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January 13, 2010
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December 11, 2009
Favorite checkpoint story: After an interview today at the Ministry of Interior, we drove back home down Abu Nawas street, which runs along the east side of the Tigris. With other cars, we went through a vehicle checkpoint, and were stopped by an officer, who leaned in toward the car window.
Officer: Do you have any weapons?
Us: No.
Officer (incredulously): You don't have weapons? Why don't you have any weapons?
Moral of the story: Everyone in Iraq has a weapon. And with good reason.
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December 03, 2009
The forgotten war?
The Korean War used to be known as "the forgotten war." More recently, during the hey-day of the Bush administration's adventure here in Iraq, Afghanistan was the forgotten war. No more, of course.
Now, it seems, Iraq is the forgotten war. I've been here nearly 5 weeks now, and I'm amazed at how far this conflict has fallen in the American consciousness, if I am judging it correctly from thousands of miles away. Iraq is off the front pages, off the television screens and, for the most part, off the main page of major news Web sites.
This isn't entirely a bad thing. News follows conflict and bloodshed, and Iraq has less of both than it used to. Sectarian violence is still an every-day occurence, but it is way down. U.S. troop deaths are way down too - there were two deaths each in October and November from combat-related injuries. Most of Iraq's problems now are of a more complex, murkier political and economic variety.
But that's no reason not to pay attention. Iraq appears to be at a tipping point, where things here could get a wholoe lot better--and still go badly, badly wrong. And what happens in Iraq matters a lot, because of its oil, because of its central geographic position in the Middle East, because of the US invasion here, and because it's the only Shiite-dominated political system in the Arab world.
In other words, just as Iraq enters a really critical period, where its leaders will decide whether they will solve differences without violence, and when the country truly stands on its own with a much smaller crutch from the US. -- many in the West have stopped paying steady attention.
The once-huge international press corps here has shrunken significantly, with many verteran war correspondents decamped to Afghanistan. Major U.S. TV networks have pulled out, or are in the process of doing so. Other news organizations are hanging on until after the elections, which have been delayed from January to at least late February or March. (McClatchy, I am proud to say, plans to maintain a presence in Baghdad).
One of my Iraqi colleagues and I were talking the other day and, sad to say, we both knew what it would take to bring Iraq back to the front pages and the television screens. A major bombing that kills dozens or hundreds. Renewed civil strife. Iraq really having weapons of mass destruction.
Regardless of your views of the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq in the first place, the United States has spent enormous amounts of blood, treasure, political capital here in Mesopotamia. It's been the subject of a divisive national debate and played a role in elections for offices high and low.
And the story is not over. So keep paying attention. I know that even after my assignment here is complete, I will.
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November 28, 2009
Iraqi journalists speak out
The crowd was not large, but given the fact that a gathering of outspoken Iraqi journalists is an obvious target for violence here in Baghdad, and that the Muslim world is currently celebrating the Eid al-Adha religious festival, the crowd was large enough.
The scene was Baghdad's Firdos Square, best known to Americans as the place where Iraqis, in a televised event we later learned was stage-managed, pulled down a huge statue of dictator Saddam Hussein after U.S. troops occupied the city in April 2003.
There was nothing stage-managed about today's gathering--a demonstration in response to the near-fatal shooting five days ago of Imad Abadi, a well-known television anchor known for his criticisms of politicians and parties of every stripe, his crusades against corruption, and his aggressive defense of press freedom. Abadi, 36, was wounded in the head and neck, in what the nonprofit group Reporters Without Borders said was clearly a target shooting. He remains in intensive care at a Baghdad hospital.
Investigative journalism is a new phenomenon to Iraqis, and reporting is a dangerous profession. Hundreds of journalists have been killed since 2003. (And, of course, there was no independent media under Saddam's rule). But after talking with a few of Abadi's colleagues and admirers at Firdos Square, I felt their might be hope for the future--at least in the long-term, if not the near-term.
They were eloquent, even without pen and paper, or script and camera.
Abraheem al Khayat, spokesman for Iraq's union of writers, said Abadi had become so outspoken that friends had warned him to be careful. Khayat made an allusion to the silencer presumably on the intended assassin's weapon. "It is a silencer that is required to silence the voices of outspoken people," he said.
Asked whether Abadi was expected to survive, he said: "Maybe he will live, but he cannot work. Maybe he will live, but he will flee" the country.
I asked Muntasar Buzaid, who is affiliated with a private group that defends press freedom, whether he was optimistic or pessimistic about the future of journalism in Iraq. "I have a little of both," he replied immediately. "Now, I am writing with an alias. For me, it will be a milestone when I can write what I want to write using my own name."
Mohammed Ali, a photographer who works with Abadi, spoke for journalists the world over devoted to their craft. "This is our line of work," he said. "We have only one life. I'm a journalist. What can we do? Should I become a farmer?"
Given their bravery, I felt more than a little ashamed that I could spend only 25-20 minutes at the protest because Western reporters, due to security concerns, are advised not to linger in public places too long.
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November 21, 2009
North of the "border"
Flew up from Baghdad to the northern Iraqi city of Suleimaniyah this afternoon, crossing the "border" between Arab Iraq and Kurdish Iraq. There is of course, no border there - Iraqi Kurdistan is part of Iraq, de jure if not always de facto.
You have to show your passport when you prepare to leave Baghdad International Airport and again when you arrive in Sul-y, as some people call it for short, even though it's an internal domestic flight. In Sul-y, there are no pictures of Arab politicians. The face of Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president and head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, and of Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, are much in evidence.
We drove into the city, down well-lit avenues with nice shops and restauarants. After three weeks in Baghdad, I marveled at the lack of checkpoints and armed, at least publicly armed, men. It's like a different country. The Kurds would like it to be, and frictions between Kurds, Arabs and other minorities have made volatile "disputed areas" out of a belt of territories between Kurdistan proper and the rest of Iraq.
As we arrived near our downtown hotel, we had to get out and walk 30 yards or so because the road was torn up by construction. The key word here is "construction." I must have counted a half-dozen construction cranes on the drive into the airport, in various stages of building apartment buildings and other structures.
What a contrast. There is no construction worth mentioning in Baghdad. Trash piles up in the street. Roads are blocked. Despite the emergence of some normal life since the worst violence of 2005-2007, the city still has a stultifying feel, mixed with lots of edginess. The only construction I noticed of note in Baghdad is a huge building that I was told will be a guest house under the control of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki and his succesors. It, of course, is in the protected Green Zone.
I feel sad for Baghdad, a proud city of immense historical importance. But for tonight, it feels nice to be able to walk down city streets like a normal person.
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November 18, 2009
It's raining in Baghdad
I woke last night to the sound of thunder, as Bob Seger used to sing, and whether it was an explosion, I sat and wondered.
It wasn't. It was a precursor to rain. Rain! It doesn't precipitate much in Baghdad, to say the least, and the cool drops brought a welcome change. The temperature dropped, the air cleared, the dust settled. People seemed to smile just a little bit more. At least I did.
The rain started Monday evening and continued, off and on, through the day Tuesday and into Wednesday. Puddles formed. Raindrops pattered. Steps became slippery.
What's the big deal with a little rain, you ask? Baghdad gets an average of 2.7 inches per year, according to this website. (I've tried to do the centimeters-to-inches conversion for you, dear reader). The average rainfall for July is: zero. The weather here tends to be unchangeable, deadeningly predictable, in fact. It's burning hot in summer; dry, sunny and dusty the rest of the year. Winter, which is just setting in, brings cooler temperatures, occasional clouds and, like Monday and Tuesday, a bit of rain. It actually snowed, just a dash, here in January 2008, the first anyone can remember.
The rain this week was the longest continuous rainfall in recent years, my Iraqi colleagues say. It was especially good news for Iraq, which has been suffering under a years-long drought. It has harmed the date industry, one of Iraq's main agricultural exports, and sent water levels dropping.
Like virtually everything else in Iraq, the storm drainage system doesn't work very well, especially on little side roads and alleys. Large puddles collected in the middle of roads. Some, even in a protected compound where parliament members and other VIPs live, smelled a bit, well, odiferous.
I didn't mind too much. It rained!
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November 15, 2009
The other war: fighting corruption in Iraq
November 17 update: Transparency International today released its 2009 version of the Corruption Perceptions Index. Iraq moved up slightly in the rankings, from 178 to 176 out of 180. The other country where tens of thousands of U.S. combat troops are deployed, Afghanistan, was at 179. The United States ranked 19th.
TAJI AIR BASE, Iraq--Iraqi Col. Waleed Khadem Aboub had a typically local solution to the rampant problem of corruption in his country. "Every month, if they execute somebody in every (province) who steals Iraqis' money, I give you my word, nobody's going to do that," Aboub boomed from the back of the class during a question-and-answer session with the American visitor.
"If you hang him up in the street, no one's going to steal again," he concluded.
Corruption has become pervasive in post-war Iraq, from the small bribes that Iraqis must pay to get papers stamped and cases attended to, to the millions allegedly bilked by senior officials. Iraq's former trade minister, facing allegations that his relatives had received hefty kickbacks from import contracts, was arrested in Baghdad airport in May after the aircraft that was taking him out of the country was turned around.
Corruption was exactly what Ambassador Joseph Stafford, anti-corruption coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, wanted to talk about. At the invitation of MNSTC-I, the military command responsible for training up Iraqi security forces, I joined Stafford for a Thursday morning visit to the Iraqi Counter-Insurgency School at Taji. The school was established in 2006 with U.S. assistance.
Stafford got a fair and polite hearing. He spent about an hour in the office of school's commander, Col. Ahmed Salim Jessem, and then spoke to a class of 32 Iraqi brigade and batallion commanders going through a three-week counter-insurgency course.
The colonel said he believed that ethics were an important part of officer training, but that his chain of command didn't always agree on making it a priority.
Indeed, it was clear that the Iraqi army has a lot else on its mind these days. Iraqi security forces increasingly are taking over from the U.S. military, with serious questions about how ready they are to fill the gap.
In rooms near where Stafford spoke to the class, preparations were underway for a major two-day computer simulation later in November in which large numbers of troops move in to Baghdad to help secure national parliamentary elections scheduled for January. In the simulation, and in real life, they'll have to learn how to coordinate with local civil authorities; protect infrastructure; deal with aggressive journalists; and respond to bombings or other outbreaks of violence.
"We're training them now for the important time, which is the election time," Col. Salim told Stafford.
He was open about problems with the Iraqi army. He said its image among the Iraqi people is much improved from years past, when officers were called "double agents" for working with foreign troops. But, he said the army was rebuilt "in a rush" after the United States disbanded it in 2003. Now, he said, many officers who were loyal to late dictator Saddam Hussein have rejoined. "They are back in the army. And they work like invisible hands."
U.S. military officers and contractors working at the school say the Iraqi military, while improved, still has a long way to go.
As the United States turns the "battlespace" over to Iraqis, often "they don't know what to do," said Army. Lt. Col. Patrick J. Christian, an American advisor to the school.
"Are they serving the population? Are they protecting infrastructure? Do they even know what infrastructure to protect? Are they protecting IDPs (internally displaced persons)?" Christian said, adding that the force lacks the "corporate management" that is second-nature to the American military.
Back in the classroom, Stafford, a former U.S. ambaassador to The Gambia, spoke in Arabic to the Iraqi officers and heard lots of complaints about corruption. Even in the military, one student said, it's necessary to pay a small bribe to get yout papers processed in an hour instead of, say, three days.
Stafford told them he sees more and more media reports of Iraqis investigated for corruption. And he explained steps the goverment of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, with U.S. help, is taking, including establishment of inspector generals in every ministry and yearly finance reports.
"Maybe you'll say this is a small thing, it's not important," he said, according to the translation. "But in my evaluation, it's a movement forward."
In an interview afterwards, Stafford said the questions he received made clear the Iraqis' recognition "that Iraq has a way to go in terms of a strong anti-corruption regime." But, he said, "they've also taken some important steps."
The private group Transparency International last year ranked Iraq 178 out of 180 countries in public perceptions of corruption, ahead of only Burma and Somalia.
U.S. officials say the study fails to account for steps Iraq has taken recently to establish institutions to battle corruption. They point to a study by another group, Washington-based Global Integrity. That study put Iraq in the lowest category, but on a par with another major Arab country, Egypt, and ahead of Morroco.
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November 10, 2009
These are a few of my favorite signs
Well, this is no doubt old hat to my veteran journalistic colleagues here in Baghdad, not to mention diplomats, aid workers, contractors and, most importantly, Iraqis themselves, but first impressions are important.
I know 40 or so words of Arabic, so here in Baghdad, my eye is naturally drawn to any English-language sign that one happens to see. And one happens to see a lot, because moving (rather, trying to move) around Iraq's capital means spending endless hours waiting at checkpoints, moving through checkpoints, cursing at checkpoints. One of my Iraqi colleagues likened the whole business to a real-life version of the "Tomb Raider" video game.
Naturally, this leaves a lot of time to look at the warning signs posted everywhere. I mean, a visit to the heavily fortified international enclave known as the Green Zone (the rest of Iraq, every bit of it, is known as - you guessed it - the Red Zone) can mean a dozen ID checks, four pat-down searches, removing the battery from your cell phone(s), an airport-type luggage scan, maybe even a sniffer dog. The guards are Iraqi, Peruvian, or Ugandan, the latter employed by the security contractor Triple Canopy.
The Ugandans somehow manage to import and retain their infectious African smiles to this dusty, barricaded city. "You live in the Red Zone?" one female guard asked me incredulously yesterday. "Is it safe?" I gave the only reply I could think of in a moment's notice: "Inshallah." God willing. It's an Arabic cliche, made more poignant by the capriciousness of life in Iraqi circa 2009.
On our way to an interview at the heavily guarded Independent High Election Commission (IHEC) today, an obvious terrorist target since it will organize and conduct January's national elections, I encountered a security firm I had never heard of: Blue Hackle. They have nice polo shorts, with cool logos.
OK, back to the signs. Deadly Force is Authorized doesn't even phase me anymore. It's like the electricity that goes out every 90 minutes. Freaked me out at first. Now I just listen for the generators to kick in. Ten days in Baghdad will do that to you. Deadly Force is About to Be Used would probably get my attention.
But what about No Long Weapons Allowed?? I saw that sign at IHEC. Presumably, pistols and sawed-off shotguns are OK? How about a cross-bow? Poison blow-gun?
There are plenty of admonitions in the vein of "wait here," "do this," "don't do that," "don't even think of using your cell phone here." But I thought Do Not Enter or You May Be Shot was a bit direct, impolite even.
Near Nisoor Square, where in September 2006, employees of U.S. security firm Blackwater killed 17 Iraqi civilians (case still in court, last I checked), there is a sign that, belatedly perhaps, lays down the law to private security contractors. It tells them to slow down their vehicles, use No Sirens and that, if they fail to comply, they could have their driver's license, or even their company's operating license, revoked.
The notice announcing that everyone will be searched Females Included was a bit superfluous, I thought, since everyone is searched, repeatedly.
But I guess the prize goes to the sign that reflected that worst of American imports, the cheerfully insipid alliteration that is meant to inspire in corporate cubicles 'cross country: Polite, it read. Professional. Prepared to Help. Prepared to Capture Criminals.
PS: Don't Even Think of Parking Here.
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November 06, 2009
Baghdad, plus 7
It was a shock today to see Saddam Hussein's old Ministry of Information, on the West side of the Tigris in central Baghdad. In more recent times, the building has been known as the headquarters of the Baghdad Provinical Council. Until October 25, that is, when the building was shattered in one of three massive suicide bombings that killed 155 Iraqis.
It's been seven years since I've been to Baghdad--I don't count two quick in-and-out visits in the protective bubble accompanying secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice in 2004 and 2006 respectively--and the city is utterly transformed, both physically and in less obvious ways. In between, there's been a U.S. invasion, an insurgency, unspeakable violence, and Iraq's halting attempts at democratic politics. A lifetime--several lifetimes--in other words.
The idea of a terrorist bombing against a government building in dowtown Baghdad was virtually unthinkable under Saddam's regime. There was violence aplenty, to be sure, but almost all of it emanated from a single source--Saddam--who slaughtered Shi'ites, gassed and displaced Kurds, and jailed, tortured and murdered anyone deemed to be even a remote threat. Such was Saddam's cult that it used to be said that you could not be in any public place in Iraq without seeing his image somewhere. And, I can tell you, it was damn near true.
The pendulum between chaos and dictatorship is one that is all too familiar to the modern Middle East. It's been either the strong-man dictator or the failing state. Today, as 2009 edges toward a close, Iraq seems to be flailing about somewhere in the middle--closer to disorder, with authoritarian tendencies revealing themselves quite a bit, and with Iraqis trying to see if they can make democratic politics work. The latter is no sure bet.
And the blocky white Ministry of Information building--imagine a really ugly government building a tad in the old socialist style, and you got it--is evidence that Iraq's state remains anemic. One end is buckled and mangled from the explosion. Terrorists, probably from Al Qaida in Iraq (AQI), have been systematically targeting the pillars of government, and are expected to keep doing so.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Information Ministry, although I can't imagine why. It was the place where the few Western reporters in Saddam Hussein's Iraq would go to get the endless permissions needed to operate in the country, and find a local assistant/translator and driver (who doubled as spying eyes for the regime) to work with. (I don't blame them. They had no choice). For the privilege, we handed over large sums of U.S. hard currency and waited endlessly, smoking cigarettes (I smoked backed then) in the dingy press area.
One thing hasn't changed in 7 years. America's attention wavers. While the United States still has 120,000 servicemen and servicewomen here, and has invested enormous blood and treasure, it's hard to find Iraq on U.S. TV screens or newspaper front pages unless there's a terrorist spectacular. In December 1998, I was in Baghdad covering President Bill Clinton's four-day bombing campaign, called Operation Desert Fox, in response to Saddam's refusal to allow full U.N. weapons inspections. In the middle of this huge event, what did we see on CNN as we sat, waiting, on the Information Ministry's first floor? The Clinton impeachment debate, and the suprise admission by Republican House Speaker-elect Robert Livingston that he, too, had had an extramarital affair.
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August 03, 2009
Ten Lessons Learned from War
Forty years ago last week I landed in Vietnam as a soldier.
I covered the war in Iraq for the last six weeks as a correspondent.
Several volumes between them -- a dustup in Belize with Guatemala; South Korea's street fights for democracy; the Persian Gulf War; the L.A. riots; Somalia; Bosnia; Kosovo; Iraq last year. Not a large library. Some of them more CliffsNotes than books. But they've all left their mark on me, the way some songs, novels, photographs, paintings and poems haunt you.
The U.S. military leaves formal footprints behind in a war. They're called "lessons learned" and "after-action reports."
This is a personal after-action report.
In the Editor's Note to our Merced Sun-Star's 2007 Special Report, "The War Comes to Merced," we quoted Plato: "Only the dead have seen the end of war." That's Lesson No. 1. As I've found over four decades, from carrying a rifle to carrying a pen, war will always be with us.
Young reporters, like our Corinne Reilly, who twice has covered the war in Iraq in sterling fashion, can count on a war coming along sometime during their careers. Fewer, it seems, want to bear battlefield witness today than my generation and earlier ones did. But if some Twitter dude or lady blogger wants to don the battle-rattle, good on 'em. It'll make them better journalists. And Americans need someone on the ground, watching and listening for them in the most important decision any human society ever makes.
Lesson No. 2 is that we Americans don't learn from our mistakes. Vietnam was a mistake. This war in Iraq was a mistake. We'll get out of it with fewer than the 58,257 dead from Nam. And the Iraqis probably won't lose 2-3 million, as the Vietnamese did. But we won't leave behind a functioning democracy or even, over time, a U.S. ally. As with Vietnam, the so-called leaders who sent our young people across the seas to fight failed to understand both the enemy and the nature of the war.
Lesson No. 3 is that few of those leaders will ever have to pay the price of their folly. The 4,300-plus American dead, 31,000-plus American wounded, hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed Iraqis have paid the cost. But not the McNamaras or the Bundys or the Cheneys or the Wolfowitzes or the Johnsons or Nixons or Bushes. They get medals and money. The ones who made the ultimate sacrifice get lost in the pages of history. Five of their names are carved in granite at Courthouse Park in Merced.
A learning curve leads to Lesson No. 4. By the time I got to Vietnam, America knew it was losing. The late Walter Cronkite had called it "a stalemate" the year before I stepped onto the tropical tarmac at Tan Son Nhut Airbase. Americans don't do stalemates. Before Tet in '68, American soldiers and Marines -- like those in Gen. Hal Moore's and Joe Galloway's book, "We Were Soldiers Once, and Young" -- believed in their mission. By the time the guys in my company landed there, all we wanted was to get home alive.
Lesson No. 4 is that from the Persian Gulf War onward, the quality of soldiers -- and that includes all branches of the service -- has gotten better each year. The volunteer army has produced smart and brave studs, male and female. Each trooper I met over the last 18 years impressed me more each time. From technology to leadership to commitment, the modern American soldier is somebody we can all be proud of.
My dad taught me the next lesson. It may seem to contradict No. 4, but they're opposite sides of the same coin of our realm. National service should be mandatory. My dad said people shouldn't get to vote unless they'd performed two years of national service. Like him, I don't think it has to be only military service. But every able-bodied, able-minded youngster over 18 should be made to serve the country in a way that helps our society. Lesson No. 5 is that the same virtues and values I've found in young soldiers can be applied to peacetime problems right here at home. Sign 'em up and watch what happens -- to our crumbling bridges; to our weak grade schools; to our understaffed hospices; to our trashed national parks.
Another two-sided coin for Lesson No. 6. Take care of our casualties. All you patriots with the bumper stickers and yellow flags and Old Glory on a pole outside your house -- when's the last time you visited somebody in a VA hospital? Or sent a CARE package to troops in harm's way? Or told somebody in uniform, "Thanks for your service"? Or wrote your congressional rep or senator and told them to vote for more money to take care of veterans? Or voted them out if they didn't?
Side two is the Iraqis. We've taken in a grand total of 20,000 out of 2 million Iraqi refugees, let alone the millions we killed, hurt, uprooted and ruined. We need to do as good or better a job with Iraqi refugees as we did with Vietnamese, Hmong, Lao, Cambodians, Bosnians, Somalis. We owe them. I know three personally we can help. Contact me and I'll put you in touch with them.
Lesson No. 7: Obama is making the same mistake in Afghanistan that Bush did in Iraq. It's called "the graveyard of empires" for a reason. We can't fight our way to victory in a land that sucked in and spit out Alexander the Great, the British Empire and the Soviet Union. A couple of excellent counterinsurgency manuals give us blueprints on how to contain al-Qaida, the Taliban, the takfiri Muslims who violate the precepts of the Koran by killing nonbelievers of their warped creed. Launching Hellfire missiles into Afghan wedding parties ain't in either manual.
Vote the rascals out. Or don't vote for them in the first place. Lesson No. 8 is maybe the easiest to learn. War is a team blood sport. It takes both the executive and legislative branches to declare and to wage. We pay for both, in KIA/WIA/MIA, tax dollars and moral stature in the world. Vote for women and men who understand that war should be the last resort of a democratic republic -- not the first.
Lesson No. 9 is like unto No. 8. Teach your children well. Parents, teachers, coaches, Scout leaders, clerics -- all of you charged with instructing our kids should also talk with them about war. Helping them understand better about war is at least as important as teaching them how not to have babies, multiplication tables, the two-handed chest pass, a bowline knot and whether angels are real.
Finally, Lesson No. 10. I'm done. I'm not leaving my home in Merced except for vacation. No more will I walk to the sound of guns. This was my last war. I would not trade what I've learned and felt for gold or fame. Covering wars has let me make friends for life. War has shown me the face of evil -- and the heart and soul of courage and loyalty and honor.
But it's over for me. Now it's for memories and dreams. And for younger reporters.
Thus endeth the lessons.
--Mike Tharp
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Sherlock Holmes is without doubt one of the most famous figures in the history of mystery fiction.
Conan Doyle's beloved sleuth is back in brand new adventures and adaptations brought to life by Big Finish.
Join Nicholas Briggs as Holmes and Richard Earl as Watson as they go head to head with new and old villains alike and once again solve the unsolvable!
'The latest big player in the game is production company Big Finish, which made its name with books and audio plays based on Doctor Who. In 2009 the company released recordings of Sherlock Holmes - The Last Act and Sherlock Holmes - The Death and Life, the two one-man plays written by David Stuart Davies for the actor Roger Llewellyn. Thanks to Llewellyn's superb performances, Davies's inspired scripts, and to the careful supervision of Nicholas Briggs, these are productions to treasure. Briggs, who had played Holmes on stage with style and authority, takes the lead in the rest of the Big Finish productions, with Richard Earl as his stalwart Watson. Beginning with Brian Clemens's sensational play Holmes and the Ripper, they alternate Conan Doyle's original stories with tales by other writers, in a series of richly atmospheric and exciting dramas that shows no sign of flagging.' The Sherlock Holmes Miscellany, by Roger Johnson and Jean Upton

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Oil and Gas Industry Eyes 19 Projects and Counting to Export Natural Gas
New Food & Water Watch Report Explains Why Fracking for Oil and Gas Will Not Deliver U.S. Energy Security and Independence
WASHINGTON - A new report released today by the national consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch takes aim at the oil and gas industry's claim that fracking and drilling for natural gas and tight oil will deliver U.S. energy security. U.S. Energy Insecurity: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas is a False Solution reveals that as of October 26, 2012 the Department of Energy has received 19 proposals to export liquefied natural gas, including the Dominion Cove Point facility in Calvert County, Maryland. If approved, these projects would allow the oil and gas industry to sell huge amounts of natural gas overseas—as much as 40 percent of current U.S. consumption.
"The hype over fracking is giving Americans a false sense of energy security," said Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter. "The industry is making empty promises about U.S. energy security to prolong America's destructive dependence on fossil fuels. At the same time, it is laying the groundwork to sell natural gas overseas to maximize profits. The gas will go wherever it can fetch the highest price—and right now that's not the United States."
According to the report, the industry is also misrepresenting U.S. natural gas and tight oil supplies. Its claims rely on uncertain estimates of shale gas resources and on allowing the oil and gas industry to drill not just throughout the Marcellus Shale and other shale plays, but also all along the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Even if the industry's vision holds true, Food & Water Watch calculates that plans to create increased demand for U.S. natural gas translate to a supply of just 50 years and would require drilling hundreds of thousands of new shale gas wells.
In Maryland, the industry has already targeted the Marcellus Shale in two counties in Western Maryland, and recent United States Geographical Survey findings point to a possible expansion of drilling and fracking operations to central and southern Maryland, as well as to the Eastern Shore — all within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Between the Marcellus and Taylorsville shale basins, there is an estimated 1,146 billion cubic feet of shale gas, translating to about three years worth of natural gas for Maryland, though much of it could be exported instead.
If the Department of Energy approves an application from the Dominion Cove Point facility, which sits where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay in Calvert County, natural gas from all over the Atlantic region would be exported from the location.
"I'm concerned that if Maryland begins fracking in 2014, export of natural gas at Cove Point would turn Maryland into a sacrifice zone and give us a false sense of energy security," said Maryland Delegate Shane Robinson. "Why should we risk Maryland's precious water resources, our public health, communities, and air so we can ship natural gas abroad? It doesn't make any sense. That's why I will introduce a bill in January to ban fracking in Maryland before it starts."
As for tight oil, Food & Water Watch argues that no amount of conceivable production will lower the prices American consumers are paying at the pump. This is because the price of oil is set on a global market. Even so, the U.S. EIA estimates that there are 33.2 billion barrels of recoverable tight oil—enough to last the U.S. just under five years based on 2011 consumption.
Reduced oil consumption is the only way to protect the American economy from the consequences of increased global demand for oil as conventional supplies decline. Meanwhile, proven energy efficiency and conservation solutions, coupled with renewable energy technologies, avoid the environmental or public health costs of fossil fuels and promise a foundation for sustained economic growth.
Food & Water Watch instead urges local, state and federal governments to:
- Enact aggressive energy conservation policies, including large public transportation investments and widespread energy efficiency solutions, to reduce energy demand
- Establish ambitious programs for deploying and incentivizing existing renewable energy technologies to increase clean energy supplies
- Modernize the U.S. electrical grid so that it caters to distributed renewable power generation
- Invest in research and development to overcome technological barriers to the next generation clean energy solutions
- Terminate public funding for the fossil fuel industry
Using natural gas to displace oil to fuel transportation and coal to generate electricity is suppressing the promise of renewables and keeping us dependent on fossil fuels. The potential expiration of production tax credits, generally low electricity demand due a struggling economy and the currently low prices of natural gas are combining to threaten the domestic wind industry.
"Gas is no bridge fuel, and investing in the infrastructure to support this would make the U.S. dependent on dirty fossil fuels for several more decades and would sacrifice our health and communities to the industry's thirst for profits. We need to ban fracking and remake our energy system now," concluded Hauter.
U.S. Energy Insecurity: Why Fracking for Oil and Natural Gas is a False Solution is available here: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/us-energy-insecurity/
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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program Receives AGU Award
The founders of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program at the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have been selected by their peers
as the 2008 recipients of the American Geophysical Union's Excellence
in Geophysical Education Award.
The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) Program is an intensive, ten-week summer fellowship that brings together researchers from all over the world to debate how water and other fluids move in the ocean, on planets and stars, and in the atmosphere.
Started in 1959 by two WHOI scientists – George Veronis, now at Yale University, and Willem Malkus, now professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – the program sought to introduce graduate students to basic principles in a new field called geophysical fluid dynamics.
While much has changed in the field since then, the program still follows the highly interactive format put in place by members of the original steering committee: Edward E. Spiegel of Columbia University; Louis Howard of Florida State University; Melvin Stern of Florida State University; Henry Stommel of MIT; and Joseph Keller of Stanford University, in addition to Veronis and Malkus.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) honored the original steering committee members for "founding, running, and continued participation in the GFD program for 50 years." Over the years, more than 450 student fellows and over 1000 visitors and have participated in the program.
The Excellence in Geophysical Education Award is given annually to acknowledge outstanding educators who have made a long lasting, positive impact on geophysical education. Veronis, still an active participant in the GFD program, accepted the award on May 29 at the AGU Meeting of the Americas 2008 Joint Assembly in Fort Lauderdale.
"I believe that I can speak for the others as well when I say that it isn't our arrival at this half-century point that I find so satisfying about the GFD program," said Veronis. "It's what each of us has experienced every summer."
Every summer, the fellowship begins with two weeks of principal lectures focused on the program's theme; this year's theme is Perspectives and Challenges in GFD. Past themes have included Tides, Dynamics of the Outer Planets, and the General Circulation of the Atmosphere. Graduate student fellows – usually eight to ten each year – are expected to prepare a summary of those principal lectures, then design and complete an individual research project under the supervision of the staff. At the end of August, students must present a lecture on the results of their individual research.
"The aim of the program is to induce fellows to learn by doing research rather than by taking courses," Veronis said. "That transition is the most difficult one for graduate students to make."
To help in that transition, staff work closely with the fellows cooperating on research efforts; they also break down the student-teacher barrier by playing softball together in WHOI's summer softball league, Veronis said.
Housed in the small, quaint Walsh Cottage on the Woods Hole village campus, even the setting promotes intimacy between students and scientists. Following the highly interactive seminars the program is known for, students can often be found on the cottage's porch discussing research and working on formulas with senior-level scientists.
"The GFD program has maintained a persistent, positive example of dynamic education by example and apprenticeship throughout its entire lifetime," said Jack Whitehead, a scientist emeritus in the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography and long-time organizer of the GFD program. "I wish every student could have such an experience."
AGU is a worldwide scientific community that advances the understanding of Earth and space for the benefit of humanity. AGU conducts meetings and conferences, publishes journals, books and a weekly newspaper, and sponsors a variety of educational and public information programs.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent organization in Falmouth, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the oceans and their interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the ocean's role in the changing global environment.


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Riding the Electromagnetic Wave
by Laurie Peach Toupin
You're picking up your new puppy, Belle, and you can't wait to show your friends! So you take Belle's picture with your cell phone and send it out from the Humane Society. One friend picks up the picture on her computer at home. Another friend sees it on her laptop in McDonald's, where she's doing her homework as she waits for a ride. Both friends are waiting in your driveway, eager to see Belle, when you get home. How did this one picture travel so far so fast? It rode the electromagnetic waves!
Just Wavy
A cell phone is nothing more than a sophisticated two-way radio—a device that transmits, receives, and decodes electromagnetic waves.
Electromagnetic waves come from the same kind of electric force that flows through your wall plug, and from the same kind of magnetic force that keeps your younger brother's painting stuck to the refrigerator door. When electric and magnetic forces act together, they vibrate at right angles to each other and make electromagnetic radiation, or waves. The waves are shaped like sinusoidal curves, which resemble smooth, up-and-down hills. The distance between the tops or the bottoms of these hills is known as the wavelength. These electromagnetic waves move across space at a certain number of repetitions, or cycles, per second; this speed is known as their frequency. It is measured in hertz—named after Heinrich Hertz, the German scientist who first measured them. Frequency and wavelength are indirectly proportional: a wave with a high frequency has a short wavelength, and one with a low frequency has a long wavelength.
There are seven groups of electromagnetic frequencies, each moving through space at its own wavelength (all electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light). Radio, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X–ray, and gamma ray waves make up what is known as the electromagnetic spectrum.
A Simple Radio
To create a radio wave, an electric signal is fed to the antenna of a transmitter. The signal makes the electrons in the metal of the antenna change energy levels and emit an electromagnetic wave or a radio-frequency carrier wave. To send information, a modulator in the transmitter encodes the sound signal onto the carrier wave. (See below, "AM vs. FM.")
This encoded wave is broadcast from a radio tower, which transmits several carrier waves at once, each at a different frequency.
These frequencies give us our channels. A station at 99.5 FM, for example, is broadcasting at a frequency of 99.5 megahertz or 99,500,000 hertz.
A radio receiver—the radio in your bedroom—has an antenna that is tuned to capture your favorite station or frequency. When it picks up the radio waves, a demodulator separates or decodes the sound signal from the carrier wave. The sound signal is amplified and sent to a loudspeaker, where the sound is reproduced as your radio plays.
Analog vs. Digital
Your cell phone contains both a radio transmitter and a receiver.
The digital picture that you took of your new dog was sent as an electromagnetic wave that contains numerical information instead of sound. And instead of using radio towers, it was transmitted and received over a cellular network. (See "What's in a Name?" below) Because a cell phone's transmitter, embedded in the phone, is so much smaller than a radio tower, it can transmit maybe only 8 to 30 miles, as opposed to what can be done by a tall radio tower, which can transmit for a hundred miles or more. This creates a need for many cellular base towers, which contain a large antenna and radio equipment. These base towers "hand off" your call to one another, relaying the clarity of your message from your phone to whomever you are calling.
But before the picture could be sent, it had to be converted to a digital signal, meaning that the picture became a numerical formula—a series of 0s and 1s.
Radios and the very first cell phones carried only analog signals—a continuous flowing wave. Unfortunately, analog signals cannot carry huge amounts of information quickly. So engineers developed a way to convert data—voice, pictures, movies—into bits, or a series of binary digits (0s or 1s) that a computer recognizes. By combining these bits in various ways, a computer or cell phone reads the information and converts it back into a format that we can understand.
Sending the Picture
After your cell phone changes the picture to a set of numbers, it sends this information, along with the e-mail or instant messaging address of your friends, across the cell phone frequency to a cell base tower.
At the tower, the radio wave is converted to another kind of signal, such as optical or electrical, and sent to the head office of the cell phone company. The receiving system at the company sees the e-mail address and sends it out to your friend's Internet provider.
On the Receiving End
The Internet provider doesn't know where your friends are, so the picture of Belle waits for them. When the friend at home checks her e-mail, she is using a wired connection to the Internet. Two of the most popular kinds of Internet connections are telephone lines or cable TV lines. In this case, your friend is using a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). DSL is a high-speed connection that uses the same wires as the telephone. Voice travels through the copper wires on frequencies of up to 3,400 hertz. But the wires have the potential to handle frequencies of up to several million hertz. DSL takes advantage of this extra frequency space. By transmitting digital data signals at higher frequencies, the voice and data transmissions can travel along the same line simultaneously without interfering with one another. Filters are placed along the wire to direct the signal to the phone, the fax, or the computer.
The friend at McDonald's isn't connected directly to the Internet via a wire. Instead, she is using Wi-Fi—short for Wireless Fidelity. Wi-Fi may be used over a Wireless Local Area Network, or WLAN, which is used to network computers together or to the Internet, within a small area, without a physical connection. To do this, the McDonald's friend has a special Wi-Fi modem in her laptop that acts as another kind of radio transmitter and receiver. The modem sends and receives electromagnetic signals back and forth to a computer network station commonly called a Wi-Fi hot spot. The computer station serves the same function as the cell phone towers. It decodes radio signals and sends the information back and forth. The radio in the laptop has an even smaller range than the one in the cell phone. It is only good for 100 feet, and sometimes less. But it can send 100 times more information back and forth, making it fast enough to check e-mail and play computer games. When your friends have received the message with Belle's picture, it's up to them to figure out how to get a ride to your house to meet her. But it was the electromagnetic wave that got your message to them!
- modem:
- The name is short for modulator and demodulator, a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data. Because computer information is stored digitally, and information transmitted over telephone lines, for example, is typically analog, a modem changes—or modulates—between the two forms.
- What would happen if a cell phone company had only one frequency for callers to use?
[anno: If a cell phone company had only one frequency for callers to use, calls would probably overlap, and a person would probably hear other calls while on the cell phone.]
- What limits the range of a cell phone?
[anno: The strength of the transmitter inside a cell phone limits the range of the cell phone, from about 8 to 30 miles. Students may also answer that the range of a cell phone is limited by available cell phone towers.]
- How is a cell phone different from a phone that you might find in a home, such as one that is plugged into a phone jack?
[anno: A cell phone uses radio waves to transmit information to a tower. A phone that is plugged into a phone jack uses a physical wire to transmit information.]
- What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using a cell phone versus using a phone that is plugged into a phone jack?
[anno: Answers will vary. Students may state that an advantage to a cell phone is that it is portable. A disadvantage of a cell phone is that it can frequently be out of range or in an area where there is only a weak signal back to a cell phone tower. Cell phone batteries also need to be charged regularly. An advantage to a phone that is plugged into a phone jack is that it is always in range. If there is a bad storm, though, phone lines can be knocked down.]
- In what way might a phone that is plugged into a wall also use radio waves?
[anno: A cordless phone might also use radio waves to transmit from the handheld phone to the cordless receiver, which is plugged into the wall.]


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Touch controls floated by Infragistics for Microsoft's Surface
Computational fiddling
A trial set of controls to build touch-based applications with input from different users on Microsoft's Surface have been released by interface specialist Infragistics.
The company is expected to today announce three types of controls have been customized for Surface and are available under a Community Technology Preview (CTP) for developers to build maps, displays and graphics for Microsof'ts table-based computer.
The controls cover 2D and 3D charts, there are three carousel controls for building things such as iTunes-like cover flow and scrolling, and there's a map control to work with different types of maps. The CTP will be unveiled at Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference (PDC), in Loa Angeles, California.
Infragistics made its name during the last 10-years building components for the web and PC, and said it had re-engineered these five particular components during a two-month period to work with Surface.
The components had to be re-worked mathematically and computationally to not just recognize input from different people simultaneously, rather than one using a mouse, but also to recognize different types of touch and gestures to understand what the user was doing.
Charts, scrolling and maps re-worked for fingers on Microsoft's Surface
Andrew Flick, Infragistics' product manager of rich clients, told The Reg: "We had to do a lot of physics processing and to understand the differences between touch and multi touch... we had to make them contact sensitive - making sure they understand the contact and where you want to do gestures like flicking."
Flick said Infragistcs accessed research from Microsoft's Surface team to understand different use cases for applications and Surface.
"There's a lot of math behind it," Flick said of the re-engineering work. "First: understanding there was a finger push down on the control, second: take a reading of what the reader was doing with the control. After that, there's processing behind that: if you are on a chart control and doing rotation and dragging finger - do you compute that?"
Unveiled in may 2007, and running on Windows Vista with a 30-inch display, Surface has turned into a minor hit among geeks and those in certain vertical sectors, notably retail and travel. One reason Surface remains niche is its price: between $12,000 and $15,000 per unit.
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts in 2008 said it was rolling out Surfaces at lobbies of its hotels in five US big cities, to provide guests with maps and photos. InterContinental Hotels and Resorts announced its first rollout this year with maps and check in. IHG, which piloted Surface, plans to rollout the table to 158 hotels.
Infragistcs will decide whether it re-engineers more components for Surface pending feedback from the CTP. Flick, though, called the exercise valuable research that wouldn't go to waste if they didn't.
He said the CTP is valuable not just in terms of support for Surface but also in how Infragistics looks at other devices, such as Windows 7 which has touch APIs, and mobile.
"It's our first foray into the multi touch world, " Flick said. "If it turns out we have a huge developer market of Surface developers that's something we may cater to, but no effort is wasted. I feel strongly about touch and multi touch. Anything we do here long term makes sense." ®


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Lee Smith and Eden Prairie hopes to get its playoff consistency rolling in a big showdown with Section 6AA opponent Benilde-St. Margaret's. Photo by Loren Nelson.
1. Benilde-St. Margaret's at Eden Prairie
Hockey Hub Spotlight Game
Repeating isn't easy.
When a big-school program wins a Minnesota state high school hockey championship, plenty of disparate pieces have to be in the right places – and come together like a well-stitched quilt or a tight-fitting puzzle. It's not easy to do and it takes more than a bit of serendipity, even for programs with the best talent.
Doing it two years in a row has proven to be even more difficult.
Since Bloomington Jefferson won three straight titles from 1992-94 (the first two in the old Tier I system), no big-school program has repeated as champions.
There have been a few close calls – Duluth East's defending champions falling in five overtimes to eventual champion Apple Valley in the 1996 semifinals, Moorhead falling in the title game in both 1994 and 1995 and again in 2004 and 2005, Grand Rapids doing the same in 2006 and 2007 – but no one has followed up a state title with so much as another championship game appearance, let alone victory.
Call it the "target-on-our-backs" syndrome. Everybody gets up to the play the champion. Everyone wants to be the one to knock them from their perch. And for the last 20 years, everyone has.
This year it's Benilde-St. Margaret's turn to wear the target. In the Hub's Game of the Week, the Red Knights face another team familiar with championship aspirations in No. 13 Eden Prairie (10-10-1) in a matchup of the last two Class 2A state champions.
Grant Besse has racked up 151 goals in his varsity career...and counting. Photo by Katherine Matthews.
The second-ranked Red Knights (15-5-0) have as strong a team as any to return following a title and just could be the one to break the streak.
That's not to say there haven't been hiccups for coach Ken Pauly's club. Benilde-St. Margaret's was knocked from the top spot in the rankings early in December with losses to Hill-Murray and Blaine. Section 6AA rival Wayzata shocked the Red Knights with a running-time victory in the Sports Authority Holiday Classic championship game in late December. Grand Rapids ground out an overtime victory in a blustery and miserable Hockey Day Minnesota encounter.
But the Red Knights keep rallying.
Fortune smiled on Pauly and the Red Knights in the offseason when Mr. Hockey favorite Grant Besse (36-19-55) chose to return for his senior season. Besse, of course, was celebrated last winter when he scored five goals in the state championship game victory over Hill-Murray – cementing his legend forever.
Besse has continued to power Benilde-St. Margaret's, not only playing forward on the most prolific line in the state with Dan Labosky (9-42-51) and T.J. Moore (14-20-34) but also taking a turn at defense from time to time. His goal total leads all of Class 2A and in a four-year varsity career already has 151 goals and 100 assists for 251 points, 12th on the all-time career list in state history. At his pace, he'll surpass the legendary John Mayasich for sixth by season's end.
That top line of Besse, Labosky and Moore is enough to carry most teams. Besse has the best hands in the state, Labosky is a speedy and agitating playmaker and Moore plays a solid all-around game. But Benilde-St. Margaret's also has good scoring depth, led by junior Spencer Naas (25-20-45).
Defensively, the Red Knights have been paced by sophomore Ben Newhouse (1-15-16), junior Johnny Austin (2-16-18) and senior Patrick Graham (1-9-10). Early departures did cause a shakeup on the blue line with two expected regulars leaving for the USNTDP, while the goaltending duties were taken over by Shattuck-St. Mary's transfer Andrew Sprang (13-5-0, 2.60, .896).
Last year, Benilde-St. Margaret's had struggles in its back end during the year, but figured out its own defensive zone at the right time. Don't be surprised to see Pauly do the same with this year's team.
Steven Spinner leads Eden Prairie in scoring this winter with 36 points. Photo by Loren Nelson.
Speaking of ups and downs, Eden Prairie has certainly had more than its share this winter. A preseason top-five team, the Eagles have struggled mightily to gain consistency. Through 21 games, they've had nothing longer than a two-game winning streak and haven't had a streak of any kind since the new year. In the last nine games, it' been win one, lose one for coach Lee Smith's team.
The final four games of the regular season will be a good test, as the Eagles face Wayzata, Benilde-St. Margaret's, Minnetonka and Edina – all ranked in the top seven in Class 2A.
There is plenty of talent on Eden Prairie's roster. The Eagles have three Division I recruits – junior forward Steven Spinner (15-21-36) and junior defensemen Luc Snuggerud (4-29-33) and Hunter Warner (3-4-7). Spinner and Snuggerud are headed for Nebraska-Omaha while Warner committed to Minnesota State-Mankato.
Spinner has paced the Eagles in scoring much of the year, including a five-point night (three goals, two assists) in the most recent 10-0 victory over Hopkins, while Mason Bergh (17-15-32) has also had a big year and leads the team in goals. But they're the only two Eagles with more than seven goals as Eden Prairie is averaging just 3.57 goals per game and hitting at just 16.2 percent on the power play.
Defensively, Eden Prairie is allowing 2.90 goals per game. Smith has rotated goaltenders Jake Gerdes (4-2-1, 2.48, .902) and Jake Kielly (6-8-0, 2.97, .891) this season. Kielly has started the last two games – a 5-4 loss to Edina and the 10-0 victory over Hopkins.
Smith certainly knows the difficulty of repeating as state champion. With Mr. Hockey Nick Leddy and a precocious group of sophomores led by Kyle Rau, the Eagles surprised everyone with their first state title in 2009. A year later and more experienced (but missing Leddy), the Eagles didn't get out of the section tournament unscathed. Then in 2011, Rau capped his Mr. Hockey campaign with a diving, three-overtime tally that gave Eden Prairie its second title in three years over Duluth East.
2. Wayzata at Minnetonka
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Lake Conference play continues its second round this week with another handful of superb games, none better than this tilt between No. 6 Wayzata (17-4-0) and No. 5 Minnetonka (15-5-1). The Skippers have really cranked it up once conference play started and are a perfect 5-0-0, including two victories over Edina. Minnetonka also beat Wayzata 3-1 on the Trojans' home rink back on Jan. 24 behind goals from leading scorer Max Coatta, Austin Burt and Jack Ramsey. Key to the Skippers' surge has been getting scoring from outside the top line, although only Coatta (20 goals) has more than eight markers on the season. Wayzata has two players over that threshold, sophomore Matthew Freytag (18-11-23) and freshman Max Zimmer (14-9-23) and is even stingier defensively with Aaron Dingmann (13-3-0, 1.70, .928) posting a dominating senior season in goal.
3. Duluth East at Cloquet/Esko/Carlton
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There are some terrific rivalry games around the state. With apologies to the folks up in the northwest (Roseau vs. Warroad) and the east metro (Hill-Murray vs. White Bear Lake), this one could just be among the best of them all. No. 3 Duluth East (17-4-0) and No. 16 Cloquet/Esko/Carlton (12-6-2) distinctly don't like each other -- and it shows on the ice with games that are rugged, testy and usually close, no matter the season each team is having. Both teams are enjoying strong seasons, with the 'Hounds winning nine straight and allowing just 1.86 goals per game. Defense is East's forte, with a strong corps led by Meirs Moore (13-15-28), Phil Beaulieu (6-6-22), Alex Trapp and the ornery Andrew Kerr. On the other bench, the 'Jacks can really light up the scoreboard from the line of Beau and Westin Michaud and Karson Kuhlman. The trio has combined for 67 goals and 140 points.
4. Princeton at St. Cloud Cathedral
The race for the Section 5A title is on and there are a few traditional contenders -- and one surprise. Is No. 12 Princeton (16-4-1) for real? Can the Tigers challenge annual powers Hermantown and No. 6 St. Cloud Cathedral (15-6-0)? Regular season results look good, as the Tigers defeated Cathedral 4-3 on Dec. 11 and are among the highest-scoring teams in the state (6.19 goals per game). Seven players have double-digit goals, led by Dan Muench (22-18-40), Daniel Voce (19-26-45) and Jake Green (19-20-39), so it isn't a one-line show. With Max Mattson (14-4-1, 2.43, .902) in goal, the Tigers are allowing 2.19 goals per game. Princeton isn't playing the same Cathedral team from mid-December, though. The Crusaders have clamped down defensively in winning seven straight games, allowing just 10 goals. In that same span, leading scorer Austin Poganski (20-18-38) has seven goals and Tommy Hall (17-17-34) has eight.
5. Prior Lake at Burnsville
As a rising program, No. 12 Prior Lake (13-7-0) has continued to show improvement under coach Joe Pankratz. The former Bloomington Jefferson star has the Lakers winning with a defense-first style that should result in a low-scoring game against No. 11 Burnsville (12-8-1). In their first meeting on Jan. 5, the Lakers ground out a 2-0 victory behind 30 saves from Jordan Moran (12-6-0, 1.81, .933). That's not a surprising result, as Prior Lake has allowed just 1.90 goals per game -- and scored 3.40 goals per game. No Lakers player has double-digit goals (Blake Busch and Jack Murphy each lead the team with nine). Other than in two losses to Eagan, only one other team has scored more than four goals against Prior Lake. Burnsville has won five of six and comes in looking to take hold of the No. 2 seeding spot in Section 2A behind Edina. Leading scorer Tyler Sheehy (13-23-36) just committed to Ohio State.
6. Duluth Denfeld at Hermantown
Another terrific battle up in the northeastern corner of the state between No. 9 Duluth Denfeld (15-6-0) and No. 5 Hermantown (16-4-1). The Hunters won the first meeting in a 5-4 upset back on Dec. 20, but they won't sneak up on anyone, certinaly not in the Duluth area, anymore. Not after sweeping the first round of games against local rivals Duluth East, Hermantown and Duluth Marshall (an 8-3 thumping last Thursday). Leading scorer Levi Talarico (27-28-55) and the Thompson brothers -- senior foward Alex (19-20-39), sophomore defenseman Nick (5-25-30) and senior goaltender Zach (12-6-0, 2.92, .906) have played huge roles. They'll be tested by the Hawks, who continue to have one of the best power plays in the state (39.7 percent) with the line of Travis Koepke (23-32-55), Bo Gronseth (18-29-47) and Chris Benson (22-25-47) along with crafty defensemen Jake Zeleznikar (8-23-31) and Neal Pionk (8-10-18).
7. Eden Prairie at Wayzata
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Speaking of big games, both Lake Conference positioning and Section 6AA seeding are at stake when No. 13 Eden Prairie (10-10-1) visits the Plymouth Ice Center and No. 6 Wayzata (17-4-0). The Trojans already claimed the first meeting 4-2 on Jan. 19 when Chase Haller tallied two goals, Jack Sorensen added three assists and Aaron Dingmann made 22 saves. Wayzata has been a surprise team this year, even holding the No. 1 ranking in the state for a time after the holidays. Young scorers have stepped up to join a tough defensive team under coach Pat O'Leary. Eden Prairie was expected to be near the top of the charts but has struggled to gain consistency. The Eagles have only had two modest two-game winning streaks all season, although they are coming off a 10-0 whitewashing of a good Hopkins team in which Steven Spinner (15-21-36) had a hat trick and Mason Bergh (17-15-32) and Michael Graham (6-7-13) each scored twice.
8. Mankato West at Rochester Mayo
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In the Big 9 Conference, the race comes down to high-flying No. 14 Mankato West (17-4-0) and solid Rochester Mayo (17-3-1), led by legendary coach Lorne Grosso. West has been scoring goals at a massive clip, particularly the duo of Derek Frentz (31-26-57) and Galt Goettl (20-26-46). Frentz has scored in 17 of 20 games this winter and has four hat tricks. But the Scarlets were shut down in the first meeting way back on Dec. 6, a 2-1 Mayo victory in which Case Hansen (17-4-0, 1.88, .915) made 36 saves for the Spartans. Grosso's big season at Mayo has allowed him to surpass longtime friend Roy Nystrom of Albert Lea for the most career coaching victories in state history. The Spartans are unbeaten in Big 9 play and have won eight straight games by a combined 47-11 score.
9. Burnsville at Bloomington Jefferson
These two traditional hockey powers are in chase mode this year, as both are trying to run down Eagan in the South Suburban Conference race and Edina in the Section 2AA seeding race. No. 11 Burnsville (12-8-1) has the upper hand based on a 4-1 victory over No. 15 Bloomington Jefferson (13-8-0) back on Jan. 8. In that game, Ohio State recruit Tyler Sheehy (13-23-36) had a pair of goals and goaltender Chris Mallon (6-5-1, 2.78, .909) made 33 saves as the Blaze were actually outshot, 34-26. Jefferson has won three straight games -- allowing only one goal in each -- with Grant Martens (13-8-0, 2.67, .910) continuing his solid play in goal. Colin Hernon (19-11-30) leads the Jaguars in scoring, while Jono Lindquist (13-16-29) is hot on his heels.
10. White Bear Lake at Cretin-Derham Hall
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The Suburban East Conference race is taking shape -- and might very well be decided after this game between Cretin-Derham Hall (14-6-1) and White Bear Lake (12-8-1). The Raiders seem to be in control after winning nine of their last 10 games, but did lose to the Bears 5-4 back on Dec. 15. In that game, Max Green (4-4-0, 3.47, .874) made 32 saves in goal for White Bear Lake, which was outshot 36-26 but earned the win when Sam Anderson (4-1-5) scored 5:20 into overtime. Since the holidays, though, Chase Gorman (7-2-0, 1.44, .931) has seen the majority of time in goal. Cretin-Derham Hall has also been getting strong goaltending from Trent Jancze (11-1-0, 1.60, .940), who has also taken over full time duties since the holidays. Keep an eye on White Bear Lake's Jake Wahlin (24-23-47). There may be no better sophomore in the state.


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When looking at the concept of FAIR USE one of the questions we need to answer is how much of a copyrighted work can we use without violating that copyright.
Like everything the answer is never simple. Tom Jones, CG in his lecture "Honesty, Courtesy, and Confidentiality: Ethics for Family Historians." (available on CD from JAMB Productions) suggests using the "Rule of Three." If you use more that three words, put it in quotes. If you use more than three paragraphs you need permission. This works well for books and many scholarly articles.
What happens, however, if you are talking about a BLOG? You might have only three paragraphs, putting them in quotes and reusing them is not justified under the fair use concept.
Universities generally suggest a 10% rule. If you use more than 10% you should have permission. This means 10% of each of the parts of a whole, so using more than 10% of the whole, of a part, of a section, of a chapter, of an article, etc. would violate the concept.
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So, to keep things easy, I suggest you use a combination the rule of 3 and the 10% rule. If you use more than 3 words put it in quotes, if you use more than the lesser of 3 paragraphs or 10% seek permission.
There are other factors involved in deciding whether a use of copyrighted material is fair, this at least is measurable. Set a standard for yourself and stick with it.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Seeded Whole Wheat Bread
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I have a cautionary tale to share with you tonight. That it is being told at all is a measure of my trust in you, and I'm secure in the knowledge that what follows is, and shall remain, our little secret. Now, I know the bread in tonight's photo doesn't look too terrible, but, truth be told, it is inedible. I've made this bread, which is a family favorite, for decades now and never had a problem with it, so, I have to conclude that the problem lies with me rather than with the stellar, if old fashioned, recipe that I use to make it. Now, I should have known there was a problem when the dough failed to reach the very pregnant height I like my loaves to have. Ever the optimist, I brushed my concern aside and concluded that the kitchen must be cooler than usual and proceeded to bake off the loaves as I usually do. While I hate to wait for bread to cool, I practiced restraint and didn't touch the loaves until they were at room temperature. I had soft Irish butter waiting to slather on the crusty first slice which traditionally belongs to me. I finally took a bite, but it did not remain in my mouth for any length of time. The flour I used to make the bread was rancid. Last weekend, I grabbed 5 pounds of flour from a store shelf, but did not check the sell-by date. As it turned out, it was better than a year past its prime and I did not catch the rancid odor, because the infection I've been fighting has temporarily knocked out my sense of smell. Backtracking through the bread's assembly, I picked up on some other problems as well. I realized that I'd measured the yeast in teaspoons rather than tablespoons, and had completely forgotten to add much needed salt to the bread dough. I hope its true that bad luck comes in threes. Anything that could go wrong with this lovely bread did and by my count there were three problems. That means I home free, for a while at least. I suspect I'll be checking sell-by dates from this point forward and I think I'll be a bit more thorough with my mise en place. This really is a lovely bread and I hope you'll give this recipe a try. Here is how the bread is made.
Seeded Whole Wheat Bread...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite inspired by Yvonne Tarr Young
2-1/2 tablespoons active dry yeast
3/4 cup honey
3 cups warm water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon salt
6 to 7-1/2 cups whole wheat flour + flour for kneading
1/3 cup sunflower seed kernels
1/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
1) Combine yeast, sugar and water in a very large bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes. Add oil, salt, 1/2 the flour, sunflower seeds and coconut flakes; beat with a wooden spoon for 100 strokes. Add remaining flour, and, working with hands, mix to form a very stiff dough. Turn onto a floured surface and knead for 10 minutes, using more flour as necessary to keep dough from sticking to work surface. Place dough, smooth-side down in a large bowl that has been coated with oil. Cover, place in a warm place and let rise for 1 hour, or until doubled. Punch down to original size and let rise again until double in bulk. Turn onto work surface and punch down. Divide dough into three equal pieces. Form into loaves and place in generously oiled bread pans. Cover, and let rise again until dough reaches top of pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. during final rise.
2) Bake in the center of oven for 50 to 60 minutes, rotating loaves from front to back at the half-hour mark. Brush tops lightly with butter; remove from pans and cool on wire racks. Yield: 3 loaves.
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16 comments :
- Jeannie Tay said...
What a pity it's inedible, looks very tempting from the photo...am sure you will have better bakes from now on:D
- February 7, 2013 at 12:34 AM
- Ginny said...
The first bread I ever learned to make was Braue's Whole Wheat rolls. I want to hear more about the Irish butter!!
- February 7, 2013 at 12:55 AM
- Foodycat said...
Oh no! I can't believe the store was selling flour so old! I hope you made a serious complaint.
- February 7, 2013 at 7:06 AM
- Jenn said...
Oh Mary, I'm sorry to hear it had so many problems with the bread. And rancid flour..?? who would have thought it would be a year past it's prime!! YIKES!
And I'm with Ginny... Irish butter?? Tell me more!!
- February 7, 2013 at 7:35 AM
- Susan said...
Mary, tough day! I understand. I also am glad you mentioned the dating on products. I, too, have found that grocers no longer check and toss past due dates. I have been bringing home products that also need to be tossed because of they are too old. Just one more job to slow down shopping. Easy to check milk, dairy products, but flour...who would have thought it would be that old. Hang on.
- February 7, 2013 at 7:40 AM
- Top Cuisine avec Lavi said...
This bread looks delicious! Great recipe!
- February 7, 2013 at 8:33 AM
- Lois said...
I've been baking for decades and didn't know flour could go rancid!! I keep mine in the freezer, even my white flour, ever since I had weevels once. All the grains are in the freezer now. I have so little luck with baking bread, because I am terrible at kneading for longer than 3 minutes! I do a good pizza dough, though. Is it white flour too that can go rancid, or only 'whole' flours? I mostly bake with unbleached white & spelt...
- February 7, 2013 at 9:03 AM
- Kim G. said...
It happens to anyone... I too happen to failed with recipes that I can, usually, rely on... This looks like a great whole weat bread recipe:)
- February 7, 2013 at 9:08 AM
- Tanna at The Brick Street Bungalow said...
Oh, Mary, while I am so sorry for that bad bite, I am relieved to hear that my most admired kitchen leader has moments like the rest of us. ;)
The recipe sounds so hearty and soul-filling! blessings ~ tanna
ps I may need to do a scan of dates myself. ;)
- February 7, 2013 at 9:56 AM
- Subhie Arun said...
wow ..that was v inviting n super tempting click!!...frst time here ..hapi to follow u.
- February 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM
- Joanne said...
What a comedy of errors! But the loaf still looks so beautiful!
- February 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM
- From the Kitchen said...
I am a date checker! I've never checked the date of flour. I just assume that it jumps off the grocer's shelf in good time. Now I will start checking. Oh what a waste of a lovely Irish butter!!
Do hope you are well on the road to "sniffing" recovery.
- February 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM
- Melynda and Terry, we are the Browns! said...
Yikes! Sorry for your troubles, but I can't wait to make this one. We now grind our own spelt berries into wonderful whole wheat flour. A new kitchen toy getting use regularily!
- February 7, 2013 at 2:55 PM
- teresa said...
oh no! you'd never know it to look at the picture. it sure looks delicious, and the recipe looks great!
- February 7, 2013 at 3:40 PM
- Joy Bee said...
That is horrible, I've never come across rancid flour before. I have made a few loves where I forget the salt though, it is always a disappointment. Better luck next time, the recipe sounds great.
- February 7, 2013 at 9:45 PM
- France@beyondthepeel said...
I love that there's coconut in this bread. That was such a delightful surprise. I look forward to trying it out.
- February 8, 2013 at 1:19 PM


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