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I just had to give a power point presentation about suicide and mental illnesses.... i had 5 minutes left of class when I started, so I ended up running out of time. But you know what? My teacher said if anyone wished to stay and let me finish, they could. Only 2 or 3 people left, the rest stayed to listen.... I don't think anyone could realize how much that meant to me.... When I started the presentation, I also started tearing up a little, because, this is shit that happens to so many people! this is shit that just usually gets swept under the rug at schools.... and the fact that almost all of my class wanted to stay and listen to this important information, it made me really emotional...... I thank every last person in that class that showed they cared about the lives of people who don't feel strong enough to survive.....'s picture |
cosmetologist aka a hairstylist |
I haven't logged onto my MCR account in over a year, and oh boy do I hate my username with a passion haha. I hope you're all doing well, paying attention and doing your absolute best in school (or whatever y'all do). |
Anyway, I took my State Board Cosmetology exam about a week ago and I passed. I am now a licensed Cosmetologist. I'm very proud of myself, it's a stepping stone into my life. I hope to be able to accomplish a lot within this career choice. I'm still going to go back to College, I'll be attenting my local CC for the spring semester and I hope to god I do great and I won't procrastinate as I used to in high school. |
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Sorry Guys |
Sorry about my inactivity over the last 2 weeks or so! I've had loads of school stuff and other shit to do. |
Anyway how is everybody? |
Looking forward to Christmas? (I'm not) |
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2 months clean!! (And 1 day) |
So as you guys can probably tell from the title, I'm celebrating my 2 month..cleanliness, I guess? I don't know, man. |
2 months was marked yesterday making today 2 months and 1 day, but I was having an uber craptastic day yesterday so I couldnt really celebrate. |
But hopefully today will be better.... |
What are you guys up to? |
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Every Snowflake is like U |
Since i'm into Christmas soooo much I saw this vid on youtube when MCR went on yo gabba gabba, the song is catchy but the clothes not sooo cool, I was Laughing thru the whole video, then there's Ray's face all the time he was makin different funny faces, but at the end I love Mikey's little smirk, i might've laughed at it, but i'm this cheesy person watchin it over and over, doesn't that happens to guys? Anyway keep loving MCR FOREVER AND EVER IN A NEVERENDING LAND, (ok i just made that up) keep Running! |
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hey my strong killjoys. but do any of you just have one of those days where you wake up and just wander why mcr broke up and you end up thinking about it all day cus that is all I have been thinking about. I don't know why. I just wish with all my heart that they will get back together but knowing my luck they wont. but I just have days where all I think about is mcr and for some reason I had thank you for the venom stuck in my head so people were like what the hell are you singing but who cares what they think. anyway if you ever want to talk im always here. luv u all. stay strong! |
xxxxx HANNAH |
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My God....I just danced like that girl in Chandelier music video! O.O; |
So, after I finished recording an audio of my cover of A Sky Full of Stars, I listened to it a couple of times to know the flaws of it so I can do a video recording soon. And I started imagining of two partners dancing together in such a dazzling blue, beautiful, wild, violent way. Kind of like Chandlier by Sia, Try by P!NK, and yeah. |
And my God, I can't believe I just danced to it in such a violent way. I wouldn't call it dancing to be honest (it's like I'm being possessed by the spirit of the red shoes...except that I didn't wear any shoes upon dancing) but I did, okay? And it was super exhausting but I felt incredibly good. It felt better than singing to the original song, I swear. |
Then, I thought about it: should I make a music video of me dancing to the cover?? |
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I Hate Love |
it was and ordinary saturaday when it happen. i was talk to my boyfriend on facebook like i normally would but then he told that he had something to tell me. He then started to say that he would tell me on monday but i was like noway you tell me now. so he did! He dumped me!!! luckly i didnt do anything stupid due me being suicidal! |
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so today was great. i had fun in choir and dance. my friend was having an emotional break down in 4th today. but i helped her get through it. weve been through so much together. i cant believe its our senior year already. i really don't want high school to end :( |
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guess who got taps!!!! |
Okay, well, technically, they aren't mine to keep. I talked to the lady who owns the dance studio and who will be instructing me, and she had like this frickin' HUGE tub of used dance shoes that she let me rummage through to see if I could find a pair that fit. Once I start taking lessons and see if I really like tap enough to continue it for more than a month, I'll buy my own shoes and I have to give the used ones back to her. |
I found some, the aren't super snug but the only other ones that would remotely fit me hurt like hell so I mean, why would I wear those? |
So yeah. I finally have tap shoes and I'M SO SUPER EXCITED!!!!!!!1 |
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Hello There! |
Ok so ALL I want to say is Christmas is Awesome, And ALL I Want for Christmas is for u my deers is too Enjoy, Laugh, Scream, Dance, Jump and get Loud n Crazy, be URSELFS ESPECIALLY LOVE URSELFS!! Christmas is about Joy, so DEERS HAVE FUN!! If I could i would send to ALL OF KANDY KANES W/ FACES OF MCR GUYS PAINTED ON THEM, good idea right? Anyhow plz be CHEERIOUSLY, ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.... STILL THINKIN, OK BYE SUPER KILLJOYS |
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So is anyone a fan of sword Art Online? |
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Need to get this off my chest |
HE FINALLY told me he never loved me... thanks asshole, always a great feeling. THIS was the EXACT reason I never wanted him to say "I 'Love' you"... cause I KNEW he didn't. ALL he wanted was sex. which he got cause I'm such a fucking dumbass huh? then he asks if we can be friends... hmmm... lemme see... You fuck my friends, fuck me, tell them they should kill themselves, do nothing but play mindgames with me. guilt trip me constantly. make me feel like I"m the one ruining your life when you're out there fucking every girl you meet, doing drugs, just being a fucking idiot.. telling me you never loved me, causing over 80+ scars on my legs... hmm.... i wonder, are we 'friends'?? HAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!! YOU'RE TOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!!! XD XD XD XD NO!! You hurt me time after time after time, and I let you hurt me even more.... so no.. we can NEVER be "friends". Kismesis, maybe? but NEVER "friends".... and please, let "Goodbye" be forever. because I never want to see you again.... |
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Heyo /(^~^)\ |
Got ma hair done!!!! FINALLY XD it was a pretty rad weekend. I was out of internet range at my grandparents house the whole time. BAKING!!!! ^~^ made peanut brittle, pecan brittle, fudge, it was awesome.... Missed a bunch of drama on facebook **thank god!** haha XD and guess what!! I GOT A PART IN THE SPRING PLAY!!!!!!!! XD XD I'm so excited!! even if i only get to be a dead body, it's super awesome! XD I actually get to be two different dead bodies XD I can't wait!! |
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hey guys i'm back. |
I'll just say this, after a long year out of life I finally came back. I've missed you all and I hope y'all are alive and well xxx killjoys forever |
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LivingNonviolence: Sunshine |
LivingNonviolence: Sunshine | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it |
Every once in a while I come across something that gives me hope for our energy future. It cries out, "people are smarter than we seem." The latest example comes from an article in "Sierra" magazine. |
Jong Bok Kim, a researcher in chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University, was sitting outside his office thinking about his research subject. He was asking, what is the most productive and efficient skin for a solar cell: pyramids, strips, mirrors? As Kim gazed at a nearby shrub he realized he was looking at the answer. A leaf is covered with transparent cells that act like magnifying lenses and there are millions of ridges that guide the light deeper into the inner workings of the shrub. When Kim created a solar skin like a leaf, he discovered it absorbed six times the light of a flat surface. Did you know how researchers at MIT discovered the best arrangement for a concentrated solar plant? They arrange solar mirrors around a central tower in such a way that the light is reflected to the tower's tip. They learned this design from a sunflower, one of the best and most efficient conductors of solar energy. |
Or, a scientist in China made a solar cell arranged like the tail of a swallowtail butterfly. The butterfly's wings have ridges and valleys that deliver maximum warmth when the wings are spread wide. Rather than use his butterfly solar cell to create electricity, this scientist used it to create hydrogen, a clean burning fuel that could power cars of the future. |
All of these discoveries reminded me of a visit I made to a house in my hometown of Brookings with a built in passive solar system. The thing that most impressed me was the design of the roof. It was constructed in such a way that when the sun was in the southern sky in the winter, it entered the house under the roof line. When the sun was high in the sky in the summer, the roof line shaded the house. At the time I remember thinking, how bright! Such a simple recognition of how nature operates saves on heat and air conditioning. It begins with observation of how the world operates and adapts human operations to nature. What a difference to the typical Western attitude, where we say this is what we want to do and if nature can adapt fine, if not, nature be damned! As if we weren't part and parcel of nature! Exxon Mobil or not, solar power is coming. Solar installations in the U.S. more than doubled from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012. In California, utility scale solar production last year matched that of a large coal burner or nuclear plant. In the meantime, the rooftop solar production in the state reached a comparable level, plus 20%. At West Oakland's Peoples Grocery, 70 community members financed an 8.6 kilowatt solar project on the store roof that will save $32,000 over ten years, just one of several projects enabled by Mosaic, a solar start up. St. Vincent de Paul, serving a thousand meals a day, found 80 supporters for a rooftop project that saves them about $1,200 a month. It's estimated that the rooftop potential in the U.S. is about a fifth of the electricity demand we had nationally in 2011. And solar costs are coming down. Expectations are that in two or three years, New York and California will have "grid parity," when power from the sun is no more expensive than normal electricity for one's home. 41% of building permits in Hawaii now include requests for installing solar. Then there's Germany. On May 26 of last year, rooftop solar in that country produced half their electricity demand. In a country that's not known for sunniness, the investment in solar bodes well for their future. And the costs of installing solar in Germany are half what we would pay in the states, partly as a result of less red tape. You would think it would be a no brainer. |
Sunshine is free! It's the free gift of the creator to power the growth of flowers and trees, butterflies and bees, and you and me. But there's the rub! It's free! In a world of our creating, someone has to "own" the sunshine, or the wind, or the water, or the heat of the earth, in order to satisfy the "green frog skin" of Lame Deer fame. Instead of choosing a vision where we live in harmony with the creation, too many continue to choose a path of exploitation and profit, pitting one person or one country against another. Our living room has several large windows, facing south. The sun in the winter comes streaming through those windows with warmth and cheer. They say sun on the back of your neck is good for depression so if I'm feeling down I sit on the couch, set just right, so the sun hits the back of my neck. And then I read about smart people, mostly young, who are looking at the world and realizing how we might fit in better. The sun and their intelligence, give me hope. Carl Kline |
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Photo: Police officer and young demonstrator share hug during Ferguson rally in Portland |
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As thousands gathered to make their voices heard during a rally earlier this week, one officer and a young man paused to hear each other out. |
This image, shot by freelance photographer Johnny Nguyen, shows Portland Police Sgt. Bret Barnum hugging 12-year-old Devonte Hart during the Ferguson demonstration in Portland on Nov. 25, 2014. |
According to Sgt. Barnum, the interaction took place at the beginning of the rally. With emotions running high as speakers were addressing the crowd, he noticed a young man with tears in his eyes holding a "Free Hugs" sign among a group of people. |
Sgt. Barnum motioned him over and the two started talking about the demonstration, school, art and life. As the conversation ended, Sgt. Barnum pointed to his sign and asked, "Do I get one of those?" The moment following his question was captured in the photo above, which shows Devonte's eyes welling up with tears once again as he embraces the officer. |
Devonte, it turns out, has a life story that's almost as big as his heart. |
After the exchange, Devonte rejoined his family and friends participating in the rally and Sgt. Barnum, a 21-year-veteran, went back about his duties. |
Jim Manske's insight: |
I want a greater than 3:1 ratio of hugs to violence! A bow of gratitude to Sgt Barnum for expanding our view of what is possible. A bow of gratitude to Devonte Hart for reminding us of the strength in vulnerability. Please, Sgt Barnum, keep protecting Devonte and all of Us. |
JOYful Compass's curator insight, November 29, 10:50 AM |
I think we all (adults) forget that children watch what we do AND kids are traumatized by violence. If the eyes are the mirror of the soul, is this the impact the protesters, looters, and anarchists wanted on the next generation? Thank God for the children. |
Sarah O'Leary's comment, December 6, 1:39 AM |
This is a powerful image. With so much negative exposure and attention, it's instances like these that can pull people back to reality, and show them that police and citizens are not at war, that we are all normal people and that we all can and should embrace each other to make a change instead of coming up in arms. |
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Emotional Intelligence Can Boost Income |
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Researchers have discovered that emotional sensitivity toward employees and colleagues may be the ticket to earning more money. |
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9 Good Reminders that Will Change the Way You Think |
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― Albert Einstein |
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How can we use the power of our mind to support our well-being? |
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Why war? It's a question Americans should be asking. |
Why war? It's a question Americans should be asking. | Radical Compassion | Scoop.it |
As the United States charges once more into war, little debate has centered on the actual utility of war. Instead, policymakers and pundits have focused their comments on combating the latest danger to our nation and its interests as posed by Islamic State militants. |
Jim Manske's insight: |
Ever since childhood, the "utility" of war has puzzled me. It seemed to me that every war we studied in school eventually subsided into relative peace. I wondered, given that, why not go for the peace sooner rather than later... |
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