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For the 5th time, trailpeak.com was at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Banff as the book and film finalists were judged. You've been to the world tour screenings in your town, but if you take that energy, and multiply it by 10, that's what it's like to be at the finale weekend -- Nov 6, 7, and 8th this year -- of the festival in Banff where the best films in their categories are crowned.
If you think what the adventurers on-screen do is tough, (it is), attending the show for 3 solid days with AM and PM and evening screenings, mountain mixers with film makers and athletes, book festival signings, trade show, after parties, panel talks, and just the buzz of crowded hallways full of outdoor enthusiasts -- yes -- you will be taxed to your limits, but, you will be happy. Staying in at the Banff Centre is even better -- the main theatre is just a small walk downhill, and town is an easy walk.
This was a special year, celebrating 40 years of the festival, and, Banff certainly is the epi-centre, where the visual feast includes feature length films, adrenalin snow sport action, BASE jumping, and cultural films that just can't be packed into the world tour. But enough of the pump, what about this year.
Well, there is Alex Honnold (the festival is always big on climbing, and he's one of the biggest free climb rock stars), Chasing Niagara (film), Antarctica: On the Edge (film), Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World (film), K2: Touching the sky, Kayaking the Aleutians, The Last Dragons, Mountain BIkers and Bothy Nights, and what looks to be a fascinating film, The Rocky Mountain Traverse (film - sold out!), a world premiere.
I think I listed just a small fraction of this year's finalists, it's always hard deciding what to watch in Banff, and, what's fun is there is a good chance you'll run into the film maker or star (maybe not if it's a Yak or Snow Leopard). If you love the outdoors, what a great way to absorb this energy and re-affirm your own values. Life gets busy, but when you see the world's great rivers, mountains, forests and plains being traversed in different ways, with a mix of culture, and laughter, you just feel great. In the words of the Banff folks themselves, here's a bit more on the festival.
"This year's Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival showcases nine days of the best in mountain adventure films and books including the World Premiere of The Rockies Traverse, featuring paragliders Will Gadd and Gavin McClurg; the films Meru, A Line Across the Sky and Hadwin's Judgement; in person appearances by Kit Deslauriers - the first person to ski the Seven Summits; alpinist writers Kelly Cordes and Simone Moro; and Lydia Bradey, the first woman to climb Mt Everest without supplementary oxygen. Climber and filmmaker Cedar Wright will also make his debut as emcee presenting the action-packed adrenaline show Radical Reels."
Everyone loves Radical Reels, that's your mountain bike, BASE jumping, snow extravaganza of extreme. Better hit the after party after that, because you won't be able to sleep.
2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival Finalists
So here's the trailpeak report (Sunday AM before the final judging)
A Day and a Half at the Banff Film Festival
From the giant inflatable mammoth (Mammut), outdoor selfie photobooth (Helly Hansen), to the happy hour with commemorative beer steins (ACC/Highline Magazine), this year's Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival truly was a celebration of its #40epicyears.
The BMFF had something for everyone on any budget with free events and learning opportunities such as National Geographic photography workshops, mountain art and craft sales, Google Cardboard virtual reality giveaways, and of course an assortment of outdoor adventure films.
In a day and a half, we were lucky to watch 17 films ranging from 4 to 105 minutes in length. Spoiler alert: they were all fantastic! Here are 5 highlights (Rockies Traverse was sold out!):
Nature RX
This viral video has made its way to the top with almost 2 Million views on YouTube. Nature RX is a spoof of the typical medicinal commercials while promoting going outside. If you love a good laugh, this short film is for you! (it's on youtube).
Kayaking The Aleutians
Two women go on an adventure of a lifetime and paddle over 2,500 kilometers in one of the most remote places on earth. The film not only displays beautiful scenery, wildlife, and moments of utter frustration, Kayaking The Aleutians does a phenomenal job at exposing the harsh reality of the concept "mind over matter".
Whether you're a fan of mountain biking or not, this film is a treat for the eyes. This short film (6 min.) follows three skilled mountain bikers at night as they ride down paths that are lit in an array of colors.
Across The Ice
Get your blanket and hot tea ready because this one will give you the chills. Two men go on a mission to cross a 2,300 kilometer Greenland ice sheet in 40 days while attempting to break a new record for the longest distance traveled in a 24-hour period on skis with the help of their kites.
Unbranded was by far the most entertaining film we've seen this year at the BFF. This film follows a group of young men and their wild mustangs as they travel over 5,000 kilometers from Mexico to Canada. While there are plenty of laughs, a few tears and mishaps, Unbranded also sheds light on the debate of overpopulation of wild horses.
You can see the trailers for all these, and all the films, by clicking the finalist link above.
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I was driving the backroads of rural Wisconsin in early October to take in the autumn hardwood spectacle. It's brilliant when the hillsides of maples, oaks and sumacs shed their coats of green to reveal crimson and gold underwear. (Then a few weeks later they get naked for winter and that can get ugly).
As I motored along, taking in nature's Big Show, I came upon an amazing apple tree. It was festooned with perfect, ripe apples hanging like glass balls on a Christmas tree. I screechstopped and reversed to marvel at this bonus of beauty.
The Red Delicious tree reminded me of a recent conversation I'd had with my friend Andy Little about success. Andy said we often have opportunities hanging all around us but it takes two things to convert them to success: Awareness and Action.
"If we can't recognize the opportunity – see it, smell it, hear its clue in a conversation - then it will never be an opportunity to us."
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Sure, Lewis gave up a crushing game-tying home run in the sixth inning after a two-out walk. That wasn't good. But the key was he came back and worked another inning to finish the game with 106 pitches to mark just the fourth time this year a Rangers starter had completed seven innings. He now has two of those with the other two belonging to Cole Hamels and A.J. Griffin.
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Lewis took a no-decision after leaving the game with a 3-3 tie, but he was able to pitch long enough to keep Jeff Banister in his plan of giving Sam Dyson, Shawn Tolleson and Jake Diekman the night off after being massively overworked in the first two games of the Toronto series.
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Or perhaps Sewing some Wee Bits. :)
I don't often sew small baby clothes, its right up there with sewing doll clothes. Small and not fun. But, Miss M is so tiny, and I have lots of fabric, and I don't want to do a lot of shopping for things that she'll outgrow right away, and I'm cheap, so I've done a bit of sewing.
Finally something I can sew for less than I can buy from the store!
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
A Wee Bit of Sewing
Posted by Rachel
Labels: leggings, peasant dress
5 comments:
- lisa i said...
She is absolutely adorable!
- August 6, 2013 at 3:36 PM
- doodlebugmom said...
She is so sweet, love the tiny leggings and dress :)
- August 6, 2013 at 3:52 PM
- Leanne said...
Rachel, she is adorable. And I have never seen a baby that small with such great hair! The clothes are great too.
- August 6, 2013 at 10:13 PM
- Regina said...
They both look like they fit perfectly, good job!!!!!! So I guess I will put the word out that Rachel sews baby clothes if anyone needs some made :)
- August 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM
Darling little girl. And she has so much hair. My girl was bald and my son had the hair. My mother tells me that 65 years ago she would put a bow in my hair with Scotch tape. Now there are so many cute ideas for a baby's hair. I like the pink blocks.
- August 9, 2013 at 6:53 AM
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"For all practical purposes Welsh is a dead language."
This quote appeared in the Times newspaper, a reputable source of information. You may well believe it to be the case. After all, it's common knowledge that the Welsh language is either dead, or dying.
Now consider the fact that the above quote was written in 1866.
Yes, 1866 – that's 145 years ago!
To paraphrase and misquote Mark Twain (I'm sure he won't mind): "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
But the danger facing the Welsh language isn't a total myth. UNESCO considers the language to be 'vulnerable'. It is indeed endangered, mostly because of the situation in which it finds itself – sharing a small island with the birthplace of the present global lingua franca, English.
And at first glance the statistics do suggest a steep decline. At the turn of the 19th century pretty much everyone in Wales spoke Welsh. By the start of the 20th century, as a result of the mass movement of people caused by the industrial revolution, around 50% of the population spoke the language. Now about 20% do.
However what these figures don't take into account is the numbers of people speaking the language. It's worth remembering that because of the huge rise in population in Wales over the last two centuries, the numbers of Welsh speakers hasn't fallen that dramatically even as the percentage relative to the rest of the population has declined.
Despite the supposed 'death' of the language alluded to in the Times above, there were just over a million Welsh speakers in Wales at the turn on the 20th century – more than ever before in the history of the language. As the historian Ieuan Gwynedd Jones (1992: 56) states: "One simple but very important fact is that there were more people who could speak Welsh in 1901 than in 1801."
In the present day there are some 600,000 Welsh speakers. So even as the percentage of Welsh speakers relative to the rest of the population has fallen, there are still more actual speakers of Welsh today than at almost any point in the 2000 year plus history of the language.
For the first time in centuries, the Welsh language is being promoted rather than actively discouraged. The most recent 2011 census showed that 42.2% of people between 10-14 years of age in Wales could speak Welsh. That's a higher percentage of people of that age than could speak it during the 1911 census (39.7%) – over 100 years ago.
This has given rise to hopes that the percentage of speakers has at least stabilised, and could yet rise quickly in future.
The challenge for the language now is to ensure that all these young people – almost half their population – who do speak Welsh, keep hold of the language after leaving high school. It's a matter of making it relevant to their lives. The Welsh language cannot be allowed to become a set of dusty china that is taken out on important occasions only. Lots of people being able to speak it isn't enough – it needs to continue to be a living, community language.
In summary, then, if the Welsh language is 'dead', then, it's 'dead' in the same way Welsh rugby was 'dead' after the 2007 Rugby World Cup – i.e. in a bit of a wobbly patch, but with the right people in charge, great things could yet happen.
Over 145 years since the Times declared it dead – this language isn't going anywhere!
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Good little episode of 'Discovery' on the World Service just now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f8nb6.
Nice too to hear some familiar voices like Ben Sheldon and Daniel Nettle (tempted to email them and tell them I love their accents!).
Good little episode of 'Discovery' on the World Service just now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f8nb6.
Nice too to hear some familiar voices like Ben Sheldon and Daniel Nettle (tempted to email them and tell them I love their accents!).
"The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog" (they tell me… which is great, but they don't acknowledge that 13,000 of the 14,000 views were just me, checking for typos).
Big increase from last year anyway, with "Hot mink boobs" apparently still a big hit, hurrah.
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The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
.. and for H index: mine just went up to 34!
Happy Christmas!
A long time ago I was interested in "bloody tears" (chromodacryorrhoea) in rats, and my ears perked up when Jeremy Marchant-Forde told me he thought he'd found a similar phenomenon in pigs. His talk on it was also one of the best presentation at this summer's ISAE.
Scored on a five-point scale, it seems to increase with social isolation but decrease with environmental enrichment, shows his new paper now due out in Animal Welfare in January.
Back to work in Guelph, Mike, Maka Natsvlishvili and I had a long day of killing mice, dissecting out heart and leg muscles to see if intense wheel-runners are physically fitter, and freezing spleens in dry ice for so that we can look at telomere length.
As ever, Maka's use of cervical dislocation was swift and humane, and though we pay a lot for her help it's well worth it (also great to hear all about Georgian Christmas food, which involves a lot of walnuts – who knew?). My job was to take every spleen out; after doing this 79 times today (with another 73 to do tomorrow), I know what I'm going to dream about tonight.
A landmark case in Argentina just decreed that an orangutan held in a zoo can be freed & transferred to a sanctuary, after the court recognised her as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of freedom.
Click here for a good write up, & here for a recent US case where the same principle wasn't applied to a chimp.
Just had another interesting & bizarre email from BMC saying "several lines of enquiry point to the systematic, inappropriate manipulation of journals' submission and peer review process by a third party", and then linking to a statement from the Committee on Publication Ethics.
This statement in turn says: "While there are a number of well-established reputable agencies offering manuscript-preparation services to authors, investigations at several journals suggests that some agencies are selling services, ranging from authorship of pre-written manuscripts to providing fabricated contact details for peer reviewers during the submission process and then supplying reviews from these fabricated addresses. Some of these peer reviewer accounts have the names of seemingly real researchers but with email addresses that differ from those from their institutions or associated with their previous publications, others appear to be completely fictitious".
Wow. Wonder if this affects some fields more than others (really cannot imagine it happening in animal welfare).


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The Y Combinator partner and Women 2.0 speaker made the optimistic claim at the YC Female Founders Conference.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
As we reported ahead of our last conference, things are changing at top accelerator Y Combinator. Conference speaker and YC partner Jessica Livingston announced to Women 2.0 that the current batch of companies the accelerator has funded are the most diverse yet in terms of founder age, place of origin and gender.
But last weekend at the first ever YC Female Founders Conference Livingston took things a step further, not only noting the increase in diversity, but also suggesting it could represent an important "tipping point" when it comes to women founding startups. TechCrunch's Colleen Taylor reports:
"Because YC invests so early and is so focused on funding outliers, we tend to see trends first. So when we see that 25 percent of startups in the current Y Combinator batch have female founders, I'm certain something is going on here," Livingston said. "In any big change there's always a moment when people think it is a tipping point. I wouldn't be surprised if in five years, we feel like 2014 was the tipping point for female founders."
Livingston went on to offer advice for women starting up, including that it is possible to start a company when you have kids, that it is fine to be "the quiet co-founder," and to learn how to code. Check out the TechCrunch article for many more details.
Do you agree that we're nearing a "tipping point" for female founders?
Jessica Stillman (@entrylevelrebel) is an editor at Women 2.0 and a freelance writer with interests in unconventional career paths, generational differences, and the future of work. She writes a daily column for Inc.com, contributes regularly to Forbes and has blogged for CBS MoneyWatch, GigaOM and Brazen Careerist, among others.


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Another example of 'mindless' journalism
Posted on February 6th, 2015
By Shelton A. Gunaratne from Moorhead
An abundance of mindless" journalism continues to appear in the media published in the West as well as their blind imitators in the non-West.
I believe the advent of citizen journalism in the 21st century provides the most cogent background to start what is now known as mindful journalism centered on Buddhist core principles.
I call upon the new government of Sri Lanka to transform Lake House to a training and production centered for mindful journalism. It should also require the journalism and mass communication programs in the Sri Lankan university to adjust their curricula to accommodate the teaching and practice of mindful journalism.
Below, I reproduce a letter I published in my local newspaper, The (Fargo-Moorhead) Forum, pointing out the the mindless" outburst of a syndicated columnist taking advantage of freedom of expression. Censorship is not the answer to curb this kind of trash. Public criticism is the better solution.
Letter: Learn more about mindful journalism
By Shelton A. Gunaratne from Moorhead on Feb 5, 2015 at 11:11 p.m.
Dan K. Thomasson, the Tribune-News writer whose column you published Feb. 4 provides a supreme example of a journalist who needs training in mindfulness to adjust himself to the realities of the digital era.
Thomasson builds the column around an ideational conflict he has with his youngest son who lives in California, which, he says, has become the home of organic foods, Buddha moms who regard canned baby food as poison, and a breeding ground for goofy ideas."
But, from beginning to end, Thomasson by both omission and commission tries to assert that only his standpoint is correct. All others, including his son, are nuts." The entire essay reflects his irrepressible anger, a sure sign of mind pollution.
His dig at Buddha moms" is uncalled for because it is insulting. How would he feel if someone brands the likes of him as Jesus freaks"?
I ask Thomasson to read the book Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach" (to be released by Routledge this month) that I wrote with two other scholars, Mark Pearson and Sugath Senarath, before he writes future columns.
Gunaratne is the lead author of a new book on mindful journalism.


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So I have a meditation that I've developed over time that I use when I'm needing to ground and focus on the love around me and not the negative. I thought is share it here and if you guys want to try it I'd love some feedback on how it went for you!I start by imagining my physical body is made up of sand. As I relax, I imagine a soft breeze gently blowing away the sand that is my body. I'll start at my toes and work up through my whole body until I no longer physically exist, but my energy/soul/being whatever you will is all that remains.Once I'm completely relaxed and no longer aware of my physical self, I will imagine a twisting trunk of white light going from my root chakra, into the ground, and connecting to a brilliant ball of white light that is Source.Once I feel the trunk is strong and I'm completely connected to source, I will then focus my attention to my heart chakra. While focusing on this area, I reflect on how it feels when I am surrounded by love. I then focus on the emotion of love, and I focus on accepting it into my heart chakra. I focus on feeling this energy fill my body and warm me up.Then I feel this energy that I'm taking in travel from my heart chakra to the trunk extending down from my root chakra. Once this energy reaches the ball of source energy, it is then expelled in waves all around my body and then flowing out around me like ripples in water. I let this keep going until every space around me is filled with this loving energy. The energy is flowing into me through my heart chakra, traveling back down to source energy, where it is then expelled and cycled back out.Once I have gotten to the point where the love energy is cycling, I will wait until I feel ready and then come out of the meditation.This meditation allows me to feel the love energy cycling around me for hours after I've done it. I also find I become more approachable to people after doing this most likely because of the love energy surrounding me. If any of you do try this, please let me know how it works for you. I hope this can bring some love your way. <3
updated by @emmy-long: 09/05/18 04:17:05PM
My meditation to bring in love
I've found it works for things other than love too. Depending on what you are wishing to bring into your life, you just change what you're focusing on from love, and then also you may need to change the heart chakra to a different chakra.


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Buttered Fish in White Wine with Homemade Cranberry Sauce
Written by Cooking Naturally Editors on March 2nd, 2014
Healthy Living, Recipes
In just twelve minutes, you can have a beautifully presented meal high in Omega 3 and antioxidants. It pains me to say that we have a fish-hater in our family, which has been a point of contention on more than one family dinner. The self-declared fish hater actually makes an exception to his fish ban for this meal. The trick for the rest of us is to serve just enough cranberry sauce to compliment the fish; the trick for picky children is to use enough sauce to weaken the flavor they otherwise refuse. It's a win-win for this momma who wants to enjoy fish and nourish children without sacrificing the peace!
Buttered Fish in White Wine with Homemade Cranberry Sauce
1 lb of fish serves approximately 5 people
Start to Finish–12 minutes!
I frequently saute fish in butter; it is fast and delicious. And it's butter. 'Nuff said. Italians often add a little wine to the skillet towards the end because it's a great way to scrape up the tasty bits stuck to the bottom, and I personally find that the wine mellows the flavor of the unnamed fish. It also mellows the cast iron skillet when I get to it later; not a whole lotta' giggles about stuck-fish on my cast iron.
The Fish
- 1 pound of cod, tilapia, etc
- 2 Tbs real butter
- 1/2 cup white wine
- salt, pepper to taste
The Sauce
This is the most basic, traditional cranberry sauce ever, and it will only take 10 minutes.
- 1 lb of fresh cranberries, washed.
- 2 cups of organic sugar
- 1 cup water
- Saute the fish in the butter and wine, only turning once to avoid breaking the filets. Approximately 3-4 minutes each side. Salt & Pepper them.
- Boil the cranberries over medium heat in the sugar and water until all of the cranberries split open (pop!). This takes approximately 10 minutes, but if you stir it a few minutes more it will thicken very nicely.
Serve this meal with some greens, or a made-ahead salad and you have the fastest gourmet dinner ever!
You can see the original recipe and pictures here.
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The Earth. Christianity. They go together.
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Things have been rather quiet here on The GeoChristian lately, but people from around the world have still been finding things to read. Here are the most-read posts in 2013 (a number of which were written before 2013):
#10 — A young-Earth creationist magmatic model for the origin of evaporites — This is my preliminary analysis of a YEC hypothesis that evaporite layers, such as halite and gypsum, were formed by crystallization from igneous melts rather than by precipitation from aqueous solutions. I'm working on a longer refutation.
#9 — PCA 2013 General Assembly — The YECs get their turn — There are people in the Presbyterian Church in America (my current denomination) who would be very happy if us old-Earthers would just go away.
#8 — The stratigraphic column — not a figment of geologists' imaginations — Fossils appear in the stratigraphic column in a specific order, which is the basis for designating rocks as Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, etc. Some YECs call this an invention of God-hating geologists, while other YECs come up with all sorts of mechanisms for explaining how Noah's flood could have produced such an orderly arrangement.
#7 — John Piper and the age of the Earth — What? John Piper is an old-Earther? He must not really believe the Bible. Just kidding. Dr. Piper is firmly committed to the truthfulness of God's Word, and accepts an old Earth.
#6 — Stegosaurus in Cambodian temple? — The answer, of course, is no.
#5 — Did Ann Coulter really say "Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours"? — Why do people listen to this woman?
#4 — Six bad arguments from Answers in Genesis (Part 1) — There are more than six bad answers from Answers in Genesis, but this series examined "Six main geologic evidences for the Genesis Flood."
#3 — John MacArthur on the age of the Earth and theistic evolution — I really like John MacArthur, but he sometimes makes things black and white that are not black and white.
#2 — Augustine: The Literal Meaning of Genesis — 1600 years ago, Augustine recognized that perhaps the best way to read Genesis 1 is not the "literal" way as 21st century YECs would see it.
#1 — Dr. Dino still in prison — Ever since I wrote this in 2009, it has been the most-read post on The GeoChristian. Popular YEC speaker "Dr." Kent Hovind is still in prison on income tax-related charges, and is scheduled for release in 2015.
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There are still a few days left in the year, but here are the ten most-read articles on The GeoChristian for 2012. Only one of them was written this year.
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Here is a brief list of things that I have been blessed with in my first fifty years of life. Many of these items could themselves be expanded to lists of hundreds of things to be thankful to God for.
I could go on.
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Though my presence on the internet has been rather meager since November—and entirely absent since March—I am still alive and kicking. My primary excuses are (1) I've gone from not working to working long days plus Saturdays, and (2) being down to one computer in the household. Thank you to those of you who have emailed letting me know that you miss posts on The GeoChristian. I have a lot of topics I want to write about and will try to squeeze blogging into my schedule at least once a week.
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It has been a rather long break from blogging, but I am back at it. I moved from Colorado to Missouri in mid-November, but the family didn't make the move until just before Christmas. We just got internet in the home today.
I applied for close to 400 jobs over a stretch of 18 months. The one I ended up with was certainly in the top 5% of these, in terms of pay, benefits, and the work that I will be doing, so I am very thankful. I know that some of the jobs I applied for had over 100 applicants for one opening, which says a lot about the current state of the job market.
Thanks to all who prayed for me or kept in touch in one way or another. Your friendship is deeply appreciated.
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Daily Archives: March 4, 2018
Finally Home . . .
We left Brandi's about 6pm for the trip back down to Santa Fe, with a stop-over for dnner at Plucker's Wings in Webster.
But they were really busy so we didn't get home until kind of late. So no blog tonight, but I'll catch up tomorrow.


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- 3 beds
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- Status: ACTIVE
Enjoy the lake life on beautiful Lake Hartwell at an affordable price! Located in a quiet neighborhood and on a private road, this is a wonderful property to enjoy your days by the lake. Every bit of this property has been meticulously cared for (by one owner) over the years and is ready for a new owner to move in and call it home. Sold fully furnished, allowing you to enjoy the lake life as soon as possible! The 3 bedroom, 2 full bathroom home has brick underpinning and has been de-titled so it is classified and insured as a manufactured home. The large garage (approx. 28'x36.5') has plenty of room for your boat, PWC(s), lake toys, golf cart, and/or cars. The space is also great for entertaining with its sink, hot water heater, and even a stove/oven. Take a short golf cart ride to the covered, single slip dock on great, deep water. Friendship boat ramp and recreation area is less than one mile away for launching your boat or PWC. Property is located in the Coneross Creek area of Lake Hartwell, which is great for boating, fishing, water skiing, wakeboarding, paddleboarding, or just relaxing. Less than 10 miles from Clemson University, or an easy boat ride, this property would also be great for students, game days, or even as a short-term vacation rental. Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy the lake life on Lake Hartwell at such a great price, call for a private tour today!!!!
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- Style Mobile Home - Doublewide
- Bathrooms Two
- HalfBaths None
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by Shaun Finnie | Release Date: April 1, 2015 | Availability: Print, Kindle
In the second volume of Disney Imagineering Unleashed, Epcot resident Jack Rothman finds himself once again the unlikely hero, this time in a plot to destroy Disney's Discovery Bay.
When Disney fired Imagineer Hector Delgado because his designs were too grand even for Disney to build, the spurned genius vowed revenge. In league with high-ranking company executives making their own power play, he brings death, destruction, and chaos to Discovery Bay, the newly opened land in the Magic Kingdom. Reluctant hero Jack Rothman finds himself drawn into the plot and must face the deranged genius Delgado inside Mount Prometheus, the crowning achievement of the Disney Imagineers.
The Storm over the Bay is the second novel in the Disney Imagineering Unleashed series. Each book in the series is set in an alternate version of the Disney theme parks where the wildest dreams of Disney's Imagineers didn't die on the drawing board but were actually built. From Discovery Bay and the Mineral King Ski Resort to the incredible Epcot City, the dreams of Disney Imagineering come to life - as do the schemes of rogue Imagineers and corporate terrorists who plot to bring it all crashing down.
An action thriller rolled into a Disney what-if!
Forty-two chapters of thrilling Disney what-if action!
Author's Note
Shaun Finnie is a freelance author and amateur Disney historian from England. He has written several books and many articles about the Walt Disney Company over the years as well as several collections of short stories and a series of novels collectively called Disney Imagineering Unleashed. This book is the second in that series.
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The Electric Spark Gap Loop, Disney's newest coaster, is not for the timid—or those who wish to get off alive.
Jack watched the bolts of energy playing around the top of the Electric Spark Gap Loop building. Sure, the man-made lightning was only for effect, but he still felt a jolt of envy that he was outside and not having fun on the ride with his son and Adriana. Even at his age, a new Disney theme park attraction was something to be excited about, and the new section of the park was full of them. Floating past dinosaurs on the Lost River Rapids, flying high over the entire Bay on the Western Balloon Ascent, grabbing a bite at the San Francisco Chowder House and Energy Factory before seeing all the weird things in Professor Marvel's Gallery. Even that creaky old classic, the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, had been re-themed to fit into the new expansion. Discovery Bay would, the advertising blurb had said: "Bring to life a time and place that climaxed an age of discovery and expansion." From what the Rothman family had seen, it did. Jack couldn't wait to experience it all.
The mining town curved in a tight arc around a small body of water on which sailing ships bobbed on the artificial waves. Looming above was the dark, dominant face of Mount Prometheus, the smoldering volcano that erupted twice daily and within which sat even more rides and attractions. It was Captain Nemo's famous Vulcania lair made real. The volcanic mountain wasn't quite as tall as the New Cosmopolitan Hotel which rose up through the skin of Epcot's central dome, but it was still tall enough to need a red light at its apex, due to aviation laws. Mount Prometheus had such a light, but in true Disney tradition the legal requirement was combined with artistic design and the warning light had been cleverly integrated into a glow of fiery lava. The rules had been upheld without compromising the theming of the mountain.
One aircraft that wasn't bothered by these laws was the full-scale mock-up of the Hyperion dirigible that appeared to be floating out from a huge cavern in the side of the rocky peak. This huge flying ship indicated the entrance to the interior of the mountain and the queuing area for a magnificent new ride. This ride, and the creation of Discovery Bay itself, had been passed for construction due to the unexpected success of The Island at the Top of the World, the first film available for home viewing in holographic format. Truth be told, it had only been released to test the new technology. Who would have thought that a remake of an almost forgotten movie from two generations ago could lead to all this?
"What do you think?" Ellie stood before him with a ridiculous Minnie Mouse hat perched on top of her head. She batted her eyes innocently.
Jack faked a stern face. "It suits you perfectly," he tried, though he couldn't keep the pretense up for long. Even shopping was fun when his wife was there, but honestly, he'd rather be on the ride with his son.
The son in question was having a fantastic time on the Electric Spark Gap Loop ride. He and his girlfriend where whooping in delight along with the other riders on the indoor coaster as it spun around a pair of immense pillars like the coils inside a battery. The ride was meant to represent a demonstration of a massive electromagnet. The two pillars that formed the powerful humming and throbbing magnet were designed to pull the roller coaster vehicle up a steep track and then suddenly reverse the magnet's polarity, forcing the car away into a corkscrew loop through the Bay's power station. With only the smallest amount of low level lighting, most of the illumination came from the bolts of electricity that surged between conductors protruding from the top of the columns. The track twisted and turned to simulate the path of the current, but even with all its loops and spirals, by far the most exciting moments were those when the track passed right between the conductors and was struck several times by strong, blinding and totally random bursts of power. Like all the best thrill rides, it was, Heath realized, exciting just to the point of being a little frightening. That fear, along with the underlying knowledge of safety, was what made it enjoyable. Adriana didn't care about that or any other theories, of course. She was too busy screaming and grinning in equal measure. It was fast, furious, and unpredictable, which pretty much summed up the way the young woman lived her life. She loved it, and the longer the ride went on, the faster it seemed to get.
Thrill rides are a way to experience a small tingle of fear in a controlled environment, but for many of its riders, the Electric Spark Gap Loop pushed that fear over the edge. With each pass around the conductor towers, it got a little faster, nudged a little closer to the safety buffers, and felt as it if were teetering on the brink of tipping over on the corners. Of course it was all perfectly safe and the safety brakes would prevent such accidents, but, if Heath didn't know better, he'd swear that they had been turned off. Either the Imagineers had pushed it right to the very limit of what was acceptably safe ride design, or something had gone very wrong. His head said that the ride had just been designed to be extremely intense, but his heart disagreed. This was too much. It needed toning down, and toning down a lot. This was one of the reasons that Disney held these pre-public days,, to test how people reacted to the new attractions. It wouldn't be the first time that the company had opened an exciting ride to great fanfare only to be forced to lower the intensity later due to customer response.
Electricity arced around the ride vehicle creating showers of brilliant white sparks each time it hit the cage. Each burst temporarily blinded the riders, which added to their excitement and the disorientation caused by the loops. Heath was certain now that they were travelling even faster, rocketing out of each bend into the next. The immense battery components flashed by in an electric blur, but something else caught Heath's eye. Just for a moment he thought that he saw the figure of a man outlined against the crackling blue lights, half hidden in a recess. If it was indeed, human then the man was huge and standing perfectly still, hugging the shadows. It could have been a rounded silhouette or perhaps just a large, curved section of the ride structure, but it could just as easily have been an obese man watching the ride, studying the beginnings of fear rising in the people aboard. And if it was a real person hiding away in the shadows, then Heath could have sworn he saw it grinning.
Try as he might, though, he couldn't fix his mind on what he'd seen, or thought he'd seen. His brain was too busy trying to work out if his escalating fear was justified. The electricity levels seemed to be rising far too high and his nostrils filled with the sulfuric smell of burning plasma. Bright sparks flew everywhere and Heath had no way of knowing if they were simply pyrotechnic effects or the real thing, and even if they were real, were they just "Disney real"? Such was the company's reputation for attention to detail that it was perfectly possible that everything was operating precisely as it was meant to, but Heath wasn't sure.
The static electricity crackling around the ride vehicle's surrounding cage made Heath's dark surfer-dude hair straighten out from his head as if blown by a fan, but this was nothing compared to what was happening to a young woman a few seats ahead. Her long, fine hair fanned out like a halo around her, whipping first one way then the other as the little train sped on. Her ride companion, a girl who looked like she might just have entered her teenage years, had her head buried in her safety harness and appeared to be silently weeping. Heath turned his head to the side and saw Adriana. She was the exact opposite, whooping and hollering in delight as the intensity of the ride ratcheted up yet another gear.
Then, without warning, it was over. The ride plunged into total blackness and the car jerked to a sudden and painful halt. The safety harness dug into Heath's shoulders and midriff as the brakes bit. "Was that part of the ride?" someone asked. The sobbing girl was no longer silent and murmurs of relief and astonishment filled the air as the car gradually began to trundle toward the station. Only Adriana was still laughing.
"How good was that?" she asked in a voice that left no room for doubt as to exactly how much she'd enjoyed it, but in the seat beside her, Heath wasn't so sure.
Continued in "The Storm over the Bay"!
Walt Disney is long dead, but his artificially intelligent holo self is very much like the real thing.
Whenever the board of a major company made a public statement of confidence, it was usually a sign of private panic, everyone knew that. The confidence that Disney's leaders had shown in Corey Braithwaite was further brought into question when the only words he offered the assembled press men and women were of introduction. "Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to hand you over to my colleague, Mr Walt Disney."
Everyone in the room saw this as an admission of the situation's severity, but they were also deeply moved to be in Walt's presence. Some had never even seen the sentient hologram up close before. Sure, they had all been spoken to by the image that greeted everyone by name when they walked through the gates of the Magic Kingdom, but this was different. There was nothing pre-programmed about this version of the original Mr Disney, as there was at the entrance and various other points around the park. The holographic Walt at the mouth of Mount Prometheus, for example, said stock phrases like, "Welcome to Discovery Bay's hidden secret" or "Within this cavern you'll find all kinds of delights, but make sure you don't get lost!" but this version of Mr Disney was different. If the others gave the impression of being holographic Audio-Animatronics, this was like looking at a person reflected through a mirror—they might look a bit strange, but they were real, living, and, most of all, capable of independent thought.
The image seemed to give off the same quiet confidence that the man had during his lifetime, a simple yet powerful aura that showed he was capable of anything he might turn his hand to. Those hands may no longer be tangible, but given the chance, Walt could still be the most imposing figure in the room. And it seemed as though the current board were, at last, giving him that chance, even though it signified to many of those listening that they'd run out of other ideas.
The dead man greeted the assembled journalists warmly and began his speech. Unlike Braithwaite's earlier announcement at the grand opening, it wasn't a prepared statement, just more of a chat as Walt spoke without any notes.
"I had my own teething problems over in California on Disneyland's opening day," he began. "'Black Sunday'" they called it, and they were right. Oh, we tried to cover it up, of course, but we were nowhere near ready to open. The asphalt was still wet in places, so as they walked along the street some of the ladies' shoes sank into it." A familiar chuckle burst from beneath the equally familiar moustache, the same one that a couple of the reporters sported. "Lots of people gate-crashed the party, so we had around double the expected number of guests on that first day. We would have had even more if it weren't for the seven mile tailback caused by everyone wanting to get into the park. And we worked right up to the final minute to get things just so. Even then we didn't finish everything on time. The clock well and truly beat us there. We didn't even have time to plant some of the flower beds, so do you know what I did? I had my gardeners tidy the weeds up and label them with their fancy Latin names to look as if we'd planned it that way." Another laugh, heartier this time, accompanied by a silent slap of his ghostly thigh. He hadn't told these stories in decades and was clearly enjoying himself. The assembled ladies and gentlemen of the press were, as well, just as their counterparts from generations ago had. And, just like those newspaper reporters of old, Walt had these experienced hacks eating out of his hand, laughing along with him in a most unprofessional manner which transferred to the millions watching at home. "We had a gas leak and a plumber's strike, too. They told me that we only had enough water for either the restrooms or the water fountains, but not both. Guess which I chose?" Another chuckle. Everyone was with him now, even the board members seated beside him. They had started out smiling dutifully in a show of public support, but now their laughter was genuine. All status disappeared as everyone in the room became a child again, listening to Uncle Walt's story time.
The master storyteller had chosen to open with fun tales that they already knew and loved. The drama of opening day with a happy ending and a few laughs. It was nostalgia at its purest, and they loved it. Then abruptly he changed tack, and they willingly followed. His voice dropped in both pitch and volume. "And of course most of the rides couldn't take it, either. So many things broke down at some point on that first day. Thankfully, I didn't know about all of it until later, but I had a whole bunch of fine staff who just did their job quietly and efficiently back then, just like those great Cast Members out in the park today, but you know what? In the long term it didn't matter. We can even laugh about it now. In less than two months we'd had a million people through the turnstiles, imagine that. I think you'd all agree that Disneyland turned out OK in the end, right?"
A chorus of agreement rang out among the hardened news crews. They were all completely under Walt's spell. If he'd asked them to jump off a cliff, one or two of them might have even done it.
"So please," he continued, "don't be too hard on us about what you've seen out there in Discovery Bay today. Don't judge this wonderful new land on a single day that might have included a few teething troubles. Wait until it's been up and running for a couple of months, when we've had time to work out all the little wrinkles. That's when you'll really know how special this place is. Is it a deal?"
One or two of the greener reporters actually cheered their agreement and pretty much all of them were prepared to cut him a whole lot more slack than they were half an hour previously. Sure, they had to report the facts as they saw them, but there were many different ways of telling the same story. So what might have read "Disney's Discovery Disaster" was now toned down to "Disney Delight Despite a Few Teething Troubles".
Even Braithwaite was impressed. He had been fed constant updates on the levels of public confidence in the company through a hidden earpiece while Walt had been speaking. He got the latest fluctuations on the share price, too. The two usually went hand in hand, and this time was no different. Both had leapt up during the hologram's speech. While he couldn't be happy that these were obviously based on confidence in Walt rather than the company and the board running it, he had to give credit where it was due.
If nothing else, Walt Disney had bought the board some time.
Continued in "The Storm over the Bay"!
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The waiting lounges in the airports are unlike the railway platforms where myriad faces spattered with drops of sweat of anxiety would pass you by or the bus stations where usually only local people bearing mainly just the known troughs and crests of facial topography wait morosely. The airport lounge would have only smatterings of people but mostly would have gaunt features or faces 'gauntified' by excessive self-importance. As a caricaturist gypsy, I was not strange to drawing such chaps too in the airports. But this time, it must have been a sort of record vis a vis the distance crossed/the air time spent . I had drawn 33 but only 25 came out of my ramshackle camera clean.
The first one I drew called for immediate execution as he was an unmistakable mix of my Kochi acquaintance, the ferocious public interest litigant, the late Nawab Rajendran and the bachelor local artist of Fort Kochi, Desmond. I had expected dismissing fireworks but the guy was too mellow for a Viswamitra lookalike. He was the Swedish Head of Mutt established by Maharshi Mahesh Yogi and looked after the cultural megashows of the Sect. I enquired about levitation and the bearded ex-engineer from the IIT convulsed into unstoppable laughter. I clarified that of all people in the airport lobby I knew more about body mass and the effects of gravity. "If you are OK with falling down , no harm in levitating", the ripples of laugh echoed everywhere.
Then, the oozingly sexy girl just sat next to me after an unnecessary round of the lobby stalls and smiled at me in expectation. She had to be smiled back at
Of the three cabin crew, the fattest and the elderly of the cabin crew invited me to their portion of the plane and the three volunteered one by one. She was a delight to chat with, but that was for half a minute.
I wish all of them clean laughs and long hassle free lives . Hi Ho !


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Here's one of my coconut chicken recipes that's a little different.
Crisp Coconut Crusted Chicken Breast
with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Serves 2
adapted from a 1990 Gourmet Magazine Recipe
For the Sauce
1 medium size red bell pepper, quick roasted – see my notes below
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice - you may like to add more
3 drops liquid stevia extract
cayenne to taste
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
good grey sea salt & freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the Chicken
1 garlic clove, minced and mashed to a paste with 1/4 teaspoon good grey sea salt
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, finely grated with a microplane (or substitute 1 teaspoon jarred ginger puree, or ¼ teaspoon dried ground ginger)
1 tablespoon dijon mustard
1 whole boneless, skinless large chicken breast - halved
½ cup coconut flour or blanched almond flour, seasoned with salt and black pepper for dredging the chicken
an egg wash made by beating 1 large egg with 1 teaspoon water
1 cup unsweetened flaked coconut (finer flakes are better than large flakes)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, ghee, or virgin coconut oil
2 tablespoons chicken broth
Preheat oven to 375F
In a blender purée the roasted pepper with the lemon juice, stevia, cayenne, olive oil, and salt and black pepper to taste until the sauce is smooth.
In a small bowl whisk together the garlic/salt paste, the ginger, and the mustard and spread the mixture onto both sides of the chicken. In separate bowls have ready the seasoned flour, the egg wash, and the coconut.
Dredge the chicken in the flour mixture, shaking off the excess. Then dip it in the egg wash, letting the excess drip off, and coat it thoroughly with the unsweetened flaked coconut, pressing the coconut to make it adhere.
In a large ovenproof skillet (cast iron is great) heat the butter, ghee or coconut oil over moderately high heat for one minute, sauté the chicken for 2 minutes on each side, or until the coconut is golden. Add the chicken broth, transfer the skillet to a preheated 375°F. oven, and bake the chicken for 10 to 12 minutes, or until it is just cooked through. Divide the sauce between 2 large plates and arrange the chicken on it.
Great with steamed, buttered broccoli or seared spinach with garlic & lemon.
My quick method for roasting peppers:
Note: I don't take the skins off for this quick roasting method, which will slightly change the texture of something like a pureed sauce, but for me it doesn't matter – I'm more of a rustic style cook than a high-tech gal, and these quick roasted peppers work well in a variety of dishes, including this coconut chicken recipe.
Cut the pepper in half. Scoop out seeds. Slice peppers into thin strips and arrange on a baking sheet lined with unbleached parchment paper. Roast in a pre-heated 350F oven for 15 - 20 minutes or until wilted and slightly dried out. Voila!
Have you tried this coconut chicken recipe. What did you do differently? Would you add or change something?
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This year's Varsity will once again be one of the biggest events on the calendar in Leicester as teams go into battle to decide the city's best sporting university.
However, there is nothing new about De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) facing off with local rivals the University of Leicester as the sporting contest has a rich history.
DMU's rugby team in 1946
Whether playing or cheering, students have been part of the sporting showdown every March for an impressive 18 years.
Varsity started in 2000 with a men's rugby fixture, then rapidly developed and gathered momentum year-on-year.
The annual challenge now sees more than 740 students from DMU competing across 62 teams in 28 different sports.
Fiona Dick, DMU's Head of Sport, said it was great that Varsity had grown over the years to become "bigger and better than ever before."
She said: "We absolutely love how Varsity sees so many students supporting each other.
"We see team members going to support other sports and that support is passed down to friends and housemates even if they have never picked up a bat or ball in their lives. The thought of a good sporting challenge brings everyone together.
"Varsity really exemplifies how everyone feels proud to be part of DMU and how they strive to be the best."
DMU's cricket team in 1938
Delving into the archives, the history of student sports clubs dates back nearly 100 years putting DMU firmly on the map as a sports-loving university.
Back in the 1930s, tennis remained a firm favourite but the popularity of sport was gathering pace with several new clubs set up at The Leicester Colleges of Art and Technology, which became DMU.
In July 1931, the Leicester Mercury reported on the first ever annual sports day between the then Colleges – which was postponed by a week because of rain. For at least 10 years, the most sought-after event at the sports day was the tug of war competition, as it was always a close call between the Cricket Club and the Pharmacy Department.
DMU's American Football team in 2001
In November 1934, sports clubs on offer included cricket, hockey, football, tennis and table tennis. There were 22 playing and seven non-playing members in the cricket 1st team, and they got 14 out of 30 points to come fifth in the league.
The women's hockey team had a new uniform, playing in Students' Union ties with white blouses and navy gymslips, and they had tea together after each match, with strict rules that all food consumed had to be paid for by the consumer!
In June 1938, there was a new gymnasium, the formation of a Department of Physical Education and the first Inter-Colleges Championships and the College came in 2nd out of six local institutions. The student magazine noted 'this should be looked upon as a credible performance as this was the first occasion the College had tried its athletic strength against other colleges.'
Fast-forward to 1950 and freshers were issued a warning that Honorary Secretaries of sports clubs were 'like birds of prey as they pray that you will join their club.' The rugby club had its strongest ever membership with 40 students and basketball had over 80 members.
DMU's staff newsletter getting behind Varsity in 2001
In November 1952, there were talks about encouraging students to take a more active role in college sports so that students were 'not just index numbers but active members of the community.' Students from courses such as dress design and cabinet making could now also sign up to basketball, swimming and sailing clubs.
In that year, the rugby team added 'weight and enthusiasm to the pack' with some newcomers, and set up Rugger Week as the well-established club was 'getting stuck in a rut.'
Meanwhile, footballers were instructed to 'combine their individual talent into a working unit,' and sailing wasn't for the faint-hearted after two boats were caught in fierce squall and capsized. The cricket club was struggling with members only playing on an occasional basis – only one out of 30 players had played in every match – and the men's hockey team was searching for someone to play in goal.
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The Colleges became Leicester Polytechnic then DMU, and in 2000 the men's rugby team first came together with the University of Leicester, then again in 2001.
Then from 2002 Varsity really started to increase its profile as DMU and the University of Leicester men's rugby teams played at Welford Road for the first time. DMU's student magazine reported: 'For the first time ever the two titans of Leicester student rugby will face up to each other at Welford Road, the home of the Tigers. It is a great sporting event not to be missed.'
The women's rugby team also started playing each other in 2002, but their fixtures only moved to Welford Road in 2004.
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DMU is a dynamic university, read about what we have been up to in our latest news section.
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Read about our mission and vision and how these create a supportive and exciting learning environment.


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Bill Maher Vs Bill O'Reilly on Religion
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Bill Maher really lets O'Reilly have it! Pointing out the horrors of the Bible!
I love the part were after O'Reilly points out that the bible shouldn't be taken literally, he states that Jesus could feed all the hungry in America because he could "multiply the fishes and bread." magically!
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A two-year pilot project in Cardiff has treated more patients with books than were seen by psychologists.
Now the Welsh Assembly Government is to extend self-help through libraries and GPs across the whole of the country.
But Graham Cox from Depression Alliance Cymru said patients should have been consulted on the books offered.
Mr Cox has had a history of depression and is a firm believer in the benefits of self-help literature.
"I threatened to blow my brains out," he said, "I didn't understand what was happening to me.
"I didn't know what to ask for, or what was available to me.
"I was eventually taken under a psychiatrist in Pontypridd and in two years I never saw the same one twice."
Stress management
But in those years he started to read books about his condition, and learned a little about his medication, diet, a range of therapies and stress management.
He claimed most of the 250,000 people suffering from depression in Wales could be helped at an early stage with the help of a self-help manual.
"That's why we are cautiously welcoming this scheme, as part of a package of treatment," he said.
"Our concern is that someone turns up with depression and is just given a book."
But the extended scheme was welcomed by film-maker Melissa Gunasena, whose film Evolving Minds, exploring the relationships between psychosis and spirituality and the alternatives to psychiatry, was shown in Cardiff this week.
"Anything that encourages GPs away from blanket medicating patients is very welcome," she said.
"Even changes in diet can make a huge difference people's mental and emotional well being. Anything that helps people look at their own condition has got to be a positive step."
The man who devised the prescription book scheme, Professor Neil Frude, a consultant psychologist at Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, said: "We launched the scheme in March 2003 in Cardiff, now it's been copied in 45 areas across the UK.
"Ninety per cent of mild to moderate psychological problems are treated in primary care.
"And the benefit of the scheme is that patients can be given similar treatments in a book that they would receive in counselling."
A list of 33 books has been compiled by medical experts in Wales and they will all be available through GPs and libraries across Wales, but the patients' groups have not been consulted on the list.
Mr Cox feared some books may be beyond the reach of many patients who need help.
"A key criticism is that they are not accessible to a group of people whose depression impairs their ability to concentrate and thus read books," he said.
The World Health organisation estimates six per cent of men and almost 10 per cent of women suffer a depressive episode every year.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: So What Am I Looking For?
Re: So What Am I Looking For?
From: Tony Lainson <t.lainson_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:47:55 +1100
> So far, all I've found for this player is:
Try ebay.com.au. A search for "iriver h340 -remote -charger -case -pkg
I wish I'd thought of ebay before sending off my money to
Tony Lainson
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to take your thought about employment to the next logical step, does that make Rush a b*** job creator ?
Well the Private sector ain't doing such a grand job but you want me to trust my means of transportation in their hands when their goal is simply to squeeze maximum profit from me. I think I'll go with a balance where my government intervenes when necessary and checks the raw power of money
doesn't matter, even if the GOP could clone Reagan they wouldn't vote for him with his track record :)
when looking at the chart note that President Obama has only been in the White House since 2009. I have a feeling though, Steve Kelly will vote for anyone the republican's choose, be it Newt, Mitt, Sant, the gnome, a dead grizzly bear
Well speculators are a part of it, the real cause for rise in gas prices, the oil finery (read texas refineries in particular) don't make enough money refining gas so they've shut down Refineries. To give the president influence over gas prices, the Government has to own Refineries, I wonder what the GOP presidential candidates will say about that "Socialism anyone ? "
Gas went up above 4 bucks during the Bush Administration, I can't remember Fox News even saying it once. At least the media (I wish Liberal Media) does give it enough credence (it's not that important a story yet and only Fox News makes it a big deal cause any economic bad news is good news when a "Demo" Crat is in the White House.
He's better than the myth the right has created :)
you mean every 1% wins
Well if there are and your GOP had a platform to show case those women, why pray tell did they put together an all Male Panel in the first place. I have come to accept (not approve) of them putting together "experts" that just say what they want no room for arguement and all, but explain that glaring omission please !


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This is the first bullaun stone that you reach in this field full of bullauns. It is an earthfast boulder that stands 1m proud of the ground level. The upper surface is flat and has a single, centrally placed bulaun that is about 30cm in diameter.
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There are several bullauns in this field that I totally failed to find the last time I was here - it was a miserablle day. As we were going looking for these (Andy had already found them and was showing me where they are) we had to pass this beauty again. A good opportunity to take a better photo.
This is an explanation of (and a bit of a disclaimer for) the coordinates I provide.
Where a GPS figure is given this is the master for all other coordinates. According to my Garmin these are quite accurate.
Where there is no GPS figure the 6 figure grid reference is master for the others. This may not be very accurate as it could have come from the OS maps and could have been read by eye. Consequently, all other cordinates are going to have inaccuracies.
The calculation of Longitude and Latitude uses an algorithm that is not 100% accurate. The long/lat figures are used as a basis for calculating the UTM & ITM coordinates. Consequently, UTM & ITM coordinates are slightly out.
UTM is a global coordinate system - Universal Transverse Mercator - that is at the core of the GPS system.
ITM is the new coordinate system - Irish Transverse Mercator - that is more accurate and more GPS friendly than the Irish Grid Reference system. This will be used on the next generation of Irish OS maps.