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Cavalier Wresting Club: Hometown Beckons Henrich as Final Season Unfolds
You're leading 9-3 in the second period, dominating an undefeated foe in front of a stunned crowd, moving ever closer to an opportunity to wrestle the next night for the first NCAA title in your program's history. And then the unthinkable occurs. Your opponent battles back, pulling to 9-5 and 9-6 and 9-7, and then, with 47 seconds left in the third period, gets a takedown to tie the match at 9-9. With his fans in a frenzy, he adds a point for riding time to win 10-9, and you stagger off the mat. How do you recover, in less than 24 hours, from such a devastating defeat?
UVa coach Steve Garland asked himself that question -- time and again -- last spring after his superlative 174-pounder, Chris Henrich, lost to Iowa's Jay Borschel in an NCAA semifinal in Omaha, Neb.
"It's my job to worry, right?" Garland said the other day. "So that night was a very rough night of sleep for me, a lot of prayer, a lot of worrying, and I was lying in bed tossing and turning. That's every coach's worst nightmare. How can you come back from that? It was hard enough for me to get up in the morning from that loss, and it wasn't even me that lost. "But then it's funny: You look at Chris the next morning, and the kid's in the zone again."
Dropped into the consolation bracket, Henrich edged Central Michigan's Ben Bennett 5-3 in sudden-victory time. Then he destroyed Nebraska's Stephen Dwyer 10-1 to clinch third place and cap a season in which Henrich finished 35-3.
"A lot of people asked me that: How hard was it to come back?" Henrich said recently. "But to be honest, I would have woken up at 2 in the morning and stepped on that mat if I had to. I was refocused. Within 15 minutes after that [semifinal] match, it was out of my head. I was ready to move on. I was ready to win my next match, and I just knew that the faster I got on the mat, the better it was going to be. I knew exactly what I had to do. "I had a mental [lapse against Borschel], but the next morning I woke up and felt good. I knew that everybody was sore, everybody was banged-up, and it just was going to come down to who had the most heart, who's going to win those tough matches, and I was very confident that that was me."
Henrich has won two ACC championships, both at 174 pounds. He was ACC freshman of the year in 2007-08. He's the first two-time All-America wrestler in UVa history. (He placed seventh at the NCAAs as a sophomore.) He helped the Cavaliers win the ACC title last season, their first conference championship in 33 years.
In wrestling, only one goal remains for this fourth-year economics major from the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdale, Pa. -- an NCAA title.
When Henrich was a senior at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pa., the NCAA announced that it would hold its Division I championships in 2011 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philly. He marked that down on his mental calendar.
"I've just had my eye on that prize the entire time, working towards winning a national title in Philadelphia, where my whole career began," Henrich said. "I don't plan on competing after college. This is going to be it. This would be the icing on the cake, the cherry on the top, whatever clich? you want to say. It's going to be very emotional."
Henrich, whose career record is 110-16, is 9-0 this season. He's ranked second nationally at 174 pounds, behind Cornell's Mack Lewnes, whom Borschel beat for the NCAA title in March.
"My goal is to win a national title, no matter where it is," Henrich said. "It's just an added bonus that it's in Philadelphia, and I believe that I'm using it in the correct way and not adding pressure to myself, but adding motivation."
Garland said: "If anybody's going to be fueled by that, it's this kid. I think he's going to feed off it. He's going to have tons of family, tons of friends. All his high school coaches are going to be there. I think he's actually going to wrestle as well as we've ever seen him, because he thrives on that type of attention.
"We joke with him, but there's truth to all humor: He likes the spotlight. He likes to be the one stepping up. I mean, every time we need him to step up at a dual meet for a pin, he pins the guy. Every time. At Edinboro this year, the dual meet was going south, quick, and all of the sudden Chris gets up, and everybody knows he has to pin [his opponent], but you don't say anything to him, because you don't want to jinx him. "He pins the guy in the first period and just looks over at me and kind of shakes his head. It wasn't arrogance. It was just like, 'I knew what I had to do.' Now, me, personally, when I was his age, I would have been a nervous wreck. I actually preferred not having my mom watching, not having people watch, because it made me more nervous. He's not one of those guys."
Over the past year, Garland said, the coach-wrestler relationship has changed. "I've probably said less to Chris than I ever have, because there's not a whole lot that really needs to be said. He's gotten to a point now in his career where I almost don't want to mess him up."
Nonetheless, the loss to Borschel revealed flaws that Henrich has worked relentlessly to correct.
"The thing we learned the hard way at NCAAs is, look, we need him to keep scoring points," Garland said. "When he's attacking, he's seriously almost impossible to stop. He's not a defensive wrestler. It's all mental. There's no technique to that. When you mentally say to yourself, 'OK, I'm going to protect a lead,' or 'I'm going to shut down or I'm just going to try to finish this match off,' as opposed to 'I'm going to keep attacking, attacking, attacking and thinking of nothing else,' [problems can arise]. That's what we have him work on."
Like Henrich's, Garland's name is on the list of UVa's all-time greats in this sport. As a senior in 2000, Garland was the ACC wrestler of the year and the NCAA runner-up at 125 pounds. He appreciates better than most what an NCAA title by Henrich would mean for the Wahoos' program.
"Winning the ACCs last year was a big-enough weight off our backs," Garland said. "What do you think having a national champ would be? We go after all the top guys in the country, and when we're recruiting them, our enemies, our competitors, are saying, 'Well, they've never had a national champ, why would you go there?' Well, now I could look any kid in the face and say, 'Yeah, it happened. I was close, I took second, but Chris didn't. He did it, and you can do it too.' "
Henrich's grandfather Ben Kish played for the Philadelphia Eagles in the '40s, and Henrich's father, Mike, was an outstanding football player, too. So Henrich, not surprisingly, gravitated to that sport when he was growing up. But one of his youth football teams included numerous boys who wrestled in the winter, and Henrich followed them to the mats. He felt at home from the start.
"At a very young age, I had a good feel for the sport," Henrich recalled. "I really enjoyed it. I had a true passion for it and slowly phased out football as I increased my wrestling reps."'
He played football as a ninth-grader at LaSalle College High School, then gave up the sport to concentrate on wrestling. LaSalle was where Henrich met Anthony Panzarella and formed a life-changing friendship.
Panzarella, a former James Madison University wrestler, is an assistant coach at LaSalle. "He just very, very subtly inched me and pushed me from the direction I was headed into a more successful, more motivated lifestyle," Henrich recalled.
"I was just kind of going with the flow of things. I wasn't training year-round. I was goofing off. I wasn't getting the best grades. I wasn't a menace, but I believe that had it not been for him, I wouldn't be sitting in this seat right now."
Panzarella said: "Chris was always very talented. I don't think at that age he realized how good he could ever be ... He was a normal goofy kid, just like the rest of them."
Henrich's talent was such that average commitment to the sport was likely to make him one of the nation's better wrestlers. Is that enough for you? Panzarella asked Henrich. It wasn't.
"He decided at that point that he wanted to be, I think in his words, 'the best of the best,' " Panzarella said. "He wanted to be No. 1 in the country."
After six seasons as an assistant coach at Cornell, Garland was hired in April 2006 to take over the program at his alma mater. The jewel of his first recruiting class was Henrich, whohad transferred after the 10th grade from LaSalle to another Philadelphia-area private school, Germantown Academy, with an outstanding wrestling program.
His classmates at GA included Dave Ebbott, John Barr and Claire Crippen, who now wrestle, play baseball and swim for UVa, respectively. Henrich went 30-0 as a senior and ranked among the nation's top recruits. Garland persuaded Henrich to choose not a perennial power but a college whose wrestling program needed revitalization. In 2006-07, Henrich's senior year of high school, UVa had placed fourth out of six teams at the ACC championships. The Wahoos finished second his freshman season and again when Henrich was a sophomore. The breakthrough came last season.
"I can't even express in words how great, just how fulfilling that ACC championship was," Henrich said. "I feel like coming here to do that was one of the main reasons why I chose Virginia as a college. And I'm just so proud and so happy with what we've done and how Coach Garland has just knocked down every promise he's made to me since I committed here."
UVa's home matches are at Memorial Gymnasium. When the ACC tournament comes to Charlottesville on March 5, however, it will be held at John Paul Jones Arena. "I think that having ACCs here is going to huge for the program for a number of reasons," Henrich said. "I think people are going to be blown away by how it's run, by the facilities that we have, and just set a new standard for us."
An athlete who did for Mike London's football team or Tony Bennett's basketball team what Henrich has accomplished in wrestling would be a veritable Big Man on Grounds, a star with a name, if not a face, recognized by sports fans around the country. Henrich, 22, goes about daily life in relative anonymity.
"Obviously I could have gone to a school where the wrestlers were celebrities, some Big Ten school or some Big 12 school, or some place in the Midwest where wrestlers are kings," he said. "But that's not the most important thing to me. I know at the end of the day that as long as I'm doing the right things and as long as I'm living my life the way that I want to, the only people I need recognition from are the coaches and my family and then some of my close friends. But other than that, I think a lot of people do respect us. I don't think that they know quite what we do, but I think people who really do give us the time of day do truly feel the recognition for us that we deserve."
Whether he wins an NCAA title or not, Henrich said, his wrestling career will end in the spring. He could pursue a world championship or an Olympic medal after graduating -- or both -- but that doesn't appeal to him.
"I'm interested in a professional life and a career and moving on," Henrich said. "I've loved every second of wrestling since the time I was a little kid till now. And I'm not excited to have it over, but I am looking forward to entering a new chapter in my life."
He plans to apply to master's programs at UVa and Duke. Henrich would prefer to enroll in the McIntire School of Commerce's program and remain at Virginia in 2011-12, helping Garland as a graduate assistant. He expects to hear back from McIntire in mid-February, about a month before the NCAA championships (March 17-19) in Philadelphia. Panzarella talks to Henrich several times a week, but mentor never has seen prot?g? wrestle at the NCAAs. Assuming Henrich makes it to Philly, that will change in 2011.
"I'll be there," Panzarella said.
What a scene that could be. Henrich's Philadelphia dream is to leave his shoes on the mat after the 174-pound final, accept the championship plaque and "sleep with it at night," he said with a smile. "It would be a storybook tale," Panzarella said.


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Comparison between human fetal and adult skin
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Healing of early-gestation fetal wounds results in scarless healing. Since the capacity for regeneration is probably inherent to the fetal skin itself, knowledge of the fetal skin composition may contribute to the understanding of fetal wound healing. The aim of this study was to analyze the expression profiles of different epidermal and dermal components in the human fetal and adult skin. In the human fetal skin (ranging from 13 to 22 weeks' gestation) and adult skin biopsies, the expression patterns of several epidermal proteins (K10, K14, K16, K17, SKALP, involucrin), basement membrane proteins, Ki-67, blood vessels and extracellular matrix proteins (fibronectin, chondroitin sulfate, elastin) were determined using immunohistochemistry. The expression profiles of K17, involucrin, dermal Ki-67, fibronectin and chondroitin sulfate were higher in the fetal skin than in adult skin. In the fetal skin, elastin was not present in the dermis, but it was found in the adult skin. The expression patterns of basement membrane proteins, blood vessels, K10, K14, K16 and epidermal Ki-67 were similar in human fetal skin and adult skin. In this systematic overview, most of the differences between fetal and adult skin were found at the level of dermal extracellular matrix molecules expression. This study suggests that, especially, dermal components are important in fetal scarless healing.
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- Comparison between human fetal and adult skin
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Archives of Dermatological Research
Volume 302, Issue 1 , pp 47-55
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- 2010-01-01
- 10.1007/s00403-009-0989-8
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- 0340-3696
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- Fetal skin composition
- Development
- Immunohistochemical analyses
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- Neeltje A. Coolen (1) (2)
- Kelly C. W. M. Schouten (1)
- Esther Middelkoop (1) (2)
- Magda M. W. Ulrich (1) (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Association of Dutch Burn Centres, P.O. Box 1015, 1940 EA, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
- 2. Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, VU University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 7057, 1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


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Even though U.S. stocks are trading at a record price, certain areas of the market may be ready to drop. Here's what to sell.» Read More
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Stocks ended a rocky session higher Thursday as investors were encouraged by JPMorgan's results and techs rallied amid anticipation of better results from Google after the bell.
An early pop fizzled Thursday as investors digested a mixed bag of economic and earnings news. Banks were mixed as techs gained.
Housing starts were below expectations, but futures still rose as some are saying jobless claims were not as bad as expected.
Futures pointed to a higher open Thursday as investors shrugged off some dismal data points, choosing to focus on a drop in the headline jobless-claims number.
JPMorgan Chase could rule the day Thursday. Traders expect the stock and Treasury markets to take their cue from the bank's first quarter earnings report and forward comments.
As Earnings Season gets further underway, analysts continue to revise their estimates for the First Quarter downward. Data from Thomson Reuters shows that year over year EPS growth numbers from last April are now expected to fall 37.8% compared to an expected drop of 12.5% at the start of the year.
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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What is the name of the project, and what exactly are you seeing?
I have sent in two tickets regarding this issue as well as a forum post in the community feedback forum.
The one ticket I sent in was via e-mail and the other was in-game.
The in game ticket came back today from a GM saying "he couldn't do anything about it" and that I should submit a bug report which I believe if I was to do nothing would get done about it as it would be buried with the other bug reports.
The e-mailed ticket about the same issue contains a screenshot showing very clearly the problem. Which I have also linked here:
The project is called "station personnel officer on starbase". The problem is (in our case anyway) is that we completed the bridge officer requirement before season 7 and were trying to collect enough fleet marks to complete it. This was not achieved before season 7 came in.
The requirements were then changed from 5 very rare bridge officers to 10 common bridge officers. This is what has cause the bug. The progress got reset to 5/10 and now no one can contribute any type of bridge officer. Common rare or very rare to the project.
What was worrying was the fact the GM said they couldn't even remove the project from the queue so we could put it to one side while waiting for the bug to be fixed.
As things stand at the moment our fleet has close to 500 members who aren't very happy about this and a user who has spent a LOT of money on zen no longer buying any more zen until this issue is resolved!
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................when Chris is away :sigh:
The lady next door is having a new fence and I think that the person who is doing the work has left his horse tied up somewhere at the front of the house :rolleyes:
When she had the old fence put up it was put on our land, so when the lady's son came round with the man that is doing the job, Chris explained that it was on our land and could the new fence be moved onto our neighbour's garden, where it should be. It was agreed they would.
Anyway, I just went out to the bin and our gate, which is attached to the post is swinging in the wind with the post still attached to it :rolleyes2:
I hate confrontation and dealing with workmen but I asked him if would remove the post, to which his reply was the gate is locked. I got the key and asked him again, there was lots of tutting and sighing, but he did eventually do it. He then said that the door wouldn't fit the gap because of the new post and it would need to be adjusted. I said that surely he had to do that to make good what he had done. He said it's nothing to do with him.
I also reminded him about the fence being in the neighbour's garden and he said he would put the fence where he wanted to put the fence and he has already dug the holes, I looked and they are on our side, tight up to our path, which I think will mean that the back posts will be overlapping our path :sigh:
I asked him again to move them and if he continued then when my husband came home he would have to come and remove them. He told me to stop being a busy body and bloody interefering as it has nothing to do with me and he has nothing else to say.
I really don't know what to do, I am shaking like a leaf :( and Chris isn't due home until Wednesday night, by which time all the posts and supports will be up :sigh:


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Erick H. (Sweetwater, FL): I found it interesting that Top Rank put an option on Shane Mosley's next fight, rather than just doing a rematch clause between he and Pacquiao. How do you read this move?
Vivek W. (ESB): I think you have to give Arum a ton of credit for the way he has basically monopolized the welterweight division between the dominance of Margarito, Cotto, and now Pacquiao; but I truly can't see the logic in not having the two sides agree to a rematch clause, particularly considering that Pacquiao is defending the welterweight strap rather than the jr. middleweight strap..
I do see logic in Arum taking out an option on Mosley's next fight, which is a move made to basically ensure that he will have yet another 'horse' in the welterweight race if in fact Mosley does shock the world, but not forcing a rematch clause brings another challenge. Basically, a Pacquiao loss would put he and Arum in a no-win situation because there aren't many options at 154, and whomever gets the nod would have to do so at a catchweight being that Pacquiao would be left holding a strap in a division where he can't even make the weight, let alone face someone at it!
I've questioned the decision making of Team Pacquiao for quite some time, and this is yet another move that makes me scratch my head, because a loss, coupled with limited quality opponents at '54 would mean he'd have to jump back in line at either '47 or '40. Part of the strategy may have been to make sure that Mosley doesn't come in with too much of a weight advantage in their showdown, considering that he used to fight at 154, but realistically, the lack of a rematch clause would mean he'd have to face someone heavier next time around regardless as the holder of the 154lb strap......so why not let Mosley be that guy?
I don't know how to read this move, to answer your question. It simply doesn't add up.....but hey, not much Arum and Team Pacquiao has done lately has, yet it continues to work. Best advice I can add is to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.....until someone pulls the curtains and ends it!
Mark K. (Orlando, FL): The more I think about the Pacquiao/Mosley fight, the more I question how it will turn out. Pacquiao has so much speed and power it's easy to see him win, but Shane is a warrior and has faced some great competition and has never been stopped. Shane defeated Margarito in 9 rounds while Pacquiao couldn't stop him, while Shane lost to Cotto and Pacquiao stopped Cotto. What do you see as the biggest factor in the outcome in this fight?
Vivek W. (ESB): The two things I think will be most critical in the outcome of this fight are two things few people are talking about. (1) the fact that Pacquiao is not only a southpaw, but a damn near invincible one, which could spell trouble for Mosley when you think of how another better than average southpaw handled him (Winky Wright). And (2) the fact that Mosley is 5'10", with a 74 inch reach, which could spell doom for Pacquiao. Many felt I disrespected Team Pacquiao by acknowledging the fact that they decided to side-step Yuri Foreman on the grounds that (according to Michael Koncz) it was a "bad style matchup to put Pacquiao in with someone 5'10" with a 73 inch reach".
They always said hindsight is 20/20 and looking back, this move only further demonstrates my acknowledgment when you consider they have now gone from a decision to face Margarito (5'10", 73 inch reach), to suddenly facing the only other man to recently conquer him in Shane Mosley who stands 5'10" with a 74 inch reach. When you think about this anomaly, it makes you wonder if critics are right in their take that Team Pacquiao must feel that Mosley is a shot fighter, because nothing else makes sense.
When it all boils down, I don't know which mans hand will be raised in victory, but I do know that both these men come to fight, and neither will lay down. I lean towards Pacquiao because I've seen Shane's will broken on several occasions. That being said, each of the men that "broke" Shane's will had height and/or natural skill advantages over him. Pacquiao holds neither of the two. I can't think of one fighter who comes straight at you that has been able to stunt Mosley, particularly a shorter one. He uses his reach very well, and as Mayweather learned, he can often use it to setup thunderous shots that you won't see coming with his speed.
If he can use that reach to temporarily halt Pacquiao's entry as he sets up his own speed and power, things could get awfully interesting. To answer your question, I'd have to say the biggest factors will come down to Pacquiao's southpaw stance and Mosley's height, reach, and comparable speed. Margarito landed some devastating shots on Pacquiao and I can remember asking a media member beside me at the fight how things could have turned out had Margarito possessed the speed to actually connect on a higher selection of punches thrown? This time around, Pacquiao will be in with a man who will be able to land some of those missed shots. Will it make a difference? Can't wait to find out!
Kevin P. (Washington, DC): Why is Khan trying to face McCloskey, rather than trying to avenge his lost to Breidis Prescott? I think that fight would make more sense financially, and it would have a good storyline leading up to it?
Vivek W. (ESB): I would definitely agree that both McCloskey and Peterson fall short in comparison to a potential Prescott rematch. Problem is, people like you and I think like fans; wherein Oscar and Schaefer think like promoters who have a business investment to protect. We've seen several fighters in the sport take a KO loss and never look the same. Khan has done an excellent job rebuilding himself and his image since that loss, but at this early stage in his career, there's no room for error.
When you have someone like a Roy Jones Jr. who has been around the block a few times and completely established himself in the sport, you can afford to lose via KO and still face a guy again, knowing that even if you lose there are other big money options to follow. When you're fairly new to the game and you aren't quite established, two back to back losses to a not-so-popular opponent could mean the end of the road.....or atleast for a few years while you try to re-establish your recently re-established career.
At the core of the issue here, I'd venture to say it's possible that some members of Team Khan may not necessarily have the confidence of victory in this particular matchup that one may think. Some even argue it's possible that Khan may not have the confidence in himself that it appears he should have, as it relates to this particular fight. Yeah, he rocked Pacquiao a few times in sparring, and yeah, he overcame the thunderous punches of Marcos Maidana, but neither of those scenario's came with the looming backdrop that this is a guy who already dropped you for a full 10 count in the past. A Prescott fight would.
I think Khan and his promoters know that there's far too much risk involved to allow a potential huge payday go to waist. Would be nice, but fights like this that used to be made at the drop of a dime have been replaced with fights that aren't worth one.....simply so that the promoters involved can make some (more).....if you feel me! Peterson is a light punching guy who would present little fear; and McCloskey is one of those options with a good resume, yet no notable opponents on it to make you cringe either. Both men could serve as the perfect appetizer at home to whet the appetite of the British faithful before Team Khan cashes in with a shot at the real contenders....meaning the Bradley/Alexander winner in the Fall of this year!
(Vivek Wallace can be reached at email@example.com, 954-292-7346, Youtube (VIVEK1251), Twitter (VIVEKWALLACE747), Skype (VITO-BOXING), and Facebook).
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At our two Christmas Eve worship services here at Coral Ridge, I read a small portion of John Piper's excellent Advent poem, The Innkeeper . And I promised you that I would post a link to the entire poem which is now available online. As I have told many people for years now, this is one of the most gripping pieces of modern Christian literature I've ever read.
Fathers, Mothers: please read this to your children before the day ends. It will be the most sanctifying Christmas gift they (and you) receive this year.


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There are thousands of Muslim Bedouin who serve in the Israeli army, or IDF, and even bear arms against their fellow Muslims in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. They do so although it is not compulsory for them to serve in the Israeli military, as it is for most Israeli Jews, and sometimes military service comes with a price tag.
``I will do whatever is required from me to do the job with the full faith in the service of the Israeli state," asserts Maj Fehd Fallah, a Bedouin from the village of Saad in the Israeli occupied Golan.
He is happy to perform his duty, whoever he may have to fight against. "Yes, I have fought against Muslims in Gaza," he says. That includes Israel's three-week Operation Cast Lead which began in December last year.
"And I would fight again if I had to," he added. "Israeli Muslims who don't serve in the IDF should be ashamed for not serving their country."
Israel's Bedouin are a Muslim, Arabic-speaking group. Although these formerly nomadic people were once considered part of the Palestinian nation, most of them are now proud to call themselves Israelis.
Cooperation between Jews and Bedouin began before the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948. In 1946, tribal leader Abu Yusuf al-Heib sent more than 60 of his men to fight alongside Zionist forces against their Arab neighbours in Galilee. More than 60 years on, Maj Fallah's devotion to the Jewish state was unequivocal. He even refused to be interviewed by me in Arabic, insisting: "I have better command of Hebrew."
Military service is a family tradition in many Bedouin villages, especially those located in the north of Israel. During my conversation with Maj Fallah, two men were standing listening to us. They were his cousins and both wore the uniform of the IDF. "It's a legacy -- it's something that has been passed on from generation to generation in my family," Maj Fallah explains.
"My father and his father served in the army too."
Potential conflict
The Israeli army does not publish statistics about the exact number of non-Jewish enlisted soldiers, although it says hundreds of non-Jewish Israeli citizens -- Muslims, Christians and Druze -- join up every year. Their numbers have grown rather than decreased since the controversial military assault on Gaza.
The Israeli military official responsible for minorities is Col Ahmed Ramiz. He is Druze, another Arabic-speaking ethnic group with a presence in Israel and other parts of the Middle East. He told me that the main obligation for any citizen of Israel "is to defend his country and to serve in the IDF."
How does this square with Israel's status as the world's only Jewish state? Why should Muslims apply -- and why should Israel accept them? He explained the compromise in the following terms.
"We have decided that, due to the potential conflict between the Muslim person's national identities and their status as Israelis, we don't make it compulsory for Muslims to join the IDF," Col Ramiz said.
Muslims could work in every unit of the army, even elite units, although a Bedouin recruit recently applied to join the pilot's course and was declined. "He didn't meet the specific requirements and various personality tests," the colonel told me, and denied it was anything to do with his ethnicity or religion.
But the pride shown by someone like Maj Fallah is not shared by all Bedouin soldiers who have signed up to the Israeli military. Many young Bedouin join up to better their prospects in terms of education and work rather than national pride. Some are also sensitive to the fact that among other Muslim Arab communities military service is seen as a badge of shame.
Accused of treachery
Maher is a part-time physical education teacher in his 20s, who served in the military in the Education Unit.
"When I was in the army, they said it would be easy for me to get a job. I applied for a lot of things but it wasn't easy," Maher told me when I met him on the family farm near Nazareth. "Muslim employers don't want me because I had been in the army and the Jews prefer to give jobs to other Jews," he explained.
"In my village it can be difficult but people are not hostile as in other places."
One of those places is the nearby town of Um al-Fahm, whose residents, like the Bedouin, are considered Israeli Arabs, but who continue to have close ties with the wider Palestinian community in the occupied territories and the post-1948 diaspora. Such people make up the majority of Israel's 1.5 million non-Jewish Arab community, with the Bedouin accounting for less than 200,000 of that number.
Maher tells me he tries to avoid wearing his uniform in the non-Bedouin Arab villages to avoid being called a traitor and risking verbal and physical abuse.
Maher and other young serving Bedouin soldiers have described to me a feeling of being trapped.
On the one hand, they have to do military service, or non-military community service, to be eligible for government help towards education fees or for family allowances, on the other they run the risk of marginalisation from other non-Jews.
As Maher put it: "We are damned if we serve, and we are damned if we don't serve." — © BBC News/Distributed by the New York Times Syndicate
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Agia Marina church, Pedoulas
We arrive at Larnaca airport at 2am, one of the worst possible times to land somewhere. First thing we do is compare car rental agencies, good that six of them are there and operating at this time of the night. We choose not the cheapest one, but the one with the most competent and trustworthy salesman, who offers us a decent package for six days. Our car is an orange Kia Picanto, and despite my initial scepticism, it turns out to be an alright car for our purposes.
Getting used to left-hand driving again takes maybe 10 minutes, during which I have a mild freak-out, further fueled by heavy fatigue. When I have to make the first turn, I get confused and start screaming: "Aaarrrgggh!!! WHERE DO I GO??? WHAT DO I DO???? WHERE AM I?????" Then I manage to flick a switch deep inside my brain, and everything's fine again.
It's not only driving on the wrong side that makes me feel like being back in Australia; it's also the wide-open spaces, the feeling of distance, the colour and look of road signs. If I didn't know better, I'd think we'd be driving on some highway in the
Nice detail in Kolossi Castle
Perth suburbs.
We take the road down to Limassol, less than 50km from Larnaca airport. From there, we turn onto the Troödos mountain road, a surreal place to drive in the dead of the night. There's no street lighting except for some reflectors, and our car is already struggling with the steep ascents and the narrow bends. I can only assume what dramatic views linger in the black sea that encases everything beyond the traffic barriers. Feels like being in a David Lynch-film. My thoughts start drifting off, and I can sense the dark swallowing me. I stop for a little nap before I fall asleep at the wheel.
At dawn, we stop at a small roadside bakery. When we are about to help ourselves with baked goods off the shelves, the shop owner says something in Greek and motions for us to go inside to get the freshly baked stuff directly off the baking trays. We get some little parcels filled with spinach and onion, and a big yeasty roll, not unlike a cinnamon bun, filled with a sugary paste, still warm and delicious.
At 7am we arrive at our hotel in Pedoulas, a small village
Wild flower
If you happen to know the species, enlighten me please
deep inside the Troödos mountains' Marathasa Valley. The morning air is crisp and fresh. A shivering middle-aged lady, covering her shoulders with a shawl, welcomes us and shows us to our room. After a much-need rest, we go back up for breakfast. The lady serves us fried eggs, toasted bread, yellow cheese, butter, jam, tomatoes, halloumi and a pot of English tea with a cannikin of warm milk on the side. The halloumi is one of the things I was looking forward to in Cyprus. Now that we have it, I'm delighted, chewing merrily on the salty cheese, Cyprus's national dish, so squeaky and rubbery between one's teeth.
Back in our room, we relax a bit more from the short night and the long drive. We turn on the TV, and see that Prince William's and Kate's wedding is broadcast on four of the five channels. I'm quite baffled that every woman attending the wedding wears some type of outrageously silly-looking hat, some in strange colours, most with feathers. It appears to be the most important accessory of a lady's wardrobe, almost as if showing up without one would be an unforgivable social faux-pas, guaranteeing
Great view over the Troödos Massif at sunrise
non-consideration for any future royal nuptials. Am I so out of touch with reality that I've never realized that English people dress like that? Or do these hats just sit somewhere in the cupboard, gathering dust, waiting to be take out for special occasions like this one?
Also, I find it very admirable and brave of the Queen not to join in for 'God Save the Queen'. The ensuing endless God-lecturing and let-us-pray shit, though, I find rather annoying. They've just married, for fuck's sake, leave them alone already!
We go out for a walk to get a sense of orientation and have a closer look at the big Orthodox church that dominates the view from our hotel. A bit further down a small alley, however, there's an infinitely more interesting and culturally important church, the 15th-century Arhangelos Mihail, one of ten churches that make up the UNESCO World Heritage Site 'Painted Churches in the Troödos Region'. The frescoes inside are indeed intricate and magnificent, and remind me of the ones inside the Orthodox churches of Kosovo and Macedonia. On the outside, the roof structure, sloped on one side, is what is most striking
Memorial plaque of two local soldiers who died during the '74 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
and distinctive about the architecture.
Afterwards we pass by a tiny Kafeneio, the village coffee shops mostly populated by old men drinking coffee and playing backgammon. I want to go in immediately, for it looks very authentic and 'local', but Jaclyn is a bit reluctant, seeing that, corresponding to the cliché, there's only male oldtimers inside, no women. After much hesitation, we walk cautiously towards the door, but our apprehension is disspelled when the owner gets up, opens the door and welcomes us in. We say our 'kali meras' to everybody while the cordial owner ushers us to two chairs at his table.
He asks what we want to drink; we say we want coffee; he asks if we want Nescafé; no, we say, real coffee; ah, he says, Cyprus coffee; exactly. He goes to the stove to cook it in the same way that Turkish coffee is prepared: he boils the coffee powder with water and sugar in a special pot, locally known as briki. It is then served in tiny cups with a glass of water on the side.
When he carries it over, the other old guy sitting at our table chucks a coin
Another memorial plaque, probably of the former caretaker of the church
towards the owner, who proceeds to inform us that the gentleman has paid for our coffee. We thank him many times in Greek and English, unsure of how to properly deliver our gratefulness, but he uses a hand gesture that seems to express 'Don't bother' anyway.
We start chatting a bit, he asks where we're from, what we do, how we like Cyprus, things like that. "In this coffee shop, every day the same 6-8 people. But in summer it's full with the locals who come here for the tourist season." We ask him why so many houses in Pedoulas are falling apart or looking abandoned.
"30-40 years ago Pedoulas was so full there wasn't enough accommodation for the locals. Everybody was living off tourism or cherries. Now many places are empty, the cherry trees are neglected, owners just lock the doors of their houses and leave. The cherry prices have dropped, there's no more money in it. You can't live off cherries alone, once the season is over, what do you do? There's still many tourists, but only in summer. Many people just moved to Limassol or Nicosia. The ones who stay are the old people. Look
Local cat, stalking
around, only old people here, only old people in the whole village. There's nothing for young folks here, they get bored."
The other old fellas just nod their heads gravely, their eyes getting that far-away look that seems to indicate they're reminiscing about better times.
The owner says he used to be a policeman, stationed all over Cyprus, three years here, three years there. Then he moved to the UK to work as a driving instructor. Most of them seem to have worked in the UK, one as a taxi driver, the other as a fireman. According to the owner, the former cabbie lived in London for 30 years before returning back to his hometown. He says they used to be neighbours 60 years ago, and that "this man taught me how to ride a bicycle. One day we were out somewhere in the fields, and I had a bad accident with the bike. He went off to find me some dirty old clothes to wash away the blood and bandage my wounds. After that, every morning I went up to him and shook his hand and kissed his hand. I have a lot of respect for this
Arhangelos Mihail
One of the 10 UNESCO-listed churches in the Troödos
The ex-cabbie, a small moustachioed man wearing a type of beret, just smiles and nods and keeps flicking prayer beads in his right hand.
"To repay him for helping me", the owner continues, "I helped my friend out whenever he was chased from home by his strict father. I took him home and my mother took him in and fed him and gave him a place to sleep until his father calmed down, and he could go back to his home. Now, do you know what this man does?" He's pointing at his friend with his right thumb. I find it funny how he talks about him as though he's not here. "He sings in the church choir. Hahaha!" The other guy smiles and starts singing a random song. His singing voice is actually quite deep and impressive.
Our coffee is medium-sweet and extremely strong. Somehow I manage again to swallow a bit of the thick layer of sludge at the bottom of the cup, despite having had this type of coffee many times during my trip through the Balkans and Turkey.
We say our goodbyes, and off we are back to our hotel. Our
Church detail
first dinner at the hotel is a three-course meal, starting with a mushroom soup for Jaclyn and a village salad with creamy feta for me. Her main course is grilled vegetables: tomatoes, aubergine, capsicum and onions with homemade chips. They really know what they're doing here, even for the vegetarians: the smoky flavour of the grill makes the veggies extremely tasty and succulent. I get zucchini fried with egg and chips, pretty good as well, but I'm determined to go for the grilled veggies next time. I drink my first Cypriot beer, a 63cl-bottle of Keo, surprisingly a really nice and smooth lager.
In the morning, via the pretty little village of Moutoullas, we drive down an extremely windy and narrow road, dominated by hair-raising hairpin bends, towards Kalopanayiotis, to visit another one of the painted churches. The Agios Ionnis Lambadistis Monastery lies on the other side of a ravine, accessible via a small bridge. When we get there, we find all doors locked and no sign of the caretaker. At the local kafeneio, they have no idea where he is and it is suggested we wait for him, he'd show up soon. While walking
Front view of Arhangelos Mihail church
Note the conspicuous roof structure, typical for churches in the region
to and fro, a car driven by an elderly bearded man, who looks suspiciously like he could be the village priest-cum-caretaker, passes us twice, but the man doesn't respond to our signalling, and neither does he stop to open the monastery.
We decide not to waste our time any longer, and drive to the village of Troödos, about 20km from Pedoulas on the road to Limassol, to go on a hike. The 7km Artemis trail, taking you around the summit of Mt Olympus, at 1952m the highest peak in the Troödos Massif, seems to be the most appealing and scenic one on offer. At a local shop, we buy rice crackers, fig cake, a carob-chocolate bar and some dates for the hike.
The sky is growing increasingly cloudy as we're about to depart. Along the ridge of Mt Olympus, the scenery is absolutely gorgeous, consisting mostly of black pine forest, in some parts intermingled with rocks, to create a typical Mediterranean landscape. The comparative darkness and descending mist lends it a very mystic touch. In fact, as we walk, the mist is coming down so rapidly that you can see it creeping in front of your eyes from
top to bottom and left to right. It appears to have its own character, haughty and relentless, as it enshrouds the trees and obnubilates the mountain.
After 3km we pass a rusty-looking ski lift and a hut with broken windows. The fact that we haven't met anyone since commencing the trail adds even more to the solitary atmosphere of the place. As we walk on, it starts drizzling, then hailing slightly. We keep walking, but when it starts pouring down and finally hailing massively, we seek shelter under a tree. There we crouch, nibbling on rice crackers like little monkeys, watching the macadamia nut-sized hailstones bounce off the ground.
When the hail abates and the rain diminishes back to a drizzle, we battle on. It's freezingly cold, and I kick myself for only bringing one pair of shorts and a light jumper on the trip, expecting Cyprus to be all warm and cozy. Jaclyn's hands are frozen, so I rub and squeeze and massage some life back into them as we walk. Our shoes and calves are muddy and the clothes soaked. Thermals and rain jackets would have been more appropriate, plus warm gloves and beanies. Despite the
The double-headed eagle makes its return
This one is on the front of the Byzantine Museum of Pedoulas
odds, I thoroughly enjoy the hike and the landscape.
We pass another non-functional ski lift, follow the trail a bit further up Mt Olympus and then through a denser forest for the last few kilometres, until we arrive back at the parking lot.
Back at our hotel, there's loads of Cypriots eating a late buffet-style lunch. I have no idea where they suddenly came from, for the night before, we were the only people in the hotel, but it's Saturday, so they might be day-trippers from Nicosia or Limassol. We go and change our clothes, warm up a bit, then go back up to drink a pot of tea and read. By now, it's pouring down outside.
When the sun comes out again, we go for another little stroll through the parts of Pedoulas we haven't seen. The sheer amount of abandoned and ruined houses is staggering, and sad in a way. The village is larger than expected, seeing that it was officially quoted as having a mere 190 inhabitants. The signs of former habitation are clearly visible wherever we tread, and occasionally we come across a house with a smoking chimney or
Side view of Arhangelos Mihail
laundry hung out to dry. We pass a nice colonial-style building, very elegant as it basks in the afternoon sunlight. It must have housed an important local British clerk or magistrate more than half a century ago. Good to see that at least someone seems to take care of it, as it's in a much better state than most other buildings.
At the big church there's a service in progress, with sombre chanting, not unlike a muezzin's wailing, audible from the outside. I think about going in to take a peek, but decide not to, as I don't want to intrude on their ritual.
That night, I dream that Jesus leaves me a comment on one my blog entries in response to a reference that I made to 'Lord Satan'. He writes it was a very funny blog, but also grossly insensitive and offensive, which pretty much sums up my blog quite well. I spend the rest of the dream wondering what to write back, and decide to send him a non-committal email, neither apologizing nor aggravating him further, for you never know when you might need his help in the future.
Orhodox church in Pedoulas
Our last breakfast in Pedoulas features an enormous slab of deliciously grilled halloumi with herbs and the usual bread, butter, tomato and tea. We kindly asked the lady to leave out the eggs and give us more tomatoes and halloumi instead. She happily obliged. The Cypriot national cheese is something that deserves to occur as a regular in my diet from now on.
We check out and drive deeper into the Troödos, to Kakopetria, the main village of the Solea Valley. Closeby, set picturesquely in a field a bit off the road, are two more of the Troödos churches, Panagia Theotokou and Panagia tis Podythou, just next to each other. More interesting to us than the locked churches are the myriad wild flowers, lizards and olive trees. We are lucky, for the caretakers of Podythou arrive just when we're about to depart. Thus we get the chance to enter the church and marvel at the Renaissance-influenced early 16th-century frescoes. One of the caretakers, both of which are well-dressed, white-haired, dignified elderly men, tells us not to take any pictures, and watches our every move like a sentinel. When we leave without a donation, they look slightly
Local polar bear-dogs
They looked so miserable on top of this roof; they were dirty and had infected wounds that needed a lot more care; don't know who the owners were, but it's pretty sad to see dogs neglected like that
unhappy with us.
We drive onwards via Limassol to Kolossi Castle, a crusader stronghold dating from the 13th century. There's not all that much to say about the castle, more like a tower and a bit, it perches quaintly between the vineyards of the otherwise burnt South Coast and the scenery extending down the British-owned Akrotiri Peninsula. You get a good view from the top of the tower, and the courtyard ruins are nice to look at as well.
Our next stop is Ancient Kourion, one of Cyprus' most important archaeological sites, dating back to the 13th century BC. The ruins are spread out over a vast territory, and include an early Christian basilica, a massive reconstructed amphitheatre and the Annexe of Eustolios, a private residence from the 5th century sporting well-preserved mosaic floors. The views of Kourion Beach and the southern coast are magnificent, though somewhat tarnished by the haze.
We take our time wandering about, enjoying the warmer coastal temperatures and the scenery, stopping here and there to take pictures or laugh at the dull tourists and their spoiled little whingy brats. A bit further afield, the House of Gladiators and the House of Achilles
Cyprus' biggest beer - Keo
mark the end of the complex, and after taking a peek at the cool mosaics inside, we get on our way.
The final destination for today is the town of Polis, close to the Eastern end of the island. From Kourion the road meanders along the coast towards Paphos, where we turn inland for the last stretch, another 35km. The distances on Cyprus may not be the biggest, but once you get used to the small size of the island, 35km feels like a lot, especially after a long day of driving and sightseeing. I can hardly keep myself from falling asleep, and have to take a break or two in order not to crash the car. In the end, we make it to Polis before the sun sets. What happened there? Soon!
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According to the West Virginia Cancer Registry 2012 Annual Report, the most common cancers diagnosed among West Virginia residents include lung and bronchus (18.6 percent), prostate (13.0 percent) female breast (11.9 percent) and colon and rectum (10.7 percent).
West Virginia adults who have been diagnosed with cancer have survived for an average of 12.3 years. The results indicate that 14.4 percent of cancer survivors in the state are currently in treatment and 85.6 percent are not in treatment.
For more information on Cancer Survivors Day or to RSVP, call Logan Regional Cancer Center at 304-239-CANCER (226237).
(Karissa Blackburn is a reporter for the Logan Banner. She can be reached at 304-784-7329 or on Twitter at @kblackb2)


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Erica Mena might be feeling a little territorial now that "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" star K.Michelle is coming to New York!
Erica didn't have too many kind things to say about K.Michelle when one fan asked whether it was true the "V.S.O.P." singer was actually transferring to the New York series.
Without specificially answering the question, Erica did level a threat at K.Michelle. "Chased out atl about to get shook in The concrete jungle," Erica tweeted Sunday. "B*tch go back to ATL !! get your money."
K.Michelle didn't let Erica's big talk ruffle her feathers. Refusing to get pulled into an online battle with someone she's presumably never filmed with, K.Michelle confirmed that she will be on "Love & Hip Hop" next season, but she may not be mixing it up with any of her co-stars.
"I will appear on LHHNY, ONLY 2introduce my new show. You will NOT C me on camera arguing with ANYONE. Im not helping storylines this season," she tweeted. "So you will ONLY see me on camera with my friends from my new Vh1 TV show and my new puppy pacer. No drama,or no co-mingling [will] take place."
K.Michelle then tried to turn the other cheek and offer a little compassion, writing, "When God delivers you from drama and conflict you don't revisit it. I'm living my dreams. My life is good, ill pray 4u and ur healing."
Of course it wouldn't be K.Michelle if she didn't say something kind of smart before putting the subject to rest. The Atlanta transplant hinted that she may be getting a little more money for doing "Love & Hip Hop" than the rest of the cast.
"As the highest paid cast member of LHHNY I will do you the honor of letting u film with my new puppy Pacer, he gets paid the same as u," K.Michelle teased before delivering her parting shot. "Good night. I'm on a crazy promo tour, Promoting my album Rebellious Soul. #August13th Elephants don't swat flies. Stay focused."
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