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With only one day left till the UK selects its Eurovision 2017 contestant, we thought we'd do a bit of research and see who the bookies are favouring to win Eurovision: You Decide.
The following comes from our friends over at Eurovision World. To paraphrase the Hunger Games, are the odds in the favour of your favourite?!
Yes, the bookies have spoken and believe that Lucie Jones is one track to win tomorrow's selection with "I Will Never Give Up On You"!
Eurovision: You Decide will air on Friday 27th January on BBC 2 at 20:30 CET. Be sure to check out Eurovision Ireland's live blog as we follow the show!
Do you agree with the experts? Who do you want to represent the UK at Eurovision 2017?
Let us know what you think!
Author: James Scanlan
Source: Eurovisionworld.com
Categories: Eurovision 2017, National Selections, UK


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Guest Post by Amy Campion
We were getting ready to go to the Hortlandia Plant Sale, when Scott and I saw it. Its blossoms glowed like pure sunshine. "Oh, my God," I said. "Is that…?"
Heather nodded.
"Taraxacum officinale," Scott said breathlessly.
I realized then that Heather had been deliberately nudging us towards this spot, so we'd discover the specimen underneath her mahonia.
The French call it pissenlit, which I can only imagine means "flower of the gods." Its exquisite rosette of deeply lobed foliage was topped with half a dozen immaculate golden blooms.
I'd given up on Taraxacum and its exacting requirements years before (after killing my third pricey specimen), and a wave of jealousy coursed through me.
"Where did you get it?" I asked, as casually as I could.
"From Heronswood," Heather replied. "Dan collected it on his expedition to the Cliffs of Insanity. You know—the one where he fought the Rodents of Unusual Size and nearly died in the lightning sand."
Scott frowned. "Are you thinking of The Princess Bride?"
"I've never seen that movie," Heather said. "Anyway, you don't even want to know how he got the plants through customs."
I braced for that story, but Scott saved us. "My Taraxacum from Far Reaches is barely hanging on. What's your secret?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know. I do all the usual things," she said. "I mulch it with hemlock bark, I water it once a week, and of course, I feed it on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, like you're supposed to—with compost tea made from three-toed sloth dung."
"Right, right," Scott nodded. "Do you get your compost from Naomi's?"
"I used to, but now I make my own," Heather said, waving to the backyard, where a large cage sat in the corner. A bit of grayish fur was barely visible between the bars. "You wouldn't believe the amount of red tape I had to deal with to get Zippy!" she exclaimed. "It's like nobody in Portland had ever asked for a sloth permit."
We shook our heads in sympathy.
Heather continued, "You know, there's also been some good research out of OSU showing that Taraxacum responds to music, especially the Rolling Stones."
"I've tried that, but it doesn't seem to help," Scott said.
"Um… you're not playing any of their newer stuff, are you?" Heather asked.
"Maybe," Scott replied, looking puzzled.
Heather smiled. "Well, that's your problem then! They hate the newer stuff. It's got to be Tattoo You or older. Otherwise, you may as well be spraying Roundup on the poor thing."
I was happy that Scott may have found the solution to his problem, and I even considered giving Taraxacum a fourth try myself.
We turned to get in the car, and a flash of blue caught my eye. All along Heather's garage, a border was taken over by that scourge of the Northwest, Meconopsis betonicifolia. Their evil blue faces stared out hatefully at us. "Ugh," she said. "I dig that stuff out every year, and it keeps coming back. I have no idea how to get rid of it." Taraxacum or no Taraxacum, at least I could say that the blue menace had not yet invaded my garden.
I envied Heather no longer.

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text: Al-Assad has sent letters to UN Security Council members And President Bashar al-Assad has sent letters to UN Security Council members explaining Syria's position, ahead of a briefing to the 15-nation body on Tuesday by the German judge who wrote the report, Syrian state television reported without giving details. Detlev Mehlis's report is "full of contradictions and has distorted the truth and the facts," said the National Progressive Front, which groups eight parties headed by al-Assad's Baath. "The parties trying to harm Syria will use the political issues contained in the report ... which is based on testimony from people who lack all credibility and known for their hostility to Syria," the group said in a statement. Damascus has tried to cast doubts on the credibility of the UN report which implicates Syrian security officials in the murder since Mehlis released the results of his inquiry on Thursday at the United Nations in New York. The Front accused the UN commission headed by Mehlis of having "distorted the testimony of Syrian officials" during interviews carried out last month. It said Syria had cooperated in full with the commission, contrary to the report, which said it had cooperated only "to a limited degree" after initially hesitating to help. "All this shows that the commission of inquiry was influenced by forces which want to harm Syria, weaken it and make unfounded accusations as part of political motives linked to the plans being hatched for the region." SOURCE: AFP


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The Raider i-cuff PRO is a viewfinder sun shield/hood for prosumer camcorder viewfinders up to 9.5" in circumference. The unit attaches securely to the viewfinder via touch fastener for a personalized fit and position. The portion which touches the operator's face is covered with Ultrasuede HP chamois fabric. Crafted to the highest standards of durability and comfort, the i-cuff will withstand up to 100,000 rubs while remaining as new as the day its bought. It is also waterproof, breathable and hand made in the USA.
Large Variety of Applicable Cameras
The i-cuff PRO fits both professional camera viewfinders and the upper echelon of pro-sumer cameras also. The manufacturer claims the i-cuff will fit the following cameras:
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Communications Toolbox™ provides System objects™ and blocks for modeling generic and LTE-specific MIMO channels, and for encoding, combining, and decoding MIMO signals.
|MIMO channel block diagonalized weights
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|Encode input using orthogonal space-time block code
|Decode input using sphere decoder
|MIMO Fading Channel
|Filter input signal through MIMO multipath fading channel
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|Combine inputs for received signals and channel estimate according to orthogonal space-time block code (OSTBC)
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|Encode input message using orthogonal space-time block code (OSTBC)
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Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO)
Learn about multiple-input multiple-output features of the Communications Toolbox software.
This example shows Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems, which use multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver ends of a wireless communication system.
This example shows spatial multiplexing schemes wherein the data stream is subdivided into independent sub-streams, one for each transmit antenna employed.


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Scotland: Country of towering mountains, historic castles and glittering lochs. You would think that with the sheer amount of survival/adventure/action games that have been released over the past decades, at least some game developers' minds would have wandered off to these lush landscapes, right? Unfortunately, while you would expect numerous games to be set in the country of haggis and bagpipes, this is not really the case at all… That doesn't mean there are none, however, with a handful of very popular games either briefly visiting, or being set (almost) entirely in Scotland. Let's take a look at some of our favourite ones!
Uncharted 4
With previous locations including snow-covered mountains in China, the jungles of Borneo and a beautiful château in France, in Uncharted 4 we finally see Nathan and Sam jetting off to Scotland to visit and explore a… graveyard! Ok, they do visit a cool-looking, ruined cathedral and are on the trail of the great pirate Henry Avery, so I guess it is still quite cool!
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty is without a doubt one of the most famous shooter franchises of all time. In 2013's 'Ghosts', players can visit Scotland in one of the largest maps in the game, set in and around the fictional Serozh Castle – which was actually loosely based on the ruins of Dunnottar Castle in Stonehaven. Practicing your sniper skills amidst a ruined, abandoned castle in the Scottish highlands, how exciting!
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
One of the main characters in this first-person shooter is a tough-talking Scotsman, called Fergus Reid, whose quotes include "Shut up, lass", "you're the most lovable cunt rag I've ever laid eyes on!" and "BRING BACK MY BONNIE TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!". They also arrive at Kinloss Airfield at the very end of the game, showing the beautiful Scottish mountains for about 5 seconds. Hey, it's something right?
Tomb Raider 3: The Lost Artifact
Over the past decades, Lara Croft has practically been everywhere, so it was to be expected that she would visit the Scottish highlands at some point. In the first level of the expansion pack released in 2000 – fittingly named 'Highland Fling' – Lara learns of the existence of an artefact called the 'Hand of Rathmore' and travels to the castle of Dr. Willard in the Scottish highlands to start her investigation.
The Harry Potter games
While you could argue that the games are not necessarily set in Scotland, we all know that Harry Potter's world is largely based on Scotland (not England) and that it was used for many of the films' locations. Who else remembers the pure happiness when you got to run about the bean bonus rooms, when you managed to trace a pattern with your mouse and learned a new spell, or successfully flew through all the magic hoops when playing Quidditch?
Do you know of any other games that are set in Scotland? Or what is a great game that is set in your country?
Until next time!
The Handprint Games team


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The light sculpture Forms In Nature turns any room into a wild forest made of haunting oversized shadows.
Forms In Nature is an artwork consisting of a light source surrounded by a tense and unruly tree and root system created in a miniature sculpture. Mysterious and magical branches, bushes and gnarled trees appear on the walls and ceilings.
Interaction with the sculpture changes its impact on surroundings from lending atmosphere to a small setting, to changing entire environments of vast spaces. Intensify the brightness at the center of the sculpture to engulf the room in the unruly shadows of faces, life and the flow of consciousness. Dim the lights to invoke the feeling of a weak fire burning deep in the center of the forest. Switch off the light to experience the alluring beauty of the sculpture itself.
Forms In Nature is an artwork made of special hardened plastic powder that can withstand the heat from the light bulb and will stay bright white over time.
The components are designed with a software program by multiplying and refining original hand drawings until reaching a unique pattern. The final pieces of the sculpture is then built with a 3D printer and put together by hand.
The artists
Artists Thyra Hilden (1972, DK) and Pio Diaz, (1973, AR) created Forms in Nature as a tribute to the German artist and naturalist Ernest Haeckel (1834-1919), whose beautiful and meticulous drawings of thousands of plant and animal forms helped introduce Charles Darwin's theories to a worldwide audience. See more here


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A recent article in the Harvard Business Review challenges the conventional wisdom that wellness programs can rely on education and financial incentives to encourage employees to be good stewards of their health. The article points out that education and financial incentives, although effective to a certain extent, produce better, not optimal results. For example, the "landmark MI FREEE study, which made medications free after a heart attack, increased medication adherence from a disappointing 39% at baseline to 44% — better, but still disappointing."
To optimize results, the authors suggest combining key tenets of behavioral economics to traditional education and incentives methods. Below are two examples of how behavior economics can enhance the outcomes in wellness programs.
Example 1
"Let's say you want to improve medication adherence among your employees, the members of your pharmacy benefit plan, or your patient population (depending upon whether you are an employer, an insurer, or a provider). You start by offering an automatic prescription-refill program, but instead of a traditional opt-in program, present a required choice: (1) the inconvenience of refilling prescriptions manually each time or (2) having the refills sent automatically. This changes the architecture of the selection to that of an enhanced active choice: It highlights the disadvantages of the lesser alternative while retaining individuals' freedom to decide. When we tried this approach with CVS Caremark members, the number of people choosing automatic refills more than doubled."
Example 2
"Consider an employer who is unhappy with the completion rate for employee health-risk assessments (HRAs). Instead of merely doubling the incentive from $25 to $50, use existing groupings within the workforce and randomly pick one group each week to win at each worksite. Anyone within that group who has completed his or her HRA wins $100; if more than 80% of group members complete the HRA, each member of the group gets a $25 bonus. The odds can be structured to yield the same overall cost as the basic doubled-incentive approach, but the design harnesses the strong effects of social norms and avoidance of regret. People hate the idea that their team might be selected, other members of the team get a prize, and yet they themselves lose out because of something they didn't do that was easily within reach. The result: The HRA completion rate rose from 40% to 64%, compared with the 40% to 44% increase yielded by merely doubling the incentive."
A key lesson from behavioral economics is that the size of an incentive matters far less than how it is framed and messaged, how it travels along existing pathways of social networks, and how it connects to individuals emotionally. Here are some specific suggestions for implementation:
- Aversion to Loss – Give rewards to employees in an account they can see or a gift card that is not activated, and take it away if a given outcome is not achieved. People work harder to retain something than to earn it.
- Tangible Rewards – "Use separate checks or gift cards to deliver benefits that would normally be buried in a paystub. In short, make the smaller incentives easier to see and, therefore, more influential."
- Teams Work (When Done Correctly) – Design and implement team dynamics in a way that convert individual efforts to group achievements. By enlisting social norms, you capitalize on the most powerful of human motivators.


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April, 2018
This month's featured venue is the Sport City indoor facility in Draper, Utah. Sport City sits in the heart of Salt Lake Valley and features 80,000 square feet for premium courts and fields including two turf fields, two full size futsal courts, six volleyball courts, four basketball courts, and a fitness studio. The facility is approximately 20 minutes from downtown Salt Lake and the Salt Lake City International Airport. Sport City welcomes tournaments of all sizes, and this premier indoor sports facility has risen to become one of Salt Lake's most popular destinations for sports groups.


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Believed to be the first of its type in the UK, a brand new £1m flagship steak and lobster restaurant, The Bourgee Luxe Lounge, has just opened in Southend on Sea, boosting the regeneration of the town.
Located in Eastern Esplanade and offering affordable luxury in elegant surroundings, the new restaurant is planned as the first of a chain of 15 to 20 by its four co-owners and directors – James Welling, Celebrity Chef Mark Baumann, Dr Dominiquc Tropeano OBE and Anthony Tropeano.
"We are very proud of the completed project. We have something that we consider to be very special and will be at the forefront of the regeneration of Southend", James Welling told Premier Hospitality.
The directors chose Southend to open their flagship restaurant, because they consider it an up-and-coming town with a large amount of regeneration investment and set for a bright future.
The new restaurant has been created on the ground floor of an iconic local building which has previously been both a pub and a restaurant. The building was stripped back to shell state and was comprehensively reconfigured, including the installation of new walls, ceilings, and flooring, new electrical systems including a state-of-the-art sound system and lighting, plus two new kitchens (one for food preparation and the other for finishing) – both incorporating all the latest stainless steel equipment.
Main contractors RDD led the refurbishment alongside architects West, working to an initial concept designed by the restaurant's four directors.
The restaurant, which takes its name from the word 'bourgeois,' incorporates a reception area, pre-dinner drinks area, bar, main dining section and two kitchens.
"We saw an opportunity to create a new market for affordable luxury dining which does not exist anywhere else in the country," said James, before adding: "We have invested a lot of time and effort into creating a very special experience for our customers."
On entering the venue, diners will encounter a stunning glass foyer, incorporating a water wall. Soft piped music will herald the start of a relaxing experience as they progress into a beautifully lit sumptuous bar designed to be the heart and soul of the restaurant and featuring a huge black topped bar with an illuminated gold front, plus a wine and champagne station displaying the various brands available, together with a selection of spirits to suit all budgets.
Moving on into the dining area, luxurious dark grey carpeting adds a decadent feel, with Tom Dickson designer lighting pendants above each table, complemented by the restaurant's signature lighting scheme of 165 golf ball sized showlights arranged across the ceiling in perfect rows. The lighting and the music will subtly change to create a different ambience according to the time of day or evening. Luxurious curved linear peony-skin upholstered seating will be featured throughout.
"From the moment diners walk in to the restaurant to the moment they walk out, we want them to have a great experience," said James.
"We created the concept of this restaurant specialising in steak and lobster because beef is still the most requested menu item in the country and lobster because it was previously regarded as the food of the wealthy and we are making it affordable. We have put a lot of time and effort into providing four key things for our customers. These include a beautiful, relaxing, comfortable venue designed to be appealing to all, and a quality product with the beef being sourced from Northern Spain which is regarded as producing the best in the world, together with fresh UK coastal lobster which is considered to have the best flavour. Also key to the concept is superb, unfussy service and sensible, affordable prices making our top level dining experience available to everyone," he added.
The history of the Bourgee Restaurants concept began in 2013, when the directors took their passion for unrivalled quality of food and beverage coupled with exceptional service and unbeatable value and identified a gap in the marketplace to provide their customers with all of these components – always set in exquisite surroundings. Having travelled the world to secure the highest quality products and cooking methods available, the directors then set out to combine all of these concepts.
With all the directors' roots firmly placed in Essex, naturally the county is where the brand began. Product quality, consistency and service always have been – and always will be – at the heart of the business in which highly trained and efficient teams deliver consistently top class products and service.
"With a renowned Great British Master Chef designing all of our menus and a leadership team who have served over a million customers every year for over 30 years – Bourgee has an incredibly diverse and proven track record in both the fine dining and mass catering markets. In short, we think we know exactly what people want, expect and deserve when it comes to food and drink," said James.
Diners as Bourgee can look forward to a menu including Snap crackle and pop lobster bisque; lobster bites with caramelised onion, garlic butter and grilled cheese and Bourgee lobster – a whole split lobster for two to share, weighing 1.25lb (prepared) served with cheese sauce, shallots and woodland mushrooms and priced at £29.50. Also on offer is Tempura of lobster tail, with mushy pea purée and chilli ginger dipping sauce, served with skinny fries.
For the beef menu, steaks are cooked to perfection in the restaurant's charcoal Josper oven, delivering a unique taste. These include New York strip off the bone; Rib off the bone; Fillet, and Tomahawk on the bone (for two).
Then come the sweet treats such as mini chocolate doughnuts with cinnamon sugar, vanilla whipped cream and chocolate crème de leche sauce; warm cherry clafoutis with clotted cream and apple tart with caramel and vanilla ice cream.
"This quality of product would be double the price in London," said James.
He added: "We have had a tremendous response in interest so far from the public."
A second Bourgee Restaurant is planned to be launched in Billericay in 2015, with rapid expansion of the chain expected to progress from then quite rapidly.
Bourgee aims to be an established and highly recommended UK and International restaurant chain – backed up not only by the people behind it but their new concept in dining, offering quality produce and affordable luxury that can be accessed by all.
Dawson Design Projects
Dawson Design Projects specialise in the design and supply of commercial kitchens bars and restaurants. They are the experts at taking empty shells, undertaking fit out projects and transforming them into amazing open restaurants. In operation since 2009 Dawson Design Projects has worked for a number of high profile clients, undertaking projects at the two Michelin star Midsummer House, The Roka Group, Pied a Terre, and The Dorchester.
Most recently the firm has been involved in Bourgee, meeting Directors Mark and James at the beginning of 2014 to go through their brief. Dawson Design Projects designed the back of house preparation kitchen, the front of house service kitchen, the bar, as well as providing all of the mechanical, ventilation and extraction systems for the kitchens and front of house facilities.
Premier Hospitality caught up with Reg Dawson, Managing Director, to find out what made this project exciting to be involved with:
"We pride ourselves in understanding the client's requirements, designing what they need within their budget and providing them with the best products on the market.
"Bourgee is a brand which is very different to so many other restaurants out there; Mark and James have a great idea that meant they wanted more from their kitchen than most. The food preparation and cooking techniques required specialise equipment and our involvement from the outset made this achievable. On top of that their ideas for the restaurant and bar were innovative; working with them has been both a challenge and a pleasure."


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I was always amazed when i was a kid when i would see some newscast of some man ready to be put to death and the obligatory interview of the man's mother would flash across the screen. You could tell there was anguish in the mothers face, but never one of disgust so much for what their child had become, but for the love lost that the mother seemed to feel, not for herself, but for the child that had lost love for life, for humanity at-large.
The sadness, for the most part, was a sadness for love, then. It was never self-centered in that it was not a "why could you do this to me," as often times love is, but a sense of sadness on the beauty of the missed opportunities that this person will not be a part of.
They say that other than the love God has for his creation, that the love of a mother is the closest thing we get to unconditional love.
I can see that point, however, i don't agree with it as we are all capable. Yes, men, we are creatures born of love, and are capable of a love as deep and resounding, true unconditional love, as any one else.
In my years as a director, i was often amazed as to the ways a production came together when the cast and crew generally had a genuine love and respect for one another. It seemed as if one person came in with an attitude of being the star, then the play suffered. My directing, then, was as much breeding the egoic nature of performing out, while bringing the love of the art of the production into every performance.
Ask any sports coach of a professional team, which i have, and, in their own way, they will tell you the same thing. Multimillion dollar salaries come with an egoic price that sometimes destroys a team. They are, then, the true coaching opportunities.
My point in all of this: Ego and Love are Never Pals.
In this culture of throw-away relationships and throw-away marriages, love has taken a beating and it seems that we have forgotten the truth of love. The very fact that we know of unconditional love, means it exists. Love, then, has just become a muddled mess and used by the ego as a tool, a weapon and a way to advance the ego's right to exist; to protect us from whatever.
While i am not an avid sports fan, i once had someone who was explain the relationship of men to sports. "Men," he told me, "love sports because the beauty of the game (whatever the sport is) never lets them down. Yes, it (love) usually is directed as an allegiance to a team, but it is the essence of the statistics, to a degree, the nature of the game, that they love. The game itself never truly lets them down, it is only the nature of the performance of the individuals. They can love the game because the game is an unconditional love, of sorts."
I can understand the emotion of that sentiment as a theatrical director. I would always tell my actors at the beginning of the rehearsals that "the play is the thing" meaning that, no matter what each brought to the table in terms of talent, it is the play that is being served by that talent and then served to the masses.
Such is the nature of love. When love is the thing, we bring who we are to love and if there is any reordering of that sequence, you need to see if the ego is the thing.
Unconditional Love – 3 Ways to Release the Ego's Hold on Love
Step 1: Release all past hurts in love; Forgive
Enough can not be said of this aspect of living in general; the very art of forgiving. Yes, it is an art but, like love, it has been bastardized that even the word itself means so little. It is like when you were a kid and your mother or father told you to say you were sorry to a sibling. You said it, not so much that you were, but to appease the guardian so as to not inflict wrath for not at least acting as much.
The ego then uses that throughout life and gives you the idea that you have forgiven those as needed, as a way to appease. Look, as far as relationships go, the only one that has "worked" is the one you are in, right? Unless, you have been with one person only, and have never had any other feelings for anyone else, everyone has "failed" at most every relationship.
Now, the point here is that the very terms of "worked" and "failed" are egoic terms used to keep you tied to the past and looking to some future relationship that serves only the ego.
All relationships are put here to give us a sense of humanity. If they are life-long journeys, or brief encounters, they teach us, they guide us, they are us. Forgive the relationships that the ego has tried to hold you in within time and understand that everyone is on their own journey.
Release the ego's hold on all of the past relationships and truly forgive.
Step 2: Understand that Love is its Own Energy
Some would be confused by that statement as the ego, once again, thinks it directs all aspects of love. I think it is best explained this way; Have you ever moved from a house you lived in for a long period of time? Did you go back one more time and go through it just to reminisce?
Most have.
The point is that the house is just a shell, what gave it the energy were the souls of love that inhabited and shared a truth of love within it. The house becomes, in a sense, the unconditional love. It is a safe place, a place of comfort.
That is the basis for the expression, "Home is where the heart is." When we see someone that society has deemed "homeless", it is not so much that they don't have a physical structure, but a place where they feel a sense of unconditional love. This is true homelessness.
When you truly understand that love is its own energy, you move on to Step 3.
Step 3: The 100% Solution
The ego always tells you that there is an essence of love that expects something in return and the sad thing is that we have come to believe it. It is like when you receive a gift and the gift seems to have strings attached. Like when your loved one gives you something and then admonishes you if you don't use it as the ego intends.
Then it is not really a gift, is it?
We have all probably done it; given something and expected them to like it and use it and feel offended if it is not. If you give someone an article of clothing and they turn around and throw it away or give it immediately to someone else, while in front of you, then it should not offend you in any way.
Sounds hard does it not? But the real question is why are you offended? The moment you gave the gift, you should be practicing the 100% Solution; the release of 100% of love and the expectation of nothing in return.
Trust me, i have heard it all here; "I don't want to be a doormat." "I won't ever be appreciated", "I'll be taken advantage of" or whatever else the ego uses to protect you.
But a great quote from Thomas Kimpas reads, "He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."
The 100% Solution is simply giving with all that you are and don't expect anything in return. Give 100% and, when you truly reach that in any relationship, with life, you shall be released of any egoic tendencies to insulate or protect yourself from love.
But, instead you simply become love.
Forgive, Accept the Energy of Love and Become the 100% Solution for there you will find yourself.
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DA Southern is a Strategic Life Coach, teaching the spirit of living in Now Moments with the principles he experienced during over 35 years as an actor and director in live theatre. DA coaches his clients to rid life of limiting beliefs that have kept them from achieving miracles in all areas of their life by embracing Mindfulness of the Present Moment with a renewed Vision for life. Contact DA Southern for coaching @ firstname.lastname@example.com


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Thermaltake 520W model is stable even when overclocking the CPU to 2.5GHz from standard 1.8GHz and accordingly adjusting voltages. The only potential problem I noted is the whole PowerStation device "thing" I have nothing against flexibility and benefits coming from innovative components such as this one, but in the long run it plays too much of a decisive factor with this product.
Thermaltake is a well know company among enthusiasts. It was founded back in 1999. Their success started with manufacturing high-end CPU HSFs and case accessories. The most memorable cooler was the Golden ORB available for both Intel and AMD platforms. The introduction of PC cases, power supply units and liquid cooling systems gave the company a nice head start in the market.
2004 – Restructure of the company in correspondence to the global scale it has grown into: reorganization of patent, channel, chassis, power supplier & computer accessories, and industrial design departments to strengthen organizational management and reinforce our commitment to research and development. Designs cooler for the heat-conducting pipe to the specification of desktop Silent Tower and four other types of CPU. Manufactures fanless power supplier with Fanless PSU. Unveils Tsunami chassis, incorporating the mirror bake-coating technology and a transparent, see-through side-window. Designs 12CM, applying low-noise liquid cooler Big Water which receives AMD's outstanding partner award. Size of net capital now grows to NT 75 million while the cash capital increases to NT 255 million.
Today, Thermaltake is a leader in supplying high-quality PC accessories, chassis and other components. If you want to feast your eyes on something fresh from Tt, make sure you check out our PowerColor X800 GT EVO review sporting TideWater Liquid Cooling System.
Power supplies play a crucial part in how our computers operate. Number of Watts a power box has will not make your computer more stable — as long as you don't overload your system. What many motherboard manufacturers require now are stricter voltage / Amps requirements on all rails rather than exuberant Wattage.
Today I will be looking at Thermaltake's Pure Power PowerStation 520W modular PSU. This is a new product from the company, designed mainly with flexibility in mind.
Features & Specifications
From technical point of view Thermaltake's Power Station is well equipped. Modular design gives it plenty of flexibility. Modding communities will also adhere to the looks of the PSU and Power Station. Cable management is an important factor considering we want as little clutter as possible. Let's take a peak at the features:
- The ingenious Modularized Cable Management and Power Station that allows you to arrange cables easier and smarter.
- 5.25" P.S.T fits any 5.25" driver bay and offer various connectors for all peripheral devices.
- Mini P.S.T offers convenient output for devices and accessories at various location.
- Blue LED around 5.25" P.S.T socket to illuminate your system.
- Rubber Sleeved Cable increase air flow and decrease clutter inside the chassis.
- Active PFC, improve energy efficiency and reduce current load on AC delivery systems.
- Protections against Over Power, Short-Circuit, Over-current, Overload, and Over-temperature.
- Safety / EMI Approvals: CE, CB, TUV, FCC, UL, CSA, and CUL certification (For Active PFC). FCC, UL, CUL, CSA certification (For Non PFC)
- Dual 6-pin PCI-Express connectors for High-end VGA card.
- Supports NVIDIA SLI and Dual PCI-E video card setup
PurePower 520W comes with abundance of different cables. Another great feature is Active PFC (Power Factor Correction). Whether you're in Europe or United States this PSU will work without a hitch.
+3.3v (30A), +5v (30A), +12v1 (15A), +12v2 (15A), -12v (0.3A), +5VSB (2.0A)
Peak Load: 550W, +5v and +3.3v rails max out at 200W
Here are detailed specifications of PowerStation 520W:
|Maximum Power
|ATX Logic on-off additional power rocker switch(115/230 V selector switch)
(Power Factor Correction)
|Active PFC
|Cooling System
Blue LED 12 cm Fan:
|17dB at 1300 RPM
|P. G. Signal
|Over Voltage Protection recycle AC to reset
| +5V trip point < +7.0V
+3.3V trip point < +4.5V
+12V trip point <+15.6V
|Unit Size
|Net Weight
|1.8 kg
|Input Voltage
|Input Frequency Range
|47 ~ 63 Hz
|Input Current
|Hold-up Time
|> 70%
Voltage is switched automatically depending on what you have in your wall socket, either 115 or 230V — no need for additional switches, neat right? The PSU features 120 mm fan rocking at ~2000 RPM, automatically controlled by temperature. In case of a short cirtuit, Thermaltake's PSU will kick in with Over Voltage Protection temporarily shutting down power to all of the components. It's designed to protect all your computer peripherals currently connected to the power house.
Let's have a look at the package and the inside. Thermaltake Power Station 520W comes in a nicely designed box as seen below.
bundled cables
4 pin 1 to 3 / 4 pin long (mini PST)
4 pin short / floppy cable
PCI-e / power cable (PSU->PST)
SATA cable
Let's have a look at the power box itself.
External Looks & Installation
Now that we have the bundle behind us, let me concentrate on the power house itself. This is a standard ATX 2.0 power supply but with bells and whistles. Keep on reading if you want to know what I mean by that…
Braided power cables from a close up. Very sturdy solution. No more cable tanglements. Better case ventilation.
Installation procedure was standard, though we had to wait for replacement unit. The PST device was damaged, giving us no power at all (neither 3.3v, 5v or 12v):
Below is test bed configuration used throughout our reviewing procedures:
|– DFI NF4 Ultra-D
– Athlon64 3000+ Venice
– 2x256MB Corsair PC3200LLP (Dual Channel)
– Thermaltake PurePower 520W
– Channel Well 420 Watt PSU
– PowerColor X800 XL 512 MB
|– Windows XP SP2
– DirectX 9.0c
– nForce4 6.53 drivers
|Tools used
|– 3DMark 2005 v1.2.0 (GT 1 looped 3 times)
– Digital Multimeter for voltage measurement
|CPU clocked at 1.8GHz (idle/load) and 2.5GHz (idle OC/load OC)
Testing & Conclusion
For a lot of the readers, this is probably the most important part of any product review: testing and performance under different kinds of working environments. The tolarance level for most PSUs nowadays is +/- 5% from the nominal voltage. With that in mind I recorded minimum, maximum and average rail values (both idle, loaded and overclocked states).
Thermaltake's PurePower PSU performs marvelously when system is in idle/loaded and overclocked state. Voltages do not fluctuate as seen with Channel Well PSU. Overclocking the processor to 2.5GHz @ 1.475v (default 1.8GHz) gives us tag higher voltages, but the tolarance level is still within +/- 5 percent range.
In a nutshell, Thermaltake's modular PSU is a good performer in its 500 class. Although I wasn't able to overload this power supply (not even getting close to 500 Watts), it's obvious — this Thermaltake 520W model is stable even when overclocking the CPU to 2.5GHz from standard 1.8GHz and accordingly adjusting voltages. The only potential problem I noted is the whole PowerStation device "thing" I have nothing against flexibility and benefits coming from innovative components such as this one, but in the long run it plays too much of a decisive factor with this product.
As I understand, Thermaltake wants clearer product diversification and that certainly is a big plus. The whole idea of PST / mini PST is to ease one's cable management experience and make it as pleasurable as possible. As for price, Thermaltake PowerStation 520W is available for as low as $132 over at TheNerds
A handy tool — multimeter + Tt PowerStation 520W PSU inside
+ Stable
+ Flexible design
+ Modular cable management
+ Dual 12v rails
+ Good Amp delivery across all rails
+ SLI / Dual PCI-e ready
– Unworkable without PST module
– Power Station device is too long
– Might seem a bit pricey


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Sherlock creator Steven Moffat has said the future of the BBC show is uncertain as he does not want to it going "past its natural term".
The fourth series of the detective drama, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, is currently airing on BBC1.
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Sherlock has been a ratings hit for the BBC and Moffat said everybody involved with the programme knows how special it is.
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Sometimes people take things way too seriously.
For example?
When I was doing my 500 hours of yoga teacher training a few years ago, I took my iced latte to class in a pint glass. My reusable mugs were all in the dishwasher, so I just grabbed the closest glass that was the right size. It just happened to be a Brooklyn Lager pint glass. When I was in the bathroom I overheard a few other yogis talking about how inappropriate it was.
I didn't say anything but thought, "Get over yourselves, people. It's a cup. With some letters on it. It's the only clean thing of sufficient size in my kitchen."
Sure, I'm guilty of taking MYSELF too seriously sometimes too. (OK, maybe more than sometimes.) We all are. But I think it's important to cut ourselves – and others – some slack from time to time.
Can't we just pour our lattes into beer cups and dance to Fujiya and Miyagi in our kitchens? Why does everything have to be sooooo serious all of the time?
If you're wondering what made me think of this today, it's because I poured my spinach smoothie into this glass.
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When Robin Williams committed suicide, I was confronted by the realization that even the happiest looking guy could be disintegrating deep inside.
Reading further about his case, I got interested on the subject of mental health and suicide, and the importance of a support group for people silently battling depressions. This led to special focus on the role of social media in suicide prevention, particularly in status updates and suicide risks.
An entry by Elana Premack Sandler in her Can Social Media Help Prevent Suicide?, Psychology Today emphasized the important relationship between suicide and social media.
The most compelling stories I've heard are of Abraham Biggs and Paul Zolezzi, two young men who utilized social media during their suicide attempts and completions. Biggs, a college student, broadcast his suicide attempt over the Internet, where countless numbers of people watched him die by poisoning. Zolezzi, an aspiring model and actor, updated his Facebook status message with an apparent suicide note, and then died by suffocation later that day.
It's fascinating to me that these two individuals chose these ways to reach out, but even more riveting that almost no one responded to their cries for help.
Today, I decided to prove this first-hand by doing a social experiment on my own Facebook wall.
I posted a series of status updates and pictures that gave subtle hints that I am battling depression and contemplating suicide. My goal is to see how my friends will pick the hints, and if someone will actually exert effort to "reach out". This is not being done to test my friends, but to assess online behaviors and how social media can be an effective means of suicide prevention. (Note: My sincere apologies to friends and relatives for freaking them out and making them worried. But your responses make my heart overflow with joy. Thanks for your concern).
Below is the chronology of events:
My first update was clocked at 1:14 PM (GMT+8) on a Sunday afternoon when most of my friends will be on a weekend off and presumably online.
14 minutes later, I posted another "more obvious" hint. At that point, I have more than 50 friends online.
Another 14 minutes later, I shared an emo picture message.
Later I changed my profile picture.
At that point I started getting private messages from worried friends (and fans?). I have to stop coz I'm freaking them out.
Here are some note-worthy observations from the experiment:
- Ranting and other negative emotions have become the norms in the social media, making the Internet a big "dump-site" of negativity.
- Daily exposure to ranting and other negative comments in the social media, lowers our sensitivity threshold and eventually desensitizes the human heart's ability to be empathic.
- As a by-product, most people chose to ignore dramatic tweets and negative/emotional status updates in their Facebook News feed.
- Christians are not immune to depression and suicide. The death of Rick Warren's son sent a strong message about this fact.
- Researchers found that 54 percent of Americans said churches should do more to prevent suicide,
- This is a wake up call for Christians. How are we responding as beacons of hope?
- FACT: It has generally been found that those who post suicide notes online tend to not receive help.
- We all want someone to listen, and yet most of us are not willing to lend an ear.
- [UPDATED] There is a technical loophole: We CANNOT control how Facebook displays our status updates in the News feed of other people. I got word from some of friends that my status posts were displayed on their News feeds only the following day. So if a suicidal guy posted on FB in hopes that someone would convince him not to do the act, then he's good as dead. Twitter is more real-time.
Depression is a stealth and slow killer. Before it kills the body, it first kills the will. It paralyzes the soul.
Depression does not discriminate. men and women of every age, educational level, and social and economic background suffer from depression.
The idea of committing suicide, however, doesn't happen overnight. In most cases, the person goes through a mental "tug of war". During this phase, some of the sufferers may "cry for help" through their social media accounts, while others may not be too expressive and simply leave a subtle hint. This is a very crucial point in the life of a person suffering from depression; so crucial that our timely response — or the lack of it — may be the difference between life and death.
However, we are in the the digital age where self-promotion, combined with the usual drama in social media, adversely affects our ability to recognize genuine but subtle "distress calls".
What do we do next?
Preventing suicide through social media is everyone's responsibility. Regardless of religious background. We cannot stop the "eternal pessimist" from pouring her heart out and ranting at everything, but we can prevent unnecessary lost of lives by simply "being there".
When interacting online, it is important to remember:
- Behind every Twitter handle and Facebook profile is a real person.
- Status updates and tweets often have deeper meanings and could be a distress signal. Be on the look out for hints of depression.
- Assume all hints of suicide as real warning signs, especially if there is consistency in the theme of depression and/or suicide. (e.g. a series of posts or jokes with constant theme)
- Most importantly: REACH OUT.
From a Christian standpoint, this is a major wake-up call. We are in the dying world, the flood of "emo posts" in our News Feed shows that more and more people are desperately seeking for help at the wrong places. As Ambassadors of Christ, how are we pointing them to the Prince of Peace? Or are we too "fed up" with all negativity, that we choose to shut out ourselves from the world and enjoy our nice little Christian walks?
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. — 1 John 3:18 New International Version (NIV)
Make a stand against depression and suicide.
If you care enough, share this to raise awareness.
This is not as crazy as pouring ice on your head, but it could also save a life.
Although it is not part of the objective, the affirmation that I have a strong support system and accountability group of supportive friends is awesome. Special thanks to my friends who sent me private messages and other words of encouragement. Sorry for making you worried.
Harnessing New and Social Media to Prevent Suicide, Defense Centers of Excellence, January 22, 2010


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Born June 25, 1906; died Feb. 6, 1965. in Prague. Czechoslovak historian. Corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1952).
Husa became a professor at Charles University in Prague in 1948. His principal works are on the economic, social, and cultural history of Czechoslovakia and the theoretical issues of historical science.
WORKSTomáš Müntzer a Čechy. Prague, 1957.
Epochy Českych déjin [2nd ed.]. Prague, 1949.
In Russian translation:
Istoriia Chekhoslovakii. Prague, 1963.
REFERENCESUdali'tsov, I. I. "Pamiati V. Gusy." Sovetskoe slavianovedenie, 1965, no. 2, p. 127.
Fiala, Z. "Za Václavem Huson." Československy Časopis historicky. 1965, no. 2, pp. 323–25.


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Vice-President of the German Bundestag visited GUtech
HALBAN The Vice-President of the German Bundestag (Parliament), H.E. Thomas Oppermann, and his accompanying delegation visited GUtech in the afternoon. The delegation who is currently on a three day visit to Oman included MP Christian Lange, Parliamentary State Secretary, MP Stefan Liebich and MP Katja Suding, all members of the German Bundestag. The delegation was accompanied by the Ambassador of Germany to the Sultanate of Oman, H.E. Thomas F. Schneider, the Frist Counsellor Joachim Düster from the German Embassy and Counsellor Ingo Schendel, interpreter at the German Embassy in Riyadh. The Vice-President and his delegation was welcomed by the Rector of GUtech, Prof. Dr. Ing. Michael Modigell, who introduced the university and spoke about its development within the past eleven years.
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Since the 1960s, Mennonite novels and poetry have graced the Canadian literary scene. Writers such as Rudy Wiebe, Miriam Toews, Sarah Klassen, and Patrick Friesen, to name just a few, are well-known within and beyond Mennonite circles. Aside from the numerous published books of prose and poetry, there are now academic departments dedicated to the study of this phenomenon, journals, websites and conferences focusing on Mennonite writing, and the Mennonite literary magazine Rhubarb. To continue in the spirit of back-to-school, I thought I'd bring up this topic.
I've been interested in Mennonite literature for a long time, and even had the chance to take a course on the subject a few years ago with Professor Hildi Froese Tiessen at Conrad Grebel University College. During that course, one of the major issues that struck me with particular force is the often-rocky relationship between Mennonite literature and Mennonite theology. Writer after writer describes the church as a rigid, constraining environment, which rejected and tried to squelch his or her creativity. The portrayal of pastors and church leaders is significantly less than complimentary in many poems and novels. The contradictions and hypocrisy within Mennonite communities are recounted in great detail. Many writers seem grateful to have left the Mennonite world – especially the church – behind them. Along these lines, Maurice Mierau can describe a writer as someone "making art out of one's own experience and history, even when that history is different from the official version of propaganda and pulpit." He even goes so far as to speak of Mennonite writing as "post-colonial" in that it overcomes the Mennonite tendency of "colonizing themselves" ("Why Rudy Wiebe is not the Last Mennonite Writer," pp. 71, 75-6). These are fairly harsh words.
I don't doubt that these sentiments stem from actual personal experiences with the historic Mennonite church and community, which is truly tragic. To force people to choose between their faith community and their creative gift and vocation is incredibly cruel, and understandably traumatic. So the recounting of these stories, while difficult, raises some valuable and necessary questions about certain aspects of Mennonite community, practices, and traditions, and can potentially lead to self-critique and reform within the Mennonite church.
But what is equally tragic is the way in which writers who have left or been pushed out of the church are so dismissive of Mennonite theology (so "Mennonite" is understood predominantly as the Germanic cultural/ethnic sense). As a theology student, I sense an absence in much Mennonite literature, where reflections on faith consist in little more than a passing reference to a Bible verse. In my view, this guts Mennonite culture, leaving a hollowed-out shell without the crucial core of Mennonite faith. There are exceptions, of course, such as Rudy Wiebe's The Blue Mountains of China, which was greatly influenced by John Howard Yoder's peace theology (see this article), but in many cases, there is little depth to what writers have to say about theology, if they say anything at all.
So why is this? I suspect that part of it is that it's fashionable for secular artists and intellectuals to look down on religion, without fully understanding religious worldviews. But part of it is also that many writers have not had contact with the church since the 1960s, so they assume, as reflected in their writing, that nothing has changed within the Mennonite church since then. But my experience growing up in the Mennonite church bears no resemblance to the descriptions of hierarchical communities which excommunicate anyone showing evidence of independent thought, as in Miriam Toews' A Complicated Kindness, one of the most widely-read "Mennonite" novels. I grew up going to Mennonite schools and later universities which encouraged intellectual and artistic creativity – precisely because Mennonite theology has developed and blossomed at the same pace as Mennonite literature. This means it has dealt with many of the difficult questions raised by writers, but from a different point of view. The role of the theologian and the role of the writer or poet are not so different after all.
So is the current definition of Mennonite literature in some ways the universalizing of a generational experience? I think that's part of it. As Hildi Froese Tiessen observes, quoting Andreas Schroeder, the somewhat younger "west coast Mennonite writers seem 'very comfortable with their Mennonite upbringing, […]. It seemed we weren't any longer threatened or imprisoned by it,' he remarked; 'we could afford to acknowledge its many advantages and strengths as well as its failings without feeling we had to buy into the faith or the lifestyle uncritically'" ("'There was nothing to be read about Mennonites': Rudy Wiebe and the impulse to make story," p.10). I think it's this tone which will carry Mennonite literature forward into our generation (especially since being Mennonite no longer means one is automatically a Germanic cultural/ethnic Mennonite). And, since we no longer have to choose between faith and art, I hope yet-to-be-written Mennonite poetry and prose will create a space for more profound engagement with faith and theology.
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Pixar recently produced an online advertisement promoting the studio's job opportunities for animators.
"You never forget the feeling of making your first Flip Book" reads the banner. I found the ad presently running on animation centric blog Cartoon Brew, a top-notch site that attracts professionals in the industry and fans alike.
Anyone who's been on Pixar's Jobs page knows that the studio is constantly hiring new talent. But does this ad signal more? Although Disney/Pixar marketing is known for creating flashy web ads to promote their films, personally, I haven't seen the studio advertise their jobs like this in the past.
Could the banner be in response to heavier workloads that are surely coming up at the studio? I think that might be the case considering Brave and Monters, Inc. 2 will be released in the same year: 2012. Pixar Canada is also gearing up to produce Cars and Toy Story shorts very soon. Over thinking it, maybe?
Do you have what it takes to bring characters to life in Emeryville? If so, answer the call: "Animators wanted!"
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Hollywood was devastated by these grim numbers
Hollywood celebrities have made a habit of bashing President Trump.
But their act is wearing thin with Trump supporters and everyday Americans.
And these latest numbers show their constant Trump-bashing is backfiring in a big way.
Movie theater attendance dropped to a 24 year low.
Total inflation adjusted box office revenue was the lowest since 1995.
This is the bread-and-butter of the movie industry as box office revenue is the largest income driver for Hollywood.
The Wrap reports:
The National Alliance of Theater Owners (NATO) announced Wednesday that the national ticket average for 2017 rose 3.7 percent year-over-year to $8.93, up from $8.65 last year.
At that average, the estimated number of movie tickets sold last year is 1.23 billion. While that is only a rough estimate that does not account for the higher ticket prices for premium formats and theaters in more expensive cities like New York and Los Angeles, NATO's estimate is the lowest since 1993, when "Jurassic Park" was the top grossing film of the year and an estimated 1.24 billion tickets were sold.
President Trump has gotten under the skin of liberal elitist Hollywood actors.
During an interview promoting one of her latest box office flubs, Jennifer Lawrence insinuated that "mother earth" was punishing Americans for electing Trump with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
But no celebrity has bashed Trump more than Meryl Streep.
Streep went on a six-minute anti-Trump rant while accepting an award at the Golden Globes.
And she's taken pot shots at Trump in nearly every public interview she's done since the 2016 campaign.
Yet Streep continuously defended child rapist Roman Polanski and claimed she didn't know of Harvey Weinstein's transgressions despite being close with him.
When will these Hollywood celebrities realize talking down to conservative Americans and pushing their radical views results in fewer people watching their movies?
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A GOAL FROM Limerick's Rebecca Barry, playing for the Richmond Spiders against Temple, made ESPN's top 10 plays in the States on Wednesday.
The midfielder tipped the ball past her bewildered opponents a number of times before lashing the ball home from an impossible angle, all inside the first minute of the game.
Richmond went on to win the match 4-1.
The 19-year-old was the captain of the Irish under-18 side that finished fourth in the European Championship in Utrecht, Holland, and was named in the Atlantic 10 Championship All-Tournament team after helping the Spiders to the title in 2011.
Barry was also named last year's Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year.
Check this out…
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New Legislation Would Require Congressional Approval of Section 232 Tariffs
Legislation introduced June 6 by a bipartisan group of senators would require Congress to approve any import tariffs imposed on national security grounds under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The measure reflects growing opposition to President Trump's decision to levy such tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from major allies such as the European Union, Canada, and Japan and his consideration of such duties on automobiles and auto parts.
Under the new bill (S. 3013), the president would have to submit to Congress any proposal to adjust imports under Section 232. For 60 days following such a submission, legislation to approve the proposal would qualify for expedited consideration, guaranteeing the opportunity for debate and a vote. This requirement would apply to all Section 232 actions in the future as well as those taken within the past two years.
According to a number of press sources, the introduction of the bill indicates that, as a Politico article put it, congressional Republicans "are finally reaching their breaking point with President Donald Trump on trade." Corker said the proposed restriction is necessary because the Trump administration is "abusing" the Section 232 authority, which "not only harms the very people we all want to help and impairs relations with our allies but also could invite our competitors to retaliate." Other senators, Republicans and Democrats alike, agreed and emphasized that this bill would respond by allowing Congress to reclaim its constitutional right to regulate foreign trade.
However, prospects for legislative approval of the measure are uncertain. Trump reportedly called Corker June 6 to oppose the bill and would almost certainly veto any measure to which it may be attached, such as the annual national defense authorization bill. It is unclear whether enough Republicans would then vote against the president ahead of important mid-term elections to override a veto. As a result, some lawmakers are instead trying to use what Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, called "the powers of persuasion" to convince the president to ease the steel and aluminum tariffs.
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Sociology of LifestyleMarch 20, 2010
Posted by: Chad M. Gesser
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I've been fortunate to be involved locally in the performing arts heavily since 2005. After all, Sociologists do make great "role models". 😉
Just a few weeks ago the child friendly touring production of Beauty and the Beast was performing at our local performing arts center. I was prepared to take my two young daughters to see the show, until I found out the cost for four was going to exceed $165. Beauty and the Beast is fantastic show, I was lucky to see it in New York City about ten years ago. But $165? Was that type of cost really worth the show?
While the facility is one of the nicest in western Kentucky, perhaps these types of productions aren't the most accessible for those in the middle or the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder.
In fact, there are many lifestyle patterns that can be determined by examining social class. Take a look at this breakout of obesity by state. Do you see any pattern? (click the pic to enlarge)
Now take a look at this national map of poverty. See any additional patterns? (click the pic to enlarge)
Is there a connection between obesity and poverty? A connection between obesity, poverty, and geography? Sociologists are trained to look for patterns in explaining society and human behavior. Considering lifestyle and entertainment, sociologists identify high culture and popular culture. Do you think social class is a predictor of types of entertainment that people prefer? Are there some types of entertainment that are generally exclusive to the upper class? What types of entertainment do members of the lower social classes engage? Are there patterns? Why?
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I've been thinking about these same issues, in particular as they relate to the obesity piece, in particular with all the press that Jamie Oliver's new show has been getting. Let's face it – healthy food is, under most circumstances, more expensive that unhealthy food.by Sarah March 23, 2010 at 2:44 am


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Yes, this is a different sort of post, though it does fit in with the stated purpose of the blog–interpeting events through Christian narrative. But it is also prompted by what strike me as troubling and conflicted cries in the wake of announcements coming from Harrisburg about events at Penn State University.
Let me set this out in the beginning for the benefit of those readers who do not know me personally. I am a Penn State grad and proud of it; it is, ironically to some, the place where my faith was freed to think. I am a life member of the Alumni Association and currently of part of the Nittany Lion Club. I have followed its football fortunes and misfortunes, including the times it was robbed of national championships. I have been to most of the home games over the past eight seasons and even joined journeyed to the Rose Bowl a couple of years ago. So no pretensions of total objectivity here.
Now the hard part. What do I do with my thumb? You know, the opposable appendages that separate humans from other species. We use them for a wide variety of purposes, many of which make life as we know it possible. Aside from making and using tools of all kinds, however, we also seem to employ the thumb as a signal of our reactions, dispositions, and feelings. For instance, there is the familiar up or down to indicate approval or disapproval, most famously tied to the saving or taking of the life of a defeated gladiator. There's the placing of this wonderful appendage on the nose, accompanied by a wave of the remaining portion of the hand to indicate disrespect or dismissal; and then there's the upward extended thumb thrust over the shoulder in baseball, indicating "you're out!"
What is common among the above is what such uses of the thumb indicate about another factor that sets us apart from mere animals–the making and expressing of moral judgments. In our supposedly more advanced society, we all sit in the emperor's box and react to any situation our arena called television brings before us. We're all enlightened individuals, all qualified to make judgments on all sorts of cases in which we have no more personal involvement than an emperor with a gladiatorial match. We see ourselves as having the right or even the duty of casting the thumb in one direction or another, even when we are hopelessly ill-informed or uninformed about the matter at hand.
Witness the frenzy–no other word will do–over the Jerry Sandusky allegations. I say allegations not because I do not think there is substance behind them (I'd love to have reasonable doubt here), but because we have this "innocent until proven guilty" mantra guiding our courts. That same mantra, of course, is a total farce when it comes to the individual judgments we somehow feel obligated to pass. We do not wait for proof; we settle for any unconfirmed report that supports our subjective preference for what we want to be the case. We thumb the nose at actual deliberation over collected, tangible facts. That's understandable with regard to Sandusky; less so when trying to weigh the actions or inactions of those who came upon knowledge of the incidents.
None of us really knows who said what to whom and when they said it. We make our speculation according to previously formed opinions regarding the people involved, then filter in or out any pieces of rumor/gossip/evidence/opinion that will support this reading, and then we will put our thumb in the air accordingly. For many, it is difficult to accept a contrary verdict even when all the facts become known. Let us not forget that whatever culpability anyone at Penn State has in the handling of this case, it was precipitated by one man's heinous actions. That man was not a university employee, i.e., not a member of the coaching staff, having left the team three years earlier (a fact conspicuously missing from NBC's report on the Nightly News today, Nov. 8). One of those actions was witnessed by someone then a graduate assistant to Joe Paterno; he has since been added to the fulltime staff. He reported to Paterno, who reported to the Athletic Director, following the chain of command specifically spelled out in policy manuals. Apparently, the report went nowhere from there for some time.
The question that has overwhelmed everything else in this case has been whether Joe Paterno did enough; wasn't there was a moral obligation, a higher standard he ought to have followed? This is where it gets sticky. Who is in charge of administering the higher standard? What does it entail? What are the penalties appropriate for failing to follow it, or for following it partially? How are we to know? Who does the reporting of whether or not it has been met? Again, I don't know what Paterno was told or what he reported–and neither do any of the rest of us. But I do know that thumbs have been flying nonetheless.
What about others involved, especially those who knew and did not report to police as required by law? I don't know; let's wait and find out. Nothing is gained and much is potentially lost if rashness born out of disgust rules the day.
What makes this a subject for this blog is our cherished "right" to wield the thumb on such matters. It seems to me that Jesus had something to say about how we judge others. Read carefully here. This is not a statement regarding the rightness or wrongness of any individual's decisions in this matter. That will be plain enough in due time, just as it is already plain that Sandusky's actions were reprehensible. We're aware that they are horribly wrong. But especially when it comes to passing sentence on the other individuals, we need to step back. The university extended to a non-profit organization dedicated to giving assistance to underprivileged kids the use of university facilities. It did not have to do that. Thumbs up. In so doing, it unwittingly gave opportunity for something else to happen; and even after the initial report, access continued for Sandusky. Thumbs way down.
As for Paterno, it is deeply grieving to me that so many people are ready to cast him out with no regard to his service to Penn State on many levels. How many times has he earned an upward thumb? To think that he would be cast out before the facts are all sorted is unconscionable.
But here's my real point in writing on this subject: why do we insist on wielding the thumb of judgment–not just on what should be done in a specific case, but on the people involved themselves? We are complicated beings, each of us operating with a unique set of circumstances and hurts, successes and failures, holes in our hearts, and wounds in our psyches which will never be apparent to anyone. Even Sandusky. That's what sin does. It worms in, sets up shop, and explodes into a large mess of collateral damage, never being limited in the scope or extent of its victimizing. Here it may well destroy the work and contributions of several men, tarnish a university, bring to naught a long-standing reputation, and rob many people of their sense of pride and identity in Penn State. And that is all in addition to what takes place in the lives of the boys who were violated in the first place, whose pain we know to be of a sort that tends to foster repeating the same crimes on others later in life. I hate sin. I'm reminded of that in these past days.
I also recognize sin in me, knowing that were things a little different I could easily have become one deserving the hatred of others and the judgment of God. That fact alone is teaching me to put my thumb in my pocket. And pray.


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And your shoes get so hot you wish your feet were fire-proof...
Under the boardwalk, down by the sea...
On a blanket with my book....is where I'll be....
We wrapped up Surf into a Good Book with an Iced Tea Social. We spent a great time discussing what books we read, what we liked and what we didn't. Raffle prizes were given out, and the reader with the most books won a grand prize. Thank you Martha Clara Vineyard for donating our prize, a private wine tasting for ten. The winner was Roberta Kalous, who read 22 books over the summer. Congratulations Roberta!
The other raffle winners were:
Frank McNultry
Elizabeth Grohoski
Beth Dumblis
Pam Davis
Phyllis Markopoulos
They won baskets filled with mugs, summer songs CD tea, coffee, cookies and (of course) books.
Congratulations to all of you and thank you for your support of our reading club.
We had sixty readers sign up for Surf into a Good Book and received back fifty Readers Cards with lists of books that were read.
The top ten books read this summer by the book club were:
Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Sunday's at Tiffany's by James Patterson
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Fire and Ice (Joanna Brady Series #15) by J.A. Jance
Knockout by Catherine Coulter
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clarke
Swimsuit by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
We talked about what books we liked the most that we read, among those discussed were:
Columbine by Dave Cullen
As the title says, this is about the Columbine school shooting. Hard to believe it's been ten years since that horrible event. The main point stated that what you may believe what you read and think you understand what happened that day, you would be surprised to discover what two normal, popular, very good students were planning for their classmates...and nobody picked up on it.
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Resistance by Anita Shreve
Both books are set during World War II. Sarah's Key is about the Vel' d'Hiv roundup of Jewish families by the French police. On the sixtieth anniversary, reporter Julia Jarmond is surprised at what she discovers and connection she has to the event.
The Resistance is about a Belgium couple who shelter refugees from the Nazi's on their farm. Things change when an American B-17 bomber is shoot down and the pilot is found severely wounded. You never know when your past might come back and collides with your present.
The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
It's James Patterson doing what is known for. What happens when revenge goes horribly wrong--a lie always takes on a life of it's own as Lauren Stillman finds out. You would think that as a NYPD detective Stillman would know that better then anyone....
One of Patterson's many (many) co-authored books he puts out every year....sigh.
I, of course, took some vacation time, and I have been lazy, reading trashy beach books, sinking my teeth into a new vampire series (I know, I hear the groans) re-reading some old favorites, making cool music CD's and checking out what's coming in the fall..........
I will be blogging about what I have been reading...trash and all!
Happy Reading!!


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