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I recently decided to buy myself a laptop. This is the first laptop I have ever purchased, and the first computer I've bought in about five years. I shopped around and tried to get an idea of what options are available, the average price for the feature set I wanted, and (most importantly) which models have successfully seen Linux installed on them.
The topic of Linux on the desktop has captured much media attention lately. While running Linux specifically on a laptop has attracted less attention, everything that applies to Linux on a desktop also applies to laptops. Why Linux, and why Linux on a laptop? Linux, because:
And on a laptop, because I need to not be bound to a computer in one location, be it my home in general or my bedroom specifically. (Yes, my computers live in my bedroom.)
I spent a fair amount of time on the Linux on Laptops and TuxMobil pages investigating manufacturers and specific laptop models. After a bit of research, I decided that the features I really wanted were:
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The Dell Inspiron 9300 met all of my "needs," but the $1,500 starting price tag for the entry model kept me looking for a different laptop. When my boss pointed me to an online coupon that dropped the price another $300, I jumped on it. My $1,200 bought me:
Let me first say that while I am thoroughly enjoying the new laptop, I am not terribly pleased with Dell due to:
I decided to install Ubuntu because it builds on the mature foundation of Debian and has a large (and growing) user base and strong community support through web forums and IRC. I have been running it at work for a few months now and thoroughly enjoy it.
When I received the laptop, Hoary was the current version of Ubuntu. I have since upgraded to Breezy. I popped in the Ubuntu Hoary install CD (disk 1 of 1) and powered on the machine. Of course, I had to set the BIOS to boot from CD. The installer came up and started asking me questions.
Note that the Ubuntu installer is a non-GUI, text-based installer. It's not pretty, but it is very functional. Because it asks so few questions in order to install, I'm not sure how much benefit a GUI installer would provide other than eye candy.
The first questions were about region and language; English was the natural choice. Then came hardware detection (not a question--just an install action). Next, I had to select which of my two network devices to use as the primary. This was good news that it seemed to see both network interfaces. I chose the wired one as the primary ... well ... just because.
Even though I had the wired interface plugged into my router, it failed to get an IP address via DHCP the first time. I told it to try again, and it magically worked. As I'll mention later, I've installed Ubuntu numerous times on this laptop since that first time. DHCP has always (to my recollection) failed the first time, but magically works the second time. I haven't bothered to search the Ubuntu community documentation to see if this is a known issue, because it's self-resolving.
Next, it was time to pick a name for the machine. My recent computer naming convention has been to choose characters from sci-fi novels. I already have ender and valentine (both from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card) and pham (from A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge), so I chose to name this laptop qiwi after Qiwi Lin Lisolet, also from A Deepness in the Sky.
Next up was partitioning. Here is how I setup my filesystems:
For some reason, I am paranoid about my /boot partition. If something goes really wrong with /boot, I want to be able to boot up with something comparable to a Tom's Root boot disk and fix the problem. Last time I checked, Tom's didn't support reiserfs. This paranoia is probably unwarranted, given the number of really good CD-bootable Linuxen such as Damn Small Linux, Ubuntu Live, and Knoppix, all of which can mount reiserfs (I think), but old habits die hard. Setting up a separate /home partition saved me a tremendous amount of time, given the number of times I've installed Ubuntu on this machine. More on that later.
After setting up the partitions, the installer installed the base system and started copying packages to the hard drive. Because I figured it was going to be a late night with my new toy, I took this lull as my cue to make a couple of shots of espresso. By the time I tamped down the grounds and filled the reservoir with water, the files were 71 percent copied. Nice. By the time I had frothed some milk and combined the milk and espresso, the copy had finished.
The next question was the time zone. I've never set up a machine to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), so I decided to not start now; instead I selected U.S. Eastern time.
Next, I added a user account. Unless I'm just missing something, the installer allows adding only one account during the install. While you can add users afterward, it would be nice to be able to add a few while you were adding the main account. Something that often confuses people new to Ubuntu is that Ubuntu doesn't activate the root account initially and doesn't ask for a root account during install. After installing and booting into the new system, you have to do a
sudo passwd root to set the root password.
The only steps left were for the installer to test its ability to connect to the package repositories, install grub, reboot, and install the packages it had copied over. These remaining steps progressed pretty quickly. Now it was time to explore my new system!
After rebooting and installing the remainder of its packages, Gnome came right up. The first thing I checked was the screen resolution. The installer automatically configured it to 1,920 by 1,200 at 60Hz, and it is beautiful. While Ubuntu automatically configured the ATI Radeon X300 Mobility card at install time, it didn't use hardware acceleration. This hasn't been a big problem, as I am not much of a gamer. However, I feel the necessity of trying to get the video card fully functional just for the sake of doing so. With the Ubuntu installation configuration of the video card, TuxRacer was nonplayable and BZFlag was jerky.
Some posts that I read mentioned using the fglrx driver, so I fired up the Synaptic package manager, searched for
fglrx, found
xorg-driver-fglrx, and installed it. I then changed the line in my xorg.conf file from
Driver "ati" (the open source ATI driver) to
Driver "fglrx" (the closed source ATI proprietary driver), added
Option "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, AUTO" directly above the previously mentioned line, and restarted X. This caused
glxinfo to show
direct rendering: Yes rather than
direct rendering: No.
After this modification, TuxRacer worked. I even downloaded the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for Linux and it worked ... for about 2 minutes of game play before locking up my laptop. Oh, and the fglrx drivers killed DVD play. I can still play them, but they are unwatchably choppy in full screen.
The ATI web site has drivers for Linux. For the Mobility cards, though, it referred me to my laptop manufacturer, so I checked Dell's site for drivers. Earlier, I mentioned that I could not find Linux drivers on Dell's site. Video drivers were no exception. Being adventuresome, I decided to install version 8.14.13 of the drivers from ATI's web site, the current version at the time of my Hoary installation. Unreal Tournament is fairly playable at a limited 1,024-by-640 resolution. It doesn't lock up any more, but it can get a bit sluggish. DVD playback is much better, but still not as good as with the open source
ati driver. DVDs are a bit blocky using the
fglrx driver compared with the
ati driver. Also,
X and
xine consume about three times as much CPU while playing DVDs using the
fglrx driver than they do with the
ati driver.
I tried to contact ATI multiple times about the poor performance and quality of DVD playback relative to the open source driver and the future of its Linux support, but I received no response.
The next thing I checked was the wireless interface. For a while, I wasn't sure if Ubuntu saw my wireless card correctly. When I checked the network in the Gnome network configuration applet, it showed the network interface, but activating it didn't do anything. It didn't see any networks. I modified my router to disable WEP and enable ESSID broadcast in order to try to diagnose the problem I was having. Nothing. It turns out that at some point, I had hit Fn-F2 and turned off my wireless card. Hitting Fn-F2 again turned it on and allowed me to configure the wireless network (which included turning WEP back on and broadcast ESSID back off).
After recovering from a little bit of embarrassing user error, wireless worked beautifully. I was able to configure WEP at home and work and switch between wired and wireless. However, the network configuration applet that comes installed with Ubuntu (from Gnome, I think) doesn't work too well. The biggest problem is with the Location feature. The applet appears to support multiple locations, presumably for the purpose of configuring your network for different places that you happen to go. On boot-up, no specific location comes up, which is fine. However, the ESSID (and presumably the WEP key) get swapped around among different locations. I wound up pasting in the WEP key whenever I changed locations--not exactly ideal behavior.
To alleviate this problem, I downloaded gtkwifi. It does a fabulous job of storing WEP keys for various access points and automatically connecting to what it refers to as "preferred networks" as it finds them. The only problems I have with it are:
A problem I experienced with my wireless connection is that it kept on disconnecting and failed to reconnect unless I rebooted the laptop. I did some Googling and found some references to Ubuntu Hoary packaging outdated ipw2200 drivers. I downloaded the latest drivers, compiled them, and installed them. I first had to remove all trace of the old drivers:
root@qiwi:/root # find /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686 -name "*ipw*" -exec rm {} \;
root@qiwi:/root # find /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686 -name "*80211*" -exec rm {} \;
before installing the new drivers from source. After installing the ipw2200 driver (which was at version 1.0.4 at the time of my Hoary installation), I haven't had a single problem with wireless connectivity--not with Hoary, anyway, but more on that later. I really don't like installing different versions of applications and drivers for which there are Ubuntu packages, but I make exceptions when they are broken (as was the case with the
fglrx driver and the
ipw2200 driver). I'm sure this will be a headache when Ubuntu packages newer versions of
fglrx and
Gnome itself has been the source of my biggest problems. First of all, I never used to like Gnome. It always looked like a toy to me. It always seemed bloated. It never "felt" like a usable desktop. I actually intended to install Kubuntu on the laptop so I would get KDE out of the box. The main reason I didn't was that my Kubuntu CD was a bad burn. After tinkering with Gnome for a bit and seeing the simple (but thorough) configuration utilities, the consistent look and feel, the apparent ease of creating applications for it, and the fact that it just "feels" right, I've come to appreciate it more and actually enjoy it.
That doesn't mean that Gnome is without problems. I had the infamous "Gnome locking up at startup" problem. I Googled and found various solutions, but nothing worked. For about two weeks, I reinstalled Ubuntu every two or three days. Because none of the suggestions were helping, I was convinced that I had a library conflict and that something I had installed overwrote something that Gnome needed to work properly. I kept reinstalling in order to track down what I had installed that could have caused this particular problem. (At least I had a /home filesystem separate from the other filesystems and didn't lose any user data.) I could not consistently produce the freeze-up, nor could I track down what I had installed to cause the problem.
One day when the freeze-up occurred again, I decided to follow a piece of advice to start
gnome-control-center from a fail-safe
xterm and disable sound on startup. When I brought up a fail-safe
xterm and tried to start
gnome-control-center, the command I issued just sat there, and gnome-control-center didn't start and wouldn't return me to a shell prompt. I tried it several times and it just wasn't working. I either went to get some coffee or worked on something else, and noticed that after a while,
gnome-control-center had started. That gave me a hypothesis and an idea. Maybe Gnome was trying something that wasn't working and "freezing" until it timed out. I tried to start Gnome (which didn't come up) and just let it sit. I didn't time it, but after five or ten minutes, Gnome finally came up. I haven't had a freeze-up since, so it probably was something that just needed to time out once.
With a 1,920-by-1,200 17-inch display, I just had to try to get some of the multimedia capabilities of this laptop working. The laptop wouldn't play a typical DVD (say, from Blockbuster) with out-of-the-box Ubuntu, so I had to install the
libdvdcss package to allow Xine to decode it. It wouldn't play QuickTime files either, so I had to install the
w32codecs package. After that, I haven't had a problem playing any multimedia file format.
One thing I wasn't sure I would like when I got the laptop was the presence of seven multimedia keys on the front of the laptop. I really thought those keys were just tacky fluff, like some keyboards' web browser button or email button. But I've actually come to enjoy them. I configured my system keyboard shortcuts to recognize them all. The only thing the systemwide keyboard shortcuts appear to do is control the volume. In order to get individual media applications to become "multimedia key aware," I had to configure the keyboard shortcuts for each specific application. So far, I have configured both Xine and XMMS, and they work beautifully.
The base features of the touchpad worked without any effort. The only nonworking feature I would like to conquer is the vertical scroll area. I found a reference on a Ubuntu forum that indicates the touchpad drivers may be broken. I haven't felt like compiling the drivers and getting it working yet, though.
So far, I have burned only a couple of CDs and data DVDs. Both work very well from Nautilus (Gnome's filesystem explorer). I even noticed when I right-click on an .iso file within Nautilus, it displays a "Write to disc" option. I will have to try that out one day.
FireWire did not work initially, giving me a "Could not open device raw1394" error. After a bit of Googling, the answer was so obvious that I should have at least guessed the problem. The permissions on the file /dev/raw1394 were 600 with an ownership of
root:video. My user was in the
video group, but /dev/raw1394 was not group-writable. I did a
chmod 666 /dev/1394 (overkill, I know) and it started working. Because that worked, I put the same command in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh.
I read the web site of someone who has suspend to RAM working on this exact laptop, but it isn't working for me. His modified ACPI scripts seem to suspend my laptop, but when I try to restore, I just get a black screen staring at me and have to reboot. When I get a little more time and a little more motivation, I'll hack his scripts and see if I can get them working for my system.
I have tried suspend to disk only once. The Ubuntu suspend scripts shut the machine down and resumed to my desktop. Unfortunately, networking was totally hosed, and nothing I could do would bring it back to life. I guess that is another thing to add to my to-do list.
I've had several situations where an application would fail to put out sound, but would work once I had killed the
esd process. I have disabled sound at startup from the Gnome control center. Since doing that, I have had no problems with sound under Hoary.
When Breezy (final) came out, I decided to upgrade. I'm typically a delete-and-reinstall-everything type of person, but this time I decided to live dangerously and do a system upgrade. I changed all references of
hoary to
breezy in my /etc/apt/sources.list, did
apt-get update followed by
apt-get dist-upgrade, and then just let it run. There were a couple of packages I had to uninstall manually because they caused my
dist-upgrade to hang--one of which, if I remember correctly, was a wxPython package. Other than that, the upgrade process went very smoothly.
Having to uninstall one or two packages manually was a much cleaner upgrade path than I was hoping for. Still, I was nervous about booting into my "new" system. My nervousness quickly passed when I logged in to the beautiful Gnome 2.12 desktop. I was perhaps most excited about the new Removable Drives and Media Preferences settings that are new in Gnome 2.12. Rumors even suggested that my Canon Digital Rebel XT would have support. (By the way, it does, but it doesn't work exactly right.) Overall, the desktop experience is still excellent; even an improvement over the previous and excellent Gnome version.
Video was still at a stunning 1,920 by 1,200. AVIs played, and the quality was even better than it was previously. Somewhere between my initial installation of Hoary and this upgrade to Breezy, I had reverted to the Ubuntu repository version of the fglrx video drivers, so I upgraded with this upgrade attempt.
Sound didn't work exactly right. I was getting sound for some applications and not for others. Then, as I mentioned earlier, I remembered that I had shut off sound support at Gnome startup. I decided to change that and let Gnome manage my sound once again. After I did that, I haven't had a problem with sound--well, no worse a problem than is par for Linux sound. Sound is definitely an area where Linux needs some improvement. One problem I regularly encounter with sound is that I have to kill ESD if I want to use Audacity.
The wireless network works, but it restarts if I use BitTorrent or FTP large files from or to my laptop. One upside is that Intel has some folks working on the driver, an open source project for the driver, and a Bugzilla database; they appear to be making steady improvements in the driver. The other upside is that I no longer see the open bug description of the symptoms that I am having, so they may have fixed it.
Overall, I am extremely pleased with the upgrade. My system has no hint of the brokenness that I have previously associated with OS upgrades. Perhaps the reason that I typically choose to reinstall rather than upgrade is my experience with broken systems after upgrading. As an aside, Ubuntu is an excellently usable Linux distribution. I use it every day as my primary desktop at work and rarely find myself wishing for more.
Overall, this is a great laptop. The price was extremely reasonable; it had the features I was looking for; and most features worked with little or no effort. Dell, however, has some room for improving its relations with the non-Windows community.
Jeremy Jones is a software engineer who works for Predictix. His weapon of choice is Python.
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26th June 2015Northern Ireland shows just how much we need the EU's laws protecting nature, writes Andy Atkins - and for the Government to enforce them. The province's wonderful natural heritage is at risk from aggressive and often unlawful developments. And the EU nature laws are essential for us to fight off a host of threats - among them sand dredging, gold mining, road-building and over-fishing. more...
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20th April 2015The strongly protected marine reserve in Lamlash Bay, Arran, has been a huge success, write Bryce Stewart & Leigh Howarth, with abandant life returning to the once denuded waters. The government's refusal to expand such protections represents a huge wasted opportunity for both fishing and the marine environment. more...
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George Wuerthner
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BERLIN The Central Vermont Medical Center, together with the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, will sponsor a fun run Saturday, leaving from the Berlin Town Clerks Office at 108 Shed Road in Berlin at 10 a.m., the hospital announced.
The event will raise funds to help fund a collaborative between CVMC and Vermont Youth Conservation Corps to provide Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares for food insecure patients and employees in our community, the events flier states. Funds will also be used to help with costs of constructing an outdoor terrace area for psychiatric patients of the medical center.
Pre-registration for Saturdays CVMC Fun Run (or walk) is $30, and is due by Wednesday. Register by calling 371-4191 or go online to www.cvmc.org/fun-run. On the day of the event, registration will be $35, and will start at 8 a.m., closing at 9:45 a.m. sharp before the 10 a.m. walk/run start time. Race T-shirts will be provided to all participants.
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Skip to comments.Iowa professor, Ellen Lewin, under fire for vulgar email telling college Republicans: 'F--- YOU!'
Posted on 04/22/2011 3:26:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
A liberal University of Iowa sex professor has a message for the school's conservatives: F--- YOU!
Professor Ellen Lewin said as much in a response to a mass email from a campus Republican group promoting "Conservative Coming Out Week."
In the email on Monday morning, the UI College Republicans called for conservatives in Iowa City to "come out of the closet" and promote right-wing values that week.
The events included a screening of the 2002 film "Journey's with George," in honor of George W. Bush, a "Red vs. Blue" kickball game and blood drive and an "Animal Rights BBQ."
Less than one minute after the email was sent, Lewin fired back a blistering response: "F-YOU, REPUBLICANS."
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Liberals are SO CLASSY!!
Typical sewer-mouth, low-life communist guttersnipe.
And a pervert, too.
I think she's a lesbian judging by her books. So in other words, gays need equaity, but FU to conservatives.
Ellen Lewin's publications include Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture and Recognizing Ourselves: Lesbian and Gay Ceremonies of Commitment. She is also the editor of Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America, and the co-editor of Women, Health and Healing: Toward a New Perspective (with Virginia Olesen), Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists , Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology (both with William Leap), and Feminist Anthropology: A Reader. A third edited volume (with William Leap), Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Giobalizing World, is forthcoming, as is Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America. A third edited volume (with William Leap), Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Giobalizing World was published in 2009, and Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America was published in 2009.
Maybe she objects to George Bush being called a conservative.
She gives Helen Thomas serious competition.
Well; an "animal rights BBQ" is a bit insensitive. And yummy.
I know that I do !!!
What is a sex professor?
More isn't worth the bandwidth.
Sex professor? Wth is that?
I understand now that my college days were hopelessly deprived. Or perhaps not.
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."
Satire can't be written anymore. Real life is just too strange and demented.
Good one!
Stupid TOO.
'She also asked the group not to send mass emails in the future.'
Now she want to use HE OWN offense to curtail free speech of the Republicans on campus???
She is a sex professor?
Not to mention that college kids do not need a sex professor, this one couldn't get laid in a mens prison.
College tuition is going through the roof because colleges are filled with professors who teach course's in bullspit things like sex.
I wish for extremely bad luck and horrific life experiences for the carcass carrying that demon.
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach." Adolf Hitler
This propaganda works with the 'least intelligent' and also the most alienated...
According to her picture it must mean demonic lesbian demon.
THAT'S one jaded and pathologically disaffected old hippie!
And people wonder why a college education costs so much, and why colleges claim they are cash strapped. Get rid of all the sexual fetish programs, the ethnic separatism degrees, and the las vegas style campus building program and maybe universities will be able to compete with those of India and China someday.
How about: 'bitter, old, ugly, lesbian with a hairy lip"?
Parents have to stop using their life savings to send their children to universities populated by this kind of human debris.
You raise your children with the proper values and then turn them over to these perverts and communists so they may brainwash your wonderful children....AND YOU PAY THEM A FORTUNE TO DO IT!
Stop it!
Starve these indoctrination camps of their income and they will die a well-deserved death.
Have the universities of the United States turned out effective and informed leaders who understand how the world really works? OR...
Have the universities of the United States turned out complete morons like this woman, Barack Obama and his clueless jackass-sycophants who are now leading this country into economic and moral ruin because they cannot find their asses with both hands groping?
We had a far better country with fewer universities and fewer college graduates.
What does that tell you about our education system?
The "Ivy League" is poison ivy.
Once again, liberals show just how shallow and childish they really are.
How pathetic.
In a related note -
Duke University just offered her a job and a promotion.
Iowa taxpayers pay her salary, and pay for her office. Then - pay to send their children to Iowa - to be brainwashed by twits like her.
This government is not operating as intended by the founders.
"Liberals are SO CLASSY!!"
It could have been worse. She could have meant it as an offer instead of an insult.
Ellen Lewis is the detritus of intelligent thought.
Is that her self-portrait on the wall calendar?
Prof. Lewin grew up in New York and did her college work in San Francisco and Stanford. Her salary this year is $95,000.
Excerpt from an article by Prof. Lewin (radical antipathy to marriage as a patriarchal institution):
...Why has marriage become so central to questions of gay/lesbian rights? How has this happened when lesbians and gay men are themselves so divided over the issue? I would like to outline a few ways that we might think about these questions. I base my comments on the research I carried out on same-sex commitment ceremonies (Recognizing Ourselves: Ceremonies of Lesbian and Gay Commitment, 1998), on other anthropological work Ive done with lesbian and gay families in the US, and on my own experience as a participant in the struggle to achieve the right to marry.
My views on this issue, which had long rested on a radical antipathy to marriage as a patriarchal institution, shifted dramatically after my spouse and I were united in a Jewish ceremony in 1992 and after I studied some 60 same-sex couples who staged commitment ceremonies of various kinds none at that time legally sanctioned...
Just think: Just about every problem we face today is because of Harvard grads. Harvard which is suppose to be one of our top schools, but instead is nothing more than a bastion for liberal twits. It might have been a good school 100 years ago, today it's an overrated joke that lays on it's laurels while spewing out one absolute moron after another. Barney Frank, Jamie Gorelick, Ted Kennedy, B. Hussein Obama, Al Gore, all Harvard grads. Just think; If it wasn't for them, the financial crisis wouldn't have happened, 911 wouldn't have happened, the US wouldn't have turned into a virtual Tower of Babel, and our entire economy wouldn't be constantly threatened by junk science. Teaching basic common sense is just entirely gone in that school and it doesn't suprise me in the least that their most successful alumni are the ones who dropped out.
5 posted on Friday, April 22, 2011 5:37:50 AM by Amagi (ObamaCare proposed a tax on Tanning Salons. That is RACISM STRAIGHT UP!)
6 posted on Friday, April 22, 2011 5:37:50 AM by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
No, that is her pet. Its name is Lickeitysplit.
My, my. How did the boys in New York let this little gem get away?
"Damnit! Snap the picture! This is my happy face."
Well, if she's the professor of sex, maybe she meant it literally. (smirk)
Ah, I was a former CR at the U of I back in 2008 not much has changed.
Ah, I was a CR at the U of I back in 2008 not much has changed.
I believe that is the genesis of this story.
I'm sure she's a good person...just ask her!
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^Give it up on those 2. They don't want to come here for our amount of money
I have co-signed every off season move thus far Grunwald has done as fine a job as anyone
But....this is not a smart move (if it happens).
It's not just age (I love Kidd and Camby) but Rasheed has missed 2 years on top of his age....plus his game was falling off last he played
If we can't get KMart I'd rather Birdman
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^Give it up on those 2. They don't want to come here for our amount of money
idk this feels more like he was working out with some friends and the rumor started. if anything maybe the knicks ask him to stay to help train/workout with the other bigs leading up to camp. Right now LJ, and the dream are there. Imagine LJ, The Dream, and Rasheed Wallace helping mold Amare's game for the next few years... as crazy as it sounds it goes along with what the knicks have tried to do by bringing mentors in for their investment players.
A lot of people aren't paying attention to the knicks or the fact that they are working out a month before they have too. I think they are going to surprise a lot of teams this year when they finally put it together.
^ Tmac? lol we have no use for him... Again Kmart doesnt wanna be here..
T-Mac is on the Bulls.
Sig made by Sons of Thunder
Now y'all can stfu about Lou Amundson... He just signed with the wolves
Tmac is still looking for a team last I heard
lol @ the last 7 or 8 posts
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MONTPELIER Good Beginnings, an organization that promotes optimal health for newborn babies and support for parents, is holding its second annual Baby Expo event a fundraiser that the organization said has largely contributed to creating awareness of the group in the past year.
Alison Lamagna, executive director of the central Vermont chapter of Good Beginnings, said the organization has seen a lot of growth in the need for its services in the past year.
We typically serve 100 families, Lamagna said. At the halfway point this (fiscal) year weve already served 106, so were potentially looking at doubling the number of families were serving.
Lamagna attributes much of the organizations growth to awareness created by last years Baby Expo, the groups largest fundraiser of the year. This years event will be April 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Berlin Elementary School. Lamagna said the organization expects 40 to 50 vendors to be there displaying their products for families and children, including many, if not all, of the organizations that participated in last years expo.
Last year we had anything from farm programs to camp programs to a pediatric office to birthing services, doulas, midwives and clothing vendors, Lamagna said. All sorts of businesses and organizations that have services and products for children and families.
Some of the programs featured in this years event include workshops for parents, instruction and demonstrations on different types of infant carriers, cloth and diapering training, prenatal and postpartum fitness workshops, and fun activities for kids such as live music and entertainment, face painting, games and prizes.
One of the quirkier events will be the baby crawling Olympics, which is exactly what it sounds like. Lamagna said each baby who participates will receive a free book as a prize.
The main event of the expo, the baby-wearing fashion show, will take place at noon. The event, sponsored by Zutano, features mothers, fathers and grandparents walking down the red carpet displaying their baby-wearing skills and demonstrating how to put a baby on the front or back side.
This event ties in with our initiative of early bonding, Lamagna said. Baby wearing is a good way to create this bond. The event was a big success last year. We had kids carrying their baby dolls down the carpet too.
One of the new programs Good Beginnings will be initiating at this years expo is the daddy tent, a special area with a focus on fatherhood. There will be resources for dads, as well as games and activities for dads to do with their kids.
Lamagna said the program for dads ties in with the organizations initiative Dare to Father. The program, which will start after the expo, includes a series of challenges and activities for fathers to do with their children, culminating on Fathers Day with a dad-and-kid canoe excursion. Fathers can preregister at the expo, online at www.goodbeginningscentralvt.org or by phone at 595-7953.
Dads who complete more than five challenges will be entered for prizes, with those completing 15 or 20 being entered for the grand prize, golf at the Northfield Country Club.
Dads are a population that sometimes gets left out of the picture, Lamagna said. Theres not anything special out there for dads, so were excited about this program.
Good Beginnings offers other programs. The first is a space at its office at 174 River St. in Montpelier called the nest, which serves as a resource center for families. The room is open Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and has various parenting-related activities on the first, second and third Thursdays, including question-and-answer with a midwife, the Babywearers of Central Vermont, and the La Leche League. All activities are open to the public.
The organization also offers a parenting education workshop and collaborates with Central Vermont Medical Center to have trained Good Beginnings volunteers provide hands-on care under the supervision of nurses to vulnerable infants with medical issues. The organization also continues to offer a postpartum home-visiting program.
So many exciting things happening and so much growth, Lamagna said. Were excited about our programs and the expo so the community can continue to learn what we can do.
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Geneva/Rüsselsheim. Stylish, sporty, spectacular: Opel presents three hot new models at this year's Geneva Motor Show. Making their public debut are the cool and charismatic ADAM ROCKS, the racy ADAM S and the super sporty Astra OPC EXTREME. Opel also announces the next level of vehicle connectivity in Geneva: the introduction of OnStar in 2015 will make driving in Europe safer and more comfortable.
ADAM ROCKS and the ADAM S as predecessor of the series production version enrich the ADAM family and make it even more attractive. ROCKS also showcases another debut in Geneva: the 1.0 ECOTEC Direct Injection Turbo engine. ADAM is the first car to feature the small powerhouse, which will gradually become available in other models. Opel's major powertrain offensive is also making strides on the diesel front: visitors to the Opel booth in Geneva can for the first time take a close look at the Astra with the 81 kW/110 hp version of the new generation 1.6 CDTI Turbo diesel. The exceptionally economical and clean whisper diesel is now available in the Opel high-volume model range. But the Astra is not only very quiet, it can also be extremely loud, as evidenced by the OPC EXTREME Concept. The super sporty car is the fastest Astra ever and will soon make its way from the race track to the road – visitors to the Geneva show can enjoy the preview of this performance car.
Cool and tough, chunky and funky: ADAM ROCKS combines the joy of driving under an open sky with all the fun of an adventure-loving mini-crossover. Making its world debut in Geneva, ADAM ROCKS is the next addition to the ADAM family. The newest model in Opel's urban lifestyle family is a 3.74-meter short car with huge zest for life – inside and outside the city. Featuring an electrically operated, retracting, Swing Top canvas roof as standard, signature body cladding all-round and a 15 mm raised ride height, ADAM ROCKS opens a new market niche; it is the first three-door urban pocket-crossover under 4.00 meters in length. ADAM ROCKS will hit the market as soon as this summer.
ROCKS not only introduces new looks and muscles, but also new generation powertrain technologies into the ADAM. It will accommodate Opel's all-new 1.0-liter ECOTEC Direct Injection Turbo three-cylinder engine. This high-tech pocket powerhouse that already complies with tough Euro 6 emission standards raises the bar for three-cylinder engine refinement with outstandingly low noise and vibrations and superb comfort. Two versions are available, with 66 kW/90 hp and 85kW/115 hp, both delivering impressive low-end torque of 166 Nm. Fuel consumption is as low as 4.3 l/100 km (according to NEDC test procedure; preliminary data). The new generation transmission is a highly efficient, compact six-speed manual gearbox, which features superbly smooth, precise and fast shift operation.
But the ROCKS is not the end of ADAM diversity by a long shot. The close-to-production ADAM S version showcases the hot new performance model that will top Opel's super-cool small car family. Featuring a 110 kW/150 hp, 1.4-liter Turbo ECOTEC engine, sports-tuned suspension, OPC braking system and distinctive 'Red 'n Roll' styling, ADAM S impeccably blends punch and power with zestful, sharp-edged responses. The turbo engine propels the racy lifestyle ADAM S to a top speed of 220 km/h. With its sharp Red 'n Roll styling inside and out, the ADAM S makes no secret of its unique character. The cabin features Recaro Performance seats in front, and occupants in the ADAM family's top sporty model can enjoy optimum connectivity: Opel's award-winning, sophisticated IntelliLink system is of course available as an option to have on board.
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730 is the number to know if you want a light, low and fast road running shoe that feels simple on your feet while you rack up the miles.
A Minimus collection shoe in almost all respects except the name, the 730 is about as light as it gets for a daily trainer. You're looking at 7.0 oz for a Men's 9 and just 5.5 oz for a Women's 8. The lack of heft is noticeable both when the shoe is in your hand and on your foot.
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Tesla Motors has received approval from the United States Department of Energy for up to $465 million in low-interest loans. The electric car manufacturer had faced significant financing difficulties due to the global credit crunch and resulting recession, despite having an order backlog of over 1,500 vehicles. This forced a
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"Tesla will use the ATVM loan precisely the way that Congress intended -- as the capital needed to build sustainable transport," said Tesla CEO and Product Architect Elon Musk. "We are honored that the US government selected Tesla to be among the first companies to participate in this progressive program."
Tesla Motors plans to draw $365 million for production engineering and assembly of the Model S, an all-electric family sports sedan that carries up to seven people and travels up to 300 miles per charge. The company expects to start production of the Model S in late 2011 in a new assembly plant employing approximately 1,000 workers.
Tesla will use the remaining $100 million for a powertrain manufacturing plant that will supply all-electric powertrain solutions to other automakers, greatly accelerating the availability of mass market electric vehicles. The new factory is expected to employ about 650 people in California. Tesla is currently in the final stages of negotiation for both facilities.
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Eleanor Cowell, 8, of Honolulu dined with First Lady Michelle Obama as a winner of the White House's Healthy Lunchtime Challenge on Tuesday.
Fifty-four of America's most creative junior chefs were the guests of honor at the White House.
Each one was recognized for their original delicious recipe.
Cowell's "Curried Chicken Salad & Taste of the Tropics fruit bowl" was inspired by a salad served at California Pizza Kitchen.
"I liked how the chicken there was spiced and I like salad, so why can't I make a salad of my own," said Cowell.
It's the second year for the contest and state dinner that the First Lady said is more than just a healthy meal.
"Become a leader. You guys are more than equipped to do it. You're already doing it, so keep working hard, alright? You guys promise me that?" said Mrs. Obama, speaking at a podium. The response to her question was a polite silence.
"You guys are hungry, aren't you," said the First Lady.
The dishes chosen were based on its affordability, originality, healthiness, and, of course, yummy factor.
"They're our leaders and will show us a better way. So making sure that they are doing all these healthy recipes is just a great way to show other kids around the country that it's easy, delicious and fun to cook healthy food," said White House chef Sam Kass.
"When they grow up, they'll live long and be healthy and they won't be obese," said Cowell when asked why it's important for kids to eat healthy.
Entertainment was on the menu and included a surprise appearance by the president himself.
President Barack Obama worked the room, greeting each of the budding chefs. When he met Eleanor, he seemed pleasantly surprised to find out she was a student at Punahou, Obama's alma mater.


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He's pretty good, but again we'd have to drop Chandler/Gallo/Walker since we'd be overstacked at SF again.
I'd much rather have LBJ or Wade even though it's unlikely we'll get them just because they can fill a spot that we don't have occupied.
Interesting. How would everyone feel about Danny Granger as the 2nd option? Sign a max contract player and sign-and-trade Lee for Granger. Bosh and Granger sounds pretty good. We would have to trade Chandler (Rubio?)............
But for a clue as to how Granger views the big picture, take note of his responses in a recent HoopsHype interview. Asked whether he thought LeBron James would re-sign with Cleveland this summer or leave, Granger said, "If I was LeBron, I'd go to New York."
And why?
"New York is the media mecca as far as endorsements and being able to expand your personal net worth," Granger said. "The exposure you can get there isn't only nationally but globally. New York does all that for you."
Did another potential superstar just join the 2010 orbit with that statement? Only if the Pacers pursued the unlikely approach of trading their best player as part of yet another attempt at rebuilding. But remember that Walsh drafted Granger, remember how much he loves tall, long shooters and recognize how unpredictable free-agent movement is going to be come July 1.
If the Knicks struck out on LeBron and had to settle for Joe Johnson, would Walsh then shift gears, find a way to massage David Lee's $11 million cap hold into the equation by retaining his Bird rights, and pursue a trade for someone of Granger's stature -- perhaps even dangling Lee as the bait? Exploring contingency plans has always been one of Walsh's strengths.
While there have been no conversations to date about Granger, a person familiar with both teams' situations wouldn't dismiss it as a possibility. Given his comments about the benefits of playing in New York, Granger clearly wouldn't dismiss it, either.
"Everybody is up for being moved, especially the way this situation has gone," Granger said.
In the meantime, Granger has nothing to do but find his way to the finish line of another abysmal season in Indiana, pursuing the futile goal of refining and improving his game on a team going nowhere.
"Winning is the ultimate measurement of everything," Granger said. "This year we just haven't been doing it."
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He's pretty good, but again we'd have to drop Chandler/Gallo/Walker since we'd be overstacked at SF again.
I'd much rather have LBJ or Wade even though it's unlikely we'll get them just because they can fill a spot that we don't have occupied.
Got me thinking who would people have Granger or Gay? Larry Bird said he wanted to make Granger is cornerstone though, and I'm thinking Lee doesn't have the value that Granger would have. But still an interesting thought.
Danny Granger would be good.
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Which ever one plays the best defense out of johnson, granger, and Gay (no homo)...The Hawks as a team play much better D then both the pacers and grizzlies. The Pacers have been one of the worst defensive teams for a minute now, that doesnt say much for anyone on that b!tchmade team
I see Granger coming here unlikely because we don't have anyone good enough to trade for him, Granger is one of the best players in the NBA. Perfect SF that can score, rebound, and block shots at a high level.
I would love for him to come here, and I am glad that he understands the endorsement deals in NY and the fame from coming here, but seriously who can we trade with equal value??? No one.
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
There's 0% chance they trade Granger for Lee. Even though the Pacers suck, Granger can acutally win games for you. Lee gets good end-game stats but won't win a game for you in the clutch.
Granger can take over games in the 4th qtr while Lee will get his numbers througout the game but never appear dominant while doing it. That's a downgrade for IND.
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i think they would consider lee and chandler for granger. its a pretty good offer
Lee and Chandler for Granger?
Maybe if we traded them Eddy Curry's expiring contract and took on one of their garbage contracts, they'd do the deal. Which means it won't happen, because I don't think the Knicks will (and frankly they shouldn't) take on any additional contracts, especially the Pacers' garbage ones.
Is that a question if we could drop Chander and Gallo for Granger i would do it today. Great #2 option.


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Eating Alabama tells the story of a young couple who return to their home state and set out to eat the way their grandparents did – seasonally and locally. But after they've driven nearly 800 miles criss-crossing Alabama in search of a balanced meal, they realize that everything about the food system has changed since their grandparents left the farm. This dynamic documentary about the local food movement is never overly didactic. Instead, it's an accessible and often hilarious meditation on community, the South and sustainability.
At the heart of the film is the story of the filmmaker, Andrew, and his wife Rashmi. Both Alabamians by birth, their return home sparks an interest in the local food movement as they wonder whether or not it would be possible to eat only food grown or raised within Alabama. Soon, they've enlisted a few friends to embark on this journey to reconnect foodways the industrial agriculture system has broken apart. Referring back to his grandfather's experience leaving the farm in the 40s, Andrew, who also narrates, engages with his own naïveté as he soon discovers that there are few farmers left in Alabama. Encountering the lives of these farmers – most of whom struggle to make a living – the story shifts to the current realities of farming in the global economy. As he visits a farmer sued for saving seeds and a chicken grower who singlehandedly raises over a million birds each year, he discovers that the simple stories of life on the farm have mostly disappeared. But he also hears counterpoints to these corporate systems from young farmers who have embraced sustainable practices and urban farming. An essay both thoughtful and entertaining, ultimately Eating Alabama is a story about why food matters.
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Critics of mainstream medicine often point to the dangers of drugs. I previously wrote about "Death by Medicine," where I explained the fallacy of fixating on harmful effects of drugs without putting them into perspective with all the good drugs do. Yes, patients have died from severe allergic reactions to penicillin, but penicillin has also saved countless lives.
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