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Archive for June 25th, 2011

One Track Mind: Churchwood, "Vendidi Fumar (I Sell Smoke)" (2011)

Guitarists Bill Anderson and Billysteve (yep, one word) Kopri turn the blues inside out on Churchwood’s “Vendidi Fumar,” then wear it around like Lady Gaga’s meat dress. Theirs is a sound — sudden, bright and menacing — not unlike a car crash

Half Notes: Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (2006)

by Mark Saleski Good gawd, the man is a veritable Fort Knox of ideas. From barroom stompers to pensive ballads to clattering percussion to spoken word oddities. Waits reciting Bukowski? Yes, please! Waits is the weird uncle you’re fascinated by and scared of at the same time. You still love him though. ‘Half Notes’ are quick-take thoughts on music fromRead More

Richard Pinhas and Merzbow – Rhizome (2011)

Last fall, we saluted the arrival of a new Richard Pinhas CD, Metal/Crystal, one that supplemented his trio with fellow experimentalist warriors Merzbow and Wolf Eyes.

Forgotten series: Infectious Grooves – The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move (1991)

by Fred Phillips Converting a huge CD collection to digital as I’ve been doing slowly for the past couple of weeks can be tedious, but it also has its rewards: Namely, stumbling across very cool records that you haven’t spent any quality time with in years.


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Breuckelen Reviewed in Serious Eats

By Lisa M. Collins

The newish Breuckelen restaurant, next to Ted & Honey on Clinton St., is a more refined version of the hip locavore spots dotting our landscape. Serious Eats gives it a lukewarm review but seems to like it despite its faults.

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Since the 2009 growing season, John Wilhoit, UK College of Agriculture associate Extension professor, has worked with two central Kentucky producers to test the curing capabilities of outdoor structures called pallet racks for burley tobacco.

While growers have used outdoor curing structures for the last two decades, the pallet racks differ from those structures. Pallet racks are made of industrial steel. Producers can purchase pallet racks, which are often used in home improvement stores for shelving, second hand from dealers or possibly from stores going out of business. The racks snap into place and can accommodate three or five rows of tobacco on sticks. A three-row rack that's five sections long will hold around one-third acre of tobacco, and a five-row rack of the same length holds around a half acre.

"The curing is about the same as what you'd get from a barn," he said.

Spacers used to connect adjacent racks are sized so that sticks of tobacco hang on the steel rails, the same way they hang on wooden rails in tobacco barns. Wilhoit developed an inexpensive way to make the spacers and diagonal braces that make the structure more stable. He also designed wooden frames that fit into the top of the structure to raise the center of the rack's plastic covering, so rainwater will run off during the curing process.

The structures have several advantages to other curing methods. Producers can erect them quickly, making it easy to expand curing capacity on short notice. They are easier to disassemble and take up less storage space than most other types of curing structures. This allows growers to disassemble them in the off-season and use the field for other purposes. It also keeps the racks out of the weather. Since a person of average height can easily reach the top rail of the structure, hanging the crop on pallet racks is safer and requires less labor than hanging the crop in a barn, which could help producers reduce labor costs.

Minimal depreciation

Perhaps the most appealing aspect of the racks is their minimal depreciation. In a volatile market, producers' contracts can be reduced or eliminated each year or some producers may decide to voluntarily exit the business. If this happens, they can resell the pallet racks on the used pallet rack market or to other tobacco growers and recoup most of their purchase costs.

"The racks are comparable in cost to building a barn, but you can sell these structures, whereas you can't sell a barn," Wilhoit said.

He said this was one of the reasons the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, which funded the project, initially approached him about the structures. The association began doing their own trials with the pallet racks a year before.

While the racks have their advantages, one disadvantage Wilhoit has found is an uneven load on the rack can cause the structure to collapse. Producers should make sure the structures are braced properly on level ground and have pads on the bottom to prevent the legs from sinking into the ground. As with other outside tobacco curing structures, producers need to securely fasten the plastic covering to withstand strong winds.

In addition to his work with the pallet racks, Wilhoit is in the preliminary stages of a study involving a new tobacco-harvesting concept where the producers hang sticks of tobacco directly on wooden rails held atop wagons pulled through the field. When the rails are full of tobacco, growers can transfer them to a field curing structure, eliminating a substantial portion of the labor required for hanging tobacco. While the trials are ongoing, he said this concept has the potential to significantly cut harvesting labor costs.


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The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along the way to an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states, like Virginia, can ban same-sex couples from marrying. But it was a dramatic 70-minute clash between lawyers and judges on both sides of marriage equality.

While court observers expect to hear arguments stated forcefully from attorneys representing each side of a conflict, they were witness, in Schaefer v. Bostic, to an unusual display of passionate views from two of the three judges at the panel hearing in Richmond.

In one corner: Niemeyer, an appointee of President Reagan (to the district court) and President George H.W. Bush (to the Fourth Circuit). He expressed concern that allowing same-sex couples to marry could lead to polygamy or a man marrying his daughter. He said that every person in the world comes from a male-female relationship and that, because same-sex couples can’t have children, they don’t need the protection of marriage laws, just some sort of “parallel” to marriage. He rejected the idea that the Supreme Court’s rulings in Romer v. Evans, Lawrence V. Texas, and U.S. v. Windsor --about “orientation and so forth”-- have any relevance to deciding the constitutionality of Virginia’s ban. And, though he warned that one “shouldn’t pin my questions as to any position” he might hold, he stated fairly emphatically that the key meaning of the Supreme Court’s striking down of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in Windsor was its recognition of the states’ right to define marriage.

In the other corner: Judge Roger Gregory, a recess appointee of President Clinton who was reappointed by President George W. Bush and became the first African American member of the Fourth Circuit bench. Gregory countered that, while states have certain authority, they “can’t trample” the U.S. Constitution. He rebuffed an assertion that the government needs to define marriage to encourage opposite sex couples to marry and have babies, saying it sounded like a “totalitarian system where people are baby makers and you get married for the interest of the state.” And he derided an attorney’s attempt to claim Virginia’s marriage law was to protect the biological children of male-female couples; if the state is interested in protecting children, he asked, how can it ignore that same-sex couples have children and that some male-female couples adopt children.

In the metaphorical middle: Judge Henry Floyd, an appointee of President Obama who was recommended by Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham. Floyd had little to say and ask. But he did say he thinks the “main thrust” of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Windsor “isn’t all that clear.” And he seemed to wrestle with what level of judicial scrutiny should be applied in determining whether Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage passes constitutional muster.

The case before the panel was brought by two clerks, appealing a decision in February by U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen (Obama appointee). Allen, like three federal judges before her and seven since, ruled that Virginia’s ban violates the equal protection and due process guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.

Constitution v. the people

Attorney David Oakley represented Norfolk clerk George Schaefer who refused to issue marriage licenses to the same-sex couple plaintiffs. Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Austin Nimocks represented Fairfax clerk Michele McQuigg, who sought intervenor status after Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced he would not defend the ban because he had determined it is unconstitutional.

Oakley called the lower court decision a “broad and sweeping” opinion that represents a “dramatic departure from existing law.” He relied heavily on the argument that “states have the near exclusive right” to define and regulate marriage. But he also argued that, when an issue is the subject of an important public debate, courts should defer to the “democratic process and fundamental rights of the voters.” It was “demeaning” to Virginia voters, he said, to ignore their wishes, as expressed in the 2006 vote.

In 2006, he noted, 57 percent of voters approved the ban. (Oakley did not mention that the latest poll showed 50 percent of Virginians now favor allowing same-sex couples to marry compared to 43 percent who oppose.)

Oakley said the governmental interest in defining marriage is to “steer the procreative potential of opposite sex couples toward the notion of marriage in order to protect the children.”

“Protect the children?” asked Gregory. “Sounds like a totalitarian system where people are baby makers and you get married for the interest of the state.” If the governmental interest concerns procreation, he asked, why doesn’t Virginia ban 90-year-old people from marrying.

“You can’t,” said Oakley, “because there’d be no way to constitutionally put a procreation requirement on marriage.” Oakley then reiterated a point often used by attorneys arguing for same-sex marriage bans: that only with opposite sex couples is there the potential for “accidental” pregnancy and thus the need to encourage marriage and protect children.

Oakley also tried to argue that “same-sex marriage” does not qualify as a fundamental right because it is not “deeply rooted” in America’s history and tradition. When he noted that only in recent years have same-sex couples been able to marry and that only 17 states permit it, Gregory interjected, “Same thing was true in Loving,” referring to the landmark decision in Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court struck down laws in Virginia and other states prohibiting interracial marriage.

To that, Oakley pointed to the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe in colonial Virginia, noting that interracial marriage was not prohibited in the early 1600s. (He did not mention that neither was marriage between same-sex couples.)

‘They can’t produce children’

            The Alliance’s Nimocks said the Fourth Circuit must decide whether the U.S. Constitution or its people get to decide who can marry. He, too, emphasized marriage as a “child-centered” institution. And he argued that the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court did not, in its Windsor ruling, recognize the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry, that is clear evidence the high court does not consider same-sex couples to have a fundamental right to marry.

Gregory challenged Nimocks to explain why, if marriage is “child centered” to benefit and protect children, the state would deny benefits and protections to the children of same-sex parents.

“Why does Virginia want to rip that embracement from the child?” pressed Gregory.

Nimocks didn’t answer that question but simply stated that the law reflects Virginia’s policy that a child is best raised with both a mother and a father.

“You agree that same-sex couples can have children?”

“Not in the same way,” said Nimocks.

Gregory sounded incredulous.

“What difference does it make? Children are children,” said Gregory. He noted that male-female couples who adopt children have children in a way that is different from male-female couples who procreate. He said Nimocks’ argument seemed disingenuous “if you care about children.”

Children came up quickly when Ted Olson, lead attorney for the two plaintiff couples, spoke and Niemeyer took him on. Olson started by saying that states cannot single out a class of people for disfavor under the law based on their sexual orientation or the gender of the person they seek to marry.

How about a parallel track?

At first, Niemeyer offered that “it’s in furtherance of the stability of society to recognize the union of same-sex couples and to provide them the same economic benefits and to give them the recognition to raise the dignity of the relationship.”

But he said it “doesn’t make sense” to call both male-female relationships and same-sex relationships “marriage.” Same-sex couples, he said, “can’t create the same family unit that has been recognized through history” because, he said, they can’t produce children.” Calling a same-sex relationship “marriage,” he said, is “playing with the language.”

Olson noted that many of the same arguments against same-sex marriage were raised against interracial marriages, too, citing the Loving case. But Niemeyer immediately interrupted him, saying that Loving was about racial discrimination. Olson noted that the Supreme Court had held Loving to be about marriage, too. He cited 14 different cases in which the Supreme Court discussed the fundamental right to marriage. Niemeyer interrupted again, this time asking whether allowing same-sex marriage wouldn’t lead to a place where a man “could marry six wives or his daughter.”

“No,” said Olson, explaining that courts have recognized that there are “overwhelming societal reasons” for prohibiting polygamy and incestuous relationships. When Niemeyer asked whether the government could force a man and woman to marry, Olson said the government has never used procreation as a requirement for marriage.

“No, you’ve got that exactly backwards,” said Niemeyer, interrupting again. “They’ve never said that. They’ve said that marriage is the driving force for the family….The idea is to support this unit….That’s what Virginia is doing.”

Niemeyer repeatedly referred to same-sex relationships as “new” and “just appeared 30 years, 40 years ago,” acknowledging, as Oakley did not, that the first gay couples sought to marry in the 1970s.

“You cannot make that union the same as the union that is talked about in the Supreme Court cases,” said Niemeyer.

“It is the same,” said Olson. “…You’re saying my clients have a second-class relationship….Their children are demeaned by that.”

Niemeyer said he thought same-sex couples could have a relationship that is “parallel” to male-female marriage “with less attributes.”

Olson quickly replied that “damage is being done” to same-sex couples and their children by such second-class treatment.

Niemeyer said that should be an argument left to the legislature.

Olson said it’s a matter for the courts to determine whether laws violate the guarantees of equal protection and due process of the Constitution.

Next up was James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s national LGBT Project. The ACLU and Lambda Legal have a class action lawsuit challenging the ban in a different federal district court in Virginia. The judge in their case, Harris v. Rainey, put the matter on hold pending a ruling from the Fourth Circuit in Schaefer v. Bostic. So the ACLU and Lambda sought intervenor status. Olson’s team initially opposed their request because they did not want to divide up the time any further (the Virginia solicitor general was granted part of Olson’s 30 minutes). But the court granted the motion to intervene.

“Once it did, we consolidated our efforts, divided time on a mutually acceptable basis and worked together on the argument strategy including a joint (all three of us) moot court last Friday,” said Olson Wednesday. “And, I thought our contributions complemented one another pretty well.”

Esseks noted that the Harris case represents about 14,000 same-sex couples in Virginia.

He urged the court to recognize the “enormous similarities” between the Virginia ban and the key provision of DOMA, which the Supreme Court struck down. Both define marriage as being between only male-female couples, he said, and “the purpose is similar.”

That’s when Judge Floyd said it was his “sense in reading Windsor that the main thrust in DOMA was the federal government getting involved in a very important relation that was the domain of state.”

“But that isn’t all that clear,” he added.

Virginia’s Solicitor General Stuart Rafael sought to make a distinction that few others have: that the case is about the “right to marriage, not to same-sex marriage.”

“What’s new,” he said, “is our relatively recent recognition of gay people.”

Whatever the Fourth Circuit’s eventual ruling, it will affect all the states in that circuit, which are Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. And whatever the panel’s ruling, it will be appealed, first to the full circuit court bench and then to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Only one other federal appeals court has heard arguments on a lawsuit challenging a statewide ban on same-sex marriage since the Supreme Court issued its rulings striking DOMA and allowing a district court ruling to stand that struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage. The latter was based, not on the constitutionality of the ban but on the lack of legal standing for the appeal. The Tenth Circuit last month heard cases from two states –Utah and Oklahoma—bringing challenges to those states bans.

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You are here: Opinion Columnists There is no need to change the name of unity state to western upper nile state

There is no need to change the name of unity state to western upper nile state

By: Weirial Gatyiel Puok Baluang

September 4, 2013 (SSNA) -- Unity state is a state in the northern part of our country South Sudan, it border Upper Nile to the East, Jonglei state to the South, Warrap state to the west, and Lakes state to the south west. The capital of Unity state is Bentiu. It has an area of 35,956 square kilometers (13,883 sq. mi). Unity is inhabited predominantly by two ethnic groups, the Nuer (90%) and the Dinka (10%) the counties of Unity State are: payinjiar, Rubkona, Panrieng, Leer, Guit, Koch, Abiemnom, Mayiendit, and Mayom counties. The larger towns are Bentiu, Mayom and Leer. Other towns are Riangnom, RubKoni, adok,Mankien, Wang-Kay, Koch, Rubkuay, Nyal, Nhialdiw, and Ganyliel. Before an administrative reorganization in 1994, Unity state was part of a much larger province of Upper Nile, and the state is still sometimes called Western Upper Nile, Western Nuer, and Lich state. The author was shocked to hear the news of changing the state name from unity state to western upper Nile state, why did they leave the very important name called Lich state if they are really in need of change. I can see it is not fair to change the name without representing the entire people of south Sudan and unity state in particular. People of unity state would have been asked to go for a state name referendum rather than dictating them with the non-productive name western upper Nile.

Let me go down a bit to the history for the reason that brought the name Unity to be effective in the respective state of unity state. State (known as Al-Wahda in Arabic) is an oil-producing region of South Sudan on the international but largely un-demarcated and contested border with north Sudan’s South Kordofan State. Former Sudanese president Jaaper Nimeri named the state ‘Bentiu’ as; unity’ due to the fact that it has the petroleum which was important to them. They name it ‘wehida’ in Arabic so us to be annexed to part of the Sudan’s southern kordufan state. They named it like that so that it becomes a strategic political mean to annex it to Sudan if southerners would decide to separate from Sudan. The name was not necessary during the time Sudan was one but it is necessary nowadays since we became independent. Does south Sudanese not in need of south Sudan unity? The word unity has nothing to do with state. If it was a separate state than it would sound good to change it from separate state to the Unity State?

I do believe the new government of unity state is a bit transforming the state to the democratic practice since the newly appointed caretaker governor is a peace loving leader and he is much loved by the entire people of unity state. But the only thing that may turn away his lovely followers is that move of changing the name of the respective state without considering the views and opinions of the people of unity state from different walks of life. For instance, if I were a member of the committee for the state name change I would suggested the inclusion of all the people of unity states from different state nine counties or representatives from nine counties so that it sound fantastic democracy. The author is not happy for that name, unless through the majority of unity state rights.

Most of the citizen of unity state proposed the name Lich state since Lich is an historical place for the people of unity state and Nuer as a whole. For the name western Nuer, it would not sound good because unity state is inhabited by two Tribes namely Nuer which marked the 90% of the state population comprised of seven counties out of nine counties, and the Dinka which marked 10% of the state population comprised of two counties out of nine counties. Therefore, we need a comprehensive name for all the people of the lovely state.

It is good to start the democracy from the ground, no matter how a state is. It has been said in the proverb that ‘’the small thing which you have is better than more things which we don’t actually have” Once the democracy is start at the state level like Unity state I am sure it will be automatically adapted by the people in different respective states of mama land and would reach up to the national level [Juba].

Unity is an English word no matter the founder was an Arab, if it is the case now that all Arabic names are to be eradicated than we should not leave all the places named in Arabic language in the state. The name ingas, Daira, Dareslalam, Khalibalek, sukelshaba, Amulhisap, and many more Arabic Names must effectively go away with the wanted name Unity. I wish for unity through the life, for example I was in Malakal town for a certain workshop for greater Upper Nile States last year in 2012 where the people of unity state were considered as the ones for Reconciliation due to the fact that their state name is Unity.

They were very lucky to have that valuable name, but now they seem to be unlucky for their wonderful state name to be change. South Sudan have almost a half of its names in Arabic language, for instance in Juba city which is our capital city you will find that most of the names are in Arabic, e.g. Mhata Yiey, hai malakal, hai kwait, jebel, and  khor William to mention but the few. We need not to waist our economy on creating such non-productive names. Government must just be serious on how to allocate the unlimited resources to entire people of south Sudan and to deal away to the unemployment in the country rather than allocating budget for such a thing. It will surprise many of you my readers that the word SUDAN is and Arabic name for black, it is suoda which later translated to Sudan after sometimes like Unity state capital was at first called Betim and turned to Bentiu after sometimes.

The author appeal to Unity state Law makers for allowing this change happened, further more Western Upper Nile is indeed a good Name but it will never reduce any of the problems people were expecting from the name Unity.

In conclusion, I and many citizens of the respective state whom their voices I am representing here do not support that name simply because Unity always the patriotic one. There is a Nuer theory which believe that it is a curse for a name of a person to do the same as that particular object of your core name, for example when your name is borrowed from wine than people believe that you would one day become a drunkard, if your name is borrowed from fights than you would for one reason or another be a war monger. Unity state citizen do love themselves since the time of Adam and Eve. This new name may for one reason or another divide them. The only comprehensive name is Lich if they were to be asked to choose one from three names. My question to conclude this article is ‘it is happening now that we dislike Arabic Names, than are we going to change the name South Sudan since Sudan an Arabic Name?

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Under a new peanut program, production in North Carolina and Virginia is likely to move east, says a North Carolina State University Extension ag economist. And, it's reasonable to expect a premium for Virginia-type peanuts.

Whether that's 2002 or 2003, the debate rages on at presstime. If the current program stays in place, Virginia-type growers are in good shape because of the small amount of peanuts in the government loan.

Much like the 1996 farm bill pushed production from central to west Texas, peanut farming in the V-C region will move to areas where cost of production is lower and yields are potentially higher, says Blake Brown, North Carolina State University Extension ag economist.

“Overall, it's hard to tell what will happen,” Brown says, “but a number of farmers could exit production since Virginia-type peanuts are more expensive to grow and require more management than runner-type peanuts.” It's equally unclear if production will increase. Those who remain will likely be growing for a premium price.

To gauge where peanut production will move under the new program, look to the east, Brown believes. Price is the wild card in the mix. Because Virginias may fetch a premium, it's likely that production will move to already-productive areas, as well as new production areas farther south and east.

Counties such as Gates, Martin, Bertie and Chowan in the northeastern part of North Carolina could gain acres.

Certain areas of counties, ones traditionally with more quota, but also with higher production costs and lower yields, could lose acres, Brown says. He predicts acreage could move out of some parts of Halifax, Northampton and Edgecombe counties into the “Blacklands” of North Carolina. “Some parts of these counties (Halifax, Northampton and Edgecombe, for example) may not be as competitive out of the current program.

On the other hand, “Pitt County would be a likely candidate to increase acreage,” Brown says. He believes the same movement of acreage could happen in Virginia — from west to east. To a large degree, cost-per acre will dictate if peanuts stay in an area or leave for less-expensive environs, Brown says. Low production costs tend to fall to the better “peanut land.”

On the average, it costs $450-$500 a ton to grow Virginia-type peanuts in North Carolina. “We have some producers who spend around $500 a ton to grow peanuts — many fall in the range of $450-$500,” Brown says.

Under a new peanut program, peanut farmers who spend above $500 a ton to grow peanuts won't be able to survive, Brown says.

“I don't know how producers can do anything else to reduce production costs,” Brown says. “There's not a lot more they can do to become more competitive.”

Brown also points out that shellers are still trying to figure the role of west Texas in Virginia-type production.

Brown sees more contracts for Virginia coming under the new program. He also believes shellers will have to give some kind of assurance of premiums.

For runners, like they grow in Georgia, the price will probably be close to or at the new-loan rate of $350 a ton,” Brown figures. “Virginias, on the other hand, will require some type of premium paid above the loan rate. For Virginias, there will have to be more contracting by the shellers, so they can assure themselves of a stable supply.

“Shellers will have to offer enough incentive for growers to raise Virginia-type peanuts,” Brown says.

In the case of runners, Brown isn't sure that a contract will even be offered, because the price could be at or near the loan rate.

“We will have to wait and see in regard to prices,” Brown says. The Senate and House versions of the new peanut program set the loan rate at $350.

Producers, as well as shellers, in the V-C area “really haven't known what to do this year,” Brown says.

“Now, as it becomes more likely there will not be a new farm bill in 2002, that at least gives producers a starting point — assuming they will operate under the old program one more year,” Brown says.

“This is a huge change,” he says. “It's created an awful lot of uncertainty between shellers and farmers.

“Another year to figure out these changes would be great,” Brown says.

While the pools are no longer needed under the new program, they may have a role to help the government with storage of peanuts, Brown predicts.

When the new program does arrive, it will create structural changes.

The largest change for growers in the V-C area may be a shake out of acreage from higher-production cost counties to counties that have traditionally had higher yields at lower costs.

“Fairly productive peanut land may see an increase,” Brown says. “The main difference in a switch of programs is that the higher-cost producers with lower yields won't be able to survive under the new peanut policy.

“This, and the probable premiums for Virginia-type peanuts will move acres to lower cost counties,” Brown says.


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Bilingual is Better

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As we mentioned in yesterday’s post, we are dedicating this whole week to looking more closely at the OPOL method, after realizing that the majority of our readers are using it to raise their children bilingual.

Today we are honored to present you with the expertise of pediatrician and author of 7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child, Dr. Naomi Steiner, who has been interested in teaching and discussing bilingualism and multiculturalism for a very long time. In fact, her book – written with Susan L. Hayes – came about after more than 10 years of working closely around these issues with many families. Dr. Steiner is herself multilingual, she speaks English, French, German and Italian, and is continuing the trend with her own children by raising them multilingual, too.

A developmental-behavioral pediatrician and clinical researcher at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts, Dr. Steiner is also an assistant professor in pediatrics. She is interested in how children develop awareness to cope with their emotions, behavior and learning.

In addition, she is co-director of an early developmental assessment clinic for children between zero and three years of age at the Center for Children with Special Needs, at the Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts Medical Center. This clinic evaluates primarily children on the autism spectrum and with developmental delays. Yoga training in schools to help children cope with stress is a special interest to Dr. Steiner, and another on-going project that she has.

Why did you write a book about raising bilingual children?

Dr. Naomi Steiner

Dr. Naomi Steiner

When I was pregnant, because my husband and I are both multilingual, we had to think about which languages we were going to speak to our child in. So as a pediatrician specialized in child development and in behavior, I went around the office asking colleagues, speech and language therapists, linguists, teachers, education specialists, what they thought. I got so many different answers, that I was quite confused. In the end I did extensive research myself, and have continued since then to be interested in this field. I wrote this book because it is clear that parents are asking very thoughtful questions, yet they are not getting answers that are based on research that is explained in a lay way.

  • Dr. Steiner’s tip for parents: as you gather information regarding raising your child – even in general – ask yourself: “does this advice make sense to me? Will it work for me and my family?

What you have found continues to be the biggest misconception about raising bilingual children?

What really fuels my engine to talk about bilingualism to parents is not only the myths themselves, but they way that they negatively affect parents, who then give up on transmitting their heritage to their children. This continues to keep me going. That is why “speaking” on blogs like this is so important.

  • Dr. Steiner’s tip: you are not alone! Keep communicating with other parents, support each other, exchange ideas and energy to raise healthy bilingual children.

What would you say is the number one concern you hear from parents thinking about or in the middle of raising their children bilingual?

I have interviewed hundreds of parents about raising children bilingual. What comes back over and over again, is that parents know in their guts raising their child bilingual is the way to go – and they are right – however they hesitate and this stalls them. Often important people in their child’s lives (from teachers, speech and language specialists, even their own family) send conflicting messages. So parents’ number one concern is: am I doing it right? Is this o.k.?
And parents have to understand that the answer is: “yes, you are doing great”. Even if your child does not speak perfect Spanish – yet- , whichever steps your are taking are moving her and your family along.

  • Dr. Steiner’s tip for hesitating parents: Persevere and you will get there!

“I love the One Parent-One Language method because it is the most successful,” Dr. Naomi Steiner says. “And here is why I encourage OPOL:”

  1. It supports consistency: what I mean here is that this is the easiest way for you to be speaking with your child Spanish consistently because you are doing it all the time. Period. I also recommend speaking to your child in Spanish when in public. But I know that a lot of parents switch to English. Each family has to make this personal decision for themselves.
  2. It is simple: that’s because you are speaking Spanish, and that’s it. There is not room for “oh we are taking a bath so let’s switch languages now. Simple parenting strategies are important in our busy lives. A certain amount of steps just become automatic. For instance, if you are at the library you look for the Spanish book section.
  3. It is effortless: you don’t need to be handling and dealing with your child that “now is Spanish time,” because it is always Spanish time with you. And if you child does tell you at one point “no more Spanish,” then you sit down with your child and explain why Spanish is important to you and your family and that this is part of you that you are giving to him.
  4. It naturally encourages your child to respond to you in Spanish: as a young infant, your child will literally automatically answer you back in your language. And will continue to do so as long as it remains your house rule.
  5. It enables a child to receive a maximum language input in two different languages: This is very important. So for instance if you are speaking Spanish and your child is hearing English at day care, your child will also be learning to speak Spanish fluently because when you are with her you are always speaking in Spanish. If you speak to your child half the time in English, that decreases the exposure to Spanish in half, which in turn will slow down your child’s pace of learning Spanish.

You can find a lot more information about the OPOL method and more of Dr. Steiner’s helpful recommendations and tips in her book, 7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child, which – lucky for you – we are giving away once again today and every day this week.

To win a copy of Dr. Naomi Steiner’s book:

Tell us why you would like to win this book? How and why do you think it will be helpful in your family’s situation? Pretty simple, huh?

Remember we’ll be giving away one copy per day and you can enter once per day. Today’s giveaway will end tonight at midnight EST. Make sure you’re subscribed either by RSS or email so you don’t miss out on this highly informative and useful OPOL week.

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We hope you are enjoying and learning from our OPOL week! If you missed yesterday’s introductory post, you can read it by going here. And, don’t forget to come back for more tomorrow, when we bring you our weekly Ask an Expert series with an OPOL-specific question answered by Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert, author of Language Strategies for Bilingual Families – The One Parent-One Language Approach and the blog: Notes from the OPOL Family. Plus, remember we’ll be giving away yet another copy of Dr. Naomi Steiner’s book.

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A new poll has Newt Gingrich far ahead in Florida (Florida Times-Union)

Police in L.A. and Philadelphia clear Occupy camps (CNN)

The New York Times has a piece trying to show that Gingrich was a lobbyist, not just a consultant.

The administration has launched a campaign to crack down on counterfeit goods (CNN)

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)—Twins manager Ron Gardenhire isn’t one for team meetings or speeches at this stage. He will send his players out for the final 11 days of this disappointing season and just observe who’s still giving their all.

And, the skipper hopes, maybe Minnesota will shake up the playoff picture in the process.

Michael Cuddyer homered, hit three doubles and drove in four runs, and the Twins beat the Oakland Athletics 10-4 Wednesday to snap a three-game skid.

The A’s fell 2 1/2 games behind first-place Los Angeles in the AL West. The Angels beat Texas 6-5 in a late game.

“This was a good win for us,” said Gardenhire, whose club is already eliminated from postseason contention after winning the AL Central the past three years. “To come out and score some runs and get a lead, we haven’t done that very often. It was fun. The guys got to run the bases.”

Cuddyer finished with a career-high four hits and homered against Oakland for the fifth time this season. After his solo shot in the second inning, he followed with three doubles for his third career four-RBI game. He was intentionally walked in the eighth.

Matthew LeCroy added three hits and two RBIs for Minnesota, which had lost five of six. The Twins tagged Joe Kennedy in taking a 7-0 lead in the fifth, and avoided a three-game sweep.

“Cuddyer killed us all year. He was pretty much a one-man wrecking crew,” A’s manager Ken Macha said.

Scott Baker (2-2) pitched five effective innings to win for the first time in five starts. He retired 12 of the first 14 batters he faced, allowing a one-out single to Jay Payton in the second and a leadoff single by Dan Johnson in the third.

Bobby Crosby returned to Oakland’s lineup after sitting out Tuesday to rest his fractured left ankle. He singled and scored in Oakland’s three-run fifth, when Jason Kendall added a two-run double and Nick Swisher hit a sacrifice fly.

Mark Ellis homered leading off the A’s eighth for his 11th of the year.

A’s center fielder Mark Kotsay became defensive when someone suggested Oakland didn’t exhibit the kind of energy most would expect in the middle of a late-season pennant race.

“We didn’t come out flat,” Kotsay said. “They came out and swung the bats well. How can a team come out flat when we know what’s on the line? It’s Sept. 21 and we’re 1 1/2 games out. They jumped out on us and never let up. They kept their foot on our neck and never let us breathe.”

Kennedy (3-4) didn’t last long in his sixth start for Oakland. He allowed six runs and five hits in 3 1-3 innings.

The lefty, who joined the A’s in a trade with Colorado on July 13, began as a reliever with the team and then moved into the rotation Aug. 27. After winning his first start at Baltimore, he has gone 0-4 in five outings—the losing streak is his worst since dropping four in a row last year with the Rockies.

Kennedy’s poor performance shows just how much the A’s miss right-hander Rich Harden, sidelined since Aug. 19 with a strained muscle in the back of his throwing shoulder. Harden began the year as the team’s No. 2 starter behind Barry Zito, but he might not pitch again this season.

The Twins loaded the bases in the third when Jason Tyner and Jason Bartlett drew consecutive one-out walks, then LeCroy singled. Justin Morneau drove in a run with a grounder, and Cuddyer followed with his sharp double to left.

Cuddyer hit a solo homer in the second, his 12th. While he would have liked to get another chance at the plate to try for five hits, Cuddyer insists he’s just determined to help the Twins finish strong.

“We’ve got a lot of things to play for,” he said. “We want to finish .500.”

Twins RHP Brad Radke has officially decided to shut it down for the year to let his troublesome throwing shoulder heal. RHP Joe Mays, demoted to the bullpen early last month, will pitch in Radke’s place Saturday at Chicago. … LeCroy, the Twins’ DH, was back in the lineup after missing Tuesday’s game with a sore right big toe. … Harden’s time is running out to return this year. “I view the whole thing as the window is getting smaller,” Macha said. Harden is scheduled to pitch a simulated game Friday following the team’s day off Thursday. … Longtime A’s PA announcer Roy Steele missed his third straight game with a throat problem. … A’s OF Bobby Kielty should be able to start Friday against Texas LHP Kenny Rogers. Kielty has been out since Sept. 4 with a strained right oblique muscle. … Tyner, playing in place of injured LF Shannon Stewart, stole his first base in the sixth on a double steal that also included Luis Rivas’ third stolen base of the year.

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MIAMI (AP)—Roy Halladay found a remedy for his early-season woes—the Miami Marlins.

Halladay earned his 200th career victory Sunday, bouncing back from consecutive poor outings to pitch eight innings and help the Philadelphia Phillies beat the offensively challenged Marlins 2-1.

Halladay (1-2) allowed five hits, walked one and lowered his ERA from 14.73 to 7.63. He was facing a Miami team ranked last in the majors in runs and home runs and playing without Giancarlo Stanton sidelined by a bruised left shoulder.

“Stanton wasn’t in there, and offensively they haven’t been as good,” Halladay said. “But I feel like if I can make pitches confidently and make them early in the count, I can be successful.”

That’s what Halladay did against the Marlins (2-10), who have scored only 20 runs all season.

The victory counted, just the same. Halladay’s the 109th pitcher to reach the 200-win milestone, and the first to do so in a Phillies uniform since Hall of Famer Steve Carlton in 1978.

The low-key Halladay received a celebratory bottle of champagne from the Phillies but said he didn’t whoop it up.

“I want to win a World Series,” he said. “That’s why I’m here. The personal milestones are great. My son, my wife, my family—they’re all excited about it. But for me the ultimate goal is to get to the playoffs and win a World Series. When that happens, I’m going to go in the back room and yell.”

Laynce Nix batting for Halladay, broke a 1-all tie with his second pinch-hit homer of the season in the ninth inning.

Rocky efforts in Halladay’s two previous starts raised doubts about the future of the two-time Cy Young Award winner, who went only 11-8 and battled injuries in 2012.

“More than anything, I had been putting a lot of pressure on myself,” he said. “In the past I tried to control too much and do too much and worry about too much.

Today the plan was simpler—execute pitches one at a time, and not worry about what’s going on, and it made a big difference.”

Halladay struck out only two, but he walked just one and threw only 87 pitches.

“He was good. Real good. Better,” manager Charlie Manuel said.

Manuel said the performance shouldn’t be discounted just because it came against the short-handed Marlins.

“They can beat you,” he said. “I’m sure they’re going to play hard, and they’ll beat some people you don’t think they might beat.”

The Marlins managed to win one of three games in the series even though they totaled just four runs. They’re batting .204 with 17 extra-base hits, including two homers, and their slugging percentage is .262.

With runners in scoring position they’re batting .174. They went 1 for 6 against Halladay in those situations.

“They got the big hit, and we didn’t,” Marlins manager Mike Redmond said.

Stanton sat out for third consecutive game. He said he won’t play Monday but might return later in the week.

Outfielder Austin Kearns was scratched from the Miami lineup and taken to a hospital with an irregular heartbeat. He was held for observation overnight.

Philadelphia couldn’t muster much offense either, until Nix batted with one out in the ninth and homered into the upper deck in right field off Jon Rauch (0-2). It was the seventh run batted in by a Phils pinch hitter.

Jonathan Papelbon pitched around a leadoff walk in the ninth for his second save in as many chances. That gave the victory to Halladay, who leads all active pitchers with a winning percentage of .662 (200-102).

Among those active, only the New York YankeesAndy Pettitte has more victories with 247.

Miami’s lone run scored in the seventh, and a baserunning blunder allowed Halladay to escape further damage. Rob Brantly misjudged a routine fly, and after the ball was caught he was doubled off second to end the inning.

“We can’t make those kinds of mistakes,” Redmond said. “Those things can’t happen.”

Brantly declined to talk to reporters.

NOTES: Phils SS Jimmy Rollins was given a rest and held out of the lineup after starting the first 11 games. … The retractable roof was closed on an 87-degree afternoon. … Marlins RHP Jose Fernandez is the first pitcher 20 or younger to allow less than two runs and less than four hits in each of his first two career starts since Rudy May of the Angels in 1965, according to STATS LLC. … LHP Cliff Lee (2-0, 1.08) is scheduled to start for the Phils when they open a series Monday at Cincinnati against Bronson Arroyo (1-1, 5.25).

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Utah coach Jerry Sloan was a little mystified that the Jazz still have hope to reach the playoffs.

They didn’t play like it.

The Jazz blew an 11-point lead—long after Houston center Yao Ming left with a broken foot—and had to rally and hold off the Rockets 85-83 Monday and keep Utah’s dwindling playoff hopes alive.

“I didn’t know who was still trying to make the playoffs,” Sloan said. “They looked like the team that wants to be in the playoffs and we looked like we don’t want to be there.”

Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams both went 1-for-2 from the line in the final 1:11 for the final points of the game, which the Rockets nearly won or at least forced in to overtime.

Houston lost Yao late in the first period. The Chinese star said Utah’s Mehmet Okur kicked him on the side of the foot, but he tried to play through the pain for a few minutes before it became too much. He left the game 44 seconds after converting a three-point play and finished with five points, two rebounds and a block in 8:31.

With just four games remaining, Yao’s fourth season in the league is almost certainly over.

“Maybe it’s the best thing for me and when I come back I’ll be stronger,” Yao said while wearing a protective boot in the locker room.

Houston had several chances down the stretch, the last coming on Juwan Howard’s jumper at the buzzer. The shot went in, but it was too late.

After reviewing the play, referee Joe Crawford ended the game by shouting “No good” toward Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy and the Rockets.

“It was a good game. It was more like a playoff atmosphere,” said Boozer, who led Utah with 25 points.

The Jazz won their third straight and improved to 38-39, getting within 2 1/2 games of the Lakers and Kings, who are tied for the last two playoff spots. It may be too much ground to make up for Utah, which would lose a tiebreaker to Sacramento.

“We made some mistakes down the stretch, but the biggest thing is we got the win,” said Matt Harpring, who finished with 14 points, six rebounds and one black eye courtesy of an elbow from Houston’s Dikembe Mutombo—Harpring’s former teammate in Philadelphia.

Howard finished with 25 points and Rafer Alston scored 20 for the Rockets. They were the only Houston players to score in double figures, although the shorthanded Rockets came close to all-but knocking Utah out of the playoff race.

Boozer went 1-for-2 from the free throw line with 4.3 seconds left and Houston’s Chuck Hayes, who had just missed two free throws at the other end, pulled down the rebound on the second shot and Houston called time out.

Alston dribbled at the top of the key and got a late pass off to Howard in the corner in front of the Jazz bench. By the time Howard caught the ball and took a step toward the basket, the buzzer had sounded and Howard didn’t get the ball off in time.

“Unfortunately at times things don’t work out your way and tonight we came out with a lot of fight, start to finish, unfortunately we just couldn’t pull out the victory,” Howard said.

Houston, which is out of the playoff race and hasn’t had leading scorer Tracy McGrady (back) since early March, outscored Utah in the paint 50-24 despite missing Yao for most of the game. Houston still rallied without its top two scorers after trailing 70-61 at the end of the third.

The Rockets started the fourth with a 10-0 run and led a few times down the stretch before the Jazz rallied.

Okur, who had 20 points and 12 rebounds, tried to draw a foul for Utah when he collided with Howard and dropped to the floor. There was no call and the Rockets got the loose ball, but Howard missed a short jumper and Williams pulled down the rebound for Utah. Williams made one of his two free throws with 1:11 remaining to put Utah ahead 84-83.

Alston tried a layup for Houston, but it bounced off the rim and Harpring pulled down the rebound. But the Jazz turned it over when Williams’ shot was off with the shot clock about to expire. Houston got the rebound and called time out with 23 seconds left.

Keith Bogans’ shot inside 10 seconds left was blocked by Kirilenko, but Hayes got the rebound and drew a foul from Boozer with 5.9 seconds left.

Hayes had 10 rebounds. … Houston also lost David Wesley with 5 minutes left when he was called for his sixth foul, getting Harpring as he put up a shot in the lane. … Williams had 11 points and eight assists for Utah.

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Gold Cup Preview: Panama - Canada

Panama (4-4-2): Penedo; Rodriguez, Torres, Cummings, Chen; Quintero, Sanchez, Godoy, Gomez; Blackburn, Torres

GOALKEEPERS: Jaime Penedo (unattached), Luis Mejia (Fenix - Uruguay), Alex Rodriguez (Sporting San Miguelito)

DEFENDERS: Leonel Parris (Tauro), Harold Cummings (Arabe Unido), Carlos Rodriguez (Chepo), Roman Torres (Millonarois - Colombia), Jean Carlos Cedeño (Alianza), Roderick Miller (San Francisco), Richard Dixon (Sporting San Miguelito), Roberto Chen (San Francisco)

MIDFIELDERS: Gabriel Gomez (Junior (Colombia), Marcos Sanchez (Tauro), Eybir Bonaga (San Francisco), Juan Perez (Tauro), Jairo Jimenez (Chorrillo), Alberto Quintero (Chorrillo), Anibal Godoy (Chepo), Rolando Escobar (Deportivo Anzoategui - Venezuela)

FORWARDS: Blas Perez (FC Dallas - USA), Gabriel Torres (Zamora - Venezuela), Cecilio Waterman (Fenix - Uruguay), Rolando Blackburn (Chorrillo)

Canada (4-2-3-1): Borjan; Ledgerwood, Edgar, Henry, De Jong; Pacheco, De Guzman; Osorio, Bekker, Nakajima-Farran; Ricketts

GOALKEEPERS: Lars Hirschfeld (Valerenga - Norway), Milan Borjan (Sivasspor - Turkey), Simon Thomas (Vancouver Whitecaps)

DEFENDERS: Doneil Henry (Toronto FC), Nik Ledgerwood (Hammarby IF - Sweden), Ashtone Morgan (Toronto FC), David Edgar (Burnley - England), Marcel de Jong (FC Augsburg - Germany), Nana Attakora (San Jose Earthquakes), Adam Straith (unattached)

MIDFIELDERS: Kyle Bekker (Toronto FC), Julian de Guzman (unattached), Issey Nakajima-Farran (Alki Larnaca - Cyprus), Jonathan Osorio (Toronto FC), Pedro Pacheco (CD Santa Clara - Portugal), Samuel Piette (Fortuna Düsseldorf - Germany), Kyle Porter (D.C. United), Keven Aleman (Real Valladolid - Spain)

FORWARDS: Marcus Haber (Stevenage FC - England), Tosaint Ricketts (Sandnes Ulf - Norway)

  • Panama heads into this match as the Group A leader, and it is assured of advancing to the quarterfinal round.

  • The Central Americans' victory over Mexico on the first match day was the first time Panama had ever beaten the CONCACAF giant.

  • Canada's squad has been decimated by unexpected absences, as Nana Attakora, Simeon Jackson, Randy Edwini-Bonsu, Will Johnson and Russell Teibert have all left the team at various stages of the tournament. Only Jackson left with a non-injury/illness issue, as the forward travelled to Germany to sign with Bundesliga side Eintracht Braunschweig.

  • To add to the injury crisis, striker Marcus Haber is doubtful for the match as he suffered an ankle injury in the 2-0 loss to Mexico on Thursday.

  • Canada must win to have a chance at advancing. If they can secure a victory, the Canucks will still have to wait on other groups' results to find out their fate. The top two third-place teams in the tournament move on to the quarterfinals, along with the first and second-place finishers in each group.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- In case they weren't aware already, the Chicago Blackhawks now know they're going to have to earn it if they want to get past Detroit.

The Red Wings hammered home that message on Saturday.

Damien Brunner and Brendan Smith scored in the second period and Detroit beat the Blackhawks 4-1 in Game 2 to even their Western Conference semifinal series.

It was a strong response by the Red Wings after Chicago handled them easily in the series opener, 4-1.

''We've got a real good club now,'' Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. ''And we haven't been good all year. We've just gotten better.''

Their confidence got a big jolt after they knocked off the Presidents' Trophy winners and avoided falling into a deep hole. It was another big win by a team that finished seventh in the conference, only to knock off second-seeded Anaheim in the first round.

Now, they're even with a team that's been rolling along all season and is eyeing its second Stanley Cup in four years.

''Both teams would be stupid if they thought they were going to come in here and either team win four straight,'' Chicago's Brent Seabrook said.

Just as the Blackhawks did in Game 1, Detroit took control in the second period and put the game away in the third. Now, the Red Wings have a chance to take the lead when this series between Original Six rivals shifts to Detroit for Game 3 on Monday.

''Overall, I think we had more energy,'' the Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg said. ''We did a lot of the little things better than we did in Game 1 and when we got our chances we were able to put the puck in the net.''

Patrick Kane gave Chicago a 1-0 lead late in the first, but did things ever change after that.

Brunner tied it when he deflected a wrist shot by Jakub Kindl early in the second, and Smith gave the Red Wings the lead when he scored off a feed from Zetterberg on a 3-on-1 late in the second.

Johan Franzen made it 3-1 in the third when he fired a rising shot past Corey Crawford after a perfect pass from Jonathan Ericsson in the Detroit zone. And Valtteri Filppula closed out the scoring with 7:57 left in the game.

That was enough for Jimmy Howard, who stopped 19 shots.

Crawford made 26 saves for Chicago and played well at times even though things got out of hand down the stretch. When it was over, coach Joel Quenneville insisted his faith in his goalie hasn't wavered.

''Not at all,'' he said. ''Across the board, we should all assume responsibility.''

The Red Wings were simply a step faster and were more physical in this one after the Blackhawks ran away from them in the opener.

''I think just by taking care of our own end first, making good plays, you end up playing a faster game that way,'' Smith said. ''By taking away their speed, it helps out ours. You want to get a lot of contact on these types of teams, and it works out for us.''

The Blackhawks still struck first thanks to a lucky bounce after Detroit's Kyle Quincey sprawled out to block a pass across the slot by Patrick Sharp that was intended for Kane on a 2-on-1 rush. The puck bounced to a trailing Michal Handzus, who immediately fed it to a wide open Kane in the right slot. He fired it into the net at the 14:05 mark for a 1-0 lead and his first goal of the playoffs.

About a minute later, with the Red Wings on a power play, Crawford made a nice save on Zetterberg before Pavel Datsyuk ripped a shot high off the right post.

Detroit tied it early in the second when a wrist shot by Kindl from just inside the blue line deflected off Brunner and past a screened Crawford, who didn't even react as the puck went past him on the glove side.

But Chicago's goalie had the fans chanting his name midway through the period with two great saves, stopping Zetterberg from the slot and sprawling out to foil Daniel Cleary on the rebound.

The Red Wings took a 2-1 lead with 3:52 left in the second after Chicago's Niklas Hjalmarsson fell racing Zetterberg for a loose puck. Zetterberg then dished to Smith on a 2-on-1 rush for the go-ahead goal.

''He creates a lot of stuff, sometimes for both teams,'' Zetterberg said in a nod to Smith's struggles in Game 1.

There weren't many mistakes by the Red Wings in this one. Other than Kane's goal, they contained the Blackhawks' stars and made it look easy over the final two periods.

''They kind of used our own style against us as far as holding onto the puck and keeping it away from us,'' Kane said.

NOTES: LW Drew Miller was in the Red Wings' lineup for the first time since April 20. He had been sidelined by a broken bone in his right hand. ... F Viktor Stalberg was a healthy scratch for the Blackhawks, just as he was in Game 1. ''I don't like changing too much, but we wanted to get (Dave Bolland) in our lineup,'' Quenneville said before the game. ''It's comparable to what we've done during season. But we'll see. We can adapt and change at any moment.'' ... Quenneville on the early start: ''I think the guys, once they get in, they don't mind playing in the afternoon.''

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Cincinnati 27, Jacksonville 10
When: 4:05 PM ET, Sunday, September 30, 2012
Where: EverBank Field, Jacksonville, Florida
Temperature: 86°
Head Official: Ed Hochuli
Attendance: 63030

Bengals 27, Jaguars 10:
Andy Dalton passed for two touchdowns and ran for another and Cincinnati's defense turned in its strongest effort of the season as the visiting Bengals beat Jacksonville for their third straight win.

A.J. Green had six catches for 117 yards for the Bengals, giving him back-to-back 100-yard games for the first time in his career. He caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from Dalton early in the fourth quarter for a 24-10 lead.

Cincinnati's defense entered the game ranked 31st in the league against the run, but held Jaguars star Maurice Jones-Drew to 38 yards on 13 carries. The Bengals' pass rush continued to impress, racking up six sacks for the second straight game. They lead the NFL with 17 for the season.

The Bengals (3-1) also recorded their first interception of the campaign, as newly signed Chris Crocker was the first player to pick off a Blaine Gabbert pass this year. Gabbert had gone 130 passes without an interception.

Cincinnati pulled away from Jacksonville (1-3) when Dalton led consecutive scoring drives late in the second quarter. He gave the Bengals a 10-7 lead with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Chris Pressley and punched in a 1-yard run to make it 17-7 with 1:11 left in the half.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The Bengals have won the past three meetings after losing nine of the previous 10. … After going 589 touches without a fumble over his first five seasons in the NFL, Bengals RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis has fumbled in consecutive games. … WR Justin Blackmon, Jacksonville's first-round draft pick this year, had six catches for 48 yards.

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Cincinnati   Jacksonville
BenJarvus Green-Ellis Player Maurice Jones-Drew
26 Attempts 13
82 Yards 38
3.2 Avg Yards 2.9
0 Touchdowns 0
13 Long 9
Cincinnati   Jacksonville
A.J. Green Player Justin Blackmon
6 Receptions 6
117 Yards 48
19.5 Avg Yards 8.0
1 Touchdowns 0
42 Long 14
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Team Tot Rus Pas TD FG INT Sck FF
Cincinnati 382 138 244 3 2 1 6.0 0
Jacksonville 212 69 143 1 1 1 0.0 2
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Tom Coughlin Wishes He Knew Why the Giants Struggle in November, Admits Things Must Change

November 21, 2012 – 5:45 am by Brad Gagnon

Tom Coughlin has work to do. His New York Giants might be leading the NFC East, but that gap between them and the Dallas Cowboys has shrunk to just a game, and Coughlin’s Giants have lost back-to-back games as part of another November swoon. Now, coming out of the bye week, they draw the Green Bay Packers, and the schedule doesn’t ease up much from there.

Tom Coughlin joined Mike Francesa on WFAN in New York to discuss the New York Giants’ recent struggles, why they can’t win in November, the passing game, the pass rush, the secondary, David Wilson’s inability to pick up blitzes, his feelings regarding the team overall, what has to change, and Hurricane Sandy’s impact.

On the team’s struggles and their mentality going forward:

“We know that we’re going to have be at our very, very best. We have not been for a couple of ball games, Mike. We gave some huge plays with our coverage teams, kind of anemic on offense, didn’t stop the run. Following week we go into a game where we’re plus-14 and the opponent, the Bengals, is minus-five, and we come out of the game minus-three. A lot of the principles we believe in — winning the physical battle, that type of thing, the turnover battle — we did not do most recently, and we’ve gotta get back on track with that. So that’s where we’re starting. We came back from the bye week, players were rested.”

On what’s wrong with the team in November:

“I’ve been asked that many times and I wish I had something novel to relay to you, but I don’t. Our byes have fallen at different times, and we’ve fought our way through that and still — as you say — been, in the middle of the season, perhaps 6-2, whatever, but have got into a little bit of a tailspin for a while and have — thank goodness — been able to pull ourselves out of it. But as to why it takes place, I could give you a litany of reasons that I don’t know for sure whether they’re correct or not. But everyone gets to a certain point of the season. In this case for us, this year, the bye came late. We looked at it as a positive. Didn’t expect to play the way we have the last couple of weeks, but it’s reality now. And so the best thing we can do is try to learn something from it and go forward. But if I had an answer, it definitely wouldn’t happen.”

On if opposing defenses have caught up with the Giants’ passing game:

“I don’t think they’ve caught up with our passing game and I don’t think it’s all on the quarterback. I think that there have been circumstances in games where we haven’t created the openings and been in the position that we were in in the first part of the season. If you simply looked at the big plays, Mike, you’d see a huge number of big plays in September, a little bit of a fall-off in October, and November — quite frankly — not very well at all. So that aspect of our game has gotta come back. We’ve got to make some plays down the field, some big plays. And so that’s something that we look forward to improving in.”

On the pass rush struggling at time this season:

“The fact of the matter is you’ve gotta keep pushing. You’ve gotta keep coming. We haven’t always done that and we’re counting on that going forward because that’s always been the signature aspect of our game on defense, has been the pressure from the front.”

On what he thinks has to change for the team to turn it around:

“We’ve gotta get back to taking care of the football and getting takeaways. We had tremendous takeaway numbers here just within a couple of weeks. So I think we have to get back to that. … When we play well, all three phases do. Our special teams gives us the ball in field position. … Our defense, we definitely still have to stop the run. Stop the run and take away the imbalance where people can run and throw the ball, and get back to where the pressure comes from our front. That’s an absolute. Protect the passer better, and do a much better job of being decisive, of making very good route adjustments, of creating separation, and then the ball being thrown at the proper time. But we’d also like to see our run game come along — give us the balance again. Because quite frankly, Mike, a lot of our big plays down the field come off of play-action.”

On rookie running back David Wilson:

“We would like to use him. We need to get him more involved, and we will get him more involved. He’s a young player who, quite frankly, the blitz pickup is not the No. 1 thing that a lot of these kids can do when they come out of college, but they have to. They have to be able to do that to be able to put them on the field. And he’s gotten much better at that. He’s really studied hard and worked hard and — with the exception of that early fumble — he’s taken care of the ball as well. So we want David involved.”

On how he feels about the team right now:

“I feel good about our football team. We’ve spent an awful lot of time on the mental part of this thing right now because you do feel you have to come back from a break like this mentally refreshed as well as physically refreshed. And I like the position our players are in; I like the fact that they’re working hard together. We’ve had what we call some debriefing processes where they’ve expressed themselves and had a chance to clear the air, if anything, that was on their minds in terms of our team being better. But we are well aware of this next stretch that we have and we’re calling it a six-game season. Our schedule is six football games, all difficult games, one at a time.”

On Hurricane Sandy’s impact on the team and the city:

“There’s no person — no person — who lives in this part of the country that was not affected by Hurricane Sandy. … Certainly we were affected. Now we tried to do the best job we could. We tried to back our week up and try to put our players in a better position mentally where they could take care of their issues and then come to work. And for the most part, when we were here, I think the focus was here. But to say that we weren’t affected, that’d be foolish; that’d be naive on my part.”

On if he’s comfortable with the secondary:

“Well comfortable is not a good word, Mike, but we do say this: So much of what we do back there is based on the front, and if our front can get going, we can create the one-on-ones, the matchups that we think we have a excellent chance of getting to the quarterback, then I think the pressure will help us, the ball will come out on the time that we want it to come out and not at the quarterback’s as he moves around back there and picks his own spots. If we can do that, I think we can definitely help ourselves in the secondary.”

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Squash Canada: Power Academy becomes National Centre

Jonathon Power at the new Academy in Toronto

Squash Canada designates National Squash Academy as National Centre of Excellence

Squash Canada has announced an agreement with the National Squash Academy (NSA) as Squash Canada’s National Centre of Excellence.

The facility is located in Downsview Park in the heart of Toronto. The agreement provides a centralized training base for Canadian National Team members to train under the tutelage of former Malaysian National Coach and Squash Canada’s new Performance Director, Jamie Hickox.

The partnership gives Squash Canada’s athletes access to some of the best coaches in the world, including former World #1 Jonathon Power, and former World #12 singles and World #1 hardball doubles player Gary Waite, as well as their team of dedicated coaches.

Power commented: “This is the realization of a dream for myself and all Canadian squash players.  Through this partnership with Squash Canada and the vision of the National Squash Academy, we can now pool all of our resources nation-wide and give our athletes the best chance of competing at international level.”

In May of 2011, Squash Canada conducted a High Performance Review with world renowned high performance expert Dr. Peter Davis and the top two priorities identified were to centralize training for high performance athletes and to hire a full time Performance Director / National Coach.

“We feel that we are moving in the right direction organizationally, having achieved two of the main objectives of the high performance review in the past few months. As we continue to move forward, we will address the other priorities of the organization,” said Squash Canada Executive Director, Danny Da Costa.

The National Squash Academy was built in 2010 by Canadians Jamie Nicholls, Gary Waite and Jonathon Power as a dedicated training facility for aspiring Canadian touring professionals and top juniors.

The National Squash Academy offers all the necessary elements for athletes to excel at the national and international level and is fully aligned with Long Term Athlete Development objectives including access to world class coaching, dedicated court time for athletes, world-class training/fitness facilities as well as therapy/rehabilitation services.  In addition, the NSA provides affordable public access to its courts, a junior academy for all ages and levels, and community and school outreach programs.

The newly constructed 10-court public squash facility includes eight glass-back international courts and an all-glass McWil exhibition court, with the world’s first all-glass North American doubles court being installed in early 2012.

For complete story: http://www.squash.ca/e/story_detail.cfm?id=3273

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Sabbath: Paul: Apostle to the Gentiles

Read for This Week’s Study:

Acts 6:9–159:1–91 Sam. 16:7Matt. 7:1Acts 11:19–2115:1–5.

Memory Text:

“When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, ‘Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life’” (Acts 11:18, NKJV).

It’s not that hard to understand Saul of Tarsus (also known as the apostle Paul after his conversion), and why he did what he did. As a devout Jew who was taught all his life about the importance of the law and about the soon-coming political redemption of Israel, the idea of the long-awaited Messiah being ignominiously executed like the worst of criminals was just too much for him to tolerate.

No wonder, then, he was convinced that the followers of Jesus were being disloyal to the Torah and, thus, hindering God’s plan for Israel. Their claims that the crucified Jesus was the Messiah and that He had risen from the dead were, he believed, rank apostasy. There could be no tolerance for such nonsense or for anyone who refused to give up those notions. Saul was determined to be God’s agent to rid Israel of these beliefs. Hence, he first appears in the pages of Scripture as a violent persecutor of his fellow Jews, those who believed that Jesus was the Messiah.

God, however, had far different plans for Saul, plans that he never could have anticipated for himself: not only was this Jew going to preach Jesus as the Messiah, he was going to do it among the Gentiles!

Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, October 1

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  1. ln sabath afternoon, l would likely say that God prepared paul for a tedious task(preaching the gospel) by allowing him to persecute christians who were in the journey before him, so that during his own time he will not be discouraged while passing through challenges of following jesus.

  2. It is very interesting to me, that like Paul, we sometimes wrestle with God's desire for our lives where we may actually want to serve Him but primarily base on our interpretation of what we think must be done.

    Isa 55:8-New Living Translation
    "My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

    It is also interesting that Paul's ministry has been reemphasized over and over for inreach or outreach with the emphasize on following his commission to "teach", "baptize" and the "teach" again to those who may have less light than the rest of us. Do we need to reevaluate our mindset on effective ministry and how much we teach ourselves in the church? I do believe that not all churches or members are at the same spiritual level and would need help in moving forward, but how long do we do this.

    I think as we explored this quarter, we may see the "fruits of the spirit" by Paul's work who was filled with the Holy Ghost, where his teaching resulted in something amazing. Would love to see some of those comments are we progress through this lesson.

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My intention is to 'learn while doing' to create an airplane approaching from a distance, that is on a roller-coaster-like path. It will begin in the distance (small & unrecognizable) and end/stop begin able to read a message/greeting on a window or center of the engine spinner for instance.

At this time, I think the frameworks for doing this are:

  • UIKit
  • Core Animation
  • Open GL ES
  • Core Graphics

What is the highest level that this is possible? Would a higher level be possible if the plane's path came straight? Is there another framework that could be used? (I've read about cocos2d, but prefer to first learn apple's.)

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Just noting, this is probably a good question for your own research. This question is not compliance with the guidelines of StackOverflow. Please have a quick look at stackoverflow.com/faq#dontask –  Byte Apr 30 '12 at 14:45
You can look at the question from either side. I am asking for a simple 1,2,3... Start here, then learn about x, then look at y. A specific answer (if you can see the desired project) would be great for this forum (imo). –  David Apr 30 '12 at 15:18
There are many approaches to animation on iOS, so selecting the right approach is half the battle. You should start by learning about the different approaches, their capabilities, and limitations. The tutorials in my answer below cover several approaches (UIView animations, GL, etc...) –  HackyStack Apr 30 '12 at 15:29
OK. So the answer starts with 'Approaches'. Can you suggest one approach and possible steps you'd take with an idea like this? Then, I can know a specific place to research. –  David Apr 30 '12 at 15:38
While I know that you're unsure about where to start, I think you'll need to further clarify the effect you're trying to accomplish here, because I'm still not sure what you're trying to do. For example, if all you want to do is display your airplane as a static image and simply zoom in on it, that is trivial for Core Animation to do (or even with simple UIView animations). Look for examples of animation image scaling or translation in that case. However, if you want to generate a three-dimensional plane, you'll need to step up to OpenGL ES or an engine that wraps this API. –  Brad Larson May 1 '12 at 19:14

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There's a new "Animating Images" capability in UIImage. A discussion starts at 16:33 in the WWDC 2011 video: What's New in Cocoa Touch?

This would be similar to providing your application with an 'animated gif', by including only the series of images. No need to create the actual gif.

That allows you to create dynamic images. Then, to animating those (or static images) even further (such as moving them around the screen, sizing them, or changing their alpha translucency), check out the Core Animation WWDC videos and guide:

WWDC 2010

Core Animation Essentials Video

As well as the Core Animation Guide

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Of course, the WWDC programs are alot of excitement (cheerleading). That said, the Part 2 video is way over-the-top difficult. Collectively, these examples did help give direction to beginning the journey. –  David May 5 '12 at 21:52
After starting with Core Animation, know that UIView exposes an API for animating views (View Animation Blocks) and it simply uses Core Animation API's behind the scenes to implement it. See the "Animations" section of the View Programming Guide for more info: developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/WindowsViews/… –  Bobjt May 7 '12 at 19:08

Ray Wenderlich has some good beginning tutorials for iOS including some basic animation ones.

Check these out: http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials

It'd be a good place to start...

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Another good tutorial site. What am I looking for? –  David Apr 30 '12 at 15:25

Are you after 2D or 3D animation? If you want 2D, Core Animation is the obvious choice. Core Animation is very powerful, but the Apple documentation is vague at best. The Marcus Zarra Core Animation book is good, but doesn't cover much iOS specific animation code. Both it and the Bill Dudney Core Animation books are in need of updates. Both are worth owning, but both need to be updated and their iOS sections need to be greatly expanded.

If you want 3D animation, with perspective, then OpenGL is about your only choice. OpenGL is a bear to learn however.

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We are doing development for automation code.

Our code automates the company's products and is synced to a particular product version.

Currently, we have 1 big Git repository with multiple branches in it - v1.0, v1.1, v2.0 (automation for version 1.0 goes in v1.0 branch, and so on).

What are the advantages and disadvantages of having these in a single repository with branches vs. keeping each version code in a separate repository ?

Both solutions can work, the answer i'm looking for is a list of pros/cons for either approach.

I know that many teams are using branches to isolate temporary stages in development, such as doing a bug fixes or a new feature, merging back the work into the main development branch in the end.

Other modes of work i know are having different branches for development, release, etc, to separate "cleaner" revisions of the code from dirty ones that are constantly being worked on.

None of these sound similar to what we are currently doing though.

*Note that some modifications in a particular version we make are relevant for all product versions, while some are not.

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Version numbers are often represented by using tags. –  Charlie Rudenstål Aug 8 '12 at 21:38
tags mark a particular "moment in time" while we require to constantly keep different versions alive and update them. –  lysergic-acid Aug 8 '12 at 21:39

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Multiple branches

  • only one repo to manage (your automate points to one remote)
  • comparison (diff) between branches possible directly from that one repo
  • you can pull any of those branches from that one repo to any other downstream repos which might need it

  • branch cluttering (you need to manage/delete the sum of the branches)
  • tags are for all the repo (not just for "some products"

Multiple repos

  • you can pull from the main repo only what you need and work from there
  • you can clean easily old "branches" (just delete that specific repo)

  • repo duplication (takes more space)
  • repo management (you need to point to the right remote(s))

I would argue the single repo approach is a simpler and more classic approach.
That said, if you have many versions (which need to be cleaned up regularly), isolating those transient versions in their own repo can work too.

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awesome as always :) i thought you only deal with ClearCase :) –  lysergic-acid Aug 9 '12 at 7:13
@lysergic-acid by the look of my tags (stackoverflow.com/users/6309/vonc?tab=badges&sort=class), I deal with a bit more than ClearCase ;) –  VonC Aug 9 '12 at 7:15
Just that deleting branches in git is easy and painless, as is creating branches. So part of the pros of separate repositories dilute. –  vonbrand Feb 7 '13 at 1:41

Here's an interesting answer using Git tags and branches from this Stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2714318/1552414 (answer by None-da)

  1. Create a tag when you reach a new version. (v3.0.0)
  2. Create a branch of it when you need to modify it for the first time

    git checkout -b v3.0.0_branch v3.0.0
  3. Commit to the branch and create new tags when you reach v3.0.1, v3.0.2, v3.1.0

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Not too long ago my company went through a similar discussion (pros and cons of branches). While doing research I found the following instructional to be helpful. http://guides.beanstalkapp.com/version-control/branching-best-practices.html I hope it helps you as well.

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I don't understand the purpose of a context variable for many of the underscore.js functions. What purpose does it serve. I know that it binds "this" in the iterator callback, but I don't understand the practical application of it.

var context = {'a': 'a'};
_.each([1, 2, 3], function(element, index, list)
}, context);
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Underscore's _.each looks like this:

_.each(list, iterator, [context])

Contexts are very useful when your iterator is a member of some object you've created, and you want to execute that function in the scope of the object and not of the window. If your pre-written function that you're using as an iterator uses this to refer to an instance of an Object (as is generally the case), calling the function without context will result in this referring to the wrong thing.

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context != scope. –  Bergi Feb 13 '13 at 21:32

It's useful if your iterator function is something like a method on an object:

var context = {'a': 'a',  foo: function(x) { console.log( this.a + x); }};
_.each([1, 2, 3], context.foo, context);
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This is the easiest to understand answer. It might also be noted that the context is unnecessary if you are passing in an anonymous function like the original poster does in their example. –  OCDev May 7 at 8:19

It's realy helpfull when you dont need a context change, don't forget about it's hard dependecy brother Backbone.

var Collection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    _toggleActive: function (model, state) {
            active: state
    deactivateAll: function () {
        // analog _.each(this.models , func, [context])
        this.each(function (model) {
            // call the method of collection from context
            this._toggleActive(model, false);
        }, this);

Or just for debug

_.each([1,2,3], function(item, i, arr){
    this.log(item, i);
}, console);
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For the code showing debug, why would you need a context of console? –  Chris Muench Feb 14 '13 at 13:04
Yeah, you right, changed to necessary thing for context, but a low winning ) –  Flops Feb 14 '13 at 13:29

As of version there are about 21 functions in underscore that accept 'context' as last optional argument.

_.each(list, iteratee(element, index, list), [context])

Iterates over a list of elements, yielding each in turn to an iteratee function. The iteratee is bound to the context object, if one is passed.

var array_1 = ['asdf', 'ghjk', 'lzxc', 'vbnm', 'qwer', 'tyui', 'op'];
var array_2 = [1,0,2,9,3,8,4,7,5,6];

_.each(array_1, function(element, index, list){
    console.log(this.length - index + " - " + this[this.length - index]);
}, array_2);

will output

1 - asdf
0 - ghjk
2 - lzxc
9 - vbnm
3 - qwer
8 - tyui
4 - op

here this is corresponds to the context array array_2.

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