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Monday, April 20, 2009
Almost forgot: Catch me on the Bonnie Hunt Show Tomorrow (Tuesday)
129 comments:
- Kati said...
Hey! I'm going to watch the Bonnie Hunt show tomarrow! I can't wait to see you! I also wanted to know if you would comment on my blog, just click my glowing name above this comment and it will send you to my blog, there place a comment on my last post. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
- April 20, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- Unknown said...
I love Bonnie Hunt!! Congrats on this...
- April 20, 2009 at 8:15 AM
- Jennifer said...
I'll have to see if I can find that show on the Tivo...
... but all I can think is Wow! She sure got cozy for that picture!
- April 20, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- stu said...
Alas, it won't be on in London. Your picture turned up for my friend the other day though - thanks for mine too!
- April 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- marlamuppets said...
LOVE it. bonnie hunt is so awesome.
i love the pic of you and her. darling!
- April 20, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- Petra said...
Bonnie Hunt is a hoot - I can't wait to see it. Thanks for letting us know!
- April 20, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- glodaca said...
Yo te veré esta noche en la TV en España :D
- April 20, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Emily said...
Oh neat! I just saw the intro to that show today but I've never watched it... I love her in movies though, I'll give it a watch.
- April 20, 2009 at 9:16 AM
- Phrank said...
I'll make sure to set my DVR!!
- April 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- abbreviated said...
I always forget she has her own show. I adore Bonnie Hunt.
I might actually have to watch it.
- April 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Jake Brownson said...
Did you trip or something?
- April 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Tammy said...
Hope you had fun-Ill set the DVR :)
- April 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Cindy Lou Who said...
I love her show - will try and catch you on it
- April 20, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
See you tomorrow in Spain!
I hope I can give you a comic parody of LOST in the preview of the series tomorrow!
- April 20, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Iberostar said...
Great! I will watch the show!
- April 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- JimPel said...
That's awesome! Bonnie Hunt is fun. I thought you were just in Germany! Man you travel fast!
Does she film in NYC?
- April 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- Laurita said...
Hi! I'm from Spain and I'm not going to be able to catch you on that show... BUT I'll see you tonight on "El Hormiguero"!!
I hope you have a good time here on Spain, even if it's for a (very) short time... You travell really fast!
Lost has a lot of fans here, and so do you!!
Love, Laura.
- April 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- Flae said...
Hi! I'm going to watch "El Hormiguero" (Spain TV Show) today!
Can you post any picture of your trip to Spain?
(So sorry for my very poor English) :S
- April 20, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Hoku said...
Sorry this has nothing to do with Bonnie Hunt, but had to tell it!
I was watching last weeks episode of Lost, Some Like it Hoth, when there on my big screen was my next door neighbor! She played the caretaker for Miles mother, who opened the door for him. I almost fell outta my recliner I was so startled, cuz she kept it secret. We had a laugh last night when I ran into her, because she had no idea I was such a fan of the show.
Shows you what a small world Oahu is!
- April 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- Christina Bauer said...
Bonnie Hunt is fantastic! Can't wait to see you on her show! Thanks for the heads-up, Jorge!!!
- April 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Christina Bauer said...
Bonnie Hunt is fantastic! Can't wait to see you on her show! Thanks for the heads-up, Jorge!!!
- April 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- jsky said...
Hi Jorge!
I have just received your letter with four autographs on it!
Thank you so much, you are so cool!
Tonight i'm gonna see you on a TV show in Spain ("El Hormiguero").
Thanks again, you and LOST rules!
- April 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM
- King J, Queen M, Princess E and Princess M said...
I saw the preview for it today when I was watching for a minute. Looks good.
- April 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- New Yorker wannabes said...
I love Bonnie Hunt in movies lol
Has she stopped making them? Well I wish someone will post it on youtube cause in Greece it is a bit difficult to watch...bad reception heh heh!
Take care Jorge lol
Peace and love
- April 20, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- Arashi said...
i'm watching the tv show, El hormiguero right now, and you're awesome!!! you're spanish is great better than my english :p greetings from Spain!
- April 20, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- Aureliana Daza said...
rigth now Im watching you on tV, Spain hehe ion "Hormiguero"
- April 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- Almudena Díaz said...
I'm watching you right now in El Hormiguero, TV Cuatro (Spain). You're a funny guy! Way to go!
- April 20, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- Álvaro said...
Just watching you in the Spanish TV show "El hormiguero". You're awesome dude!
- April 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM
- Berchy said...
jorge you were great in hormiguero Madrid!!!!the translator loves ya!!!
- April 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Mary the Kiwi said...
Hola Jorge!!! Just watching you i the Spanish TV programme "El Hormiguero". Funny to see you are not "Lost". Have fun in Spain!
- April 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- Amat said...
Ey Jorge!
What about your experience in Spain?, tell us!
- April 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Hey Jorge!! i'm just watching you in the Spanish TV program "El Hormiguero"!! I hope you'll enjoy this days in Spain!! And, ehy, i'll play with this lottery numbers! i hope it won't give me bad luck as the numbers in Lost!! hahaha
- April 20, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- lil_yuna_dreamer said...
Yo estoy viendo el ahora mismo hormiguero! jeje Jorge didnt know you speak spanish soooo good!!! Hope you have fun with the ants! ;)
- April 20, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Lola said...
Hey Jorge!!! you're cool, dude!!! Be careful with that guy, flipy!! he's completely nuts... he would burst the whole studio out!!! watch out, haha.
see ya
- April 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Gaby said...
See you tonight on The hormiguero, good luck
- April 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- lil_yuna_dreamer said...
JAJAJA no se ni lo que escribo! I'm watching el hormiguero right now. Following the cable eh? HAHAHA
- April 20, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Sophielynn said...
I´m watching you on Spanish TV show "El Hormiguero"!!I love Lost and your
character,you speak spanish very well!!Do you like Spain??kisses from Spain.
- April 20, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Hugo!!
Culo o codo?? Que bueno!!!
A mi marido y a mi nos encanta tu personaje y después de verte en "El hormiguero" también nos gustas tu!!!!
Eres el mejor de Lost, sin duda!!!
Un beso enorme desde Barcelona!!!
Hurley for President!!!
- April 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- andreu_24 said...
OMG, What a disaster "El Hormiguero".
This program uses to suck but today... hopefully Naveen couldn't make it and it was only you who suffered that.
Moreover some jackass with the island is .. (huge spoiler from the 5th season, and they haven't broadcasted the 1st yet).
Sorry Hugo.
- April 20, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- Holden said...
Jorge, te he visto en el Hormiguero. ¿Culo o codo?
Es mejor el programa Buenafuente, tienes que ir.
- April 20, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Jorge! I just see you in "el hormiguero"... sorry man, they don't know how to make a good interview, they just do stupid things with their guest...
- April 20, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- Tranchete said...
Hiya Jorge,
We are from Spain, unfortunately Spanish TV doesn't know how to make a good interview, specially at this show... we were expecting good questions or just questions!!!! What a pity!!! By the way, your spanish is great!!! Where do your family come from?
See you in the island ;)
Take care dude!
- April 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- JorgitoCaraPito said...
Hey! I hope u have had a great day in Spain. u speak better spanish that here we speak the english.
Regards of a namesake
- April 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Hello, Jorge.
First, I must say I look like a great actor and your actions have saved many Lost Chapters (like 5x13)
I have to apologize for any part of Spain for the terrible interview you have done in the TV show "El hormiguero" I found it pathetic that the interviewers will not have been able to show how you are.
They use to treat the foreigners like you. ¡This TV show sucks dude!
Excuse the bad time that you could pass.
- April 20, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- Zemo said...
Forget the interview of "El hormiguero". The Spaniards are not like that. I hope that in subsequent visits you can take off the head the image you've taken after the disastrous experience.
You're a good actor, great character and enjoying much of the fifth season. Thank you.
- April 20, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- Carlos said...
Hi Jorge!
As many people have told you, don't take with you the regretable image from Spain and spanish tv that "El hormiguero" has given to you. This interview must had been made by people that know what are they asking about. Sorry about that. Hope you had been treated right and had a good time in Madrid. See you tomorrow at the premiere of the pilot at the cinema. Thanks for your visit and don't forget to come back again before ths series finale!!
- April 20, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Marcos Rodríguez said...
Hola Jorge:
Lo primero quería decirte que me gusta muchísimo tu personaje en Lost. No me pierdo ningun capítulo y lo sigo desde que empezó. Supongo que será una experiencia fantástica el rodar una serie así.
Soy fan de Lost y fan de "Hugo". En mi blog tengo dos ilustraciones que hice de Lost. Tengo que hacer una tuya. Cuando la haga te lo diré para que la veas.
Sería un gran honor que vieras mi blog y me firmaras Jorge, me haría mucha ilusión.
Mi blog es: http://rodriguezmarcos.blogspot.com
Espero que te guste :)
Un abrazo desde España. Espero que tu estancia aquí haya sido agradable.
I see you in the Island!
- April 20, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- Deprofundis said...
Pablo Motos is a stupid guy. Sorry for the interview and I hope you enjoy a lot the rest of your visit to Spain.
We love you, Jorge!!
- April 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Javi said...
Hello Jorge. Me ha dado verguenza ajena la "entrevista" que te ha hecho Pablo Motos en el Hormiguero. Te merecias algo mejor. Deberias haberle partido el hielo seco en la cabeza. XD
- April 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- James Hamlet said...
Maybe it hasn´t been the best day for El Hormiguero, but I saw you a little bit short, you should have desinhibited yourself. A few days ago Hugh Jackman went too and the show was amazing, try to waths it on youtube. Greetings froms Spain, a shame you don´t come to Malaga, I bake the best carrot-cake around :) You may like it.
- April 20, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Topanga said...
Bonnie Hunt is by far THE best daytime talk show (and talk show host) on the tube today. I will be sure to watch.
- April 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Carolate said...
It's was not the best night in "El Hormiguero" and honestly, Pablo Motos is not the best showman but, you're great so I enjoyed the show.
I hope to see soon your pics from Spain.
Luv ya!
- April 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM
- BTTero said...
Hey Jorge, I just want to say sorry about your interview in "El hormiguero". You didn't seem too comfortable there. The interviewer doesn't know how to make an interesting and original interview so he usually talk about stupid meaningless things. I Hope you have a great stay in Spain.
- April 20, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- Enchanted said...
I wish I could see you on The Bonnie Hunt show but where I live I only receive ABC. Hopefully when I get the right antena I'll get more stations.
- April 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM
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- April 20, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- B said...
I've been taking a look at some of the posts (until 4th july 08), and i've laugh so much, that the only thing i can tell you is thank you for everything!!!
I will stay around!!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- eggfooyoung said...
just saw you on best week ever! funny stuff!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:15 PM
- Javier said...
Hi, Jorge! I'm sorry you had to put up with that TV crap called "El Hormiguero". They think they are very funny, but they are a bunch of shameless jackasses. Sometimes (very rarely) they do quite funny interviews, but obviously not today.
Despite that, I hope you spend good time here in Spain. BTW, this season you're being awesome!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:32 PM
- GrumpyDad08 said...
Hi Jorge,
great show tonight here in Spain, you did an awesome job mate, Pablo Motos and the rest of crew at El Hormiguero are tough to deal with and you did so great.
And don't be ashamed, your Spanish was excellent, way better than my troubled english
- April 20, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- GrumpyDad08 said...
OMG this country is full of freaks! just visit this to check it out.
These folks at "El Hormiguero" (literally The Anthill) are completely insane!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Jorge I´M SO SO SORRY por la entrevista que te han hecho en España,me da verguenza ser español.
Llevaba una semana esperando verte en la entrevista pero cuando ha empezado y te han dicho 3 preguntas que no importan nada,.nose......no preguntan nada de la serie,y no te hacen casi participar,un horror de experimento con hielo ,y peor lo siguiente.no pienses que los que te queremos como actor somos como los del programa,please.
y mira si son idiotas que no te preguntan sobre la mejor serie del mundo sino que despues el del experimento dice en voz alta que la ¨isla se mueve¨en el tiempo......
solo pedirte perdon en ¨nombre¨de todos los fans de Lost.
i´m Juan
- April 20, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- Kizuro said...
Hi Jorge!
I watched you tonight on "El Hormiguero" and man... I was really ashamed. The ""interview"" was... there's no words to describe it.
Sorry about that, not gonna watch that show again.
I hope you spend good time here in Spain anyway, and remember that there are a lot of people here who really love you and your work!
Keep being that nice ;D
- April 20, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Jorge I´M SO SO SORRY por la entrevista que te han hecho en España,me da verguenza ser español.
Llevaba una semana esperando verte en la entrevista pero cuando ha empezado y te han dicho 3 preguntas que no importan nada,.nose......no preguntan nada de la serie,y no te hacen casi participar,un horror de experimento con hielo ,y peor lo siguiente.no pienses que los que te queremos como actor somos como los del programa,please.
y mira si son idiotas que no te preguntan sobre la mejor serie del mundo sino que despues el del experimento dice en voz alta que la ¨isla se mueve¨en el tiempo......
solo pedirte perdon en ¨nombre¨de todos los fans de Lost.
i´m Juan
- April 20, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Txiribi said...
Hi Jorge.
Our apologies for such a horrible interview? on the Spanish TV program. You looked like WTF is this and I was really embarrased of the shit questions you had to listen to.
I would have put all that cold ice in both the scientist? and the presenter asses and kick them as hard as I could.
I hope you'll enjoy the visit anyway, duude.
- April 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM
- M said...
Well, I'm still home laid up with a broken toe.. not the worst kind of injury, but it's painful enough that I can't wear a shoe on my foot. I have enjoyed Bonnie's show when I've seen it, so I'm happy to tune in tomorrow to see you, Jorge. :)
- April 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM
- redelf said...
oOOOO yes I will actually be home!!
- April 20, 2009 at 9:17 PM
- Unknown said...
He visto la entrevista que te han hecho en "el Hormiguero". Realmente lamentable... Lo siento mucho. No es normal que el presentador acapare todo el protagonismo y haga semejantes (estúpidas) preguntas a la estrella invitada... Te merecías muchísimo más.
- April 20, 2009 at 9:35 PM
- Marc said...
Hola, Jorge. Te escribo desde España. Ayer vi la penosa entrevista que te hicieron en "El Hormiguero". Espero que no te lleves una mala imagen de este país por culpa de ese programa. NO saben haces entrevistas, sólo saben hacer el tonto y me producen vergüenza ajena.
Nada más, sólo decirte que estáis haciendo un gran trabajo en la serie y que espero que entiendas todo el mensaje (hablas muy bien español :D)
Un abrazo.
- April 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- david alandí said...
Hola Jorge me encantó verte ayer en el Hormiguero, eres muy cute! :D
Si que es verdad que el programa no es de entrevistas pero seguro que lo pasaste muy bien!!
A ver si haces algún post sobre España o sobre el programa!
- April 21, 2009 at 12:23 AM
- Luis said...
hey jorge!! man i saw the show "el hormiguero" last night, and dude, i cant believe you didnt walk out, that was just shameful, it was not funny at all, the only good thing about the show was you, am going to the cinema tonight in madrid to watch the lost pilot for the 20th time hehehe, but it will be worth it cos i heard u were going to be there, hopefully i get to meet ya!! keep up the good work!!!
- April 21, 2009 at 12:46 AM
- 2 meses... said...
Hey Jorge,
My name is Carmen Rosas, I'm from peru but I live in Spain. Yesterday I saw u in the Hormiguero program, but I think was a bad interview. As a fan of Lost I was expecting more than bad jokes that the showman did. But I think it was a bad day and the wrong program for you. And Pablo Motos, " the showman "is a better interviewer , not as I saw him yesterday. Spanish humor is best !don't think that they are a little strange. On the contrary spanish people I think has a different humor and one of the best in the world
I hope you take a different opinio from Spain or a better idea, spanish people love you, and I love you too.
Kisses and good luck for you. I will follow you as a fan
- April 21, 2009 at 1:07 AM
- Hugo said...
Hi Jorge.
Me llamo como tu en la serie: Hugo!
Espero que la impresión que te lleves de España sea buena.
La ¿entrevista? que te hicieron ayer en "El hormiguero" fue de todo menos entrevista. No saben hacer buenas preguntas.
Has de saber que somos aqui en España millones de fans los que agradecemos tu visita y nos encanta la serie.
Gracias por ser como eres!!
- April 21, 2009 at 1:31 AM
- Hugo said...
Hi Jorge.
I like your name in the series: Hugo!
I hope you take the impression of Spain is good.
The interview ¿? you did yesterday in the "ant" was anything but interview. Do not know how to make good questions.
You know that here in Spain we are millions of fans and we appreciate your visit and we love the series.
Thank you for being as you are!
- April 21, 2009 at 1:32 AM
- Esme said...
Hi, Jorge!
I saw in El Hormiguero last night. I hate that program, but I liked hearing you speak Spanish.
Sometimes you looked a little surprised by all the stupid things they were doing - and i don't really find them funny or anything.
Anyway, I'm loving the fifth season and I can't wait to see the sixth one! In fact, I'm watching all the episodes again!!
I think that your funniest line is: You've got some Artz on you (to Jack)
And I love when Hugo is surprised you say: "Duuuude..."
Hope you've enjoyed your stay in Spain and I hope you come back.
- April 21, 2009 at 2:09 AM
- Zar said...
Hi Jorge!!!
Perdona mi inglés...Apesta
Spanish fans loves you. Although the TV just to know make fool things, we appreciate your visit and hope you've enjoyed.
See you soon, dude!!!!
- April 21, 2009 at 2:15 AM
- vertigo said...
Hi Jorge!
Siento muchísimo que tuvieras que soportar tal semejante "entrevista" la de ayer en El Hormiguero. Todos los fans tuyos y de la serie estamos sintiendo vergüenza ajena. Te merecías algo muchísimo mejor.
Quédate con el cariño de tus seguidores españoles y con el jamón, la tortilla de patatas y el buen vino...jeje
Greetings from Alicante, Spain.
- April 21, 2009 at 2:49 AM
- Oscar Sáenz said...
Hola señor Garcia. Después de la mala entrevista de anoche he abierto un blog para defenderle y criticar al entrevistador Pablo Motos.
Gracias por aguantarle anoche.
Un saludo.
- April 21, 2009 at 2:53 AM
- Rekete said...
Hi Jorge!
Yo también siento muchísimo que tuvieras que soportar ese show espantoso, you know. Como fan de Lost que soy me dió verguenza ajena que te trajeran a este ridículo país a hacerte perder el tiempo. I'm so sorry.
- April 21, 2009 at 3:37 AM
- Álvaro said...
Hey Jorge!
I'm not gonna say anything new here... "El Hormiguero" sucks, the host doesn´t know how to interview Hollywood stars, and he is one of the lamest hosts I've ever seen. He thinks he's funny but he's not.
You gave the best of you and we apreciate that.
Such a pitty that your only appearance on spanish TV was that.
You rock man!
Greetings from Spain!
- April 21, 2009 at 3:45 AM
First of all,i wish congratulate you for your character and your interpretation.
I saw all the episodes of the season one,two,three and four.
I will see the fifth season on may on tv pay,on channel Fox.
I don´t like ``El hormiguero´´,and I don´t saw the interview but the free tv in Spain is like the Pablo motos´s show,very stupid magazines and some good series,the exception and a lot of call tv with a very expensive prizes.
again,congratulations for your interpretation and your blog
- April 21, 2009 at 4:04 AM
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- April 21, 2009 at 4:37 AM
- ThE OyGReS said...
Hola Jorge.
Ayer ví tu paso por El Hormiguero en España... sinceramente, ese programa no era el más adecuado para tu paso por España... mucho payaso suelto, you know...
Y felicidades por tu español!!! Fue lo mejor del programa.
PS: Yo echaré tus números de la lotería.
- April 21, 2009 at 4:42 AM
- Marichechu said...
Jorge!!! thank you for coming to Spain.It's great to have you here.
Jorge espero que disfrutes de tu visita a España y que hoy con los fans en el cine te lo hayas pasado mejor.
- April 21, 2009 at 5:07 AM
- Maribel said...
Last night I saw the worst interview on a tv show in my whole life... I am really sorry because you could had the chance to talk about Lost and about a lot of things related at, but those stupid guys had not a better idea than talking about spoilers and stupid irrevelant things. Sorry for my bad english. Love you Jorge, hope you'll forget "El hormiguero" as soon as you can :-)
- April 21, 2009 at 5:39 AM
- Sergio said...
Jorge, como español y como fan de lost te pido disculpas por esa horrible entrevista!
Espero que no creas que todos en españa tratamos tan mal a grandes actores como tu y a grandes series como lost.
Un abrazo!
- April 21, 2009 at 5:43 AM
- Das Mutter said...
Too fun...she is an awesome lady. Hope you enjoyed my stomping grounds! :)
- April 21, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- Jorge said...
Jorge, I'm sorry for the awful "interview" in "El hormiguero" yesterday.
Thousands of people in Spain love Lost, don't take this into account, please!
Best regards!
- April 21, 2009 at 6:12 AM
- Ferrus said...
"el hormiguero" is a tv-show horrible!!
- April 21, 2009 at 6:16 AM
- Unknown said...
Hola Jorge, soy español y llevaba un mes esperando con ansia verte en un programa español.
Al final todo ha sido una decepción por culpa de la panda de estupidos de "el hormiguero" que no han sabido aprovechar la estrella que tenian delante.
Solo te han hecho preguntas sin sentido y te han relegado a un segundo plano que no mereces tener.
Como fan tuyo y en representación de la gran mayoria de fans españoles de perdidos, te pido disculpas. Me gustaría ver una entrevista tuya de verdad en un programa español algun día.
Un abrazo.
- April 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM
- Mr.Floppy said...
Jorge, I'm so sorry for your "interview" last night.
I hope you'll enjoy this afternoon cinema premiere.
- April 21, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- mnbvcxz said...
The interview on el hormigero was the worst interview this program is shit and Pablo motos its the worst interviewer of Spain.. sorry for waste your time in this program.
- April 21, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- Lucia said...
Like other people, yesterday, I saw the interview on "El Hormiguero" and I was REALLY sad.
I can't understand how you could go a program like that, I think it is one of the worst programms ever. You deserve better things, not that.
I am very sorry that you was there whole hour. I'm so sorry.
- April 21, 2009 at 6:35 AM
- Jairo Velasco said...
Hello, Jorge lo que te han hecho en "El Hormiguero" ha sido horrible, pensaba que podían hacerlo al menos un poco bien, como con hugh jackman pero lo que ha pasado es que. TODOS LOS ESPAÑOLES FANS DE LOST SENTIMOS VERGÜENZA AJENA. PABLO MOTOS NO TIENE NI IDEA DE ENTREVISTAR y me di cuenta de los problemas de incomodidad que tenías with the microphone. And you have to speak in Spanish y sabemos que no fue lo mejor. Sorry. SORRY porque fuiste a pasarlo mal. Espero que tu impresión de España no haya sido mala, porque el programa si que ha sido. NI SIQUIERA TE DEJARON COLABORAR EN EL EXPERIMENTO. Por lo demás I want que sepas que you´re a big actor. You´re the best. Better, so better. than Pablo Motos Saludos desde Spain
- April 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM
- Jairo Velasco said...
Dude, TODOS LOS ESPAÑOLES ESTAMOS AVERGONZADOS Y MUY TRISTES, POR LA MALA ENTREVISTA Y EL MAL TRATO QUE TE DIERON. HACES MUCHOS KM PARA VENIR Y TE HACEN ESO. DEBERÍAS HABER IDO AL PROGRAMA BUENAFUENTE, ES MUCHO MEJOR, TE IBA GENIAL.
You have to go to the program "Buenafuente" is better than "El Hormiguero". Buenafuente is the best.
Take care.
- April 21, 2009 at 7:03 AM
- Allie said...
Ok... I saw you on "El hormiguero" yesterday, I didn't see you very comfortable because, I think, the interview was very very very bad... You are a funny guy, but the show didn't it, the show sucks !
Your spanish is awesome ! (My english not, I know it)
- April 21, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- Jairo Velasco said...
Esta e sla primera parte en Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3sKPEBWn4s&feature=related
Lee los coments la gente esta decepcionada totalmente.
- April 21, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- Moochiecat said...
Got my VCR set for Bonnie Hunt today!
(yes, a VCR...no Tivo, no VDP..or VPD...or whatever that is)
I'm taping Jorge old-school!
- April 21, 2009 at 7:29 AM
- eliqueang said...
Hey Jorge, you were great on Bonnie Hunt! Made my morning :)
- April 21, 2009 at 7:31 AM
- MissBeaHaven said...
Just watched your interview on Bonnie Hunts show. I am so impressed by you imagination. You could write a craft/living mag or book. I am thinking of using your osyter costume this Halloween.
- April 21, 2009 at 7:32 AM
- Jaye said...
So I didn't know that Bonnie Hunt even had a show! After fighting with my TIVO that refuses to record anything I might remotely want to watch, I think I might have won this battle and hopefully (fingers crossed) get to see you on the show this afternoon when I get home from work. Unless my TIVO decided to record Charles in Charge again.....
- April 21, 2009 at 7:35 AM
- fochinii said...
I have a problem and I think you can help me. Could you give me a cotact to Naveen Andrews, his email or something like that? I am his big fun. I like Lost very much. It is great. Of course I will understand if you can't give me this contact, because Naveen doesn't want to. Sorry, my english isn't probably very well but I am from Poland and I don't know it so much.
- April 21, 2009 at 7:46 AM
- katie! (: said...
just watched it!
hahaha (:
- April 21, 2009 at 7:50 AM
- Gus'Díaz said...
Hey Jorge! Whats up? Hey men do you have twitter?
- April 21, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- Jairo Velasco said...
Para que veas que sentimos vergüenza. En el programa de TV "se lo que hicisteis" de la cadena la sexta, han PARODIADO y mencionado lo mal que lo hicieron contigo. Eso demuestra que al menos no toda la Tv en España es igual.
They did wrong with you. Not all the TV in Spain is the same.
- April 21, 2009 at 8:05 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Jorge, my name is Carlos and I am from Spain. I would like you to forgive Pablo Motos, he is the Worst interviewer of our Country, and I bet that he has never seen LOST. I saw last night "el hormiguero" because of you, and I am never going to see it again because they wasted the best chance they have ever had to show Spaniards, your life, your ideas and your opinions.
So, forgive us, not all the spaniards are so stupids xD
- April 21, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Unknown said...
... People is just fucking DISSAPOINTED with the fucking program. Sorry dude.
I would have love too hearing your english: eyyyy dude ;)
- April 21, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- fibrowitch said...
You were so funny on Bonnie. I love that you make your own Halloween costumes. And you were willing to show those pictures to the world!!
- April 21, 2009 at 9:09 AM
- Ivan said...
Hey Jorge! I'm from Spain and I see ''El Hormiguero''. Pablo Motos no supo entrevistar y se te veia incomodo hablando Spanish, but you're the best actor. Espero que te haya gustado Madrid y España. Saludos. :)
- April 21, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- cathescomicz said...
Sure, didya make it to Pizzaria uno?? that'd be the best way to start the Bonnie Hunt show. ;)
- April 21, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Leah said...
You did a great job on Bonnie! You are a very personal dude, and I liked that you talked about your gardening and creative genes...
- April 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- AMENMom said...
Bravo--you and Bonnie were great. You should have a gardening show!
- April 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Ginny said...
You looked great on the show today!
- April 21, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- marcia said...
Just saw your interview on the Bonnie Hunt show at Darkufo...
It was awesome! You were so relaxed, funny and looked great.
To the Spanish Lost Fans fellows... last time Matthew Fox came to France he was the guest of one of the most popular shows here... What a fiasco. The interviewer was awful, had never watched Lost and made all sort of embarassing questions ever, like did he picked on his nose on red traffic light, did he change his underwear everyday, did he fart and so on... poor Matthew (although he played the game fine). I felt sorry for him. What a waste.
So then you see that unfortunatelly this kind of dreadful interviewers exist everywhere...
- April 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM
- thoughts and ramblings said...
I saw the show. AWESOME. :) I was so proud!
- April 21, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Jules said...
Great to see you on the show! You're so cute in person! And because of you I bought Topsy Turvys some time back and only recently planted my veggies in them. Hope they turn out better than yours did.
- April 21, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- Crank said...
Damn. I was gonna post this yesterday, but our area lost power as I was working on it (and about three other things on here).
Anyway, a bunch of Jorge's episodes of Becker are coming up on WGN in various market. Check his imdb page for the episodes you wanna look for and then find the episodes here:
I, for one don't think I ever saw him on there. I watched Becker for a while and always liked it. I have my Tivo setup to catch most of his upcoming ep's,. Probably missed at least one while our power was out for about 18 hours.
- April 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- whimsymoon said...
I saw a bit of the interview! You were wonderful! I love the fishtank costume!!! You are just awesome!
- April 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- whimsymoon said...
I saw a bit of the interview! You were wonderful! I love the fishtank costume!!! You are just awesome!
- April 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Christina Bauer said...
You were fabulous on Bonnie tonight! I'm always happy to see your face!
- April 21, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Christina Bauer said...
You were fabulous on Bonnie tonight! You always make me smile, Jorge!
- April 21, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Todd said...
Great interview Jorge!!! Had me laughing. Love the "No, its a new toilet seat Bonnie" LOL
- April 22, 2009 at 6:28 AM
- odioapablomotos said...
Hola Jorge:
Lo primero gracias por firmarme la figura de Hurley a la salida del programa, me fui a casa sonriendo sin parar.
Y me sumo a todas las disculpas por la bochornosa actuación de pablo motos, para mandarle a una isla, si, pero desierta jejejeje
Lo dicho un abrazo y esperamos qué vuelvas porqué aqui se te aprecia mucho...Namasté
- April 22, 2009 at 7:37 AM
- Jodi said...
Saw it...and loved it. I was laughing when she showed the Halloween costumes..adorable! Very creative with they oyster. LOL @ the part about the toilet seat being new. You crack me up!
I probably wouldn't be able to keep a straight face with you either...
- April 26, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- Laurie said...
I`m just a tad late in replying :) I watched! You were great!!
Funny enough I was in Walmart a week ago and saw those funky planter things you use for your tomatos I bought one.. now if only I knew what to do with it lol
Take care
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Also impressive has been the way in which a substance-free "review" of Prothero's new book (God Is Not One) has been picked up and repeated by everyone from the Phoenix Metromix to the Mercury News to the Washington Examiner to the Republic (of Columbus, Indiana) to the Stamford Advocate (subscription required) to the West Virginia Gazette (cached) to SFGate.com (cached), and many more (this puff-piece was originally filed by veteran, and now semi-retired, AP reporter Carl Hartman).
Prothero has also been interviewed or otherwise featured on NPR and a number of other print, broadcast, and online media outlets, and he is scheduled to appear on the
Every time the ubiquitous author of God Is Not One opens his mouth or puts his thoughts in writing these days he mindlessly intones his unchanging mantra: "all religions are not the same." Like some wind-up political hack campaigning for an open city-council seat, he is never off message.
But who, if anyone, has ever claimed that "all religions are the same"?? Who, if anyone, is Stephen Prothero actually arguing against?
Well, according to Prothero: (1) the "dangerous" concept of religious sameness originated with the Enlightenment philosopher, artist and poet William Blake, and (2) the most "dangerous" contemporary proponent of the idea is religion scholar Huston Smith (whose 91st birthday is coming at the end of this month).
The trouble, though, is that neither Blake nor Smith are guilty of anything like the kind of hamfisted religious homogenization that Prothero imputes to them.
Here is what Huston Smith actually says in his classic The World's Religions:
What a strange fellowship this is, the God-seekers in every land, lifting up their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to the God of all life. How does it sound from above? Like bedlam, or do these strains blend in strange, ethereal harmony? Does one faith carry the lead, or do the parts share in counterpoint and antiphony where not in full-throated chorus?Huston Smith does refer to "universal principles" that are to be found in "every religion", and it is important to note that when he does so he directly ties his conception of religious universalism to our common humanity ("what is generically human in us all").
We cannot know. All we can do is try to listen carefully and with full attention to each voice in turn as it addresses the divine . . . .
The book does not attempt to give a rounded view of the religions considered, for each hosts differences that are too numerous to be delineated in a single chapter. One need only think of Christendom. Eastern Orthodox Christians worship in ornate cathedrals, while Quakers consider even steeples desecrations. There are Christian mystics and Christians who reject mysticism. There are Christian Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Unitarians . . . .
Every religion mixes universal principles with local peculiarities. The former, when lifted out and made clear, speak to what is generically human in us all. The latter, rich compounds of rites and legends, are not easy for outsiders to comprehend. It is one of the illusions of rationalism that the universal principles of religion are more important than the rites and rituals that feed them; to make that claim is like contending that the branches and leaves of a tree are more important that the roots from which they grow.
[Huston Smith, The World's Religions, pp. 2-3]
In the book's chapter on Hinduism, Smith gives a specific example of universalism when he talks about Tantra and sexuality:
Tantra's teachings about sex are neither titillating nor bizarre: they are universal. Sex is so important -- after all, it keeps life going -- that it must be linked quite directly with God. It is the divine Eros of Hesiod, celebrated in Plato's Phaedrus and in some way by every people. Even this, though, is too mild. Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany. But with this proviso: It is such when joined to love. When two people who are passionately, even madly -- Plato's divine madness -- in love; when each wants most to receive what the other most wants to give; -- at the moment of their mutual climax it is impossible to say whether the experience is more physical or spiritual, or whether they sense themselves as two or as one. The moment is ecstatic because at that moment they stand outside -- ex, out; stasis, standing -- themselves in the melded oneness of the Absolute.Not to put too fine a point on it, but Prothero never addresses what Huston Smith actually says. Rather he repeats over and over and over again the claim that Smith and others ignore all substantive differences between religions. As the above quotes demonstrate: that is a lie.
[p. 141]
Prothero also stoops to bald-faced lying when it comes to William Blake, whose 250 word poem, All Religions Are One, was the inspiration for the title of Prothero's new book. But in that brief work, Blake twice repeats that "all men are alike (though infinitely various)," and makes it clear that both the commonality and the variability of the human species are reflected in human religion.
Prothero has chosen one of the lowest paths that any scholar can take: the Straw Man argument. Rather than honestly engage with those he claims to disagree with, Prothero only engages with the voices in his own head. Perhaps it is the case that as a young undergraduate he misunderstood some of his assigned reading. And now he is going forth and sharing his misunderstandings with the world.
But the most troubling aspect of all this is not the intellectual shoddiness of Prothero's theorizing about religious difference/sameness. Rather, it is the fact that the idea of religious universalism, as is made clear in both Blake and Smith, has always been inextricably intertwined with the fundamental principle of human equality. Prothero's specious argument that "all religions are not the same" is identical to the argument of the segregationist who insists on "separate but equal", or the misogynist who perverts "la différence" into a justification for sexism. This dark side of Prothero's theory of anti-universalism will be addressed in a future post coming soon to a web browser near you.
Previous posts from this blog on Stephen Prothero:
How Stephen Prothero mangles the economics-politics-religion analogy
The basis of universal spirituality
Contra Prothero

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Straton development kit
The straton development kit for POWERLINK is a package for OEMs creating a new product range base on the Linux, QNX or VxWorks operating system. The straton runtime is a basic component from COPALP enabling unlimited possibilities for the OEMs as for end-users. The OEMs beneficiate of a large range of supported communication protocols (IEC61850, IEC61400, IEC60870, DNP3, POWERLINK), the integration of their hardware specific features and an integrated softPLC engine. The end-users can easily create and configure its application using the universal straton Integrated Development Environment that includes editors for the IEC61131-3 language, online debugging tools, a soft scope, fieldbus configuration tool, POWERLINK configuration and a B&R IOs configuration tool.
- Complete test and evaluation system
- Evaluate performance and function
- Test system for developing your own devices
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The Kit is suitable for development and test laboratories as well as for training purposes. It can be used to build up a complete communication system for all Real-Time Ethernet systems. With the included netANALYZER, the performance and function of individual systems or system components, that operate according to Ethernet II IEEE 802.3 specification or corresponding bus systems, can be displayed.
netX 6/51/52/100/500
The netX SoC architecture is designed from the ground up for the highest demands on flexibility, determinism and performance in terms of multi-protocol capability and low latency for short cycle times. The heterogeneous multi-core architecture features an ARM processor core, coupled with a xC (flexible communication) subsystem and a feature-rich set of on-chip peripherals for varieties of industrial applications.
The netX family spans a broad portfolio of network controllers for industrial markets.
The network access controller is based upon the successful netX family and intended for use by customers who wish to fully control and run their software protocol stack at the host site. The netX 6 is the ideal companion chip for industry-proven embedded processors to enable access to multi-protocol network features for real-time control industrial communications.
Hilscher offers customers a scalable family of netX products for slave type applications. The higher end is represented by the netX 51 which provides an external memory interface with a high-performance, multi-channel and multi-cache controller suitable for the development of cost-sensitive stand-alone applications. The netX 52 is suited for customer designs that require a multiprotocol-capable companion chip solution with host interface that fully carries out the real-time control communication tasks for industrial Ethernet. At the lower end is the netX 10 with one xC channel that commercially addresses traditional fieldbus technologies.
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netJACK – POWERLINK as Exchangeable Module
netJACK is a complete network interface as closed IP 40 module. It is based on netX technology and can be mounted via slide-in mechanism without tools at any point of the delivery chain. Data exchange to the host is carried out via PCI Express Bus or traditional Dual-Port Memory. All major Real-Time Ethernet protocols are supported as Master or Slave on a single hardware.
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icPLINK openPOWERLINK for QNX
BV provides a software solution for the implementation for the implementation of the Ethernet POWERLINK communication protocol running on the real-time operating system QNX.
The communication stack is based on the open source package "openPOWERLINK". The Ethernet communication can be performed with help of the QNX network driver for standard applications. As an option, IBV provides optimized link layer drivers (e. g. for TI Sitara) to achieve shorter cycle times and lower CPU load.
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More information can be found on the product page.
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openCONFIGURATOR is an open-source configuration tool for easy setup, configuration and maintenance of any POWERLINK network. openCONFIGURATOR ideally complements openPOWERLINK, the open source POWERLINK protocol stack for master and slave. Please visit sourceforge.net/projects/openconf/ to download the binary/source versions.
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One of the services the Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) is providing to its members and to the community consists of continuously monitored systems in the OSADL QA Farm. In addition to performance and determinism data, external communication lines are tested such as a bi-directional communication between POWERLINK peers. The resulting round-trip time is displayed continuously at the OSADL website as shown in the picture. The result clearly indicates that the jitter of the 500 μs cycle interval never exceeds 30 μs and thus fulfills most industrial requirements. A description of the test set-up is given at the QA Farm overview.
POWERLINK EDS Editor
The POWERLINK EDS-Editor is a tool for the rapid and cost-saving creation of POWERLINK device description files (also know as EDS files) (new XML format). Furthermore it creates a detailed documentation of the parameters in HTML.
With the POWERLINK EDS-Editor a tool is available, which frees the developer from error-prone and repetitive tasks. It guarantees the consistency of the Electronic Data Sheet and the documentation. By default the POWERLINK communication profile is delivered with the tool. In addition to the POWERLINK specific communication database other databases are provided for the CANopen device profiles DS 401, DSP 402, DSP 406 and DSP 417. The POWERLINK EDS-Editor eases the first step into the POWERLINK protocol and device development is accelerated.
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POWERLINK Protocol Stack
The POWERLINK Library is based on the EPL communication profile. It provides the most important services specified therein. It is completely written in ANSI-C and can be compiled with every ANSI-C compliant compiler. Depending on the required scope of functionality the POWERLINK Library is available in different expansion stages. With the standard Controlled Node version of the POWERLINK Library all services are provided for develop ment of full-featured CN devices. The functionality of the Managing Node as well as the convenient node monitoring functionality is provided by a different product. All hardware specific parts are decoupled from the POWERLINK protocol stack through a defined driver interface. The development process is supported by the POWERLINK Design Tool.
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POWERLINK Hub VHDL Code
The POWERLINK hub from port is a generic hub for Xilinx FPGAs and PLDs written in VHDL. The propagation delay of 390 ns is far inferior to the time, which is claimed in the IEEE 802.3 standard. The 3-port hub features two external and one internal interface. The number of PHY ports can be expanded easily. By integrating the hub in an POWERLINK device, it can be simply integrated in POWERLINK networks with a daisy chain. An external hub is not required and extensive cabling is not applicable. In conjunction with port's POWERLINK MAC, a highly optimized VHDL POWERLINK MAC controller for Xilinx-FPGAs and PLDs, a fast connection to your POWERLINK network is reached. This results in fast response times of Controlled Nodes.
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POWERLINK Design Tool (EDT)
The POWERLINK Design Tool is a tool for the rapid and cost-saving development of POWERLINK applications or devices. It administers device databases, from which an object dictionary and an initialization function in C-code, an Electronic Data Sheet (XML format) and the documentation are produced automatically. Furthermore it simplifies the configuration of the EPL Library and of the POWERLINK Driver Packages. In addition to the POWERLINK specific communication database other databases are provided for the CANopen device profiles DS 401, DSP 402, DSP 406 and DSP 417. The object dictionary produced by the POWERLINK Design Tool supports numerous options of the POWERLINK Library from port, e.g. segmented structuring. The POWERLINK Design Tool eases the first step into the POWERLINK protocol and device development is accelerated.
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Development Services
port GmbH has been active in the field of development services since its foundation in 1990. A great number of our products are the result of such development projects and customer requirements. We would like to offer you to profit from our know-how in communication protocols and their application:
- software development for embedded systems
- consulting services to choose appropriate components and design
- integration of Ethernet communications into products, based on processors or recent FPGA technology with independent IP cores
- consulting services for product development and system design
- trainings on our products and the different communication protocols
POWERLINK PE2MAC IP Core for FPGAs
The POWERLINK Enhaced Ethernet MAC Controller (PE2MAC) developed by port is a special MAC controller optimized for Ethernet POWERLINK for FPGAs.
Through several special transmit buffers and the possibility to respond automatically to POWERLINK frames by hardware, extremely short response times are reached. Special receive filters allow pre-filtering of POWERLINK messages by the MAC controller and releases the software from this tasks. These filters support the pre-selection of Ethernet frames, that are needed by the processing software. Based on the used settings only those frames that match the filters are stored in the receive buffers. This mechanism releases the CPU from processing frames not relevant for the software.
Ethernet POWERLINK Device for Altera FPGA
Ethernet POWERLINK Integration into Field Devices
IP Core and Protocol Software have been adapted to implement an Ethernet POWERLINK communciation based on a hardware supporting an Ethernet interface and an Altera FPGA. This solution provides uniform interfaces for supporting additional Industrial Ethernet protocols at a later stage.
The Ethernet POWERLINK firmware comes ready to integrate and allows the flexible implementation of additional Industrial Ethernet functionality at any time. Additional protocols can be added upon special request. The IP Cores provide two independent Ethernet interfaces to support different topologies according to the relevant Industrial Ethernet standard. This solution is already implemented by our customers. Further information
- Maximum Security of Investment Through Universal Firmware
- Short Time-to-market Through Timesaving Integration
- Functional Competitive Advantages Through Variable Integration into the IT World
Integration Services
Softing was founded in 1979 and has many years of experience in the field of integration services, which we offer in the following areas:
- Development of customer-specific hardware components and embedded systems solutions for POWERLINK
- POWERLINK protocol implementation via POWERLINK protocol stack or IP core
- Consulting services to meet customers requirements in product development and system design
- Integration of Ethernet communications into products, based on processors or recent FPGA technology with independent IP cores
Universal Module for Integrating POWERLINK and other Industrial Ethernet Protocols
The FPGA RTEM CIII consists of FPGA-based hardware with uniform software interface for integrating Real-Time Ethernet (RTE) protocols, e.g. POWERLINK into field devices. This communication module meets the requirements of all Industrial Ethernet technologies. Advantages are:
- Maximum Security of Investment through Universal Hardware
- Short Time-to-Market through Time-Saving Integration
- Functional Competitive Advantages through Variable Integration into the IT World
In addition to the universal hardware, the FPGA RTEM CIII features a uniform software interface for the current standard solutions. The Simple-Device-Application-Interface (SDAI) is an efficient protocol abstraction layer that is designed to offer a single application interface for the standard solutions helping to significantly speed-up device integration and time-to-market, while simplifying support and maintenance. The SDAI is designed to support single and dual processor systems.
Furthermore, the Transparent IT Channel provides access to embedded IT applications through the same communication interface and operates simultaneously to the real-time communication. These applications, e.g. web server, email, or even customer specific services, can run either on the module or directly in the device.
- Isochronous real-time data exchange with cycle times up to 400 µs and fast response times ≤ 3 µs
- "Single chip"-solution for POWERLINK Controlled Nodes based on an Altera Cyclone III FPGA
- Host connection via shared memory interface or serial port
- Delivery including Host API and demo application
- Integrated 2-port hub with RJ45 connectors
- Support of various other Industrial Ethernet protocols
Ethernet-MAC and US
The SPEAr Net Evaluation Board lets you evaluate STMicroelectronics' SPEAR-07-NC03, a smart Communication Controller for Universal Serial Bus (USB) and Ethernet communications (Starter kit order code: STEVAL-SPEARNET). The SPEAR-07-NC03 enables the sharing of full speed USB host, IEEE1284 or Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) peripherals within an Ethernet system.
This document explains how to easily get started on developing applications for an Ethernet system that uses various communication interfaces. The 12 V AC/ DC board supply voltage provides 1.8 V, 3.3 V and 5.0 V output voltage ranges. 14-pin and 20-pin JTAG connectors makes developing your applications easier. For information on the SPEAr Net operating system, software d. and application development, refer to UM0195.
The STR910 evaluation board (STR910-EVAL) is a complete development platform for the STMicroelectronics' ARM® core-based STR91xF. Based on the ARM966ES core, the STR91xF includes Pre-fetch Queue and Branch cache, full speed USB 2.0 compatible port, Ethernet 100/10 interface, Embedded MAC, CAN 2.0B compliant interface, a large Dual Bank Flash memory, a large SRAM and many peripherals.
It includes an STR910F microcontroller and preloaded demonstration software and a full range of hardware features to help you evaluate device peripherals (Motor control, IrDA, USB, Ethernet, CAN, … etc.) and develop your own applications. Extension headers make it possible to easily connect a daughter board or wrapping board for your specific application.
User manual code: UM0174
POWERLINK Protocol Stack Source Code
The SYS TEC POWERLINK Protocol Stack was designed under Real-Time aspects as a modular software component.The key features are:
- Data link layer and N
- MT state machine for Controlled and Managing Nodes
- Configuration Manager
- SDO via UDP and EPL ASnd frames
- Dynamic PDO mapping
- User-configurable object dictionary
- Implemented in plain ANSI C
- Modular software structure for simple portability to different target platforms (with and without operating system)
- Event driven communication abstraction layer
- Common API to application programAdditionally, we offer an EPL Starter Kit consisting of a development board with Freescale Coldfire processor, Linux BSP and an evaluation version of the ETHERNET POWERLINK Protocol Stack.
With their AM335x microprocessor family, Texas Instruments have announced an important step toward easier design of industrial automation applications through higher integration of functionality for that market, including real-time communication via POWERLINK. This microprocessor family is cost-effective enough for use in generic I/O devices and has the power and graphics support required in controlling and HMI systems.What makes it most attractive for industrial control designs is its integrated support for Industrial Ethernet. It features both master and slave functionality for POWERLINK. Communication is performed by the integrated Programmable Real-time Unit (PRU), utilizing the Open Source POWERLINK stack. This guarantees POWERLINK's uncompromised real-time properties without charging the CPU with the extra load.
16-core xCORE-Analog multicore microcontroller (XS1-A16-128)
XMOS xCORE-Analog devices provide low latency, deterministic processing with integrated analog peripherals. The xCORE DSP instructions can be utilized for filtering and conditioning the data, before sharing via a wide range of software-defined interfaces. Supporting power management functionality such as deep sleep, power consumption can be reduced to just 500uW.
Development Services
The Institute of Embedded Systems is the one-stop shop for development and support for the implementation of Real-Time Ethernet communication protocols, specifically ETHERNET POWERLINK.
We offer our project partners access to RTE stacks, porting services, acceleration technology, hardware and software design services as well as general consulting and training services.
Our success stories include:
- Founding member of the ETHERNET POWERLINK Standardization Group
- First ETHERNET POWERLINK software stacks
- First ETHERNET POWERLINK development kits
- First ETHERNET POWERLINK timing analyzer
- First ETHERNET POWERLINK hardware acceleration technology
- First ETHERNET POWERLINK redundant node
MultiNet is a standard PCI card used for the evaluation, validation and measurements on Real-Time Ethernet (RTE) networks and especially suited for POWERLINK. It boasts 3 Ethernet connections, jumpered as either standard Ethernet connections or passive-sniffer allowing the user to unobtrusively sniff RTE networks. A FPGA contains appropriate technology ranging from a simple hub right through to RTE accelerator technology, for instance EPL Express, whilst the local ARM-Processor handles all RTE protocols. MultiNet is one of a series of licensable technologies developed by the Institute of Embedded Systems enabling an easy entry into the exciting RTE market.
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MultiNet is a standard PCI card used for the evaluation, validation and measurements on Real-Time Ethernet (RTE) networks and especially suited for POWERLINK. It boasts 3 Ethernet connections, jumpered as either standard Ethernet connections or passive-sniffer allowing the user to unobtrusively sniff RTE networks. A FPGA contains appropriate technology ranging from a simple hub right through to RTE accelerator technology, for instance EPL Express, whilst the local ARM-Processor handles all RTE protocols. MultiNet is one of a series of licensable technologies developed by the Institute of Embedded Systems enabling an easy entry into the exciting RTE market.
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High Resolution Timing Analyser
The High Resolution Timing Analyser (HRTA) is a unique device for making measurements on Ethernet networks and optimized for Real-Time Ethernet protocols (RTE). With a resolution of 20 ns it is possible to timestamp every packet on the wire. The physical interfaces are passive, meaning the HRTA can be inserted between two devices without using a hub/switch. It is possible to trigger on specific packets and even external digital inputs. The device can be used in both the laboratory and in the field.
- 2x 10/100 Mbps monitoring (Ethernet-) interfaces
- additional 10/100 Mbps (Ethernet-) interface for measurement functions
- 1x 10/100 Mbps (Ethernet-) interface for control functions
- 8x digital in, 4x digital out
- 20ns resolution
The HRTA technology is available for licensing.
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POWERLINK Express
POWERLINK Express is the collective name for a number of POWERLINK building blocks implemented in VHDL for synthesis in an FPGA of your choice. Functionalities include• DLL state machine• PDO mapping• Flying Managing Node implementation• Redundant media arbitration• Multi-port hub• PDO monitoring and event generationAll high-performance POWERLINK applications use some form of hardware acceleration. This is because they require• Fast and invariable cycle and response times• Lowest possible load on system controller• Event driven applications• Functionalities not efficiently implementable in software• Customizable and configurable hardware• Multiple hubs• Redundancy solutions


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Centinela Valley schools chief amassed $663,000 in compensation in 2013
This was the first in a series of stories on the big-money politics of a high-poverty, low-performing school district in Los Angeles County. The series won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. To view a landing page with links to the entire series and infographics, click here.
Originally published on Feb. 8, 2014
The superintendent of the Centinela Valley high school district negotiated a contract so loaded with out-of-the-ordinary perks that he managed to amass more than $663,000 in total compensation last year.
Documents obtained by the Daily Breeze from the Los Angeles County Office of Education show that although Jose Fernandez had a base pay of $271,000 in the 2013 calendar year, his other benefits amounted to nearly $400,000.
On top of that, the district just over a year ago provided Fernandez with a $910,000 loan at 2 percent interest to buy a house in affluent Ladera Heights.
Though Centinela is made up of just three comprehensive high schools and a continuation school in Hawthorne and Lawndale, Fernandez's payout in 2013 more than doubled that of his peers in larger neighboring South Bay districts.
His total compensation even eclipsed that of John Deasy, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second-largest school system. Deasy's base salary is $330,000 this school year and his gross compensation is just shy of $390,000, according to the LAUSD. But the district enrolls more than 650,000 students while Centinela Valley serves about 6,600.
"That's obscene," said Sandra Goins, executive director of South Bay United Teachers, the umbrella union for teachers in the Centinela Valley, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach and Palos Verdes Peninsula school districts. "That places him above the president of the United States — the leader of the free world."
(The overall compensation package for President Barack Obama — salary, benefits, plus other perks — amounts to $569,000 annually.)
Fernandez, 54, was hired in January 2008 to take over a district suffering from lagging student test scores as it teetered on the brink of financial ruin. He had worked in the district since 1999, serving as an assistant superintendent of business and executive director of its adult school.
A former Inglewood city councilman, he took the top job at Centinela Valley during a tumultuous time. His predecessor, Cheryl White, had just been fired, and the district was fiscally insolvent. Fernandez was viewed as a money-minded leader.
After serving nearly a year as the interim superintendent, Fernandez was promoted to permanent status in late 2008 on a narrow 3-2 vote. With the new title came a 19-month contract with a base salary of about $163,000, plus allowances.
As Fernandez moved to shake up the district and steer it back toward financial stability, school board members rewarded him with a generous contract in 2009. Though his base pay increased only slightly to $198,000, a careful read of the deal reveals some striking fringe benefits:
• An annual raise of 9 percent.
• A relatively short work year of 215 days, compared to as many as 245 days worked by superintendents of other school districts.
• The right to be paid for days worked beyond the contracted work year of 215 days.
• A clause allowing him to be reimbursed by the district for purchasing "air time," or up to five years of service to add to the number of years he actually worked, so as to boost his lifetime pension.
• A stipulation that he can only be fired by a supermajority of the board (four of five members).
• The ability to cash out vacation pay.
• An option to take a low-interest loan from the school district to purchase a home.
Fernandez exercised the loan option a little more than a year ago, using it to buy the two-story, four-bedroom home in Ladera Heights, one of the more expensive ZIP codes in Los Angeles County. He has 40 years to pay it off, at an interest rate of just 2 percent.
"That's a super good deal," according to Steve Murillo, owner of First Manhattan Mortgage and Realtors in Manhattan Beach. Murillo noted that the vast majority of home loans must be paid off in 30 years; interest rates in the current market now hover in the low- to mid-4 percent range.
"It's like they are giving him free money," he added.
The revelations about Fernandez's compensation package come at a time when State Controller John Chiang is calling for more transparency among California school districts about superintendent salaries. Last week, he began asking every public school district for compensation documents, so they can be posted on his website at www.sco.ca.gov.
Chiang has been putting together a user-friendly database listing the salary and benefits of California public employees ever since the scandal in the tiny city of Bell, where city leaders hid their exorbitant pay packages from the public. City Manager Robert Rizzo was collecting a salary of nearly $800,000, part of an annual compensation package worth $1.5 million.
Rizzo, the former assistant city manager and six other Bell officials have been convicted of corruption charges. He is currently serving 10 to 12 years in prison.
"After the city of Bell demonstrated how the absence of transparency and accountability can breed fiscal mismanagement, my office endeavored to create a one-stop resource detailing compensation data for every public official and employee," Chiang wrote in a letter sent to every public school district on Monday.
Fernandez declined to be interviewed for this story, saying, through a spokesman, that he was loath to have to defend earning what he is legally entitled to by contract.
But his supporters point out that he has brought big improvements to a district that, prior to his arrival in 2008, was on the verge of bankruptcy, not to mention a state takeover.
"We were one payroll away from being taken over," said Bob Cox, the district's assistant superintendent of human resources. "This really was a scary place."
Under Fernandez's tenure, test scores in the largely low-income district — once among the lowest in the county — have risen, especially at two struggling high schools, Hawthorne and Leuzinger. (They've dipped at Lawndale High.) Also, major facility upgrades are either underway or finished at all three campuses, thanks to a pair of voter-approved bonds netting nearly $100 million each.
In addition, Fernandez played a key role in the November 2012 passage of a parcel tax that will bolster the district's general-fund revenues of about $50 million by $4.6 million for each of the next dozen years.
"He's a great leader," said board President Maritza Molina, a 2004 alumnus of Lawndale High who was elected to the board in 2009, just months after graduating with her bachelor's degree from UC Santa Barbara. "He is very transparent with the board."
The school board has been so pleased with Fernandez's leadership that it unanimously extended his lucrative contract for another four years in 2012.
Pressed about specifics in the contract, Molina instructed a reporter to discuss details with Michael Simidjian, an attorney working for the district on a contract basis.
The Daily Breeze also called the three other board members who voted for Fernandez's 2009 contract. Two of them — Rocio Pizano and Hugo Rojas — did not return calls. The third, Gloria Ramos, returned the call but declined to comment.
Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, said it isn't illegal for a school superintendent — or any government official — to earn a high salary.
"Public officials can make high salaries if an elected board approves it in an open meeting," she said.
Julie White, a consultant with the Association of California School Administrators, said she hasn't come across so hefty a pay package in California. "That's a large amount of money," she said.
But she said it isn't necessarily unusual for superintendent contracts to include housing assistance. That said, housing perks often raise eyebrows in the K-12 realm. In 2008, then-LAUSD Superintendent David Brewer drew fire for his $3,000-a-month housing stipend, part of a compensation package that totaled $381,000.
It isn't entirely clear how Fernandez's 2013 total payout breaks down. Some lucrative perks in his contract would be difficult for a layperson to spot. For example, one clause reads: "The District shall pay the employee portion of the Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) contribution and shall Compensate Superintendent for any service credit purchased."
Though it sounds innocuous, that clause fattened his 2013 compensation by a six-figure sum that exceeds the entire annual salaries of many superintendents. About $215,000 of that came from the district's one-time reimbursement to him for purchasing the service credit known as "air time," said Simidjian, who works for the firm Dannis Wolliver Kelley.
Although air-time benefits vanished on Jan. 1, 2013, as a result of statewide pension reform, officials in Centinela Valley say Fernandez purchased his years out of pocket before then, and was reimbursed by the school district during the 2013 calendar year.
Another roughly $20,000 came from how the district covers Fernandez's annual contribution to the state's retirement system.
One obscure benefit pertains to the 215-day work year, which payroll experts say is short. It is more common to work 225; Deasy's LAUSD work year spans 249 days.
"Two hundred and 15 days means that he doesn't have to work nine weeks," said a retired member of the California Association of School Business Officials, who is highly regarded as an expert on legal school payroll matters but asked that his name not be used. "If you get a full annual salary, and there's nine weeks a year that you don't have to work, you certainly don't need to take 30 days of vacation."
The short work year essentially encourages Fernandez to cash in much or all of his vacation time at the end of the year. His contract gives him 30 days of vacation annually.
In 2013, Fernandez did this to the tune of about $25,000, Simidjian said.
The short work year also increases his daily rate of pay. This affects yet another arcane-but-important provision in Centinela: The right for the superintendent to be paid for days worked beyond the contracted work year. In 2013, this contract provision beefed up Fernandez's bottom line by about $50,000, Simidjian said.
Even if some of these expenses are one-time payments, Fernandez's gross compensation has risen year after year since 2010, when it was $286,290. That amount ballooned to $392,000 in 2011, then to $403,000 in 2012 and $663,000 last year, according to county Office of Education, which calculates pay and compensation in calendar rather than fiscal years. In 2014, Fernandez's total compensation is expected to return to the $400,000s.
Meanwhile, teachers in the Centinela Valley Union High School District, which serves communities where the median household income ranges from $33,000 to $49,000, have received two raises since 2006-07 — one for 1.75 percent in 2011, and the second for 1 percent at the beginning of this school year.
Jack Foreman, the Centinela Valley teachers union president, said the pay range for teachers in the district hovers around the county average, but the benefits package is among the least generous in the county.
"It really makes me feel sick," he said of Fernandez's compensation. "I think the message is that the district doesn't put a very high value on its teachers."
In an effort to make a fair comparison, the Daily Breeze obtained the same W-2 documents from the county for the superintendents of the Torrance, Redondo Beach and Palos Verdes Peninsula unified school districts. Total 2013 compensation amounted to $257,804 for George Mannon of Torrance Unified, $251,032 for Steven Keller of Redondo Beach Unified and $227,229 for Walker Williams of Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified.
As for Fernandez's compensation package, the retired school finance expert, who helped the Daily Breeze deconstruct the contract, said he has never come across a deal like this during his 29 years in the business.
"I'm just appalled — it's horrible," he said. "It's such a rip-off. There are some similarities to Bell, you might say. And the problem is, since most of it is legal, who can do anything about it?"


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James Levine and Plácido Domingo add yet another chapter to their legendary Met collaboration with this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy based on Friedrich Schiller's novel Intrigue and Love. The young maiden Luisa loves Rodolfo, unaware that he is actually the son of the local lord. An unscrupulous rival for her affections tells her father of Rodolfo's true identity, turning the old man against him. Jealousy, suspicion, and betrayal tear the lovers apart, but Luisa remains loyal to her father to the last. In the first Met performances of the opera in more than ten years, Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role opposite Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo, with Domingo as Luisa's stern-yet-loving father.


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For our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29).
Fire was considered by certain of the ancient pantheistic philosophers to have been the primeval element out of which all things had evolved, and this same myth is promulgated today by evolutionary cosmogonists in the form of their Big Bang theory. The fact is, however, that fire is a creation of God used both actually and symbolically as Gods vehicle of judgment on sin.
It is significant that both the first and last references to fire in the Bible mention both fire and brimstone, used in flaming judgment on human rebellion against God. First, the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven (Genesis 19:24). And finally, the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8).
Our text is a reference to Moses words to the tribes as they were preparing to enter the promised land after his death. Warning them against corrupting their faith through idolatry, he said: For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God (Deuteronomy 4:24). Its New Testament context is a grave warning against rejecting Gods word: See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused Him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven (Hebrews 12:25).
In this sense, Gods word is also the fire of God. His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay (Jeremiah 20:9). It is better to be refined with the fire of Gods word than to be consumed. HMM


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Mach 0.3 milk float goes for land speed glory
Brit world record attempt
As the sun rises tomorrow morning over the Chott-el-Jerid salt flats in Tunisia, a British racing team will do battle with the record books, in a bid to claim the land speed record for an electric vehicle.
The car, ABB e=motion, will accelerate across the desert for nearly six miles before reaching the record attempt zone. This is a 1.6 kilometre section of desert over which the speed of the car will be measured.
To qualify as an official world record under FIA (the motor sport governing body) rules, the car must complete two kilometre-long runs with its speed above 252 mph. The second run has to be completed within an hour of the first.
This, then, is a little bit more exciting than a milk float race. After all, how many times do you see a milkman deploy a parachute from an old Mirage jet plane to slow his cart down...
The car (pictured below) is powered by 52 lead-acid car batteries which produce 600V DC output. It is ten metres long, 60cm wide and 75cm high. It weighs 1.6 tons, and develops 650 horsepower. The team is confident that it will beat the current record of 245mph, and say that it could even reach 300mph on future runs. Accelerating to 300mph should take driver Mark Newby just over 102 seconds.
Surely even Jeremy Clarkson would be impressed.
British steel amid the sands of Tunisia
The batteries' output is converted by an ABB ACS800 Drive and supplied to the car's two spindle motors. The car has been engineered so that full torque is available, even at a standstill. This is essential if they are to accelerate to their target speed within the allowed distance.
Once they have completed the first run and managed to stop the car, the batteries will be replaced with fresh ones so that the car can turn around and go again in the opposite direction. The car's turning circle is described only as 'large' in the list of its specifications, so we hope that this phase doesn't take too long.
The current record of 245mph was set in 1999 by a US team in a car called White Lightening. Two other high profile bids are in the offing, with a team from Ohio State University eyeing the prize with a run scheduled later in 2004, and another British team, Bluebird Electric, making plans for a 2005 attempt. ®
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Charles Mingus
(bass, b.1922 - d. 1979)
Continuing our discussion this week on Charles Mingus I wanted to present to you my favourite Mingus live recordings.
Live At Antibes Jazz Festival (Atlantic, 1960) is a fantastic example of Mingus' versatility as he performs on both bass and piano. Antibes is a live performance in which all musicians; Mingus (bass, piano), Eric Dolphy (alto sax), Booker Ervin (tenor sax), Ted Curson (trumpet), Bud Powell (piano), Dannie Richmond (drums) work in true simpatico.
The Antibes gig came just a few months after Charles Mingus left Columbia Records and had his two final recordings Ah Um and Dynasty were released for the label in '59.
The album feels like a precursor to the avant garde movement but also maintains a structure in which the uninitiated will definitely enjoy. The performances from Dolphy and Ervin are definite standouts.
This was an album that had remained unreleased for years until after Mingus' death in 1979. It had been one of those highly talked about shows that you wished you were there. With its emergence on CD back in the '90s, history now has a marker. Once you've listened to Ah Um this is great record to check out immediately afterward.
The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus (aka The Great Concert, Paris April 1964) (Atlantic Records)is my second favourite. This was significant for multiple reasons. First, this was a grueling European tour which took its toll on the band especially trumpeter Johnny Coles who collapsed from an ulcer during rehearsals. Second, this would be the last performance for the great saxophonist Eric Dolphy with the Mingus band (he would pass away two months later). Dolphy's presence in the group gave the band a large degree of its "free form" distinction and complimented Mingus' arrangements perfectly.
The show itself encapsulates all the elements Mingus had worked on since Ah Um and the previous four years to a wonderful conclusion despite the harsh difficulties of the reality around him and the band. The relationship with Clifford Jordon (trumpet) and Eric Dolphy during the gig is amazing and well worth turning up the volume up on the stereo.
This is one of those concerts that lives up to every expectation and more. The audience is very attentive and aware of all the nuances and provides the extra impetus for the band as it blisters its way through what would become a great but legendary concert indeed.
Below is footage from a performance in Oslo just a few days before The Great Concert set.


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Hot on the heels of his journey into space, and after news that his pet project appears to be in its death throes, Richard Garriott–the man behind Tabula Rasa–has announced that he is leaving NCsoft.
The announcement was made on the official Tabula Rasa forums, where Lord British made a point of thanking those who had supported the game from the beginning. "I am very grateful to you loyal players for sticking around through what I think we can all honestly say was a rough launch," said Garriott. "I thank the development team for pushing hard to get polish, updates and new content out every month since launch...a feat that I think is unusual in MMO development. They have a lot to be proud of."
Garriott's departure raises suspicions of an impending demise for the troubled MMO, especially considering that he just returned from the much-publicized PR blitz that was Operation Immortality. In spite of his very public venture to the International Space Station, 1up is reporting that copies of the game are selling for less than $1 on Amazon, and many retailers have stopped carrying the game entirely.
Garriott made a point of explaining that he was leaving for reasons other than Tabula Rasa's apparent failure: "Many of you probably wonder what my plans are, now that I have achieved the lifelong dream of going to space. Well, that unforgettable experience has sparked some new interests that I would like to devote my time and resources to. As such, I am leaving NCsoft to pursue those interests."