Showing posts with label tigers. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Tiger Woods says sorry.... first public appearance since sex scandal erupted!!!

Birdie, Eagle, Tiger...!!!!!

To me there is nothing wrong if you have this extra libido or sexual drive.

It is normal for a man to like and love a woman. It is normal for women to love men.

It is only abnormal when a man love another man sexually and the same goes to women who sexually love fellow women.

Who cares if Tiger Woods made love to 1,000 women in a month.. That is called the sexual prowess of a Tiger!!!

Now, how many of us suffer from Erectile dsyfunction or ED?? There are millions of men out there who can't get a simple erection and can't perform their duties on bed.

Well Tiger Woods not only has all this but he also is a Golf Prodigy.

That Means he can score a Hole in One on bed and in the golf course!!

Nevertheless here is a news item on Tiger Woods who broke his silence after the November incident where he infamously did a self accident and then 14 blondes suddenly admitted that Tiger did a hole in one with them!!!



The news report :

Floria, USA - Friday 19 Feb 2010

Missing his smile and aura of invincibility, Tiger Woods finally showed his face to a waiting world Friday and apologized again for cheating on his wife, without revealing the scope of his infidelity or when he will return to golf.

Standing at a podium before a presidential-blue backdrop in a hushed room of his closest associates, Woods stumbled a few times as he read a 13 1/2-minute statement.

He offered no new details of what happened or what's next, except that he was leaving Saturday for more therapy.

"I have made you question who I am and how I could have done the things I did," Woods said.

Woods' wife, Elin, did not attend his first public appearance since he crashed his car into a tree outside their home three months ago, setting off shocking allegations of rampant extramarital affairs.

"I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated," Woods said. "What I did was not acceptable."

Woods alternately looked into the camera and at the 40 people in the room, raising his voice only to deny that his wife ever hit him and to demand that the paparazzi leave his family alone.

Beyond that, there were stretches when Woods — with his formidable business empire — could have been reading from a tough corporate report.

He entered the room alone. When he finished, he stopped for a long embrace with his mother, Kultida, who said she whispered in his ear, "I'm so proud of you. Never think you stand alone. Mom will always be there for you, and I love you."

Regaining trust and support from everyone else might not be so easy.

Woods already has lost two corporate endorsements — Accenture and AT&T — and he has gone from being perhaps the most famous athlete in the world to a punch line in night clubs and on talk shows.

"It's now up to me to make amends, and that starts by never repeating the mistakes I've made," Woods said. "It's up to me to start living a life of integrity."

Woods left therapy on Feb. 11 and has been spending time with his two children and his mother — but not his wife — in Orlando, according to a person with knowledge of Woods' schedule. The person, not authorized to release such information, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Woods did not say how much longer he would be in therapy, only that "I have a long way to go."

Pool photos were released Thursday of Woods hitting golf balls on the practice range.

"I do plan to return to golf one day," Woods said. "I just don't know when that day will be. I don't rule out that it will be this year. When I do return, I need to make my behavior more respectful of the game."

Just as unpredictable is the future of his marriage. Woods said he and his wife have started discussing the damage he has done.

"As Elin pointed out to me, my apology to her will not come in the form of words. It will come from my behavior over time," Woods said. "We have a lot to discuss. However, what we say to each other will remain between the two of us."

After an embrace with his mother, Woods hugged the two women who sat on either side of her — Amy Reynolds, formerly of Nike who now works for Tiger Woods Design, and Kathy Battaglia, who is Woods' administrative assistant at ETW Corp.

He made his way down the front row and greeted others — his chief financial officer, Web site administrator, PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem and Notah Begay, who played with Woods at Stanford and withdrew from the PGA Tour event in Mexico.

Woods remained composed throughout the statement, pausing briefly before the first of several apologies. At times, however, he looked into the camera almost on cue.

The only employee not on the front row was Bryon Bell, his friend from junior high who now is president of his design company. Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent at IMG, sat on the last of three rows with 14 PGA Tour executives.

Some of the eight players at the Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona watched the coverage before the third round.

"From a guy that's done a lot of tough things in golf over the years, it was probably one of the most difficult things he's ever had to do," British Open champion Stewart Cink said. "And it was something probably that's going to help him along the way of healing."

In Sweden, Elin's father, Thomas Nordegren, saw Woods' confession.

"I watched it but I have nothing to say right now," Nordegren told The Associated Press. Elin's mother, Barbro Holmberg, declined to comment through her spokeswoman.

Friday's event was tightly controlled, with only a few journalists allowed to watch Woods live. The confession became a major television event with the networks breaking in to show it.

ABC's George Stephanopoulos called the speech "one of the most remarkable public apologies ever by a public figure."

Said golf analyst David Feherty on CBS: "The vast number of people just want their Tiger Woods back."

Certainly, no other PGA Tour player could command this kind of attention.

But Woods has always been special on the course and in popular culture. Television ratings double when he is in contention, which has happened a lot on his way to winning 71 times on the PGA Tour and 14 majors, four short of the record held by Jack Nicklaus.

Nicklaus watched the announcement, but a spokesman said he would have no comment.

Most of the associates left the room when Woods finished speaking. Among those who stayed were Mrs. Woods, who rarely gives interview but in this case said, "I would like to talk."

She said her son has a "good heart and good soul" but made a mistake. Mrs. Woods, raised in Thailand, also claims the media showed a "double standard" by keeping the sex scandal in the news for so long.

"Some of media, especially tabloid, hurt my son bad," Mrs. Woods said. "He didn't do anything illegal. He didn't kill anybody. But he try to improve himself. He try to go to therapy and help. He change that and making better. When he go do all this thing, he will come out stronger and a better person."

As his Thai-born mother sat with arms folded across her chest, Woods said part of his rehab would include a return to his Buddhist faith. Woods said his mother raised him as a Buddhist, and he practiced his faith "until I drifted away from it in recent years."

"Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security," Woods said. "It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught."

The companies that have stuck most closely by Woods, Nike Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc., reiterated their support.

"Tiger has apologized and made his position clear. Nike fully supports him and his family. We look forward to him returning to golf," the company said in a statement.

EA Sports president Peter Moore said: "It was good to see Tiger address the public today, and we're supportive of his focus toward family and rebuilding his life."

Woods' appearance drew reaction from all corners, even at the Winter Games in Vancouver.

"It's a bummer, his personal life," Olympic gold-medalist Shaun White said. "He's trying to pick his words very carefully and apologize. I respect that."

Veronica Siwik-Daniels, one of Woods' alleged mistresses and a former pornographic performer, watched the event with her attorney in a Los Angeles radio studio. She said she wants an apology for the unwanted attention the scandal has brought her.

"I really feel I deserve to look at him in person face to face in the eyes because I did not deserve this," she said.

Bravo Tiger Woods... Birdie, Eagle, Tiger!!!!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Femme Fatale and the Black Tigers...

Femme fatale...

The phrase is French for "deadly woman."

A femme fatale tries to achieve her hidden purpose by using feminine wiles and assets such as beauty, charm, and sexual allure.

Typically, she is exceptionally well-endowed with these qualities.

In some situations, she uses lying or coercion rather than charm.

The Lady from Shanghai (a 1948 film) giving one such example.

Her characteristic weapon, if needed, is frequently poison, which also serves as a metaphor for her charms.

The femme fatale archetype exists, in one form or another, in the folklore and myth of nearly every culture in every century.

The early examples are Ishtar, the Sumerian goddess, Eve, Lilith, Delilah, and Salome from the Judaeo-Christian Bible.


Salome

Salome was said to manipulate her lust-crazed uncle, King Herod, with her enticing Dance of the Seven Veils to agree to her imperious demand: bring me the head of John the Baptist.

an image of Cleopatra

Beside them is the historical figure Cleopatra, The Queen of Egypt, with her ability to seduce the powerful men of Rome.

Roman propaganda attacked Cleopatra as a femme fatale; resultingly, she became the legendary archetype of the attractions and the dangers inherent to the powerful, exotic woman.


Mata Hari


Perhaps the most famous modern era femme fatale was Mata Hari who died in 1917.

Mata Hari, a beautiful and alluring oriental dancer was accused of German espionage during World War I and was put to death by a French firing squad.

As such, she embodied the femme fatale archetype, and, after her death she became the subject of much fantastical imagining and the subject of many sensational films and books.


In 2002, Brian De Palma directed Femme Fatale starring Rebecca Romijn Stamos as the femme fatale and received worldwide acclaim.

In real life, femme fatales are not that beautiful, but rather ordinary citizens, wives and mothers but with deadly motives.

In Iraq, female suicide bombers disguised themselves by wearing the traditional flowing robes to hide bomb-rigged belts or vests.

a woman is being inspected by a US soldier in Iraq

Female suicide bombers are said to be more effective and difficult to be detected by the authority because they exploit the cultural standards that restrict male security forces from searching women.

Samira Ahmed Jassim (the mother of all femme fatales?)

Perhaps the mother of all femme fatales in Iraq is 50-year-old Samira Ahmed Jassim.

Her code name was "The Mother of Believers" .

Since her arrest by security forces last January, she has given unusual firsthand descriptions of the possible workings behind attacks by women bombers.

She is suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers willing to carry out attacks and had admitted masterminding 28 bombings in different areas in Iraq.

In 2008, female suicide bombers attempted or successfully carried out 32 attacks around Iraq, compared with 8 attacks in 2007, according to U.S. military figures.

In January, a woman detonated an explosive under her robes, killing at least 36 people during a Shiite religious gathering.

In Sri Lanka, female suicide bombers are better known as the Black Tigers.


They truly devote themselves to the legendary supreme leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE, Vellupillai Prabakharan.

Prabakharan’s LTTE has been fighting Sri Lankan forces since 1983.

His aim – to establish an independent Tamil state for the minority ethnic Tamils, free from the Sinhalese majority controlled government.

The group, branded a terror organization by the U.S. and European Union, is responsible for more than 240 suicide bombings and other deadly attacks including missions carried out abroad.


Prabkharan delivering his annual speech on Heroes Day...

Prabakharan’s femme fatales are deadly, their attacks led to thousands of death.

A day before carrying out their missions, the elite Black Tigers are invited to a special dinner or the last meal - with Prabakharan.


Their missions - to kill or be killed no matter the attacks are successful or not.

When carrying suicide missions, these female bombers wear a cyanide vial.

If captured, they commit suicide by swallowing the cyanide, to evade interrogation.

The elite Black Tigers, launched its first suicide attack against a Sri Lanka Army camp, killing 40 soldiers in 1987.

It was said to be the first ever suicide bomber attack in the world.


Hamas drew inspiration from the LTTE attack and carried out its own suicide bombing in Israel.

Todate, the LTTE have carried out more suicide bombings than Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda combined.

Perhaps the most high profile attack by the Black Tigers was in 1991.

A female suicide bomber reportedly sent by Prabakharan killed Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally in India.

Then in November 2007, a chilling security camera footage captured a female suicide bomber on a mission to kill Sri Lankan Social Services Minister Douglas Devananda in Colombo.

The video, gave a rare look at a suicide bomber's last moments and the immediate aftermath of a devastating attack.

In the footage, the woman was seen patiently answering questions in a bustling government office before calmly standing up and detonated the bomb hidden in her bra.

On the day of the incident, the female bomber, wearing a yellow sari and a white shawl, calmly walked into a small waiting room at the Colombo offices of Devananda, the day he sets aside to hear complaints from the public.

The woman, identified as 24-year-old Sujatha Vagawanam, sat down in front of a desk and answered questions from Devananda's 72-year-old aide Steven Peiris.

As the two spoke, Peiris was repeatedly interrupted by other officials sitting nearby or walking past.

After nearly a minute and a half, he began gesturing for her to sit down in a nearby cluster of white plastic chairs, apparently to await a security check.

She then stood up facing Peiris, reached her right hand to her right shoulder to grab something and exploded.

Peiris and the bomber, both of whom were killed, flew backward.

The others in the room scrambled in all directions, some falling over their chairs in their haste to escape as a cloud of smoke hung in the air.

"She thought she was getting caught, so she exploded her bomb," said Devananda, who escaped the attack.


A female regiment of the LTTE


A captured suicide bomber's vest (ripped apart for analysis)


Suicide bomber Menake waits in her concrete cell in Sri Lanka's maximum-security prison. She may face death by hanging. Her mission - to assassinate the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka but captured by security forces while on a reconnaissance mission outside the PM residence.

The LTTE is the only rebel organization in the world with aircrafts.

Apart from their own Air Force which they call Air Tigers or Sky Tigers, the LTTE also have their own Navy – Sea Tigers and Army.

LTTE's Air Tigers
Sea Tigers Gunboat

The LTTE is currently engaged in fierce fighting with the Sri Lankan troops.

Today the Sri Lankan forces claimed they have found Prabakharan fully furnished luxury residence complete with an apartment unit, 15 metres underground, North of Visuamadu.

Vellupillai Prabakharan is nowhere to be seen.
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