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Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid has focused on how the war in Iraq and its bitter aftermath have affected the lives of the people who live there. His vivid reporting under dangerous conditions won him a Pulitzer. But his approach is not without critics.
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The rising star on the Washington Post's foreign staff had a final duty to perform before heading back to one of the most dangerous spots on Earth.
On a balmy March morning, Anthony Shadid bundled his 2-year-old daughter, Laila, into the car and drove her to the babysitter's, a normal routine for parents in his Silver Spring, Maryland, neighborhood in the Washington suburbs.
When the toddler returned home, the suitcase in the foyer would be gone and so would her father, a soft-spoken, bearded reporter assigned to Iraq, which he describes as "the most important foreign story in the world right now."
Shadid already knew he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, but as the minutes slipped away for a 2 p.m. departure to Dulles International Airport, it was Laila who was uppermost in his mind. He'd missed half his daughter's life during his yearlong tour in Iraq.
"The worst part of this job is what you put other people through," said Shadid as he sipped a cup of black coffee and fielded last-minute telephone calls. Two years earlier, when he'd been shot by a sniper in the West Bank while on assignment for the Boston Globe (see "Bullying the Press," May 2002), his wife flew to the Middle East to be with him. Now, they are separated. "The travel and distance has taken its toll," the reporter says.
Shadid once again was making the shift from the cozy two-story house, tucked away at the end of a cul-de-sac, to a place where insurgents kidnap foreigners and dismember the bodies of their enemies. Despite the sacrifices, Iraq was exactly where the Arabic-speaking journalist wanted to be. "For now, it seems like the right thing to be doing," he said before he departed that afternoon.
On April 5, around 11 p.m. Iraq time, Shadid had just filed a story on the Shiite uprising and was on the phone to the newsroom nervously waiting as the Pulitzer winners came over the Associated Press wire. Suddenly, he was switched to a speakerphone as Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. was making the announcement to a room full of cheering colleagues. The grandson of Lebanese immigrants had won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Iraq war and its tumultuous aftermath.
Post correspondent Karl Vick managed to find a couple of bottles of champagne in a nearby marketplace that night. They shared a box of Wheatables and listened to a "Tribute to Merle Haggard" CD. "That was about as raucous at it got," Shadid, 35, said of the muted celebration at the heavily fortified Sheraton Hotel in downtown Baghdad.
The Pulitzer Board cited Shadid's "extraordinary ability to capture, at personal peril, the voices and emotions of Iraqis as their country was invaded, their leader toppled and their way of life upended." Earlier, when he'd won the American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for deadline news reporting by an individual, judges lauded his "enormous descriptive range and great lyrical power. He did it all from the base of great reporting strength," they said of his work.
In late April, Shadid won the first Michael Kelly Award, a $25,000 prize in memory of the former Atlantic Monthly editor who was killed in Iraq last year.
Shadid's "voice of the people" trademark resonates with supporters. They view his interviews with Iraqis in remote villages, marketplaces and Baghdad slums as filling a gap in American
coverage. For a two-part series that ran in mid-March, Shadid probed the psyche of a former Sunni diplomat and delved into the world of a mother of eight who sent a beloved son off to fight a superpower. It is through their eyes that readers see how U.S. policies are playing out.
Boston Globe Editor Martin Baron, who bemoans losing Shadid to the Post late in 2002, attributes the reporter's "extraordinary ability" to connect to people on the street to his knowledge of the Arabic language and culture.
"He has as well-developed and sophisticated understanding of the Arab world as any reporter I know," says Baron, who, two years ago, flew to Israel to be with Shadid when he was wounded in the West Bank.
Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, feels Shadid's reporting adds an important dimension to America's understanding of the situation in Iraq.
Most journalists, says Rose, can cover a briefing by Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III or other coalition officials, but very few can tap into the hearts and minds of Iraqi villagers after their homes have been searched by American soldiers or after they have participated in a protest. "Shadid is one of the few," Rose says. "I think he's doing wonderful reporting."
For many Post readers, Shadid's stories have become the definitive voice of Iraqis during the war and the ensuing occupation. Yet not everyone finds the correspondent's highly humanized reporting style praiseworthy. Opinions on the quality and impact of Shadid's work are polarized.
Detractors point to what they consider an overly pessimistic portrayal of events, especially in regard to democracy-building efforts and progress of the CPA--Coalition Provisional Authority--charged with reconstruction.
John Leo, of U.S. News & World Report, has been one of the harshest critics. "I have a bone to pick with Shadid," he wrote in a column for Universal Press Syndicate in April 2003. Leo accused the correspondent of being "woefully addicted" to emotionally loaded "They've killed my baby!" journalism. A year later, his views haven't changed.
Highly evocative reporting, says Leo, "can pull the heartstrings, but I don't want my heartstrings pulled. I want to know how the war is being conducted. Was the military heedless on safety precautions? Were they heaving these gigantic bombs at random in [Baghdad] residential areas, or was it one bomb going astray?"
He points to a March 31 front-page story by Shadid headlined "A Boy Who Was 'Like a Flower,' " describing in detail the killing of a Baghdad teen hit by shrapnel in his neighborhood. Leo cites the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent John F. Burns as an exemplar of more thorough and dispassionate reporting.
Middle East expert Jonathan Schanzer also does not share the upbeat appraisal of Shadid's work. Instead, he likens his reporting to "NPR fluff pieces," tearjerkers that provide a slice of life but little real context or understanding of the conflict.
"Just having one quote after another, which some of [Shadid's] pieces really are, adds to the picture, but you're not reporting anything groundbreaking," said Schanzer, who studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Two years ago, Schanzer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wrote a scathing review of Shadid's book, "Legacy of the Prophet," based on the correspondent's Middle East experience while covering the region for the Associated Press.
Schanzer lumped Shadid with "a new generation of apologists" for militant Islam and suggested that he had a personal agenda. "Shadid's book often toes the party line of autocratic Middle East regimes," he wrote.
Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, founded in 1990 to promote American interests in the region, took criticism of the book even further. Shadid, he wrote in a review, "has not a clue about Islam." To Pipes, Islamism is "a utopian ideology that seeks to use governments and other institutions to establish a totalitarian domination over the lives of individuals." He concludes that "Shadid and his fellow 'of the prophet' journalists do a grave disservice in closing their eyes to these plain facts."
Pipes has a different view of Shadid's front-line reporting in Iraq: "I find his daily coverage to be much better than his book. He is a good writer and observer; he just doesn't know the subject of Islam."
In one passage of his book, Shadid acknowledged that despite his Arab roots and ability to speak Arabic, "Islam has nevertheless remained sometimes foreign and all too often confusing and troubling--the attacks of Sept. 11 being just one example."
He shrugs off the notion that he is an apologist for Islam. "To be honest, I'm not even sure what the word means. I try to be as rigorous as possible in my reporting and in trying to understand and take in the diversity" in these complex regions, he says. He recalls reading the remarks about him in Leo's column. But, he says, "I hate to even address what he says. Everybody has an opinion."
Washington Post editors were on a hunt for a journalist fluent in Arabic when Shadid caught their eye. "It was clear that this was one of the great gaps in American journalism--the ability to speak at an intimate level with and really communicate with Arabic-speaking people," says Philip Bennett, the Post's assistant managing editor for foreign news.
He says that during the first days of the bombing, Shadid was able to travel around Baghdad without attracting attention in a way other American journalists could not. "Anthony not only gave us Iraqi voices, he brought us inside people's lives with a degree of insight and patience and intelligence that was really remarkable from the first of those stories," the editor says.
Bennett mentions that Shadid's byline appeared on 24 front-page stories over a three-week period during the war. The pieces were on a broad array of subjects. "I don't think that anybody could successfully accuse Anthony of having an agenda," Bennett says.
Washington Post Ombudsman Michael Getler recalls receiving "a couple" of comments from readers who felt that Shadid's stories dwelled too much on the negative. "But more people wrote to praise and call attention in a positive way to his reporting than to complain about it not being fair," Getler says.
As bombs began laying waste to Saddam Hussein's strongholds, Shadid began exploring what was bringing Iraqi society together and what was tearing it apart during this time of crisis, and what political, religious and social forces were at work. His role in the Post's overall coverage plan was to help readers understand the war and its consequences through the eyes of ordinary people who were directly affected.
The assignment was perfectly suited to a
second-generation Arab American who knew he wanted to be a journalist and cover the Middle East by the time he was 17.
Shadid served as editor of his high school newspaper in his hometown of Oklahoma City. But his first brush with journalism at the University of Oklahoma during his freshman year was not too promising.
"I took a job at a radio station and had to get up at 4 a.m. to help rewrite the wires for a news bulletin. In the first week, I overslept three times and was basically fired," he says. He signed on at the campus newspaper the following week and had a "great time." The next year, he transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where he earned a degree in journalism and political science in 1990.
Fresh out of college, Shadid did a brief stint with the AP in Milwaukee. A year later, he accepted a fellowship to study Arabic at the American University in Cairo. "There wasn't a lot of decision-making," he says. "I knew where I wanted to be, and I knew language was critical to that."
By 1993, he was back with the AP in New York City. After two years, he was transferred to Cairo, where he covered assignments in a dozen Middle East countries. In 1997, Shadid won an Overseas Press Club citation for a series of articles that later became the core of his book.
Asked about his journalism heroes, Shadid answers in a heartbeat. He has been most inspired by Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish reporter who gained recognition in the '60s and '70s for his coverage of civil wars, revolutions and social conditions in the Third World. Kapuscinski also wrote a book, titled "Shah of Shahs," about the Iranian revolution.
Shadid pulled a weathered copy off a bookshelf and thumbed to his favorite passages. "It is remarkable, one of the classics," he says. "I have been inspired by him since college." A World Press Review article once referred to Kapuscinski as a "poet among journalists."
When the reporter moved to the Boston Globe in 2000, he began as a business writer in the Washington bureau, a total turnaround for him. Two years later, he headed to Israel. He won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting that year for a series on the Middle East.
Shadid's home is a tapestry of the Arab world. There are stunning hand-woven wall hangings from Iran and Afghanistan. The ornate couch was shipped from Cairo when the reporter returned from a tour with the AP. A mantel holds carved silver boxes decorated with camel bone from Yemen; there are oriental rugs and pillows decorated with mirrors. Two puppets from Jordan peek out from his daughter's toy box.
There's also a bit of Americana: a Green Bay Packers' cap sits on a shelf in his office. "I am crazy about them," Shadid says. A basketball hoop stands at the end of the driveway.
Before he returned to Iraq in March, Shadid delivered a speech, sponsored by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, on the formidable challenges foreign correspondents face and the growing danger in Iraq as insurgents draw fewer and fewer lines between the media and the military.
"A journalist is a foreigner, and a foreigner is a target. Those working with foreigners are targets. It is that simple," Shadid told the audience. Shadid described a press corps under siege, hiring armed bodyguards and providing weapons to drivers. Hotels where journalists work are behind two-story concrete barricades, their entrances manned by checkpoints with U.S. soldiers or security guards.
"The scenario in which we require the blessing of the dominant military, where we fortify ourselves against the country we're supposed to cover, where we travel in the same fashion as armed combatants--that could soon describe reporting in Iraq," Shadid said.
But despite the danger, he will not carry a weapon or travel with an armed driver. "For me, that is the red line," he says. "I feel very strongly about that. We already have lost so much of our image as noncombatants, and anything that further erodes that image is dangerous." (See Free Press, April/May.)
Since that interview, the ferocity of the fighting and attacks against foreigners have further eroded the media's mobility. "We're hesitating to leave Baghdad and thinking twice about going to some neighborhoods in the city," Shadid wrote in an e-mail. "There definitely is a bunker mentality right now, and I suspect it might grow even more acute."
When the war started, Shadid insisted to editors that he remain in Baghdad. "We have a responsibility to have as many eyes and ears on the ground--that we have not only embedded reporters, which I thought was great, but also the other end of it. It would be a real disservice if we didn't have both," says Shadid, who was one of the few American reporters to witness the bombing from the heart of the city.
Part of the challenge, the correspondent says, was to find the "human moment." He adds, "You can cover a story from above or from below. You can cover high politics or more of the street sentiment, which I find often is ignored. To me, that is very compelling and important, one of the most effective ways to tell this story."
In February, violence struck the Post's Baghdad team. The home of Nasir, an Iraqi who had worked as Shadid's assistant and become a dear friend, was bombed by unknown assailants. They left a message warning against cooperating with Americans. No one was injured, but the family went into hiding. That same day, Washington Post staffers spotted men in a car taking pictures of their residence in Baghdad. Fearing an attack, the bureau relocated to the more heavily fortified Sheraton Hotel.
As the violence escalated, Shadid knew that finding sources like Salem, a father who turned his AK-47 assault rifle on a son accused of being a U.S. informant, could only happen if he continued to venture onto the back roads and into the rural areas of Iraq. Of all the horrors he has witnessed, the one he recounted in a page-one story on August 1, 2003, disturbs him most deeply.
"I remember the one quote when the father said, 'Even the prophet Abraham did not have to kill his son.' When I was writing that down, my hand was shaking," recalls Shadid, who explained that, under tribal law, family members would have been executed if the father refused to take action. "I never expected to get to the father."
The key to obtaining such interviews is finding an entry point into a village and quickly building trust. Sometimes he goes to a barbershop, because barbers are likely to know everybody in the village. He might go to a mosque, a pharmacy or a market to begin establishing rapport.
In the village of Thuluya, where the shooting of the son had taken place, a pharmacist paved the way. "If it wasn't for him, there was no way we would have found the father," Shadid says.
During their time together that day, the pharmacist kept quoting the Koran and asking Shadid, raised a Christian, when he was going to convert. "That comes up all the time," Shadid says. Nevertheless, he says, "I have found Iraqis to be pretty respectful" about his faith. "A Lebanese Christian has a familiar ring to them. It's not as if I was a Christian from Texas."
Even before he won the Pulitzer, Shadid was much sought after as a guest on NPR, CNN, NBC and other major media outlets. He tends to offer a somber assessment of America's role in Iraq, describing the Iraqi people's frustration, ambivalence and fear.
On March 10, he told Terry Smith of PBS' "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" that "there isn't a lot of talk about politics, really, about the Governing Council, about elections. There is a lot of talk about electricity, though, about water."
During a speech in October 2003 at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Shadid called religion the most powerful and unpredictable issue in postwar Iraq. He warns the mainstream press may be missing the story of the rise of religious fundamentalism because it is taking place primarily in the rural regions, where reporters are afraid to go. "Young people are waking up, not for anything, just for God. They prefer martyrdom to marriage," he told an audience last fall.
He worries that democracy in Iraq might not develop the way U.S. government officials envision. "I don't think when people talk about democratic reform they are talking about empowering Islamic activists, but that is likely to happen," Shadid says. "There is a certain contradiction in the way America talks about reform and the way reform might actually play out."
He sees elections, tentatively planned for January 2005, as the major turning point, not the turnover of sovereignty scheduled for June 30. "The clergy are playing a huge role in Iraq right now, and we will see that more so in the elections next year," he says.
This summer, little Laila will have her father around to play with her in a backyard shrouded by towering trees. Shadid returned home on April 19 to begin a six-month leave of absence to write a book about Baghdad, a city he calls "the most resilient place I have ever been in my life."
"Baghdad defies logic to me," he says. "It was amazing during the war. At night, there was a ferocious amount of bombing. The next morning, there's traffic in the street and people are opening their little shops. I am fascinated with the city."
And after the book is finished? "My ambition eventually is to cover the broader region of the Middle East. That was what I was hired for originally," says Shadid, who has not wavered from goals he set as a teenager, writing for a school newspaper, back in Oklahoma City.


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Roasted Pine Nut Marzipan Tart
And now for something completely delicious: sweet, nutty marzipan made from pine nuts, sandwiched between two layers of tart dough. It makes for a lovely breakfast on a cold morning.
Reprinted with permission from The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook by Tom Douglas. Copyright © 2012. Published by HarperCollins Publishers. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:makes 1 9-inch tart
- Active time: 40 minutes
- Total time:3 hours, including baking/cooling
- Soft Tart Dough
- 1 2/3 cups (228 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1⁄2 cup plus 1 tablespoon (127 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup (59 grams) powdered sugar
- 1 large egg plus 1 large yolk, lightly beaten
- Pine Nut Marzipan
- 1 cup (4 ounces/113 grams) pine nuts, toasted
- 1⁄2 cup (35⁄8 ounces/104 grams) sugar
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 4 tablespoons (1⁄2 stick/2 ounces/ 57 grams) unsalted butter, softened
- To Finish The Tart
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon heavy cream
- About 2 teaspoons sugar as needed for sprinkling
To make the tart dough, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and set the dry ingredients aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer using the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together. Gradually beat in the eggs. It's okay if the mixture looks broken. Add the dry ingredients to the butter- egg mixture and mix just until the dough comes together. Scrape the dough out onto a work surface and divide into one- third and two- third portions, forming each portion into a flattened round. Wrap the rounds in plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour.
To make the pine nut marzipan, combine the pine nuts and sugar in the bowl of a food processor and pulse until finely ground. Add the egg and process until smooth. Gradually add the butter, a small bit at a time, pulsing until each bit of butter is completely incorporated. When all the butter is incorporated, scrape the marzipan into a bowl.
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Unwrap the larger round of dough and place it on a lightly floured work surface. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the dough out to an 11- or 12- inch round about 1 ⁄8 inch thick. Use flour as needed to roll the dough and lift the dough occasionally with a board scraper as you are working to check that it's not sticking. Transfer the dough to the tart pan. It's easiest to do this by folding the dough into quarters. Pick up the folded dough and place it in the pan, with the pointed tip of the dough in the center of the pan, then unfold gently.
Ease the dough gently into the pan, patting it up against the sides. Trim the overhanging dough to about 3 ⁄4 inch. The dough is a bit fragile. If it tears while you are lining the pan, use the dough trimmings to patch any holes. Using a rubber spatula or an offset icing spatula, spread the marzipan evenly over the bottom of the tart. Unwrap the smaller round of dough and roll it out to a 9- inch round. Transfer the round of dough to cover the marzipan. (Again, it's easiest to fold the dough into quarters to transfer it.) Use a small knife to trim the dough to fi t inside the top of the tart.
In a small bowl, beat the egg yolk lightly with the heavy cream. Brush the 1 ⁄2 inch of overhanging dough with some of the egg wash, then fold the overhang up over the top of the tart, pressing gently with the tines of a fork to seal. Brush the entire top of the tart lightly with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. Cut a few 1- inch slashes in the top of the tart for steam to escape. Place the tart pan on a baking sheet and bake until golden, about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow the tart to cool on a rack for 15 minutes before removing the rim of the pan.
Allow the tart to cool for at least 15 minutes more before slicing and serving. (You can leave the tart on the metal tart pan bottom, or you can slide it onto a 9- inch round cake cardboard.) Cut the tart into thin wedges and serve slightly warm or at room temperature.
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After much arm twisting from the International Olympic Committee, Saudi Arabia has said "uncle" and given up making excuses for why it's one of three countries that has never sent a woman to compete in the Olympic Games. But although the presence of a Saudi female athlete in London may appear encouraging to outsiders, some female athletes in the Middle Eastern kingdom fear it will result in a government crackdown on other women who want to compete in the future, or even play sports in the present.
It's a cynical way to view Saudi Arabia's inclusion of women, sure, but some Saudi women argue that the move merely window dressing — even as they're allowed to compete in the Olympics, Saudi women are arguably the most controlled, restricted, and policed women in the world, and having a female athlete swim or run or leap into the record books won't change that. Saudi women not allowed to drive, to vote or run for office (this will change during the next set of municipal elections), to travel without a male chaperone, or be admitted to a hospital without permission from a male guardian. Every attempt the King has made to be more inclusive of women has been met with "staunch opposition" from more hardline members of the royal family, according to the Washington Post.
Other human rights groups aren't so sure that the Kingdom of Saud's decision to buckle to IOC pressure wasn't a calculated PR move designed to distract the international community from how shitty things can be for women in the theocracy. Human Rights Watch released a statement reminding the IOC that Saudi Arabia's reticence to include female athletes was based on claims that there weren't enough women in the country qualified to compete on an Olympic level, circumstances that were brought on by the government's policies — girls and boys are educated separately in Saudi Arabia, and girls aren't given any time for exercise or sport during school. Swimming pools and stadiums don't allow women, women can't rent athletic venues, and most gyms don't admit women. There are no women qualified to compete in the Olympics because the Saudi government has made sure of it.
The one woman the Saudis had said might be ready to compete in the Games has been sidelined with an injury to her horse and thus she won't be ready to compete in games, and thus the government is now actively looking for some woman — any woman — who has managed to become Olympics-ready despite the government's draconian restrictions on women. And that's where some fear the government will focus it's post-Olympics backlash once the international community has decided to focus on something besides the Olympics, like the Katy Perry movie or soccer rioting. Despite the fact that women are wholeheartedly discouraged from doing anything that can result in muscles, a small number of them have formed underground soccer and basketball leagues that meet in secret. Members of these leagues fear that now that the government's search will bring unwanted attention to their activities and may result in a post-Olympics crackdown.
And even if it doesn't, sending a woman who is unqualified by the government's own design will likely result in that woman performing poorly alongside her international counterparts who live in countries that don't have religious police combing the streets to make sure women are behaving. Some Saudi women worry that this is akin to the government setting them up to fail and could result in officials publicly concluding that poor performance is evidence that the country's women shouldn't be allowed to compete in sports because they're simply not good enough. See? Evidence!
So, what's the international community to do? Maybe the best thing that could happen to a female Saudi athlete, whoever she is, would be not for her to win a medal (because that could be touted as evidence that everything is hunky-dory for women in Saudi Arabia), but rather for her not to come in last. But, given the level of training Saudi Arabia's female athlete is likely to have had, that feat would require a little international cooperation.


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Azarenka outlasts defending champ Stosur to make U.S. Open semis
So when she faced a break point against the defending U.S. Open champion late in the final set, Azarenka didn't care that she hadn't hit an ace all day. She knocked a booming serve down the middle, the ball barely clipping the line out of Sam Stosur's reach.
Pushed to the limit, the world's top-ranked player hung tough in Tuesday's quarterfinals for a victory in a third-set tiebreaker.
"When you're facing a break point, you don't feel like you're going to hope for a mistake,'' Azarenka said. "You have to make it happen. You have to change the momentum. You have to create something that will surprise her. (She) has the momentum going; she's feeling confident. She has a chance. I had to come up and be strong.
"So I was like, `OK. Let's do it. If I miss it, I miss it.'''
Azarenka eked out a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (5) win in 2 hours, 23 minutes - not including an early 76-minute rain delay. She had never lost even a set to the Australian in six previous meetings, but Stosur rallied time and again after a lopsided first set.
"I enjoy the fight,'' Azarenka said. "I enjoy that struggle, that pain that we go through, that incredible moment that you feel relieved after you gave it all in every point you had.''
The rain returned soon after she closed out the win, wreaking havoc on the match that will determine Azarenka's semifinal opponent. Maria Sharapova and Marion Bartoli waited around for more than an hour before starting their quarterfinal, with Bartoli leading 4-0 when the skies opened up again.
The completion of the match was eventually postponed until Wednesday, freeing up Arthur Ashe Stadium for a night session that features a highly anticipated men's fourth-round matchup if the weather clears: Andy Roddick trying to stave off retirement against Juan Martin del Potro.
The rest of the day session was still on, though tournament officials moved around later matches to different courts to try to get play completed with plenty of showers in the forecast.
The seventh-seeded Stosur came back from down a break twice in the third set. She had a chance to go up a break at 5-5 when Azarenka hit that lone ace.
Then in the tiebreaker, Stosur recovered from trailing 4-0.
"There was momentum here, momentum there,'' Stosur said. "We were hitting winners and running all over the court.''
At 5-all in the tiebreaker, Stosur's forehand nicked the net cord and landed short, and Azarenka put the point away with a drop shot.
"I was lucky that the ball caught the net. I was just trying to stay in the moment,'' Azarenka said. "I didn't really feel like what was the score. I had to do something to surprise, because at this moment you have to come up with something different, not the usual what you do. Because one or two shots will just decide everything.''
On match point, Azarenka's final forehand touched down on the baseline, forcing Stosur into a crouch and a wild backhand.
Azarenka improved to 11-0 in three-set matches this year. She had never before made it past the fourth round at the U.S. Open.
The Australian Open champ from Belarus kept Stosur on the run in the first set, breaking her three times. But in the second, Stosur started channeling the aggressive play that allowed her to upset Serena Williams in the final here last year, pounding big forehands for winners.
"I think I'm capable of beating her one day,'' Stosur said. "Just would have liked it to have been today.''
Stosur conceded it had been a "rough'' year since she broke through for that first Grand Slam title. She lost in the first round at home at the Australian Open and in her second match at Wimbledon.
But she had the look of a major champion again back here at Flushing Meadows and finally found some answers Tuesday against an opponent who had bedeviled her.
"To really turn it around in one of the biggest tournaments of the year, that's what we come out here and play for,'' Stosur said. "I think that proves to me that I am capable of doing it. To have another showing here at the Open like this, it for sure gives me confidence to think that maybe one day I can do it again.''
The tiebreaker got back on serve after Azarenka double-faulted. She used an expletive later to describe that second serve.
"It was just terrible, terrible,'' she said. "Wrong movement. I was not focused enough on my execution, what I had to do.''
But, Azarenka added, "these kind of mistakes are easier to deal with because they're just silly.''
Stosur tied it up with an overhead, but Azarenka was unfazed.
"She really pushed me to dig deep,'' Azarenka said. "We fought really hard. I felt like there wasn't something (where) somebody was missing. It was always somebody had to grab the opportunity to provoke mistakes. ... The quality of tennis was really high, and it was tense because it could go either way.''


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Salt River Fields ups game for '14 season
D-backs' Spring Training ballpark has even more in store for fans
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Nearly three weeks after pitchers and catchers first reported for Spring Training, the D-backs will open their Cactus League schedule on Wednesday at 1:10 p.m. MT against the Dodgers at Salt River Fields.
The facility has drawn rave reviews during its first three springs, as the D-backs have led the Major Leagues in attendance during that span.
"Salt River Fields has been an organizational point of pride for the past three seasons," D-backs team president/CEO Derrick Hall said. "The feedback from our fans has been tremendous and has been reflected in our record attendance."
Here's a look at some of the new things in store this spring:
Concession additions: The Home Plate Hot Dogs stand will offer the D-backs Sonoran Dog for the first time.
A new stand, Sonoran BBQ, will offer beef brisket, pulled pork, smoked chicken and a custom sauce bar that allows fans to concoct their own barbecue sauce.
101 Cattle Co. has added the new "Flame Thrower" burger, which features pepper jack cheese, fried jalapenos and chipotle salsa, while Crust has added two new gourmet pizzas -- the Hot Hawaiian and the Blonde Bombshell.
Island Noodle will offer a gluten-free menu, located down the first-base concourse.
Fans who are at least 21 years old will be able to enjoy the new Absolut Bar. Located at Section 210, the bar will feature four flavors of Absolut vodka and enough mixers for bartenders to create more than 100 different vodka drinks.
A new shade structure at Budweiser Bow Tie near the left-field line will allow fans to escape the heat and enjoy Anheuser-Busch products.
For those who choose to stay in the sun, complimentary sunscreen will be provided at several stands on the concourse along the Banana Boat Lawn and free shuttles, courtesy of Honda, will pick fans up in the parking lots and take them to the main gate.
The #Dbacks Sonoran Dog is coming to @SaltRiverFields. See what else is new at SRF in 2014: http://t.co/t8aj6byW77 pic.twitter.com/2pVRFPKL4x- Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) February 21, 2014
Special promotions: Cactus League Opening Day against the Dodgers will feature a flyover by four planes, and there will be another flyover Feb. 28 before the D-backs face the Rockies.
The Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales of Super Bowl commercial fame will be at the March 6 game between the D-backs and A's. Fans can have their photos taken with the horses prior to the game and watch the Clydesdales parade around the warning track before the game.
The March 13 game will be the first Zero-Waste Game. Fans will be asked to recycle or compost all solid and food wastes generated. It is a first for Arizona and is a part of the city's new sustainability initiative, Reimagine Phoenix.
Also on March 13, fans will have the opportunity to take photos with the 2013 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards won by outfielder Gerardo Parra and first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
Autographs: Select D-backs players will sign autographs for free at a designated area before each home game from 11:45 a.m. until noon for day games and 5:45-6 p.m. for night games.
Fans, even those who do not have a ticket for the game, are free to wander the walkways of the team's practice fields behind the stadium.
Making the practice fields accessible to fans was a guiding principle for the D-backs.
"We designed and built this Spring Training facility with the fans in mind," Hall said. "Our players understand that and have embraced the concept of accessibility, providing autographs and interaction at a level unlike any other team."
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=== Specifications ===
=== Specifications ===
* Delivered in September, 1975
* Delivered in September, 1975
* magnifies up to 20,000x
* magnifies up to 20,000x
Revision as of 10:27, 11 December 2010
The Scanning Electron Microscope at Noisebridge.
- "TV Mini-SEM (R)" by ISI (International Scientific Instruments)
- lives in the "science ghetto" on the west end of the south wall at 2169.
- is tended by Mike Kan and the rest of the SEM mailing list
- If you release the vacuum without venting the pump hose, pump oil will flood the chamber and contaminate the entire mechanism, requiring 10 hours of cleanup.
- If you vent air into the column without powering down the filament, you'll probably destroy the filament ($100).
- If you
Startup procedures
- get the power cord from Mike.
- See PDFs on vacuum start up and operators manual linked below.
Todo list
- column liner needs to be replaced. Larry may be able to provide a clean liner. (2010-06-15) (update: Larry has taken column liner to his lab for cleaning)
- (long term) build digital capture stage to replace CRT mechanism (2010-06-15)
- build sputter coater for specimen preparation (2010-06-15)
- test repair of X Stigmator circuit. Replaced 741 op amp. (completed, work began 2010-11-20, tested 2010-12-10)
- adjust vertical overscan of CRT
- fix 2x magnification toggle switch
- diagnose and repair barrel distortion and occlusion at low magnification
- replace 8.5" slow scan CRT?
Repair and Enhancement
- schematics framed behind SEM are to a similar, potentially slightly more modern model
- poorly designed wire harness may cause linear op amp and transistor on the J1 board of the CRT module to fail
- camera mounting stage and bellows hood for slow-scan exposure. Proposed (2010-06-15), Completed by Mike, Miloh, and Chris (2010-11-06)
- Made in Japan
- Delivered in September, 1975
- magnifies up to 20,000x
- outputs to a CRT
- non-digital, non-NTSC, non-PAL, analog output signal
Media: Vacuum_System_Operating_Instructions.pdf - How to start the pump
Media: ISI_Mini-TV_SEM_Manual-Troubleshooting-Reference_Guide.pdf - How to use and fix the SEM
Media: Specimen_Stage_Service_Request.pdf - Why the rotating stage is broken
Media: Cards.pdf - Historic docs
Media: Other_Docs.pdf - Repair notes
Media: Packing_Lists.pdf - Original Packing Lists, the contents of the shipping crate
Overall schematics for the TV MINI-SEM (Model: MRS-2-2 WN76-7-01). These schematics are for a model of SEM that is perhaps newer than than the SEM at Noisebridge. It is still an invaluable reference to the technician. Note: This schematic is a mosaic of 9 images stitched together with Hugin 2010.2.0. Some minor alignment issues exist in the content of the schematic. I think alignment can be guessed/interpreted accurately. Available in: LOW RES 1.5MB (4330 x 3109, posterized grayscale, JPEG) and HIGH RES 8MB (8680 x 6217, color, JPEG).
Media: Schematic_of_Photomultiplier.pdf
Media: Polaron_Pirani_Schematics-PE_Pir-SW_Issue_4_E5000.pdf - Polaron Pirani sputter coater schematics
Media: Polaron_Pirani_Gauge_Head_for_Sputter_Coater.pdf


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Martin Hollis, who while with Rare was one of the men behind the original GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64, has some kind words to say about Activision, the publisher pushing the remake.
Oh, sorry, did I say kind?
"I imagine it is a business decision isn't it?", HOllis told Official Nintendo Magazine. "This name is valuable, let's use it. I find it hard to picture Activision's top management being excited about the original and wanting to do it justice. In fact, I find it hard to imagine them being excited about any game. It's my perception that they are trying to be EA, only more so. I think they are doing a fine job at that."
Before you think he's saddled with a load of sour grapes, Hollis does have kinder words to say about Eurocom, the actual developers working on the game, saying "they are a good company" and that "I'm confident they have done their very best".
GoldenEye 64 designer slams Activision over Wii remake [ONM]


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Light Painting
Light Painting is a great way to create striking images and illusions using a camera, a light source, and a little practice. When the camera shutter is open (and the room is dark) the film or digital sensor acts like a blank canvas. It's as if the image is being drawn or painted by the light source as it moves through space. It's also possible to create interesting effects by exposing the same subject multiple times, for example by shining a flashlight onto parts of a body, or turning the lights on and off briefly and moving between takes.
What are the qualities that we value in this activity?
Generating Interest and Raising Questions
It is easy to make a first light painting, and the digital camera provides immediate feedback to inspire making more. Each new painting is often started by something more surprising the painter noticed, or a question the painter had from a previous attempt.
Artistic Expression
This is an activity that allows you to creatively express ideas by experimenting with the color and qualities of the light source, and other elements that effect the aesthetic qualities of the light painting.
Learning From Each Other
Watching others make their light paintings often generates new ideas and questions.
High Tech/Low Tech
This exploration is a good example of a low-tech activity that works well on its own, but can be made more complex and interactive utilizing the PicoCricket and programming.
Almost anything that projects light can be used as a light source, so this activity can be very low tech: an old analog camera will work, and even the moon can be used to paint with! Or, you can use high tech light sources, such as programmable LED to switch colors, EL wire, or even an iPad. Once visitors start playing and seeing the results of their efforts, creativity is sparked and lots of ideas are generated. Working with a partner also seems to be very satisfying.
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IndigoIndigofera tinctoria, Indigofera oblongifolia
• · There are no well-documented uses for Indigo
• Liver Protection, Antiseptic
The leaflets and branches of the indigo plant yield an exquisite blue dye; people around the globe have used it to color textiles and clothing for centuries. Before the development of synthetic blue dyes, indigo was cultivated for this pigment rather than for medicinal use.
In the traditional medicine of India and China, indigo was used in the treatment of conditions we would now call epilepsy, bronchitis, liver disease, and psychiatric illness. ]]>1]]> However, there is no real scientific evidence for any of these uses.
Warning : Several species of indigo are poisonous. See Safety Issues for more information.
What Is Indigo Used for Today?
Based on its traditional use for liver problems, researchers have investigated whether indigo might protect the liver against chemically induced injury. Animal studies do suggest that extracts of the indigo species Indigofera tinctoria protect the liver from damage by toxic chemicals. 2,3]]> No human trials, however, have been performed to examine indigo's effects on the liver.
The species Indigofera oblongifolia has been tested for its antibacterial and antifungal activity. ]]>4]]> In a test tube trial, this plant showed significant activity against certain types of bacteria and fungi. This research is still in its preliminary stages, so it is too early to tell whether Indigofera oblongifolia will prove useful for the treatment of any infectious diseases.
Note : A different plant called wild indigo ( Baptisia tinctoria ), in combination with ]]>echinacea]]> and white cedar, has been studied as a possible immune stimulant. ]]>5]]> However, wild indigo is not part of the Indigofera family of plants and is not discussed here.
Safety Issues
The indigo species Indigofera tinctoria has a history of use in traditional medical systems, and is regarded by herbalists as safe, other than the occasional allergic reactions that have been reported. 6]]> However, comprehensive safety tests have not been performed. For this reason, indigo should not be used by pregnant or nursing women, young children, or individuals with severe liver or kidney disease. Safety in other individuals is unknown.
The species Indigofera spicata (formerly Indigofera endecaphylla ), however,is poisonous: it has killed cattle and other animals ]]>7,8]]> and has caused birth defects in rats. ]]>9]]> Other indigo species have also been found to be lethal. ]]>10,11]]> For this reason, it is important to avoid ingesting indigo internally unless you are absolutely certain that it has been harvested and processed by expert, reliable individuals.
1. Anand KK, Chand D, Ghatak BJR. Protective effect of alcoholic extract of Indigofera tinctoria Linn. in experimental liver injury. Indian J Exp Biol . 1979;17:685–687.
2. Anand KK, Chand D, Ghatak BJR. Protective effect of alcoholic extract of Indigofera tinctoria Linn. in experimental liver injury. Indian J Exp Biol . 1979;17:685–687.
3. Anand KK, Chand D, Ghatak BJR. Histological evidence of protection by Indigofera tinctoria Linn. against carbontetrachloride induced hepatotoxicity—an experimental study. Indian J Exp Biol . 1981;19:298–300.
4. Dahot MU. Antibacterial and antifungal activity of small protein of Indigofera oblongifolia leaves. J Ethnopharmacol . 1999;64:277–282.
5. Wustenberg P, Henneicke-von Zepelin H-H, Kohler G, et al . Efficacy and mode of action of an immunomodulator herbal preparation containing Echinacea, wild indigo, and white cedar. Adv Ther. 1999;16:51–70.
6. Review of Natural Products . St. Louis, Mo: Facts and Comparisons; 1993: Indigo monograph.
7. Miller R, Smith CR. Seeds of Indigofera species: their content of amino acids that may be deleterious. J Agric Food Chem. 1973;21:909–912.
8. Finnegan RA, Mueller WH. Chemical examination of a toxic extract of Indigofera endecaphylla. The endecaphyllins. J Pharm Sci . 1965;54:1136–1144.
9. Pearn JH, Hegarty MP. Indospicine—the teratogenic factor from Indigoferaspicata extract causing cleft palate. Br J Exp Path. 1970;51:34–36.
10. Hegarty MP, Kelly WR, McEwan D, et al. Hepatotoxicity to dogs of horse meat contaminated with indospicine. Aust Vet J . 1988;65:337–340.
11. Miller R, Smith CR. Seeds of Indigofera species: their content of amino acids that may be deleterious. J Agric Food Chem. 1973;21:909–912.
Last reviewed April 2009 by EBSCO CAM Review Board]]>
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Michael Bloomberg backs ad push for independent Angus King in Maine
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is throwing his financial support behind Maine independent Senate candidate Angus King, who is battling a stronger-than-expected challenge from a Republican contender in a race that could help determine control of the Senate.
Bloomberg is one of the major backers behind a $500,000 ad campaign that began running on the Maine airwaves on Friday, the group running the ads said. The ads extol King as an independent voice who could help break gridlock in Washington.
"As Maine goes, so goes the country. The country and Mainers are hungry for problem-solving, independent candidates running for important offices,'' said Daniel B. Winslow, senior counsel at the law firm Proskauer, who represents Americans Elect, which is running the ads.
King, who served as the independent governor of Maine between 1995 and 2003, was a heavy favorite when he entered the race to replace retiring Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, but his standing in opinion polls has slipped after an onslaught of ads from outside groups backing the GOP candidate, Charlie Summers.
It is widely believed that King would caucus with Democrats if elected, and he has the tacit support of many Democrats. The official Democratic nominee in the race, Cynthia Dill, is running a distant third in most polls.
Still, national Democrats have not explicitly endorsed King, and he lacks the kind of party apparatus that would ordinarily swing into action with ads and fund-raising on behalf of Democratic or Republican candidates in a tight race.
The outcome of the race could have major implications for control of the Senate, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 51 to 47; there are also two independents who caucus with Democrats. Snowe's retirement dented GOP hopes to win control of the chamber this year, since Maine typically leans Democratic in presidential elections and King was widely popular after his governorship.
Bloomberg, a billionaire who at various points in his career has been a Democrat, Republican, and independent, has been courted by politicians across the spectrum and has endorsed candidates in both parties. In the Senate contest in Massachusetts, he has supported Republican Scott Brown in his race against Elizabeth Warren.
The ad campaign in Maine represents a new mission for Americans Elect, which formed initially to advance a third-party candidate in the presidential race. That effort fell apart in May, and the group has reconstituted itself to focus on electing independent candidates, Winslow said. In this cycle, King is the only candidate it is supporting.
"If he is successful, Americans Elect will participate in the upcoming election cycle to develop 3, 5, or 10 more Angus Kings representing an independent caucus to bridge the divide between the partisan extremes, to turn the tide of gridlock in Washington, and to put us onto a course of government the American people want and deserve,'' Winslow said. In addition to serving as a lawyer for the group, Winslow is a Republican member of the Massachusetts House from Norfolk.
This year, he said, the group has raised a total of $1.75 million to put into the Maine race — Bloomberg's contribution of $500,000, plus $500,000 from financier Peter Ackerman and $750,000 from Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor John Burbank.
The group's website lists Eliot Cutler, who ran for Maine governor as an independent in 2010 and is now one of the chairs of King's campaign, as one of its directors, but Winslow said Cutler had stepped down in June.
"He resigned when the mission of Americans Elect changed,'' Winslow said. "Americans Elect has no coordination with Angus King.''
On Friday, the Summers campaign attacked King, accusing him of benefiting from the kind of outside spending he had criticized earlier this year, when he proposed an agreement with Summers and Dill to limit outside spending in the state similar to the "people's pledge'' signed by Brown and Warren in Massachusetts.
"The term 'flip-flop' is far too gracious a way to describe the cynical duplicity of Angus King's broken promises, and his 25-point slide in the polls shows voters of Maine are obviously coming to understand the real Angus,'' said Drew Brandewie, a spokesman for Summers, in a statement.
Crystal Canney, a spokeswoman for King, said the candidate hadn't sought out Bloomberg's help, but that after Summers benefited from millions of dollars in ads attacking King paid for by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and US Chamber of Commerce he couldn't complain now.
"All of these ads — NRSC, US Chamber and the latest ads are exactly what Angus warned about in June,'' she said. "We called for all candidates to disavow the ads and Charlie Summers refused. We will not unilaterally disarm.''
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:: Custom profile fields for people in your league showing the franchise logo of the team they represent within their signature (your members would have one for each league.)
:: A quick search button that lets you see all of your members' activity levels at once within your league(s) plus new Commissioner tools coming out almost every month.
:: You would be a part of the BOC, Board of Commissioners, which has a private board for all commissioners. Resources and ideas are exchanged at this board that help all commissioners and their leagues.
:: You could easily reduce turnover as your leagues would attract talented managers already at ProFSL or ones that are new to ProFSL (our membership has been growing).
:: Top managers in your league, the commissioner, and a couple extra people receive points that can earn them a spot to that sport's Invitational. The Invitational is a free-entry, H2H tournament in each sport's post-season in which the final four contestants are paid out cash. Hundreds of dollars now goes out to all sports.
:: GMs in your leagues receive points even if they didn't win a league. Accrue enough points and a manager can earn their way into one of the at-large/wildcard bids of an Invitational.
:: The discussion boards at ProFSL is very good and growing very quickly. Each discussion board has its own special incentive program in which the top posters (quality and quantity) as voted by the ProFSL Forum Staff are invited to compete against each other in a fantasy tournament. Just like the Invitationals, the final four are paid out cash prizes.
:: There are many areas for your members to become involved in them - enabling them to stay with your leagues longer.
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Shipwright::Manual::BuildMultiArchVessel - Build a vessel with multi-arch support
In this tutorial, we'll build a vessel with multi-arch support, a.k.a the vessel that I can use on multiple systems, e.g. Mac and Ubuntu.
Shipwright starts to have multi-arch vessel support since 2.3.0. Since then, all installed bin dirs and lib will live in as/$arch_name, instead of top dir.
the vessel source is exactly the same as normal one. The only different part is the way we build vessel with bin/shipwright-builder We need to build the vessel on both Mac and Ubuntu.
Let's do this on Mac first:
$ ./bin/shipwright-builder --install-base /tmp/foo --as Mac
if we don't specify --as, the default name is the system's uname. e.g. the name is Darwin on Mac.
after we built it on Mac, we need to transfer both shipyard and vessel to ubuntu, then build it again, to let it build to the same vessel dir.
$ ./bin/shipwright-builder --install-base /tmp/foo --as Ubuntu
ditto. if we don't specify --as, the as name will be Linux
Then we're done, the built vessel can run on both Mac and Ubuntu systems now.
most CPAN modules are written in Perl, so is cross-platform, this will results in not less redundance in vessel, we can use shipwright-filter to squeeze it:
$ ./bin/shipwright-filter --squeeze
This will remove redundant files and link to the left files.
e.g. as/Mac/lib/perl5/App/SD.pm and as/Ubuntu/lib/perl5/App/SD.pm have the same content, after the above cmd, the latter one will be deleted and (hard) linked to the former one.
the multi-arch vessel can't auto-switch between the systems for us, so we need to run a cmd to tell it to, e.g.
$ cd /tmp/foo
# on Mac, we switch to Mac
$ ./tools/shipwright-utility --switch Mac
# on Ubuntu, we switch to Ubuntu
$ ./tools/shipwright-utility --switch Ubuntu
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My grandmother sent me this sketch she did of Maddie yesterday.
I love how she nailed Maddie's eyebrows. Maddie is not Maddie without her eyebrows. 😉
Today was a crazy day, I seriously can not believe Healthy Living Summit kicks off in just a few short days! (p.s. how cool is it the team at Greatist is kicking off this year's summit?!) I feel like there's still a lot to do, but the good news is we're pretty much on track to get it all done (fingers crossed!). I had two very productive conference calls today, I finalized the agenda and directory with my two planning partners, and our team is all set to fine tune the remaining details during the next couple of days. At this point, I think we're just ready to get to Boston and get this party started!
Lunch was enjoyed at my desk well past noon (I was in the zone and forgot it was lunch time)
I went for easy and grilled a sandwich on the George Foreman.
Between two pieces of whole wheat bread I had hummus, carrot, spinach, tomatoes, and cheese.
Peanut butter pretzels on the side
And an applesauce
Good food.
I had a mid-afternoon handful of nuts.
Dinner was a huge hit.
It's hard not to be a hit with chicken, black beans, cheese and quinoa.
Spanish Quinoa Casserole
- 3 cups cooked quinoa
- 1/2 lb boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 cup chopped mushrooms
- 1/2 chopped red onion
- 1/2 cup frozen corn
- 2 carrots
- 1 can black beans
- 1/2 cup cheddar cheese
- chili powder
- cumin
- s&p
Chop the chicken breast into bite size pieces and add to a hot pan. Wait a few minutes, then gradually add onions, carrots, corn, and mushrooms. Season with chili powder, cumin, and s&p and cook until veggies are soft and chicken is cooked through. Add the black beans, quinoa, and cheese. Mix well, then pour everything in a casserole dish. Bake for 15 minutes at 415.
Serve on a bed of spinach with guacamole.
Delicious. 🙂
I polished off the last of the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake for dessert.
I'm so sad to see this go. Must make again soon. 🙂
I updated the wedding page today – Were you a cake smasher?
Must. Sleep. Now.
Good Night!
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NHL watches as colleges wage war with Canadian junior hockey
The conference room at the Ann Arbor, Mich., Ice Cube was packed. Some of the best hockey-playing 14- and 15-year-olds sat up front, and they were listening closely.
Their parents lined the back of the room, some sitting, others leaning against a glass wall, straining to hear over the music from a rink as figure skaters practiced behind them.
They were listening because their children's future was at stake.
In the front of the room, college hockey coaches filled a row of chairs. Leading the talk was Red Berenson, the University of Michigan's coach, a Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens and a former Regina Pats juniors player.
Considering its proximity to Canada, Michigan is the battleground for a fight that's not new, but grows hotter each year. It's one the NHL is also watching.
On one side is Berenson -- an All-America player at Michigan -- and his fellow college coaches, trying to convince North America's best young players to commit to college hockey. On the other side is Canada's major junior powerhouse, the Canadian Hockey League, where elite Canadians -- and a growing number of Americans -- parlay junior careers into NHL careers.
Berenson looked at the young players in front of him and offered a warning against choosing junior hockey.
"You're giving up the four best years of your life,†he said.
In the past two years, Berenson has lost two high-end goalies. In 2010, Jack Campbell picked the Ontario Hockey League's Windsor Spitfires over the Wolverines. This year, John Gibson is headed to OHL Kitchener after committing to Michigan.
But it's not just Berenson's problem. A recent Boston Globe story put the number of elite players breaking college commitments this year at nine.
Once they play Canadian junior hockey, they are ineligible to play NCAA hockey.
"I'm not prepared to say it's an epidemic,†Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke told Sporting News. "The great majority of players who committed to college are going to college.â€
Burke is a Providence College graduate.
But it's the ones who have left that irk the world of college hockey because usually it's the best -- guys like Cam Fowler, Patrick Kane and John Carlson.
The pull to play junior hockey is a strong one. The CHL, umbrella for the three Canadian leagues, has increased education options for its players, and according to CHL commissioner David Branch, the OHL has 263 players on scholarship in Canadian universities.
"The advent of the CHL player scholarship, which is second to none and supports the student athlete and his interest, has been a big, big factor,†Branch told Sporting News.
Unlike the NCAA, collegiate governing body Canadian Interuniversity Sport does not prohibit professional players.
Junior hockey facilities are outstanding, and the coaching is NHL-level. Players get a taste of life as a professional hockey player in the CHL, and most NHL teams would prefer their draft picks play junior hockey rather than college hockey. That reason alone often leads to changed minds after draft day.
To slow the trend, college coaches hired former NHLPA executive director Paul Kelly nearly two years ago. As the head of College Hockey, Inc., Kelly has hit the road to educate teenagers, like those in Ann Arbor, on the virtues of playing college hockey. His case is as strong as any major junior franchise.
Colleges also consistently develop NHL players, like Zach Parise (two years at North Dakota), Tim Thomas (four years at Vermont) and Jonathan Toews (two years at North Dakota). For the great majority of young players who never see the NHL, it gives them the backup plan of a college education, often at elite American universities. A degree from Harvard eases the pain of falling short on NHL dreams.
A lighter playing schedule also means college hockey players often have more time to devote to the gym.
Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma -- who spent four years at Bowling Green -- said he can usually distinguish the players who arrive via college.
"In a word, maturity. On-the-ice maturity,†Bylsma told Sporting News. "You get a player that's had longer to develop physically and mentally.â€
All things being equal, it's a tough choice for a teenager to make.
College coaches contend all things aren't equal. Far from it.
NCAA rules prohibit colleges from contacting recruits until June 15 after their sophomore year in high school. By then, if they're good enough, they've already been aggressively pursued by junior programs.
Luke Moffatt was the second overall pick in the 2007 WHL draft by the Kelowna Rockets. At 14 years old, he had to make a decision that would impact the rest of his life. Long before college staffs could recruit him, he was visited in Arizona by Kelowna executives and coaches.
"I had it in my mind that I was going to college, but they have a way of trying to throw stuff at you,†said Moffatt, who eventually enrolled at Michigan. "They were totally professional about everything, they respected my decision… but they try to convince you whichever way they can up there.â€
The junior programs get first crack at recruitment and increasingly face accusations that they're slanting the playing field with payments outside guidelines set by the CHL.
"The amount of money under the table in those leagues is rampant,†said RPI coach Seth Appert, who just ended his term as president of the American Hockey College Association. "That's against NCAA rules, no matter how we slice it.â€
Said Berenson: "I know some kids have been paid, there's no question about that. I can't tell you what the OHL allows or what they don't allow. I know some kids that have been paid.â€
In a conversation with Sporting News, one player weighing the decision confirmed he'd been offered a significant financial package to play in Canada, saying it's not an easy thing to turn down.
"Everybody has their price,†he said.
It's not a new accusation. Kelly has been publicly vocal in his belief that elite players are getting six-figure payments to lure them away from the NCAA. And, Kelly contends, it's for more than just education.
Kelly shared a conversation he had with a player who broke a college commitment last summer to play in Quebec. Kelly asked him why he did it.
"He said because 'they wrote me a check for $100,000 and I'm going to go out and buy a new car,' †Kelly said. "This kid never had any education anywhere in his radar.â€
As the CHL has grown, Branch said the league has been deliberate in developing clear-cut policies on allowable benefits for players, which are largely for education and training allowances.
The OHL has hired an enforcement officer to investigate any allegations of impropriety, and the league's competitive balance depends on a level playing field.
"I believe that 99 percent of the cases, no they are not" being paid under the table, Branch said of the CHL's elite players. "I would not go as far to say that none have received benefits that exceed our permissible benefits. We are addressing it.â€
The NHL is counting on it. In an effort to help develop elite young players, the league provides a grant to the CHL and to USA Hockey. This year, the league sent $9.8 million to the CHL earmarked for player development, education and wellness programs. It's dispersed evenly among teams, with some getting bonuses for players drafted by the NHL.
It becomes an NHL issue if those franchises are then using that money to lure players to break their college commitments.
"Nobody has ever made that connection that we're subsidizing under-the-table payments to players,†NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told Sporting News. "That's a stretch to suggest that. I understand there are rumors that payments are made. I don't think any specific payments have been substantiated or evidenced in any way.â€
Still, the issue is one the NHL takes seriously.
"We're going to ask for more vigilance on the part of the CHL to make sure payments are not being made,†Daly said.
Burke said there was recently a small group of NHL general managers who met to discuss the issue, and it's something that they will continue to investigate.
"At some point, where there's smoke there's probably fire. I would like to get to the bottom of this,†he said. "If there are improper payments to a league we subsidize, I think we're entitled to know what they are and bring them to a stop.â€
The NHL also essentially funds College Hockey, Inc, a fact that isn't lost on the CHL. Kelly's aggressive pursuit to recruit not only American hockey players but Canadians as well, is leading to a turf war. This year alone, Kelly has done educational summits in Montreal, Toronto, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa.
Tyler Boldt is the manager of player development and recruitment in the Western Hockey League, and part of his job is educating young players, including correcting misinformation he believes circulates about his league. His position exists largely because of the effectiveness of Kelly's campaign.
Yes, it's a fight, but there's a positive. Hockey-playing teenagers now are more educated about their options than any group before them. Glen Bates, a 16-year-old from Michigan, estimated that he's attended at least 10 College Hockey, Inc. seminars.
"It's increased people's thirst for knowledge,†Boldt said.
Ultimately, that should lead to families making more informed decisions, whichever path they decide -- college or junior.
"They're both wonderful ways to get (to the NHL), both viable ways to get there,†Burke said. "It's a very personal situation and individual decision for a player. It's hard. I think we're fortunate in the NHL to get players in all three sources (including Europe). There's great merit to all of them.â€


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Aliencat wrote:LORD DOOM wrote:It's been so fun to marvel at all these masterpieces. I want to compile them into a book.
I'd buy it!
Or you could alternatively place them altogether on a website! That way you can link to the users' brickshelf galleries for due credit.
Heh...books are sooooo rapidly becoming a thing of the past...I wonder if future generations will even have those. Kind of like roll up windows and stick shift cars. They're still around...just much, much rarer.
I'd prefer a book.
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Kristen Stewart showed up in Paris today at the Zuhair Murad show, a designer I wish she wouldn't wear with so much frequency. Leave that sh-t to JLO.
Here she is, in lace pants and a faux-skrillex, on her way into the presentation. I like the vamp. Stewart seems to be enjoying her time there, and gamely playing along with the fashion people. It's an essential component of movie stardom now.
Scandal Twi-Hards were featured in the previous article about Kerry Washington's marriage, but the original Twi-Hard will always be our favourite. Riley Keough wanted to make it very clear yesterday that she was not the girl in the car with Robert Pattinson earlier this week. This has given Twi-Hards new hope that perhaps…#Robsten may not be broken after all? In celebration of Independence Day, I thought you might enjoy two emails I received yesterday from ardent fans, dedicating their lives to the survival of the most important relationship in history.
From Tulip:
Can you give us an update on Robsten? We know it's not Riley for sure now & that leaves Kristen definitely!!!! Are paps hiding other pics of them? Are they back together? She's wearing a new ring so I think he might have proposed to her finally!!!!!!!! comparing her face. Great to see them together in that truck
From Hatersnonothing:
How could you say that twihards scared Riley off?! She had nothing to worry about - it's Kristen in the truck. This stupid bullsh-t narrative of a breakup has been pushed by these stupid paparazzi and tabloids. Robsten is still together. They will grow old together. She wore his old sweatshirt on a plane when she returned from her road trip. She has a new ring. No one wears their ex boyfriems's clothes after a breakup. We trust you- can you let all the haters know now? For now is over & was never a problem. They're together
"They will grow old together", you hear? You hear?


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I would like to build knots in $\mathbb{R}^3$ from arcs
of unit-radius (planar) circles, joined together at points where
the tangents match. Thus the knot will have
curvature $1$ at all but the joints.
Here is an example of how two arcs might join:
Define the circle-arc number $C(K)$ of a knot $K$ as the fewest number of such arcs from which one can build a nonselfinterecting curve in space representing $K$. This number is analogous to the stick number of a knot, except that the pieces are arcs, and there is a tangent-joining condition.
I would be interested to learn of bounds on $C(K)$ in terms of other knot quantities, for example, the stick number, or the crossing number cr$(K)$.
Here is an example of what I have in mind.
It appears that one might be able to build a trefoil from six
arcs, something like this:
However, the above picture is actually planar, and I have not verified carefully that this is achievable in $\mathbb{R}^3$!
Has this concept been studied before? If so, pointers would be welcomed. Thanks!
Addendum. The trefoil can be realized with six arcs:
(The black triangle vertices indicate the circle centers on the plane before their arcs are twisted into 3D.)