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Pop corks and tuck into local delicacies with like-minded visitors and locals at any one of the Daylesford and the Macedon Ranges annual foodie events, or join an event celebrating local history, art and culture or nature.
A region with a reputation for the fine things in life is bound to have reasons to celebrate. Food and wine are honoured regularly at events throughout the year.
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The celebration of Loron Matebian varies according to ethnicity, family and community. It can be as simple as a few dishes spread on a cloth on the ground, or as elaborate as a banquet.
Loron Matebian is typfied by Filomena Freitas' story and celebration of All Souls Day in Australia.
I was born in Lospalos but grew up in Vemasse, Timor Leste. In 1991 I sought refuge in Australia.
I have vivid memories of the celebration of Loron Matebian. Now in Australia I still celebrate All Souls Day with my family. We remember all the departed family members we left in Timor Leste. We pray for them at Mass if the day falls on a weekend.
The night before Loron Matebian, or early in the morning, I prepare the food: traditional East Timorese dishes such as rice, fried pork and meat balls, and some Australian-influenced salads, fruit salads and sweets.
In the afternoon of All Souls Day, while the family is sitting outside on the veranda in quiet meditation, I begin the Se Matebian ritual. I invite the departed souls into our house with a quiet prayer. I offer them the gifts on the offering table.
The women in my family help me fill plates with a small portion of all the dishes. We fill glasses with favourite drinks, then I offer the souls a chair to sit on at the dining table. While the souls are having dinner I join the family on the veranda. After a while the women return to offer dessert, coffee and spirits.
When we have given the souls time to enjoy the dinner, I perform the Hamulak, a call to the ancestors to ask for protection and guidance. I collect into a small bowl little portions of food to spread in the front and back yards of my house. In this way our surroundings are blessed by our ancestors.
We conclude the Se Matebian worship at the dining table, where we stand in silence to connect to our ancestors. We are filled with joy and our burdens are lifted. Each one of us chooses a chair that was used by a passed loved one and announces his or her name. Then we sit and eat, knowing that our ancestors' souls are near us.
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It's way too early in the season to know how good a team the 2013-14 Bruins are, but the guess here is that after 10 games, they're just scratching the surface of what they can be. This can be one of the best teams the Bruins have had in the seven seasons Claude Julien has been the head coach, but there are areas they need to improve and habits they have to kick.
Playing down to the opponent would fall under the latter category.
Saturday night's debacle against the Devils in which the B's blew a 4-3 lead in the final 68 seconds of regulation was just one loss, but it was a bad loss. It was also the second case this season of the B's taking an early lead against an opponent, getting comfy and letting a lesser team hang around to make it a much closer game than it should be.
The Bruins showed signs of it last Thursday against the Panthers, when the B's jumped grabbed a two-goal lead in the first period, let Florida get one back in the second and relinquished the lead in the third period. It took a last-minute goal from Reilly Smith for the B's to escape with two points.
No such luck was to be had for the Bruins Saturday. After hitting the first intermission with a 3-1 lead, the Bruins let up in a second period in which the Devils – who entered the game with just one win on the season – outskated them, beat them to pucks and, most importantly, outscored them thanks to Damien Brunner securing the period's only goal.
With the Bruins clinging to a one-goal lead in the third period, a Torey Krug high-sticking penalty that left Brunner leaking gave the Devils, who had already scored twice on the power play, on a man advantage for the final 3:15 of regulation. A Patrice Bergeron delay of game penalty for flipping the puck over the glass with 1:49 left set the Devils up to pull Martin Brodeur and tie the game with a 6-on-3 goal with 1:08 left.
Twenty-two seconds later, the Devils took their first and only lead of the game on an Andy Greene power-play goal. It was a game the Bruins probably could have put away with another early goal or a sustained effort, but instead it turned into a regulation loss.
"It's dangerous. A two-goal lead is the worst kind," Tuukka Rask said. "You feel good about your game and then all of a sudden that one mistake is in your net and then it's a one-goal game and you start squeezing your stick. It's tough. We should know better and we should know how to handle these kind of games."
In the first period, the game seemed as though it would be the latest night in which the Bruins, led by David Krejci's line, would come away with two points. Things certainly looked that way when Krejci's power-play unit generated a Torey Krug goal to get the B's on the board. Milan Lucic's sixth goal of the season gave Krejci his 10th point in the last seven games and the B's appeared ready to cruise.
And that they did.
"They hung in there for a long time, but I really liked my line, how we played tonight," Krejci said. "I think if we could have scored a fourth goal, we would have put them away, but we didn't. They kind of stayed in the game."
Claude Julien liked Krejci's line as well, but he didn't like the others.
"I thought we had too many mediocre players tonight," Julien said after the loss.
It wasn't tough to spot which guys were mediocre for the B's. The second line is obviously finding its way as it gets used to life without Loui Eriksson, and that showed. Brad Marchand turned in another subpar outing on a night in which he and Smith combined for just south of one shot on goal. Bergeron, who had his line's only shot on goal, looked human at the faceoff dot, while the Bruins' third line was also out of sorts.
Even Rask, who got off to a terrific start this season (and even had an assist in the first period), allowed some bad goals, even if they were on the power play. The Devils' first goal came off a big rebound, while the second one came with Rask sliding across his crease to follow a pass from Greene to Brunner and not sealing off his short side well enough. Brunner was able to take backhanded one-timer and tuck it into the corner of the net off of Rask's skate, causing an angry Rask to throw the puck with his blocker and bang his stick on the ice.
"You're kind of there," Rask said, "but then it hits your toe and it's barely in, then what do you do?"
Everyone can agree that the Bruins showed a lot of character Thursday when they hung around long enough to earn two points against the Sharks, but letting lesser opponents stick around isn't something the B's should make into a regular habit.
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These kinds of animations are always nice to watch and get the message, and usually work as great abstract music videos. However, my complaint here was that although the movement was smooth and every part worked in conjunction, and even though it did it all quite seamlessly, there's too many repeated movements.
You got the message across just fine, and it WAS a great short, but it could have used a few other things to lengthen the point. I've been wrong before, but the only "connecting" action was a few objects webbed, a photo sent, and a few wires connected to each other. Maybe you could have added... Oh, I don't know, a silhouette holding a box, who passes it to the next person, to the next, to the next, then the next person shoves the guy that gave him the box (idea, ect) off a cliff, he raises it above his head, and a group of people crowd him and praise him for it. A metaphor for plagiarism around the internet? Ehh, don't mind me. I'm just loitering.
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As your furry companion enters his golden years, you'll want to make sure that he's as comfortable as possible and that he can easily get around the house. Creaky joints, as well as vision and hearing loss, can make going up and down stairs and traveling from room to room a challenge for your senior pet. Here are 5 simple ways to make your senior pet's life a little easier.
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If your senior pet is starting to go blind, make his life a little easier by cleaning up any clutter on the floor. Also, make sure he has a clear path to his food and water dishes, and that toys are consistently stored in the same place.
Walking on slippery hardwood floors might not be so easy for your aging four-legged companion. Help him out by putting down carpeting and nonslip rugs so he has more traction as he walks around the house.
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Levon Helm Tribute Concert To Be Released As Album
In October of 2012, one of the best lineups of rock, country and soul acts came together to pay tribute to the late Band drummer/singer Levon Helm at New Jersey's Izod Center.
The Love For Levon Concert (read our review here) featured current and former members of The Band, The Eagles, The Allman Brothers Band, Pink Floyd and My Morning Jacket, among others, and raised funds to help Helm's estate keep ownership of his home, barn and studio, and to continue the "Midnight Ramble Sessions," which Helm hosted and headlined in the last few years of his life.
If you missed it… well, you missed it. But now, it's coming out on DVD, BluRay and CD so you can see and/or hear what went down. Some of the highlights of the show – which featured songs by The Band as well as from Helm's solo career – include:
- Warren Haynes of The Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule – "The Shape I'm In"
- Gregg Allman and Warren Haynes – "The Long Black Veil"
- Mavis Staples – "Move Along Train"
- John Prine, The Band's Garth Hudson and Joan Osborne – "When I Paint My Masterpiece"
- Bruce Hornsby – "Anna Lee"
- Jakob Dylan – "Ain't Got No Home"
- Lucinda Williams – "Whispering Pines"
- John Hiatt – "Rag Mama Rag"
- Grace Potter – "I Shall Be Released"
- Ray LaMontagne and John Mayer – "Tears Of Rage"
- Dierks Bentley – "Chest Fever"
- Eric Church – "A Train Robbery"
- Joe Walsh and Robert Randolph – "Up On Cripple Creek"
- My Morning Jacket – "It Makes No Difference"
- Roger Waters – "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
In other Helm news, according to the Internet Movie Database, the long-taked about Levon documentary, Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, will hit theaters in May.
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Sure, Kidman and Cruise have filmed scenes for Eyes Wide Shut that were too explicit to be shown on television when they were released as publicity clips. Yes, Kidman agreed to flash her breasts and buttocks in The Blue Room. They are not, in other words, strangers to sexual exhibitionism. But even so the two may be getting into deeper waters than they realise. For what, these days, can possibly qualify as a sufficiently realistic love scene?
Once upon a time, say about 50 years ago, when Alfred Hitchcock made Notorious, it was sufficiently realistic for Ingrid Bergman to press her mouth against Cary Grant's while the circling of the camera suggested the welling of a vertiginous desire. Even about 25 years ago, when films had become a whole lot muckier, and Martin Scorsese made Taxi Driver, it was still enough for all the dangerous sex to be contained in conversation. "You can come on her, you can fuck her in the mouth," detailed the pimp, and although audiences might have recoiled with the shock of the graphic language, all Jodie Foster actually had to do was to look miserable.
Even a few years ago mainstream films hadn't gone much further; nudity was mandatory for female stars. However, directors still had a peekaboo attitude to sex. In the supposedly sexy Basic Instinct, "sufficiently realistic" sex scenes involved - as Sharon Stone put it scornfully - "anatomically impossible positions" designed to show off the leading actress's body rather than suggest anything as rude as intercourse.
However, over the last year or so, a sufficiently realistic love scene has become something very different, and it's become almost real. This greater explicitness has crept up on us without fanfare and without a backlash. Instead, there has been a fascinating silence while the shift has taken place.
And this is a real shift, make no mistake about that. A film that shows close-up shots of penetrative sex, Lars Von Trier's The Idiots, has been passed for cinema exhibition in Britain without any outcry. Visual jokes that involve ejaculation have suddenly become commonplace - even if you didn't see There's Something About Mary you knew that the film involved a gag in which Cameron Diaz slicks back her fringe with her boyfriend's semen. But hardly anyone has bothered to warn cinema audiences that Todd Solondz's new film, Happiness, has two similar scenes. In the first, the masturbator sticks a Post-It note to his wall with his semen; in the second the camera lingers lovingly on the drops clinging to the balcony wall before a dog walks into shot and licks them up. When I saw the film, a mere ripple of bored laughter floated around the cinema.
And men are now more often finding themselves cast as explicit objects of desire - the most vivid sex scenes ever seen in television drama were those in the recent, surprisingly sexy Channel 4 series Queer as Folk. Without warning, that series slid from frank conversation into shots of tongues in buttocks, hands on crotches and just-out-of-frame oral sex.
The greatest barrier to showing explicit sex on our screens has always been the censors' inexplicable unease with erect penises. Yet even that is now breaking down. The Idiots has a lingering shot of a penis becoming gradually erect.
This new ease in portraying the physical reality of sex in mainstream film and television may well have a positive side. It certainly makes it possible to imagine a more equal portrayal of sexuality, in which men's bodies as well as women's take the weight of the camera's interest. And it makes it possible to imagine that less ignorance might surround the realities of sex, and more acceptance that sex isn't always a dream-like ballet carried out by young models.
But if I were Cruise or Kidman, I don't think that I'd be trumpeting my ability to do real sex on screen. Instead I might be worried. For generations, the glamour of Hollywood has been predicated on its distance from real life, its violence without pain, its roses without thorns. If it's going to turn itself from a dream factory to a fly-on-the-wall, how long will the bubble of cinematic celebrity last? When Cruise and Kidman finally get around to having sex for real on screen, how many people will stick around to watch the show?
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The term "LGBT Pride" (or its usually more specific variants, such as "gay pride", "lesbian pride", "LGBTQIA pride", and so forth-I have long since heard "LGBT" as the designated term, so that's what I'm using for the sake of this journal, no offense) is a phrase I've seen lobbed around for years now. But over time, I have come to wonder what exactly is being prided upon. Initially, I got the impression that LGBT Pride simply meant not hiding that you're non-heterosexual anymore, and that there was nothing wrong with you for being so, despite what certain groups might say. However, as the years went on, I started to see certain criticisms about the concept of "LGBT Pride". And, no, I don't simply mean the usual homophobic bouts from the overly religious and conservative types, either.
To bring up a common criticism I have seen with "pride" in general, some-including people who identify as LGBTQIA themselves-have criticized the notion of "pride" due to it not being tied to any accomplishments. I get the logic behind this. As someone who grew up during the BS romp that was The Self-Esteem Era, I can tell you that I understand the notion of being made to feel proud despite not doing anything, simply for the sake of itself. It was this notion that you had to feel good for the sake of itself, without actually demonstrating good qualities, skills, or aspects about yourself in the process. That mindset only helped to create a lot of arrogance, as well as self-hatred and anxiety over failing to live up to such expectations. With that knowledge in mind, I have an idea of this criticism of LGBT Pride. It goes further when some also point out that one should not feel pride in something they were born into, because it wasn't something they did. Therefore, by that train of logic, having "pride" in the fact that you born non-heterosexual doesn't ultimately mean anything in the long run.
That said, there's a common response to this. So maybe one shouldn't have pride in something you didn't do. However, one should take into consideration that a good number of LGBTQIA individuals had to deal with a lot of crap in their lives. You hear about the bullying, about the abuse, about the discrimination, about the falling out after falling out with family members and friends. The word "homophobia" has been etched into our conscious memory because of the crap that non-heterosexual people have had to deal with, and still do. Therefore, some could-and many do-argue that "LGBT Pride" is for those who have managed to not only deal with all of that crap, but also actively defy it by campaigning for LGBTQIA rights and recognition, speaking out against homophobic and heteronormative mindsets, or sometimes just simply not letting the crap interfere with their daily lives. In this sense, I think LGBT Pride receives its requisite of accomplishment, going by that argument that you have to do something to really have pride.
However, whenever I tend to think of "LGBT Pride", the mental image of men and women who cater to the stereotypes-the camp gay, the butch lesbian, the femme lesbian, the bara gay, and so forth-are what come to mind. I figure this is probably due to media perception, as well as the search results generally bringing up people acting in a flamboyant manner. Is this "LGBT Pride"? Some say that it shouldn't be, usually for reasons ranging between the lack of focus on non-flamboyant, non-stereotypical LGBT people, its possible consequence of positive discrimination (i.e. they're put on a pedestal and treated like something different because they're LGBTQIA), and that it makes the whole group appear like a bunch of attention whores. (Essentially, it's the understandable desire to not be lumped in with those who, in one way or another, make it harder for everyone else.) I do think these people have a point, but that's just my stance here.
Speaking personally, though, I have never really felt pride as a bisexual man since, honestly, it's just a facet of myself, and not really something for me to get all worked up about (then again, I have only known this facet of myself for about two, maybe three years on a very on-and-off basis, and have never gotten any crap specifically for being bi, so I may not be the best person to talk about this). Granted, I'm not open about it in the realspace as I am online for the obvious reason, as well as just not really seeing a need for people to know which way I swing. Not to sound offensive or anything, but I don't exactly feel the need to wave around the magenta, purple, and blue. But again, that's just me. Anyone else reading this will be different in some manner. But at the end of the day, I wonder. What exactly constitutes "LGBT Pride", or "Gay Pride", or whatever term you may use?
(To think, this all came up when I read an article about people's responses to Kellogg's sponsorship of a gay pride parade. Ah, what an interesting place the Internet can be.)


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Last year's Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach saw Will Power overcome a 10-spot grid penalty and hold off a hard-charging Simon Pagenaud in the closing laps to win at the famous street circuit for the second time.
Power and all the other Chevrolet-powered drivers were forced to take those penalties because of the Bowtie's decision to swap all of its engines. In a test session at Sonoma Raceway just days before the event weekend, issues were discovered on James Hinchcliffe's Chevy powerplant that the manufacturer felt could affect every driver within its ranks.
At the start of the race, Power was 12th but still made his way through the field with the help of a two-stop strategy. He took the lead on Lap 71 after Pagenaud made his third stop of the afternoon.
But the Frenchman was far from done. Coming out of the pits in fourth position, he quickly hacked into Power's sizable advantage with laps that were more than a second quicker than the leaders. He hunted down Rubens Barrichello for third, then dusted Takuma Sato for second place with six laps left.
Unfortunately for Pagenaud, he simply ran out of time as Power held on to win by .87 of a second.
"We saved enough fuel to be able to push for the last two laps, so I felt we were pretty safe," said Power. "The only thing was the couple of back markers there on the last [lap]. That was the only thing that really concerned me. But apart from that, it was just running as hard as I possibly could, getting a good lap time with high fuel mileage, and that was the key to the race."
Despite the engine penalties, Chevy-powered drivers earned four of the top five spots at the finish: Power in first, Hinchcliffe in third, Tony Kanaan in fourth, and J.R. Hildebrand in fifth.
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The White House Says Rand Paul's Comments on the CRA were Out of LineSubmitted by bobbyw24 on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 06:59
Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, sought Thursday to deflect attacks on his position that the Civil Rights Act may represent federal government overreach by emphasizing his support for the legislation in its totality and rejecting the idea that he is in favor of repealing it.
Late Thursday, Paul said on CNN that he "would have voted yes" for the landmark legislation in 1964.
"I think that there was an overriding problem in the South so big that it did require federal intervention in the '60s. And it stems from things that I said, you know, had been going on, really, 120 years too long. And the Southern states weren't correcting it," Paul said.
"And I think there was a need for federal intervention."
The White House meanwhile said Paul's comments made the day prior were out of line.
"I think the issues that, that many fought for in the '50s and the '60s were settled a long time ago in landmark legislation and the discussion about whether or not to support those, I don't think, shouldn't have a place in our political dialogue in 2010," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
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Well, Obama
is "out of line" with everything he says and does, and he doesn't even belong in the White House.
So much for his silly lip-flapping.
Rand should stay out of the National Media for a month or so
& WORK inside of Kentucky.
He should also make sure he has some good people working with him that are not crackers.
They are so scared...
Scared out of their wits! The Establishment has stooped to the point where they're clutching at straws that aren't even there.
Too late, the Genie is already out of the bottle.
Well, they're at it big
Well, they're at it big time!!! Divide and conquer, misquote,trap him, take him down their garden path. I hope all this fal-der-al and aggressive attacking of Rand Paul emphasizes how corrupt the system truly is. THEY DO NOT INTEND FOR AN OUTSIDER TO UPSET THE STATUS QUO. The administration is rushing like crazy to get everything enacted before the voting upsets takes place in November. Do not feel complacent about the people winning with the new elections. The powers at be are ruthless and dangerous.They will stop at nothing to proceed with their agenda.
I completely agree with Gibbs
so tell that to Maddow - she was the one who chose to discuss it for 20 minutes.
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And with that, the trap was sprung.
But that was just one of seven games scheduled for Day One of the event. Other boys results included Warren County smothering Lookout Valley 42-29 and a D'Mondta Smith-led Hixson pulling away from Rhea County in the second half for a 63-49 victory.
Today's 8-game slate tips off at 10 a.m. with Central's girls facing Lookout Valley. Lincoln County boys are going to meet Sale Creek – a late addition to the tournament – at 11:30, followed by the Warren County and host Hixson girls at 1, and the Lookout Valley and Rhea County boys at 2:30.
In the winners bracket, the Rhea County girls play Lincoln County at 4, Northwest Whitfield makes its tournament debut against Central at 5:30, the Loretto girls and Fort Payne play at 7 and the Warren County and host Hixson boys wrap the day at 8:30.
Lincoln County coach Tipps burned two times out in the first five minutes and slammed a clipboard onto the deck during a third. But while he addressed his team's concerns, Rogers had a couple of his own.
After an eight-point first quarter far too indicative of the Wildcats' 3-9 start to the season, they got on track thanks to scrappy shooting guard Chandler Abbott, who knocked down three open 3-pointers en route to a 12-point night. The rest of turnaround was a credit to the defense, which allowed only six points in the second period to allow a seven-point Hixson lead to be taken into intermission.
"We've lost a lot of close games," said Disbrow, who pointed out an earlier two-point loss to Rhea and an overtime setback to Howard as some of the closest. "We've got to built on this Friday, or this good feeling goes away."
Nick McWhorter led the Golden Eagles 19 with 19 points, while Jalen Smith finished up with 11.
Jacket rally too little, too soon.
Warren County held Lookout Valley to just 13 first half points, but saw a double-digit lead reduced to seven early in the fourth quarter. But Valley's energy reserves ran out quickly and Coach Joe Galloway's team managed only four points in the fourth quarter.
Kendall Rutledge was Mr. Consistency for Warren County (9-9) with 15 points, including a pair of 3-pointers.
Ft. Payne beats buzzer, Lady Wildcats
Fort Payne's Lexi Stoner kept her cool when her team had apparently fallen behind, going end to end to hit a game-winning layup with 1.2 seconds left, 37-35. That followed a game-tying bucket by Hixson's Marissa Hill that was put on the scoreboard as a 3-pointer but was later clarified as a deuce.
Bad way to start a day for Central's girls
The Lady Pounders had designs on upsetting Rhea County's lunch with a morning win, led by six points after a quarter. But Central hit only 3 of 14 free throws, which told the tale of the Lady Golden Eagles improving to 13-2. Julia Brown led the winners with 11 points, while Sandrea Sylman's 12 was tops for Central.
Lady Jackets can't crack Lincoln press
A formidable press kept Lookout Valley from any kind of offensive attack, and Lincoln County added eight 3-point shots for good measure. Elizabeth Faulker hit 3 of them en route to 13 points, while teammate Cortney Storey led all scorers with 15.
Boys Games
Lincoln County 4 7 17 16 – 44
Central 18 12 18 17 – 65
LINCOLN CO. (44) – Talley-Hyde 1, Christian 6, Lewter, B.J. Thompson 11, J. Thompson 3, Justin Blackwell 12, Jean, Thompson 3, Hadley 2, Jones 2, Grimes 3, Boyd, Malone 4.
CENTRAL (65) – Dewuan Swafford 14, Robert Cobb 17, Hill 3, Morgan 7, Holley 9, Jerome Stewart 10, Montgomery 1, Billingsley, Smith 2, Lewis, Tiller, McKenzie.
3-point goals: LC 2 (Christian, Grimes); Central 4 (Stewart 2, Hill, Morgan). Records: Central 7-3, Lincoln County 7-5.
Hixson 8 16 15 24 – 63
Rhea County 11 6 13 19 – 49
HIXSON (63) – Alameda, Nelson 6, Q. Smith, D'Mondta Smith 23, Nunley, Hayes 6, Diaz 9, Chandler Abbott 12, Novene 7, Glass, Wilkey.
RHEA CO. (49) – Hill 6, Jalen Smith 11, Harrison 4, N. Patterson, D. Patterson 2, Nick McWhorter 19, Hunter 5, Loden, Jenkins 2, Downs, Hill.
3-point goals: Hixson 3 (Abbott 3); RC 1 (Hunter); Records: Hixson 4-9, RC 5-9.
Warren County 13 11 9 9 – 42
Lookout Valley 6 7 12 4 – 29
WARREN CO. (42) – League 4, Garden 7, Kendall Rutledge 15, Tucker Smith 11, Morales 4, Lewis 1, Clark, Ward, Taylor, Kelley.
LOOKOUT VALLEY (29) – Clounch, Dozier 7, Morris 1, Jones 1, Kendall Parham 9, Pickett 3, Taylor 8, Sanders, Yarbrough, Brown.
3-point goals: WC 3 (Rutledge 2, Garden); LV 1 (Pickett). Records: WC 9-9, LV 2-10.
Girls Games
Central 14 3 2 9 – 28
Rhea Co. 8 11 7 10 – 36
CENTRAL (28) – Jones 1, McReynolds, Rogers, Davis, Powell, Sandrea Sylman 12, India Corley 10, Mitchell 5.
RHEA CO. (36) – Rivis, Loden, Freeman 1, Miles 6, Boyd 3, Wallis 7, Purser, Thurman 2, Julie
Brown 11, Thompson 4.
3-pt. Goals: Central 1 (Sylman); RC none.
Lookout Valley 8 10 6 8 – 32
Lincoln County 17 16 22 8 – 63
LOOKOUT VALLEY (32) – Elexia Foster 11, Walker 2, Mitchell 5, Hayley McBee 10, Hoge, Hall, Evans 4.
LINCOLN CO. (63) – Miller 2, McCormick, Cortney Storey 15, Higgins 6, Buchanan 5, King 6, Slayton 6, Hone 3, Graham, Elizabeth Faulkner 13, Watson 3, Fenner 4.
3-pt goals: LV 1 (Foster); LC 8 (Faulkner 3, Slayton 2, Storey, Hone, Watson. Records: Lincoln County 12-3; Lookout Valley 1-8.
Fort Payne 10 10 9 8 – 37
Hixson 10 6 5 14 – 35
FORT PAYNE (37) – Bain, Stiefel 9, Lacey 5, Storer 8, Kennington Nolan 13, McElrath 2, Chappell, Owen, Townsend, Gardner.
HIXSON (35) – Marissa Hill 11, Taylor 7, White, Harmon 7, Massengale 4, Staten 4, Nelson 6, McClellan.
3-point goals: FP 4 (Nolan 3, Lacey); Hixson.none. Records: Fort Payne 4-11, Hixson 4-6.
Loretto 41, Lincoln County 38
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Shedding light on the teen brain
A boy and a girl kiss. She will be thinking, maybe, about how much he likes her or how much she likes him. He will not be thinking, at least...
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A boy and a girl kiss.
She will be thinking, maybe, about how much he likes her or how much she likes him.
He will not be thinking, at least not with the part of the brain that controls higher functions. A scan of that part of the brain would show a "Gone Fishing" sign in the window.
Last month I wrote about how boys think. Today let's focus on girls and a talk JoAnn Deak gave for parents at The Northwest School on Capitol Hill.
Deak is a psychologist and author of "Girls will be Girls." She lectures around the world about sex and gender. And she's on the board of the Seattle Girls' School.
She spoke mostly about adolescence, which she called the magic decade, because there are "things going on that didn't happen before and that won't happen again," she said.
I called her office in Ohio and she explained that the amygdala, the part of the brain that deals with emotions, swells, which makes all teens more sensitive and volatile.
At the same time, the prefrontal cortex stops functioning well. That's the part that controls higher functions, like judgment. Hormones keep teens from falling asleep when parents say they should and make it difficult for them to wake up at hours dictated by school schedules.
The single most profound difference we could make on education, Deak said, would be to let teens sleep on nature's schedule (midnight to 9 a.m. or later).
For adolescent girls, social interaction is a huge concern. Estrogen is surging and the production of oxytocin increases. Oxytocin makes people care about relationships and connections with other people.
Girls feel that more intensely.
On top of that, girls are much better at reading faces. A boy would be oblivious to a look that would leave a girl hurt. Boys might trade punches and get over it. Girls, being less confrontational, tell their friends what an awful person Sue is and may wait for a chance to get even.
Adults should help girls improve their conflict-management skills and help boys learn to recognize subtle emotional cues.
Deak also suggests girls fulfill their oxytocin needs with things other than friends or boyfriends. Tutor young children or care for animals. "Then when something goes wrong with your relationship with a friend or boyfriend you will have something else to hold you steady."
Teachers need to make an effort to reassure girls. A girl who believes her teacher cares about her, Deak said, will take more risks and be a better learner.
Of course these are generalizations. Certain differences dominate in one sex or the other, but every brain is different.
Some people's bodies don't give an accurate picture of their brains. Deak showed some scans of the amygdala in which heterosexual men and homosexual women showed a similar pattern.
Brain scans of heterosexual women and homosexual men looked similar.
Deak told me "I started as a teacher, but there were just too many brains for me to understand, so I became a psychologist." She laughed because learning more revealed that brains are even more complex than she thought.
People are always asking her how much of what makes a person is hardwiring and how much is the world's impact. Well, it depends, and it's different for every person.
Whatever nature gave us, the world we live in now requires each of us to be more flexible.
Deak uses rubber bands to illustrate. We are each born with a unique set of rubber bands. Big ones represent qualities or skills we have naturally in abundance.
She urges people to stretch their small bands, the skills that don't come naturally to you. And watch out for boys whose lips are puckered. Maybe your gut already told you that.
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