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Posted: 06 August 2007 at 14:18
Now that The Lancet has published a spurious 'meta study' that claims cannabis is definitely 'linked' to mental illness, I thought it might be instructive to look back at the last 100 years of cannabis research.
The meta-study in The Lancet is a statistical comparison of recent studies. The list below is not a statistical analysis, but simply compares 100 years of exhaustive research to the new (ahem) data. Makes for interesting reading
NB - The list does not include two recent Lancet studies (1995 and 1999?) that found no link between cannabis and mental illness. For some reason, these important findings did not receive nearly so much attention as most recent one. Go figure...
This list was summarised from the document at:
The commission has come to the conclusion that moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all.
The influence of [marihuana]... has apparently been greatly exaggerated...There is no evidence ... that it has any appreciably deleterious influence on the individual using it.
... use of the drug is not widespread and ... its effects upon military efficiency and upon discipline are not great.
No link was found between cannabis use and any delinquency or morale problems.
There [is] no direct relationship between the commission of crimes of violence and marihuana ... and marihuana itself has no specific stimulant effect in regard to sexual desires. The use of marihuana does not lead to morphine or cocaine or heroin addiction.
BRITISH ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUG DEPENDENCE (Wooton Report 1969)
We think that the dangers of [marihuana] use as commonly accepted in the past ... have been overstated ... There is no evidence that in Western society serious physical dangers are directly associated with the smoking of cannabis ... The association in legislation of cannabis and heroin ... is inappropriate and new legislation to deal specifically and separately with cannabis ... should be introduced as soon as possible ... Possession of a small amount of cannabis ... should not be punished by imprisonment ... Sale or supply of cannabis should be punishable ... with a fine not exceeding £100, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding four months.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT The Non-Medical Use of Drugs (1970)
Physical dependence to cannabis has not been demonstrated and it would appear that there are normally no adverse physiological effects ... occurring with abstinence from the drug, even in regular users .... Since cannabis is clearly not a narcotic we recommend that the control of cannabis be removed from the Narcotic Control Act .... The Commission is of the opinion that no one should be liable to imprisonment for simple possession.
In summary, at typical doses of cannabis use, few acute physiological effects have been detected. Those which have been identified generally seem to have little clinical significance. Even at relatively high doses, few substantial physiological changes occur.
A large amount of research has been performed on man and animals regarding the immediate effect of marijuana on bodily processes. No conclusive evidence exists of any physical damage, disturbances of bodily processes or proven human fatalities attributable solely to even very high doses of marijuana.
These few consistently observed transient effects on the bodily function seem to suggest that marijuana is a rather unexciting compound of negligible immediate toxicity at the doses usually consumed in this country. The substance is predominantly a psychoactive drug. The feelings and state of consciousness described by the intoxicated seem to be far more interesting than the objective state noted by an observer.
[In a study of very heavy marijuana use in Jamaica, no] significant physical or mental abnormalities could be attributed to marijuana use, according to an evaluation of medical history, complete physical examination, chest x-ray, electrocardiogram, blood cell and chemistry tests, lung, liver or kidney function tests, selected hormone evaluation, and psychological testing. There was no evidence to indicate that the drug as commonly used was responsible for producing birth defects in offspring of users.
There is little proven danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of natural preparations of cannabis .... Existing social and legal policy is out of proportion to the individual and social harm engendered by the drug .... Marihuana's relative potential for harm to the vast majority of individual users and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it.
WERKGROEP VERDOVENDE MIDDELEN - Background and Risks of Drug Use, (1972)
Cannabis does not produce tolerance or physical dependence. The physiological effects of the use of cannabis are of a relatively harmless nature ... The current law does not respect the fact that the risks of the use of cannabis cannot be equaled to the risks of the use of substances that are pharmacologically much more potent ... This hurts the credibility of the drug law, and the prevention efforts based on the law are made untrustworthy.
"the first intensive,
multidisciplinary study of cannabis use and users to be published." The
study examined the legislation, ethnohistory, and social complex of ganja, and
the acute effects of smoking in a natural setting. The subjects were thirty males who had smoked an average of seven
marijuana cigarettes of relatively high potency each day for an average of
seventeen years, and thirty controls. Clinical studies evaluated
respiratory function and hematology, electroencephalography, and psychiatric
condition. Finally, psychological assessments were made of the subjects. The
results of the study support the findings of the National and Canadian
Commissions; no significant physiological or psychological differences were
found between long-term smokers and non-smokers, there was no evidence of
physical dependency (addiction), severe overdose reactions, insanity, cerebral
atrophy, brain damage, personality deterioration, or "amotivational
While Americans are concerned with the alleged
"amotivational" and drug-escalation effects of marihuana, ganja in
This study indicates that there is little correlation between use of ganja and crime, except insofar as the possession and cultivation of ganja are technically crimes. There were no indications of organic brain damage or chromosome damage among the subjects and no significant clinical (psychiatric, psychological or medical) differences between the smokers and controls....
Despite its illegality, ganja use is pervasive, and
duration and frequency are very high; it is smoked over a longer period in
greater quantities with greater THC potency than in the
REPORT OF DOMESTIC COUNCIL DRUG ABUSE TASK FORCE - "White Paper on Drug Abuse" 1975 (this is the report that Nixon threw in the garbage, I think)
The report urged that marijuana possession
offenses be "de-emphasized" because they posed the least risk of harm
to the individual and to society of the drugs commonly used in the
Additional studies have been published which indicate that even very heavy use of cannabis over long periods of time does not have deleterious physiological or psychological effects. See, e.g., Mendelson, Behavioral and Biological Concomitants of Chronic Marihuana Use (U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command - 1974) [released to public in November 1975] (finding no significant adverse effects on physiological, cognitive or neurological functioning following chronic marijuana smoking, including no changes in testosterone levels following chronic marijuana smoking).
THE GREEK STUDY (1976) Hashish, A Study of Long-Term Use,
In a 1975 study of hashish smokers in
The main finding of the study, which was
sponsored by the
One of the most striking facts concerning cannabis is that its acute toxicity is low compared with that of any other drugs... No major health effects have manifested themselves in the community ... Legal controls [should] not [be] of such a nature as to...cause more social damage than use of the drug ... Cannabis legislation should be enacted that recognises the significant differences between ... narcotics and cannabis in their health effects ... Possession of marihuana for personal use should no longer be a criminal offence.
In 1971, the National Institutes of Health
and the
The NIH refused to accept the final report for publication and demanded that it be rewritten three times. Still not satisfied, they had it rewritten again by another editor and ultimately printed only 300 copies. A copy of the original version was leaked to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Committee recommended the immediate decriminalization of marijuana, and in the long run, its regulation and taxation. The Committee found no clear evidence that marijuana use leads to any long-term health consequences.
Committee concluded that no causal relationship had been established between marijuana use and undesirable behavior.
The potential effects on the development of adolescents, the Committee's primary concern, are not at issue because the right advocated herein applies strictly to adults.
In the final analysis, any potential danger associated with marijuana use was not seen as serious enough to override the factors weighing in favor of decriminalization.
Over the past forty years, marijuana has been accused of causing an array of anti-social effects including ... provoking crime and violence,.. leading to heroin addiction,.. and destroying the American work ethic in young people. [These] beliefs ... have not been substantiated by scientific evidence...The advantages of a policy of regulation include ... the savings in economic and social costs of law enforcement ..., better controls over the quality and safety of the product, and, possibly, increased credibility of warnings about risks ... persuasion rather than prosecution ... [enforcement] on the edge of constitutional limitations ... [will foster] disrespect for all law and the system in general.
THE EXPERT GROUP Report on Effects of Cannabis Use, (1982)
...there is insufficient evidence to enable us to reach incontestable conclusions as to the effects on the human body of the use of cannabis... There is evidence to suggest that the therapeutic use of cannabis or of substances derived from it for the treatment of certain medical conditions may, after further research, prove to be beneficial.
In 1981, two UCLA psychologists, Drs.
Ungerleider and Schaeffer, tested the physical and mental health of ten members
of the Jamaica-based Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church. The church, which has
official recognition from governments in
The study showed absolutely no brain differences between the subjects and non-smokers - nor did it confirm the increase in IQs claimed by the Coptics.
Various agencies petitioned to have marijuana reclassified from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance under the Controlled Substance Act. In addition to finding that there were valid and accepted medical uses for marijuana, and recommending that marijuana be reclassified so that it might be available by prescription, Judge Young made the following findings of fact:
4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality.
5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death
6. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, caused hundreds of deaths each year.
7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researches have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researches have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.
15. In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death.
16. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care.
Id at 56-59.
Australia experiences more harm ... from maintaining cannabis prohibition policy than it experiences from the use of the drug ... We conclude that cannabis law reform is required in this country...Any social policy should be reviewed when there is reason to believe that the costs of administering it outweigh the harms reduced.
Cannabis is not very physically toxic ...Everything that we now know...leads to the conclusion that the risks of cannabis use cannot ... be described as 'unacceptable'...It has been demonstrated that the more or less free sale of ... [marihuana] for personal use in the Netherlands has not given rise to levels of use significantly higher than in countries which pursue a highly repressive policy ... Dutch policy on drugs over the last twenty years...can be considered to have been successful.
The potential therapeutic value of cannabinoids is extremely broad... Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs, primarily THC, for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation...The psychological effects of cannabinoids, such as anxiety reduction, sedation, and euphoria can influence their potential therapeutic value... Marijuana plants have been used since antiquity for both herbal medication and intoxication...
In general population, marijuana use is not associated with increased mortality. There is no conclusive evidence that marijuana causes cancer in humans, including cancers usually related to tobacco use ... the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range tolerated for other medications...Few marijuana users develop dependence...[are] less likely to do so than users of other drugs (including alcohol and nicotine) and marijuana dependence...[is] less severe than dependence on other drugs...Marijuana and THC withdrawal...is mild and subtle compared with the profound physical syndrome of alcohol or heroin withdrawal....
Cannabinoids are an interesting group of compounds with potentially far-reaching therapeutic applications ... but the road to market...is expensive ... and studded with scientific, regulatory, and commercial obstacles. There is no evidence that marijuana serves as a stepping stone on the basis of its particular physiological effect...Instead, the legal status of marijuana makes it a gateway drug.
The U.S. Government's response to the overwhelming evidence from all the studies attesting to the beneficial qualities of cannabis is typified by remarks made by James O. Mason, head of the U.S. Public Health Service.
In early June 1991, the Deputy Director of National Drug Control Policy, Herbert D. Kleber, assured a national television audience that anyone with a legitimate medical need for cannabis would be able to obtain a permit. A few weeks later, however, Mason announced that the program would be suspended because it undercut the Bush administration's "War on Drugs":
If it is perceived that the Public Health Service is going around giving marihuana to folks, there would be a perception that this stuff can't be so bad. It gives a bad signal. I don't mind helping these people ... but there is not a shred of evidence that smoking marihuana assists a person with AIDS.
The program was discontinued in March 1992,
and 28 patients whose applications had already been approved were denied the
promised relief. The few patients who were already receiving legal cannabis
continued to be supplied with the drug. As of 1996, only eight people are
allowed what is for all others a forbidden medicine. In spite of the latest study,
by the
Cannabis is undoubtedly one of the most thoroughly studied psychoactive substances known to man and certainly has the longest history of use, with the possible exception of alcohol. In thousands of years of use by millions of people, it has proven to be relatively harmless as compared to even the most benign-seeming drugs and has never been shown to cause even a single death.
© Copyright WPT 2002
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|Quote Reply Posted: 07 September 2007 at 19:50
i think alot of the effects from using marijuana (smoking/ingesting/external applications) greatly differ from person to person and these statements of cannabis being the key to mental illness is in my opinion testament to the media flexing there muscles because they can, dont under estimate the powerful and influential medium that is the media, they could provide proof that eating 5 portions of fruit and veg a day can make you go blind, infertile and want to bite off your own toes if they wanted...and there audience would be very open to absorb such crap too.
the media in this country likes to pigeon hole absolutely everything (including humans)
if heroin can be used in medicine and even synthesised along with cocain (both primarily within the healthcare and dentistry professions) then why cant cannabis?
all three are plant derived and serve a pupose
there are alot of things in life that can be benificial in moderation that in excess are damaging, alot of which can be visual and aural, like if you drink too many stella you might want to punch someone in the face or if you smoke too much you might not be able to run the london marathon....surely alot of it has to do with the individual seeing, hearing and experimenting? the persons complete identity, life influences etc cannot ever be replicated and are completely unique?
while this is going on...fake sugar, fake colouring, fake flavouring, synthetic depression tablets/drugs and genetically modified food ingredients are ok to be manufactured ,sold to kids and reep vast amounts of revinue with little research and regard to future consequences!
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|Quote Reply Posted: 08 September 2007 at 02:24
hear hear, i agree whole heartedly with what you say dan, long life t ya
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|Quote Reply Posted: 08 September 2007 at 03:14
oh thanks ganja missed it for some month, eh .?
very intresting reading,but I where are the studys from this century ? ... must be its copyrighted only two years into the 21th cent
gd smoke !
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|Quote Reply Posted: 01 October 2007 at 17:37
Let's just see if im right. This is good, huh?
The results are prooving that the bieffects when using marijuana has been very exadurated (something we already knew).
If it's like that, why don't countries pay any attention what so ever? :S
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|Quote Reply Posted: 20 January 2009 at 19:42
Below is a comment from a friend of a friend. I e mailed him a copy of what ganja put up.
I made sure that i mentioned this was taken from a forum and titled it "an interesting read"
For the life of me i'm not quite sure what he's getting at.
'Interesting forward, we could get a good discussion going on this? The website http://www.
Anyhow the conclusions of the Moore et al. study which appeared in the Lancet did stretch their actual results. At the end of the day the findings of a meta analysis can, and frequently are, flavored by the authors exclusion criteria and at the end of the day aren't a substitute for experimental results. As stated by Merete Nordentoft in the comments section of the Lancet, "The ultimate proof of a causal relation would be a large-scale placebo-controlled randomised trial of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (the principal psychoactive component of cannabis) exposure in healthy young people with long-term follow-up..."
The 1995 Lancet editorial began with the since much-quoted words: "The smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health." In this issue (2007) they conceded that "Research published since 1995, including Moore's systematic review in this issue, leads us now to conclude that cannabis use could increase the risk of psychotic illness..." Still a hazy issue really so.
At the below blog there's a detailed argument posted (with lots of good pubmed links to articles) about why cannabis is not congenial to the mental health of many of its users. http://andrewsullivan.
Anyhow have a look through the blog and Lancet articles / study, attached. Comments?'
Does anyone have any comments suggestions?
"It is possible that a certain amount of brain damage is of therapeutic value."
Dr Paul Hoch
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|Quote Reply Posted: 27 June 2011 at 12:57
Nice investgation You did. Your my kinda nigga!!! Yeah!!!
Martin Luther King:"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny"
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|Quote Reply Posted: 07 July 2011 at 05:44
that don't mean everybody should smoke though
I know some fellows that turn a little edgy and shady with a little green touch....
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|Quote Reply Posted: 27 February 2012 at 21:38
I love smoking skunk and have grown it for many years, smoking the strongest strains can effect you a little.mainly if you already have any insecurities or have any mental health issues, which I don't...Anyone with such like conditions can still enjoy smoking,they should just be aware.I have suffered my self from the FEAR at times, and found having smoked for the last 27years on a daily basis that Sativa is a much more preferable smoke for me.The Indica high can leave you feeling a little antisocial and cagey so try something else with a different cross percentage.I have just tried to find the right strains that work for me.It works!
Much respect to all,and the connoisseurs who support the weeds existence to us all.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 30 August 2012 at 11:06
now there is a new zealand report... to stupid for words actualy..
exactly the opposit conclusions of how it realy works.
Its a scientific report which means a logic report.
logic means :
1 and 1 = 2 AND -1 and -1 = -2
so logic has 2 faces true and untrue
every conclusion has 2 possibilities.
i wrote before about darwin:
apes come from humans that is ther same true as humans came from apes.
Can you imagine if the NZ report would conclude that you get more clever from smoking weed????
so they turned the conclusion around and the government is satisfied with the conclusion and the scientist gets money for a new investigation, scientific research.
so logic is like a jojo, you can conclude what you want and need.
cocacola is healty etc. its all possible with logic.
1 and 1 =2 and the opposit is true too
which one is common to say this or the opposit is true?
Scientist usualy take the one that makes most money..
mainly the most money for the firm or govermendt that pays the receipt of the investigation.
And if you think more and more about this logic science..wich is much younger than our favorit plant,
you start to see that logic chooses always the result that is against nature.
i believe in nature , i stand above logic science. logic is a part of philosophy science and again with philosophy you can go al the way you want, its for every person different. my philosofy about life is different than yours! Always !
1 coincedence: love can make people have the same thoughts, and money too.
Thats why i could if i would earn a $100000 on this site!
i wrote before there is nothing pure in this world!
so young people have a lower iq , they say, its not true they have much more
brains than not smokers, the problem is the government cant use clever children in there system, saying you get more stupid from smoking the holy plant is the most stupid thing i have heard about the plant.
The plant can be evil too..
the plant decides how it will work out, for every person in a different way!
ugh i have spoken again, ugh,ugh.
Some say friends do not exist, we cant make words for things that do not exist...
Willie van het Kerkhof, Groningen NL
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A recent article from the US highlighted the effects of chronic conditions on quality of life among survivors of childhood cancers.[1] Yeh et al (2016) showed that having multiple and severe chronic health conditions reduced quality of life in childhood cancer survivors.[1] One of our recent students (Ramon Tillemans) has just completed a study which also showed that multiple health conditions, among other factors, affects quality of life in childhood cancer survivors in Australia.
Working with data collected as part of the Behavioural Sciences Unit's Long-Term Follow-Up Study, Ramon sought to understand the factors influencing the quality of life of childhood cancer survivors and parents. Childhood cancer survivors aged over 16 years, and parents of those aged under 16 years, who had completed treatment more than five years ago provided information on socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as quality of life.
Our data from 317 childhood cancer survivors and 153 parents of survivors from 10 Australian and New Zealand hospitals showed that survivors often experienced pain/discomfort, and anxiety/ depression. Both survivor and parent quality of life were heavily influenced by their current health status, but differed with respect to the influence of other factors. Survivors' quality of life was also affected by prior therapies received, having other health conditions, and their use of financial support. In contrast, parents' quality of life was affected by private health insurance status, and their child's quality of life range.
Overall, this project has showed some important similarities and differences about the factors that influence quality of life in childhood cancer survivors and the parents in Australia and New Zealand. Data from this study will continue to accumulate allowing further opportunities to look at outcomes. In the meantime, look out for publications of the full results which are on the horizon.
- Yeh JM, Hanmer J, Ward ZJ, et al. Chronic Conditions and Utility-Based Health-related Quality of Life in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors. J Natl Cancer Inst 2016; 108.
This blog is co-authored by Richard De Abreu Lourenco (Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE), University of Technology Sydney) and the Behavioural Sciences Unit (BSU). Ramon Tillemans (read more about Ramon here) was supervised by Mr De Abreu Lourenco along with A/Prof Claire Wakefield and Dr Joanna Fardell (BSU). This blog is based on an article originally published in the Cancer Research Economics Support Team (CREST) newsletter, available at: http://www.crest.uts.edu.au/pdfs/Newsletter_June_2016.pdf
The Behavioural Sciences Unit is Proudly Supported by the Kids with Cancer Foundation.

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John Finley Walk Vision Planning
In furtherance of CIVITAS's Reimagining the Waterfront initiative, we are pleased to announce a new community-based vision for the John Finley Walk section of the East River Esplanade (81st-84th Streets). During May and June, CIVITAS, with support from Council Member Ben Kallos, facilitated two visioning sessions for community residents to solicit priorities for possible improvements to this section of the Esplanade. Residents of buildings facing John Finley Walk filled out an extensive survey that enabled CIVITAS to collect data and statistically measure how the neighborhood would like to see improvements implemented. A concerted effort was made to focus on and recommend those improvements that received the most support from these immediate neighbors and from a majority of other community residents that participated in this visioning process.
Survey questions revolved around issues of access, seating, vegetation, demarcation of passive versus active uses along John Finley Walk, lighting, gate removal, and the city structure currently used by the Brearley School. Strong support emerged for increasing vegetation, improved lighting, demarcation of uses, removal of the gate between 83rd and 84th Street, and remediating or removing the city structure used by Brearley.
Based on the survey results, CIVITAS recommended that Council Member Kallos provide support and seek funding for a series of improvements. He will be making those recommendations to both the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Transportation. Drawings produced by CIVITAS consultants, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, will be used to communicate these recommendations to the aforementioned city departments along with Council Member Kallos's allocation of funding for this purpose.
"We are rebuilding the East River Esplanade brick by brick and dollar by dollar to connect 60th street to 125th street in one seamless park. John Finley walk from 81st street to 84th will receive the attention it needs to go from roadway to greenway," said Ben Kallos, Co-Chair of the East River Esplanade Task Force with Congress Member Maloney. "Thank you to CIVITAS for convening the community and providing a shared vision for the East River Esplanade."
The reimagining of John Finley Walk adds to important improvements currently in progress along the Esplanade, including the dedication of funds by New York City and State elected officials to the restoration of Pier 107 in East Harlem and Rockefeller University's renovation and enhancement of the Esplanade from 64th to 68th Street on the Upper East Side.
To view these documents, please use the links below:
May 17th Vision Planning Session Presentation
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Year 9 camp is held at Roses Gap in the Grampians for four days. 104 students attend camp one week whilst the remaining 104 students attend the second week. Roses Gap provides the opportunity to travel outside comfort zones and experience new things. The Year 9 students will have the opportunity to undertake activities such as abseiling, canoeing, and vertical play pen in addition to various House competitions and a talent quest night. Camp allows students to form new friendships and strengthen the ones they have begun creating since the beginning of the year. Students gain a better understanding of their peers and teachers who will be with them for the rest of their high school journey at Nossal.
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Year 9 Leadership Camp is held for a duration of five days and is aimed at developing the skills of the Year 9 leaders. They are given the opportunity to negotiate their activities and the program. At Leadership Camp students form strong friendships, gain a deeper appreciation for the natural environment that surrounds them, and are taken outside their comfort zones creating potential leaders for tomorrow. Year 9 Leadership Camp is designed to provide an exhilarating experience for students who wish to become better leaders for the future.
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The Year 10 Study Conference is held for two days at Nossal High School and is designed to prepare the students of Year 10 for VCE and beyond. The students experience various workshops designed to assist them in decision making that will be essential in the years to come. They also gain knowledge on important techniques such as study skills, career paths, university prerequisites, VCE scaling and the importance of the ATAR. The Study Conference also includes a number of activities to help with relaxation and to teach students how to manage the stresses and difficulties that may come with the senior years of schooling. Various speakers lecture on important aspects of physical and mental health as well as providing tips on how to be successful in life, and how to discover your identity and place in the world.
Year 10/11 Central Australia Tour – Optional
Understanding the diverse environment, the distance and cultural characteristics of Australia is a crucial part of becoming an active citizen and leader in this country. Whilst many of our students have the opportunity to experience overseas travel with their families, very few have the opportunity to see outback Australia. This tour runs annually (based on numbers of 40-45) taking in the scenic beauty of central Australia including the iconic destinations of Uluru, Kata Tjuta, King's Canyon and Alice Springs. Students will camp in tents (provided) throughout the trip. The trip is timed to coincide with Year 10 Work Experience and the beginning of the mid-year holidays, so that students wishing to participate will not miss classes; participating students can complete work experience during a week of the subsequent school holidays.
France/New Caledonia Study Tour – biannually – Optional
Every other year, students studying French from Year 10-12 have the opportunity to take part in a study tour to a French-speaking country. Students have the opportunity to travel to New Caledonia or France depending on interest. Students stay with a host family for part of the trip, take part in intensive language classes and also have the opportunity to undertake sight-seeing and cultural activities. In France, students get to see some of the most famous sights of France – the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, The Palace of Versailles – and to immerse themselves in the sights, sounds and flavours of both the capital and other regions of the country. The homestay and immersion classes allow students to really make the most of the trip to extend their language skills and their cultural understanding of France. We are also looking into the possibility of hosting French students, in non-tour years, working together with Suzanne Cory High School.
Japanese Study Tour – biannually – Optional
Each even year (2016, 2018…) Nossal High School arranges a Tour to Japan. This tour is open to students in years 9 through 12. However, preference will go to students in years 10 to 12 who are studying Japanese at Nossal High School. The Japan Tour aims to give students an opportunity to use Japanese and appreciate the complexity and vibrancy of Japanese culture in an authentic setting. Students stay with a Japanese family and attend school in Japan (Chosei Senior High School in Chiba Prefecture) for a week. Additionally, they have the opportunity to stay in Japanese style accommodation, both modern and traditional, and visit urban and rural areas in the Kansai and Kanto regions. The Tour is costed to include all airfares, transfers, accommodation, transport, meals, entrance to cultural sites and general spending money, offering parents and students scope to work within a $4000 to $5000 budget. A full itinerary is published on the Nossal website and a Tour Blog is created for parents to follow while the students are in Japan.
In the odd years, students and their families have the opportunity to host a student from Japan. We will host students and staff from Chosei Senior High School in Chiba Prefecture for a week during their biannual tour to Victoria. Students who attend the Japan Tour agree to participate in activities during the reciprocal exchange with our Sister School, including hosting and/or taking part in outings and activities. Additionally, hosting exchange opportunities are available to all students studying Japanese.
Year 12 Lord Somer's Camp – Compulsory
In Year 12 all students attend a seaside camp at Lord Somers Camp situated in beautiful natural coastland on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. The location has spectacular coastline and magnificent beaches. It is an ideal venue for our students to explore sand, sea, surf and bush. The coastal environment and the many adventure based activities available on site, including surfing, paddle boarding, canoeing and others, provides students with time to relax and have fun before becoming immersed in the serious business of Year 12.


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Project Description
In 1994, the ethnic Hutu extremists (Interahamwe) in Rwanda initiated a genocidal attempt against Tutsis and slaughtered over 800,000 people in just 100 days. The captured and imprisoned perpetrators were later released back to their own home communities; they returned to live in the same Rwandan villages among the surviving family members of the murdered victims. This living condition has caused enormous interethnic, social, and personal tensions and conflicts, high levels of resentment and hostility toward the offenders among the surviving victims, and anguish, remorse, and guilt among the ex-prisoners. Reconciliation and healing from the scars and traumas of the genocide continue to be the central theme for bringing peace to people's minds and society in Rwanda today.
Project Overview
This is a large-scale program delivery project. It involves the development, implementation, and on-going refinement and evaluation of a reconciliation program called the Action-Based Psychosocial Reconciliation Approach (ABPRA) (Minami, 2014a,b). The Program is designed to foster interpersonal and interethnic reconciliation between the offenders and surviving victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and to help both groups move toward psychosocial healing and peaceful coexistence beyond unforgiveness, guilt, hatred, and anguish. The purpose of this project is to deliver the innovative ABPRA Program in Rwandan village communities and seek participant input for further refinement and evaluation of the Program. The Program has been developed and successfully pilot-tested by Masahiro Minami (2014a,b) on a small number of reconciliation dyads living in two remote villages in Rwanda. Minami's research has offered significant implications to personal and societal change and de-escalation of interethnic conflicts. The current large-scale project extends the delivery of the original ABPRA Program involving over 500 working pairs (n=1000+) in multiple Rwandan villages across the country.
Brief description of the ABPRA Program.
In a large peace-building and ethnic conflict-preventing framework, Minami developed and implemented the ABPRA as a method of facilitating interpersonal reconciliation in previously war-torn communities where interethnic conflicts and hostilities exist. Its theoretical foundation is formed by two main theories: (a) Morita therapy and (b) contact theory.
The ABPRA's principal approach is to engage conflicted members of a community in shared practical activities side by side (i.e., physical labour and performing tasks such as clearing lands, harvesting and husking corn, sorting coffee beans, repairing a house, producing bricks). Shared work takes place in the context of the former perpetrator's offering his labour as a concrete behavioural expression of his apology in response to the victim survivor's request for a fixed duration (2 hours, one day per week over eight weeks). This voluntary labour and task performance by the former perpetrators constitute the central part of their mutually shared time lasting for about seven hours (from 8.30am to 3.30pm) per day; see below. After the paired work activities, each participant is invited to share his/her experiences with the reconciliator. They then hold a conversation session facilitated by the reconciliator on their experiences and reflections in their mother tongue.
A Typical ABPRA Program's Day Schedule
|Reconciliator and staff trek to the village.
|Meet and greet the former perpetrator, and walk together to the survivor's home
|The former perpetrator greets the survivor and offers his labour for the day. The survivor assigns the labour of the day.
|The survivor and the former perpetrator collaboratively prepare for the labour (e.g., walking together to the field, sharpening machetes for harvesting, fetching water together to prepare for clay brick making, small talks).
|Collaborative engagements in practical labour tasks between the former perpetrator and the survivor based on the latter's request
|Cleaning, mingling, and small talks
|Lunch break (taking lunch separately)
|Participant #1: Individual debriefing of the joint labour experience with the reconciliator
|Participant #2: Individual debriefing of the joint labour experience with the reconciliator
|Mingling together for sharing experiences/conversations with each other and the reconciliator; planning for next week
|The reconciliator and staff trek back to the city.
Scope of the project.
It is estimated that at least six years and the cost of 3.5 million dollar will be required to complete this project from the preparatory program development phase to the program delivery phase, and finally to the phase of knowledge dissemination and further program refinement and modification for future global applications beyond Rwanda. This project entails the following four phases:
- Preparation Phase (Year 1): Preparation for program delivery (e.g., program manual development, work with project allies and Rwandan government and institutions, and development of a psychosocial reconciliator training manual). Preparatory work for offering the ABPRA Program at multiple Rwandan sites will be carried out in liaison with various local partnership organizations in Rwanda (e.g., National Unity and Reconciliation Commission of Rwanda, Prison Fellowship Rwanda, and National University of Rwanda).
- Training Phase (Year 2): Psychosocial reconciliator training. Educating and training an international team of reconciliator candidates and project assistants will take place.
- Implementation Phase (Years 3, 4, and 5): Program implementation and on-going refinement of the ABPRA Program with evaluation and incorporation of participant feedback and reconciliators' observations regarding the Program. The ABPRA Program will be implemented in eight Rwandan villages involving a minimum of 350 working pairs (i.e., over 700 volunteer participants) during the course of three years.
- Dissemination Phase (Year 6): Dissemination of the information on the Program and its evaluation, international consultation and collaboration for possible global applications of the Program beyond Rwanda. Year 6 will be dedicated to consultations with international experts and the development of strategies and materials for disseminating information on the Program's outcomes and future recommendations. Further attempts will be made to refine the ABPRA Program's delivery format and ways of seeking participants' input for evaluating and improving the Program. Possible global implementation beyond Rwanda will be explored.
Throughout this project, we will be consulting and working with international experts on prevention of wars and conflicts, violence-related trauma, conflict resolution, and intercultural communication and collaboration throughout this project. Throughout the final year, we aim to communicate and collaborate with various international organizations for peace promotion and to explore possible ways of applying and implementing the ABPRA Program as a war prevention and peace building strategy beyond Rwanda.
Accessing and mobilizing resources for launching this project.
An international advisory committee will be formed. Consultation and collaboration with faculty members and researchers at the following educational and research institutions will be an integral part of the current project: University of British Columbia, University of Oxford, University of Exeter, Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine, and the Japanese Society for Morita Therapy. National and local Rwandan organizations (e.g., National Unity and Reconciliation Commission of Rwanda, Prison Fellowship Rwanda, and National University of Rwanda) will be serving as Program Allies to offer their resources of support and information and help establish local liaisons with communities where the Program will be delivered.
Featuring economic implications and global applications.
Economic implications and the potential value of the ABPRA Program and its framework for addressing interethnic conflicts in other parts of the world will be featured. For example, the economic aspect of this program will be examined through cost-effectiveness comparisons between the ABPRA Program and other programs/interventions currently offered by governments and non-government organizations. The estimated cost of providing ABPRA-based interventions to prevent future interethnic conflicts will be contrasted with the cost of intervening wars and interethnic conflicts through collaborations and consultations with economists. It is hoped that this project will result in the development of an effective, field-tested and evidence-based program protocol and stimulate its wider and effective application for promoting reconciliation, peace, and conflict de-escalation and prevention in Rwanda and other countries.
Morita Therapy and ABPRA Program
Morita therapy is a Japanese psychotherapy practised by psychiatrists and other health professionals and paraprofessionals since the 1920's. It emphasizes: (a) having an accepting stance toward affective conditions as they are without negation, preoccupation, or manipulative attempts to control, (b) redirecting self-focussed attention toward concrete activities and immersing self in practical tasks in the present, (c) revitalizing and mobilizing constructive desires for a productive and meaningful life and an improved lifestyle, (d) encouraging choice over action (vs. emotion) and appreciating the consequences of positive action, and (e) fostering a natural and spontaneous process of emotional healing (Ishiyama, 2003; Ishiyama & Minami, 2009).
This Moritian framework will be applied to the Rwandan context in this large-scale project. No attempts will be made to control or modify the participants' feelings and attitudes toward each other (e.g., anger, guilt, hatred, and ambivalence), nor will such demands be placed upon them throughout their program engagement. Instead, feelings and attitudes toward each other will be left to a natural and spontaneous course of change, while we facilitate participants to shift their focus onto concrete and practical activities leading to tangible and productive outcomes. Purposeful social contact will be thus sustained between survivors and perpetrators over time through shared work activities. The effectiveness and positive outcomes of the above approach in fostering interpersonal reconciliation has been demonstrated by Minami's (2014a,b) recent research.
This approach stands in contrast to more commonly and traditionally used psychological and affect-regulating approaches (e.g., forgiveness-based intervention) designed to help surviving victims learn to soften their anger and hostility and forgive the offenders. However, such approaches to changing victims' affect and attitudes and appeasing their strong, genuine and natural emotions (e.g., anger, hostility, and resentment) have limitations which can impede a natural healing process, as reflected in the following comment by an interviewed survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide: "Forgiving or not forgiving him, it's all the same to me. If I forgive I still have no peace. If I don't forgive, it's the same. What's inside me will never go away. I don't know if anything can remove what's inside of me!" (Hinson, 2009).
In Conclusion
The ABPRA Program offers a unique peace-building and ethnic conflict-preventing intervention framework as a method of fostering interpersonal reconciliation in previously war-torn communities and villages where risks of new or escalated interethnic conflicts and hostilities exist. It is expected that paired individuals' direct experiences of working together side by side and performing practical tasks will facilitate a spontaneous (vs. forced or intellectualized) reconciliation and healing process and foster a new relationship, positive feelings and attitudes toward the paired partner beyond the hatred, anger, guilt, remorse, and anguish that they have suffered for decades.
- Hinson, L. W. (Director). (2009). As we forgive. [Documentary]. Los Angeles, CA: Mpower Pictures.
- Ishiyama, F. I. (2003). A bending willow tree: A Japanese (Morita therapy) model of human nature and client change. Canadian Journal of Counselling, 37, 216-231.
- Ishiyama, F. I., & Minami, M. (2009). Application and features of a Morita therapy approach in clinical counselling: Deepening of authenticity and therapeutic turning points in a Canadian case. Japanese Journal of Morita Therapy, 20(2), 1-9.
- Minami, M. (2014a). Nurturing reconciliation. Therapy Today, 25(7), 10-13. http://www.therapytoday.net/article/show/4453/nurturing-reconciliation/
- Minami, M. (2014b). Development and field testing of action-based psychosocial reconciliation approach in post-genocide Rwanda (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/46864


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The Australian Diamonds are determined to farewell retiring defender Julie Corletto as a world champion when they face New Zealand in the Grand Final at the Netball World Cup SYDNEY 2015.
It will be Corletto's 52nd and final Test appearance and she will join the likes of Vicki Wilson, Shelley O'Donnell, Jenny Borlase, Liz Ellis and current Diamonds specialist coach Marg Caldow as a three-time world champion if Australia can triumph.
Corletto announced her retirement before the tournament and Australian shooter Caitlin Bassett said the rest of her teammates are excited by the opportunity to give the 28-year-old the fairytale finish she deserves.
"I think it's going to be an emotional game, especially for Julie and all of us who want to help end her career on a high," Bassett said
"It's going to be something important.
"Our focus has been to get to the gold medal match; it was never a given and that we weren't able to stroll there so it has been a lot of hard work for us over the last 10 days.
"Now that we are finally here, we can look to the match and start discussing those things."
Goal attack Natalie Medhurst, who was influential in Australia's semi-final win over Jamaica, will also join the group of triple world champions. Medhurst and Corletto were part of Australia's 2007 and 2011 triumphant teams.
It will be the sixth time that the Diamonds and Silver Ferns have met in the gold medal match since finals were introduced to the Netball World Cup format back in 1991 – when the tournament was last played in Sydney.
Australia and New Zealand have met 14 times in Netball World Cup history with the Diamonds triumphing nine times.
New Zealand beat Australia 52-47 earlier in the tournament and all week the Diamonds have been waiting for the opportunity at redemption for that result, which ended their 21-Test winning streak.
But Bassett said that performance by the Silver Ferns showed why the Diamonds would never underestimate their capabilities.
"You can't walk out there and not expect them to bring their best," Bassett declared.
"The fact that they do have a very different line up to what we're used to did throw us a little bit. We weren't super proud of that performance, it wasn't us playing at our best and we wasted far too much ball which is something that we're going to address.
"We've done a lot of hard work and watched them play the last few games and I think they definitely have had a tough pool to get through. We're going to be well prepared when we step out on court."
Bassett's battle with Silver Ferns captain Casey Kopua will be one of the game's crucial match ups while Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander is also wary of the impact Leana de Bruin has had coming into goal defence at half-time of New Zealand's matches to replace Katrina Grant.
"We have to be careful of Leana's long arms, that's the main thing and the playground in the circle that Casey and Leana do so well together," Alexander said.
"We have to carefully analyse what we're going to do and bring some variety to that. We need to be very focused on the task that we have – and we will be."
The Netball World Cup SYDNEY 2015 Grand Final between Australia and New Zealand will be broadcast live on FOX SPORTS, Network TEN and via the Netball Live app, available to download from the App Store and Google Play. Check your local guides for match details.


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Three Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi locations are now home to 11 vertical-axis wind turbines producing a combined total capacity of 92 kilowatts, making this the largest installation of its kind in the nation. With help from the area's unique high-speed afternoon winds, 300 tons of CO2 emissions will be displaced by the wind turbines each year. Another noteworthy accomplishment is that the 20-kilowatt vertical axis wind turbines are the largest of this type in the continental United States.
The installed vertical axis wind turbines will create opportunities for learning, research, and innovation to apply engineering principles to real-world wind power generation. In addition to educational benefits, the project will set an example of sustainability for the Coastal Bend region. The harvesting of wind energy for power generation will significantly increase the University's installed capacity of renewable energy, and greatly reduce its carbon footprint. The wind turbines will produce an estimated 217,946 kilowatt hours of electricity generated from renewable resources.
The wind turbines are distributed by 3eWerks and manufactured by Urban Green Energy, the world's leading manufacturer of vertical-axis wind turbines. The initiative was funded by a $955,000 Distributed Renewable Energy Technology Stimulus Grant from the State Energy Conservation Office with the University matching $265,000 in funds, for a total of $1.2 million for the project.
The 20-kilowatt wind turbines are 75 feet tall, while the 4-kilowatt turbines stand at 40 feet.


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We name him after Chili Palmer in another movie, "Get Shorty", but I think if Chilli were a person, he would have been the Dalai Lama. He just knew stuff. We got him from Quebec on a summer's day and he pretty much followed us everywhere for 15 years.
I wrote a poem for him and it's a funny one, I'm pretty sure he had a sense of humor. Besides, there is only one person I know who can write a "break your heart" kind of poem about their dog that works, and it's not me.
Funny how it still pains me after all this time.
We have a new dog now. We named him after Ozzy Osbourne. "Nuff said!
My Dog Chili
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Jesus wasn't nailed down for being a milkman, you know!
2. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Churchill knew nothing about dogs.
3. Which living person do you most admire?
If I said you, I would be lying. I like bumper stickers.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Not drinking out of the toilet and not listening to Pink.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Stalin really should have shaved off that mustache.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
Alchemy, meningitis and chocolate wafers.
7. What is your favourite journey?
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Some Germans have been known to eat squirrels.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
I love you.
10. Who are your favourite writers?
Sometimes paper clips, sometimes Joyce.
11. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
George Bush.
12. How would you like to die?
Spaghetti western.
13. What is your motto?
George Clooney can't lick his balls!


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Find accommodations in Plymouth with the hotel list provided below. Explore our guide for inexpensive and discount hotel/motel rates in or near Plymouth, MA for your corporate or personal leisure travel. We show the best Plymouth, Massachusetts hotel and motel rooms. Browse the Plymouth area hotels to find the perfect lodging! Please use the provided map of the Plymouth hotels. Planning a group? Lock in Plymouth Group Hotel Deals
The Plymouth center is around the area of Pilgrim Grist Mill and the area of Jenney Museum.
Plymouth, MA is one of the most historic towns in the United States. Besides the history of the Mayflower, Plymouth Rock and Plymouth Plantation, the beautiful working harbor, downtown shops and restaurants and natural beauty make Plymouth a wonderful town to visit. Fall in Plymouth is an amazing season! The leaves are changing and the local cranberry harvest is in full swing. Cranberry Bogs all over Plymouth County are flooded which create a beautiful crimson color against the backdrop of the changing leaves. History abounds in beautiful Plymouth, MA.
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Below are reviews of the city of Plymouth, MA from an actual visitor's perspective.
Pretty town, lovely restaurants as well as great harbor views.
Charming, historical with plenty to see.
Attended the Thanksgiving Hometown Parade the Saturday before Thanksgiving and it was fantastic.
Plymouth is a very nice city to visit. There is so much to do and see.
Tuscany Tavern! A small quaint restaurant on Court St. Make a reservation as it's tiny and you won't be disappointed! Best italian we've had in a long time!
Quiet area, historic. Not rowdy like others.


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Today, my allergist gave me a new inhaler. I said I needed to video him telling me how to use it so I will be able to do it at home. He took my iPhone and videoed me. I get home and what do I find on my iPhone?
This is all he got. A still shot. No inhaler in the pic. No video. He's like, 30 and has an iPhone.


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Lazer Frenzy laser maze is an exciting new arcade-style laser maze attraction with high-tech interactive game play and its use of lasers, mirrors, haze, effects, and unique theming. Inside the Lazer Frenzy laser maze guests will enjoy completing a variety of objectives while being surrounded by a web of laser beams they must navigate carefully just like in the spy movies to achieve the high score and complete their mission.
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Biting the Apple
by Jeanie Greensfelder
Penciled In, 2012
70 pages
Review by Ellee Prince
As I child, I wrote poems in angled and wandering cursive. I'd sprawl out on the carpet, usually in some bright square of sunlight, and press my pencil into my notebook's delicate pages. I'd write about coins on the ground, dogs in my neighbor's yard, the heart inside my body. I never felt that I got it right, but I savored the moments when an image seemed to hover above the page. I'd smile to myself and wonder if anyone else would understand.
I think poet Jeanie Greensfelder might. In her collection of poems, Biting the Apple, her words are rich with images and small moments. Like these lines in a poem titled, "The Bad Apple," each word emerges from the page like ripe fruit, ready for picking:
One day with no one home
I dare the dark basement
and pick a perfect apple.
Upstairs I cut it crosswise
and eat around the stars.
Greensfelder's collection of poems speak of her life — from her wonder as a child evaluating the nearby world, to her reflections as a young woman on the dangers of choice, to her experience as a woman settling into marriage with all it's detailed complexity. She builds memoir through simple poems, one upon the other. And as we read, we hear echoes of her earlier selves in later words, like this moment when her husband wields a knife over fruit in, "The Morning Tangle":
He hoards the cutting board,
slices a peach and a banana.
I prepare coffee. We pivot for a
choreographed collision at the refrigerator,
him for almond milk, me for an egg and jam.
We exchange no words, for
we are dangerous before we eat.
In Biting the Apple, Greensfelder leads us through 49 carefully crafted poems over the course of almost 70 years. We get a sense of her — as a child, as a woman — and a sense of the specific rhythm of life for a female born in mid-20th century, middle America. With subtleties of dark and light, her poems also tell a universal story about the choices that women make. She pauses on the in-between moments and explores what they may hold, how they might offer up a chance to define something in the essence of what's moving around them. Yet, above all, she tells the story of a woman who chose, early on, to taste the forbidden fruit. And she found flavor there.


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I am a long, tall Texan (yep, I'm a little over six-feet tall). I was born in Texas, anyway. We moved to Denver, Colorado when I was a wee little six-year-old and I grew up at the foot of the Rockies. Not a bad way to start out.
Growing up, my parents would put us on a plane each summer and send us out to west Tennessee to stay with my grandparents on their farm. At the time, I had no idea the impact those summers would have on my life. I remember well the fields of rolling white, fluffy cotton, chickens in the coop, pigs in the pen, and cows in the pasture. And corn. Corn as far as my little eyes could see. I even set the record in my family for eating twelve ears in one sitting. Yep, that's right. I ain't shy when it comes to corn.
As I grew older, I learned how to sew (sort of), cook, and just fall in love with my family. My grandparents have gone on to Glory Land, but they left a legacy. A legacy that cannot be forgotten and keeps stirring inside of me.
It seems that in the past few years, this world has become so fast-paced and crazy, that I wanted something to slow our family down. Supper at the table, easy meals for tired moms to cook, and ways to stay organized and on budget.
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At Hush Energy we specialise in only installing state of the art solar power Queensland systems with superior advantages in safety, production, reliability and warranty.
The continued success of our business depends on us providing quality products and service that ensure customers achieve what we have promised them. That is our first priority – you the customer.
Why is that our priority? Because we see most companies focusing on being the cheapest quote and the cheapest system. Other companies supply cheaper systems which don't have the safety features, the comprehensive monitoring, the panels operating independently of each other. These features are mandatory for all our systems, we insist on it for the benefit of our customers. We know see thousands of those cheap systems breaking down and those customers are shocked to see the lack of reliability, realising that they should have spent just a little more in the first place for one of our superior systems.
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Rick Owens Gleam AW 2010 jacket and Anthem SS 2011 shoes, Rick Owens Lilies jumpsuit.
My new jumpsuit. It reminds me of the creatures from the 70's sci-fi TV series Mikrobi. The best part is the absence of any practical or ornamental elements, commonly used in clothing. No cuffs, buttons, collars, bows or any other kitschy noise. Just let the pleated oval be.