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In 2015 the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation will award more than $275,000 to occupational safety and health (OS&H) students and professionals through its scholarships and grants program.
The ASSE Foundation exists to provide programs that advance the safety profession because safety matters—for workers, for families, and for the future of our world. The awards are for students majoring in occupational safety, health, and the environment.
If students' degrees are not OS&H degrees, it is their responsibility to make the case in their student narrative for why their studies are relevant to the ASSE mission of guiding the safety profession forward.
Review the Frequently Asked Questions before filling out the application. Applicants will be required to:
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- Have a 3.0 undergraduate GPA and (if applicable) a 3.5 graduate GPA.
The deadline for submitting the application is 1 December 2014 by 11:30 p.m.
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Friends We've Met Along the Way.....
In this grand adventure, we have been blessed to meet some wonderful new friends.
People who have laughed with us...cared about us...
and shared their experience and wisdom with us.
This page is just a small way of thanking them for their kindness and support.
About My Work
Quilt Project Hangers
This 'n That Treasures
Christmas Corner
My Family
Our Etsy Shop
Orders for Pickup or Delivery
Come Visit Us
Friends Page
Contact Me
Lipstick to Crayons
Lipstick to Crayons is a Web site that has been created by Michelle Cox, a busy mother of 3, to help Moms do their job more frugally and stay grounded while also juggling the many balls that all Moms must keep in the air.
We were asked by Michelle to craft a 7 1/2 foot quilt ladder to display the quilt she made in memory of her father. She honored us by featuring Generation to Generation Heirlooms on her website.
Thanks, Michelle, for your kind words and enthusiasm for what you do.
Kalimba Soundz
Mary and Sammy are originally from Ghana and make these beautiful straw baskets, in different sizes and wonderful colors. Sammy also makes musical instruments, called Kalimbas, that create very soothing sounds as they are played. We love listening to them play and enhaling the earthy aroma that emanates from their booth.
What a story they have to tell!
Thanks, Mary and Sammy, for your smiles and beautiful music!
Timeless Calico Designs
Owned by Lindy, this wonderful store in Sonora offers a wide variety of historic reproduction fabrics, including all of the colors from the Civil War era.
She can usually be found with her friend, Patty, who offers vibrant colored fabric that she has hand-dyed.
Thanks, Lindy and Patty for being such great neighbors at Ironstone!
Downhome Handspun Fibers
While this is not a picture of Kim at a Quilt Show, it is a picture of Kim with her goats!
What a woman - Kim raises and shears the goats to make her yarn. She grows the flowers that are used to dye the yarn.
she cards and spins the yarn on an old-fashioned spinning wheel! Amazing!
Thanks, Kim, for sharing what you do with us - don't forget to label each bag with the name of the goat it came from!
Bella Art Glass
Terri and Bob create the most amazing jewelry from fusing colored glass. The jewelry simply "pops" in the sunlight and we enjoyed sharing our sunshine at Ironstone with them! What fun people. Be sure to read Terri's bio - she won an Olympic Bronze medal in swimming and, we discovered, is also a world-class yo-yoer!
Thanks, Terri, for keeping us on-time!
Ladybug's Quilts
Sheri, Susan and Julie own this wonderful quilt store in our home town of Manteca, CA. They have been a wonderful resource for us and have been so very supportive of Generation to Generation Heirlooms. We love seeing them at most every Quilt Show we attend and you will find us quite entertaining when we are next door to each other! Sandra (pictured above on the right) works in the shop and gets paid in fabric! What a deal!
Thanks for your wonderful smiles and your bountiful encouragement!
Quilts of Honor
This non-profit organization was started by Joan Belmont, a veteran who wanted to honor other veterans with "quilts of honor." She wanted to acknowledge both the seen and unseen wounds that our servicemen and women will carry for the rest of their lives. We had the privilege of observing the presentation of four quilts during the Tuleburg Quilt Show on 11/12/11. It was a moving ceremony that included a young Navy Seal (father of 4 adorable daughters) and a retired General in his 90's!
Click this link to see pictures of the ceremony:
Second Chance Fabrics
"Every fabric deserves a second chance"
Shamara and her mom, Janice, specialize in pre-owned fabrics - stashes that have been lying around or fabric that is part of the estate of a quilter. They love to adopt these fabrics, screen them for flaws and then help them find a new home!
Here you see a very calm Shamara at the 2012 Oakdale Quilt Show - only 1 week away from her wedding !
D's Quilting
Dora and Alex join us at most every Quilt Show we attend and they have been a source of encouragement and fun. Dora's booth features all of her own patterns and quilting ideas, many with an exotic oriental flare - they are truly beautiful works of art.
Dora has given us many wonderful ideas that come from her many years of being in the quilting world.
Sewn into the Fabric
Rana began sewing as a young girl, at the encouragement of her mom. At 11, she graduated to a "real" machine that gave her nothing but grief for years, but she forged on with her desire to sew. In 1995 a group of women from her church took her under their wing and asked her to join the quilting group they were starting. The rest is history. As she grew in her quilting skills, she gained confidence to begin designing her own patterns, which are beautiful. It has been a delight to cross paths with Rana and get to know her better.
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The greatness of God was not cast off, but slightness of human nature was put on. In order that the body of Christ might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman; but in order that His Godhead might be made clear He was born of a virgin. St. Thomas Aquinas
[LINK] Jesus was both God and man. Yeah, its not easy to wrap your brain around that truth. And honestly, if you start trying to understand
it, youll get even more confused. So lets just establish that as an undeniable truth (and mystery) and move on from there.
Because while that may be a mystery (something we cant fully know or understand), the fact that Jesus became flesh and blood helps us to know God more deeply than we ever did.
The God part means He didnt sin. The man part means He experienced the same things we doboth good and bad.
The Bible sums it up this way: Since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we areyet was without sin (Hebrews 4:14-15).
[THINK] When Jesus became human, He gave us a new understanding of God.
But heres something that didnt happenthis wasnt one of those reality show moments when people trade lives and gain a better understanding of what people really go through. Jesus didnt learn anything new or gain insight into what our lives are really likeafter all, He already knew all of that in detail (read Psalm 139).
But by watching His life and watching how He dealt with everything that was thrown at Him, we gain a connection to God like no people in the Old Testament ever experienced. Instead of just telling us how we should live and what He thinks about us, God showed us.
[LIVE] Yes, you might be thinking, He was man, but He also was still the Son of God. So as bad as life got, it couldnt have been too much to deal with, right?
Wrong. The Bible says Jesus was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not (Isaiah 53:3). Aside (and this is a big aside) from His excruciatingly painful death, Jesus dealt with betrayal (John 18:2-5); fame (John 6:14-15); and demanding people (John 6:26-27). And those are just a few examples of what Jesus life looked like.
What of Jesus experiences on this earth do you most identify with? What hits home and makes you go thats my life?
If youre not sure, take some time and flip through one of the GospelsMatthew, Mark, Luke, or John. Follow Jesus footsteps and see if what He experienced looks like what youve been through (or where youre at) as well.
[NXT LVL] As you read through the Bible, write down some experiences Jesus had and how He dealt with each situation. Then think through how you would normally handle the same situation.
Reprinted with permission from YouthWalk magazine, © 2005 Walk Thru the Bible, Inc. To learn more about YouthWalk, visit www.youthwalk.org
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I'm sure I mentioned this before, but in a Treasure Box kit, you get the diecut papers, the embellishments, and the background paper. The penwork is usually just outlining, but when I saw this card, I realized I was going to have to draw in earnest.
I'm just going to say that if you plan on doing penwork and using a crimping tool, you should do the penwork first. It is really hard after the paper is crimped.
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In the wake of strained relations between intelligence outfits of both USA and Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari is visiting Washington next week where US administration officials seek to put pressure on Islamabad to pursue militants. Reuters has reported that President Zardari will deliver a eulogy at a memorial service on January 14 for Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the veteran U.S. diplomat who was President Barack Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Holbrooke died last month. Due to security situation in Pakistan, President Zardari was unable to join funeral prayers of his slain governor Salman Taseer who was assassinated on January 4, 2011. The visit comes several weeks after Obama and other top officials publicly chided Pakistan for not acting quickly enough to eradicate Islamist militants within its borders who attack U.S.-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
According to the report, experts warn against pushing Pakistan too hard as it grapples with its own political turmoil and internal threats. Pakistani worries that the United States could leave behind an unstable Afghanistan allied with arch-foe India add another strain to a relationship that has been jolted by significant ups and downs over the past decade. Pakistan is on edge this week after the assassination of a senior ruling party member and the breakdown of a leading political coalition that pushed Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's government to the brink of collapse. But concerns in Washington are focused around Pakistan's willingness to go after the Afghan Taliban and other militants who launch attacks from along its rugged western border.
Pakistanis like to say Americans do not fully appreciate the difficulty their soldiers would face if they waded into a messy battle with militants in North Waziristan or the delicacy of support for the country's fragile civilian government. For many Pakistanis, it is difficult to forget the turmoil that followed when the United States turned away from the region after the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"The United States has a pretty solid track record of using Pakistan as a blunt instrument and (then) skipping town," Reuters quote one former White House official as saying. "Why would the Pakistanis think this wouldn't happen this time?"
U.S. military and social assistance to Pakistan has soared as Washington's attention has turned from Iraq to Afghanistan over the past few years. For fiscal year 2011, the Obama administration has requested more than $3 billion for programs that would equip Pakistani soldiers and fund education and health programs, as well as other sectors. That is a huge jump from 2008, when U.S. aid was just $741 million.
In return, Pakistan has taken steps to comply with U.S. wishes, shifting troops from its eastern border with India, its chief security preoccupation, to its border with Afghanistan. Pakistan has permitted the United States to dramatically increase the tempo of pilotless drone strikes on militant hide-outs, risking a backlash from Pakistanis who see such attacks as a violation of their sovereignty. But attempts to cooperate are not always easy. A U.S. offer to provide unarmed surveillance drones to Islamabad has become a new source of friction, with Pakistan privately voicing concern about what it says are exorbitant prices and a slow delivery timeline.
But the past year has also seen a number of notable points of friction, including a cross-border incursion by U.S.-led NATO forces that prompted Pakistan to temporarily close a key crossing and U.S. suspicions that Pakistani intelligence leaked the identity of the top U.S. spy in Pakistan. U.S. intelligence sources say bilateral intelligence ties are extremely strained as Washington grapples with reports that elements of Pakistani intelligence are tacitly backing the militants.


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I haven't posted anything recently, primarily because I've been too busy and overwhelmed at work to have any free time to write.
Unfortunately, I've also been too busy to run.. and this is a ultramarathon blog.
I really miss running; it is the best thing for one's physical and mental health and well-being. I guess until I start running again, I will try to write about other stuff.
Yesterday, I just assessed the inventory of my homebrew. All of my carboys are full. This is a serious problem. I can't brew more until I open up some more fermentation space. I need to get some of this bottled or kegged.
Mead Fermenting or Aging In Carboys:
1) Pear Melomel– this will be dry and still- it was aged on medium-toast oak which has given it a delicious creamy vanilla and almost buttery character, which compliments the pear.
2) Raspberry Melomel– Honey and raspberries are a classic combination- this will be semisweet and still
3) Berry Pyment Melomel– I wanted to make something big and fruity- like a complex red wine. This will also be dry and still.
It is both a pyment because I used wine grapes and also a melomel because I used berries.
I was expecting it to be good so I made 10-gallons instead of the usual 5-gallon batch. It was made with the juice of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, Merlot grapes, Black Raspberries, Black Cherries, Black Currants, and Elderberries- plus our own home-raised honey of course. I aged it on medium toast oak.
So far, it IS good. I'm glad I made a ten gallon batch.
But it's probably already down to only 9-gallons because of taste-testing.
4) Ginger Metheglin– my goal with this mead was to create a mead version of an extra spicy ginger ale- but with alcohol- so it will be for grown-ups only.
Right now, I have it aging in the secondary on about a pound of sliced fresh ginger roots. Once the ginger flavor is strong enough, I plan on adding lemon juice and then back-sweetening with honey.
It is a relatively low-alcohol for a mead- ABV only 7%- such a low alcohol mead is called a hydromel. Eventually I will keg it and carbonate it.
Beers Fermenting or Aging In Carboys:
That's it for the meads in my carboys… I have the following beers in carboys…
5) IPA– This will be a stronger than usual version of an IPA, but not quite strong enough to call it a Double IPA. OG 1.070 I used Warrior hops for bittering and then Cenntenial, Citra and Simcoe for aroma.
Once primary fermentation is over, I will use Citra and Simcoe for dry-hopping.
6) Belgian Saison– this is the same recipe I've brewed 3 years in a row. I've won medals for it in homebrewing competitions. Although I frequently tinker with recipes in pursuit of an even better brew, my Saison recipe is the exception. I've continued to brew the same recipe unchanged because it is just so darn good.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right?
I love the complexity of Belgian Saison yeast. OG 1.059
7) Kolsch– "the ale that's like a lager." I brew some version of Kolsch every year. It is a light, smooth crisp brew. It is a perfect beer to enjoy after weeding the garden on a warm summer afternoon. OG 1.048
On Tap and Drinkable Now…
8) Munich Helles– this is a light lager, it is somewhat lighter and less hoppy than the Kolsch. For years, I've struggled to brew a light lager that met my standards. They were good but just didn't turn out as smooth as I intended them to be.
Finally I realized it was probably the water. Our well water is absolutely delicious right from the tap. It is great water for brewing dark beers such as porters and hoppy, malty beers such as IPAs. But our water is high in minerals and carbonates; which is something to be avoided when brewing lighter beers.
For this recipe, I used 70% distilled water. That seemed to do the trick.
I think I will use distilled or reverse osmosis water for all of my light lagers and ales from now on.
9) Bavarian Doppelbock– I have brewed some version of this recipe the last three years. Doppelbock is a malty dark high-alcohol lager.
One can only brew a true Doppelbock by using an all-grain recipe. The reason is because brewing a doppelbock requires a traditional brewing technique known as a "decoction brewing."
A small amount of the mash (grain and water mixed together) is removed and then heated and boiled before returning back to the main mash. This caramelizes the mash somewhat and adds rich meaty flavors to the beer. Decoction brewing is much more time consuming and traditional brewing. One must also take care that the temperaturre of the main mash stays in target. If the mash is overheated, the naturally occurring amylase enzymes may get denatured before the starch is fully coverted to sugar- interfering with the success of the brew.
The first time I brewed this, I took my time and did five decoctions. Last year I was short of time (and I admit maybe a little bit impatient) so I did only three decoctions. Even though it still won a medal, I noticed a difference. This year I did five decoctions; I am much more pleased with the results.
Sometimes good things really do take time and cannot be rushed.
10) Raspberry Sour Weisse– I must confess: as a rule, I don't like most fruit beers. They lack complexity and are often sweet and overly fruity for me.
If I want a beer, then I'll have a beer.
On the other hand, if I want fruit, then I'll have a glass of wine or a fruit mead, thank you.
However, I do love sour beers. Sour beers have become more trendy as of late. Some people love 'em and other people hate 'em. There seeems to be no middle ground. I'm in the former group. I LOVE sours.
Sours are more challenging to brew because they do not only use the beer yeast Sacchromyces cervisae but also wild yeast and bacteria, that can be less predictable and take more time. The tarness comes from lactic acid and other acids that are made by the wild yeast and bacteria- think sourdough but as a beer.
After having mastered every other brewing technique I finally mustered the courage to venture into making sours. I was cautious, not only did I not want to screw up and entire batch of beer, but I also didn't want to accidentally infect all of my brew equipment and make 100% sour beers from now on.
For this beer I used a wheat beer recipe as my foundation. There is a sour beer category, "Berliner Weisse." However, my recipe is technically out of style for a Berliner Weisse because that is a low alcohol beer- only aobut 3% ABV- whereas my beer is about 5%.
Using a sour mash technique (ever heard of sour mash whiskey?) I had read about in the book "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing," I added Lactobacillus cultures and let it ferment at about 100 degrees for two days.
Lactobacillus is the same bacteria used to make yogurt- and that is what it smelled like- sour milk. Yuck!
The recipe cautioned to not become too distressed by the smell- and reassured me that it would go away with time- which it did.
I am very familiar with Lactobacillus, I use it when making yogurt and cheese. It is the exact same bacteria that makes Sauerkraut sour and which is also growing in my sourdough culture. Gotta love Lacto!
After the mash was suffiently sour to taste, I sparged and boiled the wort as usual.
I pitched an American Wheat yeast; I avoided Bavarian Wheat yeast because I didn't think the banana-like esters would go well with the tart fruitness of a sour beer.
Once primary fermentation was done, I added 12 lbs of raspberries. It took about 8 months before it was ready to keg. It is still slightly cloudy but that is not considered a fault in a sour beer.
Although the Raspberry Sour Weisse is kegged, I have the beer line disconnected most of the time. This beer is SO darn good, it would be very easy to go back for seconds and thirds, and ending drinking the entire batch ourselves after a few months.
I'd really like to have some to share at our Oktoberfest. Thus, I only connect the beer line when drawing off a small glass and then disconnect it again.
11) Mosaic Dry-Hopped Hydromel– I love the complexity imparted into Belgian beers by the yeast. This character has been described as spicy, peppery, clove-like and earthy.
With this low-alcohol sparkling mead (hydromel), my goal was to create something remniscent of a thirst-quenching complex Belgian beer- to be enjoyed on a hot summer day- but which wasn't actually a beer.
I used homegrown honey of course and fermented with Wyeast Belgian Ardennes yeast.
After primary fermentation was over, I added crushed coriander seed and orange peel- just like a Belgian Wit beer.
Then I dry-hopped using the Mosaic hop. Dry hopping is a technique of adding hops to the beer (in this case, the mead) after active fermentation is over. Dry hopping imparts the aroma of the hops but without adding much bitterness, compared to if the hops were boiled. Because there is no maltiness in a mead to balance the bitterness of hops, I decided to dry-hop.
The Mosaic hop is a newer variety of hop known for its complex fruity aroma which has been described as having mango, lemon, citrus, earthy pine, tropical fruit, herbal and stone fruit notes.
The Mosaic Dry-Hopped Hydromel turned out better than expected. It's really good and quite unlike any mead I've ever brewed before. The Belgian yeast and complex hop aroma seem to blend together well.
I have hopes for winning future medals with this mead.
Future Brews…
So that's it for my current inventory. I do have a variety of meads in the bottle from previous years, as well as my Black Magic Double Imperial Stout.
To my surprise, I won three medals at the Mazer Cup this spring (A Gold and two Bronzes). The Mazer Cup is the international competition for both home and commercial mead-makers. I will write more about that in anothe post.
So what am I thinking about making in the future? Hard to say. I have a few ideas.
The second most fun part of homebrewing is creating and perfecting recipes. (The most fun part is sharing with friends and enjoying a glass yourself).
I have the ingredients and have created a recipe for making a Sour Cherry Braggot. A Braggot is a mead made with barley malt- think of a beer/mead hybrid.
To make this recipe even more complicated than brewing a traditional braggot, I'm planning on making it another sour using the Wyeast Roeselare Ale Blend culture #3763 . This Lambic style culture consists of a blend of yeast/bacteria cultures including Belgian style ale yeast strain, a sherry yeast strain, two Brettanomyces strains, a Lactobacillus culture, and a Pediococcus culture. It will take 1 to 2 years before it is ready. Good things come to those who wait.
Fermenting a sour mead is not commonly done- why shouldn't I be one of those few who do? I love mead and I love sour beers- I expect that a sour braggot will combine the best of both.
However, I cannot brew this recipe or any others until I bottle and/or keg some of my current stock. I don't have any more empty carboys to ferment and age them in.
Yes, it is a difficult situation: too many ideas of future brews to make, with too few carboys to store them in.
I guess another option could be to just go out and buy another carboy… or two or three… But our house is already full of carboys lined up in rows and tucked into spare corners.
I think bottling and kegging it will be…
Until next time, be well.


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Hello everyone! My name is Erica Martin, and I've been a freelance writer for over 5 years. I've written for Work at Home Adventures, and I also have a few of my own websites, My eBook Journey and Work at Home Tips Online. You can also read some of my writing on Medium.
I just moved to Kannapolis, North Carolina with my husband, Kevin – we'll be married 14 years in August. When I'm not writing or working my full-time job, I spend a lot of time with him. I've also been spending a lot of time getting my house set up, but I don't let that interfere with the time I spend writing.
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If you're a busy professional trying to focus on building a business, there are many reasons you should hire a freelance writer. If you're a solopreneur, you probably need to spend more time doing whatever it is you've gone into business to do. If you have a small staff, they probably need to focus on their main duties. Even if you don't need content written all the time, hiring a freelance writer can help free up time you and your staff need to spend on other activities, and you won't have to worry about hiring an employee that you'll have to take out taxes for and pay unemployment benefits for if you have to let them go.
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First for Christmas, my parents bought the ladies in our family tickets to the Lion King in Detroit when I was home. I liked it so much in the states that I went again on Friday with some of my teammates and friends. The costumes, the music, all of it is incredible. I feel blessed to live in a city where I get these opportunities.
Second, the whole team headed up to Naucalpan, which is in the state of Mexico, the last two days to visit approxiametly 15 campuses. Yesterday was a hard day for me. Kevin and I visited 3 universities and struck out. I have to continually remind myself that God is at work and just because I don't see it for one day doesn't mean He's not working. On the way back to the hotel where we were staying, Kevin and I had an opportunity to share the Gospel with our Taxi driver. Today, Michelle and I went to Universidad Mexicana and met Isabel. She told us that her mom is a believer and she is constantly thinking about spiritual things. It was a fun couple of days but exhausting as we explored.


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Okay so maybe this is a bit morbid to share on a "happy friday" post but on the day after Thanksgiving I'm still thinking about how incredible life is. It's not always easy but at the end of the day, we're all just lucky to be here perusing our own destinies and happiness. I love this inscription on a tombstone we came across in Devon last weekend: Life's race well run; Life's work well done; Life's crown well won; Now comes rest. It says it all - so simple and beautiful.
I really don't know where I'm going with this post but I let's just say that I'm feeling super thankful for everything.
I hope you all have wonderful weekend and take some time to do what you love and be with the people you care about the most. Enjoy!
This week's three rad links: • awesome photos of street art in LA to indulge my mini home-sick moments this week via Song of Style • it's about to get reeeeel crafty up in here! Emily Henderson's Holiday Guide is packed full of great Christmas DIY and decor ideas via sfgirlbybay • the simplicity and function of this man's home is so inspiring! watch the whole video via gopantone


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Redcar and Cleveland Council is ready to submit its detailed planning application for the £16million Saltburn Learning Campus project next week. The Campus will provide a new secondary school to replace the existing Huntcliff School buildings and a new primary school to replace the two Saltburn Primary School sites at Marske Mill Lane and Upleatham Street. The development of the current Huntcliff School site will create a modern learning campus, expanding on the existing facilities of a Children's Centre, Leisure Centre and Multi-Use Games Area providing life-long learning opportunities. The first of two phases is hoped to commence in July, with the building of the new secondary school, and the second phase, the new primary school, will be completed by September 2009, subject to planning approval. Members of the public attended the latest meeting at Huntcliff this week to see the proposals and designs for the development presented by Council officers and the project's architects, Aedas. The Council's Capital Projects Manager Lionel Danby, who chaired the meeting, said:
"The plans for the new buildings were generally well received. We have also taken on board issues raised and noted them for consideration during further design development."Improved shared facilities for both schools and the community will include a sports hall, multi-use activity halls, changing facilities and remodelled playing fields. Enclosed wildlife areas and amphitheatres will form new outdoor learning areas for the schools while woodland areas and landscaping will be used to improve the visible aspects of the site. The inclusion of on-site parking, drop-off facilities and cycle storage is expected to alleviate public concerns over traffic management and control. A formal public consultation process will take place once the planning application has been submitted. The Capital Projects Team's website is regularly updated as design development progresses - log on to www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/capitalprojects and click on the Capital Projects BLOG on the home page.


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I am tired of this world and weary of myself. There is war and destruction almost everywhere we turn; the tragedy of death of those we admire (MJ, Farrah, Ed McMahon); and the constant disappointment by our elected officials. There are too many days when my heart is too consumed with the temporary rather than what is eternal. It is a constant struggle for me... is it for you?
That's what this post is about.
It is about taking a step back; forgetting ourselves even for a moment; and looking unto Jesus. It is refocusing from the blurred vision that the transitory things of this life can cause; and being content with the Author and Finisher of our faith. It is becoming more heavenly minded; it is about seeing spiritually clear again; it is about recovering a right view Him.
IOW: He must increase; I must decrease.
Do you ever wrestle with this tension? My flesh craves glory, attention, importance, preeminence, significance, fulfillment, satisfaction, and praise. It is not easily appeased and seldom denied. My eyes are never full; my heart is restless; my mind cluttered, and my soul disquieted.
Oh to be as the Psalmist who said:
"O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me. Surely I have composed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child rests against his mother, My soul is like a weaned child within me" (Psalm 131:1-2)Then we will be content.
So when we speak of transcendence, it means that God is divinely other and loftier than we are:
- He is God, we are man;
- He is awesome, we are jejune;
- He is holy, we are sinful;
- He is eternal, we are created;
- He is omnipotent; we are craven;
- He is omniscient, we are stunted in our thinking;
- He is omnipresent, we are finite—bound by space and time;
- He is solitary, we are dependent;
- He is immutable, we vacillate;
- He is perfect, we are fallible;
- He is the Potter, we are the clay;
- He is love, we are self-seeking;
- He is forgiving, we are revengeful;
- He is Sovereign, and we are not.
May we each take a moment today in the midst of "the lion's den" that occupy our world, and honor Him; reverence Him; and glory in Him. We are all to much like Martha, busy doing our thing, filling up our day with "waiting tables." Oh to be like Mary, who can take time to just "sit at the feet of Jesus" and worship Him.
In His Unfailing love,
-By A.W. Tozer
"O Lord our Lord, there is none like Thee in heaven above or in the earth beneath. Thine is the greatness and the dignity and the majesty. All that is in the heaven and the earth is Thine; Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, O God, and Thou art exalted as head over all." -Amen.
we mean of course that He is exalted far above the created universe,
so far above that human thought cannot imagine it.
To think accurately about this, however, we must keep in mind that "far above" does not here refer to physical distance from the earth but to quality of being. We are concerned not with location in space nor with mere altitude, but with life.
God is spirit, and to Him magnitude and distance have no meaning. To us they are useful as analogies and illustrations, so God refers to them constantly when speaking down to our limited understanding. The words of God as found in Isaiah, "Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity," give a distinct impression of altitude, but that is because we who dwell in a world of matter, space, and time tend to think in material terms and can grasp abstract ideas only when they are identified in some way with material things. In its struggle to free itself from the tyranny of the natural world, the human heart must learn to translate upward the language the Spirit uses to instruct us.
It is spirit that gives significance to matter and apart from spirit nothing has any value at last. A little child strays from a party of sightseers and becomes lost on a mountain, and immediately the whole mental perspective of the members of the party is changed. Rapt admiration for the grandeur of nature gives way to acute distress for the lost child. The group spreads out over the mountainside anxiously calling the child's name and searching eagerly into every secluded spot where the little one might chance to be hidden.
What brought about this sudden change?
The tree-clad mountain is still there towering into the clouds in breath-taking beauty, but no one notices it now. All attention is focused upon the search for a curly-haired little girl not yet two years old and weighing less than thirty pounds. Though so new and so small, she is more precious to parents and friends than all the huge bulk of the vast and ancient mountain they had been admiring a few minutes before. And in their judgment the whole civilized world concurs, for the little girl can love and laugh and speak and pray, and the mountain cannot. It is the child's quality of being that gives it worth.
Yet we must not compare the being of God with any other as we just now compared the mountain with the child. We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings, starting with the single cell and going on up from the fish to the bird to the animal to man to angel to cherub to God. This would be to grant God eminence, even pre-eminence, but that is not enough; we must grant Him transcendence in the fullest meaning of that word.
Forever God stands apart, in light unapproachable.
He is as high above an archangel as above a caterpillar, for the gulf that separates the archangel from the caterpillar is but finite, while the gulf between God and the archangel is infinite. The caterpillar and the archangel, though far removed from each other in the scale of created things, are nevertheless one in that they are alike created. They both belong in the category of that-which-is-not-God and are separated from God by infinitude itself.
Reticence and compulsion forever contend within the heart that would speak of God.
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace?
Beneath Thy feet we lie afar,
And see but shadows of Thy face.
-Isaac Watts
Yet we console ourselves with the knowledge that it is God Himself who puts it in our hearts to seek Him and makes it possible in some measure to know Him, and He is pleased with even the feeblest effort to make Him known.
If some watcher or holy one who has spent his glad centuries by the sea of fire were to come to earth, how meaningless to him would be the ceaseless chatter of the busy tribes of men.
How strange to him and how empty would sound the, flat, stale and profitless words heard in the average pulpit from week to week.
And were such a one to speak on earth would he not speak of God? Would he not charm and fascinate his hearers with rapturous descriptions of the Godhead? And after hearing him could we ever again consent to listen to anything less than theology, the doctrine of God? Would we not thereafter demand of those who would presume to teach us that they speak to us from the mount of divine vision or remain silent altogether?
When the psalmist saw the transgression of the wicked his heart told him how it could be. "There is no fear of God before his eyes," he explained, and in so saying revealed to us the psychology of sin. When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is not deterrent when the fear of God is gone.
In olden days men of faith were said to "walk in the fear of God" and to "serve the Lord with fear." However intimate their communion with God, however bold their prayers, at the base of their religious life was the conception of God as awesome and dreadful. This idea of God transcendent rims through the whole Bible and gives color and tone to the character of the saints. This fear of God was more than a natural apprehension of danger; it was a nonrational dread, an acute feeling of personal insufficiency in the presence of God the Almighty.
Wherever God appeared to men in Bible times the results were the same - an overwhelming sense of terror and dismay, a wrenching sensation of sinfulness and guilt.
When God spoke, Abram stretched himself upon the ground to listen. When Moses saw the Lord in the burning bush, he hid his face in fear to look upon God. Isaiah's vision of God wrung from him the cry, "Woe is me!" and the confession, "I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips."
Daniel's encounter with God was probably the most dreadful and wonderful of them all. The prophet lifted up his eyes and saw One whose:
"body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude." "I Daniel alone saw the vision"he afterwards wrote,
"for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground."These experiences show that a vision of the divine transcendence soon ends all controversy between the man and his God.
The fight goes out of the man and he is ready with the conquered Saul to ask meekly, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Conversely, the self-assurance of modern Christians, the basic levity present in so many of our religious gatherings, the shocking disrespect shown for the Person of God, are evidence enough of deep blindness of heart.
Many call themselves by the name of Christ, talk much about God, and pray to Him sometimes, but evidently do not know whom He is. "The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life," but this healing fear is today hardly found among Christian men.
Once in conversation with his friend Eckermann, the poet Goethe turned to thoughts of religion and spoke of the abuse of the divine name. "People treat it," he said, "as if that incomprehensible and most high Being, who is even beyond the reach of thought, were only their equal. Otherwise they would not say 'the Lord God, the dear God, the good God.' This expression becomes to them, especially to the clergy, who have it daily in their mouths, a mere phrase, a barren name, to which no thought whatever is attached. If they were impressed by His greatness they would be dumb, and through veneration unwilling to name Him."
They glory flames from sun and star;
Center and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near!
Lord of all life, below, above,
Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love,
Before Thy ever-blazing throne
We ask no luster of our own.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes


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Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Esporte
Print version ISSN 1517-8692
Rev Bras Med Esporte vol.18 no.2 São Paulo Mar./Apr. 2012
The use of cooperative games to treat crack-dependent patients hospitalized at a detoxication unit
Gabriel Soares Ledur AlvesI; Renata Brasil AraujoII
ISchool of Public Health of Rio Grande do
IIChemical Dependency Unit of the São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative games to help dealing with craving and anxiety, as well as to motivate change in the addictive behavior of crack/cocaine-dependent patients hospitalized at a detoxication unit. In order to do that, a quasi-experimental clinical trial, involving 30 male subjects, age ranging from 18 to 50 years, crack/cocaine-dependent users, distributed in 8 groups, was carried out. The instruments used were: social and demographic data sheet; mini-mental state examination; University of Rhode Island Change Assessment scale (URICA); Beck anxiety inventory (BAI) and visual analogue scale (VAS). Cocaine transformed into crack images and videos were presented with the objective to induce craving and, after that, the VAS, URICA and BAI were applied. Afterwards, a Cooperative Game workshop was carried out, and the above instruments used again. A significant difference concerning craving and anxiety symptoms after the use of cooperative games (p < 0.001) was found; however, there was no difference in motivation to change the addictive behavior. Therefore, we conclude that cooperative games can be an important instrument to treat crack/cocaine-dependent patients.
Keywords: anxiety, craving, cocaine, motivation.
Cocaine is one of the drugs stimulating of the central nervous system (CNS) with potential use, which has been used since the beginning ofour history.As an example, we can mention the indigenous people of South America who already made use of this drug by chewing the coca leaf1. Currently, there are other ways of cocaine administration such as inhaling or endovenous. Nowadays, there is another way which has been spread among abusers and chemical dependents: the smoked cocaine, better known as crack. It is a result of the mixture of sodium bicarbonate, adulterants and cocaine chlorhydrate. When smoked, it produces small particles which are quickly absorbed by the lungs, causing a transient sensation of pleasure, which can be responsible for the beginning of abuse and dependence to the drug2.
Crack causes also many physical problems in the respiratory tract and cardiovascular system besides being associated with psychiatric disorders.Moreover, since it is a drug with very low cost in the market, its potential to cause dependence has increased. Such scenario has made this a public health problem. Thus, the search for treatment has tremendously increased2.
The treatment of the chemical dependent may occur both in an ambulatory or inpatient. In that period, abstinence is one of the goals to be reached. However, during this phase, some characteristic symptoms occur, such as craving and increase ofanxiety, which may, consequently, make the treatment difficult. In addition to that, other aggravating factors such as emotional distress and depression may occur3. It is worth mentioning that craving may be understood not only as the will, but also as anticipation of the positive result referring to the use of the substance, relief from the abstinence symptoms or negative affection and smoking intention, becoming hence a multidimensional view4. Craving is positively related with anxiety in some studies5-7.
In order to have the individual increasing his/her possibilities to remain clean, besides reducing these symptoms, it is necessary to work with one of the supporters of the cognitive-behavioral therapy which is motivation to change the dependent behavior8.
Every dependent may be motivated for change, since we understand motivation as a state of readiness for change, which fluctuates during the time and possible to be influenced by others9.
In a study conducted by Rigottoand Gomes3, with chemically-dependent patients, it was observed that the most difficult for the individuals participating in the research was to continue with the change process. Vital aspects in the recovery process were: rescue of the family bonds, self-esteem return and rediscovery of interpersonal relations. To maintain time filled with some pleasing activity which substitutes the drug and reinforces even more the personal decision not to relapse was mentioned by the individuals as an important factor to remain clean.
Cooperative games on the other hand are activities which require team work in order to reach two-way acceptable goals. They try to make use of capacities, conditions, of each individual to reach a common goal. These games propose the search for new ways of playing with the aim to decrease aggressive manifestations, promoting sensitivity, cooperation, communication, happiness and empathy attitudes10. Thus, the cooperative games come out as an important instrument not only to the craving management and decrease of anxiety, but also as an activity in which motivation for change in behavior may be instigated. However, it is necessary to mention that the cooperative games were not evaluated in chemically-dependent individuals.
Due to the characteristics of the cooperative games, it can be noticed that they present a therapeutic function: they stimulate informality, promote respect and value for the difference, teach much more than the game rules, besides being a motivating activity11.
This type of practice also presents other relevant characteristics such as: to provide freedom to create and freedom to elect, being one of the great incentives, the stimulus to initiative and respect to the ideas of the group participants12.
The cooperative games intensify the establishment of affection bonding between participants, let them be friends, acquaintances or family members, and make the participant develop a positive self-opinion and recognize the importance of the other. This practice offers the players the opportunity to appreciate and valuehim/herself and feel respected in his/her wholeness, increasing hence self-esteem10,11, which is animportant goal in the work with chemically-dependent subjects to avoid relapse13.
Thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cooperative games in the management of craving and anxiety, as well as in the motivation to change the addictive behavior in crack dependent individuals, admitted in a detoxication unit.
This study is characterized as a quasi-experimental clinical trial.
The sample was by convenience, and 30 male subjects aged between 18 and 50 years, admitted to the Jurandy Barcellos Chemical Dependence Unit of the São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, in Porto Alegre, with diagnosis of cocaine dependence by CID-1014, who made use of this substance through smoke (crack) were researched. Since it is common that these patients are dependent on more than one kind of substance, the inclusion criteria was that crackshould be their favorite drug, a criterion already used in other studies. The exclusion criteria were to present diagnosis of mental retardation, severe cognitive harm and/or hearing impairment.
None subject was excluded by the criteria mentioned above; however, there were four exclusions due to other reasons, being two by clinical problems during practice, one by hospital evasion (run away), and another by improvement and dismissal.
Eight cooperative games workshops were conducted.It was carried out once a week, for three months. The patients participated in the practice while they were admitted; however, their evaluation in the workshops was only one, that is to say, occurred only on their first participation. It is worth mentioning that all patients admitted in the Jurandy Barcellos detoxication unit could participate in the workshop of cooperative games; however, only those who were within the inclusion criteria of this research would be part of the sample. Each group was composed of a mean of eight participants, out of whom a mean of foursubjects was included in the sample.
The following instruments were applied:
A) File with socio demographic data it was the first instrument applied and had the aim to define the socio demographic profile of the studied sample, identifying characteristics which could be important to better evaluate whether the individual could be included or not in the sample, and the quantity of crack ingested daily was also measured.
B) Mini-mental state examination15 used to identify severe cognitive damage which could avoid that the patients could be included in the study.
C) URICA (University of Rhode Island Change Assessment scale) scale used to measure the motivation for behavior change in the dependent patient. It measures points in the pre-contemplation, contemplation, action and maintenance motivational stages, and was validated in Brazil by Figlie16.
D) Beck anxiety inventory BAI17 in Portuguese, 'inventário de ansiedade de Beck', validated to Brazil by Cunha18. It is a symptomatic scale destined to measure the severity of anxiety symptoms, composed of 21 items, with four options of responses (0 = absolutely no, 1 = slightly, 2 = moderately and 3 = severely). Classifying the anxiety symptoms as: minimum (0-10), light (11-19), moderate (20-30) and severe (31-63).
E) Visual analog scale for craving evaluation (VAS) this is a scale widely used in research to evaluate craving5,6,19. The participant should rank his craving, between 0 (absence of craving) and 10 (very strong craving), checking this value on a 10-centimeter scale.
The data were individually collected on interview withthe patients under treatment who should meet the inclusion criteria and report willingness to make part in the study.
Firstly, the file with the socio demographic data referring to the consumption pattern of psychoactive substances and the mini-mental were applied to evaluate if any subjects would be excluded from the sample.
On another day, images and videos of cocaine under the crackpresentation were shown with the aim to induce cravingin the participants and subsequently the following instruments were applied in this order: VAS, URICA and BAI.
Immediately after the first application, a workshop with cooperative games was performed and at the end of it, the VAS, BAI and URICA instruments were reapplied to evaluate whether there was alteration in the anxiety and craving symptoms, besides verifying whether there were alterations in motivation for behavior alteration.
Cooperative games workshop
The workshop of cooperative games is characterized for being an instrument which tries to stimulate cooperation, integration, socialization, creativity, imagination, communication, body expression. And motivation through activities which have a ludic character, allowing the participants to have moments of informality and happiness, important factors for human wellness10,11,20.
These practices can be performed both with support material and without it. Some of the cooperative games proposed were designed with the aid of many materials, others not. The used materials were: balloons, mats, newspaper pages, stereos and CDs.
The patients participated in the following cooperative games in this order:
"Crazy" circle10 all holding hands in a circle. Each participant should suggest a task to the group and it, without letting go of the hands, should perform it.
Two "islands"10 the activity is divided in two sides, that is, two "fictional islands" composed of mats, and between them there is an empty space also called in a fictional way "sea". All participants should be on an "island" on the right side. The aim of this practice is to cross from one "island" to the other, in pairs, on the mat, named "boat", sliding it. They should all arrive at the same "island".
Helping your friends11 the participants distributed in a given space, should at the music rhythm, move each one wearing newspaper hats. Every time the hat falls on the ground, a friend next to him should catch it and consequently put it on the head of the one who had dropped it.
Games with balloons10,11 activity performed with variations. a) "All suspended" each participant should carry a balloon. The aim is to keep it on the air without holding it. As time passes by, other balloons are placed in the activity increasing hence the difficulty. b) "Passing in small groups" the participants are divided in small groups. The aim of each group is to exchange passes with the hands or feet, without dropping them. It starts with three balloons, and during the activity, this number is increased. c) "Walking sandwich" the participants are divided in small groups. Each group should make a "sandwich" with the balloons and then, move through the determined space without letting the balloons fall on the ground.
Passive muscle stretching in pairs21 muscular stretching of lower limbs. Initially, a component of the pair receives help to perform the activity and the exchange takes place subsequently.
Since the cooperative have a cooperative and not competitive nature, they do not present evaluation punctuation of performance. The activities were performed on the hall of the unit, with mean duration of one hour.
The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciencesprogram SPSS 12.0 for the frequency and descriptive tests and for the inferential, the Student's ttest for paired samples and the Spearman coefficient of linear correlation were used in the descriptive analysis. The significance level was of 5%.
Ethical aspects
This study was only initiated after being approved by the Ethics Committee in Research of the São Pedro Psychiatric Hospital. Before the subject was included in the research, its aim was explained and the Free and Clarified Consent Form was provided and its signature was mandatory for the participation in this study.
Age mean of the subjects (n = 32) was 24.03 years (SD = 4.24; 18-33), mean of studied years was 9.40 (SD = 3.10; 0-15). Regarding marital status, 90% of the subjects were single (n = 27), 6.7% married (n = 2) and 3.3% separated (n = 1).
All of them were crack dependent; 70% were nicotine dependent (n = 21); 6.7% were alcohol dependent (n = 2); 16.7% were Cannabis dependent (n = 5); 23.3% made harmful use of alcohol (n = 7) and 6.7%; harmful use of Cannabis (n = 2).
Concerning the critical judgment of each of the psychoactive substances doing harm to their lives: 100% (n = 32) believed that crack brought negative consequences; 3.3% that nicotine did (n = 1); 13.3% that Cannabisdid (n = 4) and 6.7% that alcohol brought it (n = 2).
Age of beginning of use of substances was: 14.07 years for alcohol (SD = 2.94; 9-22); 16.7 years for inhaled cocaine (SD = 2.51; 14-25); 20.23 years for crack (SD = 4.22; 14-29); 14.35 years for nicotine (SD = 3.19; 9-24) and for Cannabis; 14.60 years (SD = 2.70; 11-25).
Regarding the consumption pattern of psychoactive substances, the patients consumed mean of 135.50UI (SD = 175.00; 10-720) of crack stones/week (SD = 40.48; 4-150); from 4.30 cigarettes of Cannabis/week (SD = 10.61; 0-50); 123.67 cigarettes of nicotine/week (SD = 101.05; 0-360). Only three patients out of the ones who used inhaled cocaine in the past, currently remained using it together with crack. All of them consumed mean of one gram of inhaled cocaine per week. Use of injected cocaine was not reported.
In the mini-mental evaluation, the mean was 27.30 points (SD = 2.02; 22-30).
Decrease in craving and anxiety symptoms was observed after the therapeutic intervention, and no alteration was found in the motivation to change to the addictive behavior. Table 1 presents the data related with motivation (URICA), anxiety (BAI) and craving (VAS) before and after the cooperative games according to the ttest for paired samples (n = 32).
It is confirmed through the comparison of the results of the application of the measuring instruments of motivation (URICA), craving (VAS) and anxiety (BAI), that the cooperative games were effective to reduce intensity of craving and anxiety, not causing significant alterations concerning motivation to alteration in the dependent behavior.
In order to better contextualize the perceived autonomic alterations, it is important to mention that during the cooperative games the participants physically exercised for 60 minutes. These physical stimuli cause the secretion of a hormone named β-endorphin, which is associated with alterations in humor, and consequently, improved positive feeling22. Moreover, it is important to refer that individuals with reduced organic conditions or untrained ones present higher responses to this hormone23. The crack dependent, during the period previous to the hospitalization and also during and after it, faces psychophysical problems due to the intoxication and/or abstinence effect, which makes him weak2,3. Considering this, it is possible to admit that the subjects dependent on crack may be favored by the action of the β-endorphin through healthy stimuli, feeling less anxious and with less craving, as observed in this study.
In addition to the positive hormone alterations described above during the practice, the participants, in some moments, mentioned that the cooperative games as alternative ways of pleasure, elucidating their importance in the closeness to family again, enabling hence the formation of a network support favorable to the purposes to quit crack, as well as change in lifestyle so necessary to the maintenance of abstinence13.
The study still presented some limitations, such as the small sample researched, besides the lack of control group for a comparative analysis.
The results of this research point to the possibility of a new therapeutic approach.The cooperative games, despite not being considered motivation instrument for the alteration in the dependent behavior, stimulate the positive integration and socialization, that is, healthy interaction, also enable that the involved subjects experience another way of pleasure, becoming hence a new therapeutic alternative for patients dependent on crack admitted to detoxication units or even after admission. Since they are a group activity, besides reducing craving and anxiety, these practices may be a tool in the prevention of relapse and family (re) closeness. Such fact occurs because one of the characteristics of these practices is lucidity, something crucial to the human physical and mental health in all stages of development.
It is believed that the data here described, besides being a therapeutic service for crack-dependent individuals who try abstinence, facilitate them into visualizing the possibility of change in lifestyle, which was destructive, to another, focused on his biopsychosocial wellness.
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Then, the excess fat and tissues are removed from these cuts. The nipple and the areola are then moved into their new, higher positions. Vertical Scar Technique This technique is also known as the short scar procedure. This involves, cutting a circle Miracle Bust around the areola and then making an incision that extends downwards. There are no further horizontal cuts as in the Inferior Pedicle Technique. The vertical scar technique is preferred by most women, because of the reduced number of cuts, which leads to reduced number of marks and scarring on their breasts. Also, it is known that this technique results in better long-term results and the scars also don't broaden, as in the previous technique.
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Hey fellas-
I would like to get started in Folding@Home. I think the cause is more than worthy.
My question is this....
Can someone write an FAQ, as good as our SETI FAQ, that will hold my hand through every step of getting started?
I currently run CL-SETI with SETIDriver. Is there a similar setup for folding?
Please help me find ET and keep him healthy!!!


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Information about abandoned vehicles
Abandoning a vehicle is a criminal offence punishable by a fine of up to £2,500 and three months in prison.
What is an abandoned vehicle?
We must be satisfied that a vehicle is abandoned before it can be dealt with. Normally you can tell if a vehicle has been abandoned by looking for the following signs:
It may not have moved for a long time (weeks or months)
It is not taxed (check online https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax)
It may have been vandalised (broken windows, flat tyres or other parts missing)
It may be neglected and in poor condition generally
It may be burnt out or have had a crash
It may be lacking one or more of it's number plates
- It may contain waste
Any or all of these signs may apply to abandoned vehicles. The more that apply, the more likely it is that the vehicle is abandoned.
Report it
If you see a vehicle that you think may be abandoned please report it to us as soon as possible. We will investigate the issue within 24 hours with a view to getting it removed.
What happens next?
The council works in partnership with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to combat abandoned/untaxed vehicles.
When we receive a report of an abandoned vehicle we aim to investigate it within 24 hours.
If we are satisfied that a car is abandoned/untaxed it can be dealt with in a variety of ways:
- Untaxed car on a highway/Private land - The car is immediately removed and impounded when approval is granted by DVLA. If the car is not reclaimed it is destroyed. DVLA approval will not be granted when;
- The car has been untaxed for less than 60 days
- A registered disabled person owns the car
- The car is a historic vehicle
- The car is parked on residential land
- Car on public (non highway) land - The car is immediately removed and impounded using powers under the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act. If the car is not reclaimed it is destroyed.
- Abandoned car on private land - A 15-day notice can be served on the occupier(s) of the land prior to removal as required by the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act. If the car is still present on expiry of the notice it will be removed.
- Car torched/heavily vandalised - car removed and destroyed immediately as as required by the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act.
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I Like to Knit
By Meglacey
Hi! I'm knitting. It's fun to knit. I like to knit. It's relaxing and peaceful, too.
I learned to knit when I was 6 years old. In the summer I went to Kalispell, Montana, to visit my Granny. She taught me how to garter stitch. The first thing I knitted was… well, it turned out to be a skirt. Now I practice by making squares. I knitted a scarf, backpack, and a blanket for my teddy bear Pinky. I am still making him mittens.
I got a book from the library. It was called Kids Knit. I got a book from Santa. It was called Kids Can Knit. That book taught me to finger-knit. You need yarn and needles to knit. If you're making tassels you need yarn and a crochet hook.
Here are some stitches you might want to know: casting on, garter, pearl, stockinet, seed, and binding off. Casting on is when you start; binding off is when you end. Sometimes you can knit outside, or you can knit while you watch T.V.
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The reason why I post here is not to do with publication or validation through readership statistics, or looking for an audience
It's a Cherry Potter thing. Write a lot, and read it one month later
Most of it won't pass mustard
Some of it'll be good gas though, and may be keen
Fuck knows. The occasional comment from fly-by-knights helps of course
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Country of the Year
A little sketchbook of a few moods/places bridging from 2016 into early 2017, plus an interstitial page.
Hold D to move right, or A to move left (if you want to).
W and S are of limited consequence.
For "flatgame annual 2016."
1. Movement + parallax scripts are from the flatgame template download, provided by the jam (so by llaura dreamfeel and/or breogán hackett, probably?).
2. Faint gray crumpled-looking background textures are generally from a badly upscaled B&W detail of a photograph of the physical "The Water-Lily Pond" painting by Claude Monet, with light glinting off the paint's topography.
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OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2018-2027 – This report examines the medium-term outlook for World sugar market.
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Pep keen to keep winning ahead of United clash
Pep Guardiola is determined to maintain Bayern Munich's winning habit ahead of next week's UEFA Champions League tie with Manchester United.
Bayern have already wrapped up the Bundesliga title in record time thanks to their 3-1 win over Hertha Berlin in midweek.
With Saturday's visit of Hoffenheim coming four days prior to their European quarter-final first-leg trip to Old Trafford, Guardiola is keen to ensure his players' performances do not suffer a dip.
"We have to play as well as possible in order to be prepared for the Champions League quarter-final against Manchester United," he said.
"I am very happy about winning the German title (but) I do not care that I have become a champion a week before (predecessor) Jupp (Heynckes).
"The most important thing is the title and that we play good football."
Guardiola also confirmed that goalkeeper Tom Starke will play against his former club on Saturday.
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Welcome to the OBSSR e-Source online resource for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. In this digital anthology you will find a series of chapters covering a wide range of topics related to BSS research design and implementation.
The complete set of chapters and authors are listed here. Use the navigation bar on the left or the pull-down menu from the "e-Source Book" tab at the top of the screen to visit any chapter in the book.


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Tag Archives: people
Let's Shoot the Amateur Photographers
It's a beautiful day to explore a deserted town rumored to be abandoned years ago because it was haunted. A town that is also rumored to be off-limits because it is private property, but there is no sign anywhere to … Continue reading
Jazirat al-Hamra: Ghost Town or a Crumbling Piece of History?
One look at the seclusion and crumbling walls across the main road tells us that we have arrived at the right place. It's a couple of hours before dusk; we have some time to explore the area before it eventually … Continue reading
Highway to Muscat, and the Crazy Stuff that Happens There
After driving for what seemed like years, we finally saw signs of Muscat. It rained on and off since we crossed the UAE-Oman border at Hatta, and this slowed down our speed considerably; that, and the fact that we stopped … Continue reading
Tea from Syria, Friends from Canada
I love tea. I have been thoroughly complacent and happy in my own world with what I was having—regular black tea with milk or the green tea that comes in teabags—until I saw this exotic-looking tea from Turkey. I … Continue reading
Sinbad in Sharjah!
Sinbad—and his crew of colorful-circus-type-costume-wearing pirates—docked their red ship in Sharjah not so long ago. They sailed in search for the "Golden Pineapple". That's silly, of course. Why anyone should sail all the way to Arabia in pursuit of a … Continue reading
A Piece of Cake
… free for everyone who came at Al Majaz park in Sharjah. Masood and I took a piece each; it was more than enough. But there were some who took several plates full of the cake to feed their children, … Continue reading
They Don't Know I Took This Picture
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The Nobunaga's Ambition series continues with Iron Triangle. Playing as Nobunaga or one of his rival warlords, you'll need to master new technology, govern smartly, and create an unstoppable military force to unite Japan under one ruler. Play centers around three modes, Unification, Region, and Challenge, with nine historical and fictional scenarios. Create your own warlord to lead a takeover 60 castles and 30 seaside towns all spread over one massive 3D map. Whoever controls the suppliers, the military, and the government will control the Iron Triangle.
Note: Bonus Disc is included with purchase of this title, but not with rental.
Prinnies are slaves of the evil Etna, humans sent to the Netherworld to pay their dues for lives of wrong. Etna has decided she wants the perfect dessert. So she chooses you, a Prinny, to collect all the ingredients for it! Start the level with 1,000 lives - you'll need them. You'll side-scroll your way through various areas of the Netherworld. Slash and shoot through the demons who reside there, then claim their ingredients for your own. You'll jump, slash wildly with your double swords, and stomp enemies to stun them. It's up to you to prove that even a henchman can become the hero!
NOTE: The bonus disc including the Japanese version of the game is included with purchase of this title, but not with rental.
Become a Broadway star, but perform a role no one knows you're playing in this heroic RPG. In 1928 New York, chosen heroes work behind the scenes to keep the city safe. Masquerading as Broadway Stars, they fight evil as part of the New York Combat Revue, Star Division. Join the team as newcomer Shinjiro Taiga and battle enemies of New York, mysterious figures linked to ancient artifacts housed in the city. Play is split between two modes. In Adventure Mode, your interactions develop, or hinder, trust between you and other characters. In Battle Mode, you'll see how your decisions play out, as your relationships affect characters' skill in combat.


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A prolific presence in films and on television for nearly five decades, British actor Peter Cushing, OBE, became an international icon as the star of countless horror films, including "Curse of Frankenstein" (1956), "Horror of Dracula" (1958), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959), "The Mummy" (1959), "The Vampire Lovers" (1970) and "Horror Express" (1973). Frequently cast opposite his longtime friend, Sir Christopher Lee, Cushing gave definitive portrayals of monster maker Victor Frankenstein and vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing for England's Hammer Films throughout the 1960s and 1970s while appearing in numerous other horror films for international companies. The worldwide success of Hammer minted Cushing as a horror star, not unlike Boris Karloff or Vincent Price, though in real life, he was a gentlemanly figure who adored his wife and spent his off-screen hours bird watching. After nearly two decades onscreen, he enjoyed a genuine blockbuster in "Star Wars" (1977), which cast him as the reptilian Grand Moff Tarkin. The use of CGI and a stand-in actor to recreate this character for scenes in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016) raised philosophical questions about the use of deceased actors in...
A prolific presence in films and on television for nearly five decades, British actor Peter Cushing, OBE, became an international icon as the star of countless horror films, including "Curse of Frankenstein" (1956), "Horror of Dracula" (1958), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959), "The Mummy" (1959), "The Vampire Lovers" (1970) and "Horror Express" (1973). Frequently cast opposite his longtime friend, Sir Christopher Lee, Cushing gave definitive portrayals of monster maker Victor Frankenstein and vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing for England's Hammer Films throughout the 1960s and 1970s while appearing in numerous other horror films for international companies. The worldwide success of Hammer minted Cushing as a horror star, not unlike Boris Karloff or Vincent Price, though in real life, he was a gentlemanly figure who adored his wife and spent his off-screen hours bird watching. After nearly two decades onscreen, he enjoyed a genuine blockbuster in "Star Wars" (1977), which cast him as the reptilian Grand Moff Tarkin. The use of CGI and a stand-in actor to recreate this character for scenes in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016) raised philosophical questions about the use of deceased actors in posthumous films. Illness curtailed his career in the early 1980s, and he would enjoy one final collaboration with Lee as co-narrators of a documentary on Hammer Films before his death in 1994. A fan favorite for his magnetic and always-believable screen presence, his roles for Hammer became the stuff of horror movie legend.
Born Peter Wilton Cushing on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, a district in the county of Surrey, England, he was the younger of two sons by George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor, and his wife, Nellie Marie. He initially followed in his father's footsteps, working as a surveyor's assistant, where his innate talent for drawing made him a valuable asset. But he was drawn to acting after seeing a favorite aunt perform on stage, and won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1935, he made his professional stage debut with the Worthing Repertory Company, where he would remain for the next four years before departing for America to find work in Hollywood. His screen debut came with a bit part in James Whale's "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939), which was soon followed by minor roles in, among other films, "A Chump at Oxford" (1940), starring Laurel and Hardy.
After appearing on Broadway in "The Seventh Trumpet" (1941), he returned to England, where he joined the Entertainments National Service Association, which performed plays for British troops during World War II. While appearing in Noel Coward's "Private Lives," he fell in love with his co-star, actress Helen Beck, and married her in 1943. The couple would remain devoted to one another for the next three decades. Cushing worked almost exclusively in theater for the first few years after the end of the war. He toured Australia with Laurence Olivier's Old Vic company in 1948, shortly before Olivier cast him as the foppish Osric in his Oscar-winning film version of "Hamlet" (1948). Among the background players was a young actor named Christopher Lee, who would soon become forever linked with Cushing through Hammer Films. Cushing soon found his niche on television, where he played Mr. Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice" (BBC, 1952). Cushing drew his earliest rave notices as Winston Smith, the doomed hero of George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (BBC, 1954), which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
He soon returned to features, appearing in character turns in the likes of Edward Dmytryk's "The End of the Affair" (1955) opposite Van Johnson. In 1956, he was cast as Baron Victor Frankenstein in "Frankenstein," a loose, low-budget adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel by Hammer Films, a small English company that specialized in genre films. Playing opposite Cushing and buried under layers of makeup was Lee, whose imposing 6'5" frame made him ideal to play the Monster. Though critics deplored the film, moviegoers flocked to it for its gruesome content, made all the more unsettling by being shot in color. But Cushing was also a major draw: a cold, imperious figure, not at all like the sympathetic scientist played by Colin Clive in the 1931 "Frankenstein," Cushing's Frankenstein was the real "monster" of the piece, displaying less humanity in his dogged pursuit of the God-like ability to create life than the Creature, whose disfigured presence drew more pity than terror. Cushing was also completely believable in the role, never displaying an ounce of camp or condescension, which also heightened the terror. A box office smash around the world, it launched Hammer as a major horror studio and Cushing as one of its bona fide stars.
Cushing and Lee were immediately reunited in "Dracula" (1958), which was released in the United States as "Horror of Dracula." Lee's portrayal of the Count as a virile, sexualized being made him an international sensation, while Cushing showed his versatility as the Vampire King's determined nemesis, Dr. Van Helsing. Again, Cushing shattered preconceived notions about the character by playing him as a man of action, willing to grapple with Dracula in a no-holds-barred battle to the death that marked the film's thrilling conclusion. From that point on, Cushing and Lee were a screen duo, not unlike horror legends Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi some two decades before them. The pair became the closest of friends off screen as well, and belied their screen images with their fondness for Warner Bros. cartoons and broad comedy.
For the better part of the next decade, Cushing would co-star with Lee in some of Hammer's most successful features while also appearing on his own in numerous films for the studio and other companies in Europe. He would play the increasingly fiendish Baron Frankenstein four more times in the 1950s and 1960s, from 1958's "The Revenge of Frankenstein" to "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed" (1969) while reprising Van Helsing for the energetic "Brides of Dracula" in 1960. In Hammer's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959), he was among the first to play Sherlock Holmes as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote him - moody and combative but brilliant - and would play the master detective for a series of BBC adaptations between 1965 and 1968. On occasion, Hammer would cast him outside the horror genre, most notably in the thriller "Violent Playground" (1958) as a priest trying to reason with psychotic delinquent David McCallum, and "Cash on Demand" (1961) as a bank manager blackmailed into robbing his own bank. He also played the venerable British TV hero Doctor Who in a pair of theatrical features, "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965) and "Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150" (1966). But Cushing had become a star in horror films, and would spend the majority of the decade in the genre, fighting monsters of legend like in "The Gorgon" (1964), evil artifacts in "The Skull" (1965), and giant insects in "Blood Beast Terror" (1967). Like Lee, he complained about his typecasting, but accepted genre assignments with his trademark gentility, citing that he made horror films because he knew that others liked them. Off-camera, he was the epitome of the English country gentleman, finding solace in his wife's companionship, as well as his hobbies of bird watching, painting and collecting model soldiers.
The 1970s saw Cushing busier than ever in horror, though by this point in time, Hammer was in decline due to changing tastes towards more graphic fright films. He reunited with a reluctant Lee for "Dracula AD 1972" (1972) and "The Satanic Rites of Dracula" (1973), but found more work with other British companies in anthologies like "From Beyond the Grave" (1973), or in international productions like "Horror Express" (1973), an American-Spanish chiller with Cushing and Lee as scientists aboard a transcontinental trail carrying a deadly creature. Though his professionalism was evident in every frame, Cushing's heart was no longer in the business: his beloved wife had died in January 1971, and he considered his remaining years as a means of biding his time until they could be reunited in the afterlife. He accepted virtually any project that came his way, some of which, like "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" (1974), a horror-kung fu hybrid from Hammer, were dreadful. Others, like "Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell" - which marked his final appearance as Baron Frankenstein and in a Hammer film (1974) - were modest projects whose success was due entirely to Cushing's reputation.
One of his assignments during this period later proved to be the biggest box office hit of his career and the one film that put him on the mainstream movie lover's map. Initially considered by writer-director George Lucas to play the wise Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, he was eventually cast as Grand Moff Tarkin, commander of the Death Star and the one man who Darth Vader (David Prowse) does not intimidate in "Star Wars" (1977). As with many of his roles during this period, he signed on to the then-relatively unknown project based on his thought that children would enjoy seeing the film. The global success of "Star Wars" boosted Cushing's profile considerably, and he would continue to appear in features and on television, including a rare non-horror turn in "A Tale of Two Cities" (CBS, 1980) for "The Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1951- ) in America.
In 1982, Cushing was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which forced him to dramatically reduce his screen appearances. Among his final projects was the slapstick comedy "Top Secret!" for Jim Abrahams and the Zucker Brothers of "Airplane!" (1980) fame, and as an elderly Sherlock Holmes in "The Masks of Death" (1984). By the end of the decade, he had retired from acting to pen two autobiographies, including 1988's Past Forgetting: Memoirs of the Hammer Years. The following year, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Cushing's final screen effort was the documentary "Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror" (1994), which he co-narrated with his friend Christopher Lee. A week after its initial broadcast, he died on Aug. 11, 1994 at the age of 81. Friends, fans and co-stars throughout the world memorialized his contributions to film and the horror genre in loving detail. In his adopted home of Kent, a well-loved sightseeing spot was named in his honor. In 2016, Cushing was brought back into the public conversation when the producers of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016) used CGI, old footage of Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin, and a stand-in actor to recreate the character for scenes in the new film, released 22 years after Cushing's death. Although fans of the series were largely favorable, it did raise questions in some circles about the ethics of recreating new performances by deceased actors.
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[video] Amsale Girls, Season 1 - Sneak Peek
"Brides spend up to $75,000 for an Amsale gown, and the women who work in Amsale's salon are just as extraordinary as the dresses themselves. Every day, they deal with the non-stop pressure of pleasing some of the most discriminating Manhattan brides. Outside of work, these 30-something women are best friends, who support each other through good times and bad. But it's all in a day's work when you're an Amsale Girl." -- iTunes Store
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In high end bridal couture, Amsale is synonymous with the modern bride. Meet this group of New York women, Amsale's Girls, and see how they impact the lives of their clients and each other while working in the world of fast-paced bridal fashion.
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Here are a few from an engagement shoot down on Alki beach with Rebecca and Rob! I was a little worried the morning of the shoot as it was pouring down rain but Rob said it would clear up and it sure did! Had a great time with them!
If you're looking for Seattle engagement photography contact me and let's have some fun!


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By: Russell Canceran
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As the Phoenix Concert Theatre quickly fills up, the crowd impatiently waits for the infamous and elusive Brooklyn-based band Cigarettes After Sex. There is no opener this night, and rightfully so, as the band's cult-like following supersedes the need for one. The band's lo-fi instrumentals and atmospheric sound, headed by lead singer Greg Gonzalez's androgynous vocals, has garnered them high praise from independent music blogs. The band quietly takes the stage and the crowd erupts in praise, which quickly transitions to eerie awe as soon as Gonzalez sings a single note. The set begins with the tracks "Sweet" and "Sunsetz" off the band's self-titled debut studio album, Cigarettes After Sex (2017). Backed by beautiful monochrome visuals that match the band's thematic cover art and paired with slowly drifting smoke, the crowd settles into a melodic lull. The band's sensual lyrics almost make it seem criminal to not be there with a significant other. The band also makes sure to repay long-standing fans with tracks such as "I'm a Fireman" and "Dreaming of You" from their 2012 debut EP, I.The band closes out with the song that brought them underground infamy, "Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby," and follows up with their latest single, "Apocalypse." As the crowd roars in applause, it is clear that this won't be the last time the band graces Toronto with its presence.
This article was originally published on our old website at https://thenewspaper.ca/the-arts/cigarettes-after-sex-toronto/.