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NEW: Several states have laws requiring photo IDs to vote
Some argue the laws aim to suppress traditionally Democratic minority vote
Tuesday's ruling only applies to next month's presidential election
Supporters say the law prevents fraud; detractors say it disenfranchises voters
A Pennsylvania judge ruled Tuesday that state officials cannot enforce a new voter identification law in next month's presidential election.
The ruling by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson is expected to be appealed, but amounted to good news for Democrats who contend the voter ID law is motivated by Republican efforts to suppress the traditionally Democratic minority vote.
"It's a huge victory in that the photo ID requirement for the November election has been blocked and people without ID will be able to vote on regular ballots," said Witold "Vic" Walczak, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union in Pennsylvania.
Supporters argue that the law signed in March by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett will prevent voter fraud and is upheld by the Constitution.
"Today's ruling is a temporary setback," said Horace Cooper, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Voter Identification Task Force.
"Notably, the court's ruling accepts the principle that the voter ID rules are legal. Unfortunately, the timing of the change meant that Pennsylvanians will have to wait one more election cycle before they can be sure their elections are fraud-free," Cooper said.
In his ruling, Simpson granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts enforcement of the law until after the November 6 election. He cited likely disqualification of eligible voters as the reason.
"Consequently, I am not still convinced in my predictive judgment that there will be no voter disenfranchisement arising out of the commonwealth's implementation of a voter identification requirement for purposes of the upcoming election," Simpson wrote. "Under these circumstances, I am obliged to enter a preliminary injunction."
Sisters navigate new Pennsylvania voter ID law
However, Simpson's ruling allows other provisions of the law to stand, including voter education efforts that a photo ID is required to cast a ballot. Election officials also can ask for photo identification, but cannot prevent people from voting if they don't have it.
The judge wrote that state legislators intended for election officials to request a photo ID during the transition period for the new law "even though the vote will be counted regardless of compliance with the request."
"The concern is that the Commonwealth's education efforts all tell people that they need ID and if that kind of misleading message goes out, it will promote confusion on Election Day and discourage folks without ID from voting," said Walczak.
Simpson's ruling means the full voter ID law could be enforced starting next year. His ruling said he will schedule a further hearing on whether to issue a permanent injunction.
Prior to the new law, first-time voters in Pennsylvania were allowed to present documents like bank statements and utility bills in lieu of photo identification. Under the new law, all voters would have to present a valid photo ID – one that is sanctioned by the state – before they cast their ballots.
To get a photo ID, residents must have a valid Social Security card; an official birth certificate or U.S. citizenship documents; and two proofs of residency, such as a utility bill or tax records.
New voting measures could deter Latinos, civil rights group says
Polls show President Barack Obama leading Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes.
Critics say the new law is an attempt by Republicans – who overwhelmingly support the measure – to gain the advantage in a close election.
Corbett said the law "sets a simple and clear standard to protect the integrity of our elections."
However, lawyers on both sides admit there are no known cases of in-person voter fraud.
Civil rights organizations and attorneys filed a lawsuit in May to overturn the new law. The case made its way to the state Supreme Court, which sent the dispute back to Simpson in the Commonwealth Court.
Justice Department OKs New Hampshire voter ID law
Pennsylvania is one of 31 states with some form of voter ID measure in place. Most have provisional voting mechanisms for people lacking the proper identification at the polling place.
Four of the states – Georgia, Kansas, Tennessee and Indiana – require a photo ID to cast a regular ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Indiana's law in 2008.
Five other states, including Pennsylvania, have passed photo identification laws that now are under review or legal challenge, while seven states have less restrictive photo ID laws.
CNN's Tom Cohen, Bill Mears, David Ariosto, Sarah Hoye and Deb Feyerick contributed to this report


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The best sports movies transcend their genre and become a metaphor for something greater, whether it is the world of boxing in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" or a light Disney flick concerning unlikely prospective Olympic bobsledders like "Cool Runnings."
But going one step further is a new soccer documentary called "Next Goal Wins" about the world's worst national soccer team that opens Friday at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles and plays May 20 at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood.
This wasn't a fictional story, one based on a true story or even a documentary shot after the fact.
"Next Goal Wins" was filmed as events unfolded and no one — neither its makers nor participants — knew what would happen next to the world's lowest-ranked team that hadn't won a game in a decade and catastrophically lost a World Cup qualifier by the record score of 31-0 to Australia in April, 2001.
"It's rare for a documentary to capture the same sense of excitement just as sporting history is made … before rolling cameras," said Thomas Rongen, a veteran MLS and U.S. national youth team coach.
"I had no idea what I was getting myself into. (The film makers) didn't know exactly where this was taking them at all, either."
Central to this charming tale is the unassuming backdrop of the tiny Pacific island of American Samoa and its innocent populace.
There is the goalkeeper haunted by the hammering who nevertheless continues playing.
There is the team's best player, who in a scenario familiar to American national team fans lives thousands of miles away from a homeland he hasn't visited in years.
And there is the fringe player who becomes an important figure on the squad, yet is a member of the "fa'afafine, recognized as a third gender in Samoan culture, a male who identifies as female.
We see the land and its people through the eyes of Rongen, who lost his 19-year-old stepdaughter, Nicole Megaloudis, in a 2004 car accident.
The title of this warm-hearted film, familiar to anyone who has played a pickup soccer game in a park or school ground, encapsulates its theme: when a pivotal moment arrives it doesn't matter what has gone before; it is only the present that matters.
"It's less a story about the ultimate underdog and more a story about the island, the community, the dedication to family, spirituality and also the mutual acceptance (of people) that's all too uncommon," Rongen said.
"It was a great learning curve for me as well to decide again what's important in life, and I really immersed myself in their culture," he added. "I thought I would never rediscover the true meaning of football and I think I did, as well as the true meaning of life.
"It just became a very inspirational story about the power of hope in the face of all odds, a lesson in what it really means to be a winner."
Also …
A knee injury will keep Chelsea striker Samuel Eto'o out of today's UEFA Champions League semifinal first leg against La Liga leaders Athletico Madrid. Real Madrid meet defending champion Bayern Munich on Wednesday. Both games start at 11:30 a.m. on Fox Sports 1 … Closer to home, Toluca and Cruz Azul, deadlocked 0-0 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League final, play the deciding game at 5 p.m. on Wednesday on Fox Sports 1. … Gardena midfielder Alejandro Alaniz, 16, is among the participants in this year's Sueno MLS, the Univision reality show that awards a pro contract to a young, unknown player. The national final is set for May 13-18 at StubHub Center.
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I don't remember exactly when I took this shot. I know which camera I used but it really doesn't matter because the exif info tells me I shot the image at f7.1 with a modern kit lens and I doubt a better (or worse) camera or a better lens would have made any difference at all. I was at loose ends and I was walking around with a camera in my hands looking for interesting stuff to photograph.
I smiled at the owner, dropped a buck into his case and asked him if I could photograph his dog. "Sure."
I was happy to see that the dog had a fresh cup of kibble just to the left of his (or her) head and a collapsible bowl of clean water just outside the guitar case. I also was happy to see that the owner was using a harness instead of a collar. Studio Dog says that's her preferred rig because if they make a fast break for a squirrel and come up short on the leash it doesn't put stress on their necks.
I wish I'd made a few different photography decisions but I'm happy to have the photograph.
The camera I used to take this is long gone but the image, and its attendant memory for me is still right here.


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|Page one editors' note from the Sunday (March 30, 2008) St. Louis Post-Dispatch
On the front page of last Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, we published the story of a woman identified as Virginia Gillis. She was featured in an Easter story in which she described in detail a past of victimization, homelessness and despair followed by recovery and repair.
We have since learned that a number of the details in that story were inaccurate. Further, our verification procedures were not followed during the reporting and editing process. In short, this story did not meet our standards for publication.
We apologize for this journalistic breakdown. We value the trust you place in us every time you pick up the Post-Dispatch or log onto STLtoday.com, and we understand that incidents such as this put that trust at risk.
Last Monday morning, we were contacted by someone who told us that information provided by the woman in the story was inaccurate. We immediately began a review of our reporting. We conducted extensive records searches and interviewed sources to check the details provided by the woman. We have learned:
* The woman's name is Pamala Brown, according to police, her mother and other people who know her. She also has used the spelling Pamela.
* Law enforcement officials in Crawford, Gasconade and Franklin counties have active warrants for Brown for violating probation on felony bad check and forgery charges. Crystal City has a warrant for Brown for failure to appear on DWI and other traffic charges.
* The Missouri Department of Revenue has no record of the drivers license number that appears on the license the woman provided us during this review.
* Law enforcement and fire officials in Jefferson County have no records of the violence the woman described in the story. She said her husband burned down her house in 2005 and a few weeks later slashed her throat. She said the attack left the long scar across her neck.
"I think we would have recognized the offense even under a different name," said Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins, who was the county prosecutor at the time. Wilkins said authorities checked the name the woman provided the newspaper for her ex-husband, as well as variations.
* Pamala Brown is 51 years old, not 42, according to public documents.
* Pamala Brown attended Parkway West High School but did not graduate, according to school officials.
* Other information in the story about the woman's marriage and children conflicts with information we have since obtained from public documents and family members.
We have spoken with the woman twice since the article ran, and she insists that everything she told us was accurate and that she is not Pamala Brown. Pastors at Centenary United Methodist Church, who had obtained identification documents from her shortly after they hired her in March 2007 to work in the church's homeless program, said they had had no reason to question her identity. They said she has been a model employee.
Our review showed that Pamala Brown was mentioned and pictured in a May 2000 story. We have been unable to verify some of the details about the woman that were included in that story, which was about the Mark Twain Hotel.
The Post-Dispatch has strict standards for gathering and verifying information. As a story is reported and prepared for publication, a number of journalists scrutinize it. As part of our internal review of how this story was handled, we have learned that during that process some questions were raised about the woman's account that should have been pursued more aggressively. We take this lapse very seriously, and we are taking steps to reinforce the standards to which we normally adhere. In our profession there is nothing more important than our credibility, and that is why we have tried to address this situation with you as fully and directly as possible. We hope you will accept our apology.
Arnie Robbins, Editor
Pam Maples, Managing Editor


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text: Introduction In the early morning of November 8, the strongest typhoon in recorded history entered the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan (Local name : Yolanda) brought catastrophic damage to the islands of Leyte and Samar. With maximum sustained winds of 315kph and storm surges reaching as high as twenty feet, Haiyan swept ships onto villages, drove trees into houses and blew tin roofs up in the air.The magnitude of the damage was immense, leaving over 6,000 people dead and more missing. For days, residents had no access to food and water. Dead bodies were still on the streets and looting became rampant. Access to remote areas was difficult due to the amount of debris on the roads and the lack of manpower to clear them. People were in a state of shock, pain and panic as they struggled to make sense of what happened and tried to rebuild their homes alongside the deceased.Embedded with the UN and on assignment for Rappler, I landed in Tacloban four days after the typhoon hit. These are the images and stories from the immediate aftermath.


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Rapid City, Pierre and Sioux Falls had previously been selected to host meeting on the topic.
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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/02/15/art.joeplumber.gi.jpg caption="Joe the Plumber is finished with McCain."]Washington (CNN) - He was one of the faces of John McCain's presidential campaign in 2008, but Joe Wurzelbacher - better known to the world as "Joe the Plumber" - is apparently finished with the Arizona senator.
"John McCain is no public servant," Wurzelbacher said at a campaign rally Saturday in Pennsylvania for long shot gubernatorial candidate Sam Rohrer. Later, in an interview with Pennsylvania Public Radio, he dismissed the suggestion that he owes his fame to McCain.
"I don't owe him sh*t," Wurzelbacher said. "He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it."
"McCain was trying to use me," he said. "I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy."
Wurzelbacher said he's also done with Sarah Palin because she is backing McCain's re-election bid in Arizona.
Joe, you WEREN'T a plumber. You asked a question WITHOUT knowing the facts. And you blame McCain because nobody believes your scam anymore?! You are a fraud and your 15 minutes of fame are long since over. You no more represent "Middle America" than Sarah "The Quitter" Palin does. REAL Americans WORK for a living.


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If it's dusk, and the sun is slipping below a broken timberline in a haze of pastels—Ann Woo will refuse to take a picture. It's a moment asking to be snapped by any photographer, but Woo would call that greedy.
Instead she will turn to the stone at her feet, or perhaps, as displayed in her most well-known work, a small portion of the color-struck sky. In her Sunset series, Woo singles out individual hues and their subtle gradients. "Sunset Blue," "Sunset Purple," "Sunset Yellow," "Sunset Cyan," and so on lose their context, appearing more like samples from Frankenthaler's palette.
This is exactly what Woo wants you to see—the image itself, isolated from political, social, emotional, or narrative intentions. Her art is one of avoidance. She steers clear of visual statements, the obviously or impersonally beautiful, and photo manipulations. This infuses her work with a kind of grace and humility. "The point is to let people see what I saw," she says on a recent day at a Brooklyn coffee shop.
Woo's approach is captivating. Self-taught before attending New York's International Center of Photography in 2008, she picked up her first camera while at design school in her native Hong Kong. In recent years, the 36-year-old has been featured in 17 shows internationally, including Now: Art in the 21st Century at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York, the NADA Art Fair in Miami, and Art Basel in Switzerland. Next year her work will be featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America.
Many of her pieces are labeled as minimalist: photos of a single pattern-backed playing card, a melting block of snow, a wad of crinkled paper, and undemonstrative portraits.
Woo insists her approach is even simpler than that. "I photograph what I like seeing, what I am attracted to, what I am passionate about," she says. "So when I am photographing something it has to be true. I cannot make up something beautiful."
This means no digital photography. Woo is an analog photographer, one of the few who have yet to dip into the digital world, instead choosing to print each photo by hand in the increasingly disappearing darkroom. For Woo, printing by hand limits the temptation to meddle with reality, allowing her work to appear closer to the original image, a quality she feels is her "responsibility." "If I didn't capture truth it would be lying," she says. "I would not let myself lie."
When asked why she holds truth as more important than her impulse to create, Woo finds herself at a loss. Later, a discussion of her childhood lends insight into her development. She grew up in 60-square-foot room with her mother, father, and younger sister. "We sat on our beds to have dinner," she says. She worried often, and knew money was scarce. "I have a sensitivity towards reality," she says. "I cannot cover it up. People learn how to cover things, how to block out pain, but I cannot do that. I need to know truth."
For a girl growing up in Hong Kong 15 years ago, being an artist was a farfetched notion. Woo was the first in her family to attend college, eschewing a career in finance for one in design. "In the past I would have never imagined doing art," she says. "I became a designer because it is something closer to a career. Art is equal to being poor." The Hong Kong art scene is a relatively new market, with local artists emerging from their underground beginnings in the last decade or so. Fearing disdain, Woo is still hesitant to tell people she has a college degree and is a photographer. For years she wouldn't show her work to others, much less sell it.
Even today, as a working artist with upcoming exhibitions, she can't stop worrying. The brutal reality of being a struggling artist continues to threaten her world of pretty pictures, and she admits that sometimes she's "scared of surviving."
"Art is a luxury," she says. There will always be bills to pay, and, luckily, her once beloved pastime has become a means of provision. The tilt of orange lilies in a vase or the diamond patterns of playing cards are now subject to the critical eye of the art world. But still, Woo reminds us of the sweetness of life's diversity. That reality will always have its scraps of beauty, even if it's as passing as a hue in a sunset.


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Like many women, I admit, I've read my share (and then some) of the bodice-ripper books with titles like The Windswept Stranger. And I've decided that a good portion of my brain has melted because of it.
I'm not the only one who believes this. Nine out of 10 cowboy/neurologists say the area of the brain most affected by reading romance books is the REALITY lobe. It just doesn't happen in real life like it happens in those stories.
Case in point: Today, I could've lived one of those cheesy fantasies, but reality intruded on what could've been an otherwise Days of Our Lives-ish romantic incident—or at least something that would've made a good Penthouse Forum story.
However, I've considered penning it as a horror short story. The encounter went something like this… A tall, dark, and handsome guy A f*cking waaaay hot new neighbor stopped by with a petition to allow jackhammering of his patio slab. He knocked. The door opened to reveal… Me, a smokingly beautiful, lingerie-clad vixen with flowing hair scented like erotic musk a chubby, make-up-less writer, hair in a sloppy bun, wearing a too-short ratty nightgown and Ugg boots.
The romantic part of the horror story never quite took off because the writer used the door as a shield to hide her aching loins and tell-tale signs of arousal translucent legs, granny panties, and perpetually diamond-tipped braless nipples. However, she was completely unable to figure out a way to drape her hand over her face to hide the volcanic zit on the bridge of her nose while still maintaining an engaging conversation that belied the mental images she conjured of wildly riding him like a Kentucky Derby winner while he lay stunned and mortified supine and smiling on her dining room table, tightly gripping her dimpled heart-shaped ass and calling out to the neighborhood in a throbbing release of utter adoration, "Oh YES! You are a Goddess!"
In reality, she snatched the pen, scribbled her signature on the clipboard, and bade him good luck with the petition because the surrounding neighbors are assholes that she wishes would die fiery and painful deaths in the pits of Hell. Then she closed the door.
The End.
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I wasn't sure what to expect when I decided to take in a bit of culture and go see "The Importance of Being Earnest" performed by Chattyboo Productions at Cork Arts Theatre. Frank Prendergast has a leading role in the play and he blogged about it a few days ago, but I didn't know anything about Oscar Wilde. I expected a stuffy Victorian period drama along the lines of many popular movies I've seen. Little did I know the comedic gem that was lying in wait.
I won't give anything away about the story, except to say that it has a perfect mix of love, humour, twists and scoundrels. We spent the whole time either laughing or engrossed in the twists and characters of the plot.
Unfortunately the play finishes on Saturday so you only have a few more days to enjoy this wonderful experience! Check out Frank's post for an audio clip, and go book your tickets by ringing the Cork Arts Theatre at 021-4505624.
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by Whitney Pitcher
Yesterday Governor Palin penned a post on her Facebook page expressing her support of Senator McCain in the face of censure by his own party in Arizona. In many ways, it echoed the op-ed she wrote for the Arizona Central when she endorsed Senator McCain's re-election nearly four years ago. Governor Palin's support of Senator McCain shows far more of her character than of his merit. As Governor Palin wrote last night:
We live in a time of diminishing virtues because of societal influence towards total self-centeredness. This is unfortunate and makes raising families, conducting business, and governing that much more challenging. I know how important the virtue of loyalty is because in politics it's pretty much nonexistent. I stand on that most important virtue and answer those asking today: "Yes, I am proud to have been asked to run with him in 2008, and he is my friend."
If loyalty is essentially nonexistent in politics as Governor Palin notes, how would anyone know what it looks like? One needs to look no further than Governor Palin's own character and action over the years. Governor Palin has stood by Senator McCain's side since 2008, in spite of his often tepid support for her and his nonexistent defense of her when she was more or less accused of murdering his Arizona constituents in Tucson three years ago. Governor Palin's loyalty has been noted by many. For example, Governor Nikki Haley noted in her book about Governor Palin's continued support in the midst of allegations during Haley's gubernatorial campaign that she had an affair:
When allegations from Folks first surfaced, Haley remembers having Palin in her corner after just one phone call – a contrast to the way another supporter, Romney, had handled the news.
"Sarah goes with her gut, and I love her for that," she writes. "Mitt's team [said] they were going to have a 'Nikki Haley meeting' the next morning to decide what to do next."
Governor Palin again stood with Haley in May of 2012 when a South Carolina union leader beat a pinata with a picture of Governor Haley's face on it. This came even after Haley's silence when Governor Palin and the Tea Party was blamed for the Tucson shooting. Suffice it to say, Governor Palin's loyalty is because of who she is (her character), not because of who the others are.
Support differs from complete agreement, however. Governor Palin has expressed disagreement with McCain either implicitly or explicitly multiple times. As she noted in her Facebook post, Governor Palin parts ways with Senator McCain on ANWR and immigration. She has parted ways with him implicitly too. Her "Let Allah sort it out" approach to Syria is 180 degrees different than Senator McCain's neocon approach to Syria. In her vintage speech to a Tea Party rally in Iowa in September 2011, Governor Palin mocked Senator McCain, although not in name, for his reference to Tea Partiers as hobbits.
To be sure, Governor Palin has her share of disagreements with Senator McCain, just as some supporters may disagree with her for supporting Senator McCain in this manner. That is the beauty of independence of thought–difference of opinion does negate support. As Governor Palin's brother Chuck Heath Jr. noted on his Facebook page today:
If I turned my back on every friend and family member who didn't agree with me 100% of the time, I'd have no friends or family members.
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WASHINGTON – The Harry Nice Bridge connects Charles County in Maryland and King George County in Virginia. For years there's been talk of building a new bridge, but recent findings by a state agency show that the task is easier said than done.
"The next step is going to be a little while in the coming," says Harold Bartlett, who runs the Maryland Transportation Authority, the agency that operates the bridge. "We don't really have funding planned for the replacement of the bridge, nor are funds immediately identified or available for that."
A six-year environmental study was completed last month on how to replace the 72- year-old bridge, a project that would cost about $850 million.
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At around 2 p.m., Gary LaCroix, 59, of Concord, was fishing along the Merrimack River near Sewall's Falls, when he saw a piece of trash floating down the river, witnesses said.
LaCroix began wading into the river to retrieve the trash. When he was approximately 60 feet from shore, LaCroix came across a 3-foot drop-off in the river. He was unable to get back to shore, went below the surface of the water and did not resurface, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said.
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Lee, Charles
Lee, Charles, 1731–82, American Revolutionary army officer, b. Cheshire, England. He first came to America to serve in the French and Indian War and took part in General Braddock's disastrous campaign (1755), in the unsuccessful campaign against Ticonderoga (1758), and in the capture of Montreal (1760). His duties as a British officer later took him to Portugal under Gen. John Burgoyne (1762) and to Poland. In 1773 he went to Virginia to live and became a supporter of colonial independence. At the start of the American Revolution his military experience won him a commission as major general in the Continental army. After directing the fortification of New York City early in 1776, he went to Charleston, S.C., and received credit for the successful defense of that city, despite his having advised William Moultrie to abandon the fort that saved the city. Returning to New York, he repeatedly disregarded General Washington's command to cross the Hudson River in the retreat after the battle of White Plains, in the hope that he could win a personal success and replace Washington as commander in chief. When he did cross he was captured (Dec. 13, 1776) by the British at Basking Ridge, N.J. As a captive he gave Gen. William Howe a plan for defeating the Americans, but his treason was not discovered. Lee was exchanged and joined Washington at Valley Forge (1778). At the battle of Monmouth (1778) he ordered a retreat of his forces and thus prevented an American victory. The rout was stemmed only by Washington, Baron von Steuben, and Nathanael Greene. A court-martial resulted in a year's suspension from command for Lee, who continued to criticize Washington abusively. In 1780 he was finally dismissed from service. His papers have been published by the New-York Historical Society (1872–75).
See biographies by J. R. Alden (1951) and S. W. Patterson (1958).
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Radhastami is celebrated by Krishna devotees as the appearance anniversary of Srimati Radharani, who is Krishna's greatest devotee, the feminine aspect of the Absolute Truth, and Krishna's energy Personified. Join us
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Radhastami is celebrated by Krishna devotees as the appearance anniversary of Srimati Radharani, who is Krishna's greatest devotee, the feminine aspect of the Absolute Truth, and Krishna's energy Personified.
Join us in celebrating, meditating on, and trying to understand the significance of this extraordinary day.
Srimati Radharani is the eternal consort of Lord Krishna. Five thousand years ago, when Lord Krishna came to this planet to perform His pastimes, Srimati Radharani also appeared. This year we celebrate her appearance on September 15. This special day is known as Radhashtami. The following is adapted from a lecture by His Holiness Varshana Swami:
"On a half-moon night in the month of Bhadra, King Vrishabhanu came to the Jamuna to bathe and found himself engulfed in a golden aura, the golden aura of pure love. It was emanating from a lotus, which had a baby girl standing on its whorl. When the king returned to the palace with the baby, Queen Kirtida was delighted. She was also shocked that the girl was blind.
"Lord Krishna's mother, Yashoda, heard that her best friend Kirtida had a baby, so she came to visit along with her husband and her son. Krishna crawled up to the cradle and pulled Himself up and looked in. At that moment, Srimati Radharani's eyes fluttered and opened wide and blossomed like lotuses. It seems that she did not want to see anything of this world, only the form of Sri Krishna. Everyone was delighted.
"Srimati Radharani is the mother of the universe, the spiritual mother of all souls. And the concept of mother is the most sacred symbol—that of purity, selflessness, caring, sharing, nurturing, and love. That is why our sacred mantra is the holy names. It is the holy names in the vocative. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
"'Hare' means 'Radhe.' It is a plaintive, desperate cry for the mother. 'Radhe! Please wake us up from this nightmare of mortal life! Remind us of the father we have forgotten and take us home!'"
In the Krishna consciousness movement, devotees carefully worship Srimati Radharani as the bestower of devotional service to Krishna, by attentively chanting her name in the maha-mantra, by worshiping her deity form, and by following the instructions of the most merciful Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the combined form of Radha and Krishna.
"(Therefore) Radha is parama-devata, the supreme goddess, and She is worshipable for everyone. She is the protectress of all, and She is the mother of the entire universe." —Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 4.89
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As I mentioned in the previous post, the most mysterious thing about the Fremont is what happened to them. Unlike the Anasazi, who obviously became the modern Pueblos, the Fremont have no obvious connections to any modern groups. Fremont sites appear to disappear around AD 1300 in most areas, although there is some regional variation and in part defining an end date depends on how you define "Fremont." Since the practice of agriculture is closely associated with the Fremont complex, the latest dates of sites with clear evidence for agriculture is one convenient way to date the end of the Fremont. In their important 1998 review essay, David Madsen and Steven Simms give the following dates for the end of agriculture in different Fremont regions:
- Uinta Basin: AD 1000
- Parowan Valley and Great Salt Lake wetlands: AD 1100 to 1150
- "Much of the Fremont region": AD 1250 to 1300
- Northwestern Colorado: After AD 1450
(Note that Madsen and Simms annoyingly cite their dates as "Before Present" without specifying what date they are using for the "Present" or whether these are calendar or radiocarbon years; in calculating the above dates I have assumed a "Present" of AD 1950 as conventionally used in radiocarbon determinations.)
The Madsen and Simms date for much of the region is very close to the "Great Drought" of AD 1276 to 1299 known from Anasazi sites to the south (assuming of course that their dates are in calendar years). Given the low precision of the radiocarbon-based Fremont chronology compared to the tree-ring based Anasazi one, however, it is risky to make too much of coincidences like this, and the wide variation across different Fremont sub-regions suggests that something more complicated is going on here than a simple reaction to a single prolonged drought. The Great Drought may well have affected Fremont farmers, of course, but the Fremont data are not clear enough to establish a definitive association. In general a rough date of AD 1300 for the end of Fremont in most areas is widely used and probably close enough for most purposes. It does seem that some form of the Fremont lifestyle persisted significantly longer in northwestern Colorado, which could have served as a refuge for Fremont farmers displaced from other areas.
In keeping with their general interpretation of Fremont as involving a wide variety of adaptive strategies and frequent movements of people between farming and foraging, Madsen and Simms interpret the end of the phenomenon as consisting largely of farmers switching to foraging, along with possible immigration of foragers from outside the region. Basically they see this period as a time when the precarious balance between farming and foraging characteristic of the Fremont period tipped decisively in favor of foraging, perhaps in response to climatic changes that made foraging a more effective subsistence strategy.
Whatever the mechanism for the collapse of Fremont as an archaeological complex, the question of what became of the people remains. There are three main logical options:
- They died out entirely and left no descendants.
- They changed their culture and stayed in the same region.
- They left the region.
The first option is apparently attractive to a lot of people, judging by the popularity of descriptions of ancient peoples as "vanished" and so forth, but it's actually quite rare for a group to literally die out entirely. It's certainly possible that this is what happened to the Fremont, especially given the lack of continuity with later groups, but the number of people and large area involved make it implausible. That leaves us with either continuity between the Fremont and the ethnographic inhabitants of their region or a migration of the Fremont to somewhere else.
The idea that the Fremont might have developed into the hunter-gatherers known ethnographically in the eastern Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau has a respectable history in the literature; as I noted in the previous post, James Gunnerson proposed just this back in the 1960s. The distinction in material culture between the Fremont and the Numic-speaking groups that followed them (Shoshone and Ute) is quite marked, however, as Albert Schroeder pointed out at the time. Furthermore, Madsen noted in 1975 that the distinctive Numic pottery is associated with the very different Fremont pottery at several well-dated sites in the region, suggesting that the two groups were distinct but contemporaneous. It is certainly possible that some of the Fremont assimilated into Numic society in some areas, or that the two merged in various combinations, and Madsen and Simms suggest that some such merging may have occurred in the Great Salt Lake area, though it's not clear from their discussion whether they see the immigrant groups that merged with the Fremont as specifically Numic, as they propose a hiatus between this merged society and the ethnographically known culture of the region, perhaps due to the spread of European disease in the contact era. The whole issue of the Numic groups and how they got to where they are today is important in understanding the prehistory of these areas, but it is a big, complicated issue and I'll address it more fully in a subsequent post. The material culture differences are significant enough that it seems unlikely that assimilation in place is the answer to the question of what happened to the Fremont in general.
As an alternative to seeing the Fremont as turning into the modern Numic groups that occupy the same areas, they may have migrated elsewhere. But where? Another theory noted in my previous post is that proposed by Melvin Aikens in the 1960s that the Fremont originally came from the Plains and ultimately migrated back there to become one or more of the ethnographically known Plains groups, probably Athabascan-speaking (i.e., Apache and/or Navajo). He based this theory on some suggestive parallels in material culture between the Fremont and Plains groups, especially the later Dismal River culture, generally thought to be associated with the Athabascan Na'isha. There certainly do seem to be some Plains-like traits in Fremont culture, including an emphasis on bison hunting, use of the shield-bearing warrior rock art motif, wearing of moccasins rather than sandals, etc. It's not clear, however, whether these result from actual migrations of people from the Plains to the Fremont area or vice versa (and the two migrations Aikens posits would not be necessary in any case to explain the similarities). Aikens also used some physical anthropological evidence from skull morphology to support his theory, but the usefulness of the type of data he used was disputed even at the time, and it is not taken seriously at all now. Furthermore, more recent physical anthropological research using DNA analysis suggests strongly that there is no genetic connection between the Fremont and modern Athabascans or other Plains groups. In a sample of remains from the Great Salt Lake area the most common mitochondrial haplotype among Athabascans was not present at all, which is quite striking since it is quite common among Native American groups in general. It is of course possible, even likely, that this sample was not representative of Fremont groups in general, but of all the Fremont sub-areas the Great Salt Lake is the closest to the Plains both geographically and culturally, so if there's no evidence of a genetic connection to the Plains from there it's very unlikely that one will be found anywhere else. The same study found no clear evidence for a connection to the modern Numic groups either. This DNA stuff is another interesting, complicated issue that deserves its own post, but for now the upshot of this is that the Plains traits seen among the Fremont probably result from contact and cultural diffusion rather than migration in either direction, and the fate of the Fremont remains mysterious.
So if they didn't go east onto the Plains, where did the Fremont go? The next obvious option is that they went south and joined the Pueblo groups with which they had many cultural similarities. This is another idea that has been proposed by some archaeologists, and it also appears to have support from oral traditions. David Pendergast and Clement Meighan published a paper in 1959 reporting that during their excavations of a site in southwestern Utah that would today be considered Parowan Fremont (though Pendergast and Meighan called them "Puebloid") local Paiutes (a Numic group) told them some things about the people who had inhabited the site that they considered surprisingly accurate given the archaeological evidence. The Paiutes referred to the Fremont by the term Mukwitch, which is also the Paiute term for the Hopis, and reported that they had moved south and joined the Hopis when they left Utah. While their comments on the lifestyle of the Mukwitch and the reasons they had left were rather inconsistent, the consistency of the accounts of where they went is striking. The Paiutes also said that the Mukwitch were quite different from the Paiutes but had lived peacefully alongside them, which is noteworthy in light of the Numic pottery found in association with Fremont pottery mentioned above.
This paper has not been taken very seriously by archaeologists, and in fact I have not seen it cited at all in other Fremont literature. The only mentions of it I have seen, in fact, have been in cautions about the problems with taking oral traditions seriously, presumably because of the inconsistencies in the accounts. The accounts certainly are inconsistent on certain points, but consistent on others, and I think this paper deserves more attention from archaeologists wondering what happened to the Fremont. It's certainly plausible that they moved south to join the Anasazi, and the Hopi are the most likely of the modern Pueblos for them to have ended up at for straightforward geographical reasons. A look at some of the recorded Hopi clan traditions with this in mind would likely be interesting. It's unlikely that all of the Fremont moved south to join the Hopis, but it's plausible that at least some did. Others may have stayed in place and been assimilated into the Numic groups spreading across the region, and still others might have died out entirely due to drought, warfare, or other factors.
So in some sense we're back where we started, with no clear answer. But in other senses we do have some answers, at least in ruling out some options: The Fremont don't seem to have either come from or gone to the Plains, and the Apaches are probably not their descendants. Wherever they did go (or stay), they changed their material culture rapidly and completely to assimilate into other groups, whether Numic or Hopi. This sort of rapid and complete assimilation is actually not as implausible as it seems; there are other examples of it in the prehistoric Southwest, and it must have happened quite a lot if the archaeological record is to be reconciled with the ethnographic one. All this suggests above all that the late prehistoric period, from AD 1300 on, was a time of immense change in the Greater Southwest, which makes it very difficult to figure out what was going on before that. Difficult, but not necessarily impossible. There are some ways to see through the haze.
Aikens, C. (1967). Plains Relationships of the Fremont Culture: A Hypothesis American Antiquity, 32 (2) DOI: 10.2307/277904
Armelagos, G. (1968). Aikens' Fremont Hypothesis and Use of Skeletal Material in Archaeological Interpretation American Antiquity, 33 (3) DOI: 10.2307/278710
Gunnerson, J. (1962). Plateau Shoshonean Prehistory: A Suggested Reconstruction American Antiquity, 28 (1) DOI: 10.2307/278076
Madsen, D. (1975). Dating Paiute-Shoshoni Expansion in the Great Basin American Antiquity, 40 (1) DOI: 10.2307/279271
Madsen, D., & Simms, S. (1998). The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective Journal of World Prehistory, 12 (3), 255-336 DOI: 10.1023/A:1022322619699
Parr RL, Carlyle SW, & O'Rourke DH (1996). Ancient DNA analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands. American journal of physical anthropology, 99 (4), 507-18 PMID: 8779335
Pendergast, D., & Meighan, C. (1959). Folk Traditions as Historical Fact: A Paiute Example The Journal of American Folklore, 72 (284) DOI: 10.2307/538475
Schroeder, A. (1963). Comment on Gunnerson's "Plateau Shoshonean Prehistory" American Antiquity, 28 (4) DOI: 10.2307/278572


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Sports TV viewers may see a lot more of Urban Meyer on TV this year than they thought they would. Fox Sports is close to finalizing a deal to hire the former Ohio State head coach as its star college football analyst, sources tell Sporting News.
Meyer, who won three national championships between Ohio State and Florida, is being given the choice to work either as a color commentator in the game booth or as a studio analyst at Fox, sources said. Citing serious health concerns, the 54-year-old Buckeyes coach retired after the 2019 Rose Bowl.
A Fox Sports spokeswoman declined comment to Sporting News Thursday night.
Fox just wrapped its most-watched college football regular season ever. The network envisions Meyer as the kind of big-time coaching name/TV talent who could potentially put its "Fox College Football Pregame" show on par with Kirk Herbstreit's "College GameDay" at ESPN.
Cool. Maybe Corch and Thom Brennaman can reminisce fondly about the GPOOE™.
If CBS ever loses the SEC to Fox, I'm gonna be one bummed mofo.


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Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE:WMT) and Facebook Inc unveiled a partnership Tuesday to help the world's largest retailer connect customers with its local stores.
Wal-Mart launched My Local Walmart, a page that lets the retailer's roughly nine million Facebook fans follow what is happening at stores in their neighborhoods.
The effort covers about 3,500 Wal-Mart outlets and will send alerts to the company's Facebook fans about new products and discounts, the companies said.
``With early Walmarts, customers would walk in and ask the store manager to get a product,'' said Stephen Quinn, chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart. ``This is going to allow this kind of communication at national scale. Stores become more relevant on a local level because of interaction with customers.''
Wal-Mart is stepping up investments in e-commerce and social networking to try to compete more effectively with Internet rivals led by Amazon.com Inc.
Facebook fans of Wal-Mart who sign up to the new page will get about two messages a week from their local store at first, Quinn added.
Alerts may be triggered by local events such as a high school football game or weather, he said.``A national message is sometimes not relevant,'' Quinn said. ''We can now say we have sunscreen in the south and snow boots in the north.''
My Local Walmart also will have a role in this year's holiday shopping season, especially on the day after Thanksgiving when shoppers line up early for deals, he added.
Shoppers will be able to download maps of their local store from My Local Walmart, showing them where specific merchandise will be in their store.
``It's impossible to put out a generic map,'' Quinn said. ''This allows us to put out store maps for each local store.''


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A quasi-regular feature for the month of December in which Lady Bee provides you with gift ideas you won't find in the Williams-Sonoma catalog.
I'm guessing the Snuggie has lost its appeal now that you can find it at your local Dollarama. This would be where the attractive stocking blanket comes in. Why settle for merely a blanket or *shudder!* a throw, when you can pretend you are a live human stocking stuffer? And why settle for just any stocking, when you can declare your love for the Yankees (or Phillies, or Red Sox. Sorry, Nationals fans.) with this: a 69-inch polyester stocking with arm and leg holes, so you don't feel like a caterpillar?
Currently $15.97 at shop.mlb.com. Cheesy, yes, but it will keep you warmer than this.


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BARUERI, Brazil – Dong Hyun Kim, Raphael Assuncao and T.J. Dillashaw each earned $50,000 bonuses for their performances at Saturday's UFC Fight Night 29 event. But Rousimar Palhares watched $50,000 walk away "due to unsportsmanlike conduct."
Kim earned the "Knockout of the Night" and Assuncao and Dillashaw picked up "Fight of the Night" honors. Palhares, with the only submission on the card, should have won the "Submission of the Night" bonus. But because he continued to hold Mike Pierce's leg in the fight-ending ankle lock, UFC officials elected to not give him the bonus.
UFC officials announced the winners at the night's post-event news conference, which MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) attended.
UFC Fight Night 29 took place at Jose Correa Arena in Barueri, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The main card aired on FOX Sports 1 following prelims on the same channel.
Palhares (15-5 MMA, 7-5 UFC) didn't need long against Mike Pierce (17-6 MMA, 9-4 UFC) to do what he's best known for. He went after Pierce's leg right away, and while the American initially defended it, the second time was the charm for Palhares. With an ankle locked up, "Toquinho" dropped to his back and started to torque. Pierce was tapping quickly, and continued tapping as referee Keith Peterson dived on top trying to get Palhares to release the hold.
It was Palhares' fifth leg submission in the UFC, and it would have been his third bonus award. In 2010, he was suspended for 90 days by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board for not releasing a heel hook against Tomasz Drwal quickly enough – so he has history with the same type of thing the UFC deemed to be "unsportsmanlike." After his fight, Palhares said if he won the bonus, he'd donate his winnings to the Doctors WIthout Borders charity. Now that charity apparently misses out on a big check thanks to the way he finished – or decided to not finish – against Pierce. In addition, Brazil's athletic commission also apparently will be looking into whether Palhares will get any official punishment.
Kim (18-2-1 MMA, 9-2 UFC) and Erick Silva (15-4 MMA, 3-3 UFC) slugged it out for eight minutes in an entertaining co-main event. But when both threw left hands at the same time, it was Kim's that landed, and it landed in a big way. Silva was out before he hit the canvas, and Kim landed a big hammerfist follow-up on the ground for his first stoppage victory since UFC 84.
Assuncao (21-4 MMA, 5-1 UFC) and Dillashaw (8-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) engaged in an important fight for the UFC's bantamweight division. Assuncao is ranked No. 9 and Dillashaw No. 12 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA bantamweight rankings. It was a closely contested fight, and one that Assuncao took by split decision, much to the dismay of Dillashaw, who suffered the first UFC loss for Team Alpha Male since Duane Ludwig took over as head coach.
For more on UFC Fight Night 29, check out the UFC Events section of the site.
(Pictured: Raphael Assuncao and T.J. Dillashaw)
John Morgan contributed to this report on-site in Barueri .


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Youth leagues try to rein in bad news parents
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see posted on online video sites.
At least nobody's admitting to it.
Still, parent behavior in this quiet suburb north of Chicago has been questionable enough to cause the park district officials to post new signs at ball fields with what you might call ... a few gentle reminders.
"This is a game being played by children," the signs in the Buffalo Grove Park District begin, with the words "game" and "children" highlighted in bold letters. "If they win or lose every game of the season, it will not impact what college they attend or their future potential income.."
The campaign, which began this month, is relatively low-key. You might not even notice the small blue signs if you weren't standing right by them. But they speak to a growing movement in youth sports — aimed at reining in parents who, many say, are too involved, too competitive and in need of a little perspective.
"I just want to get back to what I was brought up with as a child — and that's, 'Let the kids play,"' said Dan Schimmel, the park district's executive director.
Elsewhere, some youth sports leagues are requiring parents to sign codes of conduct or recite pledges before games, promising in front of their children that they'll behave. If they slip up, they might be pulled aside for a conversation or kicked out of a game if a warning does no good.
Other leagues occasionally have "silent" games, where parents and sometimes even coaches can only offer encouragement or cheer and clap, but can't direct the young players or say or shout anything too negative.
Buffalo Grove officials say some have questioned whether this is just another attempt to coddle children. Some wonder: Shouldn't a young player learn to take criticism? And what's wrong with a little competition, anyway?
But this, say coaches, leagues and even some parents and kids, is about parent behavior that increasingly goes way over the line and interferes with a kid's ability to enjoy something that's supposed to be fun.
"We've all seen that person on the sidelines and we're thinking, 'Are they really going there? Really?"' said Brian Sanders, president of i9 Sports Corp., a national franchiser of youth leagues and camps based in Florida that uses sportsmanship as one of its cornerstones.
In some cases, violent behavior has led to criminal charges — in Newark, N.J., for instance, where parents allegedly beat up a Little League baseball umpire because he wouldn't call a game because of darkness.
"The level of competition in youth sports has gotten exponentially greater, forcing this level of hyper-competition," Sanders said.
"I think that is driving a certain level of behavior on the sidelines that is amplified."
Haley Small, a 19-year-old college student who played soccer and then travel softball through high school, puts it this way: "The more competitively I played, the more interesting the parents got."
"We'd joke about it, but it's serious. Some of my friends were walking on eggshells," said Small, now a student at Ithaca College in New York. "We hear a lot more than people think."
It gets so bad sometimes that some players wish their parents would just stay home, she said.
Laura Marinelli, who coaches Small's younger sister on a traveling softball team for 12- to 14-year-old girls in Essex County, N.J., also has noticed more over-the-top parent behavior in recent years.
Marinelli recalls one dad who was angry about a play on the field and tried to tackle her assistant coach during a game. The coach was able to duck the parent and ended up throwing him to the ground.
At a national tournament last year, she said a father of a player was so unhappy with a decision she'd made that he ran at her in the dugout, screaming and pointing in her face, causing some of her players to cry. Ultimately, she asked his daughter to leave the team because she felt the dad had repeatedly violated the team's code of conduct.
"The girl is a phenomenal softball player. She's a sweetheart — and a great kid," Marinelli said. "But I can't have a parent like that on the sidelines."
Kicking kids off teams is one of the more serious punishments that leagues and coaches use to try to keep parents under control. Some leagues and tournament officials also are giving umpires more power to warn offending parents and coaches and then ask them to leave the premises if they ignore the warning.
It can be an effective deterrent, though in many other instances, umpires or referees at youth games are often teenagers who may not have the experience or confidence to stand up to parents.
And often, there's no security at games. So parents are left to police themselves.
For that reason, some teams assign parents to be "culture keepers," asking those people to help keep the yelling and negativity from fellow parents to a minimum. Sometimes, they even hand out lollipops to help keep themselves quiet.
"But sometimes the culture keeper isn't always the best person — because that person is yelling just as much as the other parents," Jill Kirby said, laughing. She's a mom in Long Grove, Ill., whose five children participate in sports, from soccer to swimming and T-ball, sometimes in neighboring Buffalo Grove.
She said the signs asking adults to behave are a nice idea — perhaps even a way to get people talking about the issue. But ultimately, she doesn't think the tactic will work.
"I think the worst offenders don't think they are the worst offenders," Kirby said, conceding that maybe even she was one of those parents, "once upon a time."
"And then I got a little perspective," she said.
Greg Dale, a sports psychologist at Duke University, agrees that it's difficult for parents to see themselves as "that parent," at least without a little help.
He recalls a mom in California telling him about a dad she called "leather lungs" because he yelled so often at the officials, coaches and kids.
Hesitant to approach him, the woman secretly filmed him at several games and anonymously sent him the video. "And the guy changed the way he was acting from then on," Dale said.
More often, though, he said he sees parents who "say the right things" about sportsmanship — maybe even reciting a pledge before a game, as is the case at his own children's Little League games.
"Those things help. But ultimately, I think they're Band-Aids," said Dale, author of the book "The Fulfilling Ride: A Parent's Guide to Helping Athletes Have a Successful Sport Experience."
More important, he said, is whether parents are actually BEING good sports, even at professional sporting events.
"As parents, we have to model the lessons we want our kids want to learn," he said.
There are other good reasons not to interfere, said Malcolm Brown, a high school and club soccer coach in Westchester County, N.Y.
One of his teams has instituted occasional "silent Sunday" games. But he'd like to have them more often because he said they make his players better — and more able to make decisions on their own.
"Too often during games, they're looking to the side for direction," he said of this generation of young athlete. "They become robots. They can never become good in soccer because soccer demands the imagination and creativity of the player."
Wendy Grolnick, a psychology professor at Clark University in Massachusetts, sees why silent games could be useful. But she also said coaches and leagues shouldn't punish all parents because some are overzealous.
"We don't want to just shut people up and make them feel like they can't say anything," said Grolnick, who wrote the book "Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child."
She recalled her own experience at meetings for parents when her daughters have played field hockey and tennis in college.
A lot of those meetings focused on "what not to do," she said. "It could feel a little insulting. ... We need to feel like partners in the process."
But there's a happy medium, even for the most well-intentioned parents — and even when they're not yelling or fighting — said Mike Cherenson, a youth sports coach who founded a lacrosse league in his town, Pequannock, N.J.
He tells the story of a first-grade soccer game, when a young goalie was having trouble stopping the ball. Her mom ran onto the field to block it for her.
"Everyone had a good laugh — no harm, no foul," Cherenson said. "But I think it does depict a larger problem.
"There seems to be an inability to separate yourself from your child."