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"THEM": Stalin's Polish Puppets. By Teresa Toranska. Translated by Agnierzka Kolukowska. Harper & Row. 384 pp. $22.95.
What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage? In 1981, during the heyday of Solidarity when everybody was looking at the present or, with fingers crossed, to the future, Teresa Toranska, a bright and persistent young Polish journalist, decided to probe her country's recent past. For four years she interviewed as many surviving leaders of Poland's first postwar decade as would agree to talk to her. It was high time for such a project since her potential subjects were already in their seventies or early eighties. The resulting book, originally commissioned by an official Polish publisher who eventually decided against issuing it, became a samizdat best seller in Poland. It has now appeared in the United States in a slightly abridged version consisting of five interviews. Among these are lengthy dialogues with Edward Ochab, who, after a long Stalinist period, presided in October 1956 over the transfer of power to the rehabilitated Wladyslaw Gomulka; with Stefan Staszewski, who, as party boss for the Warsaw region, also played a role in that "Spring in October"; and, last but not least, with Jakub Berman, who, as the man in charge of ideology and security, was one of the ruling Troika (together with Boleslaw Bierut, the party chief, and Hilary Minc, the economist) in the worst years of the Moscow-sponsored dictatorship.
European reviewers of the book have emphasized either its spicy details--Berman dancing with Vyacheslav Molotov in front of a smiling Stalin at one of his late-night parties--or its trivial ones--the brief portrait of Julia Minc, a bigoted and unrepentant old woman who figures in the book in part because she was the economist's widow and also because she describes how "they," the rulers, lived in relatively privileged but almost total isolation. But the book is far more interesting than such details can suggest. It contains much valuable material for future historians--notably on China's role in the 1956 crisis, on Russian methods of control, on Khrushchev's attitude toward anti-Semitism and especially on the thinking of Poland's nominal leaders, so mighty and yet so powerless. Indeed, the book contains all the ingredients of a major tragedy, although the reader does have to be aware of certain of its biases and limitations.
The first point to be clarified is that "them" should not be taken as an anti-Semitic reference even though four out of the five people interviewed here happen to be Jewish. It is true that the 3.5 million or so Jews in prewar Poland were an oppressed minority and that many of them were naturally attracted to socialism's idea of universal social justice. After Hitler's holocaust, Poland's Jewish' community had almost vanished, but many of the leaders who arrived from exile in Russia, where racism had not been a key criterion in Stalin's purging of the Polish Communist Party, were Jewish. Nevertheless, the ratio of four Jews to one non-Jew in Toranska's sample is accidental. Some of the leaders had died. Many more--Gornulka, Stanislaw Radkiewicz (the Minister of Security) and General Mieczyslaw Moczar--refused to talk.
There are people in the States, as in Poland, who will read a great deal into this accidental figure. Those who dislike "Reds" and stress the names of Minc or Berman are cousins of people who curse capitalism and speak only of the Rothschilds never of the Rockefellers. I can guarantee that Teresa Toranska is not one of them, but I did warn her on reading the manuscript that this point should be clarified when presenting the text to the Western public. Those responsible for the American introduction might have explained it in a couple of paragraphs instead of arguing, for instance, inaccurately and with a degree of snobbish arrogance, that if the language in the book sounded stilted it was partly because the people interviewed lacked formal education. The snag with Berman, a law graduate and Ph.D. in social science, was his Stalinism, not his absence of education, formal or otherwise.
The other almost inevitable bias in the book brings us closer to the heart of the drama. For Toranska's generation, socialism is identified with the Soviet tank and with a domestic leadership entirely divorced from the people. No wonder that her generation tends to idealize Western capitalism and Poland's prewar regime of Pilsudski and his colonels. The avuncular Ochab occasionally reminds his aggressive interrogator that the Russians were also liberators, the main victors over Nazism, and that if the new regime in Poland committed crimes, its opponents from the underground were no angels either.
Indeed, if you look at the potted biographies introducing each chapter, you will discover that most of the protagonists had spent at least as many years in jail as a Kuron or. a Michnik now. It was no picnic to be a Communist in prewar Poland. Neither were the future rulers, at least to begin with, mere timeservers. Mostly children of the middle classes, they were originally "going to the people" in order to change the world and were ready to take serious personal risks for that purpose. To complicate the matter still further, by the time they were back in Poland as proxy rulers driven home by the Red Army, they could no longer have had many illusions about the nature of the Soviet regime. "We're all survivors, people Stalin didn't manage to kill off in time--the third set of KPP [Polish Communist Party] cadres,'' Roman Werfel, formerly one of the party's chief ideologists, admitted quite candidly. Some of them had very direct experience of the blessings of the workers' paradise: for instance, Stefan Staszewski--the only one to recant and who, somehow, sounds the most unpleasant--spent eight years in Kolyma, one of the worst Soviet labor camps; Stalin had his brother killed.
Yet these people did not hesitate in their course of action at the end of the war. History was on their side and Stalin was their prophet. Did they genuinely believe that they would avoid the major Soviet mistakes? In, the, early postwar period, they, like many others, may have thought so, but that illusion did not survive the cold war. In any case, they were masters only in name. Admittedly, they managed to avoid the staging of Moscow-type trials in Poland. But they never tried, or even thought of trying, to alter substantially the imported Soviet model. Whatever their original motives and intentions, they had become true believers, Stalin's faithful and obedient servants.
Jakub Berman perfectly illustrates, the mentality of such an apparatchik. Challenged by Toranska, he does not answer in the language of socialist democracy. How could he? His fundamental case rests on Realpolitik and geography. We had chosen the right side, he argues, the only one historically valid. Had we chosen otherwise, Poland would have been reduced to the role of a "Duchy of Warsaw, a truncated scrap, a mean pathetic little Central European state." And if this imported revolution from above did not take root among the working people, it is entirely the people's fault, a weakness that will be cured by time. No matter if centuries are required for the purpose. If the Polish leaders had really argued in terms of class links.transcending frontiers, and not of subordination to Russia conceived as the "Socialist fatherland," they could have invoked the name of Rosa Luxemburg. They did not because, fundamentally, that great revolutionary was anathema to them. Her conception of democracy was exactly the reverse of theirs. Where she had maintained that the "errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee,'' their basic premise was and is that the mistakes of a politburo are always preferable to the "active, untramelled, energetic political life of the broadest masses of the people. " Berman does not seem to have asked himself why a decent young woman like Teresa Toranska, who would certainly have belonged to the left in prewar Poland, was asking him so aggressively, not "What have you done with socialism?" but "What have you done with my country?"
The price Poland paid for an imported revolution is still to be fully measured. The damage done to socialism as an attractive idea is obvious. At the very time the aged Berman was beginning to plead his case--he died in 1984--the Polish workers were in revolt against "them," or to be more precise, against their ideologically utterly empty successors. In the role they were playing the workers of Gdansk and the millions rallying around Solidarity were straight out of a Marxist textbook. But their language was not that of socialism. Indeed, if they spoke socialism at all, of self-management and workers' control over, their own fate, they were, like Molière's M. Jourdain, unaware that they were doing so.
True, the complicated story of postwar Poland is far from finished and future historians will have to draw the final balance sheet. It will require, however, a great playwright to convey the drama not just of a few leaders, but of whole generation which set out dreaming of changing the world, of dominating fate, and which ended as fate's cruel plaything. It will require a great dramatist to bring to life the Stalinist tragedy for which Teresa Toranska's book provides so many fascinating ingredients.


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December 7, 2011
Awkward Get to Know You Game
ANYWAY. I found these fun questions over on Caitlin's blog, and thought it would be fun (and hopefully not awkward) to play along!
1. What's a nickname only your family calls you?
My dad calls me "Gardner", or "Kaycie Gardner". My great-grandmother's last name (on my dad's side) was Gardner. And my dad has wanted me to change that to be my middle name because he likes the sound of it. Haha, I don't know.
2. What's a weird habit of yours?
I can't think of a habit off the top of my head. So here's a weird fact: sometimes, when I go into a scary, empty public restroom, I'm afraid someone is going to murder me. And what worse time than when you're in a bathroom and totally vulnerable?! I know, I'm kinda crazy.
3. What's a song you secretly LOVE to blast & belt out when you're alone?
Lately, "Moves Like Jagger". It has that beat, you know? But any day, anything Broadway!
4. What's one of your biggest pet peeves?
People who don't listen. When I'm talking about something important, I need your full attention.
5. What's one of your nervous habits?
My hands and body start to shake.
6. What side of the bed do you sleep on?
The left, next to the wall. Usually I would insist sleeping on the edge of the pillow and bed, but I'm also paranoid about scary people breaking into the house. So I make Scott sleep nearest to the door to protect me. Don't worry, he's okay with it. :)
7. What was your first stuffed animal & it's name?
One of the first I can remember was a pretty teddy bear from my BFF at the time, McKenna (Gentri's sister, actually). The bear's fur was the same color as my hair and I named her Ginger.
8. What's the drink you ALWAYS order at Starbucks?
I can honestly say that I've never even been to Starbucks! Crazy, I know. But their hot chocolate looks divine!
9. What's the beauty rule you preach.. but never ACTUALLY practice?
Well, once upon a time I preached to my blog that you shouldn't wear your towel a certain way when you get out of the shower. And I haven't worn it the "right way" in months. Oops!
10. Which way do you face in the shower?
I usually walk in circles to keep my whole body warm. Ha ha, that kinda sounds odd. Does anyone else do this?
11. Do you have any 'weird' body 'skills'?
Not really. Sorry!
12. What's your favorite 'comfort food'/food thats 'bad' but you love to eat it anyways?
Does Dr. Pepper count? Totally addicted. As for actual "food", the list is much too long. If it's delicious and bad for you, then I probably like it. :)
13. What's a phrase or exclamation you always say?
I say "vomit" whenever something sounds, well, bad. And vomit-worthy. Ha ha. Gross, but one day I just said it and now it has stuck. Example: see first sentence or two of blog post.
14. Time to sleep - what are you wearing?
Jammies or undies. It depends!
Voila! Some factoids about the redhead. I hope you don't think I'm a total weirdo. :)
12 comments:
- Brooke said...
Totally know what you mean about the shower thing - how else is a lady supposed to keep warm?
- December 7, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- Emma Frances said...
I love this!! :) And I totally used to say vomit all the time too! I'll probably pick it up again now! Also, I remember reading about your beauty rule and I do it about half the time now! Haha.
- December 7, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Shannon said...
Very fun! Such cute answers. :)
- December 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- Mrs. Pancakes said...
Love how you introduced this...great answers!!
- December 7, 2011 at 12:30 PM
- Amber said...
I remember that silly game where you had to state your name and adjective that described you that also started with the first letter of your first name. I was always ambitious amber. So lame. (Ps vomit worthy is something I say all the time!)
- December 7, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- Autumn said...
Yeah, I do the turning in circle things in shower too to stay warm :)
- December 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM
- Ly said...
I totally understand number 2. I'm the same way. I hate being alone in a space...ugh.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Natasha Louise said...
Totally get you about the shower, I think thats why I dance in the shower sometimes and go round in circles haha!
- December 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Faith said...
This was fun to read! Nice getting to know you more ... but i giggled at the part of you turning in circles in the shower. everything else, like being afraid in a public bedroom that someone is going to murder you is perfectly normal. i think it too, haha.
- December 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Katie Ann said...
Hey thanks so much for stopping by my little blog- for your sweet comment and following :) And now I'm following you, because your blog is pretty great too. :)
- December 8, 2011 at 3:18 PM
- Nina said...
CUTE!! and that photos is even CUTER!:) hope you can check out my blog for some+vibes and inspiration! I am also hosting a rad giveaway, by Kei Jewelery (worn by Kourtney Kardashian, Courtney Cox + VAnessa Hudgens)~
- December 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Alexis Kaye said...
you have GOT to be kidding me! SERIOUSLY?!?! I totally have that fear about the restroom too! Only I have it playing in my head where the person is standing on the toilet in the stall next to me and they shoot me!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha I've been meaning to blog about it to see if anyone else is scared of it, but i forgot! Glad i'm not the only one! :)
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This release from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony features Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.7 coupled with the Leonore Overture No.3. One of his most stirring works and also one that he considered among his best, Beethoven's Symphony No.7 was immensely popular from its first playing. Recently, its powerful second movement was used to great dramatic effect in the seminal moments of the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech. While Beethoven wrote only one opera, he wrote multiple overtures for it, and the third of the series fully captures the joyful outcome of the story. Both recordings were taken from live concerts held at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.
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The instrumental sound is of amazing fidelity, especially in the strings; the bass tones are deep but not overly reverberant. On the other hand, you admire superb musicianship, infectious tempos, and multichannel sound that can't be bettered, you should seriously consider this new SACD.
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The sound is first rate - much richer and broader sounding than the Mahler series. The only thing lacking in this recording is the amount of music recorded. They could have Easily fit several more overtures here. But this is, after all, wonderful music-making.
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- Running Time: 13 min. 58 sec.
- Period Time: Classical
- Written: 1805-1806
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- Notes: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco (09/14/2011-09/17/2011)
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Anemone are perennial herbs; plants which grow from rhizomes, caudices or tubers. Leaves grow from the base and can be simple, compound or attached with a leaf stalk. Terminal inflorescences with two to nine flowered cymes or umbels, or solitary flowers that depending on the species can be up to 60 centimeters tall. The flowers are bisexual and radially symmetric. The sepals are not persistent in fruit, and can be white, purple, blue, green, yellow, pink or red. Fruits are achenes.
Many of the species are favourite garden plants; among the best known is Anemone coronaria, often called the poppy anemone, a tuberous-rooted plant, with parsley-like divided leaves, and large showy poppy-like blossoms on stalks of from 15–20 cm high; the flowers are of various colours, but the principal are scarlet, crimson, blue, purple and white. There are also double-flowered varieties, in which the stamens in the centre are replaced by a tuft of narrow petals. It is an old garden favourite, and of the double forms there are named varieties.
They grow best in a loamy soil, enriched with well-rotted manure, which should be dug in below the tubers. These may be planted in October, and for succession in January, the autumn-planted ones being protected by a covering of leaves or short stable litter. They will flower in May and June, and when the leaves have ripened should be taken up into a dry room till planting time. They are easily raised from the seed, and a bed of the single varieties is a valuable addition to a flower-garden, as it affords, in a warm situation, an abundance of handsome and often brilliant spring flowers, almost as early as the snowdrop or crocus. Anemone thrives in partial shade, or in full sun provided they are shielded from the hottest sun in southern areas. A well-drained slightly acid soil, enriched with compost, is ideal.
The genus contains many other spring-flowering plants, of which A. hortensis and A. fulgens have less divided leaves and splendid rosy-purple or scarlet flowers; they require similar treatment. Anemone hupehensis, and its white cultivar 'Honorine Joubert', the latter especially, are amongst the finest of autumn-flowering hardy perennials; they grow well in light soil, and reach 60–100 cm in height, blooming continually for several weeks. A group of dwarf species, represented by the native British A. nemorosa and A. apennina, are amongst the most beautiful of spring flowers for planting in woods and shady places.
Anemone species are sometimes targeted by cutworms, the larvae of noctuid moths such as Angle Shades and Heart and Dart.
The meaning of the anemone flower is "forsaken" and also "a dying hope". The flower Anemone could also be used to signify Anticipation.
The Anemone coronaria ("כלנית" in Hebrew) is one of the most well known and beloved flowers in Israel. During the British Mandate of Palestine British soldiers were nicknamed "Kalaniyot" for their red berrets.
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Hi guys,
Would anyone of you have an interesting website or scheme for the 3' and 5' RACE PCR. I am desperately looking for one, but don't find anything.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Noémie, new on this forum :)
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try this, kinda helpfull. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
besides, im doin RACE now, n i would suggest you to use FirstChoice RLM-RACE kit (Ambion)
and last advise, why dont you look for the original RACE paper by Frohman et al 1988 which help you to understand better RACE concept so you can proceed to experimental level.im done it during my first time
try out!
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Hi CyQ,
Many thanks for your rapid answer! I won't do such PCR before few months, but I noted your advises =)
Cheers from France,
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Hi CyQ,
I was trying to find the article that you mention before but I din't find it.
Do you mind to send me the link?
Thanks for you help!!!!
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Hi begoroibas,
this is title for Frohman journal
Rapid production of full-length cDNAs from rare transcripts:
Amplification using a single gene-specific oligonucleotide primer
from PNAS. you should find it. sorry cant give you the link. ive done 3' race and 5'race manually using this protocol. some modification was applied. the equipment, specific primer and DNA taq polymerase and PCR machine. ive done it to my 1st gene. now working on 2nd - 4th gene. so, i hope that you can do it also.
cheers!! :)
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Hi CyQ:
I am doing now RACE-PCR with invitrogen kit.I didn't get any results yet.
I think that mi GSP1 primer desing is not good,could you help me?
How did un desing your primers?Thanks!!!
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Hi. To be honest, ive never use any of RACE kit. ive improvise alot of the technique. well, if you ask me how im designing my GSP1, use web-based tools. currently im doing Primer3 at ([Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]). you can try them. might give you a better result. one thing, try to do temperature gradient on primer annealing step. it might give significant result on different temparature.
Re: 3' and 5' RACE PCR
Hi again!
I am completely desperate.My boss spent a lot of money in the RACE kit and I can't make it work.
I am going to order new primers,and i hope it does.I am wondering about your protocol without the kit.
How do you perform the RACE PCR?
You start from RNA,using SuperscriptII you got your cDNA ,and after that?
I think that you are the only one in this world who can help me!THANKS!!
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hai bego.
for me, u should get it. i mean, get the best result. most paper on getting full length of any gene used kit instead of manual technique like i do. more easier and the fastest way to get it. nvm, i will share with you on how to do it.
well, my RNA is from high polysaccharides plant. ive extracted them using modified technique from Gasic et al who was succesfully extract RNA from apple. then, with a very good RNA band then i proceed to DNase treatment and cDNA synthesis. primer used in cDNA synthesis should be provided in your kit right? may i know what kit you are using now? maybe i can look for its manual and its primer. besides, currently im using totally different primer which originally design for DDRTPCR, not for RACEPCR. nevertheless for me, any anchor primer works. as long as you know on how to manipulating them. after that then i'll do PCR using the same primer to do cDNA. this primer contain modified nucleotides to make it stable. the forward primer that ive used design from web-based program named Primer3. you may design them using various type of program available such as NCBI o etc...
for your case, i would say, maybe your RNA itself is not good enough. try to extract more better RNA.
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Hi CyQ:
Thank you very much for your answers.I really appreciated it.
I am using the INVITROGENE RACE PCR KIT.With this kit you have to desing 2 primers,GPS1 and GSP2.
The first one is for cDNA synthesis and the second one is kind pf nested pcr.
I need to isolate the promoter of the Oct4 gene in cow.
I think that one of the problems is my RNA condition.Before starting to perform cDNA synthesis,should I run a gel with the RNA sample?
And another question,do you use the same reverse primer for cDNA synthesis and PCR?
Thank you very much,you are being so kind!
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That's the view of Steven Carr Reuben, the rabbi of Kehillath Israel in Pacific Palisades, who specializes in teaching parents how to raise ethical children and who travels the country, giving parenting workshops.
Cynical and shockproof, they've seen horrific behavior every day of their lives, he says. By immersing themselves in an imaginary world, they have become desensitized.
"By the time kids are 18 years old, they have vicariously experienced everything -- death, destruction, exploitation, all the things that make television shows interesting," he says. "This has to have an impact on their emotions. If psychology has taught us anything, it's that emotions and our physical body can't distinguish between what is real and what is vividly imagined."
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The problem isn't what the entertainment industry has done to their children, says the rabbi. He believes the cause lies in the home, with Mom and Dad, who have become too passive.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - For Irinka Toidze, West Virginia University served as the ultimate destination for a college education – and tennis.
When Toidze first picked up a racket at age 7, she never thought about one day competing on a collegiate level at WVU, let alone anywhere in the United States.
Toidze is from Georgia. Not the Peach State. Not where the Braves play. But the country 5,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean in Eastern Europe.
Her parents introduced her to the sport by taking her to tennis courts. After a few years, she got serious about it, as her rankings indicated. She held a top-five ranking in Georgia and ranked as high as No. 75 for the 'under 14' category in Europe.
As she grew even more dedicated to the sport in her early teens, she saw her older friends go to college to play tennis.
What? You can go to college and play tennis?
Toidze wanted some of that.
So she did what many of her friends did to get noticed beyond borders. She posted YouTube videos of herself playing tennis in hopes to woo recruiters.
After making inquiries to about a dozen universities, Toidze spotted an institution she'd never heard of before: WVU. She happened to come across WVU while scouring the Internet for universities to attend.
"I hadn't heard of WVU," she said. "I found out about it by looking at a list of school names."
Toidze clicked on a link to WVU's website and later researched the tennis team. She was impressed enough that she emailed assistant coach Brian Sullivan, who alerted head coach Tina Samara.
Judging by Toidze's YouTube video, the coaches thought she had a solid game.
Samara gave Toidze a call.
When the conversation ended, Toidze knew she was going to be a Mountaineer.
"I wasn't looking at emails from other colleges anymore," Toidze said.
"She (Samara) was friendly and honest. There was a positive energy about her. At that point, I wanted to go to WVU."
From war to West Virginia
It's been four years since the "Five-Day War," an armed conflict between Georgia and Russia and separatist governments. The clash killed hundreds and left thousands of refugees in shelters.
The echoes of growing up in civil unrest still resonate with Toidze.
"It was depressing," said Toidze, with a hint of sorrow in her voice. "I worried about my friends and family. It makes me sad thinking about it, but now things are getting better there."
As her country healed, those worries would be replaced with new ones. Toidze committed to WVU last December on a scholarship and decided she wanted to study psychology. She was about to embark on a journey never taken before.
She would not only come to the United States for the first time, but she would live here, learn here and grow here.
"I dreamed of going to the U.S. but I didn't know about West Virginia," Toidze said. "I have no regrets."
Coach Samara is typically reserved when it comes to recruiting international players. For one, coaches don't have the same access to players overseas as they do in the states. What they see on YouTube may not exactly be what they get.
"You have to be careful and do as much research as you can when recruiting," said Samara, who entered her third year as women's tennis coach. "Irinka looked good in her video so I decided to call her up."
Samara knew Toidze was a perfect fit.
"I recruit by feel," Samara said. "I had a gut feeling, and I knew that she would appreciate the opportunity and represent the program 100 percent."
A day after the phone conversation, Samara's instincts were reaffirmed when when she received a random email from an Ohio State recruiter. That recruiter had met Toidze in Georgia and he found out that WVU was eying her.
The man sang her praises and told Samara she'd made a lasting impression on him.
Toidze received full support from her family to attend WVU, and she arrived here just six days before the start of the 2012 fall semester.
"I wanted an education and I wanted to play tennis," Toidze said. "My mom really supported me.
"At first, I worried about starting a new life. There was fear. But now I realize it's helped me become more independent."
Toidze relishes one of her first sights of Morgantown. The fall foliage wowed her as she zipped around town for the first time on the PRT.
It's a little different than what she initially envisioned about the United States.
"I only knew about West Virginia from pictures," Toidze said. "When I thought of America, I envisioned New York City."
Morgantown is not New York City. But perhaps it's even more to Toidze.
"This is my second home."
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Climate change and conflict can create a self-reinforcing feedback loop: Climate change exacerbates existing conflicts, while conflict makes adapting to climate change more difficult, said Janani Vivekananda of International Alert at the Wilson Center on February 7. She presented the results of nine case studies conducted in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal to find how communities are affected by and adapting to climate change in conflict-prone settings.
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January 30, 2013 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
"We are in the midst of a silent revolution," said Ann Pawliczko, a senior technical advisor in the population and development branch at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), quoting former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "It is a revolution that extends well beyond demographics, with major economic, social, cultural, psychological, and spiritual implications."
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Rapid population growth and overfishing in the Philippines have led to rising food insecurity across the country, which now imports more rice than any other nation.
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2013 will be a critical year for the formation of new Sustainable Development Goals to replace the soon-to-expire Millennium Development Goals. What role will population dynamics and reproductive health rights play?
Tapping the Potential of Displaced Youth in Urban Settings
December 13, 2012 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
"When young people claim their right to education and health – including sexual and reproductive health – they increase their opportunities to become a powerful force for economic development and positive change," said Nicole Gaertner, of UN Refugee Agency and the U.S. Department of State, quoting Secretary of State Hilary Clinton at the Wilson Center.
Transboundary Environmental Security in the Mekong River Basin
December 06, 2012 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Existing, planned and under construction dams in the Mekong River Basin look like domino game. Dams are but one major pressure on ecosystems in the basin, where resource provision and water management are increasing and projected to worsen over the next several decades. Many of these issues cross state borders and the data are clear: state unilateralism cannot solve transboundary problems.
The World at 7 Billion: Building a Sustainable Future
December 05, 2012 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
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How Unley Developed
The City of Unley began life as a series of large rural holdings that were sold prior to settlement.
Once the colonists arrived, the land was subdivided and small villages sprang up to cater to the new residents.
The first six subdivisions were Unley and Unley park, which were subdivided 1840, Goodwood, Fullarton and Parkside in 1849 and Black Forest in 1850.
Unley acted as a town centre for the growing number of communities, but each settlement had its own shops, schools, tradesmen, pubs and churches.
Villages continued to sprint up on the main roads between Adelaide, Mitcham and Glen Osmond, as orchards and vineyards were planted, dairies and olive oil and jam making factories opened.
As the new subdivisions were opened, the space between the villages closed up, especially from the 1880s on. Open land that had been bush and farmland filled with houses and Unley gradually grew in to the united community it is today.
Until 1871, the original villages were part of the District Council of Mitcham. When the Unley Communities' combined population reached 2,000, they were able to secede and the Corporate Town of Unley was born.
Thirty five years later, the population had reached 20,000 and Unley was entitled to become a city.
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When billionaire financier Nerio Winch and head of the W Group is murdered, his second in command must locate his only heir - a heretofore unknown adopted son, Largo. But first the heir - a twentysomething adventurer - must overcome an onslaught of drug traffickers, assassins, corporate raiders and double-dealing insiders to fulfill his destiny in this twisty, fast-paced corporate thriller.
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BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: Teen girls participate in Proud to Be Me Summit
In the game room of the local Boys & Girls Club office, teenage girls asked questions and raised their hands to share their hopes, concerns and dreams Saturday.
More than 50 young women participated in a two-day Proud to Be Me Summit at the Boys & Girls Club of Sanford-Lee County, which ended Saturday. The girls, from various areas in Central Carolina, attended sessions which focused on learning about themselves, setting goals and the media's perception toward women. There were also mini-sessions that discussed relationships, growing up in a single-parent home and self esteem, said Boys & Girls Club Unit Director Dana Petty, who organized the inaugural summit.
"It's designed to empower and enrich young ladies to become better citizens," she said. "We want them to learn to set goals and let go of the past to move forward with a successful future."
The girls met with other women in the community who shared their testimonies and offered advice on making better decisions, Petty said.
"I want them to learn we all have issues, but not to let that hold you back from what you should be," she said.
The summit was open for girls from 12 to 18, and Petty said she wanted to target the teenagers because of the changes they would be going through.
"That's the most important age," she said. "It's a very influential time in their lives."
Petty said she wanted to host the summit to help area girls flourish as they entered adulthood.
"I hope they take away the tools to be successful," she said. "They can let go of past issues, move on and focus on their wants and needs."
Lee County student Chere Johnson, 12, said her favorite part of the seminar was when the group participated in a Zumba workout, but that she learned if you want something you've got to work hard and obtain it.
Samiya Kinney, 12, said she was learning a lot about setting goals and determining what she wanted to do in the future.
"They teach you about yourself," she said. "And to not let anything hold you back."
The Zumba and step show were two favorites for 12-year-old Da'Nija Quick, but she said she also learned a lot from the different speakers.
"It's teaching young ladies to believe in yourself and if you want something, you can't let what others say bring you down," she said.
The girls ended the summit Saturday night with a step and dance show, and they were awarded for their hard work, said Boys & Girls Phenomenal Girls Coordinator Janesa Matta.
"We held the summit to build their confidence and so they can find out who they are," she said. "They see they can do anything they set their minds to."


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'75 Timbers laid groundwork for MLS incarnation
PORTLAND, Ore. – There is precedence in Portland for a brand new soccer team entering the top league and being an instant hit.
And no, that's not a reference to the Timbers' 2-0-6 preseason record.
As the latest edition of Timbers prepares for its ascension to MLS with Saturday's season opener, the idea of being successful out of the gate is not new. It has happened here before.
In 1975, the city was introduced to professional game for the first time and the quality of the play was immediate. Portland lost their very first NASL game that spring, 1-0 to the Seattle Sounders.
But the "lads" assembled by manager and coach Vic Crowe, a former Aston Villa manager, won five of their next six games and the interest in the team took off like a brushfire.
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"It was really a stroke of genius," former Timbers player Mick Hoban (at right) said. "He limited recruitment to our neck of the woods in England. The players on the team all came from about a 45-mile radius, all from the midlands."
That ensured the team all spoke the same language and shared a similar temperament and perspective on the game. The players, all of them on loan for the summer, bonded easily and many of them already knew one another from playing with and against one another in English leagues.
They lived in Beaverton, a suburb west of Portland, in the same apartment complex. There were about 10 cars among the entire team and carpooling was common.
And the players saw themselves as soccer players and soccer missionaries. They played the game and sold it to a community that was hungry for a winner.
Portland in 1975 was still two years away from seeing the NBA's Trail Blazers win a title. The state of Oregon was also stung by the May 30, 1975 death of homegrown hero and distance running legend Steve Prefontaine, who died in an auto accident in Eugene less than 24 hours before the Timbers played their sixth game as a franchise in Portland.
The Timbers began as a curiosity but turned into a phenomenon in the summer of 1975, part of the state's healing process.
"I knew we were becoming important when Bill Walton came to our practice," Hoban said.
The attendance, 8,131 for the first game against Seattle, rose above 14,000 in June for back-to-back games against Dallas and San Antonio.
The next time Seattle came back, on July 26, 27,310 showed up to see the Timbers win 2-1.
After games, the players would gather for post-match parties at the Benson Hotel in downtown Portland and greet fans.
"I don't think we realized it at the time, but that accessibility was key," Hoban said.
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The team's first star was Peter Withe (at right), who scored 16 goals and had six assists while leading the Timbers into Soccer Bowl '75, the NASL championship game.
"Peter made his name in Portland," Hoban said. "He hadn't made his name in England yet and he was out-of-this-world (in Portland)."
Withe later found fame with Aston Villa, scoring the game-winner in the 1982 European Cup final.
In Portland, Withe became known as the Wizard of Nod.
"He was almost unbeatable in the air," Hoban said. "I've rarely ever seen a better header of the ball than Peter."
Wingers Willie Anderson and Jimmy Kelly were also fan favorites, as were midfielder Tony Betts, defender Graham Day and captain Brian Godfrey.
Kelly, a pint-sized Irishman who dazzled crowds with his crosses, became so popular that fans began to promote him as a candidate for mayor.
"He was our little Irish leprechaun," Hoban said.
Hoban, who later worked for Nike and became the shoe giant's first soccer employee, has been in touch with some of his 1975 teammates over the years.
Some of the players, such as goalkeeper Graham Brown, have called that season the most enjoyable of their careers.
Part of that had to do with the atmosphere in Portland. The game was so new and the fan base was still grasping the fundamentals. If a player made a mistake, he would hear about it from English fans and the English media would magnify it.
In Portland, fans understood that goals won games. They didn't understand enough about the nuances of the game to point out criticism. At the post-match party, no one brought up the mistakes.
The Timbers made the playoffs with a 16-6 record and played host to Seattle in a first-round playoff game on Aug. 12. In front of a record crowd of 31,523, the Timbers beat the Sounders 2-1 in overtime. Fans rushed the field when it was over.
Five days later, 33,503 were in attendance at Civic Stadium for the semifinals against St. Louis. Withe's goal held up for a 1-0 victory.
And with that, Portland was dubbed Soccer City, U.S.A.
The euphoria crested and the run of success was halted in the championship game.
Tampa Bay beat Portland in Soccer Bowl '75, 2-0, on Aug. 24. And suddenly, the summer was over.
The Timbers packed up and returned to England to re-join their teams there.
Hoban recalls that many of them were not eager to leave.
"I remember people crying like babies leaving Portland at the airport," Hoban said. "They were sobbing. It was an extraordinary day, but they were torn apart because they had a wonderful time."


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Close your eyes Oleosmirf… As I predicted last night, Jordany Valdespin has been named the Triple-A Pacific Coast League's Player of the Week. You can read the rest below… I think I'm gonna start reading palms and do some fortunetelling on the side… Original Post Last night, a red-hot Jordany Valdespin went 3-for-3 with a double, triple, three runs scored, a walk, and an RBI, as he continues to demolish the Pacific Coast League. If he isn't named the PCL Player of the Week on Monday I'd be shocked… In his last ten games, Spin is batting .573 and overall since his demotion, the 25-year old enigma has a .513/.578/.821 slash with a 1.398 OPS. In 39 at-bats, Valdespin has 20 hits including two doubles, a triple and two home runs while driving in 16 runs and scoring another 16. Playing predominantly second base for the 51s, Valdespin is on an offensive rampage the likes of which hasn't been seen from any player in Las Vegas in years. All the more remarkable is his six walks while only st...
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When ever i babysit for this one family, they never pay me until weeks later. Im kinda shy to ask for it..but what should i do?
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ok my boyfriend is physco..he knocks on my window in the middle of the night and said he loves me and he thinks we're ready for the next step which is sex..but i dont wanna do that..i cant say kno cuz he said he'll kill himself if i dont do it with him.HELP
My friend has a dog that won't stop eating like when she takes the food away he growls at her a bites her .all he does is lay around by his food and if anyone walks by he bites them
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Shes kinda, quiet. How do I get her to open up a bit? We both play guitar... I dont know if that owuld hlpe at all.
Okay, picture this.. if you look at your teeth not the two front, not the next ones. but the next ones.. i haven't lost yet, their the only ones i haven't lost and i have an extra tooth growing out of my gums and its like way up there, and you can kind of see it when i smile but i think its grown to its fullest. but i dont wanna get my two teeth removed because i am 14, and I'll get picked on really bad, would u get them pulled?? or would u just wait for them to fall out?? please help
Okay, I like this girl. We have one class together. I know shes a little hesitant about a relationship, but how do i casually get to know her (bear in mind i want to make a move later on)
My parents wont let me have a new phone for christmas. I got one about 7 months ago but it's not very good and I really want a new one. I tried negotiating with them and asking if I could have it as a joint present from them and my grandparents but they said no. I can't afford to save up for it myself and I'm only 13 so I can't work for the cash. My parents wont let me babysit. How can I persuade them to let me have the phone? Or, how can I raise the money to get it myself?
aight well im going out with this guy who is great. but i hooked up with one of my best guy friends last night and i made out with him accidentally. i dunno what to do. should i tell my boyfriend what happened???
ok wut exacally do people means when they say friends with benefits??? my coach and my this girl on my teams brother say there friend with benefits but it's bugging me cuz i dont kno wut they mean by that!! help!!
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Ok, the guy i like is like 5 feet. give or take a few inches. And i'm like 5 8. It's a HUGE height difference, and idc about looks, but i dont want ppl making fun of him b/c he's going out with a giant or make fun of me for going out with a midget. We're both in 7th grade. I think i should just continue liking him. I think i have a good chance with him. What do u think?
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Yeshiva University gave its doctorate in Talmud to a woman, Shana Strauch Schick, 30, for the first time.
The university's graduate study program in Talmud has been available to women since 2000, but Schick is the first woman to complete it.
Schick, a New Jersey native now living in suburban Detroit, successfully defended her dissertation on Aug. 4 and will formally graduate in September.
"Orthodoxy has long emphasized the value of the study of Talmud," Schick told JTA in an interview. "But Talmud study, which in yeshivot is the central focus of the religious duty to learn Torah, is still rarely emphasized as a vital part of women's education."
Schick holds a master's degree in Bible from Revel, YU's graduate school for Jewish studies, and a bachelor's degree in Judaic studies from YU's Stern College for Women. She plans to spend the next academic year in Israel doing post-doctoral studies at Bar-Ilan University.
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99 Impossible Things
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5312 Laurel Canyon Blvd. North Hollywood
World premiere play written and directed by Chelsea Sutton. Harold (Jason Britt) desperately wants to discover the next great invention - but the appearance of a human-sized sea monkey (Jillian Easton) is stunting his progress. While drinking away his days in the Magic Bean Coffee House, the down-on-her-luck proprietor Ellen (Tiffany Cole) urges Harold to recall a past he has buried away - while her brother (Mason Hallberg), his imaginary friend (Geoff James), an unwanted guardian angel (R.J. Farrington), the clumsy barista (Ashleigh Boiros) and a homeless woman (Barbara Scolaro) with a magical delusion make the act of moving on almost impossible. When a jaded stranger (Jessica Lightfoot) wanders in for a cup of coffee, she unwittingly proves that sometimes our greatest pains can help make our most impossible dreams a reality.
Thru - Feb 13, 2011
Show Type: Drama
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LA Weekly - Not Recommended
"...There's barely a plot, a story, dramatic stakes or a protagonist, and the central conflict (the soul of the drama) emerges sporadically. Most of the dialogue sounds like a college improv show in which someone said, "OK, you hang out in a coffee shop, you have an imaginary friend but you're not sure why, and nobody else is either: Go!" Sutton's serving as writer, director and producer suggests a reason behind the absence of a critical or collaborative eye. Even the performances, save that of RJ Farrington (who portrays the guardian angel), lack sheen. The highlight of the production is Bryan Forrest's authentically detailed coffee shop set."
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LA Splash - Somewhat Recommended
"...99 Impossible Things is nearly impossible to follow, unless you pay very close attention. There are so many characters, all with their special brand of neurosis; its a bit much. There is no clear protagonist. Normally, I wouldnt automatically see that as a flaw. Except without a focal point amidst the piles of plots, we dont know who or what the play is about, or why we should even care. Its quite possible that different audience members will identify with different characters, but there has to be a point of entry for the audience to engage. Finally, the play is too long by about three scenes and the monologues felt out of place in general."
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"...Once you figure out than there is nothing in this story that resembles reality as you know it then the play makes a lot of sense. Its even funny in many places, although not the knee slapping kind of funny. Its more like the creep up on you when you least expect it and let out a loud giggle funny. Thats because the characters in this whimsical tale by Chelsea Sutton, who also directs, are so far out in so many ways that youre sure youll never meet anyone like that. The problem is that the more you think of it, you begin to get the queasy feeling that you actually may know someone like that and perhaps even (gulp) there may be a little of YOU in the characters. Perish the thought!"
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Examiner - Recommended
"...Chelsea Suttons thoughtful and thought-provoking 99 Impossible Things is distinguished by well-written dialogue and engaging characters. Also directed by Sutton the play performs through February 13 at the Eclectic Company Theatre."
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"...The cast, in varying degrees of competency, tries hard. Britt is interesting to watch with his spastic, nutty professor attitude. Scolaro gives a creditable portrayal of the tiresome hag. Boiros, a willowy, young woman with great hair, has an irritating, nasal little voice, James has excellent diction and knows how to play a loser. Farrington, as the angel, is mostly mute but is arresting when she does have something to say. All poor Easton as the sea monkey (whatever that is), has to do, is look graceful and she does. Hallberg would be better served by a more sympathetic costume designer (Virginia VanDenberg). At least, lose that hat! Lightfoot gives us a spirited interpretation of a woman who is presumed to be a psychiatrist but could probably use a few sessions on the couch, herself."
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Zac Brown Band rocks the National Anthem for the NFC playoff game
In case you missed it, Zac Brown Band from Georgia performed the National Anthem at the NFC playoff game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Green Bay Packers. Zac Brown and his cohorts are one of our favorite country music acts right now and we loved their rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.
They have a great hit on the charts right now called "As She's Walkin' Away" and their first big hit, "Chicken Fried," is also excellent. Unfortunately, the Georgia natives could not bring much luck to their hometown team. The Packers have taken a commanding lead so far.
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