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Gregg Williams, who has spent time as an assistant or head coach at six NFL teams, is meeting with league investigators today to talk about what he's admitted was "a bounty pool of up to $50,000 over the last three seasons that rewarded players with thousand-dollar payoffs for knocking targeted opponents out of games while he was the New Orleans Saints' defensive coordinator," The Associated Press reports.
"Bountygate" is quickly becoming a scandal that touches not just the Saints, but the other teams where Williams has coached, including the Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans and Washington Redskins. (He just joined the St. Louis Rams as an assistant.) The issue is that while rewarding players for great plays is one thing, rewarding them for hurting opponents is something else indeed.
Washington Post columnist Tracee Hamilton says this is the NFL's "put-up-shut-up moment." At a time when the league is trying to show it's serious about protecting players from concussions and from dirty play, she writes, Commissioner Roger Goodell "needs to send that message to every team in the league: Hire Gregg Williams and his ilk at your own peril. In other words, put a bounty on his head."
Basketball's Charles Barkley, though, said on today's Dan Patrick Show that whoever blew the whistle on Williams is "a punk to snitch" like that. And, he said there were such bounties in the NBA when he was a player.
So where do you come down on Williams?
(Note: That's just a question, not a scientific survey.)
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
Life often throws a series of unexpected circumstances your way. This notion is the underlying premise for Bella. Having won a host of awards from the People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival to Best Picture and Actor at the MovieGuide Awards, this film comes with high expectations.
Set in New York City, José was a professional footballer, who experienced a life changing event that brought his career to an abrupt end, and now is the head chef in his brother's Mexican restaurant. While, Nina is a waitress who one day discovers something that will alter her life forever. In a split moment, everything changes and their lives become intertwined. José is an appealing character, and through his pain, you want him to gain a sense of redemption. He's a gentle man, and when he sees Nina in despair, he decides to help her.
Bella is a beautifully shot film, and has a narrative that viewers will relate to, but the film becomes predictable and stifling in the middle. However, it is a story that is easy to watch because of its deep exploration of personal choice, but it doesn't leave a lasting legacy.
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Turnout was apparently down, at least as a percentage of eligible voters. The president was re-elected by a reduced margin. The challenger didn't inspire the turnout surge he needed.
Every re-elected president since Andrew Jackson has won with an increased popular vote percentage. Barack Obama didn't. He won 53 percent to 46 percent in 2008. His numbers as I write are 50 percent to 48 percent over Mitt Romney. That could go up to 51 percent to 48 percent when California finishes its count, which took five weeks in 2008.
Obama owes most of his electoral vote majority of 332 to negative campaigning. His strategists barraged the target states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia with attack ads against Romney for months.
The ads took a toll. Preliminary figures show that outside the eight clear target states, Obama's percentage declined by 2.8 points. In the firewall states, it was down by only 1.4 points and in five other target states by only 2.1 points.
That enabled him to win those three firewall states by a total of about 250,000 votes. A 2.8 percent swing everywhere would have left him narrowly ahead in the popular vote and with 290 electoral votes.
That would have been similar to the 286 electoral votes George W. Bush won when he was re-elected by 51 percent to 48 percent. But turnout that year was sharply up, from 105 million in 2000 to 122 million in 2004. Turnout rose to 131 million in 2008. It looks to be about 129 million this year.
Examination of county election results suggests that the Obama organization did an excellent job of increasing black voter turnout in the central cities and Southern rural areas in the target states. It also did a great job of turning out Hispanics in metro Denver and Las Vegas, and non-Cuban Hispanics in Miami-Dade County and Osceola and Orange Counties around Disney World in Florida.
Blacks are unlikely to record larger margins for Democrats ever again. But the increased Hispanic margin for Obama poses a serious challenge to Republicans in years ahead.
The Obamaites were less successful in making gains in university counties in the target states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Virginia. Under-30 voter support for Obama declined from 66 percent to 32 percent in 2008 to 60 percent to 37 percent in 2012.
This was enough for Obama to win, though he trailed among over-30s by two points after carrying them by one point in 2008. Will the Millennials stay Democratic? The baby boomers cast equal numbers of votes for George McGovern and Richard Nixon in 1972, while their elders favored Nixon by nearly 2-1. But this year, boomers (now age 45 to 64) backed Romney. Youthful political attitudes don't always endure.
Currently, Millennials are hard-pressed to find jobs and heavy with college loan debt, and Obamacare leaves them subsidizing their elders. A generation that likes to create its own world is not in sync with policies that treat them as tiny cogs in giant machines. White Millennials backed Romney by 52 percent to 44 percent.
Then consider the results for the House of Representatives. Not many people split their tickets these days, but the discontented voters who re-elected a Democratic president also returned a Republican House, probably by a similar popular vote margin.
There's an interesting contrast here with 1996. Then, a Democratic president was re-elected by a wider margin, while House Republicans held onto their majority by just a few seats.
This year, the Democratic president was re-elected with a smaller majority, while House Republicans have won or are leading in 235 districts, the most they held between 1994 and 2006. Based on the latest count, they lost only seven seats, even though Democratic redistricting plans cost them 11 seats in California, Illinois and Maryland.
This despite the fact that almost every House Republican supported Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms, which were supposed to cost Republicans votes -- but didn't when they had a chance to explain that people over 55 aren't affected and that Obamacare cut $716 billion from Medicare.
So Obama owes most of his victory margin to negative personal campaigning, while Republicans held the House despite -- or because of -- their opposition to big-government policies.
The president claims a mandate because, as he said in 2009, "I won." But Speaker John Boehner has some basis for claiming a mandate, too, as the fiscal cliff negotiations begin.
Michael Barone, senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com), is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and a co-author of The Almanac of American Politics. To find out more about Michael Barone, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.


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"Blade Runner" Pistorius charged with murdering girlfriend
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics, was charged on Thursday with shooting dead his girlfriend at his home in Pretoria.
Police said they had opened a murder case after a 30-year-old woman was found dead at the track star's house after an incident in the upmarket Silverlakes gated complex on the outskirts of the capital.
"At this stage he is on his way to a district surgeon for medical examination," police brigadier Denise Beukes told reporters outside the heavily guarded residential complex.
Pistorius and his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, had been the only people in the house at the time of the shooting, Beukes, said, and witnesses had been interviewed about the incident, which happened in the early hours of the morning.
"We are talking about neighbors and people that heard things earlier in the evening and when the shooting took place," she said. Earlier, police said a 9mm pistol had been found at the scene.
"When a person has been accused of a crime like murder they look at things like testing under the figure nails, taking a blood alcohol sample and all kinds of other test that are done. They are standard medical tests," Beukes said.
Pistorius is due to appear in a Pretoria court after 1200 GMT.
Before the murder charge was announced, Johannesburg's Talk Radio 702 said the 26-year-old may have mistaken Steenkamp for a burglar.
South Africa has some of the world's highest rates of violent crime, and many home owners have weapons to defend themselves against intruders, although Pistorius' complex is surrounded by a three meter high wall and electric fence.
In 2004, Springbok rugby player Rudi Visagie shot dead his 19-year-old daughter after he mistakenly thought she was a robber trying to steal his car in the middle of the night.
Steenkamp, a model and regular on the South African party circuit, was reported to have been dating Pistorius for a year, and there had been little to suggest their relationship was in trouble.
In the social pages of last weekend's Sunday Independent she described him as having "impeccable" taste.
"His gifts are always thoughtful," she was quoted as saying.
Some of her last Twitter postings indicated she was looking forward to celebrating Valentine's Day on Thursday with him.
"What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow???" she posted.
However, Beukes said the police were aware of previous incidents at the house of a "domestic nature", and recent media interviews with Pistorius revealed he kept an assortment of weapons in his home.
"Cricket and baseball bats lay behind the door, a pistol by his bed and a machine gun by a window," Britain's Daily Mail wrote in a profile published last year.
He was arrested in 2009 for assault after slamming a door on a woman and spent a night in police custody. Family and friends said it was just an accident and the charges were later dropped.
Steenkamp's colleagues were distraught.
"We are all devastated. Her family is in shock," Steenkamp's agent, Sarita Tomlinson, told Reuters, in tears. "They did have a good relationship. Nobody actually knows what happened."
Pistorius, who races wearing carbon fiber prosthetic blades after he was born without a fibula in both legs, was the first double amputee to run in the Olympics and reached the 400 meter semi-finals in London 2012.
Respected worldwide for triumphing over his disabilities to compete on a level playing field with able-bodied athletes, his sponsorship deals are thought to be worth $2 million a year.
In last year's Paralympics he suffered his first loss over 200 meters in nine years. After the race he questioned the legitimacy of Brazilian winner Alan Oliveira's prosthetic blades, though he was quick to express his regret for the comments.
Pistorius is sponsored by British telecoms firm BT, sunglasses maker Oakley, sports apparel maker Nike and French designer Thierry Mugler.
"We are shocked by this terrible, tragic news. We await the outcome of the South African police investigation," a BT spokeswoman said before Pistorius was charged.
A Nike spokesman in London said before hearing of the murder charge that the company was "saddened by the news, but we have no further comment to make at this stage".
Pistorius also has a sponsorship deal with Icelandic prosthetics manufacturer Ossur.
"I can only say that our thoughts and prayers are with Oscar and the families involved in the tragedy," Ossur CEO Jon Sigurdsson told Reuters. "It is completely premature to discuss or speculate on our business relationship with him."
Neighbors expressed shock at the arrest of a "good guy".
"It is difficult to imagine an intruder entering this community, but we live in a country where intruders can get in wherever they want to," said one Silverlakes resident, who did not want to be named.
"Oscar is a good guy, an upstanding neighbor, and if he is innocent I feel for this guy deeply," he said.
(Additional reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, David Dolan, Ed Cropley, Jon Herskovitz, Keith Weir and Kate Holton; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Peter Graff and Will Waterman)


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PARIS – France's former first lady Carla Bruni says she disagrees with her conservative husband Nicolas Sarkozy and supports a plan to allow gay marriage and adoption.
In an interview with the French edition of Vogue for its December issue, the 44-year-old former supermodel and singer said: "I'm rather in favor because I have a lot of friends -- men and women -- who are in this situation and I see nothing unstable or perverse in families with gay parents."
France's Socialists are pushing a bill that could see gay marriage legalized early next year, defying criticism from religious leaders and Sarkozy's own UMP party.
Bruni says, "my husband is opposed for reasons linked to his political vocation, because he sees people as groups of thousands rather than people we know personally."


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Brad Penny (4-2) vs. Jeff Francis (0-2).
COMMENTS: Will the weather affect this game? Click here for the latest Denver forecast.
If you recall the last time Penny pitched, the Dodgers scored 10 runs in the first inning en route to a 11-3 drubbing of Colorado. Meanwhile, Rockies ace Francis is still searching for his first win, even after holding the Dodgers to two runs over seven innings last Sunday. Penny is 13-2 lifetime against the Rockies. Francis has a career 2.64 ERA against the Dodgers. Magic 8-Ball says: Expect a pitching duel.
Hurting the Rockies is an injury to Troy Tulowitzki, which will sideline him for weeks, if not months. On the other hand, the Dodger offense is humming along. As a team, the Dodgers are batting .279/.360/.404, 2nd/3rd/9th-best in the NL. If Andruw Jones can rebound from his craptacular April—"I'm trying everything," he says—the Dodgers will enjoy the type of offensive production they haven't seen in years. Here's to seven in a row!


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"We wanted to improve our lives somehow and help our family and our
parents, and that's not only my dream, but the dream of Renan and
everybody else that's in the game." - Jose Aldo
NEW YORK – The smiles comes fast, the jokes in Portuguese even faster, punctuated by gestures and laughs. If you didn't know any better, you would assume that Jose Aldo and Renan Barao were two brothers on vacation in Manhattan, taking in the sights and just enjoying life.
Well, the enjoying life part is accurate, a far cry from their days in the favelas of their native Brazil. But as far as vacation goes, that's a concept not in their vocabulary these days. For the two friends, teammates, and training partners, their trip to New York last week was all business, promoting the UFC 169 event this February that will see them in championship fights that they hope will continue to cement their names on the pound for pound list.
Next up will be a rigorous training camp at the Nova Uniao gym in Rio de Janeiro, the place where they met what seems to be a lifetime ago. Back then, they were just prospects trying to build their name in a sport that they hoped would be their ticket out of tough times in Brazil.
"The first time I saw Renan was at the gym," said Manaus' Aldo, the UFC featherweight champion, following last Thursday's press conference at Madison Square Garden. "I was living there and Renan came in from Natal. I thought 'he's a very talented guy.' And when he came in I really saw the potential, and I saw that he could become a great fighter, and today, after all that he's been through, he's truly come out as a great fighter with the potential to keep going and become a great world champion."
The current interim UFC bantamweight champion, Natal's Barao already knew who Aldo was when he visited Rio to train, both for his success in MMA, and in the world of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
"I had seen some of his fights before, and some of my friends who were in jiu-jitsu championships had met him before and said that he was a great guy and down to Earth, so that was something I was already expecting," recalled Barao. "I was very young at the time, so I only spent a few days there, but I had an opportunity to come back later on and spend some more time with him. Aldo's always been a good brother and a great guy all around. He's very talented and he deserves to be where he is right now."
At this point, Aldo interrupts to make a point, saying "we both deserve to be where we are right now," and Barao nods appreciatively. Only five months separate the 27-year-old Aldo and the 26-year-old Barao, but if they were biological brothers, it's the featherweight champ who appears to be the older one in demeanor, slightly more serious than the ever-smiling Barao. It's a dynamic that clearly works, and has worked for some time now, with Aldo (23-1) unbeaten since 2006 and Barao (33-1, 1 NC) since 2005. But back in the early days, before they headlined arenas and went on press tours, the dream was a simple one: to get enough money to make life better for their families.
"The objective is always to be able to get to a point where you're living well, where you have your own home and can provide for your family and provide for your parents," said Barao. "Ultimately, you're looking to give your family a better life and be able to grow as an athlete."
"When you leave your family and friends and everybody behind and you start to look to do something to build your dream, it's really a shot in the dark," said Aldo. "So we always thought about that. We wanted to improve our lives somehow and help our family and our parents, and that's not only my dream, but the dream of Renan and everybody else that's in the game."
By 2008, the dreams started to become reality. Aldo made his WEC debut that year, and in 2009 he defeated Mike Brown for the organization's crown. Seven months later, Barao joined his teammate in the WEC, and when 2011 rolled around, both were making their UFC debuts. From there, it's been a whirlwind, Aldo posting a 5-0 UFC mark and Barao winning all six of his Octagon bouts. It may sound like it's been easy, but that's certainly not the case, especially when they watch each other fight, though Barao says, "It's something really cool. It's not just with Jose Aldo, but with other friends and athletes that are from our team, because we're not just there as a team, we're a family. And the fact that he's up there, man, something comes in and the heart starts pounding, the adrenalin kicks in, and sometimes I think it's more emotional to see him in there than for me to be in there."
He laughs, and Aldo joins him, agreeing on that point wholeheartedly.
"Just like Renan said, when you see your friend fighting, it's out of your control, so it really makes you anxious to see that," he said. "So it's tough to control the whole adrenalin thing. You're doing the moves with them (Laughs), but at the end of the day, it's good to see what the results have been, and I'm really proud to see my friends up there."
On February 1st in Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center, two brothers in harm will see their names in lights as they perform for the entire world, Barao against Dominick Cruz, and Aldo against Ricardo Lamas. They've come a long way since those early days, days they won't forget, but ones they don't particularly care to remember either.
"It's tough to think of anything that you miss from a time that wasn't all that comfortable and all that easy to begin with," said Aldo. "Today we can talk about the same subjects, but we're definitely in a better and more comfortable position."
"We think about the old times and we actually talk about the same things," said Barao. "We make the same jokes that we used to make, but we're in a more comfortable place right now. What's behind you is behind you and we don't want to keep bringing it up, especially because they were difficult times and something you don't want to be thinking about all the time. But today, it's all happiness, all good."
With that, Aldo and Barao look at each other, nod, and smile. They made it.
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text: More than a just a place where people live, Hawkeye is unique and vibrant. This community is home to friends and neighbors, people who contribute to the excellent quality of life. But it's not just the people, but also the government, the businesses, the schools, and the activities that make us a great place to live or visit. We are proud to call this our home.


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Yocto Project Introduction
This is an introduction about the Yocto Project, written from the point of view of someone somewhat familiar with embedded Linux development and embedded Linux distribution maintenance. In my own investigation of the Yocto Project, I found that there were a few key concepts that I didn't find discussed or presented anywhere. I'd like to fix that with this page. The purpose of this page is to give a broad overview of how the project technically works, so that the learning curve for people approaching the Yocto Project for the first time is lessened.
[As of November 2012, this document is still under construction...]
The big picture
The Yocto Project is a collection of tools and meta-data (defined in a bit) that allows a developer to build their own custom distribution of Linux for their embedded platform. This could be a developer at a semi-conductor company, who wishes to develop board support for one of their hardware platforms, or it could be an independent developer writing a complete software stack for a product they are making. It could also be a group of engineers developing a distribution for use in multiple devices or products -- such as an embedded Linux distribution company, or the "systems" team at a company that produces multiple embedded Linux products.
The main parts
The main parts of the Yocto Project are the build system, the package meta-data, and the developer tools. The build system uses a tool called "bitbake" to process the meta-data and produce a complete Linux distribution. By design, the build system produces not just the software that will run on the target, but also the development tools used to build that software. It basically starts completely from scratch, building all the tools needed to construct the software, and then using those to build the kernel, libraries, and programs that comprise a Linux distribution. Finally, it prepares the resulting software by placing it into appropriate bundles (including packages, images, or both) for deployment to the target device and in preparation for application development and debugging. The Yocto Project also includes various additional tools used to develop embedded Linux or applications on top of it. This includes things such as emulators, IDEs and host/target (cross) agents and debug tools.
Let's start by describing some of the concepts of the build system...
Build system
The primary tool used in the build system is called 'bitbake'. Bitbake has a user-manual at http://docs.openembedded.org/bitbake/html/ . (As of August, 2012, this document appears to be a bit dated, and missing a few items of importance.) Basically, bitbake can be thought of as "make" on steroids. It basically performs the same type of functionality as make - which is: determining the actions to perform based on 1) what the user requests at the command line, 2) the project data and 3) the existing build state, and then performing those actions.
Bitbake uses files with it's own new syntax for expressing:
- the tasks to perform
- the relationships (dependencies) between those tasks
- the variables that control how the tasks are performed
- the actual build instructions (e.g. compiler commands, linker commands, packaging commands, etc.)
Bitbake differs from 'make' in several key ways. The first is that it has a global view of the task list for a distribution. That is, it reads the entire set of files related to the distribution, and determines the global task list for a particular high-level build operation. This is considerably different from 'make', which processes just a single Makefile at a time. (Admittedly, 'make' can be made to work with extremely large projects, using complex include schemes and nested invocations. However, even these types of systems are rarely used for something as complex as a complete Linux distribution build.)
Another apparent difference is that the syntax of the files that bitbake processes allows for a very high degree of flexibility in defining the tasks that should be performed and the variables that control the build process and output.
[note to consider: maybe too much flexibility?]
A variety of mechanisms (described in the bitbake manual) are used to control what operations are performed and what variables are used to control them. bitbake supports inheritance mechanisms, to allow for a class-like definition of common operations. These common operations can be inherited and customized for specific situations. Bitbake also supports conditional definition of new tasks, and has the ability to customize or eliminate (mask) tasks based on variables computed during the build.
Bitbake is written in Python, and some aspects of the build system can be written using short Python snippets as well. Many aspects of the system are written in snippets of shell code as well.
A cheat-sheet for bitbake is at: Bitbake Cheat Sheet
The meta-data
A key element of the Yocto Project is the meta-data which is used to construct a Linux distribution.
Meta-data refers to the build instructions themselves, as well as the data used to control what things get built and to affect how they are built. The meta-data also includes commands and data used to indicate what versions of software are used, and where they are obtained from. The meta-data also consist of changes or additions to the software itself (patches or auxiliary files) which are used to fix bugs or customize the software for use in a particular situation.
The build instructions consists of commands to execute the compiler, linker, archiver, packaging tools and other programs.
The Yocto Project provides the build tool (bitbake) and meta-data itself, for a few distributions. Much of this meta-data can be re-used when someone is building their own distribution. The Yocto Project is related to the OpenEmbedded project, where the bitbake tool, much of the meta-data, and many of the meta-data concepts originated.
Each software component on the system (such as an individual program) has associated with it one or more files to express it's meta-data (dependencies, patches, build instructions). A top-level (usually single) file that defines the 'tasks' for the software is provided in a ".bb" (bitbake) file. This is referred to as that component's "recipe" file. This file may be terse, as the system allows for inheritance and inclusion. Class files (.bbclass) are used to express the meta-data for commonly-used types of build and packaging operations. These files are 'inherit'ed into a recipe. Include files (.inc) are sometimes used to provide a common set of definitions, which can be customized for a particular version of the software. These files are included into a recipe using a 'require' command. Finally, patches and auxiliary files may be associated with recipe. These files can be referenced by the build instructions (eg. applied to the software after fetching it and before compiling it in the case of patches) of the recipe.
A set of bitbake files that are related to a particular feature area can be organized into a "layer". This represents a collection of software or build tasks that can included into an overall distribution.
Finally, a user selects the individual bitbake files to include, or sets of files from different layers, by referencing them in their local configuration (conf/bblayers.conf) and defining build control variables - also in their local configuration (conf/local.conf).
Build stages
The recipes for a distribution define a number of discreet tasks that are performed to accomplish the build. The tasks have names such as 'fetch', 'configure', 'compile'. Internally, these tasks are prefixed with 'do_' (eg. do_configure)
There can be a large number of tasks associated with a software component. By default, bitbake performs all tasks associated with building a software component and preparing it for deployment. However, bitbake can be used to perform just a single task relative to a component, using the '-c' command line option.
For example, to just perform the 'configure' task for the busybox software, you can do the following:
bitbake busybox -c configure
Note that if busybox has already been built, this command might not do anything (because bitbake avoids re-running tasks that are not needed, like 'make'). To force it, you could use the '-f' option:
bitbake busybox -c configure -f
Not every software component needs every build stage, so some might not be defined for a component. To see the list of tasks that a recipe defines for a component, execute the 'listtasks' task for that component:
bitbake busybox -c listtasks
This is a list of the tasks associated with busybox (as of Poky version 7.0)
do_fetchall do_build do_devshell do_cleansstate do_configure do_cleanall do_populate_lic do_package_write do_populate_sysroot do_buildall do_package_write_rpm do_menuconfig do_populate_lic_setscene do_patch do_listtasks do_compile do_package_setscene do_fetch do_checkuri do_clean do_package_write_rpm_setscene do_package do_unpack do_install do_populate_sysroot_setscene do_checkuriall
In general, a build proceed through the stages in order: fetch, configure, compile, install, and package the software.
Build work areas
The area where each software component is built is dependent on the recipe name, the distro name, build tool and the target architecture for the component. During the build, some items are built for the host machine and some are built for the target machine. In non-embedded Linux, the machine you build and debug on and the machine you compile for (run the software on) are very often the same. However, in embedded Linux these are often different machines, and often they even have different CPU architectures.
The directory used for an individual component is something like:
For example, in a build of the busybox code for the ARM qemu emulator platform with yocto version 7.0 was located in: <build_top_dir>/tmp/work/armv5te-poky-linux-gnueabi/busybox-1.19.4-r2
The build directory for the sqlite database tool, for use on my Ubuntu 12.04 (x86_64) host, was located at: <build_top_dir>/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/sqlite3-native-3.7.10-r2
The work directory for a software component contains not only the source code for the item, but additional data related to building it, staging it for installation into a package or image, and a 'temp' directory which has logs of the various build tasks. It is useful to know the work directory if you want to customize the software (for example if you need to make a bugfix or apply some external patch), or determine why some build operation (such as fetching, compiling, packaging, etc.) is failing.
In the 'temp' directory under the work directory are both 'run' files and log files. The 'run' files are actually shell scripts or python scripts that are executed during the different build stages. The log files have the output from the commands that were used to build the software.
Other directories under the work directory are used for packaging the software's output files, or staging them for inclusion in a system image, or for staging other information about the package, such as it's software license.
Build output
The software for an embedded device can be packaged multiple different ways in preparation for deployment to the actual device. For some systems, the built software is packaged into a kernel and a filesystem image, which can then be directly written to flash or storage media on the device. For other systems, the software may be bundled as packages (similar to the way desktop distributions of Linux are delivered). These might require developer or even end-user installation on the target device. The Yocto Project build system is capable of producing images and packages in several formats, that are selectable by the developer in the local configuration for the distribution. For example, three of the different package formats that can be built by yocto are: debian packages (.deb), redhat package manager files (.rpm), and itsy packages (.ipk).
The directory where the software resides after a typical build is: <build_top_dir>/tmp/deploy and <build_top_dir>/tmp/sysroots. The 'sysroots' directory contains the directory structure and contents for the root filesystem for a target build. (Except it seems to be missing /dev, and it doesn't have root ownership - it probably needs pseudo to see the full contents). The 'deploy' directory has the images or packages that are ready to be installed on the device.
Development tools
[need to write about building and SDK, and the IDE here]
Now for some details
[it would be good to fill out the following sections]
How recipes and tasks are found, parsed, and processed
Bitbake reads the entire set of recipe files that are specified by the local configuration, and parses them all into a global task namespace. This includes all the class files and include files as well. These are specified by the BBFILES and BBLAYERS variables in the conf/bblayers.conf file. Within the layers directories, the <layer-dir>/conf/layer.conf file is used to indicate the set of .bb files to parse for that layer.
Note that this global parse of the entire set of recipe files is quite different from 'make', which usually operated on a single Makefile. (This is also why bitbake startup is a little slow).
Information in the meta-data (the DEPENDS and PROVIDES lines) determine package ordering. Where packages are independent of each other, the build order is dependent (I believe) on file parse order. In this case, processing is not required to be in any particular order (and, in fact, can be parallelized). You can have bitbake produce the dependency graph of the packages for your build by using the -g option. This produces output in 'dot' syntax (suitable for processing using some graphviz visualizer).
The list of tasks to perform within a package appears to come from the common class meta-data (see meta/classes/utility-tasks.bbclass, for example) and the meta-data for the individual package These are added by the 'addtask' keyword. You can see a list of tasks for an individual package with: bitbake <pkg> -c listtasks
fetching tips
[info about fetch mechanisms, proxies, mirrors, etc.]
recipe features that control the build
[document the 'important' variables that show up everywhere in the .bb files (eg PN)] [how does append work, how does masking work, how do constraints work]]
extracting stuff
[where to pull stuff out - maybe covered already]
changing stuff
[how to adjust your recipe list, how to adjust the configurations of the packages, how to adjust the included files]
adding stuff
[how to add a 'hello world' package, your own kernel, your own library]
More neat stuff
[mention HOB, the build appliance, build servers, shared state]
Notes that need fleshing out... (this area a work-in-progress)
list recipes
How to see the recipes that are visible for a configuration:
- bitbake-layers show-recipes
list available images
How to see the available images in the layers that are in a repository: ls meta*/recipes*/images/*.bb
Apparently, a distribution is defined with an "image" recipe.
The image recipe includes, among other things, a definition for IMAGE_FEATURES, which lists some items that will be included.
The items listed in the IMAGE_FEATURES and IMAGE_FEATURE_EXTRAS are ??? (things that are provided by other recipes??)
list available distros
The main item in a distro is the definition of DISTRO_FEATURES, which specifies the things to include in that distribution. These items correspond to ??? (things that are provided by other recipes???) To see list of existing distro, find inside meta-yocto/conf/distro folder
the flow of control
local.conf specifies:
- MACHINE - this indicates the target platform (board or emulator) for the build
- DISTRO - this indicates the base distribution for the build
- IMAGE_EXTRA_FEATURES - adds any extra items to any images that are built
bblayers.conf specifies:
- BBLAYERS - the list of layer directories where classes and recipes are found
- How to know what machines are available?
- 'ls meta*/conf/machine/*.conf'
meta/conf/machine/qemuarm.conf meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf meta/conf/machine/qemuppc.conf meta/conf/machine/qemux86-64.conf meta/conf/machine/qemux86.conf meta-yocto/conf/machine/atom-pc.conf meta-yocto/conf/machine/beagleboard.conf meta-yocto/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf meta-yocto/conf/machine/routerstationpro.conf
The meta-ti layer adds the following machines:
meta-ti/conf/machine/am180x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/am335x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/am3517-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/am37x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/am387x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/am389x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/beagleboard.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/beaglebone.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/c6a814x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/c6a816x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/dm814x-evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/hawkboard.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/omap3evm.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/omap3-touchbook.conf meta-ti/conf/machine/pandaboard.conf
- How to know what layers are available?
- ls -d1 meta*
meta meta-demoapps meta-hob meta-skeleton meta-ti meta-yocto
- How to know what distros are available?
- ls meta*/conf/distro/*.conf
meta/conf/distro/defaultsetup.conf meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-bleeding.conf meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-lsb.conf meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
- How to know what images are available?
- ls meta*/recipe*/images/*.bb
meta-hob/recipes-core/images/hob-image.bb meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-base.bb meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-core.bb meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-dev.bb meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-mtdutils.bb meta/recipes-core/images/self-hosted-image.bb meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-basic.bb meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-lsb.bb meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-lsb-dev.bb meta/recipes-extended/images/core-image-lsb-sdk.bb meta/recipes-graphics/images/core-image-clutter.bb meta/recipes-graphics/images/core-image-gtk-directfb.bb meta/recipes-qt/images/qt4e-demo-image.bb meta/recipes-rt/images/core-image-rt.bb meta/recipes-rt/images/core-image-rt-sdk.bb meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato.bb meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-dev.bb meta/recipes-sato/images/core-image-sato-sdk.bb meta-ti/recipes-misc/images/cloud9-gfx-image.bb meta-ti/recipes-misc/images/cloud9-gnome-image.bb meta-ti/recipes-misc/images/cloud9-image.bb meta-ti/recipes-misc/images/ti-hw-bringup-image.bb
- How to know what recipes are available (overall)?
- ls meta*/recipe*/*/*.bb
- How to know what recipes are visible to your build (based on your configuration settings)?
- bitbake-layers show-recipes
- How to list the tasks are visible to your build based on your configuration settings?
- bitbake -c listtasks <image-or-recipe-name>
build variables
- How can one know all the different build variables there are, and how to set them?
- The best place to start is by looking in the Poky Reference Manual variable glossary
- bitbake -e <recipe> | grep "^S=" - print the source directory for a recipe
- bitbake -e <recipe> | grep "^WORKDIR=" - print the working directory for a recipe
Comparison with other systems
It would be nice to compare and contrast Yocto Project Poky with other build systems, specifically:
- OpenEmbedded
- Buildroot
- ptxdist
- Embedded Debian
- Target Wizard


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The Network for Computational Nanotechnology seeks to bring a new perspective to engineering education to meet the challenges and opportunities of modern nanotechnology. Fifty years ago our field faced a similar challenge brought on by the advent of the transistor and it was met effectively by the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC), a group of 30 leaders in the field from both industry and academia who produced seven undergraduate textbooks and four films that reshaped the teaching of electronics and trained a generation of engineers ready to lead the modern electronics industry.
Today we face the need for a comparable revolution in education. Ever since the birth of solid state physics, materials have been described in terms of average material parameters like the mobility or the optical absorption coefficient which are then used as inputs to macroscopic device models. This two-step approach is being widely used even for modern nanostructured materials, but we believe that it is no longer adequate to meet the challenges and opportunities of our day. An integrated approach is needed that embeds new ways of thinking, emerging from current research on nanoscience, directly into the models used for non-equilibrium problems like nanoscale transistors, energy conversion devices and bio-sensors. The objective of this initiative is to establish and disseminate the fundamentals of this novel viewpoint through a carefully coordinated collection of seminars, short courses and full-semester courses.
"Electronics from the Bottom-up" is designed to be a resource for educators and self-learners and a model for a new way of teaching electronic devices that we hope will inspire students and prepare them to contribute to the development of nanoelectronic technology in the 21st Century. This project, launched in the fall of 2006, is producing a set of educational resources that are being disseminated at summer schools, lectures, and on nanoHUB.org.
This project is supported by the Intel Foundation and the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology
2012 Summer School
July 16-20, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
2011 Summer School
July 18-22, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
The 2011 Summer School featured a set of ten lectures on the topic "Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications" and a set of five lectures on "Solar Cell Fundamentals." Five tutorials on selected topics in nanoscience and nanotechnology were also presented.
Summer Schools
- 2011 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up
- Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications M. Lundstrom.
- Solar Cell Fundamentals M. Lundstrom, J. Gray, and M. A. Alam.
- Thermal Transport Across Interfaces T. Fisher.
- Atomistic Material Science A. Strachan.
- Additional Sessions:
- Lessons from Nanoelectronics Presentation, Q&A, S. Datta.
- Spin Transport and Topological Insulators Part 1, Part 2, S. Datta.
- Atomistic Modeling and Simulation Tools for Nanoelectronics and their Deployment on nanoHUB.org - Part 1 G. Klimeck.
- 2010 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up
- Nanoelectronic Devices, With an Introduction to Spintronics S. Datta and M. Lundstrom.
- Additional Tutorials on Selected Topics in Nanotechnology G. Klimeck, U. V. Waghmare, T. Fisher, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja.
- 2009 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up
- Nanostructured Electronic Devices: Percolation and Reliability M. A. Alam.
- Colloquium on Graphene Physics and Devices S. Datta, M. Lundstrom and J. Appenzeller.
- 2008 NCN@Purdue Summer School
- Nanoelectronics and the Meaning of Resistance S. Datta.
- Physics of Nanoscale MOSFETs M. Lundstrom.
- Percolation Theory M. A. Alam.
Short Courses
- Atomistic Material Science Ale Strachan, Summer 2011.
- Colloquium on Graphene Physics and Devices Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom and Joerg Appenzeller, Summer 2009.
- Far-From-Equilibrium Quantum Transport Gerhard Klimeck, Summer 2010.
- Materials Simulation by First-Principles Density Functional Theory U.V. Waghmare, Summer 2010.
- Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications Mark Lundstrom, Summer 2011.
- Nanoelectronic Modeling: From Quantum Mechanics and Atoms to Realistic Devices, Gerhard Klimeck, Fall 2009
- Nanoelectronics and the Meaning of Resistance, Supriyo Datta, Summer 2008
- Nanostructured Electronic Devices: Percolation and Reliability, M. Ashraf Alam, Summer 2009
- Physics of Nanoscale MOSFETs, Mark Lundstrom, Summer 2008
- Percolation Theory, M. Ashraf Alam, Summer 2008
- Solar Cell Fundamentals Mark Lundstrom, Jeff Gray, and M. Ashraf Alam, Summer 2011.
- Thermal Transport Across Interfaces T. Fisher, Summer 2011.
- Concepts of Quantum Transport, Supriyo Datta, 2006
Full Semester Courses
- Electronic Transport in Semiconductors, Mark Lundstrom, Fall 2011, Fall 2009
- Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics, Supriyo Datta, Fall 2008, Fall 2004
- Atom to Transistor, Supriyo Datta, Spring 2009, Spring 2004
- Lessons from Nanoelectronics, Supriyo Datta
- Spin Transport and Topological Insulators I, Supriyo Datta
- Spin Transport and Topological Insulators II, Supriyo Datta
- A Beginning Introduction, Supriyo Datta
- McCoy Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Supriyo Datta
- PASI Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Part 1, Supriyo Datta
- PASI Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Part 2, Supriyo Datta
- HCIS-15 Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Supriyo Datta
- Physics of Nanoscale Transistors: An Introduction to Electronics from the Bottom Up, Mark Lundstrom
- The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics, Ashraf Alam
- Geometry of Diffusion and the Performance Limits of Nanobiosensors, Ashraf Alam, Pradeep Nair
Related Resources
- Nanoscale Transistors, Mark Lundstrom, Fall 2008, Fall 2006
- Principles of Semiconductor Devices, Ashraf Alam
Those with comments or questions or who are interested in participating in this initiative should contact Mark Lundstrom.
Supported by the Intel Foundation and the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology


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Ferrari Unveils Enzo Successor - LaFerrari
Every year, top sports car manufacturers show their latest high-performance machines at Geneva, and this year is no different. In fact, the 2013 Geneva Auto Show includes the world debut of a new, limited-edition supercar from what may be the most sought-after brand in the business. So highly regarded is the automaker from Maranello, Italy that it simply named its new car LaFerrari.
The 950-horsepower replacement for the Ferrari Enzo, which will be produced in a limited run of just 499 units, represents the essence of the brand, melding power, passion and technology. That's according to Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo.
"We chose to call this model LaFerrari because it is the maximum expression of what defines our company - excellence," said Montezemolo. "LaFerrari is the finest expression of our company's unique, unparalleled engineering and design know-how, including that acquired in Formula 1."
Experience in Formula 1 racing helped Ferrari create the HY-KERS system featured in LaFerrari, a kinetic hybrid system that stores energy in batteries. Like a normal hybrid, regenerative braking provides some of the energy; but in Ferrari's system, excess torque—from wheelspin in a corner, for example—is also collected, to be redistributed to the wheels through an electric motor. Combined with LaFerrari's 789-horsepower 6.3-liter V12 engine, the system makes 950 horsepower and more than 664 lb-ft torque.
That's enough to push LaFerrari from 0 to 62 mph in under 3 seconds, according to the automaker. Ferrari says its new supercar will have a top speed in excess of 217 mph.
LaFerrari uses a carbon fiber chassis for stiffness, strength and light weight. Active aerodynamic elements include front and rear diffusers and a rear spoiler that adjust to provide the best possible combination of slippery aerodynamics and downforce necessary to keep the car stable at high speeds.
Few will ever have the opportunity to climb into LaFerrari, but those with the privilege will find a seat fixed to the cabin floor. Instead of moving the seat, the steering wheel and pedal box move to accommodate the driver.
Ferrari included more accessible models from its sports car range on its 2013 Geneva Auto Show display, too, including the FF and the 458 Italia.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it is about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.
The barrage begins Tuesday when Microsoft's twist on email, Outlook.com, escalates an assault on rival services from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., AOL Inc. and a long list of Internet service providers.
As part of the process, all users of Microsoft's Hotmail and other email services operating under different domains such as MSN.com will be automatically converted to Outlook.com by the summer, if they don't voluntarily switch before then. All the old messages, contacts and settings in the old inboxes will be exported to Outlook.com. Users will also be able to keep their old addresses.
Email remains a key battleground, even at a time when more people are texting each other on phones.
People still regularly check their inboxes, albeit increasingly on their smartphones. The recurring email habit provides Internet companies a way to keep people coming back to websites. It gives people a reason to log in during their visits so it's easier for email providers to track their activities. Frequent visits and personal identification are two of the keys to selling ads, the main way most websites make money.
That's why Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have been retooling their email services in recent months.
After keeping Outlook.com in a "preview" phase since July 31, Microsoft Corp. is ready to accept all comers.
To welcome new users, Microsoft is financing what it believes to be the biggest marketing blitz in the history of email. Outlook.com will be featured in ads running on primetime TV, radio stations, websites, billboards and buses. Microsoft expects to spend somewhere between $30 million to $90 million on the Outlook campaign, which will run for at least three months.
The Outlook ads will overlap with an anti-Gmail marketing campaign that Microsoft launched earlier this month. The "Scroogled" attacks depict Gmail as a snoopy service that scans the contents of messages to deliver ads related to topics being discussed.
The Gmail ads are meant to be educational while the Outlook campaign is motivational, said Dharmesh Mehta, Outlook.com's senior director.
"We are trying to push people who have gotten lazy and comfortable with an email service that may not be all that great and help show them what email can really do for them," said Mehta.
By Microsoft's own admission, Hotmail had lost the competitive edge that once made it the world's largest email service. The lack of innovation left an opening for Google to exploit when it unveiled Gmail nearly nine years ago.
Gmail is now the industry leader, although estimates on its popularity vary.
Google says Gmail has more than 425 million accountholders, including those that only visit on smartphones and other mobile device. The latest data from research firm comScore, which doesn't include mobile traffic, shows Gmail with 306 million worldwide users through December, up 21 percent from the previous year. Yahoo's email ranked second with 293 million users, a 2 percent decrease from the previous year, followed by Hotmail at 267 million users, a 16 percent decline from the previous year.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is counting on Outlook.com to catapult the company back to the top of the email heap. During the preview period, Outlook attracted 60 million accountholders, including about 20 million that defected from Gmail, according to Microsoft. Comscore listed Outlook with 38 million users through December.
The new features being introduced in Outlook include: the ability to send massive files, including hundreds of photos at a time, in a single email; address books that automatically update new contact information that connections post on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; and about 60 percent fewer ads than Hotmail.
None of these features are revolutionary. Google already has been giving its users the option to switch to a new version of Gmail that also allows for larger files to be sent in a single email. And address books in Gmail already fetch new contact information posted on Google Plus, although it doesn't yet mine Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Google declined to comment on Outlook.com. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., plans to convert all of its Gmail users to its redesigned format within the next few months.
Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. revamped its email service late last year in an effort to provide a more consistent experience on personal computers and mobile devices.
Outlook.com is the latest in a series of major product leases from Microsoft, which has been struggling to regain the cachet that once made it the world's most valuable technology company.
Now, both Apple Inc. and Google are worth more because they have been growing far faster than Microsoft as their products win more fans. Apple's biggest gains have come from the iPhone and IPad, while Google has been benefiting from its dominance in Internet search and its widely used Android software for mobile devices.
Microsoft has been trying to catch up with a major makeover of its Windows operating system, new smartphone software and a tablet computer called Surface. Like Outlook.com, all those products have been backed by expensive marketing campaigns in recent months.


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class, so I take everybody serious." - Tim Means
The next time you do one of those "little things" in life, like open your refrigerator when you're hungry, sit down and put your feet up to watch some television, or just walk outside to grab some fresh air, you may want to think about what freedom means to you.
UFC lightweight Tim Means forgot what all those things meant several years ago, but he never will again.
"I couldn't open my own refrigerator when I was locked up," he said. "I couldn't get up in the middle of the night and get me some orange juice or a bowl of cereal. It's just small details like that that made me realize that things can be taken away in the blink of an eye."
A series of misdemeanor drug charges stemming from cocaine and methamphetamine use and a four year prison sentence explain the gap from 2005 to 2009 in his professional MMA career, and also his disappearance from the world. But he isn't looking for sympathy or trying to excuse his actions. What he does say is that being sent away did change his life forever, and it's something he won't forget or shy away from.
"I ran into an older dude that had been locked up since he was 16," Means recalled. "He's 87 now, and the man told me 'if you forget this place, you'll return.' And every day I wake up, I think of a state prison, I take a deep breath, and I'm thankful to be where I'm at. And I'll never forget what that older gentleman had told me. I just won't forget it."
Today, Means is a success in every sense of the word. He's drug-free, engaged to be married, part of a respected MMA team, and making noise in the premier organization in the sport. He even made number five in UFC.com's unofficial half-year awards for 2012 thanks to his two Octagon victories over Bernardo Magalhaes and Justin Salas.
"I like that word 'newcomer,' because I still think I'm learning, and I'm still trying to catch up to everybody, but I think it's starting to pay off," said the 28-year-old Means, and while it's been a good start for a young man with ambitions to one day challenge for the lightweight title, whether that happens or not, it's safe to say that he's already won in life. That fact hasn't dulled him ambition for more though.
"I want to be a champion," said Means, who returns to action this Saturday to face Abel Trujillo in Seattle. "I've had those King of the Cage world titles around my waist and it was an awesome feeling, so to get a UFC world title is everything to me right now. I'm gonna keep pushing, and I think I have another solid five years in the fight game before I might want to step out, but right now I'm shooting for gold. I've gotta get this guy Abel Trujillo out of the way first, and there are a lot of tough guys in this weight class, so I take everybody serious, and it's motivating to me."
And as the New Mexico product gets motivated by the challenges ahead, he has also taken on the responsibility of motivating young people before they get tempted by the path he once walked.
"Meth's a big problem in our county, so I go to the schools and talk to elementary school and middle school kids about meth, and I'm not so much drilling them on what they don't need to do, I just tell them what it did to me and where it took my life immediately," said Means. "I don't go talk to children or youngsters saying 'hey, you gotta straighten this up' or 'you need to do this.' I just tell them about my life and where messing with meth took me immediately. Within a year of messing with that stuff, I was in prison. I wasn't a thief or nothing like that; I just had a bad temper and I made people afraid of me, including the judge, and I was a nuisance and they made an example out of me, and I'm very thankful for that."
Once he was released in 2009, rehabilitated and focused on picking up a mixed martial arts career that had only produced a 3-2 pro record to that point (albeit with losses to UFC vets Spencer Fisher and Luke Caudillo), Means went right back to the people who he had trained with since he started at the age of 17, Tom and Arlene Vaughn.
"I came back in 2009, hit it hard with them, and I felt like I started where I left off," he said. "I've just been building on that ever since and it's just taken off."
It has, to the point where he's been 15-1-1 in his subsequent 17 fights. Means is the first to admit that Tom Vaughn is a key reason for his resurrection.
"He's not like a father figure to me; he's like a cool ass uncle," said Means of Vaughn, the man who led Carlos Condit to a WEC title and who now heads up the Power MMA team that is home to the likes of Ryan Bader, Aaron Simpson, Seth Baczynski, and CB Dollaway. "He's just real with stuff. He's been through ups and downs in his life, he understands the fight game a hundred percent, he was a competitor himself, and he's a good friend of mine. Tom brings everything – he brings the energy, he brings the passion, and he helps pull it out of me. Without Tom, I wouldn't be here, so I'm real happy to have that guy around."
These days, Tim Means is real happy about a lot of things, not the least of which being that at 2-0 in the UFC and with a nine fight winning streak under his belt, he's starting to get noticed – not for his past, but for his present.
"I belong here for sure, but I don't think I'm settled by any means because my belt is around somebody else's waist at the moment, so I'm still establishing myself," he said. "But I believe people are taking notice a little more than they were."
And rightfully so. But as good as things get, don't expect him to ever forget how bad they used to be.
"Sometimes when I wake up night I don't need to open that refrigerator because I have a fight coming up (Laughs), but every day I get up or I get home from practice and I put on my DirecTV and put my feet up and pet my Rottweiler I think about it (the past). But I have an awesome girlfriend, an awesome supportive family, an awesome team, and I'm just grateful, man."
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Real estate executive John Harrison Streicker, a member of
Princeton's class of 1964, has given the University a gift to fund the
construction of its new pedestrian bridge, which will link the two
halves of the southern part of campus separated by Washington Road.
Streicker Bridge, expected to be completed in 2010, is a key component of Princeton's plan to create a distinct science neighborhood south of Ivy Lane, an area already home to departments ranging from astrophysical sciences to molecular biology.
"This bridge will serve many purposes," said President Shirley M.
Tilghman. "It will stand as a tangible symbol of the cross-disciplinary
collaborations that are central to scientific research and teaching
today, and facilitate pedestrians' safe navigation of campus. We are
tremendously grateful to John Streicker for his thoughtful
Streicker, the father of three Princeton alumni -- Margaret Streicker
Porres '97, Michael Streicker '99 and Elizabeth Streicker '02 -- said
he is funding the project in large part to thank the University for the
key role it has played in his family's life. "Because the University
helped bridge two generations in my family, I thought building an
actual bridge was a particularly appropriate way to give back," said
Streicker. "I am thrilled to be part of this important project."
The bridge is being designed by the noted Swiss engineer Christian Menn
in collaboration with the HNTB engineering and design company, whose
lead engineer for the project is Theodore P. Zoli, a member of
Princeton's class of 1988. The 300-foot span will rise about 23 feet
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campus and the community for vehicles traveling north on Washington
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