Apple Orchard Falls itself is a beautiful waterfall with multiple levels of water cascading down from the various ledges and then off an abrupt cliff. It's one of the states tallest waterfalls. The Forest Service has built a wooden bridge with an observation deck just underneath the falls so you can stand, watch the falls and take great pictures. Another fantastic aspect of hiking in the area is that the trails and trailheads around Apple Orchard Falls allow a multitude of choices for taking loops and baktracking.
The Apple Orchard Falls-Cornelius Creek loop is east of Buchanan in the Jefferson ational Forest along the western side of the Blue Ridge below the Parkway. Best trailhead access is from the end of Forest Road 59 or from Sunset Field Overlook at milepost 78.7 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. To get to the FR 59 trailhead, take exit 168 off I-81 just north of Buchanan, follow Route 614 just over 3 miles through Arcadia, then turn left at the orth Creek Campground sign onto FR 59. In about 4 miles, past the camground, the road will end at a trailhead. The Apple Orchard Falls Trail leads left out of here; the Cornelius Creek Trail is to the right.


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NEW RESEARCH OPENS THE DOOR FOR NON-ADDICTIVE OPIOID DEVELOPMENT
Opioids are incredibly effective in relieving even the most severe pain, but their addictiveness and death toll call for a safer way to treat pain. In 2016 alone, more than 60,000 Americans died from overdoses, more than the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.
New research from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine has brought scientists one step closer to developing non-addictive opioids. The study led by Bryan Roth, a pharmacologist, examined the kappa opioid receptor (KOR), a receptor protein that interacts with opioids in the brain.
Most opioids bind to the opioid receptors on the surface of the cells, one of the primary reasons why they're so effective in alleviating pain but cause a range of side effects from nausea to constipation to death by respiratory depression.
"To create better opioids, we need to know the structure of their receptors," Roth said. "Until recently, this was impossible. But now we know the structure of the activated kappa opioid receptor."
Researchers in Roth's lab were able to use the KOR structure to synthesize a drug-like compound that only binds to the KORs.
"Tens of thousands of people who take opioids die every year, and so we need safer and more effective drugs for treating pain and related conditions," Roth said. "One of the big ideas is to target KORs because the few drugs that bind to it don't lead to addiction or cause death due to overdose."
However, the drugs that do bind to KORs still produce unpleasant side effects such as hallucinations and dysphoria. Further research needs to examine how the receptor is activated so that a compound can attach to it and only relieve pain.
Although Roth's findings present a wealth of possibility for new drug development, the drug-like compound has only been tested in cell cultures thus far, and it will likely take years for non-addictive opioid alternatives to become available.
If you or someone you care about is dealing with opioid addiction, Guardian Recovery Network can help. Call 877-831-2533 for more information about how we can guide you on the path toward recovery.

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The second portion of this day consists of content related to math. During these four hours participants will engage in lessons or activities designed to support student success in the content areas as related to assessment. The second section will be from 10:30 - 3:30.
Teachers who teach more than one content area may wish to attend more than one content session. These sessions are offered July 31, August 1, and August 2. Please see the link below to determine which sessions you wish to attend. You will need to register for each day you plan to attend.


The Robotis OpenCM 9.04-B Microcontroller is an open source robot controller featuring Dynamixel smart serial servo ports.
The OpenCM 9.04-B Microcontroller offers four 3 pin TTL serial ports for operating Dynamixel AX, MX and XL series smart servos. Plenty of processing power is provided by an STM32F103CD ARM Cortex M3 CPU with 128 KB of flash and 20 KB of SRAM. This board also has 26 GPIOs with 10 analog inputs, USB, CAN, SPI, I2C and serial ports. There is also a JTAG/SWD port for hardware debugging. Robotis has released the hardware and software designs as open source.
An Arduino like IDE is available for C/C++ programming and you can download your code easily over USB. This controller board is a great choice for your small and medium sized robot and could also be used as an intelligent Dynamixel controller on a large robot.
This package comes complete with the OpenCM 9.04 microcontroller board, a set of optional male and female headers and a USB cable.


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Jesus, Mary and Joseph, guide our families here on earth.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, make our lives and our homes like yours.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, make our home life a foretaste of heaven here on earth.
Almighty God, whose only-begotten Son was born of a virgin and submitted himself to the authority and vocation of a carpenter, grant us a share in his humility so that we may be raised to share the joyful company of the same Virgin and Carpenter in your heavenly kingdom.
The Life and Glories of Saint Joseph: Husband of Mary, Foster-Father of Jesus, and Patron of the Universal ChurchAuthor: Edward Healy Thompson, M.A.
Authors: Louis Dupre, Fr. James A. Wiseman, O.S.B.
All of us, however, in varying degrees and in different ways share in the same charity towards God and our neighbors, and we all sing the one hymn of glory to our God. All, indeed, who are of Christ and who have his Spirit, form one Church and in Christ cleave together.
So it is that the union of the wayfarers with the brethren who sleep in the peace of Christ is in no way interrupted, but on the contrary, according to the constant faith of the Church, this union is reinforced by the exchange of spiritual goods.


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30 Years continued 2
Staff ReportersJune 1, 2008
Remembering three decades of marches, activism, and celebration.
By David Fagan and Skip Teauxmelou
Photos by Dalton DeHart, Blase DiStefano, and Fred Paez
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Timeline • Sources
Sissy Farenthold delivers the keynote address at Houston Town Meeting I in 1978.
TOWN MEETING I
The following year, in June of 1978, Houston saw its first official Gay Pride Week coordinated by the Houston GLPC with a full schedule of political and social events. The main event was Town Meeting I, held on June 25 in the AstroArena (a hall adjacent to the Astrodome in what is now Reliant Park). The meeting came at the end of National Gay Pride Week and was chaired by Ginny Apuzzo of the National Gay Task Force. Keynote speaker was former Texas State Representative, gubernatorial candidate, and later vice-presidential candidate Sissy Farenthold, whose words spoke directly to the meeting's resolutions regarding civil rights, health, and safety for the gay community: "We are none of us free unless we all are free. We cannot open the door to some minorities while denying access to others."
More than 4,500 people attended Town Meeting I, which, according to the Houston Chronicle, was "the first such politically oriented homosexual meeting in the United States." The stated purpose was to address the concerns of Houston's gay community as outlined in 13 propositions voted upon by those attending. The resolutions addressed job security, police action against gays, health care, and repeal of the Texas sodomy statute. The resolutions, as passed by Town Meeting I, resulted in the creation of many organizations, including the Montrose Counseling Center, the Montrose Activity Center, the Gay and Lesbian Switchboard, the Hispanic Caucus, and the Montrose Sports Association.
PRIDE PARADE BECOMES 'OFFICIAL'
Ginny Apuzzo of the National Gay Task Force chairs Town Meeting I.
iding the momentum of Town Meeting I, and the organizational structures that grew from it, the Houston GLPC supported the organization of Houston's first official Pride parade, coordinated by the Parade Committee under the direction of Larry Bagneris. In a move that became the cornerstone of subsequent parade organization, Larry held open community meetings to plan the parade, and from these came the concept of Grand Marshal and the development of parade themes and merchandise.
Held on Sunday, July 1, 1979, the first parade reflected the solidarity of Houston's emerging gay community in its theme, United We Stand. In addition to floats, many of them simple flatbed trucks or pickups festooned by the sponsoring organization, several of the gay bars also sponsored entries. The Parade Committee chose as the first Grand Marshal Thelma Hansel, aka "Disco Grandma" as she was known in the community (because of her love of the evening drag shows at the Old Plantation, which she often attended with her son) for being openly proud and accepting of her gay son and his lover.
In 1983, the Montrose Mining Company entry reaches to the sky.
According to the Houston Voice, the crowd lining Westheimer for the first parade was estimated between 10,000 and 12,000. The event was covered by Houston newspapers and television stations. A rally followed at Spotts Park, where 5,000 people enjoyed music, speeches, dancing, and fireworks. Among the speakers were Midge Costanza, former aide to President Jimmy Carter; Harry Britt, the San Francisco supervisor who replaced slain supervisor Harvey Milk; and Jean O'Leary, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force.
By 1980 Houston's Pride Week had grown to a 10-day celebration. Then, in 1997, parade organizers decided to foil Houston's summer heat and founded the nation's first night-time parade. The format for the main body of today's Pride Week, with a light-up-the-night parade and daily events—some serious, some frivolous, and others downright saucy—had taken form.
Each parade has reflected that year's political atmosphere as it affected Houston's GLBT community. And more than once, dramatic events unfolded in the days immediately preceding or following the parade. In 1980, Mary's float, depicting a police officer delivering a beating, so perfectly mirrored that year's tensions that it was awarded the Grand Prize. 1988's Honorary Grand Marshals, both of whom did not appear and could not have appeared in the parade, came from that year's headlines: slain San Francisco public official Harvey Milk and severely disabled accident survivor Sharon Kowalski, whose lesbian lover began a long legal battle to gain custody of Sharon.
By 1993, the AIDS crisis is a stark reality in Houston, and the parade increasingly begins to include HIV/AIDS organizations.
Just prior to 1984's parade, two buses arrived at Mary's on the corner of Westheimer and Waugh. On board were 58 Ku Klux Klan members from Pasadena, Texas. Under the watchful eye of 600 riot-equipped HPD officers, two helicopters, and numerous police cruisers, the Klan's 16-minute march in Montrose—at a cost to taxpayers of $80,000—drew an estimated 2,000 spectators, mostly heterosexual concerned Montrose residents. The gay community, encouraged by the GLPC to stay away, largely ignored the event.
That same year, a struggle that was to last 13 years was taking shape in City Council chambers. An overflow crowd, including the KKK and various religious groups, with signs such as "Don't turn Houston into Sodom," continuously interrupted the 90-minute meeting. Despite the ensuing confusion, Counsel passed amendments to existing ordinances, which would extend nondiscrimination protection to gays and lesbians. Although the amendments passed 8–7 with Mayor Kathy Whitmire casting the tie-breaking vote, and 9–6 with Councilman Jim Greenwood adding his support, their passage met swift and well-funded opposition. Within a month the necessary signatures were obtained to force City Council to either rescind the ordinance or call a referendum. The City Council, refusing to reverse its action, set a special election for January of the following year. As Councilwoman Eleanor Tinsley said to the Houston Chronicle , "Gays are discriminated against now as Jews, blacks, and women have been in the past . . . it's a civil rights issue, not a moral issue, except that it's immoral to discriminate."
BACKLASH AT THE POLLS AND IN THE STREETS
AIDS Quilt
General uneasiness increased in direct proportion to the increase of AIDS and the media coverage of what had been termed "the Gay plague," and the backlash to the City Council's amendments to add gays and lesbians to the city's nondiscrimination ordinances played on the general hysteria.
The months that led up to the referendum in January 1985 saw unprecedented public homophobia. Former Mayor Louie Welch, chairman of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, led the opposition in pushing the referendum with support from the Moral Majority, the Committee for Public Awareness (Councilman John Goodner, chair), Campaign for Houston (Stephen Hotze, chair), the Ku Klux Klan, the Harris County Republican Party, as well as members of Houston's black religious community. Goodner said his Committee for Public Awareness was prepared to spend up to $400,000 (after the election, the committee reported to the city secretary that it had spent $101,460).
Support for the ordinances was led by Citizens for a United Houston (Diane Berg, chair) with the backing of the Houston League of Women, the American-Jewish Committee, the Houston Area Women's Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and several area churches. Berg's Citizens for a United Houston spent "a bit less" than their opponents, and the city budgeted $350,000 to hold the referendum.
Tension and rhetoric escalated as the January vote drew near, with GLPC President Sue Lovell revealing that the caucus had received death threats, which were also directed at Whitmire and the council members who had supported the ordinance amendments.
When the amendments were defeated at the January 19, 1985, referendum by a whopping 82 percent, Louie Welch
announced his mayoral aspirations, entering the race with a "Straight Slate" of candidates for City Council, who sought to unseat council members who had voted for the gay-lesbian amendments to the city's nondiscrimination ordinances. The heated campaign rhetoric drew national attention.
(Story continued…)
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In 32nm/22nm advanced technology node, double patterning lithography is considered for semiconductor manufacturing. It necessitates tightened requirement of overlay measurement, i.e. to measure the position of a pattern with respect to that of a pattern in the underlying layer. The measurement target design plays a fundamental role in overlay precision and accuracy. Typical alignment target, such as bar-in-bar or box-in-box (BIB), has precision, accuracy, and size restrictions. This prompts us to look into better alignment targets. Recently, scatterometry-based metrology and profile model capability have been extended to measure multi-level grating structures. In addition, scatterometry has been shown to be the best choice for integrated metrology to perform wafer-to-wafer control. Therefore, it makes sense to consider using scatterometry for overlay measurement. In this research, the modeling analysis is performed on the spectra taken directly from a real pattern area with grating-ongrating structure. The critical dimension (CD) at the grating on top and the lateral shift between the top and the bottom gratings can be detected simultaneously. The lateral shift between the layers can be verified with the traditional overlay box. Unlike the traditional BIB target that has micrometer CD size, the CD size of the scatterometry overlay (S_OVL) target is much closer to that on the real device. So, it can much better reflect the overlay (OVL) shift on real devices. We also studied the non-model-based S_OVL measurement using a 673-nm semiconductor laser with a 10μm x 20μm target size, wafer-to-wafer control of CD and lateral shifts on some critical layers with grating-on-grating structure, as well as the CD and OVL variations within layer and from layer to layer for double patterning.


In August, RDA Illawarra and the Illawarra Business Chamber submitted a joint Illawarra submission to the Australian Infrastructure Audit. The submission was in response to Infrastructure Australia's invitation for comments raised in the release of the Australian Infrastructure Audit Report. The joint submission is Illawarra's response to help 'guide and inform the development of the 15 year Australian Infrastructure Plan.


Eyes and ears that can help long distance caregivers be aware of any changes that may affect an older parent's independence or well-being. The long distance family caregiver may have bought mom the walker, but the local GCM can be there to see whether mom is using it.
Bridges to help an older family member make life transitions from fully independent living through home assistance and ultimately to assisted living at the appropriate times. Earlier involvement with a geriatric care manager also can help your elder family member develop a rapport with a professional who can facilitate the bigger changes later because they have been there earlier for the smaller changes.
Peace of mind by being the professional buffer to a long distance caregiver for some of the minor or major crises that may otherwise be very stressful for the entire family.
Finding a GCM is easy. The national association that certifies GCMs, the NAPGCM, has a comprehensive, searchable list of all the professionals in good standing. You can search geographically by simply entering a zip code or you can search by name. The search tool also asks you to check what kind of GCM you are seeking; check the "Certified GCM" box to see a complete list of professionals in good standing. Here is a link to another site that offers a range of resources, including care managers, Aging Care. Finally, Caring.com offers a listing of GCMs specifically in the state of Illinois.
As you make contact with a potential GCM for your elder, I encourage you to look for a good communicator, because this professional is going to be your loved one's advocate. You also want to ask about their experience, and check professional references who can speak on their behalf. Finally, it is important to ask about fees since insurance does not cover a GCM. A recent article in Reuters suggested that fees nationally range from $60 to $300 an hour.


Merry Christmas Bloggers! Of course, today I opened all my gifts from my parents! It has been a really fun day, I love everything I have recieved, I had some gorgeous food and ate lots of chocolate! How about you?
It is now 9pm, I am in my bed in my new comfy pyjamas smelling very fruity from a lush party popper bath bomb with my laptop on my knee, editing and writing this blog post.
These camera come in different colours, shapes, styles and do different things. Mine is pink and is a fish eye camera. I was totally shocked when I got this, I had no clue I was going to get it, I have never mentioned it or asked for it before. Only spoke about it at school to friends in form, Freaky!
OH EM GEE. I would of never asked for something like this. But I am so glad I have got it! I am doing GCSE Photography on my own after school, this is going to help loads and Im going to get some really cool photos!
Its like a starbucks cup but glass.. reusable... AND HELLO KITTY!
Love it! Need to figure a way to style my hair with this, any tips?
Selections boxes, roses, thorntons. So many chocolate.
6- Mac Lipstick and Foundation.
Brave Red Lipstick and Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation. Need I say more?
Its cute and it smells good.
I got many clothes and lush stuff. But thats a whole new blog post! I'm going to do many reviews and OOTD! I would really like to know what you got too! Post a blog post of what you got and comment below!


The Pentecost Offering provides a direct way to meet the needs of children at risk, youth and young adults. Congregations are encouraged to retain 40% of the offering to support ministry with children at risk in their communities. The remaining 60% should be sent to the Presbytery Office, where it is forwarded to GA. The money is used for leadership development opportunities for Presbyterian youth and young adults and supports children in at-risk programs at the national level.