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Sign of the Times: Symposium highlights Latin America's growing mathematics prowess
Keynote speaker Angel Ruiz of Costa Rica
Leadership in mathematics education may still be dominated by the United States and Europe, but math researchers, teachers and students in Latin America and the Caribbean are asserting themselves on the global stage. The region is now home to a wealth of journals and organizations for mathematics researchers and educators, and has seen an explosion of virtual communities and information sharing along with a revitalization of math education programs. In 2014, symbolizing this wholesale transformation, 35-year-old Artur Avila of Brazil became Latin America's first recipient of the prestigious Fields medal for his work in the area of chaos theory.
Such was the backdrop for the Symposium on Math Education in Latin America, which brought the region's leading lights in the field to TC on Columbus Day. The event, chaired by Bruce Vogeli, Clifford Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematical Education, was TC's second annual international mathematics education symposium. It also marked the publication of Mathematics and Its Teaching in the Southern Americas, an anthology edited by Vogeli, Héctor Rosario (Ph.D. '03), and Patrick Scott (Ed.D. '80) that examines the progress the region has made over the past five decades.
"I felt that there was something to be said by my colleagues in Latin America concerning their successes," said Vogeli. "This gives them a voice of their own."
Many of the work's contributors—from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela—presented at the symposium alongside TC faculty members Alexander Karp and Henry O. Pollak (honoree at the 2013 symposium).
"Where you have different cultures you have different views of mathematics," said Brazil's Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, a pioneer in the field of ethnomathematics who spoke via Skype hook-up to receive TC's 2014 International Mathematics Education Achievement Award. His views were echoed by Eliana D. Rojas of the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, who contributed to the anthology her study of Chilean programs, and whose current focus is Latin American students who have immigrated to the United States. "The population of Latino students in the U.S. is growing," said Rojas, who has been federal funded since 2011 to train a cohort of education professionals to work more successfully with Connecticut's ELLs (English language learners) in Connecticut, which has the largest math achievement gap in the nation. "In 2011 they were 9.1 percent of the student population. By 2015, one out of five students will be an ELL. We need greater context assessment and evaluation in order to build bridges between Latin American students and their teachers in this country."
Vogeli believes that understanding the prior math preparation of immigrant students from Latin America can provide important opportunities to foster their inclusion and success in U.S. classrooms. "There are different recipes for long division in different countries," he says. "If a Guatemalan student demonstrates her method of long division to a U.S. class, it can be a source of learning and cultural pride."
Others highlighted the benefits of cultural diversity for mathematical thinking in general. In Guatemala, said Claudia María Lara Galo, current President of the Latin-American Committee for Mathematics Education (CLAME), "there are 24 official languages; many of which are Mayan. So there are 24 different ways of solving problems! We Guatemalan educators are creative and flexible; our diversity is an asset, not a problem."
The region's political shifts are perhaps the single most significant variable affecting the landscape of math education in Latin America, the participants agreed, with the power to engender, maintain or destroy programs. "When government changes, school initiatives change," said Vogeli. "Autocratic governments see schools as tools to power. Educated and gifted children are thinking children, and thinking children often become leaders in dissent."
Vogeli, who has traveled the world to study math education, has experienced the consequences of political change firsthand. In 1982, during an invited speech in Chile, he jokingly made a reference to the Pinochet regime's takeover of universities, and was taken into custody by the Chilean secret police. It took a call from the U.S. Ambassador to secure his release, and he was subsequently expelled from the country.
In contrast, stability breeds success. Costa Rica, one of the most politically stable societies in the region, is widely viewed as a mathematics leader. It recently unveiled a new mathematics curriculum for primary and secondary schools, the development of which was led by symposium presenter Ángel Ruíz, President of the Inter-American Committee of Mathematics Education (IACME) and Vice President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI), an organization founded in 1908 by the late mathematician and TC professor David Eugene Smith. The basis for the Costa Rican curricula is a pedagogical strategy called "Problem Solving with Emphasis in Real Contexts," which proposes lessons organized around building learning through carefully selected problems. It is reinforced through curricular emphasis on promoting positive attitudes and beliefs about mathematics, an intense use of digital technologies and the use of the history of mathematics.
"Collaboration by 'crossing borders' is essential to making Latin America more of a player on the international stage," said former TC faculty member Jeremy Kilpatrick, currently of the University of Georgia. He cited a 2013 workshop in math problem solving, which brought 25 speakers from 15 countries to the University of Chile/Santiago, as a model. The conference was based on work accomplished in a three-year common project of Chile's CONICYT (National Commission for Scientific and Technical Research) and Finland's AKA (Academy of Finland).
As the symposium looked toward the future, D'Ambrosio emphasized the global and humanitarian implications of excellence in math education: "We must give good mathematics for the next generation, to create noble hearts and minds. At a time when our natural resources—especially water—are being extinguished, we need to teach students how to put mathematics in service to mankind. We must use our science toward acts of good, to foster respect for one another and for our culture." —Nanette Maxim
TC Science Alum, Dr. James Mack, Earns Distinguished Teacher Award-Monmouth University
Written by Fabiana Buontempo, Assistant News Editor: Monmouth University
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
All professors throughout the University, regardless of their department, are eligible to receive the Distinguished Teacher Award.
Held at the end of the most recent spring semester, former Provost Thomas Peason revealed the award to Mack during a luncheon in Wilson Hall for all University professors.
Mack said "I am both honored and humbled to have received the award." Not only has he been a professor at the University for more than four decades, but he is also an alumi.
Mack stated in his acceptance speech about his journey at the University, "I remember when I was a student at Monmouth; we used Pompeii and Versailles rooms as our cafeteria. During my 45 years as a student and professor, I have been privileged to witness the metamorphosis of Monmouth College to Monmouth University."
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TC's Christopher Emdin Named "Minorities in Energy" Ambassador by U.S. Energy Department
TC's Christopher Emdin Named "Minorities in Energy" Ambassador by U.S. Energy Department
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TC's Christopher Emdin has been appointed a "Minorities in Energy Ambassador" by the US Department of Energy (DOE). Emdin, Associate Professor of Science Education, was one of seven new ambassadors and champions inducted on November 19. They joined about 30 senior leaders from industry, government, academia, and nonprofits who are working to increase engagement of minority and tribal communities in the nation's energy sector, with a focus on minority-owned businesses and workers.
Emdin delivered the keynote address for the event and called for a new focus on creating pipelines to careers in science and energy through mentoring and innovative teaching practices.
"I am honored to be named an ambassador with the Minorities in Energy Initiative," he said, "which exemplifies and advances the work I do with public school teachers and students around the country: To get them interested in and motivated to study science and to envision STEM careers for themselves."
The ambassadors were inducted at the second annual forum for the DOE's "Minorities in Energy Initiative" at Lockheed Martin's Global Vision Center in Arlington, Virginia. At the ceremony, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz said that expanding the participation of minorities in the energy sector, as well as expediting energy efficiency standards and advancing the use of clean technology, are his priorities as secretary.
Though the energy sector has flourished in the past several years, some have expressed continuing concern about the lack of equal access in minority communities to clean energy and about lack of diversity in energy-related fields.
In September 2013, the DOE launched the "Minorities in Energy Initiative" to promote minority engagement and success in three areas:
- STEM Education and Workforce Development (where Emdin is active);
- Energy Economic Development; and
- Climate Change
Emdin is one of 37 ambassadors working with a newly formed "Industry Partners Network" -- including Areva, Lockheed Martin, BP America and Shell Oil -- to promote "inclusion, access and engagement by minorities in the energy sector," according to the DOE. The agency also released a strategic plan for the initiative that includes objectives such as "leveraging" ambassadors and partnerships "to elevate the conversation of minority engagement in energy."
According to the strategic plan, "energy is the lifeblood of the country's infrastructure, security, and economy. Access to reliable and affordable energy is a staple of quality of life for families and communities, and an economic opportunity for minority-owned businesses and individuals."
Emdin said he will use the DOE support to promote and expand his work with students and teachers in using youth culture to teach science, and expand his newest initiative, The STEM Genius Academy; which introduces urban youth to careers in STEM, and provides pathways to STEM careers.
The Huffington Post Covers the Columbus Day Mathematics Symposium
Posted: 10/12/2014 by C. M. Rubin
How are Brazil and other Latin America countries innovating mathematics education? This year, 35-year-old Brazilian mathematician Artur Avila became the first Latin American to claim the prestigious 2014 Fields Medal (International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics), considered by many to be the mathematician's "Nobel Prize."
The largest percentage of foreign-born residents in the United States come from South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 28 states, more than two-thirds of English Learner Language students (ELL) speak Spanish at home.
Math education in Latin America is the subject of an all-day symposium at Teachers College, Columbia University on Monday, October 13. I caught up with some of the featured speakers over the weekend to discuss what the world can learn from Latin America about mathematics education for boys and girls. It's my pleasure to welcome to The Global Search for Education Dr. Hector Rosario (University of Puerto Rico), Dr. Angel Ruiz (University of Costa Rica, President of the Inter-American Committee of Mathematics Education), Dr. Eliana Rojas (Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut), and Dr. Claudia Maria Lara Galo (Universidad Panamericana, Guatemala).
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Bottom row (l to r) Claudia Maria Lara Galo, Angel Ruiz, Eliana Rojas
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Building Mathematics Learning Communities: Improving Outcomes in Urban High Schools
By ERICA N. WALKER
Foreword by BOB MOSES
"This book studies what math students do, how they do it, and what support they need to disengage themselves from our national caste system as it manifests itself through educational inequality." —From the Foreword by Bob Moses
"Building Mathematics Learning Communities is an insightful and informative account of what is required to raise the math performance of students, not only in urban high schools, but in all high schools. Walker provides a blueprint for changing the way urban students should be served in mathematics classrooms and beyond, and offers explicit perspectives and strategies for closing the achievement gap. This is a must-read for the mathematics education community." —Lee V. Stiff, professor, mathematics education, North Carolina State University; past president, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Erica N. Walker is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Science Educator and Professor Christopher Emdin to be Honored by White House
Science Educator and Professor Christopher Emdin to be Honored by White HousePublished in TC NewsMakers
TC's Christopher Emdin, associate professor of Science Education, will be named a "Champion of Change" at a ceremony at the White House Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Emdin is one of 10 educators who will receive the award for creating opportunities and broadening diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) professions. The Champions are being honored for using unconventional approaches to enhance student exposure to STEM subjects.
Emdin uses Hip Hop concepts and rap to teach science to middle- and high-school students throughout New York City. In 2012, Emdin and the Hip Hop artist GZA created the Science GENIUS program in which teams of high school students wrote rap songs incorporating science concepts and entered them in a citywide competition. The songs were judged by a panel of scientists and rap artists for the accuracy of their science content as well as their artistry.
"I am very humbled to accept the award," Emdin said in an interview. "What is most powerful about it to me is that it shows some recognition of work in STEM education that is outside traditional approaches to teaching and learning.
"Most of all, I am excited to showcase this work in Hip Hop and education, which I truly believe is the future of education in introducing urban youth of color to STEM professions."
In July 2012, President Obama launched the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans to
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According to its annual report, last year the department looked hard at its vehicle fleet to determine what (if any) changes needed to be made. Things that were examined included appearance, maintenance, number of vehicles, how they were utilized, cost, and fuel consumption.
Several changes were made in car assignments to better utilize vehicle type and age. Maintenance, fuel consumption, age, and mileage were determined to be better than average. Vehicles not meeting the standards were sold at auction. However, the department determined that the appearance of its marked units needed to be updated.
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5 Minutes with Animoog and Ableton Live
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A while ago, when I first professed my love for Animoog, I promised to show you how I planned to use it with Ableton Live. Well, it took me a couple of weeks, but I've done it! Here is a video of the workflow that I've cobbled together between Ableton and Animoog.
How I set up Animoog with Ableton Live
I used the Novation Launchpad
to quickly arm and launch new clips that I am recording the Animoog into. When I use a setup like this, where I am using one instrument (be it a synthesizer or an iPad app) to record into mulitple tracks, I like to map the bottom row of the Launchpad to the record-arm buttons of individual tracks. Remember that the default mapping of the Launchpad can be overridden with conventional MIDI mappings. This way, you can keep the whole affair on one page.
Make sure that your record arming is set to "Exclusive" in the Preferences. This will make it so that only one track can be armed at once. This way, with one button, you can decide which track the instrument is going to.
As for the I/O, I have to confess that I didn't do anything special. I simply ran a y-splitter from my iPad headphone jack to 2 inputs of my Motu Ultralite. I really think that a lot of the supposedly low-quality of the iPad's headphone out can be mitigated by having a reasonably good preamp. If you have any money laying around, I would recommend getting a good audio interface.
So, without further ado, here is my improvisation with the Animoog. All sounds except for the drum break are from the iPad app.
A few observations about working with Animoog
I couldn't get a convincing bass sound out of the app. I think it's because there is such an emphasis on sounds that evolve over time and I don't really like that much sonic complexity in my bass sounds.
If you are going to be switching between Presets (as I've done here) during improv, I would name them something like _boomtown, with the underscore, or append a number. That will make sure that they are all sequential on the list.
I sure would like to see the ability to make the keys longer, or mess with the scale of the panes in general. I REALLY like the keyboard on this app (the ability to customize is key, har har), but it would be cool if there was more space.
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16 U.S. Code § 528 - Development and administration of renewable surface resources for multiple use and sustained yield of products and services; Congressional declaration of policy and purpose
It is the policy of the Congress that the national forests are established and shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes. The purposes of sections 528 to 531 of this title are declared to be supplemental to, but not in derogation of, the purposes for which the national forests were established as set forth in section 475 of this title. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the several States with respect to wildlife and fish on the national forests. Nothing herein shall be construed so as to affect the use or administration of the mineral resources of national forest lands or to affect the use or administration of Federal lands not within national forests.
Source(Pub. L. 86–517, § 1,June 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 215.)
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Section 5 ofPub. L. 86–517, as added Pub. L. 94–588, § 19,Oct. 22, 1976, 90 Stat. 2962, provided that: "This Act [enacting this section and sections 529 to 531 of this title] may be cited as the 'Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960'."
Pilot Program of Charges and Fees for Harvest of Forest Botanical Products
Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(3) [title III, § 339], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A–199, as amended by Pub. L. 108–108, title III, § 335,Nov. 10, 2003, 117 Stat. 1312; Pub. L. 111–88, div. A, title IV, § 420,Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2960; Pub. L. 113–76, div. G, title IV, § 432,Jan. 17, 2014, 128 Stat. 345, provided that:
"(a) Definition of Forest Botanical Product.—For purposes of this section, the term 'forest botanical product' means any naturally occurring mushrooms, fungi, flowers, seeds, roots, bark, leaves, and other vegetation (or portion thereof) that grow on National Forest System lands. The term does not include trees, except as provided in regulations issued under this section by the Secretary of Agriculture.
"(b) Recovery of Fair Market Value for Products.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall develop and implement a pilot program to charge and collect fees under subsection (c) for forest botanical products harvested on National Forest System lands. The Secretary shall establish appraisal methods and bidding procedures to determine the fair market value of forest botanical products harvested under the pilot program.
"(c) Fees.—
"(1) Imposition and collection.—Under the pilot program, the Secretary of Agriculture shall charge and collect from a person who harvests forest botanical products on National Forest System lands a fee in an amount established by the Secretary to recover at least a portion of the fair market value of the harvested forest botanical products and a portion of the costs incurred by the Department of Agriculture associated with granting, modifying, or monitoring the authorization for harvest of the forest botanical products, including the costs of any environmental or other analysis.
"(2) Security.—The Secretary may require a person assessed a fee under this subsection to provide security to ensure that the Secretary receives the fees imposed under this subsection from the person.
"(d) Sustainable Harvest Levels for Forest Botanical Products.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct appropriate analyses to determine whether and how the harvest of forest botanical products on National Forest System lands can be conducted on a sustainable basis. The Secretary may not permit under the pilot program the harvest of forest botanical products at levels in excess of sustainable harvest levels, as defined pursuant to the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (16 U.S.C. 528 et seq.). The Secretary shall establish procedures and timeframes to monitor and revise the harvest levels established for forest botanical products.
"(e) Waiver Authority.—
"(1) Personal use.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish a personal use harvest level for each forest botanical product, and the harvest of a forest botanical product below that level by a person for personal use shall not be subject to a fee under subsection (c).
"(2) Other exceptions.—The Secretary may also waive the application of subsection (b) or (c) pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe.
"(f) Deposit and Use of Funds.—
"(1) Deposit.—Funds collected under the pilot program in accordance with subsection (c) shall be deposited into a special account in the Treasury of the United States.
"(2) Funds available.—Funds deposited into the special account in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture under paragraph (3) without further appropriation, and shall remain available for expenditure until the date specified in subsection (h)(2).
"(3) Authorized uses.—The funds made available under paragraph (2) shall be expended at units of the National Forest System in proportion to the fees collected at that unit under subsection (c) to pay for the costs of conducting inventories of forest botanical products, determining sustainable levels of harvest, monitoring and assessing the impacts of harvest levels and methods, conducting restoration activities, including any necessary vegetation, and covering costs of the Department of Agriculture described in subsection (c)(1).
"(4) Treatment of fees.—Funds collected under subsection (c) shall not be taken into account for the purposes of the following laws:
"(A) The sixth paragraph under the heading 'forest service' in the Act of May 23, 1908 (16 U.S.C. 500) and section 13 of the Act of March 1, 1911 (commonly known as the Weeks Act; 16 U.S.C. 500).
"(B) The fourteenth paragraph under the heading 'forest service' in the Act of March 4, 1913 (16 U.S.C. 501).
"(E) Section 6 of the Act of June 14, 1926 (commonly known as the Recreation and Public Purposes Act; 43 U.S.C. 869–4).
"(I) Any other provision of law relating to revenue allocation.
"(g) Reporting Requirements.—As soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year in which the Secretary of Agriculture collects fees under subsection (c) or expends funds from the special account under subsection (f), the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report summarizing the activities of the Secretary under the pilot program, including the funds generated under subsection (c), the expenses incurred to carry out the pilot program, and the expenditures made from the special account during that fiscal year.
"(h) Duration of Pilot Program.—
"(1) Collection of fees.—The Secretary of Agriculture may collect fees under the authority of subsection (c) through fiscal year 2019.
"(2) Use of special account.—The Secretary may make expenditures from the special account under subsection (f) until September 30 of the fiscal year following the last fiscal year specified in paragraph (1). After that date, amounts remaining in the special account shall be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury."
[Pub. L. 108–108, § 335(3), which directed amendment of section 1000(a)(3) [title III, § 339(d)(1)] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out above, was executed to section 1000(a)(3) [title III, § 339(e)(1)] of Pub. L. 106–113to reflect the probable intent of Congress.]
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"Wuthering Heights is a major literary text taught in a wide variety of courses, from freshman writing courses to graduate seminars. This excellent addition to the MLA Approaches to Teaching series is not only needed and useful but mandatory."
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has long held a high position in the academy and in popular culture. It is taught at levels from high school English to doctoral studies and has been adapted in enough film and television versions that many students who know nothing about the book know who Heathcliff is. Nevertheless it is not an easy novel to teach. Thus in addition to surveying experienced teachers of Wuthering Heights, the editors sought to learn directly from students what in the novel was difficult for them and what worked best in engaging their interest. As a result, the approaches suggested in this volume reflect practices that have proved successful for both students and teachers.
Part 1 of this Approaches volume, "Materials," surveys and assesses the available editions of Wuthering Heights, identifies editions of other works by Emily Brontë, reviews biographies and other background materials, notes the critical studies most frequently mentioned as useful by instructors, and provides an annotated list of resources on the Internet.
Among the classroom strategies described in part 2, "Approaches," are the following:
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Historical and Social Contexts
Literary and Disciplinary Contexts
Theories of Interpretation
Imagining and Reimagining Wuthering Heights
Building Skills through Teaching Wuthering Heights
Teaching Emily Brontë's Poetry and Wuthering Heights in a First-Year Composition Course
Notes on Contributors
Survey Participants
Works Cited
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Camel wrote:Taking the 12 Steps as suggestions almost killed me. My alcoholic mind understood "suggested", as "If I wanted to, but really didn't have to." There are 103 "MUSTS", in the Big Book. 51 in the first 164 pages, by my count. Not necessarily the word "must", in every respect, but words or phrases that indicate must. Such as, "have to", or "had to", or imperative.
Awsome!!! I shared this in a meeting lastnight. I stated that for me it was like a revalation to find in the BB that if we want what the program has to offer that a few simple rules are required not suggested. And oh how this has helped me. For me I have to do this today... there is no suggestion to it!!! Thanks Camel!


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21 Pumpkin Recipes for FallJen Genova
Quinoa Pumpkin Pancakes 1 of 21The light, fluffy texture of quinoa combined with the flavor of pumpkin makes for a perfect fall breakfast.
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Pumpkin Challah 2 of 21The traditional Jewish egg bread gets a makeover with the addition of subtle pumpkin flavor.
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Pumpkin (Challah) French Toast 3 of 21That leftover pumpkin Challah bread makes an amazing French toast. Trust us.
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Pumpkin Spice Bread 5 of 21Naturally sweet and spicy, this pumpkin bread is a healthy fall treat that all can enjoy!
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Pumpkin Spice Latte 6 of 21Never shell out big bucks for a grande latte again — just make this warm, spiced-up copycat.
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Pumpkin Blueberry Muffins 7 of 21You'd be surprised at how well sweet blueberries blend with the distinct taste of pumpkin.
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds 9 of 21Don't know what to do with all those seeds left over from carving? Roast them!
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Pumpkin Hummus 10 of 21Chickpeas take a backseat to pumpkin in this new twist on the classic hummus recipe.
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Pumpkin Fondue 11 of 21A roasted pumpkin filled with melted cheese? Yes, please.
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Apple Pumpkin Soup 12 of 21If fall had a taste, it would be this savory pumpkin and apple soup.
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Pumpkin and Cumin Soup 13 of 21Smoky cumin adds depth to this classic autumn soup.
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Spicy Pumpkin and Coconut Soup 14 of 21Give your palate a trip around the world with this soup loaded with flavors of the Middle East.
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Pumpkin Chili 15 of 21The addition of pumpkin puree adds an unrivaled silky texture to a standard chili recipe.
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Pumpkin Bacon Pasta 16 of 21Would you believe us if we told you this is a "light" recipe?
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Pumpkin Pancetta Pasta 17 of 21Pumpkin makes an appearance in this pasta dish that even your kids will love!
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Pumpkin Seed Pesto 18 of 21This pesto sauce is the perfect way to use up the last of summer's basil.
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Pumpkin Ravioli 19 of 21The filling in these ravioli is surprisingly warm and nothing like any pasta you've tried before.
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Pumpkin Pierogies with Pecan-Sage Cream Sauce 20 of 21Beloved Polish dumplings get an autumnal update with the addition of pumpkins and pecans.
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Pumpkin and Feta Risotto 21 of 21The saltiness of the feta combines perfectly with subtle pumpkin flavors in this quick-cooking risotto.
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ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION PRESENTS: Angel's Perch
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The Alamo Drafthouse is proud to present a one-night-only presentation of Angel's Perch, an independent feature film produced by University of Texas at Austin alums J.T. Arbogast and Kimberly Dilts, in partnership with the West Virginia Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. The filmmakers will be on hand for a live Q&A session.
While the event is free you can reserve your seat by purchasing a $5 food and beverage ticket online.
Angel's Perch examines the delicate relationship between past and present, memory and loss as depicted by a family struggling with Alzheimer's disease. The film is the story of Jack, a successful young architect living in Pittsburgh, who must make the trip to his tiny hometown of Cass, WV to move his grandmother into an assisted‐care facility after she is found wandering outside her home. But what was intended to be a two day, under‐the‐radar trip becomes more complicated when Jack is unable to move her into an assisted living facility nearby. Torn between the career opportunity of a lifetime, caring for his last living relative and running from his own painful memories, Jack is forced to choose between standing still or facing the pain of his past, so that he can finally move forward.
The film stars Joyce Van Patten (The Danny Kaye Show, The Bad News Bears, The Good Guys,Grown Ups), J.T. Arbogast (30 Rock, When in Rome), Ally Walker (Sons of Anarchy, The Profiler,The Protector), Ashley Jones (True Blood, The Bold and the Beautiful), Ellen Crawford (ER, The Man from Earth), and a supporting cast of talented local West Virginia actors.
Following the screening, audience members are invited to stick around for a Q&A session with the filmmakers.
"People always ask us what it's like to be on a film set or what goes in to making it all happen," says Dilts. "We want to pull back the curtain on the filmmaking process and make the audience feel as if they've come along with us on the journey."
The inspiration for Angel's Perch came from the Arbogast's own roots in West Virginia and his family's experiences with Alzheimer's disease.
"Everyone has an emotional home ‐ the place that defines your happiest memories. For me, that place is a small town in the mountains of West Virginia," says Arbogast. "In 2004, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and over the next few years I watched as she slowly lost her memories. It's a story that is not dissimilar from the millions of people who have watched this disease slowly take away a loved one and felt powerless to stop it. We struggle to find an answer to the question, 'What can I do?' For us, the answer came in the form of making a film."


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AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- The 35th annual Living With Cancer Conference attracted hundreds of survivors, doctors, and caretakers to the Augusta Civic Center on Wednesday.
It's the 35th year the American Cancer Society has hosted the conference, which offers workshops ranging from how to set up a will, to eating healthier.
While many were there to take in the resources the ACS has to offer, others were there to share their story with someone who understood what they've been through.
This is a milestone year for the American Cancer Society, celebrating it's 100th birthday on May 22nd.


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SACKETS HARBOR Healthy eating means healthy communities.
That is the message that Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York hopes to send to attendees of its Farm to Table benefit, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at Woolsey Manor Bed and Breakfast, 206 E. Main St.
The concept is drawing local food and health and providing for the community, a healthy community, said Martha P. Spear, Planned Parenthood development director. Fundraising helps us to dream and grow.
Ms. Spear said the fundraiser can accommodate up to 50 people, who will feast on local foods prepared by chef Janet M. Boo Wells while hearing from agency officials and guest speaker Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell, D-Theresa.
Programs and services that will benefit directly from the fundraiser are Planned Parenthoods family planning, community health worker and education initiatives. Ms. Spear said shed like to raise $8,000 from the event, through ticket fees of $65 per person, sponsorships and general donations.
Equally important is making new friends, and getting our name out in the community, she said. We need people to know we have these services available. So many people are getting insurance soon that havent had it before.
Planned Parenthood of the North Country New York can help with that, Ms. Spear said. The agency provides family planning, reproductive health care, education and advocacy services in Clinton, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties. According to its website, nearly 12,000 men, women and teenagers visit the agencys seven health centers across the region each year. Planned Parenthood also promotes public policy which supports every persons fundamental right to decide when or whether to have a child.
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Kim Wiggin, Director of The New England Music Camp with Jon Manasse, Clarinet, and Alec Manasse, Clarinet.
The New England Music Camp, which has operated for 75 years as a non-profit educational institution, is dedicated to the cultivation and refinement of musical skills in young people. It is located in Sydney, Maine, on Lake Messalonskee.
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The Tazewell County School Board will hold its regular monthly meeting on October 12, 2015 at the Tazewell County Career and Technical School in the Student Center at 6:30 p.m. Closed session will begin at 5:00 p.m.
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File Storage & Sharing
All UCL staff and students are provided with storage space backed up every night. Collaboration tools are also available to help communication amongst staff and students.
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- When will this be available?
With more than 40,000 accounts, the migration process is going to take several months to complete. We are starting in mid-February and will be transferring groups of staff and students a group at a time.
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We will send you an email about a week before the planned migration date with further details and instructions.
- What happens to my existing file store?
All your existing drives will be migrated and stored under a single new personal file store. Once the migration has occurred you will need to check that everything has moved across. We will be keeping a copy of your old data for 1 month should you find that anything is missing.
- What will happen on the migration date?
You will be able to work online as normal. However, we will ask you to stop using your personal filestore after 5pm on that day. You can still continue to work after that time, but you will need to save your work locally on the machine. The migration of your data will take place overnight and your data in the new drive will be available when you log in the next day.
- I already have an allocation of more than 50GB what happens to me?
For users with a higher allocation these will all be maintained and you will be given a small additional allocation (10%) in the new storage area.
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For users on desktop@UCL, Sync and Share, ADS and Staff WTS this should happen automatically. Users who currently use PCs that they manage themselves and for Mac and Linux users specific instructions for their setup are available.
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ISLANDERS CANCEL CHINA TRAINING CAMPCite issues with NHL Players Association
12:10 pm – As broken exclusively by Katie Strang of Newsday (subscription required), the Islanders' training camp trip to China in September has been cancelled.
It appears the Islanders are blaming the cancellation of the trip on disagreements the team has had with the National Hockey League Players Association. Strang cites a source saying that the PA requested to send representatives to China in advance of the Islanders' visit. That is certainly a reasonable request. Charles Wang objected.
Without citing a source, there is also this curious passage in the Newsday report:
It is believed that Wang also opposed the PA's request for a donation to the PA that would be gifted back to fund children's hockey programs in China. Wang is already responsible for such development programs in his home country.
Apparently a large deposit for the trip was due from the Islanders on Friday and once they became aware of such requests from the PA they abstained from putting the money down.
It would be an understatement to say all of the above is bizarre.
Reached early this afternoon, NHLPA spokesman Jonathan Weatherdon said the agreement between the Islanders and PA did indeed include a donation request – it actually says "respectfully suggested" in the paperwork – that the union's Goals and Dream Fund and Islanders would present to youth programs in China.
Weatherdon said, "Without question, our suggestion of a donation was not a deal-breaker. Our approval of this trip to China was without precedent. We simply thought the donation was a nice idea for both of us. In no way should it be considered the reason why the Islanders have cancelled their trip."
Weatherdon also said the Players' Association was surprised to hear an advance trip to China by their representatives would be a problem. "Does the U.S. Olympic Committee not go to the site of the Olympics before the Games to make sure all training, medical and housing facilities are up to par"? said Weatherdon. "That should be a major responsibility of the Players Association. Our players expect us to be involved on their behalf."
For a story I wrote for FanHouse in February, I contacted an NHLPA official (still employed there) to get an understanding of how the union came to approve the trip. There is a rule in the Collective Bargaining Agreement that states NHL teams cannot conduct training camp outside North America without the authorization of the NHLPA.
The official told me the union conducted a formal review of the trip with Rick DiPietro and a few other Islanders players. Said the official: "Once an appropriate training camp schedule was determined between the Islanders, the NHL and the NHLPA, the tour had the support of the Players Association."
It all sounded so unofficial, hazy and preliminary, but that could be hindsight. You have to wonder: why didn't the Islanders just cancel the trip and not say anything? Between the team, Chinese officials and the union, it would not have been difficult to keep a lid on it.
So now the Islanders move on, after staff members spent months butttoning down the details of the complicated training camp in China with trips to four cities over nine days. As much as the players and coaches knew the opportunity might be once in a lifetime, their legs, hearts and minds will thank them in October.
A source told Point Blank this morning that the city of Saskatoon would welcome a second straight visit by the Islanders. Saskatoon had a two-way option with the Islanders for a training camp before the team decided to go to China. The Islanders also have an operative in Canada who set up the team-friendly deal in Moncton, although that city is not an option this time around.
Since the Islanders operate Iceworks and the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, perhaps the organization will make the best of the China syndrome and bring the hockey team closer to its fans in New York during the month of September.
With this news, we will postpone our post on the 30th anniversary of the Islanders' first Stanley Cup championship. Your thoughts on training camp are welcomed in Comments.


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A Most Wanted Manby John le Carre
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With A Most Wanted Man, legendary spymaster John le Carré tackles the "War on Terror" with this incisive critique that doubles as a stunning thriller. Espionage fans — and people who question the stories we're fed on front pages — will be riveted.
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New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" — this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man.
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.
Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career — or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg.
Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance — and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents.
Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.
"When boxer Melik Oktay and his mother, both Turkish Muslims living in Hamburg, take in a street person calling himself Issa at the start of this morally complex thriller from le Carr (The Mission Song), they set off a chain of events implicating intelligence agencies from three countries. Issa, who claims to be a Muslim medical student, is, in fact, a wanted terrorist and the son of Grigori Karpov, a Red Army colonel whose considerable assets are concealed in a mysterious portfolio at a Hamburg bank. Tommy Brue, a stereotypical flawed everyman caught up in the machinations of spies and counterspies, enters the plot when Issa's attorney seeks to claim these assets. The book works best in its depiction of the rivalries besetting even post-9/11 intelligence agencies that should be allies, but none of the characters is as memorable as George Smiley or Magnus Pym. Still, even a lesser le Carr effort is far above the common run of thrillers." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Not satisfied, apparently, with continuing to write his generally first-rate novels, John le Carre has now taken to reviewing them as well. On the front cover of the advance edition of "A Most Wanted Man" is reproduced a letter from the great man addressed to "Dear Reader": "New spies with new loyalties, old ones with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) in the moral maze; all the good, sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, & remain good 'patriots' — I'm pleased with the way this novel turned out. Best, John le Carre." So what, after that, is the mere reviewer to do? Were he or she to say, perhaps, that "John le Carre has written an interesting new novel about decent people wanting to do good, but trapped in moral dilemmas," readers would say that this interpretation merely parrots and paraphrases le Carre's, and they would be right. One of the reviewer's tasks, after all, is to interpret a book as well as to pass judgment on it, but in this instance, le Carre has done all our interpreting for us, and has even tacked on the judgment that he is jolly well happy about what he has written. Probably, his self-satisfied little note was written for booksellers rather than reviewers, but since it has landed in the laps of reviewers as well, it has the feeling of a pre-emptive strike. There's just one problem. Though le Carre's interpretation of his novel's themes is accurate enough, his judgment of its literary worth is considerably inflated. As one who has reviewed his work for more than three decades, always with admiration and at times with unfettered enthusiasm, I'd place "A Most Wanted Man" toward the lower end of the 21 novels he has now written. It is intelligent, of course, and immensely informative about espionage and the people who engage in it, but its prose occasionally is flabby (especially when the heroine is involved), the feelings its central characters have for each other are utterly unconvincing, and it ends on a note of cliched, knee-jerk anti-Americanism that I find repellent. Now in his late 70s, le Carre perhaps has earned the right to phone a novel in, and phoned-in is what this one is. It is set in Hamburg: "Nobody was likely to forget, be he Muslim, police spy or both, that the city-state of Hamburg had been unwitting host to three of the 9/11 hijackers, not to mention their fellow cell-members and plotters; or that Mohammed Atta, who steered the first plane into the Twin Towers, had worshipped his wrathful god in a humble Hamburg mosque." A young Chechen Muslim calling himself Issa, "stateless, homeless, an ex-prisoner and illegal," shows up at the modest residence of Leyla Oktay and her son Melik, immigrants from Turkey who are in the city on temporary residency permits. They are good people, and they welcome Issa almost immediately, Leyla treating him as a son and Melik as a brother. He is referred to Sanctuary North, "a Charitable Christian Foundation for the protection of stateless and displaced persons in the Region of North Germany," and his case is taken over by Annabel Richter, a no-nonsense young lawyer there. Tough cookie she may be, but she manages to convince herself in no time flat that Issa's story is true: that he had been imprisoned and tortured in Turkey, had escaped to Denmark and from there to Germany, and had a large amount of money waiting for him at "the private banking house of Brue Freres PLC, formerly of Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro and Vienna, and presently (sic) of Hamburg," the head of which is the 60-year-old Tommy Brue, "the bank's sole surviving partner and bearer of its famous name." The money had been left to Issa by his father, a wholly corrupt Russian gangster who raped and eventually murdered the young Chechen girl who gave birth to Issa. Everyone is awash in emotions. Issa is afraid of being thrown back into prison and tortured. Tommy, trapped in an unhappy marriage to a faithless wife, finds himself falling for Annabel, who is (of course) lovely and sexy as well as smart. As for Annabel, she is on a mission: "The moment I sat down with Issa and heard his story, I knew that this was where the system stops, that this was the unsavable life I must save, that I must think of myself not as a lawyer but as a doctor like my brother Hugo and ask myself: What is my duty to this injured man, what sort of a German lawyer am I if I leave him in the legal gutter to bleed to death?" She says she's "doing this for the principle, not the man," but there comes a moment "when she felt most inclined to fall in love with him, when intimacy on such a scale became an act of stupendous generosity, and her whole being was responding to him," though "that way lay the negation of the promise she had made to herself: to put his life — and not his love — before law." Others take a considerably less sanguine view of Issa. Many of these are to be found in "the cramped quarters of the Foreign Acquisitions Unit of Hamburg's grandly named Office for the Protection of the Constitution — in plain language, domestic intelligence service," especially in the offices of "The Unit," directed by Gunther Bachmann, an ace intelligence operator who is trying to reform and improve German intelligence. Bachmann, who is by far the most interesting character in the novel, has this to say about Issa: "We're looking for a man who has no patronymic and no relationship with normality. His record tells us he's a militant Chechen-Russian who does violent crime and bribes his way out of Turkish jail — and what the hell was he doing there anyway? — gives the slip to the Swedish port police, buys himself back onto the boat he comes off, smuggles himself out of Copenhagen docks, charters himself a lorry to Hamburg, accepts a beaker of refreshment from an elderly fat bastard whom he engages in conversation in Christ knows whose language, and wears a gold Koran bracelet. Such a man deserves our considerable respect. Amen?" Thus the lines are drawn between Issa, Annabel and Tommy on one side, the intelligence operatives on the other. There is a further division within intelligence, between hard-liners who believe that "high-profile arrests will serve as a deterrent to Islamist sympathizers, and restore confidence in those responsible for seeking them out" and more nimble thinkers who reason as Bachmann does: "We are not policemen, we are spies. We do not arrest our targets. We develop them and redirect them at bigger targets. When we identify a network, we watch it, we listen to it, we penetrate it and by degrees we control it. Arrests are of negative value. They destroy a precious acquisition. They send you scrabbling back to the drawing board, looking for another network half as good as the one you've just screwed up." A good point well made, and a considerably more important one to this novel than any of the themes cited by le Carre in his letter to readers. As he writes elsewhere, "in the end it was the spurned imam, the love-crossed secret courier, the venal Pakistani defense scientist, the middle-ranking Iranian military officer who's been passed over for promotion, the lonely sleeper who can sleep alone no longer, who among them provide the hard base of knowledge without which all the rest is fodder for the truth benders, ideologues and politopaths who ruin the earth." Such a "base of knowledge" is what Bachmann is trying to create within Germany's Muslim community, and what the hard-liners — in British and American as well as German intelligence — are vigorously resisting. How this conflict plays out is essential to the novel's conclusion. The anti-American note struck there is not new to le Carre — it has coursed through his work much as it did in the fiction of Graham Greene — but it is expressed in "A Most Wanted Man" with special virulence. No doubt this reflects the author's opposition to innumerable aspects of recent American foreign policy, but he seems neither to know nor to care that many Americans share that opposition. The CIA people who crash onto the scene at the end are mere cartoons. Le Carre, who is capable of great subtlety and nuance, here is all bludgeon and righteous anger. It is not pretty to watch, and it diminishes him. Jonathan Yardley's e-mail address is yardleyj(at symbol)washpost.com. Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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BGA: Jets at Bills – Part One (Offense)
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This analysis is based on watching and re-watching TV footage. As such, it is not always possible to accurately determine everything that was going on. However, every effort has been made to ensure that the information below is as complete and correct as possible.
Coming up, your breakdown of yesterday's loss to the Bills, together with detailed analysis of personnel groupings and individual performance.
Join me after the jump as I attempt to cover every angle.
Somewhere within the Jets organization, there will be a team of people who do the same thing as me, every Sunday night and during the day on Monday. Poring over hours of footage, trying to apportion credit and blame as best as possible. That information would ordinarily be used to correct mistakes, reward good play with increased playing time and make strategic adjustments.
The way I'd imagine it works is that lower level staff cut up the film overnight to reduce the amount of time it takes to review it. Then coaches at the assistant level would review the film and highlight the most important plays that would need to be reviewed at the top level. Coordinators and the head coach would then focus their attention on those most important plays, using the information gleaned to make informed decisions.
This process becomes even more important now, as the team decides which personnel to retain, not just on the field but in terms of the coaching staff and whoever it was that was responsible for putting the on-field talent together.
While I can't make as informed of an assessment due to the fact I don't have full access to the playbook or total knowledge of things like protection schemes and coverage responsibilities, I've formed my own views from carrying out this process to the best of my ability and as objectively as possible on a weekly basis. It will be interesting to see whether the team feels the same.
Of course, if the powers-that-be use these processes to inform their decisions, they're putting their faith in the process and those involved in making assessments – some of whom could be in the crosshairs themselves, so have every reason to find other scapegoats. What if those are the people who don't know what they're doing?
Whoever it is, I feel sorry for them for having to watch that terrible game again.
Let's get into the player and unit analysis one last time…
I was looking forward to seeing Greg McElroy play once more, hoping there would be signs of improvement over last week's performance, so it was disappointing to be forced to watch Mark Sanchez one more time.
The first drive summed things up perfectly. The Jets carried the ball down into Bills territory with eight straight runs (not including a Sanchez incompletion that gained five yards because the ball was snapped with 12 defensive players on the field). The ninth run was stuffed, as the Bills started to load the box and the Jets were forced to throw the ball. Jeff Cumberland had a step on his man, but Sanchez failed to hit him and then threw the ball at the feet of Braylon Edwards on third down. Drive over and the Jets were forced to settle for a field goal.
The Jets then stopped the Bills and got the ball back, opening up with two more runs to make it third and five. Sanchez was called upon to throw again and, of course, threw a pick-six to give the Bills the lead. They had not asked Sanchez to do anything particularly difficult at that stage and basically everyone else on both sides of the ball was playing well, so Sanchez – playing the most important and influential position – was the sole reason they trailed at that point.
The Jets drove downfield on their next drive to cut it to 7-6, but Sanchez passed for just 11 yards on the drive – an off-target pass that Konrad Reuland made a diving catch on and a dump-off pass where Lex Hilliard had to break a couple of tackles to get the first down. They then got the ball back again and took a 9-7 lead, but again Sanchez had little to do with it, as 40 of his 46 passing yards on the drive came on a screen pass to Jeremy Kerley. After the team fell behind, Sanchez was given a great chance to take back the lead when the Jets forced a turnover in the red zone at the start of the second half, but again couldn't take advantage. It was never more apparent that he was the person most responsible for holding back the offense.
The mistakes he was making were all things we've seen before. His passing was so inaccurate, you again have to wonder if he's injured – but we wonder this every year, so even if that is his excuse, it merely shows he lacks the durability to play the position at the highest level. His pocket presence was a step up from McElroy last week, but he still failed to see the rush a couple of times and had one ball stripped from his hand and another tipped as he threw it for a near interception. Worst of all was the pick-six which is something we've been seeing over and over again from Sanchez since early last season.
Sanchez has a tendency to lock on his receiver and, as Bryan Scott said after the game, this can enable defenders to predict where he's going to throw it and get a jump on the ball. The bigger problem, though, is that Sanchez is so focused on hitting his man as they get separation that he fails to see the other defender poised to jump the route. This inability to see the field has been his biggest issue all year.
There were actually two other plays which easily could have been pick-sixes and Sanchez managed to get away with it, as it was clear the Bills were trying to bait him into a mistake. On the third down play, just before the third field goal, I was ready to criticize Sanchez for dumping the ball to Braylon Edwards on a crossing route, where he was tackled short of the marker, because Bilal Powell had lined up out wide left and his defender had backed right off, leaving him wide open when he broke his route off just short of the marker. However, on closer inspection, the slot corner had backed off his man and was potentially primed to jump that route for a potential 85 yard pick-six.
Take a look:
You might argue that Sanchez should be able to make that throw anyway, or that even if he did want to make that throw, he couldn't because he is too busy staring down Edwards, but either way it's probably just as well he didn't make that pass to Powell.
On the other example, Scott was lurking over the middle in similar fashion, but this time Sanchez just about squeezed the pass in to Braylon Edwards, because he threw it decisively and put zip on the ball. If he'd been as decisive all season, he might have got away with it on some of those plays where he didn't anticipate the defender coming across.
The only thing I can say to maybe pass off some of the blame elsewhere is that maybe some of these plays could have been designed a little better. For example, on the image above, Reuland ran a kind of mini-wheel route, whereas if he ran a route with a sharper inside break, perhaps this would have drawn the slot cornerback far enough to the inside that Sanchez would be confident enough to make that throw to Powell. If your quarterback struggles to see the field, you need to get the other receivers doing a better job of running clear-out routes so that there aren't other defenders in the area when he looks to hit his primary option.
Speaking of offensive coordinators, if we're going to assess how far Sanchez has regressed this year, we should bear in mind that he was making just as many bad throws in previous seasons. It just doesn't seem like it because a lot of the vitriol was spewed at the offensive coordinator.
Can Sanchez be fixed? As he's making the same mistakes over and over, I do wonder if a top level quarterback coach could iron out some of these mistakes pretty easily. You only have to look at the deep throw he made to Jeremy Kerley – a beautiful, perfectly timed and on-the-money throw – to see that there is still some talent there. Unfortunately, that type of throw has been all too few and far between this year.
Most likely, he just needs a change of scenery.
Running Backs
Something curious was going on with Shonn Greene this week. I wonder if he got injured or something. With more than five minutes to go in the second quarter, he looked great – 81 yards on 16 carries. Ordinarily, this should have led to a situation where he could capitalize on the worn-down defense in the second half and put up monster numbers. That never materialized – his final numbers: 19 carries, 74 yards. Those last three carries (for minus-seven yards) seemed to all be really slow developing, which – when coupled with the fact he didn't return – lends weight to the fact he might have been hurt.
This play in particular saw Greene with plenty of room over the left side, but he couldn't get out of the backfield as he was caught from behind by the safety coming off the opposite edge:
Maybe he just wasn't used in the second half much because they know he's not coming back, but if you're going to assess Greene, it's worth noting that once he got used to the scheme, he did a solid job, averaging over 4.2 yards per carry over the last 11 games (over 4.3 until those last three carries). He ended up with 1,063 yards on the season.
Bilal Powell had another good game and has been a bright spot this season, after a rookie campaign so underwhelming that many of us expected him not to make the team. He had 68 yards on 14 touches, but again could perhaps have benefited from getting more second half carries – he only got six. The play where Sanchez's arm was hit and he was almost intercepted (reversed by the booth) was probably Powell's fault though. Austin Howard had his man locked up on the right side and the other blitzer (that man Bryan Scott again) started to go outside but then reacted to Powell taking a premature step in that direction and came underneath for a clean shot at Sanchez.
The only time we saw Joe McKnight (and Tim Tebow, for that matter) was in the Wildcat (and, yes, for once, this was the Wildcat and not just a spread or two-read option). I do wonder if a lot of McKnight's preparation time saw him working in the Wildcat package and then the fact they hardly used this contributed to McKnight being criminally underused this season. This was an interesting play and perhaps a missed opportunity, so I wanted to recap this one in detail.
While Tony Sparano's scheme is (was?) regarded as a pure power/gap blocking scheme, he does use zone principles on Wildcat plays. Tebow starts off in the shotgun with nobody in the backfield, but Joe McKnight comes from out wide to take the handoff on a "Jet Sweep". Ordinarily, that would see him running parallel to the line of scrimmage and then turning the corner on the outside. As you can see, D'Brickashaw Ferguson, Brandon Moore and Matt Slauson are all moving to the right. You may be wondering how Ferguson got out in front, but that's because he started off on the right side with the Jets in an unbalanced line formation. Jeff Cumberland (the de facto left tackle in this formation), Nick Mangold, Austin Howard and Jason Smith all block straight ahead.
McKnight starts out running parallel to the line as expected. However, a linebacker clatters into Moore, rocking him slightly. McKnight seems to react to this, perhaps thinking he won't be able to make it to the outside.
He instead makes the decision to cut back up the middle. Mangold has done a good job of turning his man to the outside and Howard has done an exceptional job of gaining leverage so he can drive his guy to the inside and create a small seam. Slauson is on the move, so although he appears to be in the way, he can drive through Moore and his man to ensure that doesn't bottle up the gap up the middle. However, you can see that Moore has been able to anchor himself and if McKnight had been able to trust his blocking he probably would have had the angle to get outside.
Howard does indeed manage to create that seam and McKnight, now committed to going up the middle, follows Slauson into the hole, but that gain he's going to make is always going to be small because there are three Bills players who have stayed at home. Even if Slauson and Cumberland can make clean second level blocks, he's still going to struggle to get more than a few yards. On the right side, Smith has sustained his block the whole time and Ferguson now makes his block at the second level.
Inevitably, the run is bottled up and gains just a few yards. Slauson did make his second level block, but that meant he didn't stay on the double team with Moore long enough and Moore lost leverage. Had McKnight instead gone outside, you can see that Reuland has made his block downfield and Ferguson has wiped out the defensive back.
So, did McKnight's reluctance to trust his blocking there cost the Jets a touchdown? Or, was the play in fact designed for the runner to cut back up the middle? Mangold and Howard's assignments did seem to suggest that this was at least an option, but I'd imagine it's a read the runner has to make. Going up the middle was always going to be a limited option, because although some defenders might have expected the run to go outside and therefore get drawn out of the middle, the defenders on the other side are going to be drawn into the middle by the fact that they have to stay at home in case Tebow has opted to retain the ball. Poorly designed play, or a bad read? You tell me. Either way, pretty interesting.
Finally, Lex Hilliard actually had some good plays in this one – a couple of good lead blocks, a short yardage conversion, the third down catch where he battled to get the first down – but he's not been very good and I can't see him returning. He did have a couple of bad missed blocks and was lit up on the fourth and one failure.
Offensive Line
After last week's 11 sack debacle, the pass protection was much better this week. Sanchez gets part of the credit for that, but the offensive line were on their game, stoning Bills pass rushers in one-on-one situations nearly all day. The Bills did get pressure a couple of times by stunting, although the Jets handled such situations much better than last week.
The biggest breakdown in pass protection came, disappointingly, from Mangold. It was him who let Spencer Johnson into the backfield for a strip sack and he also got beaten one other time. On the other hand, his value in pass protection was also on display as a couple of times he stepped in and prevented another lineman's man from getting to the quarterback.
Slauson was badly beaten once and ended up getting called for a hold. He played a bit less yesterday, although there may have been an injury issue – he left the game midway through a drive in the second half, giving Vladimir Ducasse a few extra reps at left guard.
The Bills were able to generate pressure a couple of times by stunting on the right side against the Ducasse-Ferguson combo. In each case, Kyle Williams bullrushed his man (once Ducasse and once Ferguson) and the end came underneath. Ducasse handled the first of these correctly (with Williams getting the pressure by driving Ferguson back), but could have done better on the other one. Ferguson again did a solid job in protection otherwise, only getting beaten a couple of times, although one of these led to him getting called for a hold.
On the right side, Howard bounced back well from last week's game. It would have been difficult for him to come off his block and prevent Scott's pressure on the play where Powell went to the outside. Other than that, the only time a pass rusher got close to Sanchez from his side was on a couple of plays where he blocked the rusher out of the play, but they almost got to Sanchez on the backside as he took a while to get rid of it.
Moore gave up a couple of pressures too, including a big hit late in the game. There was also a play where Moore's man stunted all the way underneath and around the left side to get to Sanchez.
In the running game, Mangold was the driving force behind most good things, but did make some uncharacteristic mistakes. Ducasse had some good moments too, especially on the move, but he lost leverage once badly. Ducasse's strength was Slauson's weakness, as he had a few bad moments while pulling. He did a little better in the second half. Moore and Howard were getting some good straight ahead surges, reminiscent of Woody and Moore a couple of years ago. It would be nice to keep that pairing together, because they've started to develop some good chemistry. Howard did have a seemingly unnecessary holding penalty that negated a big gain on a screen pass though. Finally, Ferguson had some good moments too, but wasn't perfect. He got beaten badly on the fourth and one play that essentially ended the game.
I can confirm that Jason Smith did NOT get enough playing time this year to void his deal so he remains under contract with the Jets. However, he has a huge cap number that contains no guarantees and is never going to be paid to him, so they will look to restructure that down, perhaps all the way to the minimum. That gives the Jets a small amount of leverage as they have control over his rights, whereas if his deal voided he could seek a deal with another team. Similarly, Ducasse fell short of his playing time incentive so he will remain under contract at a low salary next year.
While the Jets probably threw the ball too much, there still isn't too much to evaluate the receivers on. Edwards made some good catches again and did a good job as a blocker, but did have a pretty dumb penalty when he removed his helmet. He obviously wants to be back, so the Jets should get that done as soon as possible, especially now that one of the idiots he was obviously referring to is on his way out.
Kerley had another fine game, with two separate and very different 40-yard plays displaying his versatility. I wonder what production he could have had if Santonio Holmes and Dustin Keller remained healthy all season.
Jordan White saw plenty of reps and made his first NFL catch, although he might have got away with a push-off on that one. If Holmes, Edwards, Kerley and Hill return next year, there aren't many roster spots available for the likes of White to fight for.
Poor Clyde Gates once again got his bell rung on a pass that was well behind him and he made a great effort to catch. With Sparano apparently gone, that's one less person who has Gates' back, so he is probably an outside bet to return.
At tight end, most of Cumberland's catches were in garbage time, but he has made significant strides this year. He's a restricted free agent, but if I were the Jets, I'd get him signed to a lower level deal with guarantees as a priority, so that they have some leverage in the Dustin Keller situation. His blocking was a mixed bag.
Reuland made a nice first down catch, but had a couple of mistakes as a blocker. He looks like a guy who is worth hanging onto as well.
Finally, Hayden Smith saw some brief action but did not make an impact.
Part 2 will follow later today…


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