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I recently read Yuval Levin's engaging The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left. This book is a great example of how good writers can bring high-level intellectual history to a general audience. Levin shows how Paine defended revolutions (both American and French) that he saw as aligning with natural rights, while Burke preferred incremental reforms that respected tradition and protected mediating institutions like families, churches, and towns.
Burke warned that attempts to transform a nation's social order overnight usually descended into barbarism. No technocrat or prophet of reason could successfully remold society while ignoring the accumulated wisdom of the generations. In this debate I am more sympathetic to Burke, but Levin also presents Paine in a fair, lucid manner.
Because my thinking about politics has been tainted by the specter of Donald Trump, I could not help but reflect on what Burke might have said about Trumpism. I suspect that he would have said that Trump represents the worst of both Burke and Paine's worlds. In one sense, Trump reflects Paine's view that gradualism doesn't work. You blow up corrupt institutions – you don't wait to reform them. You show contempt for established wisdom, conventional leaders, and the usual profile of qualified statesmen. You ridicule and destroy. This is straight out of the French revolutionaries' playbook.
But Trump also reflects paralyzing nostalgia for the past, or what we might call corrupted Burkeanism. The "Make America Great Again" impulse is unfocused, bitter, and quasi-patriotic. It is the opposite of the "reformocon" desire to work within existing structures to try, for instance, to forge tax policies that encourage families to stay together. Stronger families, today's reformocons would say, are more important to the vitality of American society than anything the government might do directly. But the government can at least get out of the way. Trump seems bored by talk of reform, and has little patience for even understanding current policy or where it goes wrong.
Worst of all, Trump represents the opposite of what Burke called "virtuous liberty." Uninformed about American history, and contemptuous of moral, familial obligations, Trump bases his campaign on zingers, nativism, and misogyny. About such characters, Burke warned that liberty without virtue or wisdom "is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
Trump champions radical Paineism, masked by faux Burkeanism. Trumpism dispenses with vital American traditions in the name of restoring an illusory American past. For example, Trumpism denies, in the face of all the wisdom of the ages, that republics need wise, experienced, and virtuous leaders to survive.
Like a manic Paine, Trump would cast away the rules of war, constitutional checks and balances, and conventional financial practices, such as paying national debts. He'll keep out all the Muslims, and round up and deport tens of millions of Hispanics. Somehow by doing so, we'll get back the America of the 1950s. We'll know we're there when we can all say "Merry Christmas" again. It will be the Revolution of 2016. Believe me.
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BYRON Shire Council is encouraging the public to give their input on developing a Recreation Needs Assessment to guide the council's planning for present and future needs on active and passive recreation.
The assessment includes open spaces and recreation features such as parks and playgrounds, sporting fields and courts, bushland and natural areas, and beach/water access.
The assessment is being developed in conjunction with consultants ROSS Planning who will meet with local sporting groups, schools, seniors groups and disability agencies.
When finalised, the assessment will help set the council priorities in providing better facilities, budget allocations and support grant funding applications.
Open Space and Resource Recovery Manger, Michael Matthews said the public input will help create a snapshot of the community's needs and serve as a basis for developing future recommendations.
"We want to capture the needs of towns and villages so we can get the mix right and find out what facilities and places we want to grow and those that we need to change," Mr Matthews said.
Residents are invited to attend drop-in sessions to discuss recreation and sporting opportunities for their local area.
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In addition to the drop-in sessions, an online survey is available for residents to provide input on Council's website www.byron.nsw.gov.au and is available until Friday June 2, 2017.
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Our regular readers (all three of you) will know that our commitment to American manufacturing is, in no small part, a product of our desire to retain and build decent jobs on these shores.
Certainly, we appreciate the company owners who have taken the unusual step to retain or begin production on these shores. But we also have a deep appreciation for the hardworking men and women who make the things we wear.
Today–International Workers' Day (or May Day in the common parlance)–is the day when we pay tribute to working folks across the globe. Despite the American origins of International Workers' Day (commemorating the Haymarket affair in Chicago), this country's powers that be picked a bland Monday in September for our Labor Day, largely to avoid the socialist connotations of the May celebration.
Today is also also the day when we honor the ongoing struggle for workers' rights. Foremost among those are:
- The right of all workers to a living wage. It's a simple but profound imperative: No one should toil at a full time job and not earn enough to lift his/her family out of poverty. Poverty wages are a moral disgrace.
- The right of all workers to gather, through constitutionally protected free assembly, in unions. The past generation in the United States has seen both a diminution of union power and an erosion of the middle class. These trends are not coincidental.
- The right of all workers to adequate time for rest and recreation.
- The right of all workers to job conditions that do not imperil their health and safety.
These basic rights are violated with impunity in a number of countries where much of our clothing is produced, which is why we've become partisans for American manufacturing. Items made in the United States are much more likely to be produced in conditions that respect workers' fundamental dignity.


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House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Chair Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, and Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Chair Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands issued the following joint statement in response to a report from the USDA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that the Administration has not followed proper procedure as it proceeds with a move of the Economic Research Service and National Institute for Food and Agriculture from Washington, D.C., to the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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01. Black Sun Empire & Noisia – The Veil [4:58]
02. Black Sun Empire – Swarm [4:32]
03. Black Sun Empire – Foundation [5:35]
04. Black Sun Empire & Pythius – Scarif [5:59]
05. Black Sun Empire & State Of Mind – Caterpillar feat Virus Syndicate [6:26]
06. Black Sun Empire & Neonlight – Abduction [4:51]
07. Black Sun Empire & State Of Mind – Stranger feat Thomas Oliver [5:20]
08. Black Sun Empire & Audio – Cloud Parasite [5:30]
09. Black Sun Empire – Refuge feat Dope D.O.D. [2:59]
10. Black Sun Empire – Broken [4:29]
11. Black Sun Empire – Immersion feat Belle Doron [5:10]
12. Black Sun Empire & Prolix – No Advance [4:36]
13. Black Sun Empire – Crash Dive [4:52]
14. Black Sun Empire – I Saw You feat Sarah Hezen [4:25]
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14 tracks deep and sporting major league collaborations with the likes of their protégé-turned-posterboy Pythius, longstanding mates and collaborators State Of Mind, fellow heavyweight kindred spirits Audio, Prolix and many more, The Wrong Room is another 100% drum & bass exploration that takes in elements as broad as metal and trance and works well as an entire experience just as much as its components will smash clubs and festival arenas throughout the year.
It's also the longest the Utrecht trio have ever spent between albums. Previously running on a two-three year cycle between long-players, this one has been in incubation for five years due to the rapid development of their Blackout brand and increasing demands on their schedule. The wait has been worth it.
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Microsoft reported earnings today, showing solid growth in its all-important Office 365 and Microsoft Azure cloud computing businesses. Still, it wasn't all good news.
The Microsoft Surface hardware business, encompassing the Surface Pro tablet, Surface Book laptop, and Surface Studio desktop PC, shrunk revenues 26%, a $US285 million decrease, over the same period in 2016.
The reason for the decline, according to Microsoft: "increased price competition in the premium 2-in-1 category and product end-of-lifecycle dynamics."
No doubt, that's not great news for the Surface business. Still, in a weird but real way, it's good news for Microsoft.
"Increased price competition" just means that other manufacturers are building their own Surface-style, high-end convertible tablet/PC devices, and selling them for less than Microsoft's own product lineup.
This would be a problem if, like Apple, Microsoft was a hardware company. But the whole point of the Surface products in the first place was to get PC manufacturers building more touch-friendly, stylus-friendly Windows tablets and computers.
So if every PC manufacturer out there is building lots and lots of Windows PCs that compete with the Surface…well, again, that's bad for the Surface business, but good news for the Windows business. Given the overall shrinkage of the PC market, Windows is fighting against Apple's Macs for a bigger piece of a smaller pie — and its tactics appear to be working.
Apple isn't sitting idle, pitching its iPad Pro tablet as a laptop alternative, trying to match the sales pitch for the Surface Pro. Users haven't exactly come along for the ride, though, with the iPad still lacking the right mix of features to replace a laptop.
As for the bit about "product end-of-lifecycle dynamics," that could refer to the fact that the Surface Pro 4 tablet is now over a year and a half old, possibly hinting at a rumoured Microsoft Surface Pro 5 yet to come.
In the meanwhile, Microsoft is holding an event in New York City on May 2nd. And while the Surface Pro 5 is unlikely to make an appearance, expect some kind of update on the Microsoft hardware front.
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Question: How do you protect the source code and still maintain the ability to use the code blocks in PSoC® Creator™ projects?
You can create a code in the form of an object code in PSoC Creator. The steps below show how to create a library project and then use the library project in an application project without exposing the source code of the library project.
- Create a library project.
Figure 1. Create a Library Project
- Click the Source tab in the PSoC Creator Workspace Explorer.
Figure 2. Source Tab in Workspace Explorer
- Add the cytypes.h file under Header Files. Copy this file from "
\Cypress\PSoC Creator\3.0\PSoC Creator\psoc\content\CyComponentLibrary\CyComponentLibrary.cylib\cy_boot_v4_0\PSoC3\API". Note that the path may change depending on the version of the PSoC Creator and cy_boot Component. This file is needed because many of the data types (such as uint8) are defined in this file. This file uses the macro CY_PSOC3, but this macro value is defined only when you select the device as a specific family of PSoC (PSoC 3, PSoC 5LP, etc.). Since this is a library project, you do not select a device. You assign a value to this macro manually. If you are building the library for PSoC 3, then assign the macro CY_PSOC3 a value of "1", and the other macros CY_PSOC4 and CY_PSOC5 a value of "0". Comment out the line #include in the cyfitter.h file, because the fitter file is generated only in the application project (which is a normal project and not a library project).
Figure 3. The cytypes.h File
- Add the source code as multiple .c files under Source Files and write the source code.
Figure 4. Source Code
- Create a header file that will include all the function prototypes and extern variables for the source code.
Figure 5. Header File
- Build the library project. Build it in both debug and release modes so that the library is created for both debug and release modes.
Figure 6. Release and Debug Modes
- Back up the library project as development code in your choice of location. Delete all the source code. Because the library is compiled in the previous step, you can delete the source. Do not delete the header file Header01.h, which contains all the function prototypes and extern declarations. At this point, the source code exists only in the form of object code. Because this library is now in object code form, it can be used in any application project without exposing the source code.
Figure 7. Delete the Source Code
- Use the library in your application project. In your application project, add dependency to the library project.
Figure 8. Dependency to the Library
- Copy the header file Header01.h into the application project's folder (for example, "ApplicationProject.cydsn"). Add the header file to the application project. This is how the application project will obtain the function prototypes and the extern declarations.
Figure 9. Copy the Header File into the Application Project
- Use the library functions in the application project. Just include the Header01.h file in the file where the library code is used.
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Empowering Tomorrow's Champions
i9 Sports and DOSH Management partnered together to form Empowering Tomorrow's Champions, a program designed to empower our youth to become champions both on and off the field. The program follows four stages: DREAM, BELIEVE, EXPLORE, and ACHIEVE.
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IFM Trip to Dresden: 3rd to 7th April 2015
There are few city silhouettes more striking than Dresden's. The classic view from the Elbe's northern bank takes in spires, towers and domes belonging to palaces, churches and stately buildings. Numerous artists, most notably the Italian Canaletto, have set up their easels to capture this breathtaking panorama. (Taken from Lonely Planet: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/germany/saxony/dresden)
Since most people will be staying here over easter (and we have the Friday and Monday free), I have organised a trip to Dresden, one of the most beautiful cities in Germany.
Here are the details:
_Meet up at 8.15 on 3rd April 2015 (Friday)
_Train ride (included)
_Sleeping 3 nights in hostel Mondpalast (included)
_ Day trip to the city of Meißen on Sunday, reknown for its legendary porcelain all over the world (included).
_Return train back to Munich and arrival here between 10 and 10.30 pm
Price for the whole: 125 Euros.
Participants: 12 International Friends
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Winston has worked in various areas of mathematics, in particular applying mathematical modelling. He is a former President of the New Zealand Mathematical Society (2013-2015). In his work in stellar dynamics and celestial mechanics, he studies problems relating to a number of gravitationally attracting masses. He is also active in mathematics-in-industry study groups, completing his 22nd in 2018. As well as study groups in New Zealand and Australia, he has contributed to study groups in Canada, China, Ireland and Japan. He is keen on sport and won a Commonwealth Games silver medal at judo at Auckland 1990, competing for Scotland.
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At the Six Japanese-German University Presidents' Conference held at Heidelberg University, Germany, President Washida paid a visit on Heidelberg University President Bernhard Eitel, a visit which resulted in the signing of a university exchange agreement on July 30.
Following that agreement, President Washida visited the University of Bochum to talk with President Elmar W. Weiler on August 2. This visit also resulted in a new university exchange agreement!
Later the same day, President Washida visited Bielefeld University, a university with which Osaka University already has an exchange agreement. At Bielefeld University, President Washida talked with President Gerhard Sagerer and visited their robot lab.
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System76 Serval screen resolution
I've got the new System76 Serval with the 1920x1200 screen. When I present seminars I like to match the resolution of the projector, 1024x768. Using the latest Nvidia driver 180.44 and the nvidia-settings app, I'm only seeing 1280x1024 and 960x540, but no 1024x768 option.
Any ideas how I can set the resolution to 1024x768?
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Please provide more info on the brand and model number of your projector. Since we do not have the third-party hardware to test with, this could take some experimentation. Most likely, it will require manual editing of your xorg.conf file.
|Oliver Merk (oliverm) said :
Thanks for the quick response. I think I may have been a bit unclear. I'm trying to get 1024x768 on the *laptop* screen, regardless of whether a projector is connected or not. I have no problem setting the resolution on the projectors at any of the venues I speak at, but would like my laptop display to also be at 1024.
Hope this makes sense.
Thanks again,
|Thomas Aaron (tom-system76) said :
I see.
I'm not sure how easy that will be to accomplish. It may be possible to hack the xorg.conf file and force that resolution. We would need to experiment with it.
Let's take this one up via email. It will take some back-and-forth to figure it out.
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Public speaking is the fastest way to grow your knowledge, your influence, and your base of clients.That's not just my opinion, either. Nearly all the 40 or so practitioners that Julia Zaslow and I interviewed in our Prosperous Practitioner Summits told us that giving talks was a game-changer for launching their careers.


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FX brokers make money through the costs of trades. This includes commissions and the cost of a spread. It is important to understand all of the costs that are involved by choosing a certain broker. there are some brokers that charge more than others. It is important to choose one that charges fair prices. If your broker is charging too much, search for a different, more budget friendly choice.
It is important to remember that the spread is important in terms of cost. The wider that the spread is the more you are charged. Be careful with a broker that markets a zero spread as typically there is some form of catch involved. Remember if it sounds too good to be true it likely is.
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After graduating from the Music Theatre program at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Brendan received the Bound For Broadway Scholarship from the Talent Development Project & American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
He then went on to perform as a soloist for legendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick's Broadway Up Close and Personal at The John F. Kennedy Centre in Washington DC and the Rick Jensen directed cabaret Bound for Broadway in New York.
Back home, Brendan has since made a strong name for himself, understudying Zack Mayo in Gordon Frost Organisation's 2012 production of An Officer and A Gentleman and appearing as Rocky in the 2014 and 2015 Australian tours of Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show.
In 2017 Brendan worked with Gordon Frost Organisation again for their hit season of The Bodyguard, The Musical as the sinister stalker and later that year reprised his role as Rocky in the 2017/2018 national tour of GFO's Rocky Horror Show.
Most recently, Brendan performed with Opera Australia in Turandot.
Brendan is also an accomplished aerial acrobat specialising in silks and trapeze and is a resident aerialist of Sydney's Slide Lounge El Circo.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah will leave for a special visit to Saudi Arabia beginning today until July 14.
According to a statement from the Foreign Ministry today, the three-day visit is at the invitation of His Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
"The special visit by the Agong to Saudi Arabia symbolises the close and special bilateral ties between the two countries.
"It will also foster ties between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia," the Wisma Putra statement said.
Sultan Abdullah will be accompanied by Foreign Minister, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah as well as senior Government and and Istana Negara officials. – Bernama


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A gentleman came to see me some time ago. He was carrying many wounds around his sexuality, related to his adolescent use of pornography. Because he held so much anger towards his father, due to the emotional charge of that relationship, he expressed it while masturbating to pornography. As he grew into an adult, his entire relationship to sexuality was expressed as an act of aggression, the releasing his pent up negative energy; he was never able to merge his heart with his sexual energy. He acted out his aggression with women he held in low esteem, women who he found easy to judge, always magnetizing himself to women who had self-esteem and unresolved abuse issues. At the same time, he was never able to be present with them. He often disassociated from them in a porn fantasy.
He never sensually embraced women. He was unable to be present with them in the body, loving them or worshipping their juicy feminine shakti.
With the women he loved and held in a strong heart connection, he was unable to cultivate sexual energy or desire. It was this split, this huge emotional wound, that he desperately longed to release, to transform. So he came to see me.
I'm a tantric bodyworker. He left a mind-blown man.
He'd never been so fully present in his body during a sexual experience in his entire life. Indeed, he had his very first full body orgasm. He asked for help, he stated his intention for transformation, and received what he asked for because he was clear about what he wanted.
Our society is finally pulling its head out of the sand, letting go of its denial. Many of us are looking for transformation, rejecting the global catastrophe that threatens us in favor of the vision of a harmonized global village. But we've denied so many pervasive problems for so long, now many of us feel hopeless about the global situation, certain that we will see Armageddon, World War 3, complete economic collapse, or the end of time as touted by (mis)interpretations of the Mayan calendar system.
Those of us awakening to the global situation are calling for transformation. But at the same time we fear the exciting potential this desired transformation will release in us. The change that must take place needs to occur within each individual. The barometer of this transformation's success will be how each of us responds personally to events that transform our lives from the comfortable and known to the ineffable and unknown.
The publication of the essay Can Sex Work Be Shamanic? in Alternatives last year changed my life profoundly and dramatically, in ways I never imagined. It began as an innocent endeavor. I never considered my own transformation that might ensue as a result of publishing it. I simply felt driven to express something, and was glad to be offered the opportunity to present ideas and experiences I felt could contribute to the evolution of consciousness, which is ultimately all I care about. I had finished a two-hour Thai massage with Peter, the editor of Alternatives, on the last day of my Thai training at Breitenbush Hot Springs, and he asked about my background. Peter felt I had a special energy. In the conversation that followed I opened up about the Tantric work I do. He offered me an opportunity to publish an essay, and so was born "Can Sex Work Be Shamanic?"
Truth be told, I'd been asking that question for years. The essence of the essay belies the deeper unspoken question: "Can Sex Be Shamanic?" There is latent potential within each of us that is held in the field of our sexuality, and this potential often lays dormant and unawakened. Each of us has the ability to experience sex as union, an ecstatic full-body vibration of love. You can connect deeply, psychically with your partner, meditating simultaneously on profound physical ecstasy as well as the energy, always staying present, staying connected in the heart space, staying clear and in the flow of juicy yummy bliss. Down this path lies the potential for sexuality to awaken the kundalini and shift consciousness, awakening the visionary potential of multidimensional third eye activation. Ultimately, this path leads to the opportunity to experience the deep feeling of transpersonal sex, where we're not making love with the personality of our partner, but with the divine source "God" or "Goddess" as we begin to channel our divine energies while in the heightened sexual state.
I believe sex can be a transcendental, holy union. Indeed, this has been in my experience. Those who know first hand the massive floods of energy moving through the body, and the subsequent transformation of consciousness from "mundane" to "awakened ecstatic" need not question the opportunity that exists, even though most people are unaware of and unavailable for this level of freedom and bliss.
But to return to the massive shifts that happened to me after the publication of that article. First came a lot of attention, more attention than I knew how to deal with. I received more emails and requests for meetings than I knew how to handle. So I caved in, dropped off and focused on my personal life. Then a documentary filmmaker asked to work with me about the topics I discussed.
But the ultimate bomb hit two months after the essay was published: my landlord gave me an eviction notice. He'd discovered my work, my websites, my essay. He handed me an envelope filled with my writings and said I was "flying above the radar," not being discreet enough. I was given three weeks to move out of my cozy nest, the home I worked so hard to create, the massage temple space I worked so hard to cultivate. It was heartbreaking. I'd lived there for only 8 months, following 9 months of living out of a backpack and traveling around Guatemala, Mexico & California all I wanted was "home" that entire time. An intensity of sadness crushed me completely and I grieved for days. But before the grief set in, my response to the eviction notice was total calm, knowing that this was divine guidance and that the spirits of the universe were communicating with me through this experience. They were instigating more transformation for me. It made perfect sense.
The timing of the eviction was also ironic. The two previous months were among the happiest periods of my life. This had nothing to do with the essay. Rather, it was due to the deepening of my ability to embody my spirit in my body that brought me the greatest happiness. For the first time in my life I felt like I was coming home. Not home as in a place. Not the kind of home that is created through materialistic acquisition. I was coming home into my self. I felt more present, more awake, clearer, more relaxed, more authentic, more fully plugged into my body. I did not feel disassociated from my body or my sexuality. In fact, I felt like my entire life had led to this time of finally gathering the various parts of my being and bringing them fully into the temple of my body. I felt whole.
Some amazing puzzle pieces aligned to make this happen. On Christmas day I received a phone call from a man who I'd been in love with for the previous year the call helped me let go of his energy, which I'd held on to. I also began a daily smoothie regimen that included maca, cacao, acai, and vitamineral green. It transformed my digestive system, cleared me of all stagnancy and bloating. Once my digestive system cleared out, I released the energetic blockages I held in my lower belly (my second chakra), and released a lot of sexual energy. I returned to a largely vegetarian diet and made the most of my food. I received bodywork from a bodywork genius who tore me apart and helped me realize that I have hips. And most importantly I was cultivating a relationship with a gifted computer wizard, a genius for making phat psychedelic electronic dance beats. First we began co-creating music together, and then we began co-creating sexual energy together.
Becoming sexually activated with my musical compadre re-awakened me to the power of sexual energy. In the heightened sexual energy state, when I am ramped up in ecstatic states of physical bliss, when the outer walls of my labia are hard, when my yoni is an enormous orb of hot heat glowing from my root sending pulsations of bliss through my whole body, when I am that present and that free to be insanely joyful that is when I become my full self. All parts of my being are collected and brought into my body. I can feel an enormous shift within my subtle energy body, and it feels like I become a goddess. The Goddess steps fully into my body. I feel activated, alive, liberated, blissed out, and powerful.
One of the most amazing things about sexual energy and states of union is the experience of releasing every last bit of tension held in the body. When every single cell in the body is infused with high states of pleasure and the body is deeply relaxed, the body does not hold onto any more tension and neither does the mind. When the body is open, the spirit walks in.
What I am referring to is at the center of Tantric practice. After much meditation upon Tantric wisdom, I realized that the intention or goal of Tantra is to create the merging of dualities. It evokes the union of heaven and earth, the union of masculine and feminine, the union of body and spirit. Through Tantra we can bridge dualities and emerge into a state of wholeness. The Tantric path is about the interweaving of our energies with the fabric of the whole, the available chi of the universe. This is a deep path that requires intense dedication so you can master an awareness of energy, and become energetically aware of the movement of energy in the body. Many spiritual philosophies speak of the "higher self" as if we are by nature lower selves, disconnected from our high enlightened selves. I think our psyches are deeply split: split between our inner masculine and feminine, split between our conscious surface level awareness and our ignored unconscious denial dream self, split between our divine selves and our "shadow" ego selves. To merge and marry these aspects of our selves is to create wholeness within ourselves. That is the goal, because this is how we can finally experience complete peace and clarity and joy and freedom.
For the past year I have been praying, sending my intention out to the universe, to fully embody my spirit in my body. I long to fully anchor my divine self and see my divine self as my true self, to not identify with the unconscious confusion and chaos self, but to identify with my conscious, fully aware authentic self. Because I want to see Heaven emerge on Earth, I feel I must anchor my heaven in my earth body. Clearly in no time in my life did this occur more profoundly than when I stepped fully into my sexual energy and meditated in deeply blissed out energy.
Imagine what the world would look like if there were millions of women who were anchors of ecstatic bliss energy. Imagine if there were millions of women who were eschewing convention and walking their path towards their authentic nature, who let go the norms of social conformity in favor of following their heart bliss. Imagine if the world was filled with juicy mamas who love to be loved, and love to get loved on. Imagine if millions of women were fully in their bodies, fully activated in their sensuality, fully released into their creative liberation.. What kind of world would we be living in? We would live in a world where people would rather make love than cut down trees or enslave other people. We would live in a world where we wouldn't need prostitutes. We would live in a world where everybody was met and loved, cared for and nurtured, such that the only thing we would want is to make sure others are getting enough too. We would live in a world where the top priority is to take care of each other, because taking care of each other is taking care of the whole. We as individuals are a part of that whole.
But we don't live in that kind of world. And I don't need to remind you what kind of world we live in instead. I could list the environmental degradation, the wars in other people's homelands, the widespread deaths of bees, the corruption in the highest levels of our society… We live in a world that has suppressed the feminine for thousands of years. Our culture killed all the witches, all the holders of esoteric magic and wise women who knew the plant secrets. Our culture put corsets and bustles on women and disfigured their spines so they couldn't relax into their bodies. And a woman needs to have a good, flowing, healthy, undulating spine in order to have sexual power.
Our culture told people to have sex within the confines of marriage. Our culture put high heels and makeup on all the women in order to disfigure their hips and hide them behind masks of inauthenticity. Our culture has not told women that they are beautiful for their authentic beauty. Instead we have a culture of women who get rhinoplasty and botox. At the same time, other cultures have maimed and bound the feet of women to look like lotuses, and have dismembered the erogenous jewel of a woman's sexual body the clitoris. Christianity and Islam, as well as other religions, have suppressed women and our sexuality. Many in our culture have been told to only be sexual with one person for procreation within the confines of marriage and to have sex with a sheet between bodies, with a hole in the sheet for the penis to go through, so no pleasure is possible.
How many clients have come to see me over the years that haven't made love with their wives for 15 years? The numbers of men who haven't been lovingly met and haven't received intimate nurturing are astronomical, enormous. I once met a sad man who only a year before had separated from his wife of 16 years, whom he hadn't had sex with since the day their first and only son was conceived within the first year of their marriage. His wife refused to display any signs of affection throughout their marriage. She wouldn't hold hands, hug or cuddle. This is an extreme example, but it paints the picture of imbalance between genders that is sadly rampant. I feel that a culture of men who haven't been loved, met or nurtured is a culture doomed to act out that extreme emotional wounding by cutting down trees, degrading the environment, creating wars and enslaving others. I believe the root cause of all planetary and social imbalances is a result of sexual repression and gender imbalance.
Men have been just as suppressed from their authentic sexuality as women have. But we live in a culture where, generally speaking, women's power has been repressed by dominant masculinity.
There can be no more denying that the suppression of women has kept them from achieving their authentic nature and their sexual power. The tools of physical disfiguration corsets, foot-binding and clitoral modification as well as the guilt trip tools that dissuade the psyche from pursuing physical pleasure, have kept women from knowing their true power, from standing in their bodies as radiant, ecstatic, blissful beings of joy. But I am not a feminist who is angry and vindictive about four thousand years of patriarchy. I do feel, however, that in today's society we don't need to do that anymore.
Many women are waking up to their authenticity, to their creative potential and divine liberated selves. I know countless artists and witchy wise women who are creatrixes within this matrix. These are beautiful women who delve deep into their creativity, journeying with their art forms painting, poetry, song, handmade clothing. These women journey and dance, and honor their bodies. These women nurture themselves, educate themselves about how to best take care of their health with healthy food and plant-based medicines. These women love each other and support their sisters, encouraging each other to grow and become more expansive and creative. This new wave of women is the embodied resurgence of the Divine Feminine on Planet Earth.
But the suppression of women is buried deep into our collective subconscious. Even though our culture has seen waves of women's liberation since the seventies, many women still don cloaks of disfiguration and sublimation. In my neck of reality where my women friends are brilliant artists, juicy mamas making homemade bread and doing plant and sweat ceremonies, dancing ecstatically and going on healing retreats I am in a bubble of empowered, powerful women. But I recently went to a Mormon church on Easter, and walked into a room of women giving their "testimony" about their "faith." The room was filled with women who didn't seem present or in their bodies. They didn't speak with conviction about their faith. They didn't share stories that expressed their hearts. Instead, they gave testimony to a belief system that they had been indoctrinated into, but which none of them seemed to deeply believe in. Their shoulders were rolled foreword, they wore high heels and makeup and looked so uncomfortable in their bodies.
Over the centuries and throughout cultures, most suppression of women has been perpetuated by women themselves. It is the elder African women who dismember the clitoris of the young girls. It is the elder Chinese women who break the feet of young girls and wrap them in cloths. But we must not give in to bitterness or feel victimization about these injustices. Instead, we should realize that we can take our power back. If we want to live in a world that is whole and healthy, we must decide to become whole ourselves. Because we are each facets of the whole. When you are a weak link in the circle of the whole, then you aren't doing your part to hold together the integrity of the whole. If we want to live in a world of balance, we need to re-embody the Divine Feminine.
When divine, powerful, goddess women reach critical mass on Planet Earth, you know that big shift will happen. It will make more women want to step into their juicy, ecstatic, erotic, powerful, creative selves. The attraction becomes magnetic.
To all you women who don't know how to get from point A to point Z, but think the journey looks appealing and the end result even more appealing, all I can say is this: be receptive to change. Become an agent of transformation. Do not hold onto what is not serving you.
Getting back to my own story of being evicted, this huge change that forced me out of my comfortable cozy nest in fact offered me six weeks of travel and spiritual pilgrimage. After my journey I moved into a home more beautiful & divinely magical home than my old one. Often the doors of transformation take the form of something that seems horrible and heartbreaking at first. But when we surrender to the magic of what is, we make ourselves available for potent potentials of miraculous meetings.
One of my major realizations after the eviction and then hanging out with the Mormons is that we live in a culture that is absolutely afraid of sexual liberation. The suppression of sexuality is deeply ingrained in our collective consciousness. It is the repression of it that causes sexuality to be expressed in the forms of prostitution, strip clubs and online porn. This happens because the men are hungry and need to be fed. We live in a culture that criminalizes whores, denies them recognition and visibility, and secretly tolerates hoards of them because society would go haywire if whores weren't available. At the same time, they are brandished as shameful lepers by society.
But if women weren't suppressed in their bodies or their psyches and we were free to be powerful pleasure beings, if sexuality wasn't so deeply repressed and the life force love energy within each one of us so deeply malnourished, we wouldn't have any of this collective shame about owning our right to freely enjoy joy. We would step into ourselves, and we would step into each other, with gratitude for the gifts that each of us is to each other. We would step into our bodies with gratitude for our pleasure receptors. We would honor each other when we each nurture ourselves. Ultimately, by doing so, we would co-create peace on Planet Earth because the priorities would shift from war, corruption, media lies, and economic disparity to nurturing, feeding, and loving each other, supporting the achievement of our highest potentials, so we can contribute to the whole by nurturing ourselves.
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Listen Broods announce new album, 'Don't Feed The Pop Monster'
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New Zealand sibling duo Broods have announced details of their third album.
'Don't Feed The Pop Monster', the follow-up to 2016's 'Conscious', will be released on 1st February.
The album features the previously-revealed single 'Peach', and another track revealed today, 'Everything Goes (Wow)'.
Of the song, the band's Georgia Nott says: "We wrote "Everything Goes (Wow)" in a tree house in Nicaragua. We were there as part of a writing camp and it was one to the best experiences of our careers. It's about accepting the mortality of everything and finding peace in that." And on their forthcoming album, she continues, "We can't wait to share this album with our fans and the world. We wanted to make songs that are true to us and without hiding behind any kind of façade. We made a point of just completely trusting ourselves and each other and we're so ready for everyone to hear the album."
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Fostering in Wales
Regional Foster Families are always looking for people who have an interest in fostering that live in Wales including: Bridgend, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Monmouthshire, Neath & Port Talbot, Newport, North Wales, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Swansea & Vale of Glamorgan.
Our social workers are located in various parts of the region. So why not make contact and take that initial step. More detailed information regarding fostering is contained in the About Fostering section of this website.
Further information for Children and Young People in foster Care The link below takes you to the website for the children's commissioner Wales website – there is lots of useful information available for children being looked after, including a guide about what to expect in terms of services from the Local Authorities. http://www.childcomwales.org.uk/


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The youngest and the chirpiest member of the film fraternity who's otherwise quite honest and bold, gets into incognito mode whenever she's purged about her rumoured boyfriend Siddharth Malhotra.
This time, Alia Bhatt has come out to explain why not only she but all Bollywood actresses shy away from talking about their love lives.
In a recent interview, when Alia was quizzed on the tendency of the country to ape the West in general and still having reservations while talking openly about love, she said:
"Here, girls having multiple boyfriends is still a huge-ass deal and something that is frowned upon. I mean, look at Taylor Swift. She's dated, like, everybody. But if she was here, she'd be totally shamed for making those choices. Her image and appeal would be very different. The reason actresses don't talk about their private lives is because in our society there is a lot of slut-shaming. Eventually, I have a responsibility and I have to protect myself."
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And so she confesses that she'd rather let the rumours speak than herself because speculations are commonplace for celebrities "but as long as it's not coming from the horse's mouth, you're quite safe."
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"What if tomorrow I am not in love with him and feel differently about it? Then what? It's not written in stone, is it? And I don't want to be in a position where they come after me because I broke up with a dude. "Oh, aapka break-up ho gaya, ab agla kaun? Who's next?" This shallow and stupid thinking is just the reality of our society which doesn't allow women to be the way they'd like to be — free and independent."


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Mr. Speaker, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Canada Health Act, the foundation of our universal public health care system.
The CHA was passed unanimously by Parliament, a remarkable collaborative achievement with the NDP's Bill Blaikie working closely with the Trudeau Liberal government and health minister Monique Bégin to ensure that quality care would be available to everyone irrespective of their financial status.
Now, 25 years later, the CHA is under attack and the Conservative government is just standing by and doing nothing.
Canadians were outraged this week to learn that private clinics in Toronto and Vancouver were providing a queue-jumping service to the rich for the H1N1 vaccine. This access by wealth is just one more example of creeping privatization and a government that refuses to stop it.
New Democrats, along with the Canadian Health Coalition and concerned citizens everywhere, will continue to fight against two-tier health care and the erosion of the Canada Health Act as we have for 25 years.
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In order to bring science closer to people, the idea of writing a musical piece dedicated to chemical elements based on The Planets, Op. 32, a seven-movement orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, emerged. Chemist Eusebio Juaristi decided to look for a composer capable of capturing the essence of 14 chemical elements and to transform them into musical compositions. Héctor Rasgado-Flores, scientist and composer, was the chosen one.
Juaristi and Rasgado-Flores joined their chemical and musical knowledge to write the book Elements SUITe (SUITe de los elementos), edited by The College of Mexico (COLMEX).
Each of the compositions portrays the special characteristics of the elements. "For instance, one piece is dedicated to Francium (Fr), a very unstable element that we can not characterize at all since it starts to transform into something else, therefore the musical composition that corresponds to Francium is very brief due to its ephemeral nature. Other elements such as Calcium (Ca) that interact on a biological level inspired another style; Mercury (Hg) is a ductile element and that was what we tried to portray in its musical composition", explained Juaristi.
The key idea of the book is to bring people closer to chemistry and set aside the bad reputation that science has, according to Juaristi. "Some people believe that chemistry has negative effects, for example, that some elements are toxic or that some chemical reactions are dangerous, therefore, I believe that works such as this, that bring together chemistry and music, show the agreeable and attractive aspect that can modify the image that young people have of chemistry", said the researcher.
To him, it is really important that people understand that everything that surrounds us is chemistry and that 99% of its applications are beneficial to humanity.
Elements SUITe was presented on June 23 in the COLMEX, in Southern Mexico City.


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Can a Home Refuse to Tell People What Medication They Are On?
Can a person know what their medications are, if in a care home for respite and having capacity? Can a home refuse to tell them what meds they are on? Is it data protection as they suggested?
Dear J,
This is 2017 and people have the right to know all about their own treatment unless a specific decision has been made to withhold that information by the Doctor and as long as the person has mental capacity.
I have consulted my colleague Rachel Griffiths, QCS's Mental Capacity and Human Rights Specialist about this response and this is our best advice.
We all have the right to consent to (or refuse) any treatment, or medication, that a doctor suggests.
Is there anything in the care plan about this decision, if there is, has the decision been properly made?
If a person lacks capacity to make the decision about whether or not to take their medication, then the decision to give it or not has to be a best interests' decision made in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA).
Your question, of course, leaves me with many questions:
- Is your question saying that the person in receipt of respite care is being refused the information about the medication they are being given?
- Does the person have the mental capacity to decide whether or not to take medication suggested by the doctor?
- Has it been decided (by the doctor in consultation with the relatives) that the person should be given their medication covertly? (This would include saying, 'it's just a tonic').
I am clear that, assuming the person has mental capacity, they have the right to know (data protection has no part to play in this).
It is for the individual patient to decide whether other people should know what medication they are on.
If it is assessed that the person may not have the mental capacity to make this decision, and particularly if it is thought that their medication should be given covertly, in their best interests, there should be full recording of how this decision was reached.
Covert medication is a serious matter, not to be decided on lightly.
Please see the NICE guideline on Managing Medicines in Care Homes, section 1.15, at:
Please come back to me if there is further information you would like to share with me.
I hope this is helpful.
*All information is correct at the time of publishing.
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Lecture for the ''weak'' children
When some choosen piarists students were spending the time in Zadar, one event from the schedule which was made by the croatians, they had to do a ''dummy'' lecture to the children in the hospital. The lecture was about the ''Little Red Ridling Hood'', and the students had to make everything for that. They wrote the story, made the stage, and also they had to organize that who are going to perform the hole lecture. The performers were mixed. There were hungarian and croatian performers.
On that day when everything were done, the group walked to the hospital and finally they showed that what they were working on. Fortunately i could be a part of the program and i could see the smiles on the children. We could se the reward of the work on the children's face.
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Durham Public Schools is a changing school district in a changing county, but attendance areas for our schools have not changed system-wide since the city and county districts merged in 1992.
The Durham Public Schools Board of Education voted 5-2 to approve the "soft opening" of two sports—cross-country and volleyball—during Thursday night's meeting.
For the first time ever, the DPS Magnet and CTE Pathways Fair is being held virtually. The event will be held on Saturday, November 7th from 10 am - 1 pm. Click the link below for more details and to register.
Check out the latest from our superintendent Dr. Pascal Mubenga.
Starting October 23, parents will be able to access student report cards via the PowerSchool Parent Portal. Click the link below for more details.
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Popeye's fries themselves.
The world, nowadays, seems to take things too seriously and feelings get hurt too often. At least, this is how I feel about most controversial topics in today's news. Maybe some people are trying to find something to get offended about or it truly does offend them; either way, something as trivial as a commercial […]Read more "Popeye's fries themselves."


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BIMobject® and Mortarr® build a partnership—connecting inspiration and professionals to products and digital content.PR
Jeanette Nguyen • December 2, 2019
Burbank, CA, December 3, 2019—BIMobject, the world's largest BIM content platform has entered a strategic partnership with Mortarr, the leading online inspiration and networking platform for commercial construction and design. The collaboration will build the bridge from conceptual development to product specification and building execution.
"The construction industry is in the process of digitalization to make it easier for professionals to design better buildings," said Stefan Larsson, founder and president of BIMobject, North America. "We're excited to align with Mortarr and provide a connected process that combines inspiration with access to manufacturers' digital BIM products such as tile, flooring, aluminum windows and precast concrete."
On BIMobject.com building product manufacturers (BPMs) are able to showcase their products to 1.6 million users, where those products can be specified and procured into construction projects. BPMs can review user profile information, find out what file types were used and see how many downloads have been accumulated. Designers can select from nearly 1,600 brands that represent 445,000 actual parametric objects. The BIM objects become shared knowledge that forms a reliable basis for decision-making during the entire lifecycle of a project—from conception to demolition.
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BIMobject is a leading global IT company at the forefront of digitalization of the construction industry. BIMobject offers cloud-based platforms with over 1,600 manufacturers providing digital product information. Around the cloud-based platforms, which currently have over 1.6 million users, BIMobject offers a number of solutions aimed at manufacturers, property owners, architects/designers and construction companies and the trade sector. BIMobject, founded in 2011, operates in 20 countries and has over 230 employees. As of 30 September 2019, net sales RTM was SEK 142 million. BIMobject's shares are traded on Nasdaq First North under the ticker: BIM. Certified Advisor: FNCA Sweden AB, email@example.com, +46-8-528 00 399.
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A research library of key reports on the sports and physical activity sector from a variety of sources.
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A 'Satellite Account' for Olympic and Paralympic sports, quantifying their economic importance to the UK economy.
Related Reports:
Creating A Sporting Habit for Life
Sat, 14 Jan 2012
A new youth sport strategy.
Taking Part 2015/16 Quarter 2
Wed, 02 Dec 2015
The latest Taking Part survey in England, looking at participation in the cultural and sporting sectors, showed that 57% of 11-15 year olds said the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games had encouraged them to take part in sport.
Taking Part 2012/13 Annual Child Report
Mon, 26 Aug 2013
This report presents the latest headline child estimates for the year up to and including March 2013.
Inspiring Sport Participation: The Demonstration Effect
Sat, 16 Jul 2011
Canterbury Christ Church University
The Department of Health commissioned SPEAR to conduct a worldwide evidence review on sport participation legacies because it wanted to know if it would be worth investing government resources in initiatives designed to use the Olympic and Paralympic Games to increase sport participation to improve people's...
Plans For The Legacy From The 2012 Olympic And Paralympic Games
Thu, 23 Dec 2010
This document sets out the Government's plans for the legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Sport For Social Good
Fri, 23 Mar 2018
The Centre For Social Justice
This paper argues that the Government must develop a comprehensive national strategy to make sport a vehicle for social good and use it to help improve people's lives and communities.
A Living Legacy: 2010-15 Sport Policy And Investment
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
The primary focus of this document is to showcase a commitment to the legacy of the 2012 Olympics, whilst illustrating some of the key economic benefits of sports policy to England through sports devolved policy through primary delivery organisations, including local authorities, Sport England and UK...
Gold Framework: Guidance On UK-Level Support Available When Bidding For And Staging Major Sporting Events
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
DCMS, UK Sport
This revised and enhanced framework is a joint DCMS and UK Sport approach setting out how the UK will support these Gold Events, building on recent experiences and enhanced levels of collaboration with key partners. The aim is to provide the most effective package of support available to major sporting...
Final Report Of Stakeholder Consultation On No Compromise Elite Funding
Sat, 10 Jan 2015
UK Sport
UK Sport commissioned the independent research consultancy ComRes to conduct a consultation among its stakeholders at all levels, focusing on the organisation's strategic direction beyond the Rio 2016 investment cycle.
The Physical Activity Olympic And Paralympic Legacy For The Nation
Wed, 26 Feb 2014
HM Government
The aim of the physical activity strand of the legacy is to have a much more physically active nation.


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this sweet giveaway is at http://lilredrocketbuttons.blogspot.com/2010/08/extra-give-away-for-august.html I am just loving the bingo card!
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scrap the girls challenge
over at scrap the girls, you will soon see my page "Nanny McPhee tooth", featuring Lily who played with a front wobbly tooth for a while there! We were pleased when it fell out! I have also used another of Becci's crotcheted flowers; the red was the perfect colour to match the pp and the glimmermist. thanks for looking.
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look at this gorgeous give away at purple pumpkin crafts...loving the colours and the little owls would so suit pages with my little night owls!
look at this gorgeous give away at purple pumpkin crafts...loving the colours and the little owls would so suit pages with my little night owls!
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check it out, and while you are there, have a look at their monthly challenges and swaps!
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
luck comes in threes
My luck has come in a set of three today...two lucky giveaway wins, and the warranty on our car runs out today. My husband took it into the dealer to ask about a problem with the power steering....it is now being fixed!! We have a beautiful glorious day here today, so very lucky with the weather, too. smiles!
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OMG I won another!!!
Susan Longman over at incredibledesigns had a vintage collection on offer to a lucky winner....and guess what...it is me....what a lucky day I am having!!!
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OMG I won
I am so thrilled to be the lucky recipent of the crocheted motifs from Becci, as mentioned in my previous post. I am feeling miserable with the flu, so Becci has really made my day. Thanks so much.
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Band members Harry Styles and Liam Payne talked directly to fans on Twitter for the first time since Zayn Malik announced he was leaving One Direction.
Payne opened up about about his feelings on Malik's decision and what it's like for all of the band members to deal with the fame of being part of a popular boy band.
"To a lot of people it's just a bunch of silly kids in a band but to the people involved it means so much more," wrote Payne. "This last week has been some of the worst times, possibly the worst it's something we are all deeply saddened by."
Payne talked about the good times the five guys had touring, and promised that the bandmates would remain the closest friends. He went on to assure fans that "it's far from over" and that it's okay to be sad and upset, but "I do ask everyone who is a fan of us to please keep ur faith in us I'm sure there's a lot more to come all love."
In light of recent events I think this is important to say. For the past five years now I've been part of (cont) http://t.co/rkSsnCOc4W
— Liam (@Real_Liam_Payne) March 26, 2015
Harry Styles also took to Twitter after his emotional breakdown was caught on stage, showing him crying during a performance in Jarkata shortly after Malik's departure.
All the love as always. H
— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) March 26, 2015
The 21-year-old Styles showed his support to Malik and fans by posting, "All the love as always. H." A few hours later, Payne jumped on Twitter for the first time and posted about his emotional day, "So glad to be in bed after a long and strange 24 hours."
So glad to be in bed after a long and strange 24 hours
— Liam (@Real_Liam_Payne) March 26, 2015
Both celebrities and fans came out to show their support for 1D and Malik's departure with #SaveZayn trending on Twitter.
John Stamos (along with Josh Peck) took to Vine to post an audition video to possibly be Malik's replacement and posted his own message about the audition, "The day I've been waiting for!#Zaynmalik #OneDirection #Stamostime @shuapeck."
The day I've been waiting for!#Zaynmalik #OneDirection #Stamostime @portableshua https://t.co/cYkGQAu5er
— John Stamos (@JohnStamos) March 25, 2015
@zaynmalik will always be a part of one direction. But @onedirection isnt One Direction without Zayn. #AlwaysInOurHeartsZaynMalik #SaveZayn
— ZAYN JM. (@annisanf21) March 26, 2015
#SaveZayn BRING HIM BACKKKKKKKKK
— Corey is hawt (@Caveminer7598) March 26, 2015
@zaynmalik this is sad i swear, think twice:( #SaveZayn pic.twitter.com/KPzgYmj48h
— zahra berliani pg (@zahrabrln) March 26, 2015
#savezayn just come otra tour jakarta . We were wait for a MILLION YEARS !
— Lony☯ (@Lonyflnda) March 20, 2015
Malik made the surprise announcement on their 1D Facebook page, saying he was leaving the band. The news came just months after rumors of his imminent departure swirled at the AMAs.
Malik left a world tour last week, and wrote yesterday, "My life with One Direction has been more than I could ever have imagined. But, after five years, I feel like it is now the right time for me to leave the band. I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight."
Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan will continue making music together as One Direction, despite rumors that Harry is the next to go.
The band's Facebook statement added, "The four of us will now continue. We're looking forward to recording the new album and seeing all the fans on the next stage of the world tour."


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Summit by Morrison
Built on our commitment to excellence, Summit by Morrison is a first-of-its-kind senior living community in the heart of northern New Hampshire. Located on a sloping hillside with sweeping views of Dalton Mountain, Summit by Morrison is a community that provides a full continuum of care all on one campus. By choosing a community that provides a complete range of care options, you will never have to leave the place you call "home"–even if your health needs change.
Summit by Morrison offers unparalleled senior living with an array of services and amenities designed to help keep you active and healthy. This includes social, recreational and cultural activities, as well as wellness and education programs. Group and individual meals are prepared daily by our culinary staff, while housekeeping, laundry and personal services are also available. Additionally, Summit by Morrison offers the latest wireless and communications technology in all rooms and common areas.
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MTI Report 12-06
Household Income and Vehicle Fuel Economy in California(PDF 376K)
Principal Investigators: Christopher E. Ferrell, Ph.D.
This white paper presents the findings from an analysis of the fiscal implications for vehicle owners of changing from the current statewide fuel tax to a "road user charge" (RUC) based on vehicle-miles traveled (VMT). Since 1923, California's motor vehicle fuel tax has provided revenue used to plan, construct, and maintain the state's publicly funded transportation systems. Over time, improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency and the effects of inflation have reduced both the revenue from the fuel tax and its purchasing power. Thus, there is growing interest among policy makers for replacing the state's per-gallon fuel tax with an RUC based on VMT.
This study analyzes the 2010-2011California Household Travel Survey (CHTS) to identify the potential effects this policy change would be likely to have on households across the state. The analysis found that while daily household fuel consumption and VMT both appear to increase with household income, urban and rural households show roughly the same amount of fuel consumption and VMT. No statistically significant difference in cost was found between the two programs in any income group. This suggests that an RUC designed to collect the same amount of revenues statewide as the current fuel tax would not place a significant financial burden on California households.
Dr. Ferrell began his planning career in 1995 working for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) on intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications for traffic management. Since 2000, he has worked as a transportation consultant, and in 2010 he co-founded CFA Consultants, a transportation planning and research firm. Dr. Ferrell completed his doctoral studies in city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. His studies focus on the relationships between transportation and land use. His research experience includes the evaluation of transit facilities, transportation policy analysis, transportation and land use interactions, travel behavior, and analysis of institutional structures. As a practitioner, he has developed traffic impact studies for mixed-use, infill, and transit-oriented projects; analyzed the impacts of specific and general plans; planned and implemented intelligent transportation systems; and developed bicycle and pedestrian plans. He recently completed TCRP Report 145, Reinventing the Urban Interstate: A New Paradigm for Multimodal Corridors and is currently working to complete TCRP H-45: Livable Transit Corridors: Methods, Metrics, and Strategies. He has also taught several graduate planning classes in the San José State University Urban Planning department and the University of California, Berkeley City and Regional Planning department.
David Reinke began his planning career in 1973 with the London Borough of Camden, where he worked on a livable neighborhoods plan, priority bus lanes, and development of a traffic-monitoring program. Since then he has worked in both public and private sectors for a number of organizations including Crain & Associates, BART, Dowling Associates, and Kittelson & Associates. His areas of specialization include transportation economics, travel demand modeling, road pricing studies, statistical analysis, machine learning, and software engineering. Past projects include development of travel demand models, analysis of proposed toll lanes, long-range transit plans, development of multimodal level of service measures for urban streets, and a number of research projects for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. He is a member of IEEE and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and is a member of TRB committees including Statistical Methods (ABJ 80) and Traveler Behavior and Values (ADB 10). Past TRB committee memberships include Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computational Methods (ABJ 70) and Transportation Economics (ABE 20). He holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley; a Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University; and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Download:Household Income and Vehicle Fuel Economy in California (376K)
Research Brief (184K)
Authors: Christopher E. Ferrell, Ph.D. and David B. Reinke
Published: November 2015
Keywords: Road User Charge, RUC, VMT Tax, Fuel Tax, California
Published: November 2015
Keywords: Road User Charge, RUC, VMT Tax, Fuel Tax, California
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