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Graduation is not as glamorous as everyone thinks. Sitting in the bleachers for four hours in the scalding heat with your nicest clothes on is not fun (at least for me). I would've had no problem skipping my graduation, except for one part. There is one segment of graduation that makes the whole thing bearable, the speech. The graduation speech plays a pivotal role in making or breaking graduation ceremony. These speeches not only serve to inspire the public, but also shapes the values of the academic
up the thing, and then be the first one on the green bus to the grad party — you know who you are. And the rest, well, the rest aren't even paying attention, you're thinking, "Great, here comes one of the valedictorian speakers. Next up: a boring speech straight out of the pits of scholarly hell." And it's OK, I don't mind — that sort of thing comes with the territory. But tonight, I ask that you give me a chance to break that stereotype so that I may address you in the full splendor that you deserve
Ladies, gentlemen, parents, friends, family, staff, fellow students: Instead of taking up more time and reading my speech, it is available to you at http://www.olen's_speech.com. Thank you. No, just kidding. But seriously folks... Today we are gathered here to celebrate our graduation from 12 long years of schooling. The education granted to us has been a privilege. One so graciously given to us by the citizens of our state, by our community, and by our parents. Today would not be
It is probably a mistake that I am standing here giving a speech for graduation. In fact it is probably a mistake that I am even graduating from this school at all -- believe me, just as most people in this class I have tested the limits of attendance, of sleeplessness, and of procrastination. At the beginning of my high schooling, I was even testing dropping out ... and if that wasn't a mistake, I don't know what was. After four years of Starr altering our minds, it seemed most fitting for me to
study abroad, and with the great help of the Turner family, Ms. Joy Fitzpatrick who is the international student program coordinator, and my parents, I entered America as an international student on March 11, 2001, only one week after my high school graduation in Japan. It seems as though yesterday when I saw my host mom crying at the airport to see me landed to America safely, as if she were welcoming back her own daughter. I still recall the very first class I took. I was so scared and nervous that
the senior class president. A few weeks ago, I was told that I would be speaking at graduation. I was asked to put together a speech for tonight -- I've become experienced at speech writing over the past couple of weeks. The speech that you are hearing is the fourth one I've written, the recycle bin needs to be emptied at home and I need a new highlighter. Thank you, Mr. Mier, you get an "A+" for your help as my speech teacher but an "F" for saving trees. Tonight I'd like to talk to three groups
Congratulations everyone, congratulations. If you're participating in this graduation ceremony, you've taken the next step toward your future goals and dreams. For those of you that just finished your transfer degrees, congratulations. To those of you that came back to school after a few years off to get a better education, congratulations. To those of you that came to get a certificate or learn IT or computer programming so you can get a better job, congratulations. Now that you're moving on
jackass, were you really valedictorian?" The purpose of a graduation speech, as it has been laid out before me, is not to complain, though, but rather to bore the hell out of you. That's why my speech will last about four hours and seventeen minutes, filled with uninspiring poetry readings, bland quotes, meaningless anecdotes and the traditional candied assortment of shameless clichés and platitudes. Of course, I do realize that my speech is a compulsory formality, and that, in all likelihood, nothing
this graduation speech, several people suggested including a profound quote offering "encouraging advice to the young graduates", and then there were others who said, "eh don't worry about it, no one listens to those anyway." Fortunately, I was actually able to take from both suggestions and found a happy balance. You see, I won't tell you today to: "Dare to dream" or "Find your own vision" or even to "Strive for excellence," or any trite cliché that's ever been said in a graduation speech. So
you might ever sit through. Most of us, though, and I regret that I am in this group, will sit through many more ceremonies -- ceremonies longer and more tedious that this or anything else you can imagine. If you think this is bad, try a college graduation. Think, that is, attend a wedding. And, if just for a moment you think that that is bad, just be thankful you have never attended or will attend a Bar Mitzvah. The only ceremony I think anybody would truly enjoy attending is a funeral. But, only


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Cindy was wet. She'd been wet for three hours now after getting stuck in the rain, and she wasn't getting any drier. Copping a subway ride to the north side of the borough hadn't even helped, despite all of the dry hot air circulating around her. It just made her thirsty as hell. Literally, probably, if you believed in the hellfire shit. Worse, it was daytime. She usually slept then so she could be on the move at night, but she couldn't get to sleep at all, not that she ever got a real beauty night's worth. The whole situation was getting her quite irritable. She had intense desire to knock people over as she passed by them; they were driving her crazy. All of them stared at her, Gucci and Tommy Hilfiger Wonderpeople. She heard them whispering. The hell with them. They whisper, they criticize, but not one of them bothered to ask if she needed help. For all they knew, in her tattered condition, she'd just been raped. They didn't care. Assholes, all of them.
The men in particular got to her, looking her over like a slab of meat. There was something perversely disgusting about a man who looked old enough to be her grandfather slobbering over her, holding a hand of a lollipop sucking little girl calling him "Pop-pop." Or the drooling husbands ignoring their wives. She could smell impending violence reeking from these male vultures' pores. The women were easier to deal with. All they did was stick their noses in the air like they were sniffing their own CKOne when they saw her. She didn't care. She wasn't looking to get in with some clique. She had more important problems, like living.
Cold. Maybe she'd go back to the subway station. She wondered why she had left there to begin with. It was always warm there. No would one snub her, because everyone there was a loser by society's fake standards. Some of the guys there were pretty cool, willing to share the spoils they had. Like this guy she used to know called St. Francis, who was a decent guy even though he talked about God all of the time. He helped Cindy through the first winter here. He seemed to get food from nowhere, and he seemed to share everything and yet never go dry. Even the birds flocked to him, hence the nickname. He seemed so spiritual that people thought he wasn't even human, like he was an angel or something, until he was found a couple of months ago in a dumpster with a bashed-in head. Well, maybe she'd have comparable luck finding someone like him again, someone who lifted some food from a dumpster or had a good joint to take her mind off things. She started heading back but realized she'd been meandering so much she was totally lost. All she saw were a bunch of boutiques for people who were so rich that they threw money away out of sheer boredom. She knew, she'd been one of them. But screw that, where the hell was the terminal? She was itching to go somewhere warm, and where she was relatively accepted.
Maybe she should do something stupid like go to a women's shelter. I'm a battered wife, my husband beats me. See if this time they'd rejected her for being too rich or put her on a waiting list, like the last couple of times she did the politically correct thing to get out of her hellhole. They fed her lingo about some kind of welfare reform shit, and the accounts being joint or some other pencil-pushing red tape. Option two was come back when she was legally separated, after she would get every bone broken in the process of legally ridding herself of an obsessive asshole. See you when I'm dead, Cindy said. Rich women don't get battered. Their lives didn't need protection they way poor ones did. Besides, they had said, with all her money she could get a job and apartment herself. Good old option three. Right. Like it was ever her money. Like Patrick was going to hand over ten thousand dollars so she could get rid of him. Not that poor women got any help either. Men ran the show.
And why should anyone want to help stupid women who got themselves who got tied up with jerks? Cindy heard it all before, from the country club set who thought Patrick was a saint, to the dumbass talk shows, to the men in the bars and the women in the malls. It was the women's fault; they deserved what they got, especially if they didn't leave the first time it happened. They must like it. Then they turn around and want help and expect the good taxpayers to shell out hard earned money for their stupidity so they can have a free hotel. They should have thought about that earlier. Everyone knew that. Everyone was a big expert because they watched the OJ trial. See, the bimbos must really like it. Like after coming back to a shithole called home after a shelter that should have been salvation rejected you, and having photographs of every shelter in a fifty mile radius splayed on a table, one with you walking out the door, then finding your face rearranged and all ten fingers broken backward, that was fun. Sure. They must like it. Dumb little bimbos. She'd heard it all.
Cindy laughed aloud. Yeah, I like it. Whip me, beat me, chain me-please oh baby, please. You want to know a big secret, my real ambition in life was always to be a masochist. Maybe be in one of those hardcore porn movies where I get pissed on. But I couldn't make it there, so I settled for broken bones for free. You've got me figured out baby. Never wanted to be a doctor or an actress. I truly found what I was looking for in life in bruises and fractures. Yeah, right. And fuck you too.
She got herself so worked up that she realized she was saying all this shit out loud. Nothing she couldn't live with, but she knew she breached some kind of tea party definition of good public manners. Sure enough, as she finished her lively conversation amongst she, her and herself, she noticed that people were staring at her. She was getting sick of this. This was not a freak show. If anything, they were the freaks, looking like a clone factory spit them out of a machine. She started screaming at the top of her lungs that abortion was a mortal sin and all their souls were damned to hell. Many bodies scurried in many directions. Cindy smiled. Works every time, she thought smugly to herself.
Except one remained.
Far off she saw a man. Well, not that far off. He was standing in the alley that she was planning to duck and hide in. The way he was looking at her got to her. It was different from the gawkers. It was like he knew her. She did not want to be known. And he was kneeling, as though he had been in the middle of prayer. That freaked her out big time. She'd been joking before. She didn't give a shit about abortion or anyone's soul. Last thing she needed was for this weirdo to think that she wanted to join a religious cult.
But the thought of being known was even worse than that.
She ducked into a stationary store, oblivious to all the upper-crust stares she got while in there. She pretended she was looking for a card for someone, knowing how stupid all this looked. She was too poor to feed and clothe herself, and now she dared to soil this reputable enterprise trying to find a card for some Invisible Man. What the hell was she doing in Hallmarks 'r Us? She almost laughed. When the cashier picked up the phone while looking in her direction, she almost left. Then she thought, the hell with it. A night in jail might not be so bad. She didn't have to give her name. She'd probably get out before Patrick came. And she'd get a good meal and a warm bed. She could get used to the idea.
The cashier's conversation oozed with "miss you honey", "can't wait to lick you honey". Complete barf talk. She judged that unless the cashier had a personal booty relationship with a badge, the fuzz wasn't on the phone. She was actually disappointed. Jail was almost sounding nice. After standing around another couple of minutes, seconds, it was hard to estimate, she got fed up waiting for the cops to come and listening to 1-800-ADULTERY. So she left. Luckily for her, the praying mantis was gone.
She resumed her search for the subway, and felt relief when she saw the terminal sign just ahead. She was almost dry. It wasn't much to celebrate, but in this life, this kind of thing almost made her happy. Almost.
The day was sunny now. Before it had been dark, and the heavens had unleashed its tears. The minstrel burst into song. This was the happiest he felt all day. It was such a simple pleasure, the sun. Such life it held, such power. An awesome spectacle.
He knelt down to find his bag, which was hidden behind the garbage can. He wanted to change and find a place to wash. He had just washed himself the previous day, but he desired to feel water rushing over him. A baptismal of his spirit, the renewal of life. He was beginning a new life; this was the start of a new chapter here. It would be good to stay here. Perhaps he could settle down once more. Days like that seemed so long ago.
Suddenly he stopped. He heard a cry, and turned to see what could only be an angel; an angel that bore the same radiance as Raulita. When he saw the angel, he knew she was showing him what Raulita had grown to be. She stood at the alley, watching him, more beautiful than he could imagine. His heart leapt for joy. Dear Dios, what could the angel mean? Was she to lead him to the daughter lost to him? yet just as suddenly as he recognized her, she disappeared. Panic went through the minstrel. He couldn't lose her again; not after all that he had been through. And this angel, he could not lose her either; she was the fruit of hope to him. Please God, he thought, as he ran to the street. But the angel was not in sight. The street was suddenly deserted, as though no one ever walked there. Despondently, the minstrel went back to his alley, going through his bag with much less enthusiasm than he had previously. There was some food. He would find a place to sleep tonight, he always did. But there was an emptiness to his heart that he had not felt in a long time.
He had lost her again. And he was plagued with the vision of death, of a casket draped in flowers, the one that was too much for him to bear. He crumbled to his knees, burying his face in his hands. To the Virgin Mary he desperately pleaded for mercy. The Holy Mother, she had lost her son; she would show a lowly man like him mercy. He began to say the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary once more. The words soothed him. Tentatively, he began to feel peace again. In his prayers, he was assured that all that would come before him would be all right.

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
It was a week full of ends, which as the song above mentions are always connected to a beginning, hence the title of this post. First, would be the official end of 8th Grade for Christian. It's still a little hard to believe, if I'm being honest. Because how do two years of Jr. High go by so quickly? That being said, Jeremy had the idea of creating a small but significant celebration for our son. So he bought tiki torches and gathered together some of his closest friends. With the ambiance of the night, it seemed like we should have learned some sort of awesome family Haka (if you don't know what Haka is, google it. It's a traditional tribal war cry/dance and I think it's so powerful and beautiful).
We didn't do a Haka. But we did have Christian's friends read these bold and incredible things that were true about him and where he's at in life these days. For the record, and praise God, he is doing so well. He's found great friends and is making good choices. He's also grown into a hard-working and diligent young man and we could not be prouder.
So Jeremy created a ceremony to celebrate this and to welcome the next step for Christian, which will be high school in the fall.
He encouraged him to keep going, keep working hard, keep being surrounded by good friends and to most of all keep Jesus first as the focus in his life. It was a great celebration of the end of Jr. High and the beginning of what's to come for our son.
Then this sweet girl finished up her last day of school on Friday. I'm pleased to share, that 5th grade overall was an awesome year. Ellee also had good friends, made great choices and worked so incredibly hard.
During our traditional last day pictures, her Dad tried to make her laugh, but ended getting a look that I feel is going to be common in these coming years. A little shock with a touch of mortification will be about right for us when it comes to our soon to be Sixth Grader.
Hopefully those moments will be short lived and we'll get to stay close and connected with our sweet Ellee girl.
And finally, we celebrated our last end of the year Youth Group event with a nice Thunderball tournament on Friday night. It was hard to tell how our turnout would be since it was Graduation night for many.
But everything worked out quite well and we had two solid competitive teams for our favorite made up game.
My caption for this would be "How many Jr. High boys does it take to cover the Youth Pastor?"
In the end, it came down to a championship game after both teams won one.
And this would be the team that came out victoriously. And yes, I was a part of that team. I played pretty diligently until the final game where I decided to capture the action instead of being a part of it. They still let me be in the winning picture, which was nice. If you didn't know, I'm not really competitive at all and mostly just ran around for the exercise of it all.
And that mostly finished up our 2017-1018 Youth Group year. We start Summer Youth group in a week or two with NTS Camp and then youth group at the Beach. And as sad as it is to say goodbye to another year, I'm ready for the newness that this next season brings. Happy Summer Friends!


text: Although Canada is in a likely technical recession—defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth—it's a recession that is contained, says former budget watchdog Kevin Page, CBCNews reported. "In the current context, if you look at the growth numbers, the recession is effectively in the goods sector, it's in the oil industry, it's weak growth in manufacturing, weak growth in construction," said Page in an interview on CBC Radio's The House. "It's quite contained. There's still lots of growth in the service sector." But Page, who served as Canada's first parliamentary budget officer from 2008-13, cautioned against reading too much optimism into the numbers. The Canadian economy lost 6,400 jobs in June as gains in full-time work were offset by losses of part-time jobs, according to Statistics Canada. The jobless rate stayed steady at 6.8%, the same level it has been at since February. It was a better showing than what a consensus of economists were expecting, which was a loss of about 10,000 positions, but Page said the pattern remains one of shrinking growth.


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Man dies after truck touches power lines
Power cut to several hundred residents for 20 minutes
York police said a man from York, employed with the Atlantic Paving Company, was electrocuted Tuesday afternoon.
Sergeant Thomas Baran said Christopher Dixon, 42, was standing behind a gravel truck on Red Berry Road that was dumping gravel when the truck touched the power lines, shocking Dixon.
Baran said Dixon died at the hospital.
Baran said the driver of the truck said she felt a sensation and saw what happened after she jumped out of the truck. She did not suffer any injuries.
York Village Assistant Fire Chief Gardner Marshall said York Beach Fire Department and York Village Fire Department were unable to attend to the truck, which caught on fire during the accident until the power lines were turned off.
Marshall said York Beach's power grid was shut off for about half an hour and has since been restored to all but two of the 2,472 customers.
Those two are on the road where the accident happened.
Officials will keep the power off until the truck has been towed.


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At the Beach - Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario - perfumeniche.com
Kay: Summer is here again, Gwen. Long hot days, cool drinks, cooking and eating outside.
Gwen: I love it! I can smell summer in the air.
Kay: I think that's because I'm wearing it – you're smelling one of my summer scents! I've brought a few for us to sniff and swoon over.
Gwen: Ohhh, my favourite part of summer! Those beach scents, those suntan scents, those summer cocktail scents…even when I'm working at my desk, they transport me to tropical paradise.
Kay: And I love those summer garden scents, too!
Gwen: So, what are you wearing, what did you bring? I've got a few of mine here we can try.
Kay: OK! Let's get started. Here's mine:
Just a glance at old summer photos, and I can smell salt water, hot sand, and suntan lotion on sweaty sun-baked skin at the end of a long day at the beach. Nothing is like that smell, except maybe Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess.
There's something primal in this fragrance that makes me smile, relax and go ahhhhhh. Maybe it's the inspired mix of tiare flower, which is a tropical gardenia, mixed with smooth warm golden amber and salty musk. Whatever it is, it does the same thing to those around me who catch a whiff of its sinuous sillage. This is a "What are you WEARING!!" kind of fragrance which can turn a domestic goddess into a bronze goddess with just a couple of spritzes. At least, it does that for me …..
There aren't many notes listed for this limited edition EdT, but right out of the bottle, the notes are all there. First is the tiare, the gardenia and tuberose mix, sweet and exotic, sharpened just a little with ylang-ylang, the "poor man's jasmine" which adds a slight greenish edge to the sweetness. It starts softening as the coconut note comes up, and the creamy nutty smoothness makes the white florals float like angels wings. The almost linear development changes in the dry-down as the vanilla darkens with a rummy smoky aspect. Mixed with the coconut and the vanilla, the tiare note and wisp of ylang-ylang form a perfect skinscent, clean and clear, not too loud, not too mai-tai, beachy or sun-tanny. Monoi, Eau de Vahines is tropical perfection.
Tomato Leaf has a casual vibe that makes it a perfect summer fragrance for both men and women. It also has a unique olfactory twist, and that's the tomato leaf note interpreted by perfumer Michael Boadi, which make it much more than just one note. (Tomato leaf has a green astringent scent with a bitter pine facet). Tomato Leaf opens with a divine accord of rooty carrot seed, green tomato, and zesty ripe orange, then soft florals in the heart, freesia, jasmine and peachy osmanthus slowly flow into water lilies, green, watery and not too sweet. The dry down is a light and musky with a hint a coconut but still green and a little earthy. I think the only people who won't like Tomato Leaf are those who don't like tomatoes. Too bad - they'll never know what they're missing.
Gwen: Amen to that! And these are my mine:
Ensoleille Moi - Tiaré (a/k/a Tahitian gardenia) and coconut combine to create that familiar note of sunscreen used on French beaches. Ylang-ylang adds another floral dimension. As it blooms on the skin, it gets deeper, creamier and lush. At the drydown, vanilla gives it a bit of sweetness, salicylates add a sea-saltiness. It is the smell of sun-kissed shoulders and salty kisses.
Terracotta Le Parfum - Notes of coconut and tiare are a nod to suntan lotions for sure, but have been elevated to such an elegance, they make Terracotta Le Parfum much more than a beach scent. The heart of rich, floral exotic ylang ylang is sweet, narcotic and fleshy. At the base, musk warms and softens the richness of the heart while a touch of Guerlain's signature vanilla gives it a soft sweetness. Terracotta Le Parfum is much more than a beach scent. It's a sophisticated and chic summer scent that I adore.
Batucada – Every summer vacay has to have a cocktail, that's how Batucada got on the list.The L'Artisan web site says that Batucada is "Refreshing as a cocktail, sexy as a Brazilian dance." Well, what are we waiting for? Batucada opens fresh and green from citrusy lime and herbaceous mint leaves, that leads straight to a sumptuous floral heart of rich tiare flower and fragrant ylang ylang that highlight cachaça, a sugar cane rum. This is a nod to the caipirinha, the national cocktail of Brazil . I've never had a caipirinha, but if it tastes as good as this juice smells, well, I'm gonna be having a few of these over the summer!
Kay: Talking about Batucada makes me want a cool cocktail.
Gwen: I can't make a caipirinha, but I happen to have a nice bottle of dry bubbly on ice. Shall we?
Kay: We shall. To summer!
Gwen: To summer!
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Anne Of Green Gables My Daughter And Me (Paperback)Lorilee Craker
A charming and heartwarming true story for anyone who has ever longed for a place to belong.
"Anne of Green Gables," My Daughter, and Me is a witty romp through the classic novel; a visit to the magical shores of Prince Edward Island; and a poignant personal tale of love, faith, and loss.
And it all started with a simple question: "What's an orphan?" The words from her adopted daughter, Phoebe, during a bedtime reading of Anne of Green Gables stopped Lorilee Craker in her tracks. How could Lorilee, who grew up not knowing her own birth parents, answer Phoebe's question when she had wrestled all her life with feeling orphaned—and learned too well that not every story has a happy ending?
So Lorilee set off on a quest to find answers in the pages of the very book that started it all, determined to discover—and teach her daughter—what home, family, and belonging really mean. If you loved the poignancy of Orphan Train and the humor of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, you will be captivated by "Anne of Green Gables," My Daughter, and Me. It's a beautiful memoir that deftly braids three lost girls' stories together, speaks straight to the heart of the orphan in us all, and shows us the way home at last.
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Starting with the end...I have been accepted into Golden Gate University's Doctor of Business Administration program! So very happy about this news. My focus will be sustainable social enterprise.
Previous to that was the meeting in which I was let go from my company and then contracted as a consultant at a far better hourly rate. Health insurance is going to be the challenge there.
So, spreading my wings and feeling more secure than ever in a certain uncertain set of circumstances.


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Pudding is one of those desserts that tastes just as good as a 7-year-old as it does when you're a full-grown adult. The only issue? Most varieties are loaded with inflammation-causing dairy and heaps of refined sugar — aka not exactly the best combo for your health. Luckily, there's a simple way to get your fix using super wholesome ingredients you can feel good about.
Sweet potatoes aren't just great for healthier French fries — they also make for a pretty solid (and incredibly nutritious) pudding base. The bright orange root veggie contains an abundance of vitamin C, as well as nearly 400 percent of your recommended daily intake of vitamin A in a single cup. On top of that, they don't cause blood sugar spikes like other carbs and have been shown to rid inflammation from your body, even helping fight off disease — cancer, included. Not too shabby, huh?
Because sweet potatoes are already naturally sweet, they provide a tasty dessert before adding in any extra sweeteners, so it's no wonder they pair perfectly with cocoa powder, a splash of vanilla, and creamy cashew milk in this recipe. The next time you're craving this childhood staple, whip up this easy treat. After a few bites, you might even forget you're essentially eating a super-chocolatey vegetable.
- 1 medium to large sweet potato
- ½ cup cashew milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp cacao nibs or vegan chocolate chips (optional)
- Peel a medium or large sweet potato, then boil until it's soft enough to easily poke with a fork. (Note: If you want to preserve more of the sweet potato's nutrients, wrap it in tin foil and bake until soft instead of boiling.)
- Remove from the water and let cool.
- Cut the sweet potato into pieces and add into a blender with the cashew milk, vanilla extract, and maple syrup. Blend until smooth.
- Once the mix is smooth, add in the unsweetened cocoa powder. Blend until it's fully mixed in.
- Refrigerate until chilled, then top with cacao nibs or vegan chocolate chips and enjoy.


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POLOKWANE – Soon we're all going to have to say goodbye to our beloved green ID books as they are being replaced with shiny new Smart ID cards.
The cards, according to Home Affairs, will have better security features and will be extremely difficult to forge.
The card body is secure and durable, made of quality polycarbonate materials which will prevent tampering.
It also has two forms of security features:
- The first is physical security features on the card body such as holograms, laser engraving and personal details which will provide visual verification of the card and easily identify tampered cards.
- Logical security features include fingerprint biometrics and biographic data which is embedded on the 80 kilobytes card chip.
Personalisation with laser engraving of demographic details and photographs makes the new card extremely difficult to forge or tamper with. The smartcard will cut down on the fraudulent use of fake or stolen IDs, which is a major concern.
Applicants can apply via the new e-Channel portal on the Home Affairs website but it is only open for applicants ages 30-35 for now.
Here is the link if you wish to applyhttps://ehome.dha.gov.za/eChannel/Home/UserFiltering
You will be sent a one-time PIN (OTP) and a verification email. You will need to click a link in the email, while the OTP must be entered into the page.
Payment options are available for Absa, FNB, Nedbank, and Standard Bank. You can also skip the payment step and pay when you visit a branch.
To complete your application, you must visit a branch where your fingerprints and photo will be taken.
You can either make an appointment at the branch that supports priority bookings, or visit your nearest branch within 60 days of submitting the online application.
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Midsummer, Santa Fe
Summer in Santa Fe is a season of festivals – this week the city is celebrating Spanish Market. Traditional arts – like the carving and painting of Santos, tinwork, and straw-weaving – can be found in the Plaza. Modern media and edgier subjects are featured in the Contemporary Hispanic Market on Lincoln Avenue. And I, having no Andalusian ancestry, will be setting up my usual space in the air conditioned pavilion at Paseo and Guadalupe, the Santa Fe Railyard Artisans Market, Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. I will be working on my new piece and displaying original collages and posters and prints and cards for sale.
Last Sunday brought many out of town visitors to the city, including several from Louisiana. They came to the Market and watched me work on my latest collage piece. One of the original Autumnal Haiku series, "Arroyo, Early Morning" is speeding its way to Louisiana. This series of colorful landscapes features scenes of autumn in Northern New Mexico – at least how I see it. I embed a haiku which I write especially for each piece.
Posters and cards and prints found new homes as well; the pear card collection continues to be popular. And over at Ohori's Coffee, my show "Across the Universe" will be on display for three months. This show features my collage depictions of planets and galaxies. I will be swapping out pictures from time to time – already have installed a new one to replace one that sold last week. Enjoy a good cup of joe and take time to absorb the atmosphere. Visit during regular shop hours – they are open every day!
Today, I took to the hills. I often get inspiration walking the mountain trails under the aspens. Monsoon season has begun (finally!) and the woods were lush. Santa Fe starts off most mornings with blue skies and bright sun; by mid-day clouds build up over the mountain ranges. These often lead to thunderstorms which end with rainbows as the sun re-emerges. (The monsoon torrent inspired one of the Autumnal Haiku pieces). My hike took me along Tesuque creek and its many tributaries, all gurgling and burbling – I had music the entire way up and down. Highlights from my walk included the tiny crescent moon in the blue, straight overhead, dozens of butterflies in the meadows, and a young buck on the mountain road, nonchalantly licking a salty spot. His antlers were the length of my forearm.
TTFN! Much to do!
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Change in Plans
Just like everyone else in the world, I am adjusting my plans and shifting my expectations. Until the crisis has passed and safety in Santa Fe is assured, I will be working from my studio in my home, doing my bit to help flatten the curve.
I have a lively on line presence:
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I can ship my art almost anywhere - Just ask!
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Now on
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Art Prints,
greeting card sets, posters
blank book journals
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Offering collage items
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Collage items in the online store include these:
Dozens of
Greeting Cards
5" x 7" featuring an original collage design on the front, blank inside, available for purchase, on line or at the market.
Greeting Card Sets,
5 blank cards + envelopes, bundled into gift-ready packages
includes Scenes of New Mexico, Fine Ladies Dancing, Rising, and Perfectly Pear
Loosen Your Soul and Harvest:Fruition
each is 18" x 24", add comes rolled , ready for framing.
Prints, posters, journals, and cards make beautiful gifts
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KITA Launches 'Global Marketing
- 200 panels consist of consumers and experts from
26 countries… will provide reviews and feedback on the
products of Korean startups -
The Korea International
Trade Association (Chairman, Kim Young-joo) announced that it launched the
'Global Marketing Panel (GMP)', a review group of overseas consumers and
experts to pre-evaluate Korean start-up products, on May 7th.
The Global Marketing Panel
consists of 200 consumers and experts from 26 countries around the world
recruited through Kmall24, an overseas direct sales platform of the Korea
International Trade Association, and the overseas branches. Expert group
includes merchandisers (MD), buyers, influencers, and professionals.
The Korea International
Trade Association sent the sample products, that are selected from the
pre-qualification screening, of ten Korean start-up companies, including
beauty, food, and household goods, to the review team last week. They are
supposed to provide opinions on things to improve, ideas, and reviews after
three weeks of product experience. Among the panels, a sizable number of social
network service (SNS) users such as bloggers and YouTubers are included.
Therefore, if the reviews are good, it is expected that local publicity through
social media will be carried out.
CEO Lee Mi-sun of a startup
Sinbad who participated in the project said, "It feels like receiving a
professional overseas market research worth tens of million won that include
overseas consumers' reviews and feedback, and publicity effects without
spending a penny." She also expressed her expectation saying, "We
will actively reflect the panels' opinions from all over the world on the
future product development."
Cho Sang-hyun, chief of
Global Startup Center at the Korea International Trade Association, said, "Without a comprehensive understanding of the market environment,
consumers and culture of a country, it is likely to fail to make inroads into
the country." He added, "The
Korea International Trade Association is the only agency that simultaneously
supports foreign direct sales and market conformity checks, and will actively
support the entry of start-ups' products into overseas markets considering
market-specific characteristics."
The Korea International
Trade Association has set up a global marketing panel exclusive store for its
online direct sales platform Kmall24. 200 panels who are consumers and experts
from 26 countries around the world can select products from the online store
and the selected sample products will be delivered.


text: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has shared "evidence" with the American military officials about the action taken against the Haqqani Network, the military spokesman said Tuesday. Talking to members of an Afghan media delegation, currently on a week-long visit to Pakistan, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said Pakistani security officials had informed the American military officials who visited Pakistan this month about the action against the Haqqanis."We have told them (American military officials) that we have taken action and will take action against the Haqqani Network and all other terrorists groups including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan," he said.He said that Haqqanis and other terrorist groups had been eliminated from North Waziristan during the major offensive launched during 2014.The Pakistani Embassy in Kabul has invited the Afghan media team to visit Pakistan to have direct interaction with the Pakistani political and military officials and to ask about their reservations, embassy spokesman Akhtar Munir said.The Afghan media team, representing the leading TV channels and other important media outlets, held a two-hour discussion with the Inter Services of Public Relations (ISPR) director general, who also offered them a live presser for the Afghan TV channels.He said that seven members of the Haqqani Network were killed in Afghanistan, whose names the Afghan government had mentioned in list handed over to Pakistan in February."Our intelligence has also confirmed that dozens of others mentioned in the Afghan government list operate on the Afghan side of the border," he said in a reference to what was seen as a tit-for-tat exchange of lists of wanted men after terrorist attacks had killed nearly 100 Pakistanis in attacks in the country in February.Replying to questions about the security along the border with Afghanistan, he said that the fencing of the border with Afghanistan was likely to be completed within two years. He said that the fencing and other measures were only aimed at stopping the cross-border movement of the terrorists."We know there are certain reservations on the border management in Afghanistan, but these measures are necessary to stop the terrorists from entering both sides of the border. If the Afghan government has any other option, they can share it with us," he said.The army spokesman also told the Afghan media team that the border crossings with Afghanistan, which were still closed, would be reopened in six to nine months after all measures were taken to ensure border security. "Closure of border is not an appropriate step and such steps are counterproductive for the both countries and issues cannot be settled in this way.""We have established a lot of check posts on our side of the border and hope similar measures are taken on the other side," he said. He said that Pakistan army chief had even offered the Afghan side that Pakistan was ready to help Afghans put in place similar security measures, such as fencing of constructing forts on the Afghan side."Terrorists routinely launched attacks on Pakistani border posts from Afghan soil in groups of 150 in the past. But Pakistani measures on the border have reduced the threat," Maj Gen Ghafoor said.He also reiterated Pakistan military's offer to impart training to the Afghan security forces in the Pakistani military centers.The army spokesman called for an end to the blame game between Pakistan and Afghanistan, adding that both countries must talk to each other to address to each other's concerns. "As Pakistan military spokesman I have never leveled the allegations against Afghan government or the Afghan army for supporting Pakistani terrorists," he said. He, however, said it was widely believed in Pakistan that the Pakistani terrorists were using Afghan soil to target Pakistan."TTP Chief Mullah Fazlullah is in Afghanistan and he claims responsibility for attacks in Pakistan, but it does not mean that Afghan government is involved in such incidents," he said. However, he said, that India was using TTP against Pakistan.To a question, he said Pakistan has deployed over 200,000 security personnel in the tribal regions, which had once been under the influence of the terrorist groups but now all areas have been cleared."There doesn't exist safe havens of terrorists in Pakistan. Pakistan Army conducted operation 'Raddul Fasaad' against all terrorists without any discrimination," he said.


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amelia_smarts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de portada de libro o revista y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
When He Returns
Amelia Smarts
Historical western romance author who explores themes of dominance and submission. Alpha cowboys alongside sweet love stories.
When He Returns is a coming-of-age, enemies-to-lovers romance with a whole lot of heart, a bit of heat in the form of adult spanking and sex, and a well-earned happy ending.
Women ages 18+ who like BDSM, D/s, western romances
There is an image I've already purchased that I'd like to be the main image of the cover (attached below).
Though I love the image, I'd really prefer for his shirt not to be red since it doesn't really look "old west" to me. If you could change his shirt to a more subtle color like brown, black, grey, etc., that would be good.
The font could perhaps be western.
This is an enemies-to-lovers, coming-of-age story that I'd like to appeal to an audience of women around 18-25.
See my previous western covers for an idea of what I like: https://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Smart…B018IRLWOE


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Introduction: LED Microcontroller Debug Module
When it comes to debugging a microcontroller circuit, there aren't a lot of simple options. Since a microcontroller circuit might have multiple things going on at the same time, measuring voltages with a DMM isn't an option. Using an computerized In-Circuit-Debugger solution is expensive and elaborate, and time-consuming to set up. People often resort to connecting banks of LEDs to the circuit, but this also takes time and if wired incorrectly, might mislead you about the issues you are trying to solve.
Enter the Microcontroller Debug Module (MDM). It is a device which simply transplants the microcontroller (MCU) to a separate unit, away from the breadboard. It is connected by a 40-pin ribbon cable to a small PCB which takes the place of the MCU on the breadboard, transposing each pin directly. No circuit modifications are required for the operation of the MDM. On the module are 74LS541 8-bit Line Driver ICs which drives indicator LEDs for each of the 8 bits on each of the data ports on the MCU. This chip delivers current for the LEDs without affecting the pin of the MCU itself. The pin and the breadboard circuit have no idea the chip is there.
My microcontrollers of choice are PIC18 family 28 and 40 pin PICs which I have designed this unit to be pin-compatible for. Your unit can be designed for Arduino Atmel chips or any MCU you wish to use.
This Instructable is mostly intended to inspire ideas and some circuit pieces to help you develop a MDM for your own favorite family of MCU.
Also Please note the schematic and board layout are regarding Revision 0.3, it is far more advanced and has numerous corrections/features added to it, compared to Rev 0.1, which is photographed.
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Step 1: Schematic Design
- J2 is the 40-pin PIC socket, which connects pin-for-pin to the 40-pin IDE connector
- J8 is the 28-pin PIC socket, which will rest in between the 40-pin socket
- J3-J6 are arranged to form a 20x2 IDE cable connection for connecting the MDM to the PIC substitute board
- J7 is a header for running the MDM in a stand-alone configuration without power from the breadboard circuit
DSW1 is a DIP switch bank that allows the user to disable or enable the LED output ports if they so wish to. It will reduce the brightness of the port LEDs if you are not using that port for anything, or if the port is being used as an analog input port. When the pin is Tri-state then both LEDs will light up at 50% brightness. Due to limitations of the 74LS541, when the MCU pin is displaying tri-state, it will display as high. The only time that the output of the 74LS541 will go tri-state is when the enable/disable switch for that chip is enabled.
An oscillator is included on the board, and I recommend it be used because the crystal should be as close to the MCU as possible, and it is not a good idea for it to have to go through a ribbon cable to get there. It might also cause unwanted noise in the rest of the circuit and could affect ADC readings.
an ICSP header is included on the board, and can be enabled/disabled from the MCU pins with SW1.
Please press the "i" symbol at the top corner of each image to view it in full, readable resolution. Thank you.
Step 2: Parts List
Parts List:
- MDM PCB - 1 Piece
- MCU Substitution PCB - 1 Piece
- 74LS541 Tri-state buffer/line driver - 4 Pieces
- 5988170107F 0805 SMT LED GREEN 2V 20mA - 32 Pieces
- 5988110107F 0805 SMT LED RED 2.1V 20mA - 32 Pieces
- MC0805S8F330JT5E 0805 330 ohm SMT resistor- 64 Pieces
- CRG0402J10K/10 0805 10k ohm SMT resistor - 6 Pieces
- 08051C103KAT2A 0805 10nF SMT capacitor - 5 Pieces
- MC0805B104M160CT 0805 100nF SMT capacitor - 1 Piece
- MCDS04 4 position SPST DIP - 1 Piece
- 1N4148-TAP 1N4148 diode - 1 Piece
- 1n4148W 1B4148 diode SOD-123 - 2 Pieces
- MC9A12-4034 20x2 IDE connector - 2 Pieces
- MCLSS22 DPDT slide switch - 1 Piece
- M22-2512005 5 Pin header (row of 20) - 1 Piece
- MJTP1230 Reset pushbutton - 1 Piece
- 4840-6004-CP 40 Pin IC socket 0.6" - 1 Piece
- 1-390261-9 28 pin IC socket 0.3" - 1 Piece
- BG095-03-A-N-D Socket for crystal - 1 Piece
- MC0805N180J500CT 18pF Capacitor for crystal - 2 Pieces
- SPC19951 40 PIN IDE Cable - 1 Piece
- MC34739 20 Pin header for Sub PCB - 2 Pieces
Step 3: PCB Layout
I wanted to make my unit as small as possible so I squeezed it as much as I could, using SMT components, into a board that is about 3.5" by 2.5". It would be difficult, but not impossible, to make it smaller still. I am happy with the size however.
I used the Proteus software package to develop my drawings and layouts. Eagle or another software package will work just as well.
If you want to develop your MDM using through-hole components you might have a difficult time making it a manageable size, and might have some further difficulty if you want to use a single-side PCB. I have my PCBs done by a company called Seeed Studio for relatively cheap, since this kind of production is virtually impossible to do at home.
This board would make a great SMT soldering practice project. The 0805 package size isn't bad once you read some various techniques on the internet and test them out, and pick the one that works for you. Also a good hot iron with an appropriately small tip is important, and liquid flux makes life easier too.
Step 4: Completed Unit in Action
Once assembled the unit is ready to go. It can be used as a stand-alone device to test code, or inserted into a breadboard or PCB using the MCU substitution board. It gives an unparalleled visual connection to the circuit to allow you to develop code and debug issues at lightning speeds.
The image of the MDM operating below is running a test program on the PIC which puts each pin of each port high one by one. Port D and port P in the picture are disabled by the DIP switches, you can see that both LEDs are on and are dimmer than the LEDs on ports A and C below.
A great idea would be to develop a standard Arduino with this kind of circuit integrated right on the board!
I am always open to suggestions about how to make this better, or what other features it could benefit from. Pleas feel free to send me a message or post a comment. Thanks very much for reading.
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"I am always open to suggestions about how to make this better, or what other features it could benefit from."
I could suggest a few from my DIY 8 channel logic probes:
Some of the features that you might want to consider adding:
1.True logic probe - high Z = both LEDs off, for differentiating between high impedance input and rapid switching outputs
2. individually selectable pullup/down resistors. Handy for quickly differentiating between an input with pullup enabled and an output high. Also takes the place of a dev board in some cases.
3. Input capability: tactile switch on each line that is individually selectable to short to either the ground or the power rail
4. One one of them I've added a li ion battery with 5V DC step up converter for powering the probe and/or the target circuit
5. integrated 9 pin port for plugging an 8 channel logic analyzer.
Oh, and you got it backwards. Red = high, green = low, dude. :) Think traffic signal. Think ground wires are green. Think red/black wires, where red = positive. :)
I was more thinking Green = good, Red = bad.
You've made some nice suggestions but unfortunately they're sort of "pie in the sky" ideas. I hunted high and low for an IC that would do the tri-state outputting like you say for #1, but I couldn't find any. This is the best I got. I'd need a different LED hookup scheme too, since a high-Z pin would result in both LEDs turning on anyway.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean about #2. That is to say I don't understand the value. If you've got a pulled-up input, you should be pulling it up somewhere in your circuit. This device is not to be replacing a circuit, just the PIC, also you wouldn't want to forget a key component in your design and have it fail after you make a PCB without all your pull-up resistors :(. That wouldn't be fun.
Same for #3 as #2.
However now a battery is a great idea. I will look into how cheaply I can achieve that, however powering by the circuit itself is almost always available.
Logic analyzer ports could be interesting. I imagine it is something that could be at least available on the board, even if there weren't soldered pins for it. I'll take a look into that.
Thanks for the ideas. Glad you liked my work.
This seems great when you think some pins are either misconfigured or internally damaged
It would be great for that purpose, as a PIC testing jig. I never thought of that. Glad you like it.
Well done Matt, raising the bar yet again!
I have never been so amazed, good job.


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The Woodlands continues wrestling with rise of suicide cases and mental health issues
The Woodlands continues wrestling with rise of suicide cases and mental health issues
Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Precinct 3 Judge Edie Connelly has seen a lot of death during her 28 years in office in The Woodlands.
Connelly and the other four justices of the peace get called out to crime scenes around the clock to investigate cause of death since there isn't a county medical examiner.
And she has seen just about everything, including the rise of suicide cases in Montgomery County.
"The hardest kind of case to go to is a suicide. It's something you never get over. I wouldn't begin to even try to tell you how many scenes that I've been to," Connelly said. "I have been to the scene of at least four people I personally knew, one of whom was a very close friend."
Suicide deaths have risen from 46 in 2011 to 134 in 2015, according to the figures from the Montgomery County Forensics Services.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the United States for people ages 10 to 34, according to the Centers for Disease Control's data from 2014, and is the 10th leading cause of death overall.
Though the vast majority of suicides are committed by adults, it took the death of a few teenagers late last year in The Woodlands to spur the community to discuss the taboo subject of suicide and the mental health issues that often precede it.
No signs
"Our family will never be the same."
Those words weighed heavily on Kimberley Hess, a mom of three kids in The Woodlands. She's confused and still searching for answers.
Until five months ago, Kimberley's family led a mundane life. She's an architect. Her husband is a physical therapist. Together they had two daughters and a son, and their eldest, Cassidy Hess, was their gem.
Cassidy was a junior at The Woodlands College Park, she was on the varsity cheer squad, regularly attended Bible study and, as her mother described, was popular. There were no signs of depression, nothing to prepare the Hess' for what would come next.
Life came to a screeching halt on Dec. 14. At about 4:15 p.m. after picking up her two youngest kids, Kimberley came home to find that Cassidy committed suicide.
"The way, the timing, the details of it all that took place, we believe that Cassidy didn't mean to do what she did. She didn't mean to go through with it. … She wanted me to find her and stop her in time, but timing wasn't on her side that day," Kimberley said to an audience of 1,500 parents, children, neighbors and strangers at The Woodlands United Methodist Church, who came to listen to her and other speakers' experiences with loss and suicide earlier this month.
Emergency responders rushed to the scene and worked desperately to revive Cassidy. After 40 minutes, they revived the 16-year-old and rushed her to Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital, where brain activity was detected.
"That gave us so much hope. You could only imagine the joy and relief that we had in that moment," Kimberley said.
Hope was the only thing the Hess family had as they prayed for their daughter's life. She was quickly put on a Life Flight helicopter and delivered to the Texas Medical Center for critical trauma care.
"We prayed nonstop on the way down there, praying to God to give us a second chance with our baby. That we would make sure she would never feel alone, confused or pain again. We begged him to spare this precious girl," Kimberley said.
Support from family, friends and even strangers poured in as Cassidy's story spread. Students gathered at Cassidy's parking spot at school every day to pray for her. But all the prayer wasn't enough to bring Cassidy back.
Each day she grew weaker. After six days on life support in the intensive care unit, it was time for the family to make the call. On Sunday, Dec. 20, Cassidy was taken off life support, and she passed away. Her organs were transplanted into four recipients.
"We kissed our baby one last time and told her how much we love her and to save us a place in heaven because we would see her again," Kimberley said.
Preventative care
The Hess' story is all too familiar to Chris Gritzmacher, a site supervisor in The Woodlands for the Montgomery County Youth Services where she has been for 35 years. She works with a variety of kids, including runaways who need shelter, pregnant teens and kids who have a slew of behavioral and mental health issues.
Though there are cases of suicide where children show no indications of their intentions, those cases, like Cassidy's, tend to be rare. Most of the time, children and adults suffer with depression, may engage in self-harm or self-mutilation, or may even talk about suicidal thoughts, sometimes for years.
Throughout Gritzmacher's years in child mental health services, she says that today's teens have a lot more pressure.
"I think all the electronics have added a whole other dimension to some problems for them, bullying and cyber bullying. We get a lot of kids who are dealing with that. They put things on the Internet, and it can never go back, and that's extremely difficult. That's a challenge a couple decades ago teens never had to face," Gritzmacher said.
On top of peer pressure fueled by social media, students are feeling pressure to academically succeed. College readiness is a major factor for high schools when considering student success. But getting into a top-notch college requires more than good grades. Students commit to volunteer work, sports, extracurriculars, honor societies and more to boost their résumés in addition to the usual standardized tests, application process and money for it all.
"I think families, the high achievers that are working a lot and kids don't get outside and don't have as much family time. Sometimes, that creates a lot of different problems. There's a lot more pressure and a lot more pressure for families. Families have changed, I think we're working longer hours just trying to keep up in the community, and I think people get super busy. At times, kids are in sports and over commit, then they don't have down time some times," Gritzmacher said.
The key to managing grief, mental illness and suicidal thoughts is communication. Often times, those who are struggling tend to isolate instead of communicate.
Gritzmacher urges friends, parents and teachers to pay attention to early signs and make an effort to reach out if there's a loved one who may be depressed, has spoken about self-harm or suicide, or may be isolating themselves. Critical changes to a family - a move, divorce, death of a loved one - can trigger behavioral disorders that may need to be addressed by a professional.
MCYS provides services to children and their families at no cost. The nonprofit also works with campuses in Conroe Independent School District and other neighboring districts to provide in-school counseling.
The Grief Resource Center is another nonprofit serving the south county community.
CISD Coordinator for Guidance and Counseling Denise Cipolla works to ensure kids from elementary through high school are receiving emotional and mental support. Each campus has a counselor, with high schools employing 10 to 12 counselors to keep up with thousands of students. In total, the district has 125 counselors.
Through it all, communication is key to breaking out of the cycle of hopelessness and connecting to a support system.
"We sometimes say and feel like we live in this bubble in The Woodlands. That as long as we keep our kids close, we can protect them and keep them out of harm's way. But sometimes, our bubble can feel more like a vacuum that just sucks the life out of our kids," Kimberley said. "It's time to break the silence. It's time to stop tiptoeing around the word suicide because of the ugly stigma attached to it."
Kimberley, her husband and children have tapped into a network of support in The Woodlands and greater Houston area, both leaning on friends and connecting with others who have experienced similar losses. But Kimberley wants to do more than just heal her wounds. She and Cassidy's close friends are working to create a peer support system for children experiencing suicidal thoughts to fill the gaps that churches and other outreach groups may not be filling.
"We don't exactly know what that looks like at this time, but we know it will be amazing because it will come from their hearts and we know it will work because it was created by them," Kimberley said.


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Multimodel planning analysis
An analysis of existing methodologies to assess quality of service and related concerns for pedestrian, bicycle, and transit modes.
A Review of Approaches for Assessing Multimodal Quality of Service (PDF)
An analysis of existing methodologies to assess quality of service and related concerns for pedestrian, bicycle, and transit modes.
A Review of Approaches for Assessing Multimodal Quality of Service (PDF)
This article examines the effect of land use, socioeconomics, and bus transit service on transit demand in the Twin Cities. The findings suggest that vertical mixed-use is important close to transit access and retail plays an important role up to a quarter mile from transit service.
Bus Transit and Land Use: Illuminating the Interaction (PDF)
Research on how the lack of transportation choices strains the family budget and hinders home ownership.
Transportation Costs and the American Dream (PDF)
Article on the public health consequences of unsafe and inconvenient walking and bicycling conditions, including recommendations.
Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health: Lessons from The Netherlands and Germany (PDF)
Report from this annual conference on the effects of transportation on communities. Topics include environmental justice, healthy communities, and inclusive decision-making.
Community Impact Assessment Conference articles (PDF)
Inventory of technical approaches that can be used to address environmental justice issues for systems-level and corridor/subarea planning.
Technical Methods to Support Analysis of Environmental Justice Issues (PDF)
A report published by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
MBTA Capital Spending: Derailed by Expansion? (PDF)
Paper on the positive impacts on transportation investment – in particular, the benefits to mobility and access, safety, aesthetics, and community cohesion.
Community and Social Benefits of Transportation Investment (PDF)
Northeastern University research on unequal exposure to pollution and hazardous waste.
Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (PDF)
Paper on the difference that rail transit makes in attracting the public to use public transportation.
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Record 2014 income on Fed portfolio seen dropping
[NEW YORK] The record US$106 billion in net income on the Federal Reserve's portfolio of assets last year is seen dipping to a third of that size by 2018, according to an annual report by the New York Fed.
The New York Fed's projections, based on bond market assumptions and surveys of primary dealers, see net income falling to about US$35 billion by 2018, with the portfolio reaching an equilibrium size by the end of 2020.
Income estimates are lower than last year's projections largely because the Fed is now expected to raise interest rates sooner. Over the next decade, cumulative net income is projected to be about US$600 billion, or US$25 billion lower than forecast last year.
Since the financial crisis, the US central bank's three huge rounds of stimulative bond buying have left it swollen with almost US$4.5 trillion in Treasury and mortgage bonds. It earns interest on the assets and transfers that income to the US government.
Annual remittances to the Treasury, which also hit a record of US$97 billion last year, are seen declining along with net income as borrowing costs rise across the economy in the years ahead.
Lower net income "suggest a greater likelihood of near-zero or even zero remittances to the Treasury for a time," the New York Fed said in its report to the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee.
Even so, it said, remittances should remain positive and net income "is very likely to remain quite high over the projection period, even under several alternative scenarios." The net US$106 billion in 2014 is up from US$84 billion in 2013 and US$89 billion in 2012.
The portfolio also swung to an unrealized gain of US$175 billion at the end of last year, compared with an unrealized loss of US$53 billion a year earlier, largely due to rising bond prices throughout 2014.
The projections see 55 per cent Treasuries and 45 per cent agency mortgage-backed securities in the portfolio by late 2020.
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Most of these Peoria computer shops can handle an array of technicalities with regards to desktop PCs, laptops, video game consoles, and Apple products, such as iPods. To help guide you to some of the best, check out these three trusted computer stores in Peoria, IL.
Nerds on CallNerds on Call has their shops centrally located within Peoria. The computer company is known to provide efficient, reliable and timely services to the residents of this neighborhood. They are easily accessible and have very qualified staff who can virtually handle all the common computer problems. Nerds on Call has earned the trust of locals who have found them to be so professional in their duties, hence, their good reputation throughout central Illinois.
The good thing with Nerds on Call experts is that they can respond to computer problems that are remote based. A client does not have to come to their offices for his or her computer problem to be addressed, but instead they can opt for the company's remote virus removal service. They are just a phone call away and often arrive within 30 minutes of contacting them. On Monday to Friday, they operate from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, and on Saturdays, they operate from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. In order to contact nerds on call, you can use the following contact details:
Nerds on Call
4906 N. University
Peoria, IL 61614
Phone: (309) 689-3900
For more details, you can visit their website at callrnerds.com
Facet Technologies, Inc.Facet Technologies is computer and technology consultancy firm located in Pekin, Illinois (just outside of Peoria). Since 1989, the company has been involved in information technology, technology designs, IT support solutions, implementations and computer repairs.
Facet Technologies is highly reputable and serves central Illinois with excellent IT computer consulting solutions for all types of clients. Facet technologies in central Illinois offers a vast array of computer repair services. The company has a highly trained, professional and creative team that handles all client issues.
Apart from carrying out computer repairs, Facet Technologies plans and installs electronic systems, communication systems and other integrated home systems. This computer store provides system sales, business IT support and other IT consulting services mostly in the central Illinois region. The convenience service location is located in Peoria. The company operates between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm from Monday to Friday and 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on Saturdays. To contact Facet Technologies, one can use the following contact details:
Facet Technologies, Inc.
2103 Court Street
Pekin, IL 61554
(309) 353-4727
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ACR PeoriaACR Peoria is a company located within Suite 14 in Strong Center along the 3100 North Knoxville Avenue. The company offers a variety of computer services at pocket friendly prices. ACR Peoria does, among other things, on-site computer trouble shooting and repairs, installation and upgrading of computer hardware, network consultation, internet protection, maintenance and cleaning of computers and laptops, and data services such as data recovery. To contact the company, you can use the telephone number 309-682-6880.
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Good Morning and Welcome to St. Mary's Church
The flowers on the Altar today are given to the glory of God and in thanksgiving for the birthday of Mrs. Effie Scott by her son Jimmy.
Welcome today to our visitors from Wake Forest Divinity School as they make their Urban Pilgrimage this week to New York City under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Douglas Bailey. We also welcome delegates from the UN Conference on the Status of Women and give God thanks for their justice making ministries. Thank you very much!
TIME CHANGE: NEXT SUNDAY, MARCH 14: Time to "Spring Forward!" Set your clock ahead one hour before you go to sleep next Saturday night, otherwise you will be an hour late to Church next Sunday. Be sure to go to bed an hour early so that you don't lose any sleep. Don't worry, we'll get the hour back in the Fall!
Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping: Friday, March 12 at 8:00 pm here at St. Mary's Church. Sponsored by the Coalition to Preserve Community. Come for this fun and spirit-filled evening for our community effort to insure that the Columbia University expan-sion plan serves the needs of all the people in our neighborhood. Come on out, tell your neighbors, friends and family as we rock the Church for our community!
Columbia Security Guards: Come to a vigil for their right to organize a union, Thursday, March 25 5-7 pm at the Columbia University gates, 116th Street and Broadway.
Time to Stand Up and Be Counted: the 2010 Census form will be mailed to you next week. It is important for our community that all people are counted. Please tell your friends, family members and neighbors to look for the census form and fill it out and return it. Thank you so much for your help!
MNIPC Evening Prayer at St. Mary's: Wednesday, March 17th at 7:00 pm we will host our sisters and brothers from our neighboring Harlem Episcopal congregations at Evening Prayer and a light fellowship meal following. If you can help with the service or fellowship, please let Rev. Kooperkamp or Gloria Smith know. Thank you!!
Harlem African Burial Ground: Senate Hearing March 19, 2:00 – 4:00 pm, Elmendorf Reformed Church, 171 East 121st Street. This is for official governmental records, the MTA and DOT are mandated to be at this hearing.
Property Committee Meeting: March 19th at 5:30 pm. See Liz Mellen for information.
Vestry Meeting: Tuesday, March 23rd at 5:30 pm. All are invited to attend.
Eccelsia: Marcus Garvey Park: Sundays at 2:00 pm. St. Mary's is the lead congregation on the first and third Sunday each month. We will need a few volunteers to help make bag lunches after the 10:00 am service today. Also: St. Mary's Homeless Street Outreach: Saturdays, 12 noon preparation and 2:00 pm street outreach. Please let us know if you can help and please keep the Homeless Street Outreach in your prayers. Thank you!!
Episcopal Church Women's Prayer Committee next Sunday, March. 14th following the 10:00 am service. All women are invited.


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We are going to talk about my favorite thing exfoliation! To maximize the benefits of your moisturizing products, it is important to exfoliate two to three times per week to remove dried out and dead skin cells from your face. Exfoliation may seem quite harsh and many mature women wonder if they shoud be doing this. When you exfoliate, you are assisting the natural process of shedding dead skin cells.
The process of removing dead skin cells rejuvenates the face and allows new, healthy skin cells to grow. The process of renewing skin cells slows down as you age, so in your 60s it becomes crucial to exfoliate in order to speed this process along.
Exfoliate Your Skin Regularly.
When skin is suffocated due to build up of dead skin cells, sebum and bacteria in the new skin cells below are starved of nutrients and vitamins. Exfoliating regularly will expose them to minerals they need to become healthy.
If we don't exfoliate, anti aging skin care products are not able to penetrate the upper skin layers and so are not as efficient as they could be.
There are a lot of exfoliation products in the market. If you are new to this, start off with something gentle like a cream exfoliator with soluble beads in it. You can also see your Esthetician and get a deeper exfoliation of your skin. But what ever you do, you must do some kind of exfoliation of the skin.


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Popping your cherry is a special moment in anyone's life, but not everyone has a first time as a drag queen. However, that's what one man is doing in Cherry Pop, which gives the regular queens – including one played by Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen – a chance to size him up, while he wonders what he's doing.
Here's the synopsis: 'A bawdy, uproarious comedy about a newcomer's wild night in a down-and-out drag club. Cherry Pop follows one wild, crazy night at a drag club, where the matriarch of the show Zaza refuses to come out of her dressing room, while a young newcomer, The Cherry, is tormented by the regular troupe of back-stabbing queens.'
The film stars Caldwell Tidicue (aka Bob The Drag Queen), Tempest DuJour, Detox Icunt, Mayhem Miller, Misty Violet, Allusia Alusia, Miguel Sagaz, Lars Berge and Latrice Royale.
In the US, Cherry Pop will premiere around the country this summer in a series of special screenings; starting in New York on June 19 as part of NYC Pride, followed by a special screening event on July 11 in San Francisco. Los Angeles and additional screenings to be announced. You can find out more over on the film's website.


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Free Conference Call – What Is It All About?
A lot of business groups, organizations and personal groups are using free conference calls just to stay connected. You should know that these services allow moderator functions like muting callers. Some of the moderator functions are secure conference PIN codes for moderators as well as question and answer mode with other conference participants. Hundreds of callers are using free conference calls and the beauty of free conference calls is that you can do it in any place around the world. There are free conference calls that use traditional telephone lines and equipment; it still works. Others make use of the VOIP or the voice over internet protocol technology to lower the cost of the company and help expand the accessibility for the international users.
A number of teleconference services need callers to dial a conference code and a PIN to access the line. The function of the PIN and the code will help secure the line that you are using. There are people who try to eavesdrop and tap into your telephone line to hear private conversations and you do not want that to happen, right?
The benefits you get from free conference calls are quite numerous. Distance support groups will be the perfect example for one of the benefits you get from using free conference call. You have to know that team leaders use this for fund drivers to motivate their members to keep on working hard. A lot of instructors make use of free conference calls for teleclasses. A number of companies use free conference calls; their board of directors can hold staff meetings without having to go back for it when they are traveling. Business professionals will make use of the free conference call for marketing campaigns. The list of benefits will never stop coming.
In the e-commerce age, free conference call services have a huge advantage for the owners. People can work for the same company and still live in a separate country. A single free conference call can actually connect hundreds of people together.
You should really consider making use of a free conference call if you want to make things a lot easier for you in the business sector; technology has played a huge part in making the world a better place and an easier place to work with. The purpose of using free conference calls is to help business owners and the like manage their businesses and groups a lot easier with less hassle.
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Family activities, Cafés Glassbonden in Västra Selet makes ice cream with milk from the farm's own mountain cows. In summer you may visit their ice cream bar with stunning views of the Vindelälven river... Read more
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A long time ago, in a land far, far away, some friends got together to play a miniatures battle. On the one side, there was the formidible Roman legions and their brand-new war elephant; on the other, the doughty Britons defending their homes and hearths from the invaders. There wasn't much else to say about this game, as it was a pretty typical one for the time and place, with one exception.
The guy running the game was Dave Arneson, and he had a surprise planned for the Romans. During the game, as the Britons fought desperately to stave off the relentless war machine that were the legions, he took the Briton's druid out of the room and slipped him a card that said "You have a device of the gods - a phaser." Not too long after, as the mighty war elephant thrashed away against the Britons - played by Ken Fletcher and Cliff Olilla - the druid, Dave Megarry, vaporized the beast and turned the tide of battle.
Yes, that Dave Arneson. And that Dave Megarry.
They were playing what may very well have been the very first 'fantasy' game in the Twin Cities, and what may have been the very first step on the path to what later was called "Dungeons and Dragons", a game of which you may have heard.
Their opponent was Pete Gaylord, one of the local gamers who was one of the people who set the tone and standards for gaming hereabouts, back in the day, and who was one of the people I started gaming with back in 1975 at The Little Tin Soldier Shoppe on Lake Street. Pete was also one of the original players in Dave Arneson's 'Blackmoor' campaign, playing the Wizard of the Woods - so called, because he was the one and only wizard in the campaign, and he lived in a house in the woods.
Pete was the one who set the pace and tone for what would be generations of wizards, sorcerers, and magic-users to come in role-playing games; many of his concepts and ideas can still be found in games today. He was a lot of fun to game with, being both a formidable opponent and a gentleman; gaming with him was always a pleasure and a joy. He was a good friend, too.
Pete passed away last week after a month-long illness; he was 73.
I will be going to the visitation today, and the funeral tomorrow. It's going to be a very, very tough couple of days.
(I had planned on doing an essay about how I paint figures. I'll still have that for you, just later on as I have the chance. Thanks for your understanding.)