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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Intelligence agencies in Colombia have been building robust tools to automatically collect vast amounts of data without judicial warrants and in defiance of a pledge to better protect privacy following a series of domestic spying scandals, according to a new report by Privacy International.
The report published Monday by the London-based advocacy group provides a comprehensive look at the reach and questionable oversight of surveillance technologies as used by police and state security agencies in Colombia.
One tool developed is capable of monitoring 3G phone cell and trunk lines carrying voice and data communications for the whole country, according to the report.
The system, called Integrated Record System, was built by police intelligence starting in 2005 and had the capacity of collecting 100 million cell data and 20 million text message records per day without service providers' knowledge, according to the report's authors.
The report doesn't say how the technology was used but such mass, automated collection of data isn't explicitly authorized under Colombian law, according to the group, which based its findings on purchase orders and documents, many never seen before, and confidential testimony by people working in Colombia's vast surveillance industry.
General Rodolfo Palomino, head of Colombia's police, declined to comment on the report when contacted by The Associated Press. He said the proper forum to discuss sensitive issues regarding surveillance tactics is with Congress, which is tasked with overseeing intelligence agencies.
Colombia's constitution guarantees citizens' right to private communications and all interceptions must have a judicial warrant. Colombia's chief prosecutor's office maintains with law enforcement a separate, more-targeted surveillance system, called Esperanza, for that very purpose.
But Privacy International said inter-agency rivalries, a deep-seated culture of spying, and legal loopholes in a recently revamped intelligence law that allows for monitoring of the electro-magnetic spectrum for national security purposes has opened the door to gathering massive amounts of personal data on Colombians' private communications.
Much of the intelligence-gathering technology was developed with the U.S., which has provided billions of dollars in cash, training and equipment to Colombia over the past 15 years.
Surveillance technology and direct assistance by the DEA and CIA have been instrumental in the arrest of cocaine kingpins and a key weapon in Colombia's fight against the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, as evidenced by the interception of phone calls that located and led to the killing of the guerrillas' top commander, alias Alfonso Cano, in a 2011 military raid.
But the U.S. assistance also has been abused.
Some elite intelligence and police units receiving direct U.S. aid and equipment were among those found to be illegally spying during last decade on Supreme Court justices, journalists, victims' rights groups, and political opponents of hardliner former President Alvaro Uribe. Several top generals were fired as a result and the domestic intelligence agency, or DAS, was disbanded in 2011. U.S. officials were not implicated in the illegal acts.
Despite public outrage over the illegal spying, and revelations last year that government negotiators in peace talks with leftist rebels had their communications tapped by the Colombian army, law enforcement agencies continue to invest in sophisticated snooping technology without substantive checks against abuse, according to the report.
"After all the serious scandals that have shocked the country and many promises about tightening the control over intelligence and police activities, we learn that Colombian authorities, indeed, have mass surveillance capabilities over mobile and internet communications," said Carolina Botero, a privacy activist and lawyer at the Bogota-based Karisma Foundation. "It's clear that there's a long way ahead for the compliance of intelligence and criminal investigation activities with human rights standards."
AP Writer Frank Bajak contributed to this report from Lima, Peru
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White Wave Inc. announced the voluntary recall of Vanilla Silk brand soy milk on Wednesday. The half-gallon containers were packaged in several plants and sold throughout the United States.
Two people were treated for drinking the soy milk but neither case was serious, company spokesman David Margulies said Thursday.
The chemical affects the taste and smell of the soy milk so much customers are not likely to drink it, he said. People who do drink it will probably experience a burning sensation or nausea.
The codes "Jun 17 03" or "Jun 18 03" and "H CD-70" or "J CD-70" are stamped at the top of each recalled container. The first set of numbers is the expiration date, while the second set is a company code.
No other Vanilla Silk, Silk or White Wave products are involved in the recall.
Boulder-based White Wave has ordered the recalled soy milk to be removed from store shelves, and consumers who bought the product were urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Those who experience nausea or other symptoms should contact their health care provider, the company said.
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Keeping one's body healthy has a positive affect on all aspects of life. When we are sleeping well, eating well and exercising regularly, we feel better and have ample energy to give to our life experiences.
Sometimes it can feel daunting to try to 'do the right thing' with regards to our bodies, especially when it comes to eating healthily.
I heard a commentator on TV once give a great and simple approach to facilitate an instant improvement in one's diet. He talked about trying to eat as many colors in one meal as possible. I believe the goal he suggested was to eat 7 colors at every meal. This simple suggestion has changed the way I eat!
Sometimes I go a little crazy and try to create salads with as many different colored vegetables as possible! I amuse myself by counting up the ingredients, and racking my brain for one more color to add!
I also come at my meal's 'color assessment' from the opposite direction sometimes, by realizing that my meal is 'monochrome' as in a choice of chicken tortilla soup and cheese bread... which is ALL orange! I try to stay away from monochromatic meals, as a rule. I also monitor a day's food intake and try to make sure that it is balanced overall.
This is a really fun thing to work on with kids too! They enjoy the challenge of 'eating the rainbow.'
The more colors you eat, the more variety you are getting in your diet. Americans have notoriously unhealthy eating habits, based in a lot of white flour based products. A turkey sandwich with turkey, white bread and mayonaise is ALL WHITE! Not a great choice. Change out the bread for some dark pumpernickle or whole grain selection, add some lettuce, tomato and red onion and you've taken the 'all white' meal to a 5 color success! Put a little bit of mixed bean salad on the side and you might throw in a few more colors! See how fun this is?
Eating better can be as easy or as hard as we want to make it. If all you did was increase the number of colors you eat on a daily basis, you'd almost be guaranteed to have a healthier diet.
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The Scottish SN Judo Group meets for training sessions which are open to all judoka aged 10 years or over. While the group is focused primarily on meeting the needs of individual players who have special needs (physical, sensory, or learning) we are also keen to encourage mainstream players to attend our sessions as training partners, helpers, assistant coaches, or judo friends.
Typically, mainstream judo clubs find it difficult to provide a full programme of judo activity catering for their members with special needs. The Scottish SN Judo Group aims to assist these clubs by offering a programme of extra training and competition that their members can attend.
Players are always encouraged to regularly attend their clubs, indeed selection and support at events is conditional on an individual keeping up their regular attendance at their home club.
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Dialogue – you might say I'm addicted to it. I'll put more dialog in my book than internal thoughts and setting put together. Why? Because I believe 'no one waits for the story to begin,' and dialog gets a story going.
Dialog is more than just speaking . . . it's character, plot, and setting. You might ask, what? Here are a few starters from James Scott Bell, author of Circumstantial Evidence, Final Witness and Blind Justice:
· Who is saying this?
· What does this character look like?
· What is this character's occupation?
· Why would he/she say such a thing?
· What is the dominant emotion this character is expressing?
· What just happened to cause this character to say the line?
· Who did he/she say the line to?
· Does this other character oppose the first character for some reason? What is it?
· What are the objectives of the characters in this scene?
· Where is this dialogue taking place?
· What are the smells?
· What are the sounds?
· What does the character see around him/her?
· Why is he/she in this place at this time?
· What does this setting tell us about the background of the character?
If you go through questions like this (and you can certainly add your own), you'll have a nice core of material to work with. It may be that this is as far as you go. The story you see may not be one you're interested in exploring further. That's fine. Go find another line and do the exercise again.
Write reams of dialogue. The best way to get good ideas is to get tons of them and then choose the best and throw the rest out.
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Thanks to the roaring success of Neerparavai, actress Sunaina is literally flying high. The movie directed by Seenu Ramasamy and produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin is doing good at the box office. Nandhitha Das, Saranya Ponvannan and Samuthirakani are also in the cast. Viishnu plays the lead role. Sunaina, who played the lead as an orphan brought up in a church ...Read More »
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Who is DJ Zedd? Details About his Career, Net Worth and his Relationship Status.
Who is DJ Zedd?
Anton Zaslavski was born on 2 September 1989 better known by his stage name Zedd. He is a Russian-German record producer, DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He primarily produces and performs house music, but has diversified his genre and musical style, drawing influences from progressive house, dustup, and classical music. Zedd grew up and began his career in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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DJ Zedd's Career
Anton Zaslavski is mostly known by his stage name Zedd. He began his career as a DJ by producing a wide variety of remixes and originals. In the beginning, he won two Beatport remix contests in 2010. He then began to earn name, fame, and many fan followers. He has made a remix track for various singers including Lady Gaga. He signed with Interscope Records in 2012 and released his debut album Spectrum with the vocal by Matthew Koma. On 23 February 2017, Zedd released his collaboration along with Alessia Cara, Stay which debuted at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 33 on the UK Singles Chart
On 6 July 2017, Zedd released his single with Liam Payne, Get Low.
On 23 January 2018, Zedd released his single with Maren Morris and Grey, The Middle.
DJ Zedd's Net worth
His success in his career has paid him well financially making his estimated net worth of $35 million and is ever increasing.
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Gary Joseph McEwen passed away peacefully, with his family by his side at Health Sciences North, Sudbury on Monday, August 13th, 2018. Age 79 years.
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Political parties forming in Indonesia
7 November 1945. The Islamic political party Masjumi is founded at a conference in Yogyakarta. Most delegates are from Java, but the aim is a unitary Islamic party for the whole country. The event is significant because of Masjumi's popularity in the coming decade and a half and because of strong Muslim support for the independence movement that it represents. Five days later, the first congress is held of the Socialist Party (Parsi) under Amir Sjarifuddin, which had already been founded on the 1st. Other political parties are also quickly formed.
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7 November 1945. The Malayan Communist Party issues a statement calling on the British Military Administration to introduce self-rule, something it had not called for in August. The party further requests that the BMA loosen restrictions on speech and assembly and that it increase wages.


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A 15-day trial has been scheduled for March 2018 after the City of Edmonton entered not guilty pleas in charges related to a worker's death.
City of Edmonton to go to trial over worker who died after being buried
The brother of a city worker who died after being buried by the spilling contents of a dump truck says the city's not guilty pleas to several Occupational Health and Safety charges are a "slap in the face" to his family.
Stephen Penny, 35, died in hospital days after he was buried by street sweepings in a city roadway maintenance yard at 13003 56 St. on April 22, 2015. At the time, police said a pin in the tailgate got stuck, and Penny, who was driving the truck, went to check it. That's when the sweepings fell on him.
Nearly two years later, Occupational Health and Safety laid five charges against the city, including failure to ensure the health and safety of a worker, failure to ensure a worker was trained in safe operation of equipment, failure to establish an emergency response plan for rescue or evacuation, failure to ensure lighting at a work site was sufficient to enable safe work, and failure to ensure that material that could be dislodged, moved or spilled was contained, restrained or protected.
The city entered pleaded not guilty to all charges Wednesday, and a 15-day trial was scheduled for March 2018.
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Family members have attended each of the court hearings in the case since the charges were laid in February.
Mike Penny said the family is hopeful the court proceedings give them some clarity about the circumstances that led to his brother's death, and that the city will be held accountable for what happened.
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Clip: Season 17 Episode 3 | 2m 31s
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Mimi and Dona, the 92-year-old Mimi and her daughter share a tender moment as they awkwardly try to get through the Lord's Prayer before bed on the night before Dona is supposed to move out. They don't quite have the prayer down, but they finish it nonetheless.
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The Coalition for Compassion and Justice is collaborating with Dorn Homes to develop a new affordable housing property in Prescott. These Lodges will house 4-6 individuals that would otherwise be living in a shelter. Dorn Homes will be building two Lodges locally as part of the effort to end homelessness in the Quad Cities. These properties will provide residents an opportunity to gradually transition from shelter living to market housing by offering the stability of a home while ensuring that living costs are within residents' means. This stability, coupled with the services of CCJ, represents a critical first step on the path to independence.
Coalition for Compassion and Justice has served those living in poverty in the Prescott community since 2001. We are a client-centered organization dedicated to the needs of the most vulnerable. Collaborative since its inception, we continue to streamline services with our organizational partners and create effective and non-duplicative efforts. Our programs include Home Repair, Emergency Shelter, Advocacy, Employee Readiness, and Affordable Housing. Our mission is to end homelessness locally through connecting clients with housing and support. We believe that incremental growth, toward an individual's highest capacity is the most dignified and successful path into the broader community.


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HOW many universes are there? Cosmologists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin at Stanford University in California calculate that the number dwarfs the 10500 universes postulated in string theory, and raise the provocative notion that the answer may depend on the human brain.
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Marshall police charge suspect in home break-in
An investigation led by the Marshall Police Department into a home break-in has led to criminal charges. John Alexander Countiss, 19, of Marshall, faces misdemeanor counts of breaking and entering, larceny and injury to real property for allegedly stealing a television and guitar amplifier valued at just over $600 from a Hill Street home
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Countiss is scheduled to appear in District Court on May 18 on the charges.
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The Ministry of National Defense yesterday unveiled its biennial white paper on national defense, outlining doctrinal changes that emphasize asymmetric warfare and layered defense.
The 2017 National Defense Report reiterates the military's commitment to an all-volunteer force and the indigenous development of military aircraft and warships.
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Benedicta sancta Trinitias, atque indivisa unitas!
Taken from St Luke, 8:4-15.
A fundamental lesson of our Lord's words in today's Gospel highlights two aspects which I would like to develop further in this short reflection. Let us begin by considering the first which will lead into a more fruitful discussion of the latter.
1) The universal reach of divine causality.
All that is not God is under the dominion and sway of God. All persons of whatever state, condition and means are subject to His will whether they have ever paused to consider His lordship or have ever acknowledged it. This is symbolised by the various qualities of the ground. As the great multitude pressed about Jesus anxious to hear His latest teaching and perhaps to experience a further miracle, our Lord spoke in a parable which even the Apostles deemed as beyond their understanding. In response to their question as to the meaning of the sower going out to sow, Christ said, ''To you it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables: that seeing they may not see, and hearing may not understand''. In contradistinction to Billuart I consider this to be the sacred puzzle and the toughest aspect of theology for the mind to apprehend. Why is it that God elevates one to the supernatural level and maintains them there in His grace while He permits another to be obdurate before His appeal in love? Let us not be so foolish as to believe that God grants certain indiscriminate, naked graces to all souls that they are free to accept or decline. Is God not capable of bringing forth good fruit from the harshest of soil? Is He not willing to till the ground so that the weeds are cast aside to allow the seed to grow? Is He powerless before His creatures?
We hold God to be the creator of nature and the author of grace. The fruitful reception of grace by a soul is not dependant upon the conditions of time and space which God foresees, as the followers of Molina assert, but rather it is God who turns to us and grants us life. By His divine movement He converts the soul to Himself, eliciting a truly free and human response. The soil is not 'discovered' by the sower, an analogy of the redemption love of Our Saviour, where He is incapable of turning the ground so that it is sensitive to His approach. The soil represents the soul laid bare and its quality is utterly dependant upon it's response to God's movement of redemption. Nothing else matters in this life. Is salt which has lost its saltiness is only good to be trampled upon what use is infertile soil to a grace filled, fruitful life in Christ? It is fit only to be condemned to rot.
2) Sufficient grace is granted to all men so that they might be saved. No man may ever claim that God has abandoned him to achieve his own salvation. All men are granted sufficient grace to know and love the one true God and redeemer of the nations. We hold that God is certainly capable of saving all men if He so decreed but that in His wisdom and justice He allows certain souls to remain outside of His love, where the devil reigns in his rebellion. Through malice the bloom of efficient grace is suppressed and man can only answer for his rejection of God. No soul could ever reproach God for failing to approach him in grace. Yet too many, as Our Lord teaches, only accept parts of the Gospel to suit their own ''needs'' and to appeal to their convenience. They receive it as only a teaching of man, a lifestyle, a simple philosophy to adapt to their circumstances. It is on account of this misunderstanding of the divine foundation of the Gospel, that Satan so quickly and easily snatches away the seed that God has planted so that they may not truly believe and be saved. As it falls among thorns, it is choked by a worldly conception of God's action among us. For these unfortunate souls, God's mission of redemption is seen as weaker than the allurements of the flesh, the seed of the word of God is considered cheap and easily bought. They have refused to see that the ground was purchased by the blood of Christ. It is not the burial place of the Traitor that is the field of blood, but our own souls. No fruit is brought forth for these men who have converted the Gospel into another aspect of their lives, a token, a sentimental belief that leaves their inner nature untouched by grace. They lack supernatural faith and rely on tradition, custom or hold on to particular features of the Gospel for the sake of consolation.
The soul that is well prepared by God is receptive to His further graces. In patience they accept what He has decreed eternally at whatever moment He brings it about in time and space. Their glory before God is unending, they bring forth a hundred fold of what is sweet and pleasant in the sight of the saints. They are the moisture of civilization. They are the instrumental causes of the fruitful reception of grace by other souls. God works through them to show His mercy to others. They predispose other men to prepare themselves for God. It is with joy that they submit themselves to the sweet yoke of Christ and His Cross, where they see only glory and opportunity rather than a burden to be shunned if possible. All other souls perish when they regard the grace of God in too human a fashion, choked by cares and ambition.
Let no man glory in his salvation but be grateful that he has been called out of nothing to be raised to a formal participation in the divine nature by grace. Let the reprobate condemn himself for his hardness of heart and stiff neck. Let God be glorified in all things.
In Domino,
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Christmas in a Day follows on from Life in a Day, both YouTube collages assembled by the Oscar award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, Marley, Last King of Scotland). The full 48 minute film is now available to watch online, and contains many heart-warming vignettes. The footage is compiled by means of crowdsourcing and celebrates the entirety of Christmas 2012 across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom. The producers were Scott Free, headed by Ridley Scott, and the project was sponsored by Sainsburys supermarket. The technical term for it is a "user-generated feature."
It's an unusual combination of factors coming together to make a documentary, and one that has raised the question, could this be the future for filmmaking? There's no need for a crew. Out there in cyberspace all the stories are already told; is it simply a form of fishing, to put in a net and drag them all in? Life in a Day also demonstrated that the project can have a much longer life of its own with the repeated viewings that go on on YouTube. Eight million people saw it. The main job to be done is the editing. There were 360 hours of material submitted.
Although sponsored by a food retailer and released in snippets as ads, there is no branding in here and no pandering to an overtly sentimental ideal. This again makes it a curiosity, and may lead to a whole new way of looking at how to sell goods. A warning cautions against the partial nudity (the birth scene) and the killing of a goose for one family's feast.(Not without a few tears.) For a supermarket intent on selling as much poultry as possible over the festive season, this in interesting, and quite brave.
Christmas in a Day certainly proves that regular, everyday folk are quite capable of capturing their own mini-dramas, be they happy, sad, or all shades in between. It swoops from the very young to the very old, there is a baby being born in a birthing pool, and there is Doris being feted on her 106th birthday. Her advice for a long and happy life? "Trust in the Lord and keep your bowels open." The general mood is genial, cheerful and uncomplicated. The Christmas spirit shimmers throughout, softening the edges of the more glum segments; a father without his children, hotel workers of non-Christian faith desperate to find a bar open, a man who has timed his lunch on a spreadsheet to be ready bang on the dot, who then sits to eat it, all alone.
However, without the sense of any structural underpinning, or real direction, the film is ultimately more amateur than auteur. Compositionally, it is clever, and there are some reflections and reprisals, but the mode is essentially mainstream and "mumsy." It is safe, pleasant and pictorial. The old three act formula is adhered to in that it builds anticipatorily into the morning (stockings, delight, disappointment), peaks at lunch ( one mathematically challenged lady maniacally recalculating the turkey cooking time) and winds down into a cosy and soporific satisfaction.
One story strand which stands out for a lot of viewers is the pale, haunted face of Will, a teenager who was in Harefield Hospital on December 25th, awaiting a possible heart transplant. His grandfather, 90-year-old war veteran pilot, Bill, encouragingly insists that all he wants for Christmas is for Will to get better.
In a happy ending, which has not been constructed from a scriptwriter's imagination but from life itself, a donor was found for Will, and he had his operation on New Year's Eve 2012. He is now back at Bristol University and looking forward, just as his granddad hoped, to being home for Christmas with his family.
"The best thing we could have hoped for is to be together," Will's Mum has said. She was shocked, when she watched the screening, at how very ill Will looked a year ago. She had blocked it out of her consciousness. She said the family had wanted to appear to draw attention to the drastic need for organ donations, and to show that "none of us know what is ahead." Her son, otherwise fit and healthy, was diagnosed with a form of cardiomyopathy in 2009. Last year, when Will was filmed wired up to life support, none of them knew what the outcome might be.
This joyful happenstance is symbolic of the charm of Christmas in a Day. It refuses to be cynical or to sneer. There's a lot of the best we can be, and the best we can hope for, in here. It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Kevin Macdonald has given us all a gift with this potent reminder of that."We have time to contemplate life and be with those we love." That's Christmas in a Day, or Christmas in a nutshell.
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Post-It wars!
Poping up faster than mushrooms in this rainy summer we have here in France are Post-It pixel art icons on office windows all over the place!
Above are the Post-It windows I originally saw from my office window a couple of days ago. Below is my space invader response ;) – Obviously I'm not equipped with enough Post-It colors to go ballistic like these guys, but it crossed my mind to order some :p
This whole thing started as a friendly "war" between two opposite companies in the East of Paris. Now it's everywhere! Some companies are even doing multilevel installations on bigger office buildings!
I wonder how long it will take for this to start in other countries!?
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How to quickly resize pictures on Mac OS X
Oftentimes you want to email some pictures or upload them to a website but your image files are actually too large. Sometimes waaaay too large with those modern 10 megapixel cameras!
I have put together a small Automator App that makes it as easy as 1-2-3:
- Drag & Drop your original pictures onto the "Resize" icon
- Choose a destination size
- Collect resized pictures on your Desktop
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- Resize a picture just by dropping it onto the "Resize" icon
- Resize multiple pictures at a time
- Choose the pixel size you want for resized pictures (percentage also available)
- Drag & Drop directly out of iPhoto if needed
- Collect resized pictures directly on your Desktop (Originals are left untouched)
Just download the file below, unzip it and put the "Resize Pictures FP" icon on your desktop, your Applications folder, your Dock or wherever is convenient for you.
Then, whenever you want to resize pictures, just select them and drag & drop them onto that icon. The script will ask you for a pixel size to resize to (the default is 1024 pixels) and it will save the resized files on your desktop.
You can even drag, drop and resize multiple photos at a time!
Simple & effective ;)
Upgrading all Macs to SSD
I recently ordered an SSD drive from OWC and proceeded to replace the stock drive on my good old MacBook Pro (one of the first unibody series).
The process was actually easier than I originally thought: just connect the new drive using an universal drive adapter and clone the internal drive using SuperDuper!. Then open the back cover and swap out the drives. Done! (Btw: OWC are doing a great job with their instruction videos that show you that, yes, you can actually do it yourself in no time! ;))
Reboot: the mac feels like it's at least 3 or 4 times faster. Especially from Login to Desktop where it's possible to start working instantaneously, compared to the painful wait in front of a half frozen screen I had before.
It's like a new mac for a fraction of the price of an actual new one! And I now actually like using that laptop again ;)
Mac Mini 2011 Hard Drive Speed
As a followup to my Mac Mini 2010 Hard Drive Speed rant, I went to the Apple Store today to check what's up with the Mac Mini 2011…
Apparently, the Nvidia chipset has been replaced with an Intel chipset that is now capable of 6 Gigabit/second link speeds… and the entry level drive is now capable of 3 Gbps link speeds…
That is definitely not an improvement over last year's model.
However, why still not a 6 Gbps drive? Because the drives are not fast enough to saturate a 3 Gbps link? My bet is that 6 Gbps would definitely make sense with SSD.
The Apple Store had no 7200 rpm or SSD Mac Mini on display. So, I enquired by the Apple Store employees… who had to ask their tech guru… who said that the 7200 rm drives are 3 Gbps also and that the SSD drives are 3 Gbps also. Since the iMac with a 7200 rpm drive is at 3 Gbps and that the Mac Mini with SSD is also at 3 Gbps, I will take their word for it: Apple just won't give you drives that can communicate any faster than 3 Gbps! :/ (and they won't sell them to you either…)
So… if you'd actually want top performance, you'd have to go for aftermarket solutions…
3 displays on a mac mini
While many are happy with 2 displays attached on their computer, I actually don't quite like having to look either to the left or to the right when I'm working on something… I want a display right in front of me and I want additional displays on the sides for less important stuff.
According to Macworld, the latest Mac Mini 2011 (the version with the Radeon graphics chip) can actually drive 3 displays: 2 through Thunderbolt and 1 though HDMI…
If you're feeling especially adventurous, the Radeon HD graphics processor in the $799 mini can drive two Thunderbolt displays, daisy-chained, while still handling a third display on the HDMI port, although you shouldn't expect amazing performance.
If this actually works, I'd be happy to swap out that bulky Mac Pro for a tiny little mac mini…
Now… gotta find 3 identical displays that accept either HDMI or Thunderbolt… And that won't be easy… for some reason there are not a lot of Thunderbolt devices out there… it seems that only Apple has offerings so far… and Apple displays… well… they are just way too glossy for me :p
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Book Talk: an Interview with Sherwood Smith
Mary Sue sat down with Sherwood Smith to hear about her life, writing, and muse. As it turns out, she has more in common with some of her characters than you'd think, and in some cases more than she'd like! Fighting off armed attackers abroad–now that's inspiration!
I understand you used to be a teacher. Have you found any similarities between teaching and writing? Is there a reason that teaching called to you as a writer?
Sherwood Smith: What I learned from writing was making it fun. Because I knew from childhood that if I was not enjoying what I was writing, the reader was not going to enjoy it. It didn't guarantee that the reader was going to like it if I liked it, but I had a better chance. What the teaching taught me was that there are all kinds of different ways of learning. And I had to figure out how to present the material to that child—and because of that I became a better teacher, and then again I brought that back to writing.
Is there one place or experience that you feel has most informed your writing, more than anything else that you've done?
SS: Yes. That would be going to Europe, as a student abroad when I was about twenty. Austria was a culture shock for me, from Los Angeles! I was not prepared for that. I had periods of feeling very lonely, and cold—I didn't own a coat. I'd never had a coat. Who needs a coat in Los Angeles? I thought a sweater was gonna be enough. And walking ten, twelve, fifteen miles a day on cobblestones—my shoes started to fall apart. And I was, you know, on the strictest possible budget, so I was eating once a day, which kind of affects you too.
I said, "Ok. Here I am. This is what I always wanted."
Even when I got crap from anti-Americans, you know, you run into that, and at one point I had to defend my own life with my switchblade. Oh, that was scary! But actually, that's when I started writing Crown Duel.
I felt like Mel. Stupid, ignorant, completely clueless, out of my depth, determined to make it anyway, even though I knew that everything I was doing was wrong, or two steps behind. But by gum I was gonna do it anyway!
MS: Oh! That makes a lot of sense. *laughing*
So if you could turn one of those books into a movie, would you want to do it?
SS: Sure! I've written a pilot for Crown Duel.
MS: Really? You're making me so happy right now!
SS: Well, my agent's had it for months and I suspect he's going "meh."
MS: Oh. *quietly sobs into a pillow*
SS: Well, what can you do? I am not George R. R. Martin.
SS: Several of [my books] would do well in film. I know how to write screenplays, because I'm a visual writer, and I did work in the film industry. I adapted Coronets and Steel once – that just makes a kickass screenplay! Rachel Manija Brown and I actually wrote the Change series, and first it was a screenplay. Then when we turned it into a book, the story altered so much that we're revamping it. But again, somebody would have to have interest and we know that it's not, you know, a big name.
Say Crown Duel becomes a miniseries, or a movie, would you have any actors in mind for Meliara or Vidanric?
SS: For Meliara, the face, and the expressions, would be Tuesday Weld back in the late 60s and early 70s. She has this big, broad forehead, and sort of wistful, expressive face and of course the hair…
I think as far as looks are concerned, the actor who looks the most like Vidanric is Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings—without the ears.
(No, hun. It's your love interest.)
If you could be any one of your characters, who would you want to be?
SS: I would want to be one of the ones who had a long, happy life!
Do you have a favorite comfort read that you pick up when you're having a bad day?
SS: Pride and Prejudice.
MS: …kind of guessed that one. Why do you like Pride and Prejudice so much, though? I tried reading it, and I have to admit, I couldn't get through it.
SS: Well, I know the period really well, so I can see the humor. And the insight, the sharp insight into human nature, and the deliciously ironic turns of phrase.
And I love the fact that she really invented the modern novel. I wonder how aware she was of doing that.
And the fact that the women's point of view matters. What the women think and choose matters for the first time in history, in literature—English literature; and it was profoundly affective. And then there were just different subtleties. Every time I reread I notice something different.
So what was your favorite book as a kid?
SS: That would be the Sherwood Ring. You know, as a little kid, I looked for anything that had "Sherwood" in it. Anything! I was floored when I came across The Sherwood Ring, because it was funny, and it had ghosts in it, the language was period and yet accessible, so that was kind of my favorite book for several years there. So, the Sherwood Ring for two or three years until I read Lord of the Rings when I was fourteen.
MS: Oh?
SS: [A friend and I] were sitting up in her attic—we used to go up in her attic, which was frightful hot but you know we were away from all the adults—and write a book. And I was writing Poor World while she was reading Lord of the Rings, and she kept going, "*gasp* Sherwood, he's doing what we're doing! It's a grownup who has another world! And I think he believes in it the way we do!" And I said "nah. No way." I was really jealous. I kind of peeked over and looked at it upside-down, and I saw the word that I thought was "eleven" and went, "That jerk! He stole that from me!" Of course, the word was "elven," not "eleven." So anyway, she gets to the end of it a few days later, and I go over to visit her the next weekend and she says, "You are going to read this book. I guarantee you're gonna love this." So I took them home, and I read all day, all night that weekend. I just didn't stop reading. And she was right. Just blew me out of the water. They were a favorite for years and years and years. That's right up there with Pride and Prejudice.
Do you have an advice for a young, or slight less young, person today who wants to become an author?
SS: Absolutely: read. Read outside your favorite genre. Read everything you can. And second, just keep doing it.
SS: Keep at it, and enjoy what you're doing. And learn how to rewrite. It took me decades to learn how to rewrite, and consequently, it took me a long time to get published, and then a long time to see how bad the stuff was that I was publishing.
So, I know you work with Book View Café; how is that different than working with other publishers?
SS: Well you don't have an editor in charge. You're working with other writers and you're in the driver's seat. They can beta-read, but they can't tell you what to do. The other good thing is they come out in a more timely fashion, they keep the price-points low, because we're doing all the labor for free.
Rifter's Covenant, the fourth volume of the Exordium series, will be re-released later this month. Is there anything you're super excited to share about the new edition?
SS: I've learned so much about writing that we've rewritten the Exordium series heavily. And it's such a relief to be able to do that. It just feels like a much better set of books now. And it's been an interesting process too, because for the most part, our future culture was actually pretty well predicted, but there were certain aspects that were very dated, and interesting to come across.
MS: Like what?
SS: Well, Dave Trowbridge really understood the physics of warfare and faster-than-light travel, which is why the theory was a cult favorite of, um, a group of people in Washington DC who work in buildings that have no names on them.
SS: And he also invented the smartphone [in the series]—however, that said, although [all the characters] had them, they weren't using them! They were going to wall-computers to find out information. It was like they forgot they had them! Because that was the culture we grew up in. So in rewriting [the books], we had to have a security blackout in effect where people couldn't use [smartphones], so that the story wouldn't get derailed completely.
SS: When the books first came out, our [Exordium] culture was polysexual; there was no stigma about homosexuality or polyamory, really. And we caught a lot of flack from people about how terrible that was. And now it's just, it's more every day.
Are you working on any other new books at the moment?
SS: Well, I just last week came out with Lhind The Spy, which is the sequel to Lhind the Thief. That's new. And I have several different Sartorias-deles ones going on, including Firejive. Oh, and I've been coming out with some Jane Austen rewrites; that's just fun. That's kind of recreational writing for me—I really enjoy it.
You can find Sherwood Smith on Goodreads, where she reviews books and answers fan questions.
Sherwood Smith's suggested reading list:
- Andrea K. Höst's Touchstone Trilogy (YA), And All The Stars (YA), and Medair
- Literally any book by Lindsay Buroker. They're kitchen sink fantasy/science fiction/steampunk. (I have no idea what that means, but I'll be finding out real soon.)
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I was introduced to Michael Chabon during my senior year of high school, I think. Mrs. Diamondstone, my beloved English teacher during 11th and 12th grade, had our class read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which has become one of my favorite books, and one of the few Pulitzer Prize winners I've read that I believe actually deserved the award.
Since Kavalier and Clay, I've read Wonder Boys, Werewolves in Their Youth, and I've got Mysteries of Pittsburgh on my desk waiting for me to finally read. I really need to pick up Final Solution, and I'm more excited for The Yiddish Policeman's Union than I am about the next Harry Potter. I adore Chabon. He's my favorite living author, and second place isn't particularly close.
So, imagine my surprise and horror when I read on Chabon's Wikipedia page on Tuesday that he's writing a serial novel that's being published in The New York Times' magazine section every Sunday. Why didn't anyone tell me, damnit? The serial, Gentlemen of the Road, started in late January. As of March 25th, 9 of the 15 parts have been published. As of this moment, I've read the first two parts, and as expected, I love them.
For the uninitiated, Chabon is a bit of a showoff as a writer. He has a large vocabulary and, I imagine, an excellent thesaurus. He has no qualms about going deeply "inside baseball", which is a difficulty augmented by his latest run of writing. Chabon has, since 2002, abandoned the "contemporary, quotidian, plotless, moment-of-truth revelatory story", which, again in his own words, is a "plotless story sparkling with epiphanic dew". Basically, Chabon really doesn't like all these books coming out that you hear people rave about, but when you ask them, "What's it about?", the best they can tell you goes something like, "Well, it's a guy mucking about," or, worse, "It's about truth/finding yourself/growing up/etc". Chabon wants to write stories.
Now, what's that have to do with his writing? Well, he tends to use odd words–for spectacular effect, certainly, but odd all the same–and when he writes about something unusual, and he takes his already vast and unusual vocabulary with him… well, keep your dictionary handy when you read his books. They're especially hard to begin. For instance, he is the opening to Gentlemen of the Road:
Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950 — For numberless years a myna had astounded travelers to the caravansary with its ability to spew indecencies in 10 languages, and before the fight broke out everyone assumed the old blue-tongued devil on its perch by the fireplace was the one who maligned the giant African with such foulness and verve. Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, and in the stew of chickpeas, carrots, dried lemons and mutton for which the caravansary was renowned, the African held the place nearest the fire, his broad back to the bird, with a view of the doors and the window with its shutters thrown open to the blue dusk.
Reading Chabon is like trying to push a car down a slight incline. You need to really dig in to get the thing movie, but once you've got momentum, you can really fly. I heartily recommend to you Gentlemen of the Road, as it's a very talented author writing an AlexandreDumas kind of tale. Lots of fun and swashbuckingly and such. If you don't care to pay to read the NY Times (and I don't blame you), I promise his books are worth checking out.


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