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The "Planetwalker" shares his unique journey as an environmental activist who was ahead of his time
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
He told the tale of his unique journey of activism that included a 17-year vow of silence, and a 22-year renunciation of motorized transport as he walked from California to the East Coast. Along the way, he earned a Master's degree in environmental studies and a Ph.D. in land studies, all without speaking.
It all began with an oil spill in 1971 in the San Francisco Bay, where he was appalled by the sight of dying birds covered in crude and the wretched smell permeating the atmosphere. Francis, then a self-described 20-something "hippie," said that experience ignited a fire within him that catalyzed the path he's taken, a journey that continues to this day.
A colorful and expressive storyteller, Francis used sweeping gestures – his own version of sign language that he developed to communicate with people across the country during his years of silence – to tell the arc of his story, and express his belief that environmental awareness is about much more than pollution and saving endangered species; it's about human rights and equity.
"How we treat each other is really manifested in the physical environment around us," Francis reflected. "So what's really important is our relationship with each other and how we treat one another, because that's how things seem to get messed up or out of balance."
He talked about sleeping in the wilderness, traveling everywhere by foot, learning to deeply listen, and developing a new level of consciousness and alertness as he walked the Western Hemisphere. He explained his family's perplexed frustration at his silence and how he attended colleges, and even taught courses, without speaking, ultimately earning his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. He painted water colors every day, wrote, kept journals and crafted poetry.
Those life experiences contributed to his education. Using only written communication, gestures and images, he enrolled in schools, including Southern Oregon State College, which gave him credits for life experience at a bargain price toward earning his bachelor's degree – one of the many gestures of good will bestowed upon him.
He wrote to the University of Montana two years before his trek on foot finally delivered him there, a wanderer with no funds to support his studies.
"I didn't have any money," Francis recalled. "They said, 'Come back tomorrow, and we'll take care of it.'"
Finally, he was given a fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his Ph.D.
When he finally broke his 17-year silence, in 1990, he spoke on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in Washington, D.C., where reporters, along with his family and friends, gathered to cover the momentous event.
"I hadn't heard myself in so long that I turned around to look and see who was talking. Then I realized it was me," he recalled. "I thought that was pretty funny, because I didn't recognize my own voice."
Soon thereafter, having developed a reputation as an environmental expert, he was tapped by the U.S. Coast Guard to write pollution regulations for the nation's waterways.
During his pilgrimage, Francis walked across the United States and earned a B.A. at Southern Oregon State College, an M.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana, and finally, his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.
He later sailed and walked through the Caribbean, and then walked the length of South America. In 2003, he met Dr. David Morimoto, Division Director of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Lesley, who was in Cuba to participate in the 2003 International Convention on Environment and Development. After meeting Francis, Morimoto extended his trip to participate in Planetwalk Cuba and discovered "the power of walking."
"Planetwalk Cuba really taught me that one step at a time, the world unfolds to you," said Morimoto, who spoke at the start of Francis' lecture. "It's not science alone; it can never be science alone. As an academic institution we can take a good lesson from that; that really, learning is interdisciplinary."
Francis was introduced to the audience by Lesley junior Dylan Bushe, a dual major in Environmental Studies and Middle School Education.
Francis concluded the 2012-2013 Lesley Conversations series, which brought a range of leading thinkers to campus, including prominent political analyst David Gergen and Far from the Tree author Andrew Solomon.
Francis is the author of the autobiographical Planetwalker. 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence. In 2011, his second book, The Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World, was published by the National Geographic Society.
He believes the current environmental crisis is a reflection of worldwide social and economic inequity, and that attempts to resolve the crisis must address not only the scientific issues, such as climate change and deforestation, but also the humanitarian issues. He contends that our connection to the earth and to each other is at the heart of the environmental crisis.
Lesley Conversations are designed to inspire thought-provoking discussions in the Lesley community and beyond, and to provide opportunities to think about issues influencing American and global policy. Their mission is to foster critical inquiry, active learning, and scholarly underpinnings in our actions as citizens and leaders in an interdependent world.
See photos from John Francis' presentation at Lesley.
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Mi Amigo, mi hermano Guillermo Have you ever met someone who felt like a long lost friend or member of your family? Meeting Guillermo was like that for me, and I think also for him. We quickly developed a profound respect for each other professionally and personally, enjoying each others food and company during special culinary events, where we were both serving for good causes.
To tell the truth, with the current political situation in Alabama, I was sorely tempted to write this column in Spanish.
Guillermo and I would often carry on bilingual conversations, he speaking English, and me speaking Spanish. He would humor me in this, as he understood that I needed to keep practicing the Spanish I had learned as a child living in Mexico and later in Spain. I learned at an early age to appreciate different cultures and languages. In my early twenties, I learned French also, while living as an illegal immigrant in Paris, where I also learned to cook, and not to try to play my guitar in the Metro. Guillermo and I also shared a love for food, family, the pleasures of the table, not to mention the occasional sip of an alcoholic beverage. I had a great respect for his eye for design, from his formal training as an architect.
Often I would sit in one of his restaurants and notice the little details of form and function, and wonder at that ability to see those possibilities in an empty room, a bare wall or a blank canvas.
One of his innate talents was as in true hospitality. The epitome of a host, he did not just say "Mi casa es su casa" (My house is your home); he lived it every day, with everyone he met. At times when either he or I was having physical, emotional or business challenges, he always had a sincere, caring word and one of his incredible hugs. You could see this, and more, reflected at the memorial service after his very untimely death, people from all walks of life, from all parts of the city, came out in an incredible turnout to his memory. And you could see the love and respect in the eyes and tears of his employees, that day back in the summer. And now we are coming up on an event that Guillermo and I have shared every year for the last eight years:
The Birmingham celebration of Día de los Muertos. Nine years ago, a wonderful local artist, Tracy Martin wanted to honor her late father Spider Martin, himself an iconic photographer of the Civil Rights era. She was involved in Barehands Gallery in many ways from artist to whatever, so she and Wendy Jarvis came up with doing an "altar" for Spider in the Mexican style of the Day of the Dead. Just a few calls, Guillermo was on board to bring tamales, I was bringing a rice dish "sort of like Jambalaya" and a band was formed to go along with a Second Line Parade in the New Orleans jazz funeral tradition. The celebration has grown each year, purely on a volunteer basis, putting a definite Birmingham twang to the traditional Mexican flavor. And each year, Guillermo would be in the next tent, serving up tamales, as I served up rice, and sharing some beers and sips of fine Tequila. And above all we would both revel in the people, learning about other cultures, languages, people, music and traditions. Both of us from different backgrounds, but sharing that love for food and people. So please join us in honor and memory of Guillermo and all those others who passed this year and years before. Wednesday November 2, 5pm. For more information Go to barehandsinc.org or facebook - Dia de los Muertos Guillermo mi amigo, pienso en ti todos los días.Voy a tratar de no estar triste el Miércoles próximo, pero voy a pensar en tu vida, tus abrazos y a los amigos y la familia que te qieren tanto. Espero bien que todos vayamos con Dios, porque estoy seguro que tu nos estás mostrando el camino.
Un gran abrazo, tu amigo, tu hermano, Franklin


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Ruthel Whitehead, 86
KENANSVILLE — Ruthel Whitehead, 86, died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 at Carolina East/Quinn Hospice Center Kenansville.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Prayer of Faith Evangelistic Church, Warsaw. Burial will be in the Middleton Cemetery, Kenansville.
A service of Hawes Funeral Home, Warsaw.


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After a pair of lackluster performances, the Green Bay Packers number one units picked it up considerably on a warm night at Paul Brown Stadium to beat the Cincinnati Bengals 27-13. Aaron Rodgers ran, yes ran for a pair of scores in building a 17-6 halftime lead before exiting and Jamari Lattimore sealed the first pre-season victory with a 27 yard interception return for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. When it was ones versus ones, the Packers were clearly the better team. A rough opening series for left tackle Marshall Newhouse with a false start and holding penalty stalled the drive but the Packers got it back with a three and out against young Andy Dalton. Rodgers hit Greg Jennings twice for 37 yards on the next series and than covered the final 12 yards for the game's first score on his own. He outran defensive back Nate Clements to the corner of the end zone. A sack shared by Clay Matthews and B.J.. Raji punctuated a second straight three and out and the offense covered 69 yards in 7 plays to double it's lead to 14. In his Packers debut, Cedric Benson ripped off runs of 8 and 9 yards on the drive, finished by Rodgers' second TD run covering five yards to the left pylon. Not to be outdone, Dalton scrambled for 28 yards leading to a Mike Nuget 42 yard field goal at the end of the first quarter. Rodgers then threw a bad ball to James Jones which Terrance Newman intercepted and raced 30 yards up the sideline. The defense dug in however, stopping Cincinnati on three plays from the one. Erik Walden did most of the work, sacking Dalton on third and goal from the three leading to another Nugent kick. Green Bay countered with a Mason Crosby 46 yard field goal after an 11 play, 51 yard drive. The halftime numbers were telling, the Packers outgained the Bengals 245-87, had 15 first downs to 5 and controlled the clock for over 17 minutes. Graham Harrell quarterbacked in the second half and a bad exchange with fullback John Kuhn was fumbled away at Green Bay's 15. It took one play for Bruce Gradkowski to find Marvin Jones on a back shoulder catch against Casey Hayward to close the gap to 17-13. Neither team could move the ball with blown assignments by the second offensive line leading to a pair of sacks for Harrell. The backup defenders saved the night as Sam Shields made an acrobatic interception that led to another Crosby field goal and Lattimore finished off the Bengals with just under 3 minutes to play.
The notables: Benson finished with 38 yards on just 6 carries and had a 10 yard catch. Green Bay ran for 184 yards as a team. Pro bowl receiver A.J. Green was covered primarily by Tramon Williams who had a pair of fine breakups in the red zone. Green was targeted 6 times but had one catch for three yards. The only new injury of note was to defensive tackle Ryan Pickett who suffered a calf injury in the first half and didn't return. Jermichael Finley returned to Green Bay Thursday morning for the delivery of his second child. The family's doing fine. The Packers will be off until the final three practices of training camp Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
On the link below, some post game quotes from Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers.


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I've found these sites to be some of the most useful over the years. Please add yours to these and we'll soon have a truly universal list.
The Knowledge Adventure Encyclopaedia
Information about a large number and variety of interesting topics. "A great homework helper". Simply type a word into the form provided and press enter.
Fun & Games: Word Search
A Java application that generates a word games (word search, jumbled words and scrabble
Webster's Word Games of the Day
Got two minutes? Play a new puzzle every day or visit our puzzle archive to play games you missed during the past month. Our word puzzles come in four hot formats:
Definition Demolition:
Use definition clues to unscramble three words before the bomb goes off!
Flip Flop:
It's as easy as matching the synonyms, antonyms, or slang terms before time runs out.
Transform Brainstorm:
Presto chango! Transform one word into another one letter at a time by matching the clues.
Match Maker:
Know your word histories? Or geography? Or history? Prove it with our hot matching challenge
The Grammar Gorillas
Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal. A fun activity for beginner and advanced learners.
The Virtual Language Centre: Grammar Guide
A self help set of activities for improving grammar. Higher level students only.
Internet TESL Journal's Crossword Puzzle links
There are so many crossword puzzle pages in this site, that I decided to include the page of links to the crosswords. Teachers should read through the list and decide which theme, topic, or level is appropriate to their individual needs. The results of this self-access searching could then be communicated through the discussion area of this web.
Create Your Own Newspaper
Humanising Language Teaching Ezine
An online magazine (e-zine) with a varitey of topics of interest to EFL teachers. Back issues are also available online. Includes editorial, major articles, short articles, ideas, lessons, student voices...
Impact Online
Welcome to Impact! Online, an interactive news magazine for intermediate and advanced ESL/EFL students. This web site features articles about current events, health, sports and entertainment, etc. In each article, certain words are highlighted. If you click on any of these words, you will be linked to a explanation page for that word.Some of these pages feature audio files, which will teach you how to pronounce the word
Index of Online Newspapers
From here you can find most online newspaper website from around the world. The site has a very easy to use directory for selecting by country.
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Sports Illustrated for kids.
Cloze Excercises
Fill each of the numbered boxes in the following passage with one suitable word. Use the TAB key to go to the next box. When you have finished press the SEND button to have your answers checked.
Easy Vocabulary Quizzes with Pictures
These are intereactive JavaScript quizzes for students of English as a second language.
Perhaps native English-speaking children will find them fun, too.
Click the correct picture. You can use the RETURN key to close the alert window.
Road Safety Project
The Road Safety Project falls into the category of the transversal theme "Vial". The Road Safety Project aims to encourage reading comprehension and expand
vocabulary, while developing online research skills.
The project contains the following:
Articles located in this site, including interactive comprehension exercises,
on-line aids and suggestions for classroom implementation.
Links to articles in other sites.
Ideas for guided research projects.
The English Spelling Zone
Learn some basic spelling rules, then practice using them. Includes... Plural Nouns, [ed] and [ing] words, Comparatives and Superlatives
Variety of Activities
Activities such as crosswords, reading comprehension, grammar, and matching excercises.
Virtual Language Centre: Reading
Reading excercises in using activities such as CLOZE, Comprehension, Jumbled Text
The Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database has the most complete and up-to-date data on all the movies that your students have watched, and will be watching for years to come. It is a great resource for information to meet the needs and interests of students... Read summaries of movie plots, find out about the actors, add your own information. Locate short movie trailers, solve arguments!!!
Aesop's Fairytales online
Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 654+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls. Included are Real Audio narrations, Classic Images, Random Images, Random Fables, Search Engine, Message Forum and much more on the way. Recently added are 127 Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 209 Grimms Fairy Tales coming soon along with much more mythology and stories for your reading pleasure.
Caroline's ESL Website
There are a copy of well presented texts for students to read and then answer questions. The questions are all multiple choice and the page automatically provides a score for the student.
OZ Reading Comprehension Page
Read the passage and then complete the exercise that follows. This page includes a number of reading texts, many related to Australian culture, all with quizzes that provide instant feedback on the student's performance.
Mag's Word Finder
Ever wondered how many words you could make out of the letters in your name? Choose a dictionary, type in a word or phrase, and fire away! There is also a list of other word games on the web
Spelling Rules
Spelling rules are there. The site will not win any awards for visual design, but it has the most common rules.
Gav and Peloso's Interactive Story
This is a moderated choose-your-own-adventure type of story where you get to write the story, and follow the story as it grows (and takes up much needed hard drive space.) You can even copy down the story location and come back to it later to see how it's grown.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
An advanced level online set of pages with excellent material for students or for teachers to develop into lessons for their students. You have permission to use parts of this site for your course work, and the author claims that changes are made practically daily. Some of the topics of particular interest include: Sentence, Paragraph, and Essay writing tips, rules, and detailed information. In addition, there are a large number of links related to learning grammar.
International Writing Exchange
Started in 1993, this fast became the most popular collaborative writing activity of the HUT Email Writing Project, largely due to it's firm yet flexible structure.
It's a flexible communicative project, with students writing to and receiving feedback from their global peers as well as their teacher.
The 5 main phases of each module are:
Introductory letter with teacher feedback, and student's revised version
Article on a topic, e.g., Love and Marriage
Peer feedback 1, author's response, 3 , 4 and 5
Teacher feedback, followed by self-study, e.g., with Help Pages and XE demo, and exercises created by class teacher and peers
Virtual conference in HUT Virtual Language Centre
Evaluation and selection for IWE Journal
Nancy Drew Myster Site
Includes on-line mysteries, discussion group, game and lesson plans
Paragraph Punch Website
This web site is designed to help users learn how to write a basic paragraph. This is a free online lesson based on our popular Windows 95/98/NT application, Paragraph Punch.
Users develop an idea and write their own topic sentence, body, and conclusion. Program prompts guide students step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing.
Students™ completed paragraphs can be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application
The King's Road Writing Project
The King's Road Project is still in its embryo stage and we are searching for funding, but it is already very dear to the writer s heart, and embodies the words she has had in her signature for years,Involve me and I ll learn . The writer feels strongly that the Internet should be integrated with all other activities. Students should have ample opportunities to express themselves in all kinds of ways, to communicate orally as well as in writing, and to have fun together.
The Travelling Theatre and Adventure Game Activity
The basic idea of the project is to use the King s Road, which runs through four countries from St. Petersburg in Russia to Oslo in Norway (through Finland and Sweden) as the basis for all kinds of activities both physical and virtual. For example, in the year 2000, it is hoped that there will be a travelling theatre group , from England, starting at one end of the road.The group of British actors will work with students at each educational institution, helping to create, act out and later to record on the Internet, in English, a collaborative story. The theme of the story will continue throughout the journey. For example, the Russian students will create a story, e.g, in St.Petersburg. The story will be written down and put onto the Internet; a summary will be put there on the same day. Then , the next school along the road will have to read that story before creating and acting out the next instalment. These students, in turn, will write their summary on the Internet for the following institution to read, and so on, all the way to Oslo, through four countries. The students will later rewrite the story in good English, and may wish to add suitable pictures, sounds or even video clips. Eventually, the whole story will be put into an adventure game being made by software enginering students from Helsinki University of Technology.
The Quotations Page
This page was originally developed as a catalog of Quotation resources on the Internet; it has since evolved into a large-scale Quotation site with many original resources.
The Student Showcase
The student showcase is an electronic magazine, containing articles and
prose written by high school students.
Although minor changes may have been made, the materials contained
herein have not been professionally edited, and may contain errors in syntax
or usage as they appeared in the students' original submissions.
Materials have been organized by content for easier browsing.Feature Articles
Are You Stupid?
Cigarette Smoking: A bad or a good thing?
Drugs: Should we or shouldn't we?
Stop the Bloodshed
They are Not Different
To Serve or Not to Serve (That is the question)
The Writing Den
WritingDEN has seven basic aims. They are:
to improve writing skills and the ability to write a variety of essays
to develop communication skills
to expand vocabulary
to foster knowledge of a variety of cultural, historical and scientific topics
to increase visual literacy
to improve English pronunciation
to expand comprehension skills and critical thinking abilities
to use computers and the Internet to support the objectives of the 1996 Information Technology curriculum
These are also useful links to term paper writing sites that can help you along the way. There are at least a hundred people out there who want to help you become better writers and students if you just seek them out; these have not been checked recently for activity so please let me know if you find any dead links:
Google Scholar.
Google now offers a scholarly research engine, "Google Scholar"; while it is still in beta testing, it appears to work very well.
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Parents Plead Guilty In Heroin Death Of 11-Month-Old Teething Son
Two applied heroin to baby's teeth and gums, resulting in his death, prosecutor says
The parents of an 11-month-old boy pleaded guilty this week to administering heroin to their baby son, who died in September 2008.
The pleas ended a four-year investigation into the unexplained death of "Baby JM," Ocean County Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford said.
Denise Manco, 35, and Rondell Moore, 37, each pleaded guilty in Ocean County Superior Court before Judge Rochell Gizinski on Jan. 7 to one charge of second degree manslaughter in connection with the death of their infant son.
Seaside Heights police and emergency responders went to the home on Sept. 12, 2008 on a report of an unresponsive child, Ford said.
The baby was taken to Community Medical Center in Toms River, where he was later pronounced dead. The autopsy on the baby was inconclusive, but the toxicology results showed the presence of heroin in the child, Ford said.
"In October 2012, we developed new and credible information which indicated that ingestion of the heroin by the child was not accidental, but rather occurred as a result of an intentional act or acts by the parents," she said.
The two were indicted by an Ocean County Grand Jury on second-degree manslaughter charges, recklessly causing the baby's death, child endangerment and possession of a controlled dangerous substance, Ford said.
"...both defendants admitted to placing heroin in the baby's mouth and rubbing it on the baby's gums because he was teething," she said. "This finding was consistent with the autopsy and toxicological results conducted and reviewed by the medical examiner, Dr. Hydow Park, who determined that the baby died from acute heroin intoxication."
Both are slated to be sentenced before Judge Gizinski on Feb. 22.
"I would commend Detective Steve Korman of the Seaside Heights Police Department and Detective Sergeant Carlos Trujillo-Tovar of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office for their diligence in pursuing this investigation into the death of Baby JM," she said..
The state agreed to dismiss the child endangerment and drug possession charges in exchange for the guilty plea, Ford said.
Both could face up to ten years in prison and are subject to the state's No Early Release Act, which mandates they serve at least 85 percent of their sentence before being considered for parole, she said.
Moore also admitted to an unrelated charge of possession of CDS with the intent to distribute during a September 2012 arrest, Ford said.
The case is being prosecuted by Senior Assistant Prosecutor Michael R. Weatherstone. Detective Steve Korman from the Seaside Heights Police Department, Detective Sergeant Carlos Trujillo-Tovar from the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office and Detective Eric Skieczius from the Ocean County Sheriff's Department Criminalistics Investigations Unit were the lead investigators on the case.
2:21 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Jerry Belle
5:04 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Had they aborted the baby before it was born, no one on the left of the political spectrum would have even cared...
Callaspade Aspade
2:27 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
TEN YEARS EACH for a baby's LIFE????? Would they have gotten life if they intentionally shot him up with it which is the same thing? SMH...
2:28 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
what kind of people would ever think that putting heroin in a baby's mouth was a good idea? gimme a break...
butch cassidy
4:13 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
well i guess not very smart people,,,this is tragic and so very sad, cant imagine how the responders handle some of this stuff
Janice Carpino
10:04 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Only low life, but watch they will get off in a year, so they can do it again.
2:35 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
10 years for a baby's life? Wtf! They should get life. That just makes me sick!!
Carol A. Wilson
2:40 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Why would you give these low life individuals any freedom; they didnt give any to their baby , did they? Let them rot in prison for this inhumane crime.
Joseph Fekete
2:40 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
The Stateof New Jersey should never have agreed to dismissing the child endangerment. and drug possession charges .
Melissa Thomson
2:54 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Are you going to tell me at 35 and 37 they didn't know better??? Just disgusting.
3:54 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
They didn't know enough at that age not to use heroin.....did they? The sad thing is that they should never have had a child to begin with. They don't deserve to live.
common sense
2:58 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
They should both be force-feed the same drugs until they both OD!!
3:12 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Quite likely they would not have to be forced. Very sad.
none of yobusiness
3:01 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
May their souls burn forever in Hell! The lowest form of life.
jill dienemann
3:02 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
what is wrong with Ocean county /state prosecutors office, letting them take a plea? they didnt need that to win the case, the toxicology tests proved it....the thr f*$@#! is wrong with them? a babys life is worth only 8 years all said and done? I am so disgusted with the justice in this country it is sickening....people should start taking up arms!!!!!
Kim Anderson
4:41 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
People complain about taxes being so high and big government. Do you know how much taking a case like this all the way to trial costs? Then appeals? Millions. Those people are going to have a miserable, horrible life whether they are in prison or on the streets. Do you want to pay taxes? Do you want to pay for that trial? I'd venture to guess not. Taking up arms is SUCH a good idea.
just me
3:13 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
10 years with 85 % served br parole? they'll be in jail less than 5 years!!!!
ed crowley
12:11 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
The 85 percent rule would require 81/2 years. Hope you were just having a bad math day.
3:23 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Giving an infant heroin is no different than killing him by any other means. Had they shot him, would they have gotten more than ten years? This is sickening. There are so many childless couples who would have gladly adopted this boy and given him love...if they gave him heroin they obviously didn't care about him and should have given him up.
3:55 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
This is unthinkable! Kill a baby and only get 10 years. How can the prosecutor praise the hard work of the police and throw all that hard work out the window by accepting such a stupid plea bargain!!
3:56 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Shouldn't "no early release" mean to serve 100% of time?
4:00 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Why would they possibly plea bargain this?
The prosecuter get's her win and keeps her conviction rate up and the only price is this subhuman trash will walk free in 10 years after deliberately shoving heroine in a babies mouth!
The prosecuter should be fired.
Jerry Belle
5:07 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I can only think of the State's difficult ability to prove intent to kill the baby as the reason to offer the plea bargain. In the old days, and even now I would venture, some still use whiskey, bourbon, or scotch on their finger and rub it to sooth an infant while they are teething... some parents don't have the education to be parents and rely on old wives tales and myths... sad.
5:12 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
ed crowley
12:16 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
The 85 percent rule will keep them there for eight and half years. Try reading the article again. Deals are done when there is doubt of conviction and for cost reasons.
5:15 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
In the words of Forest Gump. Stupid is as stupid does. These two jackasses should be sterilized.
bazooka joe
7:50 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Casey anthony killed her kid and didnt get a damn thing
Captain Ed
5:51 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
How much more horrible can two people be?
I say kill them and call it a day. Freaking animals.
6:15 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Parents? Monsters,dirtbags, scumbags more like it. they dont deserve to be called parents. drop child endangerment and drop drug posession charges for a plea? 10 years for killing this poor child? WTF is wrong with this picture? Unbelievable.......
6:38 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
These scumbags should be put to death..if they weren't so worried about being junkies they could have went to a doctor and just get tylenol. It just goes to show that seaside is just riddled with low life scumbags... if I was the cop I would have lost my job for extreme assault and killed one. if of them douchebags..
Rosalinda Russo Tamke
6:46 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Sick people, stupid people doing that to a baby. No doubt they were supported by the State of New Jersey and the State of New Jersey will continue to support them.
6:48 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
How could the prosecutor dismiss the child endangerment and drug possession charges when that is exactly what they did and had, respectively. They were too stupid to think they could kill their child because they were always high on it themselves! Most have knocked 10 years off their sentence I suppose. Even more ridiculous.
6:58 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Did someone reject my post ? If so, why? There was nothing volger.. I atleast blocked the curses. Those f*@#*&^ ppl gonna get out of jail in 7 yrs and have another baby and do the same thing again. This state lets ppl get away with the worst sh!t and go to prisonFor stupid things
7:07 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Or something. . My god that innocent lil boy. His own parents didn't love him enough to protect him from themselves
Sonia Fagg
7:28 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I can only think they did this out of sheer stupidity. At one time paregoric was used to rub on a baby's gums when it was teething and it wasn't until years later that they found out it wasn't a good thing to do. Maybe these parents didn't realize what harm it could do and thought they were helping him. Not that I'm making excuses for them, just a thought.
8:15 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
At least no taxpayer money will be further spent to help the parents while they work the judicial system. Why rape the public? They already killed a helpless trusting infant. No conscious, no doubt and will just be another statistic in the prison system. More money spent too.
8:48 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I've known people who have gotten more time in jail just for putting drugs into themselves...and at least then they're mostly just killing themselves (although that doesn't sound quite right I think people should get what I mean) and only ten years for killing your own child...plus 3 free meals a day and a free place to live...bring back the needle, you take a life you lose yours an eye for an eye...just horrible
Tom C
9:33 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
Adoption is impossible unless you have a spare $30,000 laying around. Middle class people cant afford adoption, shameful. As for these 2, what can I say. Garbage seems to have no trouble getting preggers.
11:21 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
10 years are u kidding??? 10 years?? That's a shame murder is murder life in prison
Da Gr8 1
12:04 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
only in jersey and everyone wonders why we are the butt of every national joke
crime stopper
7:55 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
This is a shame. A lil boy is dead n the so called parents gets only 10 yrs. Well that is not enough. The courts needs to get better on this. He was 2 and with no say in this. Where is the family for this boy. Grandparnets, Aunts, Uncles so called friends. Someone anyone. Are you all that stupid as to not help. Maybe they to need to pay for this. To many people doing this drug or selling it. Having thier kids involved for what. So they can go to jail also. What kind of roll madels is this. NONE. Courts need to crack down more on this. SET EXAMPLES. If the adults want to kill themselves so be it but why the kids. Give them a chance to a normal life.
8:11 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Quick..rebuild affordable housing in seaside.
Sterilize these two is item one.
Some liberal democrat wants home inspections and psychological exams of gun owners, how about one for those taking children out of a hospital after birth. All I needed was a car seat and no questions asked. But buy a gun and suddenly my home is subject to illegal search and siezure.
8:29 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
You don't want an exam to own a gun but you do want an exam to keep your child?
I guess you're right, nothing in the constitution about the right to bear children.
To be effective, your procreation exam really needs to be given before sex, avoids so many issues that way.
8:50 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Eye for an Eye!!! Death for a Death !!!! NJ and all states should have the death penalty. If you choose to take someones life then your life should be taken!!! Then lets see how our crime rate goes down in the U.S.A. !!!
ed crowley
12:22 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
What do you say to those who have been proven innocent after conviction?
Mom of 6
9:38 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Too bad Jersey doesn't have the death penalty anymore! Sick!
billy jones
10:35 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Ok I can see whiskey on his gums puts the child to sleep and takes away the pain. That what I grew up on and what I used for my own kids. But heroin.... Thats crazy. I still think that some people are going a little overboard with the death penalty. Come on get a grip.
11:35 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Why doesn't Patch put up a pic of these 2? There is certainly a pic plus a whole lot of personal info on Patch's news about Sue Rogers / and her case seems like a domestic dispute - not a chelds death!
6:15 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
They will be out in 8 yrs and living off Free Health Care, Free Housing,Get a Free Cell phone,Free Food Stamps etc. And put us in more debt on when will the left be stopped?
fed up
3:49 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I agree. At least they will not be able to vote any longer.
Russell Stewart
1:04 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
If they had the money for heroin...why couldn't they spend a few bucks on baby orajel? Wtf? And only getting 10 years for murder? I'm sorry..if I murdered my child...I would've plead guilty & did my time! (Not that I would ever kill anyone especially my family) This is a messed up world...they should have never been offered a deal whatsoever!
9:23 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Great job Steve and Carlos now that baby can rest in peace. Those parents should get the same death the baby got.
Robert Costello
2:27 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013
I have no problem with the ten years sentence. Even if they get out in 102 months, the other parents in jail will make that time seem longer.
They should be sterilized on top of the time served.


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Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
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April 02, 2008, 05:42:27 PM
You don't have to use the kernel I compiled, but I'd recommend using the ones that OLPC makes available instead of the ones from kernel.org. I don't know if the ones at kernel.org support the hardware that OLPC uses. I've been meaning to post how I compiled the kernel and modules, but I haven't had the time lately. You can piece together the steps from these pages on the wiki:
I'd recommend downloading a kernel from the stable builds since I had problems when I tried one from the master.
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
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April 02, 2008, 07:59:33 PM
So, here's how I created the new kernel and made it ready for Ubuntu. You don't need to worry about doing this if you don't want to compile your own kernel. It's actually possible to just copy over the kernel and some supporting files from your XO whenever you update the kernel on that. Because of the XO's special hardware, I doubt you'd be able to do this with a normal Linux kernel.
Anyway, much of the information below comes from these three wiki pages, plus some extra glue to put the pieces together:
For the instructions below, I'll assume you're doing this on an Ubuntu installation (such as the one for your XO), but most of the instructions are generic enough for any distro. While you could do this on your XO, it's better if you could do this on another Linux computer. Flash drives have a limited number of writes and compiling something, especially something as large as the kernel, can cause a lot of writes. As long as you don't compile the kernel too often, you should be fine. The other reason you may not want to do this on the XO is that the kernel can take awhile to compile, so a more powerful computer would be faster, but compiling shouldn't take too long on the XO.
Anyway, enough with the "warnings", let's get started!
I tried downloading the source code from git, but I couldn't boot from it, so I tried the latest version in the master branch, but that also wouldn't boot. So, I ended up using the stable branch, picking the version that I knew should boot: the one I was booting on my XO! My problems with the other sources could have been just bad luck, so feel free to explore! Instructions on getting the source code from any source can be found at:
But, I'm going to assume you want to use the same version I did, kernel-2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269, which is available in the stable branch.
Open a terminal and download the source code package:
wget http://dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/stable/kernel-2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269.src.rpm
You'll need root privilege for most of the instructions below, so just become root now:
sudo su
Those that are familiar with Linux may notice that this is an rpm package, not a tarball or deb package. For those that aren't familiar, rpm packages are used for RedHat-based Linux distros; Ubuntu uses dep packages. Tarballs are just compressed files and can be used in any distro. So, what this means is we have to convert the rpm into something we can use. To do that, we can convert the rpm into a deb package by using the alien package. So, let's install that:
apt-get install alien
Now, convert the package into a deb package:
alien -k kernel.rpm
This will create the file kernel_2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269_i386.deb in the directory you're in.
If you're on your XO and want to "install" the source code, run:
mkdir /usr/src/olpc-kernel
dpkg --instdir=/usr/src/olpc-kernel -i kernel_2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269_i386.deb
This will install the source code into /usr/src/olpc-kernel. But if you're using another computer, or don't want to install the source code, just run:
dpkg-deb --extract kernel_2.6.22-20071231.2.olpc.83e0631da83a269_i386.deb olpc-kernel
This will extract the package into the olpc_kernel subdirectory.
Now, move into the directory you just created:
cd /usr/src/olpc-kernel
if you installed the source code. If you extracted the files instead:
cd olpc-kernel
Now we need to decompress the source code:
tar -jxf olpc-2.6.tar.bz2
This will create the linux-2.6.22 directory that contains all the source code, so lets move into that:
cd linux-2.6.22
Now we can finally start playing with our kernel. First, create the config settings that OLPC uses for their official kernels:
make ARCH=i386 olpc_defconfig
Now, if you want to, open the config menu and start selecting or deselecting (if you're feeling adventurous) various features. If you don't want to make any changes (you might want to hold off on making changes until you know that the kernel boots with the original settings), skip down to compiling the kernel. To get to the menu, run:
make menuconfig
Once you're done making changes, you can exit the menu (being sure to save any changes you made).
The first time you run
make menuconfig
, you may get some errors, saying that things are missing. If that's the case, run:
apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev
This should install the missing files that you'll need to create the menu. You only need to run this if you get the error.
Now, you're ready to compile. Just run:
That'll compile your kernel and its modules. The kernel will be placed in arch/i386/boot/bzImage and can be copied to its final location. The modules need to be installed.
If you're using your XO's Ubuntu distribution, follow these instructions, if not, skip down to the next set.
If you're using your XO Ubuntu installation, run
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-
is up to you. This is really just in case you decide to compile a new kernel and don't want to replace the one you just made. I typically number mine, starting at zero.
You'll also need to install the modules. This can be done by running
make modules_install
Now update the symlink to your kernel:
cd /boot
ls -l vmlinuz
rm -r vmlinuz
ln -s vmlinuz-2.6.22-
That second instruction (
ls -l vmlinuz
) will show you what vmlinuz currently points to. This can be important if you want to go back to the old kernel.
You're almost done! Just skip past the instructions for non-XO computers.
If you're not using your XO Ubuntu installation, you'll first have to insert the drive with your XO's Ubuntu distro on it into the computer. I'm going to assume it's mounted on /media/OLPCRoot.
Let's copy the kernel into the boot directory:
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /media/OLPCRoot/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-
is up to you. This is really just in case you decide to compile a new kernel and don't want to replace the one you just made. I typically number mine, starting at zero.
You'll also need to install the modules. This can be done by running
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/media/OLPCRoot modules_install
Now update the symlink to your kernel:
cd /media/OLPCRoot/boot
ls -l vmlinuz
rm -r vmlinuz
ln -s vmlinuz-2.6.22-
That second instruction (
ls -l vmlinuz
) will show you what vmlinuz currently points to. This can be important if you want to go back to the old kernel.
Now we're just about done. We still need to update the initial ramdisk with the new modules. I forgot to do this at one point and didn't run into any problems, but it's safer if we do this. One way to get around having to do this is if you compile everything into the kernel instead of compiling them as modules. Anyway, let's get started.
Create a new directory somewhere else and move into it. I'm going to create it in the /tmp directory, but that gets cleaned every time Ubuntu starts up, so if you want to save this for after you restart, you could create it in your home directory instead.
mkdir /tmp/initrd
cd /tmp/initrd
If you're using your XO, run this set of instructions:
zcat /boot/olpcrd.img | cpio -i
rm -r lib/modules
cp -r /lib/modules lib/
find . -print | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 > /boot/olpcrd-2.6.22-
if you're on another computer, run the modified version:
zcat /media/OLPCRoot/boot/olpcrd.img | cpio -i
rm -r lib/modules
cp -r /media/OLPCRoot/lib/modules lib/
find . -print | cpio -H newc -o | gzip -9 > /media/OLPCRoot/boot/olpcrd-2.6.22-
Now, move back to the boot directory (not shown) and update the link:
ls -l olpcrd.img
rm olpcrd.img
ln -s olpcrd-2.6.22-
.img olpcrd.img
That's it! You can delete or uninstall the source code now. If you installed it, to uninstall it, run:
dpkg -r kernel
and if you just extracted it, you can just delete the directory you created.
In either case, you can also delete the rpm and the deb packages you created, even if you choose to keep the source code installed/extracted.
Good luck!
Last Edit: April 12, 2008, 07:51:24 PM by moocapiean
SOLVED Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 85
April 03, 2008, 08:55:57 AM
What is the best way to distribute things which we add to the kernel? For instance, I've enabled bluetooth, and I'm sure others will do similar things for other devices. Is there away for others to conveniently update these things without recompiling like an rpm or something?
Last Edit: April 03, 2008, 10:15:57 AM by ashtond33
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Master Contributor
Posts: 330
April 03, 2008, 10:16:32 AM
Towards the end, I realized I should have just said at the beginning, "You'll need root privilege for most of this, so just become root now:
sudo su
I'll fix the instructions.
Basically, the problem you're having is that you don't have permission to write to /media/OLPCRoot/boot/olpcrd-2.6.22-0002.img. The sudo's permissions end (I think) once you get to the first pipe (a pipe is |).
I'll try to make a post later explaining what some of the other commands do.
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 77
April 03, 2008, 11:29:31 AM
Quote from: ashtond33 on April 03, 2008, 08:55:57 AM
What is the best way to distribute things which we add to the kernel? For instance, I've enabled bluetooth, and I'm sure others will do similar things for other devices. Is there away for others to conveniently update these things without recompiling like an rpm or something?
One way is to use tar to create a copy of what you've added, and then attach it to a post here.
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
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Posts: 330
April 03, 2008, 12:57:30 PM
That's what I'd recommend too. There's an upload limit per post, but a module shouldn't be large enough to go over that. Unfortunately, a kernel's too big...
Edit: I just realized that you need to be logged in to the forum to be able to see the files posted. While that shouldn't be much of an inconvenience, I just wanted to make sure we all knew because I found this out the hard way...
Last Edit: April 03, 2008, 01:07:41 PM by moocapiean
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 39
April 03, 2008, 02:49:54 PM
Hi there
Is anyone else having trouble downloading the 2 tar.bz2 files from blackabydataservices? My downloads get halfway and then hang up and stop - if I start a new download (change file name), it downloads as before and again stops.
RESOLVED Got the files - tried with wget in linux and in vista with firefox - both quit halfway - only MS explorer (!) was able to complete the download!
Last Edit: April 03, 2008, 07:14:19 PM by jt42
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 39
April 03, 2008, 02:51:43 PM
What did you do to enable bluetooth? Was it installing the bluez-utils? Have you any bluetooth devices working? I'm hoping to hear someone has the Apple keyboard functioning...
Quote from: ashtond33 on April 03, 2008, 08:55:57 AM
What is the best way to distribute things which we add to the kernel? For instance, I've enabled bluetooth, and I'm sure others will do similar things for other devices. Is there away for others to conveniently update these things without recompiling like an rpm or something?
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 85
April 03, 2008, 07:30:04 PM
I've been using my bluetooth mouse all day. When you follow the instructions listed above you will eventually get to "make menuconfig". This brings up a terminal program which lets you add or remove anything you'd like from the kernel. If you look around under networking you'll see all the bluetooth options. Once enabled in the kernel, you must download bluez-utils.
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 28
April 03, 2008, 09:05:46 PM
Hey, I posted here a couple of days ago about the fact that my SDHC card was giving me frequent grief during loading with an "Unrecognized program format" error. Just wanted to share the news for those similarly inflicted (you still around, chibicthulhu?) that I've found a solution.
You'll need koolkat's uber bootloader script from
, but instead of replacing the olpc.fth on your SD card with it, rename or remove that file and instead replace the olpc.fth on your nand. After looking for an olpc.fth elsewhere the system will find the one on your nand and you'll be offered the menu of choices, and from there you'll be able to successfully boot off either your SDHC card or your nand.
I'd noticed that when viewing the mounted files on the SDHC card or on those rare occasions that I was able to boot off it that I had no troubles with any file access, so I wondered if the problem wasn't isolated to the initial boot sequence (which I guess is running off the firmware?) and that once I got past it I'd be ok. Note that if you were getting the bogus warnings about having the wrong filesystem you'll still see those.
Enjoy being unafraid of rebooting!
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
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April 04, 2008, 02:28:37 AM
Interesting, I have my olpc.fth on my sdcard, but I also vaguely remember someone saying that there was a delay in initializing some SD cards. I'll end up writing a different one with two menu's one for over or under clocking, and another for where to boot. I still need to figure out a way to timeout these menu's so they can resort to the defaults.
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
Posts: 10
April 04, 2008, 06:49:34 AM
wget from OLPC is working for me. I am working on getting a faster host for the files... as soon as i get this workin, someone is willing to mirror me.
i have made the kernel, chnged the OLPCRD and VMLINUZ files, and yet, every time i uname -r i still get the old kernel name, even if i have removed it from the drive. so I don't know if i am running the new kernel or not, but i see no way Not to be.
any idea what i am missing?
Ok.... I lost my dev. key - i think that is the problem
Last Edit: April 04, 2008, 03:00:21 PM by vblackaby
Re: Ubuntu with compressed files - GPSDrive works
Posts: 77
April 04, 2008, 10:00:29 AM
I installed GPSDrive (with Synaptec) on my XO. It works!
I plug my handheld Garmin Rino into the XO using a USB-9PinSerial adapter and the Rino serial cable. It shows up on the XO as
(that's a zero on the end). The XO display does a great job of showing the maps in GPSDrive.
Besides the great display, GPSDrive uses free maps downloaded from Expedia (and Google I think) and can use satelite images like Google Earth. So in my car or on my boat passengers can see where we are and watch our progress.
Love that Open Source.
help with xbindkeys...
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April 04, 2008, 11:20:07 PM
I have been able to boot off of a Kingston 8 GB SDHC card now without any difficulty following moocapiean's instructions . I spent several hours installing software (openoffice, opera, tools, etc.) and getting XFCE set up the way I wanted. It was a good learning experience.
I made one big mistake, however: at the very end I tried using xbindkeys with the olpc-keybind-1-2.noarch.rpm file off of favias.org to see if I could get screen rotation working. That was a big mistake in my case. I lost the entire keyboard when booting off of the SDHC
I tried my best to undo the damage with my very limited knowledge of Linux, but the best I could do was reboot without starting XFCE and uninstall xbindkeys (apt-get --purge remove xbindkeys).
The keyboard is more or less back (characters work at least) with xbindkeys gone, but I lost the brightness buttons and battery meter that worked out of the box for me when I downloaded the Xubuntu compressed files installation. I have an identical install of just Xubuntu on a USB and I still have the orignal compressed file. Is it possible for me to copy files over from the USB to the SD to get the previous keyboard configuration back? If so, any idea which files to copy over to the SD?
Yeah, I feel like a real doofus for not backing everything up before playing with keybindings...lesson learned.
Re: Installing Ubuntu using compressed files
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Posts: 330
April 05, 2008, 12:58:40 PM
It sounds like you just need to reinstall xbindkeys. I'm not familiar with the olpc-keybind-1-2.noarch.rpm file, so however you installed that, if you try uninstalling it, then reinstalling xbindkeys, it should hopefully fix the problem. Or did you already try that?
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