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The largest real estate fair held in Cannes, France, was the tent in Istanbul this year, in the absence of MIPIM 2017. International funds in a 635 square meter tent came together with Turkish builders
MIPIM, which brings together the most influential investors of the real estate sector in Cannes, France, was stamped by the Istanbul tent of 685 square meters. The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) positioned the Istanbul tent as a large bilateral meeting, while the 100 largest investors of MIPIM met with potential Turkish partners in the Istanbul tent. More than 2 thousand 600 firms and more than one of them have been present at the fuard where 90 countries are located. ITO Chairman Ibrahim Caglar Said, "We will translate this image we have excavated into the minds of the MIPIM intimidation investors into new business contracts this year," he said, conveying the city's image with the Istanbul real estate tent for two years.
Caglar explains that the real estate sector is a giant force in the world, "We are not only creating employment in Turkey and activating more than 300 sectors, our contractors are building the world with our know-how, and our country is signing a billions of dollars worth of exports. Caglar Said, "Last year, construction materials reached $ 15.2 billion, and investors who came from abroad to buy real estate from our country also contributed significantly to the economy, promotion and social fabric of our country." Caglar noted that Turkish contractors have undertaken projects exceeding 325 billion dollars in many points of the world so far. He spoke.a


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2 miles from Mawgan and 2 from Manaccan, above the Helford River. Fifty-five acres of fields and woodland with panoramic countryside views and woodland trail to enjoy. The friendly owners are pleased to introduce you to the rabbits, ducks and hens. Plenty of outdoor play space with swings, football goals, climbing frames, sandpit, picnic bench. Large games cabin (table tennis, pool table, games/toys, coin-operated tumble drier). Each cottage has its own enclosed garden. Space for your surfboards, bicycles and boats/trailers (by arrangement). Farm shop, 1 mile walk. Tranquil walk to Nat. Trust Tremayne Quay on the Helford River. This is the good life: a peaceful place for freedom and fun in a beautiful area. Spring water. Arrival after 4pm.
Swift Cottage is semi-detached. To the back, enclosed courtyard with 3 steps up to terrace (table/chairs). Shallow step up from front garden (bench/table) into porch (space for boots/coats). Step up to stable doors into welcoming open-plan living/dining/kitchen (slimline dishwasher, washing machine, microwave, under counter fridge, under counter freezer, electric cooker) with beams, open fire, sofas (double sofa bed), TV/DVD and iPod dock. Stairs (stairgate) up to two bedrooms - a double, and a room with child bunks (2'6"). Bathroom (suite, shower over bath).
Mawgan-in-Meneage: village (church, PO/shop, good food pub) in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on Mawgan Creek, leading to the Helford River. Good walking. Trelowarren (restaurant, spa), 2 miles. Seal sanctuary, 2 miles; Flambards theme park, 5. Beaches (Gunwalloe, Church Cove, Poldhu), 5 miles. Helford (sailing club, pub, café), 4 miles; Helston, 5; Porthleven, 7.
Two bedrooms: 1 x double, 1 x child bunk room. Bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Sitting room with double sofa bed and open fire. Kitchen with dining area.
MAWGAN-IN-MENEAGE Helston lies at the western gateway to the Lizard Peninsula, a large area of downland fringed by a beautiful and spectacular coastline. Helston is a pleasant busy market town famous for its Flora Day Festival and the many stories and legends about the "Furry Dance" are told in the fascinating Helston Folk Museum. Nearby is the Poldark Mine, one of the best underground experiences in the south west and which tells of the widespread mining heritage of this area. Nestled in a tranquil setting is the National Seal Sanctuary on the Helford River, where there is plenty of entertainment watching seals play and feed. If it is thrill rides that excites you, then Flambards theme park will keep you amused all day and also has excellent living history experiences. Further afield is the harbour town of Falmouth to the east and Land's End to the west. Helston is a wonderful holiday destination offering plenty of attractions for the whole family.
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The selection, trained by Susan Corbett, is a son of Bahri who caught the eye in a 7f novice race on debut here last October and duly confirmed that promise over course and distance a month later (10/1 chance), patiently ridden and travelling strongly, moving through to lead approaching the final furlong and driven out to score by 1¾ lengths from Cocktail. He returned to action in a 5f novice event here at the end of March (12/1 chance), taken back from the stalls to sit in behind the leading quartet, briefly outpaced before picking up well to launch a good-looking challenge approaching the final furlong, unable to sustain his effort and having to settle for third behind Cowboy Soldier (beaten 2¾ lengths). He ultimately shaped as though fitness was the primary issue that day, though conceding upwards of 5lbs to his rivals was never going to prove an easy task (the winner has since gone close under a penalty himself whilst the runner-up went one better next time). An opening mark of 75 looks a reasonable starting point, open to improvement for the move into handicap company; entitled to strip fitter for that comeback run and with the return to six furlongs sure to suit, this son of Bahri is taken to regain the winning thread here.


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Both Otago teams are confident despite facing tough pools at this year's national sevens tournament.
The tournament begins in Tauranga today, although both the men's and women's Otago teams will need to be on their game to feature in the top eight tomorrow.
With Canterbury and Waikato in their pool, the women have a huge task, although they should account for Poverty Bay.
Meanwhile, the men look to be in an even pool with Manawatu, North Harbour and Hawke's Bay.
Men's coach Kane Jury said the team had trained well and he was hopeful of a strong performance.
"The boys have been working pretty hard," he said.
"We had a really good session last Monday. That was our last session before selection.
"So they were all right into it and there was a bit of quality there.
"But the boys have all come back in pretty good shape and they've worked hard over that break time, so really happy with that."
He said the team would look to utilise the powerful runners in its forwards, to disorganise the defences.
Cutting down on errors was also key. It made eight against Canterbury at the regional tournament late last year.
It had "learnt some pretty harsh lessons" around ball retention the past couple of years at the national tournament.
Alongside its strong runners, the team also had some X-factor in Josh Buchan and Taylor Haugh coming into the team.
The side had not yet talked about its goal placing-wise, although Jury felt it was a top-eight quality team.
Meanwhile, the women were hoping to improve on last year's top eight finish and break into the top six.
They had a huge task ahead of them to do that, facing two powers in Canterbury and Waikato.
However, co-coach David Latta said the team had trained well and would look to play to its strengths.
"We won't be the biggest team up there, but hopefully we'll have some intelligence and we'll have some speed," he said.
"So that's the way we're going to play it — at pace, hopefully."
The team included local New Zealand development team player Sam Hollows, as well as Black Fern Angie Sisifa.
It had also picked up two Tasman players — Jess Drummond and Risi Pouri-Lane — both of whom are in the national development team as well.
Both had to go to the tournament, being with the national squad, but as Tasman did not qualify, they would bolster Otago.
National sevens tournament
Tauranga, today (finals tomorrow)
Otago Men
Draw: 12.05pm v Manawatu, 2.55pm v North Harbour, 5.15pm v Hawke's Bay.
Team: Joketani Koroi, Ben Tuiomanufili, Mika Mafi, Ben Whale, Charles Elton, Ewan Brumwell, James Te Pairi, Taylor Haugh, Josh Buchan, Jerome Harimate, Layne Opetaia, Rory Ward.
Otago Women
Draw: 11.45am v Canterbury, 2.35pm v Waikato, 5.35pm v Poverty Bay.
Team: Sheree Hume, Kiana Wereta, Zoey Flockton, Julia Gorinski, Celine Timoko, Kilistina Moata'ane, Soraya Umaga-Jensen, Mikayla Latta, Sam Hollows, Angie Sisifa, Jess Drummond, Risi Pouri-Lane.


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72 hours with no showers.
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Oh Carrie! I'm so glad you're okay. Yours is a story I remember being warned about when I did my ESL cert. I'm so glad you're alright and in good spirits.ReplyDelete
There is another adventure on your horizon.
I just found your blog and that is the most incredible story. That sounds horrible, and you definitely made the right decision. What a scary situation!!!ReplyDelete
You are safe and that is the most important thing...I cannot wait to hear what you are doing next!ReplyDelete
Wow! What an experience. I'm so glad to hear that you are ok.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you're safe Carrie! Crazy crazy story.ReplyDelete
Just read to my mum and she was in just as much shock as I was.
You deserve Starbucks, pronto. We must go soon. :)
Sorry to hear that the experience was a bust, but glad to hear that you made it out unscathed!ReplyDelete
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Wow. That was a whole lot of sketchiness in a small amount of time! I'm sorry that your adventure didn't turn out like you imagined.ReplyDelete


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Wanted to share with you this box I made using my "Just Chillin'" set from Clear Dollar Stamps.
I used the waving polar bear and colored it with my Copics twice and then popped the image and placed it on the top of the box. I stamped one of the sentiments 4 times and placed on each side of the box. Other embellishments include ribbon and colored pearls.
© images Wendy Hall 2009 designed for Clear Dollar Stamps, LLC
My second creation today is a shaker card using Santa Ridley from our new release over at Digital Delights.
I made the shaker out of acetate and filled it with micro beads and diamond dust.
Finished it off with a box envelope and plaid bow.
We are also sponsoring Friday Sketchers this week
Be sure to pop over and see what fun challenge they have for you this week!!
Have a fabulously creative day!!


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The Virginian featured some of the best composers in film and television. I cover them all in my book. Music has always been an integral part of Westerns both in television and film. The Virginian excelled in its choice of music with acclaimed composers such as Bernard Herrmann, David Shire and Leonard Rosenman composing scores for the show.
The partnership of Leo Shuken and Jack Heyes provided my favorite music in Season 5. Here are the opening title credits to Legacy of Hate (5:01) courtesy of YouTube.


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The dark looming clouds of finals are rolling in.
There is much to do before i can breath easy again.
things to do:
– paper for Hungarian and Romanian theatre
– portfolio for senior seminar for studio art capstone
– art history final on monday!
– final project for dig. photog.
-im doing a series that goes to this song –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8yRwW1x2JM…..Its totes worth a listen…..or 5.
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TODAY'S STUDY: Is The Rise Of Customer Choice A Crisis?
California Customer Choice; An Evsaluation of Regulatory Framework Options for an Evolving Electricity Market Michael Colvin, Diane I. Fellman, and Raisa Ledesma Rodriguez, with Alison LaBonte and Rohimah Moly, May 1, 2018 (California Public Utilities Commission)
External changes driven by an uptake of distributed energy resources, the growth of non-utility load serving entities, and policy measures taken to mitigate climate change have provided customers more options to choose how and from whom they obtain electric services. While these changes create greater choices for customers, they also pose regulatory challenges.
Following a May 19, 2017 en banc hearing with the California Energy Commission on customer choice, the CPUC formed the California Customer Choice Project. Its mission is to aid the CPUC in making strategic, timely and informed decisions regarding California's current electricity market transformation. Specifically, the California Customer Choice Project has been charged with analyzing a fundamental question:
How does the increased customer choice occurring in the electric sector impact California's ability to achieve its policy objectives of affordability, decarbonization, and reliability?
Recognizing that these policy objectives are interwoven with one another and that there is no simple answer or obvious path, the Project approached the question by:
1. Reviewing California's history with customer choice;
2. Identifying California's energy policy goals through Core Principles and Key Questions;
3. Defining customer choice;
4. Evaluating representative national and global regulatory models that enable high penetration of customer choice: New York, Illinois, Texas and Great Britain; and
5. Leveraging lessons learned from California's history and other markets to make observations and findings on what is necessary to achieve the state's energy policy goals.
This draft paper sets the stage for a conversation among California energy policy decision makers and stakeholders about the need to develop a plan to address the current shift in the evolving electricity market and the next steps in managing this transition. The paper provides a holistic and strategically agnostic view of the interdependent attributes related to customer choice.
Part I is an Introduction containing the problem statement and an overview of the key issues. Part II discusses the current status of California. Part III presents the Core Principles of affordability, decarbonization and reliability along with the Key Questions for considering customer choice. This section defines what is choice and what it is not. Part IV evaluates New York, Illinois, Texas and Great Britain's regulatory frameworks and identifies findings for further consideration. Part V draws from the analysis of California's history and other markets to make observations and identify considerations for California decision makers. The appendices following the paper provide more detailed background information and analysis.
Notably, Appendix I provides a detailed history of competition and customer choice in California. The state was the first electricity market in the nation to consider full retail choice as well as the first to abandon the effort. California's flawed plan offered lessons for other jurisdictions contemplating retail competition and market-based approaches to deliver energy services. Today, this history and these other markets provide insights based on two decades of experience to inform the assessment of California's current electricity market and to develop a pathway forward. The paper presents findings from the different electricity markets to draw upon when deliberating policy and regulatory changes…
Part V: Observations & Future Considerations
California needs a clear long-term vision for its regulatory framework to address the state's system requirements and policy goals beyond short-term fixes to stabilize immediate issues. The purpose of the paper is to serve as a catalyst to acknowledge vulnerabilities and to address them thoughtfully and strategically. New rules will need to be formulated by the CPUC under current law and--in certain instances—legislative guidance may be necessary. This paper serves as a call to action for the Legislature, our agency partners, the CAISO, stakeholders and communities to join in the conversation and develop a plan to protect against another crisis.
Affordability: Customers Need Information, Protection and Guaranteed Service Affordability: Customers Need Information, Protection and Guaranteed Service
Customer engagement and price transparency are critical to keep rates low in competitive markets. In New York and Great Britain, low customer engagement in switching retail suppliers has led to significant market inefficiencies and higher costs for inactive consumers.
Educational campaigns for consumers and regularly updated data on prices are needed to support customer engagement and market transparency. California's IOUs have a statewide energy education platform focused on customer engagement with demand-side management programs and bill reduction opportunities, and it has other resources to help customers understand the cost of rooftop solar energy. The state provides cost calculators on websites for rooftop solar, including GoSolarCalifornia.com.
New York, Texas, and Great Britain, like California, rely on a state-focused independent system operator. However, Illinois benefits from its participation in MISO, a multi-state power market. Illinois attributes the broader grid and being part of MISO to its ability to balance its goals to increase renewable penetration and keep rates affordable.
It is unclear if California could have similar wholesale price benefits like Illinois because it utilizes a state system operator rather than a regional transmission operator. As part of implementing SB 350, California is considering how its electric grid operations could be expanded on a regional basis across the western states. The benefits and implications of regionalization on California bill affordability are still under consideration.
Texas does not have a uniform subsidy for low-income customers. The other markets examined in this paper administer low-income programs either through retail suppliers (Great Britain), utility programs (New York), or discounted distribution rates (Illinois).
It is critical that low-income programs continue with expanded customer choice offerings. California offers up to 35% discount on rates to residential customers through the CARE program, and other discounts such as the FERA program. California also offers unique programs for low-income customers such as the Energy Savings Assistance Program. Recently, California has included more efforts specifically toward "disadvantaged communities", to ensure that the benefits of transportation electrification and distributed energy resources also reach those communities.
Decarbonization: Statewide Mandates and Programs Drive Carbon Emissions Reductions
Climate and environmental policies are significant elements of the energy sector transformation across all markets, except Texas. There is some form of renewable portfolio standard in New York and Illinois (and formerly in Great Britain) to support renewable generation, as well as net energy metering or feedin-tariffs to incentivize solar PV. These mechanisms were tailored to meet the needs of current market designs.
Re-examining current programs to align with changing market structures is critical. There may be an expectation that mandates and incentives advancing technologies in the electric sector will continue indefinitely. With California's success to date, scrutiny needs to occur regarding whether to continue the programs once cost parity is achieved with conventional forms of service. Greater choice options based on statewide programs create unnecessary costs and, in some cases, stifle innovation by rewarding technologies that have become commercially viable and blocking new market entrants.
Decarbonization efforts have been less targeted to disadvantaged communities in California, which have fewer CCAs, Direct Access options and distributed energy resources. Whether these benefits are provided by utilities or other entities, California does not intend to allow its more vulnerable populations to be left behind.
Reliability: Operating the Grid Safely while Ensuring Reliable and Resilient Service Requires Oversight
Approaches to providing reliable service vary by state. New York, Texas and Great Britain rely on wholesale energy markets and bilateral contracts to meet demand. Independent system operators meet reliability requirements set by the state and regional transmission organizations. New York and Great Britain also run capacity markets, and Texas adds incentives on energy prices to meet target reserve margins. In each of these markets, retail service providers compete for individual or aggregated customers with regulatory oversight.
Statewide oversight can guarantee that reliability and safety requirements are rigorously met. Regardless of who serves as the primary LSE, the lights must stay on while adhering to high safety standards. As CCAs or other competitive providers become a larger portion of the electricity market, the quandary becomes who is responsible to ensure that these requirements are met for all of California's citizens.
If a central buyer has the responsibility to maintain reserves for reliability and the liability for the safe delivery of electric service, there must be adequate compensation. This is not to suggest that the utilities are to be given unfettered ability to invest and recover costs.
Rather, this precept is based on the state's need to balance citizen interest in selecting alternate sources of electric service with its responsibility make sure the lights are kept on. If each LSE holds a fragmented responsibility, then sufficient enforcement tools must be in place to ensure everyone complies with the standards.
Illinois has centralized, state procurement and planning in a multi-state grid that facilitates meeting energy demand and reliability. California has historically had centralized state procurement planning for IOUs, but not on a statewide basis. As LSEs become more diverse, a centralized procurement process may help ensure that reliability requirements are met since all LSEs have the same legal obligations to comply with many of California's energy policy mandates, including resource adequacy and the RPS.
Question 1: How do these choice models ensure consumer protections?
All markets ensure consumer protections through laws and/or regulations that apply to all LSEs marketing to customers.
Standardized consumer protection materials for market participants interacting with energy customers is necessary for consumers to be well-informed about the options they have available and for market participants to compete on a level playing field. The CPUC currently plays a role in adjudicating customer complaints when IOUs and customers cannot resolve billing disputes; however we do not currently have similar authority over other LSEs.
Question 2: How do these choice models support development and incorporation of innovations driven by customer demand?
All markets rely on customer demand to drive innovation. In New York and Great Britain, utilities and DER market participants, or utilities alone, support innovation through ratepayer funded stipends and competitions. In Texas and Illinois, utilities are not viewed as a source for innovation; instead retail service providers are expected to develop and implement new technologies and services.
California prides itself on its advanced technologies. Over the past two decades, the Commission has established programs to encourage the growth of utility scale renewables, rooftop solar, storage and distributed generation. Going forward, California may consider whether market forces should take the place of mandates and how innovation programs should be funded.
Question 3: Do these choice models ensure universal electric service?
All markets have a designated Provider of Last Resort or a process to assign a supplier of last resort. Utilities serve as providers of last resort in New York and Illinois. In Texas and Great Britain, there is a process to assign customers to a retail service provider or multiple suppliers.
Defining and designating Provider of Last Resort responsibilities is critical if a mass transition of customers becomes necessary. Electricity is a fundamental service and everyone in California should have the right to receive it. In California, the responsibility for the obligation to serve falls on the incumbent utility. In other jurisdictions that have expanded choice, the Provider of Last Resort is an essential function and providers are fully compensated.
The uncertainties of today's market will need to be ameliorated by establishing an approach that keeps ratepayers on IOU default service indifferent to load migration while avoiding unfairly imposed costs. What if the CCAs failed to meet their requirements and the IOUs had to quickly fill the gap as the provider of last resort? Are there adequate customers remaining on IOU retail service for fair and equitable allocation of costs? Other jurisdictions have implemented different plans and structures to address this issue, which California decision-makers may wish to explore as more LSEs enter the market and customers leave their incumbent utility.
Question 4: How do these choice models leverage investment necessary to finance the evolution of the electric grid?
All markets rely on a mix of ratepayer funding and private investment to finance the evolution of the grid. New York, Texas and Great Britain use market-based approaches to incentivize new generation and energy procurement (as these markets do not have centralized procurement). The Illinois model, which buys down investment risk through centralized energy procurement, is significantly different from all the other states studied.
Over time California energy policy will require significant new investment in generation. The success of the California RPS program relied largely on the larger utilities to invest in projects by raising low-cost capital in financial markets, and then recovering costs through sales of electricity. This method of financing capital projects may be in jeopardy as more and more customers leave the IOUs. There is a question whether the necessary capital investment needed to decarbonize the electric sector to meet the state's 2030 goals and beyond can be financed and, if so, delivered on time if the state transitions away from a few larger buyers to many small buyers.
Question 5: How do these choice models consider the transition of utility obligations?
Every market has a different approach to the transition of utility obligations. In some markets, utilities are system operators and do not participate in retail financial and commercial activities (reserved for retail service providers). In others, they continue to provide bundled service.
It is important to provide certainty by clearly defining roles and responsibilities for IOUs and other market participants. While the traditional vertically-integrated utility model no longer exists in California, the IOUs have made strides in transforming themselves to accommodate greater customer choice. California has opened certain portions of the utility business to competition to lower prices and to benefit ratepayers. Going forward, there are essential services that remain properly with the IOUs. Every option for expansion of choice, in California and in other jurisdictions, relies on statewide, regulated utilities to provide the backbone delivery service.
Illinois and Texas have clearly designated which aspects of the electric bill are generation and transmission and distribution. Re-examining existing cost allocation methodologies for generation and distribution rates may help the state with the transition of utility obligations.
As part of the implementation of AB 1890, the CPUC separated out the major aspects of the utility electric bill, including generation, transmission and distribution, and public purpose programs as major categories. These general categories are still in place today. It may be appropriate to re-examine if billrelated elements are in the correct category to ensure bill integrity and to promote the level of transparency achieved in other markets.
Question 6: Do these choice models have competitively neutral rules among market participants?
In all markets except Texas, some form of community choice aggregation exists, and customers must opt-out from these services. Unlike California, CCAs in New York and Illinois do not compete with utility service because they procure energy through alternative retail energy suppliers.
Since the CCA procurement model in California is different than the other markets, California may need to develop its own rules to ensure competitive neutrality. The CPUC certifies CCAs plans, and there may be a need for additional monitoring to ensure continued compliance with the certification plans. Since California CCAs are different than in other markets examined, best practices may not directly transfer. It may be appropriate to "stress test" the existing rules to promote competitive neutrality under a high penetration CCA scenario to understand the impacts to both participating and non-participating customers.
In New York, Texas and Great Britain's retail markets, regulators have promulgated a standard set of business practices to apply to retail service providers. New York has also set forth business practices for utilities and DER market participants. In Texas, pro forma tariffs ensure that all market participants can access a large market share. Standard tariffs can help ensure competitive neutral rules to access the grid.
Creating standards and/or guidelines that apply to all market participants selling energy to consumers ensures consistent application of consumer protection rules and business practices. California has established standards and processes for third parties to interconnect to the grid at the transmission and distribution level, as appropriate. There may need to be new standards and guidelines created for the new market participants to ensure a competitively neutral market landscape.
Question 7: Can customers determine their level of participation and are they informed to participate at their desired level?
For the most part, customers in all markets can determine their level of participation.177 Individual customers who enroll in a retail service plan may default into standard rates when the initial contract expires. In CCA regions in New York and Illinois, customers are automatically enrolled in their CCA and the chosen retail plan, but customers may opt out and select their own retail service provider.
Choice policies can cause customers to be unwitting participants. By either creating default enrollment in new programs or designing rate structures that result in cross-subsidization among rate classes, customers who are not realizing the benefits of a particular choice can be subject to its impacts without actually making a choice.
Currently in California, CCA customers can "opt-out" from becoming a customer during the formation. Since the IOUs typically provide the billing services, the role of the CCA as service provider may be cloaked to the ratepayer. The other markets with community choice aggregation have utilized a similar structure. While there are mandatory customer contacts prior to the transfer from the IOU, many customers may not understand the ramifications.
All markets have some sort of price comparison website where customers can look at different retail service options available to them.
A state-administered neutral website, or certification of third-party websites, for customers to compare energy service options builds price transparency and facilitates customer engagement. For California, this information may be based on the Power Content Label178. As described above, there may be additional opportunities to leverage ongoing customer engagement efforts with this type of information.
Question 8: How do these choice models impact and benefit local communities?
Community energy models are emerging trends in New York and Great Britain. New York promotes REV as a source of job creation unlike other market models. Meanwhile, Illinois and Texas focus on price benefits for their customers.
CCAs have argued that having local control will yield lower rates, a greener grid, better service, more technological innovation, greater distributed resources such as BTM and more rapid response to customers' needs. Metrics need to be established to ensure that the statewide goals are met as well.
Another key element is how the disadvantaged communities will be serviced in the absence of mandated programs with costs allocated across a broad band of customers…


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God Matters: My Concern for the Black Community/
This week has been another devastating time in the Black community. God gained two more angels as we gained two more hashtags, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. (Click their names to read more news articles on both situations.)
As a blogger, I understand the importance of using my platform to bring awareness to these types of issues. However, I have been praying on what exactly to say and how to say it because people fail to realize that when you have a platform, you have to be very strategic with how you deliver your messages. Yesterday, I was led to download Periscope after not having it on my phone for awhile. Little did I know, God was about to give me the message that I needed to get out. About 30 minutes after the app downloaded, I received a notification saying that one of my favorites, Tiphani Montgomery, was broadcasting and the title was "Please Stop Announcing Your Fears and Word Curses for Your Children on Social Media!" When I say Tiphani hit the nail on the head with this broadcast, she did! (You can watch the full broadcast here.)
During her broadcast, Tiphani hit some major points that I need to share with my readers (as well as a few of my own thoughts). If you have been on social media these past few days, you have probably seen posts saying things like, "I fear for my sons and husband," or "I am scared to have sons now because they may be a hashtag," or "I may be the next hashtag." You may have even seen this picture floating around:
In her broadcast, Tiphani pointed out how people on social media have basically lost the faith. Everyone who posts these types of statements are falling into the trap of the enemy. I understand this may seem a little extreme, but think about it. If you are scared of the fact that you have a black son or husband, you are letting the devil know that he has won. You are letting God know that despite His promises, you choose to live in fear rather than in faith. True believers of God do not and will not allow the current state of America to create fear in their hearts. If we are true believers, then why are we allowing the tactics of the devil to be successfully executed? It is hard to deal with the fact that ANYONE could become the next hashtag; however, we should not give the devil what he wants. He wants us to envision our names next to a hashtag. He wants us to fear the police and to not want our families to go out into the world. He wants us to mourn the lost of our sons and husbands while they are still breathing. Instead of enjoying our time on earth with our family and loved ones, he wants us to live in fear that we may lose them to hands of a police officer. He wants us to jump on the bandwagon of the fear that nonbelievers carry. It is time for us to take back our faith and rely on the promises of the Lord in order to get through this tough time. I'm not saying it will be easy, but it is necessary if we want to see things turn around for our community. 2 Timothy 1:7 states,"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." God created a powerful and mighty people that even in the midst of adversity, stand tall on the promises of the Lord.
You Have POWER
It is time for us to denounce the spirit of the enemy and speak life into our black men and women, even ourselves. "Your words have power." I think we tend to forget the power that God has given us through our tongue. Declaring your fear for your life and the lives of others increases your chances of falling victim to the wiles of the devil. This is a serious time; a time to operate in His power and not to operate in fear. It is a time to use the authority that God has given us to declare change and freedom from the enemy.
Our battle is not against the racist police or even racist whites in general. Ephesians 6:12 says, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." This lets us know that it's not the physical beings that we are wrestling with, but it's the devil who is using these people to try to tear our community down. I know you've probably heard your grandmother say we are "soldiers in the army of the Lord." This is spiritual warfare that we are facing and God needs us to have faith in Him in order to strike down the devil. He also needs us to COME TOGETHER because an army cannot thrive without being on one accord.
Prayer WITH Action: The Absence of God
One of my main issues with this entire situation is that so many people are saying that we should "stop praying" and start taking action. What about "PRAYER WITH ACTION?" If we take God of the equation, I can guarantee that we WILL fail. We will not get anywhere if we do not consult God on what He would have us to do. During the Civil Rights Movement, our people marched the streets while PRAYING, had meet-ups while PRAYING, conducted sit-ins while PRAYING, got beat and battered while still PRAYING. They put God in everything that they did and because of that, change occurred. Did it get completely better? No. However, there was progress. Imagine if we had continued to fight for our rights while putting God first... We can yell "BLACK LIVES MATTER" until we are blue in the face, but until we acknowledge that we need God's help to save our black lives, we can forget ever seeing a complete turnaround in our country.
I also want to point out that we live in a world that is becoming so anti-God that He is becoming more and more absent in our communities, our schools, and even our churches... We live in a world where people are spending more time trying to justify their wrongdoings by twisting God's word around, than they are actually following His word. I had a thought the other day that maybe all of this is God's way of reminding us that we NEED Him. Maybe He is seeing that His people are getting so far away from Him, that He is trying to pull us back to Him. I think we forget that God gets hurt too and I can only imagine how He feels seeing His children turn against Him. Personally, I think God is shaking things up to get us to open our eyes to the real issue...the absence of His presence in our lives. I don't think God is evil and is killing His people, but I do believe that God allows certain things to happen instead of blocking them to prove a point. However, instead of realizing that this may be a wake up call for all of us, we are allowing the enemy to trap us in fear. God wants us to be bold and stand fearless against ALL OF THIS. I think we are missing the point and until we get it, things will NOT change.
What Will It Take?
I don't know all of the answers, but I do know who my God is. I do know that the ultimate answer to our issue is GOD. We don't need MLK and Malcolm X to raise up out of their graves to help us get on track; we need GOD. We don't need Obama to stay in office for a third term (even though that would be nice); we need GOD. We don't need to keep looking for the world to give us hope when we can simply hope in GOD. We need Him to guide us through all of our protests, movements, etc. We need Him to protect us and help us channel the power that He has already given us. Black lives do matter, but let's not forget that God matters too.
My Challenge to All of My Readers
During her broadcast, Tiphani challenged us all to remove any posts on our social media that were posts of fear and lost faith. I challenge you all to do the same (including all of the blank hashtag pictures, the pictures with your name behind a hashtag, fearful tweets and status updates, etc.). Cleanse your social media, your mind, and your heart from the fear that the devil is trying to instill in all of us. I challenge all of you to encourage yourself and others (especially your children), get on your knees to call on God, educate yourself on these issues, come together, take action together WITHOUT FORGETTING GOD, and be patient while the Lord does His work. We may not be able to see it now, but we're going to be alright if we just trust in Him and move when He tells us to move. The world WILL know that #BLACKLIVESMATTER.
Black Lives Matter Prayer
(author unknown)
Dearest God,
We stand before you because we must.
We stand before You because truths that should be self-evident are not so evident in our country.
And so we turn to you to breathe ever more of Your Spirit into us because we find we cannot breathe, the arms of armed forces wrapped around our throats when we call out for justice.
We call to you in defiance of of a national system that betrays our noble ideals, where tanks and blood fill our streets, where every Black man, woman, and child is twenty times likelier to be killed by police.
We shout to the Heavens with one, unified voice:
Black. Lives. Matter.
We are called by scripture to pray for the day when we will beat swords into plowshares and study war no more, when the surplus of war led by greed and deception will not spill into our streets, where swords and tanks and rubber bullets and tear gas will be beaten thinner and thinner, the iron of hatred vanishing forever. (Amichai)
We pray to you because, as our prophets have taught us: human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
We call to you, O God, because Your Image was abandoned on rainy concrete for 4 and a half hours.
We call to you, O God, because Your Spirit was choked out of a father who called out 11 times' "I can't breathe."
We raise our hands to you, knowing that the work is ours to do, black, white, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, young, old, gay, straight –
These are your images, battered by those sworn to protect and serve.
We are all responsible for what happens next.
And so we pray to You, Source of Life, raise up our eyes to see You in each other's eyes, to take risks for justice, to bring through our unified prayer today more Love and Compassion into the world.
Ignite us to combat the hidden prejudice which causes police to open fire in fear, which transforms a child in a hoodie into a hoodlum, a person into a threat.
We pray today not for calm but for righteousness to flow like a mighty river, until peace fills the earth as the waters fill the sea.
Comfort the families of all who grieve.
Strengthen us to work for a world redeemed.
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The man's death takes the State's road toll to 23 so far this year, compared to 19 at the same time last year.
The accident followed another fatality in the same area near the Gap on Saturday morning.
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"It's going to be great," Lofton said of the upcoming album. "I have really been drawing on the experiences of Jake Sisko in making this album. I think it's going to give the album a fresh flavor and explore themes not commonly done in rap albums."
Lofton's album, called Divine Intervention, features a number of tracks that he expects to be big hits. "I'm thinking the biggest hit will be the first track on the album, Main Characters Don't Always Get Screentime, Yo. It deals with feelings of abandonment and being ignored. It's really powerful." Mr. Lofton went on to give us a sampling of the track, which we have reproduced here.
Get to the room for dressing,
Read the script, it's time for stressing,
Search the text,
Is my name next?
No, it's my lines they're suppressing.
When pointed out that this was, in fact, a limerick, Lofton was unfazed. "It's experimental. I'm really wanting to push the borders of rap music."
Other tracks on Lofton's album include My Roommate Wants to Sell All My Stuff for Profit, Dad's Gotta God-Complex, Wormhole (I Just Wanna Feel You Near Me), and Stayin' Behind (Occupation mix).
Lofton said that he first became interested in rap around the time he started working on Deep Space Nine.
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News of Lofton's album created quite a stir among the other Deep Space Nine actors once we told them of it.
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Terry Farrell thought Lofton would do well to incorporate Trill themes into his album, even going so far as to propose a song, Join Wid Me. Lofton and Farrell are currently in discussions.
James Darren thought that perhaps he and Lofton could collaborate on an album that would be "a blend between Lounge and Rap." This reporter tried imagining such a combination and had to make a hasty retreat to the restroom.
Perhaps most interestingly, Lofton's announcement has inspired Academy-Award winner Louise Fletcher to create her own rap album. "I'm still in the very preliminary stages of designing the album," the actress confessed. "I currently only have the chorus of one song, The Emissary Is the Devil and Therefore Bad, but I'm going to persevere until the end." When asked when her album would hit the street, this reporter was greeted with a very familiar answer: "Soon."
Lofton's album, meanwhile, is on schedule for a September release. When asked how many albums he expected to sell since Star Trek and rap will probably never go together, Lofton simply said, "That's a wrap" and hung up on us.
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Is typically rude and blatantly blunt, preferring to be alone than with company, and as a result is described as high-strung. He has, in addition, been described as empathetic by others.
He acts upon logic and thinks from a cynical viewpoint, putting the feelings or circumstances of others aside if it benefits the task at hand and making suggestings not to help
others even if they're an ally if it hinders him or the task at hand. Added to this is that Eros is quite masochistic getting an orgasmic satisfaction from inficting pain on others physical or mental and in turn enjoys recieving pain, letting himself at times be hurt by his own will just to know how it feels
. A personality trait gained from the ideal of seeing pain as one of the most prominent human emotions and, in feeling pain making Eros human in his own twisted way.
Eros is also very ambitous
having the mentality of doing anything needed to fufill his goals even if means bribing someone, manipulating others or betraying an ally. Eros would rather have
someone else do his bidding for him as he finds it more enjoyable for himself. His most dominant trait is that Eros
is excellent in manipulating others with lies and hiding his true intentions from them putting up a facade of being kind and gentle to others to hide his true nature. Extremely
greedy as well Eros will lie, cheat and, steal to get what he desires making him an untrustable person.Even with all his negative traits Eros is not evil not wanting to kill humans but would still rather not coincide with them.
In battle, he is able
to stay relatively calm in most situations and carefully look at the situation at hand. When forced to make difficult decisions he would show himself able to make one with insightful judgement, through keen observation and analyzing. This will allow him
to almost be able to immediately determine an opponent's attack patterns and weaknesses
Born a vampire no less a pureblood vampire family, the highest rank of vampire. Eros grew to be what a "normal" pureblood's life would be. He was adored by others at a young age
and being a signle child increased his value. Eros' life was peacful for the most part brief instances
of chaos happening like escaping an assassination by a vampire hunter, where Eros never truly saw the hunter for himself as
the attacker would have been killed off long before they reached Eros. All this shattered however
Eros now in his early teens had left his home for a stroll to see the town where he had just moved with his parents. To Eros' dismay when he returned to his mansion he found his family lying dead and the house in ruin.
This event changed Eros permanently for the worse blaming humans for the deaths of his parents seeing them as the only things having the motive to do such a thing. The young vampire came to hate
humans and began to kill humans if he felt like it. This slowly earned Eros quite a reputation by hunters which saw him as serious
threat to humanity. Not caring for the danger he was making for himself Eros can be se said had baited the hunters into pursuing him. As he was confident that they
would fail in killing him. The vampire saw it as a game for which he could never lose.
Over the years Eros became feared by
all even other vampires. The other vampires saw him as trouble being a pureblood seeking vengeance may result in a war between humans and vampires. It wasn't long that
a group of vampires planned the death of Eros. Making a deal with hunters that they will help trap Eros so he may be killed. Their plan almost succeeded but Eros managed to survive badly injured but he was able to escape.
Eros passed out from blood loss and when he awoke he found himself in
a bed he did not know. The vampire was rescued by a human, a blind female human to add. She not knowing that Eros was a vampire saved him and wrapped his wounds. The woman was kind
and beautiful not fearing Eros since she did not know what Eros truly was. This kindness confused Eros not feeling the kindness of someone else since his family
had been killed. This event changed Eros a bit not longing to kill like he did in the pass. Eros left the womans house after a few days thanking her for what she had did and began to travel the world living his eternal life.
Basic Vampire Powers~
Addictive Bite: When his fangs sink into someone's skin, it causes orgasmic rapture to flood them, a heavily addictive pleasure that is extremely intense it is so powerful that the people who get bitten become easily addicted to being bitten by Eros. This bite can be called a drug as the people bitten will ask to be bitten over and over again to feel the pleasurable sensation of Eros' bite. Eros can use a persons addiction to his bite as a way to get what he wants using his bite as the prize for doing his task. What makes this ability more dangerous is that it works on other vampires as well. This power is the reason for Eros' nickname
"the pleasurable death". Heighten Emotions: More of a continuation of his addictive bite power Eros is able to heighten the emotions of someone he's bitten in the pass, being able to change a persons emotion from anger to rage making the person into a murderous killer, sadness to depression possibly forcing the person into commiting suicide and so on.
Trance: With direct eye contact, Eros can mesmerize a human or a fellow Vampire, hypnotizing them. This can keep the human or vampire in a temporary stasis. A person while "tranced" by Eros is under the control of Eros' will. Doing anything he beckons. The tranced person will not notice what they're doing while they're in this state, being more in a almost unbreakable daydream. Once Eros releases the person from his trance said person will be left with temporary short term memory loss, not remembering her or his meeting with Eros or anything they did while or before being tranced for a short period of time. Eros may do this on one person at a time, not in the way of just being able to do it on one person and then needing to release that trance to perform another trance on a different person but in the way that he needs to
trance people one by one. Trance Flash: More of a skill then an actual ability the trance flash is derived from Eros' trance power. Through direct eye-contact or the mere presence of Eros. The vampire can capture the mind of his target keeping them in a hypnotized state, where they're not aware of the things around them. While doing this Eros will seem as if he is disappearing or moving great distances in an instant. The truth is that trance flash is in reality causing the target to lose track of Eros and in turn creates the illusion of him disappearing or moving great distance in an instant. Eros is able to this on multiple people unlike his
Trance ability. Trance Sound: This ability is a higher level of Eros' normal trance however unlike the trance where eye contact is needed to perform. Eros can perform the trance by using his voice. To the target the voie will be warm and very soothing making extremely difficult to withstand because of it. This ability also allows Eros to perform it on multiple people at once. Trance sound has the same effects as Eros' Trance ability.
Object manifestation: This power allows Eros to create seemingly out of nowehere different forms of objects. Ranging from a sword to a mansion. The objects made have physical substance and will react[ to the enviroment the same way a regular object of it's kind would. Meaning if the object is a sword it will cut like a sword if it's a shield it will block things like a shield would. The objects are usually a pitch black color and an evilness radiates from them. Eros has the ability to manipulate the objects telepathically.
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Hi guys,
I'm trying to install Crazy Talk 6 for creating facial in 2D and 3D animation. It only goes halfway in the installation progress bar then just stops and exits. What seems to be the problem and is someone having the same problem? I'm on a Windows XP 64 bit system that has a 4 GB RAM and 1 GB Video Card.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28515628.post7384902673131240709..comments2019-02-15T12:30:42.733-05:00Comments on Danny Hellman Illustration Blog: Oh, The Jobs That Get Killed, Part TwoDanny Hellmanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28515628.post-37012121129999133142012-03-19T21:46:53.731-04:002012-03-19T21:46:53.731-04:00Hi Danny, Sorry to hear about the book project. I...Hi Danny,
Sorry to hear about the book project. It would have been the perfect gift for my son who graduates university this June.

Oddly, I recently made an animated "Seussian" short. While I half expected a takedown notice, it never arrived. http://youtu.be/wYczRDej2_MSteve Schnierhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28515628.post-65987948357769869762012-03-19T21:44:57.747-04:002012-03-19T21:44:57.747-04:00Hi Danny, Shame about the book. It would have bee...Hi Danny,
Shame about the book. It would have been a perfect gift for my son who graduates university in June.

Oddly, I recently made a Seussian animated short, half expecting a takedown notice to arrive at any time. Sadly, it never did. http://youtu.be/wYczRDej2_MSteve Schnierhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28515628.post-44696289583648317312012-03-19T18:22:48.957-04:002012-03-19T18:22:48.957-04:00Well, sure. There's always stupid stuff going ...Well, sure. There's always stupid stuff going on.

But the project for which these illos were produced could easily stand on its own without the Seuss angle (though it would've added immensely to the coolness level).email@example.com


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A report indicates few of Nebraska's former foster children have taken advantage of a provision in the federal health care law that makes them eligible for Medicaid.
The Affordable Care Act offers Medicaid to any foster child who ages out of the system at 18 or 19, regardless of the former foster child's income, up to age 26.
The report states that of the approximately 3,000 who would be eligible in Nebraska, only 3% have enrolled in Medicaid.
State Sen. Sue Crawford says they need the coverage.
"Insurance coverage for this population is very important for a number of reasons, not least of which is that former foster youth are more likely than their peers to suffer from chronic physical or mental health conditions," Crawford tells reporters during a news conference at the Capitol.
Crawford says former foster children need health insurance coverage.
"According to a 2012 report by the Congressional research office, 35-60% of foster children enter the child welfare system with at least one chronic physical condition, while anywhere from 50-75% of these youths are in need of mental health treatment," according to Crawford.
Akeeme Halliburton of Omaha aged out of the system at age 19. Now 21, Halliburton is covered by Medicaid and says others in his situation need health insurance coverage as well.
"Some young people aren't able to get medication they need, because they don't have the insurance," Halliburton says. "Some people get hurt and just don't go to the doctor, because, let's be honest, they're not cheap."
State legislators and officials say greater effort will be made to sign up former foster children on Medicaid.


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Last Friday the Photo Art 2nd year's Pontypool exhibitions opened to the public along with the accompanying publication distributed by the Free Press. There was a great turn out, speeches, buffets and a well-deserved pint at the end of a very busy week. Congrats to all those involved!
The exhibitions are still open over the next week and there are copies of the publication still available in various places throughout the town.


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A strained inhale to a deep exhale; high dive into the sea of grey.
A heart, a mind, a body, and pocket lay ashen for months.
A question wiggles forward, hiding truth underneath.
Whose dream was I chasing?
A strained inhale to a deep exhale; high dive into the sea of grey.
A heart, a mind, a body, and pocket lay ashen for months.
A question wiggles forward, hiding truth underneath.
Whose dream was I chasing?
Freedom is
enjoying a glass
(or two)
of red wine,
good food,
and F. Scott Fitzgerald
by yourself in a crowded bar
on a Tuesday.
Subways and crashing waves and cicadas were the soundtrack
To nights spent under trees and stars and skyscrapers
Where cold hands clutched colder hands
And Instagrammed memories seared onto my soul.
He guided me away from past associations
And led me back to my wild heart
Yet through it all we remained unable to attain
A full sense of each other as one.
And so it went
Ripped apart, a holy day,
Then loose ends tied back together.
Ancient paths lay between us and
Fate's strings led our swift birth and slow death as
We were created to destroy
Old ties and birth new beginnings and
To take one another to grand heights and new lows.
And though it is true that now
My heart is with another, his arms around one too
I still wonder if I will ever lose this taste
Of my mouth wondering why covenants cannot be broken.
My car was outwardly at rest but inwardly restless, much like its owner. I sat zoned out but contemplative and stared back at my friend, trying to find answers in her face.
I was in the midst of my third meltdown of the month. Just a year out from graduation, I quickly learned that life is hardest on the planners, the dreamers, and the idealists. What we dream and what we do are often ill matched. What our hearts need and what our minds are paid to create are too often worlds apart.
"I just don't know. I don't know anything anymore. Who I want to be, what I want to do, how this immense confusion even happened…"
Frustrated by my lack of answers and sensing the exhaustion radiating from my passenger's seat, I called it a night to put an end to the early morning existentialism. Or so I thought.
On my drive home I hugged each turn and abbreviated each stop sign; reckless enough to feel a rush, responsible enough to feel secure. When I finally calmed my engine after pulling into my parking space, the beauty of the midnight sky overshadowed my desire for a comfortable blanket and a warm bed.
Seven stately oaks line the cul-de-sac I live on and each of them takes quite the beating when autumn starts to show its face. One by one, the leaves drain themselves of their chlorophyll – changing from red to yellow to brown as the season progresses – and start their descent toward the ground. The oaks are bare by the time winter rolls around. Absolutely naked they stand and sway – bending to their limits – seemingly dead. But in their core, life is making its mark. Even in the dead of winter – the climax of their creative depression – they are growing again.
In a way, the oaks feel the manic cycles of birth much like humans do. In this Creation, everything has its season.
My cold body shuddered. I shoved my hands into pockets already weighed down with material possessions.
"Everything was created for One by One," I muttered. "I will learn something out here. I have to."
I cleared my lenses, opened my ears, expanded my lungs, and planted my feet.
"I am ready. I am listening."
I looked up to the belly of a tree. My tree. The oak I grew up with, the oak I spent many summers and seasons with. The oak that lent branches to be the arms on my snowmen, the wands to my Hermione, and the mechanisms by which I transplanted squishy garden bugs to new locations. The oak I never much appreciated, until then.
Have you ever noticed that bare tree limbs look a lot like the bronchioles in the human lung? The way they branch from the trunk, to the limbs, to the branches, and finally to the twigs. Tree branches are the bronchioles of the universe. They sway to and fro, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.
In a way, trees breathe the way humans do. In this Creation, everything is connected.
Back to the sky lit up by a three-quarter full moon. Clouds varied in intensity on the gray scale; coming and going, they changed the ambiance like a dimmer switch. As bright as the moon is, it can disappear entirely if the right shade and density of cloud comes along.
In a way, the moon's luminosity is dependent on external circumstances, much like a human's is. In this Creation, everything goes through cycles.
The sky cleared to a deep and silky navy. The stars winked flirtatiously. The moon glowed, backlit by the sun. A gust of wind, pure and crisp, rendered me breathless.
One with the expansive, infinite joy that is Creation, I whispered into the night, "Thank you."
I learned a very important lesson today: sometimes it takes nearly losing everything to make you realize you were never really fighting for any of it to begin with.
But let's rewind a bit, it's story time. Tuesday night I was talking to my dad about investing, finances, and making the jump into the stock market. The lengthy conversation ended in a hug, a quip about my savings account, and how proud my father is of me.
But the very next day that same savings account nearly disappeared as the result of terribly unwise financial undertakings. I watched my ticket to a Brooklyn apartment slip away dollar by dollar and it was all my fault. I nearly cried. But then I realized something mighty quick: I wasn't fighting tooth and nail for this supposed "dream" of mine anyway.
It is much easier to sit on the curb and gaze up at the stars wondering what it is like up in the great and vast unknown than it is to strap on an astronaut's suit and hightail it up there to see for yourself. It is much easier to wallow over a bowl of coconut milk ice cream while catching up on last night's reruns than it is to tirelessly examine yourself, forge your own path, chase down your dreams, and take an active role in writing your destiny. It is much easier to roll around in material comfort than it is to deny yourself the instant gratification. And it is much, much easier to curate a life on blogs and Pinterest boards than it is to actually create it.
Yet when you've begrudgingly settled into these easy moments, this passive existence, it takes something novel to wake you up. Let's use nearly losing the entire footing you've scraped together for your future and promptly realizing that you were never doing all that you could to make it happen as an example. When you are steps away from losing everything, you realize that it is possible that you were never truly fighting for any of it to begin with.
But then, you start.
I was in one of those moods tonight. One of those moods where the birds stop chirping and the sun crawls away slowly, hanging its head in despair in light of its recent rejection. One of those moods when you reflect too much on too little and end up dropping water from your eyes bit by bit, creating a puddle around yourself.
I was in that place tonight. That place you go willingly, but begrudgingly. That place you go whilst shuffling your feet and scratching at anything of substance to help you stay put. But you can't, you don't. You keep shuffling your way down to that place that sucks you in and spits you back out confused, hurt, and down further than you were when you were there.
I had that brain tonight. That brain when nothing makes sense and what does doesn't stick. Not there, not then. That brain where you're stuck, stuck, shuffling your feet and bumping into walls until someone comes and blasts truth at you through a microphone. Bullhorn. Siren.
I was overcome tonight by that moment. That moment when waves of sound crash over you as you stumble toward this unflattering light that burns your eyes and makes you squirm under the weight of it all. But paradoxically, warms your heart at the same time.
That moment when a truth has wiggled it's way inside your heart, your mind, and your soul. That moment when the truth has sunk its roots down so deep that half of you can feel them scratching but the other half stares numbly out at this light in disbelief.
That moment when the truth is the biggest, most obvious cliche that somehow you've managed to forget temporarily, accidentally or on purpose.
For me? The truth, that is ever so embarrassing to admit that i forgot?
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Aye. That's quite a heavy burden to acknowledge. Perhaps then, in light of this knowledge, we in fact dig our own holes. Perhaps we bury ourselves. Perhaps much of what takes away our "muchness" could be avoided if we just…focused ourselves elsewhere.
If we happened, instead, to focus our attention on what is good? On the truth. On consistency. On light. On love. On strength. On might.
Perhaps there is no perhaps at all, but rather a definitive indeed. Indeed that is what happens and indeed that is what needs to happen. But now? In light of this and that, let us journey up there instead of down into valleys and holes where we bump and shuffle along to insanity and despair.
Come along now. Come, come.
I am a bit of an oddball. I am currently sitting perched upon my bed (I should be outside), wearing half-calf grandpa socks and my glasses as a headband. I have accepted the fact that I will always be eccentric of sorts, that is just who I am I guess. But, that ideation isn't enough for me. I want a definition, a concrete idea to rest my head upon. I want a digestible phrase or two to sum everything up.
But, the trouble lies in the fact that I am constantly shifting what defines me – my outward appearances and outward perceptions. I am never satisfied with any conclusion; I am always searching.
Even when I believe I have stumbled upon an answer, or two, I keep digging. I keep looking, prying, experimenting, and exploring. I am always searching.
I am not sure that I will ever be content with what I find. Or, that I will ever really find anything at all. While it is true that all of my questions lead to answers, those answers then lead to more questions, and those questions lead to frustrations.
At which point, I throw my hands up in the air discouraged that all my life ever will be is a series of questions.
I am a researcher, a philosopher of sorts. But perhaps a more appropriate way to phrase that would be, a perpetually discontented over-thinker. I am constantly in a state of flux, changing my mind, changing my self. Voicing all of those opinions so firmly and feverishly only to change again the next day, hour or even minute.
There are never answers with me, but I always want them.


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Things are going so well, let us do nothing at all!
Our busy scene is now approaching. the quiet tract into which we are endeavoring to get, neither meddling with the affairs of other nations, nor with those of our fellow citizens, but letting them go on in their own way, will shew itself in the statement of our affairs to Congress. we have almost nothing to propose to them but 'to let things alone.'
To Joseph Priestley, November 29, 1802
Patrick Lee's Explanation
Wise leaders know the best course of action can be no action at all.
Priestley (1733-1804) was a renowned English-born scientist, philosopher and theologian. He was one of Jefferson's closest confidantes.
The "busy scene" in Jefferson's letter was the convening of the Congress for their legislative session. The "statement of our affairs" was what we now call the annual State of the Union Address. The "quiet tract" was the ongoing adoption of the republican vision for a smaller, frugal, hands-off national government focused on two priorities:
1. Staying out of other nations' business, and
2. Staying out of the lives of its citizens.
So successful had they been toward these ends, he could propose little to Congress other than to do nothing at all!
Further on in this letter, Jefferson wrote "the only speck in our horizon which can threaten anything" was the pending transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France. He was already addressing that issue in diplomacy, and its successful resolution the next year would change the course of America's future.