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Can you send me a recap of what you are waiting for and I'll let you know what we have planned over the next month.

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This Forum Beta is ONLY for registered owners of D-Link products in the USA for which we have created boards at this time.
Unfortunately you cannot downgrade to 1.x. I wish you could (believe me I wish). The DCS-8xxxLH series cameras are app only and removed RTSP support. These are the only 4 cameras out of the 30+ cameras dlink sells that does not have RTSP.
Which sites? The datasheet was updated a long time ago. I will email the camera group to verify websites have the correct information. I agree with you. They should have left it a feature and at least have downgrading back to 1.x an option. Remember probably at least 90% of the customer base doesn't even know what RTSP is so saying it is worthless is not accurate. It is worthless to you. So yes you should return it and purchase a camera that fits your needs.
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Beat the Streak Report: Monday, August 22
With some help from Robinson Cano, Joe Turner became the second member of 2011's 40-Game Streak Club yesterday.
After making Joe sweat for five innings, the Yankees second baseman cranked a double off Twins reliever Phil Dumatrait to lead off the sixth. The base knock tied our current leader with Jonathan Roy for the season lead, and a successful pick today would place Turner alone in pole position for the $10,000 season-high prize
And ohbytheway, reaching 41 games today would leave him just 16 days short of becoming first streaker Streaker to break Joe DiMaggio's 56-game record and claim the $5.6 million grand prize.
Monday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there…
Dustin Pedroia: .375 (3-for-8) since '06 vs. Rangers starter C.J.Wilson
Asdrubal Cabrera: .571 (4-for-7) since '06 vs. Mariners starter Jason Vargas
Miguel Cabrera: .400 (4-for-10) since '06 vs. Rays starter Jeff Niemann
Delmon Young: .400 (4-for-10) since '06 vs. Rays starter Jeff Niemann
B.J. Upton: .533 (8-for-15) since '06 vs. Tigers starter Justin Verlander
Feeling kinda spicy?
Jamey Carroll: .375 (6-for-16) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter
Carlos Ruiz: .357 (5-for-14) since '06 vs. Mets starter Dillon Gee
Adam Kennedy: .364 (4-for-11) since '06 vs. Indians starter Fausto Carmona
You'll thank me later
Brian McCann: .000 (0-for-10) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Ryan Dempster
Ryan Howard: .077 (1-for-13) since '06 vs. Mets starter Dillon Gee
Ben Zobrist: .095 (2-for-21) since '06 vs. Tigers starter Justin Verlander
Carl Crawford: .133 (2-for-15) since '06 vs. Rangers starter C.J.Wilson
Hunter Pence: .125 (1-for-8) since '06 vs. Rockies starter Jhoulys Chacin
Top MLB streakers
Mike Carp: 20 games
Robinson Cano: 13 games
Matt Kemp: 11 games
Mike Napoli: 10 games
Aramis Ramirez: 10 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Troy Tulowitzki: (25 home runs this season) vs. Astros starter Brett Myers
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Derek Jeter can't be counted on and that is coming from a Yankee fan. I was away on Saturday and Sunday but I was at 6 after Friday and now I'm at 1. Thanks a lot Jeter (and Burnett for causing Jeter to only get 2 ABs/3 PAs). 😦
i was at 17 with jeter on Saturday. it didnt help that he was taken out in the 7th inning with the twins up 9-1
Anybody playing FR-BTS (Fast Relief BTS)?
I have Axford today trying to get a 7-gamer. Since that game doesn't have a group option and the leader board bites being only to display top 34 or so… figure I'd use this blog for FR-BTS also. How else can we see how we all are doing?
I'm at 5. Regarding Axford, do you need a save in both games of the DH?
Nope. Per the rules, only if pitching in a save situation in both games then YES. So, it allows you to take your chances. I look at this way. Most DH are split. Even if 1 team wins both, odds are really low that saves occurred in both. I like those odds when I'm trying to catch up to someone.
I know I got the rules down too. I've already done this earlier with Papelbon in a DH. He got a save in one & didn't pitch in the other.
Though, even if you got 2 saves in one day; your streak only goes up by one
You can access groups in fast relief BTS here.
Hey, that's great. Thanks.
Axford looks like a good choice then. I went with Betancourt of the Rockies.
The BTS picks from the Brewers-Pirates DHer are currently in serious jeopardy as is Joe Turner since he has the same pick as I do and I have a losing streak of 3.
If you want to gamble a bit; another DH tomorrow. Last week was my best so far: 4 saves in 5 days & that got me on the board quickly. Mariano yesterday moved me to 6. The goal is highest streak of 20 or more by end of season.
I went through a 9 day period with 8 DNPs and only 1 save. I have Craig Kimbrel tonight, the Braves are up 3-0 so I hope the lead doesn't get bigger.
We both got unlucky today. An easy save situation for you & Venters will get the save unless he lets more than 1 on base. For me, had an easy save situation until Brewers scored 6 runs in 8th/9th innings in 1st game of DH. Appears Brewers will lose 2nd game unless they get 6 or more runs again in the 8th/9th innings. Oh well. Better to lose a save opportunity than blowing a save.
Unbelievable even when I get a save opportunity my pick doesn't pitch. What was the Braves manager thinking? Venters walked the 1st 2 but he stayed in and struck out the next 2 and then got a force out from Soriano. This is now 9 of my last 11 picks have been DNPs. How do you get saves in this game? lol At least it wasn't a blown save like the Cardinals closer did.
No one in our group got a save today: Blowouts by MIL(gm1) & COL. BOS & MIL(gm2) lost, ATL gave save to Venters, And Valverde closed with a 4 run lead.
Spoke too soon. Dave55 will most likely get one today after all. COL can't close with an 8 run lead in 9th. HOU scores 3, then loads the bases, 1 out, putting the tying run on deck (save situation). Betancourt will come in with a 5 run lead for a save.
the BTS leader took Tulowitzki. i think this is an interesting choice
and someone at 23and at 20 didnt make a pick (oops)
is it me, or does anyone else wonder how finelin has only advanced once in the last three weeks and is somehow able to keep picking people on the DL after all this time
And what about jvairo's 7 identical picks. What's up with that?
At one point back in May I think, I counted over 20 picks from that player. Even cheating, this game is so tough to beat. No offense, but hopefully Tulo goes 0-1 today 😉
There was one point about a month ago I found about 35 entries that had his name.
Well, there goes my season.
I was already right on the edge of contention heading into today and now the leader moved onto 41, while Choo didn't even play, leaving me needing 2 extra days at the end of the season, just to tie.
The only positive on the night is that Tulo only got 1 hit, so I'd have a good chance at winning that tiebreaker.


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Obama plays first post-shutdown round of golf
David Jackson
The government shutdown is over, and Washington is getting back to normal — including President Obama's golf game.
Obama hit the links Sunday at Fort Belvoir, Va., for his first round since Sept. 28, three days before a lack of funding shut down parts of the government.
The president did not play during the shutdown, no doubt concerned about the political optics.
Obama's playing partners were White House aides Sam Kass, Mike Brush and Marvin Nicholson.


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Time in saddle gives county woman rare feat to go along with 'legs of steel'
Cindy Klepper - Thursday, October 18, 2012 7:52 AM
Originally published Oct. 15, 2012.
When Janet Kirkpatrick tells you she has "legs of steel," believe her.
The 74-year-old sticks out a well-toned gam -the result, she says, of the time she spends in the saddle.
"You're standing up the whole time," Kirkpatrick says. "And I think it helps the back, too."
She should know. A horse enthusiast her entire life, the Huntington County woman discovered endurance riding - a sport in which horse and rider race to finish trail rides of 25, 50 or 100 miles - in 1984. Fifteen years later, she became one of an elite group of endurance riders to log 5,000 competition miles on the same horse.
This summer, Kirkpatrick repeated that feat - piling up another 5,000 competition miles on a second horse.
"To do it on one horse is very unusual," she says. "To do it on two separate horses is just a dream."
In actuality, Kirkpatrick says she's probably accumulated three times her official miles - if you count in all the miles she's logged in training and just for pleasure.
"In the beginning of the year, I put in probably 300 miles just getting him ready to roll," she says.
Kirkpatrick's current equine companion - a purebred Arabian officially known as H.A. Highfire but answering to Booker - came into her life shortly after the unexpected death of another Arabian named Butch.
She and Butch had accumulated 6,168 competitive miles between 1990 and 2002, when the horse suddenly became ill and had to be euthanized.
"That was the longest night of my life," she says of Butch's death. "I held his head. I always told that horse I'd never let him hurt."
A friend connected her with Booker, an unbroken 4-year-old who "had never been out of the field he was born in." Another friend got Booker used to having a rider on his back, and Kirkpatrick spent some time playing with the horse before taking him to the woods for their first ride.
"He dumped me right off," she says.
Kirkpatrick didn't give up.
Cooing "din-din time," she coaxed the frightened horse back to her, tied him to a tree so she could get back in the saddle, and rode him home.
That was in the fall of 2002. In April of 2003, on Kirkpatrick's 65th birthday, she and Booker competed in their first endurance ride - finishing the 25-mile trail in four hours and 29 minutes.
The endurance rides are timed events, but emphasis is placed on the health of the horse, with mandatory stops and veterinary checks along the ride. A horse deemed not fit to continue is pulled from the event.
A horse needs to be in top shape before even attempting endurance rides, Kirkpatrick says, and it's up to the owner to keep the horse healthy.
"You've got to keep him sound and fit," she says.
"You've got to have a good vet. You've got to have a good farrier, and I'm real prissy about getting him shod every six weeks. It's the care you give them."
Although competitive endurance rides are held throughout the year, Kirkpatrick competes only April through October.
"I'm a fair weather rider," she says.
Kirkpatrick and Booker completed 411 competition miles that first year. Since then, they've logged between 400 and 670 miles a year, going over the 5,000-mile mark after putting in 355 miles this summer.
In addition to the two 5,000-mile horses, Kirkpatrick logged 2,700 miles on Cajun, a quarterhorse who made the switch from show jumping to endurance riding with Kirkpatrick.
"He hated it at the end," she says of Cajun. "I retired him and gave him to my daughter."
The love affair between Kirkpatrick and the horse world began as she was growing up on a farm.
"My folks said when Bill married me, he married my horses," she says.
"I've had five great horses," she adds, but there's always been just one horse at a time. "I'm a one-horse person."
When she started, back in the 1950s and '60s, she was something of an anomaly on the horse show circuit.
"I was the only woman running with the guys," she says.
But her enthusiasm for her horses wasn't an anomaly in her own family.
"We all play hard," she says.
Her husband is an aficionado of vintage tractors, restoring them and participating in pulls and plow days - with rows and rows of plaques attesting to his success. Her daughter also has her enthusiasm for horses, while her son has been active on the motocross circuit.
The horse circuit, though, isn't a family affair.
"It's just me and my horse," she says. "I pull a 35-foot trailer ... sometimes I'm gone two weeks at a time."
The trailer, which Kirkpatrick designed years ago, has quarters for the horse in the back end living quarters for the rider in the front half.
Her independence isn't unusual on the endurance circuit, and neither is her age.
"There are a lot of us older people out there doing this," she says. "And doing quite well."
She enjoys the alone time, especially riding through the woods.
"I love it," she says. "It's just serene out there. I like to ride by myself because my horse listens to me. And you get to see things on trails you would never see if you walked; you're not going to go out there 20 miles like you do on a horse."


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Breaking down the debate: Two sides of the F-35
Council to expected to issue opinion on jet
Carmine Sargent estimates she's spent $100,000 to make her home accessible for her disabled daughter.
"This was really the first thing we did because her wheelchair wouldn't fit in the bathroom anymore," said Sargent, pointing to some bathroom fixes.
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The Sargents have lived in their South Burlington home for 41 years and fear making it to 50 years in the neighborhood wont be a possibility.
"I was hoping to have a home that my daughter could keep," Sargent said.
They live about a minute's drive from the airport and the Vermont Air National Guard base, where the U.S. Air Force is considering basing its new F-35 jets.
The military concedes the plane is louder than the current Burlington-based F-16s. Sargent worries it will be so loud she'll have to sell her home.
"We all knew there was an airport here when we moved here. What we didn't know is that there was an expanding military presence," she said.
But as much as Sargent doesn't want the F-35 to be based here, there are people who are really pushing for the planes.
At Garry's Barbershop in Essex Junction, owner Garry Montague's been cutting hair for nearly 50 years. He and other jet supporters worry no F-35 will mean no base and no business in the region. He said he usually gives haircuts to 10 -20 guard members a day.
"After a year, it's a lot of money," he said.
Guard officials haven't said if the base will close without the F-35s, but admit the future is unclear.
That fear of the unknown is what's rattling many like Sargent and Montague, who've built their lives and the businesses in the greater Burlington area.
"Big time. It'll affect us big time, yeah," said Montague.
A public forum for people to share their views on the basing started at Burlington's City Hall at 6 p.m. At some point, council members are expected to close the public comment period and vote on two resolutions, both written by F-35 opponents.


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Videos | August 20, 2010
Building Curiosity: Robotic Arm Attached
The latest report from the clean room where Curiosity (Mars Science Laboratory) is being built. This week, the robotic arm was attached to the rover.
Transcript:Ben Thoma: Hi. I'm Ben Thoma, the Mechanical Lead here for the Assembly, Test and Launch Operations of Curiosity, the next Mars rover.
So, just recently we installed the robotic arm. It was a major milestone for the project, not only for the engineers that worked on this arm for years, designing, assembling it and finally delivering it, but for the project as a whole. Having the arm on the rover is a huge accomplishment. Now we'll be able to begin the testing of that arm while it's on Curiosity.
It's a very complicated, very tricky maneuver to actually put the arm on the rover. We use a crane from above because this arm is so heavy. We need to delicately bring it over and actually secure it to the front of the rover.
We're going to go through a series of electrical and functional tests where the arm will actually be exercised. It'll move around. We'll start to learn how to use the arm with Curiosity.
The arm is really one of the fundamental parts of our ability to gather the science. At the end of the arm there are several different instruments. There's a camera. There's a spectrometer. And there's a drill that will deliver samples up to the other instruments on the rover. So without the arm we wouldn't be able to do a good portion of the science that we're going to Mars for.
There's still a lot of activities that we have ahead of us, a lot of testing.
While we're working on the rover down here in this facility, we have the cruise stage, which is the device that actually takes the entire spacecraft to Mars. That's currently going through a thermal vacuum test up in our 25-foot space simulator.
This is a big morale boost. Over the last couple of months we've finally seen some of the major pieces of hardware get put on this rover. Going back to the last couple of years, we've focused a lot of our attention on the inside of the rover, all the electronics, the telecommunications, the thermal control system. Just in the last couple of months, as you've seen, we've installed the mobility system, the remote sensing mast, which sits up on top of the rover with its cameras, and now finally the arm.
The rover finally is starting to look like it does in all these beautiful animations we've seen. So the team is very excited at these major accomplishments and the ability to move forward with testing.
I'm Ben Thoma, and this has been your Building Curiosity update.


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By Greg Haymes
Special to the Times Union
ALBANY — It all starts with Steve Earle's famous (or infamous) quotation, "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Then there's the fact that Earle named his son Justin Townes Earle. And just two weeks ago, Earle released his 15-song tribute album,
simply titled "Townes."
So you get the idea that Earle has a serious thing for the music of the late Townes Van Zandt.
And if you were at The Egg for Earle's solo concert on Saturday night, he spelled it out for you one more time – in his own particular and contrary way. "I had a friend and a teacher, and his name was Townes. He was the best I ever saw. So I made me an album of Townes Van Zandt songs (pause), and this one ain't on it. But I like to sing it," he declared by way of an introiduction to Van Zandt's "Rex's Blues."
It was just so Steve Earle.
Of course, he also played a batch of Van Zandt's songs that are indeed on the new album – from the yearning "Colorado Girl" to the deep blues of "Brand New Companion," from the harrowing "Marie" to the classic "To Live Is to Fly." Ironically, Van Zandt's best known song, the western outlaw tale of "Pancho and Lefty," was Earle's least compelling performance of the night.
And although Van Zandt's songs made up about a third of Earle's concert repertoire on Saturday, the maverick songwriter showcased plenty of his own material as well, and it was obvious from the opening volley of the hard-strumming "Where I Lead Me" that Earle had learned his songwriting lessons well. Lessons like poetry, simplicity and, most of all, honesty.
Earle's raspy, rusty voice was difficult to understand at times, as he often slurred lyrics and obscured them with his gravelled growl. but there was no mistaking the heart and soul of each song. You can't fake passion.
His songs fell into cliche only once during the evening's two-hour performance – the overly sentimental love song, "Valentine's Day." If you're looking for a good love song from Earle, you need look no further than "Sparkle and Shine," which he performed just a few minutes later and with much greater success.
But Earle's vast catalog of great songs don't dwell too much on love and relationships, and at The Egg, he also took on more serious-minded political topics, including coal mining ("The Mountain" played on mandolin), war ("Dixieland") and the death penalty ("Ellis Unit One").
The show was billed as a solo acoustic show, and for most of the night it was just Earle and his guitar in the spotlight. But there were
indeed a couple of surprises. He brought his son and opening act Justin Townes Earle back for a high-spirited duet romp through Van Zandt's "Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold," and then also brought up his wife, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer to sing duets on the most pop-oriented song of the night "Days Are Never Long Enough," as well as the rousing, socially conscious "City of Immigrants."
And by the time Earle wrapped it all up with his final foot-stomping rendition of "Copperhead Road," the sold-out crowd had been treated to an evening chockfull of two great songwriters – Van Zandt and Earle.
During his opening set, Justin Townes Earle proved that he's ready to follow in their footsteps, too. Looking something like a backwoods Pee Wee Herman, the tall, lanky singer-songwriter served up nearly 45 minutes of stone-cold country music as you might have it on the Grand Ole Opry in the late '50s. The jaunty "What I Mean to You" and the honky-tonking "What Do You Do When You're Lonesome" were both highlights, and the chugging blues of the train song, "Halfway to Jackson," was fueled by some furious fingerpicking. But the best of his baker's dozen songs was undoubtedly the unvarnished, autobiographical "Mama's Eyes." You're going to hear more from the young Earle, to be sure.
Steve Earle
With Justin Townes Earle
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany
Musical highlights: "City of Immigrants," "The Mountain," "Lungs"
The crowd: Sold-out
Upcoming: Steve Earle returns to the Capital Region for another solo
acoustic show at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14 at the Colonial Theatre in
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FACETIME- Cataloguing Caroline: Preston delves writers' worlds
The phone rings while Caroline Preston is talking to a visitor, and it's another local author, Donna Lucey, who, like Preston, is one-half of a writerly couple.
Is this Charlottesville's secret writers' club, where writers marry writers, go to the movies with writers, and figure out over dinner how they're going to kill off a tiresome character? (Wait, the latter would be the secret mystery writers' club.)
"A lot of our good friends are writers," admits Preston, who published her third book, Gatsby's Girl– a book about another writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald– last spring. "It's a hard way to make a living with a lot of disappointments."
And, she notes, "The sale of novels is going down."
That's not necessarily why her new book will be a nonfiction story about the expatriate life in Paris in the 1920s. "When I read Donna Lucey's book [Archie and Amélie], that inspired me that nonfiction can be as good as fiction," explains Preston.
And she has lived the past few years in Fitzgerald's world, which took in her hometown of Lake Forest, Illinois. That's where Genevra King dumped Fitzgerald before ending up as the model for Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby– and the model for the lead character in Preston's book, which was published by Houghton Mifflin and garnered around 20 reviews.
"I thought, how weird to have an ex-boyfriend write about you," says Preston. "I tried to recreate what she would have thought. He was really famous."
Preston sits in her office looking out on a deck over husband Christopher Tilghman's office in the writers' wing of their house.
Tilghman, who teaches creative writing at UVA, was the original writer in the family, and he struggled with it for years before Preston took up the pen– while pregnant with their third child.
"When you're 40 years old, quitting your job and writing a novel, nobody tells you, 'That's a great idea,'" says Preston.
She left her position– and her health insurance– as an archivist at Harvard's Houghton Library. "Chris was supportive– he said, 'You have to have childcare; you can't write a book while the baby's napping,'" she recalls.
In the course of working on her first book, she got a call from celeb biographer Edward Klein, who asked if she'd ever come across anything on Jackie Onassis when she'd catalogued Kennedy chronicler Teddy White's papers at Harvard.
"I thought, how can you ask a high-brow, unpublished writer like me to do research?" says Preston. "Instead, I found myself asking, 'How much would it pay?'"
The Jackie research inspired Preston's first book, Jackie by Josie, which she cranked out in short order to critical acclaim. That was followed by Lucy Crocker 2.0.
"She has an ear for ordinary heartbreak," says Tilghman. "She's not melodramatic."
Preston, 53, insists there's no inter-spousal rivalry, despite her immediate success. "It's not like one of us is out there on the best-seller list," she notes.
Now she's eyeing her new book– but not saying much about it. What are the odds it's going to have something to do with writers?
Caroline Preston


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The Clemson Tigers are the 2019 National Champions after crushing the defending champions Alabama Tide 44-16 at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence threw three touchdowns while Travis Etienne added two on the ground.
Alabama could not stop Clemon's offensive attack and had no answers on defense as the Tide suffered their worst defeat under coach Nick Saban. Tua Tagovailoa threw two touchdowns and two interceptions, including one that was returned for an interception.
The win gives Clemson their second national championship in the last three seasons and they became the first college team since 1897 to go 15-0.
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Callaway Electric Cooperative provides electric service to about 13,000 residential, agricultural, and commercial meters in rural Callaway and southern Montgomery Counties. In 2020, the Cooperative celebrates 84 years in existence.
Since 1936, when a group of residents in rural Callaway and southern Montgomery Counties came together to form the Cooperative, Callaway Electric has strived to provide its member owners with quality, reliable electric service at the lowest cost consistent with sound business practices. The Cooperative began at a time when nearby privately owned utilities would not serve rural areas, and it continues to grow and serve these areas with great pride today.


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ESPN takes series 'The Contender' out of the ring
By Dan Rafael
Updated: April 11, 2008, 1:25 AM ET
Days before Alfonso Gomez, one of the most popular alumni of boxing reality series "The Contender," climbs into the ring to challenge welterweight titleholder Miguel Cotto, the series that made him a star was canceled.
ESPN, which televised the second and third seasons of the series, pulled the plug on the show that helped fighters such as Gomez, Sergio Mora, Peter Manfredo and Steve Forbes gain recognition and launch them into important fights. The series also returned host Sugar Ray Leonard to the national spotlight.
Sugar Ray Leonard (center), one of the faces of ESPN's "The Contender," which was KOed Thursday, celebrates with his winning team of fighters from last year's "The Contender Challenge" between the U.K. and U.S.
"It was a hard decision to make. We were talking to [promoter Tournament of Contenders] about a renewal but we couldn't come to terms," ESPN vice president of series development and production Ron Wechsler told ESPN.com on Thursday.
The series, however, likely will find new life on another network.
"We're sorry it didn't work out at ESPN, but we're in the process of making another deal," said TOC promoter Jeff Wald, one of the executive producers.
Wald would not say what network he was negotiating with but added, "Hopefully, the deal we are working on will be closed in the next few days. 'The Contender' is the show that will not die. The show is a success with the fans and it became that without much marketing or promotion. With the exception of Ron, who was in our corner from day one, the show was mishandled right from the beginning."
The first season of "The Contender" focused on middleweights and ran on NBC, but was canceled shortly after Mora defeated Manfredo for the tournament title at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
ESPN picked up the show, which was co-produced by reality series hitmaker Mark Burnett, and ran two more seasons, a junior middleweight tournament in the summer of 2006 and a super middleweight tournament that concluded last fall.
Grady Brewer defeated Forbes in the second-season finale and Sakio Bika stopped Jaidon Codrington in the eighth round of the third-season conclusion in a wildly exciting, drama-filled slugfest that went down as one of the best fights of 2007.
During each season, the group of fighters selected to participate lived and trained together in a Los Angeles compound. Each episode culminated with a fight and the loser was eliminated from the tournament.
"We have the greatest respect for TOC, Jeff Wald, Mark Burnett Productions and DreamWorks and we stand by the quality of the show," Wechsler said. "But it's a very competitive marketplace and the ratings weren't as strong as they were the year prior."
Gomez's fame from the show was responsible for him landing a fight with popular Arturo Gatti last summer, and Gomez pulled the upset, knocking Gatti out and sending him into retirement. That victory paved the way for his big shot against Cotto on Saturday night.
The show was also responsible for Manfredo getting a shot at super middleweight world champion Joe Calzaghe in April 2007, although Manfredo was stopped in the third round.
Of all the fighters who participated on the series, Forbes has landed the biggest fight of them all -- a May 3 match against superstar Oscar De La Hoya.
Other former contestants also have found success after the show. In the past few weeks alone, third-season fighter Brian Vera scored a TKO upset against heralded prospect Andy Lee and Cornelius "K9" Bundrage, who was on the second season, upset former junior middleweight titleholder Kassim Ouma.
"The show ended on a high note with an amazing fight," Wechsler said of Bika-Codrington. "And now we have two alumni going into big fights. We're proud of our involvement in the series and the people who participated in the show. That some of these guys are fighting in these important fights shows their viability outside the series."
Dan Rafael is ESPN.com's boxing writer.


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1865 Civil War Update: The Children of Two Veterans Are Still Receiving Soldiers' Pensions (UPDATE)
The U.S. Civil War officially ended 148 years ago this spring, and will likely be unofficially wrapping up any day now. But not quite yet. According to the AP, two children of veterans are still receiving benefits as a result of their fathers' service.
Years after the war ended, it was common for very young women to marry very old veterans (often after the soldiers' first wives had died), so that they could receive a widow's pension after their husbands' deaths.
But who are these children with the dads who are so old fashioned they think 14 is a little old to start dating? Who wouldn't let their kids practice flute in the house because it reminded them of infantry fifers? Who can't even figure out how to work the camera on their cell phone LOL?
While the survivors' names have not been released for privacy reasons, we do know that one lives in Tennessee, the other in North Carolina. The Tennessean survivor was born around 1920, and the North Carolinian was born around 1930. (A veteran who was 15 when the Civil War ended would have turned 80 in 1930.) Each beneficiary receives $876 per year.
It's possible the recipients continue to receive their father's pensions into adulthood because they both suffered some disability that prevented them from supporting themselves financially. U.S. News & World Report writes that, as of last year, both were found to be "in poor health."
It's not clear which side of the conflict the soldiers were veterans of; initially, only Union vets were eligible for federal benefits, though Southern states drew up their own individual laws about compensating Confederate veterans. Federal assistance opened up to Confederate soldiers several decades after the war ended.
The total cost of compensating veterans and survivors from the Civil War—and, uh, all other wars that Americans participated in after it, including those happening now—is around $40 billion per year.
The value of bringing your dad to school on Career Day and having him open with "This reminds me of something that happened during the Civil War..." is priceless.
(UPDATE: The Daily Mail claims that one of the survivors died last summer.)


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Set in the weeks after Resistance: Fall of Man, Resistance: Retribution follows the story of James Grayson, a former British Marine, and his personal vendetta to destroy every conversion centre he can find.
Learning that his efforts have been futile - in Western Europe the Chimera have evolved a new method of converting humans - the European resistance enlists his help, and he joins Cartwright and Parker in Operation Overstrike.
Note: Multi-player and all online features for this product will be terminated and will no longer be available from 15/05/2015
Infect your PSP with Resistance: Retribution
The twisted story of the Chimera continues in Resistance: Retribution, the kinetic new entry in the alternate history sci-fi saga that sees you take on the role of James Grayson, a hardened trooper in the British marines. Grayson's story is a dark and disturbing one. Stumbling upon a Chimera conversion centre, the marine and his squad discover his brother Jonny, who has been converted to a Chimera using the vicious aliens' unholy conversion technology, and is forced to execute him, turning his world upside down and destroying him in the process.
Deserting the army and his squad, Grayson becomes obsessed with decimating every conversion centre he can find, destroying over 25 of them in the process of his vengeance-fuelled rampage. Despite his bullet riddled crusade, Grayson is soon captured by the army, tried and sentenced to death for going AWOL. Soon after imprisonment he's summoned by the European Resistance, the Maquis and the British Marines to embark on a mission with Rachel Parker and Cartwright, who both appeared in Resistance: Fall Of Man alongside the PS3 series' lead character, Nathan Hale. Grayson's orders are to do exactly what he's best at: shoot to kill and blow up every conversion centre both he and his squad come across.
New weapons, new moves
Utilising the very same pioneering control system that the developer harnessed for the Syphon Filter games on PSP, you control Grayson's movements with the analog stick and his point of view with the X, Circle, Triangle and Square buttons. Using the directional buttons Grayson will either snap to cover or leap over obstacles, depending on the context, or open up his weapon inventory.
As you battle hordes of Chimera enemies mastering the cover is essential if you are to survive the onslaught and make it to the end of the breathtaking story, which takes place in between the events of Resistance: Fall Of Man and Resistance 2.
Grayson's also got a substantial arsenal of weaponry to hand too, which includes everything from machine guns to the XR-004 Allure, Plasma Grenade, Longbow 1S-1K and Bullseye, all of which will save your skin more than once in the fight against the Chimera.
As you progress through each of the missions, aside from your primary goal in that stage, there are a number of skill point objective to be completed which, if completed, open up hidden extras such as movies and music from the game. These goals can range from simple things such as taking down enemies with a certain number of headshots using the sniper rifle or to more difficult tasks such as wiping out a horde of Leapers before they attack your mission cohort.
Spreading the virus
And aside from plenty of in-game goals there's the added bonus of Resistance: Retribution's Infection mode. To trigger this great new mode you'll need a PS3 and a copy of Resistance 2. From there you connect your PSP to your PS3 using a USB cable and then power up Resistance: Retribution's main menu. You're then presented with the option to either infect your copy of Resistance or activate the Resistance: Retribution Plus mode.
The first infects Grayson with the same virus Nathan Hale had in the PS3 editions, allowing him to breathe under water and regenerate his health. Plus, Grayson will also be kitted out with a new suit identical to the one Hale wears in Resistance 2, as well as being awarded a powerful Magnum handgun. Resistance: Retribution Plus mode transfers your Wireless Controller to your PSP, allowing you to play the game without an aim assist and control Grayson's point of view movements with the right stick. It truly does offer up a variety of new and hugely intriguing ways to go back and play through Resistance: Retribution again and again.
Bring the fight online
Plus, with the addition of a layered multiplayer experience that includes both Ad Hoc and Infrastructure Modes, there are five different types of modes for you to master alongside seven other players. Multiplayer also offers up 12 different ranks to ascend to, the ability to create clans and take part in ranked and unranked matches.
One of the great (and hilarious) additions to the multiplayer are the taunts, which you can perform over a fallen foe. These range from kicking dirt in the face of a dead enemy or dancing over their body to the sounds of techno music. They'll make you laugh if it's you doing the dancing, but if you're the fallen one you'll want to get back up and exact your revenge right away!
Featuring a hugely engaging storyline, a myriad of multiplayer modes, new weapons and a great new Resistance character in James Grayson as well as some old favourites, Resistance: Retribution is a must own for fans of the series and anyone with an interest in pulse pounding blockbuster action games.


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A bunch of print newspapers and magazines seem to be finally jumping on board the iPad subscription train, including The Telegraph (UK), Heart properties including Esquire, Popular Mechanics, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and Time has somehow swung a deal to get existing Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustratedreaders free access via iPad.
And, of course, Playboy is coming uncensored (my guess is web app, no iOS-handled subscriptions).
Meanwhile the launched-with-much-todo The Daily has reportedly gotten 800K downloads but is losing $10 million a month.
The big stumbling block was, is, and remains Apple's insistence that users opt-in to sharing their demographic data with publishers (while the publishers would prefer opt-out since they figure — probably rightly — few users will actively choose to share). Publishers have historically relied on demographics and marketing against them as a key revenue source. Another problem has been getting users to pay for content that they've gotten used to getting free on the web — especially when publishers have asked fairly high prices (sometimes higher than print!)
So with more and more heavy hitters hitting the platform, but with everyone still struggling to figure out the business model, what does the future hold for iPad subscriptions? Do we need an iMags/iNews store like iBooks? Or is it just the wrong medium for an outdated message?
What will it take to get you to subscribe?


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Ubuntu Edgy: Update git-1.4.x to 1.5.x!
With old git-1.4.x, fetching uboot does not work: Use 1.5.x:
NOTE: package uboot-gta01-1.2.0+svnnow-r4_14da5f7675bbb427c469e3f45006e027b6e21db9_0_1811: task do_fetch: started fatal: corrupted pack file .git/objects/pack/pack-a146bcbc18f4826d6bf2a7f63be5dd77bbb5b2f5.pack
Fails on a 32bit machine - try again without ccache?
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile ccache gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.... -W... -O2 -c -o libbfd.lo build/tmp/work/armv4t-linux/binutils-cross-2.17-r0/binutils-2.17/bfd/libbfd.c ccache gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I... -W... -O2 -c /usr/local/oe/build/tmp/work/armv4t-linux/binutils-cross-2.17-r0/binutils-2.17/bfd/libbfd.c -o t shift count >= width of type make[5]: *** [libbfd.lo] Error 1
Any insight here? --Adam 23:10, 15 May 2007 (CEST)
- Try without ccache (did you get it compiled meanwhile or can we remove this?) --BernhardKaindl 23:05, 19 September 2007 (CEST)
Building on Fedora Core 6
Install stuff needed for OpenMoko:
# yum install python m4 make wget curl ftp cvs monotone subversion \ tar bzip2 gzip unzip python-psyco ccache perl texinfo texi2html \ diffstat openjade docbook-style-dsssl docbook-style-xsl docbook-dtds \ docbook-utils sed bison bc glibc-devel gcc binutils pcre pcre-devel git \ quilt groff linuxdoc-tools patch compat-gcc-34 lynx netpbm
(notice compat-gcc-34 wich was needed for FC6 (gcc 4 installed), and lynx which is needed by qemu (no fallback to wget, curl, or links at the moment and no check for it, resulting in strange "sleep" errors when trying to build without lynx).
Build it:
$ make setup $ make openmoko-devel-image $ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH $ make update-makefile && make update && make setup && make openmoko-devel-image
I have also done a
$ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH; make update-makefile && nice make update && nice make setup && nice make all
(This takes several hours)
Build qemu:
$ make qemu
Run it:
# echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq $ make run-qemu
This will bring up the OpenMoko :) Use SPACE for AUX and ENTER for POWER. Not quite the same as holding a Neo1973 in your hands I would guess, but this is the best we can do for now. Thanks!
Building on Ubuntu Feisty
MokoMakefile requires more than 512 MB of RAM + Swap space (around 1GB?).
If you need swap, please check that its size under Feisty is not null!
Bug #105490 describes the current issue and offers a workaround (23 Jul 07).
Fails trying to build bluez-utils
on Gentoo Linux, it fails compiling bluez-utils (I've tried also "make clean-package-bluez-utils" before the following command)
do a "make build-package-libusb; make clean-package-bluez-utils" and it should continue (the bluez-utils .bb is missing the libusb dependency)
openSUSE 10.1 and 10.2 workarounds
ltrace package fails to build with error:
... checking for pid_t... yes checking for getopt... yes checking for getopt_long... yes checking gelf.h usability... no checking gelf.h presence... no checking for gelf.h... no configure: error: ***** gelf.h not found ***** FATAL: oe_runconf failed
FIX: edit /home/moko/build/tmp/work/armv4t-linux/ltrace-0.4-r0/ltrace-0.4/configure.ac at line 44: remove the following block:
for path in /usr/include/elfutils /usr/local/include/elfutils \ /usr/include/libelf /usr/local/include/libelf; do if test -f ${path}/gelf.h; then CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I ${path}" fi done
( it adds /usr/include/elfutils to path, which causes cross-compile badness error )
QEMU build fails to compile USB code
/usr/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h:116: error: variable or field `__user' declared void /usr/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h:116: error: syntax error before '*' token /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c: In function `usb_host_handle_control': /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:103: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `usbdevfs_ctrltran sfer' /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c: In function `usb_host_handle_data': /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:120: error: storage size of 'bt' isn't known /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:132: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `usbdevfs_bulktran sfer' /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:120: warning: unused variable `bt' /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c: In function `usb_host_device_open': /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:199: error: storage size of 'ctrl' isn't known /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:202: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `usbdevfs_ioctl' /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c:199: warning: unused variable `ctrl' make[2]: *** [usb-linux.o] Error 1
FIX: edit /home/moko/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/usb-linux.c at line 29 add the following (before #include <linux/usbdevice_fs.h>)
#include <linux/compiler.h>
hint: there is a copy of the file in /home/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/qemu-native-0.9.0+cvs20070613-r5/qemu/usb-linux.c
see: http://osdir.com/ml/emulators.kvm.devel/2007-01/msg00101.html
Cannot satisfy fstests
make openmoko-devel-image ... | Collected errors: | ERROR: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for task-openmoko-debug: | fstests NOTE: Task failed: /no-backup/Moko/build/tmp/work/fic-gta01-linux/openmoko-devel-image-1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.25036 NOTE: package openmoko-devel-image-1.0-r0: task do_rootfs: failed ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting
Failed on debian etch 2007-07-20 Solution from mailing list post from hardskinone, report of an irc chat
I got help in IRC channel. I do following steps * remove fstest from oe/packages/tasks/task-openmoko.bb , * increase PR field by one * make openmoko-devel-image
conflicting types for 'futimens'
if you encounter the following error:
| In file included from utimecmp.c:40: | utimens.h:2: error: conflicting types for 'futimens' | /usr/include/sys/stat.h:370: error: previous declaration of 'futimens' was here
a patch is needed because your glibc is too new. grab & enable the patch as follows
cd openembedded/packages/coreutils mv coreutils_5.3.0.bb coreutils_5.3.0.orig wget http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/packages/coreutils/coreutils_5.3.0.bb cd - cd openembedded/packages/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0 wget http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/packages/coreutils/coreutils-5.3.0/futimens.patch cd -
Workaround for problems compiling mtd-utils
Change the line on
openembedded/packages/mtd/mtd-utils_1.0.0+git.bb which reads:
SRC_URI = "git://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git;protocol=git;tag=master \
SRC_URI = "git://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git;protocol=git;tag=a6fa706fe9e7696b4b2045edf9698c3bac07e3e3 \
which forces the recipe to use an older revision (the one which worked last time I built the image on my computer).
Be sure to remember to undo the change later, or else you will not get any new changes to that package. --CesarB 04:48, 25 July 2007 (CEST)
Note: these patches should be updated - the lzo patch is included in the current version, so backing off to the previous version and repatching seems silly. I was able to make it through this part of the build by applying the remaining patches manually. --Ted Lemon 15:44, 29 July 2007 (CDT)
Monotone segfaulting on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn/PPC
If you are running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on a PowerPC computer you will experience problems running monotone. To fix this issue you need to install monotone as well as the libboost packages from Gutsy. The easiest way to accomplish this is to add the gutsy repositories to your sources.list and change the preferences to look like this:
Package: * Pin: release a=feisty Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=gutsy Pin-Priority: -100 Package: libc6 libc6-dev tzdata util-linux libgcc1 libstdc++6 monotone Pin: release a=gutsy Pin-Priority: 800 Package: libboost-* Pin: release a=gutsy Pin-Priority: 800
After doing this install monotone in this way:
apt-get -t gutsy install monotone.
That should install monotone 0.35 with updated (and working) boost libraries.
Fails on ncurses install in Fedora 7 with a "tic -x" message
Adjust the following command to your system, then run it:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/moko/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/ncurses-native-5.4-r8/ncurses-5.4/lib
Then start make again and it should pick up where it left off.
You can get a list of potential paths to use with the following command from you main moko directory:
find . | grep libncurses
The basic problem is that it is linking against your main system libraries instead of the OpenEmbedded ones.
There's probably a cleaner way of handling this - please update this entry if you know it.
This has been fixed in Openembedded, see Openembedded Bug #2554 for further details.
uboot-gta01 fails to build
Changes in the GIT of U-Boot make the OpenMoko patches unapplyable. For the use of Revision cc3023b9f95d7ac959a764471a65001062aecf41 and everything will be fine for now.
Perl fails to build
After following every bit of advice I can find to 'make clean' and nuke the perl build directories, every build comes up with:
| make[1]: Entering directory `/src/openmoko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/perl-native-5.8.7-r3/perl-5.8.7' | make[1]: *** No rule to make target `<command-line>', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop. | make[1]: Leaving directory `/src/openmoko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/perl-native-5.8.7-r3/perl-5.8.7' | FATAL: oe_runmake failed NOTE: Task failed: /src/openmoko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/perl-native-5.8.7-r3/temp/log.do_compile.19531 NOTE: package perl-native-5.8.7-r3: task do_compile: failed
Solution turned out to be editing /src/openmoko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/perl-native-5.8.7-r3/perl-5.8.7/makedepend.SH and at line 169 change the regexp to eat references to "<command.line>" to catch what was leaking through.
Gettext fails to build
Gettext's build is broken unless you have emacs installed. Crazy though it seems. You will see an error like:
| WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-) | if test "no" != no; then \ | set x; \ | list='po-mode.el po-compat.el'; for p in $list; do \ | if test -f "$p"; then d=; else d="./"; fi; \ | set x "$@" "$d$p"; shift; \ | done; \ | shift; \ | EMACS="no" /bin/bash ../../config/elisp-comp "$@" || exit 1; \ | if test "no" != no; then \ | set x; \ | list='po-mode.el po-compat.el'; for p in $list; do \ | if test -f "$p"; then d=; else d="./"; fi; \ | set x "$@" "$d$p"; shift; \ | done; \ | shift; \ | EMACS="no" /bin/bash ../../config/elisp-comp "$@" || exit 1; \ | else : ; fi | mv: cannot move `elc-temp' to `elc-stamp': No such file or directory | make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/raster/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-native-0.14.1-r5/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-tools/misc' | make[5]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1 | make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/raster/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-native-0.14.1-r5/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-tools/misc' | make[4]: *** [po-mode.elc] Error 2 | make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... | make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/raster/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-native-0.14.1-r5/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-tools/misc' | make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/raster/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-native-0.14.1-r5/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-tools' | make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 | make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/raster/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-native-0.14.1-r5/gettext-0.14.1/gettext-tools' | make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/raster/moko/build/tmp/work/i686-linux/gettext-native-0.14.1-r5/gettext-0.14.1' | FATAL: oe_runmake failed
The solution is simple - install emacs (example below for debian/ubuntu) and try again:
sudo apt-get install emacs make clean-package-gettext-native-0.14.1-r5 make openmoko-devel-image
Fails compiling binutils-cross on Gentoo/AMD64 and openSUSE/x86_64
make setup works fine, but when running make openmoko-devel-image it fails with the following:
| make[4]: Entering directory `build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r0/binutils-2.18/build.x86_64-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/libiberty/testsuite' | make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install'. | make[4]: Leaving directory `build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r0/binutils-2.18/build.x86_64-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/libiberty/testsuite' | make[3]: Leaving directory `build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r0/binutils-2.18/build.x86_64-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/libiberty' | make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-target'. | make[2]: Leaving directory `build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r0/binutils-2.18/build.x86_64-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi' | make[1]: Leaving directory `build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r0/binutils-2.18/build.x86_64-linux.arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi' | rmdir: build/tmp/cross//home/techiem2/Moko/build/tmp/cross/lib/gcc-lib: No such file or directory | rmdir: build/tmp/cross//home/techiem2/Moko/build/tmp/cross/lib: No such file or directory | rmdir: build/tmp/cross//home/techiem2/Moko/build/tmp/cross: No such file or directory | mv: cannot stat `build/tmp/cross/lib/libiberty.a': No such file or directory NOTE: Task failed: build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/binutils-cross-2.18-r0/temp/log.do_stage.9730 NOTE: package binutils-cross-2.18-r0: task do_populate_staging: failed ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting NOTE: package binutils-cross-2.18: failed ERROR: Build of openembedded/packages/binutils/binutils-cross_2.18.bb do_populate_staging failed ERROR: Task 1641 (openembedded/packages/binutils/binutils-cross_2.18.bb, do_populate_staging) failed NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 107 tasks of which 107 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed. ERROR: 'openembedded/packages/binutils/binutils-cross_2.18.bb' failed make: *** [openmoko-devel-image] Error 1
The final reason why the build cannot continue is:
mv: cannot stat `/home/techiem2/Moko/build/tmp/cross/lib/libiberty.a': No such file or directory
Likely, Gentoo/AMD64 uses lib64 instead of lib as the library directory for x86_64 libraries. It's l likey that may (or all?) AMD64 distributions do for their 64-bit binaries. At least on openSUSE-x86_64, the same happens.
At least on openSUSE-10.3 the missing libiberty.a was inatalled to build/tmp/cross/lib64/libiberty.a, which is clearly wrong.
After seeing this, I assumed that openmoko/openembedded was clearly not tested with lib64 build hosts and since that would mean that even if I'd fix that error, many others could follow, and as I was not interested to fix the lib64 bugs but rather wanted to see something running first, I decided to make openmoko/openembedded think that it was running on a normal 32-bit non-lib64 machine.
There are several ways to do that:
- You install an IA32-Linux somewhere and use that for building:
- Do a native install and dual-boot the IA32-linux (That's for dummies which do not know the other tricks)
- Install IA32-Linux in a virtual machine (Quite some setup and has some overhead too)
- you can install a 32-bit development system in to a chroot jail and compile there (also quite some setup and inconvinience)
- Or you can install a 32-bit development system on the 64-bit host (suppored on openSUSE, should be possible with Gentoo/AMD64 too)
I decided to go for the last option - to install a 32-bit development environment and use that:
Building on SuSE Linux 10.3-AMD64
Install the following packages for the 32-bit C/C++ compiler target option -m32 to work and to compile what is needed
gcc-32bit libgcc42-32bit glibc-devel-32bit libstdc++-devel-32bit ncurses-devel-32bit zlib-devel-32bit (maybe also gtk2-devel-32bit)
The openSUSE 10.3-AMD64 has no libopenssl-devel-32bit, but you can install the 32-bit rpm from the i586 10.3 rpm tree:
For MokoMakefile to not fail on compiling qemu-user, you need to use gcc33:
wget download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/gcc/openSUSE_Factory/i586/{cpp,gcc}33-3.3.3-41.8.i586.rpm rpm -Uhv {cpp,gcc}33-3.3.3-41.8.i586.rpm
Note these need to be the 32-bit cpp33 and gcc33 rpms as the 64-bit gcc33 rpms for openSUSE do not support the 32-bit target.
To make the OpenMoko build think that its running on 32-bit i686, use linux32 (changes uname -m to i686 in the new shell):
linux32 bash
And set up gcc scripts which force the use of gcc-3.3 (it can only generate 32-bit assembly) for all compilation:
mkdir bin;cd bin echo '/usr/bin/${0##*/}-3.3 -m32 "$@"' >gcc echo '/usr/bin/${0##*/} -m elf_i386 "$@"' >ld echo '/usr/bin/${0##*/} --32 "$@"' >gas sed -i '1i#!/bin/sh' gcc gas ld chmod 755 gcc gas ld ln -s gcc cc ln -s gcc c++ ln -s gcc g++ ln -s gas as echo PATH=\""$PWD":\$PATH\" >.setup-gcc-m32 cd -
Then set the path and test it:
source bin/.setup-gcc-m32 type gcc
More package requirements
On my system (Kubuntu 6.10) build failed with message "ERROR: QEMU requires SDL or Cocoa for graphical output" because package libsdl-image1.2-dev was missing. Use apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev to install. Additionally I had to install packages cvs and diffstat. I was also asked to install Psyco JIT Compiler (package python-psyco) to increase performance. Nevertheless make flash-qemu-local took some hours, but now I finally can get an impression of the phone that I am looking for! -- Nichtich 00:26, 20 September 2007 (CEST)
pango-directfb failed to build due to missing Glib 2.14.x
The latest(as of Sept. 25, 2007) build started to fail with the following error:
| checking for GLIB... no | configure: error: | *** Glib 2.14.0 or better is required. The latest version of | *** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/. | FATAL: oe_runconf failed NOTE: Task failed: /media/sdc1/moko/build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/\ pango-directfb-1.18.1-r0/temp/log.do_configure.19927 NOTE: package pango-directfb-1.18.1-r0: task do_configure: failed ERROR: TaskFailed event exception, aborting NOTE: package pango-directfb-1.18.1: failed ERROR: Build of /media/sdc1/moko/openembedded/packages/pango/\ pango-directfb_1.18.1.bb do_configure failed
The Glib included in the build tree seems to be only 2.12.12, so looks like something is broken in term of dependency.
This had happened on both of Fedora 7 and Debian Etch. I am running the latest MokoMakefile with OM-2007.2. The funny thing is that the build had worked only couple nights ago. Any idea? I will update anything I find here and also on my blog(see my user profile). ttz Wed Sep 26 12:17:33 CDT 2007
pango-directfb had been removed from OE for now due to the report of it breaking builds like OpenMoko.
ttz Thu Oct 4 10:20:12 CDT 2007
uicmoc4 failes to compile
This is solved by installing libz-dev
Or, look at Bug #747
svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/tasks/!svn/vcc/default'
osiris$ make update ... Fetching external item into 'trunk/src/target/OM-2007.2/applications/openmoko-today2/libkoto' svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/tasks/!svn/vcc/default' svn: REPORT of '/repos/tasks/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (http://svn.o-hand.com) make: *** [update-openmoko] Error 1
osiris$ cd openmoko/trunk/src/target/OM-2007.2/applications/openmoko-today2//libkoto/ osiris$ svn up -r HEAD svn: REPORT request failed on '/repos/tasks/!svn/vcc/default' svn: REPORT of '/repos/tasks/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (http://svn.o-hand.com)
Anyone know about this one? --Blackh 00:11, 12 October 2007 (CEST)
bootparam_prot.h fails to install in glibc-intermediate-2.5 package (Debian sid)
| install: cannot stat `/home/blackh/src/openmoko/moko/build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/ glibc-intermediate-2.5-r7/glibc-2.5/sunrpc/rpcsvc/bootparam_prot.h' No such file or directory NOTE: Task failed: /home/blackh/src/openmoko/moko/build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/ glibc-intermediate-2.5-r7/temp/log.do_stage.3940
For some reason, on Debian, the rpcgen command needs "-Y /usr/bin" added to the end of it or it won't work ("cannot find any C preprocessor (cpp)"). This can be fixed by hand...
cd /home/blackh/src/openmoko/moko/build/tmp/work/armv4t-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/ glibc-intermediate-2.5-r7/glibc-2.5/sunrpc/rpcsvc for f in *.x ; do rpcgen -h $f -o ${f%%.x}.h -Y /usr/bin ; done
This command will generate the right files and you can resume the build with
make openmoko-devel-image
Here is a better fix - put this script, calling it rpcgen, somewhere in your PATH before /usr/bin:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/rpcgen -Y /usr/bin "$@"
--Blackh 05:17, 12 October 2007 (CEST)


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In Florida, 238,000 more Hispanics voted than in 2008, and Mr. Obama got 60% of Hispanic voters. His total margin of victory in Florida was 78,000 votes, so that demographic alone won it for him. Or consider Ohio, where Mr. Romney won independents by 10 points. The lead mattered little, though, given that black turnout increased by 178,000 votes, and the president won 96% of the black vote. Mr. Obama's margin of victory there was 103,000.
This is the demographic argument that is getting so much attention, and properly so. The Republican Party can hope that a future Democratic candidate won't equal Mr. Obama's magnetism for minority voters. But the GOP would do far better by fighting aggressively for a piece of the minority electorate.
And that, for the record, was the GOP's real 2012 turnout disaster. Elections are about the candidate and the message, yes, but also about the ground game. Republicans right now are fretting about Mr. Romney's failures and the party's immigration platform—that's fair enough. But equally important has been the party's mind-boggling failure to institute a competitive Hispanic ground game. The GOP doesn't campaign in those communities, doesn't register voters there, doesn't knock on doors. So while pre-election polling showed that Hispanics were worried about Obama policies, in the end the only campaign that these voters heard from—by email, at their door, on the phone—was the president's.


text: Can I get a list of Promo cards and what expansion/core set they go with. This might have been provided already but I am not sure. I have Skitter, Bane, Gotham City Docks, Starfire, Felix Faust, The Joker, Martian Manhunter, and Vixen. I know I am missing Kid Flash. I have seen Black Lightning and Blue Devil online are these Promo cards? Are there more out/coming out? Where do all these belong?


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This was posted on Leo's twitter. http://www.twitter.com/thegeneralleog
To those loyal, die hard, fans....it's with a heavy heart that I must inform you today was my last day at Sirius XM Radio.
Thank you all for your continued support throughout my years there with 66 RAW & Hip Hop Nation/ It's not the end, just a new beginning!
Sad sad day for HHN! Do you think their will be more programming changes now that Leo is gone? I hope not it has been so good lately.


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Ok, it happened again. I know, I know, the Shawshank Redemption is a good movie. It's well done, interesting, good acting, etc. But if I hear another person state "I don't know, it's probably in my top 5", I'm going to puke. It is officially now cliche to put this movie in your top 5…even if it legitimately belongs there. On Homer's ESPN radio show in Milwaukee, Homer interviewed Braden Looper, the Brewers newest signee. When Homer asked for his favorite movies, I cringed and I said to myself "100% chance he'll say Shawshank". Sure enough, he said Shawshank immediately and because Homer and his sidekick also put that movie in their respective top 5s (of course) they anoited Looper their new movie critic going forward.
The Shawshank Assumption
8 Responses to "The Shawshank Assumption"
Jonathan Gibbs Says:
February 14, 2009 at 1:07 am |
Oh, it's not in my top 5. Top 10, sure, but not top 5!
Aaron Says:
February 14, 2009 at 8:15 am |
Andy, it's time for you to get busy livin' or get busy dying…
Cate Says:
February 14, 2009 at 2:27 pm |
There's a reason things become cliches… 😉
Ace Says:
February 14, 2009 at 2:36 pm |
in the off season perhaps your responders should identify their favorite sports movie– you could post them.
I'll start 1-Hoosiers, 2-Babe #1–that is the sheep herding pig, 3-Lou Gehrig story. Last-Field of Dreams.
bucky Says:
February 15, 2009 at 12:02 am |
If a lot of people were to include, say The Godfather in their top five- would you feel the same way? Because I'm pretty sure a lot of people do. What about Citizen Kane or Casablanca? The Shawshank Redemption probably wouldn't make my personal top five- but it's probably not too far out of it.
The movie that aggravates me when I see someone listing it as one of the all-time greats is Gone With the Wind. I DVR'd it last year when it was on Turner Classic Movies; so many people ranked it so highly, I had to see it for myself. Not only was it a mere afternoon soaper level drama- it was offensive as hell. I mean, seriously, maybe in 1939 people were ok with that crap, but not in the 21st century. Pure garbage. Not even worth being on the same shelf as Shawshank.
Schaefer Says:
February 15, 2009 at 1:40 pm |
I'd have to agree with Bucky…if a movie that was on your top 5 list was constantly mentioned by others I suspect you wouldn't have a problem with it. Good analogy with The Godfather.
I think Shawshank Redemption is a very good movie…but, to follow up on Bucky's thoughts, I actually am surprised by Citizen Kane constantly being mentioned as the "best" movie, because I feel it pales in comparison to some of the other all-time greats, like Casablanca, The Godfather, Road House…etc…
Hayes- with no Pack news, I love the off topic post. nice.


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Reddit user ScienceBrah has a personal trainer, and that personal trainer's name is James.
I tell you this only because James has one of the most kick-ass gaming rooms I've ever seen.
There are so many games—organised properly, thank the Maker—down there he could hand out plastic cards and call it a game library.
my personal trainer just showed me his game stash, had to take pictures and share it with you guys. jaw-dropping [Reddit]
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If I [ever am to] download files in lossless formats with overkill resolution, ...
- I keep the file I received, out of principle. (If I currently have compatibility issues, any conversion is "temporary" until I can replace by the original).
- I never change resolution. I possibly recompress to one favourite codec that supports it.
- Like 2, except that resolutions that are "already wrong" are not sacred. Who wants to keep a in 192/24 a digitized bootleg tape recorded in audience?
- I hardly change resolution, except when I must for compatibility.
- I usually downconvert to "something useful" (say, CD-resolution) in a lossless format
- I usually convert to a lossy format anyway. CDDA is also "overkill resolution".
- I also usually transcode overkill-bitrate lossies - like 320-kbps mp3s from Amazon - to a lower bitrate.


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|Agandaûr is a concept which has only appeared in an adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
|Black Númenóreans
|"Agandaûr" from The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
|Biographical Information
Carn Dûm
|Physical Description
|Black Númenóreans
|Fell beast
|Images of Agandaûr
Agandaûr is one of the main characters and antagonist of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. He is a descendant of the Black Númenóreans and Sauron's most cruel servant.[1] He was both a mighty sorcerer and warrior, being able to fight Elladan and Elrohir at the same time.[2]
[edit] History
[edit] Early Life
Agandaûr's birth date, as well as most of his personal details, are unknown. He must have started to serve Sauron somewhere in the Third Age. Agandaûr became a great warrior and sorcerer, likely being taught by Sauron himself.[2]
[edit] War of the Ring
At the same time that the Nazgûl were sent to retrieve the One Ring, Agandaûr was sent north to conquer Eriador and destroy Rivendell.[3] He assembled an army in Fornost of Orcs of the Misty Mountains.[4] With Tharzog, chieftain of the Orcs of Mount Gram, in charge of his soldiery[1] he passes his knowledge of sorcery to the Orcs through the scrolls of his lieutenant, Wulfrun.[2]
Just shortly after the Nazgûl defeated the Rangers at Sarn Ford, Agandaûr met there with the Witch-king. Telling him he had finished the preparations and was ready to attack, as assistance for the Nine Riders in the Hunt of the Ring. The Witch-king ordered him to return and attack immediately.[4]
After his return to Fornost his soldiers captured a giant Eagle, named Beleram, who was spying on his forces. On Aragorn's order Eradan, a Dúnadan, Andriel, an Elf loremaster from Rivendell, and Farin, a Dwarf from Erebor, infiltrated Fornost to stop the army of Orcs from joining the Nazgûl. When they found the chained Eagle, they helped him to escape.[5] When they met with two more infiltrators, Elladan and Elrohir, they formed a team to kill Agandaûr.[6] After they fought a way to the citadel tower Eradan, Andriel and Farin dealt with Tharzog while Elladan and Elrohir confronted Agandaûr. Tharzog was killed but Agandaûr had the upper hand in his battle with the Half-elves. However, when the Half-elves where joined by Eradan, Andriel and Farin, he fled on the back of a Fell beast. Even though Beleram pursued him in the air, Agandaûr escaped the Eagle's clutches by summoning a thunder storm.[2]
[edit] Inspiration
Agandaûr's conversation with Urgost appears to be based on that of Dáin Ironfoot and the emissary of Sauron mentioned in The Council of Elrond.
[edit] See also
- Mordirith
- Mouth of Sauron, another Black Númenórean who served Sauron.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Enemies", warinthenorth.com (accessed 21 February 2012)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Chapter 1: Fornost, Citadel Tower
- ↑ "The Black Númenórean" dated 1 February 2011, Youtube (accessed 21 February 2012)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Prologue
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Chapter 1: Fornost, Main Gate
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, Chapter 1: Fornost, Inner Wards


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lol no.
Needless to say, Josh Duggar has some....opinions about last nights' events. Since we had a post on Victoria Jackson, here are some of the highlights.
bless you for trying Emma. DUGGAR/TRUMP 2016!!
So what are Conservatives? Moderates with no brains?
Of course Arkansas went red, your family probably made up the entirety of one counties votes. And Amy, that's fairly easy to accomplish. Just move in with Jim Bob.
Stop trying to make Santorum happen. He's not going to happen. And doesn't your family hate catholics?
As an Iowan, this just makes me hate you more. Of course you like King. OF COURSE.
I don't think even Jesus would be conservative enough for you.
Ever the Akin fanboy, eh Josh?
Mourdock too? You know, this doesn't help the rumors.
Karl Rove probably regrets a lot of life choices, but I don't think this will be one of them.
MANY more tweets at the source


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Last week Greg Sterling noted: … Yelp and Google. They're like Spain and Portugal in the 15th Century — rivals trying to carve up the local globe.
The analogy seemed wrong to me as Spain and Portugal were to a large extent equal in their strength. I noted in the comments that "I see the analogy as more like the US vs the Taliban or perhaps Grenada rather than one of equals like Spain vs. Portugal".
Is Yelp, as Greg portrays, a powerhouse in local search? Or is their position more one of a far distant second to Google as a general local search site with little hope of competing? Or is the answer more complex than that?
When we view Yelp stricly from a consumer frame of reference (and ignore the lack of profitable business model and their thuggish SMB tactics) is Yelp a strong contender in the general local search category?
On the surface, my recent consumer survey would indicate that Yelp is running a far distant second (or third or fourth) to Google with little chance of competing:
Yet the answer is more nuanced and complex than that. When you parse the data by age, region and urbanicity the picture changes. Much more favorably for Yelp but even with those changes does the data rise to level of proof of Yelp as a general local search engine?
These insights from Google surveys provide clues as to why there is such a divergent view on the reality of Yelp:
Clearly age is a strong determinant in who uses Yelp. Usage in those over 45 drops way off.
Regional and state differences seem to play a big role as well. The west region and the northeast are more likely to use Yelp than the Midwest or the Southern regions.
This is true as well at a state level. This is particularly visible when you compare the state of CA or NJ (one of the most urban) with either MN or Georgia you see dramatic shifts in usage:
New Jersey:
This custom report looks at those variables in aggregate and compares younger, urban searchers with rural, suburban older searchers:
In the end what you see with Yelp is a strong young, urban, bi-coastal bias that makes them a contender in those markets but a true also ran every place else and amongst all other users. Hardly rising to competitor to Google in a broad sense.
I think that the answer to the question of whether Yelp is a competitor to Google as a general local search engine lies in their own behaviors as well.
Yelp, as far as I understand it, has pretty much stopped attempting to add every business listing that companies like Localeze and InfoUSA can provide. They are only adding businesses added by their readers or by the business itself. This leaves their offerings very urban centric.
Their business model, which doesn't scale well currently, can't scale well at all in a rural or suburban territory. Its way too expensive.
So what Yelp has become is an urban local search engine. One that is popular in certain geographies and limited age groups.
While they might not be the Grenada that I implied initially, they are no Spain yet either.
Consumer Mindshare and Yelp: An Empire in Local Search Or a Wannabe? by Mike Blumenthal


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We have been home from Portugal for 3 full days now, and I am finally feeling myself again.
Traveling overseas is very tiring! It took us 19 hours to get there and 24 hours to get back- that is real hours, not time change stuff. That time zone thing is very strange. No matter how I look at it, it mixes me up. I understand it in principle, just not beyond that.
We did as suggested and tried to assimilate our schedules to where we were/are as quickly as possible and I think that was good. We were able to fully enjoy our two weeks in Portugal- and we had the weekend at home to get back into the swing of things slowly before Rich had to go to work.
Yesterday I spent almost all day outside, weeding my vegetable garden, cleaning the patio, trimming hedges, and preparing another bed for planting- I am hoping this will work as a perennial herb garden... we shall see.
I will have to take some photos of my little garden today. I know that the soil has not been amended enough to yield anything beyond a few dinners here and there, but I will work on that this fall now that I have figured a few things out.
For today, here are a few vacation photos. The top photo is me at the highest point of a Moorish Castle in Sintra, with the Palacio Nacional da Pena in the background (we went there next); the middle photo is Rich and me at the Roman ruins in Conimbriga; the third photo is a view from the top of the castle we stayed in our first night, in Obidos. It was a fantastic trip!
I have started a new blog about our trip if you would like to see a few more pictures, the link is: http://happytravelergurl.blogspot.com/
It was hard to choose just ten photos of each day- we did and saw so much- and I took more than 2300 photos. I am currently trying to figure out what to do with them all... lol
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Catching up
Posted by Christa Irell at 7:48 AM 1 comments
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Small update from Portugal!
Look where we are tonight!!!
Can't seem to upload much, our Internet connections are not like at home- but I will do a blog about this wonderful trip when we get home!
Posted by Christa Irell at 3:42 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Now I understand what John Denver meant...
I have honestly felt like my life has turned into a John Denver song; I could quote you so many things from his songs that describe my new reality... but I digress.
After leaving the Pawnee Buttes, resolving to return properly equipped for a great hike, we stopped and had dinner in Fort Morgan.
We opted to take the scenic drive west home instead of highway the whole time. And boy, oh boy, what a drive it was.
In the song "Rocky Mountain High", John Denver says this: The Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it raining fire in the sky...
Well, if these sunset photos didn't show exactly that, I don't know what would. It had been a drizzly sort of day, so as we drove into the sunset, there were clouds in the sky with the light burning through. I have to tell you, it was an awe-inspiring sight. I know the photos at this size don't do it justice, but if you can view them larger, you might see what I mean. Especially the bottom photo. I am planning to enlarge this for our wall- it really looked like fire.
And now I know what John Denver meant. In more ways than one.
p.s. I will post the rest of the photos in an album on Webshots and my fb page
Posted by Christa Irell at 4:44 PM 1 comments
Pawnee National Grasslands
A couple of Sundays ago, Rich, Chloe, and I went for a drive; Rich wanted to see Pawnee National Grasslands. Well, it was miles and miles of flat, and no houses for as far as you could see (and that was pretty far) in any direction.
We finally saw a small sign for it and turned onto a dirt road, where we drove for miles and miles more of flat- though along this route we saw the weird sight of leaning power lines... the only explanation we could come up with was that they are being replaced by the straight up ones. Who knows? But it was very startling.
We also saw three missile stations- I guess that is a good place for them, way out in the middle of nowhere.
At some point we saw a sign that said: Pawnee Buttes. Rich told me buttes are small rock formations, kind of like mesas, but smaller. I don't even know how far we drove before we saw them... a LONG way, according to Chloe!
FINALLY we saw them, and it was well worth the drive. Turns out there are some nice hiking trails there, which we weren't prepared for, but we are planning to go back.
While Rich checked the grass for birds' nests, I took the opportunity to take some close up photos of little flowers, and of course a bunch of the buttes.
Colorado is a very beautiful state.
Posted by Christa Irell at 4:36 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The kids have arrived!
Yesterday morning, Heidi and Chloe left for Ontario. As Heidi is 15, they are old enough to fly together without anyone else and so they did.
I heard tell of a minor fiasco in Chicago; the girls inadvertently passed their seats while boarding the plane and had to fight the "traffic" going back the other way... only to sit in the wrong seats still and have to move! LOL That was the worst of what happened to them, so that is pretty darn good!
They didn't get to Holly's till quite late in the evening but as Holly's and Heidi's birthdays just passed, they made time before bed to do birthday presents.
Our presents to Holly were a pair of hot pink Doc Martens and a psychology dictionary. The girls each got Holly a MLP tin lunch box- inside of one was a cupcake/muffin t-shirt and inside the other was a pair of cupcake tea towels which Holly says are too cute to use as tea towels!
Holly got Heidi an LA Ink book signed by Cat VonDee (no idea if I spelled that right and not being a fan... well, I don't much care). But Heidi is a huge fan and was quite thrilled by the gift. Sigh. I just don't get tattoos and I never will.
Anyway, here are a few photos that they took at Holly's last night. I told Heidi and Chloe that they need to post things on their blogs too, so I can follow along. We will see if they do...
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Fox recently resigned from his responsibilities at CB6 to take on the president's role at the center, where he has been an active member for over 20 years.
"It was a great experience having worked with competent and interested community leaders," he said of CB6. "I'm hoping to continue to grow the Forest Hills Jewish Center in harmony with all its components."
Mainly, he wants to foster more involvement of young people, seniors and those in the process of starting families. He wants to engage the nursery school families by opening the center's gym for members on Saturday afternoons so that the children can play together and the parents can get to know each other.
"It will help nurture that community relationship," he said. "It's an opportunity to get those just developing as families to create a community with their own contemporaries."
There are also certain aspects of the Jewish religion that he wants to promote as president, mainly tzedakah - or charity - and tikkun olam, which in essence means "making world a better place."
"Those are two major precepts of Jewish religion and we are committed to that," he said. The center usually hosts a food drive, a community supported agriculture coop, which promotes healthy living while supporting local farmers, as well as a 9/11 intra and interfaith program.
"It's our goal to find common ground among us rather than that which makes us different," he said. "These are the kinds of things we're focusing on and trying to pursue."
Fox would also like to bring in someone to assist in credit counseling next year as the center develops their education program. The center is also planning a volunteer program for people in the community who are unemployed or underemployed to provide them with something to fill their resumes.
The center serves about 600 families. And Fox is proud to lead what he calls an "exceptional" clergy and professional staff.
"This is a great opportunity and allows us to really continue the effort that people before me started and bring that to a new level," he said.
Fox has been married to his wife, Helaine, for 30 years and is a proud father of two children. He has been a lawyer for 28 years and is head of a small firm in midtown Manhattan.


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