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What an amazing feeling it is when you know that you helped someone who truly needs assistance and would not have been able to afford it. To know that it is because of your help, someone’s life got a little bit easier and safer. That was the goal and vision of Joseph Harper, a boy with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, who 5 years ago created The Wheeled Scotsman’s Foundation to do just that….to help people with mobility issues who cannot afford to make their homes safe because certain accommodations like ramps, pull bars in the bathroom, wheelchair accessible showers, etc. are usually not covered by insurance. Sadly, Joey passed away in January of 2010, yet his vision and legacy lives on in the people whose lives he has impacted as well as his family and friends who continue to run The Wheeled Scotsman.

It is with renewed vigor and urgency that we push forward and try to help as many people as we can. To date, The Wheeled Scotsman Foundation has been able to help more than 10 families make their homes safer. We send out our contractors, pay for all permits, and complete all work at absolutely no cost to the family or individual. Although we wish we could help everyone on our waiting list, we are limited by funds. 100% of the money raised through fundraisers, like the Black Sheep Run, is spent to help others and this is where we need your help!!!

The Kid’s 1 Mile Fun Run will start at 9 am. The Family Fun Walk will start at 9:15 am. The 5K will start at 9:30 am. Dogs on leashes and baby strollers are all welcomed. Awards will be given when all the races for that day have finished. This includes: top male and female for each category as well as the top five males and females of each category will also be recognized. Categories consist of: dogs on leash, baby joggers, and headphones

You can sign up for this event at active.com just type in black sheep run in the search bar at our event will pop up:

Passionfruit gelato by monkeyc.net

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Because

华丽屋檐/gorgeous eaves by David Chao

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Because of the great fire wall of Chinese policy, it's so hard to cross the limit to visit flickr, so I could not reply my dear friends, I'm so sorry about that and please forgive me,thank you so much and hope my friends can still hit on me！由于中国网络原因，访问flickr很困难，速度很慢，所有暂时没有办法一一回应各位好友，请朋友们见谅！还请各位好友继续关注我！

My pro account is out of time，thank you my friends here for supporting me what a long time！！May I have a pleasure to receive a pro gift from you？我的pro账号到期了，感谢朋友们长期以来的热心支持！！有好心人能赞助一个pro账号给我吗，在此先表感谢！！

the approach by David Chao

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Because of the great fire wall of Chinese policy, it's so hard to cross the limit to visit flickr, so I could not reply my dear friends, I'm so sorry about that and please forgive me,thank you so much and hope my friends can still hit on me！由于中国网络原因，访问flickr很困难，速度很慢，所有暂时没有办法一一回应各位好友，请朋友们见谅！还请各位好友继续关注我！

My pro account is out of time，thank you my friends here for supporting me what a long time！！May I have a pleasure to receive a pro gift from you？我的pro账号到期了，感谢朋友们长期以来的热心支持！！有好心人能赞助一个pro账号给我吗，在此先表感谢！！

[028/365] Atem by Sika

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I just kind of woke up this morning, looked around at the dolls and said "Maybe I'll take photos of Mantem today." And so I did.

I need to actually wash his body again because I never fully got off all his MSC and so places (like his hands) have white flakes of MSC still coating him but damn if he wasn't a pain in the ass to restring the last time I tried to clean him up a few years back. I'm not looking forward to doing it again.

Because the night... by Giulia_Spagnulo

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DSCF4694 by Groundhopping Merseburg

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Because there was no football at all, I went to the sports hall "Sporthalle Leuna" for watching some handball. The match was to be played one hour later then written in the fixture list. So I strolled around Leuna for taking some pictures.

Day 346 by Susan Hetherington

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Because I know you were wondering, the weather today was a few showers at first clearing mid afternoon.

Why would I think you would care? Because I suspect no topic is subjected to more closer analysis than what the weather gods are up to.

Today was one of those pre-Christmas days that had me charging between shops, government departments, medical offices, food outlets etc, etc earnestly marking off entries that I had carefully added to the to-do list (naturally, because of the season, it was a list I had checked twice).

Everywhere I went the greeting was the same "what's the weather like outside? or variations on the theme".

I rather suspect had I said "the snow is really closing in now" the person asking the question would not even have raised an eyebrow and just parroted "I know, right".

The thing is that there is something safe, familiar and comforting in conversations about the weather.

No-one can be offended in seasonal small talk. We all have an opinion. Everyone can join in. It's never going to get you into much trouble. It's common ground.

And it must have been nice for the common ground I was walking on to have received a light sprinkling this morning. A bit of a cold shower for everyone rushing around to get things done before Christmas was quite welcome. If only it had the same impact on my credit card now smoking hot from all the love and attention it's been getting of late.....

Day 38 of Year 8- Windblown and over-processed... by Pahz

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Because I couldn't get a 365days shot for the theme in We're Here!, this is just another shot of my big ol' head. I got home from the grocery store, carried my stuff inside, then took the dogs out. I did this shot while waiting on the dogs in the yard and the wind was blowing every-which-way. So I used the shot where my hair wasn't doing three different weird things to use for my 365. THEN, I put it into the photo editing app I have ("Photo Director") and then over-filtered it with one of the "FACE" effects. I think it was called "Light".

Candie and Mr Tibbles by Sasha North

because dolls need pet kitties too...

[ just because .... ] by RCKM ©®™

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I liked it in color too .. and I loved the processing on this one ...

Because... by IDIOT [Factorial] :)

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Después del minuto 1:53 la paranoia y la realidad comienza. Y yo me pregunto ¿2+2=5?

You have not been paying attention!

IMG_4310 by phantomshot

Because talking to the people you are with is overrated

Male Queen Butterfly Nectaring by USFWS Mountain-Prairie

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Because of their similar color, size and affinity for milkweed as a host plant, queen butterflies and monarchs are often mistaken for each other in their various life stages.

Both species are members of the Nymphalidae family and derive chemical defenses against predators from their food plants.

Once you look closely, it’s not very difficult to tell the difference between monarchs and queens. For a great tutorial on how to tell the difference between the two species, visit: texasbutterflyranch.com/2012/12/07/queen-monarch-caterpil...

Photo Credit: Christine LaRue / USFWS

Smallville by Dieter

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Because I love it.

Because flowers by John Carey

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Just because .... by Canadapt

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It's summer and it is compulsory to post at least one butterfly photo (according to Michael's arcane rules of proper photography etiquette :)

Because we care... by Josh Henderson