughters of World War II (and a very supportive principal), I will escort a warrior back to the beach for the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy. This landing will be with walkers and wheelchairs, not landing craft and tanks.
The first week of June usually means throngs of work- and school-weary vacationers heading to some beach destination. Seventy years ago, thousands of Americans (73,000) spent the first week of June on two beaches on the scenic coast of France. The names, Omaha and Utah, were familiar and friendly enough, though it was hardly a vacation. In 1944, their all-inclusive package included bullets, not Bordeaux; shells, not snails; C-rations, not caviar. And don't forget the luxury accommodations — foxholes.
We have fewer and fewer survivors from the D-Day landing to honor and to help lead the way on Memorial Day weekends like this. We honor those who served in a sort of collective way, but they remember the fallen on a more personal level. They remember the names and the faces.
I've read and taught from the books, but until I actually stand there — with one of the actual warriors — all that knowledge comes from just words on a page. Those brave men relied on crash-course training, instinct, skill and, in large part, sheer luck, and changed the course of history.
Just think: If Hitler had stayed in school and learned what Napoleon had 130 years earlier, ESL classes might have a completely different purpose.
I expect there will be the welcoming grateful along the French countryside, possibly waving American flags. Sure, there will be photo ops for world leaders. They will be there because they recognize something significant happened; maybe they read about it in some grade-school history book.
But they won't experience it the way I will.
Spielberg's first 20 minutes are forever imprinted on my mind. It was difficult to watch. I know it was infinitely more difficult to experience in person.
I feel immensely honored to get a private screening of the memories of a soldier in his 90s — a front-row seat in the theater of a hero's mind.
As you head off to your beach destinations, give a nod to the men and women of the Greatest Generation whose sacrifices and courage made your vacations possible.
I'll see you on the beach.
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ORCHARD PARK, NY - Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller has been ruled out for this Sunday's game at Cincinnati because of a hamstring injury.
Spiller was hurt on a 29-yard punt return during the second quarter of last Sunday's game against the Lions, a 14-12 win that was Chan Gailey's first victory in nine games as Bills head coach.
"It's a slow process. I'm taking it day to day and getting as much treatment as I can to get back," said Spiller. "The main thing with this type of injury is you have to make sure it is 100 percent before you get back out there and further damage it. You have to look at the long haul, I'd rather miss one game than the rest of the season."
Spiller, the ninth overall pick in the 2010 draft, was has carried 41 times for 164 yards and caught 18 passes for 81 yards and a touchdown. He has also returned 30 kickoffs for 763 yards and a score.
Linebacker Shawne Merriman has also been ruled out for the game because of a lingering calf injury. He has not played since joining the Bills November 3.


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Here's a new reason to get plenty of folic acid during preconception and the first month of pregnancy: Research suggests this nutrient may reduce a baby's risk of autism.
Scientists at UC Davis will be publishing an article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition next month, detailing their latest findings about folic acid during pregnancy. The researchers studied pregnant women who took the recommended daily dose of 600 micrograms of vitamin B-9 (or its synthetic form, folic acid). When taken before conception and during the first month of pregnancy, folic acid appears to lower the risk of an autistic child.
According to ZeeNews, these findings align well with current knowledge of early fetal development. A baby's entire makeup is dependent on DNA transcription and translation, which in turn requires a process known as methylation. Folic acid can function as a methyl donor. This nutrient can therefore aid in processing the genetic code during critical fetal formation.
The brain is a particularly sensitive area of development during early pregnancy. Having plenty of folic acid around during brain formation may improve the overall outcome. Since autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder, it makes sense that this condition may be tied to the levels of folic acid as they aid in brain construction.
It is reassuring for me to hear that there's something tangible I can do to cut my kids' risk of neurological problems. It seems like brain and behavioral problems are so common these days that just about anything might be to blame when they show up in a child. Well, I don't have control over everything that may affect my kids, but I can certainly take my prenatal vitamin daily and eat lots of folate-rich foods during pregnancy. Then at least I'll know I've done what I can to give my babies' brains the nutrients they need for proper development early on.
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A-100: Establishes the "2009 New Jersey Fair and Clean Elections Pilot Project Act" to remove the appearance of undue special interest influence on the electoral process.
A-3371: Prohibits hospitals from charging patients or third-party payers for the costs associated with certain hospital-acquired conditions.
A-3625: Rebalances state resources to make community services and supports available to the developmentally disabled.
A-3290: Increases penalties, including requiring license suspension for certain health care professionals and other personnel, for willful improper disposal of medical waste.
A-1909: Permits in-person professional sports betting at Atlantic City casinos, pending voter approval.
A-2956: Requires employees of and individuals applying for employment to State psychiatric hospitals to undergo drug testing.
A-2604: Authorizes expenditures from open space trust funds to develop or maintain recreation and conservation land within municipalities.
A-3294: Establishes the InvestNJ Business Grant Program, providing a $3,000 tax credit to certain employers who create a job in New Jersey, provided they retain that employee for one year.
A-2078: Requires the Department of Education to report to the Legislature on its performance in overseeing New Jersey's school districts.
A-738: Requires the State police to create a recently relocated offenders section within the current Megan's Law sex offender online registry.
A-725: Requires the Department of Children and Families to provide new mothers with a resource guide about Shaken Baby Syndrome and that such a resource guide be available in both English and Spanish.
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Hungarian Far-right Politician and Playwright Dies at 77
According to New York Times, Istvan Csurka held extremist views, defended violent neo-Nazis, and believed Israel would become overcrowded by Palestinians and would take over Hungary as second Jewish state.
Istvan Csurka, a leading Hungarian playwright and far-right politician who did not shy from making anti-Semitic statements, died on Saturday February 4 at the age of 77, according to the New York Times.
According to the newspaper, Csurka's family announced the death but gave no cause, Hungary's state-run news service reported.
Csurka headed the Hungarian Justice and Life Party, the first far-right party to enter the Hungarian Parliament since the Second World War. His views were likened to those of his friend Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's National Front party in France.
According to the New York Times, Csurka appealed to embittered older Hungarians with his evocation of the nation's "glory days," decried the dilution of Hungarian genes and declared that Hungary needed more "living space," (a phrase Hitler had used to justify attacking his neighbors). Furthermore, Csurka used innuendos like "dwarfish minority" to refer to Jews and Gypsies, and defended violent neo-Nazi skinheads.
The article also claimed that Csurka espoused many conspiracy theories, including one in which Israel would become overcrowded by the Palestinians, causing the Israelis to try and take over Hungary as a second Jewish state.
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28 March 2012 – Felipe Massa headed straight to the Ferrari factory from Malaysia, electing to spend more time with engineers after a disappointing start to the season. As Fernando Alonso acknowledged Ferrari's continuing problems despite winning at Sepang, Massa failed to score points for the second consecutive race.
As the world's press continues to put pressure on the Brazilian, Team Principal Stefano Domenicali points out a similar situation from 2008, when Massa lost the lead through pit-stops and then spun off as he hunted down his team-mate.
"The papers were demanding his immediate replacement and he managed to react in the best way possible, thanks to support from the team, which saw him win two of the next three races. We remember how that particular season ended, with the Brazilian actually World Champion even if it was just for a few seconds.
"Felipe has changed his plans and, instead of heading home to see his family in Brazil, he will be in Maranello to work alongside the engineers to calmly analyse everything that happened in these past two races, trying to identify why he was not able to deliver what he is capable of. That's the right spirit and we are here, ready to help him."
Speculation of a Massa replacement has been rife since the weekend, not least as Sergio Pérez – whose Sauber chased Alonso before finishing second – is a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy. Massa remains under contract until the end of 2012.