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Descent: Part 2 (US - DVD R1)
Gabe takes an ill-advised header back into a cave full of pissed-off crawlers...
Days after the events of The Descent, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald), the sole survivor, appears on the roads near the 'crawler' infested cave. Deep in shock, and physically fragile, Sarah awakens in the hospital with no memory of the last few days. When mysterious blood is found on Sarah's clothes overzealous police Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy) insists she accompany his search team back into the cave. Unable to warn the police or rescue cave divers of the danger, the crawler slaughter begins.
I'm immediately dubious of a sequel to Neil Marshal's superior thriller The Descent, and I'm more than dubious of a direct, next day follow-up. The original film ends on a delightfully, ambiguously bleak note (assuming you're watching the original cut), and the idea of freeing Sarah from her mental and physical hell holes sort of cheapens the effectiveness of the original story. It's also a pretty belated production for a film that's meant to take place a day after the original. Not that Shauna Macdonald has aged particularly hard, but the concept is still so… dubious. Of course, even a bad sequel doesn't change the original film unless you're willing to let it.
The original Descent was fairly compared to Alien, in mostly positive terms, so it makes sense that Descent Part 2 would uses Aliens as part of its narrative basis. The first acts of the two films are strikingly similar, though James Cameron's script has science fiction on its side. The plot thrust of Descent Part 2 doesn't make a lot of sense. Sarah starts the story in a state of shock, which is both convenient and inconvenient for this story. It's convenient that she doesn't remember (or at least doesn't express) that her friends are dead, because it forces the authorities to hastily look for them, but why the hell would anyone drag a post-traumatic stressed victim back to the home of her shock inducing ordeal? I suppose convenience comes back into the equation when Sarah becomes a solid suspect in her friends' murders, but a forced prisoner angle is really just as silly when her mental state is taken into account. This is also one of the most ill-equipped search parties I've ever seen outside of a C-list, shot on video monster movie. Cameron's Space Marines may have lost their battle, but at least they had some big damn guns on their hips. The characters here are practically wearing targets, and in terms of depth are pretty shallow, especially compared to the original, which took a very long time to introduce the protagonists, and something like an hour to introduce the monster threat.
Descent Part 2 is better than most unneeded franchise sequels, and does work well as a bottom barrel, B-movie experience for its excessive gore alone. I have no idea how the filmmakers managed an R-rating, based on the sheer quantity of flowing red stuff. But the real scariness of the original Descent came out of the physical and emotional claustrophobia. The crawlers were really just a cherry on top. I reviewed the first movie a few years back, and initially was not a fan of the tonal shift that occurred when the monsters appeared. In the years since the mix has really grown on me, especially in subsequent viewings. This film is simply not very frightening, and recycles a lot of the first film's best gags, but it's amusing in its bloody excesses, and goofy scare tactics. Assuming fans are willing to let the original film's best elements go, along with their natural sense of disbelief, there is some fun to be had. The handicam re-enactments of scenes from the first film are quite successful, successful enough to make a rather childish part of me want a feature-length Cannibal Holocaust version of the first film. On second thought it'd be lame from a storytelling standpoint, and films like REC have basically done it well already. Forget I said anything.
I've been sure to mention in other recent standard definition DVD reviews that my eyes have somewhat regretfully adjusted to HD, so all DVDs look a little iffy lately. I'm pretty sure, however, that even without these 'new' eyes this particular 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer would be lacking. The bulk of the film, which takes place in the blackness of the caves, looks decent, including deep, solid blacks, and discernable highlights. Jon Harris' pallets aren't as stylistic Neil Marshals, so the in-cave sequences are pretty natural in terms of colours. Reds are a bit of a problem, especially redder skin tones, which feature greenish noise, and uneven tones, but the blues and yellows look just fine. The big, obvious problems are in the outdoor, daylight shots, which feature flat, lumpy details, and heavy edge-enhancement. The wide helicopter shots look terrible, and are awash with compression noise. The compression problems aren't as big a deal during the cave scenes, but edge-enhancement still becomes a problem during more deep set shots, and details are never particularly impressive, even in massive close-up.
This Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is compressed enough to require some decent volume adjustments, but is mostly immersive and effectively shocking when required. Successful surround sound elements include eerily shifting rocks, and softly scurrying creatures, along with the more bombastic rumbles of cave-ins, and threatening would-be cave-ins. The immersive quality is impressive when it's a part of the mix, but the really expressive sequences aren't super common. The creature sounds are perfectly monstrous, and the inquisitive Predator-like softer sounds do well to introduce the treat in the surround and stereo channels. Most of the noise, of course, comes from the centre channel, though it often echoes effectively throughout the other channels. The LFE warbles a bit, but is a pretty consistent source of noise, especially monster growls, cave-ins and the score's bouncy percussive elements.
The extras begin with a commentary track featuring director Jon Harris, and actresses Shauna MacDonald, Krysten Cummings and Anna Skellern. The commentators warn us immediately that they've had a long night at the premier the night before recording, and that they're too tired to really commentate. The warning is all too accurate a foreshadowing of the track's disengaged feel. This is a track with four sleepy people, who occasionally recall an interesting behind the scenes story, most of which concern deleted scenes, it seems. The more banal discussing concerns the sets, which everyone is very impressed with. I have to admit I gave up before I got to the end, so there is a chance the last half hour or so is a riot. Coolest factoid in the whole bunch: Neil Marshal directed the camcorder re-enactments.
Next up are a collection of non-anamorphic deleted/extended scenes (11:20), including almost exclusively first act stuff, like a different credit sequence, a different introduction to the rescue team, more stuff with cops outside the hole, and more hospital scenes. There are some extra bits in the cave, mostly unneeded, even if the characters were underdeveloped in the final film. I'm struggling to understand the differences between the first and last deleted scenes. 'The Making Of Descent 2: Deeper, Darker' (25:50) is your standard EPK featurette, including interviews with the cast and crew, rough behind the scenes footage, and clips from the finished film. Informative enough, including discussion of development, casting, production design, and gore effects, but pretty fluffy in tone. Things wrap-up with a storyboard gallery (07:40) and trailers for other Lionsgate releases.
Something happens a the top of the third act that will probably totally divide the audience on the whole of Decent Part 2. In my case it actually kind of saved the film in sense of narrative, but was too little too late in terms of overall success, but I'm guessing some folks will think it's a total cheat. There is a lot of fun violence to keep things moving though, so it's nearly impossible for real gore-hounds to totally dismiss the film. Definitely worth a rent for fans of the first willing to keep their expectations in check, and those up for a genuinely funny poop joke. There's a third film in the works, and I'm hoping it's a court room drama. The DVD doesn't look too great, and the extras are a bit lazy, but the Dolby Digital sound is certainly solid.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 27th April 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Extras: Director and Actor Commentary, Making of The Descent: Part 2: Deeper and Darker, Storyboard Gallery, Deleted Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jon Harris
Cast: Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams, Douglas Hodge, Joshua Dallas
Genre: Horror
Length: 94 minutes
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Jack is a typical five-year-old who enjoys watching TV, reading, and playing games with his Ma. But he has lived all of his life in a single room. The room is his world, shared with his Ma, and occasionally with Old Nick, a mysterious and unnerving nighttime visitor. Told from the perspective of Jack, the novel explores not only survival in captivity but also what happens when captivity ends and the world expands beyond the four walls of Room.
Hotel On The Corner of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford
In Seattle in the 1940s, Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy, meets and falls in love with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American girl. Separated by Keiko's internment in Camp Harmony during World War II, the two struggle to maintain contact despite Henry's father's prejudice against the Japanese and Seattle's growing discomfort with its Japanese American population. The novel explores a shameful episode in American history through the lives of two of those affected by the interplay of family and race.
The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien
Blurring the line between fact and fiction, the collection of stories functions sometimes as memoir, sometimes as novel as it examines the effects of the Vietnam War on those who were called to fight in it. Exploring truths that are not always best revealed by realities, O'Brien's work uses different perspectives to illuminate the chaotic confusion of ideas about a war that polarized the country.
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Set against the backdrop of a fictional English-language newspaper based in Rome, it celebrates the beloved and endangered role of newspapers but goes beyond with an intimate study of human nature presented in individual chapters examining the lives of the paper's staffers. This montage provides a picture of the newspaper deemed a "daily report on the idiocy and the brilliance of the species" and examines the disillusion in everyday life as much as the dissolution of an industry.
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I just brewed my first batch of beer ever two nights ago. Yesterday, the airlock was bubbling all day, but today there seems to be no activity in the air lock. I've read that there should be activity for several days. I wonder if I need to re-yeast the wort. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Your fermentation problem
Hi, I can relate to your delema it happened to me and I paniced too. Don't worry, and don't panic. Chances are that if you had activity there is still something going on in your fermenter. I suspect that you have a very minor air leak in the cover of your ale pail, the high pressure was enough to perk the air lock now it has subsided slightly and it may be leaking out from around the pail lip. I had that problem on my first batch also. I talked to my supplier and they told me the same thing. For $1.99 I bought a new cover and that took care of it, I also made sure I had a "snap" shut tight. When we first start to brew we worry about everything. You are not the first person to have this problem. Don't open it up for 7 days leave the little yeasties to do their work and everything should be OK. I recommend secondary fermenting in a carboy. But be very careful here too. I am very careful about this racking step. I recommend gargling with listerine just before you start your siphon, there are millions of nasty bacteria waiting to attack your beer listerine will help to kill them off just before you start the rack flow. Good luck this is supposed to be fun LOL ... happy brewing.
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Starting the siphon
I used to start my siphon like that, but have found a better way. Go to the sink and fill you hose with water. Bring a glass with you and go to your fermenter. keeping your thumb on the end of the siphon, stick one end into the beer and then lower the other end to start the siphon. let the water go into the glass and when you see the beer coming insert the hose into your secondary. This way there is no more "sucking" on the hose and no need for the listerine, unless you need the fresher breath!!
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Yet another idea
To start siphon I use a 60 cc plastic syringe ( vet supply mail order) just insert end of syringe into tubing and draw back on the plunger. when the beer flows, simply remove tube and put into secondary. I also use the syringe with a short piece of tubing for taking gravity samples.It can be cleaned and should last forever.
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You are probably OK. What you observed yesterday was the peak of fermentation, or Krausen (pronounced "kroysen"). ermentation activity slows significantly after this period and may not be visible by wglancing at the airlock, however there still should be a little positive pressure in your pail to keep the nasties out. Check your lid for a tight fit, check the temperature and make sure it is not too low/high for the yeast type you are using.
Some ales ferment very quickly, in all probability, you are ready to rack into a secondary.
If you want to be absolutely sure, carefully remove some of the beer and take a hydrometer reading. Then take one tommorrow, once the reading normalizes, you are finished with the primary fermentation.
Some ales ferment very quickly, in all probability, you are ready to rack into a secondary.
If you want to be absolutely sure, carefully remove some of the beer and take a hydrometer reading. Then take one tommorrow, once the reading normalizes, you are finished with the primary fermentation.
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For a REALLY good time...
Try primary fermentation in a 6 gal. carboy -- there's nothing like actually watching those little critters work.
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Dog pile on the siphon
I use a store bought gadget that has a tube with a plunger on the end that goes inside alarger tube that has a spacer on the bottom to keep from getting trub in the flow. Outstanding.Morebeer.com I think.
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New York Continues Its Trademark Bullying Ways: Threatens Coffee Shop With Bogus Threats
from the i-hate-ny-trademark-bullying dept
The latest in NY's over-aggressive trademark bullying comes courtesy of the NY Times, which reports that CMG Worldwide, the agency that NY uses to "police" its trademark, sent a legal nastygram to NYC coffee shop Everyman Espresso. Apparently, one of the co-owners of the shop, Sam Penix, had "I [coffee cup icon] N Y" tattooed across his fingers, as seen below:
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Everyman Espresso's owners decided to fold, telling CMG that it would "cease all use of its mark." You would think that should be enough, but because NY state is positively obnoxious, CMG sent back a letter demanding licensing fees:
"We expect that any entity that infringes on the rights of our client compensate it for unauthorized use," the lawyer, Clare Neumann, wrote on May 20, requesting "an accounting of all gross revenues generated during the period when the I ♥ NY® Trademark was used" to help her set the appropriate penalty.Penix rightfully points out that this feels like extortion, and it's doubly ridiculous because the entity threatening his coffee shop is the Empire State Department for Economic Development, who is basically trying to extract money from a popular coffee shop, while getting it to stop promoting NY.
The lawyer representing NY claimed that trademark regulations "prohibit companies from using any part of a trademark." But that's flat out untrue. There are all sorts of situations where you can use a trademark, especially if there's no likelihood of confusion (which is absolutely the case here). If NY argued dilution, there might be a case, but I'd love to see how this harms NY and its mark in any way. Because it doesn't.
Coincidentally, I'll be in NYC next week, staying blocks from Everyman Espresso. I don't even drink coffee, but feel like stopping by to support the store, just because trademark bullies suck.


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I don't know about you, but when I think of a cardio-intensive workout some standard images come to mind.
There's the overzealous businessman cruising on the treadmill, the first-time gymgoer aimlessly climbing the Stairmaster and the soccer mom pumping away aboard the elliptical.
I see an indoor track stained with sweat from the guy who lost his sleeveless T-shirt back on lap No. 0. I see an elderly woman power walking like it's nobody's business.
What I don't see? A toy made popular by Wham-O in the 1950s.
Then again, I'm not Carly Bennyhoff.
Bennyhoff, a certified Hoopnotica, will host the beginner-friendly yet cardio intensive Hula Hoops in the Park from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Wicker Park (on the corner of Damen and Schiller). Admission is free. No experience is required. Adult-sized hula hoops will even be available to borrow.
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But this "playful place" can help you burn 400 to 600 calories per hour.
But never fear, as Bennyhoff likes to say, "This is hoop camp not boot camp."
Attendees will be given step-by-step instructions on how to hoop, shown basic hooping moves and stances, and will progress to use the hoop off the hips to stretch and strengthen the upper body.
"I hope people walk away with a big smile," Bennyhoff said. "It's a lot of fun. I also hope there's a little sweat and maybe even some soreness the next day as a reminder that it's not only a great time, but it's a really great workout. But really, I hope they have a great time trying something new."
After all, even Bennyhoff is relatively new to hooping.
She remembers seeing several "hoopers" twirling around at music festivals. She was mesmerized by both the beauty and difficulty.
Not long after, Bennyhoff found herself in hula-hooping classes while briefly living in Washington, D.C. It quickly grew into one of her favorite pastimes.
After spending countless hours outside with an armful of hoops, Bennyhoff noticed the eruptions of spontaneous smiles and conversations revolving around the plastic rings.
When she moved to Chicago, she had a difficult time finding hooping classes. But she did manage to uncover a Hoopnotica certification course--simply, a class approved and monitored by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America.
Bennyhoff became certified in April 2012.
Since January, Bennyhoff has been instructing classes every Monday night at Dance Spa. She even builds handmade hula hoops to sell during her lessons.
"It's just a great way to get active or get outside and meet people and learn something new," she said.
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Photographer Laura Plageman carefully distorts her photographs in a way that is so subtle that it makes you do a double take. Using photographs that she has shot, she folds, tears, and crumples idyllic-looking landscapes. This is done in such a way that at first glance, these Plageman's slight alterations make perfect sense. You wouldn't necessarily question the melting tree line until you begin to study the photographs. Once you do, you can see that the mood of these images has changed. And, that's exactly what Plageman wants. From her artist statement:
Her images explore the relationships between the process of image making, photographic truth and distortion, and the representation of landscape. She is interested in making pictures that examine the natural world as a scene of mystery, beauty, and constant change transformed by both human presence and by its own design.
Plageman titles of all her pieces as "Response to…" I see the the way she manipulates her photographs as a way of responding to the environment that she's captured. These aren't negative interpretations or an ill-will towards these landscapes. Instead, they add another layer of story-telling to what already exists. The creased paper adds depth, and tearing adds a new horizon line. What exists beyond what we now can't see. Rather than showing us a landscape we've seen many times before, Plageman creates a totally new narrative by just a few considered folds.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican authorities say a security guard who fatally shot an American teenager after mistaking him for an intruder will get a new trial after winning an appeal.
Jorge Guevara was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for killing 16-year-old Justin Johnston of McLouth, Kansas, inside a hotel in La Fortuna de San Carlos.
Court spokeswoman Marcela Fernandez confirmed Wednesday that Jorge Guevara won an appeal which argued the original trial didn't prove the guard intended to kill the teenager.
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Lupita Nyong'o is an orange slice of heaven while attending a luncheon for her hit film 12 Years a Slave held at 21 Club on Tuesday (January 7) in New York City.
The 30-year-old actress was joined by her director Steve McQueen and co-star Adepero Oduye, who showed some love for Glenn Close.
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Born in Spencer on December 27, 1915, son of the late Robert Franklin and Anna Hagood Franklin, Mr. Franklin proudly served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II. In civilian life, he owned and operated the former Bud Franklin Auto Sales in Spencer for many years.
Mr. Franklin was a member of the Masonic Lodge and the Order of the Eastern Star in Spencer and the Scottish Rite of the Indianapolis Valley. He was also a 60-year member of the American Legion. In his later years, he greatly enjoyed working part-time at the Acme Market in Suburban Plaza in Newark.
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If academic life is a continuous pursuit of knowledge (and post-studying drinks), it's rather fortuitous that Amsterdam Tavern, nestled near 106th, is right by the Columbia campus — and has one of the most enticing beer selections in the city.Academic life is a continuous pursuit of knowledge, better roommates, and the ideal place for a post-studying drink. (Though we're also guilty of a few why didn't I study more for that test drinks, too.) It's rather fortuitous then that Amsterdam Tavern, nestled near 106th on the eponymous avenue, is right by the Columbia campus — and that it is highly regarded as one of the most enticing beer selections in the city. On any given day, they have a rotating list of 24 beers on tap. Their selection covers the gamut – both American and New York-made brews are well represented. In fact, managing partner Mark has done such a good job of building relationships with his distributors that they often come to him first with brand-new brews to introduce to the city.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants launched separate attacks shortly after sunset Sunday around the Iraqi capital, killing at least 10 people, officials said.
The deadliest took place in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City when a car bomb exploded in an outdoor market for secondhand motorcycles and bicycles, killing six civilians and wounding 21, a police officer said.
Another police officer said a bomb-laden motorcycle exploded in Baghdad's northern Waziriyah neighborhood, killing three civilians and wounding 12.
Gunmen in a speeding car also attacked a police checkpoint in the nearby town of Tarmiyah, killing one and wounding three, authorities said. The town, a former insurgent stronghold, is located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Baghdad.
Three medical officials confirmed the casualty figures.
Insurgents have intensified attacks since last year in an attempt to undermine government efforts to maintain security nationwide. Last year was the deadliest since the worst of the country's sectarian bloodletting began to subside in 2007. According to United Nations figures, 8,868 people were killed.
Also Sunday, officials said a military helicopter crashed the day before in a remote area west of the capital, killing its four-member crew.
The helicopter went down late Saturday outside Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib due to technical failure, a military officer said. He added that a pilot and three assistants were killed.
A police officer confirmed the incident and the casualty figures.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Since late December, Iraq's western cities have seen fierce clashes pitting government security forces and their allies from tribal Sunni militias against al-Qaida-linked militants and other insurgent groups. The insurgents hold the city of Fallujah and the Anbar provincial capital, Ramadi.
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NHIAA Roundup: Sahlin leads Campbell; BG tips Memorial
NHIAA Scores, Schedule
Friday's Scoress
Bp Guertin 8, Manchester Memorial 6
Pinkerton 12, Exeter 2
Mascenic 5, Fall Mountain 4
Franklin at Mascoma
Prospect Mountain 9, Gilford 2
Milford 6, Hollis/Brookline 4
Keene 2, Salem 1
Plymouth 6, Kennett 1
Goffstown 15, Sanborn 6
Kearsarge 5, Newfound 0
Londonderry 7, Manchester Central 3
Monadnock 4, Stevens 1
Timberlane 6, Nashua South 3
Portsmouth Christian 1, Pittsfield 0
Spaulding 7, Trinity 1
Concord 10, Winnacunnet 0
Rivendell at Woodsville
Colebrook 12, Canaan-Pittsburg 2
Oyster River 2, Coe-Brown 0
Souhegan 10, ConVal 6
Newmarket at Derryfield
Dover 11, Nashua North 1
Farmington 2, Berlin 1
Campbell 7, Bow 0
Boys' Lacrosse
Londonderry 11, Nashua South 8
Derryfield 19, Windham 4
Hollis/Brookline at Milford
Monadnock 14, John Stark 12
Kingswood 16, Kennett 4
Goffstown 16, Timberlane 7
Manchester West at Trinity
Merrimack 13, Dover 7
Portsmouth 11, Oyster River 3
Plymouth 11, Pembroke 2
Winnacunnet 14, Spaulding 2
St. Thomas at Keene
Hanover at Manchester Central
Girls' Lacrosse
Nashua North at Hollis/Brookline
Londonderry 13, Salem 7
Manchester Central 10, Nashua South 2
Manchester Memorial at Pinkerton
Windham 3, Goffstown 1
St. Thomas 16, Merrimack 8
ConVal 11, Belmont 6
Lebanon 10, Bishop Brady 9
Boys' Tennis
Alvirne at Exeter
Derryfield at Coe-Brown
Concord 7, Pinkerton 2
Lebanon 9, Windham 0
Nashua North at Manchester Central
Bishop Guertin 5, Nashua South 4
Plymouth at Trinity
Prospect Mountain at Kingswood
Portsmouth 9, Manchester West 0
Dover at Salem
Concord 7, Pinkerton 2
Justin Toler (C) d. Jack Bisson, 8-0; Thomas Bengtson (C) d. Sean Hall, 8-4; Evan Hewey (C) d. Josh Moser, 8-4; Josh Pifer (C) d. Tyler Busby, 8-3; Adam Bryan (C) d. Will McCarty, 8-2; Eric Werener (P) d. Adi Gandhi, 8-2.
Toler/Bengston d. Bisson/Hall, 8-3; Moser/Busby (P) d. Hewey/Mattias Lambert, 8-4; Pifer/bryant d. Werner/Tate Pinyochon, 8-4.
Concord 7-0; Pinkerton 2-5.
Bishop Guertin 5, Nashua South 4
Brian Xiao (BG) d. Kaushil Patel, 8-5; Jason Lutcza (BG) d. Brandon Stempler, 8-2; Sumeet Salvi (NS) d. Ryan Murtbleau, 9-7; Rishi Yemme (BG) d. Sam McIntyre, 8-2; Kunal Shah (NS) d. John Krapian, 8-5; Brian Barrows (NS) d. Peter Scannell, 8-1.
Xiao/Yemme d. Patel/Stempler, 8-2; Lutcza/Salvi d. Salvi/McIntyre, 8-5; Shah/Barrows d. Krapian/Kyle Charbonneau, 8-5.
Bishop Guertin 2-5; Nashua South 1-4.
Salem 9, Dover 0
Melham Antar (S) d. Bill Tong, 8-3; Matt Descoteaux (S) d. Reed Laakso, 8-2; Austin Wilson (S) d. Jack Roemer, 8-3; Ryan Fredette (S) d. Charlie Ly, 8-3; Jake Poore (S) d. John Quinn, 8-3; Brandon Rastello (S) d. Ian Anderson, 8-3.
Antar/Descoteaux d. Tong/Laakso, 9-8 (7-3); Wilson/Poore d. Roemer/Quinn, 8-4; Fredette/Rastello d. Ly/Anderson, 8-0.
Salem 2-3; Dover 2-3.
Souhegan 8, Hollis/Brookline 1
Nathanial Dziadek (S) d. Alex McCalmont, 8-1; Anthony Zeolie (S) d. Jeremy Ido, 8-2; Jason Emmond (S) d. Tyler Depin, 8-1; Brendan Sileo (S) d. Alex Cate, 8-2; Matt Spooner (HB) d. Alex Frazier, 8-2.
Zeolie/Emmond d. McCalmont/Ido, 8-5; Dziadek/Frazier d. Depin/Cate, 8-2; Sileo/Desborough d. Hingsley/Spooner, 8-1.
Souhegan 2-1; Hollis/Brookline 2-4.
Derryfield 8, Coe-Brown 1
John Cissell (D) d. Garrett Kunz, 8-0; Sam Grondin (D) d. Jared Carlson, 8-0; Max Curtin (D) d. Connor Bell, 8-0; Gavin Schilling (D), Josh Conrad, 8-0; Brock Higley (D) d. Gareth Owen, 8-3; Ethan Chen (D) d. Liam Corless, 8-0.
Cissell/Grondin (D) d. Kunz/Bell, 8-0; Jack O'Leary/Jerry Xiong (D) d. Tim Mellor/Nate Griffiths (D), 8-2; Conrad/Luke Clainch (CB) d. Jack St. Jean/Charles Li, 8-2.
Derryfield 7-0; Coe-Brown 1-4.
Nashua North 8, Manchester Central 1
Jacob Arikian (NN) d. Howard Seuey, 8-4; Sam Kluger (NN) d. Max LaRocque, 8-1; Ethan Kim (NN) d. Bruno Lin, 8-4; Andrew Wu (MC) d. Connor King, 8-1; Zachariah Fahsi (NN) d. Jason Davidson (8-6); Justin Yeung (NN) d. Ashish Gerung, 8-5.
Arikian/Kluger (NN) d. Seuey/LaRocque, 8-1; Kim/King (NN) d. Lin/Davidson, 8-3; Fahsi/Yeung d. Wu/Nakos, 8-6.
Pinkerton 8, Merrimack 1 (Thursday)
Jack Bisson (PA) d. Andrew MaCeachem, 8-4; Sean Hall (PA) d. Matt Keeler, 8-6; Josh Moser (PA) d. Jordan Meaniy, 8-2; Arlo Wetherbee (PA) d. John Pitten, 8-0; Tyler Busby (PA) d. Andrew Timper, 8-0; Will McCarty (PA) d. Jack Steins, 8-0.
MaCeachem/Keeler (M) de. Bisson/Hall, 8-4; Moser Wetherbee (PA) d. Meaniy/Pitten, 8-1; McCarty/Eric Werner (PA) d. Trimper/Josh Caron, 8-1.
Pinkerton, 2-4; Merrimack, 0-6.
Girls' Tennis
Lebanon 6, Windham 3
Bow at Prospect Mountain
Salem at Dover
Trinity at Plymouth
Manchester West at Portsmouth
Exeter at Alvirne
Concord 7, Pinkerton 2
Concord 7, Pinkerton 2
Sam Barros (PA) d. Gabby Killinger, 8-1; Sky Reese (C) d. Haley Harrington, 8-1; Alex Killinger (C) d. Alex Albano, 8-1; Becky Cistulli (C) d. Nicole Langlais, 8-4; Irene Ireme (C) d. Aeriela Thornton, 8-5; Kristie Pederson (C) d. Sam Donahue, 8-1.
Barros/Harrington (PA) d. G. Killinger/Irene, 8-3; A. Killinger/Cistulli (C) d. Paige Welch/Lexi Jenkins, 8-0; Reese/Pederson (C) d. Elizabeth Stikeman/Ally Harasym, 8-0.
Pinkerton 5-3; Concord 3-2.
Girls' Softball
Nashua North 2, Dover 1
Pinkerton 5, Exeter 3
Prospect Mountain at Gilford
Goffstown 1, Sanborn 0
Berlin 1, Farmington 0
Kingswood 12, Hanover 0
Bp Guertin 17, Manchester Memorial 2
Hollis/Brookline at Milford
Plymouth at Kennett
Londonderry at Manchester Central
Monadnock 17, Stevens 15
Timberlane 12, Nashua South 0
Colebrook 12, Canaan-Pittsburg 0
Coe-Brown at Oyster River
Newfound 14, Kearsarge 13
Salem at Keene
Franklin 14, Mascoma 0
Windham 13, Pelham 1
Pittsfield at Portsmouth Christian
Woodsville 1, Rivendell 0
ConVal 9, Souhegan 7
Newmarket 8, Derryfield 7
Boys' Volleyball
Londonderry 3, Coe-Brown 0
Londonderry 3, Coe-Brown 0
25-9, 25-10, 25-12
Londonderry — Matt Gendron (8 assists); Spenser Flood (15 assists, 5 aces); Nick Stevens (5 kills); Nick Brodeur (5 kills); Jason Parker (6 kills, 7 aces); Nick Winn (8 kills, 10 digs).
Team Records:
Londonderry 2-3, Coe-Brown 0-4.
Saturday's games
Nashua North at Andover, Mass.;
Hillsboro-Deering at Bow; Windham at Pelham
Boys' Lacrosse
Exeter at Pinkerton; Nashua South at Nashua North; ConVal at Stevens; Dover at Shaker, N.Y.; Hanover at Bedford; St. Joseph, Metuchen, N.J. at Bishop Guertin; Manchester Memorial at Souhegan
Girls' Lacrosse
Bedford at Pinkerton, Bishop Guertin at Portsmouth, Manchester Memorial at Salem, Exeter at Concord, Hanover at Londonderry
Hartford,Vt. at Hanover, Hillsboro-Deering at Bow
Senior right-hander Connor Sahlin threw a complete game two-hitter to lead the Campbell of Litchfield baseball team to a 7-0 victory over visiting Bow on Friday. Sahlin struck out nine and did not walk a batter to raise his record to 2-0.
Christian Bourgea broke open a scoreless game with a three-run homer in the fifth inning. Zach Byers had a two-run homer in the sixth, and Sahlin followed with a solo home run.
Campbell is 4-1. Bow fell to 1-1.
Bishop Guertin 8, Manchester Memorial 6:
Tim Donovan drove in Eric Damphousse with a sacrifice fly for the winning run at Gill Stadium in Manchester. Quinn DePasquale doubled to left field to knock in Shane Nowak with an insurance run.
DiPasquale got the win on the mound with 2 1/3 innings of relief and went three-for-five at the plate with a single, double and triple. Nowak had a couple of hits.
The Cardinals are 4-2 and the Crusaders are 0-4.
Londonderry 7, Manchester Central 3:
At Londonderry, the Lancers rallied for six runs in the bottom of the sixth and improved to 5-1. Mike Ryan got the win with two innings of no-hit relief work. Dario Vitagliano and Sean Benoit each had two hits for Central, 2-4. Brett Evangelista and Rob Del Signore had two hits apiece for the Lancers.
Souhegan 10, ConVal 0:
At Amherst, Chandler Mackenzie threw a complete game three-hitter and the Sabers picked up their first win against four losses. ConVal is 2-2. Souhegan opened the scoring with a couple of runs in the second inning and broke it open with eight runs on six hits, a walk and a couple of errors in the fourth.
Mike Mancini had three hits and Thomas Bennett, Kees Gronstra and Seth Learned two each for Souhegan.
Pinkerton 12, Exeter 2:
At Exeter, sophomore John Polichetti tossed a complete game and didn't allow an earned run in a game that ended after six innings because of the 10-run rule. Nate Rossi had four hits and three RBIs for the Astros, who received three hits and four RBIs from Tom Diskin. Exeter committed six errors in the loss.
Keene 2, Salem 1:
At Salem, a Tom Galanes triple drove in John Link with what turned out to be the game-winning run in the top of the ninth inning. Keene took a 1-0 lead in the second, but Salem pulled even in the fifth when Josh Perrault singled and scored on an infield error.
Dover 11, Nashua North 1:
At Dover, Ricky Constant allowed one run and two hits over four-plus innings, but was charged with the loss. Dover improved to 5-0. Nashua North had its three-game winning streak snapped and fell to 3-2.
Goffstown 15, Sanborn 6:
At Kingston, Tyler Perron, Kyle Indingaro and Cole Carreau each had three hits to lead the Grizzlies. Hood, Tanner Putnam and Tim Riehl each had two hits. Chris Hood (five innings) got the win and Joe Small finished up. Goffstown won its fourth straight and is 4-1. Sanborn is 0-4.
Newmarket 4, Derryfield 0:
At Manchester, Kyle Sleveria took the loss despite striking out 11 in six innings. Newmarket's Shawn Leahy pitched a complete game and limited Derryfield to four hits.
Milford 5, Souhegan 2 (Thursday):
The Spartans scored four runs in the top of the seventh for a come-from-behind win. Drew Jepson and Ryan Britton had two of the big hits in the seventh with RBI singles. Ryan Britton allowed four hits and struck out 13 without walking a batter and got the win. Seth Learned took the loss.
Kearsarge 5, Newfound 0:
At North Sutton, Dahlton Fairbank collected Newfound's only hit in this Division III loss. Kearsarge scored a run in the third and four in the fifth.
Boys' lacrosse
Derryfield 19, Windham 4:
At Windham, Grant Alenson scored five goals and Jimmy O'Brien and Mike Chiasson three each to lead the Cougars, who improved to 4-0. Tyler Zorn added a pair of goals. Chiasson had three assists and Alenson and O'Brien two apiece. Allen Mello made six saves in the win. Windham fell to 1-3.
Londonderry 11, Nashua South 8:
At Nashua, Kyle Hussey scored three goals and David Wiedenfeld and John Derhak had two each to lead the Lancers, 4-1. Erik Kenison had 10 saves for Londonderry. Brian Mckinley had 20 saves for Nashua, 1-3. Russell Applegate and Zach Andek had two goals each for the Panthers.
Monadnock 14, John Stark 12:
At Swanzey, Brody Fredericks scored four goals, James Smugereski three and Matt Richard and Jake Blanchette had one in a losing cause. Monadnock ended its record at 2-2 and the Generals fell to 1-1.
Bishop Guertin 18, Nashua North 7 (Thursday):
Tom Hurley and John Miller scored three goals apiece and Connor Donahue and Dom St. Laurent and Charlie O'Brien each had two to lead the Cardinals. Tom Haller had three goals for North. Bishop Guertin is 4-0 and Nashua North is 2-2.
ConVal 9, Pelham 6 (Thursday)
In Peterborough, ConVal goals were scored by Isaiah Taylor (four goals, one assist), Clay Lyons (two goals), Patrick Joseph (one goal, assist), J.T. Clough (goal), and Grey Kuras (goal). Sean Stinehour turned back 18 shots in nets for the Cougars.
Girls' lacrosse
Pinkerton 19, Memorial 3:
At Derry, Kennedy Daziel and Maggie McCarthy each collected three goals for the Astros, who improved to 5-0. Ali Davis, Erin Coutts, Nola Wesche, Colby Millsaps and Avery Drouin each scored two goals for Pinkerton. Memorial dropped to 1-4.
Windham 3, Goffstown 1:
At Windham, the Jaguars opened a 13-3 first-half lead on the way to a 19-5 win to move to 3-1 on the season. Sydney Gagnon had two of the Goffstown goals. The Grizzlies are 2-2. Dulcie Trottier had 12 saves for Goffstown.
Londonderry 13, Salem 7:
At Salem, Noele Lambert had three goals and five assists to highlight Londonderry's victory. Alexa Bedell added three goals and two assists for the Lancers, who also received two goals from both Gabbi Morris and Molly Koon.
ConVal 11, Belmont 6:
At Peterborough, Zoe Paige scored four goals, Ingrid Aho had three and Meghan Close a pair to lead ConVal to its first win. The Cougars are 1-3 and Belmont is 0-2.
Windham 13, Pelham 1:
t Pelham, Windham's Jaime Cleasby held the Pythons to two hits and struck out 10 as the Jaguars raised their record to 4-1. Emily Comtois drove in five runs with a two-run double in the first, and a three-run home run in the fourth. The loss dropped Pelham to 2-3.
Bishop Guertin 17, Memorial 5:
At Nashua, Memorial's Lejla Kosic collected three hits, including two home runs, but BG took control by scoring 11 runs in the third inning. Dakota Bilodeau had three hits and drove in three runs for BG.
Pinkerton 5, Exeter 3:
At Derry, Lauren Phillips and Nicole Gonya each had two hits for Pinkerton, which overcame a three-run deficit after one inning. Natalie Fabrizio pitched a complete game to collect the win. She struck out five and didn't walk a batter.
Monadnock 17, Stevens 15:
Felicia Gaillardetz allowed five hits over four and a third innings to pick up the pitching win and had four hits to lead the Huskies, 3-0. Eliza Randall and Annie Crotto each had three hits and Maddie Elinor had a couple for Monadnock. Stevens fell to 3-1.
Franklin 14, Mascoma 0:
At Canaan, Kelsey Bird and Hailey Haskins combined on a one-hitter and the Golden Tornadoes jumped on Mascoma for five runs in the first inning on the way to upping their record to 3-2. Mascoma fell to 1-3.
Goffstown 17, Trinity 6 (Thursday):
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Rain, wind and snow: Epping clan reports it allBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
June 06. 2013 9:23PM
EPPING — Weather is serious business for the Sanborn family.
It all started in 1973 when Richard F. Sanborn began observing weather and reporting temperatures, precipitation amounts and other vital information to the National Weather Service.
In 2000, Sanborn's son Charlie took over the job of weather observer at the Sanborn farm on Fremont Road.
And at 71, Charlie, his wife, Judy, and their daughter, Mary Hoelzel, continue to keep a close eye on the weather.
It's a strictly volunteer behind-the-scene job, but their dedication to providing accurate observations of New Hampshire's weather hasn't gone unnoticed.
On Wednesday, members of the National Weather Service's office in Gray, Maine, presented Charlie Sanborn with a Length of Service Award recognizing the family for 40 years of weather observations.
Sanborn plans to put the framed award right above his readout unit.
Weather observing is a daily job, but Sanborn loves it, even when he has to tromp through snow to reach his instruments.
"I enjoy doing it, I really do. It's just part of the day. It's like getting up and brushing your teeth," he said.
Sanborn records the daily high and low temperatures and uses a rain gauge in the backyard to measure precipitation. He then calls in his information to the meteorologists in Gray.
When he's unable to take the readings, Sanborn relies on his wife and daughter to do the work.
Sanborn is one of about 40 official National Weather Service observers in New Hampshire, according to Nikki Becker, observing program leader at the Gray office.
"When you think about it, 40 years is a long time for a family to be dedicated to it. This is every day, about the same time, and when it's 20 below out and nobody else really wants to do it, they're still going out and doing it. It's a big commitment," said Hendricus Lulofs, meteorologist in charge at the Gray office.
Tom Hawley, a hydrologist in Gray, said it's getting harder to find observers to stay because families these days are less likely to stay in one place for a long period of time.
"As time goes on it's going to be less and less likely that we'll be giving out 40- and 50-year awards," he said.
Keeping track of the data from one place for 40 years is important for the climatological record, Lulofs said.
"It's folks such as Charlie that really partner with the government in the weather world to help make our forecasting process and our warning process as accurate as it can be. Without volunteers like this we would be in a much more difficult situation to do what we do," Lulofs said.


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The funeral director who prepared Trayvon Martin's body for burial told HLN's Nancy Grace Wednesday that he did not see any cuts or bruises on the teen's hands that would have been indicative of a struggle with George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed the Florida teen.
Richard Kurtz of Roy Mizell and Kurtz Funeral Home in Fort Lauderdale said there appeared to be a gunshot wound in Martin's upper chest area, but he received the body after the autopsy was completed so it was difficult to tell whether he had other injuries. He also could not determine the bullet's entry or exit point.
"As for his hands and knuckles, I didn't see any evidence he had been fighting anybody," Kurtz said.
Citing police sources, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Zimmerman told investigators Martin punched him and slammed his head into the ground repeatedly before he fired the shot that killed the unarmed 17-year-old. He claimed he shot Martin in self-defense, and he has not been charged in the case at this point.
While Kurtz is not a forensics expert, the funeral director said he has handled the bodies of many homicide victims in his career. This case in particular affected him as he learned more about what happened to Martin and how the case was handled.
"I think the police investigation was the most unprofessional one I've ever seen in my lifetime," Kurtz said.
For the latest on the Trayvon Martin case, watch "Nancy Grace" Wednesday at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET on HLN.


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Fifteen years ago, psychologists Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez ran a simple experiment. They wanted to see how well kids pay attention — even if they don't have to.
They would bring two kids, between the ages 5 to 11, into a room and have them sit at two tables.
Then they had a research assistant teach one of the kids how to assemble a toy.
The other kid was told to wait. Rogoff says they would tell the second child, "You can sit over here, and in a few minutes you'll have a turn to make this origami jumping mouse," — a different task altogether.
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Rogoff and Correa-Chavez wanted to see what the waiting child did. Would she pay attention to the research assistant. Or did she goof off?
They ran this experiment on about 80 kids, with two different backgrounds: white, middle-class children from California and Maya children from Guatemala, whom she had been studying for years.
The difference was like night and day.
Many of the American kids slouched in their chairs, stared at the floor or looked around the room at the posters.
One little boy started making explosive noises, pretending a toy on the table was a bomb. "He was throwing his hands into the air and saying, 'It's going to explode!'" Rogoff says.
In contrast, the Maya children were more likely to pay attention. Some of them sat perfectly still in the chair, staring at the instructor. The Maya kids showed sustained attention about two-thirds of the time, Rogoff and colleagues concluded . The middle-class, American kids did so exactly half as often.
Why such different results? As we recently reported, Maya kids are encouraged very early on to pay attention to what their family is doing so they can learn how to do chores and work collaboratively with their family.
But Rogoff and other Maya researchers think there's more to the story. They think these indigenous children have something that many American kids have lost.
What is attention?
In the U.S., there's growing concern about the ability of children to pay attention. That, on average, the attention span of kids is declining.
But what if it's not attention that's the problem — but something that triggers attention.
Attention is a tricky beast. Unlike some brain processes, say vision or the ability to detect faces, there's not one key region in the brain that controls our ability to focus on one task and disregard distractions.
"Instead it appears [that] hundreds of different parts [of the brain] have to communicate and interact with each other when we pay attention," says neuroscientist
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And measuring how well a person's brain can execute this complex process has been thorny, say cognitive neuroscientists Mike Esterman and Joe DeGutis at the
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For years, Esterman and DeGutis have been developing a standard test to measure how well people can focus — or at least that's what they thought they were measuring.
"So we bring people in a lab, like college students, and give them these tests to do on the computer, which count how many times their attention lapses," Esterman says.
For instance, a person is shown a series of images on the screen. Esterman tells the person to press a button every time a city pops up.
"So we show them a bunch of city images," he says. "And you're kind of going along, pressing the button, as city after city passes on the scene. Then all of the sudden there's a mountain scene, and the goal is to stop pressing."
If your brain wanders, you'll make a mistake and accidentally press the button, Esterman adds. The more mistakes you make like this, the worse your ability is to pay attention, the researchers thought.
But then a few years ago, they decided to tweak the experiment. Right before it began, they told the college kids:
"If you do better on the task, it would end sooner," Esterman says. "And you can get out of the lab sooner."
In other words, Esterman gave the volunteers more to pay attention. The results were shocking.
"The extra motivation increased the person's ability to sustain attention by more than 50 percent, " Esterman says. "We were kind of blown away by the size of these effects."
The researchers could even see changes in how the brain worked when people were motivated. The circuitry that controls attention was more active throughout the entire experiment when participants were motivated to finish the test, DeGutis says. Whereas, without the motivation, this circuitry tended to flash on and off.
For some people, the motivation can be just as important as their innate ability to pay attention, Esterman says.
"If we don't measure how motivated a person is [while taking these tests], then we may not be measuring their true capacity to pay attention," he says.
And DeGutis agrees. "One of the things we've realized is that it's hard to separate motivation from sustained attention," he says. "If we're not looking at motivation, then we're really missing the boat in terms of attention."
' Of course she can go to the store by herself'
So maybe the Maya children are more attentive in the origami/toy experiment — not because they have better attention spans — but because they are more motivated to pay attention. Their parents have somehow motivated them to pay attention even without being told.
To see this Maya parenting firsthand, I traveled down to a tiny Maya village in Yucatan, Mexico, and visited the home of Maria Tun Burgos. Researchers have been studying her family and this village for years.
On a warm April afternoon, Tun Burgos is feeding her chickens in backyard. Her three daughters are outside with her, but they doing basically whatever they want.
The oldest daughter, Angela, age 12, is chasing a baby chick that's gotten out of the pen. The middle girl, Gelmy, age 9, is running in and out of the yard with neighborhood kids. Most of the time, no one is really sure where she is. And the littlest daughter, Alexa, who is 4 years old, has just climbed up a tree.
"Alone, without mama," the little daredevil declares.
Right away, I realize what these kids have that many American kids miss out on: an enormous amount of freedom. The freedom to largely choose what they do, where they go, whom they do it with. That means, they also have the freedom to control what they pay attention to.
Even the little 4-year-old has the freedom to leave the house by herself, her mother says.
"Of course she can go shopping," Tun Burgos says. "She can buy some eggs or tomatoes for us. She knows the way and how to stay out of traffic."
Now the kids aren't just playing around in the yard. They're still getting work done. They go to school. They do several after-school activities — and many, many chores. When I was with the family, the oldest girl did the dishes even though no one asked her to, and she helped take care of her little sisters.
But the kids, to a great extent, set their schedules and agendas, says Suzanne Gaskins, a psychologist at Northeastern Illinois University, who has studied the kids in this village for decades.
"Rather than having the mom set the goal — and then having to offer enticements and rewards to reach that goal — the child is setting the goal," Gaskins says. "Then the parents support that goal however they can."
The parents intentionally give their children this autonomy and freedom because they believe it's the best way to motivate kids, Gaskins says.
"The parents feel very strongly that every child knows best what they want," she says. "And that goals can be achieved only when a child wants it."
And so
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With this strategy, Maya children also learn how to manage their own attention, instead of always depending on adults to tell them what to pay attention to, says Barbara Rogoff , who is a professor at the University of California Santa Cruz.
"It may be the case that [some American] children give up control of their attention when it's always managed by an adult," she says.
Turns out these Maya moms are onto something. In fact, they are master motivators.
Motivating kids, the Maya way
Although neuroscientists are just beginning to understand what's happening in the brain while we pay attention, psychologists already have a pretty good understanding of what's needed to motivate kids.
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has been studying it for nearly 50 years at the University of Rochester. And what does he say is one of the most important ingredients for motivating kids?
"Autonomy," Deci says. "To do something with this full sense of willingness and choice."
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have shown that when teachers foster autonomy, it stimulates kids' motivation to learn, tackle challenges and pay attention, Deci says.
But in the last few decades, some parts of our culture have turned in the other direction, he says. They've started taking autonomy away from kids — especially in some schools.
"One of the things we've been doing in the American school system is making it more and more controlling rather than supportive," Deci says.
And this lack of autonomy in school inhibits kids' ability to pay attention, he says.
"Oh without question it does," Deci says. "So all of the high stakes tests are having negative consequences on the motivation, the attention and the learning of our children."
Now, many parents in the U.S. can't go full-on Maya to motivate kids. It's often not practical — or safe — to give kids that much autonomy in many places, for instance. But there are things parents here can do, says cognitive psychologist Mike Esterman.
For starters, he says, ask your kid this question: 'What would you do if you didn't have to do anything else?' "
"Then you start to see what actually motivates them and what they want to engage their cognitive resources in when no one tells them what they to to do," Esterman says.
Then create space in their schedule for this activity, he says.
"For my daughter, I've been thinking that this activity will be like her 'passion,' and it's the activity I should be fostering," he says.
Because when a kid has a passion, Esterman says, it's golden for the child. It's something that will bring them joy ... and hone their ability to pay attention.
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WordPress SSL AdministrationPosted by ninjaneer in Software, tags: admin, eavesdropping, encryption, hotel, security, ssl, wifi, wordpress
If you're a WordPress blogger who finds themselves out and about while blogging, you may benefit from the addition of secure/encrypted SSL logins and administration of your blog.
Lets say you are in a hotel for the night after a conference and you want to post an update on the days proceedings for your readers. The delightful 5-star hotel you booked yourself into has thoughfully provided free WiFi internet access in the rooms and your laptop can see the access point and has connected. Well, this is great but consider what that connection actually is for a moment.
The chances are that the connection used no authentication and is entirely unencrypted. Any data you send or recieve over the connection goes in the clear; including your WP login and password. Remember that wireless internet is a radio connection. Anyone with ill deeds on their mind a 'radio' of their own (ie: a wireless laptop) can record your data transmission and pick through it at will. They probably wont even have to spend much time or effort at it; I am lead to believe there are tools which specifically search packet streams for login credentials.
The hotel may have provided you with an authenticated WiFi link or even a Cat5 drop in the room but this may still cause issues. Can you trust the hotel's own network? On at least one occasion when connecting to a wired connection in a hotel, I have discovered myself to be on a LAN consisting of all the other guests.
What you need is encryption.
If you establish and maintain an SSL connection with your blog's webserver, the risks of digital eavesdropping are negated. If your server/host already has SSL installed, reconfiguring WordPress to work with it is pretty trivial. You can ask your host to install SSL and assuming you're not on a shared host, this shouldn't be a problem. You don't even have to buy a certificate as you can sign your own. Self-signed certificates do have a drawback in that they cause an initial error message in the browser until you import the certificate. You should ensure that you import your self-signed certs over a trusted network.
To get WordPress (2.6+) configured for SSL, open your wp-config.php file and add the lines:
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…and save the file back on the webserver.
This forces the login window to go straight to an SSL connection and maintains the admin interface in one too. All data passed between your client machine and the admin interface, including your login credentials will be encrypted.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Miners at Anglo American Platinum Ltd. operations in South Africa returned to work Thursday, ending a more than eight-week strike that crippled the world's largest platinum producer.
The arrival of workers at Anglo American Platinum's operations in Rustenburg, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, marked a waning of the crisis that has struck South Africa's mining industry in recent months.
But at the same time farm workers angered over their minimum daily wages launched a second day of violent protests in the nation's Western Cape, setting fires and marching through the countryside.
Miners began attending safety seminars in the morning, Anglo American Platinum spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole said Thursday. The safety training should take about a week to complete, meaning there won't be any platinum production during that time, she said.
"The company is pleased to welcome its employees back to work," Sithole said in a statement.
The strike at Anglo American Platinum, known locally as Amplats, began amid unrest across South Africa's mining industry, a major economic engine of the nation. The company fired 12,000 workers and then reinstated them, though the miners did not return to work.
Workers had demanded pay increases to give them 16,000 rand (about $1,800) in monthly pay. In the end, the workers settled for less. In the last several days, Amplats offered workers a one-time 4,500 rand ($500) payment, as well as a monthly pretax salary increase of 400 rand ($45). While striking workers said they still wanted higher wages, the fatigue of the long strike likely played a part in ending the standoff.
Late Thursday, the company said the final deal would apply to 48,000 employees.
But the financial damage has already been done to Anglo American, a mining giant.
In a statement Wednesday to investors, the company's platinum arm said its year-end earnings "will decrease by more than 20 percent" compared to last year. It blamed the strikes in part for the losses. Meanwhile, world platinum prices have risen about $200 an ounce to about $1,600 during the unrest.
The end of the Amplats strike marks a slowdown in the unrest in South Africa's mining industry, a dominant source of platinum, gold and chromium for the rest of the world.
Still, sporadic violence and arrests continued. On Thursday, police in Rustenburg arrested 23 miners who they said stoned police cars in front of a magistrate's court where there was a hearing for miners arrested earlier in the week at a violent protest at an Xstrata PLC mine nearby.
Meanwhile, strikes have hit South Africa's agriculture industry, another major part of its economy. On Wednesday, a protest turned violent as workers set fire to some farms, overturned a police truck and confronted officers in riot gear in the country's Western Cape. The police fired tear gas to drive away protesters, as gunshots could be heard in television footage.
At least one man was killed in the violence Wednesday and five others injured. On Thursday, police again confronted angry workers despite a claim by the government that a deal to delay the protests had been reached.
Most of the striking farm workers come from the vineyards of South Africa, the world's eighth largest overall producer of wine. They are asking for an increase in the minimum day wage to 150 rand ($13), up from about 70 rand ($8).
The strikes come as South Africa faces a slowing economy and high unemployment. The nation's credit rating also has been downgraded by two major agencies, leading opposition parties to criticize the governing African National Congress.
Appearing before the country's parliament Thursday and facing hostile questions, President Jacob Zuma of the ANC at one point repeated three times: "This country is stable."
"You go to all of the democracies in this world and there are strikes continuously," Zuma said. "It does not (mean) that there is instability. You go to Paris, you go to London, you go to everywhere, there are strikes, they are a feature of democracy."
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