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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The No. 20 nationally ranked MIT men's tennis team faced Salem State University at home in the J.B. Carr Tennis Bubble on Thursday afternoon, winning the match, 9-0. The undefeated Engineers, who have blanked five different opponents, are now 9-0 for the season, while the Vikings fell to 0-3.
To start off doubles action like they always do, juniors Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) and Curtis Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) defeated Tyler Seidel and Cody Famighetti, 8-0, at No. 1. They are now 6-1 in the top spot. At No. 2, seniors Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and Larry Pang (Torrance, Calif.) won their match 8-1 against Joe Kim and Matt Lee and, at No. 3, freshmen Kevin Wang (Havertown, Pa.) and Jeffrey Bu (Arcadia, Calif.) defeated Kenny Hodgkins and Conner Erickson. 8-1.
Switching up the lineup for singles, Pang played in the top spot for the first time this season, easily beating Lee, 6-1, 6-0. In his second match this season and his first time at No. 2, sophomore Jeffrey Sperling (Los Angeles, Calif.) won his matches, 6-0, 6-1, against Seidel. At No. 3, senior Troy Astorino (Laguna Hills, Calif.) won his first match against Famighetti, 6-1, and was leading the second one, 3-0, before the match was retired due to injury.
Making his season debut at the No. 4 spot, junior Vlad Firoiu (Westford, Mass.) came out on top in his match against Kim, 6-3, 6-0. At No. 5, freshman Justin Cheung (Sydney, Australia) defeated Krystian Beidel, 6-0, 6-3. Cheung is now 3-0 at the fifth spot. In the last singles match, classmate Robbie Shaw (San Diego, Calif.) won his match against Kenny Hodgkins, 8-0.
MIT will next host Stevens Institute of Technology on Saturday, March 23 at 1:00 p.m. in the tennis bubble. This will be the Engineers' last home match this month, as they will travel to Norton, Mass. to open NEWMAC play against Wheaton College on Saturday, March 30.


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Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland movie
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by Lunie Blue
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I made this for my daughter from Simplicity pattern 2325 with a few alterations.
It also comes with a crinoline for volume. The five hearts are appliqued. The four hearts are along the bottom front of the skirt and one heart across the chest. I did not use a stabilizer for that, my friend told me that I could just put regular paper underneath and that's what I did and it worked!
Midway I have lost the instructions and had to suffer nervous breakdown, however I emailed Simplicity and they immediately sent me the instructions.
I had to do alterations to the pattern to do the reverse FBA since this is a child's costume and shortened the bodice. Also, my daughter did not want to have a long skirt so had to cut the length.
It took a long time and I did not cook proper food for 3 days straight but it is done finally!
To make the crinoline, I watched some Youtube videos for the instructions.
Also, it was a joint project with my daughter, she zigzagged and ironed the seams when I was too exhausted. Originally, I was going to add ribbon to the sash, but my daughter wanted to reuse for her regular clothing so we left it as is.
Material Notes
The main material is some printed lining which I have had for many years. The rest is Halloween fabrics from Joann's. I also got a ton of ribbon and lace from Simplicity.com but ended up using less.
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Very different from the above mentioned and for sure not an easy one for everyday... but what about the onirical interpretation of tobacco in Fumerie Turque?
Havana by Aramis
Tabaróme Millésime by Creed
Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford
Dreamer by Versace
Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme
Thread: Best tobacco scent?
I'm 26 and used to wear "Dreamer" and "Dolce & Gabbana", and love tobacco in them. I'm looking for another good scent with tobacco in it, because these two are very popular. Also I add these two to the poll with this thread, because I don't want to settle to something which is not as good!
What do you think? Any other suggestions?
Very different from the above mentioned and for sure not an easy one for everyday... but what about the onirical interpretation of tobacco in Fumerie Turque?
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Creed's Vintage Taberome is great as is Caron's Tabac Blond and don't let the fact that Tabac Blond is listed as feminine here. It's about as feminine as the lion that's stalked to within 10 feet of you and is about to pounce. Not just another kitty.
It's a great shame that Guerlain's Vetiver is not here: it would have gotten my vote.
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Would have voted for either Creed Vintage Taberome or Caron Tabac Blond or SL Fumerie Turque had they been included.
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I voted for Creed Tabarome Millesime. It took me a while to "get it", but it's great stuff.
I also have an itch to get a flask of Vintage Tabarome, which I recently started liking-- still, a tiny sample would last me forever, so It would be stupid to get a big jug of it-- plus, the thing that bugs me about the Private Selection Creeds is the lack of atomizers. I don't care for the leather ones. I just wish Creed would produce a run of fragrances like Vintage Tab, Selection Verte, etc in regular glass bottles.
Tabac Blond is wonderful - I find the tobacco note is more prominent in the EDP (which I own) rather than the extrait, which is rounder and more leathery.
Miller Harris Feuilles de Tabac is also good. It's essentially a masculine scent but a woman could wear it too.
Havana - words don't describe.
I voted for Havana but my favorite tobacco right now is the previously mentioned Feuilles De Tabac by Miller Harris
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I second the Guerlain Vetiver as the ultimate!!
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My fav is Jasmin & Cigarette.
Guerlain Vetiver is the tobacco scent standard IMHO.
Santa Maria Novella's Acqua di Cuba is a beauty if one likes deep, dark tobacco mixed with leather. Vintage Tabarome is also wonderful - very full bodied and tenacious.
Somewhat more whimsical is Demeter's This is Not a Pipe, another fine - but more delicate - play on the tobacco note.
Burberry for Men.
The vintage Tabarome is quite nice, and Dunhill '34 comes across more tobaccoish in my "old age".
In rotation: YSL PH HC, Devin, Equipage, Antaeus, Xeryus, CdNIM, Helmut Lang Cologne
Czech & Speake CUBA one of the best scents I have tried in a long time. Tobacco is front and center. Great stuff.
On the poll I was happy to vote for Tabarome Millésime.
That girl, that bottle, that mattress and me.
I have tried most of the famous tobacco fragrances and quite enjoy Tabarome Millesime, SMN Cuba, Czech & Speake Cuba and MH Feuilles de Tabac. I am not a big fan of Havana though.
With that said, my favorite tobacco fragrance is Vintage Tabarome...its incredible mix of the highest quality tobacco note, green tea and leather is irresistible...I own a perfectly aged flacon of this super juice in which the full bodied potency of the tobacco and leather come through with force. I view the excellent Tabarome Millesime as a Vintage Tabarome Sport, with a different more raw tobacco note and an overall lighter composition which has its own interesting thing going on.
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I didn't vote among the ones suggested. There are much better ones IMO. Lots of threads on tobacco recently, so I won't give a list here.
Yr good bud,
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Miller Harris' Feuilles de Tabac or Tiffany for Men would definitely get my vote.
Best tobacco scent?
Lusitania by Partagas!
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smn acqua di cuba
creed vintage tabarome
czech & speake cuba
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creed tabarome millesime
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I wish I'd said that!
btw, strangely enough the review page here at BN does not list tobacco as an ingredient in C&Z's Cuba. Don't ask me why.
There are many great frags that use tobacco notes but Vintage Tabarome has it at the core of its theme. The Millesime ain't bad, but who wants to smoke sushi--or ginger?
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1) Havana, best supporting cast.
2) Aqua di Cuba, Big, and bold, from top, to bottom.
3) Cuba, C&S, Perfectly balanced accord's,
I had to go with Tabarome....This is my fave from this bunch. The Tom Ford entry is the only one that I have never experienced.....So from the 4 besides this scent....I have to go with Tabarome.
Creed's vintage Tabarome although the Domenico Caraceni is slowly sneaking up my ladder of respect blended to perfection imo.
I can't sleep... Since were's talking about tobacco, how about a funny story about cigars?
At the hotel in which I tend bar, we've been smoke-free for a year. Before that, we had a lot of cigar smokers and even had a nice giant wooden humidor. There was this one guy that we couldn't stand-- he kind of looked like Leon Pannetta and always came in with buy-one-get-one free drink coupons. And he always bought cigars and never tipped on anything. We always referred to him as "Cigar and Cabernet guy." It was funny because we disliked the guy, but he always thought he was our best friend.
We were preparing to go smoke-free, so we were getting rid of our cigars pretty cheaply. Also, the GM came in with a dolly and removed the humidor-- I think he gave it to one of his corporate buddies. About ten minutes after the humidor was wheeled away, Cigar and Cabernet guy came in looking for wine and a cigar. I decided to f*ck with him.
"Aw dude-- you JUST missed it. We got rid of all of our cigars. We were just handing them out for FREE by the handful-- the $24 Montecristos... everything. We just had to get rid of them all."
The guy was getting really agitated by this "news". He was so mad at his bad luck. The other bartender was trying really hard not to laugh, because he had dared me to give this guy the BS story. The guy tried a few times to form a sentence, before finally stammering "...What about me?...I...I'm y-your best customer! Why didn't you t-tell me you were giving everything away?!?'
Then I topped it off with this "Yeah, that's too bad. And also, apparently, they needed to get rid of the humidor in a hurry and there were no takers so some old lady at the bar said she would take it-- and the hotel is actually paying to ship it to her home in Minnesota-- just to get it out of here. It's a pity because she said she doesn't even smoke cigars, but she liked the color of the wood."
The look on the guy's face was priceless and indescribable. What I did was mean but funny. At least after that, every time he came in, he started tipping us and he's actually an OK guy now. Sometimes you've gotta break some eggs etc. LOL.
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TIFFIN, OHIO – The Coker wrestling team will be participating in the 2014 NCAA Division II Midwest Super Regional Championships this Friday (Feb. 28) and Saturday (Mar. 1).
Representing the Cobras will be Gavin Perkins (125), Charlie Huff (133), Rashad Cunningham (141), Kevin Thompson (149), JD Dykes (157), Phillip Burrows (165), Zach Dicus (174), Shane Carpenter (184), Robert Partland (197), and Austin Akins (285).
Perkins sits at 13-10 on the year and will faceoff first for the Cobras against Brandon Oshiro of Maryville (15-13) in the first round. Thompson is currently 22-11 on the year and landed the sixth seed of the tournament. He will take on Tyler Cross (13-14) of Alderson-Broaddus. Dykes will then step on the mat against Zach Noel of Wisconsin-Parkside, followed by Dicus who will take on SAC rival Joe Pittman of Newberry. Carpenter will matchup against Marcus Dwaileebe of Belmont Abbey, and Akins will finish off the field for the Cobras against Devin Pemmerenke of Limestone.
Cunningham earned the fifth seed in his weight class and will have a first round bye. Huff, Burrows and Parland will also have first round byes.
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WASHINGTON — The Air Force reminded airmen in an on-line news report that as of Jan. 20, the prohormone androstenedione (nicknamed Andro) will be removed from store shelves and will be illegal to use.
After that day, Andro, along with anesthetic ketamine (nicknamed Special K), testosterone, and forms of codeine and morphine, will be classified as a Schedule III controlled substance — a definition the government gives to drugs that have the potential for abuse.
"One of the biggest problems that gets users into trouble is that aggressive behavior manifests itself," Dr. Vincent Carr, the Air Force's chief consultant for internal medicine services, said in the report. "They get into fights, and that could have a major effect on the work environment."
Andro is found in many bodybuilding supplements that are available in nutrition and fitness stores. However, Lt. Col. Ronald Blakely, the staff food and drug safety officer for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), said the products were phased out of AAFES stores in 2002 due to health concerns.
The report also reminded soldiers that the possession or distribution of Andro after Jan. 20 would be a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.


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Cody Canada and Seth James Discuss Upcoming Departed Album
Cross Canadian Ragweed were one of the most influential and popular bands to come out of the Texas Red Dirt music scene, releasing seven critically acclaimed albums before breaking up in 2010. Band members Cody Canada and Jeremy Plato then teamed up with Dave Bowen, Seth James, and Steve Littleton to form a new band called Cody Canada and the Departed. As Canada and James explained in a new interview, the group is currently working on a new album of fresh material.
Canada tells radio station KNUE that unlike the Departed's first album, 'This Is Indian Land' — which was a tribute record — the next album will be all original songs. "All of us writing, there's a lot Seth and I have written together. Seth wrote one with Wade Bowen and one with Sean McConell. Everybody's got a song on this record," Canada dishes.
He adds that the band members are all happy to be working together, something that was missing in Cross Canadian Ragweed at the end. "Everybody's really excited you know, it's still new, everybody's in love with each other. [We] sit around in the back and bounce ideas off each other."
The forthcoming album features a mix of songs sung by Canada and James. Canada says he'd actually prefer a James-sung track titled 'Burden' for the single, but James is not yet convinced, saying, "I'd have to hear all the songs mixed and finished, and in the can, and then make up my mind."
Whatever the final decision on the single, Canada says they expect to release the next Departed album in the fall, or more assuredly, "definitely before the year is over."
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Why the West gives Yasser Arafat endless second chances
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HOW IS IT that the Bush administration, which is deadly serious in opposing terrorists and those who harbor them, could let Colin Powell declare last week--on the same day that senior terrorist Yasser Arafat was caught funding the Al Aksa suicide bombers--that Arafat is no terrorist at all? On April 4, President Bush asked Israel to halt its attacks on Arafat's terrorist infrastructure. What must be going on in their minds? Are they serious or aren't they?
Actually, they are serious about fighting terror. But they are also caught in a psychological bind that they do not understand. Letting Arafat go is part of a pattern that has recurred so often it cannot simply be described as a mistake. It is the same pattern that caused George Bush senior to refrain from finishing off Saddam Hussein when he had overwhelmed him. This week, Europe, the Arab world, and the Bush administration are hoping to see a diplomatic initiative develop that will ensure that Israel makes the same mistake George Bush senior did in Iraq, forbidding it from destroying Arafat and his regime.
No one survives as long as Yasser Arafat--forty years as a terrorist--unless he knows something important about the weak spots in Western psychology. Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban once quipped that the Palestinians, under Arafat's leadership, "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The remark hasn't aged well. Closer to the truth is that the West has, mysteriously, never missed an opportunity to revive Arafat. Arafat has been able to keep up his spirits because he understands how the Western psyche works in these near-death confrontations. This is because he, as a terrorist who lacks a conscience, can see things that those who have a conscience cannot. It is these insights that have preserved Yasser Arafat.
It would be easy to attribute Arafat's endless second chances simply to a deluded left, since the left favors dealing with Arafat not as a criminal but as an equal. But now, the right and not the left holds power in Israel and the United States. Besides, historically, those who have revived Arafat have not all been leftists or ideological enemies of Israel. Many of them have known that Arafat is a liar and a terrorist. Arafat's psychological magic is most evident when he casts his spell on such men.
But first, to make the case. The list of distinguished fighters of terrorism and tyranny who nonetheless have found themselves overriding their principles to let Arafat go rather than bringing him to justice is remarkable. Ronald Reagan brooked no compromise with the "evil empire," and bombed Muammar Qaddafi's home, nearly killing him. Yet in the 1980s, President Reagan pressured Menachem Begin to let Arafat and his fighters go free when the Israeli army had them cornered in West Beirut. Begin, who had made a career of resisting liberal democracies when they offered Israel bad advice, succumbed. Yitzhak Rabin, after fighting Arafat much of his adult life, decriminalized and rearmed him through Oslo, precisely when Arafat was at his weakest, fresh from endorsing the defeated Saddam Hussein. Ehud Barak had an extraordinary career fighting terrorists before Arafat proved his political undoing. The current President Bush came into office refusing to talk to Arafat or treat him like a normal head of state. Bush's position was reinforced when Palestinians celebrated in the streets on September 11; and he appeared to be viscerally revolted by Palestinian and Fatah suicide bombings in Israel this past December.
But when such men are dealing with Arafat, there is eventually an about-face, and President Bush did his in March. When Israel sent troops into a terrorist nerve center in Ramallah to prevent further attacks on civilians--when it did, in essence, what the United States is doing in Afghanistan--President Bush said Israel's action was "not helpful." When dealing with Arafat, even the foes of terror become inconsistent and incoherent.
The archetypal releaser of Arafat is a leader who has criticized him many times, has shown himself capable of the assertive use of deadly force in other situations, and, like Reagan, Bush, Begin, Sharon, Rabin, and Barak, has criticized others for letting terrorists go free. The typical, last-minute liberator is a reluctant and soon-to-be-regretful redeemer, who has often battled terror. Usually, he is utterly disquieted as he finds himself letting Arafat off, but he feels trapped by some force larger than himself. Something always seems to happen so that the knowledge that it is dangerous to let such men go unpunished is not translated into effective action. It is as though these leaders come under a spell.
This "spell" is part of a dynamic that operates when the evil being confronted is brazen and relentless, and it occurred when the first President Bush let Saddam Hussein off at the end of the Gulf War. The fact that Bush allowed Saddam to escape a just defeat when he was all but conquered is crucial: The person who decides on the ill-advised release does not act from a position of relative weakness. Neville Chamberlain and the others who released Hitler--another representative of brazen evil--at Munich did so before the Fuhrer perfected his war machine. It is as though there were an unwritten psychological law that evil at its most shameless--the most barbaric murder of children and civilians, the most outrageous claims and lies--is somehow, in the minute before midnight, to be treated as an exception worthy of reprieve.
In each historical instance, there is of course a political imperative that is cited to justify snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. In Arafat's case, the political imperative has turned out each time to be based on a flawed calculus. In March, U.S. pressure on Israel to loosen its hold on Arafat was justified in the name of shoring up Arab support for Washington's new effort to topple Saddam. That Arab support did not materialize, any more than Oslo's promise had. In fact, Washington's Arab "friends" declared at the Beirut Arab summit that any attack on Iraq was an attack on them. To which Secretary of State Powell replied that Arafat, a man who had boasted of killing the American ambassador and his assistant in Khartoum, was no terrorist.
THE STUDENT of human nature who seems best to have recognized the importance of this bizarre dynamic, in which a conscientious hero proves unable to finish off a foe he knows to be evil, was none other than Shakespeare. Indeed, the Bard was obsessed with understanding the phenomenon. Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved. But it is in "Richard III" that one can learn most from characters who see evil, yet freeze at the key moment. The principal characters are fully aware of Richard's undeniable evil, yet they let him have his way despite themselves. Richard is the most systematically evil character in all of Shakespeare's plays. "I can smile, and murder while I smile," he says, swearing that he will outdo all the villains of history "and set the murderous Machiavel to school."
The most important thing Richard knows is that while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it actually blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.
The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil's most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society. Conscience is supposed to be the faculty that helps us become aware of our effects on others and our motives towards them, notably our baser motives. In Elizabethan English, "conscience" is an equivocal word that can mean either that faculty that allows us to feel guilt or "awareness," as in "consciousness." When Hamlet says, "Conscience does make cowards of us all," he means consciousness, by making us aware of the possibility of death, makes us cowardly.
But conscience, designed to ferret out evil within, can also actually narrow our awareness of evil. This happens, according to Freud, because the person with a conscience learns to repress automatically his own most destructive inclinations so as not to act on them. He becomes ignorant, for example, of the thrill of evil that a sadist like Richard III feels when he plays G-d and exercises the freedom to kill whomever he pleases. But the cost of repressing one's most destructive feelings is an inability to understand, without significant effort, those who give these feelings free rein.
This is seen over and over in "Richard III," especially in Richard's seduction of Lady Anne, whose husband he has murdered, and it is seen over and over in our dealings with terrorists. Richard actually gets Anne to drop her sword when she's about to kill him. Anne, although she knows Richard is evil, cannot see that he has no conscience. She tells him he should hang himself for what he has done. She keeps missing the point. He feels no guilt. Eventually, she marries him, and he murders her.
Conscience, when it is functioning well--automatically and without the intervention of reason, so that we do the right thing without thinking--is not simply rational. It is a force, a blunt instrument before which the conscientious person is guilty until proven innocent. As the preventive agency in the mind, conscience blocks first, thinks later. Men like Arafat and Richard know this. That is why both men constantly charge others with crimes--to paralyze them. Both know it doesn't matter whether the charges are false. Richard brazenly accuses Anne of inspiring the murder of her husband, as Arafat accuses the West of causing terrorism.
It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column. Having himself no such inner force always second-guessing him, he can see it clearly in others--far more clearly than do those who are in its thrall and take each of its charges seriously. Arafat gets endless second chances because the conscience of the West is doing what a conscience does: second-guessing the West's own actions. That is why Arafat is always playing upon the conscience of the West, especially by his endless recourse to "international law" and invocation of "human rights," an utterly brazen ploy coming from a terrorist.
Law, in the democracies, is like a civic conscience, and like conscience, it is the bluntest of instruments. Because law, in democracies, is made by the people, it has their respect. Democratic citizens are prone to the illusory hope that the law can be applied successfully in international affairs between regimes regardless of whether they are democracies or tyrannies, strong or weak. The name for this hope is "international law." But because the law in tyrannies is ultimately the product of one man's whim, a mere vehicle of the preeminent will and power, it cannot restrain the preeminent will and power. Conscientiousness in no way attaches to the law in tyrannies. International agreements with tyrants are meaningless, yet pursuit of such agreements is precisely what the State Department is now endorsing by trying to get Israel to sit at the table with Arafat.
"What is the law?" Saddam Hussein once asked. Then he answered his own question. "The two lines above my signature."
WHEN A TERRORIST such as Arafat or bin Laden uses bombs as well as language, his goal is to weaken the society he targets by manipulating not just fear but also conscience. He seeks to create a fifth column within each individual, sympathetic to his ideals, and a fifth column within the society, an anti-self-defense movement that will righteously lobby the government to open the gates, so that the terrorist can destroy his target with ease. But the mechanism by which societies succumb must be in large part unconscious. After all, few can face themselves if they say, "I am succumbing to fear."
The terrorist therefore must persuade his victims that they are "doing the right thing" by submitting to fear. To do so, the terrorist needs to recruit or take over each victim's conscience and change it. This happens in stages.
Terror does not work simply by killing: It is malignantly theatrical. Terror aims not only to maim its immediate victims but also to induce a second-hand trauma in its audience, to change them against their will. The core tactic of terrorism is the use of random violence on the target population's home turf. This instills a sense that one can never leave the field of battle, because the field of battle is one's home. The genius of terrorism is that it uses infrequent, random violence to create a sense that terror is omnipresent.
During the 1970s, when planes were frequently hijacked and people kidnapped, a bizarre phenomenon occurred. Consciences were hijacked too. People who had been held at gunpoint and forced to beg for their lives, dependent on their captors for their next breath, emerged to describe those captors as just people who treated them well. Former hostages righteously lectured their own governments on the need to support the terrorists' demands. Unremitting terror gave rise to an almost psychotic wishful thinking, which recast the terrorists as good people, nay, even deliverers.
The psychological mechanism involved is called "identification with the aggressor" and was first described by Anna Freud. When this identification occurs, it is as though the terrorist implants his own ideals and moral code inside his victim's conscience.
The paradigmatic example of this occurred in Stockholm in 1973, when four tellers were held at gunpoint for 131 hours in a bank vault. Soon the captives were expressing more fear of the police who were trying to rescue them than of their captors. One prisoner, in a phone call to the Swedish prime minister, Olaf Palme, said, "The robbers are protecting us from the police." After the tellers were released, they expressed no hatred for their captors, and even said they were emotionally indebted to them. Throughout the seventies, the Stockholm Syndrome was demonstrated over and over. Americans captured by terrorists in Lebanon emerged from captivity praising the same Arab terrorists who had murdered their fellows. Patty Hearst, kidnapped in California by the Symbionese Liberation Army, did the same.
The Stockholm Syndrome is not a conscious attempt to ingratiate oneself with one's captors, but an automatic emotional response, seen in many, though not all, captives. With the help of TV, terrorism creates what one might call a "Second-hand Stockholm Syndrome" in the body politic. The goal is to make the target population fall back on wishful thinking, and say, "Maybe if we listen to their demands, they will stop. Maybe the problem is how we are handling the crisis. Maybe we are being too forceful. Maybe they can be reasoned with. Maybe we should hold our fire and give peace a chance." The citizenry becomes progressively more passive and confused and willing to appease. This confusion is manifest whenever pundits who are apologists for terror speak of terrorist violence as caused not by the perpetrators, but by some abstract "cycle of violence," suggesting a moral equivalence between the terrorist and his victims and blotting out the reality of barbarism and human psychopathy. How much nicer to live in a world of abstractions than of Richards, Arafats, Saddams, and bin Ladens.
Like Richard, the terrorist is brazen and relentless. America is new to terror on its home soil, and has yet to see relentlessness in action. It is societies such as Israel, targets of sustained terror campaigns, that are most susceptible to the Second-hand Stockholm Syndrome.
Israel clearly had a bad case throughout Oslo. This is the period when the Israeli left rewrote Israeli textbooks, dropping most references to the Holocaust and its role in the creation of the state, to the Arab armies' attacks of 1948, 1967, and 1973, to the utter failure of Western liberal democracies such as France to help save their Jews (which became a major justification for Zionism), and placing a Palestinianocentric view of events before Israeli teenagers who would soon have to serve in the army. While Shimon Peres was arguing in "The New Middle East" (a place which would have no anti-Semitism) that there would be no need for a Jewish state, Israeli intellectuals like the novelist David Grossman were accepting the aggressor's notion of Jewish self-defense as evil:
"The Jews living in Israel are now being asked not only to give up on geographical territories. We must also implement a 'redeployment'--or even a complete withdrawal--from entire regions in our soul. . . . Slowly, over long years, we will discover that we are beginning to give them up: . . . Giving up on power as a value. On the army itself as a value. . . . On 'It is good to die for one's country,' on 'The best to the air force,' . . . and on 'After me' [the doctrine that commanding officers lead their troops into danger situations]."
The repeated message of that short incantational passage? Israel, drop your sword.
TERRORISTS CAN WORK through language, as did Richard until he had access to violence, or through violence alone. What makes Arafat's career in terror so remarkable is that when he has had limited access to violence, he has been able to use the very means Richard did to convince his enemies not to run him through.
Arafat has been able to paint himself and the Palestinian people as victims because, lacking a conscience, he could glibly encourage Palestinian children to stand as human shields for his snipers. Fighting such an enemy so pricked the conscience of Israel that many Israelis felt they could not live with themselves--even though they knew that Arafat was manipulating them. This was another reason the Israelis ignored common sense, and decided to give in to the Oslo illusion that Arafat could be trusted.
It is interesting that the person who finally defeats Richard III in Shakespeare's play, Richmond, is the one key character who never talks to Richard or gives him a hearing, and thus never comes under his spell. To talk to Arafat, which is what all pundits say must be done to bring peace to the Middle East, is precisely the wrong move, for there is no dialogue with a man without a conscience. Another wrong move is the game of decriminalizing Arafat. By refusing to punish him for horrendous crimes, as a serious nation would, Israel leaves the world, the Arabs, and itself with the sense that maybe his crimes can be justified, and its own attempts to restrain him from further criminal acts are criminal excesses in themselves. Israel would do better to relentlessly show the world pictures of Arafat's victims, including the American ambassador he assassinated.
Not all criminals are equally brazen. Arafat seems to have the power to neutralize the very foes who see him as most evil, perhaps because they, by virtue of seeing him as virtually the devil incarnate, attribute to him a kind supernatural indestructibility. Such superstition has made many who are far more powerful than Arafat hesitate to end his career. He has effectively used his own brazenness to convince the world that bringing him to justice would be a catastrophe, creating more Arafats by making him a martyr (as though the Middle East lacked for martyrs now).
Spooked, America is unwilling to allow Israel to end Arafat's reign of terror. Washington has retreated into approaching him with a kind of primitive behavior-therapy that says, "If he renounces terror" or "If he controls terror," then we will talk to him. It is as though all that matters is to get him to say the right words, never mind his intentions; as if no distinction need be drawn between his strategic goal--the destruction of Israel--and a tactical willingness to say he opposes terror.
Arafat has discovered, as Shakespeare understood, that the more brazen and relentless one's acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one's door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad
JWR contributor Norman Doidge is a columnist for the National Post of Canada and a psychiatrist at Columbia University and the University of Toronto. He wrote this piece for the Weekly Standard. Comment by clicking here.
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And to do that, they need your help, Hatsune Miku fans. Tell Sega which past Project Diva songs you want to see remade for Diva f (and F).
Just to be clear, a "remake" here refers to an old song getting a new PV and a brand new musical note (button-press) chart in the PS3 and Vita versions.
Some of tracks are already remade
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New Nyingma Head
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:26 pm
Seems a new "Supreme Head" of the Nyingma has been elected.
Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche... to be ratified by H. H. the Dalai Lama.
Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche... to be ratified by H. H. the Dalai Lama.
A Buddhist discussion forum on Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
I was thinking the same thing.MrDistracted wrote:Something I've often wondered....why is it neccesary to have a 'Head of Nyingma'?
Where and when does 'Nyingma' need representing, given that it is really just a collection of lineages with their own heads and who all take care of their own affairs.
Or is it because every one else has one? Or a continuation of something that was necessary 40/50 years ago with all the upheavals and re-settling at that time?
Whatever...it's testament to the vast compassion of Kyabje Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, who at his age and in his health is still tirelessly transmitting teachings around the world. I'm sure he could have done without a political role added to his workload.
ngodrup wrote:I think the distinctive figure-head role has some significance
and is useful as a rallying point for our otherwise scattered energies.
The distinctive feature has been that we elect our "best and brightest,"
"most realized" if you will to represent everything that's great about
our tradition.
Yes, it is a political role. It allowed the government in exile to easily
access the interests and needs of our communities through a single
person who had universal respect with all the others. Now I think to
some extent the role is something of a "cheer-leader," reminding all
of us of our greatness as a tradition of followers of Guru Rinpoche
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Gift Wrap Ideas # 3: Faux Bois
The key ingredient to get this look is a roll of dark wood-effect sticky back plastic / self-adhesive vinyl / Fablon / whatever else it might be called in your part of the world! I was lucky enough to find a roll for the princely sum of 49p in a local charity shop (amazingly this find happened the very day I thought of this idea, like some sort of charity shop magic) but you should be able to get a roll quite cheaply from your local DIY emporium:
Start with a nice plain parcel, wrapped in brown paper:
Measure round your parcel, cut a piece of the vinyl to fit the way you want (I opted for a large decorative band around the width leaving the folded ends free for easier unwrapping) and apply it very carefully:
You might want to try applying a test piece to get your technique right before trying it out on your real parcels. Also remember to cut enough to have a bit of overlap and to start on the back of your parcel so the join is hidden and so it won't matter if you don't stick it exactly straight...
If you are a true minimalist this may be enough for you, but if not you'll need a bit of yarn or ribbon or rustic-looking twine...
... I only had a small bit of this and had to cheat and stick the ends to the underneath of the parcel with sticky tape (tsk tsk) but ideally you want to tie your knot on top of your parcel leaving a few inches of string left for securing your leaves.
The leaves are simple brown paper oak leaves, like the ones from yesterday's garland how-to (leaf templates included) but with a hole punched in each of them. These are a great way of re-using old brown envelopes, and using a mix of envelopes will give a great mix of browns and different paper textures. For each parcel you'll need three or four leaves in an assortment of sizes plus one large leaf to use as the tag.
Glue the large leaf to some thin card, cut it out and (if you want to) draw on some detail with a black biro or marker pen. Then punch a hole near one end - you can attach some string as I've done here
- or attach the tag directly to your parcel with the string already tied round it. Tie the tag and the other leaves to your parcel in a bunch. If you wanted you could draw the vein detail onto all your oak leaves but I quite like how the tag stands out here:
A simple oak leaf tag like this would make a sweet addition to a more traditional Christmas parcel, or you could make simple woodgrain tags with leftover pieces of your vinyl. Stick your leftover section to a piece of card (I used a cardboard box from some shortbread we scoffed this week) ...
PS, can't get your hands on any wood-effect paper? For a lo-fi, DIY version you could always just take a marker pen to some brown paper and make your own woodgrain giftwrap - just remember to do this before you wrap your parcel so the marker doesn't seep through to your gift!
Please feel free to borrow one or two photos if you want to blog about this project, but remember to credit me and link back to the original source, and do not reproduce my entire tutorial on your site. Thanks!
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12 comments:
- Heather said...
Love love love this idea! Just wonderful. Thanks :)
- 19 November 2008 at 15:45
- Tweed Delights said...
Lovely ideas and very inspiring! Thanks:-)
- 19 November 2008 at 17:06
- Bagladee said...
what a truly fab idea!!! thanks
- 19 November 2008 at 19:19
- nicedaydesigns said...
I had already decided to wrap my presents this year in brown paper and string, but this is a lovely extra touch.
- 19 November 2008 at 23:55
- Lucky said...
great idea! i'm doing only white kraft paper this year - and simple gift tags.
- 20 November 2008 at 05:57
- JamesB said...
So simple and yet *so* effective. There's a whole meme about "unwrapping" - have you seen the flickr tags? search for unwrapping. t tends to be a apple fetich thing but I've also seen it with craft stuff. Be great to talk to you about how we could do something around giftwrap on Folksy.
- 20 November 2008 at 08:45
I love your gift wrapping idea, sticky backed plastic takes me back to my Blue Peter days!
- 20 November 2008 at 09:58
- Girl_Industries said...
Just beautiful - thank you for sharing your ideas with us all!
- 20 November 2008 at 18:19
- Beth said...
I love the paper leaves, they really make it look good!
- 21 November 2008 at 21:14
- RachelDenbow said...
Oh, the vinyl paper tags are genius. I may have to do that this year because I've got rolls of it stashed away and I can't seem to use it up fast enough.
Thanks for all of your crafty gift wrap ideas!
- 3 December 2008 at 20:52
- Tiffany said...
This is wonderful :D love the look!
- 29 July 2009 at 04:38
- Anji* said...
LOVE this too! (charity shop magic - love that thought too!)
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It was an eventful Week Seven in the Peninsula District. And not because of what happened on the field.
On Wednesday, his team off to an 0-6 start, Sonny Merchant resigned as Gloucester's head coach. It's not something he wanted to do, he said. It was what he felt he had to do in the best interest of the program and himself.
Defensive coordinator Ken Hardcastle is taking over, at least for the remainder of the season.
On Friday, 16 days after his original suspension, Stan Sexton was officially out at Phoebus. An announcement from Hampton City Schools confirmed that defensive coordinator Jeremy Blunt would coach the Phantoms for the remainder of the season.
And Sexton's highly successful but controversial 3 1/2 seasons as Phoebus' head coach was over.
According to Daily Press records, there never had been a coaching change during the season since the Peninsula District was formed in 1965. That's not counting two years ago at Bethel when Fabian Davis replaced Jeff Nelson as acting head coach when Nelson was injured in a sideline accident.
"This is real unusual," Woodside coach Danny Dodson said. "I know I've never seen this before."
Neither had Mike Smith, who has been Hampton's coach since 1971.
Of course, all eyes will be on Blunt at Phoebus. The Phantoms have won four consecutive state championships in Group AAA Division 5 and are considered one of the favorites this year. Phoebus is 7-0 with games remaining against Woodside, Gloucester and Hampton.
Pittman returns
His absence was the topic of much conversation and speculation, and Tony Pittman validated the interest in his return Thursday night.
School officials will not confirm the reason Pittman missed two games, but it's known that he didn't practice during that time, either. In fact, since Phoebus canceled practice Wednesday for what Blunt called "personal reasons," Pittman got no work at all prior to Thursday night's game.
Some rust showed as he fumbled three times, losing two. But he also finished with 195 yards on 20 carries in the Phantoms' 43-6 win.
Da'Quan Lane, who rushed for 358 yards in two starts with Pittman out, added 139 more Thursday night. He'll lose some carries with Pittman back, but Blunt made it clear he won't be a forgotten man.
"Da'Quan is a starter any place else," Blunt said. "But we're fortunate enough to have him, and we're definitely going to ride the both of them. Give people something to think about as we move forward."
Bethel-Kecoughtan: Vanilla but effective
In Jeff Nelson's five-year run as head coach, the Bruins ran a no-huddle spread offense that was fun to watch. This season, with Bubba Hooker having taken over, Bethel has switched to a grind-it-out running game that looks so old-fashioned the game film should be black-and-white.
But it's working. In Friday night's 42-28 win over Kecoughtan, the Bruins dominated time of possession 32:57-15:03. Bethel took 64 snaps on offense to the Warriors' 42.
"We want to do what we can do," Hooker said. "I have no problem throwing the ball and being wide open, but our kids have confidence in what we're doing — running the ball and play action pass. And it makes our defense better."
But ignore the Bruins' passing game at your own risk. Quarterback Trey Jackson has completed only 33 passes, but seven have been for touchdowns. And Jesse Williams (10 catches, 177 yards, 3 TDs) is one of the most acrobatic receivers in the district.
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With 197 yards Friday night, Kecoughtan's Trenton Cannon now has 1,138 for the season to lead the Peninsula District. Heritage's Khalid Abdullah ran for 167 yards in a 44-0 win over Menchville to raise his season total to 1,089.
Pittman's night gave him 963 for the season, but that's in five games. His per-game average of 192.6 leads the Peninsula District. …
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If it seemed like Cam Weaver enjoyed his goal celebration a little more than most after his 61st minute tally against the Chicago Fire it'd be understandable.
Weaver's tap-in that contributed the Houston Dynamo's part of a 1-1 draw with the Fire was his first MLS goal since May 28, 2011. It's been a long wait that's been complete with a number of shots off the post in the south end of BBVA Compass Stadium along with injuries that crop up just in time to circumvent his opportunities to play.
Saturday, however, there was nothing to stop him as he finally got his reward for the hard work his teammates see every day.
"I thought he was due for a goal," head coach Dominic Kinnear remarked after Saturday's draw. "I'm sure he's frustrated at times but he was a big part of what we were trying to do tonight. He works hard every day. He wants to be on the field. He wants to make a positive impact, and tonight I'm happy for him."
Weaver's filled in up top as the Dynamo deal with the absences of Will Bruin, who's been part of the Gold Cup-winning U.S. squad, and injuries to Omar Cummings and Brian Ching. While he's not flashy, he's put together the type of performances you'd expect. He's held the ball up, taken the punishment – delivered his fair share – and worked to help Houston's attack go.
For a player that personifies the team focus, it's fitting that his tally came on a quintessential team goal where five players touched the ball in less than 20 seconds.
It started with Boniek Garcia tracking back and winning just inside the Dynamo's half. Adam Moffat then switched the ball to Corey Ashe who released the returning Brad Davis who found a streaking Weaver for the long-awaited goal.
"That's great play from us, just wish it was the winning goal," Moffat said. "[Weaver] would've been starting this year, he had a great preseason, but he got injured. It's great for him because he works so hard in training. He just grinds away. Glad he scored and hopefully he can get plenty more."
Weaver's role going forward isn't clear as Bruin is due back and Cummings is getting healthy. Having a goal under his belt, however, will serve as a confidence boost going forward. And if this season's shown anything, it's that, for one reason or another, his hard work will be needed on the pitch again.
"I told him when I congratulated him 'I'm one of the most happy guys out here for you because I know how hard you work,'" center back Bobby Boswell said. "He's a silent type. Just goes out there and does his work and goes home. He's just ready to roll and tonight he got his goal."
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Parenting's Birthday Party Playtime
Works on: iPhone and iPad
Cost: $1.99
For: Spontaneous birthday party celebrations!
This week's app pick comes two days early because we're that excited! We have teamed up with Toca Boca to launch Parenting's Birthday Party Playtime – yet another stellar app from our digital partners, Toca Boca. Kids will delight in getting to throw birthday parties on a whim and have all the joys that come with it, namely, eating cake, drinking juice and of course, opening presents.
Kids select a theme for their party and can choose from Pandas, Dragons or Rainbows. Then the birthday girl or boy gets a present to open and guests can play with party poppers while enjoying their cake. There's fun to be had by all, and if you're familiar with Toca Boca apps, you'll appreciate the same level of interactivity and engagement it encourages between kids.
The format of the app is similar to Toca Tea Party, so if your kids are a fan of that app, they'll love Parenting's Birthday Party Playtime. A fun birthday party with cake, candles and presents, and no clean up? Sounds like a great birthday party to me.
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While the amount of wind varied by the forecast, the wind was definitely going to come from the south. As excited as I was to be back on board Big D (aka Love Rollercoaster) after a month of land-yachting in Baja, I was dreading a lumpy ride from hell (in a BIG bucket) to HMB. What kind of race is it if you can't fly a kite?
We headed out the G8 in 13-15 knots of breeze. The wind was supposed to die outside, but it didn't. We actually
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Lydia Ruth Pletz, formerly Lydia Mazzuca, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on July 16, 2013, at Tidewell Hospice of Sarasota, FL. Lydia was born June 7, 1927 in Konigsberg, East Prusia, to Marie (Klowski) and Franz Pletz. She was 29 years old for the 57th time.
Lydia is survived by her four children: Raymond Mazzuca of Orlando, FL, Peter Mazzuca and his wife, Sandy, of Sarasota, FL, Karen Mazzuca-Biddiscombe and her husband, Kevin of Wallkill, NY, and Tony Mazzuca and his wife, Tammy, of Kingsland, GA, currently stationed with the USCG in San Juan, Puerto Rico; her grandchildren: Scott Russo of Cold Spring, NY, Erika Mazzuca-Galish and Peter Mazzuca, both of Sarasota, FL and Connor Biddiscombe of Wallkill, NY, also survive her. Her beloved brother, Erhard Pletz survives with his wife, Margret in Cuxhaven, Germany, and her beloved sister, Ruth Muller survives in Bremerhaven, Germany. She is predeceased by her parents; her brother, Herbert, and sisters: Annie and Hilde. She had many nieces and nephews.
Lydia and her family came through tremendously difficult times during World War II and were forced to flee from the Russians from Konigsberg, East Prusia to Midlum, Germany. She became employed by a US Army base in Bremerhaven as a secretary. She soon married and immigrated to the United States where she proudly became a citizen. She was very patriotic and knew more American History then most. She resided in the Cold Springs - Nelsonville area for 64 years.
In addition to being a wonderful homemaker, she made many beautiful clothes for her children, was an amazing baker, was active in her local church affiliations, and for a period of time was a contributing writer to the local newspaper. Some fondly knew her as "Lid", but to her children, she was "deine Liebe Mutti". Her beautiful, soprano voice would radiate throughout the house and our childhood neighbors would climb the next-door tree or sit by their bedroom window just to hear her sing wonderful Christian hymns. She later became employed as a Bookkeeper with the law firm of Pagones and Cross of Beacon, NY for over 34 years.
Lydia was devoted to her children and to serving her Lord. Her faith in God remained strong to the very end. She was a prayer warrior, thorough in Bible knowledge, and a humble helper to others. She ran errands, cleaned, shopped and cared for others or their children even into her final years. She never wanted anyone to help her..but she helped others with a glad heart. She leaves us with many wonderful memories and traditions, but the greatest gift she ever passed on, was leading her children to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ; for that we are "eternally" grateful.
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Apple Pushes Out Mapping Executive
Apple Inc. AAPL -2.66% pushed out an executive responsible for its mapping service about two weeks ago, according to people briefed on the matter, as the company tries to recover from the map service's rocky debut.
The vice president, Richard Williamson, had been a senior leader with Apple's iOS mobile software team. During his tenure, he oversaw a variety of services, including at one point Apple's voice-activated assistant Siri.
Mr. Williamson's boss, iPhone software chief Scott Forstall, was pushed out of Apple in October, also on the heels of the maps imbroglio.
Apple released its new maps application as part of its latest iOS 6 mobile operating system in September. Criticism poured in world-wide as users of the new Apple maps found misplaced location markers and bizarre satellite images. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook later apologized for the frustration the maps software had caused.
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For information, call the Betty Ehart Senior Center (BESC) at 662-8920, the White Rock Senior Center (WRSC) at 662-8200 and "Day Out" (adult day care, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.) at 661-0081. Reservations must be made by 10 a.m. for daily lunches.
Betty Ehart
8:45 a.m. Cardio
10:30 a.m. LARSO Advisory Board Council meeting
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Tater tot casserole
12:30 p.m. Driver safety program
7 p.m. Ballroom dancing
8:45 a.m. Variety training
10 a.m. Low vision/hearing group
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Hot dog
1:30 p.m. Friends meeting
7 p.m. Bridge
7:30 p.m. Table tennis
8:30 a.m. RSVP quilters
8:45 a.m. Cardio plus exercise
10:45 a.m. Music with Ruth
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Chicken enchilada
1:15 p.m. Socrates café
1:30 p.m. Daytime Duplicate Bridge
8:45 a.m. Variety training
11:30 a.m. Lunch: Baked fish (tilapia)
1:30 p.m. Tap dancing
2 p.m. Ballroom dancing
6:30 p.m. Chess
7 p.m. Bridge
9:05 a.m. Walk in the woods
9:15 a.m. Line dancing
10:15 a.m. No yoga
11 a.m. Lunch: Chicken fried chicken
Noon Birthday cake
12:30 p.m. Movie: "The Mighty Ducks," 1992
2 p.m. Zumba gold
9 a.m.-1 p.m. BESC Open
9 a.m. Table Tennis
10 a.m. No tai chi
White Rock
White Rock Senior Center is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Board games, use of weight room and snacks all day, Monday-Friday. Also everyday use of computers wIth one having Internet connection.
2-3 p.m. Low impact aerobics
10 a.m. Wood Carvers
10 a.m. Bridge lite
10 a.m. Strong women exercise for graduates
10:45 a.m. Yoga
1 p.m. Duplicate bridge
2 p.m. Line dancing
9 a.m. Toenail clipping
9:30 a.m. Low impact aerobics
10:30 a.m. Computer users group
Noon Tap dancing
1 p.m. Pinochle
1:30 p.m. Zumba gold
3 p.m. Beginning line dancing
7:05 a.m. Walk from White Rock Baptist Church
8 a.m. McBaptist breakfast
10 a.m. Strong women exercise for graduates
10:45 a.m Yoga
1 p.m. Bridge
1-2 p.m. Blood pressure check
10 a.m. Investment group
1 p.m. Intuitive art class
1 p.m. Hookers and stitchers
6 p.m. Poker plus
9 a.m. Friday walkers
10 a.m Strong women exercise for graduates
10:30 a.m. Low impact aerobics
1 p.m. Pinochle
4-5 p.m. Zumba Gold in Activity Bldg.
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Game Time: 8 ball pool, table tennis, dominoes
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Self learning by appointment
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FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. – The King University men's volleyball team was able to shake off a difficult day Friday, sweeping by Siena Heights University to go 1-2 in Emmanuel College Tournament play.
The Tornado rebounded from a Friday performance that included a combined .081 attack percentage in two matches, registering kills on one-third of their 87 opportunities against Siena Heights. Eddie Moushikhian had 18 terminations and just two errors on his 30 attempts, compiling a .533 hitting percentage. Nick Serowski also reached double figures in kills with 10 on the afternoon to go along with three solo blocks, accounting for half of King's total team blocks.
The first set was tight throughout, with neither team able to build a sizable advantage. Siena Heights scored on a kill from Gilius Blinstrubas to knot the score at 19, the 14th tie of the match. But the Tornado would go on to score the final six points of the set. Mason Casner began the run with one of his six kills in the match, then Chris Gerber, making his first start of the season, came up with a solo block to put the Tornado up by two points. An attack error made King's advantage 22-19 before three consecutive kills from Serowski gave King the 25-19 victory.
Gerber played well in his first significant action of the season, totaling three kills in three errorless attempts and coming up with a pair of solo blocks. Fellow freshman Chandler Wellmann also had his first start of the season and played well on the defensive end. Libero Jeremy Funk had 13 digs, while Pete Sowers came up with four. Primary setter Matthew DeLong had both of King's service aces.
The second set was played much like the first, with neither team able to gain separation. The set was knotted at 23 before Moushikhian gave the Tornado a set point with a kill. The Saints battled back and took a 25-24 lead, but another Moushikhian kill evened the score at 25. With the teams again locked in a tie at 26, Moushikhian again gave King a one-point lead on one of DeLong's 39 assists, and an attack error on the next point gave King a hard-fought 28-26 win. King used an early 6-0 run to gain a stranglehold on the third set, never allowing the Saints to pull within three points. The Tornado scored 12 of the final 17 points to close the match and take the team's fourth sweep of the season.
The Tornado will return to action on Wednesday night, traveling for a 7:00 p.m. match at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, N.C. The match will begin a string of three road contests in conference play on consecutive nights for the Tornado, who will also face Limestone College and Erskine College on the road swing.


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The Camp Pendleton force preparing to lead the fight in southwestern Afghanistan will have to find its footing on shifting sands of change in the deserts flanking the Helmand River Valley, as the U.S. slowly winds down its war campaign.
When Maj. Gen. Charles "Mark" Gurganus takes command next month of the military coalition in Helmand and Nimruz provinces he will preside over a particularly dynamic battlespace marked by a steadily dwindling number of U.S. combat forces. During his year at the helm, much of the military infrastructure built with a surge of additional troops will be dismantled or transferred to Afghan control, and indigenous security forces will assume increasing responsibility, Gurganus told U-T San Diego.
His command staff, originally planned to include about 600 service members from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force headquartered at Camp Pendleton, is being trimmed to a size still to be determined. The main advance party left for Afghanistan earlier this month, joining a handful who deployed in January.
Gurganus will begin his tour in charge of roughly 17,000 to 18,000 Marines and about half that number of international troops, mostly British. As the number of U.S. troops throughout Afghanistan falls according to the current plan — to 68,000 by September — the Marine force will likewise contract and move into the background as Afghan forces take over more areas.
That process began in earnest last year when the Helmand provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, as well as some smaller areas were ceded to Afghan security control.
"That is how you hope to write the end of this story — us doing less up front, providing those critical capabilities that they've not fully developed yet," such as medical evacuation and close air support for ground forces under attack, Gurganus said.
The Camp Pendleton command is taking the baton from East Coast Marines who have been in charge of the region for the last year. In the interim, Marines from San Diego County continued to cycle into the larger supporting force of as many as 20,000 drawn from throughout the Corps.
As the handoff to Afghan troops accelerates, the Marines and their international allies will have "less of a role but still provide overwatch for them," Gurganus said.
The shift toward a training and support mission for Afghan forces was precipitated by President Barack Obama's order to begin withdrawing U.S. forces, a process not expected to be complete until late 2014 at the earliest. The pullout now underway comes as economic troubles pinch many allies in NATO's Afghanistan coalition and war weariness mounts at home after a decade of combat, increasing the pressure on battlefield commanders like Gurganus to quickly reach a "good enough" end to the war.
On Friday as more than 100 Marines and sailors bound for Afghanistan prepared to fly out of Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, the incoming air wing commander for war zone operations said they must become more efficient to provide the same level of combat and logistics air support with fewer Marines and aircraft.
"It's going to be a big year of change," said Brig. Gen. Gregg Sturdevant, who will lead the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in Afghanistan under Gurganus.
"Our total end strength is going to change, our mission is going to change somewhat. … But I think the demand for aviation will at a minimum stay the same, if not increase," Sturdevant said. "When the Afghans are asked to stand more on their own two feet or take more of a lead, with them not having an air wing to depend on, we are going to be their go-to guys."
There's never enough air support as one wants, he added, but to maximize resources during the drawdown he requested a greater proportion of Huey helicopters to remain in Afghanistan, because of their versatility for both attack and logistics missions.
Maj. Gen. John Toolan, the current battlefield commander, had 250 Marine outposts and forward operating bases in November. Since then, 96 have been closed or transferred to the Afghans, and he expects the number to drop over the next year to about 25 or 30. Remaining positions will be used to house Marine trainers and other support personnel long-term.
His combat forces are in the midst of an offensive in the far north of Helmand province on the outskirts of the Kajaki Dam, which provides electricity to Helmand province and Kandahar City — the second largest in Afghanistan and the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban movement.
A push last fall to secure the road to the dam and connect it with the neighboring town of Sangin concluded in November, earlier than expected because of relatively light insurgent resistance. Now the coalition is moving north and west into Kajaki district, engaging in all-day firefights at times, seizing caches of weapons and shuttering opium labs that process illegal poppy crops — a source of funding for the insurgency.
"We realize as we get into a drawdown that we need to conduct a real knockout punch," Toolan said in a telephone interview this month. "That is what we are doing while we are still fully resourced with a pretty substantial force here in Helmand province — take away those safe havens, cause the insurgents to expend the resources they have left and take away their little vacation that they like in the winter time, before harvest."
Installation of a third turbine at the dam has been stalled for years because of the fighting and rough condition of the unpaved road through the area, Route 611. The international force is investing in upgrades to power transformers and irrigation valves in the area, hiring local laborers, but at least two years of work remains to get the third turbine installed.
A contract to finish the road to the dam was signed recently and the paving should be complete this year, Toolan said.
"People see that we're working on projects that will restore commercial growth to the area, and they see the Afghan National Security Forces out in these areas conducting operations and building a rapport with the locals," Toolan said. Consequently, "I don't think the insurgents are going to come out anywhere close to where they came out last year or the year before," during the summer fighting season.
Much will depend, however, on how well the Afghan forces perform on the battlefield. The insurgents, well aware of drawdown plans, will no doubt test them.
"It's like teaching a kid to ride a bike," Toolan said. "The training wheels are coming off now. And if he falls, you're just going to have to pick him up and get him started again."
Gurganus and his staff will work closely with their Afghan counterparts, including Maj. Gen. Sayed Malouk, commanding general of the Afghan National Army 215th Corps. Malouk and several other Afghan officers visited Southern California in December to observe military training at Camp Pendleton and civilian law enforcement practices.
"They need to work us out of a job. In other words it's not us backing out creating a void and hoping they step in. Success for us will be they are elbowing us out of the way saying thank you very much, we'll call you when we need you," said Maj. Gen. David Berger. He will lead Task Force Leatherneck and the Marine ground combat force for Gurganus, taking over from Brig. Gen. Lewis Craparotta. British and other allied forces in the region serve under Task Force Helmand.
As the transition progresses, Afghan police will handle security in the population centers and the Afghan army will move to the outskirts, where they can stop the traffic of insurgents and weapons into town and quickly respond if the police need help. "Then we'll fill in all around that," Berger said. "That is where we are headed. It is in different stages in different districts within Helmand, but that's definitely the goal."
Getting to that point is challenging, as the Marines learned during a similar transition toward local security control in Iraq. But "the bottom line is, unless we're going to be there for years to come, we have to find exactly what works for them," Gurganus said, "instead of trying to remold them into a United States Marine."
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Maj. Gen. Charles "Mark" Gurganus
Title: Commanding general of 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), preparing to lead Regional Command-Southwest for the International Security Assistance Force – the U.S.-led NATO coalition in Afghanistan
Mission: Secure Helmand and Nimroz Provinces
Takes command: Late March, when Maj. Gen. John Toolan and 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) steps down after a year in charge
His force: Numbers are in flux and not publicized; estimated to begin with a command staff of several hundred from Camp Pendleton, supporting force of 17,000 to 18,000 U.S. Marines from throughout the Corps and half as many international troops, including Brits, Danes, Estonians, Jordanians, and Bahrainis. Size of force will drop steadily over coming year. Special operations teams support their mission but answer to a different command. Will operate with Afghan army's 215th Corps and Afghan police from national, local and border patrol units.
Background: Graduated from the University of North Carolina and was commissioned in May 1976;
Combat experience: Served in Al Anbar Province, Iraq in 2005 during height of insurgency as commanding officer of Regimental Combat Team 8; and again in 2007-2008 as assistant division commander and ground combat commander of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
Other career highlights: Served in Haiti with the Marine who will be his ground combat commander in Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. David Berger, in 2004 when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown. Commanded the Twentynine Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center in 2009. Before he was reassigned to Camp Pendleton last summer he served more than a year in South Korea on staff of the United Nations and Combined Forces commands.
Age: 57
Family: Married to Janet, one son and one daughter
Leadership style: Down to earth. Plays up his country boy persona but is very intelligent and concerned about the welfare of his junior Marines, staff said. In Iraq he liked to visit Marines on the front, where he would hunker into a fighting hole and chat at length about their family and background. "He always tells us the most junior lance corporal is as important as he is, and you can tell he really believes it," said Master Sgt. Brenda Varnadore, who deployed with him twice to Iraq and will serve in Afghanistan as his public affairs chief.
Typical Gurganus quote in a media interview: "I'm a product of North Carolina public schools, so don't be too hard on me."


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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - The pregnancy test purchased at the dollar store says 'Over 99% Accurate' but the price is just one dollar. Is this a case of you get what you pay for or is the test as accurate as the label claims?
Tara Ledford wasn't going to spend a lot of money on something she knew was going to be negative, so she went to Dollar Tree one night after work to pick one up. The test can be pretty pricey after all, ranging up to $35.00. But after Ledford took the test, low and behold it was positive, and accurate. Now she's 22 weeks pregnant, expecting her first child, a baby girl.
"Her name is going to be Page Elizabeth Harter," she says.
A reproductive endocrinologist with Coastal Fertility Specialist in Myrtle beach, Dr. Michael Slowey, says the basic technology is the same for all the products. Considering the tests all look to detect the same thing, the pregnancy hormone, when the products are used correctly, they are essentially equal.
Slowey says other factors are what can make a product less effective. Things like how long the product has been sitting on the shelf and how it was handled prior to arriving at the store, because the tests are very sensitive.
"Antibodies are heat sensitive and so [the question is] 'how have these boxes of tests been handled'," he says. "Have they been sitting out in a nice South Carolina summer on a loading dock?"
You also need to make sure you are following the directions correctly. The box may say 'Over 99% Accurate' but Slowey points out that's usually under controlled laboratory conditions.
"There's a difference with having someone with laboratory experience do the test versus all the rest of us do the test and in those instances, those tests are about 75 to 80 percent accurate," Slowey adds.
Most tests have an expiration date on the side of the box and that can be helpful when shopping. So, why pay eight times the amount for the same product?
It could be psychological. After Ledford's dollar store test showed positive, she doubted the results and purchased a more expensive one from the drug store…which also tested positive.
The fact is, the only test that is 100% accurate is a blood test. But when you need to know right away, store bought tests offer convenience and privacy. Ledford plans on keeping the dollar store test forever. The double pink lines are starting to fade but in a few short months her life will change forever.
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Globe photos of the week, July 26, 2013
Globe photos of the week, July 26, 2013
Boston Marathon bombing victim Marc Fucarile left Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to head home to Reading. He is the last victim to leave a hospital following the attack. He left on the 100th day after the bombing.
Boston Marathon bombing victim Marc Fucarile got a hug from son Gavin before leaving Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to head home to Reading. He is the last victim to leave a hospital following the attack.
A firefighter put on an oxygen tank as multiple fire departments responded to a seven-alarm fire on Calvin Street in Somerville.
Residents watched firefighters battle the fire on Calvin Street.
From left, Alice Hayes, Robert Traynham, Sarah Tavano, Marisa Wilson, and others marched to Park Street in Boston, where they spoke out against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case.
Former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez exited a police van to enter Attleboro District Court for a probable cause hearing, which was postponed, in the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Police searched Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park after the body of Amy E. Lord of South Boston was found.
Supporters of proposed ballot initiatives to raise the state's minimum wage and require more employers to allow workers to earn sick days held a rally outside the Massachusetts State House.
Sergeant Sean Murphy left State Police headquarters after being placed on desk duty during the investigation of his release of Dzhokhar Tsaranev photos to the media.
Joseph Dana watched from a traditional handmade birch canoe on the Penobscot River as the Veazie Dam was breached in Eddington, Maine.
Evan Arvedon of Foxborough returned to his car, which fortunately started, after a flash flood on Charles Street between Boston Common and the Public Garden during a heavy rainstorm.
A mister offered relief for ice cream vendor Veronica Janssens during the Outside the Box festival on Boston's City Hall Plaza.
Artist Brendan O'Connell asked Barbara Lynch to coax her 5-year-old granddaughter Kylie McDonald into the frame for an iPad photo at the Quincy Walmart, where he has been painting pictures of Life cereal boxes.
People in the crowd waved flags as music played during the annual Festival Betances at Plaza Betances in Boston.
Deborah Cutulle worked on the Boston Strong centerpiece during the 10th annual Revere Beach National Sand Sculpting Festival, but her mister (foreground) temporarily stopped working.
New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera talked with fans along the left field seats before the start of a game with the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and team captains met the media.
Stephen Drew scored in the bottom of the 8th inning on a hit by Red Sox teammate Jose Iglesias as the throw to the plate got by Tampa Bay Rays catcher Jose Molina at Fenway Park.
Red Sox batter Jose Iglesias reacted after a called second strike at Fenway Park as catcher Jose Lobaton tossed the ball back to pitcher Matt Moore.
The Red Sox mobbed teammate Mike Napoli after his 11th inning walkoff home run gave Boston a 8-7 victory over the New York Yankees at Fenway Park.


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DETROIT — Many people can't see past this city's abandoned buildings and overgrown lots, and that's sort of fair. A city once boasting 2 million people and an unbreakable auto industry is down to 700,000 and apocalyptic decay in every direction. The only time I've had to pass through a metal detector when entering a bank was in Detroit.
But look past the blocks of broken windows, sunken roofs and graffiti, and there is a Detroit stirring back to life. "Revitalization" might be a bit strong, but as low as the city has sunk, its subtle energy and excitement put it at a fascinating crossroad: bruised old times, meet scrappy invention.
You see it in the food and drink, the art, the rebuilt urban trails and the people. I learned it at my very first stop, the modern barbecue joint called Slows Bar-B-Q, which is widely credited for jump-starting the Corktown neighborhood west of downtown. Heavy with brick and wood, pork and beef, people wait two hours to sit during the weekends. During my wait, I met Felix Nguyen, 34, a hotel manager with friends in town for one of the nation's biggest electronic music festivals.
Nguyen explained that she lived in Detroit in the 1990s, moved to the Chicago suburbs and then back to Detroit because she missed it.
"The people are real here," Nguyen said. She proved it by asking me to join her and her friends for dinner. Over our plates of meat and pints of Michigan craft beer, she explained how things have improved.
"When I lived here in the '90s, everything was closed at 5, and there were no grocery stores," Nguyen said. "The customer service was the worst I ever had in my life."
Where, exactly?
"Detroit," she said. "All of it. But now the whole vibe is different."
Father and son Steve and Austin Snell, whom I met on my way out, had driven in from the suburbs to drop Austin's sister off at a concert and stopped at Slows because of its glowing reputation. Before dinner, Steve sipped a gin and tonic two doors over, at Sugar House, Detroit's first craft cocktail bar. No big deal in many urban areas but significant in Detroit.
"I've never been to New York City, but I imagine it's like this," Steve Snell said. "What I'd hope is that Detroit becomes a place where you can walk to things like this."
Detroit's promise is in part a function of its well-documented struggles, which have been told in countless films and books, among them last year's "The Ruins of Detroit," a $125, 200-glossy-page book of Detroit's most arresting wreckage.
But the city's depleted population also has made hatching plans relatively simple and cheap. A group of local graphic design and architecture students just started Urban Put-Put, a miniature-golf course beside the city's ultimate blight (or haunting beauty, if you prefer) — the towering, empty, 100-year-old Michigan Central train station.
Similarly, Jacques Driscoll wanted to open a restaurant two years ago in San Diego, where he was living, but realized it would be easier to do back home in Detroit. In March he launched Green Dot Stables, a restaurant serving gourmet sliders — think elk, lamb and marinated tempeh with wasabi mayo — and Michigan craft beer for the very Detroit prices of $2 and $3 per item.
From the outside, Green Dot looks like the same beaten-down, windowless dive it was before Driscoll took over, all the way down to the Diners Club International sign hanging out front. Inside, however, Driscoll spent a year rehabilitating the 1970s-era wood floor and brick walls while capitalizing on his predecessor's kitschy racetrack theme. The result, a comfortable, affordable place where you'd happily eat sliders and drink good beer for hours, embodies Detroit 2013: lively, impressive and slightly askew.
"People ask, 'Why would you leave a nice place like San Diego for Detroit?'" Driscoll said. "It's hard to explain without taking them around for a couple days and showing them what's going on."
So people, like Driscoll, do that. Detroit is a city long on pride, and — purely my guess — its sense of united struggle makes it friendlier than most places. Driscoll, for instance, met tourists from Montreal staying in a campground across the Detroit River last year. When they told him they were just checking out Detroit for a few days, he not only offered to show them around, but he also put them up.
I knew it wasn't coincidence a day later when a local photographer named C.J. gladly spent an afternoon driving me around his hometown, showing off the good and the bad, when I explained why I was in Detroit. The city is just like that, and its charms are visceral. It is not "cute" or "charming" or "revitalized." It is just humming along, quietly pushing and reinventing itself while many outsiders fail to see past the disarray.
"It's such a weird city," Driscoll said. "I can never put my finger on how to describe it to people, but you can always find something unique going on if you ask the right people."
Keep your ears open at Mercury Burger Bar (a burger joint with a tip-top beer list and wide space to sit out back), Astro Coffee (which brews the best imported coffee they can find) and Sugar House — all a literal stone's throw from Slows — and you'll hear people in their 20s and 30s talking about the properties they're buying and their plans for redevelopment.
One of them is John Gerlock, a lifelong Detroit resident who has redeveloped several pieces of cheap property in recent years and drinks at Sugar House. He was aghast at first when the bar wouldn't substitute the gin of his choice in one of its craft cocktails. Then he was reassured.
"We need to develop that attitude, because every business in town is just so glad you're there," he said. "I consider it a mark of progress that we have places now that are stuck up."
Detroit might have just found itself a new slogan.
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Eat and drink
Slows Bar-B-Q (2138 Michigan Ave., 313-962-9828, slowsbarbq.com) is always busy for a reason: It serves top-notch barbecue and beer.
A few doors down, Astro Coffee (2124 Michigan Ave., 313-638-2989, astrodetroit.com) makes simple, fresh breakfasts and lunches and some of the best coffee in town.
On the same block is Sugar House (2130 Michigan Ave., 313-962-0123, sugarhousedetroit.com), Detroit's first craft cocktail bar.
The gourmet sliders and craft beer at Green Dot Stables (2200 W. Lafayette Blvd., 313-962-5588, greendotstables.com) cost $2 to $3 each, which makes it the great food-beer-deal trifecta.
Michael Symon's Roast (1128 Washington Blvd. 313-961-2500, roastdetroit.com) has won some of the city's biggest fanfare with a meat-centric menu best known for the "roast beast of the day" — suckling pig, goat or lamb roasted on a spit.
Supino Pizzeria (2457 Russell St., 313-567-7879, supinopizzeria.com) makes a fantastic thin pie.
Brooklyn Street Local (1266 Michigan Ave., 313-262-6547, brooklynstreetlocal.com) is a new and already much-loved breakfast and lunch place.
Interesting hotels are few in Detroit, but the modern two-room (yes, two-room) Honor and Folly (honorandfolly.com), which sits above Slows, is a good start. One room costs $165 per night, and both cost $215.
The Inn on Ferry Street (84 E. Ferry Ave., 313-871-6000, theinnonferrystreet.com) is a series of beautifully maintained historic mansions, with rooms $159 to $239, breakfast included.
Those on a budget should consider the well-run Hostel Detroit (2700 Vermont St., 313-451-0333, hosteldetroit.com), which has 10 private and shared rooms with 24 beds; cost is $25 to $47 per night.
Downtown offers thousands of rooms in the typical urban fashion, including three hotel-casinos: MGM Grand Detroit, Motor City Casino Hotel and Greektown Casino Hotel.
Detroit is rich with art, from the Detroit Institute of Arts (5200 Woodward Ave., 313-833-7900, dia.org) to the edgier (and Red Bull-sponsored) House of Art (1551 Winder St.).
Eastern Market (2934 Russell St., detroiteasternmarket.com) is a year-round Saturday morning gem teeming with fresh produce, baked goods and flowers.
The river walk along the Detroit River extends about three miles but eventually will be expanded to five. Wheelhouse Detroit (1340 E. Atwater St., 313-656-2453, wheelhousedetroit.com) will reopen in spring. It's an ideal place to rent a bicycle for a ride along the river. If biking, also be sure to check out Dequindre Cut, which bisects the river walk and offers 1.35 miles of urban bike path on what used to be a rail line.