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Continuing my NaNo Writing Sins posts.
Giving the Game Away too early
Ok so in my writing I have started to notice that I feel the the need to explain too much and explain it too early in the story. Once again becuase I have stewed this story I have had a chance to see the faults at the structural level rather than the finished level. It has been very enlightening.
I'm sure by now I know the following points as well as the next writer…
- Readers don't need the info dump
- If the really really need the info don't give it to them in one indigestible lump
- KEEP THE CONFLICT AND KEEP THE TENSION = Happy reader
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I noticed that I was explaining things too early in the book. For example. If someone went missing, there was an explanation scene very soon after explaining what happened. WRONG –> keep them guessing
The Conflict/Tension List:
Evangaline got thrown out into the streets in chapter one –> kept any knowledge of her till right at the end of the book (rather than 1/2 way through) in fact I might even save this info for book two.
The girls know that Katherine is different. –> we pick up on this the whole way through but the reasons don't come till quite at the end when the Professor explains it to her. (Rather than Katherine guessing at the reasons early in the book)
Clara is missing –> I removed all the really heavy "where is Clara" from early in the plot as MC won't know there could be a serious problem with her friend. Katherine eventually finds what happened to Clara about 1/3 the way through. However the tension is continued as she can't free Clara at that time. When she does, Clara has been badly traumatised and the reader will be left concerned about her future.
Sophia –> General conflict between the two girls. Sophia is always creating problems for Katherine
Main Protagonist –> I was planning on writing a scene where the goals of the protagonist where clearly displayed. I removed this scene. We know he is bad. We know he is planning something big. We know that it is related to some sort of plan to take over the city or government or royalty. We know he is manipulating and keeping young girls against their will. However I have removed the scene that explains this. For the moment I decided that he was much better as this mysterious figure that was just evil, and we are not sure just how much. –> Fear of the unknown is much harder to deal with that fear of the known. I think it will add suspense. The actual specific plot will come out in book II. (I saw this work quite well in Clockwork Angel by Cassie Clare.) We shall see.
Eleanor and the Master –> I added in a conflict mini subplot here. Which I am surprised I didn't think of earlier! Eleanor has a young man trying to break her out of the Establishment. (that was always there) How much more motivating is it if she is the object of the Master's affection. Especially with the hint at how he treats some of the older girls. Eleanor was always the beautiful graceful quiet one. Most likely to be an 'object of affection'.
Katherine's initial dislike of Ned was resolved too early in the plot. I have continued this dislike much farther into the book and increased the potential for conflict between Ned and the Master's son.
Eleanor seems to silently oppose Katherine's plans. –> I had planned on Eleanor confiding to Katherine early on in the plot about her secret love affair and plans to escape. However I have kept the two girls in wary opposition right through to the last quarter of the book. I think this will work lots better.
Obviously there are a lot more, these are just the main ones (Or ones I could think of)
Being able to think about the plot in this was has really helped me examine and tease out the structure of the book. While I am sure that while I was writing the book I would have realised the tension needed ramming up a little, i would prefer to have a more detailed plan rather than having to fix things up. This method has really helped me see the structure, the bare bones of the plot. I have seen a problem and have tried to fix it before I started to write. I hope that this will help the first draft to be a lot tighter.
Coupled with reading James Scott Bell's Book, On Plot and Structure, I really think this mini pre writing exercise has helped me understand plot elements and story construction a little better. Hopefully it will improved the writing as well.
I really must appologise for being offline for nearly 3 weeks. We moved house rather suddenly and the internet was only just installed 2 days ago. Basically the internet company buggered up and connected a house in NSW rather than here in QLD. It was a REALLY big stuff up on their behalf and has taken the best part of two weeks to fix. However it appears to be fixed now and I am back online.
We are now in the new house:-) Horray!! –> Spa pool included outside and it is awesome!
We have no furniture of course, but hey, I don't need a couch or a flat screen TV. As long as I have binocular's to see the minuscule TV screen that is ok. Besides I watch about 2 hours of TV a week, if that!


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Posted: October 20th, 2009 | Author: Jmy | Filed under: BMX, Video | Tags: Bowl, Niels Thanild, Travis Johnston, Ty Morrow, Woozy | Comments OffHere's a quick edit from the infamous and oh-so-hard to ride bowl in Christiania, Copenhagen. This bowl is super tight and hard to ride, but it's good fun and you can really tell who's the local in this edit… riders featured are Travis Johnston, Niels Thanild, Bruno Hoffman and Ty Morrow. Edit by Dominik over at Woozy.
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In Import Tuner Challenge, the speeds you reach as you take on the world of underground Tokyo street racing are impressive. But the game's most eye-popping number? Five million. That's the number of customizations you can make on the licensed import sports cars you have at your disposal. Make almost any performance or appearance mod you can imagine with authentic parts from real-life manufacturers like Mazdaspeed, C-West, and more. While you may leave your opponents choking on exhaust, you'll be hard-pressed to exhaust all your possible opponents. The game features over 400 unique opponents. Race them on re-creations of real-world Tokyo highways, or go head-to-head with friends via Xbox Live.
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Import Tuner Challenge may sound like just another generic racing game. In actuality, it's a generic Tokyo Xtreme Racer game. Gussied up with a new name for the American audience, probably in an attempt to hide the fact that almost nothing has changed or been added to previous Tokyo Xtreme Racer gam...more
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don't be fooled this is "Tokyo Extreme Racer" on the 360. TER has always been great, no dumb "car must look like this" thing, u can make the ultimate 'sleeper' if you feel the need. And no useless/pointless girls dancing or showing off or anything to take away from the real reason a racing game is h...more
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Important American critics of the early 20th century included H.T. Parker (Boston Evening Transcript, 1904–34) and Carl Van Vechten (The New York Times, 1906–07 and 1909–14). The year 1927 was a benchmark in American dance criticism because of competition between newspapers. The New York Herald Tribune hired Mary F. Watkins as the first full-time American dance critic, and at nearly the same time The New York Times engaged John Martin (he became a full-time critic the following year).
Martin came to be regarded, along with Edwin Denby (see below), as a dean of American dance criticism. He is best known for explaining and proselytizing for modern dance, a field that by the early 1930s included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Hanya Holm. His book The Modern Dance (1933) exemplified clear analysis of the genre. Yet Martin was also sensitive to ballet. Writing from London in 1930 about Diaghilev's dancers and choreographers following the impresario's death, Martin expressed the opinion that "Europe [was] most probably not their happy hunting ground." He urged that George Balanchine, Serge Lifar, Alexandra Danilova, and Alice Nikitina be transplanted to New York, writing, presciently, "Who knows but that the influence of America upon them would be as stimulating to new adventure as it would be bracing to our native dancers to have such formidable competitors?" Indeed, Balanchine arrived in New York in 1933 and the next year, with Lincoln Kirstein, founded the School of American Ballet, a forerunner of the company that became the New York City Ballet in 1948. (Danilova also went to the United States, but the other two remained in Europe.)
The American dancer and poet Edwin Denby, who from 1936 to 1942 wrote criticism for the influential magazine Modern Music (published 1924–46), proclaimed Balanchine "the greatest choreographer of our time." Through his nuanced analyses Denby taught several generations of thoughtful theatregoers to see much more on dance stages than was perceived at first glance. In 1983 Kirstein, himself an influential critic, expressed his admiration of Denby: "His analyses were superbly constructed, usually constructive, and warmly glowing with an absolute love of the art. They also had a scalpel's delicate, sanitary edge when detecting a spot as false." Another perceptive and influential critic, who wrote primarily in the 1930s, was the American philosophy professor George Beiswanger. He maintained that accurate observation and faithful description were the critic's obligations, which he articulated as "translating signs and symbols into images and feelings, conceptions and beliefs."


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Hundreds of revellers came out to enjoy a fun day over the weekend.
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It's a great day for Gran Turismo fans around the world, as it has just been revealed that the both Lamborghini and Bugatti are bringing their cars to Gran Turismo PSP and, presumably, Gran Turismo 5! The news came as Sony announced a special pre-order promotion for GT PSP, which entitles you to some type of code that gives you access to one of the following cars from "day one" in the game:
Their blog post is a bit scant on the details of how this will work, but they promise to reveal more on the program soon. Nobody's too worried about that right now though, as most of us are still picking up our jaws off the floor. Enjoy the new screenshots of the cars below!
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i totally agree,u fancy playing gt5 one time?
they need to get a few koenigseggs in who agrees?
anyway,I LOVE THE BUGATTI CANT BELIEVE ITS IN GT5
so wot ure saying is u get ure fave car in the worse colour,and do u get a selection?
Just Porsche left to go…
BTW – I suspect that this means these cars are "unlocked" for Arcade mode – not GT mode!
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If im not mistakin the SLR in NFS Most wanted sounded almost exactly like that. I could be wrong though, Been a while since i played that game.
Wow the news just gets better and better all i need to hear is that Porshe is going to be in the game. I would be so satisfied.
lol Corrado. I have the same feelings towards every game that has a TVR.
This may seem like an odd question, but how come NO game to date, not even Gran turismo, has got the Mercedes Mclaren SLR's engine noise right? If you look at GT5′s trailer it sounds nothing like it (don't worry im not a Forza fanboy lol) im just wondering thats all.
This is what its supposed to sound like, (isnt it music to ur ears lol)
Porsche, not gonna happen, they are still mad about the new Nissan GTR Ring Lap and guess who design the GTR multifunction LCD display.
Ima get me a lime green Gallardo, a red 430, and a Black Murcielago. PLEASE….. I PRAY THAT THOSE CARS ARE ON THERE. Oh yeah, and the new Zonda better be on there.
Guess you haven't seen the SLR Mclaren in GT4. The air break start to come up when you break, and it's in GT5p, too, on the Audi cars. I'm sure they will apply that too in GT PSP and GT5 judging by PD attention to details it's a very nice feature even other rival games haven't done this.
The LP name is on the line so I'm 100% sure the LP670 Merc SV is in! Kinda. :lol:.
Great news.
Now, to get closer to a perfect list of cars available in GT series, I would like to see '73 911 RS, 550 Spyder, all the GT2′s, GT1, 959, last 2 GT3′s, Carrera GT, a 928, a 944 or 968, latest Boxster and Caymen, and call me crazy but I think the RWD 400hp Panamera and AWD 500hp Panamera would be cool to race/tune.
Then I would be overwhelmed with joy.
Ruf is cool (80′s Yellowbird is one of my fav's) but authentic Porsche would be better.
I wonder if the spoiler on the veryon will be raisable? By that I mean when you reach above 75mph the spoiler raises.
The Mclaren F1 road version and LM version as well as the Le Mans winning GTR's should be there.
My all time favourite car.
Please PD do us proud
I hate GTPSP… I want GT5!!!
I hope that we will see Mclaren F1 and mu favorite car Mclaren F1 LM in Gran Turismo 5!!!!! We see Mclaren F1 GTR long trial in GT4 so I pretty sure that he will be in GT5!!!!!!


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Coping with borderline in a time of healthcare cuts
Posted Tuesday 28 June 2011
Guest post from Glen, on the difference one caring mental health professional can make.
In 2009 I moved to London and to the care of a new support worker at the local Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). Annie was my third support worker that year, but she was amazing from the start.
Annie was there at every turning point as I settled back into life in the city. She helped me get over the hurdles of getting housed by the council, researched welfare rights advice for me, and even helped with my housing repairs. Above all, she was always there for me. In my very rough patches, she helped me to get back up, dust myself down and gave me the encouragement to fight another day.
Five months into my care with the CMHT, I found out (from the back of a sicknote) that I had been diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable Borderline Personality Disorder. Despite having had several diagnoses for the two years previously, this was a real shock to me.
Annie sat me down, and went through each of the characteristics of being borderline. No one had ever done that with me in the past. When she had finished, I didn't feel like I had a label hovering above my head. She taught me that there were issues that made up my diagnosis, and helped me to understand them. I would see Annie every two weeks or so for a cuppa, and a pat on the back for getting as far as I had done.
Towards the end of last year, Annie told me she was leaving. My heart sank. I felt as if I had just been dumped. There was an overwhelming feeling of loss. A month later, I met Annie for the last time. She gave me a hug and told me that she was proud of me. A year of her support, encouragement and warm smile was now over. I walked home almost unaware of the pain caused by biting my bottom lip to stop me from causing a flood with my tears.
Three months after Annie left, I received a letter from Julie, my new social worker at the CMHT. The first thing that glared out at me from the letter was that she had 'agreed to offer some short-term support' - wow, thanks. I phoned Julie, and asked her why it was deemed 'short-term': my borderline hadn't gone away (boy do I wish it had done); I was still suffering and it was getting worse.
Julie told me that as I was on the waiting list for therapy, she would only be supporting me until I started the CBT. She wasn't very considerate about the explanation. When I asked why it had taken three months to get a new worker, she told me it was all down to budget cuts. She said I needed to get used to standing on my own two feet, so wouldn't be seeing me that often. Yes, I thought, I need to stand on my own two feet, but at my own pace.
At my last meeting with Julie, I asked what would happen when the CBT ends. BPD can't be cured, you just learn to live with the emotions. She asked me what I meant. 'You will need to see your GP if you have any problems' she eventually replied. I asked about the care of my partner — could he talk to someone about caring for me? 'Budget cuts mean we don't have the staff to do that, but he can speak to me and I can refer him to a charity'. My feeling inside was clear — you can't even speak to me with care, how do you deal with someone that is watching his loved one virtually self-destruct as he bounces off the walls?
When the therapy ends, I will be alone, having to fight through my GP's automated appointment line to see him for having a 'wobbly five minutes'. It's clear that the care and compassion I received from Annie back in 2009 has gone.
I feel like I'm just seen as a diary entry, and a chance to air a grievance about cuts that are already obvious to me. Since when was care and compassion from a fellow human being something that came out of a financial budget?
It's true that I often see things in black and white, but this has never been clearer to me: my care shouldn't be black and white, it should have colour and warmth. Like it used to.
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Sadly services really ARE black & white now - you're either critical or 'in recovery' on your own, there is no middle ground, no enduring difficulties and no longer term support - not only for BPD, people with a psychosis diagnosis are also only getting depot appts and little else. Services are even more medical model now but this is insidiously done using the rhetoric of 'recovery' which means in-and-out of services asap, returned to 'productivity' with everything being time limited. What matters to most people and what individuals need don't come into it.
Although this is essentially about cost cutting and paring services to the bone what I find most galling is that health service management are telling us this is for our own good and if anyone dare have more than 'short term' needs they then get the trite little remarks you received Glen about 'having to stand on your own two feet' which is ridiculing people's intelligence. -
I really feel for you after reading this post. I can understand the value of a consistent helpful worker who believes in you, and the pain on losing them especially when no replacement is there. It can be a harsh reality to sample much of the rest of the mental health system realising that not all staff care that much, they are not so psychologically minded and they regard BPD as an 'only' condition rather than a severe mental illness.
While endings are highlighted as important in the NICE guidelines for BPD it seems as though this wasn't recognised in your own case as you were just left for three months. Why give a diagnosis and not follow the NICE guidelines except when it suits them (the professionals)?.
I am also receiving fixed term therapy and expect to go back to my GP afterwards. I know I am fortunate to get this as psychotherapy services are reduced with budget cuts (unless its the ones in primary care that see people for six sesssions). Mental health treatment has changed so it is time limited interventions and crisis management (short term, weeks not months). I don't see how this can heal the inner pain of a long term condition either, one that still has a stigma unless you find professional workers with a different attitude, who can work with who you are not the label. Gps are just going to become frustrated when finding they are still spending a lot on A&E attendance and signing sick notes due to long term debilitating emotional distress.
In some areas there are specialist services for PD you could ask about, but it sounds like you just wanted to be heard and someone to be with you as an individual, -in a mental health system cut to the bone this is getting even harder to come by now.
I wonder whether you had a choice in whether to have CBTm if this is the right sort of therapy for you too. You do deserve more. I am sure that so many others have similar experiences and just have to take it, and be grateful for what they can access short term. -
I can completely relate to your post. In May I was diagnosed with severe depression and an eating disorder. I was told I could have therapy, but it would be a long wait. In the mean time I was given new anti-depressants and contact numbers for the CMHT if things got 'worse' - at that point I was suicidal, so I struggled to see how much worse they could really get. However things did get worse - this resulted in an overdose and I ended up in A&E. After that, trying to get support has just been impossible. The GP has said there is nothing else they can do, as I'm referred to the CMHT, but the CMHT will not provide any support. I was told 'not to sit around moping' as that will only make things worse for me and that 'I couldn't rely on the CMHT to cope when things were tough and I couldn't keep phoning them' – despite the fact that was the first time I'd ever asked them for help! I wholeheartedly believe it's not a good idea to become reliant on a service for a long-term solution, as the cuts are going to impact greatly on the service they can provide. However, to phone the CMHT, with them knowing you're actively suicidal and them basically saying 'you're wasting our time, we can't help you' just leaves me wondering, where on earth do you go for help and support at such a difficult time???
I agree with the comment about the misappropriation of the "recovery" concept. As a survivor and now a psychiatric social worker it sickens me to see how the medical model has twisted the movement (in much the same way Cameron's "big society" is a cover for cuts) to do less for the people who need and want help while at the same time becoming increasingly punitive and custodial to the people who want nothing to do with statutory MH services. Any self-help or similar techniques I try to promote with the service users I work with are routinely derided within my team, which is very nurse-heavy and medicalised. The status quo seems to be "take your medication like a good child" or "you're wasting our time, get lost" with nothing in the middle, no room for the importance of discovering and repairing one's identity or sense of meaning.
Although it worries me personally and professionally, I do wonder if this coming crisis in psychosocial approaches to mental health (I know CBT is being trumpetted and promoted everywhere but for all the goodness that it does (and it does) there is a certain "conveyer-belt" aspect to it; you have been restored to factory settings... I've seen how crises can lead to opportunities and that gives me tenuous hope...
I really sympathise with your predicament. Until recently I saw the same doctor at the local mh clinic every three months. She has been very supportive and I could always phone to get an interim appointment if things took a turn for the worse. Now that has all gone and I have been 'returned to Gp's care'. I was told that if I felt I needed more support I could access this on an ad hoc basis through my GP. The reality is that I went to see him three months ago because I am finding it increasingly difficult to deal with this current depressive episode. He said he would refer me to the local MH team and that was the last I heard from anyone. (Except for a brief phonecall from the team just after my doctors app saying they hadnt forgotten me and would be in touch soon.)
It seems I am completely on my own.
As the mother of a daughter with BPD I find your comments so bleak. My daughter has been told what sort of therapy she needs, but then informed there is no money available to supply it. I've been in touch with my MP and am still awaiting a response, but even the kind of support Glen was given (and then lost) would be so helpful and constructive. There seems to be nothing available, just a brick wall for banging your head against.
I think I am in the minority right now but it has taken a long time to get there. I am DX with BPD and have recently accessed a group for Mentalization Based Therapy a new concept in the UK in the treatment of BPD. I am currently taking part in the introductory sessions which are 8 weeks long and the actually group starts in September and lasts for 18 months. I also underwent 4 assessments to obtain a place, or which there are only 8 for people in my town. For the first time in all the years I have been in the mental health system I feel more supported. I have access to the CMHT and a Care Co-ordinator and works alongside my NHS Psychiatrist and the therapist who run the group. I write a blog on my experiences which people can find over at 'Sketches of Chaos'.
i was told all these years since 1985 that i'm too ill to work. i cant face filling in the form for the medical assessment, i should go to nucleus for help and i have an advocate lined up. i make abusive phone calls. the mental health system are now going to abandon me. i should never have allowed myself to depend on them so hearvily. now it's like the rug is being pulled from under my feet. i was trying to live with my borderline diagnosis without further overdoses and abusive phone calls. i am currently in debt . i don't want to work at all. i will end up back where i started in 1984 when i was desperate for help and no one listened and i smashed a phone and window and was put in Holloway Prison for £50 of criminal damage when all i was needing was help, support and a roof over my head. i feel like sisyphus endlessly trying to get well and just when i am 'almost there', the safety net is being taken from me . i am now 51.5, childless, alone and in debt. without the safety net i will not last long. i feel suicidal and refuse to attend this ATOS medical. it is a farce
Hey Anna-Rose,
I'm really sorry to hear that things have been so tough for you. It sounds like you've had a really rough time. Please, if you're feeling suicidal, I hope you feel able to reach out to organisations like the Samaritans.
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I understand where this blog is coming from, and it is scary. A nurse from the personality disorder service in my area thinks that the cmht are becoming rapidly specialised, i.e. dealing mainly with bipolar and pyschotic disorders. This leaves out others that need and deserve support, unfortunatly there isn't enough resources available.
I consider myself lucky, my gp is supportive. I now see the nurse again from the pd services, and see a practice therapist. Though before referals were made to see these people I had gone down hill enough over a few months that I was starting to act on my suicidal thoughts! I am also in the process of being diagnosed for aspergers, which the pd nurse thinks will help me to better access services in the future, particularly support housing, and help from the national austic society.
Something that may help you Glen that helped me is social inclusion work. I had an inclusion worker from the social services working with me to choose activities and education (or even work, volunteering), and engage with them. She went with me to interviews, did research for me. I'm now discharged, in part to service cuts and no longer qualifying the criteria, and in part because I was doing well and accessing stuff and sorting my social side of my life out.
I came across the Mentalization website a while ago, and showed it to my daughter. MSLeftie were you happy to access their help, or did you fight it at first? After my daughter had read all the information, she didn't think the therapy applied to her. I find the biggest problem with caring for a BPD sufferer is trying to cope with their constant feelings of ambivalence. She wants to get well, but she seems to fight it as if she's scared of what will be on the other side. This is also her general attitude to most things in her life and I feel I have to keep encouraging and pushing.
I can totally understand this predicament having been messed around by trust after trust only really getting any help when i borrowed money to see a private psychiatrist for a short time resulting in me finally getting a proper diagnosis and being taken more seriously by mental health trusts.
I mean no offence to any capable NHS psychiatrists but frankly the ones I have seen are really terrible to the point of being criminally negligent. If the government wants to start actually helping people to recover and cease to be the massive burden they like to paint us they need to look first at psychiatrists and their ability to do their jobs. The gulf between private and public mental health care is frankly off the scale. They show no interest in recovery only in sedating and making sure you are not a nuisance to 'sane' people. I cant comment on psychologists as i have been waiting many years to see one.
How about a national patient review of each of these doctors and see them as closely monitored(externally) as a teacher would be!
Fortunately I was offered an Occupational therapist as my support worker who has been a massive help to me even as just someone to talk to during dark times. I've have improved more with her help than in ten years of NHS psychiatry/psychologists. The consultants seem to think 5 mins ignoring you, refusing to even looking you in the eye as they scan over your unread notes is sufficient to 'heal' you. We shouldnt underestimate the usefulness of good support workers. They are the only lifeline for most of us!
Why must we recieve second class treatment compared to other areas of NHS medicine? Are psychiatrists even held accountable for the fates of their patients?
Ive been forced to pursue fairly drastic alternative medicine without medical supervision as I have no faith in these people anymore.
I know exactly how you feel.
I suffer from Bipolar 1 and have several co-morbid mental illnesses. Unfortuanately I'm unable to take any medication as I have almost died several times due to severe adverse reactions to all classes of medications currently used to treat mental illness. I have also been refused psychological therapy due to being "too unwell."
Despite the fact that I am unmedicated, and that my mood is in a constant state of maddening flux (ranging from psychosis to sucidal to catatonic), I'm an after-thought to my CMHT worker too.My CMHT worker is supposed to visit me every 2 weeks but I frequently go months with no contact from him, and when I try to make contact I can never reach him. Also, he will often phone me within an hour of my appointment time to tell me he can't make it because he has to go to a meeting, see someone else, has an 'emergency' etc.
I've begged for help.
I read the appropriate NICE guidelines for my illnesses and quoted them in an attempt to appeal to a 'higher authority.'
I studied neuropsychopharmacology to try to find medications that I might be able to tolerate - which I did, but I was told I could not try them as they are not licensed for use in my illnesses in the UK.
I've even considered making a formal complaint but, after 3 years, I'm too tired to keep fighting.I'm tired of being made to feel like a burden because I am, as my psychiatrist and CMHT worker put it, "a complicated case." I have given up, and tomorrow none of it will matter any more.
I begged for help.
@someone who doesn't matter.
Dont give up on yourself because of the actions of these health 'professionals' often their arrogance means they will simply blame the patient if their judgement proves unsuccessful they will just start seeing you less and less and hope you go away.
Maybe you can look at more natural approaches with looking at your diet and maybe herbal drugs that might be of help there is alot of info out there and try to ignore the nay sayers. This has helped me a million times more than the anti psychotics,antidepressents and mood stabilisers which just made me lethargic and morbidly obese (im still taking them because I know what will happens when i begin withdrawal of dangerous drugs that aren't of much benefit)
Also if you can get yourself stable look at what charities can offer in the way of activities. I attended a brilliant arts program that really set me on the right track to recovery, they also offered gardening etc I know how it feels to be so unstable but even the tiniest bit of structure and enjoyment can help you start to see some light at the end of the tunnel! There are people that care and wish to see you regain some quality of life no matter how complicated a case you are!
Sadly all these comments and Glen's blog are indicative of what we are all having to face in these world of cuts. My local service like many others is moving towards a model of short-term interventions and a 'so called' recovery model. The truth is, locally, there is a move away from supporting anyone unless they have a psychotic based illness. We are currently moving to a new service model and the two existing Psychiatrists are 'fighting' over being attached to the psychosis team. Neither wants to work within the intensive Community Team, which will support anyone who does not have a psychotic illness or mild to moderate depression. If MPs or there loved ones had to endure the real nhs mental health service things might be different.
I also have a diagnosis of BPD and am still on the waiting list for psychotherapy. If I didn't have counselling at a local place for young people I would have no support, except seeing my GP every so often. I have a history of overdosing a lot, in fact a few weeks ago I overdosed 3 separate times in one week, but no extra support was offered to me, I was just assessed by psych each time in hospital and then sent home.
I feel that I am just a name now and they don't care, they just send me home however much at risk I am and tell me to see my GP. Even though my GP is great, seeing her for ten minutes every few weeks is hardly enough support and my counsellor is not a specialist in working with people with severe mental health problems, she has even said she finds it tough working with me and feels I need some more specialist immediate support.
I feel I do not have enough support from my local NHS menta health team, but every time I state this I am told I am on a waiting list, which I could still be on for at least another 6 months. It feels like they don't care. -
I just wish there was something we could do. The nature of many of our conditions hinders direct action like marches. Id love to see a protest march on parliament with all our carers,family,friends and supporters who have seen the effects first hand of government policy made by the over privileged elite.
If we could get numbers that can not be ignored by the Tories and equally the press whose coverage of the 'The Hardest Hit march' was pretty terrible. We might finally get a voice and show them we are not the easy targets for cuts they thought. We have to start standing up for ourselves as hard as that may be and look out for one another!
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It's not just 'Cuts' as the dire predicament Glen relates is common and has been for years, particularly for those diagnosed with personality disorders for all the Department of Health's claims that personality disorder is no longer a diagnosis of exclusion.
In fact Glen was very lucky to get the service he did from Anne in 2009 as back then most local mental health and care services, including Mind and many of the other big provider charities, were championing short-term CBT courses as a near miracle cure and also supporting the ' 'modernisation' away of day, respite care and other core mental health support services they felt people had become too dependent upon.
The sort of services people like Anne worked for.
So the seemingly more distant and bureaucratic Julie isn't simply a product of the 'cuts' and its unfair to her - after all, she's just doing what her managers are telling her to do - and hypocritical of Mind to help create the impression that she or others in her position are intentionally less caring as most people who work in or around mental health know that services were pared down to the bone to suit the savings driven Recovery ideology long before the Tories ever came to power and realize that the cuts agenda just mechanically rakes over the dry bones of services to extract more.
This situation not only leaves people like Glen unsupported -and GPs have an appalling history of dealing with people with personality disorders, particularly BPD - in many cases it also leaves them more exposed to DWP benefits reduction schemes that take no account of their PD at all other than as a label to target and this additional emotional stress and financial pressure means carers also get pushed to the wall as well.
It's not enough for Mind to just blame the cuts , the mental health charity sector screwed up badly too and that's why personality disorder remains a diagnosis of exclusion.
I've stated before how I feel that PD goes right to the heart of the matter of all which is wrong with the psychiatric system, it is the moral and political front line of diagnosis. Dave is quite right, people branded as PD are more at risk from benefits reductions and from being left with no support because psychosis will be prioritised as the 'proper' illness. PD has never been taken seriously as a condition and danger to self is meaningless, CMHT's and psychiatrists have even told people to their faces that they don't take suicidal or self-harming feelings seriously in people defined as PD because that's apparently the normal state for them. I watched a couple of friends live and die with their PD diagnosis, treated like shit because it was all their fault and under their control and no one took them seriously. Then when they died, oh well it's because they were BPD, couldn't have had anything to do with the fact they got little support and what they did get was blaming, patronising and cursory. These are some of the reasons why I will never go along with the promotion of PD as merely misunderstood, it's a deeply flawed concept which takes away meaning from people's lives, identity and experiences, and is little more than a clinical insult. The best hope people have in terms of getting support is try and get your diagnosis changed or at least get one which is taken more seriously added to it. Look up the diagnostic criteria and say NO when that checklist is gone through. Service users now have to fit the categories and criteria's of services, not the other way around. I think user groups now need to help people in 'how not get diagnosed as PD' because this is where it's at.
Point taken. I would like to reiterate that opinions on this blog don't necessarily reflect Mind's views! The guest posts are a platform for people to share their experiences and voice opinions - they don't necessarily signify endorsement by Mind (stated at http://www.mind.org.uk/blog) - Mind is certainly not 'blaming the cuts' by publishing Glen's post.
I hope this blog can represent a variety of experiences from people who use and work in mental health services. -
Mind's views on this subject are important and shouldn't be ducked as Mind isn't floating around in some higher objective reality, it's a funded mental health service provider and rights representational body - so already struggling to manage conflicting provider and service user interests - that selectively chooses what to feature on its website and my point isn't to negate Glen's desperate experience nor to praise or denigrate mental health professionals but to put Glen's lot into its real social context, as systemic service disintegration and failure occurring over a timeframe of at least 4 or 5 years in which provider organisations like Mind have contributed to the problems people with borderline and other PD diagnoses face through blindly supporting ' modernisation ' in a vacuum and promoting the idea that CBT offers near instant Recovery for everyone .
Furthermore the recent appointment of Stephen Fry as Mind President satisifies the corporate celebritisation of mental health agenda but it doesnt do very much for people like Glen . Mr Fry has championed his own diagnosis and needs alongside a stream of other celebs, and good luck to them, but isnt it about time the lack of treatment and concrete support for people with PD , still very much a diagnosis of exclusion , was put under the spotlight by organisations like Mind as most people with a PD diagnosis arent seeking media coverage ,pop stardom or careers around having the diagnosis, they are simply seeking stability and a better foothold in life from a crumbling mental health system that just wishes they'd go away.
What is everybody complaining about?
Hi Dave, we agree our views on cuts are important and can be seen in our blog posts like - The end of the NHS listening exercise http://www.mind.org.uk/blog/5198_the_end_of_the_nhs_listening_exercise and The Government must listen to the Hardest Hit http://www.mind.org.uk/blog/5044_the_government_must_listen_to_the_hardest_hit among many others. I don't think Glen's blog is the right place to discuss these issues. We don't agree that we have contributed to the problem, and we don't think that we promote CBT as a recovery solution for everyone. Mind is adamant that you should get the talking therapy that suits you - we're campaigning hard so that people can have a choice of talking therapies (http://www.mind.org.uk/campaigns_and_issues/we_need_to_talk). If you'd like to discuss this in more detail please email our Policy and Campaigns team on firstname.lastname@example.com. I'm sorry to read you don't think Stephen Fry will be a good president, we're really exicted about the positive changes he can help us make for everyone with a mental health problem, no matter their diagnosis. Take care, Taryn from Mind
I've got a similar story. I had CSWs that were just what I needed. Its not like therapy, its more practical and also informal. Without going into depth about things. It was suddenly cut after years of intensive care that I was used to. Although I was using less hours as time went on.
One thing that annoys me apart from not getting my treatment is when people say that I don't need it because the money has gone. It wasn't me that changed! I would rather they wrote proper report saying that this is the package that she needs but the funding is not availalbe at present for this part or that part.
At least then you could use that to re-apply when the wind of change blows in a different direction next time. Or something to wave at charities when asking for help.
Also if they want to push more peoples needs onto the voluntary sector then the volunteers should be supervised by professionals. Otherwise you could end up on a wild goose chase with a volunteer that is not really well enough to be helping someone else. Ive had this experience before and I end up having to sort out the issues of the person helping me which obviously takes up all my time and energy.
Hello to Stephen Fry I'm a fan!
thanks for listening
I was really moved by your blog entry, Glen. I feel I can empathise because I too had the experience of having found a particular member of staff so helpful and I was devastated when they left and I could no longer see them. I think when you're vulnerable it's so easy to come to rely on the support, which is an understandable reaction especially when you've built up trust and rapport with the person. It got to the stage where I felt I hit rock bottom because I found the new members of staff I was seeing so unhelpful and I was so depressed at the time. I ended up making the extremely difficult decision not to see anyone from the service anymore even though I was still very unwell (I'd recently self-harmed and was feeling suicidal).
I didn't know how I would cope and didn't think I would be able to cutting off contact completely. While I struggled for sometime, I found I really did learn to draw more on support from elsewhere, family and friends wherever possible and other sources, and slowly felt better. Because I was still struggling somewhat, I sought out help from another mental health professional from a completely different service and they were absolutely fantastic! I saw them occasionally to build on the progress I was making to help me recover and I no longer have any contact with mental health services.
I wanted to share my story in the hope that it might help in some way and at least provide hope that there are definitely more Annies out there – they are not always easy to find, and you might have to look elsewhere to find them, but not to give up in trying to get the right help and support to help you recover, and also not to underestimate your own strengths and coping strategies, which is the mistake I made. You should be really proud, for instance, that you got through the three months after Annie left before you were able to see the new support worker, which must have been an extremely difficult time for you.
Take care
On an additional note, in line with some of the other comments posted, I wanted to mention that I really feel that the personality disorder label really must be one of the worst diagnoses to have, (if not the worse) due to the amount of stigma that surrounds it, not just from the general public, and the media, but worst of all, within the medical profession itself.This is so clear from the experiences given on here and other experiences I have heard about. Author, Clare Allan, wrote an excellent article relating to this in the Guardian recently: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/03/boderline-personality-disorder-empathy-simon-baron-cohen
I really think more research is needed in the area, and more campaigning for change.
Perhaps Mind might consider a campaign in relation to this… :)(Btw, fantastic news that Stephen Fry is the new president for Mind! Excellent choice!!)
Hi all, I've created a new category for personality disorders on the blog - http://www.mind.org.uk/blog/filter/personality%20disorders You can now read all the blogs on personality disorders there. Hope that is helpful! Best wishes, Taryn
I must agree with Dave about the corporate celebritisation of mental health agenda, will Stephen Fry speak out about welfare, the state of services and the treatment of those branded as PD? I doubt it, he was asked on twitter to speak up on welfare, and in an interview made a reference to at least not having a PD diagnosis
Louis Appleby is deluded, to state we have the best mental health service...sectionable! -
I agree - Mind should consider doing a campaign on personality disorder. While campaigns on mental health and employment may reach a people already working, and try to improve work place practices, they don't help those excluded both from health services and work long term (and under pressure to enter it at a time of job scarcity where employers have a huge number of high calibre applicants). I don't know how an employer would react to a diagnosis of BPD or seeing scars, so perhaps its existing campaign should go further rather than just the positive reasons for retention at the point of diagnosis or recurrence.
The short term nature of mental health services also needs to be highlighted and campaigned about, it has become very factory line, a few months at a time. Commissioners treat mental illness in the same way as physical ill health despite the obvious differences. This allows a payment per episode tarrif (rather than block contract) but not the holistic care required. When you are diagnosed with BPD life has usually dealt a good many blows and it is often too much to live with to be rejected by services, especially having been damaged by them in the past. How can professionals use the language of PD and managing this disorder while endorsing recovery for all, it's disingenous to assert that the time limited changes in services are about anything other than saving money, its not doing someone a favour by enabling them to recover (and then what?, to where? the voluntary sector doesn't always have the right projects to meet our needs or the amount of skill in staffing, GPs and these projects are ill equipped to provide ongoing support that used to be available until deemed too expensive) -
I think one thing they tried to do with wellfare reform is to make the public think badly about us hoping that we would feel ashamed. As if someone that is ill can go to work because they are ashamed!
having a celebrity on board I feel improves the image of us so that helps indirectly. Disabled people can't usually work unless theyget a luicky break. Obviously some do because they are famous!
maybe they could offer some people a 'deal' where they can take less benefits but earn as much as they like on top of it. When I was just a little bit younger I thought its a shame that I could work some of the time but am not allowed to if I'[m on benefits! I would need to earn about 30k before being fully self supporting because you need to make savings to cover periods of illness. So you should be able to earn money on top of your benefits up to say 30k
then some people would do it and that would save some money
thanks for listening
I agree Fiona, I too believe that PD is the worst diagnosis to be given in terms of how it's perceived and treated and there is even less intellectual rigor from the 'experts' on this than other diagnoses [although what is said about others is also debatable]. You can get the diagnosis on the basis of 'looking like it' with some consultants.
Mindreplyer, I'd like to see a campaign also, but not in terms of trying to make a deeply flawed concept more acceptable. Does anyone know people without a flaws in their personality? I also don't want to see euphemisms for it because it still amounts to the same thinking and practice. I favor all out removal of PD from the DSM and to start again with how people's distress is described and named. Frankly I'd like all diagnoses junked in favor of 'formulation' where we use plain English descriptions to describe needs and difficulties [in the service users own words]. Until that point, starting with PD would be a good starting point because I reckon a lot of people getting diagnosed and reclassified as PD in order to get them discharged back to GP because PD has no priority compared to 'illness' diagnoses. There is a campaign: http://www.causes.com/causes/615071-no-more-psychiatric-labels/about
As for Marsha Linehan DBT architect [which Bateman says isn't much good] "coming out" at 68 as having been diagnosed in her youth - great marketing. Interesting that she makes no reference to early trauma or perhaps she doesn't want to look at it - a bit like DBT. It doesn't add up. I think she should be asked how she feels about her treatments and diagnosis being used to justify appalling misogyny and treatment. I know it's in vogue for high profile people to 'come out' these days but I can't help but feel somewhat cynical about motivation to do so -
A friend of mine was being treated for bipolar disorder for several years but in the last year received a diagnosis of BPD. Because of the new diagnosis, the CMHT stopped his medication then discharged him saying there was nothing more they could do for him. He committed suicide a few weeks later. I don't really understand this condition or what the CMHT are obliged to do, but it seems to me that if you have a life long condition you should receive life long support.
Dear Eric, What an awful and shocking story. I'm so sorry to read about your friend's experience and suicide. I hope you have had some support from family and friends for yourself. We think that if anyone needs help, or to access services, they should get it no matter the diagnosis. If you wanted to make a complaint against the CMHT we have some info here http://www.mind.org.uk/help/rights_and_legislation/how_to_complain_about_health_and_social_care Take care
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Pranayama Dirgha or the Complete Breath
Dirgha breath is also known as the "three part breath." This pranayama focuses on the three chambers of the lungs. The first is the lower level of the abdominal area just under the floating ribs . This is the area that allows you to inflate like a balloon. The second area is the middle chest, or thoracic region just under the sternum. Breathing into this area lifts your rib cage and expands and contracts the intercostal muscles. The third section, or upper chamber, is in the clavicle region, located in the area of the upper chest and shoulders, up to the collar bone.
Begin sitting in a comfortable cross legged position. Or, lying on your back in Savasana, corpse pose. Relax the body, yet keep it active and alive. If sitting keep the spine straight. Close the eyes and begin to focus on the breath. With each inhalation lift the torso. Expand the rib cage. If you like, you can begin with Ujjayi Pranayama. Place the hands on your abdomen. With each inhalation, notice how much you expand. With each exhalation, become aware of the rib cage contracting. Release tension with each exhalation, allowing the belly to drop further into your hands.
Once you feel comfortable, move your hands to the middle abdomen. On your next inhale, fill the first chamber. Then the middle chamber. Again notice your middle area expanding and contracting. And notice any restrictions in the muscles or breath. Now incorporate the last step which is to breath into the final chamber of the lungs. To see if you are fully breathing into the third chamber, place your fingers on one side of your clavicle bone, your thumb on the other side, cupping around your neck.
Begin to breath into the lower chamber, then the middle chamber then the third chamber. Feel your fingers rise up. Keep the breath smooth by synchronizing the inhalation and exhalation. On the exhales, let the breath spill out from the top to the bottom like a pitcher of water pouring out. On the inhalation fill the pitcher up. At all times keep the breath smooth, effortless, and rhytmic. Be aware of any tension in the body and release it through the exhalation.
Like Ujjayi Pranayama, Dirgha pranayama is a wonderful tool for stimulating more internal awareness, calming the mind through the breath, and preparing you for deeper meditation.
Some of the effects:
Dirgha pranayama calms the mind and relaxes the body, revitalizes the entire nervous system, delivers oxygen rich blood to the furthest area of the lungs, breaks irregular breathing patterns, and habitual shallow breathing, improves digestion and elimination, helps relieve constipation, strengthens the abdominal muscles, diaphragm, heart and lungs, and soothes discomfort during menstruation.
If you feel dizzy or light-headed stop for a few minutes then resume. Perhaps spend shorter amounts of time practicing this breath.
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At the end of 1998, the FM-90, an enhanced version of the FM-80/HongQi 7, was introduced to the public. Compared to the original system, the improvements on the FM-90 include:
- Using VLSI technology-based computer (designed by 706 Institute) to replace the original LSI technology-based S-9 computer on the HongQi 7/FM-80.
- Using digital electronic technology to replace the original analogue design, increasing the missile's abilities against active/passive jamming.
- Using a new two-waveband tracking radar to replace the original monopulse radar
- An infrared camera was added to the TV tracking system so that the optical tracking system can be used at night.
- Target information between search and firing units is transmitted via a datalink pole system similar to that fitted on the later production Thomson-CSF Crotale 4000.
- Re-designed missile warhead fusing system
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A new Crotale model was released Sept 2011 by the company 2D3D in 1:25 scale...out of Poland...Looks amazing:
Chinese HQ-7 Crotale Firing video: See 1:29 in Video
Video of Pakistani Crotales in Action, see halfway through the video to find the Crotale Firing Unit and Radar Units:
The Korean Crotale system is designated K-SAM Pegasus. The chassis is based on K200 but not identical (more powerful engine, for example). It has some differences from Crotale NG, such as the domestic DS-20K missile by LIG Nex1 and a newly developed radar by Samsung Thales. 42% of the developmental work was done by Samsung and 58% by Thales. The radar is also used as an independent surveillance platform.
Here is a very brief introduction of Pegasus radar's development by Samsung Thales:
I believe Korea is the largest user of a Crotale variant.
LIG Nex1 intends to compete in India's SR-SAM tender with Pegasus. Pegasus appears to have seen sufficient technological transformation from the French Crotale NG that we can market it independently as our own product; the missile and combat system are considered to be indigenous, and Thales' sensor technology transfer long ago now permits us to develop many of the improved electronics and radars domestically (there's also some question as to whether Thales used some Samsung electronics and radar technology in other Crotale variants). The wheeled Pegasus has been successfully developed. Pegasus was once considered to be modified for shipborne use as a VLS cold-launched short-range SAM, but now it seems to have been superseded by another separate project known as K-SAAM (Korean Surface-to-Air Anti-Missile).
As a side note the name Pegasus originates from the appearance of the missile. When it's fired it looks like a winged white horse flying through the sky. Something like that.
Chun-Ma (Pegasus) (Korea, South), Defensive weapons
Short range, ground launched, solid propellant, theatre defence missile system.
In 1986 it was revealed that South Korea was developing a self-propelled surface-to-air missile system called Chun-Ma (Pegasus), which included an indigenously developed missile. The system is also known as Korean-SAM (K-SAM). The weapon system was developed by the Special Products Division of Daewoo Heavy Industries (now Doosan Infracore), in order to meet a South Korean Army requirement for a mobile all-weather Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) to protect its mechanised forces. Chun-Ma features a new full-tracked chassis developed by Daewoo, a Thomson-CSF (now Thales) turreted sensor system similar to that used with Crotale NG, and a missile developed by LG Precision. The electronic components and radars were developed by Samsung Electronics (now part of Thales). A report in 2004 stated that a cold launch Vertical Launch System (VLS) was being developed for future land and sea roles, but there have been no reports of any flight trials. A wheeled Transporter-Erector-Launcher vehicle (TEL) was reported to be in development in 2007, believed to be an 8 × 8 truck conversion known as Black Fox.
http://articles.janes.com/articles/J...rea-South.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO2PX_e_X0EThe Army last month sent global tenders to defense companies in Europe, the United States and Russia including Raytheon of the U.S., Israel's Rafael, MBDA and Thales of France, Diehl Defence of Germany, KBP Tula and Rosoboronexport of Russia, Ukraineexport of Ukraine and LIG NEX1 of South Korea.
We did not switch to Crotale NG from something else, actually. What actually happened was that we switched from our original plan to directly license-produce Crotale NG, to something more indigenous as our technological capabilities improved over time. K-SAM looks similar to Crotale NG but there have been key divergence points in the developments of the missile (exclusively developed by LG Precision, now LIG Nex1), radars and electronics (Samsung Electronics then later Samsung Thales), and the combat system (Daewoo/Doosan). Today K-SAM's components will have almost completely been localized, and the more capable K-SAAM with specialized anti-missile capabilities (active dual-band radar seeker in addition to the electro-optical guidance methods found in Crotale variants) is preparing to eclipse it.


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BiKN Helps You Keep Track of Your Life
January 27th, 2012
If you're one of those people that frequently misplaces their keys, wallet, or even remote, the BiKN iPhone app and attachment can help you keep track of all these items at all times. In fact, it will let you keep track of up to 8 items – including people.
To keep track of the items you are most prone to losing, all you have to do is attach one of the 8 tags to the items in question and download the app on your iPhone. The tags easily attach to key rings, which is incredibly convenient if you constantly lose yours or are wondering the whereabouts of your kids of driving age. When you lose one of the items that a tag is attached too, BiKN will help you find it in one of three ways:
- Find Mode – Find mode allows the app to find your item using a visual display and an audio tone.
- Leash Mode – Leash mode notifies you as soon as a certain item moves out of your specified range.
- Page Mode – Page mode allows you to find your items simply by sound. All you have to do is hit the page button and all items with tags on them will sound.
So whether you leave your phone or wallet in Overland Park storage facilities after packing away those holiday decorations or in the local Wal-Mart while shopping for groceries, BiKN will notify you to their location – before you leave the area. This early notification is in particular a perk, because it prevents you from getting all the way home or whatever be your destination without your most necessary items.
The BiKN app and tags are definitely a cool idea, however, the only drawback is that you have to make sure that both your iPhone and all tags are charged in order for it to work properly – not something that everyone, particularly those who are prone to losing things, are good at. Otherwise, at $49.95, the BiKN is definitely worth the investment.
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There has been different issue arising with regards to the new 7 wonders of the world 2012. It is not yet finalized up to this date but 2 places were officially confirmed to be listed on the 7 wonders of the world 2012. The Jeju Island in South Korea and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines made it to the official list. Bernard Weber who is the founder-president for the New7Wonders said that Jeju Island beat the last competition by many hundreds of votes to be officially announced as one of the new 7 wonders of the world 2012.
Though some reacted that it is just patches of snow that covers the crater of Mount Halla which is located in Jeju Island, still it won the hearts of many voters. The contest consists of votes to measure the popularity of the places that is included in the nominees for the new 7 wonders of the world 2012. Criticism arises in terms of the process and lack of transparency of the criteria that is being used to select the finalist for the New7Wonders. But then, Jeju Island made its way from the criticism to be officially announced as one of the new 7 wonders of world 2012. Jeju Island proclaimed its beauty with its glorious beaches, mountains and stunning scenery that makes Koreans proud to call it as a World Heritage Site. Hawaii of Korea and Honeymoon Island are among the nicknames being called for this place.
Puerto Princesa's Underground River is one of the main tourist attractions in the Philippine island. Lonely Planet said that it is considered as one of the last frontier of the Philippines. There are concerns that arise on what the competition would bring to Puerto Princesa. Since it will be included in the new 7 wonders of the world 2012, it may attract more tourist and development in the area that can cause pollution. It may damage and make more harm to the place than preserve it. But if the competition's main goal is to campaign for securing and preserving these natural resources, then it is a good motivation. At least, people are aware on which places should be protected and keep from environmental harm. Weber said that Philippines is taking seriously the New7Wonders of Nature because even Philippine President Aquino himself came out to support the Puerto Princesa campaign to be included in the official list of the new 7 wonders of the world 2012.
The other places that is awaiting confirmation to be included in the official list of the new 7 wonders of the world 2012 include Halong Bay in Vietnam, Indonesia's Komodo National Park, Amazon Rain Forest, Table Top Mountain of South Africa, and Iguazu Falls which is located in the borders of Brazil and Argentina.
Don't forget to visit Puerto Princesa's Underground River, it is really a must see destination this summer.
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The announcement for the New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced in the early months of the year 2012 in an official inauguration ceremony. But as early as now, there is an available provisional list for the new 7 wonders of the world which was based from the first count of vote result last November 11, 2011. It is now being checked and verified by certain individuals to confirm the real winners for the new 7 wonders of the world. There might be a possibility in the list once the winners are confirmed. Here are the alphabetical lists (not based on ranking) of the provisional new 7 wonders of the world.
Amazon. The Amazonia or Amazon Rainforest is located within 9 nations namely Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela. It represents the planet's remaining rainforest and has the most specie-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the whole world. The Amazon River located in the Amazon is the largest river (by volume) in the world.
Halong Bay. It is located in Quáng Ninh, Vietnam and features isles in various shapes and size with thousands of limestones karsts. A specific feature of the Halong Bay is the lake that is within the limestone island like the Dau Be Island which has 6 enclosed lakes. Several of the islands in Halong Bay is hallow with enormous caves that has 200 species of fish and 450 different types of mollusks.
Iguazu Falls. Located in Iguazu River in the borders between Argentine Missiones and Brazilian state of Paraná, the Iguazu Falls is one of the largest waterfalls in the world. Devil's Throat is the tallest with 80m in height among the 275 falls that make up the Iguazu Falls.
Jeju Island. Jejudo is a volcanic island is the smallest province and largest island located in the southern coast of Korea. Hallasan is the tallest mountain and dormant volcano that is the main feature in Jeju Island.
Komodo. Alive and breathing real dragons are located in Komodo National Park Indonesia which makes it to the list of the provisional new 7 wonders of the world. Unlike the fantasy stories of the ancient world, these komodo dragons grow up to three meters long only but considered to be the largest lizards on earth.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River. The Puerto Princesa Underground River is one of the famous tourist spot in the Philippines. One of the world's longest subterranean river that flows through the underground of dramatic caves then coming out into the lagoon with heavenly clear waters that placed it in a spot in the provisional new 7 wonders of the world.
Table Mountain South Africa. Famous for having an iconic peak late looms that has a distinctive flat top located above Cape Town in the foot of Africa which reminds the island of Eigg of Scotland. Table Mountain is the only place on Earth to have a constellation of stars named after it.


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MANGO jumper / H&M hat / SACHA sandals
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Hello everyone, on this hopefully wonderful Sunday morning! Here is what I wore exactly a week ago for a family brunch and an afternoon of studying (yes, it's that time of the year again). As you can see it is finally warm enough to sometimes even walk around without a coat, although we still have the usual rain drops and cloudy weather. This didn't prevent me from pulling my new Sacha sandals out of the closet for their first walk. I love their subtle lines and spiked little details and I'm pretty sure their colour will go with about everything in my spring/summer wardrobe. Another advantage from spring having arrived is that I can finally dust off my beloved hat collection again! During winter I prefer my warm knitted beanies but as soon as the sun comes peeping around the corner, the hats are back on track. Voilà, here you go, my totally Sunday-proof outfit that's comfy yet chic. What are you wearing today?


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Childrens' Choice Awards
In 2010 CBI introduced a new Children's Choice award to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the CBI Book of the Year Awards. Special Junior Juries were selected between January and March 2013 and they chose the Children's Choice winner for the 2013 awards, Grounded by Sheena Wilkinson. The Junior Juries are drawn from a number of dedicated school and library-based groups, who have been taking part in the Awards Shadowing Scheme for one or more year.
These Junior Juries are challenged to read, critique and debate all the titles from the 2013 shortlist, before voting on their favourite in early May. The Children's Choice award was decided solely on the results of these ten juries and announced at the winners' ceremony in Dublin.
The Junior Juries for the 2013 Awards are:
St Kevin's Community College, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
Reading Group at Stradbally Library, Co Laois.
Reading Group at Ardee Library, Co Louth.
Castle Park School, Dalkey Co Dublin.
Loreto College, Crumlin, Dublin 12.
Reading Group at Ballymote Community Library, Co Sligo.
Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh, Bishopstown, Co Cork.
Scoil Cholmcille, Skyrne, Co Meath.