text: Home Tablets Slideshow Shape Shifters: The 11 Most Intriguing Hybrid PCs From 7-in-1s to table-size AIOs, they're anything but conventional. By Ian Paul, Contributor, PCWorld | Aug 25, 2014 3:00 AM PT Share All Slides SLIDEFEATURED PRODUCTS Invasion of the oddities Toshiba Portege Z10t Surface Pro 3 Lenovo 2 Yoga 11 Dell Venue 11 Pro Acer Aspire Switch 10 Acer R7 Asus Transformer Book Trio Big tablets with all-in-one style SEVEN-in-one Share this Slideshow Direct link: Invasion of the oddities People love to criticize Windows 8.1's dual nature, with its (admittedly nice) tablet interface bolted on top of the traditional desktop. But Windows 8 and Microsoft at least deserve credit for is encouraging device makers to rethink what a PC should look like.Thanks to the useable touch interface on Windows, companies are creating intriguing hybrids, from giant tablets that turn into all-in-one PCs, to laptops that turn into Android tablets or Windows 8 desktop PCs.Some are true revelations. Others are bizarre mutations. Either way, here's a look at some of the most interesting hybrids, convertibles, and 2-in-1s to date. Let's start with the "interesting in a good way" models. Toshiba Portege Z10t When we reviewed Toshiba's 2-in-1 clamshell in April, PCWorld's Mike Brown said it was the best execution he'd seen for a detachable laptop-tablet hybrid. As an 11.6-inch tablet with a 1080p display, the Portege Z10t weighs just under two pounds—admittedly much heavier than the one-pound norm for tablets like the iPad Air and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Nevertheless, it's pretty light considering the beefy processing power packed behind the display.The z10t we reviewed featured a dual-core Intel Core i7-4610Y processor, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, Windows 8.1 Pro, and even a Wacom digitzer. But with prices starting at $1,500, you've really got to want a laptop that doubles as a tablet to pick this up. Surface Pro 3 Technically the Surface Pro 3 is a tablet, but we're willing to bet most folks spring for the $130 Type Cover accessory, since using it as a tablet and a laptop is Microsoft's intention. A desktop docking station makes the Surface Pro 3 even more versatile.Ever since the iPad, the geek set has dreamed of trading in laptops for a powerful tablets backed by a solid application set and the cloud. The Surface Pro 3 is the first we've seen that comes close to that ideal. It packs Ultrabook-level power into an oh-so-slim portable package. The revamped kickstand and Type Cover hinge make the device feel comfortable in your lap when you're using it as a notebook—a first for Microsoft's hybrid. See larger image Lenovo 2 Yoga 11 When Windows 8 first came out, Lenovo's back-bending Yoga line was one of the earliest devices to succeed at taking advantage of the operating system's dual nature of a tablet and traditional PC—so much so that numerous other manufacturers are now ripping off the basic design.The Yoga 2 11 isn't all that different from earlier iterations, but with a $500 price tag it's a solid buy for computer users who want their laptop to bend, fold, and twist into different form factors.You can use the Yoga 2 in several ways: tablet mode with the keyboard folded back, stand and tent shapes for easier presentations and media viewing, as well as the standard laptop mode. Dell Venue 11 Pro Similar to Microsoft's Surface Pro 3, Dell meant the Venue 11 Pro to be a multi-function device that can serve as a tablet, a small laptop, and (with the right accessory) a baby-sized all-in-one PC. The Dell Venue 11 Pro features a 10.8-inch 1080p display. The model we saw came packed with an Intel Atom "Bay Trail" processor (upgradeable to an Intel Core i3 or i5), 2GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, and Windows 8.1. A pricier business-focused version adds impressive security features not often found in tablets.What makes the Venue 11 distinctive is its all-in-one PC potential. For that, you'll need to pick up a $110 Dell Tablet Dock sporting three USB 3.0 ports, DisplayPort, HDMI out, and ethernet. Acer Aspire Switch 10 Acer's Aspire Switch 10 may look like another Lenovo Yoga imitator, with its presentation, tablet, and tent modes. But unlike the Yoga, which is a laptop that tucks its keyboard behind the screen, Acer's laptop has a detachable display that transforms into an actual tablet. The Aspire Switch is also pretty light at around 1.29 pounds.We found a few problems: a dim display, a mediocre keyboard, and a problematic magnet-based system for reattaching the screen. Nevertheless, for less than $500, this novel little 10-inch laptop just might fit the bill for road warriors looking to travel light.Now let's start digging into some of the more exotic hybrids. Acer R7 And you thought the swinging hinge on Dell's XPS 12 made for a weird convertible. The most remarkable thing about the Acer R7 isn't its specs or quality, but its wacky design. Look at the device in laptop mode: Notice that the trackpad sits above the keyboard. Yes, above.Then you start playing with the device's hinge, which lets you move the R7's display into all kinds of positions—including what Acer calls "Ezel" mode, where you bring the display closer to you by covering up the trackpad. You can even have what you might call 'platter' mode, where the display looks straight up toward the ceiling. The R7 was certainly… innovative. Asus Transformer Book Trio Asus just loves to create hybrids. It's been dabbling with weird form factors ever since unveiling the playful Padfone smartphone-tablet hybrid, first announced in 2011.Take last summer's Transformer Book Trio. It starts as a Windows 8.1 laptop, but detach the display and BOOM!—you've got an Android tablet. Hook the keyboard up to a discrete monitor and BANG!—you're back in Windows 8.1, but this time you've got a desktop PC. Weird.The Trio is surprisingly light at 3.7 pounds. Not bad, considering its 11.6-inch 1080p display packs full tablet and PC specs. Big tablets with all-in-one style Stranger birds that have popped recently are Android and Windows tablets-slash-all-in-one PCs. These devices are typically large, with screen sizes of 18 inches or more (although Sony did try out an 11.6-inch AIO with the Vaio Tap 11). Then there's the 19.5-inch Lenovo N308 (pictured), a relatively cheap, convertible Android-based AIO. (It feels odd just writing that.)One well-received tablet-AIO hybrid is 2013's Dell XPS 18. It has an 18-inch 1080p display that you can use as a 5-pound tablet, or open up its kickstand and connect it to a wireless mouse and keyboard to use it as a (somewhat) traditional desktop PC. SEVEN-in-one Toshiba's Dynabook Kira L93 isn't available in the U.S, but it's no great loss. When we saw this shape-shifting hybrid at Computex, it was as cumbersome as it was interesting.The Kira L93 looks like a laptop-AIO-tablet hybrid. 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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
when skies are grey
Seattle, University District, afternoon with rain.
Text, text, where did my text go? I had written something, not about the autumn weather that seems to have finally settled in over my city, the winds pulling all the colorful autumn-painted leaves from the trees now black-limbed with rain, and why all these hyphenated words, Bailey? I donno. This was not the text I had put beneath this photo last night but Blogger, she hates me. Maybe I'd written something about how I am well and truly underway with a new novel, having now written over six thousand words of the first draft, which is a pretty good start I think. Maybe I'd written something about how my basic approach to drafting scenes has expanded over the years and that the boundaries of a dramatic scene have become quite permeable and so the narrative spreads, or maybe sprawls, quite finely these days. Certainly I had not written about a woman named Lydia, who phoned me at my office to set up an appointment to show me a line of bespoke business suits. "How on earth did you decide to phone me?" I asked Lydia. She had no good answer and the whole thing has the feeling of an elaborate practical joke, but I'm going along with the joke because I am rather fond of fine men's suits though I am not the sort of fellow who pays $250 for a bespoke shirt. Lydia was quite insistent even after I told her I'm more Ralph Lauren than Mr Turk. No doubt Lydia and her corporate masters will be disappointed when I fail to place an order next week. But I'm sure I hadn't written about that last night. No, it was something to do with the sky, the wet golden leaves in the gutters, and Paris, maybe, which was in the midst of autumn rains a month ago when we visited. But I can't remember what it was. I can tell you that this morning, when I was walking down the hill toward the bus stop, the street lights were all still lit. First time for that this year, a sure sign that the perpetual night of winter quickly approaches.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
1,001 African nights with Isak Dinesen
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.I have been reading Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa, a collection of memoir and essays inspired by the decades Dinesen spent in Kenya on a coffee plantation. The book is not the story of Dinesen's unhappy marriage to her cousin the Baron Blixen and her later love affair with hunting guide Denys Finch-Hatton. The book is a collection of episodes from Dinesen's memory, carefully-crafted moments in time that give the reader the mood of Dinesen's idea of Africa, rather than the story of her life on the plantation.
As I was standing before my house a shot fell, not far off. One shot. Then again the stillness of the night closed on all sides. After a while, as if they had been pausing to listen and were now taking it up once more, I heard the Cicada chiming their monotonous little song in the grass.That is the way the narrative is built: events arise from the dark, take shape and accumulate actors and conflict and then are finished, vanishing into the blue mist. The episodes, either tragic or joyful, are interrupted by colorful digressions as Dinesen wanders off the road into the tall grass to point out a Serval cat hidden in the top of a tree and a brief description of how she once shot such a Serval cat after midnight and half regretted it forever and then she has led us back onto the road again to finish the tale of a tribal council. All of it is splendidly done, easily managed, confident and precise. Out of Africa is one of the best-written books I've ever read.
There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it. I stood for some time wondering what it had meant. Nobody could aim at anything at this hour, and, to scare away something, a person would fire two shots or more.
[...]Two minutes later a motorcycle rounded the drive at a terrific speed and stopped in front of the house, and someone knocked hard upon the long window of my sitting-room....Outside was my mill manager, wild-eyed and sweating in the lamplight....His cook had had a day off, and in his absence a party had been given in the kitchen by the seven years old kitchen Toto, Kabero...As, late in the evening, the company became very gay, Kabero had brought in his master's gun and, to his wild friends of the plains and shambas, had acted the part of a white man....
I knew the children who had been shot, from the plains of the farm, where they had herded their father's sheep. Wamai, Jogona's son, a lively little boy who had for some time been a pupil at the school, was lying on the floor between the door and the table. He was not dead, but not far from death, and unconscious even, though he groaned a little. The child that shrieked was Wanyangerri, who had been the youngest of the party in the kitchen. He was sitting up, leaning forwards, towards the lamp; the blood spouted, like water from a pump, from his face--if one could still say that, for he must have stood straight in front of the barrel when it was fired and it had taken his lower jaw clean off. He held his arms out from his sides and moved them up and down like pump-spears, as the wings of a chicken go, after it has had its head cut off.
When you are brought suddenly within the presence of such disaster, there seems to be but one advice, it is the remedy of the shooting-field and the farmyard: that you should kill quickly and at any cost. And yet you know that you cannot kill, and your brain turns with fear. I put my hands to the child's head and pressed it in my despair, and, as if I had really killed him, he at the same moment stopped screaming, and sat erect with his arms hanging down, as if he was made of wood.
One year the long rains failed. That is a terrible, tremendous experience, and the farmer who has lived through it, will never forget it. Years afterwards, away from Africa, in the wet climate of a northern country, he will start up at night, at the sound of a sudden shower of rain, and cry, "At last, at last."The literary touchstone for Out of Africa is Tales of the Arabian Nights, including the framing story of Scheherazade. Dinesen spins her tales not only because she loves to tell stories, but also to keep death at bay, to preserve the lives of her Kenyan farm, her Kikuyu and Somali and Masai neighbors, her friends from neighboring farms, and her lover Denys Finch-Hatton. Dinesen says these names, describes these places, and they live; even those who die within her narratives return ("That man died at the beginning of the story. But go on.") because Out of Africa is a great pattern, a web or a loom, not a single forward-moving story, not a novel. It's a dream, I think, dreamt by Karen Blixen after she was forced to sell the farm and move back to Denmark, and the book has indeed a dreamlike quality, as if these episodes were not possible in waking life.
In normal years the long rains began in the last week of March and went on into the middle of June. Up to the time of the rains, the world grew hotter and drier every day, feverish, as in Europe before a great thunderstorm, only more so.
The Masai, who were my neighbors on the other side of the river, at that time set fire to the bast-dry plains to get new green grass for their cattle with the first rain, and the air over the plains danced with the mighty conflagration; the long gray and rainbow-tinted layers of smoke rolled along over the grass, and the heat and the smell of burning were drifted in over the cultivated land as from a furnace.
Gigantic clouds gathered, and dissolved again, over the landscape; a light distant shower of rain painted a blue slanting streak across the horizon. All the world had only one thought.
On an evening just before sunset, the scenery drew close round you, the hills came near and were vigorous, meaningful, in their clear, deep blue and green coloring. A couple of hours later you went out and saw that the stars had gone, and you felt the night air soft and deep and pregnant with benefaction.
When the quickly rushing sound wandered over your head it was the wind in the tall forest trees--and not the rain. When it ran along the ground it was the wind in the shrubs and the long grass--and not the rain. When it rustled and rattled just above the ground it was the wind in the maize fields, where it sounded so much like rain that you were taken in, time after time, and even got a certain content from it, as if you were at least shown the thing you longed for acted on a stage--and not the rain.
But when the earth answered like a sounding board in a deep fertile roar, and the world sang round you in all dimensions, all above and below--that was the rain. It was like coming back to the Sea, when you have been a long time away from it, like a lover's embrace.
I had no idea what I thought the book would be. I was expecting a romance, but not a romance where the partner was a land and not a person. Dinesen's prose is steady, mild, gentle. There is something magical on every page. It is, I tell you, one of the greatest books I've ever read.
So I went to bed, taking a book with me, and leaving the lamp to burn. In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.Dinesen provides just such a fresh deep green track for her readers.
Here is a sort of interview with Karen Blixen, not too long before her death. It is not particularly enlightening.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Nowhere But North but this time I mean it
I have been talking, off and on since late 2010, about a novel I intend to write, a novel that will be called Nowhere But North, also known as "the Antarctica book." Looking back over this blog I see that I have announced annually since late 2010 that Nowhere But North would be "the next book I write." So far, that announcement has been a lie and I have kept finding other novels to write instead. But this time, I tell you, it is not a lie. I must finish typing up the changes to the MS of Mona in the Desert, and then I must read The New York Stories of Henry James and then, I tell you, then I will sit me down and start in on the first chapter of Book III of Nowhere But North. Do not ask me why I will start approximately 25% of the way into the book, or I will have to tell you that I am writing the story in chronological order but the MS will not present the material in that order and I plan to cut it into long strips and put the last bits first and the first bits last, three times in a row, with the very end of the story coming in small episodes between those long strips. It's a cinematic technique whose name I don't know but has been used often enough so I cannot call myself exactly an experimental writer. But Book II, mind you, has a very cool idea that I hope I can pull off, though it is also not entirely original. Originality is overrated. The novelty of the techniques do not matter one whit as long as the effect on the reader is what is made new, you Mr Pound you. And I think that's what Ezra might have meant anyway, else why write all those cantos?
Thursday, October 15, 2015
on transhumanism
The extraordinary claim that the technological enhancement of the human brain's neocortex will make us more "godlike" suffers from a mistaken comparison between God and human beings. God is not a super-creature among creatures. The characteristics traditionally predicated of God with respect to knowledge, power, and love, for example, are not possessed by God in a greater degree than they are possessed by human beings. When we use terms such as omnipotent, omniscient, and all-loving when referring to God, we must remember that all such language about God is at best analogical and that, finally, God transcends all such categories. The temptation to be "like God" is an old one, and it always needs to be resisted, even in its modern technological guise.
Folks like Kurzweil strike me as having a thinly-veiled contempt for humanity, as if what we are is "merely" human, that humanity is and always will be inferior to machines, and that the creations of man (that is, machines) are in some way more virtuous than humanity itself, and so the worship of the machine is founded upon a form of self-loathing, Kurzweil despising himself for being an animal, an ape, a man. After Nimrod built his tower, when he climbed to the top he was astonished to find that he was no nearer to heaven, that the god of Abraham remained beyond his grasp forever.
Wait, wait: this isn't about reading or writing, is it? No, it's not directly, but I am planning a novel featuring a philosopher, so I will be thinking a lot about philosophy and the metaphysics of humanity for the next several years. Tomorrow, though, if I find time, I will post about Out of Africa.
Folks like Kurzweil strike me as having a thinly-veiled contempt for humanity, as if what we are is "merely" human, that humanity is and always will be inferior to machines, and that the creations of man (that is, machines) are in some way more virtuous than humanity itself, and so the worship of the machine is founded upon a form of self-loathing, Kurzweil despising himself for being an animal, an ape, a man. After Nimrod built his tower, when he climbed to the top he was astonished to find that he was no nearer to heaven, that the god of Abraham remained beyond his grasp forever.
Wait, wait: this isn't about reading or writing, is it? No, it's not directly, but I am planning a novel featuring a philosopher, so I will be thinking a lot about philosophy and the metaphysics of humanity for the next several years. Tomorrow, though, if I find time, I will post about Out of Africa.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Elizabeth Gaskell writes about Twitter
I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one. Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed, in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was a girl, the post came in but once a month;--but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books. Now the post comes rattling in twice a day, bringing short jerky notes, some without beginning or end, but just a little sharp sentence, which well-bred folks would think too abrupt to be spoken. Well, well! they may all be improvements,--I dare say they are; but you will never meet with a Lady Ludlow in these days.from My Lady Ludlow, 1858
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
There is nothing more dreary than old age in animals
Her old blind dog, Baby, was sick and like to die. Baby had been the first gift from her friend the widow, Mrs. Lehntman in the old days when Anna had been with Miss Mary Wadsmith, and when these two women had first come together.From "The Good Anna" section of Three Lives by Gertrude Stein. A struldbrug is a creature from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a human who does not die, but does age, getting older and older and older and sticking around on the earth, ancient.
Through all the years of change, Baby had stayed with the good Anna, growing old and fat and blind and lazy. Baby had been active and a ratter when she was young, but that was so long ago it was forgotten, and for many years now Baby had wanted only her warm basket and her dinner.
Anna in her active life found need of others, of Peter and the funny little Rags, but always Baby was the eldest and held her with the ties of old affection. Anna was harsh when the young ones tried to keep poor Baby out and use her basket. Baby had been blind now for some years as dogs get, when they are no longer active. She got weak and fat and breathless and she could not even stand long any more. Anna had always to see that she got her dinner and that the young active ones did not deprive her.
Baby did not die with a real sickness. She just got older and more blind and coughed and then more quiet, and then slowly one bright summer's day she died.
There is nothing more dreary than old age in animals. Somehow it is all wrong that they should have grey hair and withered skin, and blind old eyes, and decayed and useless teeth. An old man or an old woman almost always has some tie that seems to bind them to the younger, realer life. They have children or the remembrance of old duties, but a dog that's old and so cut off from all its world of struggle, is like a dreary, deathless Struldbrug, the dreary dragger on of death through life.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
an arduous and troubled life in Gertrude Stein's "Three Lives"
Anna led an arduous and troubled life.I'm reading Gertrude Stein's first novel, Three Lives, published in 1909 by a vanity press in America while Stein lived in Paris. The book's sideways Brothers Grimm sort of prose made the publisher think that English was not Stein's first language, and he vainly pressured her to have it professionally edited and rewritten into standard English prose. Stein's first publisher did not get what was going on, but he was a publisher of primarily books about genealogy and family histories, not a publisher of novels. All of the major publishing houses had passed on it and so Stein was forced to finance the book herself. She was lucky to have a large inheritance. It's amazing, really, that this book made it to market.
Anna managed the whole little house for Miss Mathilda. [...] This one little house was always very full with Miss Mathilda, an under servant, stray dogs and cats and Anna's voice that scolded, managed, grumbled all day long.
"Sallie! can't I leave you alone a minute but you must run to the door to see the butcher boy come down the street and there is Miss Mathilda calling for her shoes. Can I do everything while you go around always thinking about nothing at all? If I ain't after you every minute you would be forgetting all the time, and I take all this pains, and when you come to me you was as ragged as a buzzard and as dirty as a dog. Go and find Miss Mathilda her shoes where you put them this morning."
"Peter!",--her voice rose higher,--"Peter!",--Peter was the youngest and the favorite dog,--"Peter, if you don't leave Baby alone,"--Baby was an old, blind terrier that Anna had loved for many years,--"Peter if you don't leave Baby alone, I take a rawhide to you, you bad dog."
The good Anna had high ideals for canine chastity and discipline. The three regular dogs [...] together with the [...] many stray ones that Anna always kept until she found them homes, were all under strict orders never to be bad one with the other.
A sad disgrace did once happen in the family. A little transient terrier for whom Anna had found a home suddenly produced a crop of pups. The new owners were certain that this Foxy had known no dog since she was in their care. The good Anna held to it stoutly that her Peter and her Rags were guiltless, and she made her statement with so much heat that Foxy's owners were at last convinced that these results were due to their neglect.
"You bad dog," Anna said to Peter that night, "you bad dog."
[...]Innocent blind old Baby was the only one who preserved the dignity becoming in a dog.
You see that Anna led an arduous and troubled life.
I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to get around to reading Stein. She's doing, in Three Lives anyway, the sort of thing I do in my own writing. There is no plot, no principle action of the story; the narrative is made up of events, surely, events that illustrate the psychology of the characters, and so things are constantly happening, but the only connectedness between those events are the characters. There's no real causation in the novel, no puzzle to solve, no goal to be reached. In other words, it's a lot like life. I'm really enjoying the book so far. Stein could clearly see the comedy of being human. Yes, yes, stereotypes of immigrants and minorities, and all of that. She had her prejudices and blind spots. But she could write, and she knew what she was about with her ideas of structure, of making everything in the narrative of equal importance, of writing about character rather than quest.
Before an unhappy romance drove her to flee to Paris, Stein was a medical student. I am constantly amazed at the link between physicians and novelists. Though perhaps there is a greater link between, say, taxi drivers or bricklayers and novelists. I have done no particular research into this.
I am reading the Penguin Classics edition of the book, which contains as back matter Stein's early unpublished attempt at a novel (QED). That's a nice touch, editors of Penguin Classics, but what the hell is going on with the layout of this book? The gutter is so tight that it is nearly impossible to read the text along the right-hand margin of the left-hand pages. I could become quite cross about this were I so inclined. Gertrude Stein gets none of the blame for this, I hasten to add.
Friday, October 2, 2015
"move out the old prejudices and make room for new ones" Edith Wharton in old New York
Her house, in a minor way, bore witness to the craving. One felt it to be the result of a series of eliminations: there was nothing fortuitous in its blending of line and color. The almost morbid finish of every material detail of her life suggested the possibility that a diversity of energies had, by some pressure of circumstance, been forced into the channel of a narrow dilettanteism. Mrs. Quentin's fastidiousness had, indeed, the flaw of being too one-sided. Her friends were not always worthy of the chairs they sat in, and she overlooked in her associates defects she would not have tolerated in her bric-a-brac. Her house was, in fact, never so distinguished as when it was empty; and it was at its best in the warm fire-lit silence that now received her.Mrs Quentin is the protagonist of Edith Wharton's short story "The Quicksand." Mrs Quentin has returned home one evening to encounter her son, Alan, in a dark mood. Only moments after she has cast off her furs and begun laying out tea, Mrs Quentin is suffering "the mother's instinctive anger that the girl she has not wanted for her son should have dared to refuse him."
Aloud she murmured, "You must give her time."Mrs Quentin and her Alan are shallow and wicked, contemptuous of the whole world and even--though they'd never admit it even to themselves--of each other. "Her friends were not always worthy of the chairs they sat in" is such a great line; I'm probably going to steal it and claim it as my own.
"To move out the old prejudices and make room for new ones."
"My dear mother, those she has are brand-new; that's the trouble with them. She's tremendously up-to-date. She takes in all the moral fashion-papers, and wears the newest thing in ethics."
Her resentment lost its way in the intricacies of his metaphor. "Is she so very religious?"
"You dear archaic woman! She's hopelessly irreligious; that's the difficulty. You can make a religious woman believe almost anything: there's the habit of credulity to work on. But when a girl's faith in the Deluge has been shaken, it's very hard to inspire her with confidence. She makes you feel that, before believing in you, it's her duty as a conscientious agnostic to find out whether you're not obsolete, or whether the text isn't corrupt, or somebody hasn't proved conclusively that you never existed, anyhow."
Wharton's stories are full of this sort of thing, of people blind to their own shortcomings, or mistaking their character flaws for virtue. I am reading the NYRB volume of The New York Stories of Edith Wharton. So far, they are all very much structurally of the Maupassant school of "naturalism," which means of course that they all have a quite unnatural plot twist at the end. The quality of having a moral lesson also gives Wharton's tales a sort of O. Henry feel to them. I try hard to overlook both this moral lesson and the plot twist, because otherwise they are fine stories, generally well-observed character studies with some beautiful descriptive passages. I am reading them as research, of course, of turn-of-the-century New York culture. When I'm done with the Wharton, I'll read NYRB's The New York Stories of Henry James, which contains much I've previously read but it will be good to have them all crammed together at me in one big chunk.
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"if the men wore scarlet trousers" a last gasp from Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a wish-fulfillment novel, a social and sexual fantasy that attempts to put the world--damaged irreparably by the competing forces of capitalism and Marxism--back to rights. It is a failure, both as a social program and as a novel, but at least as a novel the book is a spectacular failure, a failure worth having been done. A good half of it is an artistic success, a wild and reckless thing shining with aesthetic joys and madness. Lawrence thought--as I believe he thought of all his novels--that he was making something important and useful and beautiful. Chatterley is nowhere as successful as Sons and Lovers or Women in Love, and I've found myself rather mocking the novel when I think I should be praising it.
Some of it, admittedly, is easy to mock. Lawrence's conviction that uninhibited sex between men and women (Lawrence dismisses gays and lesbians as less than genuine humans), combined with a return to a pre-industrial economy where luxury is eliminated and humans seek the simple animal pleasures of life, is naive and Lawrence's attempts at uninhibited writing about sex are very often as clumsy as his writing about neoprimitive society. I pause to admit that my own prudishness might be a force behind my giggles over these sex passages, but a lot of it's merely inelegant prose, unworthy of Lawrence. Some of it's pretty good, though. All of it, even when it fails, demonstrates that Lawrence was writing with furious courage and I admire that a great deal. He doesn't pause when saying things that might embarrass him or his reader; he just pushes on, his eyes aflame, a bit like William Blake's loonier moments.
Though perhaps I'm trying too hard: "Come, ladies and gents, join me in applauding the erotic dance of Lawrence's limping spawn!" Why am I so concerned about defending this malformed novel? I am of course less interested in the late David Lawrence's reception than I am about my own writing, yes? Am I so intent on holding up Lawrence's book--which was banned and never published in complete form until well after the author's death--because as a writer I sympathize with his difficulty in getting a very personal and wacky and weirdly moral(istic) book published? Yes, yes, I think that's so. Every critical stance is an implicit claim about reality, you know. So maybe I'm done with Lady Chatterley's Lover. I will leave you with a bit of the book's ending:
The pits are working badly; this is a colliery district like Tevershall, only prettier. I sometimes sit in the Wellington and talk to the men. They grumble a lot, but they're not going to alter anything. As everybody says, the Notts-Derby miners have got their hearts in the right place. But the rest of their anatomy must be in the wrong place, in a world that has no use for them. I like them, but they don't cheer me much: not enough of the old fighting-cock in them. They talk a lot about nationalization, nationalization of royalties, nationalization of the whole industry. But you can't nationalize coal and leave all the other industries as they are. They talk about putting coal to new uses, like Sir Clifford is trying to do. It may work here and there, but not as a general thing, I doubt. Whatever you make you've got to sell it. The men are very apathetic. They feel the whole damned thing is doomed, and I believe it is. And they are doomed along with it. Some of the young ones spout about a Soviet, but there's not much conviction in them. There's no sort of conviction about anything, except that it's all a muddle and a hole. Even under a Soviet you've still got to sell coal: and that's the difficulty.These pages, the end of the final act, are the real Lady Chatterley's Lover, not the fucking and the flowers woven into pubic hair and the phallos. Lawrence wants an antidote for the poisons of the modern age. Lawrence was a romantic. I almost called this post What is to be Done?
We've got this great industrial population, and they've got to be fed, so the damn show has to be kept going somehow. The women talk a lot more than the men, nowadays, and they are a sight more cock-sure. The men are limp, they feel a doom somewhere, and they go about as if there was nothing to be done. Anyhow, nobody knows what should be done in spite of all the talk, the young ones get mad because they've no money to spend. Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they've got none to spend. That's our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out. The pits are working two days, two and a half days a week, and there's no sign of betterment even for the winter. It means a man bringing up a family on twenty-five and thirty shillings. The women are the maddest of all. But then they're the maddest for spending, nowadays.
If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated to LIVE instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily on twenty-five shillings. If the men wore scarlet trousers as I said, they wouldn't think so much of money: if they could dance and hop and skip, and sing and swagger and be handsome, they could do with very little cash. And amuse the women themselves, and be amused by the women. They ought to learn to be naked and handsome, and to sing in a mass and dance the old group dances, and carve the stools they sit on, and embroider their own emblems. Then they wouldn't need money. And that's the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend. But you can't do it. They're all one-track minds nowadays. Whereas the mass of people oughtn't even to try to think, because they can't. They should be alive and frisky, and acknowledge the great god Pan. He's the only god for the masses, forever. The few can go in for higher cults if they like. But let the mass be forever pagan.
But the colliers aren't pagan, far from it. They're a sad lot, a deadened lot of men: dead to their women, dead to life. The young ones scoot about on motor-bikes with girls, and jazz when they get a chance, But they're very dead. And it needs money. Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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Oct 2 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks remained basically flat amid profit-taking and re-allocation during choppy trade on Friday morning as investors looked ahead to a key U.S. jobs report.
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For low-income Americans, where they live has a large bearing on the age at which they die.
A new study has placed a strong link between the income gap between rich and poor and where that person lives in the United States.
While the richest people in the US are living around three years longer in the new millennium, the poorest people are not living any longer than before.
Data from the Journal of the American Medical Association's Health Inequality Project shows that the average life span is also strongly dependent on local policies which aim to improve behavioural habits like exercise and smoking.
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The report places little emphasis between a region's spending on health care or how many people have health insurance as a measure for how long someone will live. Neither does the report claim that unemployment plays a large factor. Simply put, rich people are less likely to smoke, be obese or suffer from stress.
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Tuscan Braised Pork Chops
Recipe by Chopin Liszt
An aromatic sofrito flavors the pork chops. The sofrito then becomes the base for a tasty pasta sauce. The chops are served with pasta, the sauce and a robust green vegetable such as spinach or escarole. Correction: Soffrito is the correct spelling for this Italian mixture of aromatic vegetables, which is more often know by the French name, mirepoix. Sofrito is a slightly different Caribbean-Spanish mixture used for similar purposes.
Top Review by sugarpea
Can't say I've ever made a sofrito before. What a great technique. These are flavor-packed and moist pork chops but watch the amount of red pepper. I followed the ingredients list and it was borderline too hot for me. I used a bit of leftover diced tomatoes in juice to prevent the pan from simmering dry. We really enjoyed the sauce on whole wheat pasta. I couldn't bear to waste all those tasty strained vegetables so I used them the next night, pureed and thinned with turkey broth, as the base for a vegetable chili. Perfect.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 -3 lbs pork chops (4 thick ones)
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup white wine (may be used) or 1⁄2 cup water (may be used) or 1⁄2 cup broth (may be used)
- 8 ounces tomato sauce
The vegetables
- 2 medium carrots, finely chopped
- 2 stalks celery, finely chopped
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
The seasonings
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (edited per SugarPea's comment)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
- 1⁄2 teaspoon basil
Directions See How It's Made
- Wipe the chops with a damp paper towel and dry them.
- Brown the chops in 1/4 cup of the oil at medium/high heat in a large skillet.
- Remove the chops and set aside.
- Add the vegetables and the remaining 1/4 cup of oil to the pan.
- Caramelize the vegetables at medium heat (this is the sofrito).
- Return the chops to the pan and spoon some of the sofrito over them.
- Add the seasonings and wine.
- Cover and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes.
- Add a little water from time to time to prevent the pan from boiling dry.
- Add the tomato sauce.
- Cook covered 10 more minutes.
- Remove the chops and strain the sauce.
- Drizzle some sauce over the chops.
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Can man live on fast food alone? Morgan Spurlock tried to do just that. For 30 days, he ate nothing but three "squares" a day from McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. The resulting documentary won him resounding applause and a worldwide release that broke box-office records. Audiences were captivated by Spurlock's experiment, during which he gained 25 pounds, his blood pressure skyrocketed, and his libido all but disappeared. But this story goes far beyond Spurlock's good-humored "Mc-Sickness". He traveled across the country, into schools, hospitals, and people's homes, to investigate school lunch programs, the marketing of fast food, and the declining emphasis on health and physical education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately seductive, and what Americans can do to turn the rising tide of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes that have accompanied its ever-growing popularity. He interviewed experts in 20 U.S. cities, from surgeons general and kids to lawmakers and marketing gurus who share their research, opinions, and "gut feelings" on our ever-expanding girth and what we can all do to offset a health crisis of supersized proportions. In this groundbreaking, hilarious book, "benevolent muckraker" Morgan Spurlock debuts a wry investigative voice that will appeal to anyone interested in the health of our country, our children, and ourselves.More
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Budtender, chilihead and YouTuber Ted Barrus recently had the genius idea of testing out one of these peppers using his bong. While plenty of people have posted their unfavorable reactions to eating the pepper, taking bong hits of the pepper seems way, way worse .
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nothing seemed appropriate to say
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more than I should have to
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Why does a person hate someone they've never met?
What makes someone shoot another?
Why do we kill other people?
Because of their race?
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Because of how much money they have?
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Because of what they believe?
Or don't believe?
Why is there pain?
To bring us back to reality?
To tell us what not to do?
Why, then, do we keep hurting each other?
Why are we here?
Surely it's not to harm
those we should be helping
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I don't know why
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With LG's incredible TurboWash™ technology saving you 20 minutes per load, the big question is this: What will you do with all the extra free time? You could spend a few carefree moments admiring the streamlined styling….or marveling at the outstanding results of LG's steam cleaning, energy-saving ColdWash™ and 6Motion™ technology. But something tells us you'll have no trouble filling up those extra minutes. Or filling up this great LG WM3570HVA washer with the next big load.
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Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
it arrived broken. they have sent repair people four times. on hte 4th time they finally replaced the cracked drum, but now it pounds and pounds when it goes into spin cycle. they still won't replace what they can't fix.
leaking seams to be a common problem as when you call customer service the automated reply is how to fix leaks on your own.
it is a terrible product and the customer service stinks.
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- Attractive Design
- Durable
- Easy To Assemble
- Expensive
Best Uses
- Kitchen
- Outdoors
Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
I love this product because it fits perfectly into my kitchen and my laundry , matches my clothes dryer is easy to use for my husband and my children. I do not see myself using another machine. My sister had the same washing machine and she loved too.
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- Bedding
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Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
With a family of five our washer gets a ton of daily use. We owned a LG front load washer for seven years with no issues until it started making a winding noise. We had purchased an extended warranty from the big box chain when we bought the washer and as a result were able to exchange our failing washer for this brand new LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam WM3570HVA. I am in love. It is basically the same as our old LG washer but with a bigger tub capacity, more cycles and improvements made to the wash cycles. My old LG could wash my king comforter but it would be a beast to cram it in there and get a good rinse and spin cycle on it. My dry time would double because it was still pretty wet. However, with this new washer and the extra space, my king comforter is washed, rinsed and spun perfectly. I don't have to spend hours drying it.
I am so pleased with the additional cycles that were added, and the turbo wash feature. I am especially pleased with the sanitary feature. I love that it heats the water to the appropriate temperature right there at the machine. I also love the quick speed cycle when you just want to wash a couple of items. It gets the job done in fifteen minutes or less. I have always felt that the LG washer got my clothes clean and this model washer is no exception. I truly believe it washes deep into the fibers and has helped wash many tough stains out of my kids' clothes.
I have been extremely pleased with the LG brand of washers. Even though I was given the opportunity to choose any brand I wanted to replace my washer under the extended warranty, after hours of research I still chose LG and I am so pleased with the decision. I truly love this washer and all the features are actually functional. There are twelve preset functions, but you are still allowed to tweak the water temp, spin and heaviness if you want. So, the presets are great if you want to push and go, but you also have the flexibility to customize your own wash cycle. I also want to point out that I leave the soap drawer and the tub door open to air out after I am done washing and I never had a mold, mildew or stinky issue with my LG washer like a lot of people complain about. This model is made the same way and I plan to keep letting it air out after each use as well.
I recommend this LG washer to any family big or small. It's a great investment.
Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
The old LG washer died. The old LG was only 6 years old and had been in storage for 14 months while we were overseas. I thought that the perpetually renovating neighbors were out jackhammering away so I investigated the noise. No, nothing outside. I followed the sound to the washing machine. The drum had detached from whatever it is supposed to be attached to and was going back and forth hard enough for water to come through the door. Since I need a washing machine and not a percussive instrument, I started reviewing machines online at several sites. And this LG kept coming up as a winner in the eyes of both the consumer and independent professional reviews. Still being leery of another LG, I went off to visit it at a local store. It has been redesigned wonderfully. The large knob to select the wash cycle you want is much easier and more reliable than the old large press-in-the-center button. It has enough cycles to do just about anything. The salesperson didn't think that a king size quilt would fit, but all the reviews and LG itself say that the tub is large enough and it is. If you have a very puffy quilt, maybe think twice. I love the quick cycle. Five pairs of yoga pants in 14 minutes which leaves the machine ready for another load. Silly as you may think it is, there is a light that comes on while you are putting laundry in and taking it out. And that helps prevent putting in items that you don't want it that particular load. It also helps at the end if there are items which you don't plan to put in the dryer. The drawer for the liquid detergent now has markers for how much liquid to use, although I still use a bit less. You can also remove this little dispenser easily and dump the excess water out of it and should each time. The drawer itself is tightly held in to the point that "press" which is located between the bleach and fabric softener dispensers is a nice work out. But it does prevent the drawer from being yanked out mistakenly. New directions make it clear to empty the water hose and clean the machine - the option is located on the knob - once a month if not more often. The gasket that surrounds the tub is wider and easier to clean than the Tromm which I previously owned, but it is still less than perfect. If you can't deal with the gasket, consider a top loader. The front loaders use less water and are more energy efficient which is important to me. It is also a "smart" appliance so if you have the app and the inclination you can start the machine remotely. I have not tried this. For the price and given what it offers, I think this machine is hard to ignore. But I will know definitively in 6 years.
I don't know. Ask me in 6 years.
Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
This LG washer is amazing. It has a large capacity, so you can do the equivalent of two standards loads. It love all of the different load options available such as tub clean, heavy duty, allergen, bulky, cotton, towels, delicate, etc. I also love the options within the load options as well, such as warm water, hot water or very hot; prewash or extra rinse cycle; various spin cycles, etc. This is a great machine and does an excellent job washing clothing.
Energy Efficiency
I love that I only have to use a little bit of soap to wash my clothing. This saves me so much money on detergent.
Cleaning Time
For some cycles, I feel as though the clean time takes longer than it should, but overall, my clothing is cleaning and I don't have extra water in the tub like I did when I had a standard top load washer.
This does an excellent job cleaning clothing.
Ease of Use
This is such an easy machine to use. It is electronic and has a touch screen for choosing different options.
Sleek and functional.
This is for large, bulky and heavy duty loads.
Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
I purchased the LG WM3570HVA Washer a few months ago. There weren't any reviews about it so I had to go by the spec sheet. I'm glad I purchased it though because it's loads (pun intended) better compared to my older washer. In my household, in a week we would do 5 loads of laundry, so we needed a washer that could hold large loads of clothes. On first look, the LG washer's drum is wide and deep. The inside is made of stainless steel, tilted back for clothing retention. Loading clothes is easy. There are many features included that you could just choose with a spin of a knob, or you could customize your own cycle that isn't on the dial with an NFC command via their app (note: it's not fully customizable, but you do get a little more choice). If you get technical, you can utilize its secret "service mode" and can get a little more out of the machine (eg: service mode can get around their water limiting features on certain types of loads). I also love that when it's done, it sings a little theme (you can also choose the volume, if singing washers isn't your cup of tea). The machine also has large ball bearings inside to "balance" out the load. It means that when your load spins around, sometimes it gets unbalanced (one side is more compacted with clothes), that's when the ball bearings shift and gives the unbalanced side more weight to compensate.
Some things that I wish LG would have added into this washer to make it a better model would be is that there is no drum light! The window is made of glass on the inside, but on the outer part of the washer's door, it's made of tinted black plastic. You cannot anything-- that means you can't see how the wash is going, if there is enough soap, if there is anything dispensed, etc. Adding a simple little drum light that's available in their other models would have been very useful. What I had to do was attach a ring light to the center of the glass and I could see inside. The second thing that I wish they did better was either create something that wouldn't cause the gasket to wear down so quickly. There is a large rubber gasket that when the water splashes against the inside glass cover, diverts into the gasket that diverts the water into a drainage hole. If the load is unbalanced, it causes the drum to rub up against the gasket. As a result, when you take your laundry out, you get a bit of gray dust on the gasket. I'm not sure how long the gasket would last, if it continues to wear down. Seems like a very sturdy machine, but what's sturdy if the inside parts wear down quick?
I really like the machine. I've had it for just about 3 months now and I would recommend anyone finding it on sale to purchase it. Hopefully if LG reads this, they could implement some of the missing features (or provide current consumers of this product some sort of upgrade option), it would make this machine a much better product.
Energy Efficiency
It doesn't use that much water, or even electricity.
Cleaning Time
Depending on what type of load you want, it can take as little as 20 minutes to as long as 2 hours.
Performed better than our old model, which was a Kenmore stacked laundry center.
Ease of Use
Just spin the knob to your desired load type and press the play button.
Designed for the average consumer, the buttons are large, and there is a backlit display for ease of use and readability.
Seems pretty sturdy, for now.
Comments about LG 4.3 cu.ft. Ultra Large Capacity TurboWash™ Washer w/Steam:
We bought this washer after falling in love with our LG TV. Sounds funny but we got to learn about LG when researching for a new TV and learned about the quality of LG products. LG seems to be the underdog in appliances - they are quiet but they make great products.
Energy Efficiency
For the capacity of this washer, I think it is very energy efficient. We haven't had it long enough to really see an impact on our water bill but I think compared to our old washer, it is a lot more green.
Cleaning Time
Standard cleaning times. You can select the types of cycles you want. I love that you can opt for shorter cycles if you just want to quick wash.
Because of its efficiency, it seems like the washer doesn't clean as well as older washers. The more high tech and fancy the appliance is these days, it feels like the performance is compromised.
Ease of Use
Simple buttons, but because it's so customizable, it can be a little confusing because you have so many options. I just stick with the standard wash cycles,
Beautiful stainless steel
To be determined but it seems like new appliances these days don't last as long as the older ones. They used to last 20+ years. Now, you have to switch out your appliances every 5-7 years.