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It's been a long, long while since I've done a randomosity post. But random topics still burble to the surface, so let's get them all out in the open.
Fifty-one weeks of the year, I really enjoy living on this particular street, in this particular house. We live on a quiet cul-de-sac that is close but not too close to a main intersection in an urban-leaning suburb of a mid-size city. I feel like we get the neighborhoody aspects of living in the suburbs, but have plenty of businesses and restaurants and ice cream shops nearby. And it's quiet. I realize I said that one sentence back, but it's important. There's not a huge amount of action, beyond the teenagers playing basketball across the street. The traffic is minimal.
But one week of the year, a business that resides (lives? exists?) on an adjoining street holds an event that draws people from near and far. So for the duration of the event – not quite a week, but close enough that I will count it as a full week, for complaining's sake – our street is busy. Lots of cars driving down it, to check out the event. Or to try to leave the event, without realizing that our street has no outlet. Or to park on the side of the street before hiking back to the event venue. The event lasts late into the evening, so there are cars driving and people talking excitedly and people beeping their horns as they engage their remote locks well past ten. Is event starting to look a little wacko, as words go, or is it just me? By day two, I begin to go crazy. Carla is a fairly deep sleeper, but I get that crazed newborn-parent feel of, SHHHH, you are being TOO LOUD, there is a BABY SLEEPING, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I don't like it, is what I'm saying. It makes me cranky. It makes me feel wary of talking to anyone while we're outside, which we are a lot at this time of year. It makes me double and triple check the locks on the doors (because people heading to the event are super likely to be burglars/murderers) (no). It makes me feel like whispering and ducking past windows and uncomfortably aware of the proximity of my bedroom to the street.
I will be glad when this year's event ends.
We have a new addition to our household. A new baby deer. Its mother leaves it in a snug little bundle of white spots between our deck and the azalea bushes.
This year, Carla spotted the fawn first. And, being a child who loves animals with a passion that makes her literally vibrate with the desire to pet and hug and adopt, she cannot stop thinking about the fawn. This has made it rather difficult to enjoy our backyard; she is constantly hopping out of her seat at lunch or dinner to go peek at the fawn. Or, instead of playing in the yard, she is peeking at the fawn. Or, instead of doing anything at all other than peeking at the fawn, she is peeking at the fawn.
She wants to show it a pinecone. (It won't care.) She wants to share her ham with it. (No.) She wants to bring it up on the deck to show it an ant that is crawling as quickly away from Carla as its legs can carry it. (No.)
We have had lots of conversations about deer being wild animals, and being especially careful around baby animals, because their mothers will be protective. And how even though deer are so pretty and docile looking, they can bite and kick.
This has sunk in a bit further in some areas than others; Carla still wants to pet the fawn (no; wild animal). But she refuses to go into the backyard by herself just in case the mommy deer is there and wants to bite her or kick her or lick her (okay, good point; also it probably won't lick you).
I don't know why I continue to be disgruntled by the presence of baby deer in our yard. This has happened… every year since we've lived here? Our yard is a deer daycare. But each year, I feel annoyed at the mother deer for just abandoning her baby in my yard, where I then feel obligated to care for it. (I mean, insofar as "care for it" means peeking at it occasionally, keeping Carla away from it, and fretting about its safety.)
And I DO fret about it! We were moving some deck furniture around the other day, on the very deck against which the fawn was snuggled, and it was making a tremendous racket, and I commented to my husband that I hoped it wasn't terrifying the poor creature. When the lawn service people arrived, I ran around in a panic, trying to replace my pajamas with clothes so that I could go out and warn them to stay away from the fawn's azalea hidey-hole. We are having our deck refinished in a few weeks, and I am really hopeful that the fawn's mother decides to take her on a field trip somewhere else so that the sanders and scrapers don't scare the poor thing out of its spots.
Part of me feels so annoyed at the mother deer, for not picking a safer location to stow her offspring. But I suppose it is an urban deer, and this probably feels a whole lot safer than the corner of a busy intersection or the back of a schoolyard playground. And I suppose the fawn could always complain to its mother about the creature with the curly blond fur who keeps poking its face over the side of deck and waving pinecones at it, and suggest that they find a new daycare center.
As long as we're talking about the backyard, we did get a playset. I loved all the comments and ideas, especially the suggestion to turn our weed patch into a beautiful garden (believe me! I would LOVE that!). Of course, being me, I continued to obsessively research and read reviews and bother people with questions. In the end, we concluded that a playset is the right decision for us. Time will tell, I suppose. To tell you the truth, I think the playset is really for ME. It will be so much more convenient to throw Carla in the backyard than to schlep her to a playground when she is overcome by the need to swing. And we can host playdates MUCH more comfortably if there is something for the kids to do outside. So I'M excited about it.
I've been on the hunt for a few very specific items of clothing lately. One is The Perfect Skirt, for which I continue searching. Let us take a gauzy look through time at one I had in college: white, a lineny blend, cut just above the knee, a-line. THAT is the skirt I am looking for. It was the ideal cut/shape for my shape/cut. It was a nice summery, neutral color. It was a casual material, which I am REALLY interested in; I have plenty of This Would Be Fine at the Office kinds of dresses/skirts; I really want some This Is Cute But Totally Casual Enough for the Playground or Library Story Time options. But I have yet to find it. I bought this skirt from Nordstrom, and despite being adorable in the online pictures, it was NOT The Perfect Skirt and I have since returned it.
Another item I am seeking, in bulk, perhaps, is Rear-End-Covering Shirts. I already have a few that are dressier, so right now I am looking for casual options. I have found some good ones, I think: this one from Athleta,
…and this one from Loft. (I got the Loft version for, I think, $12. But now they are on sale for two for $18!)
But I find myself wanting moremoremore because a) I enjoy wearing leggings and b) my rear end is self-conscious. My trouble though is that shirts that seem to fit the bill either don't actually cover my rear end (I am more generous in the backyard than 99% of the models modeling the "rear-end-covering" shirts), or they make me feel shlubby. I want casual-but-put-together, not rolled-out-of-bed-and-grabbed-my-husband's-undergarment-off-the-floor. I guess a more accurate way to describe it is that I like my tops to have some shape to them. Yet, like The Perfect Skirt and The Perfect Jeans, it seems really hard to find something matching my specifications. So I'm snapping them up when I come across them.
The room mother for Carla's preschool class collected money for a year-end gift for her teachers. The gifts were lovely and generous, and I was delighted to not have to come up with ideas for something her teachers would like and not throw away. But when Carla and I were leaving her classroom on the last day, one of the other parents brought in two large bags from a fancy store and handed one to each of Carla's teachers.
Listen, Carla and I wrote personal messages in cards for each of her teachers. They went above and beyond for us this year, in many ways, and I wanted to express my gratitude in words in addition to submitting some cash to the group gift. So I acknowledge that maybe these other parents felt similarly, and wanted to really show the teachers how grateful they were.
Or, of course, maybe they didn't participate in the group gift. Or maybe their love language is Gift Giving. Or maybe other justifying thoughts I can't come up with.
My worry, of course, is that this is What You Do; you give money to the room mother for the group gift, and then you ALSO buy a personal gift for each teacher. Which seems ridiculous, but what do I know? So many tiny, unimportant-in-the-greater-scheme-of-things stresses related to Having a Child in School! I had no idea!
My desktop anthurium – which you may recall was purchased purely because I was looking for a red lamp – for accent moreso than for light – and couldn't find one – has lost its… well, I suppose they are flowers? The red pretty rooster-face looking portions of the plant. There were two to begin with, and one darkened and crumpled a few months ago, and now the second is going the same way. I don't know anything about anthuria, outside of the fact that I fed them with ice cubes. Well, I guess I did a rather poor job of even doing that, considering that they have chosen death over waiting to see if I will remember to ice them each week. So I have no idea if they will flower again, in time… or if I need to find another one. One of the things that made it so clear I needed to buy THIS anthurium was that it came in such a lovely bright red vase. I neither want to buy a new red-vased anthurium nor replant an anthurium in this vase. So I suppose I will stare hopefully at my remaining anthurium leaves and try to remember the weekly icing.
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This cat's goal in life is to be in your face, snuggling you at all times. Whether or not you can actually breathe is of little concern to him.
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Google launches browser size application
Google Labs has released Google Browser Size, a new tool which allows designers to analyse the percentage of a website initially seen by browsers.
Taking into account the average browser window size of internet users, the tool divides a website into various coloured sections. This displays the portion of a page visitors can initially view when the page loads. The announcement from Google said the tool would allow webmasters to effectively highlight the vital sections of their site:
"Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. This is useful for ensuring that important parts of a page's user interface are visible by a wide audience".
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Tom Glass, theEword creative director, said that the tool would prove invaluable for webmasters. He commented:
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To review: Kenny Britt's friend* was brought to a Jersey City hospital early Sunday morning after having been stabbed during a fight that reportedly involved a lot of people. His injuries were not life-threatening. Britt, the Tennessee Titans wide receiver, was with his brother when his brother got to the hospital, but Britt refused to cooperate with police and soon left. As of yesterday around this time, Jersey City police were looking to question Britt. As of right now, that still hasn't changed, and the cops are even asking that the Titans—and anyone else, for that matter—assist in tracking him down.
* This post has been updated to reflect the following: Even though police initially said the stabbing victim was Britt's brother, they have since identified the 23-year-old man as Britt's "close, personal friend." The "false" statement to which police are referring was issued by an anonymous spokesman on Britt's behalf Sunday night. And the cops also would like to talk to Britt about another incident during which a gunshot was fired.
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Lenovo ThinkPad W520 - mini review
High end portable workstations are a special class of computer. The Lenovo ThinkPad W520 belongs to that class and in many ways sets the bar. As a daily user of a ThinkPad W510, I was certainly interested in seeing and testing the new W520 to see what improvements were made.
Keep in mind I don't have a lab with instruments to scientifically measure power draw, consumption, clock speed of the cpu or gpu, etc. But I do like to put notebooks through their paces with an interesting application mix. This is why I call it a "mini" review.
W510 owners should stop reading here. It's that much better. Really. I'm not kidding.
Executive Summary
The Lenovo ThinkPad W520 is twice as fast as my ThinkPad W510 at certain chores and eclipses it on battery life. The ThinkPad W520 has superior battery life over the W510 and reaches 6-7 hours of battery life at a moderate screen brightness. Lenovo continues to provide excellent thermal management cooling in the W520 workstation. See the performance and battery life sections below for more detail. In short, the ThinkPad W520 with the new Intel Sandy Bridge chipset is a strong improvement to the Lenovo W Series of portable workstations.
The unit I received isn't the top of the line ThinkPad W520 but it has some of the top tier components. It's a model 4284-A58. It has the Intel Core i7-2720QM processor (quad-core, 2.20GHz, 6MB Cache), DDR3 memory controller (up to 1600MHz), Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 (3.30GHz), with Hyper Threading (HT) technology. This particular W520 is loaded with 4x4GB 204-pin SO-DIMM PC3-10600 1333MHz DDR3, non-parity, dual-channel memory. The screen is 15.6" (396mm) FHD (1920x1080) color, anti-glare, LED backlight, 270 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 500:1 contrast ratio, 95% Gamut. The video chipset is NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology, which will auto-switch between discrete and integrated graphics. The integrated graphics is the Intel HD Graphics 3000 in processor, and the discrete chip is the NVIDIA Quadro® 2000M, PCI Express® x16, with 2GB memory.
The primary drive bay is a full height (9.5mm) 2.5" hard drive bay and will accommodate standard laptop hard drives as well as full size SSD drives. It's still bottom access and I don't like that much. I prefer side load like the previous generation ThinkPad's. The Ultrabay is still the same as the W510 and is 12.7mm in height. The W520 received included the Seagate Momentus 500GB 7200rpm drive in the primary bay. I tested the W520 with it and the Intel 160GB SSD.
The W520 with the 9-cell battery is slightly lighter than the W510, but only slightly. The port configuration around the machine is the same as the W510 though they changed the USB 3.0 chipset to another supplier. This did have an impact on flattening the machine and using an external USB 3.0 enclosure. You must install the USB 3.0 driver before you use those ports. The new USB 3.0 chipset provider is Renesas. I am not sure what happened to NEC but this is a change from the W510.
The chassis dimensions are 14.68" x 9.65" x 1.29-1.44"; 372.8mm x 245.1mm x 32.8-36.6mm. This is exactly the same as the W510. The W510 and W520 aren't massive in size but it is a large 15" notebook computer. It fits perfectly in the Wenger Synergy backpack which I have been using for the past 5-6 years. Highly recommended.
Although my W520 didn't come with a mSATA drive, I have confirmed it is capable of using one in the PCI-E WWAN card slot. In essence, you can put a tiny Intel Series 310 SSD drive in the slot and use it for OS boot. This would allow for three drives total in the W520. Lenovo is promoting RapidDrive for the usage of the mSATA drive but I think OS boot is more interesting. Although the Sandy Bridge chipset in the ThinkPad W520 has SATA III 6Gbps support, I don't have the new SATA III SSD drives yet to prove it works. Sorry, but that's a big budget line item so it will have to wait for later. I intend to purchase some Intel Series 510 SSD drives when the price is right.
The model I received has the Intel 6300 WIFI and Intel 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet chipset.
Photo Tour
Front - in this picture and the following shots, I have the ThinkPad T410s on top of the stack, the ThinkPad T410 in the middle and the ThinkPad W520 on the bottom. There isn't much to comment on for the frontal view. Sorry I don't have the T420 and T420s yet for comparison. I use Windows 7 lid stickers for my machines so you'll see that already slapped on the W520.
Right - the W520 ports are positioned exactly like the W510. On the right side you'll see the memory card slot, 34mm ExpressCard slot with a plastic filler, the 12.7mm high fatty DVD burner in the Ultrabay, and the Ethernet port. I don't like the placement of the Ethernet port here. I would rather have it in the back where the silly modem is, and have a USB port instead like the T410 above it.
Back - the one notable change on the back of the W520 is the power connection port. It has a new design to accommodate the 170W power supply connector and is different from several generations of ThinkPad's. You can still use the ThinkPad W510 135W power adaptor with this port. You cannot however plug the 170W power supply into a W510 or W510 dock. See the connector close up macro shot below.
Left - the left side of the W520 is no different from the W510. I will however point your attention to the eSATA port which is a combo port also known as a powered eSATA port.
Open - I believe the W510 and W520 key layouts are the same although I haven't examined them close up. I did notice in this picture some of the keys are a slightly different color. I think this is due to inconsistencies in the manufacturing process for those keys unless it's actually supposed to be that way. You wouldn't normally see the color difference unless you were looking really hard for it. It just shows from the flash photography.
Thin - I usually take a lot of different shots of a machine from different angles and I thought this picture was interesting because it makes the W520 look thin like the T410s. It's an optical illusion.
Power brick top - some people are freaking out about the 170W power supply brick. It's rather large and for comparison I have it lined up with the 135W power supply for the W510, and a 90W power supply for the T410. It's actually lighter than the 135W brick. 770 grams to 830. It appears in my testing the 135W brick works fine so if you are short on cubic centimeters you might travel with the 135W. You cannot use the 90W with the W520.
Power brick side - here's another view of the bricks from a different angle.
Power connecter - here's a close up macro shot of the 170W power connector compared to the connector on the 90W and 135W power supplies.
Power Management and Battery Life
I mentioned in the executive summary above that the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 has significantly improved power management and battery life. It appears from my testing that it's at least twice as good as the W510. After some initial testing, I quickly posted some information. W510 owners everywhere are crying.
Why is battery life important on a portable workstation? In my opinion, it really shouldn't matter too much. Almost everyone one I know that uses a machine in this class probably has a smartphone and a slate device or they will soon.
In the meantime, battery might be important in some situations but this isn't a machine you'd be lugging from class to class, or meeting to meeting and taking notes on battery. You could, but it isn't designed for that. It's designed to run high performance workloads and you'd better be plugged into the wall for those. Enough of the lecture already.
For the consultants in the crowd that have a single machine, you'll be happy to know the battery life is dramatically improved. In the tests at the blog post link above, this machine appears to get six hours of battery life quite nicely on the configuration I was sent. That's pretty darn good and welcome relief for the workstation crowd.
Now you can watch a movie or two on that long flight home. Assuming of course the guy in front of you hasn't pushed his seat all the way back. That's where the T410s or a slate device will come in handy.
Performance, Gaming and Thermals
I do a considerable amount of work with high definition video. This seemed like the perfect test to see how much of an improvement the Sandy Bridge pipelining and chipset had improved over the W510. I was shocked at the results. So shocked in fact I ran the tests several times with different drives to verify what I was seeing.
For the encoding tests I used Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 10. I encoded to a 720p Windows Media Video profile at a 6MB data rate. This is a rich high definition format and it will tax every system I have including the ThinkPad W520. The source video is from my Sony high def video camera and I have a variety of subjects. I decided to use last years Fort Worth Mayfest footage.
The W520 completed the encoding job in 1.5 hours. The machine did of course kick the fan up on high but wasn't obnoxiously loud. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn it didn't fry the machine either.
In fact, although the machine was warm on the bottom, it wasn't scorching hot. You wouldn't want it on your bare legs, but it wasn't bad at all. That's a real good sign. During the encoding the four cores and four hyper threads hovered around 72% CPU utilization. Plenty of head room to do other stuff if this is your only machine.
The W510 completed the same exact encoding job in 3 hours. You read that correctly. The W520 was twice as fast as the W510 in all of the encoding jobs. I even used a variety of drives internal and external to rule out I/O bottlenecks. Yea, my jaw is still on the floor.
I don't know yet why the W520 is soo much faster. I ran these tests six different ways on both machines and every time the W520 sliced through the work in half the time the W510 took. I checked all of the BIOS, Power management and performance settings three different times to make sure everything was nearly identical except the hardware. Hardware matters.
After the encoding jobs, I decided to do some testing of the graphics for gaming. I haven't really done any PC gaming in a while since we use the XBOX 360 for that type of entertainment. However, I still have Half-Life 2 Orange Box and it's a pretty well known entity. It was either use it or buy a modern game. I took the cheap route and used Orange Box.
I installed Steam and all of the games then cranked up HL2. I made sure to set the video settings in HL2 to 1920x1080 and all of the shading and stuff on high. The game performed remarkably well. I was getting some tearing and artifacts on quick turns and such but it wasn't laggy or gross. That was with the BIOS set to NVIDIA Optimus mode. I changed it to NVIDIA discrete only and tried the game again. Now we're talking. Smooth as glass and no tearing. I haven't checked frame rates but they are high.
The W520 does an amazing job of cooling. It spins the fan up under load and after things simmer down, spins back down. When the machine is being used under light load, you can use the notebook on your bare skin. It runs nice and cool. At least mine does. My W510 also runs cool so they are pretty even on that count. I've seen quite a few W510 reports where that wasn't the case so I'm hoping Lenovo really has this nailed for the ThinkPad W520.
Virtualization and RemoteFX
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 installed on the ThinkPad W520 with complete ease. In fact, some of the nagging little workarounds I've been documenting for years have disappeared, finally. I installed R2 SP1 using the usual boot from VHD techniques documented all over my blog.
For those of you looking at the Lenovo Drivers and Download area, you'll notice at the time of this review there aren't many drivers. Fortunately, everything you need is on the hard drive that came from the Lenovo factory under the SWTOOLS area. The Ethernet and WIFI adaptors install correctly now with setup. Everything else is straightforward.
I installed the Hyper-V role and imported several virtual machines and confirmed everything was working as expected. Boring. My colleague Robert Larson asked me to look into making sure the W520 would run RemoteFX. Now there's something new and interesting to try.
RemoteFX is a fascinating technology that lets you run a thin client machine from your desk, but take advantage of advanced graphics on the Hyper-V server. There are a number of ways to take advantage of RemoteFX but I decided to try something that would really prove it works.
Hmmm, what 3D application running on the VM would really prove RemoteFX is working? Aero Glass is already running but you can do that with the right RDP clients so that isn't good enough proof for me. I need a game. Duh. How about installing Half-Life 2 into the VM and playing it across the wire from another machine on my network? Muuhaahaa.
Here's a screen shot of me using the Windows 7 SP1 RDP client and RemoteFX to install the game. You can clearly see the Aero Glass effects in the RDP session. All of those graphics are being handled by the GPU in the NVIDIA discrete chipset on the W520, not the machine I am using to run the RDP client. I was pretty shocked at this point that Steam actually installed and worked.
When I launched HL2, Steam complained about not having the RemoteFX virtual machine emulated 3D card in it's card database. I guess I was first. It let me continue and play the game. Since I had the RDP client session above set to 720p (1280x720), I ran Half-Life 2 with the same video settings. HL2 suggested medium shading and such for the settings so I went with that.
Actual gameplay was better than I expected. I expected this to completely fail but much to my amazement the game actually worked. The mouse control was really erratic and hyper sensitive, but movement forward and back or side to side was pretty decent. Certainly proof RemoteFX was working properly on the Lenovo ThinkPad W520. I'll go back later when I have time and look more closely at framerates native on the W520 and inside the VM. I am out of time for this week.
The Screen and Multimon
Like the W510, the FHD screen on the W520 is fabulous. It's bright and has good contrast. The high Gamut screen has good color support and it's probably the smart choice for anyone considering a portable workstation. As with most if not all of the business computers Lenovo makes, it's a matte screen. I don't think I will ever buy a glossy screen laptop. Well, I haven't yet. Anyway, the screen is very nice and I haven't seen any complaints with it on the W510.
I am unable to run a test I wanted to run. Although the W520 can be used in the 135W dock designed for the ThinkPad W510, it won't drive more than two monitors. You are going to need the 170W powered dock designed specifically for the W520. So I could not test driving 3-4 external monitors. I use three on a daily basis and have a fourth I could have used for the test, but until I have the right dock, it isn't going to happen.
Here's a picture of what I am talking about. In the pic above my Lenovo ThinkPad T410s NVIDIA Optimus notebook is driving three Dell LCD panels. That's a cheap 24" on the left, a new refurb Ultrasharp U2711 27" in the middle, and an aging Ultrasharp 24" on the right. It's funny that the middle panel color differences are so pronounced in the pic. I haven't calibrated all three together on the T410s and this shows why you should. Looking at this in person is different. Your brain calibrates them real time. More optical tricks.
Because Optimus based machines have two active video chipsets, you can drive up to four external LCD panels with the Lenovo dock. I think most people won't need more than three but four is possible. It's the very first test I did with the T410s. Sorry I could not prove it works with the W520.
OS and Software
The ThinkPad W520 I received came with Windows 7 Professional x64. I was a little surprised to see it show up without SP1 already installed. Not only that, it isn't patched to current levels or at least reasonably close levels. It's sitting here waiting for me to install 29 important updates. This is pretty inexcusably in my opinion. Lenovo should really take the time to engineer an image that is more up-to-date than that. Make sure you update your machine to SP1 as soon as you get it. Hitting the update button on mine now.
As for the software that is pre-loaded, I give Lenovo a lot of credit for NOT loading the machine will a bunch of software I don't want. On first boot you will be presented with some promotions for Norton AV, Bing, Office, etc. but you can politely skip those and move right on.
Lenovo has added some interesting programs I haven't fully tested yet. Skype is installed and configured to use the dual mic and 720p camera built into the LCD panel bezel. Lenovo spent a lot of time tuning their new systems to work well with VOIP and other conferencing providers like Microsoft Lync so you road warriors could attend meetings. Lucky you.
In addition you'll find facial recognition software for security. I am soo going to test this. I'm actually thinking of testing that with my Chihuahua Elvis to see if I can use him to unlock the machine. That should be fun.
Office 2010 Starter is pre-installed and there are options to purchase an upgrade at any time. Office Start 2010 includes Word and Excel Starter editions. Pretty clever. Give you some core features and provide an easy way to upgrade if you so desire.
Biztree Business-in-a-Box is there for installation along with Skype, Norton Internet Security, Windows Live Essentials, Corel WinDVD, Corel Burn.Now, Corel DVD MovieFactory, and a few other miscellaneous programs.
If you intend to use Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 as your primary OS, make sure you save the SWTOOLS directory on drive C:. You'll want WinDVD and other apps that don't come with R2. I haven't yet verified the location of WinDVD in the lower level directories but I will.
I didn't think the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 would be much of an improvement. It's the same keyboard, chassis, screen, etc. as the ThinkPad W510. But the beauty is below the surface and in this case, the Sandy Bridge chipset offers much better performance while managing energy use much more efficiently.
You'll certainly want to watch for more scientific testing by the professional review blogs and organizations but it sure looks like a super machine for your consideration. I look forward to seeing how it fairs against the competition in the shootouts. This is a sweet machine ready to do some hard work. Let me know if you have any questions.
[UPDATE for 3/29/2011] Lenovo.com just lit up the configuration wizards for the ThinkPad W520. Here's a sample configuration and price from the US public buying site. Man, they have some nice new options. I'd really like to test the RAID support. Enjoy.
[Update for 4/3/2011] Todays project was to flatten the Lenovo factory image and install SLED 11 SP1 x86. The install worked well enough though SLED installations are really slow from DVD. GNOME and KDE are both working with the inbox VESA drivers. I downloaded and installed the NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver from NVIDIA.com without issue. To be clear, I have the BIOS set to discrete only. I don't believe NVIDIA has Optimus drivers for linux. The accelerated drivers appear to be working pretty well at 1920x1080 with 16 million colors. Menu fades, app movement, and moving graphics objects around on the screen is fluid. Transparency effects are working.
You also might have noticed I removed my "buy with confidence" remarks from the body of the blog post. The main reason is due to the outstanding question on the support for SATA III SSD drives. I don't know if the W520 supports the SATA III 6GB standard. Hopefully an answer is clarified by Lenovo in the documentation, an official blog post at the http://lenovoblogs.com site, or something soon. Eventually someone will benchmark the machine and provide some insight. I won't be in a position to do that for several weeks.
I rather doubt the mSATA slot will be SATA III and I don't think there are any SATA III mSATA devices anyway. The Intel Series 310 devices are SATA II 3GB speed. So the questions remain for the primary and optional Ultrabay drive interfaces. I supposed this also includes the Lenovo ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adaptor III since that is the currently supported hard drive adaptor. I will be surprised to hear the 43N3412 adaptor is SATA III 6GB capable.
So until the answers emerge, I would suggest making your decision carefully. I certainly wouldn't pay a premium for the new 6GB speed SSD drives until you know for sure the system can fully exploit them. The machine is still a killer machine and if it fully supports 6GB speeds in all three of the possible SSD bays (mSATA slot, primary bay, Ultrabay), then it would certainly move it into the bad ass category of machines. It's unlikely that all three bays support the 6GB speeds.
[Update for 4/5/2011] Good news. A number of people out there in the wild have received T420's, T520's and W520's. Several of them have run SSD tests with the Crucial and Micron drives and are reporting jumps in throughput that would be indicative of a SATA III 6GB speeds in both the primary bay, and ultrabay. I've read this now at http://www.storagereview.com/lenovo_thinkpad_t520_review_first_thoughts and from three or four different people in the various ThinkPad forums.
I'm cautiously optimistic now. Some of the test results I've seen lack detail but at least there are a handful of reports. I'll feel better when I've run my own tests but I thought some of you might be interested.
Here's a nice infomercial on the ThinkPad W520. It also covers a few features not normally mentioned in the reviews. Notice it says battery life increase of 100% over the previous generation. See, they put that in writing.
[UPDATE for 4/6/2011] A little over a week ago I sent some questions into Lenovo around the drives and storage for the new Sandy Bridge based notebooks. Here are the questions and the answers I received.
1. Are the supported SATA interface speeds on the new ThinkPad's SATA III 6GB? Specifically, is this true for the T420, T420s, X220, X220t, T520, and W520?
[Lenovo] Yes, The new Huron River ThinkPads will support 6Gb/s, but our current drives that have been certified are only 3GB/s drives. The current roadmap is showing Late 3Q or early 4Q is when we'll qualify 6GB/s drives. This is true for the T420, T420s, X220, X220t, T520, and W520.
2. What SSD drives have been tested and are recommended for the new Sandy Bridge based machines?
[Lenovo]These are all 3.0 Gb/ps.
- ThinkPad 160GB Intel X25-M Solid State Drive II - Released
- ThinkPad 128 GB SS Drive II - Released
- Intel 320 Series - Not Released. Lenovo engineering has completed testing/certification of the Intel 320 Series.
3. What is the hard/ssd drive bay height and size for the new machines? I need this for the primary bay, and ultrabay for each machine. I understand some of the bays will only take 7mm height drives so if you provide a table of information on the machines above I would appreciate it.
[Lenovo] Primary bay height for each system: T420, X220-X220T, W520 approx. 10.5 mm. Ultrabay height for each system: T420, X220-X220T approx. 10.5 mm. W520 Ultrabay is 12.7mm. Machines with 7mm height drives: Yes The X220/ X220T, T420s will only take 7mm drives in their primary drive bay.
4. Which machines support the mSATA drive in the WWAN mini PCIE slot? Do all of the machines support this? For the machines that do, is OS boot support supported?
[Lenovo] W520, T420, T420s, X220, X220T. Yes, boot is supported for all of them.
[UPDATE for 4/20/2011] I have confirmed with Lenovo that although the W520 has Optimus, it does not have Hybrid Optimus and thus cannot support four external displays like my T410s (see that test). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there you have it. On the bright side, I will test the T420s before too long and see if it really works.
See http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-76617 for the official support document on the Hybrid Optimus technology and supported configurations.
[UPDATE for 9/19/2011] It's pretty rare for me to come back to update a review or comment six months after I wrote something but it seems there is a facet of this machine I didn't really test fully back in March. I still haven't but I wanted to bring some information to your attention.
First, you notice in my blog post above I'm pretty wild about the new battery life for the ThinkPad W520. That's easily understandable because the battery life from the W510 isn't nearly as good.
What you may not know is that the Quad Core CPU is limited to a certain performance level when running on battery power. The term many people use is "throttled". I guess that term works. Throttling is a well known way to govern something. Cars and motorcycles have governors to prevent them from going over a certain MPH. ISP's and wireless carriers throttle connections when you've used a certain amount of data. In that case of the W520, the CPU is throttled while on battery power.
I haven't seen an official Lenovo statement on why this is. Some speculate they are doing this to prolong battery life. That's a pretty noble cause, unless you really need max performance on battery power. I have seen other speculation that it was done due to some engineering challenge with supplying a hungry CPU with power when it is coming solely from battery. Until Lenovo explains what is going on and why it'll be open for speculation.
Lenovo appears to be working on the problem. They have already published one BIOS that improves the throttling and I assume they are still working on further improvement. They have their senior Social Media folks and moderators involved in the threads. See Lenovo W Series Forum area. There is quite a bit of activity in the threads there.
I installed the v1.30 BIOS at the end of last month and can't really tell much different on my machine with my typical usage models. I haven't traveled the past few weeks so I haven't been running on battery power. I did do a few quick tests three weeks ago and on my machine the CPU clock speed range is 800-1500 MHz on battery. I did notice some bugs are still present on sleep/resume so I assume Lenovo is well aware of them and the reason I think they aren't done with further improvement.
There are couple of other rather large threads at the Lenovo site. Thankfully I am not seeing any issues like those that are being reported.


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Monday, January 25, 2010
Pen emergency
Ethan: Dad, can I borrow your pen? It's an emergency.
Todd: What's the emergency?
Ethan: I have to draw a mustache on a woman in a magazine.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Samuel's flux capacitor
Samuel explains how he built a flux capacitor out of an empty Wheat Thins box, plastic tubing, and iPod headphones.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Medieval Weekend
We went to Medieval Times this weekend for the DeLorean Mid-Atlantic Club's holiday party. So far, no one in the club seems to mind that we don't own a DeLorean. I joined because Samuel loves "Back to the Future," and I love Samuel, and as soon as I pay down a couple of credit cards and figure out where the heck we could possibly keep a DeLorean in Manhattan for less than $1 million a month, maybe we'll get one. Stranger things have happened in the history of the universe.
In the meantime, we had great seats, the food was edible, and we spent the night at a hotel while Kahlua and Bailey enjoyed a sleepover with the dog sitter.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
2010 Resolutions
I'm going to pretend that it's 2060, and I'm 97 years old and I need help just to get to my bedpan. And God is going to grant me one wish, and that one wish is to re-live one year of my life. Because I'm senile I pick 2010.
And so here I am. Back in 2010. I can actually walk by myself. I can actually run! My kids are young and happy and healthy and not yet in prison, and my wife is young and beautiful and hasn't yet left me for Charlie Sheen, who promises her a more stable life.
So what am I going to do with my year? I still need to think about it, but it will involve hugging my kids, and kissing Jennifer, and seeing my parents, and writing more manuscripts, and enjoying running in Central Park instead of feeling that I'm running too slowly, and not stressing out about anything I have no control over, and basically enjoying being alive and being thankful for all that that entails.
Oh, and persuading Jennifer not to leave me for Charlie Sheen.
Vet to Todd: "You suck." Todd to Vet: "You suck too."
Bailey is nine months old. Next week he's having his second $1,200 surgery.
We have spent more money on Bailey in the past nine months than most families in Arkansas earn in a year. And we have to feel guilty about it.
The vet asked me if I brush Bailey's teeth. I said no. He said, "Would you be willing to?"
I said, "You mean like once a month?"
He said, "No, once a day."
I said, "We have two dogs, a cat, two kids, and two jobs. The dogs are lucky we remember to feed them."
"What do you feed them?"
"Um...I don't know. Some kind of dry dog food. Comes in a big bag. From the pet store."
Okay, Mr. wonderful animal-loving vet, who wants us to feed our dogs organic free-range filet mignon and brush their teeth and give them mani pedis and Swedish massages. You are a better person than I am. But you suck. Here, just keep my credit card.
Bailey, God help you if you ever need another surgery. From here on out you're a Red State dog.
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FLORENCE — Prosecutors say two former Marion police officers have been indicted on federal charges because they excessively used their Tasers on a woman while arresting her.
Franklin Brown and Eric Walters were charged Wednesday with deprivation of rights under color of law. They also have state charges pending for the incident last April.
Authorities say Walters was arresting the woman and shocked her several times with a Taser. Investigators say Brown then came to help Walters with the arrest and shocked the woman several more times.
The federal charges carry up to 10 years in prison, while each of the state charges also carry a maximum of 10 years behind bars.
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The Walt Disney Company has pledged $5 million to the reconstruction effort of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral after a fire tore through the structure on Monday.
The Notre-Dame de Paris has inspired writers, painters, and filmmakers for hundreds of years.
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The Notre Dame cathedral was the setting for Disney's 1996 animated movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
READ MORE: France opens redesign contest for rebuilding Notre Dame's spire to international architects
"Notre Dame is a beacon of hope and beauty that has defined the heart of Paris and the soul of France for centuries, inspiring awe and reverence for its art and architecture and for its enduring place in human history," Disney CEO Bob Iger said. "The Walt Disney Company stands with our friends and neighbours in the community, offering our heartfelt support as well as a $5 million donation for the restoration of this irreplaceable masterpiece."
Monday's devastating fire caused the cathedral's wooden spire to collapse and it also spread to one of its towers causing the structure's entire frame to be at risk of igniting.
Paris public prosecutor Remy Heitz said there was no obvious indication the fire was arson. Fifty people were working on what would be a long and complex investigation, officials said.
The fire swiftly ripped through the cathedral's oak roof supports, where workmen had been carrying out extensive renovations to the spire's timber-framed supports. Police began questioning the workers involved, the prosecutor's office said.
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One firefighter was injured but no one else was hurt, with the fire starting at around 6:30 p.m. after the building was closed to the public for the evening.
Firefighters examined the facade, with its spectacular 10-metre, filigreed stained-glass Rose Window still intact. They could be seen walking atop the belfries as police kept the area in lockdown.
Investigators will not be able to enter the cathedral's blackened nave until experts are satisfied its walls withstood the heat and the building is structurally sound.
"Yesterday, we thought the whole cathedral would collapse. Yet this morning she is still standing, valiant, despite everything," said Sister Marie Aimee, a nun who had hurried to a nearby church to pray as the flames spread.
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Some 30 people have already been questioned in the investigation, which the Paris prosecutor warned would be "long and complex." Among those questioned are workers at the five construction companies involved in work renovating the church spire and roof that had been underway when the fire broke out.
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Just a day after the fire, more than 750-million euros (US$845 million) had been pledged, including 500 million from the three billionaire families that own France's giant luxury goods empires: Kering, LVMH and L'Oreal.
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Only Tuesday
so, in case you're wondering, I'm participating in NaBloPoMo which sounds like something you need a kleenex for, but is actually a cool project where you commit to blogging every day during the month of November. This is less intimidating than committing to write a novel (only slightly) considering I haven't written here every day since sometime back in 2008. So, if it seems like I'm sharing more than usual, I am.
Today's topic: Stuff My 4 Year Old Has Either Done or Tried To Get Away With Since Sunday (it being only Tuesday).
1. Skirting the 2 Pieces a Day of Halloween Candy Rule by mashing 8 mini candybars and a bunch of skittles into one massive ball and saying, "I'll just have this one piece."
2. Peeing on the wall in the hallway because he was mad.
3. Giving the dog a Flintstone vitamin.
4. Licking a pigeon.
5. Pouring himself an 8oz cup of hazelnut coffee creamer for breakfast.
6. Telling his preschool teacher and anyone else who will listen that Mom is taking him to see "The Penis Movie" this weekend. Peanuts, son, the word you're looking for is PEANUTS.
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text: 10 Nov 0 Lets Discover: Vishuddha, The Fifth Chakra November 10, 2015 By admin Relaxation Meditation, Special 1 0 This is the fifth week we will spend exploring the amazing world of chakras. Join us as we discover Vishuddha, the blue chakra of speech and openness. We left off last week by taking a last look at Anahata, the heart chakra which governs the feelings of love and serenity. Vishuddha is located just a little above Anahata, as it is the throat chakra found near the spine. Vishuddha is the blue chakra, and is also known as the purification center. When it is open, you are able to turn negative experiences in wisdom and knowledge. When it is closed, a person slowly undergoes a process of death and decay. It is said that one's success or failure in life is mainly determined by the state of this chakra alone. Meditation on the fifth chakra is said to bring occult powers: the possibility of seeing past, present and future; resistance to diseases; destruction of dangers. While meditating on Vishuddha, you should repeat the mantra haṃ, the syllable which is written in white upon this chakra. If you wish to listen to some chakra balancing music, please consider downloading the app that we helped create called CHAKRA MEDITATION BALANCING Chakra Meditation Balancing was studied to help you create a safe and relaxing atmosphere wherever you want to conduct your chakra meditations. Use the timer to measure how long you wish to meditate on each energy center and focus on the chakra you need to heal most. I hope you enjoyed this information on Vishuddha, the blue chakra of openness. To help you meditate, you can play this video below which contains some relaxing meditation music created with the purpose to heal this particular chakra. Remember that chakra balancing is also a matter of aromatherapy and colour therapy, that's why the video is all in blue, which, as I told you before, is the color of Vishuddha. Use some scents in your meditation room to help you relax. Next week we will take a look at Anja, the chakra of awareness and intuition. In the meantime you may want to read about the other 4 chakras we talked about during last weeks. ANAHATA – The green chakra of love MANIPURA – The yellow chakra of personality and ego SVADHISTHANA – The orange chakra of sexuality MULADHARA – The red chakra, the foundation of the "energy body" Share this:FacebookTwitterMorePinterestTumblrSkype chakra, meditation, sports


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About A Son
I've been hearing a lot of stuff about Kurt Cobain lately, namely the morbid fact that he has surpassed Elvis as the most lucrative deceased star. And when there's a market out there that large, there are bound to be people out there trying to cash in. Most recently, a new "documentary" entitled Kurt Cobain: About a Son is coming out. It seems the film is mainly audio tapes between Kurt and rock journalist, Michael Azerrad. The director of the film has put together "atmospheric" imagery to compliment the interviews. But most accounts I've read of the film, say it's pretty weak. Click here for glimpse of the film and check it out for yourself.
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The Jazz Age circa 2012
I'm a hat-happy kind of a girl. With the first hint of a chill, I'm digging out my cosiest, warmest beanies and fedoras. I don't believe you have to be a "hat person" to partake either. Discovering that first perfect style that frames the face beautifully and adds a subtle elusiveness is the secret weapon every good hat should have and this seasons must have may just be the one for you.
Before the fun and frivolity of the late 20s flapper dresses and chandelier like head pieces came the modest seduction of the floor length, modesty of the early twenties. The beginning of an era where a peek of ankle was practically promiscuous and the head candy; the cloche, the kind we have become accustomed to seeing on Downton Abbey as the ever popular series sauntered its way through to the roaring twenties; rather coincidently finds itself at the top of one of winter's biggest accessories trends.
The cloche is a small, slim hat which thanks to its angled, asymmetrical sweep across the brim can potentially create a somewhat undesired flower-pot effect. Yet worn effectively by a delicate featured wearer, (think Victoria Beckham), can look extremely elegant and sophisticated, adding a great feature to a sharply tailored coat or suit to really complement that androgynous Twenties look.
But it wasn't just Lady Crawley's attire, or the eagerly anticipated Great Gatsby movie starring screen siren Carey Mulligan that has me in awe of the 20s revival. Heavily inspired by the English countryside this winter, Ralph Lauren delighted audiences by having his models saunter down the runway in traditional tweed cloches with contrasting menswear inspired suits. The soundtrack? Downton Abbey of course.
A parting tip: Don't be too fashion conscious with this one. If you love the trend, try to find one with a less predictable shape, maybe in a less typical colour or a really luxurious fabric like cashmere. Among my favourites: Urban Outfitters feather Cloche Hat, UGG's tan shearling hat (exceptionally warm, unexpected and long lasting), and definitely Topshop's velvet bow cloche in oxblood (very Angelina Jolie in the Changeling and the colour is bang on trend!)


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This is your gateway to accessing the outputs of the STrategy for Allied Radioecology (STAR) network of excellence (NoE) funded under the European Commission EURATOM programme.
The project finished on 31st July 2015 and the only page which will be upadated is the STAR publication list
STAR will PROMOTE INTEGRATION by:
The STAR project has seven interlinked work packages. A vital role of STAR is to develop a transition plan towards sustainability and long term funding for radioecological research, infrastructure and training and education. This requires a permanent management structure which will continue after the STAR (and COMET) projects finish. This is provided by (the Radioecology Alliance) and Information on membership is available here.
STAR Project Coordinator: Laureline Fevrier (French Institute of Radiation Protection & Nuclear Safety)
Photo acknowledgements:
Moss sampling (fontinalis antipyretica) [Acknowledge:STUK-Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Regional laboratory in Northern Finland]; Teaching in the lab [Acknowledge: Clare Bradshaw, Stockholm University]; Demonstrating the ERICA Tool [Acknowledge: Tom Hinton (IRSN)].


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On October 29, 1973, "CBS" label released "It's Like You Never Left", the fourth Dave Mason studio album. It was recorded in 1973, at "CBS Studios" in San Francisco, "Record Plant" in Los Angeles, "Sunset Sound Recorders" in Hollywood, and was produced by Dave Mason.
- Dave Mason – vocals, guitar, synthesizers, arrangements
- Graham Nash, John Batdorf– vocals
- Clydie King, Julia Tillman Waters, Kathleen Saroyan, Maxine Willard Waters – backing vocals
- Mark Jordan – piano, organ
- Chuck Rainey, Carl Radle, Charles Fletcher, Greg Reeves, Lonnie Turner – bass
- Jim Keltner, Rick Jaeger – drums
- Rocky, Nastyee – congas
- Denny Morouse, Norma Jean Bell, Steve Madaio – horns
- Stevie Wonder – harmonica
- Malcolm Cecil, Malcolm Cecil – co-producer, programming, recording
- Al Schmitt – recording, mixing
- Glen Kolotkin – recording
Track listing:
All tracks by Dave Mason, except where noted.
- Baby…Please
- Every Woman
- If You Got Love
- Maybe
- Headkeeper
- Misty Morning Stranger
- Silent Partner
- Side Tracked – Dave Mason, Rick Jaeger, Lonnie Turner, Mark Jordan
- The Lonely One
- It's Like You Never Left


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I can't help but feel a twinge of envy whenever I read about the Centre for Policy Studies' Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty. Despite an invitation, and a very enticing line-up of speakers, I was unable to attend. I did attempt to persuade my employers that they might need someone to cover so significant a political event, but they saw through this cunning ruse with lamentable swiftness.
So I've been reduced to reading about it second hand, with the aforementioned envious pangs. But no matter how appealing I find the idea of a conference on liberty, I can't help but find the central emphasis it places on Margaret Thatcher troubling.
Of course, the CPS was founded by Mrs T and we're one year on from her passing, so some sort of memorial would be understandable. But the problem runs much deeper than that. The best summation of it that I could find is the title of Daniel Hannan's blog on the event: "In death, Margaret Thatcher still leads the world's conservatives".
That's true – and I moot that it's a terrible shame.
To be clear, I don't say this as some hand-wringing, milquetoast centrist or arch-moderniser. I've no burning enthusiasm for Cameron's brand of patrician technocracy, nor modern conservatism's tendency to make common cause with the judgemental left in the public health lobby. I am a firm believer in the ancient institutions of this country, (Crown, parliament and army); in Britain playing a strong role in the world stage; and in individual responsibility and the limited government that permits it.
But despite sharing a lot of Thatcher's beliefs, I don't identify as a Thatcherite. Why would I? For all her strengths Margaret Thatcher was a product of, and remedy to, the problems of 1979, not 2014. She faced challenges and a political and international environment fundamentally different to those of today.
Moreover, a large portion of this country doesn't like her at all. Here at Conservative Home we've put quite an emphasis on the long-term health of conservatism – how to win the 2030 election, and so on. We're doing this because of the bitter lesson taught this party by Thatcher's failure to do any such thing. It was perhaps impossible to tell in the midst of three landslide election victories that our proudly 'one nation' Conservative and Unionist Party was being fatally poisoned in large parts of the country, but poisoned it was nonetheless.
Why do we so publicly and so continually venerate a woman the mere memory of which is enough to bar our party a hearing in Scotland, the north, and our great cities? I'm not just talking about giving proper recognition to her remarkable accomplishments – that much is understandable, even if we do tend to fixate too much on those past glories. "What would Thatcher do?" has become the yardstick by which much of the conservative movement measures our modern leaders and policies. And Thatcher in this context can stand for an awful lot – as Hannan writes:
"It's natural that different groups should find their differing ideologies reflected in Margaret Thatcher. Anglospherists see an Anglospherist, libertarians a libertarian, conservatives a conservative, pragmatists a pragmatist. At the risk of boring readers, who tell me they have had quite enough of my lectures about Magna Carta, I see a Whig."
There is probably a different Margaret Thatcher in the political imagination of every Conservative, which sharply limits 'WWTD's usefulness as an independent unit of measurement for ideological soundness. She would do whatever we want to do.
Yet by constantly attempting to define modern conservatism in relation to her, we remain in the rut in which we've been stuck since she was deposed, and constantly refresh in the minds of the electorate a relationship which is a barrier between us and much of the country. Constantly looking backwards also encourages a bleak, pessimistic outlook about modern Britain – the Chancellor's speech at the CPS conference was to my mind as much a rebuke to the nostalgics in the hall as to those in charge of UKIP.
It might seem hard to swallow, given how history has judged them both, but in 1992 John Major won more votes than Margaret Thatcher – or any other Prime Minister in British history – ever managed. Even Blair in 1997 was half a million short. He strengthened our performance in Scotland and did all this on a programme that was far closer to Thatcher's mix of small government and robust unionism that is remotely possible today, after thirteen years of Labour changing the ground rules.
The public was clearly ready for what we might term 'post-Thatcherism' – 80 per cent of the content, with a humbler, more personable face. For all that she "never lost an election", the public had clearly run out of patience with the Iron Lady. Her decision to remain intimately involved with politics, and the willingness of her ideological partisans to take direction from her and effectively disembowel the Major administration – was selfish, short-sighted and intensely counterproductive to the long-term interests of her own beliefs. Like crusaders marshalled around a reliquary, we formed ranks around the memory of Thatcherism and set off into the desert, there to achieve little for thirteen years.
Again, I have a lot of sympathy with the great backbench rebellions of the Major parliament, whether on Europe or handguns. But the tendency of Thatcherites to resemble a sort of modern Jacobinism not only exacerbated the electoral slaughter of 1997 but ensured we made little-to-no progress in 2001 and 2005. Michael Portillo spells this out quite effectively in his documentary, 'The Lady's Not for Spurning'.
We need to let go. Whatever virtues we as conservatives ascribe to Margaret Thatcher, they predate her and can stand on their own merits. We need to separate in our understanding of Thatcher the timeless elements – whatever you as a conservative perceive those to be – with those elements that were a product of the times. The latter category includes the vast bulk of nostalgic, aesthetic Thatcherism, and the word 'Thatcherism' itself.
If we are to preserve the best of her beliefs, and apply them most effectively to the country and the challenges we face today, we need to drop the dewy-eyed wistfulness for a leader and an era which so deeply divides the country we want to govern. As I wrote for the International Business Times in response to her passing:
"Thatcher and the party just couldn't bring themselves to let go of each other and in the end this unprecedented mutual loyalty has not been kind to either. She passes on as the pre-eminent politician of the postwar age. If the party she loved seems less than it was, perhaps it is because it stands in the shadow of a giant."
Margaret Thatcher is dead. So are most of her enemies and an awful lot of her voters. It's time to move on, and let the Lady rest in peace.


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On the Kids Commute, we explore classical music by different themes - Mermaids, Opera, Elephants - everything you can think of! We'll explore ballets, their stories, and the music that goes along with them ("Sleeping Beauty," and "Cinderella," for instance), along with time-honored classics like Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf."
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text: I went to a trading bookstore. Met a book buyer. He said many people he know earned $1M $10M from nothing. The best guy he knows turned $20K to $10M in last year, and the worst guy turned $10M to $5K in one year too. I wonder if using all the leverage, will it be possible to turn $20K to $10M in 1 year, especially last year. I just wonder if he lied to me or not. He said the person just lucky and keep putting profit right back into the same future. Just a big position, no swing.


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Apologies for racial inequality are about as rare as free groceries, but one California man got both last week.
Sampson McCormick, a comedian living in Oakland, Calif., was standing in line at a grocery store when an older white man approached him to apologize for police brutality, proclaim solidarity for Black Lives Matter and pick up McCormick's grocery bill.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, McCormick said he hopes the story of "Mr. Samuel" will help bring unity in the wake of the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, as well as the attacks on police in Baton Rouge and Dallas.
"Love does exist in the world," McCormick told the Post. "It's really important for us to come together and, however we can, extend acts of love toward one another because we really do need more love in the world.
McCormick, who tours as a stand-up comedian, ended up having a pretty interesting July, posting selfies with both former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders last week at the Democratic National Convention.
No word on if they bought him groceries or not.


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Thursday, July 20, 2017
It's Called YouTube for a Reason…How I Turned my Channel into my "Personal Space"
By ianthia
For me, YouTube is the most intimidating platform to use as a blogger.
Although I'm a TV show host and make most of my money being on camera, I just could never seem to get the gist of creating video content for the uber popular and highly revered platform.
From the makeup tutorial videos, hair care routines, workout gurus teaching the best ab tricks, the "get ready with me" videos, fashionistas showing off their new buys, the "how to" videos, the comedians, pranksters and singers and actors…OMG!
There's just so much content on YouTube, you almost feel as if you have to fit into one of these popular niches or get off of YouTube all together. Read more >>


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Yep, I've decided Lacy should be called a motor mouth, cos she never shuts up! Seriously... she arrived and put her mouth in gear, and didn't slow down at all.
Luckily I don't think she talks in her sleep!
Today I am going to get Lacy to plant some succulents and grasses in the gardens. Rather her than me!
I loathe dirt on my hands! Weird considering I don't mind working with clay.
I might even go and get some more from Wairere Nursery at Gordonton... they seem to have the best prices.
There is a little craft shop there I would like to look in again too.
Here's a few photos of the girls last night:
ABOVE: It was nice to see them together. I think Lacy enjoyed those toys as much as Keera!
Right... I'm off to get started on the day.
Here's another black mark for Bunnings, Cambridge!
We ordered an attic access ladder from them 3 weeks ago.
They still haven't got one in for us. I rang them today to ask how much longer would it be?
The lady said she didn't know, as the supplier had run out.
So we just had to wait for one to come in.
I rang the Manukau branch of Bunnings, and would you believe they have FOUR in their store right now?
So I rang the Cambridge branch back and told them ... to which the lady said oh well... we still have to wait for them to get one cos they had it on order!
So I pointed out to her that I could have f*#king WALKED TO AUCKLAND AND BACK in the time it was taking them to get us one!
Upshot. We shall be cancelling our order with them if they can't get one brought down from Manukau asap, and we will drive up there and get one ourselves. Bloody hell, we were up there just last weekend!
SERIOUSLY? Why didn't she ring around three weeks ago and found us one? Why did I have to do her f*$king job for her? Grrrrrr.
Seriously not impressed with Bunnings in Cambridge now.
Lacy and I went to Gordonton and bought more plants for the garden.
The previous owners are going to take the fig trees AND the camellias as soon as they are back from an overseas holiday, at the end of the month.
So that solves that issue.
LUNCHTIME! I'm starving.
AND NO... let's not have lunch yet... let's go into Hamilton and pick up not only the carpet rug, but the new tie backs for the family room too.
OH and the new blind for the kitchen has arrived this morning too.
SCORE... three things off the list that we've been waiting for.
Maybe it's going to be a good day after all!
AND... Stew rang and talked to the manager of Bunnings Cambridge, and the manager apologised and has arranged for an attic ladder to be couriered to them, and we can pick it up tomorrow. Have they redeemed themselves? Sort of. Just annoying that we could have had that ladder three weeks ago.
MOVING ON... Lunch! It's 1.37 pm and my tummy is rumbling.
Got a phone call from the school at 2.30 pm. Brylee has dislocated her shoulder and so we had to pick her up and take her to hospital in Hamilton.
Now we wait to see a doctor...
So we went to the hospital as instructed... and sat a waited for about half an hour, then we were told to go to Anglesea A & E in town, as the hospital would take too long to get to her.
So we went down to Anglesea A & E and waited, and waited, and waited some more.
Then we were put in a treatment room, and we waited, and waited and waited some more.
Then the Dr arrived, and said Bylee needed an x-ray... so we went to Radiology down the corridor... where we DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT!
But then we had to go back to the main waiting room... where we.... GUESS??? WE waited again.
Then we saw the Dr again, and he said Brylee needed to wear a sling for 3 weeks, then have physio. And she has to be seen by an Orthopeadic Surgeon on the 25th July to make sure there is nothing else wrong, and to make sure her shoulder is healing.
So. A long afternoon/evening. All up that little mishap took 4.5 hours. Not that bad I suppose.
We are now going to have a rather late dinner then settle down for the night. Coronation Street is on... I love Friday nights. *smiles*


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The chief minister credited the NDA government at the Centre, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for opening the route for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. He said Sikkim has left no stone unturned to provide the best possible facilities to the pilgrims, and if they find any shortcomings they are welcome to give suggestions so that the state can improve even better.
It may be mentioned here that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj flagged off the first batch of pilgrims on June 16 from New Delhi for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra through a new route that was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit last September.
The new route through Nathu la stands at 4,000 metres above sea level and will facilitate a more comfortable journey for the pilgrims, especially for the elderly, compared to the existing route via Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand.(EOIC)


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Play Smarty Bubbles at Cooler maths games, which is an addictive bubble shooter game. This game is by agame and is very nice to play. Playing method is same, and your aim is to clear the board by matching at least 3 same color balls. The level will be clear when the board will be clear. What do you feel, can you clear the whole board playing smartly? Looking for more shooting games, try playing chain reaction shooter also. Play in mute mode.
How to play: You will play this game with the mouse. Aim and click to shoot the ball.


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During Sir Georg Solti's tenure as eighth music director (1969–1991) and music director laureate (1991–1997), he and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus amassed an astonishing discography. Decca Classics—to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Solti's death—is releasing a set of these complete recordings in a 108-CD boxed set.
"Recording with the Chicago Symphony was the fulfillment of Solti's dreams and ambitions, to be able to record for posterity the ephemeral quality and emotions of a performance by this world-class ensemble," writes Lady Valerie Solti in the accompanying book. "The orchestra were enthusiasts, hard workers, and brilliant musicians who were as eager as Solti to make first-class records and to create for the future a lasting document, a legacy of their wonderful relationship, a collaboration which won worldwide acclaim and unparalleled Grammy awards." The 180-page hardcover book also includes articles by mezzo-soprano Yvonne Minton; producer and author Humphrey Burton; Martha Gilmer, who served as the Orchestra's vice president for artistic planning during the latter half of Solti's tenure; and CSO archivist Frank Villella; along with previously unpublished images from recording sessions.
The range of repertoire is vast: complete cycles of symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler; Beethoven's piano concertos; world premieres of Del Tredici's Final Alice and Tippett's Symphony No. 4 and Byzantium; complete operas including Beethoven's Fidelio, Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, Verdi's Otello, and Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The set also includes hallmarks of the choral repertoire, featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus (prepared by directors Margaret Hillis and Duain Wolfe) performing Bach's Mass in B minor and Saint Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Brahms's A German Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Haydn's The Creation (twice) and The Seasons, Shostakovich's Babi Yar Symphony, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, and Verdi's Requiem, plus many more works by these composers along with Bartók, Berg, Debussy, Dohnányi, Dvořák, Kodály, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Wiener.
Solti wrote in his Memoirs, "My term as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was the happiest time in my professional life . . . the fulfillment of my dreams, but at the same time, it was a new learning experience for me, a master class in musical directorship." This set is a testament to that remarkable partnership.