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From its beginnings, the Islamic Republic of Iran has struck its enemies – even once on American soil, in a suburb of the US capital – when it felt mortally threatened.
So with Iran increasingly isolated from the international community, with tumult in the Middle East foiling Iranian designs of expanded regional influence, and with Western sanctions and covert intelligence actions taking their toll, perhaps it should not be such a surprise that elements of the Iranian regime would dream up a sensational plan for striking back and evening up the scorecard.
The foiled plot the Justice Department divulged Tuesday, in which officials of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps planned to have the Saudi ambassador to Washington assassinated on US soil, strikes most Iran experts as the work of a regime that feels cornered and desperate.
In that sense, the alleged plot reflects the mindset and survival strategy of a regime that has reached far to intimidate and cut down its enemies since its founding in 1979.
Some national security analysts initially described the plan as laid out by US officials Tuesday as "unprecedented" over its most brazen element: It was to have been carried out on American soil, under one scenario through a bombing at a Washington restaurant.
But it may be that the masterminds of the foiled plot were harking back to 1980, when the fledgling Iranian regime – obsessed with the threat of a counterrevolution that would bring down the Ayatollah Khomeini – took what would become a covert war with the regime's enemies to a quiet street in Bethesda, Md., just over the state line from Washington.
In July of that year, a radicalized American Muslim, working on the orders of a contact he later described as an operative of the Iranian government, went to the Bethesda home of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former spokesman for the Iranian embassy who had become a high-profile critic of Ayatollah Khomeini and the revolutionary regime, and shot him dead.
The American, Dawud Salahuddin, an African-American who had changed his name from David Theodore Belfield, fled the country and is still believed to reside near Tehran.
That was the only time Iran was known to have struck on US soil, but in subsequent years it frequently acted in Europe against former Iranian officials it viewed as threats.
Iran developed a different pattern for hitting at the US and other enemies – most notably Saudi Arabia, but also Israel. It used of proxies like Hizbullah in Lebanon. The attacks on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and on the Khobar Towers US military housing in Saudi Arabia in 1996 are both attributed to Iran through proxy operatives.
More recently, US officials believe Iran has worked directly through its own forces, in particular the Revolutionary Guard Corps cited Tuesday, to attack US forces and interests in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
Some critics of US policy toward Iran say US administrations, stretching back as the Reagan administration, have set a dangerous pattern by leaving Iranian actions unanswered.
But others point to a list of recent actions attributed to Western and US-allied intelligence agencies as part of a covert war that has seen victories and setbacks on both sides. The war has included the kind of blows that the Iranian regime would interpret as aimed at its very existence.
Among those actions are the so-called Stuxnet worm, the case of industrial sabotage last year that set back Iran's nuclear program. Also, during the past four years at least four top Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed – in one instance by poisoning – while a fifth narrowly escaped a bombing attack.
Iran has accused Western operatives, specifically from Israel and the US, of carrying out these attacks, but both the US and Israel have remained mum on their involvement. Many officials from countries friendly to the US have asserted that the acts are the work of Israeli operatives assisted by the US.
On the scorecard of a 30-year covert war, the deadliest attacks would seem to be on the Iranian side, but the most recent ones would seem to stack up on the side of its opponents.
From that perspective, the alleged plot to assassinate a Saudi diplomat a few blocks from the White House may have been the attempt of someone – at what level we don't yet know – to even the score.


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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, CUBA (Reuters) - The U.S. failure to shut down the detention camp at Guantanamo has Captain John Nettleton in a predicament.
As commander of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in eastern Cuba, he is in charge of making sure the prisoners and the troops and contractors who work at the camp have proper facilities. The problem is that he has no idea how long they will be staying.
"I haven't gotten any guidance on it whatsoever, so everything I'm doing right now is kind of just speculating on what's going on," Nettleton said in a weekend interview with Reuters. "From a resourcing standpoint, it's kind of frustrating to not know if they're going to be permanent residents or not."
The prison camp holds 166 men captured in counterterrorism operations after the September 11, 2001, attacks and costs $114 million a year to operate.
It is run by a military joint task force that is considered a tenant on the Navy base, which the United States opened in 1903 as a coaling station.
Many of the buildings that house and feed the 1,800-member task force are structures built to last five years and show signs of wear after standing for a decade in the salt air and broiling tropical sun.
Nettleton wants to replace the Seaside Galley, a Quonset-hut-like structure that serves as a cafeteria for the guards, interpreters, and other government employees and contractors working at the camp.
"We have to build a new galley but are we going to build it as a permanent galley or are we going to replace it with another temporary thing?" said Nettleton, a Navy pilot who has been the base commander since June 2012.
He would like to build permanent barracks for the guards, who are strewn in housing all over the base, many in beige metal trailers that look from the outside like self-storage lockers.
"There's a lot of projects we'd like to do that involve making life better for the soldiers and sailors that are over there," Nettleton said. But without knowing when the mission will end, "it doesn't make a lot of sense to ask for permanent buildings if they're going to be gone."
"When does it quit being a temporary place?" he asked. "That's the million-dollar question."
The message from Washington has been mixed. On taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama ordered the detention operation shut down within a year.
Many Americans balked because of security concerns and Congress passed laws making it harder to transfer prisoners out, even though about half of them have been cleared for release.
Obama signed a defense budget bill extending those restrictions last month, despite insisting Congress had no authority to exert "unwarranted interference" in decisions traditionally made by military commanders and national security professionals.
Obama said he remained committed to shutting down the detention camp that "weakens our national security by wasting resources, damaging our relationships with key allies and strengthening our enemies."
But last week, his administration closed the State Department office charged with resettling Guantanamo detainees and said the diplomat who led it would not be replaced.
Comedian Stephen Colbert called that a signal that it was time for America to embrace the Guantanamo prison as a "terrorist retirement community" and suggested renaming it "Jihadi Meadows."
Faced with opposition from New Yorkers, the Obama administration also backed down on plans to hold a federal court trial in New York for five captives accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.
Pretrial hearings in that case began in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal in May 2012 and will resume on February 12. But it is anyone's guess when the complex trial will start.
One other case is also in pretrial hearings, that of a prisoner charged with orchestrating the bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen in 2000, an attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors.
The slow pace of the trials suggests the prison camp will stay open for the next few years, Nettleton said. The defendants in both cases could face execution after lengthy appeals or be sentenced to life imprisonment.
The latter raises the prospect that Guantanamo could become America's version of Spandau Prison, the internationally run facility in Berlin that held Nazi war criminals until the last one died in 1986.
Only three of the current detainees have been convicted of crimes, and one of those had his conviction overturned on appeal last month.
In addition to the handful facing trial and those cleared for release, there are about 46 prisoners that the United States considers dangerous enough to detain forever. But the government says it cannot prosecute them because it cannot link them to specific attacks.
Without a resolution of their fate, the prison buildings may someday have to be retrofitted for a geriatric population. The oldest detainee is already 65.
"We're building everything like they're going to go away next year or the year after and every year you say the same thing: 'OK, well maybe they'll be leaving next year,'" Nettleton said.
"I think that's frustrating for everybody in the United States government. That's not just a J.R. Nettleton problem. From the president on down, it's just such a hard problem right now for everybody."
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Filling in for the injured Leroy Hill, linebacker Malcolm Smith played well in his first career start. With only 75 career snaps to his name, last year's seventh round pick played a career high 49 in this game, finishing with an overall grade of +2.1. His four stops were second on the team as he did a nice job shedding pulling linemen in the running game to make plays, while only allowing eight yards on his two targets in the passing game. It was a good showing for Smith who was rarely caught out of position and made the necessary plays when they came to him.
God, I have wanted Smith to succeed for so long. My favorite pick at the time of the 2011 draft. Maybe he is the successor to Leroy Hill?????
Okung also got a great grade, and nice tidbit on Tate in this article!
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- After breaking another four missed tackles Golden Tate now has 11 on the year. He's on course to beat his previous best tally of 13 in 2011.
I still think the real big thing here is that we could have possibly solved our OLB issues with Smith. Then we can use our first rounder on a big nasty DT.....


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Because the extreme version of Mercedes-Benz's current supercar, the gullwinged SLS AMG GT, clearly needs more power and less weight, the company announced Friday that it would be bringing to the 2012 L.A. Auto Show, you know, a faster model.
The car is the SLS AMG Black Series.
Black Series is to AMG what AMG is to Mercedes. Only four other production models have had a Black Series variant, the most recent being the 2013 C63 AMG. The philosophy is very simple: turn everything up to 11. We love you, Cleveland.
Photos: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
This SLS Black Series ups the ante by boosting the SLS GT's 583 horsepower to 622 horsepower, while torque actually drops from 479 pound-feet to 468 pound-feet. The engine's redline jumps to 8,000 rpm and it gets other revisions like revised mapping, a new oil pump, new crankshaft bearings and a revised cooling system.
The seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission now sits a scootch lower, and two of the gearbox's four drive modes have been retuned for more aggressive and faster shifts. The SLS Black Series also gets a completely revamped suspension system with two selectable modes, the car's track has been widened, and the speed-sensitive steering has been revised. This SLS also benefits from standard carbon-ceramic brakes.
Further weight savings come from a lithium-ion battery (a loss of 17.6 pounds) and a titanium sports exhaust system (a loss of 28.7 pounds).
All told, these changes add up to a weight savings of 154 pounds from the SLS GT, for a total curb weight of 3,417 pounds. The car will do 0-60 mph in 3.5 seconds (.1 second faster than the GT) on its way to a 196-mph top speed.
Mercedes says the car draws its exterior design inspiration from the company's SLS AMG GT3 racecar. The Black Series gets flared fenders, tinted headlights, carbon fiber side skirts all around, a rear diffuser, a carbon fiber hood, and matte-black alloy wheels (19-inch in the front, 20-inch in the back). Buyers can also specify the carbon fiber rear wing you see here.
Inside, the car comes with Alcantara trim in red or black, a flat-bottom steering wheel, a carbon fiber-lined center console, and an 11-speaker, 1,000-watt Bang & Olufson sound system.
Unfortunately, as is the case on the SLS AMG Roadster we tested in early 2012, the car still has Mercedes' outdated center console setup and design. Customers who want to really save weight can delete this Comand multimedia system, a move Mercedes says saves you another 13 pounds.
If all this sounds like something you'd like to drive, you'll have to wait for it to go on sale the summer of 2013, and though there's no official word on pricing, expect it to close in on $300,000. If you'd like to stare at it in person before next year, head to the L.A. Auto Show -- which is open to the public Nov. 30 to Dec. 9. -- to see this and several other Mercedes-Benz products the company will debut at the show.
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Pfizer Inc on Monday said it had acquired privately held Alacer Corp, the largest U.S. maker of vitamin C products, bolstering Pfizer's array of vitamin brands and its consumer healthcare business.
Pfizer, which sells the popular Centrum line of vitamins acquired through its 2009 purchase of Wyeth, did not disclose financial details.
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Alacer each year produces about 500 million packets of its Emergen-C brand of vitamin C, an effervescent powdered supplement available in 15 flavors.
Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, also sells nutritional products such as baby formulas and maternal supplements as well as animal health products.
Although Pfizer is considering divesting its nutritional and animal health brands, it has said it aims to hold onto its consumer healthcare business. In addition to Centrum, the unit sells Advil painkiller, ChapStick, Robitussin cough suppressant and other leading brands.


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Rick Henderson of The Owl's Nest is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt Conference.
Rohnert Seals Two Quality Wins for the Pioneers
Denver's recent streak of bad luck in close games came to an end last weekend against East with a 78-74 win at home over Western Kentucky. The Hilltoppers pulled within two points in the final minute last Saturday, but Denver's Brian Stafford connected on a bounce pass to cutting teammate Nate Rohnert for a backdoor layup. This put the Pioneers up by four points with 13 seconds left to finish off the Toppers. WKU saw its four game winning streak come to an end. On their next outing, Rohnert struck again, scored 12 points, and made the game-winning basket with five seconds left to lead the Pioneers to a 56-54 victory over South Alabama at Magness Arena. "We've been playing well every game for the past three weeks, but tonight at those critical moments we made the shots and didn't turn the ball over…I thought our big turning point could be a win on the road, but why can't it be beating the class of our conference at home?", said Denver Coach Joe Scott.


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Tourism is a multi-billion dollar industry and it's hardly a surprise that many large and small software companies are offering various tools to help the traveller on the road. A lot of this software can be safely ignored; however, a few are truly invaluable and deserve some mention.
Metro is a small application originally developed for the Palm Pilot platform. It stores the route plans of subway and/or bus services of various cities around the world. It allows you to easily find the best connection between two places using the public transportation network of your current city. It will display instructions on what lines to take, where to change, and an estimate of how long the trip will take. It does not store schedules. The current version (April 2004) covers over 250 cities from Australia to Wales.
The author of these lines tested it with various cities (Paris, for example). Metro does a very good job at what it was designed to do. It's highly recommended for anyone with a supported PDA who travels into a city with more than two subway lines.
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Think about that for a second. Unlike most device makers, who jealously try to lock down the device, Samsung hasn't just handed over its devices early, but it's specifically encouraging them to get their replacement/modded OS working on the phone as quickly as possible. Which strategy do you think is likely to create loyalty, win fans, and lead to greater innovation and value for users?
Four members of the CyanogenMod software team on Monday received Galaxy S II smartphones in the mail, direct from the company at no charge.
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Installed this on a '08 FLSTC. Took it out for a two hour ride. Didn't notice the seat. Which is the way it should be. The stock saddle was hideously uncomfortable. Noticed THAT seat after about 10 minutes riding time. I paired this with the studded bid, part number ZZ71636. Comfortable and looks sharp. Can't ask for more!
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You wont catch me anywhere near that mess! Here in Charleston, SC we have had our own problems with Mrs. Marry Lee (16ft 3600lb Great White) swimming around. Its funny the tricks your mind plays when you think about a predator that big and scary. Any stick, weird wave, flash of light turns into instant thoughts of death haha.RickI wrote:It should increase your motivation if not focus. Then there are all those mobile kickers and no straps to keep you on your board.
Here is a video clip from the session, I was just trying to capture the setting after sunset. There isn't one handle pass in it, promise.
A short video clip of riding in the lagoon, beach is closed due to excessive beach erosion. It is a very peaceful place, sharks aside.
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Haha, I know what you mean!Ecoastprock wrote:Its funny the tricks your mind plays when you think about a predator that big and scary. Any stick, weird wave, flash of light turns into instant thoughts of death haha.
In the summer, when all the shrimp boats are out, i have seen the same exact thing. I was tacking out and noticed a huge area of disturbed water with birds EVERYWHERE. I was kind of curious so i just rode straight through it.Wow, just last week, I was kiting at dusk near a jetty, when about a mile out, I saw a whole mess of birds wheeling around, and decided to check it out. When I arrived, there were schools of baitfish breaking the surface and being snacked on by pelicans and seagulls, and I rode right through that mess.
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I'm new here but I have read a lot of the previous forum posts before registering (I.e just doing pet research). I live in quebec and I have been searching for the right dog for a while and last week I was lucky enough to be introduced to a really beautiful husky/lab/rednose pitbull mix. I've done research on husky/lab mix dogs and I know they require a lot of attention, big open spaces, and I find my home offers that. I know I'll be an extremely dedicated/passionate owner , seriously not one day since last week I haven't sstopped thinking about the dog! my only problem now is the dog itself is verryy excited, which is a good thing but is the dog good around little kids? I have a little 6 year old sister and a 13 year old. I know husky/labs love kids (watched my neighbours for 2 months and we'd play in the backyard for hours. But the one I'm adopting, has anyone ever seen how they are around kids? Or if they're aggressive, I met her 6 times and she is very excited! I can post pictures , she's 4 months old with no shots on her. She LOVES to be loved. Can't even express how much I love playing with her. I'm 21 btw, and this will be my first official dog but I've watched dogs in the past for my neighbour for long periods. Thank you again!
When you are dealing with a mix, it is really hard to say which characteristics will be inherited. As you have met her, and nothing appears to stand out as worrisome, then you should be just fine.
I am a bit concerned that at 4 months, this puppy has had no shots. While I don't believe in over vaccinating, I do think that the puppy basics are very important.
Large, open spaces are wonderful, but if they are not fenced in, your new puppy should only go out on a leash. As this is your first dog, I strongly suggest you find yourself a good trainer, that teaches using positive methods, to attend classes with. A good trainer will teach you so much more than just some basic commands and set both you and your puppy up to succeed in life.
Whether or not your puppy is going to depend very much on you! If you attend classes, train and socialize your puppy - you should have a wonderful dog! Equally important is remembering that young children need to learn how to treat dogs as well. Hitting, pulling and poking are things that we do not do to our dogs. Your pup needs to be left alone at meal time and any time she has a high value treat, such as a bone.
I cannot express how strongly I AGREE that dogs should be let to eat in peace. Dr. Ed Bailey, an animal behaviourist and dog lover, agrees too. he says this:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+im...e.-a0207744606 The bold is mine.
Joan Orr and Teresa Lewin, founders of Doggone Safe and the Doggone Crazy board game, also agree it is VERY BAD to mess with and take away a dog's food while it is eating. They say:
Here is the Doggone Safe website for more information on how to achieve safe interactions between children and dogs. http://www.doggonesafe.com/
My thinking is, just suppose an owner does use the taking food away method. Who has such a parent given the duty of the safety of their child to? The dog. The dog? The dog is now responsible for the safety of the child? Come on, parents, do your job. Your child's safety is your responsiblity. Parents must supervise their small children around their dog, whether the dog is eating or not, but especially while it is eating.
I think it is paramount for a person to be able to take food away from the dog, teaching this in a positive manner can be stress free for the dog and prevent possible life threatening emergencies in the future. Again, this should NOT be stressful to the dog, it should be fun. You don't just give food, yank it away, and walk away with it. There is a lot of info out there on how to do food exercises with a dog properly, and they should absolutely be done with every dog.
Now, bring kids into the picture, no way no how should kids ever be messing around with a dog's food. Kids should be taught to respect the animal and ask their parents permission before doing any thing and when they do some thing it should always be with the parent right there with them. Kids and dogs don't mix very well naturally, it's a learned process and it's very individual dog dependant. Just like every human doesn't appreciate a screaming child, not all dogs like the company or interactions with children.
You teach a dog to give you what it has in it's mouth by teaching it to "give"! By constantly putting you hands in your dogs bowl and taking things that you have given, you are teaching your puppy that it NEEDS to protect it's food! I tell you what - if one of my kids ever put a hand on my plate, they would pull back a stump! I expect no less of my dog!
Having said that, I can take anything I want from my 100 pound dog with absolutely no issues what so ever because I taught him, from the time he was a puppy, that his food is his, what I ask for is mine, and he ALWAYS gets something when he gives me what I want.
If you are dealing with a lovely, placid, lab you might be able to get away with the old "hand in the food dish" method. But I tend to like dogs with a bit more spunk. I would think that a dog with some husky and some pit just might be inclined to protect those things it deems important - like dinner. It is much easier to teach a puppy to give than to unteach a puppy that has learned to protect it's food bowl.
Thank you for the replies! The puppy itself seems very energetic. The first day I saw her I bought her a little ball to play with and everytime I visit it, it seems to jump on me and we play with the ball. She seems really friendly. As for the little siblings, my sisters are really mature for their age and when I would have the lab/husky over, my sisters wouldn't bother them but would just play with them. The 6 year old was scared of dogs until the husky/lab mix and she seemed to love him! But I'm kinda nervous seeing how the pitbull is mixed in and hoping she won't be violent towards her.
Please don't buy into all the negative press about pit bulls. Properly trained and socialized (as EVERY dog should be) they make wonderful pets that are notoriously fabulous with children. They didn't get the nickname "the nanny dog" for nothing.
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The latest situation is even more extreme. The team's owner, Dan Snyder, appears to be the subject of much displeasure among Redskins fans. There are lots of fans of lots of sports teams who dislike the ownership. However, I don't think I've ever heard the level of dislike towards an owner like the publicly expressed feelings many fans have towards Dan Snyder. The local Washington City Paper has, of course, played up on this general dislike of Snyder, and back in November published an amusing Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder, which includes an A to Z listing of "offenses." You see this kind of column all the time about various sports owners. And most ignore it.
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He had his lawyers send a threat letter not to Washington City Paper, but to Atalaya Capital Management, the investment firm that owns Creative Loafing, which is the company that publishes Washington City Paper. Got that? Atalaya pointed out that they have nothing to do with the management of the paper -- and especially have nothing to do with the content of the paper, but even so, sent back a wonderful letter explaining the basics of the First Amendment to Snyder, especially with regards to public figures. The full letter is embedded below (and worth the read), but a few choice snippets:
The purpose of this letter is not to correct each of your misstatements and mischaracterizations but rather to assert the media's First Amendment right to comment on public figures (which your client undeniably is) and matters of public interest (into which your client voluntarily injected himself through his prominent ownership of the Washington Redskins).The letter also highlights that Atalaya had been informed by the paper that it was more than happy to allow Mr. Snyder the ability to respond in the pages of its publication.
The Column plainly is a tongue-in-cheek opinion piece expressing fans' frustration with your client's ownership of the Redskins. This is quintessential First Amendment-protected speech. Indeed, the U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that "one of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures. Such criticism, inevitably, will not always be reasoned or moderate; public figures as well as public officials will be subject to vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks."
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Of course, the even bigger issue is that in bringing this lawsuit, you can bet that a hell of a lot more people have now seen the original article totally trashing Dan Snyder. If his goal was to suppress this content, then he's failed badly (yet again). On top of that, a lot more folks now think that Snyder has an incredibly thin skin. I would also imagine that Snyder will not enjoy any actual legal fight, in which the various assertions about him in that original column are dragged into court and examined for accuracy. Even if there are libelous statements in there, is Snyder really interested in going through a courtroom analysis of each of the claims in the column?


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by Tom Utescher
To say that the Germantown Friends School Tigers play hard right up to the end of a lacrosse match almost seems like an understatement in light of their performance at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy last Wednesday. GFS scored twice in the final 30 seconds of regulation play to send the non-league contest into overtime at 13-13, and after the host Blue Devils netted the first goal in the extra session, the Tigers scored two times in the final 21 ticks of the OT to pull out a 15-14 victory.
Germantown, which raised its record to 4-1, graduated half-a-dozen players from its 2012 roster, including blue chip recruit Iris Williamson. As a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, Williamson has scored a team-leading 22 goals in the Quakers' first nine games, striking four times in a 15-10 loss to national number one Maryland.
The lack of a superstar of this magnitude has made it necessary for the Tigers to play very team-oriented lacrosse to be successful this spring.
Following Wednesday's barnburner, longtime coach Katie Bergstrom Mark noted, "Everyone's contributing; we're doing a nice job of working the ball around and evening out our scoring. Our defense in the first half today was a little shaky, but they came on strong in the second half."
After a series of scrimmages against PIAA schools and a bout that was cancelled due to snow on March 25, the SCH Blue Devils didn't play an official game until the day before the GFS match. Last Tuesday's game, too, was an overtime heartbreaker for the Chestnut Hill sticksters.
In their Girls Inter-Ac League opener, the Devils dropped behind host Penn Charter, 6-0, and still trailed 7-2 at halftime. SCH roared back to lead 12-11 late in the second half, then Charter (3-0) tied it up on the fifth marker of the afternoon by sophomore Avery "Goalmaker" Shoemaker.
After SCH hit a post with its final shot, the match proceeded into overtime. Quakers senior Kelly Kubach (four goals), a University of Michigan signee, scored early in OT and PC played a solid possession game to prevail, 13-12. Duke-bound senior Kitty Morrissey and freshman Mikaela Watson each scored four goals for the Devils, and sophomore Francesca Fabiani tallied twice.
First-year coach Allison Thomas noted, "These games have been hard for us because we have a lot of young girls on the field and they're thrown into these tough situations where the games are so close. We have to work on supporting each other. They think certain players are going to get the ball and just take over the game, but really everybody on the field has to take some initiative."
Over the first 10 minutes of Wednesday's encounter, sophomore Maddie Aslansan was the only Blue Devil to find the net as GFS jumped out to a 4-1 lead with strikes by juniors Schuyler Nissen and Claire Schmidt and sophomores Greta Meyer and Annie Tyson.
Two goals by Morrissey and one by sophomore Sinéad Brierley pulled the hosts even at 4-4, but the Tigers went on another tear to gain a 9-5 advantage with just under four minutes left in the half. SCH got a sixth goal from freshman Megan McCool, then in the last 22 seconds of the first period Brierley fired her second for the Devils, and Morrissey captured the subsequent draw and went down to score. That made it 9-8 for the intermission.
In goal for GFS, junior Dana Schulman started the game and senior Lauren Shinn came in during the first half. The lanky Shinn and the smaller Schulman also split time in the second half, presenting a contrast in size and style to opposing attackers.
"They each give us something a little different," Bergstrom Mark said, "and they get along very well and are very supportive of one another."
The Tigers' mentor is pleased with the smooth transition that rangy junior Caroline Myran has made from defense to midfield, while the team still is able to field an experienced defensive unit. In the back, Sophie Mercuris, Caryn Miller, and Katherine Walden are all seniors, and sophomore Sarah Kane's speed makes her a good one-on-one marker.
In the opening minutes of the second half, GFS edged a little farther ahead, 11-9, then SCH took the lead with a 3-0 spurt. At this juncture, GFS called a time-out with 12:52 to go in the second half, but a little over six minutes later SCH's Brierley looped out and in from the left of the cage to score.
It looked like the Devils were going to ride their 13-11 edge to victory as the clock cut into the final minute, but now Germantown broke a 20-minute scoring drought. The SCH defense was caught too far up the field as the Tigers' Schmidt ran the ball down towards the right side of the arc. She waited until she drew the last defender toward her, then passed the ball to senior Anna Bezhaler near the left post for a goal with 29.4 seconds left. Mercuris captured the next draw, but down inside the arc the Devils checked the ball loose a few meters from the cage. GFS sophomore Grayson Melby swatted at the ball and it rolled past SCH freshman goalie Elsa Rall with two seconds to go, forcing overtime.
The standard OT period runs for a total of six minutes (played in full) with the teams changing ends halfway through. Just before they switched the direction of play, the hosts' Fabiani drove through a double-team out past the left side of the crease to score, putting the Devils up 14-13. GFS seized the following draw, turned the ball over to SCH with 1:55 remaining, then got it back when the Blue Devils bobbled the ball out of bounds with one minute to go.
Germantown went down on attack and Tyson was awarded a free position on the right side of the arc, which she converted to tie the match (14-14) with 20.6 seconds to go. Once again, the visitors seized the ball off of the center draw, and with 6.2 seconds on the clock, Meyer fired the game-winner for GFS.
"We work on those last-minute situations in practice," Bergstrom Mark revealed. "You can do all the skill work you want, but if you don't have the game sense – like WE NEED TO SCORE NOW – you can have trouble in those critical situations."
The leaders on offense for the victors were Melby and Meyer, with four goals apiece, and Tyson, with three, while in goal Shinn and Schulman had four and two saves, respectively. The SCH keeper, Rall, who made several tough stops against the Tigers late in the second half, finished with eight saves. The multiple scorers for the Devils were Morrissey, with four goals, Brierley and Fabiani, with three each, and Watson, with two.
Obviously, one of the tasks ahead of Springside Chestnut Hill is learning not only how to get a lead, but how to hold onto it late in a game.
"Basically, it's discipline," Thomas said. "It's following through with the plays; when we're saying hold the ball and stall, then it means hold the ball and stall, even if they see a girl open in the middle. You work on these things in practice, but when inexperienced players get out there in a tight game, they get flustered and things can break down. Just more playing time will help a lot of these things, as long as we're committed to learning and improving."


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The nation's chief spy has underscored the terrorism threat to Australians to back the federal government's plan to boost security by forcing telecommunications companies to store client metadata for at least two years.
The measure, which is part of a package announced by Prime Minister Tony Abbott earlier this week, has raised the ire of privacy groups who believe it's unwarranted and will give security agencies greater licence to spy on people's personal information without censure.
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) boss David Irvine on Friday made a rare public appearance to hose down privacy concerns and calm the escalating debate about the proposed laws, which will be introduced in federal parliament later this year.
"This is not some great mass surveillance exercise for mass invasion of privacy of every citizen in Australia," he said.
"It is very carefully targeted against those people who give us good reason to suspect they may be engaged in activities which are a threat to national security."
The additional counter-terrorism laws will make small and large telephony and internet service providers collect and store metadata.
Mr Irvine described metadata as the "what, where, when and how" of telecommunications that discloses basic details such as IP addresses, billing addresses and the time and duration of communications.
"We have been accessing that data for many years, legally," he said.
As the terrorism threat to Australia increases, Mr Irvine said ASIO needs to ensure all telcos collected and stored metadata, which the government proposes show by held for at least two years.
Privacy groups have spoken out against the plan while law and security experts have urged caution.
Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said there was potential under the new legislation for the retention of large quantities of personal information, increasing the risk of serious privacy breaches.
However, the proposals are backed by the Australian Federal Police, which champions the use of metadata in anti-terrorism matters, and state police commissioners.
AFP Deputy Commissioner Andrew Colvin said security agencies were simply asking for the protection of a well-used anti-crime tool.
"If we were to lose this either through data not being retained or changes to technology, our ability to solve crime and prevent crime would be severely impaired," he said.
Mr Abbott denied the government had caused confusion on the issue, particularly in explaining what metadata would be retained, and insisted "we've been crystal clear all along".
Mr Abbott this week said the government wouldn't be asking service providers to do more than they currently were.
But Mr Irvine said telcos would have to step up current arrangements.
"Some of the start-ups (smaller service providers) are either not collecting the data or are not holding it for a very long time," he said.
Australia's terrorism threat level remains at medium - meaning an event "is likely and could occur".
"My organisation is working in overload at the present time to deal with the way in which the terrorist threat ... is suddenly starting to impact on Australian citizens," Mr Irvine said.
Mr Irvine said he supported the current authorisation requirements necessary to access metadata.


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Should you sell stock to avoid 'cliff' tax hikes?
NEW YORK -- The "fiscal cliff" is to personal finance what Kryptonite is to Superman.
Indeed, in today's post-election world, if your stock portfolio has one weakness, one vulnerability, one negative financial field force that is sapping it of its normal strength, it is the long list of dangers related to the nation's well-publicized fiscal woes.
They carry the threat of recession and the potential for higher tax rates on stock profits and dividends. And that is putting investors' finances in a weakened state -- just as Kryptonite does to Superman.
The fiscal cliff is the one-two punch of tax hikes and deep, mandated spending cuts set to kick in automatically on Jan. 1 unless a divided Congress can agree on a deal to avoid, or at least minimize, the damage that the roughly $600 billion fiscal drag would inflict on the economy.
Fear that Democrats and Republicans won't get a deal done by year-end -- when the investor-friendly Bush-era tax cuts will otherwise expire -- has already resulted in a sizable hit to investors' stock portfolios. In the eight trading days since Election Day, a vote which resulted in a status quo political power structure and more divided government, the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has fallen 4.8%.
A report of some progress and an improved tone of cooperation gave stocks a lift Friday, avoiding another down day. But some investors fear a market meltdown similar to the one that occurred in the summer of 2011, when a divided Congress brawled publicly over raising the nation's debt ceiling. The partisan bickering dragged on so long that it resulted in a credit-rating downgrade for the USA's triple-A rating, the first in history, a blow that dented investor confidence and resulted in a one-day plunge of nearly 635 points, or 5.6%, for the Dow Jones industrial average on Aug. 8, 2011.
"The market will be choppy until investors get clarity on the fiscal cliff issues," says Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
The direction of the market is one thing, but among other problems, arguably the biggest headache facing investors is how to protect their portfolios from a potential hike in tax rates on capital gains and dividends.
If lawmakers let the Bush-era tax cuts expire at year-end, investors will see the tax rate on capital gains, or profits from stock appreciation, rise to 20% from 15%. And for individuals with income of $200,000 ($250,000 for households), an additional 3.8% investment income tax will be tacked on starting Jan. 1 to help defer the costs of President Obama's health care law. That means high-income folks will see their capital gains rate rise to 23.8%.
Similarly, the tax rate on dividends is set to rise from 15% to whatever your ordinary income tax rate is. The nation's highest earners will see the rate jump to 39.6%. Add the 3.8% and the tax on dividends will nearly triple to 43.4% for the highest earners.
So what's an investor to do to avoid higher taxes? Here are some strategies to consider.
• Sell your big winners now, not in 2013. Let's say a year ago you were lucky enough to buy 1,000 shares of homebuilder Pulte, which turned out to be the S&P 500's top gainer in 2012. It is "prudent from a tax perspective to at least consider taking profits" before year-end and lock in the lower 15% rate rather than risk paying a potentially higher tax rate next year, says John Stoltzfus, chief market strategist at Oppenheimer.
He dubs this strategy "tax gain harvesting." It is a twist, he says, on the more traditional year-end tax-selling strategy where you sell your dogs and realize losses, which can then be used to offset capital gains and a limited amount of ordinary income.
Stoltzfus believes some of the selling since Election Day is a clear sign that many investors are already employing this strategy.
Here's how selling shares of high-flying Pulte now could save you money if capital gains taxes rise next year. Let's say you bought 1,000 shares on Sept. 18, 2011 for $5.47 a share. That $5,470 investment rose in value to $15,240 through Thursday's close. If you sell now, take the $9,770 profit and pay the current 15% capital gains rate, your tax liability for the trade will be $1,465.50. If you wait until 2013 and the rate climbs to 23.8%, your tax bill would climb to $2,325.26, or nearly $860 more.
There is precedent for selling to avoid higher tax bills later, according to a research report by Gina Martin Adams, senior analyst at Wells Fargo Securities. Following the Tax Reform Act of 1986, when the tax rate on capital gains rose to 28% from 20%, investor selling in advance of the tax hike doubled from the year prior, to $328 billion, or a record 7.4% of GDP, her research shows.
"Investor capital gains realizations were more than twice the size of any prior year, and unmatched again for more than a decade," she wrote. "Even the bubble years of the late 1990s failed to produce capital gains at so large a percentage of GDP."
But there is a caveat to this strategy, especially for long-term investors who don't need cash in the short term, warns Tim Speiss, partner and chairman at EisnerAmper Personal Wealth Advisors.
He stresses that if you like a company's long-term prospects, you might want to hold the stock, and avoid completely the taxable event caused by selling.
"Paying a capital gains tax is optional or voluntary, because you have to take the overt action of selling to incur the tax," says Speiss. "You recognize a gain no matter what the tax rate is, and you will owe tax to the government."
• Think twice before dumping dividend-paying stocks. For top earners, the tax on dividends could nearly triple from 15% to 43.4% if there is no political deal. That means high-income Americans could pay as much as $434 in taxes on a $1,000 dividend payout next year, vs. a current tax hit of just $150.
That math sure sounds like a prescription for disaster for one of Wall Street's most successful investment plays in recent years: buying stocks that pay dividends to generate income in a low-yield world. But while a tripling of taxes on so-called dividend-payers on the surface screams "Sell," a closer analysis says not so fast, according to a research report by Strategas Research Partners titled, "Dividend Stocks: Now Is Not The Time To Sell."
While they won't rule out short-term declines in the price of dividend-paying stocks, Strategas doesn't expect a draconian 43.4% tax rate to become reality. Their guesstimate: Dividends will be taxed somewhere between 15% and 28%.
Companies might also help investors by paying a so-called "special dividend," or a one-time payout, before year-end to help them avoid potentially higher taxes later. "The number of special dividends is likely to spike in the next (six weeks)," says Dan Clifton, a policy analyst at Strategas. A bunch of companies have already announced special dividends, including IDT, FedFirst Financial, NIC, Commerce Bancshares, Southside Bancshares, Sinclair and Watsco, according to Jeff Hoopes, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan. He is working on a research paper that shows there was a surge in special dividends in 2010 when it wasn't clear whether Congress would extend the tax-friendly status of dividends.
Hoopes' research also found that in 2010 about two dozen companies opted to pay their normal quarterly dividends in December rather than January to try to save shareholders money in the event tax rates went up in the new calendar year.
"Altering the timing of regular dividend payouts is pretty easy," Hoopes says.
A handful of companies is again employing that strategy. In recent weeks Leggett & Platt, Myers Industries and Homeowners Choice have all moved up their dividend payouts to avoid paying in January.
Dividends have accounted for 42% of the 9.96% annualized gains of stocks going back to 1926, according to Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices.
But there is even a better reason why holding on to dividend-paying stocks, rather than dumping them for tax purposes, makes sense: History shows the market's most consistent dividend-payers perform well when taxes on dividends go up, Strategas research shows.
While higher tax rates might reduce the number of companies that pay dividends, or give companies that were thinking about issuing a dividend for the first time cold feet, it likely will increase investor demand for companies with a history of consistently paying and boosting dividends.
For example, so-called dividend "aristocrats," companies that have raised dividends every year for at least 25 years, outperformed the broad market in 1990 both one month and three months after dividend taxes were raised, Strategas says. Similarly, the aristocrats kept pace with the market after a broader 1993 increase in marginal tax rates.
"Any sell-off in dividend payers should be seen as a buying opportunity," Clifton of Strategas concludes in the report.


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More On Sequoia's Legal Threats Against Ed Felten: The Intimidation Worked
from the freedom-to-threaten-lawsuits dept
Sequoia's response to that question is disingenuous, claiming that the company "supports third party reviews and testing of its election equipment." If that's so, then why not Ed Felten? Well, because Sequoia says that the machines have already been through a "rigorous" independent review from an accredited Voting System Test Labs. Ah? Would that be one of the accredited Voting System Test Labs that was barred from further testing for not having proper controls in place and having no evidence that tests were actually conducted? Most of those tests have very limited real-world applicability -- which is what Felten is good at testing. Sequoia also lists out some independent tests in other states that the company was forced into accepting, as if it willingly took part in them. Yet, what the company doesn't explain is what it's so scared of in having Felten test its machine. If the company is confident in the machines, then where's the problem? As a last resort, Sequoia appeals to the fact that such a test would break a licensing agreement, noting that "Licensing agreements are standard practice in the technology industry." That's clearly a cop out. While it may be legally correct, it's no reason not to let a researcher try to figure out if there are any problems with its machines. This isn't some random technology here. This is the technology we're trusting with providing a free and fair election. Sequoia should be ashamed of pulling out legal threats and weak excuses.


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Default: The Student Loan Documentary DEFAULT: The Student Loan Documentary chronicles the stories of borrowers from different backgrounds affected by the student lending industry and their struggles to change the system. No matter when their loans were taken, many borrowers now find themselves in a paralyzing predicament of repaying two, three or multiple times the original amount borrowed, with no bankruptcy protection, no cap on fees and penalties and no recourse to the law. The consequences are dire, with stories of borrowers in financial and emotional ruin. D
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The War Against Microbes Producer Michael Schwarz (Mystery of Memory, The Body's Secret Army, Botany of Desire, Muhammad: Legacy of A Prophet), brings his gift for unraveling complex topics to the subject of infectious diseases. In the past century, the tremendous expansion of scientific knowledge about the causes of infectious diseases has helped to more than double average global life expectancy. But as far as we've come, we still face some very daunting scientific challenges. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Adventure Racing" The Funtastics Adventure Racing Team of Coeur d'Alene joins fellow adrenaline-seekers who take part in Adventure Sports Week at Farragut State Park. The two-day competition offers 63 miles of biking, 22 miles of running, 19 miles of kayaking, and a swim across a bay on Lake Pend Oreille.G
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Dialogue "Philip Gourevitch: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The New Yorker staff writer and editor of The Paris Review talks with host Marcia Franklin. Gourevitch is the author of I Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, an investigation of the 1994 Rwandan massacre. He also wrote The Ballad of Abu Ghraib about some of the military police who worked in that prison during its scandal over inmate torture.G
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America ReFramed "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman - Part 2" In this two part documentary, master storyteller Jennifer Fox lays bare her own turbulent life to penetrate what it means to be a free woman today. As her drama of work and relationships unfolds over four years, our protagonist travels to over seventeen countries to understand how diverse women define their lives when there is no map. Employing an ingenious new camera technique, called "passing the camera", Fox creates a documentary language that mirrors the special way women communicate. D
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Global Voices "Street Ballad: A Jakarta Story" Titi Juwariyah, 27, is a street singer in Jakarta. She leads a conflicted life, from her migration from the country to the city, to her heartfelt quest for identity and acceptance in her adopted home. She dreams of a music career, but is overwhelmed by the pressures of supporting her family. D