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Hey all, Shannon here with a new episode run down for The Secret Circle, Episode #6. To refresh your memory these are spoiler filled from the perspective of seeing just the particular episode discussed, and the episodes prior to it. Any predictions will be made from watching this (and previous) episodes, and although I have read the books by L.J. Smith that the show was based on I'm tucking away those thoughts and sticking strictly with what they say and show us in the show. Episodes 1-8 are being done retrospectively of the mid-season break, therefore no predictions will be made.
Please watch the episode first before reading to save yourself from SPOILERS for The Secret Circle: Episode #6.
Also check out episode 80 of Hexed where Suzie & I discuss this episode in depth.
Episode #6: Wake
The Circle and the town mourn the passing of Nick. And wait - new character alert! Nick's brother Jake returns to Chance Harbour for Nick's wake, and it's clear that the original circle-teens are not very happy to see him as he was quite a troublemaker and left on bad terms. It's revealed that not only is Jake a witch, but he also is running with a band witch-hunters.
General Comments
- New characters! More Family! Witch Hunters! Bad anti-witch witches! Knife fights! Omg, the only thing this episode didn't have was a pinata.
- Brutal scene between Ethan and Diana where her tells her it's too bad she's in love with his son when he's destined for another - Ethan was so matter of fact it was unnerving and you could tell it really shook Diana
- I loved how Cassie took her Jane's words on being a leader to heart as she tried to re-form the circle with Jake, and the fact that she gives him a chance even though everyone pretty much hates hime
- Nick's wake is held at The Boathouse
- Witch hunters meet on a boat
- Jake Armstrong – Nick's older brother, Cassie sees him burning something outside and then a burned crescent moon appears, Jane says he was a troubled kid, Adam hates him because he stole from Ethan. Also a witch. And a witch hunter. Loyalties definitely unclear.
- Simone - A witch hunter and 'true believer' who attacks Cassie with a crescent moon knife and wants her blood.
- Witch Hunters: Appear to be lead by guy played by JR Bourne (Teen Wolf, Stargate SGI), and there are several of them but so far no names beyond Jake and Simone have been revealed.
- Diana didn't initially remember Nick and being with her as kids and/or that they were friends
- Inference that Nick Aunt was who he stayed with
- Can tell that Nick's death is wearing on Charles
- Jake can fight, easily dodges Adam and hits him as well as takes on Simone
- Cassie kind of looks after Jake, gives him the benefit of the doubt
- Huge tension between Jake and Adam
- Obvious that Faye had a thing with Jake and it didn't end well – he says she was clingy
- Cassie tells Jake about the circle but he says he doesn't want anything to do with it
- Diana not impressed he Adam acts like Jealous boyfriend when Cassie talks to Jake
- Some tension between Melissa and Faye as Faye tells her to get over Nick when it's only been 2 days
- Melissa visits Nicks' house – she had a key
- Jake actually knows dark haired girl – Simone, and she says she followed and marked him because she hates his kind; he calls her The 'true believers' so blinded by hate they are frothing at the mouth to kill.
Diana says when she sees Adam look at Cassie she wonders if it's choice or destiny , Diana says she can't stand at the sidelines and breaks up with him.
- Oddly, Diana goes to Cassie for comfort when she breaks up with Adam saying he is her best friend and no one else really knows her
- Jane says Cassie was born with the responsibility to lead and protect her circle
- The circle if bound by bloodlines, which means Jake is part of it
- "No air for fire" – to put out fire
- burning crescent moon – ancient symbol that means 'conquest' , used to let someone who has been marked – per Jane
- Jane says not to tell Jake about the circle
- Cassie wants them to take Jake into the circle
- "Burning star, blood red eye" – Jake (eventually with Cassie), vs Simone
- Jane gives a (large) crystal to Cassie, describing it as a lens that magnifies you power
- Jane says circle magic is powerful – but it's complicated, it involves other personalities and that crystal is simpler, it's a reflection of you
- Cassie uses crystal to interfere with Simone's attack on Jack and then Jake kills her
- Nothing new
- Jane and Cassie have heart to heart on magic
- Re-iteration from Ethan that Cassie & Adam are destined for one another
- Jane says the binding not only binds the people in the circle to each other but to each others' bloodlines – witches and non witches
- Cassie's lineage goes back to the beginning of witchcraft
- Dawn says every family had a crystal
- Simone says Jake won't be able to complete the 'mission'
- Idea is introduced of scavenging a witches power at/after their death
- Nick had a brother, Jake
- Jane says the crystal is the most coveted magic there is but that it can bring out the very worse in people so says not to tell anyone
- There are witch hunters
- Jane confronts Dawn or mentions that Nick was killed by a demon
- Jake is a witch and a witch hunter, and says he is back in Chance Harbour to avenge the death of his family. He has been training with character played by JR Bourne
- Ethan says about the fire 16 years ago "That wake was at the school gym, Amelia was so distraught after Blackwell to go to the funeral" to Adam - who is Blackwell?
- Ethan 'mistakenly' calls Jake 'Nick, after he says that his brother didn't deserve what happened to him and offers to help, - Jake at the offer seems touched and surprized, but being called Nick was confusing
- "Hey neighbour" – Jake to Cassie – first thing Jake says was also the first thing that Nick said
- "I have had an outfit planned for two years for this" – Faye to
- "Just to warn you, he'll sleep with you then dump you and leave you in a million twisted pieces. But maybe that's what you are into" Faye to Cassie re: Jake
- "You guys are the closest things I've had to real friends, especially Diana" - Cassie
- "If you really knew me, you wouldn't want me to stay" – Jake to Cassie
- "You got all the answers, huh? / No. Not usually" – Jake / Cassie
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- Diana breaks up with Adam because of Cassie, and then goes to Cassie for comfort
- Jake gets grilled by JR Bourne for killing Simone, but he affirms that he was following protocoland that is there to rid Chance Harbour of witches.
Family Trees - new character: Jake Armstrong
- Blake's: Cassie / Amelia (confirmed dead) + _______ (Cassie's father is dead) / Jane
- Meade's: Diana / Charles + ______ (Diana's mother is assumed dead)
- Chamberlain's: Faye / Dawn + _____ (Faye's father is dead); Henry (dead)
- Conant': Adam, Ethan + ______ (Adam's mother - assumed dead)
- _______'s: Melissa's family: ________ + _______
- Armstrong's: Nick's (dead) + Jake Family: both parents are said to be dead
- Diana found her family's book first
- Cassie found her family's book at the end of Episode 1
Kills (6):
- Charles: 2 (Amelia, Ep 1 and Nick/Abaddon in Ep 5)
- Faye: 1-ish (Sally, Ep 2)
- Dawn: 1 (Henry, strongly inferred that she killed him Ep 2)
- Accidental: 1 (Heather hit by a car - Ep 4)
- Jake: 1 (Simone, Ep 6)
- Adam: 1 (Cassie, Ep 1)
- Dawn: 1 (Sally - with crystal, Ep 2)
- Cassie: 2 (Faye from Heather, Ep 4 and Jake, Ep 6)
- Nick: 1 (Cassie from Heather, Ep 4)
- Jane: 6 (Saved Cassie, Diana, Faye, Adam, Nick & Melissa from Melissa while possessed by Abaddon)
- Jake: 1 (Cassie from Simone)
Also check out episode 80 of Hexed where Suzie & I discuss this episode in depth including genre-loving guest star JR Bourne (Teen Wolf & Stargate SGI) and the sadness of losing Nick.


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Cut & Crease Minder - Packaging
- Recruiter
- Future Recruitment Ltd
- Location
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- Closes
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- Hours
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- Contract Type
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SCOTLAND (Please contact me for further location details)
£ Open (Depending on Experience) + Pension - My client will help towards relocation costs
Shifts: 3x 12 Hour Shifts Per Week (Days - 6:00am to 6:00pm / Nights - 6:00pm to 6:00am)
Our client is a leading international manufacturer of premium branded speciality packaging. With multi-site manufacturing capabilities in the UK, allowing them to produce a range of litho, flexo, screen and digital printed labels, leaflets and cartons.
Due to investment within the company, they are currently looking to recruit a Cut & Crease Minder to ensure their Bobst machines are running to full capacity during all production-run times whilst ensuring good quality products are produced.
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- Assist team members to ensure that the departmental targets are achieved
- Undertake buddy checks for other operators
- Complete all relevant paperwork for each job run
- Adhere to company absence and timekeeping policies
- Other reasonable tasks which may be assigned by the Team Leader
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- Minimum of 2 years' experience as a Cut & Crease Minder
- Ability to work efficiently under pressure in a fast-paced & high volume manufacturing environment
- Good understanding of processes within a print packaging environment
- Commercial aware of the cost of waste, machine performance and absenteeism etc.
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The Simple Way This Japanese Village Became The First Trash-Free City In The World.
It can be such a pain to separate plastic and paper from the rest of the trash. But if you thought you had it bad, then you certainly haven't lived in the small village of Kamikatsu in southwestern Japan. The locals here don't just have a few categories to deal with; they have 34 of them, and they have to adhere to those rules in order to separate their waste correctly. The categories are so specific that it would give many of us a headache. But the efforts of each villager have given Kamikatsu its reputation for being a zero-waste town.
The village of Kamikatsu used to burn all of their trash, but in 2003, all of that changed.
The city realized that incinerating their waste was having a detrimental effect on the environment. In fact, studies showed that waste incinerators released toxins and greenhouse gases that ultimately hurt the town's food supply.
They sought change after realizing how their waste management program was hurting the environment.
The city's primary mission was to create a program that would produce zero waste. Of course, it wasn't always easy for the townspeople to get used to this change. There were 34 categories that came from separate waste now.
It took a while for the locals to get used to this new way of managing their waste products.
The categories were really specific, like steel cans, aluminum cans, paper flyers, paper cartons. They also had to wash, sort, and then bring their trash to a processing center, where workers double check to make sure that every piece of trash goes where it's supposed to go.
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The town didn't just learn how to sort their trash, but to also recycle things they used to throw away.
Now there are places where locals create useful items using discard products, and they include turning old kimonos into teddy bears for children. The townspeople also will also hand in furniture and clothes they no longer want. In exchange, they can pick items that others have left, and it's free of charge.
Today, 80 percent of the garbage in Kamikatsu is either composted, reused, or gets recycled.
The remaining trash that can't be reused in any way, shape or form, gets sent to a landfill. Deputy chief officer of the Zero Waste Academy, Akira Sakano, continues to work with the town to ensure that it achieves its goal to become fully sustainable.
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An undercover video revealed that an auditor at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is a member of a larger cabal of socialists within the federal government that is thwarting the efforts of the Trump administration. Released by Project Veritas, a transparency advocacy group that has produced similar videos in the past, Natarajan Subramanian is seen admitting to spending most of his time on the job at the GAO advancing the cause of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) party, of which he is a member. "No one knows I spent six hours yesterday doing social media for DSA."
James O'Keefe is the founder and president of Project Veritas. In an announcement on Thursday, O'Keefe promised that the next installment may prove to provide the most damning evidence of socialist activity within the federal goverment. It will be released on Friday.
Subramanian described his party in stark terms to the undercover journalists, saying "…it's a socialist organization and we want to destroy capitalists." He added, "We have a bunch of just like communists, like no prefix, and that's basically me." The socialist Subramanian also described how his collaborators stand in the way of President Trump's agenda. "If you're in an Executive Branch agency, you can slow ball things to a degree… maybe you get fired or resign or whatever, but you slowed [Trump's agenda] down." As evidence of his dedication to the socialist cause, Subramanian said, "Do I care more about having this job, or do I care more about the [DSA] movement, and I was like… obviously the movement."
"I break rules every day… at any point I can get fired."
GAO released the following statement on the Project Veritas video: We are aware of the video and investigating the serious issues it raises, and we have also communicated with the GAO Inspector General.
— U.S. GAO (@USGAO) September 20, 2018
GAO released the following statement on the Project Veritas video: We are aware of the video and investigating the serious issues it raises, and we have also communicated with the GAO Inspector General.
This is the third in a series of videos Project Veritas has released. The groups says that it is an effort to "unmask the Deep State," which many others have said is a conspiracy within the federal government that endangers civil liberties.
Project Veritas discovered that in addition to his work for the federal government, Subramanian manages social media and communications for Metro DC DSA. Subramanian admits that he conducts tasks for the DSA during working hours at his federal job. He says, "Everything that I'm doing with DSA is stuff that I'm not supposed to be doing for work… it's explicitly prohibited. If they find out I could get in trouble, basically."
In June 2018, during Metro DC DSA's highly publicized confrontation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Subramanian admitted he secretly spent the majority of his government workday "…doing social media" for Metro DC DSA: "No one knows I spent six hours yesterday doing social media for DSA."
BUSTED: DOJ Employee Who Harassed Kirstjen Nielsen In DC Restaurant Exposed In Undercover Video https://t.co/vKxmh6Q5BI pic.twitter.com/QhqzVEl79Y
— Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) September 21, 2018
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While some of his coworkers at GAO know that Subramanian is a member of Metro DC DSA (i.e. socialists in the Washington DC area), he said that his agency superiors have not provided sufficient oversight. He said, "Management does not know. You have to be strategic about things like this."
Subramanian is also quite open about the nature of his politics, and of his colleagues in Metro DC DSA: "We have a bunch of just communists, like no prefix, and that's basically me. We [also] have some folks who are Trotskyists or Leninists." Among them is a comrade who works for the Department of Defense, Subramanian said, who works on "…war planning stuff" relating to Syria.
Subramanian appears to be aware that his political activity at work may be illegal and therefore keeps it secret. "Sometimes as a government employee, you have to keep it under wraps a little bit so you don't get into trouble and that's kind of what I try to do." Aware that he could face a reprimand if discovered, he said, "That's when I might get fired. If there's like a camera above my cubicle looking down so they can see and zoom in and see what's on my phone."
Some government employees are required to submit financial disclosure forms prior to beginning their government jobs. According to Project Veritas, Subramanian provided excerpts of his financial disclosures. He revealed that he was deliberately vague on his disclosure forms regarding his involvement with Metro DC DSA so that his employers might be less likely to understand what was disclosed. Project Veritas has published excerpts of Subramanian's disclosure forms. "I have informed them, I filed all the paperwork I needed to file, I was purposely a little bit vague about what kind of organization [Metro DC DSA] is… I wasn't like [I said], it's a socialist organization and we want to destroy capitalists."
Subramanian disclosed on the GAO form that he spends "0-10 [hours] / week" working or volunteering for Metro DC DSA, but describes the activism on tape as "…kind of like a second job." He spends, "…probably like 20 hours, 10-20 hours… depending on the week," doing Metro DC DSA work. He admits that the requirements of his GAO employment allows him plenty of free time to do DSA tasks. "There's no one looking over my shoulder. So like, a lot of times what I'll do, and this is kind of what I'm doing right now, is like I'll drink the night before, I tele-work and then I'm like, if I'm 15 minutes late to log on, no one checks."
According to Subramanian, the GAO did not fully investigate what he does for Metro DC DSA. But he believes that what he does for Metro DC DSA "…would be fireable," because "…all political activity is automatically outlawed." He says, "… I break rules every day, at any point I can get fired for what I do with DSA."
Subramanian is not the only government employee who also engages in political activity for the DSA. He revealed that "…a fair number of DSA employees are federal DSA people are federal employees… you see people from various agencies, usually executive branch."
In an interview with Laura Ingraham on Wednesday evening, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that his agency is aware of the Project Veritas investigation. In the first video released by Project Veritas, a State Department official who belongs to DSA said that fellow socialists within the federal government are resisting the Trump White House, saying that they, "Resist everything. Every level. F*** sh*t up."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "Rest assured we're aware of it and we're taking a looking at it…"
Laura Ingraham: "If they're going to be working against the administration they should go probably find another job?"
Pompeo: "Absolutely. If this is a mission on which you can't sign up for it's time to go do something else with your time."
Spero News writer Martin Barillas is a former US diplomat, who also worked as a democracy advocate and election observer in Latin America. His first novel 'Shaken Earth', is available at Amazon.
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Burnaby, June 25, 2018
Burnaby Civic Green Party Unveils Pillars of Housing Platform
In response to the Seniors-Poverty-Report-Card released on June 12 and in the face of a growing number of rezoning applications going forward that will deplete Burnaby's purpose built rental stock and displace hundreds more households in Metrotown, the Burnaby Civic Green Party is outlining its plan to preserve and enhance Burnaby's affordable housing stock and develop our neighbourhoods through authentic consultation and innovative planning policies. Joe Keithley, mayoral candidate for the party, will be available to the media on Monday,June 25 from 6-7PM at Burnaby City Hall, 4949 Canada Way.
For many in our community, home ownership is out of reach. Compared with neighbouring municipalities' aggregate home price to income ratio, Burnaby does poorly at 17.2. Coquitlam (14.3), New Westminster (11.8) and Surrey (10.9) are somewhat more affordable.
While communities like New Westminster are actively protecting their housing and Vancouver and Victoria are investing tens of millions of dollars to enhance housing stock, Burnaby has taken its hands off the steering wheel and put the development community in the driverseat. The current Mayor and Council have received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from developers in exchange for favourable planning and re-zoning decisions. These decisions have hurt hundreds of households, adding over 200 households into core housing need annually.. The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members, and Burnaby is failing its most vulnerable.
Under the current government, Burnaby has become demonstrably the most critical rental market in British Columbia and third most critical in Canada according to the Canadian Rental Housing Index . This is not simply a result of geography but a result of failed leadership and policies of all levels of government. It is also a product of the unhealthy relationship that has existed between the real estate lobby and our elected politicians. Greens have a policy of not accepting corporate donations.
In addition, even after decades in control of Council, many neighbourhood plans are incomplete, still "under review," or are in need of modernization. The people best equipped to make decisions about the future development of these neighbourhoods areneighbourhood residents. The City can and should set broad goals to ensure development of safe, sustainable and inclusive neighbourhoods, but final decisions should have neighbourhood "buy in". The current centralized planning model often excludes the stakeholders most affected and leads to an adversarial and frustrating relationship between neighbourhoods and City Hall. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that for three terms there has not been an single, independent voice to stand up for neighbourhoods or publicly question or challenge Council decisions.
If elected, a Green City Council will work cooperatively with stakeholders to put community development back into the hands of residents.
Our Three Pronged Approach
#1 PROTECT: The BGP would institute a moratorium on the demovictions in the Metrotown City Center and other vulnerable neighbourhoods, working with the planning department and community to bring forward a bold, community-centered plan where people come first , not developers. This new plan would include protecting the existing rental stock and the aspects of the neighbourhood that contribute to its character and vibrancy. It would also involve working with developers to provide comparable, truly affordable one for one rental replacement homes. This would require a full review of the Community Benefit Contribution Program with the goal to make density bonusing more transparent, more responsive to neighbourhood goals and concerns and more equitable.
#2 INVEST: The BGP will invest $10 million a year to create truly affordable housing for families and seniors. The BGP will work to get matching funds from the provincial NDP/Green and federal Liberal governments resulting in a total annual investment of $30 million; Our investment would come forth in a combination cash and land.
#3 ENGAGE: Neighbourhood consultation: The BGP would consult extensively with neighbourhoods to identify which areas would be most suitable for additional density. This would be done in a sensitive way, and only done with neighbourhood consent. We would seek to densify through logical, innovative in-fill housing that fits the character and aspirations of our neighbourhoods. A Green led council will give the community the means to re-imagine our City , enhancing neighbourhood vibrancy, connectedness and inclusivity. We would also look at expanding housing options and accommodating growth along properly serviced transportation corridors, with a goal of 20-30% of those units being dedicated to affordable rental units.
"We need to work together with all stakeholders in Burnaby to provide affordable housing for families and seniors as well. Mayor Corrigan has clearly not lifted a finger to help our citizens. The Greens will take an innovative and compassionate approach to our most urgent of issues.." Joe Keithley
Quick Facts
- According to CMHA statistics the City of Burnaby experienced a net loss of 712 purpose built rental apartments between 2010 and 2017
- The accumulated surplus for the City of Burnaby for 2017 was $4,047,407,225.
- There are 34,985 tenant households in Burnaby. 45 percent of renter households( 15743) are unaffordable.
- Over 14 percent of those households are subsidized. 2016 Census Data.
- Ownership in the City comprises 62% of tenure while 38% rent. Home ownership has declined since 2011 while renting is becoming more prevalent.
- Over $83.9 million had accumulated in Burnaby's Housing Fund (2017 SOFI).
- According to the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 42 percent of seniors who rent experience core housing need.
- 54 percent of all senior women renters living alone experience core housing need. ( Seniors-Poverty-Report-Card ).
- 45 percent of senior men living alone experience core housing need.
- On average, 218 tenant households per year have fallen into core housing need.
Burnaby Greens Housing Policy
Every person has the right to safe, healthy, secure, and affordable housing. The current Mayor and council have failed to to provide healthy, secure, and affordable housing for the people of Burnaby. Their choices have created significant quantities of un-utilized and housing units, while demolishing hundreds of affordable homes that people lived in. The mayor and council have purposefully destroyed housing affordability within our city and done absolutely nothing but make our current housing emergency far worse.
We must correct this immediately. Together we must ensure that everyone has access to affordable housing that is suited to their needs. We must stop catering to the financial interests of the wealthy, developers, and speculators, and begin to make housing for people, not money.
Immediately we will:
- Halt all demovictions and renovictions until the following conditions are met:
- The owners must work with current residents to find suitable interim housing, and allow residents to return when the project is complete at similar rates or with a limited increase the rent.
- Re-developments of existing rental housing must provide at least 10% more rental units in the new development.
- Prohibit the sale of any city-owned land, so that it can be permanently kept for affordable housing and other community benefits.
Within the first year we will:
- Initiate pro-active consultation and collaboration with all citizens to update the Official Community Plan (OCP) to reflect the desperate need for affordable housing of varied building types and forms across the city.
- Review and streamline the permitting and approval process for rental housing (social, purpose-built rental, co-op), and small-scale developments.
- Reduce or eliminate unnecessary parking requirements, especially for all forms of rental housing, that make housing needlessly more expensive for people.
- Develop a comprehensive plan to end homelessness in Burnaby within 5 years, and partner with neighbouring municipalities to create a cohesive effort to eliminate homelessness.
- Create a City Housing Agency that will partner with other organizations to create affordable social, rental, co-op, and community housing, ensuring its' viability in perpetuity.
- Establish a rental housing task force to determine how to increase our legal rental housing supply, instead of demolishing rental housing and forcing renters into illegal suites.
Within our 4-year term we will:
- Finalize an updated Official Community Plan (OCP) with full community collaboration that guarantees:
- A vibrant, healthy, and sustainable city for everyone.
- Local housing and neighbourhood retail options that encourage a healthy lifestyle, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
- Abundant active transportation and transit options.
- Alter the exclusionary zoning laws to allow for gentle infill and "missing-middle" housing that helps make our city more walkable and people-oriented.
- Implement a city-wide 10-year Strategy for Affordable Housing.
- This will be a specific plan guarantee housing in our city becomes and remains affordable for all citizens.
- Create a Sustainable Development Policy that encourages re-use of materials, minimizes waste during development, creates long-term efficiency savings for future residents, and encourages sustainable transportation choices.


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Betsy DeVos confirmed as education secretary
West Michigan will officially be represented in the Trump administration after a historic vote.
The U.S. Senate vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as President Donald Trump's education secretary required a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence.
Trump tweeted prior to the vote this morning: "Sen Dems protest to keep the failed status quo. Betsy DeVos is a reformer, and she is going to be a great Education Sec. for our kids!"
DeVos finished with 51 votes for and 50 against, including two Republicans, Maine Senator Susan Collins and Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, as Democrats spent the entire night arguing against her selection.
Collins and Murkowski voted no with concerns about how charter schools might affect rural public schools in their states, according to the Associated Press.
It was the first cabinet vote that needed the vice president to break a tie, according to The New York Times, citing a Senate historian.
DeVos received flak from both Democrats and Republicans regarding her experience in education and her work promoting charter schools. Financial conflicts of interests also played a part in the opposition to DeVos.
However, "most Republicans described her as committed and determined to put what is best for children above all else," according to The New York Times.
Thus far, six cabinet members and officials have been confirmed by the Senate. This week, several more nominees dividing the Senate are to be voted on, including Republican Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general, GOP Rep. Tom Price from Georgia as health secretary and Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary.


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Among other plans announced by the company, it will transfer its business into a digital energy solution provider to take advantage of the high growth potential in digital means of providing renewable energy more efficiently and cleanly.
The company also plans to increase its capacity for electricity generation by 100 megawatts (MW) by the end of this year.
Bundit Sapianchai, president and CEO of BCPG, a green power business focused on renewable energy, said the move to transfer its business into what it calls the digital energy field was aimed at ensuring sustainable growth in such operations over the long term. With the company as a provider of digital energy solutions, it will enable services in peer-to-peer energy trading using blockchain technology. This would create a digital energy ecosystem in the country, Bundit said.
The blockchain technology platform allows households to produce their own energy supply through roof-top solar panels.
This environmentally friendly source of energy can be put to their household needs. The householders can also distribute the solar energy to other households via blockchain as a peer-to-peer energy transaction at low cost.
This means households can gain savings of around 25 per cent per unit compared with the traditional supply of electricity from the electricity authorities in their countries.
With householders having the means to share the electricity they generate with others, governments would have less need to build more power plants.
The company's new business unit, Centre of Digital Energy (Code), will handle the digital-based distribution of energy under this business model.
The application of this blockchain technology comes from Power Ledger, an Australia-based company that provides a peer-to-peer marketplace for trading in renewable energy.
The company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) to use the blockchain-based platform for peer-to-peer energy trading.
"I think that Code will be form part of our efforts to drive the business forward in the digital world with the use of this cutting-edge technology. This enables us to provide energy management services in the digital energy era." In a related initiative, the company has joined with property developer Sansiri to develop green energy at Sansiri's 77 project. This will serve as a prototype project that uses blockchain for peer-to-peer energy trading. The company says it will be the first such project in Southeast Asia and operations are expected to start in June.
The Sansiri 77 project, as the first peer-to-peer energy trading project in the region, will make use of a 300 kilowatt hour (kWh) battery storage system and 150kW from solar panels. It will allow the 80 residents in the property development to balance their energy usage between their local grid and the main electricity grid. There is also the option to enable any excess electricity to be sold back to retailers via the network. Roof-top solar panels have been installed at Habito Mall, Bangkok Prep International School and Park Court Condominium of MK Property.
In the first stage, the project will generate green-sourced energy of 5-10 megawatts, rising to 30 megawatts later.
Regarding the company's planned Bt7 billion investment in the Smart Park industrial estate in Rayong, this will result in the building of alternative energy infrastructure. Floating solar and roof-top panel installations at the estate would be able to generate electricity of around 280 gigawatt hours (gWh) a year.
The floating solar and roof-top solar panels will cover around 2,000 rai.
The three-year project will be started by the end this year and will be finished in 2021.
Bundit said that by the end of this year it expects to generate revenue growth of around 15-20 per cent from the Bt3.7 billion posted last year. He said that the firm now a capacity in green-sourced energy of 600 MW and aims to increase this capacity by 100 MW by the end of the year.


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Just about everybody familiar with startups knows they have a reputation of being hip, exciting, and more often than not, they're at the forefront of the innovation conversation. Meanwhile, big corporations are no strangers to that conversation, but it's their participation that carries criticism. A 2013 study by Accenture found that 93% of CEOs said the long-term success of their business strategy relied on innovation, yet only 18% felt their investments in innovation were paying off. Clearly there's room for improvement.
For corporations today, it's essential to have an internal culture that promotes startup-like innovation not only for attracting talent, but also for stimulating real business growth and staying competitive. That said, innovation culture itself is not so clearly defined. What does it look like? And is it possible to build one?
What is innovation culture?
First, it's important to acknowledge that partial definitions about both innovation and culture seldom do the job in explaining how they fit together. Digital Knights places a very high emphasis on culture when evaluating software development companies, and the data collected through studying team after team has revealed that innovation culture does not come down to just one or two things. Instead, it's the blending and facilitation of a set of principles that allow groups and individuals to be experimental without the fear of failure, and to take risks while being free from added consequences.
On the whole, organizations that are innovative usually share the same set of traits:
- Innovation is encouraged at all levels with management cultivating opportunities for it to prosper.
- Traditional business models are altered to encourage collaboration.
- Time is prioritized and managed effectively.
- Processes are in place, but flexibility and agility are more important.
Management drives culture change
"Most leaders are unaware of their power to change the culture of their companies and instead find themselves imitating trends and fads. Their company's culture is created daily by what they themselves as leaders punish, recognize, celebrate, and reward. The adoption of new innovation tools will not help a company if its leadership team is still hanging onto traditional management practices." - Forbes contributor and author Tendayi Viki
Arguably, the biggest influencer on innovation culture is the management team. Innovation calls for both regular and irregular creative thinking, and managers can facilitate this by creating an environment that invites any and all roles to share ideas and pursue the good ones. One example of a large company doing this well is Google's "20% time" policy, which encourages employees to spend 20% of their work week on alternative projects that they want to tackle.
Digital Knights asked several of its approved development partners and they all agreed: If the client's management team isn't fully onboard with innovation culture and there's little room to share ideas and feedback within the company, then the failure rate of that client's projects will remain high.
All in all, the most crucial outcome of management buy-in is the adoption of this culture by the wider organization from the top down. Basically, if management doesn't take the new way of working and thinking seriously, there is very little chance the rest of the organization will.
Innovation needs to go beyond the existing business model
The company structure of most corporations is not naturally set up in an open, transparent format that is conducive for innovation. Often, reorganization is required to promote a collaborative working environment where people within the organization have an equal voice to contribute to discussions and share opinions/perspectives, regardless of their experience, time at the company, or their role.
It's already out in the open that a flat hierarchy is more favorable for creating the shared marketplace of ideas needed for an innovative culture, and according to McKinsey, "R&D leaders need to hire people who are willing to join multiple projects and to move from one to another as needed. Call them ambidextrous; call them system thinkers. These are people who want to solve problems that matter and that take them from invention to final product." This means that in a lot of cases, the hiring process also needs to be reevaluated to accommodate individuals who are adept at thinking cross-departmentally.
Time is used wisely
Many large corporations that have their hands in innovation are prone to setting up innovation hubs/garages/centers/labs separate from their main core business. Companies such as Lufthansa, Vodafone, and Thyssen Krupp have established dedicated innovation hubs, garages or labs. While this is great initiative, the sustainability becomes an issue when staff who participate in these hubs have to fit their commitment around their regular 9-5 jobs. This means they don't get the time and/or focus required to be truly effective, in addition to their likelihood to burn out. Teams within the Digital Knights network warn that this way of working poses risks to the overall project (and the budget) due to delays in communication and lack of equal commitment.
Alternatively, environments where employees are given allocated time to work in the innovation center within regular working hours have a much higher chance for success. When the focus is high and the time is ample, the overall dynamism allows solutions to arrive much quicker rather than hunting people out when needed and derailing momentum.
Flexibility needs to be a priority
An obvious and consistent barrier to corporate innovation is the bureaucratic measures, red tape, and other standard company procedures that cause significant delays to the innovation process. In order to operate in an agile way, companies must be prepared to challenge their existing methods and bypass them to stay competitive, no matter how difficult it may be. This is generally where large corporations fail because they are not up for the challenge internally. Teams within the Digital Knights network have said that a leading cause for corporate clients not moving as fast as their competitors is holding themselves up and waiting for multi-level approvals from within.
While corporations are typically large, slow moving beasts governed by strict processes, creating a culture of innovation in a corporation is still entirely possible. It hinges on management's attitude and approach, prioritization of time, and flexibility of the business structure and processes. In the end, innovation is not just about having great ideas. It's about having the freedom to come up with any idea, the encouragement to try it out, and little to stand in its way.
For more about innovation within corporations, read Speeding up innovation in a corporate environment.


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text: #461586587 / gettyimages.comThe trial of Julius Malema and his co-accused was postponed by the Polokwane High Court on Tuesday. Prosecutor Andrew Laka asked the court to postpone the trial because some counsel were not available."The case is postponed to August 3, 2015 for trial," Judge Ephraim Makgoba said.Malema and his co-accused, On-Point Engineering directors Lesiba Gwangwa and Kagisho Dichabe and two companies, On-Point Engineering and Gwama Properties, face charges of racketeering and 52 other counts, including fraud.In March, corruption charges against Malema's business associates --Selbie Manthatha, his wife Helen Moreroa and his brother Makgetsi Manthatha -- were discharged.The two brothers and Moreroa were initially charged with Malema, Gwangwa and Dichabe in September 2012.They were accused of misrepresenting themselves to the Limpopo roads and transport department, leading to a R52 million contract being awarded to On-Point Engineering.It is alleged in court papers that Malema had business ties with Gwangwa, and that Malema's Ratanang Family Trust was an indirect shareholder in On-Point. The State alleges Malema substantially benefited from the tender payment to On-Point, using it to buy a farm and a Mercedes-Benz.


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Look into Interlaken, some great mountains...Juangfrau is a must, you can ski, be pulled by dogs, Ice caves very neat... not cheap though!
thanks...any tips on transportation and food?
Interlaken is nice, but relative to the other places in Switzerland its nothing.
My wife and I are taking a trip next week to madrid for a day, then flying into zurich for 8 days. and we we were thinking of taking a train down to venice for shabbos in the middle. Any ideas of what to do while in these places? also best places to stay and eat. Ive got 80000 starwood points but want to save like 20000.
what other places in switzlerand...please enlighten me...its a once in a lifetime trip for us and we wanna make the best of it in the short time we have...
Any SPG hotels like Sheraton Davos Hotel Waldhuus or ArabellaSheraton Hotel Seehof fit that mold (of your beautiful images) or do we have to fend for ourselves?
not sure what you mean to say that the hotel fits that mold.You can have beautiful scenery but in a town, which kind of messes it up.


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If you guessed that yesterday's tease by PlayStation Europe was for a Gran Turismo Sport PS4 bundle, you were right!
Sony announced today that a limited edition GT Sport PlayStation 4 bundle is releasing alongside the game on October 18 in Europe and Australasia. It comes with a 1TB PS4 Slim featuring an exclusive Gran Turismo Sport silver faceplate, a customized silver DualShock 4 with the game's logo on the touchpad, and a Day 1 edition of the game which grants access to $250,000 in-game credits, livery sticker packs, a chrome racing helmet, and 60 PS4 avatars.
There will be several other PS4 bundles on October 18 that come with Gran Turismo Sport, including a Jet Black PS4 Pro edition, Jet Black 500GB edition, Jet Black 1TB edition, and Jet Black 1TB edition with an extra Jet Black DualShock 4. You'll also be able to buy the limited edition PS4 with a standard copy of the game.
If you just want the limited edition DualShock 4, it will be available to purchase separately.
Sony says to "check local retailers for further details regarding price and stock availability." According to GAME, the limited edition 1TB console is £299.99.
Gran Turismo Sport releases on October 17 in North America and October 18 in Europe.
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Days of Our Lives spoilers for the upcoming week reveal that Will Horton (Chandler Massey) will have a huge breakthrough and recall his first memory since being given the mystery serum by his grandmother, Dr. Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall).
According to a June 17 report by Monsters & Critics, Days of Our Lives fans will see Will finally remember something about his former life in Salem, and the memory will be triggered by his ex-husband, Sonny Kiriakis (Freddie Smith).
As Days of Our Lives viewers know, Will Horton was previously killed by Ben Weston (Robert Scott Wilson), but was brought back to life by Dr. Rolf, using a serum that was made to resurrect the dead. Will was then taken by Susan Banks (Eileen Davidson) and kept away from his family in Salem, who all believed him to be dead. However, Ben found out the truth and told everyone in Salem that Will was still alive.
After the shocking announcement, Will's mother, Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney), and some other Salem citizens set out to find Will, and they were stunned when they realized that he had no memory of his life in Salem. This mean that Will couldn't remember his parents, his husband, or even his daughter, Arianna.
Here goes nothing... #DAYS pic.twitter.com/LnM51oWtxo— Days of our Lives (@nbcdays) June 14, 2018
Eventually, Days of Our Lives fans watched as Will returned to Salem and fell in love with Paul Narita (Christopher Sean). However, now that his memory is slowing coming back, and he'll likely soon remember all of the details about his life and marriage with Sonny Kiriakis, things are not looking good for Paul.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, actor Christopher Sean is leaving Days of Our Lives, and has already finished filming. DOOL viewers are now taking the exit to mean that Will is likely soon going to remember everything about his former life and reunite with Sonny in the near future.
It seems that everything is about to change for Will, Sonny, and Paul, and that this week could be the start of a dramatic and heartbreaking new storyline for Salem's most dramatic love triangle.
This week on #DAYS: Will may be able to cure his amnesia, but at what cost? pic.twitter.com/4qFe8iY9Sl— Days of our Lives (@nbcdays) June 11, 2018
The Inquisitr reports that there seems to be much more drama to come as Sami Brady is set to return to Salem this fall, and Abigail Deveraux-DiMera (Marci Miller) will come home with shocking news of a pregnancy. However, she won't know which one of the DiMera brothers the baby belongs to.
Days of Our Lives airs weekday afternoons on NBC.


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More and more companies are learning that hosting an app in the cloud doesn't mean you can forget about infrastructure design.
If you want that application rocket to stay in the air, you've got to prepare for failure and design for resiliency. Only then do you make it to orbit.
Our Datanauts discussion today is with Tom Vachon, a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect who's going to share design insights for hosting resilient apps on Azure.
While Tom is a Microsoft employee, this isn't a sponsored show and Tom isn't speaking for the company.
We start with a definition of application resilience and how it aligns with and differs from business continuity and disaster recovery. We also examine why you need to consider resiliency even when using the cloud.
In part two, Tom and the Datanauts drill into Azure's resilience mechanisms including availability zones, availability sets, paired regions, and more. Tom shares his recommendations for when to use these mechanisms.
Part three considers the role of DNS in application resilience, addresses security issues, and examines monitoring and testing options.
Show Links:
Azure Architecture Center – Microsoft
Azure For AWS Professionals – Microsoft
Availability Checklist – Microsoft
Resiliency Checklist – Microsoft
Resiliency Checklist For Specific Azure Services – Microsoft


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How was your weekend Loyal Reader? Hopefully wherever in the world that you are, you've had a good time, enjoyed your life and haven't put yourself in hock doing it.
So this begins week 3 of this little thing called my life. If you don't know what I'm talking about then you have to go back and read some of my other posts. A recap would take just as long to type up as this post will and I just don't want to fully relive it, so I hope you understand.
In any event, let me fill you in on what's going on so that you know how I'm doing. I'm still living at my friend Ryan's house. I'm waiting for my room to become available at the one place but it seems that Ryan and his wife, Kristin, miscalculated finances and me being there has given them a little more money that they weren't sure they were going to have. In a sense I'm helping them as they help me, that is a blessing. I usually only show up to sleep and shower, I do eat with them when I get the chance but because Ryan works security and has odd hours, it doesn't happen often. It's an interesting dynamic but thankfully we don't get on each other's nerves. I may be there another week, to help them but also because that room is still up in the air. (just waiting on the one guy to move out but he's firmly ENTRENCHED…)
This weekend was a BLAST! You can not even being to know the fun that I had, well wait, you will know cause I'll tell you! Friday was a mellow night, I went over to a friend's house because she had just gotten bad news that some of her relatives had gotten into a fatal car wreck and needed some laughs, of course I'm the person to call. We went out had some food and started watching a mini series called, the 10th Kingdom. If you've never watched it, it's out on DVD and very entertaining.
Saturday night I was asked to go Glow Bowling. I don't know if this happens everywhere but here in Oregon, many of the bowling alleys shut down the lights, turn on some black lights and let you bowl for two hours, non stop for 12 dollars a head. It's a lot of fun, good music and silly times. We had a pretty big group that night.
Cast of characters:
Brandon – 25 year old guy. Gamer, mainly XBOX 360, seems okay, this is the first time that I've met him. I have to admit that he seems a little arrogant but had his good moments.
Josh – 27 year old guy, brother to Brandon, also a gamer. A LOT more mellow, the personality he carries is very much my own, tongue in cheek, catch a joke at the spur of the moment and Pendleton drinker. Excellent guy and someone that I wouldn't mind hanging with regularly.
Mandy – 20 year old girl, sister to Josh and Brandon. Tiny little thing full of piss and vinegar. I would not want to cross her on a bad day. Seems to have a nice heart and a good idea of where she wants her life to go. Second most outgoing of the three siblings.
Tommy – 22, dude. Mandy's boyfriend. This Mo-hawked guy has some ties to some not so nice people in Oregon but he struck me as genuine and I liked that about him. He drives a beat up Supra that will blow its seals if it goes past 110. (heh)
Tracey – 35, lady. I met her a week or so prior and we decided to hang out. Very nice person, funny and feisty. She's a person you want on your side, and one you'd regret to have against you.
Travis – I'm sure you've heard about him.
Jen – You've heard about her.
Me – Duh.
So we met at Brandon and Josh's house and headed over to the bowling alley from there. Now you have to know by now that I enjoy having fun. To me having fun is just as much watching a movie as it is going out to have drinks. Tracey hadn't been out in a while so we got some pints of alcohol, Skyy Vodka and Pendleton. I figured, shots for everyone who wanted it and we wouldn't spend much at the bowling alley.
Jen and Travis are always fun, especially when they've got some drinks in them. What I didn't know was that Tracey was also that way LOL.
We were there until 1am. Had a blast, we took several pictures of the event, simply because it was that fun lol.
On Sunday I went to a Softball double header. Travis is part of a beer league and we decided to give him his own little cheering section. Oregon's finally getting sun in for the summer so we had the ability to enjoy the nice weather and watch the game. I got a little darker since I don't burn and it looks good.
The fun that was had wasn't because we were blitzed, at least I wasn't. It was because we were with friends and honestly, family, that's what friends up becoming if you give them the chance. I didn't stare at my computer screen for hours on end, I enjoyed the time given to me and my friends to the hilt.
I've taken a step back from playing so much, the majority of why is because I have a social life now. Something that I haven't had in a long time. It's rejuvenating and refreshing.
I will say this though. I didn't go over to M's house once this weekend, I didn't even think about it. I won't say that it's not still a fresh wound but it is one that's scabbing over if I don't sit there and pick at it. I'm not heartless, not in the slightest. Seriously though, not having to worry about stupid non sense and what's going to happen tomorrow is enlightening. I did get a call from M this morning. She was in tears and asked why I hadn't come over during the weekend. I explained to her that I had other things to do and really hadn't dwelled on it.
At the moment she's trying to convince me to give her another chance. Now she believes that if we move out of her mom's house and have our own place that it will solve the problems that are currently plaguing us. She feels that she's seen the error of her ways and that I should give it another go.
I don't see myself doing that. You have to understand, for those of you thinking I'm evil, that making the move that I did, it really, it really took a long time for me to do. It's not something that I decided overnight or something that I came to lightly. It's about my sanity. I don't care who you are there's only SO much you can take at any given time and I went well beyond it. The fact that I had to leave for her to get the message to me, it's heartbreaking. I have to be away from her to understand just how messed up the situation is. Add to that the fact that I'd be going back without knowing for SURE what was going to happen with her. There would always be that gnawing in the back of my head that I didn't know everything, that everything could crumble again at the drop of a hat… then what would I do? I don't know that I'd have the courage to pull this off again and I know that while my friends love me and respect all my decisions, I would be doing the same thing I complain about. I would be someone who's enabling, someone who sees all the angles but doesn't have the nuts to play one.
I don't see her in the big picture at the moment. I'm sure that time has passed. I will mourn the relationship, who doesn't. I can't go back though. That's just me. As always you're willing to give me your opinion. You guys, the readers, you guys inspire me as you continue to read this blog even though it's gone well past what it used to and I appreciate all the input I get, because I know that there's different ways to handle things, people view life differently. You need that to make an educated decision. Thank you all.


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Blue Jays players were willing to alter contracts to land Santana
It was as if the Toronto Blue Jays passed around a hat, trying to collect enough money to sign free-agent right-hander Ervin Santana.
Several Jays players discussed deferring portions of their salaries to clear payroll for Santana last month, according to major league sources.
The discussions, which apparently did not progress past the conversation stage, raise new questions about the Jays' payroll flexibility for 2014.
The Jays, owned by Rogers Communications, ranked 10th in the majors with a $132.6 million Opening Day payroll, according to the Associated Press.
The imposition of a payroll limit by Rogers would make it difficult for the team to add salaries if it stays in contention. Likewise, trading high-priced players might become a priority if the team falls out of the race.
Santana, 31, declined a one-year, $14 million offer from the Jays to sign for the same terms with the Atlanta Braves on March 12. His sudden shift occurred after Braves righty Kris Medlen suffered a season-ending elbow injury, creating a desired opening with a National League contender.
Before that, the Jays' Dominican players had staged a fervent recruiting effort for Santana, who is from La Romana, Dominican Republic. At one point, the players texted a photo to Santana's cell phone, according to a source. The photo was of the players holding a sign that said, "Come to Toronto."
It is not clear whether the impetus for the talks about deferring money came from the players or from the Jays' front office. The players, however, likely would not have engaged in such discussions unless they believed the team was unable or unwilling to pay Santana $14 million.
Any deferrals would have required the approval of the players' union, which frowns upon players giving up a contractual benefit — in this case, up-front money — without receiving a benefit of comparable value in return. The players would have been paid the same amounts if they had deferred money but at later dates.
Two agents who represent Jays players said they heard from their clients about the possibility of deferrals but never were approached by general manager Alex Anthopoulos about adjusting the players' contracts.
Anthopoulos declined comment.
"I never took it that seriously," one agent said. "No way it would have ever passed the (union) unless there was some gain for the players who did that."
The Jays' payroll flexibility, though, was a topic of conversation the entire offseason.
One year after making adding numerous high-priced veterans in trades with the Miami Marlins and New York Mets, the Jays' costliest move coming off a 74-win season was the signing of free-agent catcher Dioner Navarro to a two-year, $8 million contract.
Agent Scott Boras, who represents free-agent shortstop Stephen Drew, accused Rogers in a phone interview with FOX Sports last month of withholding financial resources from the Jays' front office.
"There is no one who has the asset base of Rogers," Boras said. "It's a premium city. It's a premium owner with equity. And it's a very, very good team that with additional premium talent could become a contending team."
Boras went on to refer to the Jays as "a car with a huge engine that is impeded by a big corporate stop sign . . . a successful and committed ownership that needs to give their baseball people financial flexibility."


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Flying With DBT: Mindfulness as a Practical Skill of Life
Often we don't think that mindfulness is a practical skill. Many people still believe that mindfulness must look like a more formal meditation practice, but I've found that everyday mindfulness makes a difference in big and not-so-big ways.
This past Easter, my husband David and I were traveling from Ohio back to Texas when our flight was delayed for several hours during our layover in Atlanta. We had some dinner and then made our way to another terminal in the Atlanta airport. At one point when we had been walking for some time, I briefly stopped (David kept walking) and then realized that I had misread our ticket information and that the departure gate we wanted was still a bit of a distance ahead.
When I caught up to David, I half-joked, "I could have been been on the wrong plane!" David told me that the airlines had too many checks in place to allow to allow mistakes like that.
But then it really happened. Once we were finally seated and preparing to depart for Dallas, a woman behind us shouted, "I think I'm on the wrong plane!" The flight attendant confirmed that she was, indeed, on the wrong flight.
It was a nice reminder of how mindfulness can help us to get where we're going. But, of course, this just isn't about mindful travel. This kind of awareness can make a difference in every area of our lives—especially when it comes to creating a life worth living. In his famous 2005 Stanford University graduation speech, Steve Jobs said that throughout his adult life, he's regularly thought to himself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
None of us can begin to answer that question accurately without mindfulness and a quiet reflection about our values and what's really important to us. DBT skills have successfully helped me to get where I'm going so that I can achieve my goals for a decade now. They've made a difference in my life when other strategies and ideas have failed. I'm forever thankful for the practical application of mindfulness in my everyday life.
Are you on the correct flight today?


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Story of Beauty from Sightless Women's Perspective
On social media this week, I noticed the media praising makeup artists at a salon in San Paulo teaching blind or visually-impaired women how to do their makeup. They learned steps that any sighted person would: applying false lashes, mascara, lipstick, and more. This may sound odd to you. Why would someone who can't see themselves need to apply makeup?
Well as a sighted person, you wouldn't immediately understand. When applying makeup, a sighted woman sits in front of the mirror and judges everything she is doing based on sight. But for someone who is blind beauty is just as important, only in a different way.
Photo via National Review
In this photo, you can see braille on mascara bottles. And even though these women may not be able to see themselves or at least not clearly, they know that makeup and beauty is more than what you see in the mirror. Once you put makeup on in the morning, you likely don't stare at yourself all day. You go about your day knowing that others can see you. You go about your day feeling like you put time and effort into yourself in a way that makes you feel confident.
A few years ago the No Mirror Makeup Challenge became a popular video on YouTube. And no pun intended, but it opened my eyes. As a sighted person I struggled with knowing where I should look if not a mirror, how to apply mascara without stabbing myself in the eye, and making sure everything was well blended. It was a fun experiment. But there are so many women that do this everyday. And not only are they mirrorless, but they can't see the products or the colors they're using. So braille on makeup products seems like a reasonable addition to the beauty world. Just like captions in movies and TV for the deaf, accessibility shouldn't be so hard to find.
A video that really stuck out to me was posted on Kandee Johnson's channel. Now Kandee is a wildly popular makeup artist and has been making beauty videos on YouTube for years. She is an expert, and shared a collaboration video featuring Molly Burke, a blind YouTuber that loves beauty and fashion.
It was so fascinating to see a blind girl applying makeup everyday without seeing herself alongside a woman with sight. The struggles they each faced in the video were entertaining, but also allowed me see beauty from a different perspective.
So why would Molly Burke or blind woman take the time to focus on how they look when they can't see? Not only does Molly love beauty and fashion, and maybe even more most of us, but in that video she talks about how relearning such a visual passion was empowering after she lost her sight. Just because she could no longer see something she loved so much didn't mean she would quit it. She found a new way to love beauty. And The phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder is more than relevant here. When that beholder is blind, the eye is replaced with other senses.
I'm Blind but Still LOVE Makeup & Tattoos! Here's Why…
She offers such a refreshing and positive, yet realistic attitude towards being blind and what beauty means to her. And although every blind woman doesn't have the same opinions, Molly opening up about her experiences through makeup lessons for the blind makes sense. Women who are blind or visually-impaired should not be cut off from the beauty world. They deserve to indulge in beauty and makeup just as anyone else.
So hopefully these makeup lessons spread around the world to tell sightless women's elf-esteem and confidence. Why should sighted women have exclusivity on makeup?
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This workshop is about cultivating the MIND-BODY CONNECTION, which is the foundation of our Yoga practice. The intention is to create awareness, connection to the body, the mind, the feelings, the emotions, the breath.
The practice of Yoga is an art and science dedicate to creating a union between body, mind and spirit. The Asanas are our tool to influence and access the mind.
Workshop program:
• Bali Yoga: "The best yogi in the class is the one with the biggest smile"
90 min
Unique dynamic practice that will challenge both your body and mind.
• Break:
30 min
• Yin Yoga & Meditation: "Slow down and smell roses"
60 min
Experiences that lead you to stillness.
Workshop with Daniela Walser, visiting instructor from Austria. BIO:
Daniela Walser, born and raised in Austria. Some time ago, I decided to quit my job as a business economist and to make my passion for healthy eating and physical and mental well-being my new profession. Finally, my life in Hawaii triggered this lifestyle change. This new path that I took led me from Hawaii to Bali and finally back to Austria.
Now I am very happy to have found a way to turn my lifestyle, my passion and my talent
into my career. Balanced diet, relaxation, exercise and Yoga are what makes me feel
comfortable in my skin on a daily basis.
More information about Daniela: https://www.3-e-balance.com/english


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New York, United States
December, 1966
First psychedelic mixed media performance in the United States.
"The Illumination of Buddha" was the third part of "The Psychedelic Celebrations," the first psychedelic mixed media performance in the world by Dr. Timothy Leary, Dr. Richard Alpert, Dr. Ralph Metzner and Allen Ginsberg.
Elements such as black light, strob lights, fluorescent paint, photographic images of cellular patterns, sensory meditation, lecture-sermon-gospel, mantras and music were used to trigger "the collective unconscious" of the audience.
The dance and choreography created by Rolando Peña used recorded sound of original indigenous tribes of Venezuela. The naked bodies of the dancers were painted with fluorescent colors highlighting petroglyphs.
"The Illumination of the Buddha" was staged at the Village Theatre and was produced by Hitchcock-Balding Productions, and it was one of the most talked shows in New York among important intellectuals and celebrities during the years 1966 and 1967.


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I believe I've mentioned my fabric stash and how it has grown to ridiculous proportions. I try to only buy onsale or with a coupon, but of course that isn't always possible. I recently went shopping to pick out fabric that would be perfect for the tshirt quilt I am stuck on. $50 later I walked out with two yards each of a bunch of fun fabrics. Motivation to make progress on my works in progress!
How do you keep your fabric stash in check?


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I've not used the Knifty Knitters yet but I do use knitting machines and all the finished work has to be blocked to flatten the edges. You have to pin the item to a blocking board (fancy name for a foam covered board) in the shape it is to be finished. Do this while the item is wet and let it dry pinned in place or use a steamer to set the stitches. If you don't have a blocking board you can lay it on a sheet on a bed and pin through the layers and steam it there. I wouldn't lay a wet item on a bed that way unless you're pretty sure it will dry quickly. (11/09/2006)
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The blanket will always curl up. To prevent this, I crochet at least four inches on all sides. I use the shell stitch and this makes the edging look very elegant and lacy. (04/01/2008)
By Carolyn
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