The HSE Children and Family Services has launched a new Fostering Awareness Campaign to raise awareness of the benefits of fostering and to assist HSE Foster Teams in recruiting new foster carers for children and young people in Ireland. The theme of the campaign is Change a

Life, Become a Foster Carer

A few years ago, in order to save the rest of my knee, I had to give up skiing. Skiing, I loved it so much, and then it was the first thing I had to let go. There, in the midst of moaning, I saw the powerful lesson:

To give up skiing because my knee was ruined was no problem at all, it was the only intelligent solution. To not give up my clinging to the sensations of skiing was a problem.

By clinging to something we like we refuse to accept one of the most fundamental laws of Nature: Things change, and these changes have a principal direction, they follow the merciless Second Law of Thermodynamics, which creates what physicists call Entropy. The universe is governed by processes that relentlessly transform physical things from order to lesser order, from pattern to amorphousness, from concentration to delusion, from higher to lower energy. Eggs break, paint peels, ice melts, skin wrinkles, and knees go kaput. It happens by itself and all the time, no matter what, it’s the law, no exceptions, like gravity, you can’t bargain with it, it’s always there.

There is nothing wrong with liking, it’s the clinging that ruins everything. By holding on, by resisting the inevitable change we set ourselves up for suffering.

And this damn clinging is just a conditioned response, a habit, an entirely impersonal phenomenon, something we unknowingly picked up by mistake. We are blueprinted to form habits, in many ways they make us survive, but they also make us suffer. The terrific thing is: we not only have the attribute of building habits, we also have the capacity of being aware of them. And this is the magical key for the solution. We ultimately do have the final say about the carrying out of our habits, we are free to disobey.

I not only learned to ski but also learned to let it go again. Like day and night, like life and death, these things belong together. When we hang on we suffer.

Good practice, indeed.

This is a sterling silver puzzle piece adorned with Swarovski Crystals in the colors for Autism Awareness. On a sterling silver 18" long chaing it makes a daring statement.

Benched in Southern California

Please be aware... Photos are purely for entertainment. I am no expert. Titles are from recognition - what I was told - or a quick search. Polite comments or corrections are welcome.

front to back, Jared (Patrick Russell*), Joyce (Jeri Lynn Cohen*), and Phyllis (c. Amy Resnick*) have a family discussion in Body Awareness

Photos of the World Climate Action Day celebration with

1. Music at every corner

2. wild life awareness program

2. PPt on water

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Nita Ganguly

Sanskriti School

New Delhi

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The Hong Kong Maritime Museum is participating in Maritime Awareness Week in a number of ways. We will have a live demonstration about life rafts, visits by the HUD tug Tai O, and representatives from several maritime companies that will be promoting careers in the maritime field.

Environment Awareness Raising Initiatives for Children

"PHILADELPHIA Hundreds of vehicles, some from as far away as New York and Washington, rallied from the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center in Jenkintown to Independence National Historical Park on Sunday in support of antigovernment protesters in the beleaguered former Soviet republic."

Read more at www.philly.com/philly/news/20140127_Local_Ukrainian_commu...

Artstock - Chalk Board

can anyone tell me which Aware group did this?

October Breast Cancer Awareness Month*

Redemption.

As I was spending my lunchtime wandering around trying to get up the courage to do some less-candid street photography, a girl with a clipboard stopped me. She introduced herself as Megan - she was raising awareness (and money) for the UK charity 'Breakthrough' which funds education and research into breast cancer.

At the end of our discussion I asked if I could take her portrait and put it on flickr. So here she is. My first street portrait with permission!

Mixed flowers for diabetes awareness"

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ANNOUNCING... DIABETES AWARENESS & SUPPORT

a new group on flickr...

For Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month.

Identity confusion, disassociation, and emptiness. The quote is a rough translation of a line from Tokio Hotel's song Ich Bin Nicht Ich (with the help of Google Translate and LyricsTranslate.com).

To learn more about BPD, see this page on my tumblr.

Austrian Fashion Award (AFA) nominee (and winner) collection "Awareness & Consciousness". In commission of unit-f

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services hosts a CalFresh Awareness Month (CFAM) community kickoff event at East Rancho Dominguez Park in Compton on May 4, 2022.

The County's CalFresh Awareness Month (CFAM) is annual campaign to help prevent food insecurity and promote healthy eating by informing County residents about the CalFresh Program. CalFresh is California's version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This will be the first outdoor gathering for CFAM partners since the May 2020 campaign's postponement due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Mayra Beltran Vasquez/ Los Angeles County)

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services hosts a CalFresh Awareness Month (CFAM) community kickoff event at East Rancho Dominguez Park in Compton on May 4, 2022.

The County's CalFresh Awareness Month (CFAM) is annual campaign to help prevent food insecurity and promote healthy eating by informing County residents about the CalFresh Program. CalFresh is California's version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This will be the first outdoor gathering for CFAM partners since the May 2020 campaign's postponement due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Mayra Beltran Vasquez/ Los Angeles County)

Melrose Ave, Hollywood, CA.

Alisha's Pink Pumpkin Painting Party was held at Bradford Research Center in Columbia on Oct. 18, 2014. Well over 100 pink pumpkins were sold to help raise funds for women who need mammographs and to raise awareness for breast cancer. Superintendent Tim Reinbott planted the half acre field of "Porcelein Doll" variety pumpkins as a donation to the organization. Visitors to the event were able to purchase a pumpkin and decorate it with inspirational quotes and other decorations.

Kim Becking of Columbia attaches a ribbon and a bow to the pumpkin she painted. Becking painted a "12" on the pumpkin celebrating her 12 years of cancer free. "This is such a great event to have," she said. "It raises awareness in a different way that is fun and great reason to get outside."

Photo by Kyle Spradley | © 2014 - Curators of the University of Missouri

The Heart Truth® is a national awareness campaign for women about heart disease sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Red Dress®, introduced by the NHLBI in 2002, is the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness. Visit www.hearttruth.gov for information on women and heart disease.

Photographer: Tim Lundin ~ TDLphoto@gmail.com ~ TDLphoto.com

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The Hong Kong Maritime Museum is participating in Maritime Awareness Week in a number of ways. We will have a live demonstration about life rafts, visits by the HUD tug Tai O, and representatives from several maritime companies that will be promoting careers in the maritime field.

This video, provided by our Security Division, offers information on Anti-Terrorism Awareness.

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Deborah Lee Furness hosts a special VIP event to launch week long festivities as founding patron for National Adoption Awareness Week at Hoyts theatre in the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney on Monday 12 November 2012

©Aaron Saye 2012

Austria and Space

Very few people are aware that almost a hundred years ago, some Austrians were the main contributors to the then "forthcoming/future" space flight? Some of these concepts have been realized in the meantime while others are still waiting to be. Over the last fifty years, Austria has developed into a reliable partner of various space organisations, including the Institute for Space Research in Graz, and provides both technical instruments and scientific know-how for many space missions. A lecture with Bruno P. Besser from the Space Research Institute Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Credit: Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl

A local lighting company donated their services to bring attention to the YWCA and Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October

The relationship between a coach and a player is really one of a kind, or so it has been proven for a lot of things. Right here, these kids did what they absolutely loved to: Play cricket! At the end of each session, they'd talk about different social problems and create a comfort zone around one another. They are taught about the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol, Sexually transmitted diseases and how one must be careful about these things.

They were even told of the importance of doing well in school. Most schools in better parts of the world have lessons to cater for different issues, not in the poorer parts of Guyana though, so there is a need to use every possible mean available...