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Chris' Wish
During a long nighttime stakeout kneeling in some desert weeds in the spring of 1980, U.S. Customs Agent Tommy Austin tells Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Ron Cox his problem.
His wife's friend Linda has a small son named Chris Greicius who is probably going to die of leukemia. The seven-year-old boy yearns to be a police officer "to catch bad guys" with Austin. Running into bureaucratic hesitation at Customs, Austin asks Cox if maybe DPS can do something. "I'll rent a helicopter myself if I have to," Austin says.
Cox takes the request to DPS spokesman Allan Schmidt, who asks DPS Director Ralph Milstead. He gives Schmidt carte blanche to grant Chris' wish. Soon Austin receives a call from Chris' mom saying that she doesn't think he can hang on much longer.
"None of us had any idea what we were getting into at the time," Schmidt will recall 30 years later. He draws other people in: Officer Jim Eaves will bring his patrol car, and Officer Frank Shankwitz his motorcycle, to meet the DPS helicopter flying Chris to headquarters. On April 29, Chris comes from Scottsdale Memorial Hospital to the empty lot by DPS at Lewis and 19th Avenue. There he and his parents are given a tour. That's when Lt. Col. Dick Schaefer gives the boy a "Smokey Bear" hat and one of his own old badges, and Chris becomes Arizona's first and only honorary DPS officer.
Everyone who meets the beaming boy chewing bubble gum wants to help. At the end of the day, some of those involved meet in a spontaneous group hug and realize they don't want the day to be the end of it. They also know they don't have much time.
Two of them, Cox and Eaves, go to John's Uniforms, the business that makes all DPS uniforms, and order one Chris' size. Employees work all night to have it ready the next day. A group of officers take the uniform to his house, where Shankwitz sets up cones for Chris to steer his battery-powered motorcycle through to qualify for a motorcycle officer's wings.
But when they return the next day to present the wings to Chris, he's gone back into the hospital. With his DPS gifts all around him, clutching his new wings, Chris gives a last smile for the men who have done so much for him in such a short time. He passes May 3.
"He was only seven years, 269 days old when he died. But he taught me about being a man. Even though he was only a boy. I can tell you that because of meeting Chris, I am an entirely different man. Ron Cox said the same thing. He said he didn't fear death anymore, because he knew Chris would be there waiting for him." - Tommy Austin, Make-A-Wish® co-founder and retired U.S. Customs agent
Beginning of a Foundation
Officers Frank Shankwitz and Scott Stahl fly back to Illinois for the funeral; Chris is given the ceremony of a fellow fallen officer.
From the time the two officers land in Chicago to when they leave again, word spreads of their story, and they are amazed at how strangers are affected by it. They talk on the flight home of making this the beginning of something wonderful for children.
Meanwhile in Phoenix, similar discussions are taking place. At an officer's retirement party, Shankwitz talks to Kathy McMorris, the wife of a DPS officer, about creating a wish-granting organization. That summer, a group of working-class DPS officers, friends and family gather. That meeting marks the beginning of Make-A-Wish.
The first donation is $15, given to Shankwitz by a grocery store manager. For months records, bills and change are kept in envelopes carried around by founders. In November of 1980 the group receives its tax-exempt status as a non-profit organization. By the following spring the group has raised $2000 and can grant its first official wish.
The First Wish Kid
Frank "Bopsy" Salazar is the first official Make-A-Wish® kid. He's 7 and has leukemia - just like Chris.
Shankwitz is president at the time and decides to grant Poncho "Bopsy" Salazar all three of his wishes: to be a fireman, go to Disneyland and ride in a hot air balloon.
So the Phoenix Fire Department gives Bopsy an experience similar to Chris' as a police officer; he becomes a member of the Engine 9 crew. Since the first wish is also the first Disney wish, the Anaheim Fire Department picks up the baton, taking Bopsy and his family around Southern California. Shankwitz keeps the first "wish kid art," a picture Bopsy drew him, on which he wrote, "Poncho (Frank in Spanish), I got to blow the siren."
Upon returning home, Bopsy goes into the hospital. His physician, Dr. Paul Baranko, is surprised at hearing a commotion coming from the boy's room and going into see firemen climbing in through the third-story window off the fire engine ladder! Bopsy passes that night.
"As his mother, it was very meaningful to me that people who didn't know us stepped forward to be in Bopsy's life." - Nance Octaviana Trujillo, mom of Bopsy
Inspiring a Nation
The following spring, in 1982, the television show NBC Magazine sends a reporter to do a story about this small new charity that's granting wishes to children fighting for their lives.
As millions of viewers across the country see the piece, DPS telephone lines are jammed with calls from people who want to be part of it. The new organization isn't positioned to harness the explosive enthusiasm. But its founders are undaunted by the challenges and determined to succeed.
Under the leadership of Jack Stanford, the little engine that could, does, and the national Make-A-Wish Foundation is incorporated in May of 1983. More chapters open across the nation.


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[FOR TESTING] Gcompris 8.4.6 SFS for 4.x series Beta
Subject description: Educational Software for kids age 2-12 years
Beta Packages now available
"All in one" single gcompris.sfs package for 4 series (Dingo),
"Split" packages with separate locales/sound files for other languages
- Ecomoney Systems Worldwide Mirror
Please download for testing and report bugs/issues/opinions on this thread.
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Hi, during a recent scouting trip into Ubuntu territory, I discovered just how much the supurb childrens educational suite Gcompris has come on in recent years.
GCompris Website
I look after the I.T. a local preschool, where they run two puppy powered PC's. Their main application is gCompris, but it is a very old version from three or four years ago. The chess game and the wires/bulbs/batteries dont work because it need gnuChess and gnuCap libraries. The puppy version in use is 2.15ce based Ecopup, modified with a kids theme. Puppy 2.15ce does not work/could not be got working with USB printers, so the kids cannot currently print out their drawings to take home since their old serial printer wore out.
Overall though, they are very proud of their Linux P.C.'s, and have asked our local council to look into linux for older schoolchildren in our area. We had to put a second computer in because the kids were squabbling over the one they had.
Our government has unfortunately been duped into a new contract that schools must purchase a Microsoft License for every computer it has, whether it is running Windows or not...or even if it is an Apple Mac. Currently in the area schools are paying to dispose of P4 2.8/512/40gb computers as "waste" because they wont run Windows Vista. Thankfully this does not apply to nursery education...yet.
The nursery has already passed several inspections from our inspectors at OFSTED, where their I.T. provision was marked with an "A", (the inspectors had never even heard of Linux before!) Im planning on getting some people in to do some studies into the preschool and publish the results as an example of how to save money AND provide better education to kids. Maybe we can get an A+ next time
Nursery education below age 3 is not paid for at all in Britain, and very minimally funded after that. The lack of I.T. overheads at the preschool means that the prices can be kept to an absolute minimum for the many low income families in the area. We do not charge a fee for looking after the computers, but the nursery agree to give one free child place a year in return. This originally went to our company secretaries child, but since she is now eligeable for funding the place is now given to another local child from a low-income home who has shown a particular gift for computers, but was struggling with his communication skills.
Gcompris is also very popular locally for kids home P.C.'s
I understand Gcompris takes a lot of skill to compile and package up....so here is some thanks in advance from a previously puppy-educated year of Children....
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Posted: Sun 29 Mar 2009, 04:32
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gcompris is the only programm i miss to have in puppy( even as a BIG sfs)
so i have to use sidux for it
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Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 12:05
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I have a Edupup installation (on trial) ina nursery, with a veiw to get it in another 2 nurseries it has Gcompris on an old machine 128ram hdd install. The kids love it apparently.
It has Gcompris , supertux, Ri-li, Childsplay, Tuxmath and type, bugsquish, Concentration and other bits. They have said that some of the apps are a bit too difficult. Iwill get more info on which and post here.
I am also putting together a live cd from barebones 412 with gcompris on. The /usr/local/share/gcompris/boards/voices is about 50mb on its own. I removed all the languages with the exception of English and it reduced the size by 42mb. I will have to have a play and see if there are any adverse effects, apart from setting the localisation in the admin console. Again i will keep you informed
I used the gcompris 8.4.2 pet from http://www.giovelug.org/
The method to install is on http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34135
I used Glsapt4 from this thread http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28994 for the slackware packages (Pycairo, Pysqlite etc) and removed Gslapt after.
PS. I have done this on Edupup 3.01 and a Barebones 4.12
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Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 13:34
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Forgot to mention. The nursery applied for a grant to Rossendale council (i asume it is them as the nursery is in that area). They plan to upgrade their kit at HQ and the old kit will hopefully come to me as a result of this trial and i can Puppyfy them and get them into the other 2 nurseries, in different areas. This grant may be available in your area Ecopup.
I will see if i can get more details from the owners.
PS. there is a 8.5 prebuild out there. I am going to wait and see and then have a go at making a pet out of that.
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Posted: Wed 01 Apr 2009, 20:24
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Hi Sidders
It seems were involved in very similar work! I too have helped Antonio in the past with hosting and testing...in fact it seems that many of the packages I need are hosted ON MY OWN WEBSERVER!!!
However Gcompris is not one of them. Im currently looking at creating a new Ecopup 8 series distro (with a selection of kids games built in including gcompris) based on 4.2 or later. I wouldnt want to convert the kids over to a setup without gCompris at the moment because they are in the middle of working their way through it. They also have supertux 1, tuxpaint, tuxmath and tuxtype, supertux and tuxpaint being the ones they use the most.
Like I mentioned, I also collect from the local schools, and have quite a few (actually about 30!) P4/2.6/512/40gb Stone Desktop computers, and also a few smaller footprint 2.4 celeron/1gb/40gb desktop machines that just fly with any version of Puppy Linux on them. We also have a whole stack of keyboards/monitors and optical mice.
By the sounds of it, your short of hardware and were short of software.
Bolton is basically just the other end of the M62 from us (were based in Scunthorpe for our sins), and I have a very economical car.
Perhaps we can annoy the banks a little more effectively than those on the BBC news today by doing a little bartering?
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Let me give you my background. School> Squaddie (9 years) > Textiles (saw the writing on the manufacturing wall)> did a few MCP's and became a Helpdesk Monkey at Shell > Disappeared to South America for 9 months> IT support at a housing association, then back to Shell> had a kid and gave up work to be a full time dad, before you know it i've got 3 under 3!.> Had the Snip.
Since returning from South America, wireless was hitting the market so i set myself up settting wireless networks up for people until i found a job, but carried on, it invariably ended up doing all things M$ a peoples homes and my name got around and i look after a couple of small business's and a guy who has 3 private nurseries. I kept hold of a couple of old machines, but space is limited.
Tired of M$ and clearing up peoples viruses etc, i plumbed for Puppy as it will run on old hardware. Ubuntu (as someone in another postted pointed out) is brown and still requires a fair bit of Ram and countless updates are thrown at you. Came across Puppy in particular Edupup, Recycle + Open source + kids = perfect.
Thats my life story. I have just concentrated on the kids machines. The one on trial in one of the nurseries is Edupup with Tuxpuck, Tuxtype, Tuxmath, Childsplay, Abiword. I added Gcompris 8.4.2, Ri-li, Concentration, Bugsquish, Supertux.
Put a shortcut to /usr/x11R7/bin/wmpoweroff on the desktop and put a nice shut down symbol on it. I then hid all the menus, including Start by editing In a previous trial i discovered kids have a renamed /etc/xdg/templates/_jwmrc.root (to origonal) # everything else out.
Apart from My docs and the apps, there is nothing else left on the desktop. I also edited /etc/profiles and # by Touch boot.cnt (or something), then deleted /tmp/boot.cnt, then if the system crashes due to kids abillty to quadrouple click it will boot back to the desktop.
I will see if i can make Pets from the slackware dependencies (Pycairo etc)
I am also going to research the governments policy on IT for pre-schoolers. I do know they expect a kid to be able to use a mouse and open a program by the time they are 4.
I will stop waffling now.
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Posted: Fri 03 Apr 2009, 14:52
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Thats totally how I came to puppy linux (without the snip or the kids on the way). I tried ubuntu too but yes, it still needs new computers to run and as Ive found its quite unreliable.
Let me know if you need any of this gear I have spare
Good news is...I found a gcompris .pet here
This seems to work..at least without sound, on puppy 4.2. It throws many errors about missing dependencies when run from the command line. Also it is missing the chess libraries (gnuchess) and probably some others.
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I am fairly bored and need things to kill the 51 days until I join the Royal Marines so I will have a go at compiling a .pet of this tonight - unless you have been able to get the version you found working correctly.
Edit: I note that the latest version is 8.4.12, do you specifically need 8.3.11?
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Any recent version would be fine thank you! I have no/very little idea about the libraries or how to compile. Many thanks
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i have gnuchess, i think i got it from www.puppylinux.ca, however if you cant find it, let me know and i will upload it to my 123 drive.
The dependencies can be covered from Gslapt the slackware tool
Pcambell87, a Bootneck. Respect and Good luck with that. I did the all arms commando course way back when. Apart from the pain, i do remember that the food was good at Lympstone.
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The dependencies are more of a pain than I had hoped... I have got most of them sorted but esound is giving me an error and google hasn't been much help - I will give it another go tomorrow.
Sidders: The food is pretty good, I think that's half the reason I am rejoining (I was previously medically discharged), I can't wait!
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I have an esound pet package here... been compiling wine against it without error
Check out my
github repositories
. I may eventually get around to updating my
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If I had the time I would compile it, But I don't, It would take a couple of days, The best way to do thisfor 4 series+ is basically
Download it and all the Dependant packages from Ubuntu Gutsy, Its the closest match to puppy 4.2.
I would download
first then make a pet package and install it. It will tell you the missing libs, then go back to the gutsy/Gcompris page and download the corresponding missing packages, then uninstall your first test, and install the more actual one version 2. If you missing anything, it should be on one of the lib pages. If your still missing anything, just tell me and I'll see what I can do to help in the end.
Ps would be easier with Spup or Dpup and just install it with the package manager
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Thanks for your help guys, I wont profess to know what on earth your talking about but it sounds like your making good progress.
@pcampbell87, making a superb childrens educational suite available to the worlds poorest is worthy work indeed. Its a shame that the food and wages arnt as good as in the military.
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I have built all the dependencies from source (all 40 of them!) however I am now getting an error 'cannot find -lpython2.6' when trying to make gcompris. I compiled python 2.6 from source when building the dependencies so I must have done something wrong at some point - back to the drawing board
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Super Genius
Joined: 27 Jul 1999
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Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:43 pm
Post subject: Entertainment Tonight & POTA2
Planet of the Apes 2: ET reports that Mark Wahlberg is interested in starring in a sequel to the Tim Burton remake.
I got that off DarkHorizons.com regarding Entertainment Tonight. Anyone catch ET yesterday?
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Joined: 28 Jul 1999
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:25 am
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Didn't see it, but this was on the wires.
Wahlberg: Apes II is chimpossible
Italian Job star Mark Wahlberg has ruled out the possibility of starring in a sequel to Tim Burton's ill-fated sci-fi remake Planet Of The Apes.
"I would do anything that Tim Burton asked me to do," Wahlberg told reporters at a press conference at London's swanky Claridges hotel.
"I said I would do it if Tim did it. Tim went on to say that he would rather jump out of a window. So I'd probably rather follow Tim out of the window."
If we could confirm he can drop it if Tim's out, it would be alot easier to figure out. The Fox people and producer keep saying they have MW for PoTA2 no matter who directs it. But he keeps saying he won't do it if Tim's not. And Tim said no way again a few months ago. So its all up in the air unless the quote was out of context - which is always possible.
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Super Genius
Joined: 27 Jul 1999
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:08 pm
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Looks like Tim is on like Donkey Kong for POTA2. Here's a quote from DarkHorizons.com today...
''Planet of the Apes 2: BBC Wales indicates Tim Burton has been scouting England to shoot the sequel in late 2004 with both Pinewood & Shepperton studios being looked at''
Contractually Mark was already signed to do a sequel when he signed the first contract, from what I understand. This was according to studio reps and I'll see if I can dig up the link (if it still works). I can also inquire with Mark's management if you guys really want to know or not.
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:54 pm
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Sounds interesting. Thankyou Mark.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:43 am
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Don't know if people saw but the Calgary Sun talked to Tim Burton a few days ago and I posted over at my site:
Burton says he won't be involved in any sequel to his Planet of the Apes.
"No, no, no, never. After having made Batman Returns, I realized it's not a good idea for me to do sequels."
So the balls back in 20th Century Fox and MW's court. No Burton. I bet the BBC report was Burton scouting for the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
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Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 134
Location: indianapoils,in,usa
Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:01 am
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mark i would like to know so if you get the info that would be so cool.happy thanksgiving
carrie burdine
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Super Genius
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 7:50 pm
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That quote from Lianne is accurate. Burton might have been doing some looking around for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, perhaps?
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Joined: 16 Jul 2001
Posts: 459
Location: Japan
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:24 pm
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Thanks to vevie, I have read this article.
I wonder if this is true???
Keown to star in new Apes film
Arsenal footballer Martin Keown has landed a cameo role in the new Planet of the Apes film, set for release late next year.
The ex-England defender will play evil warrior-gorilla Aldo in a remake of the 1971 classic eReturn to the Planet of the Apesf, which will also feature Hollywood stars such as Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham-Carter and Tim Roth.
Director Tim Burton spotted Keownfs potential after his performance against Manchester Utd earlier this season.
gMartin was very relaxed during casting and I think he could go a long way playing simian characters,h he said. gThe other advantage is that wefre going to save a **** of a lot of money on make-up.h
Keown is not the first footballer to go into acting. Ex-Utd star Eric Cantona managed a passable French accent in eElizabeth If while ex-Wimbledon and Chelsea hardman Vinny Jones starred in Guy Ritchiefs eLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrelsf after being spotted by the British director assaulting various other players during his 15-year playing career.
[This message has been edited by Kazuko (edited December 29, 2003).]
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Super Genius
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:35 pm
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It's a joke. A spoof site. Really, what they say about this guy not needing makeup to play an ape is really in bad taste.
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:53 pm
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I'm stupid.
lol Thanks Mark.
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