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The third annual Wonder of Hummingbirds Festival is presented by the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society (KTOS) and Ijams Nature Center at the center, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the world of hummers with banding demonstrations, speakers, guided walks and more. Local vendors will provide food and drinks, plants, locally made arts and crafts, bird feeders and supplies, and garden items. Admission: $5 per person; children under 6 are free.

On Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 9 a.m., Ijams will sponsor a garden workday. After morning chores, lemonade and a snack will be served. Free, but pre-registration is required. Call 865-577-4717, ext. 114 to register.

The YMCA of East Tennessee received a grant to implement the Move Well Today Diabetes Exercise and Education Program for individuals diagnosed as pre-diabetic or with Type-2 diabetes.

Classes include cardio conditioning, strength training, core group conditioning and flexibility training. An individual exercise prescription will be established for participants’ resistance and cardio exercise stations. Group instruction, supervision and motivation are under the direction of a certified instructor.

Participants must see their healthcare provider to gain access to the program as medical clearance and provide a copy of HBA1c results taken three months prior to the start of the program.

Cost for the 12-week course is $25 per person. Classes will be Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 a.m. Sept. 10-Nov. 26 at the Cansler Y, 616 Jessamine Street.

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Smoky Mountain Wellness announces its 2013 Tai Chi for Better Living classes. Sessions begin Sept. 9 and are on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Morning sessions are at Everett Recreation Center, Room 205, at 318 Everett High Rd. Beginner and advanced classes will be 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. The course is eight weeks long.

Evening sessions begin Sept. 9 from 6-7 at the Springbrook Recreation Center, 1537 Dalton Street, Alcoa, Evening classes are for beginners; an advance level class will open if interest is shown.

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Smoky Mountain Field School will sponsor the following programs this month. To register go to or call 865-974-0150.

Aug. 24: Getting to Know Our “6-Legged Friends,” 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m., $49. Learn about insects and then catch them with nets and jars, study them and release them back into their Smokies habitat.

Aug. 24: Early Settler Mountain Cooking, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $59. Join Chef Walter Lambert for southern Appalachian-style cooking in a Dutch oven and a blackened iron skillet.

Aug. 24: Outdoor Leadership for Parents, Scouts & Other Organizers, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $49. Gain confidence, knowledge and skills for leading a safe, enjoyable and low impact event in the outdoors.

Aug. 31: Incredible Edibles and Traditional Medicinals, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., $49. Identify plants and trees Native Americans and early settlers used for dye, food, medicines, crafts and other items of daily life.

Smoky Mountain Hiking Club’s outings for August include:

n Aug. 25 Middle Prong and Ice Cream: Meet at 1:15 p.m. at Alcoa Food City, 121 North Hall Road. Hike: About 10 miles, rated moderate. Leader: Priscilla Watts,

n Aug. 25 Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Chadwell Gap to Hensley Settlement: Meet at Outback Restaurant, 314 Merchants Drive, at 8 a.m. Hike 8.5 miles, rated moderate due to steep climb. Leader: Brad Reese,

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Iceland is a tiny nation in a big financial mess. It's still recovering from the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, which caused a domestic banking collapse.

Its currency, the krona, is also in really bad shape. That's led Icelanders to pose an existential currency question: Should they abandon the krona?

One key problem is size. Iceland has about as many people as Staten Island, so there just aren't that many people on the planet who need to use the krona.

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"Never thought about it," Natasha Shamone-Gilmore, 58, says about her younger self. "Never ever."

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The controversial Department of Public Safety random checkpoints are over in the Rio Grande Valley.

DPS ended the practice this weekend after three weeks of enforcement.  It was aimed at the Valley because of a high frequency of citations given out to drivers without licenses.  Those against the checkpoints feared immigration enforcement even though DPS clearly stated many times that status will not be checked.

"The community did not respond well to this operation because they already have that kind of trend where they call Border Patrol on another occasion," said Martha Sanchez of LUPE, an immigrant-rights group. "One lesson that could be learned from here is that the danger  of any kind of department doing the immigration job that the community is not going to trust them."

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Older and sicker Californians are likely to be first in line for guaranteed health coverage as the state's new insurance market opens Tuesday as part of the landmark healthcare law.

Like shoppers queuing up for bargains on Black Friday, people such as 52-year-old James Craig, an uninsured day laborer, say they can't wait to get their insurance cards.

"I think Obamacare is the greatest thing ever," said the Los Angeles resident, who said he suffers from high blood pressure and hasn't seen a doctor in years.

However, the program's long-term success will largely depend not on those who need healthcare the most, but on those who need it the least: young people.

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The math of President Obama's Affordable Care Act works only if millions of healthy consumers start paying into the system to offset the bills racked up by sicker people who can't be turned away.

Persuading twentysomethings won't be easy. Max Halpern, a 25-year-old San Diego law student, is healthy and doesn't spend much time worrying about his next doctor's appointment.

In November, when he turns 26, he'll no longer be covered by his mother's health plan. The new law mandates coverage for most Americans, but the penalties for opting out can be cheap — less than $100 in some cases. Halpern said he wants to see what Obamacare costs him before signing up.

"I can see why some young people would shy away," Halpern said.

The stakes are high. Nationwide, the Obama administration estimates it needs about 40% of the 7 million people expected to enroll the first year to be young and healthy to help mitigate the costs of the chronically ill.

In California, about 31% of people ages 18 to 34 are uninsured, compared with 27% nationally. The figures are even higher in Los Angeles, where nearly 40% of young adults lack coverage.

"If healthy people don't enroll, insurers will start to increase premiums," said Christine Eibner, a healthcare economist at Rand Corp., a Santa Monica think tank. "It could create a death spiral where only sick people want to sign up."

To get young people into the fold, the Obama administration is running an online video contest soliciting entries about young people and their medical needs. In California, officials are spending millions of dollars on advertising and outreach aimed at showing them the value of coverage. One pitch: You could go broke without it.

One video spot focuses on Ajay, a 20-year-old uninsured student from Sacramento, who talks about how expensive out-of-pocket treatment can be for her asthma attacks.

"As young people we often feel nothing can stop us," she says, sitting in a coffee shop. "But all it takes is a fall or some kind of accident."

Outside groups are also nudging young folks to get with the program. On Saturday, Young Invincibles, a national advocacy group that backs the healthcare law, helped host a music festival in South Los Angeles to educate young people about Obamacare and answer questions.

Between acts they put on a skit showing how a torn Achilles tendon from a pickup basketball game could result in thousands of dollars in medical bills for someone lacking coverage.

Chino Hills resident Vincent Hennerty, 23, said he's already learned the hard way. Three years ago, a case of poison oak landed him in the emergency room, triggering a $900 bill that he couldn't pay. He was hounded by bill collectors and had to seek help from relatives. Currently unemployed and uninsured, he's eager to find out whether he qualifies for low-cost insurance.

"That was a lot of stress, and I never want to go through that again," said Hennerty, who recently graduated from UCLA.

Insurance rates for young people will vary widely. Those with good incomes and who live in areas with higher medical costs could pay considerably more than they would in the current market. For instance, a 30-year-old in San Francisco earning $50,000 a year would pay roughly $300 a month for a mid-level Silver plan in the exchange.

That's because new federal rules limit what insurers can charge based on age. The young, in effect, are to subsidize the old to a greater degree.

Some experts fear that too many will skip coverage and opt to pay the penalties, which are minimal in the first few years. In 2014, people who don't have health insurance face a penalty of $95 or 1% of their income, whichever is greater. Those fines do increase over time, hitting $695 or 2.5% of income by 2016.

Still, many younger people will qualify for health insurance at little or no cost. Because of their lower incomes, many stand to benefit from premium subsidies in the healthcare law and they may even qualify for no-cost coverage through Medicaid. The state is trying to enroll more than 2 million people in subsidized private coverage or Medi-Cal by the end of next year.

People under 30 can also qualify for a bare-bones catastrophic plan at a lower cost. In Massachusetts, which introduced a similar healthcare expansion in 2006, enough young people showed up to keep rates stable, researchers found.

Speaking in Los Angeles in August at a healthcare town hall, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state insurance exchange, touted affordable options.

Lee cited the hypothetical example of a 27-year-old man in Long Beach who earns $31,000 a year. That policyholder could get a mid-level Silver plan for as little as $184 a month and face no more than $6,350 in out-of-pocket medical costs.

Some audience members questioned whether a young person would be willing to pay that much. But Lee defended it as a good deal.

"We haven't made healthcare free, but we feel good about having affordable options," he said.

The federal law has already had an effect on coverage for some young people by allowing them to stay on parents' coverage until age 26. More than 3 million young people nationwide have taken advantage of that option.

Enrollment on Tuesday and in the first few weeks may be low because coverage under the federal healthcare overhaul doesn't begin until Jan. 1 at the earliest. As the rollout begins, there are concerns about glitches with California's online enrollment system and whether the state has enough enrollment counselors ready and trained.

But some gentle nagging from Mom could make all the difference. Annette Halpern says she worries that her son Max, the San Diego law student, will get too busy and put off making a decision. Enrollment in the state exchange lasts six months, ending March 31.

"I'm wondering how many of his generation are procrastinating and not doing their homework," she said. "I don't want to be too much of a helicopter parent."

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LA JOLLA -- The story of early rock 'n' roll is a truly American tale.

The music probably wouldn't have been possible if not for the proximity of people from diverse backgrounds, overhearing each other and appropriating what they liked. Yet if America in the late 1940s and early '50s was beginning to come together in music, the country, in most other ways, remained deeply divided. "Memphis" -- a musical being given an exuberant, high-gloss staging at La Jolla Playhouse -- looks back on this time and finds a message at once chilling and full of hope.

The agents of change in "Memphis" are radio DJs who dared to cross America's color line by playing the music of black artists alongside that of white musicians. In the fictionalized figure of Huey Calhoun reside many of the traits of one DJ in particular: Memphis' Dewey Phillips.

Since this is a story about music, it seems only appropriate that that's what's heard wall to wall, separated only by relatively brief sections of dialogue. Composer and co-lyricist David Bryan, a keyboard player and songwriter for Bon Jovi, gives the songs the vintage sounds of gospel and rhythm and blues. Listen closely and you can hear these numbers not only giving voice to the characters' emotions, but also charting, through gradual developments in the sound, the early course of rock 'n' roll.

Backed by nine members of an onstage band, the songs build to incredible peaks of energy. The audience responds with the sort of roar you usually hear only in sports stadiums.

As directed by Christopher Ashley, La Jolla Playhouse's new artistic director, the musical is given the fluidity and high-tech stagecraft of -- dare we hint? -- a Broadway show. No stranger to New York, Ashley directed the Elvis hit-parade musical "All Shook Up," which, like "Memphis," was written by Joe DiPietro, best known for the musical-revue phenomenon "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change."

Scenes change almost cinematically thanks to panels that iris like a camera's lens, a DJ booth that pops up from and descends back into the floor, and a lot of moving set pieces. The look is very much of the story's period, and yet, given all of the technology unleashed by designer David Gallo, it's also distinctly of the 21st century.

Huey is a nonconformist, a man ahead of his time. As played by Chad Kimball (who made such a strong impression, despite being in a cow costume, in the 2002 revival of "Into the Woods"), he's lovable but a bit of a pill. Dirt poor and not expected to amount to anything, he advances through sheer force of will. He's so wound up that his mere presence is exhausting.

He's given a love interest: a local black singer, played by Montego Glover, who has the dynamite voice and electric presence that could carry her to the big time. Their attempt at romance is symbolic of the larger struggle being depicted. Unready to see them together, society knocks them down.

The show's ideas aren't new; we've seen much of this before in "Dreamgirls," "Caroline, or Change" and "Hairspray." And even though so much of the presentation, including the choreography by Sergio Trujillo, is energetically crafted, the headlong rush of the first act dissipates in the balkier second, and neither act knows quite when to stop.

But this is a story about obstacles overcome, and "Memphis" leaves its audience with a lot to feel good about. In its best moments, America sings a song of inclusion, and as one, we rock 'n' roll.

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What beautiful tributes to Mr. Lansky, that can be found here! I have read many, biographies, memoirs & oral histories of Memphis &/or Elvis. It seems all the books on Elvis had a story on Mr. Lansky. Those stories about the Lansky bros., were all positive, even in books that reeked hot gossip! What a beloved man he was. To his family, may his memory be for a blessing.
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I picked this book up based on the recommendation of a podcast I list to (Literary Disco--for those of you who don't listen, I highly recommend it!). Their discussion of this book had me getting it from my library as soon as it was available.

However the book was not quite what I expected from the discussion. It wasn't as mystery-thriller as I expected it to be, but it was a good, fun read that had me ignoring everyone and everything while I finished it.

It's got the prereqs--murder, a creepy guy everyone thinks did it, and a town full of secrets.

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I didn't expect this book to have a missing person, a dead body, and a shooting all within the first couple of chapters! I was reading it for book group, after all, and book group books generally don't have that much excitement. This book bucks the trend, however, since it also has a plot that centers as much on human relationships as it does on action. One of the main characters is Larry. Larry grew up in the small MIssissippi town where the book is set, but hes now an outcast. When he was a teenager, he went out on a date with a girl. Who disappeared. No one can prove that Larry had anything to do with it, but his tendency to read horror novels and his quiet nature doom him to a live of solitude. The other major character is Silas. Silas is black and his family moved to Mississippi when he was a boy. Back then his race didn't win him many friends, but now he has returned and is the town's constable. And now there is another girl who is missing, and Silas is helping investigate her disappearance. Everyone else seems to think Larry may have had something to do with it. But Silas seems to know more about Larry than he is telling.
I and our group found this to be an intriguing read, and we enjoyed discussing it. As you can tell, it has a bit of a mystery to it, and it help keep the reader's interest as the secrets were revealed bit by bit. What really made it discussable was the treatment of the characters, which lead to us talking about what motivated each one. I highly recommend this to fans of thought provoking mysteries. ( )
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Loved this book. Its everything I like in a novel. The setting, a small town in rural Mississippi, felt so real that I could picture every bit of it. The two main characters, linked together by history, blood, friendship, and ultimately, betrayal, were richly drawn and grew throughout the story. The story itself never dragged and continuous conflict drove it forward. Although the "whodunit" part was a little bit easy to guess, the author kept me guessing at other parts of the plot and the relationships between the characters. Much of the plot that took place during the 1970s was told through flashbacks and memories, but these episodes had enough tension in them to hold my interest until getting back to the contemporary plot. I'd never read this author and picked up this book on sale, but now will be looking for more of his books! ( )
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As CROOKED LETTER, CROOKED LETTER opens we are introduced to Larry Ott going about daily routine in life. It's nothing special, just the same daily routine you or I experience with only the location and occupation being different for most. We can relate to this Larry and his hum drum existence. If we're not careful we can overlook the fact that Larry is completely alone in this first meeting. It is when we find him in his home facing a monster that we realize there is more to the story and this man Larry than meets the eye.
Next we're introduced to Silas "32" Jones, who is the local constable. When we first see Silas he is making his rounds as constable, when he notices some buzzards circling overhead. it is in this portion when the reader notices the issue of race becoming prominent in the writing. To make us better understand and perhaps to also make us form preconceived ideas in matters to come, the author tells us "white folk" or "white girl" not merely a missing college student the entire state is looking for. At the first reading, we merely pass them by as he has planted the notion and continues on to tell us of Silas' problems in everyday life, ie requesting a new bronco, constantly getting refused, much as he does with Larry in the first chapter. In addition, we see a little of the personal relationships Silas has with the people around him. He is well liked by those around him and has personal relationships. Silas has the almost perfect life.
By the end of the first two chapters we see two smart, likable men. It is only as the story continues the reader sees the depth of each man. At one point, we find both men were friends and liked each other until life intervened. Both men eventually leave their home in Chabot, Mississippi, only to return years later to face the problems of living in a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. Unfortunately, not everything we know always turns out to be the truth.
In Larry, we see a man who keeps his faith in God and his fellow man. No matter what the world throws at him, he somehow continues living even though only his mother and perhaps one other woman in Chabot, Mississippi sees him for the person he is. In Silas we see a man doing the best he can while living with regrets of the past. Even though he can do nothing to change most of them, he perseveres until in the end, he tells the truth, setting himself free. In Wally, we see a man who is seemingly only known the bad life has to offer. Wally takes these experiences and develops the way society expects. In him, we see how the way we treat others can cause horrors in our own lives we never thought possible.
By the end of the story, the author has you considering how our preconceived ideas and our tendency to jump to conclusions lead us to the wrong conclusion. How our judgmental attitudes wrongly convict the innocent people around us and sometimes it can come back to haunt us. ( )
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"...set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county-and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town. More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades" --Publisher description.… (more)

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Linkin park got me into rock and I loved their style it was differnt and amazing. Their new album is just plain bad to me. I expected a real good album but it was the opposite :( is it just me or the new album does suck?

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for me too ;(
no dude it's not only's just every single person who loved lp's big tracks from meteora and hybrid theory....and i agree with you 100%...the new cd sucks...this is not lp....hope this album will not be so popular and lp understand that they have been made to play music like meteora and hubrid theory...lp have become popular by meteora...they have to understand that and get used to it...the crowd doen't want a dj stuff to be lp new album...hope lp understand that...thanks a lot...
Is like all the albums, a lot of people like it and a lot of others no....

To my opinion is a great album, is different and just amaizing ;)

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Yeah LP deffinatley took a step backwards on this album. I consider myself a huge linkin park fan, but i dont like 90% of the songs on here. I listened to the songs online and i just couldnt understand why they would make something like this. I know they wanted to try new stuff and im all for that but some of these songs i just dont get. Im beting when Linkin Park first made their band, they didnt want to be know as a soft techno band, but thats what they've become. Linkin Park will always be best at the hard stuff. They started their careers on heavy, but unique rock. I dont mind most of their softer songs, but not a whole album of it. Although i am a big LP fan so im gonna buy the album. Idk maybe if i listen to it enough times it might grow on me, but i never had to do that with they're last albums cause I loved them the first time i heard them.
it definitely not u LP is the reason i listen 2 music n i expected more from them. they delivered the past 3 albums but this was a big disappointment. i dont feel like this is an album, more like an experiment wit different styles of editing but the verdict, not good
It's not just you. It's you and the people who don't have the same taste in music as the people who do like it. I really don't understand how so many people can be so immature as to assume that their likes and dislikes speak for everyone. This also goes for the idiots that say an LP fan has to like everything they put out. I mean, really, this is why we mature fans get a bad name.
I didn't like ATS when I first listened to it... Didn't like it too the second, thirst, then started to "see" the point of the album and after a bunch of listening, starting to enjoy many songs (I just can't bear "The Catalyst" and it's 90s techno sound...).
Maybe you can do like I did, and maybe you'll enjoy this album ? In fact I did the same thing with MTM, but I didn't have to listen to it so many times to enjoy it.
I agree, it totally sucked.

Bring back the Nu metal sound. You conformist fagots
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Experimenting is good, tho this experiment went bad.
Blackbirds actually sounded ok, pity they didn't try to take that kinda song and lay a whole album based on that kinda sound.
they wanted to change,thats what they choose,people should more respect it and get used to it,instead of complain about it,it just wasting time by saying "go back to ur old style",cuz its not gonna change anything,if some people dont like it so thats their problem,they're sounds different yes,but they still sounds good to me,n i enjoy listening to their new sounds,so i have no problem with that,,love it or leave it,its simple,,n please dont say this album suck,its somebody's hardwork thou,at least appreciate it.
Am very disappointed with the new album. I just don’t understand why they need to change a perfectly good sound. We got to know LP from their first albums and were perfect. To me, this is not LP. Why change???

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E-mail lpuhq@lpunderground.com and ask about it.

I wrote an e-mail to ask about it and hope that I will get a reply any time soon. I will let you know asap!

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Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington have always shared spokesmen duties for alternative rap-rock outfit Linkin Park, but now, Shinoda is taking the front line, at least when it involves Facebook interaction with fans. The rapper has jumped on the “Facebook Subscriber” caravan — which allows users to get public updates from people on Facebook who are not your friends, such as musicians, artists and other public figures — and he’s letting followers Suscribe to his official page to get regular updates on Linkin Park and anything else on his mind.

In other Linkin Park business, the often charitable gents visited children affected by the Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster in Ishinomaki this week. Following the tragedy, Linkin Park launched a fundraising campaign through their non-profit organization, Music for Relief, with all the funds going to Save the Children’s relief and recover efforts in Japan, so this isn’t the first time Linkin Park have reached out to the victims.

Shinoda, Bennington and Dave Farrell visited Taizen Elementary School, where they met with students and school staff and tried on disaster-preparedness hoods that Save the Children provided to the school to guard children from falling debris and fires in future earthquakes. They also visited students at Ishinomaki Kita High School and participated in a music workshop. No word on whether the guys played any tracks off their latest, blockbuster release, A Thousand Suns, at the schools.

“It was incredible to see firsthand the happiness in the students’ faces, despite the hardships they have endured for the past six months,” Shinoda said in a release. “It was an honor to represent Music for Relief and our supporters worldwide on this visit, bringing their good wishes to the young people still recovering.” (Photo via Audio Ink Radio.)

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They should be very Linux compatible, after all LaCie are one of Mandriva's Technology partners.

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Go to either Amazon or MCM Electronics. Search for Kinyo UC-270. It is a USB-powered speaker. In addition to the USB cable, it requires a connection, via 3.5mm plug, to your headphone or line output. Both of those cables, along with the connection cable from right speaker to left speaker, come with the speaker and all are permanently attached at the speakers. You need only to plug the two jacks (USB and 3.5mm) into your computer, turn the speakers on, adjust the volume and the tone to your liking, and enjoy.

They are really nice speakers, amplified of course, and supply very good sound.

How much do they cost? Not $59.99, not $49.99, not even $9.99. They cost only $3.99 and I have to tell you that you will NEVER spend a better $3.99! After I received my first pair, I ordered six (6) more pairs! What the heck? They only cost $3.99!!

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I enjoyed the review, and enjoy the fact that it's not boringly dry. I can always get that anywhere. Linux is still a learning process for me, and I enjoy seeing what does and doesn't work for you. Keep up the good work

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Well, that was a one-minute review fluffed out to five minutes. "Plug them in and they work. Sound pretty OK too. They look like macaroni."

Some additional details I would have liked:

-Virtually all USB speakers just work on Linux. Just because La Cie gave you speakers is not a good reason to give them a free commercial. USB audio has been built in to the kernel for several years.
-You mention windows-only USB device drivers, Some actual examples would have been good. AFAIK there are few USB devices that are not cross-platform.
-Webcams have issues other than USB, which a reviewer who did their homework would talk about.
-A script might be helpful. "Um, La Cie, um, USB, um, speakers. Yeah, speakers!"
-If you're going to mention the name of the designer, maybe spend two minutes googling on his name?

I like videocasts, though quite honestly I find yours to be more self-indulgent than informative. Less fluff and more information if you please.

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Though I agree that it would be nice to know a little bit more about the intricacies of webcams in Linux, that is really outside the scope of this review. Please keep in mind that Shawn is reviewing a pair of speakers, not the generally compatibility of all USB devices in Linux. His mention of webcams was (correct me if I'm wrong Shawn), meant to illustrate a field of devices that, quite often do not "just work" when plugged into a Linux box.

As for a "free commercial" for LaCie, they probably deserve at least some measure of praise for their efforts (yes, plural) to support Linux in their product lines. I have a LaCie NAS that not only works on my Linux machine at home, but that also came with a Linux version of the NAS administration/setup software, something that is not always the case, even if a device itself happens to work on Linux. It's a minor step, but one that a great many other companies have not even tried to make. In a larger sense, supporting the 'little guy' has always been part of LaCie's marketing, having been involved in the peripheral market for Macs from the very early days of Apple.

Finally, I like to have a little fun while I learn: Shawn's video podcasts are part of my lunch hour viewing and I enjoy a little bit of craziness and humor to break up the day.

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Evan, a little entertainment is always nice. I prefer the reverse ratio to this supposed review- 95% meat to 5% fun stuff. Shawn made it sound like compatibility is an issue with USB speakers, which is not accurate. And he mentioned webcams, again a throwaway comment that he had plenty of time to give some useful information on.

If LaCie is as Linux-friendly as you say, that would have been a valid part of a review too. Sorry, but this review gets a D+. This was not a review, it was a bare outline of a review. LJ can do better.

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Man, do I love the way you always manage to make your reviews funny AND informative.

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And here I was all set to drop $200 on a pair of M-Audio Studiophile BX5a. :-) Oh, wait, I don't think they are Linux ready. Something about needing a XLR jack. Well I am sure Dave Philips can talk about them in his column.

The Le Cie's look cool. I have friends that have used the Firewire versions for years so I look forward to hearing if the USBs have the same frequencies and response. Not that I would use them for studio work, but it does get boring in the server room sometimes :-)

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The speed is fine, everybody is happy - but the quality of the display sucks!! The colors and icons are pretty cool - but the fonts look terrible. Everything blurry and edgy, although I have already turned on aliasing in the control center. Does anybody know what else I could do to get some better results?

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The Font is Helvetica in size 12 - the one that comes with KDE. That should be a good font. I turned everything on which Anti-Aliasing could offer me: the writing on the menu and on the windows now got much better, but the writing which underlines the icons on the desktop, for example the trash, are still almost illegible. It looks as if he is trying to do a shadow, but cannot do it properly :-( But I just cannot find any option to turn this off. There is one which turns off shadowing, but this does not seem to effect the writings beneath the desktop icons. Argh!

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I have installed Fedora at work and home. At work, I often get this "package does not have valid GPG signature" when running up2date. At home, I do not have this problem.

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I think I've added the gpg signature to the keyring - I did 'rpm -import keyfile' but it does not work. Actually I get the error message intermittently.
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Aarrgghh. . . yes, I had the same intermittent problem. In my case, I tracked it down to the update software using several different sites as repositories for update RPMs, and even though Fedora comes configured by default to use those repositories, it apparently only comes configured with GPG keys for SOME of them. Hence, sometimes it works, and sometimes it gives you GPG errors.

I found the solution here. Briefly, you need to import the GPG keys for all the main repositories:

rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-1/RPM-GPG-KEY*
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Once I did that, the updater worked consistently, with no more GPG errors.

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Old 01-04-2004, 02:16 PM   #1
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Wireless network connection instability

I recently started using a new DSL service (SBC Yahoo! DSL) and they provided me with a 2wire Wireless Router for my home. Because I just moved in here, and there isn't any Ethernet run through the house (urg) I decided to go the wireless route for my desktop as well as my laptops.

I picked up a Netgear MA311 Wireless network card (Prism 2.5 chipset) and tossed it in my Gentoo box. After about 30 minutes fooling around with the iwconfig tools and making sure I had the right modules in my 2.6 kernel I was up and running on the wireless network. iwconfig reported a 80/92 signal strength and 11 MBits speed on the network so I was pretty happy.

Then I ran into a problem. A friend of mine connected to my machine over ssh and started downloading a file (about 250MB) and all of a sudden my wireless signal strength went to 0 and I lost the connection. After fooling around with it for a while I realized that anytime I start sending large quantities of data my signal strength goes to nothing and the connection dies. This doesn't happen when I receive data. This also doesn't happen if I connect my machine to the router over Ethernet cable (which isn't a great solution cause my desktop isn't anywhere near a phone jack so I end up with wire all over the house).

I am stumped. Does anyone have any idea what could cause this to happen? As I said earlier, I am using a Harris Prism 2.5 chipset PCI wireless card (Netgear MA311). I am using the support for the card that is built into the 2.6.0 kernel and configuring the card using iwconfig. My OS is Gentoo 1.4 updated pretty much once a week and all the wireless tools, kernel, and such were downloaded and installed through the portage package system.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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You can go ahead and mark this as a hardware problem on the part of a POS router from 2Wire. I actually got a tech. service guy from there on the phone earlier tonight. At first he dismissed the problem as a linux issue. But after I assured him my Powerbook AND my nieghbors IBM thinkpad with WinXP all had the same issue when transmitting lots of data over my wireless he decided to tell me they had been having trouble with some of there routers and would send me a new rev. to try out.

If that doesn't work I am going to simply plug another wireless router into the wired port on the home portal and use the other wireless router, which seams rediculous but will be worth it if the darn thing works right.

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