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Achiote Chicken Chopped Salad
Lots of flavor and texture at play here. Spicy chicken and a couscous and vegetable mixture top shredded greens. The sweet and spicy vinaigrette pulls it all together.
1 1⁄2 cups olive oil
2 tbsp. shallot, minced
2 tbsp. dijon mustard
3 tbsp. honey
1⁄2 cup red wine vinegar
2 tbsp. cumin, ground
1 tsp. cayenne pepper, ground
2 tbsp. achiote (annato seeds)
1⁄2 cup olive oil
1 small whole chicken, 2 1⁄2-3 lb.
2 tsp. dried oregano
2 tsp. dried basil
2 tsp. dried orange rind
10 oz. couscous, cooked
8 oz. black beans, drained, rinsed
12 oz. frozen corn
3 red peppers, roasted, peeled, diced
Butter or iceberg lettuce, shredded, as needed
1. In a bowl, whisk together olive oil, shallot, mustard, honey, vinegar, cumin and cayenne. Season to taste and reserve.
2. In a skillet over low heat, steep achiote in 1⁄2 cup olive oil until it becomes aromatic, and the oil turns a deep orange-red; cool; strain. Rub chicken with achiote oil; season with oregano, basil, orange rind, salt and pepper. Roast at 400° F. until golden brown. Allow to cool and cut into 1-in. chunks (after deboning). Reserve.
3. In a bowl, combine couscous, black beans, corn, red pepper and half the cumin dressing. Season to taste, add more dressing if desired.
4. To assemble salad, place a bed of shredded lettuce on a plate. Top with couscous mixture and chicken. Additional dressing may served on the side, if desired.


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PHOENIX (Dec. 4, 2010) -- With the U.S. U-17 Men's National Team on an off day from the Nike International Friendlies, Select Teams made up of players born in 1994 and 1995 were vying for the U.S. coaches' attention.
Two teams of 18 players each played an attractive brand of soccer in front of more than 300 college and national team scouts. After a scoreless first half of back-and-forth action, the Red team scored the game's first goal in the 51st minute. Jack McBeam (Los Angeles Galaxy) got behind the Blue defense, touched it around the goalkeeper and slotted it into the net.
The Blue team deservedly leveled the score just three minutes later. Mike Gamble (Baltimore Bays Chelsea) ran onto the ball and battled through the back line before slipping the ball into the side netting.
Nick Tobias (St. Louis Scott Gallagher Metro) scored the game-winner for the Red team in the 73rd minute. He ran onto a through ball, took one touch around the final defender and a second touch on goal to make the final score 2-1.
Every player participating in this afternoon's game is age-eligible to compete in the 2011 CONCACAF U-17 Championship and the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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Match: 1994/1995 Select Teams; Red vs. Blue
Date: Dec. 4, 2010
Competition: 2010 Development Academy Winter Showcase
Venue: Reach 11 Sports Complex
Kickoff: 3:30 p.m. MT
Weather: 70 degrees, clear
Scoring Summary: 1 2 F
Red 94/95 0 2 2
Blue 94/95 0 1 1
RED – John McBeam 51st minute
BLU – Mike Gamble 54
RED – Nick Tobias 73
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Head coach: Chris Brewer
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Head coach: Hugo Perez
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Om 2008.8 is the successor of Om 2007.2
This article defines the second revision of the Today Application, an application designed for the Openmoko platform.
The Today application is the entry point for the user. It therefore resides on the 'desktop' of the phone, and is used for the following: 1) Quickly finding out the status of phone & calender related items. 2) Launch a new application. 3) Manage running applications i.e. Switch to or close a running application.
Use Cases
Here are some possible use cases:
- I want to be able to view at a glance today's Calendar Events and To Do Items.
- I want to launch an application.
- I want to switch to a running application.
Core Functionality
(Italics = Done, Bold = In progress)
- View network provider
- Overview of missed calls and unread messages
- options/settings ui
- Overview of future events, tasks and alarms
- Lock the phone to prevent accidental touch-screen press
- Launch core applications
- Launch dialer to view missed calls
- Launch messages application to view unread messages
- View all applications, with descriptions
- Launch a selected application
- Filter all applications by category
- Filter all applications on name and description by custom search string
- View running applications
- Switch to running application
- Close running application
- Close all running applications
Layout Components
Application Area
Today Page
- 1) Title -- This is a global panel applet which automatically sets the title to the currently on screen application. It also provides a quick way to switch between running applications.
- 2) Phone Group -- Has the network operator as the title, and shows the number of missed calls and unread SMS's.
- 3) Calender Group -- Shows the time and date as the title, and has a list of calender items, todo's and reminders.
- 4) Main Page -- Current page.
- 5) Launch Task Page -- Switches to the Launch Task page, where the user can browse and launch applications.
- 6) Running Tasks Page -- Switches to the Running Tasks page, where the user can switch to or close running applications.
- 7) Quick Launch -- A tool-bar housing the most used applications.
Launch Task Page
- 1) Title
- 2) Application List -- A list of available applications.
- 3) Today Page -- Switches to the Today page.
- 4) Launch Task Page -- Current Page.
- 5) Running Tasks Page -- Switches to the Running Tasks page, where the user can switch to or close running applications.
- 6) Search/Filter Menu -- This is used to filter the applications, either by clicking the search icon and typing in a string, or by clicking on the filter menu and choosing an application group.
Running Tasks Page
- 1) Title
- 2) Switch To -- Switches to the highlighted application.
- 3) Close -- Closes the highlighted application.
- 4) Close All -- Closes all the running applications.
- 5) Today Page -- Switches to the Today page.
- 6) Launch Task Page -- Switches to the Launch Task page.
- 7) Running Tasks Page -- Current Page.
- 8) List Of Running Applications
Adjust UI components at runtime
- default: this is from daily build default image
# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/reduced false
- reduced: remove the upper application icons, no clock, and no date
# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/reduced true
- digital/analog clock : change the digital clock to analog clock
# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/digital_clock false
- remove clock entirely
# gconftool-2 --type bool --set /desktop/poky/interface/small_clock true
- change wallpaper image
# gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/poky/interface/wallpaper /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png
- other options: The above are just a few of the options that can be changed. Here are the rest:
# gconftool-2 -a /desktop/poky/interface toolbar_style = icons gtk-im-status-style = callback gtk_key_theme = Default theme = Moko font_name = Sans 5 gtk-color-palette = (no value set) cursor_blink_time = 1200 cursor_blink = true gtk-scrolled-window-placement = GTK_CORNER_TOP_LEFT small_clock = true menus_have_icons = false toolbar_icon_size = (no value set) touchscreen = true can_change_accels = false digital_clock = false file_chooser_backend = (no value set) gtk-im-preedit-style = callback wallpaper = /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png icon_theme = openmoko-standard
- gconf problem (the hard fix)
(gconftool-2:1366): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session Error setting value: No D-BUS daemon running
root@fic-gta02:/$ ps aux | grep today root 1320 3.7 11.5 33556 14100 ? S 23:00 0:09 openmoko-today root 1369 0.0 0.4 2860 592 pts/0 S+ 23:04 0:00 grep today root@fic-gta02:/$ cat /proc/1320/environ
root@fic-gta02:/$ export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-80gSL9Q6F4, guid=6efed88183a7f6b9210cf40047ba0dfe
Doing it with one single line :
cat /proc/`pidof openmoko-today`/environ |grep DBUS > exptmp && export `cat exptmp` && rm exptmp
- gconf problem (the easy fix): Prefix the command with dbus-launch, see below example:
root@fic-gta02:/$ dbus-launch gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/poky/interface/wallpaper /usr/share/pixmaps/wallpaper.png
The appearance of the display locker can be modified, as well, by following the instructions under Display Locker.


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Manchester United have been dealt a blow ahead of the Manchester derby this weekend – Tom Cleverly is likely to miss the game with a calf injury.
Roberto Mancini knew Manchester City's ill-fated Champions League campaign was doomed – before the start of the season.
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Congratulations 49ers. I love hockey and I'm so glad we've made it to the Stanley Cup. Or, er, the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's it. Don't get me wrong – I absolutely love playing sports. But even overly-muscled men in skin-tight pants can't keep my attention when it comes to watching sports. But since our football team has made it to the championship game and completely messed up this Sunday's open house schedule, let's take a moment to compare Baltimore real estate (because we're playing the Ravens, and they're from there… GO me!) and San Francisco real estate:
High End Home:
Baltimore offers up 622 Ponte Villas N, listed by Karen Hubble Bisbee, a waterfront double townhome with 6 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and over 9,000 square feet of living space.
Asking price: $8,500,000.
Looking for something in San Francisco that has over 9,000 square feet of living space? Then might I suggest 3800 Washington St. in Presidio Heights listed by Steven Mavromihalis of Pacific Union. 3800 Washington offers 8 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, and crushes the competition with more than 17,000 square feet of living space. On almost an acre of land. In Presidio Heights. This one is ready for your dreams, just be sure to bring additional cash to turn those dreams into reality!
Asking price: $25,000,000. Bonus: Comes with two additional lots – 3810 Washington (2,869 square foot guest house) and 125 Maple (empty lot).
And the winner is… San Francisco!
Downtown Condo:
Looking for a luxury condo near the core of Baltimore? Look no farther than 801 Key Highway #155, listed by Bill Caspari of Long & Foster. This condo offers three bedrooms, four full baths and one half bath in a luxury condominium development at the Ritz Carlton Residences. It also includes four (!) heated (!) parking spaces, with monthly HOA dues of $2,843.
Asking price: $2,499,000
For San Francisco condo buyers, I'd suggest residence 49C at The Millennium Tower. Residence 49C is listed by Denise Paulson of Alain Pinel, and offers two bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 2,489 square feet of living space on the 49th floor of the Grand Residences. Monthly HOA dues are $1,489.
Asking Price: $6,600,000
And the winner is… San Francisco (although I almost had to give this one to Baltimore based on parking spaces alone)!
Starter Home:
In Baltimore, you could pick up 6722 Boston Ave., a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom home listed by Dina Chao of Century 21 Downtown. No word on square footage in the listing, but tax records put it at about 1,170 square feet. Which comes out to $113/square foot.
Asking Price $138,500
Our San Francisco starter home is 122 Bertita St in the Mission Terrace neighborhood. It features 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and is approximately 1,500 square feet. The home is listed by Jeff Peargin of Pacific Union.
Asking Prce: $369,000
And the winner is… San Francisco!
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Like many ventures in Terrebonne Parish, as the oilfield goes, so goes business.
With a busy Gulf of Mexico, the Houma-Terrebonne Airport continues to grow and is taking steps to improve its facilities.
Like many ventures in Terrebonne Parish, as the oilfield goes, so goes business.
With a busy Gulf of Mexico, the Houma-Terrebonne Airport continues to grow and is taking steps to improve its facilities.
The airport sees more than 88,000 annual operations, which is airport parlance for take-offs and landings.
This puts it in the top four busiest airports in the state, according to David Slayter, director of the airport and adjoining industrial park.
Slayter said the airport is down in total operations since its busiest days midway through the last decade. He attributed this decrease to fewer flight training companies operating out of the airport.
"The commerce and business has not declined — it has increased," Slayter said.
The airport is expected to increase activity in the coming years due partially to ongoing investments from oilfield service companies.
Following the floods brought by Hurricane Katrina, many oilfield transport companies began relocating their aircraft to areas less prone to flooding. The airport has benefitted from that, Slayter said.
Today, the airport hosts 155 aircraft including helicopters and traditional airplanes, Slayter said. That's a 35 percent increase from 2005 figures.
One of the companies that has increased its footprint in Houma is PHI Inc. The Lafayette-based oilfield transport company has more helicopters based in Houma than anywhere else and not coincidentally had Terrebonne's second-highest property tax bill last year.
Slayter said PHI and ERA Helicopters, which has a similar footprint at the airport, are set to increase the number of their locally based aircraft. Bristow Group has fewer helicopters than ERA and PHI in Houma but is also increasing the space it has there.
Slayter said it's unclear now how much property PHI will need for its planned expansion or how many aircraft will be added.
"I would expect it to be a significant expansion," Slayter said.
ERA has leased an additional 20 acres. Though it's unclear how many aircraft will be added, Slayter said the expansion is expected to bring in new jobs.
The three helicopter companies couldn't be reached for comment.
Slayter said hosting more aircraft is not only a benchmark of the airport's health but also brings jobs and money into the parish.
"Bigger helicopters require more crew, mechanics on the ground, and that is just more people that eat and spend money here," Slayter said.
Along with helicopters, the number of airplanes based at the airport has also increased. The airport now has 83 fixed-wing aircraft. That's up from 64 in 2005, Slayter said.
About 40 of those are single engine, 30 have multiple engines and 10 are classified as jets, Slayter.
"In the years past, folks thought the airport was just a place for people with money to play, but it's important for economic development," Slayter said. "Even the jets are economic development. ... It is a strategic business tool, and we want businesses to have them based here because it means business is here."
The airport is undergoing federally financed drainage projects and is mapping out other expansions and maintenance to one of its runways.
The South Lafourche Leonard Miller, Jr. Airport has also benefitted from activity in the Gulf.
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Brothers, a left-handed pitcher, overwhelmed USC Upstate in Lipscomb's series-opening win on Saturday. The Shelbyville, Tenn., native fanned 13 batters on his way to a 3-0 complete-game shutout of the Spartans. The league's second-best prospect according to Baseball America, Brothers needed just 109 pitches to slice through the Upstate lineup and faced only five batters over the minimum in his gem. He moved into a tie for the league lead with his third win while running his conference-best strikeout total to 42 for the season.
Lipscomb moved to within one game of undefeated A-Sun leader FGCU with the win and climbed back to .500 overall for just the second time this season. The junior majors in management.
Tim Roberson led the FGCU offense last week, hitting .538 as the Eagles went 4-1 with a win against Penn State and a three-game sweep of North Florida. The sophomore pounded out five home runs while driving in 16 runs for the electric Eagles' offense. FGCU averaged 9.6 runs per game this week while keeping their conference record unblemished. Roberson was responsible for 21 of the Eagles 50 runs last week and leads the league in hits (32), home runs (seven) and RBI (31). He majors in criminal justice.
The Atlantic Sun Conference is an 11-member league committed to Building Winners for Life. The A-Sun stands for achievement with integrity in both the academic and athletic arenas, with a focus on the balance between the two for our student-athletes. Headquartered in Macon, Ga., the A-Sun boasts six of the top eight media markets in the Southeast. The A-Sun includes a blend of the most prestigious and dynamic private and public institutions in the region: Belmont University, Campbell University, East Tennessee State University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Jacksonville University, Kennesaw State University, Lipscomb University, Mercer University, University of North Florida, University of South Carolina Upstate and Stetson University.
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Kyle Heckathorn, Kennesaw State (Jr. - RHP - Ringgold, Ga. - Sports Management) -- Pitched seven innings against No. 21 Kent State, allowing just two runs (one earned) on five hits while walking one and fanning nine in a no-decision. The Owls would go on to win the game and sweep the series.
Parker Fleming, Campbell (Fr. - RHP - Lexington, S.C. - Undeclared) --Earned win in first collegiate start, allowing just one run over 5.0 innings of work to go with six strikeouts versus North Carolina Central.
Dylan Craig, Belmont (Fr. - OF - Signal Mountain, Tenn. - Biology) -- Collected four multi-hit games during Belmont's 4-1 week. Also posted a 1.000 slugging percentage highlighted by three triples that vaulted him into the conference lead in that category with five for the season.
Antonio Butler, Lipscomb (Fr. - OF - Gallatin, Tenn. - Undeclared) -- Belted the first two home runs of his career in Lipscomb's three-game sweep of USC Upstate. Finished the series with six RBI to help the Bisons stay within one game of conference leader FGCU.
Jeremy Gillian, Jacksonville (Sr. - C/DH - Port St. Lucia, Fla. - Exercise Science) -- Went 8-for-15 (.533), with a home run, five RBI, a .733 slugging percentage and a .611 on-base percentage for the week.
Jeremy Cruz, Stetson (Sr. - OF/1B - Miami, Fla. - Sports Management) -- In five games, he belted four homers while hitting .450 (9-for-20) and driving in 11 runs. Cruz raised his average from .260 to .314 over the week and stands third in the conference with his six home runs.
Chris Sale, FGCU (So. - LHP - Lakeland, Fla. - Criminal Justice) -- Struck out nine batters while hurling 8.0 innings in the Eagles' 8-2 win at UNF.
Tyler Graskewicz, Belmont (So. - RHP - Hudson, Wisc. - Undeclared) – Fanned a career-best five batters while allowing only one unearned run in 7.0 innings of work against ETSU.


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Monday, May 20, 2013
By William Becerra
It's all around us. The Immigration reform debate is on, once again, and as one should expect, it has united some while dividing others. Many faith groups have come to the realization that treating strangers as yourself (Cf Lv, 19-33) is not only biblical wisdom, but can also be considered the moral standard to live out one's faith; and is it not Jesus himself who succinctly impels us to recognize him in the strangers (Cf Mt, 25 -35)?
So we know that immigration can bring a certain level of moral dilemma. The Church is then well within Her rights to speak out on public policy issues of moral consequence and often does. In fact, the Church has a moral obligation to speak out on issues which impact human dignity and human life. In the immigration area, the Church brings special expertise to the table because we are an immigrant church and have helped assist immigrants to assimilate into the nation for decades.
The Archdiocese of Chicago through the Office for Immigrant Affairs launched the campaign Together As Brothers & Sisters to raise attention and support to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation in 2013. This is the collaborative effort of various groups working with our office: Priests for Justice for Immigrants (PJI, 200 priests) , Sisters and Brothers of Immigrants (SBI, 59 religious orders), Pastoral Migratoria (PM, 370 Hispanic lay leaders in 65 Hispanic parishes), Polish Immigrant-to-Immigrant Ministry (PIIM, 40 Polish lay leaders in 11 Polish parishes), Immigration Parish Coordinators (IPCs, education liaisons in 129 native-born parishes), and Catholic DREAMers of Chicago (DREAMers, 250 undocumented students).
The campaign is a concrete example that the Church–in Chicago in this case– is uniting people for a common objective: to pass comprehensive immigration reform. It is extremely exciting to see how almost half the parishes in our Archdiocese (made up of 352 parishes) are collecting 100,000 printed postcards signed by parishioners with the principles of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops supporting a change in legislation. These principles are: provide a path to citizenship for undocumented persons in the country; preserve family unity as a corner‐stone of our national immigration system; provide legal paths for low‐skilled immigrant workers to come and work in the U.S.; restore due process protections to our immigrants enforcement policies; and address the root causes (push factors) of migration, such as persecution and economic disparity.
We will have a moment to celebrate this unity when parishes bring their signed postcards to the May 30 Pilgrimage & Prayer Vigil for Immigration Reform with Cardinal Francis George. All are welcome. We are blessed to have the support of our Cardinal, but more importantly we are encouraged to continue our work wherein we see people raising their voices, sending postcards, and calling and visiting their congressional representatives. We invite you to send an electronic postcard to your congressional representatives and senators, asking them to keep families together, give our brother and sister immigrants a chance to earn the opportunity to be full members of our country, and not to take away the dreams of our young people.
I believe strongly that faith, common sense, and a desire for unity are the right combination for recognizing the signs of this time, echoing the prophetic text of Gaudium et Spes N1: The joys and the hopes, the grieves and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the grieves and anxieties of the followers of Christ.
For more information on how to support efforts for comprehensive immigration reform please visit our website: www.archchicago.org/Immigration/


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|Silver figurine found at Lejre, Denmark (circa 900)
In the Eddic poem Grímnismál ("Sayings of the Masked One" - another name for Odin), the god says, "Hugin and Munin fly every day / over the wide world; / I fear for Hugin that he will not come back, / yet I tremble more for Munin." Odin sits on Hlidskjalf, his high seat above the clouds, and sends his ravens out to bring him back news of happenings throughout the Nine Worlds of the Norse cosmogony.
We can read backwards from this mythic structure to see evidence of shamanistic practices in the early Germanic religion. Many cultures throughout the world have the concept that the wise man or religious leader can send out his spirit in the form of a chosen animal. This spirit animal can travel farther and gather more information than anyone in human form. The fear of the god for his ravens can be seen as fear that the shaman will not wake from his trance-state, and that his conscious mind will be lost and unable to return to everyday reality.
|Odin with wolves & ravens by Johannes Wiedewelt (circa 1780)
|Werewolf (Egil's Saga Exhibition in Borgarnes, Iceland)
Another of Odin's names is Allvíss ("all-wise"). Our modern English word "wizard" derives from "wize-ard" ("wise-one"). Odin is the original wizard and is the role model for Tolkien's Gandalf; "Gandalf" itself is a byname for Odin that translates to "wand-elf" or "staff-elf" - the mystical figure who wanders the roads with his walking-stick. One of the most central aspects of the god in the Norse conception is as a seeker after wisdom.
|Yggdrasil by Oluf Olufsen Bagge (1847)
In one of the most famous passages from the Eddic poem Hávamál ("Sayings of the High One"), the god says, "I know that I hung on a windy tree / nine long nights / wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin, / myself to myself, / on that tree of which no man knows / from where its roots run. / / No bread did they give me nor drink from a horn, / downwards I peered; / I took up the runes, screaming I took them, / then I fell back from there." Before we examine his relationship to hanging, we should note his association with the spear.
|The Vanir War by Emil Doepler (1900)
Like so many elements of ancient religious practice, these rituals survived into later ages, but their meanings were clouded and lost. In the medieval German epic of The Nibelungenlied, Folker the Burgundian makes a strange gesture: "With that, he lifted a sharp spear and hard from the ground, that a Hun had shot at him, and hurled it strongly across the courtyard, over the heads of the folk." There is no explanation given in the text, but, in light of the slaughter that ensues, this seems a vestigial act from a bygone era, its true meaning lost.


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text: Rublev's Holy Trinity Icon About Andrei Rublev's Holy Trinity Icon The word 'icon' comes from the Greek word for image, but a true icon is much more than a beautiful and educational piece of art. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "Icons are more than decorative art or educational illustrations. Icons are "theology in color." An icon is a place to receive grace through faith, a sacramental: Its purpose is to transport us into a transfigured world, to plant that transfigured world within us, to bring us face-to-face with a living presence and change us." (CCC 1667-1679). For more detail on what exactly an icon is, click here. Next to the Veil of Veronica, or the Sudarium, the cloth to which Jesus pressed his face on the journey to Calvary and which is considered to be the first icon, Rublev's icon of the Holy Trinity is perhaps the most famous of all icons. The icon, created in the first part of the 15th century, depicts three figures, and so it is mistakenly assumed that the three figures are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are angelic figures which represent or reflect the mystery of the Holy Trinity to us. However the significance of the image is much deeper and richer than being a mere picture. As with all iconography, symbolism is a factor in the Holy Trinity Icon, which is also called the Hospitality of Abraham Icon. Each aspect of the icon – the colors, symbols, positioning – has certain significance. They are no artist's whims. The subject of the icon is based on the story of Abraham, who is camping by the Oak of Mamre when he receives three visitors. As he converses with the three angels and serves them a meal, it is revealed he is actually talking directly to God. And the LORD appeared to [Abraham] by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the earth, and said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I fetch a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said." (Gen 18:1-5) To begin with, in Rublev's icon there are three figures sitting around a table. On one level the three are literally the visual manifestation of three 'angels' the Lord appeared as. On another they are a visual expression of the mystery of the Holy Trinity. For this reason, the icon is also sometimes called an icon of the Old Testament Trinity. The Colors of the Icon Reading the icon from left to right, we see identical angelic figures but clothed in different colors of garments. One wears a blue garment, and on top of that a cloak of an indescribable, almost ethereal, color. It seems to hold every possible color in the world. This is fitting because the Father cannot be seen but at the same time is apparent in every aspect of His creation. The second angel wears two colors. The blue garment is representative of Christ's divinity; the dark, ruddy brown is the color of the earth, representing His human nature. The two colors worn together signify Christ's dual nature, and the unity of humanity and divinity in Him. Across the figure's right shoulder, the gold colored band – a symbol of government – signifies Christ's kingship. The third angel is clothed in both blue and green. The blue once again is representative of the divine nature; the green is the color of new life. The Holy Spirit moves through all of God's creation, through Heaven and earth, water and sky. Positions and Other Symbols The three angels sit in a circle – representative of the unity of the Holy Trinity, the three are in fact one. The circle is not closed off, but remains open – an invitation to us. The angels representing the Father and Holy Spirit are both inclined toward the Son; the body of the angel representing the Son is inclined toward the angel representing the Holy Spirit and his face is toward the representation of the Father. The gaze is circular, leading the one looking at the icon to continually move from one figure to the next. The symbolism, the truth portrayed, is that the Father leads us to the Son, who leads us to the Holy Spirit; in turn the Holy Spirit leads us back to Christ and Christ leads us back to the Father. There is a tree in the icon as well. The tree on the literal level is the one under which the visitors to Abraham sat. However in the icon, it is placed directly behind the Christ angelic figure – symbolic of the Cross of the crucifixion, the tree of death becoming the tree of eternal life. The Son angelic figure points toward a chalice in the center of the table, representative of the Holy Eucharist. The Father angelic figure sits before a house. Once again, it may be the literal home of Abraham, father of the people of Israel. Yet it is placed in the icon behind the figure of our heavenly Father, and so it is also figurative of the dwelling place of God. The Father angelic figure has two hands on His staff, a symbol of the authority of the Father. The Spirit angelic figure sits in front of a mountain, places where Heaven and earth almost seem to touch. Moses encountered God on a mountain and much later the Transfiguration of Jesus took place on a mountain. To read more about this and other famous icons, pick up Light From the East, an inspirational introduction to the spiritual riches of the Byzantine liturgical tradition of iconography. To view our entire selection of beautiful icon reproductions, all presented in an authentic Eastern style, please click here.


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The following post is from Rob Bernshteyn, CEO of Coupa, a provider of cloud spend management solutions.
Raising my third round of venture capital for Coupa Software, I decided we should play by our own rules. In February 2012 we held a sourcing event, much like an auction, with the intention of selling the opportunity to invest in Coupa to the highest bidder. We pulled it off, landing $22 million in a round led by Crosslink Capital, but not without one heart-stopping moment along the way.
Applying sourcing techniques to venture capital was something I had never seen or heard of. I didn't know if it could be done. But we had executed extremely well with the funds from our first two rounds. Venture capital markets were heating up again; our position was very strong and I thought we could use that to our advantage.
I raised round one during the 2009 recession as a newly minted CEO and first-time fundraiser. I camped out at Starbucks on Sharon Park Drive, schlepping my pitch-deck up and down Sand Hill Road, going to three or four meetings a day for weeks. I got a lot feedback from venture capitalists, and refined the business model over and over again before finally landing a $7.5 million round with El Dorado Ventures, who believed in the people, opportunity and the deal.
Raising round two in 2011 was a very different experience, with more casual meetings at the sprawling, stylish new Rosewood Resort on Sand Hill Road. We were able to leverage our growing track record to get a fair valuation—$12 million—and get the deal done fast with Mohr Davidow Ventures, a firm that brought operating experience as well as money to the table.
At this point, we had our strategy and our people. We were coming off a strong year. We just needed additional money to accelerate.
I felt that we were in a position to say, "Here's what we're doing. We're doing it well. If you want to be part of it, you need to write a sizable check, and by the way we're likely to go with the highest bidder."
Why not? Our buyers run supplier reverse auctions all the time. Our software enables these kinds of processes and our support people coach buyers at some of the world's biggest companies on best practices. This is part of our DNA as a company. Why not apply this approach to fundraising?
I thought this could save us a lot of time and energy so we didn't have to break stride on execution. But, I also thought it had the potential to frustrate some of the investment community.
I recommended the approach to some of our board members, and they supported us, because they knew we were smart enough to include the right investors and get the best possible deal. We moved forward, creating a very structured process for getting the deal done.
First, we went through a list of all the investors we'd gotten to know over the last three years and identified those for whom Coupa would be a fit. We came up with eight.
We sent them all personal e-mails saying, "We're raising a round. Here is our process. Beginning February 15th, we're going to spend five weeks meeting and sharing information about what we've done and what we're planning to do."
"We're going to close the quarter on March 30th, 2012. On Saturday the 31st, we will send you all the metrics for Q1. We ask for your term sheets by noon on Tuesday, April 3rd."
Then we held our breath.
Of the eight firms we contacted, seven were interested. Three more got wind of it and asked to be involved, so we ended up talking to ten firms.
We gave them all of our data up until the beginning of 2012. It was delightful to be able to show that almost everything we'd laid out in previous rounds had been accomplished. There was now a history that one could easily extrapolate into the future.
As March wound down, it became clear that six of the firms were seriously interested. Everything went according to plan and we expected to receive six term sheets.
Then, on March 26th, we received paperwork of a different kind. Ariba, a huge company and the biggest vendor in our space, filed a direct patent infringement lawsuit against Coupa. I was stunned. I didn't understand it. And I thought for sure that this would kill the deal, if not the company.
That evening, I got on the phone to each of the six interested firms to deliver the grim news. To my surprise, they all still wanted to be part of this opportunity, and we got terms sheets from all six.
Most were pretty close in valuation, with outliers on the high and low end. We wanted to go with one of the higher bids, but also with the investor that had spent the most time getting to know the company, and that was Crosslink Capital.
Their entire partnership engaged in understanding the business. They looked at all the data. They were very thoughtful about the space, and the challenges and the opportunities in the market. They were sober about the risks, but also bullish about the possibilities. Their terms were fair and it was an easy selection.
We had set up a fast, structured process and then got out of the way to let market forces work to our advantage. But we also had to make a game-time decision when a wrench got thrown into the works. The only way I know how to do that is with immediate, real-time transparency: You pull out the wrench, you tell everyone what happened and you move forward from there.
It all lead to a great valuation, another phenomenal investor and a chance to get back to business quickly. And that's exactly what we did, until the next need for capital came about in 2014.
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Local officials make case as state gambling panel's decision on slots parlor license expected Friday.
RAYNHAM – State gambling regulators opened deliberations Tuesday on the state's first and only slots parlor license, with proposals in Plainville and Leominster appearing to gain an early edge over Raynham Park.
The state gambling commission is evaluating the three applicants on five major categories, with a final decision expected Friday.
The applicants for the slots parlor license are the Plainridge harness racetrack in Plainville, operated by Penn National Gaming; Raynham Park, a former dog racing track that has partnered with Greenwood Racing; and Cordish Cos., which hopes to build a slots parlor in Leominster.
A report from Commissioner James McHugh, who oversaw the review of the building and site design category, gave solid ratings of "sufficient to very good" for the Plainville and Leominster proposals, while grading Raynham "sufficient to insufficient."
Raynham's final plan was "essentially a large box and many of the non-gaming amenities are not as well-defined as the other applicant submittals," McHugh said in his report.
Those comments didn't sit well with Raynham Selectman Richard Schiavo, who said there are a host of reasons that make Raynham the top choice.
"Raynham has got the best location," Schiavo said Tuesday. In addition to having easy access to routes 495 and 95, Schiavo said Raynham is the only one with access to Route 24. "Anyone coming from the south ties us with Taunton, Fall River and Providence, all of which are available from the south right on Exit 15," he said. He added that people coming from the north only need to travel a mile from Route 24, bringing in people from Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth and Boston.
McHugh added that Plainville presented an "integrated design approach marrying the existing harness racing venue and simulcast with the slot parlor in a well-developed concept," while Leominster offered "a well-documented overall design concept emphasizing an upscale entertainment venue with three features — gaming, dining, and live entertainment — each of which is a draw in and of itself."
Commissioner Enrique Zuniga, who evaluated the finances of each applicant, said in his presentation Tuesday that all three had demonstrated the financial ability to develop and operate a successful slots parlor.
But Zuniga gave Plainville the top ranking of "very good to outstanding," noting Penn National's experience in operating 28 other gambling facilities in North America and its understanding of "the current and future Massachusetts competitive marketplace."
Leominster received an overall grade of "very good" with Zuniga saying Cordish had sound investment, market and operation plans.
Raynham Park trailed in the finance category with an overall grade of "sufficient to very good," with Zuniga's report questioning whether the company would have direct access to all the funds it needed to build a permanent facility.
According to Schiavo, the plans for the partnership between Greenwood Racing and George Carney's group have an 86.1% approval rating in the town. "There is a unique synergy between them," Schiavo said. Several calls made to Raynham Park owner George Carney seek comment Tuesday were not immediately returned.
Slots at Raynham Park could be up and running soon, he added. "They would be generating revenues a lot quicker because they would be open for business in six months and I'd like to know what other applicant is ready to say that," Schiavo said.
If Raynham Park is chosen as the site for the slots parlor, it would bring more revenue and jobs to surrounding towns. That's not lost on Easton Town Administrator David Colton. He recently helped to negotiate a mitigation agreement between Raynham Park and the neighboring town of Easton.
"We hope they are successful," Colton said. "It means $362,000 a year in revenue for the town of Easton, it is the largest surrounding community agreement," Colton said.
The commission was slated to discuss the three other major categories, economic development, mitigation and general overview, later in the week.
Under the state's 2011 gambling law, the winner of the slots parlor license can install up to 1,250 slot machines in its facility, but no table games.
The law also allows for up to three larger resort casinos, with the commission expected to award licenses for the greater Boston and western Massachusetts regions by June 30.


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Bradley Manning, the young US Army soldier charged with what may have been the largest intelligence leak in US history, faces his first day in military court Friday.
Not on trial but also in the spotlight are military security – specifically, how well the military secures its secrets in a combat zone – and the extent to which the Army should have foreseen problems with a private barely out of his teens who one superior officer had warned was "a mess of a child."
As detailed by the Pentagon, Manning is charged with "aiding the enemy; wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet knowing that it is accessible to the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense information; fraud and related activity in connection with computers; and for violating Army Regulations 25-2 'Information Assurance' and 380-5 'Department of the Army Information Security Program.' " There are 22 charges in all.
"Aiding the enemy" is a capital offense, but military officials say they will not seek the death penalty but rather life in prison without possibility of parole.
Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), Manning's Article 32 hearing Friday (expected to last about a week) is to determine whether he should be court martialed. The hearing will be held at Fort Meade, Md.
Manning's civilian attorney is David Coombs, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves who spent 12 years on active duty in the judge advocate corps.
Mr. Coombs hopes to show that the Army did not adequately monitor Manning's erratic behavior – at one point the bolt reportedly was removed from his weapon, making it inoperable – and that the leaked information may have been politically and diplomatically embarrassing but it wasn't all that harmful to national security.
That's why Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list of requested witnesses. She has been quoted as saying that the leaked documents "did not represent significant consequences to foreign policy."
Also on Coombs's witness wish list is President Obama, the US commander in chief and Manning's superior. Coombs will argue that Obama prejudiced the case when he said last year that Manning "broke the law."
It is unlikely that either Secretary Clinton or Mr. Obama will testify. The government is opposing all requested defense witnesses except for the 10 witnesses also requested by the government.
Manning's case has generated worldwide interest and in some cases protest – particularly for the many months he was held in solitary confinement. It's the largest and most controversial case involving WikiLeaks, the self-styled whistle-blower website that released to several newspapers the hundreds of thousands of cables, videos, and other information allegedly provided by Manning.
Manning was a military analyst in Iraq where, despite his low rank, he had wide access to sensitive and classified information. Among other things, Manning allegedly downloaded and leaked video footage of an attack by a US Apache helicopter gunship that killed Iraqi civilians, including two employees of the Reuters news agency.
During the months when Manning worked with the Army's 10th Mountain Division in Iraq, it was apparently easy for him to find, download, and copy sensitive military information. Writing in an online chat, he claims to have had "unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months."
"I would come in with music on a CD-RW labeled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file," he wrote. "No one suspected a thing … I listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history."
"No one suspected a thing," he allegedly wrote to a former computer hacker who eventually tipped off the FBI and Army officials. "I didn't even have to hide anything."
In July 2010, WikiLeaks released some 92,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan ranging from individual unit reports to broader strategy discussions, including information on civilian casualties, the strength of the Taliban, friendly fire episodes, and links between Pakistan's intelligence services and the Taliban.
Three months later, WikiLeaks disclosed nearly 392,000 US Army field reports – the largest military leak in US history – dubbed the "Iraq War Logs." Among other things, the information included details of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners, secret civilian death counts, and Iran's involvement with Shiite militias operating in Iraq.
In his exchanges, Manning talks about a devastating breakup with his boyfriend in Boston, and says, "I'm a mess…. I'm in the desert, with a bunch of hyper-masculine trigger happy ignorant rednecks as neighbors. And the only safe place I seem to have is this satellite internet connection."
Earlier this month, the Army reported that 15 people had been disciplined for failures involving Manning's behavior and security status. One noncommissioned officer was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty.
Focusing on such failures up the chain of command may be a way of "telegraphing to the other side that it's going to be a nasty case, with a lot of dirty linen being laundered," Eugene Fidell, a former military lawyer who teaches military justice at Yale University, told Politico.com.
"It's a nice subject for an investigation," Mr. Fidell added. "But the fact that other people permitted it to happen doesn't get him off the hook."
In one of his online chat posts, Manning says, "I want people to see the truth."
That rationale may resound with Manning's supporters, many of whom plan to rally on his behalf outside the gates of Fort Meade. But it carries little weight with the US Army and others concerned with the fallout of this massive leak and security breach.
"Leaking classified information and compromising US national security is always an extremely serious offense," Rep. Mike Rogers (R) of Michigan told the Associated Press. "The ramifications of leaking classified material can be deadly for our men and woman on the front lines."


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1 - Is there a food shortage in the world?
There is enough food in the world today for everyone to have the nourishment necessary for a healthy and productive life.
2 - What is hunger?
The sensation of hunger, a lack of food in your stomach, is universal. But there are different manifestations of hunger which are each measured in different ways:
- Under-nourishment is used to describe the status of people whose food intake does not include enough calories (energy) to meet minimum physiological needs for an active life. At present, there are 870 million undernourished people worldwide, most of them in developing countries.
- Malnutrition means 'badly nourished', but is more than a measure of what we eat or fail to eat. Malnutrition is characterised by inadequate intake of protein, energy and micronutrients and by frequent infections and diseases. Starved of the right nutrition, people will die from common infections like measles or diarrhoea.
Malnutrition is measured not by how much food is eaten but by physical measurements of the body - weight or height - and age.
- Wasting is an indicator of acute malnutrition that reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss. This is usually the result of starvation and/or disease.
3 - How is "famine" defined?
While there are various definitions of famine, many experts say that there must be evidence of three specific outcomes before a famine can be declared:
- At least 20 percent of households face extreme food shortages with limited ability to cope.
- The prevalence of global acute malnutrition must exceed 30 percent.
- Death rates must exceed 2 deaths per 10,000 people per day.
The Hungry
1- Who are the hungry?

 Despite the impression you often get from the media, emergencies account for less than eight percent of hunger's victims. Few people realise that there are 870 million hungry people in the world who don't make the headlines -- more than the combined populations of the United States, Canada and the European Union. They are of all ages, from babies whose mothers cannot produce enough milk to the elderly with no relatives to care for them. They are the unemployed inhabitants of urban slums, the landless farmers tilling other people's fields, the orphans of AIDS and the sick, who need special or increased food intake to survive.
Above all, children, women and rural communities are on the frontlines of hunger.
5 - Where are the hungry?
The percentage of hungry people is highest in east, central and southern Africa. Around three-quarters of undernourished people live in low-income rural areas of developing countries, principally in higher-risk farming areas. However, the share of the hungry in urban areas is rising.
Of the total number of the 870 million chronically hungry people, over half are in Asia and the Pacific and about a quarter are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
6 - Are the numbers going down?
Whereas good progress was made in reducing chronic hunger in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, hunger has been slowly but steadily on the rise for the past decade, FAO said. The number of hungry people increased between 1995-97 and 2004-06 in all regions except Latin America and the Caribbean. But even in this region, gains in hunger reduction have been reversed as a result of high food prices and the global economic downturn that started in 2008.
Today, one in eight people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide -- greater than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

7 - What are the effects of malnutrition?
Malnutrition covers a range of problems, such as being dangerously thin, being too short for one's age, being deficient in vitamins and minerals (such as lacking iron which makes you anaemic), or even being too fat (obese). It is measured using the following indicators:
- Wasting is an indicator of acute malnutrition that reflects a recent and severe process that has led to substantial weight loss. This is usually the result of starvation and/or disease.
- Stunting is an indicator of chronic malnutrition that reflects the long-term nutritional situation of a population. It is calculated by comparing the height-for-age of a child with a reference population of well nourished and healthy children.
- Underweight is measured by comparing the weight-for-age of a child with a reference population of well-nourished and healthy children. An estimated 146 million children in developing countries are underweight.
8- Are micronutrients important?
Micronutrient - vitamin and mineral - deficiencies are very important, afflicting nearly two billion people worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, deficiencies of iron, vitamin A, and zinc rank among the top ten leading causes of death through disease in developing countries.
- Iron deficiency is the most prevalent form of malnutrition, affecting billions of people worldwide. Iron deficiency damages a country's productivity and impedes cognitive development.
Source: Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency, a global damage assessment report; Unicef
- Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of child blindness across developing countries. It affects 140 million pre-school children in 118 countries. Deficiency in vitamin A can increase the risk of dying from diarrhoea, measles and malaria.
Source: Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation, 2005
- Iodine deficiency affects 780 million people worldwide. Some 20 million children are born mentally impaired because their mothers did not consume enough iodine during pregnancy.
Source: Vitamin & Mineral Deficiency, a global damage assessment report; Unicef
- Zinc deficiency contributes to growth failure and weakened immunity in young children; it results in some 800,000 child deaths per year.


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MEBANE, N.C.—About a year after a new carbon monoxide detector mandate in New York went into effect, a new survey has found that nearly half of New York families still don't know about the law, according to Kidde, a manufacturer of fire and CO safety products based here.
Amanda's Law, which requires working CO detectors in all one- and two-family homes that have appliances or heating sources that may emit CO or have attached garages, went into effect just over a year ago.
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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sat 28th Jan 2006 16:50 UTC, submitted by Dr. No
This is already a fairly old article, but I'm pretty confident it never made OSNews' front page. In this article, the author proves that Windows XP can be installed, and 'run', on processors with as little as 8MHz. "The target of this project was to find the weakest system where you can run Windows XP. Keep in mind, that Microsoft official requirements are a CPU with 233 MHz an 64 MB of RAM. But that had to be beaten!"


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Emory and Henry athletic director Myra Sims announced the hiring of Curt Newsome as head football coach. A 1982 graduate of E&H, Newsome returns to his alma mater with 15 years of NCAA Division I coaching experience and becomes the program's 20th head coach.
He replaces Don Montgomery, who stepped down in November after nine seasons, sporting a 45-45 mark.
"I couldn't be more excited to be the next football coach at Emory & Henry," Newsome said."I got my start in coaching in Southwest Virginia and it feels great to be coming home. Emory people know what Emory means, and I am excited about getting the alumni involved in the program and to begin working with the coaches on recruiting."
This past season, Newsome served as the assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Division I FCS James Madison. He held the same title for the final three years of his first run with JMU (1999-05). Before becoming assistant head coach, Newsome was a defensive line coach for three seasons and also worked with the tackles and tight ends for a year. The Dukes reached the NCAA Division I FCS playoffs on two occasions, winning a national championship in 2004 and claiming a pair of Atlantic-10 titles (1999, 2004).
"We are so very fortunate to be able to bring back one of our own to be the next head football coach at Emory and Henry," Sims said. "I began to hear about Curt Newsome as soon as I arrived at Emory and Henry. I learned quickly that he is widely respected because of all the success he's had in coaching, but that he is also beloved by many because of his outstanding character. He will be a strong leader for this football program and a great ambassador for the department of athletics and for the institution. I am confident that he is the right man to get this program to the level needed to add many more ODAC titles to the E&H record book."
Between his stints in Harrisonburg, Newsome was the offensive line coach at Virginia Tech for seven years, helping to lead the Hokies to a trio of Atlantic Coast Conference championships (2007, 2008, 2010), seven bowl games and a victory in the 2009 Orange Bowl.
Newsome's offensive line helped to produce four 1,000-yard rushers and Blake DeChristopher was selected as the ACC's Jacobs Blocking Trophy winner in 2011, the award given annually to the best lineman in the league.
"Southwest Virginia is critical to our success. We have to recruit the talent that lies right outside our back door," Newsome continued. "We have to be very visible in a three-hour radius and then reach out to other parts of the state and region. I look forward to continuing the relationships that I have with the high school coaches in this area of the state. Our current players will soon learn the expectations and our plans for what we are going to do. We lost a good senior class, so our success will begin with those players that are already on campus."
Prior to joining the college ranks, Newsome was an accomplished high school coach for 16 years. He collected five district coach-of-the-year honors, was the Eastern Region Coach of the Year on three occasions and was selected as the AP and VHSL Virginia State Coach of the Year in 1998. Newsome coached for 11 years at Kecoughtan High School in Hampton before concluding his time in the prep ranks at Heritage High School in Newport News.
"Curt has spent his entire coaching career in Virginia and is known by high school coaches across the Commonwealth as a tireless and effective recruiter," added Sims. "He is a proven winner who has had success at every place he's been throughout his career. His experience in recruiting, his record of success and his mature outlook will be a welcome addition to this young athletics department staff. I am honored and excited to have the opportunity to work with Curt and really look forward to having him join us."
Newsome got his start in coaching at Ervinton High School, where he was the Lonesome Pine District Coach of the Year in 1984. A native of Newport News, Va., Newsome holds a bachelor's degree in physical education from Emory and Henry, which he earned in 1982.
Newsome will officially begin his duties on Jan. 2.


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Oatmealer rubs Operation Bear Love cash in troll's face
Overmatched FunnyJunk lawyer yanks legal action
The strange saga of the Oatmeal creator and the litigious troll has come to an end, with the public display of $211,223.04 arranged in a large FU.
Cartoonist Matthew Inman collected the money after receiving a letter from a lawyer representing FunnyJunk over comments Inman made in his blog a year ago about the comics aggregation site using his material to drive advertising. The lawyer, Charles Carreon, asked for $20,000 in damages and the removal of the offending material.
A subtle message from The Oatmeal
In response, Inman launched Operation Bear Love, a quest to raise the same amount of money for the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation. He promised that when $20,000 has been raised for charity, he would send a picture of the money to Carreon, along with a framed cartoon of the mother of FunnyJunk's owner seducing a Kodiak bear.
The campaign took off, and within a few days Inman had raised over $200,000. Carreon, however, filed a suit against Inman and the online collection site Indigogo to freeze the money and stop it being contributed to charity. But when the EFF signed up to defend Inman, Carreon backed down.
"Matthew Inman spoke out against Carreon's threat of a frivolous lawsuit, in a very popular and very public way," said EFF senior staff attorney Kurt Opsahl. "This was nothing more than a meritless attempt to punish Inman for calling attention to his legal bullying. We called him out on this in our briefs, so it's no surprise that Carreon was left with no choice but to dismiss."
Carreon's care package
The photo and cartoon are now winging their way to Carreon, although it's doubtful he'll be hanging them up anywhere public – or adding Inman to his Christmas card list. ®


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(SPOILER: If anyone here watches Glee, and hasn't had a chance to watch the latest episode, you might not want to read this just yet.)
Alternate Title: Is There a 'Wrong' Reason to be an Atheist?
So, I've finally gotten around to watching Glee, a musical show on Fox.
It's pretty great so far, even though I just jumped right into it only a couple of episodes ago and barely understand who the characters are.
The latest episode was very interesting, and touched on a lot of issues, including atheism, Separation of Church and State, proselytizing, prayer, and social stigma.
There are a lot of things in the episode I could talk about, but I don't want to waste anyone's time going over every detail, so I'm just going to run down some of the things I did and didn't like about the episode.
The episode basically has two plot-lines: the main plot-line involves Kurt, whose father has suddenly gone into a coma. The sub-plot involves Finn, who, while making a grilled cheese sandwich, finds the image of Jesus burnt into the sandwich.
Finn sees the sandwich as a sign God it trying to communicate to him, and begins praying to the sandwich itself (which he has names Grilled Cheesus).
Saying that he's "not sure if [the sandwich] works like a genie or what," Finn makes three wishes: First, for the football team to win a game; second, to get to second-base with his girlfriend; and third, to become reinstated as the quarterback.
Soon, all three things happen, although at the cost of the current quarterback getting his shoulder dislocated in a hard sacking (none of the other outcomes have any negative effects).
Being troubled by the fact that his wish seems to have caused someone to be hurt, Finn goes to the school counselor and tells her the story, before asking her why she thought the first two things were good, while the third wish had a bad outcome.
The counselor said that God hadn't helped him in any of those things. They won the game because they had a great coach; the quarterback was injured because the play who sacked him was secretly on steroids and twenty-three years old; and he got to second-base because he was appealing to his girlfriend's emotions at the time.
So, Finn goes off and sings "Losing My Religion" and we're to assume that he has, in fact, lost his religion. At least, the one in Grilled Cheesus. (Even though "LMR" is really just about masturbation, but that's another talk entirely).
In the main plot-line, Chris's father has had some sort of problem where he's now in a coma. I'm not sure what exactly this problem is, because they never really address it in the episode. They just say that he's in a bad shape, and no questions are asked, such as "What could have caused this?" or "How can we fix this?" He's just left to lie in a bed like a vegetable.
When Chris tells the rest of the Glee club about his father, they all want to start doing religiously- or spiritually-themed songs, and tell him they'll be praying for his dad.
This is when Chris lets them know that he's an atheist and that, which he appreciates their concern and support, he doesn't need their prayers. It all very polite and reasonable (Russell's Teapot is even brought up to much success).
However, when Chris initially comes out at an atheist, the main reason he gives is because certain churches don't accept LGBT people, such as himself (a gay male.) Personally, I've always thought that this was not the best reason for leaving a religion. It feels almost irrational, because no matter what kind of religion you belong to, you can find a group of those religionists who accept you exactly as you are. (And, failing that, there's always the UUs.)
I didn't leave Catholicism because of what the Bible says about homosexuality. I didn't leave because of what Catholics say about homosexuality. I left because of what Catholicism says about homosexuality. And Catholicism is the Vatican. So, truly, I left the Vatican first, and religion second.
However, whenever I say this, I feel like a hypocrite. I left religion because I don't believe in anything supernatural. So, really, I left because I don't agree with what it say's about the supernatural. How it that any different than why I left rule of the Vatican? Why was I able to say that it's okay to be gay, and I don't have to confess my sins, all before I was able to say that it's okay to say there's no god, and there's no such thing as sin? What's the difference between fully embracing my sexual identity, and fully embracing my rational identity? Why did one have to come before the other, and why am I still feeling such a strong pull back toward church-like settings (see the UUs)?
So, are there wrong reason's to be an atheist? What if you were just born into it, and don't know anything about religion, you just know you don't care much about it? Is that any better or worse that someone who "actively denies the Holy Spirit," as that campaign from a few years ago would put it?
There's plenty more I wanted to say about this Glee episode which bothered me, or which I liked, but I got off on a tangent. So, I'll just stop here. I think I made some nice progress this time, though.
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For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew. This was not supposed to happen.
I'd known in advance that the BBC was making a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about Radley called Public School. The producer, Richard Denton, had visited my parents' house and explained that I would feature in the opening programme but only peripherally. The spotlight would be on Donald Payne, who was the top scholar in that year's intake. Payne and I were both going to be "stigs" (new boys) together in the same "social" (house) and the same "shell" (class), so I could expect to be in shot some of the time while the cameras followed his every move.
On the first day of term, however, my mother and I were greeted by a somewhat sheepish-looking Denton. Payne had fallen ill with the flu, he told us. He was still at home. Would it be all right if they filmed me instead?
I was an eager-to-please 13-year-old. It seemed rude to say no, especially as I thought Denton, with his purple corduroy jacket, collar-length hair and tinted spectacles, was pretty cool.
So, by default, I became the focus of the first episode, which aired the following January on BBC2 under the title "The Right Habits for Life". A further nine half-hour weekly episodes followed, together painting a portrait of life at one of Britain's second-tier independent schools: the rituals and slang, the day-to-day running, the eccentric masters, the duties of the warden (headmaster).
For the vast majority of the British population, who have no experience of fee-paying boarding education, it was a peek behind the curtain into a strange, even arcane, world. The first episode opens with the warden performing the time-honoured induction ceremony for the new term's "pups" (house prefects). It takes place in a panelled dining hall hung with gloomy oil portraits. Everyone is wearing black academic gowns. A few carry mortar boards. The warden is speaking in Latin. But for the absence of floating candles and a Sorting Hat, it could be the Great Hall at Hogwarts.
Subsequent episodes focused on some of the school's more theatrical characters: Mr Goldsmith, a florid-complexioned maths teacher with his own private vocabulary and a temperament linked to the fortunes of his beloved Ipswich Town football club; Hugo, an anguished adolescent who was entirely at odds with the system. The most memorable episode of all depicted the desperate Inbetweeners-style efforts of sixth-formers to score with girls at a school disco.
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride. Initially, I felt self-conscious about having a five-person crew – cameraman, soundman, production assistant, Denton himself and executive producer Roger Mills – shadowing me as I attended my first meal in the dining hall. Once the novelty wore off, however, the crew's presence became a fact of life, slightly irksome but something you could overlook or swat away – much like that proverbial fly on the wall.
The voiceover throughout the series, by Denton (himself a product of private education), was the kind of deadpan commentary typical of TV documentaries of the time, laced with insinuating irony and sardonic understatement. What became apparent as the episodes unfurled – and even as a somewhat naive teenager I could see it – was that this charming, intelligent film-maker had an agenda to depict the British boarding school as a deeply conservative institution, entrenched in the past, yet also emblematic of all that was wrong with the just-dawning Thatcher era. His plan backfired, in as much as applications for places at Radley tripled while the show was being broadcast.
The programme attracted a respectable 2m viewers, about 4 per cent of the British public. In The Times, Joan Bakewell wondered why the portrayal of the school wasn't darker – "I can't deny the delights of lingering in its alien pastures, but doesn't such golden sunshine cast any shadows?" – while The Listener's John Sayer made comparisons with a popular TV series about a fictional educational establishment, saying, "Ask viewers about Grange Hill and they will tell you it is real. Ask about Radley, and they think of it as purest fiction."
Yet the impact the series made seemed real, reigniting the controversy about independent schools, single-sex boarding and the old boy network. The government of James Callaghan, then in its death throes, had been considering making good on a Labour manifesto promise to revoke the charitable status of public schools in order to raise their costs and thus drive them out of business. The election of Margaret Thatcher in May 1979 put paid to that idea, and her first cabinet was heavily weighted in favour of public school alumni; her education secretary, Mark Carlisle, had himself been to Radley. In this heavily politicised atmosphere, a TV debate was aired the night after the last episode of the series was shown. The warden, Dennis Silk, had to defend Radley vigorously against accusations of elitism and irrelevance from Labour's Neil Kinnock, the then shadow education secretary.
I felt largely sheltered from this fuss. Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere.
Observational documentaries were fairly new at the time, and fairly rare. Michael Apted's Up series of films following 14 British children had started dipping in and out of the lives of its subjects in 1964, creating an anthropological snapshot of the nation. Paul Watson and Franc Roddam's The Family (1974) emphasised the down-to-earth ordinariness of its participants, the Wilkins family of Reading. All that an appearance on this sort of programme asked of you was that you did your thing, keeping calm and carrying on while the cameras peered inquisitively for the benefit of others. What we now call reality TV – the more prurient and intrusive Big Brother, the artificially structured The Only Way Is Essex – was still a couple of decades in the future. There was certainly no expectation that a slot on primetime telly might earn you a free pass into the gilded world of celebrity.
My appearance on Public School garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with – which was not quite as good. In no way did I become the centre of media attention, subject to national scrutiny, as might happen today. There was no lasting fame, just a sense of having been involved in an interesting experiment. At the school itself, my main problem was becoming known overnight to all my 600 fellow Radleians. I would cringe as senior boys yelled my name across the clock tower quad and parroted my own blithe, impromptu remarks from the documentary back at me. Had I anticipated that this would happen, I might have made some effort to be wittier and pithier on screen.
Over the next few years, however, I didn't think much about Public School again. Once the series was over, Radley itself seemed content to move on. The Times Education Supplement may have listed the documentary as a key event in its 1999 timeline, '1,000 Years of Education', but a history of the school published in 1997, called No Ordinary Place, devotes no more than half a page, out of 400, to the documentary – an act of magnificently lofty disdain.
At university I took part in a follow-up programme made by Denton to accompany a daytime repeat of the series, but that was it. Time closed over the memory. I got my degree, had a debut novel published. Life marched on. Then last autumn I received an email out of the blue from Hannah Berryman, a documentarian best known for her contributions to the BBC's Wonderland strand. Berryman's forte is assembling groups of people who share a single event or experience in common and examining how their lives have turned out subsequently. Her topics have included beauty pageant queens, women who were photographed in their youth for Country Life's "girls in pearls" frontispiece page, and the chorus of children who sang on Pink Floyd's single "Another Brick in the Wall".
Berryman's latest wheeze was to trace the lives of some of the boys from Public School. She would explore their backgrounds, their present circumstances, how they had grown up into the men they had become, what effect public school – and Public School – had on them. She and I spoke at length on the phone. We met in person. She sent me discs of her previous work. Her style as a documentarian struck me as impartial and non-judgemental. She allowed her subjects to tell their own stories. There was little in the way of editorial interference, barely any voiceover commentary – a far cry from the Richard Denton approach.
In the age of social media, I knew I could be opening myself up to far more scrutiny than in 1980, some of it likely to be negative. Watching the current Sky series Harrow: A Very British School, I've wondered how the boys in that programme are coping with the exposure. It's a markedly friendlier show than Public School was, right down to the plummy, jovial voiceover by posh comedian Miles Jupp. The young Harrovians may still be treated like animals behind glass but they're portrayed as cuddlier creatures than we Radleians were – meerkats rather than exotic reptiles. Since they're probably already used to revealing their own lives online, perhaps it won't make any difference to them to be on television.
But, with a few low-level misgivings, pretty soon I'd agreed to be involved. The filming took place over the course of one very long day in February at my house. Berryman is a bespectacled blonde whose deceptively scatty demeanour hides a shrewd, incisive mind.
I discovered that her interviewing technique was a process of slowly and patiently teasing out information, with the odd ambush planted here and there. A string of easy questions would be interrupted by a sudden surprise poser. Had I resented my parents sending me away from home from the age of eight onwards? How did I feel about being a relatively academic sort in an institution where sporting prowess seemed to be prized above all else?
She was like a boxer softening up her opponent with light jabs before delivering a haymaker out of nowhere. She was good cop and bad cop rolled into one.
She also had developed the habit of mirroring her interviewee's body language, perhaps unconsciously, so that if I crossed or uncrossed my legs, she did too. Possibly because of this cunning behaviourist voodoo, she somehow managed to win my trust, because at one point she had me reading through my school reports and letters home, next to my mother.
It was fairly embarrassing to discover that I hadn't been the all-round genius I remembered myself as being, and to read again, for the first time in 30-odd years, my petty complaints about teachers, and my plaintive pleas for extra spending money.
Then Berryman got me leafing through some old satirical comics I had drawn, as scurrilous and scatological as anything in Viz. That, in many ways, was worse. In the strips, I skewered, sometimes literally, members of staff and my fellow pupils. Had I really been that vindictive? That obsessed with bodily functions? Apparently I had.
Berryman's crew was smaller and more lightly equipped than Denton's had been: a cameraman and an assistant producer, plus someone to wrangle lenses and take shots of my academic memorabilia. A streamlined modern commando unit for the digital age, they brought chaos to our well-ordered household for precisely 12 hours, then disappeared. If the Public School filming had been a long drawn-out campaign, this was a guerrilla raid.
Five other Old Radleians from the original series – including Donald Payne, who eventually featured in an episode about scholarships – are also appearing in Berryman's one-off documentary, due to air this weekend. I have not yet seen it but, from conversations with Berryman, I gather that she has interwoven our stories. Wives and children, and the odd parent, will feature. Talking-head monologues will form the backbone. Payne is now a doctor in Australia, and while he and I were reasonably good friends at Radley, we haven't kept in touch since. I'm curious to see how much he's changed and how much I will recognise of the boy I knew. Will the years have been kinder to him than to me, or vice versa?
The theme of my own strand, as I understand it, is that I was a schoolboy geek who, during the long weeks away from home, found solace and inspiration in the books of Ray Bradbury, Robert E Howard, Michael Moorcock and Stephen King and in American superhero comics, and who went on to forge a more or less successful career in science fiction. There may be some truth in this.
What sticks in my mind about the day's filming was an incident at the end, when my two sons, aged nine and six, were getting ready for bed.
They had just had a bath but were still buzzing from all the unaccustomed activity in the house. While Berryman and her crew were busy packing up their kit, the boys got the notion into their heads that it would be hilarious to run up and down the stairs stark naked.
My younger son shouted out from the hallway, "Dad, this is fun! You should do it!"
And all I could think was that, in a manner of speaking, I just had.
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World's First Microprocessor in the F-14A "Tom Cat" Made on Long Island
The worlds first MOS-LSI microprocessor chip set ws designed starting June 1968 and completed by June 1970. This highly integrated computer chip set was designed for the US Navy F14A "TomCat" fighter jet by Mr. Steve Geller and Mr. Ray Holt while working for Garrett AiResearch Corp under contract from Grumman Aircraft, the prime contractor for the US Navy. The MOS-LSI chips were manufactured by American Microsystems, Inc of Santa Clara, California.
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In 1971, Mr. Ray Holt wrote a design paper on the MOS-LSI chip set design which was approved for publication by Computer Design magazine. However, because of national security reasons the U.S. Navy would not approve this paper for publication. Mr. Holt attempted again in 1985 to have the paper cleared and the answer again was no. Finally, in April 1997, he started the process again and this time was able to receive clearance for publication as of April 21, 1998.
The entire contents of this original 1971 paper, "Architecture Of A Microprocessor", is made available here. The first public announcement of the F14A MOS-LSI microprocessor chip set was a published article by the Wall Street Journal on September 22, 1998. This paper and the details of the design were first presented publicly by Mr. Ray Holt at the Vintage Computer Festival held at the Santa Clara Convention Center on September 26-27, 1998.