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Longest, Biggest, Richest Poker Tournament Series Ends with First-Ever Danish Champion Topping the Famed 'November Nine'
* The 2008 World Series of Poker champion is Peter Eastgate, from Odense, Denmark.
* Eastgate is a 22-year-old professional poker player. He was born in Denmark and is a Danish citizen. However, he spends much of his time in London (UK) playing poker.
* First-place paid $9,152,416 in prize money - the second-highest poker payout in history.
* Eastgate is fluent in both Danish and English.
* Eastgate becomes the first Danish WSOP Main Event champion in history.
* The previous WSOP gold bracelet winners who were nationals of Denmark include only player, Jesper Hougaard, from Copenhagen. Hougaard currently holds two WSOP gold bracelets - one from earlier this year in Las Vegas and a second won in London at WSOP-Europe last month.
* Eastgate's win instantly vaults him up in second place on the WSOP all-time money winners' list. Only 2006 world champion Jamie Gold has won more prize money, at $12,067,092.
* Prior to Eastgate's victory, the last time a non-American won the WSOP Main Event was in 2005, when Australian Joe Hachem was the winner.
* With Eastgate's win, foreign-born players have now won 6 of the last 11 world championships (Nguyen, Furlong, Mortensen, Hachem, Yang, and Eastgate).
* Eastgate became the youngest WSOP Main Event champion in history. He was aged 22 years, 10 months, and 28 days at the time of his victory. This smashed the previous record by nearly two years. The previous record was held by Phil Hellmuth, Jr. who was aged 24 years, 10 months, and 5 days at the time of his victory in 1989.
* "I do not think I have realized yet what a big moment this is. It will come the next days and weeks. I expect I will get emotional about it later. But not as much now." - Peter Eastgate following his victory
* Eastgate says he plans to go with his parents on a vacation after his victory. "I love my parents," he said. "I want to treat them as I have always treated them - with love and respect."
* "I like to gamble. The way I have learned to play poker is by putting a lot of hours into it and learning from my mistakes." - Peter Eastgate following his victory
* I like the psychological aspects of poker." - Peter Eastgate following his victory
* "I was not focusing on the records I could break (as the youngest winner or the first Dane to win). I just concentrated on the game." -- Peter Eastgate following his victory
* Eastgate admitted to being only a break even player during the first two years he turned pro.
* Eastgate said he bought into the Main Event with cash. He did not qualify via a satellite.
* The 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event began on July 3rd. The official Day Seven was played 11 days later on Monday, July 14th. Once the final nine players were finally determined, there was an unprecedented 117-day recess.
* The nine surviving players who made it to the final table were deemed "The November Nine." Fittingly, play resumed on November 9th.
* Final table play officially started at 11:08 am. The first day ended 13 hours and 27 minutes later, at 12:35 am.
* Continuation of the final table resumed at 10:34 pm the following night, and officially ended at 2:36 am. Hence, the combined length of the finale clocked in at 15 hours and 39 minutes. This broke the previous record for the longest WSOP Main Event final table, which took place in 2005 (won by Joe Hachem). The previous record was 14 hours. Note: Dinner breaks are excluded from time official records.
* The final table lasted 278 hands. More than a third of the hands were played heads up.
* The final table was played onstage at the Penn and Teller Theatre at the Rio in Las Vegas. This was the first time this venue had been used and was the seventh locale in the 39-year history of the WSOP. Previous final table locations included - (Old) Binion's Horseshoe baccarat pit, (Old) Binion's Horseshoe rear casino, (New) Binion's Horseshoe Poker Room, (New) Binion's Horseshoe Benny's Bullpen, Fremont Street Experience, and the Rio Pavilion Amazon Room. Note: "Old" refers to the older East side of the Horseshoe, while "new" refers to the West side of the casino, which was expanded with The Mint was acquired in 1988.
* Both days/nights attracted capacity crowds. One-time attendance was estimated at 1,065 given the number of seats inside the arena. However, many different spectators rotated through the arena over duration of the two day competition. The actual number of spectators who saw at least some portion of the WSOP final table live this year is estimated at about 3,000. This was the largest crowd ever to watch a poker game of any kind, in a live setting.
* For the first time in poker history, a tournament blind reached the 1,000,000 mark. Level 39 was reached, meaning the big blind was 1,000,000 (the small blind was 500,000, along with a 150,000 ante). Interestingly, the 1,000,000 blind level with the mandatory 150,000 ante meant that each hand cost the equivalent in starting chips from 57.5 entrants into the Main Event.
* This was the final day of a 62-day span which comprises the totality of 59 gold bracelet events (including WSOP-Europe).
* The $10,000 buy-in championship is officially listed as Event #54. Due to the 117-day delay, the event ended after the conclusion of Events 55-59.
* The final table (first day) began with WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack addressing the large crowd and the final nine players who were assembled onstage. Pollack thanked the players for being poker ambassadors during the layoff.
* Prior to play, each of the nine finalists received a Corum limited-edition W.S.O.P. "Romvlvs" timepiece. Each watch dial featured the card suit of choice, engraved with the player's name and starting chip count on the reverse. The special presentation was made by President of Corum Watches, Michael Wunderman.
* Rio Las Vegas General Manager Gerry Tuthill also took the stage to thank the players and audience for their support of the WSOP. The Rio has been the home of the WSOP since 2005, and has attracted record numbers each of the four years the property has played host to poker's supreme event.
* 2007 World Series of Poker champion Jerry Yang provided the ceremonial "Shuffle Up and Deal" announcement. He took a few moments to thank poker fans for all their support and jokingly noted that he was the longest reigning single year WSOP champion in history. Of course, Yang's extended poker sovereignty was made possible by the unprecedented 117-day layoff.
* The chip leader at the start of play was Dennis Phillips (St. Louis, MO). Peter Eastgate, the ultimate victor began play ranked fourth.
* All players who made it to the final table were guaranteed a payout of $900,670. However, Harrah's added another $98,179 in prize money to the top eight finishers. This was the amount of interest paid on the $24,527,416 which accrued interest during the four-month layoff.
* The runner up was Ivan Demidov, from Moscow, Russia. Demidov was vying to become the first Russian poker world champion in history, but came up just short.
* It's astonishing to think that the second-place cash prize ($5,809,595) still amounts to a figure larger than any other poker tournament in the world.
* Demidov's victory would have meant that two of the top titles in poker would have been held by natives of Russia. Five months ago, Svetlana Gromenkova (from Moscow) won the 2008 Ladies World Poker Championship.
* Demidov became the first player to ever make it to the final table of the WSOP Main Event and the WSOP-Europe Main Event. Incredibly, Demidov accomplished this feat within the same year.
* Demidov had the chip lead a significant part of the first day of the final table. However, Eastgate proved to be a formidable foe, as Demidov was unable to establish any momentum during the final few hours which might have catapulted him to victory.
* The final hand of the 2008 WSOP came when Eastgate was dealt Ad-5s against Demidov's 4h-2h. The final board showed K-3-2-4-7 (suits were insignificant). Demidov called Eastgate's all-in move and tabled two pair - fours and twos. Eastgate showed A-5, good for the straight, five-high.
* "I was lucky on the last hand. Ivan had two pair, and I had a wheel. When that happens heads-up, all the money is (going to go into the pot)." - Peter Eastgate explaining the winning final hand
* Just because I won the heads-up does not make me a better player than (Demidov). It goes to show that it is sometimes good to be lucky." -- Peter Eastgate explaining the winning final hand
* Demidov was profoundly disappointed, but was also gracious in defeat. He congratulated the new champion and remained onstage afterward for multiple media interviews.
* "I think I played really well at the start. But I did not play as well towards the end. It is really tough to say what went wrong. Every time I tried to bluff he called, and had a hand." - Ivan Demidov moments after being eliminated in second place
* "It has been a great year for me.... - Ivan Demidov moments after being eliminated in second place
* The third-place finisher was Dennis Phillips, from St. Louis, MO.
* Phillips was accompanied by the largest cheering section in poker history. More than 300 friends and co-workers came to Las Vegas to support Phillips. Adorned in white shirts and logos, Phillips' army of supporters was one of the final table's most memorable highlights.
* The fourth-place finisher was Ylon Schwartz. The enigmatic former chess pro from Brooklyn, NY was cheered by a dozen or so supporters. Schwartz was the final table's most unorthodox player. He vowed to run away and disappear if he won the world championship. Yet, Ylon was gracious even in defeat. He returned to the final table on day two and watched Eastgate's victory.
* Former WSOP Main Event winners who made a ceremonial appearance at this final table included Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Chris Moneymaker, Jamie Gold, and Jerry Yang.
* None of the top four finishers wore glasses at the final table. However, all nine players wore caps adorned with various logos.
* The fifth-place finisher was Canadian player Scott Montgomery, from Perth, Ontario.
* Montgomery was eliminated by a one-outer on the river. "Hopefully, I'll do better next time," he said.
* The sixth-place finisher was another Canadian player, Darus Suharto - from Toronto, Ontario.
* Suharto says he plans to return to his job as an accountant, despite his big win. I made a commitment and I want to stick with it (regardless of poker)," he said.
* The seventh-place finisher was David "Chino" Rheem, from Los Angeles, CA.
* "For the most part, I did not get a lot of hands. I think I played great. I was just really card deal." - Rheem following his elimination
* Rheem was the only player at the final table who showed any political allegiances. Rheem sported an "Obama "08" button on his shirt.
* The eighth-place finisher was Kelly Kim, from Whittier, CA.
* Kim arrived at the final table with only two percent of the chips in play. He managed to survive three hours before he was finally eliminated.
* "I thought I had a shot today. But I wanted to wait and survive (the early rounds). It's really tough when you are short-stacked. It's amazing that I was able to move up." - Kelly Kim, moments after being eliminated
* Kim's patience paid off, as his leap from an expected ninth-place finish (according to chance) up to eighth place paid and extra $380,547 in prize money.
* Kim was ecstatic following Marguis' elimination. The unanticipated bust out inched him one spot higher in the prize money, worth an extra $388,000 in prize money.
* The ninth-place finisher was Craig Marquis, from Arlington, TX. Marquis was bidding to become the first Texan to win the WSOP in 23 years, when Bill Smith (from Dallas) was the 1985 Main Event.
* "Everyone has a big hand where they take the worst of it at some point, and they hit a hand just to get here. I had a few of those. Now, it was Scott (Montgomery's) turn. That's the way poker is." - Craig Marquis, moments after being eliminated
* "It feels bad to be knocked out ninth. But I was playing to win, all the way. I was not trying to just move up to seventh or eighth place." - Craig Marquis, moments after being eliminated
* "It's sad to be over. But on the other hand, it will really be nice to get back to my real life again." -- Craig Marquis, moments after being eliminated
* The first elimination took two hours and ten minutes, which is believed to be a WSOP record (Note: Early years at the WSOP were not well documented).
* The first flop was not seen until 39 minutes into play.
* Ylon Schwartz made the first all-in move of the finale. Scott Montgomery folded to his raise.
* The first chip lead change took place when Ivan Demidov seized a sizable number of chips from Dennis Phillips' stack. Next, Ylon Schwartz took the chip lead. Then, Demidov regained the lead. Peter Eastgate took the chip lead late on the first day of the finale.
* First-place prize money totaling $9,152,416 was brought to the main stage immediately following a 75-minute dinner break. The colossal display of banknotes weighed an estimated 500 pounds. Two years ago, WSOP organizers placed a similar amount of prize money onto a large table, causing it to buckle from the massive weight. This year, organizers learned their lesson and the numerous stacks of one-hundred dollars bills were placed upon a reinforced table.
* The Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place during a break. The Hall of Fame was launched in 1979 and now includes 39 members. The "Class of 2008" included two new inductees - Dewey Tomko and Henry Orenstein.
* Nations represented at the final table included: United States (5 players), Canada (2 players), Denmark (1 player), and Russia (1 player).
* A Russian poker player has now made it to the final table in each of the last two years. Ivan Demidov followed in the footsteps of Alex Kravchenko, who finished in fourth place last year.
* A Canadian poker player has now made it to the final table in each of the last two years. Two Canadians, Darus Suharto and Scott Montgomery follow in the footsteps of Tuan Lam, who finished in second place last year.
* This was one of the younger final table averages in WSOP history. The youngest player (Eastgate) was 22. The oldest player (Phillips) was 53. The average age of the surviving players was 31.8 years. Five of the final nine were in their 20s.
* Late on Day Seven (played July 14th), although ten players actually sat at a single table, only the nine surviving players constitute the official "final table," in standard poker reporting and official WSOP records.
* The tenth-place money spot is now referred to as the "TV bubble." This is because the player did not partake in the three-month publicity build-up to the final table, nor the actual play of the November Nine," which will be shown on ESPN. Dean Hamrick ended up as the tenth-place finisher.
* The nine finalists were each paid 9th-place prize money ($900,670) when play was suspended on July 15th. The remainder of the prize money (the difference) was paid out at the Rio as players were eliminated.
* ESPN will broadcast the final table on Tuesday, November 11th, just hours after play ended on the previous days/nights. The show will air at 6 pm PST and runs for two hours.
* The final table was played just five days after the conclusion of the U.S. presidential election and Barack Obama's historic victory.
* Peter Eastgate played a total of 80.9 tournament hours to win his victory, not counting breaks or end of day recesses.
* When the tournament ended, all 136,900,000 chips were in Peter Eastgate's stack. He began the tournament like everyone else, with just 20,000 in chips.
* In the 39-year history of the WSOP, champions were citizens of the following nations at the time of victory: United States (35), England (1), Ireland (1), Australia (1), Spain (1), and Denmark (1).
* WSOP champions have now been born in the following nations: United States (31), Iran (2), Ireland (1), Lebanon (1), Ecuador (1), Laos (1), Vietnam (1), China (1), and Denmark (1).
* This was the largest overall World Series of Poker in history. A grand total of 58,720 players entered into 55 gold bracelet events surpassed last year's number of entries, which was 54,288. These figures represent an 8 percent increase over 2007.
* This ranks as the second-largest live poker tournament in history. This year's turnout surpassed 2007 attendance (6,358) by 7.4 percent. Only the 2006 WSOP Main Event was larger than this tournament -- with 8,773 entrants.
* This is the second-largest tournament prize pool in history. The total prize pool amounted to $64,431,779. The top 666 finishers collected prize money.
* There were 124 different nations and territories represented by all players who entered the 2008 Main Event. By contrast, there were 87 different countries present last year. This represents a 36 percent increase
in international participation.
For event results see the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Result
2008 World Series of Poker
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
Official Report
Event #54
World Championship
No-Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $ 10,000
Number of Entries: 6,844
Total Net Prize Pool: $64,431,779
Number of Places Paid: 666
First Place Prize: $9,152,416
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Bowles high school coach, Matt Underwood, at Jackson Christian School was first to hear the news and was thrilled to tell his player.
Bowles will join Tennessee prospects Brian Kimbrow, a Vanderbilt commitment, and Henry County High School prospect Andrew Jelks. Bowles and Jelks speak frequently and are excited to play together at one of the premier all-star games in the country.
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Are you wishing (like me) that you could be at the openSUSE Summit in Orlando, Florida this weekend? I've been gathering the best tweets and images from the conference at Storify.
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Are you wishing (like me) that you could be at the openSUSE Summit in Orlando, Florida this weekend? I've been gathering the best tweets and images from the conference at Storify.
You may have heard that Canonical is formally dropping support of the KDE-based version of the Ubuntu desktop come October. This is kinda old news now, but it seems that at least some folks want to make a big deal of it. So I'm feeling the need to talk about it too.
The news came in the form of a February 6 post from Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell to the Kubuntu developers list:
Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no longer be funding my work on Kubuntu after 12.04. Canonical wants to treat Kubuntu in the same way as the other community flavors such as Edubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu, and support the projects with infrastructure. This is a big challenge to Kubuntu of course and KDE as well.
A few days later, Riddell's counterpart at openSUSE, Will Stephenson responded to the situation on the KDE Contributor's Blog in a way that may seem a little cynical, but struck me as a completely valid response.
After a week had passed, TechRepublic's open source pundit Jack Wallen said he read Riddell's announcement "with a heavy heart." The money quote here:
try to find a major Linux distribution that ships with KDE as the default desktop. You're going to be hard pressed to do so.
He said the best way for KDE to survive this blow was to develop its own distribution, which he named KOS. In the poll accompanying the story, 51% of his readers agreed with that strategy.
Bruce Byfield at Datamation (a fine writer for a variety of Linux publications) may have overhyped Wallen's article just a little, and turned it into part of a wave of "KDE Death Watch" commentary. The story does effectively dispute the idea of KDE disappearing, but does again raise the question of "Just what is a major KDE distribution."
Younger folks in the audience may not remember Rodney Dangerfield, the comic who built his entire career on the theme that he "got no respect at all" (Check out the films Caddyshack or Back to School to learn more about the Dangerfield persona). One of the most striking things about all these stories is how Kubuntu is (allegedly) the last major Linux distribution with a KDE desktop. Perhaps I'm biased, but when did openSUSE cease being a major distribution? While it has never been dominant in terms of mindshare or installations (admittedly both hard to quantify), the little green Geeko with the outstanding system administration tool just chugs along.
The SUSE distro has been famously associated with KDE throughout its life. Some historical notes:
openSUSE is not going away, and will continue to be a "KDE-first" distribution for a long time to come. I'm looking forward to seeing how big our community is at the openSUSE Summit this fall.
Byfield certainly makes an excellent case for why KDE is not dead, and certainly won't be on life support anytime soon. Even Wallen (who doesn't really use KDE anymore) concedes that "KDE is one of the most polished, professional desktops available for the Linux operating system and deserves to be made available through some official channel."
I disagree that KDE needs to put out its own distro to succeed long-term. The world probably does not need many more Linux distributions. Linux users should always have a choice of desktop environments and associated applications. I love that I can run apps designed for GNOME on my KDE desktop, and want to continue to do that.
KDE certainly needs to attract more developers, volunteer or otherwise. More users and platforms will follow. As I noted last week, the Spark tablet is a great way to build pathways to the future.
Things may not be entirely rosy for KDE today, but I can heartily raise both hands when Wallen says "Linux without KDE is simply not the Linux I've known and loved since the mid-90s." May that continue to be true.
Last weekend, I got my system ready to install the latest and greatest from the openSUSE community. After I wrote that post, I thought I was going right into the installation, but life intervened (as it so often does). Between tending to other priorities (some of us are still working while the economic crisis continues) and wanting to reserve a large block of time for the install, just in case anything went wrong, I didn't get to install openSUSE 12.1 until Wednesday.
The good news is that it went pretty smoothly. Let me tell you about it…
The last item of preparation last week was to burn the KDE LiveCD to use for the installation. I kept the Transmission BitTorrent client going 24×7 throughout this period, sharing the 32-bit DVD, KDE and GNOME ISO files (in case you're wondering, the share ratio indicating the demand for each file wound up at over 5 for the DVD, and both live CDs around 2, with GNOME slightly ahead) for roughly a week.
Before I shut down the laptop, I popped the burned CD-RW into the holder, without sliding it in. I powered down the machine, and the CD drive pulled in the disc. After a couple of deep breaths, I fired up the laptop, and the CD loaded and displayed the KDE desktop, as expected. Two things made me happy to begin with:
In the KDE folder view that presented itself on the LiveCD was a lovely Install button. The adventure was about to begin. Clicking the button generated a warning box, telling me I didn't have enough memory (less than 1GB) to complete the install and run anything else. While thinking "Wow, you mean with a newer system I would have been able to get screen shots? Or even tweet the whole process?", I resigned myself to reality and started the install. Sorry folks!
The openSUSE installation process has changed a bit since the v10.3 install I documented in openSUSE Linux Unleashed back in 2007, but similar to more recent versions. On the first screen, the installer identifies the language and keyboard you use, with drop-down menus in case it guesses wrong. It also displays the GNU General Public License v2 text, which you do not have to "sign," but have the option to read.
Clicking Next takes you to the gorgeous full-color world map that allows you to define your time zone, either by clicking your spot on the map, using the drop-down menus or some combination of both. Because this is YaST, you get the option to use the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to set your clock with the help of time servers associated with ultra-accurate atomic clocks. As I had yet to set up my Internet connection, this didn't work—but I got it working (set to the us.pool.ntp server) later. Click Next.
The third screen offered a suggestion for partitioning the hard drive. YaST reproduced the existing partition table exactly as I had it written down last week, and recommended only reformatting the root (/) partition. For a truly clean install, I could have reformatted /home too, but I was getting anxious and lazy, so I let it slide.
After the suggested partition table, you get three check boxes to select from:
When I clicked Next, I ran into the first glitch of the install, based on the fact that the LiveCD was still running. While the install program (YaST) was trying to identify an initial set of software packages, PackageKit was using the same YaST Software Management module to check for new software, generating an error message from the install program. I had to press Ctrl+Esc to get the System Activity module up to kill PackageKit to continue. that's Tip #1 for a first-time installer!
Once the software conflict was resolved, the fourth screen of the install appeared, where I created my first user. YaST asks for your Full Name, and offers your first name as your user name. You can change this manually if you prefer something else. You are then asked to type a password twice for that user.
Here you also get three check boxes for this user:
Also on this screen, you can select an authentication method (how the system is to know that you are really you). By default, openSUSE will use the classic UNIX method of a passwd file in /etc. If you have one, you can also select a digital certificate stored on a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, a Network File Server (NFS) or a Windows share. Your password will be encrypted using a SHA-512 key, the most secure protocol available, by default. You could choose a lesser cipher (DES, MD5 or SHA-256), but I don't know why you'd do such a thing.
If you opted to create a different Root/admin password, clicking Next lets you set that password, otherwise you will see the Summary page of all the decisions you've made up to this point, with a final opportunity to make changes. You can also select what happens at boot time on this machine. openSUSE presumes you want to start at runlevel 5, with a graphical desktop, but if you just want to run a server of some type, with just command-line access, you can choose that here.
Click Next, and you'll get the last warning to turn back. The installer then formats the partition(s) it's slated to and starts "copying the root filesystem." You can walk away or read a magazine article while it works. On my laptop, the install took 27 minutes. You will be asked to reboot the system.
After the reboot, the automatic hardware configuration kicks in, and two minutes later, your shiny new KDE desktop appears on your screen! From starting the LiveCD to a new working system took less than an hour, and would have been even faster had I not been taking copious notes.
Of course, I wasn't quite done yet. You remember the problem I had with PackageKit earlier in the process? Well, I still hadn't done my network setup, so the newly installed PackageKit replacement, called Apper, tried to find updates and promptly crashed.
I opened YaST, and set up my DSL connection with AT&T. After some poking around, I finally found KNetworkManager in the KDE "Configure Desktop" settings application and set up the wireless connection too. Finally, I set up my software repositories in YaST without a hitch. The KDE Crash Reporter was then able to get a proper backtrace, which was sent off to the KDE team.
Over the course of the holiday weekend, I've had to fix a few settings, and install a bunch more software, but overall I'm a happy guy! Yes, I've successfully booted to Windows and booted back to openSUSE again. I hope your install/upgrade goes as well as mine. If you're still on the fence about installing, here are some of the other new features. Don't forget: Have a lot of fun!
You may already know, but openSUSE released v12.1 of the community distribution this week. With a new number before the decimal point, I thought it would be a good time for a fresh, clean install on my aging laptop. I could just upgrade my existing v11.4 installation, but I like to see what the new install looks like from time to time. Doing a clean install also means I can share the process with you too.
Clean installs do require a bit of preparation, though. You will be wiping your partitions, so you want to preserve your existing data, and a bit of your configurations before embarking on a new install. In this post, I'll share what I did.
While you can find software to do just about anything with just the default repositories in openSUSE, sometimes you need something that isn't in there, or even in the community repositories that you get access to with every installation. Fortunately, the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) allows anyone to create packages to distribute with openSUSE, or any major Linux distribution.
When you use the 1-Click Install option, the packager adds his/her repository to your system so you get all the updates. Checking what packages come from what repositories can save you some time later.
As I write this, it occurs to me that the repo list is probably stored in /etc somewhere, but you will still want to write down the repo names and the relevant packages that to install on 12.1.
Speaking of packages I got from a non-standard repository, I use BackInTime to handle regular backups of my /home drive to my ever-trusty Seagate FreeAgent external drive. It backs up that info weekly, and is a no-brainer to set up. Nonetheless, I wanted to ensure that everything got backed up before the uninstall/reinstall, so I wanted to make my own archived /home drive, and also the /etc space (where system configuration files tend to be kept).
I thought that would be a simple task with KDE's handy Ark tool, but I ran into a permissions issue. Apparently the place I wanted to back up to was restricted to Root! So using the Krusader file manager in Root mode, I was able to change the permissions for the backup folder, and perform the backup; shrinking the 25GB on my /home path to just 9GB. Data is safe!
Now some people might get angry with me, but I still have the occasional need for that Microsoft operating system. Lots of folks still use it, and the appropriate screen shot is still helpful for my readers (thanks, all of you!). So I've been running a dual-boot system for pretty much this entire millennium. Maybe you don't have to, so you can skip this step. Otherwise, I highly recommend knowing what your system currently looks like. the openSUSE install program should recognize everything that's there already, but in the off-chance that something goes wrong, if you know how Linux already sees your drive, chances are better it will stay that way.
Again, YaST helps in this regard with the Expert Partitioner module. This tool will reorganize your drive if you need it to, but I'm just going to look at the table now. I wrote down the current partition table, noting that the physical drive was split up into eight pieces (including an extended partition that holds just about everything). I made careful notes of the file system on each partition (so I know where Windows sits) and the size of each. After I wrote it down by hand, I took a screen shot for additional peace of mind. I should be able to recreate that during the install.
As I awoke on the morning of November 16, openSUSE v12.1 was released. I went straight to the download site, and downloaded the torrent files for the full 32-bit DVD release, and LiveCDs containing the GNOME 3.2 desktop and KDE 4.7.2. I can't make DVDs with this laptop, but I suspected that I could be of help to others if I got all the stuff. The Transmission torrent client went to work as I did the same. When I got home from work, all three files were downloaded to the FreeAgent drive and seeding other people's downloads.
I guessed right, as my share ratios indicate the DVD is by far the most popular form of download. Interestingly, the GNOME LiveCD has maintained a slight edge over KDE every time I've checked the ratios.
BTW, If all this talk of torrents and share ratios have you scratching your head, please let me know. This post has gone on too long already, but I'm happy to take up the topic later.
So let's see: Data's backed up; we know where to find random packages, we know where to install the new version and got the installation program. All that's left is to put the install program on CD. For that task, I use K3B, the excellent CD/DVD burning tool that comes with KDE. Throw a CD-RW into the drive, go to Tools > Burn Image, and point to the openSUSE-12.1-KDE-LiveCD-i686.iso file. Another dialog comes up, where I ask K3B to confirm the data is valid on the CD after writing it, and 10 minutes later, I have a CD ready to go.
In the next post, I'll tell you how the install went. In the meantime, let me know how you prepare for a new install. Fewer steps? Always just a dist-upgrade?
If you've already upgraded to openSUSE 12.1, I'd love to hear how it went, and what you think. Of course, if anything went badly, please file bug reports!
It's summer in Milwaukee, and I haven't been spending too much time in front of a keyboard lately. You're surprised?
Anyway, I do have a lot of things on my mind, and here are some of them:
I'll be the first to tell you I am close to clueless about business trends. Anyone who's ever read my reaction to the Novell-Microsoft agreement can figure that out pretty quickly. That said, it's been a week since Attachmate "agreed to acquire" (amazing phrase, that) Novell, the parent company of the SUSE Linux products, and unquestionably a major sponsor of the openSUSE community.
Since then, there's been a fair amount of activity among the openSUSE faithful:
a repo that is a rolling updated version of openSUSE containing the latest "stable" versions of packages for people to use.
I'd describe it like this: An "in-between" version of openSUSE that offers packages that are a little bit more current than the most recent release, but not as buggy as the cutting-edge Factory repository. For those of us who like stability, but don't want to miss out on the latest.
So what does this have to do with the Attachmate-Novell hookup? It tells me that regardless of what happens at the corporate level, there is energy in our community. There's reason to believe that energy can sustain this distribution for a long time.
Got any thoughts about the future of openSUSE, and other community distributions with a major corporate sponsor? Add a comment here.
Had a great time with the Madison Linux User Group Saturday. About a dozen folks skipped the second half of the Badger game (and a really nice fall day), and joined us at ITT Technical Institute for my Introduction to openSUSE presentation.
As most folks there use Ubuntu, I focused on the things that make openSUSE stand out, which was mainly YaST (the installer and system administration tool). I also spent a great deal of time showing off KDE SC 4.5—actually more time than I wanted to, as I managed to hang up my system!
A backup laptop appeared (thanks, Doug!) to permit a brief demo of the openSUSE Build Service. That part was certainly not as polished as the one Joos describes here, but was helpful, I think. I finished with a short summary of the community strategy discussion.
The group was amazingly patient through all the software issues and projection miscues that seemed to plague me from the get-go. Questions were good and the general comments were smart and useful. As noted, a great time!
Here are the slides (even the ones I didn't show!):
Thanks to Doug Whitfield, who invited me; Brad Stone, who kept me informed and otherwise took care of me; the openSUSE Marketing team for the slide templates; and those who participated.
Yes, I've been quiet the last couple weeks. Been preparing my first openSUSE talk in quite awhile. Speaking to the Madison Linux User Group (MadLUG) at 1PM Central Time (more info here). In the course of an hour or so, we're going to cover YaST, KDE, the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) and if time permits, there will be discussion of the strategy process.
I'll have a few openSUSE 11.3 DVDs to give away, and some really cheap copies of openSUSE Linux (10.3) Unleashed. Come on down if you're in the neighborhood. If you're not, watch this space for a summary. With some good fortune, I'll get the slides posted too.
It's been more than a week now since the Great OpenOffice Fork of 2010, and the dust is beginning to settle.
If you haven't heard, last Monday a large chunk of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) development community announced the formation of The Document Foundation (TDF), and would create a new office suite based on OOo, called LibreOffice. The announcement carried endorsements from many heavy hitters in the open source and corporate worlds, including Google, Novell, Red Hat, and Canonical. Even the GNOME Foundation (while noting the existence of its own small suite) had nice things to say at the launch.
Absent from the party were a pair of giants: IBM and Oracle. The latter was not surprising, as the database company put this train in motion by acquiring Sun Microsystems, the firm who had released OpenOffice into the wild some years back. TDF invited Oracle to participate in the effort, and expressed hope they would release the copyrights to the OpenOffice name. Yep, that was going to happen. Monday, Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols reported that Oracle has officially declined to participate in the Foundation.
With more than 100 million users, we believe OpenOffice.org is the most advanced, most feature-rich open-source implementation and will strongly encourage the OpenOffice community to continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org.
Today, Italo Vignoli of TDF reports, among many interesting numbers, that the LibreOffice beta has been downloaded some 80,000 times in its first week of existence. The beta consists of rebranded OpenOffice v3.3 code. There's a support forum for those users now running too.
Here's a sample of some of the best reporting and thinking I saw, outside of the mainstream tech press, on the announcement:
Now comes the fallout, as the rest of the OpenOffice community has to pick sides. Eric Bachard of the OOo Education project initially posted a skeptical article called "No LibreOffice for Me" to his blog, but apparently pulled it in the intervening time. Jean Hollis Weber of the Documentation Project (close to my heart, of course) wondered about the future: "At this point I'm not quite sure what this will mean for my role as Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Documentation Project, given my enthusiasm for the Foundation."
While most of the coverage and blogging about LibreOffice and TDF was quite positive, Matt Asay of Canonical expressed a dissent that I saw a lot of in roaming around online in his essay for GigaOm: "LibreOffice: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (and Gone)."
It's unclear what a web-light, client-heavy Microsoft Office clone can hope to achieve in terms of real innovation. And why are we worried about replicating Microsoft Office functionality, which has long been the aim of the OpenOffice community? While some Excel spreadsheet jocks may live in Microsoft Office, very few of the rest of us give it more than a cursory glance on a regular basis. It's not that we're not engaged in "office productivity," either. We just work differently now.
While I don't begrudge Asay's ability to work with Google Docs and Zoho in his day job, I can tell you that there are millions of us still using word processors and the like installed on a desktop, safely behind a corporate firewall. Maybe that will change over time, but for now, I'd much prefer using LibreOffice than that other dominant suite.
I wish the LibreOffice team the best of luck building their new suite, and devising many new and effective ways of communicating. Keeping KOffice on their toes as well!
As we watch this community grow, I hope the openSUSE community can learn some lessons as well. One thought from this corner: Suddenly the idea of an independent foundation to manage the community doesn't sound so out in left field. With the openSUSE Conference coming up, there's a lot to discuss.
So after a week of preparation and a couple more weeks of frustration and perseverance, my somewhat ancient laptop has transformed from a dual-boot Kubuntu/Windows XP system to a dual-boot openSUSE 11.3/Windows XP system.
The whole process wasn't really as bad as I'd feared, nor as bad as you might think after reading that lead paragraph. I pretty much thought I'd have to reformat my hard drive and start over and backed up all my data accordingly. Once I did that, I remembered to install Windows first, even though I never ran into any issues when I earlier installed Windows on what it considered the H: drive.
What I was not really expecting was having to fight my DSL router to get access to openSUSE's software repositories! This is the story I want to share with you.
First, let me say that one of the great things about Linux is its ability to make old tech useful and productive (setting a great example for human society as a whole). Back in the day, folks made the case for people to try turning their old desktop PC into a Linux network server when they got some shiny new piece of hardware. You can still do that with your ancient Pentium processor, as long as you don't need a graphical interface to run it.
This laptop I'm typing into was the first portable I ever bought, and it's just three years old. One of the first Dell machines to ship with Ubuntu in the summer of 2007. I bought a copy of Windows XP to add to it another while back. But I've had this 2WIRE DSL router since I moved into my last apartment on New Year's Day 2004, and it's still going. Hardly ever caused me a lick of trouble, except when I installed openSUSE 11.1, and YaST Online Update wouldn't update. I brought my problem to the openSUSE mailing list, and eventually discovered the problem was with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Disabling IPv6 in the YaST network manager solved the problem, presumably for all time, or at least till the engineers figured out why IPv6 wasn't working.
Not quite two years later, with no update trouble either on Windows or Ubuntu, I proceeded to rebuild the laptop. The install(s) went quite smoothly—until we got to the update part. My old friend "cannot resolve download.opensuse.org" returned to my screen. Well, "download.opensuse.org" was a new thing, and a very cool item at that. For most of my (open)SuSE installs, I had to find and designate my own closest mirror, to ease the burden on the 'net pipes. Now you connect to this one download URL, and a piece of software called MirrorBrain finds a nearby download site for you!
To make a long story a little shorter: It turns out the mirror selected for me has a problem with that aging router of mine. When you use the domain name, the router spits it out—"No packets from you!" But one of the search engines found me a piece of the puzzle. I tried using nslookup to get the IP address of download.opensuse.org. To my surprise, changing the address of the repositories in YaST from letters to numbers appeased my router!
A few problems remained, mainly that I couldn't access the list of community repositories that house so many fine applications (apologies to those readers who aren't using openSUSE; I know this is probably too detailed, but this is my way of helping the next person). Every time I'd try to get the list from YaST, it would dutifully go off to download.opensuse.org and come up empty. <sigh>
But now nslookup stopped being friendly! For some reason, when I'd try:
nslookup http://packman.unixheads.com/
I'd get in response:
** server can't find http://packman.unixheads.com/ .gateway.2wire.net: REFUSED
Just when I was about to cave in and buy a new router, I tried one more search on this error message. The results led me to a post on a Red Hat Linux forum (of all things), suggesting I try using the Host command (as root) instead of nslookup. Lo and behold, that got me real IP addresses.
While I still don't have the complete list of community repositories, this page offers a good list that I was able to configure in YaST. So I'm happily back in openSUSE. Yes, I'll probably be replacing the router soon, but I can get on with my work for now.
Thanks to all who helped, whether they knew it or not! This community is stellar! Now I just have to get my old KMail restored, and I'll be even happier.


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You need an event permit before holding an event, as this permit confirms that you have the permission you need to hold your event.
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To make sure the event is legal you must also get any other permission, consent or approval that is needed to hold the event (and any activity within the overall event) well in advance.
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Medici, Lorenzo de
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Italian nobility, a member of the powerful Medici family. Lorenzo was a Florentine merchant prince and politician, a major figure in the Italian renaissance and patron of the arts. He was a tyrannical ruler but Florence prospered under his rule. Married, he had seven kids.
Died 4/08/1492, Careggi, Italy.
- child->parent relationship with Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de (born 15 February 1472 Jul.Cal. (24 Feb 1472 greg.))
Source Notes
Source unknown: January 1, 1449 OS.
Sy Scholfield quotes "Bertoldo Di Giovanni, Sculptor of the Medici Household" by James David Draper (University of Missouri Press, 1992): "[Janet] Cox-Rearick cites particulars concerning Lorenzo's astrological chart that also govern the design. Lorenzo was a New Year's Day child, born at 7:30 in the morning of January 1, 1449. In his horoscope, Saturn is Lord of the Ascendant ... At that hour, Mars is Lord of the Mid-Heaven 'and the most significant planet in relation to Lorenzo's rulership.'" Draper cites the book, "Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontormo, Leo X" by Janet Cox Rearick (Princeton University Press, 1984).
- Family : Childhood : Advantaged (Nobility)
- Family : Childhood : Family noted (Powerful, Medicis)
- Vocation : Politics : Public office (Florentine merchant prince)


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I was sitting down stairs watching match of the day 2 on the telly when i heard her shuffling around outside the room, I thought she'd probably nipped down for a glass of water, when all of a sudden she burst in the room and sprayed de-icer in my face.
I said "What the fuck are you doing you mad cow!"
I cried oot " Was I fuck, i was watching the footy!"
"Were you really?" She asked, "Well why have you got a hard on then?!"
I said " because we've just beaten Portsmouth 3-0!"
She was drunk and on her rags if that's any sort of excuse.


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Sometimes these thoughts about body image can get pretty serious...so much that some people develop an "eating disorder." Eating disorders are very dangerous and can really damage someone's health. Here are just a few problems caused by eating disorders:
Eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder affect over five million people! In fact, 1 out of every 100 young women between the ages of 10 and 20 suffer from an eating disorder. The more you know about these illnesses will make you better able to help yourself and people you love.


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We all make mistakes sometimes; it's impossible to avoid. However, many of us try hard not to make mistakes because we worry about our job security. A large mistake at work can mean the difference between a steady job and being back out in the job market, so it's important to work hard and avoid as many mistakes as possible. While employees often worry about upsetting their bosses, sometimes we forget that even bosses make mistakes.
Depending on the boss you have, they may be reluctant to admit when they make mistakes (but chances are that if they have their own boss, they will be accountable to that person). Some bosses don't even realize that they make mistakes, but of course, they do. There are some mistakes that are truly detrimental to a working relationship with employees. Here are five mistakes that bosses make that can negatively affect a work atmosphere.
1. Not being a leader
Leadership qualities should be one of the first traits that a boss regularly displays. A boss needs to be able to lead subordinates in multiple ways, including leading meetings, leading projects, establishing rules, and managing problems in a department or team. Many bosses also need to be able to distribute tasks, confidently work with clients, and build relationships. All of these tasks require strong leadership qualities, and a good leader also needs to be confident, trustworthy, and empowering. A boss who regularly neglects responsibilities, drops the ball on important meetings, fails to listen to employees, or displays qualities that are not leadership-worthy (such as saying that employees should do one thing, but doing something else) is failing as a boss.


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Hyundai Forums : Hyundai Forum (http://www.hyundai-forums.com/forum.php)
- - Harmonic Balancer (http://www.hyundai-forums.com/sm-2001-2006-santa-fe/156295-harmonic-balancer.html)
Harmonic Balancer
I have a wobbly crank pulley and I am wondering how ofter the harmonic balancer should be replaced? I have about 125000miles on my 2004 Santa Fe 2.7 V6 and I have heard this is an issue around 100000. Also wondering how much it would cost to replace?
Can this throw me a CEL code?
We generally replace them when the customer show up with some issue related to loss of accessory drive belt power or noise..
Had fella show up via tow in for timing belt a bit over 60,000 mile, the outer ring off the center hub and sitting on frame rail..
I dont recall price of part right off, but typically on the self at Hundai and Kia dealers
125,000, about due for the 120,000 timing belt interval aren't you ?
Crank pulley make MIL illuminate.. no
I was told the bolt was loose but it ran fine for about 2days. Now it started making a knocking sound and is idling a little rough. I replaced the timing belt at 98,000. I thought it was suppose to be replaced between 80k and 100k. Could the balancer cause the engine to misfire causing the CEL to come on? Also, could this throw off the timing?
IMO you should replace the harmonic balancer and while there pull off timing cover. I have seen many balancers cut through the cover and leave plastic pieces to fall in timing belt area.... few were so dug into and cut up that the pieces of plastic caused the timing belt to jump and kill motors. If you do encounter the plastic cover cut up and pieces within timing area, REPLACE ALL TIMING BELT & WATER PUMP COMPONENTS! Better to spend 5-800 rather than a whole motor...
Harmonic Balancer
I had my damper come apart at about 66K. The sad thing was, I had the timing belt replaced at a dealer, and they installed the faulty damper, and said nothing. A short time later, I noticed grinding marks in the front cover. Inspecting underneath revealed the belt was holding the damper from coming outward, and the timing cover was holding the damper from going inward. I was upset to say the least. I called another dealer, and they said the famous words "bring it in and we will look at it" I just love that. The damper was not a "chronic" problem, but it was on national backorder. In all the years I have been driving, well over 50, I have NEVER had a damper come apart. Now at 99K I am going to install another with my timing belt change. I guess this is considered "normal maintainance" in todays world.
wow! that blows!! at ONLY 60K??.... now I knew that these were common issues but not THAT common.... sorry to hear Revmup.... and it could have EASILY destroyed the motor....SMH
Harmonic Balancer
I guess I just am not used to these things like the balancer for example, being a problem. Dampers used to last well beyond the life of the car, and were almost never replaced except when damaged in a collision. It's a different world out there today, now we are more interested in how many cupholders, Bluetooth capability, OnStar, digitally tuned sound systems and other failure prone crap that can be added to an otherwise piece of junk to make it more saleable. Give me back the old V-8 sound, dual pipes making shotgun like sounds out the back, we didn't need a radio in those days, the exhaust was music to the ears. God I so miss those days!
The balancer was going bad and I had it replaced. But the bigger issue that was causing the issue for me turned of to be a bad crankshaft sprocket. So now, essentially have to have the timing belt redone. Hopefully thats the only issue
Is a Harmonic Balancer and a Pully Damper the same thing??
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Millennial finance: 'I wish my folks had taught me how to budget properly'
Sometimes it can feel like money is harder to talk about than sex, when parents and millennials are concerned. Here, 10 young adults share the financial lessons they've learned – and those they wished their parents had shared.
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My advice: Don't spend what you don't have. Buy used cars and pay for them in full, if you can. Live simply, be thrifty, and cook for yourself at home
- Jordan, San Francisco, California
- Jordan, San Francisco, California
It would have been really helpful to have some guidance on building a budget from my parents. I know how much I make, and how much my regular bills are, but I've never learned how to set budgets for the rest of it: entertainment, food, clothes, healthcare, toiletries etc. This means I'm always barreling through the month, terrified that one of my checks might bounce, or I won't have enough for a bill because I've overspent on something else.
– Caitlin, Washington, DC
– Caitlin, Washington, DC
I wish my folks had taught me how to budget properly, other than just hoarde what you can and spend as little as possible. I don't know anything beyond that, really. Nothing about investing, or the stock market, or credit.
– Adrien, Orlando, Florida
– Adrien, Orlando, Florida
My mom told me to always put in as much as my employer will match in my 401k. I'm only 22 and have already started following this piece of advice.
– Jessica, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
– Jessica, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I wish my parents had taught me how to actually manage my money when I first got a job instead of letting me spend it on whatever I liked. I wish they made me set up a savings account
– Jordan, San Francisco, California
– Jordan, San Francisco, California
My folks recently sat me down to go over saving money, how to invest in my retirement, set up an investment account, and build a contingency fund. Recently, I started building a contingency fund, but then had to spend it all on an emergency bill … I guess that's what a contingency fund is for, though. Back to $0 savings!
– Caitlin, Washington, DC
– Caitlin, Washington, DC
Cost of college
Millenials need to know how to calculate student loan repayment to estimate a solid, real-world dollar amount for monthly payments.
– Chris, New York, New York
– Chris, New York, New York
I wish my parents had pushed for me to go to a community college or had helped me weigh my options better. Instead I went to a private university and received a degree in the humanities. At 26, I have over $30k in student loans. I just got my first "real job", where I have been able to start paying down my debt. But does an 18 year old really understand the concept of what $40k in debt is? I hardly think so.
– Shay, Polson, Montana
– Shay, Polson, Montana
I was going to have to take out student loans no matter what, but attending a public school that cost $20k per year instead of a private school that cost $50k per year would have been a good choice. My mother trusted me to make the decision on my own, but now I have huge debt.
– Amelia, Brooklyn, New York
– Amelia, Brooklyn, New York
Credit cards
The key to good credit: Live within your means. Identify wants and needs. Don't use credit for impulse buys.
– Jose, Miami, Florida
– Jose, Miami, Florida
I wish my parents had impressed upon me the importance of establishing credit at a young age. Credit frightened me as a teenager and into my early 20s. I had heard so many stories of devastating debt that ruined (or nearly ruined) people's lives. I wish I had established credit earlier in my life. While my credit isn't bad, it isn't as good as it could be.
– Nathan, Richmond, Virginia
– Nathan, Richmond, Virginia
You need to start using a credit card for a few small purchases to build up your credit score – even though credit card companies are one of the many incarnations of evil.
– Chris, Windsor, Connecticut
– Chris, Windsor, Connecticut


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Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Following Your Dreams, Inspiration for Change, Kathy Caprino, Support for Change, Uncategorized What My Five Careers Have Taught Me: Top 10 Lessons of Career Reinvention I've significantly revised my career numerous times over my 25 years of working, and each time, I've learned some powerful, surprising lessons — about myself, my capabilities, perceptions, misconceptions, and about what it takes for me to attain what... Read More
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Advice, Careers, Empowerment, Kathy Caprino, Leadership, success, Women in Business, Women in Leadership The Wrong Kind of Help – Six Key Traits of "Help" that Hurts As an empowerment researcher, I've studied for eight years what constitutes "helpful" help versus advice or counsel that diminishes and demeans, or sends you in the wrong direction. The sad news is that thousands of so-called "helpers" in our... Read More
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FLORHAM PARK – An ordinance allowing the building of "The Ave.," a 265-unit, $61 million corporate suite facility in the Rockefeller Group's The Green at Florham Park, was adopted by Borough Council members Thursday night, but not before a handful of Madison residents and that borough's attorney protested the proposed project.
Since October, borough officials have considered Korman Communities' plan to build "The Ave," a project that would provide one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging in size between 800 and 1,100 square feet for extended stays lasting between one month and one year. The facility would provide long-term housing for corporate employees and executives, and even professional athletes, as the Atlantic Health Jets Training Facility is co-located on the former Exxon-Mobil site with Realogy and BASF corporate offices.
Corporate suites were not a use approved for the site by the Florham Park Planning Board in 2007, but only because the idea never arose. However, the borough Planning Board has now recommended the use be approved.
But during Thursday's public hearing prior to the ordinance's adoption, Madison residents whose homes are near The Green, which sits on the Park Avenue border shared by Florham Park and Madison, weighed in So did Madison Borough Attorney Salvatore Alfieri, who said Madison Borough Council members were concerned because of the "significant impact on the residents of Madison."
Suites, he reminded Mayor Mark Taylor and council members, "were not contemplated" at the time of the 2007 agreement about the complex and the proposed building "significantly exceeds" agreed-upon height and setback limits.
In addition, Alfieri said the ordinance provided "no standards for landscaping and buffering." Lighting and signage needs also "had to be addressed," he said.
Alfieri said Madison officials were "not against development," however. "We just think the ordinance and (proposed) development will have a negative impact."
Florham Park planner Robert Michaels assured Alfieri that the Florham Park Planning Board would "extensively review" all of the plans associated with the project, including the development and site plans, where changes can be suggested and possibly made.
Because the long-term suites would "enhance" local businesses, they were "appropriate and compatible" with uses at The Green, Michaels said.
Madison neighbors, however, insisted the proposal caused them great concern.
Anita Pacheco of 200 Park Ave. said it was "a great distress" because the building won't fit the neighborhood.
"Now we'll be faced with a 4-story structure," she said, adding, "Maybe that's not the optimum place to have it."
Al Spatola of 6 Rose Ave. urged officials to be good neighbors and discuss the issue with Madison residents. "Let's talk about the human side of this," he said.
Spatola, like Pacheco, was concerned about the building's appearance. "What's this property going to look like?" he asked.
Another Madison resident, Joseph Balwierczak of Beech Avenue,, agreed. "We always want to be good neighbors with our Florham Park neighbors," he said, asking that officials be the same with Madison.
Mia Romano-Brown of 9 Pine Ave. said she feared noting "cookie-cutter" office buildings would continue to appear on the property.
"We weren't happy when they built Realogy," she said, adding that developers did work them to solve some lighting issues.
Attorney Steven Schaffer, who represents Korman Communities, assured residents his client would work with them. "We very much want to do this the right way," he said. "We're looking to do the project this project the right way," he said.
One Bedroom
According to the adopted ordinance, corporate suites are "one or more buildings containing suites/occupancy units available to the public, with or without meals."
The definition stipulates the units to be no less than 650 "heated square feet and shall include facilities for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
"At least 50 percent of the corporate suites provided on any lot shall contain one bedroom and no corporate suite/occupancy shall have more than two bedrooms."
In addition, accessory services and amenities will be limited to "indoor facilities and services consisting of a leasing center, housekeeping services, furnished and unfurnished units, café, vending facilities, lobby/lounge/'gallery."
Such a property would also be allowed to operate a business lounger, cyber café and conferencing facilities, as well provide a theater "with permanent seating for no more than 35 people."
It could also provide a fitness center, breakout rooms, yoga room, and outdoor amenities including a pool, dance area, fire pit, and "passive recreation seating."
Korman Communities has been in the corporate suite business for more than 100 years.
Besides facilities in Washington, D.C., New York and London, the company also owns properties in Summit, Clifton, and Union.


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Leak in the cinder block foundation.
I am taking in water in cellar through cinder block foundation. How can I take care of this situation before it gets out of hand? Dry Lok? Or is there some kind of cinder block sealer that would work or something else? Thanks for your help.
First you must determine if you have hydrostatic pressure or if the wall is leaking.
If the wall is leaking you must fix it from the outside, trying to fix on the interior is not going to work.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news
If the weather is really bad and it is going to be difficult/expensive to dig and repair because of the current conditions you can have someone attempt to grout the wall, this is done by drilling holes in the top of the CMU wall and a very wet grout is pumped in the wall to fill every cavity up, essentially making a poured wall without the aggregate. THIS IS EXTREMELY MESSY, your lawn in the spring will look like a concrete truck puked on it, and when the wall is pumped full of grout all that water that is still in the CMU cells has to go somewhere and I promise that 100% of the time it ends up in your basement since it won't push itself outside. When you can, it must be dug up and waterproofed, this would entail cleaning off the dirt and debris from the CMU wall once excavated, and a new waterproofing material applied along with a drain board. While your down there and this far, cx and repair/replace the weeping tile install new gravel and backfill.
If it's hydrostatic pressure from under the slab you will need to break up the concrete around the basement wall on the inside and install weeping tile to the sump pit, gravel and re-concrete the area.
Google basement systems and see what their products are like, they have ways to fix basements that are a lot easier then the methods I described. Their methods are for channeling the water that comes in to the sump pit, I'm sure it works fine, but you still have water intrusion and I would rather fix it right from the get go. If you ever sell, disclosing a basement leak and a patchy repair may not impress potential buyers, do it right.
Thanks Chris. I had a feeling...it may not be an easy job. But I thought there might be some new product or something that may work. A 20 dollar fix not 3000.00.
I really dont have the money to do the whole excavating job maybe a sealer or dry Lok to hold till it can be done right.
ConcreteMasonary should be in here shortly, hopefully he has a different approach than I for the interm.
Thanks again Chris for all your help. Much appreciated. 68MHJCs
You must first determine the cause of the problem in order to adequately fix it. You can find some useful advice on http://www.b-dry.com/wet-basement-analyzer.htm There are a lot of things you can do by yourself unless it is a more complicated or serious problem. A good place to start is by investigating the cause. I think you'll like this site.
Thanks Bob for you help and info Ill check out that site. We are not in the house long so I would like to do something to address it, but like said not the time of year to backhoe yard and little too much $ also. But do know that would be the best way but cannot right now.
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This spring is all about growth for the Hillsboro girls tennis team.
The great thing is that numbers are strong. Coach Rick Karlin said about two dozen girls have turned out this season compared with about 13 or 14 a year ago, and among that group are eight returners.
But many of the Spartans are pretty new to tennis, so Karlin expects this year to be about progress, not necessarily competition.
Its going to be kind of a learning year for most of the girls, Karlin noted. So many of them are just starting to pick up a racket and play. I think its going to be a year of good growth though. Theres some that show some good potential.
On the singles side, Karlin expects for junior Alicia Hernandez and Mai Ninomiya, an exchange student from Japan, to battle for the No. 1 spot. Ninomiya is one of several exchange students on the squad, something Karlin said tends to be a pretty regular occurrence for the team.
They played a pretty tight match to see who was going to play (No.) 1 this week, and so well have them play a couple more times to see if one leapfrogs the other, Karlin said.
Senior Erin Schapiro is likely to get pegged in at the third or fourth singles position.
During Mondays home match against Liberty, Dominique Woodland and Mary Engish played in the top doubles spot.
Also playing doubles were Ranga Duvvuri and Bethel Amare, who each have a couple of years of tennis under their belts and held down the second spot. And Karlin was enthused about Kimberly Lemus, a tennis neophyte whom he said is demonstrating some good potential. She played fourth doubles with Chiara Konemann on Monday.
Players like Lemus could come a long way in a couple months. And that is what Karlin is looking for.
Said Karlin: It will be interesting to see what kind of growth they make over the year.


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- Grapeseed or canola oil for cooking
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 bunch scallions, sliced, white and green parts separated
- 6 cups cooked long grain rice, preferably day–old so it's nice and dry (in a rush, place cooked rice on a sheet tray and place in freezer to cool and dry)
- 1 cup Sweet and Sour Cranberry Chutney, plus 2 tablespoons for garnish
- 1 tablespoon naturally brewed soy sauce
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
In a wok (preferably nonstick) or sauté pan coated well with oil, over high heat, add the eggs (they should puff up immediately), stir quickly and transfer to a plate lined with paper towels. Return the wok to high heat and add the pork. Break it up and cook until browned, then add the scallion whites and mix. Add the rice, 1 cup of Cranberry Chutney, soy sauce and eggs. Season with salt and black pepper. Serve in a large bowl and garnish with scallion greens and additional chutney.


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Discussion in 'Photo & Video Gallery' started by ChevyFan, Jul 9, 2011.
This is me and my wife married for little over a year together for 5 years high school sweethearts
New guy here...
Intro, Bio & Truck Specs post to come... as soon as I pick up the new rig on Sunday...
Myself, my beautiful wife, and our three awesome kids.
Taken after completing the Richmond Remembers 9/11 Memorial Stairclimb, September 08, 2013.
110 flights in full turnout gear and airpack... In memory of the 343 FDNY Brothers who were killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
In New York city
Here's one of my wife of 33 years and my 3 grandsons waiting for Enkie at Rutts Hut a couple of years ago.
Here is wifey and I in Bahamas.
A pic of my significant other from the 4th this year, will be married next December!
Here is my most recent on senior night at her last high school football game..
Try again. I can't see the first.
My girlfriend Kayla and myself. If you couldn't tell I was acting like a dork
We'll take a pic of you and your bike.
Even one without the bike, haha.
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Just announced: Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Steven J. Lopes to be the first bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.The Ordinariate is a structure equivalent to a diocese, but serves Roman Catholics who were nurtured in the Anglican tradition. The Ordinariate provides a path for groups of Anglicans to become fully Roman Catholic, while retaining elements of their worship traditions and spiritual heritage in their union with the Holy Roman Church. At present the … [Read more...]
Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter Just Got Its First Bishop
The Body and Blood of Christ. Really. Just Think of That!
Sunday, June 7 is the Solemnity of the Most Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi).In anticipation of the feast, I want to remind you about Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina's The Feasts: How the Church Year Forms Us as Catholics. As a participant on their blog tour last year, I was asked to write about the Solemnity of the Body and Blood--and I'm only too happy to share this book with you.The feast is celebrated around the world in so many ways. Here at Seasons of … [Read more...]
Christ Was at Mass Today (A Guest Post by Deal W. Hudson)
Thank you so much to Deal Hudson, who generously granted permission for me to carry his post on my blog. I can't agree more--and I wouldn't have said it as well! * * * *CHRIST WAS AT MASS TODAY: A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT By Deal W. Hudson WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - My wife, also a Catholic convert, has said several times over the years, "The Church makes it so hard to be a Catholic." If she was really precise she would have said, "I go to Mass and it looks, sounds, and … [Read more...]


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Model Kate Moss criticized for "skinny" remark
By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - Eating disorder campaigners criticized British model Kate Moss on Thursday for saying she backed the motto "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels," a slogan popular with pro-anorexia websites.
Health experts said 35-year-old Moss, renowned for her waif-like appearance, had been irresponsible to make the comment, arguing girls could be influenced by the style icon.
Asked in an interview with fashion news website WWD if she had a motto, Moss was quoted as saying: "There are loads. There's 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' That's one of them. You try and remember, but it never works."
Eating disorder charity Beat said the slogan, which appears on the homepage of one pro-anorexia website "Starving for Control," was "really unfortunate."
"It's one that's used so prominently and so obviously in connection with pro-anorexic websites," Susan Ringwood, Beat's chief executive, told Reuters.
"We know she is a person who young people look up to, she's such a style icon, they are very interested in her life, they follow all the details of it.
"So for her to even inadvertently legitimize something that could be potentially so harmful is regrettable."
Ringwood said the number of people contacting the charity had trebled in the last six years, while the number of pro-anorexia websites outnumbered those providing help by five to one. Continued...


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So I have recently purchased a 09 WRX hatch, WR Blue.
Totally awesome car, big step up in performance from the MINI Cooper S I have been driving for a while.
I do have a couple quick (noob) questions:
-What are the differences between the 09 WRX Block and the WRX STI block? Do they share the same block or is the STI still running a special one?
-Does the AVCS vary intake or exhaust timing?
-Any idea on the limits of the WRX block? How far has it been pushed?
Thanks and its great to be here, seems like a great forum with lots of good info!


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- Sold Date: Mar 06, 2011
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Early 1900's Gilbert nautical banjo Clock 8 day wind pendulumn movement.The clocks duel chime strikes the hour and a single strike on the 1/2 hour. The Clock show normal scuffs for its age and is missing the back to the case that covers the movment.The back of the case has a stamp number 3096 and a made in the USA.The clock has had some restoration a paper dial overlay and a plastic crystal other than that the clock appears to be original.This is a very nice nautical banjo clock that was just serviced and keeps excellent time and will show well in any home or office. 29"H x 9 1/2" W x 4" D Thanks for looking.
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Feeling Lucky? New Yorkers Bet Big At City's First Casino
Gambling is coming to our area in a big way. Last month, New York voters approved a referendum to allow as many as seven new casinos. At the same time, New Jersey legalized online wagering. But the biggest recent development is the casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. New York City's first casino has confirmed that old maxim – if you build it, they will come.
On average 35,000 people visit the casino every day. In its first two years, the casino generated almost a $1 billion in new tax revenues for New York State.
The down-side to gambling in Queens is harder to quantify: no one is tracking the number of possibly new problem gamblers. Marie, who only gave her first name, is a nurse who reported losing $400 at the casino one day in November and said her life has changed dramatically since the casino arrived in her neighborhood.
"I used to save my money and do whatever," she said. "Now? As soon as I have some money all I think about is coming to the casino."


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