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Finally I've decided to make ubuntu as my primary development environment. After a clean install on a brand new ssd, I've checked sound, video, keyboard hotkeys (Asus N55SF) and everything seemed to work fine. The only thing that bothered me is a little bit noisy fan of the video card (I guess). And as a result a high temperature of the bottom of the laptop (actually not that high, but much higher than I had with Windows). Need to mention that I did not do any heavy tasks... the fan speed was high right after booting with no programs launched.
After googling around I've stumbled on the Bumblebee. I've installed it and was pretty much satisfied with the fan speed decreased. But then I've noticed that my volume control in desktop status bar disappeared and the keyboard volume hotkeys stopped working too. The All Setting -> Sound shows no output and input devices at all, but the sound is working fine. Can not post an inline screenshot, so here is a link.
Here is the output of the
sudo dpkg -l | grep -e alsa -e pulseaudio:
ii alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4 all ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-utils 18.104.22.168-1ubuntu1 amd64 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii bluez-alsa:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu8b1 amd64 Bluetooth ALSA support
ii gstreamer0.10-alsa:amd64 0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu3 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64 1.2.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.2.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii pulseaudio 1:4.0-0ubuntu6 amd64 PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:4.0-0ubuntu6 amd64 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 1:4.0-0ubuntu6 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
I've tried to reinstall alsa and pulseaudio with no luck. And though I can re-install the whole system and be very cautious next time I configure it, I wish not to do that if possible. Can anyone help me to fix these volume issues?
Once again, the sound is working fine, but I can't control it's volume neither via keyboard hotkeys, nor through the volume control on the status bar due to it's absence.
Also, I'm not stating that I've lost sound controls after installing Bumblebee. Maybe that was a result of one of my earlier steps of optimizing the system to work with SSD...
Thanks in advance!


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Islam/Sharia Issues
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Next Generation's Allen West speaks with Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin about the Obama administration's security team
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Nook Reader on Debian PC?
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- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:06:50 -0400
I have a pdf text which is hard to read. It occurred to me to try
installing the Nook reader to see if it would improve visibility. The
Barnes & Noble web site has downloads for Windows, Mac, iPads and
Android tablets and phones. I downloaded the Windows version and
installed it with Wine but have not got it working correctly as yet.
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30 SHADES OF ZOMBIE: Rhiannon Frater "Female Writers of the Zombocalypse"
In 2005, in a spurt of inspiration, I wrote a short story called "Tiny Fingers" while on break at work. The vivid image of a young mother staring in horror at the small hand of her zombified toddler shoved underneath the front door of her house desperately trying to reach her was so powerful I had to write the story. After posting it online and receiving some very positive feedback, I continued with the story of Jenni and Katie escaping into the Texas Hill Country. AS THE WORLD DIES was an online serial until 2008 when I self-published it as a trilogy. The first two books in the trilogy were nominated and won The Dead Letter Award for Best Fiction Book and received rave reviews. In 2010 Tor acquired the complete trilogy and reissued it in both trade paperback and mass market paperbacks.
Though the story has been called ground-breaking due to its two female protagonists, I never set out to write a story that would tear down a genre trope. It never occurred to me that I was writing something revolutionary when I started AS THE WORLD DIES. In retrospect, I should have realized I was treading on what was considered sacred male territory by some of the comments that first short story received. Two male writers of online zombie fiction basically tore the short story apart and mocked the female protagonist. Though they were the only naysayers, their commentary stung. It was the encouraging messages I received that convinced me to continue writing the zombie serial that would become AS THE WORLD DIES.
As time progressed, I began to understand that I had done broken fresh ground without ever intending to do so. Reviewers raved about the boldness of having two female protagonists as the primary characters and fans wrote emails expressing their love for Katie and Jenni. I begin to hear from other female writers that they were inspired by AS THE WORLD DIES to write their own zombie fiction.
In 2005 the zombie genre was dominated by male writers. In 2012 female writers have definitely made their mark. Mira Grant, Madeline Roux, Jessica Meigs, Carrie Ryan, Ann Aguirre, Dana Fredsti, Eloise Knapp, and Alexia Purdy are all great examples of women who created some of the best zombie literature in the market today.
Yet, we're still faced with the reality that some men and even women doubt our ability to create exciting horrific fiction. I recently attended an event where I was ignored while people walked to the male writer's table without giving me a glance. I spoke with another female writer who experienced the exact same phenomena. On more than one occasion I have been told by both male and female readers that they were surprised that a woman could write a good zombie story let alone write one with female leads.
I recently asked several of my lady zombie writers about the criticism we receive for treading into waters once dominated by our male counterparts. I also asked them why they write about zombies. I'd like to share some of their awesome insight with you.
Jessica Meigs, THE BECOMING
I choose to write zombie apocalypse literature mainly because the books that were out there at the time (I had yet to read AS THE WORLD DIES at that point) were just disappointing me. They were all focused on blood, guts, gore, military actions, and the zombies themselves, to the point where the books were about zombies. I didn't want to read about that. I wanted to read about the survivors, because that's where, to me, the interesting stuff lies. How people survive their entire worlds being eradicated, how they react to it, how it changes them—basically, the human aspects of the apocalypse are far more fascinating to me than any graphic depiction of zombie slaughtering.
Eloise J. Knapp, THE UNDEAD SITUATION
Screw the notion that the male gender is a prerequisite for creating quality zombie fiction. The idea that a female can't produce because of their gender is completely irrational. A man cannot truly fathom what the experience of the zombie apocalypse would ever be like, nor can a woman. Neither could ever know with absolute certainty. When it comes to writing zombie fiction, both men and women are on equal ground. They are both attempting to answer a hypothetical question through the format of fictional writing. The level of success with which they execute this task is dependent only on the individual's level of creativity. Nothing more. What makes a good story isn't what gender the writer is, but how they weave their knowledge, experience, and passions into their fiction.
Alexia Purdy, REIGN OF BLOOD
I love writing about zombies because the fear and adrenaline is so exhilarating. Emotions run high under duress and I love imagining these scenarios and what people would do in these unusual end-of-civilization situations. I, as a woman, feel I can write this well. I don't think it's any different from a way a man would write. It can be gritty, intense and emotional.
Sue Edge, DEAD TROPICS
I write about zombies because I am fascinated by scenarios that destroy people's comfort zones and force them to tap inner reservoirs of strength they don't usually know they possess. I also think being female makes me delve more into a character's feelings and motivations than male writers do. We want to know what makes people tick!
Dana Fredsti, PLAGUE TOWN
I write about them because I've always loved the zombie as my favorite monster. And I agree with Sue – women tend to have a totally different and more emotionally based perspective than a lot of the male writers, who get into the whole gun/survival porn aspect. And well, if there's a zombocalypse, women have a stake in it too.
In the end, my own reasons for writing about Jenni and Katie in the AS THE WORLD DIES zombie trilogy mirrors those stated above. I wanted to write about people just like me, ordinary Texan woman facing extraordinary circumstances in a manner that was realistic and true to the human condition. I also wanted to write a truly terrifying tale that would make the readers fear for their favorite characters and keep them up late at night with the lights on. I don't regard my gender as a hindrance to creating taunt, terrifying tales of horror.
One of those male writers that gave me such a hard time when I first posted "Tiny Fingers" later told me he had mocked the story because he had feared that I was the better writer. In one short story he felt I had conveyed much more intense horror and hit with a deeper emotional punch than anything he had ever written. He congratulated me on my success and apologized for trying to tear me down.
Between 2005 and 2012, so much has changed in the zombie genre that I have high hopes that in 2019, the thought of a woman writing a book filled with zombies, gore, violence, and an emotional heart won't give anyone pause, because the fabulous fiction of female writers will fill the bookshelves and will have found a place in the hearts of the zombie fans.
Rhiannon Frater is the award-winning author of the AS THE WORLD DIES zombie trilogy and the author of several other books: the vampire novels PRETTY WHEN SHE DIES and THE TALE OF THE VAMPIRE BRIDE and the young-adult zombie novel The Living Dead Boy and the Zombie Hunters. All three books in her zombie trilogy, THE FIRST DAYS, FIGHTING TO SURVIVE and SIEGE are now available in bookstores everywhere. THE LAST BASTION OF THE LIVING was released June 2012.
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A walled city surrounded by lush land, protected by high mountain summits, and fortified by a massive gate to secure the only pass into the valley, The Bastion remained humanity's last hope against the fearsome undead creatures known as the Inferi Scourge. On one fateful day, the valley gate failed and the Inferi Scourge overran and destroyed the human settlements outside the walls, trapping the remaining survivors inside the city. Now, decades later, the last remaining humans are struggling to survive in a dying city of dwindling resources…and dwindling hope.
Vanguard Maria Martinez has lived her entire life within the towering walls of steel. She yearns for a life away from the overcrowded streets, rolling blackouts, and food shortages, but there is no hope for anyone as long as the Inferi Scourge howl outside the high walls. Her only refuge from the daily grind is in the arms of Dwayne Reichardt, an officer in the Bastion Constabulary. Both are highly-decorated veterans of the last disastrous push against the Inferi Scourge. Their secret affair is her only happiness.
Then one day Maria is summoned to meet with a mysterious representative from the Science Warfare Division and is offered the opportunity to finally destroy the Inferi Scourge in the valley and close the gate, reclaiming the lost lands and energizing the populace with renewed hope for the future. The rewards of success are great, but she will have to sacrifice everything, possibly even her life, to accomplish the ultimate goal of securing the future of humanity and saving it from extinction.
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Gentsch Earns Highest Academic Honor in Softball History
May 26, 2011
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech's Holley Gentsch received the highest academic honor in program history Thursday as the junior was named to the Capital One Academic All-America second team.
Gentsch, a Hewitt, Texas native, is only the second softball student-athlete in school history to be named an Academic All-American, joining Paula Workman, who was a third team selection in 1998 and 1999.
"This is a tremendous honor for Holley," head coach Shanon Hays said. "She puts in a full effort in everything she does whether it is on the softball field or in the classroom. This kind of ends a great year for her as she was one of our top players throughout the season. I couldn't be prouder for Holley, and this is almost icing on the cake after we had seven players named to the Academic All-Big 12 teams a week ago."
A two-time Academic All-Big 12 first team selection, Gentsch, a sociology major, has compiled a 3.96 GPA during her three years at Tech, while also posting a 4.0 GPA in each of her five previous semesters.
Gentsch recorded a .284 average with a home run and 17 RBI during her third-straight season primarily handling Tech's catching duties. She finished with an impressive .323 average against Big 12 pitching which was second on the team behind Emily Bledsoe.
The Capital One Academic All-America teams are selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Ashley Brignac of Louisiana-Lafayette was named the Academic All-American of the Year.
Gentsch was one of four Big 12 student-athletes honored as Oklahoma State's Chelsea claimed first team accolades while Nebraska's Ashley Hagemann and Nikki Haget were second and third team recipients, respectively.
To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.


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Ali Steiner
High School Sports: Track & Field, Cross Country, Soccer.
Honors and Awards: Captain of the track & field team.
Major at Washington: Biology
Husky Rowing Experience: 2008 (Junior) - Rowed six seat in the women's eight that defeated Oregon State during the regular season ... Won the women's open eight at the Windermere Cup Regatta. 2007 (Sophomore) - Member of the women's eight that competed in the Husky Open...Competed for UW in the women's open eight at the Windermere Cup. 2006 (Freshman) - Rowed with the novice squad.
Personal: Daughter of LaVonne and Bill Steiner ... Mother is an accountant and father is a business owner...Has two brothers, Bill (25) and Brian (23) who both attended the University of Washington.


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As I write this, Denver, Colorado, is deeply embroiled in a massive highway reconstruction project bearing the amusingly illustrative name, T-REX (Transportation Expansion Project). In order to accommodate the unforeseen population growth of the last 20 years, each member of which seems to be driving a vehicle as large as the dinosaurs whose decomposed bodies fuel it, freeways will be expanded with additional lanes, bridges will be rebuilt, and like the carnivorous reptile that gives the project its name, the highway will be confirmed as king of local transit. By the time the project is complete in 2006, these main arteries of Denver life will swell and throb as traffic expands to meet capacity; plastic and steel vessels never ceasing to circulate. And yet, paradoxically, the best way to get a clear picture of Denver is not by car, but rather, by public transportation.
There's little doubt that Denver is a driver's town. Just as when the city and its surrounding towns sprang up along the South Platte River in the 1800s, the access to precious water resources being the only means of survival, the suburbs of the Denver Metro Area filled in along the highways. With Denver's heart located just southeast of the intersection of I-25 and I-70, and the adjoining C-470 and E-470 encircling the outlying suburbs, Denver's main highways nearly complete a Celtic Cross, or an enormous crosshair, laid over the city. In part, this is the inevitable result of geography. Located on the last vestiges of the Great Plains, some 20 miles from where the foothills suddenly jut out of the ground to mark the rapid ascent of the Rocky Mountains, the conditions of this town are just right for seemingly unlimited outward expansion. Otherwise flat and grassy, with only the mountains to lap up against, development easily turned to sprawl. And when it becomes 40 miles to get from one edge of the Metro Area to the other, the car becomes a necessity rather than a luxury.
In contrast, Denver's public transportation developed more slowly, with time, space, and city planning making the populace increasingly dependent on the car and making the bus more of a hassle than a convenience. As the people flocked to the suburbs, the buses only timidly followed, with inconsistent routes catering to the only outlying residents who cared: the environmentalists and the money-conscious commuters looking to shave gas and parking expenses from their budgets. With the population of the city's expanding middle class moving further and further away from the city center, taking a large portion of the commerce with them, a class division emerged between those who had a set of wheels and those who didn't, further engraining an "us and them" split based on economics and mode of transit.
Or maybe this has always been the frisson between motorists and pedestrians the mutual mistrust between those who can afford independent transportation and those who can't. History certainly shows that the privately owned horse, carriage, and automobile were afforded to the privileged. Perhaps this resentment is simply the outgrowth of a pedestrian mentality, fostered by the obvious size and power advantages of the car over the body. Relying on the bus as your primary means of getting around is essentially like being sick and on state assistance. Some care is certainly better than no care, but it's hardly comparable to the benefits of private insurance. And while the bus is certainly a people mover, you're no less a pedestrian for riding it. You have to walk to your stop and walk to your final destination. You frequently have to stand on the bus or train, and many times it seems like you could walk to your destination as quickly as the Regional Transportation District (RTD) will get you there. Simple tasks like grocery shopping by bus seem like the Herculean efforts of pack mules, and many are the times when I've seen a mother, her two young children in tow, hauling eight straining bags onto a bus, the pain caused by the thin plastic handles cutting into her hands clearly written on her face.
And yet, for all its inconvenience, it's only when you walk and ride by public transit that you can truly take in the details of a city the carefully restored Victorian mansions converted to apartments; the way a particular front yard garden's columbines and irises erupt in yellows and blues; the smells of Thai and Mexican and Mediterranean food mingling in the air; the sounds of some distant third-story musician practicing piano on a golden Sunday afternoon. Nearly all such pleasures are unknown to those who are isolated in their cars, the world rushing past their carefully controlled environments. There's nothing inherently wrong with speed and convenience, but it comes at the price of sensory experience and a one-on-one connection to the place where you live.
Still, it's possible that I'm projecting my own bias on what is truly a non-issue of transportation. It's not like gangs of bus riders have clashed with drivers in the streets over perceived disparity, and the only time that public transportation seems to be a political issue is when it involves taxes. And despite my layman's familiarity with local history, I'm certainly no authority. In fact, I don't really have much of a claim to the city of Denver, as I'm more or less your average suburban white boy, and not even a native. My family moved here when I was 10, and my first and formative experiences of Colorado are from the perspective of suburban Littleton, in an area where buses were a minor feature of the landscape at best. That I also happen to be a part of the much-maligned "California invasion" the large waves of Californian transplants who descended on Denver in the '80s and '90s and who are blamed for the yuppification of the region, the spike in housing prices, and, ironically, bad driving would probably irk true natives (a stoically proud lot) for presuming to represent the city here.
But nearly 20 years later, Denver is still my home. Like so many other immigrants to Colorado, I wound up here and never left. In the 1800s, it was miners and pioneer families who were lured to the West and stopped short of attempting the climb over the Rockies, deciding instead to settle in the dusty frontier town. Today, young and old alike are drawn here to settle, lured by the city's humidity-free, sunny climate (contrary to snowy expectations, the city averages over 300 sunny days per year), mountain camping and winter skiing, the once strong telecommunications and finance industries (though Colorado was hit hard by the economic slump of recent years and its work force has been one of the last to see the benefits of the so-called "recovery"), and even the ghost of an overly-romanticized image of austerity that blends the cowboy mystique with John Denver wholesomeness. Perplexingly, very little beyond the sunshine actually appeals to me, the majority of my interests being urban, and yet Denver continues to exert a gravitational pull on me. Having lived here for most of my life, I find it easier to see the things that Denver lacks, and yet I choose to remain. This in spite of the fact that I've spent the last 10 years as an adult without a car of my own.
When people visit, it's easy to explain Denver's attractions in terms of a tour guide. There's the majestic Denver Performing Art Complex with its Tony Award-winning theater company; the open-air shopping on the16th Street Mall; the wide variety of ethnic cuisine and theme restaurants; the yuppie mecca of LoDo the Lower Downtown district packed with bars, clubs, and up-scale eateries; the bizarre juxtaposition in architecture between the castle-like Denver Art Museum and it neighboring postmodern, city-in-a-building Michael Graves-designed Public Library; the city's laudable parks, zoo, and botanic gardens; and, of course, the gorgeous Rockies to the west. These are all unique features of my city, but my regular landmarks are the bus benches with their faded ads for employment at 7-11, the shelterless design of the open-air train stations, and the scratched and graffitied route map kiosks. And it's difficult to explain I why I love these things. While visitors may consider a journey on New York City's subways an "experience", some intrinsic part of the city's character that its is important to see, ride, and survive, no one comes to Denver looking forward to riding the clean and staid Light Rail, much less the bus.
But it's impossible to really see the Denver I love from its highways. When an online acquaintance made a stop in Denver on her way from Princeton, New Jersey, to California, she remarked of Denver: "This is the richest city we've driven through." My first thought was to say, "Well, you need to see the city by bus." From the highways, it's easy to see Denver as one massive suburb ringing a small urban center, and for many that's the appeal of the Mile High capitol. But on the bus or the train, Denver is more than a series of far-ranging roads coursing through price-inflated cookie cutter houses and commercially molded strip-malls. If the city itself has any soul, it's more readily evident in the bus stations, in the industrial and ancient commercial properties where the Light Rail runs, and along the inner-city bus routes that service the areas where car ownership remains a luxury. They may be older, more run down, but these are the sectors of Denver where character doesn't seem pre-fab.
Sure, these aren't the areas that inspire the state's tourism industry a cornerstone of the local economy and they can be pretty rough. Among the hardcore transit passengers, there's even an established bit of street wisdom: the worst rides are the 15, the 0, or the 30/31 bus routes. Those are the routes that follow the oldest main drags of the Denver Metro Area: Colfax, Broadway, and Federal. Though I spent a number of years staying in the safe confines of the Littleton area, I had to commute into the city for school, and on different occasions that meant taking both the 0 and the 30. When I finally got up the nerve to move downtown, I wound up trading down to the infamous 15. In all cases, I took my unfortunate suburban prejudices with me, but over time the bus cured me of most of these misconceptions, even as it taught me to see the beauty in "the dirty streets". And, really, anyone who's taken the 15 after midnight earns the right to consider himself a tried and true vet of the RTD.
Every city has a Broadway, and Denver's is more or less typical: old and more or less one long stretch of commercial property. You quickly learn that there's little to fear or condemn in the working class ridership of the 0. Federal is much the same, except that its long chain of strip malls and fast food joints runs through an area of Denver with heavily concentrated Hispanic and Asian populations. After a year riding the 30 or the 31 even a dumb white kid from the suburbs learns quickly that not everyone riding in a "lowrider" or chromed-out "rice burner" is "bangin'", and the passengers on the bus aren't any different than he is; we're all just people, just looking to get from point A to point B. But a week on the 15 teaches you that Denver does have its share of mean streets. Oft cited (dubiously) as the longest continuous commercially developed street in the US, Colfax stretches roughly 30 miles from the foothills in the west to the plains in the east, and runs smack dab through the heart of downtown Denver. Colfax is Denver's slice of gritty urban realism, the fabled haunt of prostitutes and drug dealers, the home of strip clubs, tattoo parlors, and dive bars. It's old Denver, locked into a seedy history that reflects the city's legendary red light district of the Frontier days (though that was located to the north end of Denver around Market Street). It's also the home to countless boutiques and restaurants and auto dealerships, but they all seem to fall under the socially constructed mystique of "Colfax Avenue".
As buses go, Colfax is serviced by two routes: the 16 headed west to Golden at the base of the foothills, and the 15 headed east toward Aurora on the plains. The point from which the two rays of the bus routes emerge is Broadway's Civic Center Station bus terminal, located at the very heart of state and local government, flanked by the State Capitol Building and the City and County Building. For years, economic development has favored the west side of town where Colfax is concerned, while gentrification has pushed minority and lower income families further east away from the city center. The area between downtown Denver and the Aurora Mall has become collectively and infamously known as East Colfax, and its chariot is the 15. While the 16 has become a relatively sedate route, the 15 is the route that, in fact and in urban legend, is the toughest bit of public transportation in the whole region. Interspersed with run-of-the-mill passengers, I've shared the bus with characters gritty and dramatic enough for the hardest punk song or urban realism novel. One fight between strangers on a standing-room only bus turned into flying fists and a broken nose, the driver instructor yelling to her trainee behind the wheel to open the back door so the other passengers could push them out to the sidewalk and then commanding, "Don't sit there! DRIVE!" I've seen jealous lovers crack strangers in the back of their head for looking at their partner, drug dealers spot a furtive user and hastily arrange a deal shielded behind seat-backs, and the mentally ill muttering and cursing under their breath at other passengers. One memory that still lingers strongly is the day when a urine-soaked bum climbed onto a crowded bus on a sweltering, 100-degree-Fahrenheit day, carting with him the two trash bags of his belongings, filling the bus with the oppressive stench of his unwashed grime.
Despite my love of walking the city, I moved back to suburban Littleton a few years back, still riding the bus, but leaving behind the 15 and joining the ranks of the public transit commuter corps, those rush hour riders who take the bus by choice, mingled with those few who ride by necessity, and the contrasts are extreme. While the rides into the city lacked the kind of excitement found on the 15, there was a sense of community among the passengers, most of whom took the same route to work and home again five days a week. Those of us who were happier engrossed in our headphones or a book were politely left to our own devices, while others engaged in friendly conversations with passengers they'd come to know over the course of time. There was something to be admired in those passengers, but I still felt like I'd lost some small part of my connection to the city. Moreover, the busses on those commuter routes tended to follow the same highways and major thoroughfares that serviced the car-bound, isolating us from the more community-oriented environs of the downtown routes. Altogether quieter than those inner-city routes, those bus rides were almost stultifyingly relaxed, though I must admit that I was happy avoiding the more dangerous aspects of the 15.
The contrasts in bus life from one area to the next may have continued to offer a fragmented picture of Denver, had it not been for one development. In 1994, the single greatest thing to happen to Denver's transportation options occurred with the opening of the Light Rail. Despite being a hub for the traditional railway lines of the nation, there hadn't been a local equivalent since 1950, when the last of the Denver Tramway trolleys stopped running. For nearly 50 years, there wasn't a mass transit system in place for the Metro Area residents, a vacancy that only became more pronounced as the area's population grew and the roads became more crowded. Although it began as a short, single line running through the heart of the city, the Light Rail quickly became the thread that tied the "funky" city to the "safe" suburbs; an electric trolley that joined the realm of the drivers to the world of the pedestrians. In the years since it opened, the line has been expanded, now stretching from the furthest southern suburban stretches to Denver's inner-city neighborhoods, and wrapping around a reinvigorated Platte River district. The aforementioned T-REX transportation project also promises to open up new lines along the I-25 corridor, aimed at further reducing the number of commuters on the road. While the Light Rail was merely an extension of the bus service in its toddler years, it has since become a vital part of Denver's landscape for travelers of all types, from the students of the Auraria Campus schools to business people to sports fans to late night LoDo partiers.
And that's my justification for my belief that Denver is better seen through the window of a train or bus than through the windshield of a car. For one thing on the Light Rail at least nearly every type of person that Denver has to offer can be found united under the banner "passenger". In addition, a trip from one end of the route to the other is in itself a rail-guided tour of Denver's many facets: the past bleeding into the present, the evolving city emerging.
Beginning in the southern reaches of Denver's suburbs and clipping along rapidly north toward the city, the Light Rail wends its way through the different economic sectors of the city. Following the concrete and asphalt ribbon of Highway 85, better known to local residents as Santa Fe Drive, the train glides north through residential backyards, suburban centers, commercial and industrial property, and the run-down quarters of Denver's older and poorer neighborhoods. As it curves in an arc, it passes the sports stadiums and amusement parks, or, alternately, the education complex of the Auraria Campus, before heading into the skyscrapers at the heart of the city. Due to Denver's relatively small central concentration of towers, the train seems to suddenly burst into downtown, slicing through the business district's steel and glass and thronging masses. The train then curls through the older commercial districts, full of warehouses of weather-beaten brick and dull paint only slightly touched by the hand of redevelopment, before sliding to a stop in the middle of Five Points, one of Denver's oldest and most infamous neighborhoods.
While the changes in economics and aesthetics occur in a gradient of the urban and suburban over the course of the journey, the two endpoints are a study in contrasts. At the south end lies Littleton. Lush, green, shady middle-class neighborhoods compete with multi-million dollar mansions not a mile from the Mineral Station, the Light Rail's southernmost point to date. It is an area that, in my own mind, reflects just about everything stereotypical about suburban living. Across Santa Fe Drive, opposite the Light Rail station, lies the newly-constructed Aspen Grove, a "lifestyle center" that offers many of the high-end retailers one would expect in such an area. Of course, while the Pottery Barn and the Gap and Chico's and the Apple Store might get a few customers off the train, most of the residents are locals who drive to buy.
For most of Littleton's residents, the Light Rail is a luxury of convenience. The vast majority of people who begin and end their workday at the Mineral Station do so because they want to avoid the congestion of Santa Fe and the hassle of downtown parking, choosing instead to make a short trip by car to the station's consistently full Park-n-Ride. If they want to go see a Broncos or Avalanche game, they drive to the station to ride into the city with efficiency. Most of the station's passengers are businesspeople and students, with families of weekend adventurers and sports fans thrown into the mix at random intervals. They are almost all somewhere in the wide belt of the middle class, and, while I don't want to misrepresent the true ethnic diversity of the middle class or suburban life, the vast majority of passengers using the stop are white.
At the north end of the line, there is Five Points. If the neighborhood has any claim to fame of national significance, it's that Jack Kerouac mentioned the area as a part of his travels in On the Road. But in the intervening years since the '50s, it's doubtful whether many travelers would have felt a community spirit in its parks. Five Points is, for lack of a more equitable description, Denver's one true claim to a ghetto. Growing up in the white suburbs, Five Points was the spooky Other; a place that safely isolated suburbanites viewed as good for little more than risking being accosted by drug dealers, or shot, or both. The buildings were slums, run down by a depressed and poor economy to the point of crumbling edifices and abandoned tenements. Widely believed to be overrun by gangs and crime, Five Points was the place we children of the suburbs were afraid to be caught after dark. Though probably a disservice to the families and community leaders who strove to maintain dignity in the neighborhood, Five Points was generally considered a blight on Denver's visage. And, of course, it was a predominantly black neighborhood.
Today, the equalizing force of the Light Rail has partially transformed the Five Points area, helping further those who see promise in economic redevelopment and small business investments. The stop at 30th and Welton helped create the Five Points Community Center, a square block of new business development and new buildings housing a (somewhat ironic) DMV office and a community broadcasting center, as well as the city's public radio jazz station. The area's rich cultural history is being unearthed from the layers of decay and neglect, and developers have increasingly seen the benefits of catering to the city's black residents. Museums and research libraries fill buildings that were once condemned, and the clubs and theaters are slowly filling back up with people drawn to the area's storied past. Still, for all this positive change, there is little doubt that, placed side by side, Five Points and suburban Littleton are a reflection of a remaining deep economic divide. While it may be the same in cities all over the world, in Denver it's not something you notice from the highway, where the contrast is easily avoided. But on the Light Rail, these two communities are tied together in a way that makes it more tangible and direct.
And these are just the extremes in the spectrum. Other examples of Denver's culture are more highly visible along the Light Rail than any major automobile thoroughfare. At the 10th and Osage stop, in the middle of Denver's Westside neighborhoods demographically a mix of the poor and the urbane, and today filled with a true ethnic diversity lies the Buckhorn Exchange, a restaurant specializing in exotic meats that has stood in the same place, open for business for a period of time that now touches three centuries (1893-Present). The restaurant is high-end and filled to the rafters with an eerie display of taxidermy arts. The stuffed-and-mounted heads of a dizzying number of animals watch over customers paying hundreds of dollars for their meals. The Buckhorn Exchange is surrounded by red brick apartment buildings where the wash is hung outside on clotheslines and beat-up sedans are parked in front. Mirroring this, the Oxford Station in the Littleton area is just across the street from the southern suburbs' only strip club, All-Stars, which humorously blends in with the middle-class values of the local residents by veiling itself as a sports-themed bar, in a building nestled among commercial and industrial warehouse parks.
But it's the Light Rail's contributions to the interaction of Denver's people that is its best advantage and most important feature. While the Littleton station brings the comfortable suburbanites into the city, the Five Points station challenges hegemony by giving the lower-income residents of the city access to the same train platforms. In the downtown areas where the Light Rail runs, worlds truly collide, businesspeople sharing the block with homeboys, the outwardly wealthy rubbing shoulders with the obviously homeless. And if this is the nature of Anycity, USA, then the best part of the Light Rail is that it moves this melting pot in both directions. With 24 stops and 15.8 miles of track, and as many as 16,000 passengers a day, the Light Rail helps bring together the disparate parts of a population into one small space, forcing them to commingle.
For example, by the time the train arrives at or leaves the Englewood Station a point that forms a major commercial and transportation hub as Santa Fe and Hampden Avenue (a.k.a. Highway 285) intersect the train is usually full. Young and old; white, black, Hispanic, Indian, Arab, and Asian; wealthy and poor; at this point on the line, the Light Rail reflects the Denver area as a truly complex community. Grocery bags compete for space with backpacks and briefcases. During rush hour, the train regularly fills to standing room only capacity. People squeeze together on the bench seats or stand in the aisles, space constraints forcing all classes and types into close proximity. Removed from the hierarchical status symbols and individually secured spaces of their automobiles, drivers quickly fall into the etiquette of passengerhood, while the bus-bound are given equal access to the same speed and convenience as their wheeled counterparts. While the news continually reports instances of violent road-rage, I've never seen so much as a shouting match on the Light Rail. In a way that seems almost populist, the Light Rail is an equalizing force, itself a symbol of all things pedestrian, in all senses of the word.
I think it's this last effect that makes me scoff at those who choose to drive when they have the option to ride public transit. Sure, cars are convenient, and I don't pass up a chance to use one when it's available and it makes the most sense, but I also think cars cause isolation and disconnect from the world. Even if I had a car of my own, I'd continue to take the train to work, every day.
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Steven Anthony Lawrence Movies and Career Information
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Steven Anthony Lawrence is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Bernard "Beans" Aranguren in the hit Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens. His other television credits include That's So Raven, Married... with Children, ER, Frasier, and The Amanda Show, among others. He has also appeared in the feature films Cheaper by the Dozen, Kicking & Screaming, Rebound and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. He also appeared in the music video Father of Mine by Everclear as the little boy whose father walks out on his family. His most recent television appearances were in 2011 as a pink elf in the T-Mobile holiday commercial and in 2012 in a dog costume for an Old Spice commercial. Diagnosed with Downs Syndrome in 2011. More recently, Lawrence has gained media attention on Twitter as one of his portraits served as the avatar for the account of American rapper, Tyler the Creator.
- Steven Anthony Lawrence Movies before 2015
- My Suicide 2010
- Rebound (2005) 2005
- Kicking & Screaming 2005
- Martin Lawrence Comedy 2004
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Pork and beans
Batman and Robin
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Back to the Dried Beans Menu
Dry beans will keep almost indefinitely if stored in a cool, dry area at room temperature in covered container with a tight
fitting lid. If kept for more than 12 months, dry beans will lose moisture and require longer cooking times. Do not keep dry beans in the
refrigerator, the beans may absorb moisture and spoil
before you have a chance to use them.
Bean dishes continue to thicken as they cool and
their seasonings and flavors continue to
blend. That's why bean dishes are
better the next day. Leftover beans should be
refrigerated as soon as possible in a airtight container.
They will usually keep freeze for 4 days.
If you plan to freeze beans,
its a good idea to undercook them slightly, by just 3 minutes in the pressure cooker. Undercooking will help the beans maintain their shape
and texture as they thaw and reheat.
beans in 1 to 2 cup portions so they'll be easy to thaw
and use, making sure the beans are covered with liquid so they
won't dry out or get freezer burn. Freezer containers should be airtight
and moisture proof. Leave enough space at the
top of the container for expansion of the beans.
Cooked beans will keep in the
freezer 2 to 3 months. After that time their flavor
and texture will begin to deteriorate.
Beans maintain their shape better if
they are thawed slowly. Thaw them
overnight in the refrigerator, or use the thawing cycle on your microwave. When
the beans can be removed from their freezer
container, put them in the pressure cooker, add the minimum amount of water or flavoring liquid required, and bring to pressure. Cook 2-3 minutes to reheat
fully cooked beans and 4-5 minutes to finish cooking the slightly undercooked beans. Beans scorch easily over high heat.
If the beans are too thick, stir in some
water or use my PIP method to reheat them.
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The Cockrell sisters. Photo by Angel V. Prado, makeup by Andrew San Jose.
JJ Abrams' latest box office smash hit, Star Trek Into Darkness, features Utah actresses Katie and Kellie Cockrell. We chatted with the twins about their humble beginnings, experience on the Paramount set and their plans to light speed to success in Hollywood.
Now that you're acting outside Utah, what do you miss?
Kellie: "I love the mountains, I love snowboarding and I love the fact that everyone seems to be happy. It's different then LA, I feel like people are content there, and I love that people love dogs, the outdoors [and] they love family a lot; that's pretty much what I love about Utah."
Katie: "I think theres nothing better than Utah in the summer. I don't love the winter. Utah winters are so harsh but Utah in the summer is just perfect weather and so much to do outside."
Explain your journey from Utah to Hollywood?
Katie: "We started dancing when we were 4 years old in a studio in Midvale [Xpressions dance]. We fell in love with dancing, we would go dance for five hours every night after school. When we were 9, we auditioned for Ballet West's The Nutcracker and we ended up doing four seasons with them. That kind of got us into this idea that you could actually perform for a living. When we were in high school, we danced on the Bingham High Miners drill team and one day we were doing team pictures and the photographer said [to us] 'you both have an interesting look, you guys should try out for this talent agency.' We ended up taking a meeting with them and they said 'you're too short to be models, but why don't you try acting?' That actually really connected with us because, as dancers, you do a lot of acting in your dance and you're telling a story that way. So we signed on with them and we didn't really have any experience acting—it was super intimidating, but we ended up getting a role [Return to Halloweentown] and from doing that, we were kind of hooked."
Now, you two are in the new Star Trek installment by JJ Abrams. What was it like to work with him?
Kellie: "It was incredible! I was a huge fan of JJ Abrams from Lost—it was my favorite TV show, so when we met him it was just so cool. We walked on the Paramount set and there was the Star Trek enterprise set up and the actors were filming; they cut and JJ Abrams came over to us and talked to us briefly. He was just so kind and relaxing and just really down to earth."
I've seen your clip and I must ask the question that has got to be on every female Trekkies' mind—how was it to be in bed with Captain Kirk (Chris Pine)?
Kellie: "(Laughs) It was really fun but also really intimidating because Chris Pine is obviously not bad looking; he's really handsome and very charismatic, and the whole thing can be a little intimidating."
What was the process involved with your makeup for the film?
Katie: "We did 10 to 12 makeup days, which are full days—12 hours on set at least—sitting in a makeup chair with these really great special effects makeup people; we tried a ton of different things. One of the first things we got done was a head cast; Kellie went first she's a little bit more brave then I am so she was calm, but when I was doing it, I was having panic attacks because it's so claustrophobic and you can't take it off for 10 minutes. They [also] made prosthetic ears [and] prosthetic noses; in the movie we have these kind of scale type things. Our characters are cats, and for our tails, when we were filming the scene, there was a special effects guy sitting right behind us actually moving the tails."
What projects are you currently working on?
Kellie: "We just finished an independent film called, Feels So Good—it's a teenage comedy; it was really fun. We got along great with the director and theres a lot of young up and coming actors like Brendan Robinson from Pretty Little Liars and Matt Shively from Paranormal Activity."
Katie: "The independent film that we just did, Feels So Good, that's our first lead roles, so it's really a big deal for us. It's kind of like a stepping stone in our careers."


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Summer 2002: Played for Cotuit in the Cape Cod League
2002: Returned from a 15 game stint on the D.L. with a sprained left knee on March 8 at Long Beach State ... Was 4 for 13 (.308) with two RBIs, including the game winner on Friday, and a run scored in three games against UCLA (5/10-12) ... Finished a three-game series at #23 USC (4/26-28) with six hits in 13 at bats (.462), his career-high fifth homer and six runs scored ... Was 4 for 12 (.333) in three games against UC Riverside (4/19-21) with four RBIs and four runs scored ... Tallied five RBIs in Arizona's 10-run first inning at California (4/13) with a RBI single and his second grand slam of the season. The four RBI homer was his career-high tying fourth of the season ... Finished the three-games series with Cal (4/12-14) 5 for 14 (.357) with three runs scored ... Hit his third home run of the season in Arizona's come-from-behind win over #2 Stanford (4/7) ... Went 3 for 5 with three RBIs in Arizona's 10-1 win over #15 Arizona State (3/24) ... Was 4 for 10 (.400) with a grand slam, a double, six RBIs and three runs scored against UNC Wilmington (3/15-17) ... Recorded a career-high five RBIs in a single game against the Seahawks (3/16) ... Hit his first home run of the season, while going 3 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs scored at LBSU (3/9) ... Went 3 for 9 (.333) with an RBI and two runs scored in three games against Utah (2/1-3) before spraining his left knee on a steal attempt of third ... Scored at least one run in all three games of the season opening series against New Mexico (1/25-27).
Pitching: Closed out Arizona's victory over Washington in Seattle for his team-leading fourth save of 2002 ... Struck out a career-high seven UCLA batters in 2.2 innings (5/12) ... Earned his third save of the season at California (4/12). Worked out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning with a 1-2-3 double play ... Worked a scoreless inning of relief against UNC Wilmington (3/16) for his second save of the season ... Picked up his first save of the season with one inning of work in UA's 3-0 win over Utah (2/1).
Summer 2001: Played for the Bourne Braves in the Cape Cod League.
2001: Collegiate Baseball First-Team Freshman All-American ... Hitting - Tied for the Pac-10 lead in triples with six ... Recorded the third-best batting average in school history for a freshman, .370 ... Went 8 for 10 (.800) in first two starts, also collected three RBIs and scored five runs ...Hit .364 (4 for 13) with two home runs, three RBI and three runs scored at Stanford ... Was 4 for 12 (.333) with a triple, two RBIs and a run scored in three games at Arizona State ... Collected game-winning hit in the tenth inning in Arizona's come-from-behind win over Cal (4/22) while also picking up the victory on the mound ... Hit .462 (6 for 13) in three games against the Bears (4/20-22) including a bases loaded double to score three runs ... Had eight hits in 11 ABs (.727) in three games vs. TAMU-CC, also scored twice and drove in five ... Hit .429 (6 for 14) with five runs and four RBIs in three games at Washington State (4/6-8) ... Was 3 for 10 (.300) in three games against Oregon State with a triple and two RBIs ... Hit .300 (3 for 10) at Ole Miss Invitational with two RBIs and a run scored .. Was 3 for 9 (.333) against Utah (2/23-25) with a RBI and a run scored ... Hit .308 in three games against Texas A&M (2/16-18) with seven runs scored, including a career-high four runs in one game on 2/18 ... Scored three runs and hit first career triple against New Mexico (2/8-10) .... Recorded first collegiate hit with a double vs. BYU (1/26) and first home run against St. Mary's (1/30).
Pitching - Worked out of a bases loaded, no-out jam on the mound at Stanford (5/12) to earn second save of the season ... Pitched in the final two games of the Arizona State series (4/28-29), picking up his first career save in game two after working out of a no-out, bases loaded jam in the ninth ... Won first career game in relief vs. California (4/22)
Summer 2000: Selected to participate on the silver medal Junior Olympics team.
High School: Graduated from Canyon Del Oro High School where played for Coach Kent Winslow ... Earned three letters as a pitcher and center fielder ... '00 5A State Player of the Year by the Arizona Baseball Coaches Association ... First-team all-star his senior year ... Also earned letters playing basketball under Coach Dan Huff.
Personal: Full Name: Brian Nikola Anderson... Nickname: BA ...Born: 3/11/82 in Tucson... Major: communications ... Basketball, fishing and hanging out with his sister Brooke listed among his hobbies ... Son of Leslie Holmes and Dana Anderson.


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The Michigan Chronicle, a weekly publication which is widely recognized as the oldest African-American newspaper in Michigan, is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a gala occasion at the MGM Grand Detroit. Tickets for the event which begins at 6:00 p.m, are priced at $250 and $300 for VIP.
TIckets may be purchased in advance only by calling (313) 963-8100 or at www.michronicleonline.com .
The Michigan Chronicle has been a voice of the community since 1936 and has built a solid reputation as a family newspaper. The Michigan Chronicle has been a consistent publication offering reports on news, politics, culture, entertainment, and relevant topics in our communities.
The Michigan Chronicle is published every Wednesday and can be found at newsstands and stores across metro Detroit. The cost of this worthy weekly publication is $1.00.
You can visit the Michigan Chronicle website to see past digital editions, blogs, galleries, an event calendar, how to subscribe for home delivery, etc.
Currently managing the Michigan Chronicle are publisher Samuel Logan, chief marketing officer Jackie Berg, and executive editor Bankole Thompson.
The Michigan Chronicle has gained national recoginition as an excellent newspaper with a sound editorial policy, as well as being acknowledged and the recipient of many national and local journalism and community service awards. For instance, the Michigan Chronicle has been recognized as the "Best Black Newspaper" in the country by the National Newspaper Publishers Association five times and counting.
So, mark you calendars for November 19, 2010 and the 75th anniversary celebration of the Michigan Chronicle, be sure to pick up a copy of the Michigan Chronicle this Wednesday, and be sure to check out Center Stage With Bankole Thompson (The Michigan Chronicle's executive editor) on WADL TV 38-Detroit on Saturdays at 1:00 p.m.
For more information pertaining to the broadcast of Center Stage With Bankole Thompson and other programming, please visit WADL TV 38-Detroit at www.wadldetroit.com .
The Michigan Chronicle will also be publishing commemorative editions every Wednesday with excellent content through November 17, 2010.
The Michigan Chronicle is a source of journalism that I stand-by and support.


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BRUNSWICK — The librarians didn't blink an eye as a parade of dogs made its way through the Brunswick library on Friday, but some of the patrons had to take a second look.
This week, the Brunswick branch of the Medina County District Library has been holding its second annual Pet Palooza event. Librarian Carmen Croghan explained the library wanted an event to bring out residents and get them involved there.
"Pets are something that a lot of people can relate to and we could celebrate the pets that we have in our lives," she said.
So far this week, the library has had an exotic animal show and an event for children to read books to therapy dogs. And on Friday, about a dozen dogs and one guinea pig were dressed to the nines for the "Strut Your Mutt" pet parade.
"I have way too much time on my hands," joked Wes Mandrych, of Brunswick. His pug Frankie was dressed as a Holy Grail crusader a la Monty Python and his other pug Pebbles was dressed as a Harley-Davidson biker.
But that's only the start of the dogs' wardrobe at home, Mandrych said. They have golfer garb, a Navy SEAL uniform, a cowboy outfit and more. Pebbles, Frankie and Mandrych's third pug also have guitars and make up the band The Puggers.
Dogs wearing clothes was the norm at the library Friday. Pedro, a bichon frise, wore a checkered cowboy top normally meant for Build-A-Bears, or stuffed animals that have their own wardrobes. Pedro's owner, 9-year-old Sadie Koerper, wore a matching checkered blouse.
"He had a skirt on when we left, but that fell off," Sadie explained.
Nine-year-old Megan Ferrari's dog Kira wore a Brunswick Blue Devils
T-shirt. "We're big Blue Devils fans," said Megan, of Brunswick.
Freda Tolliver's dog Sugar wore a pink satin and sequined gown. Tolliver, of Brunswick, said she considered pushing her other dog, 14-year-old Sugar, who has arthritis, in a stroller.
Events for Brunswick Library's Pet Palooza continue today at the library, 3649 Center Road.
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RICHLAND — Two agencies disagree over the source of chemicals in dirty rainwater in the Central Waste Complex at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
KONA reports rain exposed cadmium, mercury and PCBs.
The state Ecology Department believes the chemicals came from a leaking container. But the Energy Department says the chemicals were outside the container and the hazard is no greater than background level.
Officials hope to gather information in the next few weeks on the source of the dirty rainwater.


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Having little time to follow the blogosphere and its crazy rhythms of publication is not a good enough excuse for not being up to date. This rings particularly true for me as a technical evangelist at IBM, and as someone who is deeply passionate about the development and the information technology world. The biggest challenge is to quickly and efficiently divide the wheat from the chaff or, in other words, filter out the noise from the overload of signals put out there. For me, feed readers are life savers, I couldn't cope without them.
I recently adopted a setup that seems to be working particularly well. I purchased NetNewsWire for my Mac and FeedDemon for Windows, and automatically got a one-year subscription to the online premium service from the fine folks at newsgator. The two programs are a joy to use, especially for handling very large group of feeds in a short amount of time, as I often need to do. Each program automatically synchronizes with the newsgator service, therefore no matter which computer I'm using, I'm always dealing with the same folders, subscripted feeds and saved clipping. Sure, there are free services out there like Google Reader or Bloglines, but to me there is no comparison between the experience that I have when using a sluggish web interface and a rock solid, well designed desktop application. If I have the option, I'll always choose the latter, especially since newsgator allows me to take advantage of a centralized repository of feeds from my desktop programs, just like as if I were using their online service through Firefox. For a few dollars, I got a setup that is working awesomely well for me and it's saving me huge amounts of time. It also helped me to identify non-updated blogs, and those that I was no longer paying attention to, therein allowing me to reduce my over-all amount of feeds (granted with a conscious effort on my part) to a more manageable total of 160.
As mentioned above, my subscribed feeds are important to me, with a list that changes dynamically over time, as I add and remove entries. That said, I was looking at my Ruby and Rails folder when I decided to share my feeds with you. The list is understandably incomplete (after all, there are thousands of Ruby related blogs) and the presence of planets, aggregators and tags in bookmark services like del.icio.us, generate a few unavoidable duplicates. These are the Ruby/Rails blogs and sites that I currently subscribe to:
You can download the file Ruby-Rails.opml to easily import all of the above feeds into your own reader.
Since I'm sure there are plenty of other "must have" Ruby feeds and blogs that are not currently on my radar (no word of a lie, I've already added more since I put the list together), I openly invite you to write a small entry in your blog as well, and show us what feeds you subscribe to. Please link back to this original post, or I won't be able to easily find your answer. Consider it a sort of Ruby and Rails feed survey.
And since we're on the topic, and the amount of feeds that I follow is dramatically reduced now, I'd like to extend an invite for you to do the same thing with Python/Django, Haskell, and Objective-C, assuming you are into any of these communities respectively. Those are the languages that interest me the most and I'd like to start following a good selection of feeds on these topics. If you don't wish to blog about it, or use the comment section below, you can always write me privately at acangianoATgmail.com, specifying if you are okay with me crediting your list to you. I'd like to collect and organize the most interesting ones in a "results" type of post.
I thank you in advance, as I think it's an interesting "experiment" that can be quite useful, especially for those who are just starting to learn any of the languages above.
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Well you must be familiar with Planet Haskell since you're syndicated on it!
All the regular Haskell blogs are there. There's also the Haskell Weekly News which includes a section on noise from the blogosphere.
(HWN is also syndicated on Planet Haskell and on some mailing lists)
Help yourself:
For python I recommend the following:
http://ivory.idyll.org/blog (Titus rocks)
http://blog.showmedo.com/ (not totally python, but lots there)
My reader has plenty more feeds in it (including some of those you list above for ruby), but these are the "must haves" for python.
I sincerely welcome and appreciate your comments, whether in agreement or dissenting with my article. However, trolling will not be tolerated. Comments are automatically closed 15 days after the publication of each article.


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Zeta Chi
Founded: Baker University, May 23, 1905
Colors: Crimson and gold
Social event: Ramble
Address: 903 Eighth St.
The oldest independent fraternity west of the Mississippi, Zeta Chi fraternity was founded on May 23, 1905 by men looking for a different experience than what was offered by the fraternities at that time. These men came together and created a self-governing organization that has flourished for more than 100 years.
Zeta Chi places great value on scholastic achievement, brotherhood and tradition. We have observed traditions that have endured for decades, such as Ramble, Zeta Chi's yearly bonfire social event. Our fraternity provides many opportunities to spend time with people who will become lifelong friends. More than just a place to live, study and socialize, our chapter serves as a home away from home.
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College Hockey:Oswego Top D-III Team Again, Though Love for Lakers Ebbs
Still Unbeaten Norwich Cadets Siphon Off Two First Place Votes, Close Overall Gap; Top 15 Teams Remain the Same, but Only Four Don't Change Position
MINNEAPOLIS — Unanimous no more.
Despite not playing a game last week, the Oswego Lakers lost two first place votes to Norwich, as their overall point lead shrunk to 16.
Speaking of the Cadets, a defeat of New England College and a shutout of St.
Anselm pushed their mark to 12-0-3, remaining the only undefeated team in Division III hockey.
Moving up to third was Plattsburgh while Elmira (rising up two spots after dominating both Potsdam and Cortland) and St. Norbert (falling one position) are now tied for fourth.
The Middlebury Panthers are now ranked sixth.
St. Scholastica had a rough week, clobbering Northland 13-1 before getting shutout by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 5-0, before responding and skating to a 5-5 tie with the Falcons. They fell two spots to seventh.
Hamline (home-and-home sweep of Bethel) and Amherst (a 2-0-1 week) remained in the same spots.
The Gusties from Gustavus Adolphus also continued to surge, sweeping Augsburg and moving up to two rungs on the D-III ladder.
A similar path has been followed by UW-River Falls. The Falcons took three points on the road from then-fifth ranked St. Scholastica. Despite convincingly sweeping the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) on the road, the Adrian Bulldogs still fell one spot to No. 12.
Wentworth and Manhattanville each bumped up a spot to Nos. 13 and 14, though the Valiants were idle last week.
Williams College fell the farthest in this weeks poll, plummeting five positions to No. 15 after losing to both Wesleyan and Trinity.
All 15 teams — though only four in an identical position as last week — remained the same from last weeks poll.
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In a move that is a surprise but not really, Brad Childress has opted to end the Jackson experiment (for now) and named Frerotte the starter for the foreseeable future or what is better known as 'until he goes down with an injury'. Frerotte has a strong arm, cannot move worth a damn outside of the pocket and is prone to awful decisions.
All that said, he will allow the Vikes to open the playbook more and it's a bump up for the receivers (most notably Bernard Berrian, though my mancrush Sidney Rice might take a few weeks to be 100% after straining his PCL). Now if they can hold onto the ball, that would be something.
Frerotte is a start only as a bye week filler and maybe in a 2 QB league. The real question I have is – if he goes down (dare I say WHEN?) and if Jackson continues to struggle in relief – when do we see John David Booty?
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Blue violets (Viola triloba) are similar to the purple violet (Viola palmata) but are smaller and lack the deep purple coloring of purple violets. There is some controversy over whether they are a distinct species or if they are simply a variation of 'palmata'. According to Wildflowers of the United States, a database of wildflowers, it may be listed as 'Viola triloba var dilatata' or 'Viola palmata var triloba' depending on the source.
The USDA lists over 125 varieties of wild violets across the United States, with several blue varieties, including the blue marsh violet (Viola cucullata) and the rare New England violet (Viola novae-angliae L.), located in Maine. There may also be several hybrid blue violets.
Whatever you call them; tiny blue violets are common flowers found in woodland areas and are found encroaching on lawns where they bloom in early spring. These blue violets are also referred to as wood violets or house violets.
Like other wild violets, blue violets prefer shade to partial shade and moist soil. Try adding blue violets to a shady nook in your garden and watch them multiple over the years. Their heart-shaped leaves remain green throughout the summer, even after blooming has ceased, making blue violets an excellent ground cover in woodland or wildflower gardens.


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PATERSON, N.J. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Brite Services Inc., doing business as Star Laundry, for 39 serious safety and health violations found at its commercial laundry facility in Paterson, the agency reports.
Inspectors were prompted by a complaint alleging the company would not allow workers to leave the building during an emergency. Proposed penalties total $164,700.
OSHA found electrical hazards and an obstructed and improperly marked exit route, the agency says. Some of the alleged violations include:
- Allowing employees to potentially be struck by traffic while transporting laundry bins from one building to another while crossing a public street.
- Failing to provide a cover and guardrails for open pits, and a handrail for the stairway.
- Failing to evaluate the workplace for permit-required confined spaces, to post signs informing workers of confined spaces, and to develop a written confined-space permit program.
- Failing to establish an energy control program for performing maintenance/servicing work.
- Failing to train power industrial truck operators, and to take powered industrial trucks in need of repair out of service
- Failing to insulate or cover steam pipes less than 7 feet from the floor
- Failing to properly guard machines, implement a hearing conservation program for workers exposed to noise levels at 88-89 decibels, ensure safety goggle usage, provide an unblocked eyewash station, develop a written hazard communication program, and provide hazard communication training.
"The vast number and range of safety and health hazards observed by OSHA at this facility indicates the lack of a functioning safety and health management system," says Lisa Levy, director of OSHA's area office in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. "Each employer is responsible for ensuring a safe and healthful work environment, which Brite Services did not do. This company has the opportunity now to educate itself, correct these hazards and protect its workers."
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Recently I've been doing a bit of soul searching and trying to figure out how to blend my work with some social good. I haven't figured that out yet, but by chance a couple things came across my email that I thought was really great.
Obviously, Microsoft is running these initiatives with some business goals in mind, but I still think both of these are nice incentives that can make you feel like you did a little something while you were clicking and yacking away in your day.
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SEATTLE (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for parts of Western Washington, as thousands remain without power after a snow and ice storm battered the region.
Forecasters say winds of 40 mph or gusts of up to 60 mph are likely Sunday along the coast and in the San Juan Islands, Whidbey Island, Bellingham and Anacortes.
Puget Sound Energy says crews are working around the clock to restore power to about 119,000 customers in King, Pierce and Thurston counties still in the dark Sunday morning. The Snohomish Public Utility District says about 4,000 customers are still without power.
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Rotary Club of Oak Ridge
HISTORY: December 11, 1945 was the organizational meeting which paved the way for the formation of our club. Our club was sponsored by the Knoxville Rotary Club and the charter night banquet was held on March 22,1946. (Click to learn more)
PROJECTS: We are committed to projects that enhance our community. The Street Painting Festival, held annually, provides scholarships for Roane State Community College students. We conduct a medical and educational mission to Ghana and participate in the Heart2Heart mission project in Central Mexico. These are just a couple of the many services our members participate in and contribute to in order to better our community and world.
BEING A ROTARIAN: Rotary is an organization for people who believe and act on SERVICE ABOVE SELF. Rotarians practice the 4-Way Test of the things they think, say, and do. Rotarians give of their time, talent, and money to support their club's service projects. Being a Rotarian means investing yourself to make a positive difference in the world. Rotary Clubs strive to have members from diverse vocations, recognizing all vocations as valuable and expecting the club as a whole to benefit from this variety of skills. (Click to learn more)
GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION is a top priority for Rotary International and the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge. To learn more on how Rotary International and its partners, the World Health Organization (WHO), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are doing in the eradication of polio visit the Global Polio Eradication Initiative website.
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Prerequisite: Attendance at all three sessions; Participants are asked to bring case presentations (assuring strict confidentiality) to each class and be prepared to discuss.
This three-session course addresses current ideas about female psychology. Focus includes gender identity, issues of power and aggression in women, and the complexity of female sexuality. Diversity is addressed in discussions of gender and sexuality in our work with our patients. Case presentations and a basic knowledge of psychodynamic theory enhance the experience of participants in this course. Upon conclusion of the series, participants 1) are able to use new concepts about gender identity to improve their work with their patients; 2) are familiar with issues of power and aggression in female development; and 3) are able to identify problem areas related to sexual conflicts in women. This workshop is appropriate for all levels of post-master's degreed practitioners with who have experience working with women in ongoing therapy in a therapeutic setting.
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In 2000, when international freight forwarder Röhlig and local logistics manager Grindrod merged, Röhlig-Grindrod inherited the joint IT landscape. The new company improved that landscape in several ways.
In 2005, the company switched from hosting its own servers to a hosting provider. It was migrating the mess of various Windows desktop systems to virtual desktops and moving onto a MPLS-managed wide area network, to effectively make `local data calls' from its branches to its hosting provider's local sites. This meant Röhlig-Grindrod no longer had to rent costly dedicated land lines from head office to its eight national branches.
But the inheritance was still difficult to keep going smoothly.
Data management was an absolute nightmare, says Abdullah Kahn, Röhlig IT manager, because viruses in the archaic e-mail system used at that time created a huge risk for the business. Viruses had caused havoc several times already.
The application users at the branches had erratic experiences, says Kahn. At times they would have fast application delivery, sometimes significantly degraded.
"All branches were a pain," says Kahn, "but the big ones, Johannesburg and Durban, were a bit more of a nightmare to manage."
At the time it wasn't possible, from head office, to figure out where the branches' bandwidth bottlenecks were.
"Let's say I am printing a huge report in East London. East London would have a little Diginet line, nothing significant, because there are few users working there. When I print that report, the other users are now experiencing a slower performance on their applications, because of the print job," says Kahn. "We could not identify printing traffic, from e-mail traffic to business-critical Sequel Server application traffic."
Yet another malicious virus outbreak, via e-mail, in 2006 forced the turning point.
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Röhlig-Grindrod asked Mike Zietsman, Opteq South Africa CEO, to investigate the management of its wide area network (WAN). Zietsman found problems `that any company faces'.
Röhlig had different types of devices to manage its security, its users, its WAN traffic, says Zietsman, as well as its network monitoring and IT support.
The devices were installed by major industry players, but Röhlig managers were unable to get consolidated reports to quickly make sense of what was going on. Each device had its own report.
"This company supporting this service blamed that product from another company because it wouldn't integrate," says Zietsman. "A mess we normally deal with."
Opteq plugged one of its devices, with bandwidth management module activated, into the Röhlig WAN.
"What the Opteq bandwidth manager found," says Kahn, "were a number of virus sources."
Röhlig could tackle the virus problem then, even without IT support at each branch.
"With this device, we could identify the IP address of the virus originator, and deal with it there and then," says Kahn. "With the branches that had an IT guy, we could ask him to do the scan and the virus cleanup, right away."
Then Opteq targeted the data traffic between head office and branches with the bandwidth manager.
"We shaped the business-critical systems, and gave them priority," says Zietsman.
At this point Röhlig could limit the amount of printing traffic at a branch, says Khan, based on how much bandwidth the Opteq bandwidth manager allowed that branch. A big printout no longer prevented users of business-critical applications from getting their jobs done.
"When a user sits in East London, connected to the WAN, they don't wrestle for the same piece of wire that the e-mail and internet is wrestling for. It's like we put them in their own, dedicated traffic lane and nothing can touch that," says Zietsman. "The performance is almost like sitting on the local area network (LAN), working off the server."


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