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After using the Yoga for almost two months, I am pleased to report that I am still enjoying it immensely. If you can afford a new laptop, definitely get this one. Also, make sure to do the hotfix listed below, and consider getting a spare mSata drive and SD card, to double (or more) your storage, and a Stand Mode Support Brace to eliminate screen wobbling while in stand mode. Here's a link to an 8GB DDR3 module, if you want to upgrade that, too.
Finally, also disable CPU throttling while in stand/tablet mode by uninstalling Intel Thermal Framework.
Lenovo Yoga in person at CES Las Vegas in January, 2012. For a Windows 7 machine, I dismissed it as a viable candidate for best ultrabook due to its relatively larger form factor, slow SATA II interface, and increased weight. I decided 2012's best ultrabook was the 13" Samsung Series 9.
Now that Windows 8 is here (and bug-free), it's time to rethink what attributes are most important on an ultrabook. A good touchscreen is the obvious newcomer, and this alone knocks the list of contenders down to only a handful.
Next up is device orientation flexibility/variability. A touchscreen is somewhat awkward to use when a device resembles a traditional laptop (i.e. keyboard rests in front of the screen, separating you from the touch input)- the reason many hybrid tablets detach from their keyboard counterpart.
Enter the Yoga. While a perfectly respectable ultrabook in its own right, it transcends the typical capability of a laptop (or a tablet, for that matter) with its 360 degree rotating screen and thus usurps the title 'best ultrabook' by rendering its competition feeble, inadequate, and probably ashamed.
-10 finger multitouch, Full HDMI out, USB3.0, good power plug port (it resembles a USB port), 13.3" 1600x900 IPS panel, 4-8GB RAM (1 slot, upgradeable), 6+ hr battery, .69" thick, 3.4 pounds, amazing leather feel that's comfortable for extended use, EXTRA, EMPTY SSD slot (so you can put a second SSD in)! $999 at BestBuy for the i5-3317U version.
So, I bought one from BestBuy to replace my 15" Samsung Series 9 with 16gB RAM due to the reasons mentioned above. (If you don't plan to switch to Windows 8 and want the best Windows 7 // 15" ultrabook on the market, lmk. I'll be posting it on eBay soon.)
So far, it has exceeded my expectations, and I find I use its various modes quite frequently, depending on the task (Tent Mode for watching a video or docked use, Stand Mode for browsing Netflix or reading certain websites/articles, Tablet Mode for games etc.).
A few issues to note:
-Firstly, you'll have to reconfigure the partitioning to make better use of the SSD, as Recovery + Lenovo take up ~40gB. This takes only a few seconds (lenovo has their own hotfix) but seems to have a lot of people in outrage on the interwebs.
-Next up, the battery life is not as good as I'm used to with the Samsung Series 9. Expect closer to 5-6 hours. Not much one can do about this. The CPU is reportedly unlocked so perhaps undervolting might help?
-Only 1 DDR3 RAM slot, meaning the max this guy can take is 8GB. On the bright side, it's not soldered RAM so it is indeed upgradeable.
-Sata II with ~200mB/s read/write speeds.
-And lastly, some Yogas are afflicted with a minor or severe grinding, buzzing, whirring fan noise. (Hear video below). Mine exhibited this problem, and my attempts to mediate it by smacking it only seemed to exacerbate the problem, if anything :)
With no word regarding a fix or cause for the fan noise anywhere online, I decided to attempt a diagnosis and hopefully a fix.
Next is to remove the palm rest after unscrewing the
marked M2 screws.
Now you can access all the Yoga's internals, including RAM, spare PCIe slot (which can take another mSata SSD), SSD, and of course, the fans.
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For the record, here's a close-up of the evidence confirming the source of the noise (to open the housing first remove the second strip of black tape then unscrew the tiny screws):
So, if you want to upgrade the SSD//RAM or fix the fan noise, you should have enough info to do it. I spent about 15 minutes, which is probably less time than it would take to make an exchange at BestBuy. I'll report if the fan noise returns; if it does, I suspect Lenovo might have to do a recall // upgrade.
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"I have the utmost respect for Ken as a person and as a coach, but I feel that moving John Pagano into the play-calling role will best utilize his wealth of experience," Del Rio said in a statement. "I appreciate Ken's passion and commitment to the Raiders since coming aboard and wish him the best going forward."
This marks the second coordinator change the Raiders have made since finishing last season 12-4 for the franchise's first playoff berth since 2002. Del Rio fired offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave last offseason and replaced him with quarterbacks coach Todd Downing and now has let go of Norton.
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"We for sure could have done some different things," defensive tackle Justin Ellis told reporters. "He made some good points while he was here. We played under our talent level and those things come with consequences."
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Although I'm not really part of the oneaday crowd anymore – something I regret every week when I read one of their posts – I thought I'd join in with DanSTRYBElipscombe's quiz.
- What is your favorite word? I'm not sure. Can I get back to you with a list when I remember them? I'll leave you with "cat", because it's looking at me.
- What is your least favorite word? Fine. As in: "I'm fine" or "Yeah, that's fine". What does it mean? It's such a lazy, unspecific word that does not sum up someone's emotions/feelings. I hate it.
- What turns you on? Inspirational writing, art, music, movies, just ideas in general. If someone does something that inspires me, it makes me want to try and do that to someone else. I'm a very lazy person who could do with being inspired daily. Maybe then I'd get somewhere.
- What turns you off? Nasty, impolite people. It could be the simple act of not acknowledging me for holding the door open for you, or leaving stupid hateful comments on the internet, I despise them both.
- What sound or noise do you love? The sound of an achievement popping up on my screen. Lovely.
- What sound or noise do you hate? The sound of my cat clawing the door/carpet/window frame, just anything that involves my cat being a dick.
- What is your favorite curse word? Cunt. It has a nice pop to it. Although I very rarely use it to insult someone, it's more of a friendly term. Which is odd.
- What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Well like others have said, I'm profession-less at the moment. Probably video editing, though. I loved what I did in college and really need to fulfil my promise of making funny things for youtube – another example of my laziness.
- What profession would you not like to do? Working with old people. My mum is a home help and they are godly, godly people. The things they do/see and the emotional strength they show is severely under appreciated. The same with people who work in any kind of care, really.
- If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? "The gaming lounge is over there, complete with every game/console ever created. Bar is just round the corner and it's filled with everyone you've admired and respected in your life. Oh, and don't forget: this is Heaven, we don't do laws or hangovers. Have fun."
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Hi..introducing myself as user from malaysia
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Hello ppl . I just bought a 7" tablet off ebay . I haven't received it yet but thought I'd get a jump on learning a few things about android tablets . I think I will probably cange the browser it come with . I've been looking at Dolphin . Any ideas on that ?
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I spend the majority of my time with cancer people. People who either have, have had or are in some way dancing with the disease. Each weekend I stand on a stage and gaze out at hundreds – sometimes thousands – of faces etched with expressions of pain, sorrow, hope, fear, anticipation, joy and sometimes a combination of all of the above. It's fitting. Cancer uses every emotion in the rainbow and always paints a unexpected picture – half Dali, half Rembrandt and all covered in obscene graffiti. Or maybe that was just my cancer.
Anyway, I find it ironic in a way, that I spend so much of my time with cancer people. Deep down all I really want to do is run as far and as fast as I can from the whole thing. Deep, deep down I don't want to associate with cancer in any form. Deep, deep, deep down sometimes I even deny I ever had cancer. And deeper than that is some stuff my mother did to me – like allowing me to wear coolots and a matching vest when I was a kid. But despite me desire to be away from the whole thing I'm bathing in it, eating a tasty stew made from it and wearing it as a hat each and every weekend.
The Orange Dog That Lives With Us is a dog by definition. She is canine. She has 4 paws, 2 ears, and a snout. She also has a cute little puppy face. She's not tall, but she's not short either. Her coat isn't long, but it's not short. She's not a small dog but you wouldn't call her big. She's the goldilocks of dogs. Right down the middle. She every dog. But she's the least dog-like dog I've ever known. And I say she "lives with us" because we all understand that this is her choice. We don't own her. She is simply tolerating our presence.
The Orange Dog really doesn't know she's a dog. She thinks she's a cat. She was raised around cats. She has a very cat-like personality. She's standoffish. She's rather rude at times. She doesn't really want to be petted, or talked to, or acknowledged. She's content to be over here, thank you very much and you can just stay over there. If she had opposable thumbs I bet she'd be a writer and she'd pen large tomes thick with philosophical insights much too significant for the average human. She's uppity, frankly. And would rather just be left alone.
And once, a while ago, The Orange Dog got out.
Thankfully, she has a tag – much to her chagrin. And on that tag is our phone number and shortly after she got out we got a call. It went like this:
Me: hello?
Them: <pant pant> Hey! Um, hi … do you have a dog?
Me: Yes (said into phone)…. Sort of (said mostly to self)
Them: Well, we have her <rustle, rustle> (then said away from the phone) … Hold her! Hey! Hold onto her! She'll take off again!
Me: Oh! Okay .. gosh we didn't know she was out … where are you?
Them: Well, <pant pant> we started trying to get her around Main street … but we're now at State Line. (pause) Man, that little dog is fast!
Me: <chuckling> um, okay, we'll be right there.
So we jump into the car and take off to go get The Orange Dog. On the way there, The Hub discussed how she got out (opposable thumb theory emerges again), and where she was going (to live with monks?) and what the chances were that she'd already nipped at someone who tried to "Hold her! Hey! Hold onto her!" (100%). As we got near to where the caller said they were we saw a group of about seven people – three kneeling, two looking up and down the street for our arrival, and two standing with their arms folded – all gathered on the sidewalk. We couldn't see The Orange Dog. As we got closer it was clear The Orange Dog was in the middle of the group – and the three kneeling people were holding her and, get this … trying to pet her and that's when I called our attorney friend to let him know he'd probably be defending us in dog court. We pulled over and jumped out and began thanking the group for their help. "She's really scared!" one person said, "see how much she's shaking?" I couldn't bring myself to tell them that she wasn't shaking from fear but from disgust. The Hub scooped the dog up and tossed her in the car. We shook hands, thanked them again and then headed home. On the way back we laughed like little children. Poor Dog. "I bet you'll never do THAT again!" The Hub said to her and she sneezed and snorted in the back seat. It was her worst nightmare … imagine being TOUCHED and PETTED by LOTS of PEOPLE … sickening! Once we got home she trotted deliberately AWAY from us and into the bedroom to sip a brandy and calm her nerves. We didn't see her until the next morning.
She's a dog. But she wants nothing to do with being a dog.
And for all the making fun of her I do, for all the times I've said, "I don't get it! Why doesn't she want to be loved?" for all the moments I've thought she's crazy or twisted or just plain dumb to want to escape the very characteristics that define her, I have to say … I get it.
Sometimes I feel just like her. All I want to do is run gleefully down the street with my tongue hanging out and my legs pumping as fast as they can. I want to flee any mere idea that I was a cancer patient. I want to run far and fast from this disease that seems to have followed me and tripped me up my whole life. I want to avoid, escape, erase this defining characteristic from my life.
And yet, each weekend I pull on my big girl cancer pants and head out to meet with, talk with, walk with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people who are liquid with stories and dripping with emotion.
Jen from Arizona who had a clean PET scan after her first bout with cancer and then 3 months later was diagnosed at Stage IV (there is no stage V), who is now cancer-free. Again.
The man from Tampa who walked The Breast Cancer 3 Day 2 weeks ago in memory of his wife – who died six days before the event.
Matt from Virginia who walked last year with a picture of his mom on his t-shirt. "Walking in her honor … she's my hero!" his shirt said. And this year the same picture on a different shirt "Last year I walked in her honor, this year I walk in her memory."
The two girls I met at opening ceremonies in Boston who met last year on the walk because they were tent mates. They struck up a friendship in 2007 since they had so much in common. Similar life stages, similar backgrounds, both walking in memory of their moms. They have even more in common now. One of them was diagnosed with breast cancer September last year and the other was diagnosed in February this year. They both walked together this year, as best friends and as survivors themselves.
The man in Michigan who was my ASL interpreter who began weeping during opening ceremonies and had to run from the stage after we all said the names of the people we were walking for out loud into the morning.
The woman who was sitting at a cheering station this past weekend in Arizona in wheelchair, bald, pale and somehow clapping and her husband who stood beside her saying softly to each walker "don't you quit now … don't you quit."
The stories go on and on. They break my heart. They make me angry. They give me hope and they make me sick. I should find comfort. I should find healing. I should be able to roll around in the camaraderie but instead I shudder and shake. I am a cancer survivor. And I want nothing to do with it.
And as I typed that last paragraph The Orange Dog walked slowly from the bedroom where she was sitting calmly by herself and laid down on the rug near me. It can't be said that she came out here to be with me but when I reached down and patted her head she actually nudged into nose into my hand.
Maybe there is hope. … for both of us.


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Recently, I was asked "If ISO 27001 is implemented by companies in Mauritius, will they comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) requirements currently being introduced across Europe ahead of the May 2018 deadline?"
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - An Implementation and Compliance Guide Kindle Edition
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - An Implementation and Compliance Guide Kindle Edition
The EU GDPR impacts every entity that holds or uses European personal data both inside and outside of Europe. While Europe has long been highly concerned with privacy, in many other parts of the world, concerns are low and oversight is lax. Mauritian businesses targeting European customers need to get their act together and start preparing for the new regime.
The new regulation introduces a set of rules that require organisations to implement controls to protect personal data. For example:
Noncompliance: Administrative fines up to EUR20 million, or up to 4 percent of total worldwide annual sales volume/revenue for the preceding financial year, whichever is higher.
Notification: A personal data breach leading to the unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, personal data must be reported within 72 hours.
Data protection accountability: Companies must demonstrate that considerable security measures are in place to protect users' private data.
Data subject's right to access, rectification, erasure and portability: Organisations need to validate the individual's identity, swiftly produce personal data it processes, and correct, erase or transfer data on request.
In layman terms, compliance with the GDPR is enforced with the threats of ceasing to do business with non-compliant organisations, a substantial impact on the bottom line, and a substantial demand on security and I.T. operations.
The EU GDPR mandates numerous privacy arrangements and controls designed to protect personal data, many of which are also recommended by ISO27k standards. Organisations that currently have an ISO27k ISMS (Information Security Management System) are therefore likely to have certain GDPR requirements in place.
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Not only are the reigning champion New York Yankees headed home, but your Texas Rangers are going to the Big Show after a 6-1, Game 6 clincher Friday night.
Yeah, they've never been there. It's their first time. They're new at this.
They are Fall Classic virgins.
Rangers Ballpark was christened with ginger ale (in respect of their recovering addict MVP) last night as their very first pennant flag was raised above the field, surrounded by over 51,400 insanely-ecstatic Texans. Like team president Nolan Ryan for example:
Our fans have waited a long time, this organization has waited a long time. This team coming out of spring training was on a mission.Colby Lewis pitched his little heart out, earning his second win of the series after eight solid innings of three-hit baseball. He was mistakenly accused of a wild pitch in the top of the fifth, which actually hit the dirt and ricocheted off Nick Swisher's shin before heading straight to the backstop. This allowed A-Rod to score and tie the game, angering honest, baseball-loving Americans everywhere.
Josh Hamilton was intentionally walked all three at bats after his single in the first, which did nothing but give designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero the opportunity to drive in the first three Texas runs. His two-run double in the fifth off starter Phil Hughes snapped a 1-1 tie before Nelson Cruz -- riding an 11-game hitting streak with a sore hammy and all -- went yard off reliever David Robertson to give the Rangers a four-run lead. Ian Kinsler, who flashed some pretty fancy leather as well, drove Michael Young in on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to give Texas some cushion and pretty much seal the deal.
I should mention, Elvis Andrus also has an 11-game postseason hitting streak going, and that impresses us greatly. We're also delighted by the efforts of Hamilton, who batted .350 with four bombs and seven RBI to earn the ALCS MVP honor.
Some say the party began when former Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez stood dazed at the plate after a Neftali Feliz slider came in for a called third strike to end the game and shatter the Bronx Bombers' World Series hopes. Could there have been a more appropriate final out? I think not.
Others say it began with Game 2, the first of a three-game ALCS winning streak for the Rangers in which they outscored the 27-time World Champs by an incredible 25-5.
Whatever the case, they're headed to either San Francisco or Philadelphia for Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday, with the first Texas home game scheduled for next Saturday.
The Dallas Morning News has a pretty great article full of Rangers fans' reactions to the excitement. This one is by far my favorite:
It's karma. Just look at how the season has gone. We've had a person fall out of the upper deck, and they didn't die!Speaking of weird: the reigning NL Champion Phillies, just one year removed from their most recent World Series victory, are fighting tooth and nail to stay in this thing. Holding on to a 3-2 series lead, the Giants will send Jonathan Sanchez to the hill at Citizen's Bank Park to face Roy Oswalt in Game 6 this evening at 7:30pm ET on FOX. Enjoy!
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Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network
Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network
Does the FBI track cellphone users' physical movements without a warrant? Does the Bureau store recordings of innocent Americans caught up in wiretaps in a searchable database? Does the FBI's wiretap equipment store information like voicemail passwords and bank account numbers without legal authorization to do so?
That's what the nation's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court wanted to know, in a series of secret inquiries in 2005 and 2006 into the bureau's counterterrorism electronic surveillance efforts, revealed for the first time in newly declassified documents.
The inquires are the first publicly known questioning of the FBI's post-9/11 surveillance activities by the secret court, which has historically approved nearly every wiretap application submitted to it. The court handles surveillance requests in counterterrorism and foreign espionage investigations. The inquiries add to questions surrounding how the FBI has used the broad powers handed to it by Congress in the 2001 USA Patriot Act, including the FBI's admitted abuse of so-called National Security Letters to get stored telephone and financial records.
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The internal inquiry seems to have preceded, and was likely prompted by, a secret court hearing on the matter days later. Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with Electronic Frontier Foundation, says the documents suggest that the nation's spy court shares the reluctance of federal criminal courts to turn everyday cellphones into tracking devices, in the absence of evidence that the target has done something wrong.
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The lawyer added a note of concern that phone companies might be sending along cell-site data even when they aren't asked for it. "Do we get it all or can we, when required, tell the equipment to not collect the cell-site location data?," the lawyer asked.
Separately, the secret court questioned if the FBI was using pen register orders to collect digits dialed after a call is made, potentially including voicemail passwords and account numbers entered into bank-by-phone applications.
Using a pen register order, the FBI can force a phone company to turn over records of who a person calls, or is called by, simply by asserting the information would be relevant to an investigation. But existing case law holds that those so-called "post-cut-through dialed digits" count as the content of a communication, and thus to collect that information, the FBI would need to get a full-blown wiretapping warrant based on probable cause.
On August 7 2006, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly took the extraordinary step of ordering the FBI to report (.pdf) on how its sophisticated phone wiretapping system, known as Digital Collection System, handled those extra digits and whether it stored them in a centralized data-mining depository known as Telephone Application.
The documents (.pdf) show that the majority of FBI offices surveyed internally were collecting that information without full-blown wiretap orders, especially in classified investigations. The documents also indicate that the information was being uploaded to the FBI's central repository for wiretap recordings and phone records, where analysts can data-mine the records for decades.
EFF's Bankston says it's clear that FBI offices had configured their digit-recording software, DCS 3000, to collect more than the law allows.
"The FBI's configuration of DCS 3000 to collect post-cut-through dialed digits when conducting pen-register surveillance is flatly illegal under statute and raises serious Fourth Amendment questions, based on the unanimous decisions of two district court judges and three federal magistrate judges holding that such interceptions require a wiretap order based on probable cause," Bankston said.
The documents also reveal that the inquiry on dialed-digits collection wasn't the first time the secret court had queried the FBI regarding its use and storage of information from wiretaps. In October 2005, the court also asked the FBI to explain how it stored "raw" foreign-intelligence wiretap content and information about Americans collected during those wiretaps.
The government is supposed to "minimize" — that is anonymize or destroy — information gathered on Americans who aren't the targets of a wiretap, unless that information is crucial to an investigation.
The court wanted the FBI to explain what databases stored raw wiretaps (.pdf), how those recordings could be accessed, and by whom, as well as how minimization standards were implemented.
The documents don't reveal the answer to that question. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
For more on the FBI's sophisticated wiretapping technology and how it links in with the nation's phone and internet infrastructure, see Point, Click, Eavesdrop.


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1. How did I feel during planning this presentation? Why did I feel this way?
I felt overwhelmed by the presentation and slightly pathetic in the group. By the time I was done with what I was doing, most of the group debate questions were already answered and I did little to nothing on the questions. I then took two days after I was supposed to finish my slides to complete them.
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The Gilmore Blog
Published February 10, 2012
The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival Director Daniel Gustin announced today the promotion of Alice Kemerling to the new position of Assistant Director of the organization. Ms. Kemerling, who has been The GilmoreтАЩs Director of Development since August, 2000, will begin her new responsibilities immediately.
тАЬI am thrilled to have Alice take on the additional responsibilities of Assistant Director of The Gilmore in addition to continuing to manage the critical fund-raising efforts of our organization,тАЭ said Mr. Gustin. тАЬThe new staff structure with Alice as Assistant Director will allow us to meet the growing demands of the biennial Gilmore Keyboard Festival in West Michigan, our international Gilmore Awards programs, as well as our other local concert-giving and educational activities.тАЭ
President of The Gilmore Board of Trustees William Richardson commented, тАЬAlice Kemerling will do a terrific job in her new position, as she has done leading development over the years.тАЭ
Now celebrating its 22nd year, The Gilmore organization has a full-time staff of nine and offices at the Epic Center in downtown Kalamazoo.
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Dark Tides of the Shadow Lords: The Moon Sword Sagas, Episode Five: The Dirty Urchins
Yeah, fantasy. We all know it. And admit, we love it. We love reading about, oh, things. Fantastical things, impossible things, castles and knights and all that epic bullshit. It makes us happy in our secret, elf-strewn hearts. Nothing wrong with that. Ta.
During the dinner in Austin, mentioned earlier, there was a conversation. I didn't think much about it at the time, because it was a subject that I've mulched in my head previously, and when it came up I just did a copy/paste from my previous musings and everyone seemed pleased and all, and that was it. But since then it's been re-mulching, in a sort of persistent way, so I'm going to kick it out here.
The conversation was this: The Bloated Epic. I'm not going to name names, because I'm a professional and a new professional and I don't want to step on toes. Tad Williams. Damn it! Damn! I didn't...Tad, if you're reading this, I love you. I read the whole Dragonbone Chair madness, and most of Otherland (I stalled, through no failing of your own. I'll get back to it.) and now I'm starting Shadowmarch and it's going well. But the books are too long. And it's not just Tad. There are a lot of very successful authors who are writing very, very long books. Books are not Cadillac Escalades, people! They don't need to be up in your grill with the word count. There is no need for bling, or spinners, or any of that. And I carry a knife, so I don't need to feel as if I can defend myself with your book if I'm beset by hooligans on my way to Starbux.
The hypothesis was forwarded that publishers were going to start producing reasonable-sized fantasy novels. I disagreed. Not to be contrary, though I am, but because I think Market Forces stand in the way. I disagreed because publishers do not set prices based on wordiness, and people who have become accustomed to paying $8 (that's $12 and an NHL franchise to our Canadian readers) are not going to want to start paying the same price for a book half as long. And if one publisher starts selling half sized (basically double-priced) books, that publisher is going to fail.
But it's a double-edged sword. (Again, the fantasy imagery creeps in like some kind of NINJA!) The double-edginess is this: What if you're a new author. You can't write the bloat! Readers won't buy it! Who wants to commit to reading 780 (1235 in Canada) pages from someone you've never heard of? Zero readers, that's who. And zero readers is many, many less than you need to accomplish sell-through.
So what do people think. Can we bring back, say, 80k word fantasy novels that are still epic. Say, produce more of them? If I were doing this full time I can honestly say that I could write a novel every four months. With time for breaks, that's two books a year. See, the thing with the big novels is there's so much time between them...at least a year, maybe more. I had to stop reading GRRM's thing because it simply collapsed under its own weight. Its own wait, too. Too many characters, too many threads, too little continuity. That would have been better as one book every six months, across four series. Much better. Made more money too, I'll bet.
Anyway. Oh, one more thing. Fuck Pirates. I'm sick of 'em. Pirates are over.


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That isn't meant as a rhetorical question. I'd genuinely like to know whether Republicans are grappling with it, and how. That's because the GOP finds itself trapped in a contradiction that will require that question to be dealt with sooner or later.
Some of the party's most sacred principles lead to positions that are deeply unpopular. At the same time, many individual GOP lawmakers have clear incentives to continue to hold those positions. They come from safe districts where majorities agree with them, and standing behind them earns praise from conservative interest groups and media. Yet those positions — and their underlying principles — are damaging the party as a whole. Regular association with them may be increasingly damaging the party's "brand" — Republicans lost the election in part because they were seen as patrons of the wealthy — and they constrain the party from reaching the compromise with Dems the public overwhelmingly wants, hurting its overall image further still.
The new Pew poll drives this home. It confirms again that Dems hold the middle ground in the fiscal cliff battle. But it goes further. Majorities broadly sees the Democratic Party as in line with their priorities on many issues and with their basic sense of how government should solve our problems.
By 53-33, Americans see the GOP as "more extreme in its positions," while Dems are seen as more willing to work with the other party by 53-37. Fifty five percent say Obama is seriously trying to work with Republicans, while 32 percent say GOPers are trying to work with the President. There's rising support for the Dem solution to the fiscal mess — a mix of tax hikes and spending cuts — which is now up to 74 percent. Big majorities oppose specific spending cuts — such as cuts to education and infrastructure — and oppose raising the retirement age on entitlements.
Yet individual GOP lawmakers continue to have strong incentives to stick with an increasingly unpopular overall posture: That we should sooner cut deeply into cherished government programs that benefit millions and millions of Americans in order to avoid raising tax rates on the top 2 percent. This predicament is one of the GOP's own making. As Jonathan Chait puts it: "It was Republicans who elevated the unpopular cause of low income tax rates for the rich to a sacred principle, built an entire party theology around punishing even the slightest dissent from that principle, and then enacted the sacred agenda through a rickety budget mechanism that caused it all to expire after a decade."
The GOP is in a terrible spot, which is why some conservatives, such as Philip Klein, are calling on Republicans to permanently extend the middle class tax cuts while letting the high end rates go up, to live to fight another day. But it's unclear whether that solves the basic underlying problem here, which is that the GOP vision of government seems to be fundamentally and increasingly out of step with how majorities view its proper scope and role. The Pew poll finds Dems with significant leads on many other domestic issues, like education, energy, health care, and Social Security. And Republicans are so dedicated to seeing deep (and unpopular) entitlement cuts that they are preparing a showdown over the debt ceiling to achieve them. It's true that the politics of the debt ceiling don't automatically favor Dems (because people associate it with over-spending in the abstract). But the GOP brand is so tarnished — even as Obama's popularity is rising — that the public may implicitly trust the President in the next showdown, too, particularly if he opposes the sort of entitlements cuts the GOP wants.
Yet next year, as now, the incentives for individual GOP lawmakers, particularly in the House, to stage that showdown will remain strong. It's hard to see how it's a good thing for the GOP if lawmakers remain comfortably isolated from broader opinion when the party plainly needs to evolve. A non-rhetorical question: Do Republicans view this as a problem?


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For our first go round in 2016, we decided to have an informal chat about all the things we've got planned for this year (spoiler: video games, crumpets, sea breezes). Unfortunately for you, we also got massively sidetracked into having a long rant about workplace safety and mental health.
You can listen or subscribe via iTunes, or press play below (you can also download it below, if you love it so much). If you have another podcast player you want to use, this is the feed URL you need: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAnxietyShut-inHourPodcasts
Things to read
When it's not enough to be your own beloved (Erin's piece)
Good people have mental illnesses (Anna's interview with Buzzfeed)
Why speaking up about mental illness is a privilege (Daily Life)
Transcript of Anna's interview on RN's Life Matters program


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Libertango – from the argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla
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Libertango is a composition by tango composer Ástor Piazzolla, recorded and published in 1974 in Milan. The title is a portmanteau merging "Libertad" (Spanish for liberty) and "Tango", symbolizing Piazzolla's break from Classical Tango to Tango Nuevo. Two of his most popular compositions are Libertango und Adios Nonino. Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata 1921 and died in the age of 71 in Buenos Aires.
Tango Nuevo
Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1921, the only child of Italian immigrant parents, Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla and Asunta Manetti. His paternal grandfather, a sailor and fisherman named Pantaleo (later Pantaleón) Piazzolla, had immigrated to Mar del Plata from Trani, a seaport in the southeastern Italian region of Apulia, at the end of the 19th century. His mother was the daughter of two Italian immigrants from Lucca in Tuscany.
In 1925 Astor Piazzolla moved with his family to Greenwich Village in New York City, which in those days was a violent neighbourhood inhabited by a volatile mixture of gangsters and hard-working immigrants. His parents worked long hours and Piazzolla soon learned to take care of himself on the streets despite having a limp. At home he would listen to his father's records of the tango orchestras of Carlos Gardel and Julio de Caro, and was exposed to jazz and classical music, including Bach, from an early age. He began to play the bandoneon after his father spotted one in a New York pawn shop in 1929.
After their return to New York City from a brief visit to Mar del Plata in 1930, the family moved to Little Italy in lower Manhattan. In 1932 Piazzolla composed his first tango, "La Catinga". The following year he took music lessons with the Hungarian classical pianist Bela Wilda, a student of Rachmaninoff who taught him to play Bach on his bandoneon. In 1934 he met Carlos Gardel, one of the most important figures in the history of tango, and played a cameo role as a paper boy in his movie El día que me quieras.
Gardel invited the young bandoneon player to join him on his tour.nMuch to Piazzolla's dismay, his father decided that he was not old enough to go along. The disappointment of being forbidden to join the tour proved to be fortunate, as it was on this tour in 1935 that Gardel and his entire orchestra perished in a plane crash. In later years, Piazzolla made light of this near miss, joking that if his father had not been so careful, Piazzolla would be playing the harp rather than the bandoneon.


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|Project by Greg the Cajun Wood Artist
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I got some nice walnut last week and all week it has been bugging me seeing it sitting there on the rack.
Therefore, it is no longer sitting on the rack but is sitting on my workbench. It had some sapwood in it and after cutting it off I used them for the lift and a back accent.
The bottom is lined with Ostrich skin.
It is 9.5"x 6.5" x 3.5"
-- Wood for projects is like a good Fart..."better when you cut it yourself"
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#1 posted 02-27-2016 05:36 AM
this does it for me dude,and the ostrich skin bottom rocks it,enough said.
-- sawdust the bigger the pile the bigger my smile-larry,so cal.
#2 posted 02-27-2016 06:00 AM
You really integrated everything with this one. Sapwood works for me! A wow piece! I even like the wooden hinges LOL!
-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher
#3 posted 02-27-2016 02:29 PM
I didn't even know 'gators played basketball…...
I like the accents too.
-- Paul M ..............the early bird may get the worm but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese! http://thecanadianschooloffrenchmarquetry.com/
#4 posted 02-27-2016 04:05 PM
Paul…Down here in Louisiana anything is possible…!
-- Wood for projects is like a good Fart..."better when you cut it yourself"
#5 posted 02-27-2016 05:17 PM
Looks terrific. the built in hinges are a great touch, I wonder if you could integrate Jerry's "Invisible hinge" into one of these?
-- "Well, the world needs ditch-diggers too..." - Judge Smails
#6 posted 02-27-2016 11:24 PM
Beautiful box and great way to use the sapwood. Thanks for sharing
-- Leafherder
#7 posted 02-29-2016 05:03 PM
love the wood hinges
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November 15, 2015
Rev. Tina Walker-Morin
Pilgrim Congregational Church, UCC
So no family is perfect. Looking at my family it might look from the outside to be the perfect American family. Two parents, a mom and dad both gainfully employed having success in their careers, raising four girls in the church. All four girls went to college and then graduate school, no one got in trouble as a youngster, no drug or legal issues. The biggest issue was my speeding tickets.
But my family of origin was/is not perfect. There has been suffering. Those of you who are attending my ordination later today will notice my family there. My three sisters, two who are with us this morning, their husbands and my two nephews. My aunt and uncle from Tennessee and Tracy's family. Her sister and brother-in-law, their two girls, my mother and father-in-law and Tracy's aunt and uncle. But noticeably absent will be my parents.
My parents have chosen to not attend my ordination and I would be lying if I said it does not hurt, that I don't feel the sting and that I haven't allowed myself to suffer from their decision. We all experience suffering in our lifetimes, we all have had disappointment and wondered why, and fall into that pit of self-loathing and this is where we meet Hannah today in the first book of Samuel from the Old Testament.
To give you a little background information, the books of Samuel describes the rise of the Kings in Israel. Samuel, who is Hannah's son, was viewed as a prophet and divinely appointed leader capable of functioning as priest, seer, war leader, and judge. He is the last Judge before the kings become rulers over Israel. He is the prophet who appoints King David.
Hannah is suffering because she is barren. That is a tough position to be in both in her day as well as today. Many women suffer because they are unable to have children. What makes matters worse for Hannah is that during her time "children, particularly sons were not just tiny humans to love and nurture. They represented the future -- life beyond the present generation -- in a very real and concrete way. Sometimes we forget that for ancient Israelites, the concept of life-after-death and heaven was nebulous, perhaps even non-existent. Thus, during the time in which the Hebrew Bible was written, Israelites imagined "life-after-death" as unfolding in the lives of their descendants."[1] So Hannah's future and legacy is in jeopardy. Her husband, Elkanah, and his other wife, Peninnah is secured through her many children. To make matters worse, Peninnah had rubbed it all in Hannah's face. Peninnah would "provoke her severely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb." (1 Samuel 1:6) and this would continue for years.
Now before we continue there is one thing I want to iterate and that is that I believe the Bible is written by people to relay their experiences of God. So the way I read this passage, I do not believe that God "closed Hannah's womb", that God made her barren. But I do believe that this is what she or the author of the text believed.
So here we have Hannah who is suffering first because she can't have children and secondly because her sister-wife Penniah is being cruel to her. So Hannah wept and did not eat (v. 7) She went into that self-loathing mood that I can attest to. But I must say I often cry and eat. I reach for my comfort foods and feel bad for myself.
Then steps in Elkanah, a typical guy trying to help but not quite knowing what to say. He says, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?" (v. 8). Oh good try Elkanah, but it is not about you! He doesn't get it and Hannah is left still feeling the pains of suffering. Nothing is going her way. She can't have children, she is being bullied by her husband's other wife, her future is not secure and her husband doesn't get it. I imagine she is at her wits end, so what does she finally do? She turns to God as it is stated: "She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord, and wept bitterly." (v10).
Have you even been at that place where the tears won't stop and you are sitting on the floor weeping and just praying to anyone who will listen? Maybe it is God, maybe it is Jesus, and maybe it is just to get it out of you?
I imagine that is what Hannah is experiencing. She has taken it all in, she is beaten down and the only thing left she can do is pray. As she prays, the priest Eli believes her to be drunk because she is praying silently but moving her lips. She says to him, "do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and frustration all this time" (v16). Eli then prays with her and once they are finished praying her "countenance was sad no longer", her face, her soul was no longer sad. Wow, now that is some powerful prayer.
As I was in seminary and working through the steps to becoming ordained, prayer was a big topic of discussion. Questions were asked like, what does prayer mean, or how do we pray? At times I pray and I do not feel any different and I learned long ago that even if I ask God for something in prayer that does not mean I will get what I want. For example, when I was 14 my golden retriever's body was riddled with cancer. I of course asked God to heal her. Well my poor baby died anyway. I have heard and personally know of too many accounts where we perceived prayers were unanswered.
Does this mean we should stop praying? Well no. Prayer is about so much more than getting what we want. In fact, getting what we want is not even the point of prayer. Jesus taught the disciples that "whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him." (Matthew 6:6-8). God knows what we need before we ask.
Prayer is about opening the door to let God in. Sometimes the best prayers are the simplest. The New York Times bestselling author and theologian, Anne Lamott has come up with three simple prayers, HELP, THANKS and WOW.
Help she states that this is the "first great prayer"[2]. Help, God enter this mess. Help, this is really all too much. Or, Help, he is going to leave me, or I have no life[3] etc… So when we cry out for Help, or mutter it through our tears in prayer "help means that we ask that Something [God] give us courage to stop in our tracks, right where we are, and turn our eyes to something else."[4]
I think that maybe Hannah reached this point and cried out for help when she prayed "Let your servant find favor in your sight" (v18). She then departs and "her countenance was sad no longer" (v18). She leaves as if her prayer was already answered, but she did not know when her prayer would be answered for God answers her prayer "in due time". In fact, we don't know if it was years later or when but in due time she became pregnant with Samuel. And this is where Anne Lamont's other two prayers, Thanks and Wow would fit in.
Some might think the miracle for Hannah was giving birth to Samuel who would become a prophet and anoint David King (1 Samuel 16:12-13). But I believe the miracle is seeing how it took Hannah years of sorrow and suffering to reach the breaking point and as she wept she finally turned to God in prayer.
What great hope this gives us. We too get sucked into our own self-pity and sorrow. And you know what, God is still here. God is always with us waiting for us to turn and simply pray, Help.
This past week had a few tough days for me and I used writing this sermon as therapy. I went from being angry and upset, eating donuts for lunch, to studying and praying. I asked God for Help....Help me take back control of my emotions, help me get through this day. God help me.
And today I pray Thanks. Thank you God for all these wonderful people, thank you for my sisters travelling to bear witness to my ordination. Thank you God.
And lastly, Wow.
Wow, I am loved.
[1] Karla Suomala, "Commentary on 1Samuel 1:4-20", Working Preacher https://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=1478
[2] Lamontt, Anne "Help, Thanks, Wow: Three essential prayers" (Riverhead Books: New York, 2012), 15.
[3] Lamontt, Anne "Help, Thanks, Wow: Three essential prayers" (Riverhead Books: New York, 2012), 29.
[4] Lamontt, Anne "Help, Thanks, Wow: Three essential prayers" (Riverhead Books: New York, 2012), 40.


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Well I decided to do something with this old site. I figured I could write a little about what I will be going through the next few years with this cancer shit. In case you don't know I have squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil. It showed up on my left tonsil, back of my tongue and roof of the throat.
I found this out on Dec. 31 2014 well found out I had issues the cancer was diagnose on Dec 31 so happy F'en New Year to me huh? Anyways I kinda read this can go a lot of different ways and I wont really know anything till treatment starts on Feb 3 so for now I will just wait it out and play it day by day.
You can fallow me on FaceBook here https://www.facebook.com/jamesccordray I will most likely setup a donation link through PayPal cuz this is gunna get real expensive quick but for now I am just going to write each day and bitch about it because that's why I have this site for anyways.
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Two New DI Presses Raise the Standard for Digital Offset Quality
Monday, May 10, 2004
Press release from the issuing companyHUDSON, N.H., May 8 -- Presstek, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of environmentally responsible high tech digital imaging solutions for the graphic arts and laser imaging markets, is showcasing its leadership position in the Digital Offset Press market with an array of Presstek enabled DI presses at drupa 2004, the world's largest printing trade fair, taking place in Dusseldorf, Germany, May 6th through 19th. Direct Imaging (DI) presses combine the convenience of digital printing with the quality and economic benefits of offset printing. Today's market demands increasingly shorter runs of high quality color printing. DI presses offer printers the best of both worlds - true offset quality at a competitive short-run cost. At drupa 2004, Presstek delivers the most significant innovation to Direct Imaging presses since the inception of digital offset technology. Presstek's new ProFire Excel Imaging optimized with Presstek's new ProFire Digital Media generates a 16-micron laser spot that enables 300 lines per inch (120 l/cm) output, while supporting FM (Stochastic), AM (conventional), and hybrid screening options. This exciting breakthrough imaging technology from Presstek sets a new standard in quality for on-press printing applications, delivering startling offset quality quickly, with far less waste than conventional offset printing processes. ProFire Excel DI presses dramatically change the competitive dynamics for offset printing by raising the bar on quality and lowering the cost of market entry. Their ease of use makes them the ideal solution for digital printers who wish to add offset printing to their portfolio of services. 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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
If I had a Million Dollars: Spring Dream
I should be packing up the last of my things at my gramma's, going to bed early, or browsing around online for things we need for the house... but instead, I'm blogging. Surprise! I figured it was time to treat myself to a little "window" shopping online since I've done very little besides house stuff lately. And we all know that fitting all these little pictures into a square box calms me, so there's that.
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