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Seven Sri Lankan cricketers, including Sanath Jayasuriya and Tillakaratne Dilshan, have been reportedly involved in a security breach ahead of the fourth ODI against India in Kolkata. The players had the Kolkata Police worried after they went for a late night-out without any security cover on Tuesday.
They left around 11 pm last night, and while some of them returned soon, Jayasuriya and Dilshan were reportedly partying at a bar till 2 am, without informing the police.
"It's a security lapse, not from our behalf but from theirs [Sri Lanka]," city police commissioner Gautam Mohan Chakraborty told PTI. "We have told the Sri Lankan team members clearly that they cannot move out of the hotel. Despite that they have gone out getting clearance from their manager (Brendon Kuruppu). We cannot stop them physically.
"We have informed the CAB president [Jagmohan Dalmiya] and both the teams have been instructed that it's not repeated again. We are in a little uncomfortable situation now. We have to strengthen our arrangements now to plug the loopholes to ensure the security is foolproof."
However, the Sri Lankan team management have denied the claims.
The seriousness of the issue is highlighted by the fact that Sri Lanka have faced security threats before. Masked terrorists attacked the team bus carrying Sri Lanka's cricketers to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore in March this year. Five cricketers, including Mahela Jayawardene, the captain, and Kumar Sangakkara, his deputy, received minor injuries. Ajantha Mendis, Thilan Samaraweera and Tharanga Paravitarana were also injured in the attack which killed six security men and two civilians.


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The magi had another encounter with the Red Dwarf. The ghostly woman of Belle Isle warned Moonpie of an attack on a spirit located on the football field of an abandoned high school. The magi fought the Nain Rogue and a new Dark Man with a sword, but they failed to save the spirit of the cheerleader.
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Fantastic New Years eve win against the Islanders! Fun game, lots of action, and some sick goals. Nice to see such a shot differential (46-28 or something like that?). Just total domination of a good team.
Girard continues to grow and impress as well which is a great sign. MacKinnon is an absolute assist machine and has completely stepped up as the offensive leader of this team. Huge strides from last year, I'm glad Sakic didn't let the doomsayers talk him into firing Bednar after last year.
First 4 game winning streak of the season. It's only about midway through, so still pretty early, but they are sniffin' a playoff spot. Mackinnon (highest scoring playing since Nov 1 and 5th in the league now) is heating up nicely and the defense is starting to play better.
Varly is a bit of a worry as he's been a bit suspect this year and is still out with a sort of mystery lower body injury. If the avs even make the playoffs though, even if they get booted in the first round, that'll mark a huge turnaround for this team who is starting to brim with lots of young talent and depth.
The can is rockin' and the avs are TAKIN' IT TO the wild!
Whoa! Dubnyk just threw a right hook at Kerfoot and gave him a nice ice-face wash...
It was a great game. I love beating the Wild! It's fun to watch this young team, they seem to be developing a really nice chemistry. The best part is that are not beating themselves and find a way to keep going when things don't go their way. Last year it was oh man her we go again...this year they haven't won every game but they haven't stopped fighting.
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That no goal was bullshit!!!!
Goaltender interference with the goaltender behind the net????
**** you refs.
Does anyone know what's going on with Varly? I go back and forth so much I missed it if they said something...thanks
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Thank you Medford for the great signature!
They are calling it a "lower body injury". For Varley, that's his groin. As is normal in the NHL, they are usually pretty tight lipped about injuries that aren't long term.
But anyway, great win against the stars, 6 in a row. Feel the Bernier!!!!!
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Irritated that I can only high five carol once.
Avs playing some hot hockey right now. Hope it keeps up tomorrow in Toronto. This next stretch is going to be a new kind of test for this team.
My Blackhawks are poopy this year.
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I'm not looking to fight anyone.
(Okay, sometimes I admit, I wouldn't say no...
but not in this case.)
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You are more straightforward in your approach to these issues than most, which is a credit to you, and probably to your teacher. You (and they) can presume all you want, and it will trouble me not at all. If you ignore something useful on a supposition, you have only your supposition to blame.
I'm really not trying to "trouble" you. I was trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between our perspectives. I defined "intention up" in pain-staking detail. If that is not connecting to anything on your side, then the only reasonable option left is for a visit. Which is what I think everyone was suggesting.
Otherwise you have this statement that what you are offering is "useful" and I can't see any reason to agree with that. Maybe I'm being thick, but unless you are saying you can do or teach these things using your model, what would the "use" be?
Erick Mead
If you really conceive that asking to define terms is indicative of anything other than care with meaning, then I don't know what to tell you. I've taken care with meaning since before I began the law twelve years ago, with things physical since I began flying twenty years ago, and with things violent since I started aikido and joined the Navy before that.
Well I think at a certain point of defining terms - we get to such basics like "up" - that it seems like there is no way you could possibly be on the same page as everyone else I've met who had these skills. Gleason sensei who doesn't teach this stuff directly has taught classes of imagery of flowing up through your body like a fire hose that isn't being held by anyone. He discusses the image of how it spirals in the air a bit - and tells you to imagine that and when you stick your arm out for katatetori to think of the arm being supported by those spirals. That is intention up too. Dan about it a bit differently (different image), but EVERYONE and I have traveled a bit and met a lot of people with varying degrees of skills - EVERYONE has some sense of intention up. So if you don't it's a reasonable presumption that you are not doing what they are doing - especially because I thought you were certainly not stating that you had any method for directly teaching these things like the "aiki" skills guys.
Erick Mead
You admittedly are dwelling on your intention, not primarily dwelling on what your body is actually doing. As Tim noted, your theory is in search of a physical model for its ad hoc training methodology. Effective or not, it has no physical model. Nothing wrong with that, but that's the fact.
The theory of your present training seems to be that if your intention is refined according to the theory of orientation you are using the body will follow suit. You have defined exercises to frame this intention. You have a guru to mold your intention. Fine. It is a yoga and a good one probably. I don't challenge that.
I am focusing on how my body moves and how it moves in relation the movement of another body in connection. Cutting out the middleman, so to speak. When I think less I move better. The less I think about how and why it moves that way when I am moving, the less disconnected my mind is from the doing of the movement. I reflect carefully on the movement after I have ceased doing it rather than being severely intentional while I am doing it.
Well, my point here is that yes - I'm doing that initially becaue I believe it is the fastest method. The assumptin is that I'll be able to let that mental aspect go and just maintain the feeling after it gets burned in.
The other point is that I don't see how you method can possibly be a faster or better method because I don't see any results to compare them. Until I do, I have to reasonably conclude that this method of studying this is not optimal compared to my current approach.
Can we all get along and just discuss?
And by the way - out of context the "we are speaking English" statement I made looks rude as well - but you had just wrote about an example using some made up language and I was addressing that.
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Q: When is blowing up wealth a net good for society?
That's just one project near me. I just want to highlight the fact that although I only think disasters can offer gross benefits and not net benefits, it's not like there's anything wrong with the idea that destroying existing wealth can provide net benefits.
The problem is hurricanes don't just target the buildings we had plans to demolish - they target everything.
Hopefully everybody should accept that we've got both a gross and net benefit here as a result of the destruction of wealth in this case. So let's please not demagogue the hurricane.
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Generally speaking, this is something that's always puzzled me. As I noted some time ago:ReplyDelete
"11. The broken window fallacy is always a fallacy, but creative destruction is a vital part of capitalism."
...is something of a double standard.
Anyway, this debate bothers me. People really shouldn't be using a disaster like this to score 'haha my clever little story about economics is cleverer than yours' points.Replies
What a superficial thing to say. The "destruction" involved in one competitor being displaced by a more efficient one, and the former being shunted to a better-suited role in the economy, is obviously vitally different from wanton vandalism and natural disasters.Delete
And it's not about "clever stories". It's a vivid illustration of fundamental differences in the understanding of how the economy works.Delete
There is no difference in understanding, Keynesians understand the BWF perfectly but there are various real world factors that complicate things and make Bastiat's story considerably less vivid.Delete
And my point was not necessarily about hurricanes; there may be instances when the replacement is better, as with creative destruction. It's more of a 'silver lining' point than anything.
The way I've put it to a friend is that there is an optimal schedule for the replacement of capital goods which is only rarely congruent with hurricanes, earthquakes and wars.ReplyDeleteReplies
Supremely rarely. How many New York businesses just happened to have a major scrap project on October 30 on their calendar? And how many of those benefit from this particularly watery form of "scrapping"?Delete
What you say is how Hazlitt put it to, as I posted in another of Daniel's threads:
"The simple truth is that there is an optimum rate of replacement, a best time for replacement. It would be an advantage for a manufacturer to have his factory and equipment destroyed by bombs only if the time had arrived when, through deterioration and obsolescence, his plant and equipment had already acquired a null or a negative value and the bombs fell just when he should have called in a wrecking crew or ordered new equipment anyway."
The Austrian answer is when it is human capital. Need to teach those lazy bastards a lesson and stop their thieving arrogance. It is the only way they learn.ReplyDelete
Progressive taxation can be considered a small blowing up but the resulting redistribution can improve societal utility. One could argue taxation is voluntary at the social level though.ReplyDelete
You practically need to turn in you economist card for this one, Daniel_Kuehn. You have failed to distinguish physical destruction from economic destruction. In economics, we only care about economic destruction, not, say, the physical "destruction" of the block of dirt needed to put up a skyscraper. Thinking you have come up with a "good" example of destruction shows your inability to properly distinguish the two.ReplyDeleteReplies
You need to rethink this, I think.Delete
The whole issue here is the relationship between physical and economic destruction. There's physical destruction in the link provided here. It's also economic destruction (the structure they demolished was worth something, after all). But destroying it and building something else there was obviously worth more than not destroying it and keeping the cash you would have used to demolish and rebuild.
When the question is "what is the relationship between this physical destruction and economic creation or destruction", then we absolutely do care about physical destruction.
It's also economic destruction (the structure they demolished was worth something, after all). But destroying it and building something else there was obviously worth more than not destroying it and keeping the cash you would have used to demolish and rebuild.ReplyDelete
A more standard, informed way to say that would be that it was *not* economic destruction (since the output was valued more than the forgone inputs).Replies
How is there not economic destruction when a building with value was destroyed?Delete
What you mean, I think, is that there is no net economic destruction if the choice was made voluntarily. You can't just pretend that if there is a net benefit there were no opportunity costs.
And you can't pretend you've said something insightful when you distinguish economic destruction from physical destruction -- not if you're an economist anyway.Delete
Potlatch. :)ReplyDelete


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The Sacred Rock of the Acropolis is without doubt one of the most significant and most impressive sights in Greece.
A UNESCO world heritage site, it stands proudly in the centre of the modern city of Athens, preserving the splendour of the past. It is the greatest sanctuary of ancient Athens which is perched on the top of the hill, dedicated (primarily) to its patron, the goddess Athena, and to this day, is unreachable from every side except from the west, where the impressive Propylaia structures dominate.
According to historical sources, the hill was initially inhabited during the Neolithic Era. Then, in 6th century BC the first temples were built, which were soon destroyed by the Persians. It finally reached its peak in the 5th century during the Golden Age of Perikles, when the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia and the temple of Athena a.k.a. Athena Nike were completed.
The Acropolis was severely damaged during the Ottoman occupation, and Lord Elgin who, shortly before the Greek War of Independence of 1821, looted the frieze of the Parthenon, its metopes, its porches, a Karyatida and a column from the Erechtheion and transported them to England. Nowadays, the aforementioned are still in the British Museum but the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis accommodates the most significant monuments in the country and is the greatest site and trademark of the capital.
While the reconstruction works continue in order to keep the treasures accommodated in this space, visitors can admire the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, some other temples and of course the beautiful view of modern Athens from the top of the hill.


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Friday, June 5, 2015
No Pan Haggarty last night...
It was so good and used up a few things in the fridge.
The sweet peppers are coming along nicely.
As are the mini yellow tomatoes.
Picked rhubarb from this pot, the blueberries are nearly ready as are the strawberries. They will all be transplanted out of this pot when done.
This begonia I have on the front porch is so pretty.
That's it from me!! Over to you.........
22 comments:
- Craig said...
I love meals like that - leftovers or whatever is in the fridge to be used up! The begonia is a beautiful shade.
- June 5, 2015 at 3:03 AM
- Jacquelineand.... said...
Your peppers, etc... are far, far ahead of mine, there goes me asking if you 'wanna race', lol.
- June 5, 2015 at 3:46 AM
- mamasmercantile said...
Your garden is so much further on than mine. Beautiful begonia. Have a great weekend.
- June 5, 2015 at 4:52 AM
- Joolz said...
I love plates of snacky things like that!
- June 5, 2015 at 5:20 AM
- Fat Dormouse said...
I've planned pan haggerty for tonight but it's so HOT that I don't think I fancy it. Salad-and-something I think. Though I don't quite know what!
- June 5, 2015 at 6:42 AM
- Linda aka Crafty Gardener said...
I've been cooking with the rhubarb as well. Pretty begonias, I've also got some in my front shady pot.
- June 5, 2015 at 7:30 AM
- Jennifer A. Jilks said...
I forgot to buy tomatoes. Oh well.
- June 5, 2015 at 8:02 AM
- slugmama said...
I made your Pan Haggerty on Wed. You should have come over. lolz
- June 5, 2015 at 9:22 AM
- Piece by Piece said...
My tomato plants are coming along nicely, flowers but now toms. yet. Planted some lettuce yesterday it grows fast so should have some in the near future. Love the colour of your begonia.
Have a great weekend.
- June 5, 2015 at 9:48 AM
- William Kendall said...
Your garden crops are looking good!
- June 5, 2015 at 11:42 AM
- Pom Pom said...
Yum! Your dinner looks very tasty! Pretty plants and flowers, too!
- June 5, 2015 at 12:37 PM
- Rose said...
That begonian is absolutely beautiful...your plants are looking good!
- June 5, 2015 at 1:25 PM
- Bronwyn said...
Those scotch eggs look amazing! Yum!
- June 5, 2015 at 1:42 PM
- barbara woods said...
we have little tomato's too just planted a few weeks ago because of the rain. going to have to try the scotch eggs
- June 5, 2015 at 2:32 PM
- Buttons Thoughts said...
Oh now that plate looks delicious to me. I LOVE your begonia it is such a lovely colour. Hug b
- June 5, 2015 at 2:35 PM
- Cat Lover said...
Left-overs. The best kind of meal! Your vegetables are coming along nicely. For the first time in 12 years we don't have a veggie garden. Too much else going on. We have a great farmer's market so I will be frequenting that. Have a good weekend.
- June 5, 2015 at 3:03 PM
- EG CameraGirl said...
I ALWAYS appreciate a meal that uses up leftovers or stuff I have in the fridge. ;))
- June 5, 2015 at 4:30 PM
- Jane said...
My go to meal lately is to put leftovers on a plate, grate some cheese over top, melt it in microwave or under the broiler, add a dash of Frank's hot sauce and yum yum yum!!
- June 5, 2015 at 7:26 PM
- Betsy said...
Something is enjoying eating my green beans from the garden this year. I'm hoping that when I go home they will have recovered but I don't have high hopes. My rhubarb plant has done well though and I have several gallons of cut up rhubarb in the freezer so I can do tinge to bake it over the cold months too. Your dinner looks nice and health, (and yummy).
- June 5, 2015 at 10:20 PM
- Plowing Through Life (Martha) said...
I love left overs. I usually cook in large batches, so I don't need to cook every day!
- June 5, 2015 at 10:32 PM
- Lynda D said...
Yum Gill, Id choose that meal over many every night. Must have cheese and pickled cucumbers though. Im a bit of a fan of pate as well.
- June 6, 2015 at 1:00 AM
- Jennifer A. Jilks said...
Lovely photos! I'm hungry.
- June 6, 2015 at 5:24 PM


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Mom found Spock in Poundland and bought him for me, Boohoo dress I finally wore after buying it two years ago, Off out to a wedding reception, Meeting lovely little Elizabeth, A naughty work purchase, Relaxing with Ben & Jerry's and a Green Wing marathon, Playing Starcraft Risk, Stupid amounts of pizza, Sunday spent dying my hair drinking wine and catching up with blogs.
I haven't done a Sunday Summary for quite a while partly due to my sporadic blogging and partly because I haven't been instagramming very much as my phone battery decided to swell and nearly ruin my phone but I have a new battery so I shall back instagramming pointless rubbish again now ha!
Since my last Sunday post I have had some very lovely times; I attended a wedding reception a few weeks ago for Pete's Step Uncle (is that a thing?) where much rum was consumed and Pete's dad kept introducing me to people as his future daughter in law. Pete's other step uncle also became a dad this month to a beautiful little girl called Elizabeth and she is absolutely gorgeous and made me the tiniest bit broody.
I managed to actually have the last bank holiday off and Pete invited all his friends round for a day of nerdy board games and pizza, and when I say day I mean 7 straight hours of playing board games, it was actually pretty fun we played Starcraft risk and I got a tiny bit more aggressive with each invasion. They concluded the day by ordering 4 extra large pizzas between six of us which was a pretty ridiculous amount of pizza.
Pete's gone to Cambridge for a few days to work with his dad and I'm already missing him but it does mean I should have some more time for blogging this week.
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How do you spend 60 Minutes of your time?
One hour, sixty minutes, three thousand and six hundred seconds. Seems like a sufficiently long span of time, but an hour in the life of Agastya, a successful and ambitious CEO and the protagonist in Upendra Namburi's novel 60 Minutes shows just how precious time is in reality.
Dealing with a rivalry with a CEO from company, a woman scorned, a marriage in jeopardy, an addiction to the bourses and the impending launch of a product that can make or break his career, Agastya is racing against time and sixty minutes is all he has to save himself, his job and everything he holds dear.
The book does absolute justice to its title. The chapters keep the reader abreast with the time and the situation. The few lines on each new chapter provide an interesting perspective and give the reader a little hint of what to expect in the chapter. They blend well with the chapter thus enhancing the readers experience.
The author cleverly employs an engaging technique of back and forth narration, consequently helping the reader understand the predicament and motives of the characters better. The back story of the important characters like Maithili, Sailesh Rao and Agastya renders the book more interesting. It also gives the book it's refreshing quality and helps the reader keep up with the story.
The cover page of the book captures the essence of the plot. Set in a fast paced city like Mumbai, the two large digits display a shot of the bustling city life, encapsulating the spirit of the novel.
Sixty Minutes is an interesting, fast paced corporate drama which keeps you gripped till the end. The unexpected twists and turns, surprising revelations, secret past liaisons will keep you at the edge of your sofa and biting your finger nails. The author like a true marketing professional , doles out a little gyan here and there, to aid the reader with little or no knowledge of the bourse and marketing.
If you want to try something different by a desi author for a change, I highly recommend Upendra Namburi's book Sixty Minutes. It has all the elements of a Bollywood masala movie : action, romance, suspense and a lot more. Don't waste 60 seconds in thinking. Give 60 minutes a shot. You will not regret it. I give it a 4/5.
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A sightful movie about the end days
Sopheap Pal | Dallas, GA United States | 09/09/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Based on the best seller series, Left Behind is a sightful movie about the end days. The producers in cooperation with Tim Lahaye/Jerry B. Jenkins bring you a movie about hopes and fears. I've noticed from the start that this DVD will rock the world. As one of the best christian movie ever made, it reminds us that we have little time to act. It answers so many questions that people often ask.I found the book to be very enticing and if the book is good, the movie is better, especially on DVD. This movie brings all the facts, all the revelations, and all the struggle in one action-filled adventure to eternity. If you're a christian, you will find this movie fulfilling and if you're not a christian, then watch it anyways because it makes you ask the big question, "Is God really there?""
I think it's great!
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"I did not buy this movie in order to pick over the special effects (which, by the way, I have no complaints with)or complain that it couldn't compare in quality to all of Hollywood's big budget movies. This is a movie with a message and it comes across loud and clear to me. I've watched this movie almost daily since I got it and each time I see something that I didn't see before. When it hits the theater next Feb I plan on loading up the van with a bunch! And for those who complain that Christian movies don't compare with the ones that Hollywood generates, thank God! Because you spend more doesn't make it better."
A Movie to be Watched with Your Heart
Donna J. McCord | Mountain View, CA United States | 11/21/2000
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"I have not read the Left Behind series, but now I will. I found this movie in a Christian book store and was inspired to buy it and watch it at home. As is true for any movie or book or piece of art, the way people react to them is a very personal and subjective experience, based on their own beliefs and what has happened in their lives so far. So no matter what people say in these reviews, you need to make your own decision about this movie's value. I watched it with my 11 year old daughter and one of her friends. We were all totally caught up in the characters and the story, as well as the music (we have since bought the sound track and love it!). It made us cry, and more importantly, it made us think about what we need to do as Christians to help non believers (including my husband) begin to ask the question: if all of this is true, and if Christ does return to take His believers away from the horrors of the end times, where will I be? If you believe that it could be God's will to get this movie out in as many theaters as possible and move people to change their hearts, then join in the efforts to get sponsorship for this movie in your area. All the criticism about special effects is moot since the movie producers have already enhanced those scenes for the movie release. We thought the actors were very well cast, especially Kirk Cameron as Buck Williams. It was also a treat to watch a movie that you could immerse yourself in with no worries except when it would end. But the main point is this: if you open yourself to the message here, you will feel it as we did, and you will want to share it with anyone you care about or love. Leave your worldy views and prejudices behind and watch this with your heart."


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Maroon 5 Debut Snapchat-Filter Themed 'Wait' Music Video - Watch Here!
Adam Levine tries out a ton of different filters in Maroon 5's just released music video for their latest single "Wait," and you can watch it right here!
The 38-year-old frontman filmed the short videos on the Snapchat app around his Los Angeles home, with cameos from his wife Victoria's Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo and their dog.
"We all use Snapchat, and the Filters have become a huge part of the culture," Adam told Billboard. "We thought it would be funny to take some more straight-ahead band photos and sprinkle in a little fun."
"Wait" is the second single off of Maroon 5's latest album, Red Pill Blues, following "What Lovers Do" with SZA.
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Seven years ago this week, Ali Al Faraj secured a 90-per-cent share in Pompey... apparently saving the club from administration.
He joined a long list of Blues owners in recent years.
But can you remember those who have passed through the doors at Fratton Park – and those who had it shut in their face?
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Emi Nakajima, Larry L. David, Michael A. Riviere, Mitsuyoshi Azuma, Thomas R. Shearer; Human and Monkey Lenses Cultured with Calcium Ionophore Form αB-Crystallin Lacking the C-Terminal Lysine, a Prominent Feature of Some Human Cataracts. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2009;50(12):5828-5836. doi: 10.1167/iovs.09-4015.
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Elevation of lens calcium occurs in both human and experimental animal cataracts, and opacification may result from calcium-activated proteolysis. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether calcium accumulation in cultured human and Macaca mulatta lenses results in proteolysis of crystallins, the major lens proteins.
Two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry were used to construct detailed maps of human and monkey lens crystallins so that proteolysis after calcium accumulation could be monitored and the altered crystallins identified. Human and macaque lenses cultured in A23187 showed elevated lenticular calcium and superficial cortical opacities. The carboxypeptidase E (CPE) gene is expressed in human lens, and its presence in lens fibers was demonstrated by Western blot. To investigate whether CPE could cause similar truncation, purified αB-crystallin and CPE were incubated in vitro.
The major change observed in the crystallins of these cultured lenses was the accumulation of αB1-174-crystallin resulting from the loss of a C-terminal lysine. This result was significant, because similar appearance of αB1-174 is a prominent change in some human cataracts. αB-crystallin and CPE incubation result in the formation of αB1-174-crystallin. This truncation was specific to αB1-174-crystallin, since other crystallins were not proteolyzed. Although a weaker activator than zinc, calcium activated CPE in vitro.
Since zinc concentrations did not increase during culture in A23187, calcium uptake in the lens may be responsible for CPE activation and αB1-174 formation during cataract.
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Do you know how to flirt with a guy and make him smile like crazy? Do you know how to talk the language of dating and understand men flirting signs? Can you communicate your interest and make him like you back? If you're still clueless about how to approach a man in a way that would make him want to know more about you, then you have just stumbled into the right page. Read on and find out the best way to flirt with a guy and make his day.
You don't have to be a model or wear really provocative clothes for you to get a man hooked. You can easily get guys just by being presentable and pretty. Wear perfume. Put on a little makeup and make sure that your breath is fresh. Finally, wear your best personality before you go out the door and prepare for a night of fun and flirting .
The eye contact
Everything starts with the eye contact. Stare at that guy you're attracted to from across the room. He's bound to feel that someone is looking at him and when he does, take your eyes off him and put a little sheepish smile that says you're embarrassed to be caught staring. On the next instance, hold his glance. By the third eye contact, he's probably about to make a move on you so get ready for the next step.
The conversation
Guys love it when they talk about themselves and girls listen. But you don't have to sound patronizing by offering nothing into the conversation but praises and agreements. You want to hold your end by showing him that you know a bit as well. Express your interest in what he has to say. Encourage him to talk but don't stay mute the whole night.
Praises are great but don't go overboard. It's okay to compliment a guy for his new haircut or his shirt but only if you really mean it. Bu if you're just throwing a compliment just so you would look good, be ready for a possible backfire. You'll just come across as phony.
Tease him
If you're already dating or you've known each other for a while, it's safe to move on to a little bit of teasing to flirt with your guy. This doesn't have to mean trash talk. It can mean really innocent comments that will make his day, like telling him how he sexy he looks wearing that new shirt or in a new haircut. You can even tease – as in make fun of – him. Guys love humor. Share a secret joke while you're in a group.
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This may seem an odd poem. I was asked to do it for my degree. We took our degree guide, which has information, critical text and poems in it. I took a line from different pages starting from the cover and working through. In other words, these words are the words of others!


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Find out about street lighting in the borough and how to report a fault.
Responsibility for upgrading and replacing the borough's street lighting lies with Skanska Infrastructure Services.
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In the meantime, do you remember the client that was interested in wallpapering her bedroom in my tipsy eBay Nina Campbell Paradiso purchase? Her husband likes the room a lot but wants to see other options, so I thought I'd share some of the things I'm working on right now.
This was the original design we discussed. They both loved it but were hesitant about changing out their nightstands.
So we looked at something that had bedside tables similar to theirs. The husband still wanted to see more options.
I love this design. The star of it is Alessandra Branca's Elizabeth fabric for F. Schumacher (available through me). It did not show up well on the design board, so you don't see much of it. However, it would be a duvet cover and accent pillows.
|Elizabeth by Alessandra Branca for F. Schumacher
And lastly, we have this fun design featuring Manuel Canovas' ever popular Pagoda fabric (also available through me).
Pagoda is a stunning fabric that is so intricately detailed. I am still in love with how Ruthie Sommers used it on the doors in her black lacquered foyer. As seen in Veranda circa December 2012.
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14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
After celebrating the three great feasts, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi, that bring the Easter season to its conclusion, we have entered into what the Church calls Ordinary time. Ordinary time refers to that time of the Church year that is not associated with Christmas or Easter. During Ordinary time the priest will usually wear vestments of green, the color of hope. In a way these Sundays after Easter will give us an idea of what the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus means for us.
In today's first reading from the Book of Zechariah the prophet speaks of a day when the burdens laid on people by their oppressors will be lifted.
He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim,
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The warrior's bow shall be banished,
and he shall proclaim peace to the nations.
Chariots, horses, and the warriors bow are instruments of oppression and military conquest. The overlords of the people often put heavy burdens on their subjects. On the Fourth of July we celebrated our own Declaration of Independence whereby our founding fathers threw off the yoke of British oppression.
However, even though we live in the freest country in the World, there is a kind of oppression or burden that hits very close to home. I will never forget an incident that occurred years ago when I was a financial advisor. I visited an elderly couple in their home one evening to look over their finances. The man sat stooped over the kitchen table after his long commute home. The train ride to New York City took over an hour each way, but then he had to take a subway, and then walk a few blocks to his office. He hated the long commute and was sick of his job, which he had been doing for years.
After looking over the financial situation, I told them that there was no reason for him to continue working. They lived very frugally, and the income from their savings and investments was more than enough for them to retire comfortably. I was amazed when the man slowly raised his head and shoulders as if a great burden had been lifted. This miracle was not my doing but theirs. They had worked hard but just didn't realize how well they had done.
It's the same thing with most of us. I'm not just talking about finances now. Why do teenagers seem to be so gloomy and depressed? Why is there such addiction among young people? Why is there such a high rate of teen suicide? Why, in the years when they should feel the most free, do young people have to say what their friends want to hear; follow peer pressure and do what their friends want them to do? Why do they feel that they must smoke this, or drink that in order to be socially acceptable?
As we get older the burdens seem to get even greater. So many of us have had a yoke placed upon our shoulders by our friends and family. Indeed, sometimes we are the ones who have placed the burden on our own shoulders. We all know the stress of family relationships, job insecurity, raising children, or caring for aged parents. Half the country seems to be on some sort of medication, legal or illegal, to relieve the burdens. Who is there to lift the yoke from our backs.
Here is a good way to tell a true from a false friend. A true friend helps us to bear life's burdens; a false one just piles more weight on our backs. In fact, the good friend is the one who actually lightens the load by sharing it with us. In today's gospel Jesus is trying to make us realize that our burdens have been lifted.
Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, And I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, For I am meek and humble of heart;… For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.
Christ suffered so that we would not have to. He told us to be humble and not proud; to care for our neighbor instead of always thinking of ourselves. He was always healing people. Did he ever hurt anyone? Jesus continually criticized the Pharisees for their rules and regulations that put innumerable burdens on people.
St. Paul was born and raised a Pharisee. In fact, he said he was a kind of super-Pharisee who followed all rules to their minutest detail. After his conversion, however, he realized that living in the Spirit and not in the flesh was the road to happiness.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, But if by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, You will live.
Right before today's Eucharistic prayer, the priest will ask the congregation to "lift up your hearts," which is just a way of saying lift up your spirits and prepare to throw off the yoke that burdens.
Reading 1. Zechariah 9: 9-10
Reading II. Romans 8:9, 11-13
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The Motorola DEVOUR left us underwhelmed from the press shots piqued our interest when we played with its excellent metal casing at MWC 2010 last week, and prompted confusion when we saw how closely it would be priced to the Motorola DROID. With a review unit in hand, the argument becomes a whole lot more straightforward, but is that in Motorola's favor? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
Ironically it's turned off that the DEVOUR makes the best impression. The extruded aluminum casing is sturdy and tactile, the side-loading battery compartment not only allows Motorola to keep the frame a single piece but also leaves easier access to the microSD card slot, and the screen section is pleasantly spring-loaded unlike its DROID sibling. Open it up, and the QWERTY keyboard is almost a complete improvement over the DROID; the buttons are hard and slightly domed, easier to press than the older phone's flat layout, and only the spacebar inserted into the bottom letter row frustrates.
Like many have found with a Sidekick, rather than prove ergonomically unsound the raised edges at either side in fact make the DEVOUR easier to hold while typing. The switch to an optical joystick rather than a physical D-pad means there's no layout offset (as affected both the DROID and the CLIQ), and it's nicely placed within thumb's-reach.
Where the experience begins to pale is once you turn the DEVOUR on. Build quality may be on a par with the DROID but the hardware is definitely more budget minded. The 3.1-inch display runs at HVGA (320 x 480) resolution (compared to the DROID's 3.7-inch 480 x 854 panel) and while the capacitive touch layer is as responsive as we've come to expect from the technology, we miss the extra pixels. The DEVOUR is a MOTOBLUR device, which means ready integration with various social networks, but the payoff is being limited to an older version of Android. Motorola are yet to rework MOTOBLUR to suit Android 2.1, the current release, and so the DEVOUR is stuck with Android 1.6.
That not only limits the applications that will run – the recently launched Google Earth for Android demands v2.1 – but it puts DEVOUR owners constantly on the back foot waiting for future updates. As we've seen with the CLIQ, manufacturers promise newer versions of the OS but timescales are generally a mystery.
Perhaps more pointedly, MOTOBLUR remains flawed in its execution. Despite complaints about the earliest devices, minor issues – though issues which third-party apps generally get right – continue to litter the system. The perennial bugbear of Twitter "@" mentions being treated as regular messages rather than flagged up as with Direct Messages makes monitoring your tweets more frustrating than is the case in, say, Seismic or Twidroid. Motorola continue to add social networking services to MOTOBLUR, but it's proving a relatively slow process.
There are other shortcomings too. The DEVOUR's 3-megapixel camera drops not only pixels but also autofocus from the DROID, resulting in mediocre images that tend towards the blurred and have muted, washed out colors. Given the DEVOUR is basically the same size as the DROID (even a little thicker) the lower-resolution camera rankles since they presumably could easily have slotted better optics inside. There's a 3.5mm headphone socket, which we approve of, but the standard Android media player would've been an excellent place for Motorola to work some magic. Sadly that's not to be; there's DLNA support for streaming content from the DEVOUR to other DLNA-compliant devices, and Verizon's V CAST Music app with Rhapsody, but it's still a patchy media experience from a usability standpoint.
Other connectivity includes access to Verizon's EVDO Rev.A 3G network, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, together with a microUSB port and AGPS. The 1,400mAh Li-Ion battery is rated for up to 389 minutes talktime or 443 hours standby; in practice, with MOTOBLUR doing its social networking checks and Exchange push-email turned on, you'll be recharging the DEVOUR nightly as with most other smartphones. The side-loading compartment also means that there's unlikely to be an extended battery option, though given the DEVOUR's target audience that probably isn't too big a deal.
It's the target audience issue that leaves us confused by the Motorola DEVOUR. The combination of MOTOBLUR and the decent hardware keyboard would suggest that this is a handset for message fanatics, looking to step up from a feature phone. Verizon's official price is $100 (with a new, two-year agreement), which puts the DEVOUR on a par with most high-end feature phones (many of which have larger, better displays and more user-friendly media player apps). Unfortunately, while Verizon are still looking for $200 for the Motorola DROID, Best Buy have already announced they'll be selling it for $100, the same price as the DEVOUR. The new phone's design and build is impressive, but we'd go for the DROID every time.
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I'm always looking for a new computer game. It was to my surprise when I stopped at my local Big Lots and found Sacred Gold.
Sacred Gold is a 3D action fantasy game. The game starts in the kingdom of Ancaria. You start out by creating your character. There are 8 heroic characters to play. These characters are the Dwarf, Daemon, Gladiator, Seraphim, Battlemage, Wood Elf, Dark Elf and Vampire. You have a assortment here, and depending on your style of play you will decide which one is the right one for you.
Throughout the game you learn combat arts, gain new skills and can perform combination attacks. These attacks can takea little getting used to as well.
Included in the game is both online and lan capibility. The game is rated T for teen, which means blood, fantasy violence and mild language.The game can be run on Vista/WinXp/Win7 computers. I purchased it for $6.
At $6 the game can add some fun to a boring day. The controls and the attacks can take a little getting used to but the graphics and sound are pretty good.
With 40 main quests and hundreds of side quests this game will keep you captivated for many weeks and possibly months. If you can find it in the bargin bin, I would urchase it.


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The Athletics' Trade for Zobrist and Escobar Shows They're Not Throwing in the Towel in 2015
When you think of the best players in baseball, Ben Zobrist is not one of the names that typically leaps to mind.
Sure, for folks like me who love baseball and follow it closely, we know about Zobrist. We know how versatile he is, how solid he is at the plate, and his ability to play virtually anywhere on the diamond at a high level. He is the ultimate utility player, a guy whose value isn't really known until he's on your team.
So it makes a lot of sense that Oakland has traded for the Tampa Bay Rays' veteran, as well shortstop Yunel Escobar, in exchange for John Jaso, shortstop prospect Daniel Robertson and outfield prospect Boog Powell (no relation to the former Baltimore great).
The headliner of the deal is the 33-year-old Zobrist, who quite simply has been one of the most valuable players in the game since 2009.
Last year he hit .272/.354/.395 with 10 homers, 34 doubles, a weighted on-base average (wOBA) of .333 and a weighted runs created (wRC+) of 119. He's a career .264/.354/.429 hitter, with a walk rate of 11.5% and strikeout rate of just 12.8%. His FanGraphs wins above replacement last year was 5.7, and in the five years before that, he was worth 8.5, 3.7, 6.3, 5.9 and 5.4 wins above replacement.
His nERD of 0.86 means a lineup full of Zobrists would have generated 0.86 runs a game more than a league average player, 85th-best in the Majors. However, Zobrist garners much of his value from saving runs, with a defensive runs saved (DRS) of +11 last year.
Zobrist will mainly play second base for Oakland, a position they desperately needed to upgrade. but he has the capability of playing five positions (second, third, left, center and right field). Before the trade, the A's had Eric Sogard penciled in as their starting second baseman for 2015. Last year, Sogard hit .223/.298/.268 and was worth 0.3 fWAR. He'll become a valuable utility player in '15.
Oakland also shored up their shortstop position with the addition of Escobar, who was only worth 0.2 fWAR while hitting .258/.324/.340 in 529 PAs for Tampa last year, with a nERD of -0.47. Throughout his career, Escobar has been a decent fielder, but in his age-31 season in 2014, was rated as a below-average defensive player, with a staggering DRS of -24.
That -24 DRS is a huge departure from previous seasons, when he was a +48 in defensive runs saved as a shortstop. Oakland is undoubtedly hoping last year was a fluky season defensively for Escobar, and that he will return to being the four-win player he was for the Rays in 2009, 2011 and 2013.
For the Rays, this was all about dumping salary and selling high on a player who was in the last year of his contract. Zobrist will earn $7.5 million this season and is in line for a huge salary bump as a free agent after the 2015 season. They also free themselves of Escobar's contract, which is slated to pay him $5 million this year and $7 million in 2016. They also receive a decent catcher in Jaso, who hit .264/.337/.430 slash line last season, and is a career .259/.359/.399 backstop.
With this move, A's general manager Billy Beane showed his not ready to give up on 2015 just yet. After trading away Josh Donaldson, Jeff Samardzija, Derek Norris and Brandon Moss this off-season, Beane replenished his everyday lineup with two professionals that have a chance to make the A's much stronger up the middle. Zobrist gives Oakland tremendous flexibility, and Escobar should be an upgrade if he can get his defensive woes straightened out. They also join an infield with newcomers at third base, Brett Lawrie, and first base, Ike Davis and Billy Butler.
That's quite a facelift. And if things don't go well for Oakland in the first half, they can always turn around and trade Zobrist for a set of prospects at the trade deadline.
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Ok then this already mentioned
"JDeveloper New JSF Page" wizard is not skilled in HTML .
In HTML which the wizard is claiming to produce (and twice !, by duplicated DOCTYPE ;-)
the META tag should not be closed (NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES).
However in .jspx (which is XML) you need to close it.
Simple workaround, that should work:
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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
across the atlas and into the desert .....
Eight of us from the conference, two drivers and our guide Aziz drove almost to the Algerian border, across the High Atlas and Anti Atlas mountains, the Black Mountains, down to the edge of the Sahara for a tip toe into Berber nomadic life. Aziz is one of seven children born to a camel trader who put all seven of his children through school and university. A few of them are now in the tourism industry and many are teachers. Aziz is studying for his masters degree presently and was a very gentle young man with a gift for what he is doing. He was able to share not only the joy of his people but expand on current ideas and historical thought.
You can see from the photos (once again I wish I was doing this through the computer with better quality photos) how arid and awe inspiring the Atlas Mountains are - intriguing formations and then nestled into most gullies, Berber villages which blend into their backdrop. We had our pottery and artifact stops along the way and enjoyed delicious tagine on kasbah rooftops in congenial company.
Our all day drive managed to get us to the very first of the sand dunes - certainly enough to pretend we were deep in the Sahara with Lawrence of Arabia. The men all donned their white turbans and looked their part! Sleeping in a Berber tent was a little like sleeping inside a vacuum dust bag ...... very little sleep was had but the experience will be a lasting memory. Sunrise over the desert was almost more wonderful than sunset. As luck would have it, there was also a full moon that night. Just perfect.
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Fabulous, the architecture in the villages is just so much part of the landscape and using what is there.ReplyDelete
I expect you would want to buy some of the pots etc - I know I would.
I am sure the food would be excellent, simple good ingredients.
Don't think I would overlike the feeling of being in vacuum bag but it does describe it well.
Love the white turbans too.
What is the conference tour you are on it sounds great ?
Look forward to the next episode in your travels.
S - some amazing memories in those photos - love the village in such an arid setting yet tuffs of green. Go well. BReplyDelete
Susan -- what a wonderful trip this is, and what gorgeous photos! thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Stunning photos. I especially love seeing the camel.ReplyDelete
Ohhh, is right. I wonder how this will influence your art. The colors of the desert are simply stunning.ReplyDelete
Shadows in the dunes, lines, ripples, drifts...I imagine your art brain is ticking over and getting full! Travel safe and enjoy.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8 March 2013 at 13:40
Stunning, stunning! Another cyclone brewing possibly so don't rush back Sally Keyes xxxxReplyDelete
Desert colors all around.. there seems to be a gentleness in the drifts and ripples and shadows.. yet I know the desert can be unforgiving in the heat and sun and lack of water. What a wonderful experience you are having.ReplyDelete
So glad I found your post! Fascinating! What a wonderful and adventurous trek!ReplyDelete
Yes, to all of the above - I'm green with envy -photos are great, so don't worry about the iphone.ReplyDelete
- Sally Keyes25 March 2013 at 11:05
Sure beats Caloundra! Jealous, jealous Sally xxxxxReplyDelete


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Nine times out of ten getting away for a weekend on a Friday evening is super-stressful. When you do finally manage to find your way through the traffic and the commuter crowds, you arrive at your destination late, hot and bothered, feeling like you've done battle, and it takes well into the next day to start to relax.
Not so with my weekend at Careys Manor. A hour and half train ride from London, then a quick hop, skip and a jump from the train station, and you're there. Careys Manor is a 19th century hunting lodge in the middle of the New Forest. With its cosy sofas, log fires and quintessentially English gardens it's got all the ingredients for a perfect country weekend away from it all. One of the must-dos on a sunny day - order a champagne tea of cucumber sandwiches, scones and cakes and enjoy outside in the cooling shade of the stunning cypress tree that stands at the entrance to the hotel.
Without doubt Careys Manor's jewel in the crown is its state-of-the-art Thai-inspired SenSpa. With its impressive hydrotherapy rooms and Thai-trained therapists, why fly long haul when you can visit the New Forest instead? To stay a night without paying a visit to the spa would not do your weekend justice.
The Room
Oakwood Garden Room. A generously-proportioned room with a living area (sofa, armchair and coffee table) overlooking the gorgeous gardens. This room is literally a few steps away from the spa. Getting a room as near as you can to the spa is my little inside tip - it means you don't have to troop there in your civvies and get changed in the changing room. Instead you can go there straight from your room in your spa robe and avoid that awkward feeling you sometimes get when passing fully-dressed hotel guests in corridors.
The Spa
Using SenSpa treatments, the spa's philosophy is to combine Eastern and Western treatments and philosophies to 'evoke tranquility, restore inner calm and renew energy levels.' There are over 17 luxurious treatment rooms including a double treatment room, a wide choice of luxury spa therapies, and a 14 metre ozone treated swimming pool. The highlight is the hydrotherapy rooms, with its large hydrotherapy pool, herbal sauna, and crystal steam rooms with twinkling star lights on the ceiling. There is a Laconicum (for people who find saunas too hot and steam rooms too humid) and a Tepidarium, a chill-out room with heated loungers. It also features a Rhassoul Mud Room, where therapists apply detoxifying mud treatments all over your body, face and hair, and then you sit back, enjoy gentle lavender-infused steam and wait while the clay absorbs toxins and nourishes your skin.
One of the highlights is the Experience Showers - choose from 'Tropical' or 'Atlantic' and different jets of mist and water will massage you from above and the sides, along with flashing coloured 'disco' lights and cleansing herbal smells. One even has a lightning and thunder bolt so you really feel like you are caught in a tropical thunderstorm. Fun.
The Treatment
Aromatic Slimming Massage. The blurb says 'A sight pressure, stimulating massage using classic lymphatic techniques to help drain excess fluid, which in turn helps the body to eliminate toxins' and as far as massages go, this was certainly up there at the top as one of the best. My Thai therapist worked to unknot my shoulders (sleeping in a new bed had left me with a stiff neck the night before) and energise my sore legs, a product of my morning's run in the New Forest when I took the wrong path and had run too far.
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Good news you can now extend your trip and take a little piece of SenSpa home with you with their Body Therapy skincare range, a collection of products that have been specially designed to strengthen your skin's own natural resistance to the effects of ageing and environmental influences. Choose from Relaxing, Detoxing or Nourishing fragrances.
To Eat
I took breakfast in the hotel's Zen Garden Thai Restaurant attached to the spa and overlooking their zen-themed courtyard of bonsai trees and bamboo. I had a free choice of anything I desired - cooked breakfast, fruit, cereals, yoghurt, eggs anyway-you-like - but it was the delicious green Detox Smoothies that I quickly became addicted to. Dinner, taken in the elegant two AA Rosette Manor Restaurant, did not disappoint either. Cooking with fresh ingredients means the menu changes frequently. I loved it because not only was the food spot on, but the vegetarian menu was as delicious as the meat-eaters' one, which shows thought and attention-to-detail from the head chef. Top marks.
Don't Miss
A stroll, bike ride (or in my case run) through the magical New Forest, which is literally a two minute walk from the hotel. Go early and you will see deer, rabbits and of course, the famous New Forest ponies plodding the gravel tracks that criss-cross the woods. Pass girl and boy scout troops heading to the campsites that dot the forest. Head out onto the heath, and play 'if only' whenever you come across the picture-perfect Hansel and Gretel-esque cottages, then stop at a pub for a wee restorative drink before you head back to the hotel. Well, it would be rude not to.
Words: Lucy Dunn
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Zen Spa Escape Break (Sun - Thurs) includes:
- One night bed & breakfast, £40pp dining in a choice of restaurants
- Full use of leisure and spa facilities
- A two course Thai lunch served in The Zen Garden Thai restaurant
- A choice of classes
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Fear of school sparks panic attacks in many children. It isn't that they just dislike the regimentation of classes, they literally dread being in school. That dread is accompanied by a heart-pounding fear. For these children a school building is a cage, a place where they feel trapped and vulnerable. With schools opening around the country this week, there are some children who would do anything to escape going back. Some students suffer from a fear that is called school phobia, school refusal or more commonly, school-itis.
In the past school-itis was seen by educators and parents as a frivolous reason for any student who simply didn't want to be in class.
"He cut class because the weather is so nice. He has school-itis."
"She went to the mall because her favorite store has a sale. She has school-itis."
Seriously, it is no joke. School-itis is a powerful overwhelming fear that is as much a reality as any other recognized phobia; the student simply cannot be in the school building under regimentation. The fear that they cannot physically leave, that they are unable to walk out at will, creates the same reaction as any other phobia: utter panic.
All of us can remember a place or places where we felt so uncomfortable that we literally defined it as being trapped. We dismiss it as a brief panic attack and usually forget about it. But thechild who suffers from an aversion to being in school can't forget the panic and fear. Going back to school is like walking into hell.
Many adults, past and present, have had a problem with feelings of being trapped. Sigmund Freud was a victim of this feeling and used visualization of the outdoors as a means of coping. Thomas Jefferson left doors in buildings slightly ajar to deal with what he termeda "penned in" feeling. Academy Award winning actor Judi Dench said in an interview that she leaves her handbag near a doorway of any building she is in as an assurance that she can walk out at will. I leave windows open at home and seek out exits and windows in any building I enter.
But we are adults and have learned to deal with the feelings of panic in our own way, performing little mind tricks to help us cope. For a child, it is more difficult to first rationalize, and then make accommodations for their fears. Fear is fear. How can you help your child if he or she suffers from school-itis? One way to help is to take his or her fears seriously. Don't dismiss it as something silly or tell them they will outgrow them.
Discuss their fears and let them know you understand and are willing to help. Do online research together and talk about what this fear means and how your child feels about it. Discuss famous people who share this phobia and the ways in which they deal with it. Seek professional help if you need to do so. Sometimes a child derives a feeling of safety just knowing that there is a certain place they can go to where their fears are understood. Do let the principal, teachers and medical officer at your child's school know about the situation but make sure they know this information is in strictest confidence. Advise them that any breach of confidence on their part will not be taken lightly on yours.
Assure your child know that you, or another understanding adult, can be reached at any time during the day. It may be comforting for your child to be able to call you at lunch or recess. Fear is a paralyzing reaction to what we perceive to be a physical danger. With help, support and guidance your child will be able to understand and deal with his or her fear and enjoy being part of the school community.
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