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Cool Green Science readers responded to my recent post about my top 10 river songs with an impressive range of their own favorites. For Earth Day, I'm posting a list of my top songs that evoke environmental awareness, protest or celebration — and asking you once again to tell us about your favorites in the comments below.
Reviewing the choices, it strikes me that it can be difficult to pull off an "environmental song" without devolving into preachiness (Exhibit A: Death of Mother Nature Suite by '70s progressive folk-rock group Kansas). So, for the most part, I chose songs that work as songs and that successfully walk the line between sincere and sanctimonious.
My list contains two basic types of songs — those that chronicle environmental ravages and/or aim to inspire awareness, action etc.; and those that simply celebrate the beauty, wonder and regenerative capacity of nature.
Johnny Cash: Don't Go Near the Water. This song's litany of environmental insults — air pollution, water pollution, toxins — could have been the soundtrack to the first Earth Day. OK, so the lyrics are a bit preachy ("We're torturing the Earth and pourin' every kind of evil in the sea/We violated nature and our children have to pay the penalty…") but then again, this is coming from the Man in Black and if he wants to preach, you better sit up straight and listen good.
Neil Young: After the Gold Rush. Embedded within elliptical lyrics in the verses, Neil's chorus — "Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s"– makes it clear: If we don't change our ways, she may need to board a spaceship and find refuge elsewhere.
Various Artists: Damn, Where Did My Appalachia Go? The intertwined decline of Appalachia's communities and environment practically constitutes its own genre whose standard is John Prine's Paradise: "Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County down by the Green River where Paradise lay/Well I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away." This song gets bonus points for its reference to the first river where The Nature Conservancy and the Corps of Engineers collaborated to improve flows below a dam. The Cowboy Junkies' eulogy for a dying Appalachian town, Last Spike, mournfully observes that once a community has been stripped of its natural resource base — "I've watched the flat cars take away our timber/I've watched the coal cars steal our rock" — it fades, slowly and sadly, into oblivion.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Road Trippin'. The referenced road trip is to Big Sur in this celebration of the beauty and restorative power of California's coast: "Blue you sit so pretty west of the One/Sparkles light with yellow icing, just a mirror for the sun."
Wilco: California Stars. These words — written by Woody Guthrie — drifted through my head as I first fell asleep under a moonless sky in a Sierra Nevada wilderness: "I'd like to dream my troubles all away, on a bed of California stars."
The Eagles: The Last Resort. A chronicle of the settlement of the American West and a bittersweet tribute to its rugged allure that continually draws new people who inevitably destroy the very values — serenity, pristine wildness — that they seek: "They call it paradise, I don't know why/Call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye." A warning that the beauty described in the previous two songs must be embraced carefully, lest we strangle it.
Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi. For many people, this is the environmental song with its chorus: "Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone/They paved paradise, put up a parking lot."
Talking Heads: (Nothing But) Flowers. With its whimsical imagery of serene nature, this song initially appears to be a wishful reversal of Joni's song: "Once there were parking lots, now it's a peaceful oasis/This was a Pizza Hut, now it's all covered with daisies." But on closer listen, it's not a plea for dismantling society and returning to the simplicity of our hunter-gatherer roots. First, the singer wishes he had a lawnmower to help manage nature's vegetative exuberance and then he longs for Dairy Queens and 7-Elevens to break up a monotonous diet of nuts, berries and … rattlesnake. Is David Byrne reminding us that we can't simply wish to return to some imagined idyllic Eden but instead must find solutions that work for both people and nature? Or am I imposing The Nature Conservancy's mission statement onto cheeky phrases backed by irresistibly catchy Afro-pop guitar riffs and rhythms? Whatever it is, it works.
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Eddie Vedder: Society. From the soundtrack of Into The Wild, this is a near-perfect marriage of message, music and voice. Vedder channels the film's protagonist through a withering indictment of a modern culture obsessed with material gain at the expense of deeper connections with nature and each other: "It's a mystery to me, we have a greed with which we have agreed/You think you have to want more than you need, until you have it all you won't be free."
The Pretenders: My City Was Gone. Only Chrissie Hynde could make a song about land use and zoning sound so nasty — and catchy. Her voice drips with sarcasm and disgust for a "government that had no pride" that allowed her city's downtown to be hollowed out, filled with nothing but desultory parking lots, even as the suburbs sprawled inexorably outward: "The farms of Ohio had been replaced by shopping malls, and muzak filled the air from Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls." The jarring juxtaposition of muzak — synonymous with soulless sterility — and Native American names reminds that that a culture's health and vibrancy reflects that of its surrounding landscape, and that both suffer at the hands of homogeneous and careless development. The Pretenders recently updated this theme with a proposed solution. In Break Up the Concrete, Hynde again mourns the loss of a more verdant landscape before calling for restoration and renewal: "prod it, sod it, metal rod it … break up the concrete."
Marvin Gaye: Mercy, Mercy Me (the Ecology). In this classic from the era of the first Earth Day, Marvin prays for both spiritual and environmental renewal.
Bruce Springsteen: This Land is Your Land. On his live album, Springsteen introduces this Woody Guthrie song as "just about one of the most beautiful song ever written." His simple but impassioned rendition makes the case that people and landscape are symbionts that sustain each other. I wish the Conservancy would use this song in a TV or web commercial as a stirring reminder that, across all that may divide us, we can be bound together by the ties of a beautiful landscape, one that is worth saving and renewing.
Please add your own lists of essential songs for Earth Day in the comments below. Consider it a vote, so don't worry about repeats; I'll tabulate the results and post a list of the readers' favorites.
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The Portland Timbers today announced that the club has signed Scottish defender Steven Smith. Timbers general manager Gavin Wilkinson made the announcement.
A native of Bellshill, Scotland, Smith joins the Timbers after nine seasons playing in Scotland and England. He started his career with Scotland's Rangers FC and played in 55 matches over seven seasons with the club from 2003-10. Smith, who has played in both the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, made the move to England in 2010 to play for Norwich City FC and recently played for Preston North End during the 2011-12 campaign.
"Steven has impressed us, both on the field and as a person, during his trial," said John Spencer, head coach of the Timbers. "He is a hard-working defender who possesses a winning mentality. Steven has been a part of successful clubs throughout his career and has experience at high levels, including playing in the Champions League."
Smith made his professional debut with Rangers at the age of 19 in 2004, and had a breakout season in 2005-06, in which he made his UEFA Champions League debut and was named the Scottish Premier League's Young Player of the Month in April 2006. He was a key contributor during the 2009-10 season, helping Rangers capture both the SPL championship and Scottish League Cup.
During his time with Rangers, Smith won three SPL championships, three Scottish League Cups and a pair of Scottish Cups. He also made two UEFA Champions League appearances and played in five UEFA Europa League matches.
Smith joined Norwich City for the 2010-11 season and helped the club gain promotion to England's Premier League. During the season, he was loaned to SPL club Aberdeen, where he played in 16 league games and aided in the side's run to the Scottish Cup semifinals.
Prior to joining the Timbers, Smith played in 15 total games for Preston North End during the 2011-12 League One season and registered two assists. During his career, Smith played four-and-a-half seasons with Timbers forward Kris Boyd at Rangers from 2006-10.

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COMMERCE CITY CO (Tuesday December 22 2009) – U.S. Men's National Team head coach Bob Bradley announced today that Colorado Rapids forward Conor Casey is among the 30 players named to the training camp roster that will begin workouts January 4 at U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson California.
The group will prepare for the USA's first match of 2010 a friendly against fellow FIFA World Cup finalists Honduras on January 23 at The Home Depot Center.
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Casey has 16 career caps with the National Team and scored his first two international goals in the U.S.'s 2010 World Cup qualifying win against Honduras on October 10 that clinched a trip to South Africa for the Americans.
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MIDFIELDERS (12): Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake) Alejandro Bedoya (Örebro) Geoff Cameron (Houston Dynamo) Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo) Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders) Benny Feilhaber (Aarhus) Eddie Gaven (Columbus Crew) Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA) Jeff Larentowicz (New England Revolution) Dax McCarty (FC Dallas) Chris Pontius (D.C. United) Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)
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Salaam and Greetings of Peace:
St. Francis di Bernadone, born in 1182 in Northern Italy, is popularly known and loved as the poor, generous, traveling friar who talked with birds, tamed wild beasts and sang the "Canticle of Creation." But Francis was once also an inter-religious emissary of peace and nonviolence.
Francis lived in the political turmoil of the 13th Century "Holy Roman Empire," locked in a culture of war, fought both within the empire as city fought city and without, as the empire united in a series of Crusades against Moslems, Jews and "heretics." It was during the fifth crusade, in 1219, that Francis began an amazing journey that directly opposed this culture of war and enmity. Christians in his time viewed The Crusades as holy; a complete reversal of the first 300 years of Christianity when disciples of Jesus would not participate in any killing.
In response, the Sultan of Egypt had decreed that anyone who brought him the head of a Christian should be rewarded with a Byzantine gold piece.
Francis began his prophetic resistance to the violence of the Crusades by meeting first with his own religious leaders, begging Cardinal Pelagius, the Christian commander, to stop the fighting. Pelagius refused.
Francis then took a companion, Brother Illuminatus, and set out, unarmed and filled with love for his "enemy" brother, to visit the Sultan of Egypt, Malik-al-Kamil, the nephew of Saladin. The men of the Sultan's army captured Francis and Illuminatus and dragged them, beaten and exhausted, before the Sultan – just as Francis had wished.
The Sultan was receptive to these two unarmed messengers from the enemy camp. St. Bonaventure, in his Major Life of St. Francis, described the event, "The sultan asked them by whom and why and in what capacity they had been sent, and how they got there; but Francis replied that they had been sent by God, not by men, to show him and his subjects the way of salvation and proclaim the truth of the Gospel message. When the sultan saw his enthusiasm and courage, he listened to him willingly and pressed him to stay with him."
Francis' enthusiastic desire to share his "good news" with the Sultan, without insulting Islam or refuting Mohammed, was unique and disarming.
In the encounter between them, both Francis and the Sultan were changed. When Francis finally left to return to Italy, the Sultan showered him with many gifts and treasures. Because he had no interest in worldly wealth, Francis refused them all, except one special gift: an ivory horn used by the muezzin to call the faithful to prayer. On his return, Francis used it to call people for prayer or for preaching.
Francis also shared with his community his new and deep respect for his Moslem brothers and sisters, breaking down the cycle of enmity and misunderstanding that fueled the Crusades. Francis was especially struck by the Moslem five times daily prayer, and the practice of prostrations in worship of God; his letters urged Christians to adopt a similar practice: To make prayer a part of everyday life, in effect to remember God in everything you do, as in the Sufi zekr.
Stories of the time told about the change in the Sultan after his encounter with Francis. He placed Francis under his personal security and provided safe-conduct through Muslim states. From then on, several accounts relate that he treated Christian prisoners of war with unprecedented kindness and generosity.
Francis lives out the core of the Christian mandate: to love one's enemies, to reach out in respect to those of other religions and cultures.
Meeting the sultan confirmed to Francis that we are all brothers and sisters. Neither converted the other and yet they met each other as men of God.
And their meeting appears to have changed more than Francis and the sultan.
Almost immediately we see some iconography in the eastern world showing these two men. One of the sultan's own spiritual counselors (a Sufi), it was said, had engraved on his tomb that what changed his life was the meeting between a Christian monk and the sultan in his tent.
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Among the first and loveliest things to come from spring's garden are the fresh, new shoots of the onion family, generically known as "green onions."
For most of us, the image that "green onion" conjures is that of a slender young scallion. We've all had our share of them thinly sliced and sprinkled over the top of a salad or chilled soup, or as the finishing garnish of a hot dish.
But they're not the only new sprouts from the onion family available at this time of year, and to confine them to their role in the salad bowl or as a garnish is to miss out on what they can do in the pot.
There are also leeks, chives, and the subtly different green shoots of the onions that are more commonly found in our pantry in their mature bulb form, from shallots and Vidalia sweet onions to the many varieties of red, yellow and white onions.
Each of these things brings something subtly different to the pot; all of them bring the freshness of spring to the table. It's time to rediscover what can happen when they're stirred into the dish rather than merely sprinkled on top of it.
The best place to find fresh, young green onion sprouts is at a farmers' market or a reliable produce vendor who specializes in local produce. If you haven't discovered the joys of buying direct from a local farmer, it is past time you did.
The four members of the onion family that make up this sauce all bring something different to the bowl, and are all given different treatment. The shallots simmer in butter until they're golden; the leeks just until they're wilted; the scallions are merely warmed by the hot pasta; and the chives are added last so that their bright flavor is not blunted. Serves 4-6.
2 young spring leeks
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 large shallot, peeled and minced
4 small scallions or spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced
Salt and whole black pepper in a mill
1 pound thin spaghetti
2 tablespoons thinly sliced chives
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, plus more for serving
1. Trim off roots of leeks, remove tough, dark outer leaves, if any, and split lengthwise. Rinse under cold running water, root end up, folding back layers to remove dirt between. Cut into 2-inch lengths and cut each section into thin julienne.
2. Bring 4 quarts water to a rolling boil in 6-8 quart pot. Meanwhile, saute shallots with 2 tablespoons butter in large skillet or saute pan over medium heat until pale gold, about 4 minutes. Add leeks and toss until wilted, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and turn off heat.
3. When water is boiling, add small handful of salt and stir in pasta. Cook until al dente, and drain, reserving about 1/4 cup cooking liquid.
4. Reheat shallots and leeks over medium heat, stirring to prevent scorching. Turn off heat and add pasta and scallions, tossing well. Add remaining butter in bits, adding pasta cooking liquid by spoonfuls if sauce is not creamy enough. Add chives and cheese and toss well. Serve at once, passing more cheese separately.
Scallions are also a lovely cooked vegetable. They can be mixed with other spring shoots in a stir fry, sauteed on their own, gently simmered in cream, or braised and finished in a gratin. But you need not confine this dish to scallions: green shallots, red onions, and Vidalia Sweet Onions are all lovely cooked this way. Serves 4.
20-24 small scallions or green onions
Salt and whole black pepper in a mill
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
Fresh grated nutmeg for seasoning
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano
1. Trim roots and withered leaves from onions. Cut off just enough green top to make all of uniform length and drop into a basin of cold water. When ready to cook, drain.
2. Over medium heat, bring 1 cup water to a rolling boil in a wide saute pan or lidded skillet. Add onions. Cover and bring back to boil; uncover and season with salt. Reduce heat to medium, and cook, uncovered, until onions are tender but still bright green, about 5-10 minutes, depending on size. Take care not to overcook; they will undergo further cooking in oven.
3. Butter a gratin dish and transfer onions to it. If cooking liquid is more than 1/4 cup, boil until reduced, about 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat. Add butter and shake pan until melted into sauce. Pour over onions. Season well with pepper and nutmeg. Can be made up to 2 hours ahead to this point. Let cool and loosely cover.
4. Position rack in upper third of oven and preheat to 400 F. Uncover and sprinkle cheese evenly over onions and bake until cheese is melted and golden, about 15 minutes. Serve warm.
Serves 4
4 medium young leeks
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Salt and whole black pepper in a mill
4 6-ounce salmon fillets
2 lemons, 1 halved, 1 thinly sliced
1/4 cup thinly sliced chives
4 large squares parchment paper
1 tablespoon chopped flat leaf parsley
About 1/4 cup dry vermouth or sauvignon blanc
1. Trim off roots of leeks, remove tough, dark outer leaves, if any, and split lengthwise. Rinse under cold running water, root end up, folding back layers to remove dirt between. Cut into 2-inch lengths and cut each section into thin julienne. Put 2 tablespoons oil and butter in a saute pan or skillet over medium heat. When butter is melted, add leeks and saute until wilted and clear, about 4 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons chives, season with salt and pepper, and turn off heat.
2. Position rack in upper third of oven and preheat to 425 F. Fold parchment squares in half and cut into large heart shape. Unfold and rub one side of each heart shape with butter. Lay 2-3 slices lemon on buttered side of each and lay fillets on top, skin-side down. Season with salt and pepper and squeeze juice from one lemon half over each. Spoon leeks over salmon, top with remaining chives and parsley and sprinkle with wine. Fold other side of parchment over, forming half-moon shaped packet, fold and crimp edges to seal, and lay on a rimmed baking sheet.
3. Bake in upper third of oven until just cooked through, about 8 minutes for fillets less than 1-inch thick, 10 minutes for thicker. Slide each packet onto serving plates and serve. Slit packets open at table with scissors or a sharp knife or do this in kitchen before serving.


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Gwen Stefani has conquered the charts, rocked stadiums around the world and become a musical icon – but the 39-year-old mom says raising her two kids with husband Gavin Rossdale is the most challenging part of her life.
"I've always worked really hard and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!" Gwen told Glamour magazine's October issue, referring to her two sons, Kingston, 3, and Zuma, 1.
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Although parenthood is challenging, Gwen told the mag it's worth every second.
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And it appears Gwen and Gavin may have passed on the musical gene to her kids.
"Kingston walked into a room the other day with a guitar, singing his song. I was thinking, 'Oh my God.'" Gwen said with a laugh. "But whatever. Everything that we were passionate about, my parents supported it. But they always made it really clear that those kinds of things, those dreams, never come true. And then you have your backup plan. You go to school. That was the way I was taught—[making it big] doesn't happen to people. And then it did."
When asked how she has managed to avoid the pitfalls of the fast paced music world that many of her musical colleagues have succumbed to, the Orange County girl said the wrath of her own parents still keeps her in check.
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"Maybe my crazy time is coming up. Let's see what happens. Maybe I'm just a late bloomer. But I think it's also just my nature," she explained. "I was thinking today when I was driving, 'How am I going to make sure that Kingston never does anything bad and doesn't get arrested?' I was thinking, 'How did I stay out of trouble?' And I know it's just 'cause my parents are so strict. I mean, I'm still scared of them!"
As for advice to others looking to follow in her footsteps, Gwen remained humble.
"I've never been good at giving advice," she told the mag. "The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl. I was like anybody else. Do you think that I ever thought I would be doing this right now? No!"
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"Nothing you can imagine could surpass God's plan for you."
The quote was on the desk of CIU Library Director Jo Ann Rhodes. It was dated Friday, May 7, 2010, the day before an intense fire caused over $2.5 million in damages to the G. Allen Fleece Library. She read it as she surveyed the damage.
"As my staff and I stood in my office and read this quote, we were stunned at the impact it had on us immediately, realizing that in God's providence, He had allowed this disaster to take place," Rhodes said.
"We were only beginning to feel the devastating effect of the fire on our work and on the students' needs, but we knew right then that even the difficulties ahead would not 'surpass God's plan for' us."
And what is God's plan for the G. Allen Fleece Library? Renovations are now underway. See page 16 of the fall 2010 edition of CIU's "Connection" magazine. Go to: /publications and click on "Latest Issue."


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Please help me chase out a SafeArrayTypeMismatchException that I keep getting. I need to pass a struct to unmanaged DLL. One of the struct members is a variable-length array. Unmanaged code will populate it with data, then my C# code will use the data.
My approach is this:
1. Get IntPtr for my structure using StructureToPtr(...), do the memory allocation too, of course.
2. Call unmanaged function, and pass IntPtr as a parameter
3. Get the populated structure using PtrToStructure(...)
If for the purposes of an exercise I call StructureToPtr(...) and PtrToStructure(...) back-to-back there are no exceptions.
PtrToStructure(...) generates SafeArrayTypeMismatchException, if I put a call to unmanaged DLL between StructureToPtr(...) and PtrToStructure(...). The description for SafeArrayTypeMismatchException is "Mismatch has occurred between the runtime type of the array and the sub type recorded in the metadata."
Any suggestion, insight or reference is really appreciated!
I can post my code if needed.
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Dinner Tonight: Crisp Chipotle Shrimp with Corn and Scallions Recipe
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Sometimes when I read recipes in Bon Appétit magazine, I have no idea how they came up with them. I can understand the context of a dish with a name I recognize, or at least a series of flavors that make sense for a particular cuisine. But then there are recipes like this one, which is a little bit Mexican (the chipotle), a little bit French (the gratin-style cooking), and little bit Japanese (the panko-coated shrimp).
But if it's tasty—which this is—I'm not one to complain. I'd recommend that you use fresh corn. Half of the corn is puréed as a base and then tossed with scallions, a little mayonnaise, and adobo sauce from a can of chipotle peppers. Piled atop this creamy base are the shrimp, which get a bath in the chipotle mayo before picking up the breadcrumbs. They are surprisingly tender and crisp considering the fact that there's no deep fryer in sight. Next time, though, I will cook the shrimp separately instead of directly on top of the corn; the instructions below are revised to reflect this.
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- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped chipotle chiles in adobo plus 1 teaspoon adobo sauce
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups corn (cut from about 7 ears)
- 1/3 cup water
- 4 scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 pound peeled and deveined large shrimp (about 21 to 25 per pound)
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 475°F. Whisk mayonnaise, chipotle chiles plus sauce, and the salt in small bowl. Set aside.
Combine 1 1/2 cups corn with water and two tablespoons of chipotle mayonnaise in bowl of food processor. Pulse until coarse puree is formed, about 8 to 10 one-second pulses. Transfer mixture to 2-quart ovenproof dish, then stir in the remaining corn and scallions. Transfer to the oven and cook until corn is tender, 20 to 25 minutes,
Meanwhile, toss shrimp with remaining chipotle mayonnaise. Add panko to large bowl. Toss mayo-coated shrimp with the panko until evenly coated, then spread on piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet on a single layer. Bake until golden and just cooked through, about 18 minutes. If corn is finished before shrimp, return to oven during last 2 minutes of shrimp cooking time to reheat. Place shrimp on top of corn, and serve immediately.
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Earlier this morning CNET posted a big scoop: gadgetmaker LG had acquired WebOS from Hewlett Packard, and was going to use the smartphone operating system in TVs.
WebOS was the operating system that powered the Palm Pre, which came out a few years ago, and was the first mobile operating system that pundits compared favorably to Apple's iOS.
But then, CNET pulled its story off the Internet.
So what's going on?
Was CNET's story correct?
Here are the facts:
- Yes, the news is correct. Over at All Things D, Ina Fried has reported the same news, with a note at the bottom: " CNET reported the news on Monday morning , ahead of what was expected to be an official announcement later in the day. An LG spokesman wasn't immediately prepared to discuss the deal, but the details appear to be correct."
- The story seems to be down because CNET broke an "embargo." An embargo is where a company will tell a journalist news prior to an announcement, so long as the journalist agrees to hold the news until an agreed-upon moment. Companies do this so that they can tell lots of journalists about their news. Journalist agree to embargos because … well, there's no good reason. Anyway, a source at one of CNET's competitors tells us that there was an embargo on this story. What seems to have happened is, CNET broke its agreement by (accidentally?) publishing early, panicked, and took down its story.
We've pinged HP, LG, and CNET and update this story when we hear back.
Here's a cached version of the CNET story >>
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Serbia's decision to leave Novak Djokovic out of the doubles rubber of their Davis Cup final against Czech Republic was "like leaving a Ferrari in the garage", victorious opponent Radek Stepanek said on Sunday.
The Czechs wrapped up a 3-2 win to retain their title thanks to Stepanek's crushing straight-sets demolition of the inexperienced Dusan Lajovic in the decisive rubber.
The match, however, hinged on the outcome of the doubles with Djokovic winning both his singles ties and Stepanek, along with stand-in captain Vladimir Safarik, said they were surprised the world number two was rested. "We expected him to play but that was their decision and we just focused on beating whoever was on the other side of the net," Safarik, deputising for the ill Jaroslav Navratil, told a news conference.
In Djokovic's absence, Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek romped to a 6-2, 6-4, 7-6(4) win over Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac to take a 2-1 lead heading into the final day. Serbia were already weakened after losing Janko Tipsarevic to a foot injury and Viktor Troicki who was banned for missing a blood test in April.
"We only had so many fit and eligible players to choose from, and although I must take responsibility for the outcome as the decision maker, I have no regrets about the team selection in any of the rubbers," Serbia captain Bogdan Obradovic said.
"Missing two second-choice players was too big a blow and we just couldn't do more, although we tried to cope with the tough situation as best we could. The positive thing is that we have expanded our Davis Cup team and we will keep faith in our new arrivals."


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As our new job title appears to have changed to 'Global Head of Olympics Events Watching', our often dormant patriotic side comes out with a vengeance ready to shout at or even knock down the TV screen in an effort to support our athletes (I say 'us'… is it just me!?). You have had the pleasure of enjoying a unique feeling of celebrating 'just' the effort and hard work despite the lack of triumphs (unless you are Chinese or American, then you celebrate stuff like gold medals!) and you have now officially become an expert in sports that you didn't really know existed (if you have any questions about weightlifting, I'm the man!). Yet, even though the Olympics seem to strengthen the existence of national borders, they also break the barriers of language, age groups or culture to show that in the end we have more similarities than we think; I see no other explanation to Mr. Bean's ability to make 1billion people laugh with such simplicity! I give him a gold medal.
Such similarities often make us strive to differentiate ourselves from the rest and look for our own identity. Elements that encourage identity building also lead to a greater likelihood of motivation to think about our goals and achieve them via self-believe. So… as Peruvians proudly celebrated their Independence Day on the 28th of July, I started thinking about why my work is contributing towards the provision of an environment that is prone to inspire people to think about their own identity.
I have previously describe microfinance and Kiva's platform in particular as a recipe for peace and love through provision of empowerment; as a channel through which positive globalisation is expanded; or as providing the foundations for the building of a global community. Now I have also discovered that Kiva and microfinance also have a key role to play in giving people a wider choice of realistic possibilities for them to develop their identity through their jobs. For some of us, our jobs are a very important aspect of our lives, precisely because they have a big impact in defining and differentiating us as people, often serving as a proxy for our role in society or our passions.
The situation is no different with the people I have come across during my stay in Peru. Access to credit has allowed many of them to think beyond the borders of the traditional jobs, and to set up a corner shop, a vehicle repair shop or simply increase the number of pigs they have in their backyard. They are people whose day to day activities are providing a fundamental aspect of their identity; in most cases when you ask people to introduce themselves they will respond for example… 'my name is Carlos Augusto Perez Rodriguez, I am Peruvian and I grow rice'. It is not necessarily about working in their dream jobs, but about at least expanding the boundaries of the possible. The point is that empowerment can encourage people to have a vision about the future, work hard towards that goal and serve as an inspiration for the rest of the community to have hope. In my case, I hope 'Mr. Bean' keeps on making us laugh forever and hope that my friends back in Europe have not forgotten about me as I head back there soon.
Icaro Rebolledo is a Kiva Fellow, working in Peru this summer with Kiva partnerEdpyme Alternativa, a microfinance institution in Northen Peru. Find out how you can become a Kiva Fellow or just more information on kiva and microfinance in general on kiva.org.


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Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist
theory in Shia Islam which holds that Islam gives a faqīh (Islamic jurist) custodianship over people
(Redirected from Velayat-e faqih)
Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (Persian: ولایت فقیه, Vilayat-e Faqih; Arabic: ولاية الفقيه, Wilayat al-Faqih) is a type of theocracy in Shia Islam wherein senior Islamic jurists exercise temporal authority.
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- The Rule of the Jurisprudent" – will not gain widespread popularity, because it does not have such popularity in its country of origin....Even in Iran. I've lived in Iran.
- O' ye who believe! Obey Allah and obey the Apostle and those vested with authority from among you.
- Qur'an 4:59, Those "vested with authority from among you" is interpreted by proponents of Velayat al-faqih to mean experts in Islamic laws--the Islamic clergy--who should apply the divine decrees.
- Because you are over them and your responsible Commander (Imam) is over you, while Allah is over him who has appointed you.
- Nahj al-Balaghah, Letter 53, paragraph 4
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- Ayatollah Jawadi Amuli. A profile of the foundation/bases of the Trusteeship (Wilayat al-faqih). Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
- The Rule of the Clergy


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The arrival in Jerusalem of a US diplomat with a longstanding interest in bringing about Israeli-Syrian peace is fueling speculation that the Obama administration is trying to relaunch negotiations between Jerusalem and Damascus.
Frederic C. Hof, a conflict resolution expert and senior adviser to US Middle East envoy George Mitchell, arrived in Israel Sunday. He will remain through Wednesday, and is meeting with a variety of Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Ehud Barak and senior military officers, before continuing to Damascus for talks.
Yediot Aharonoth, Israel's largest circulation newspaper, reports that Mr. Hof is in the process of presenting the draft of a plan for Israeli-Syrian peace that would find solutions to the two countries' dispute over the Golan Heights, a territory Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed. While Israeli officials have declined to comment on whether such a plan is being floated, Mr. Hof's vision was outlined in part in March when he published a report, "Mapping Peace Between Syria and Israel," with the United States Institute for Peace in Washington. (Click here for the full report in pdf format.)
An American embassy official in Tel Aviv confirmed that Hof was here exploring peace concepts with various officials in the region.
The status of the Golan Heights is the main obstacle to Israeli-Syrian peace, which various efforts have failed to secure in recent years. In 2008, Israel and Syria conducted back-channel discussions facilitated by Turkey, but Syrian President Bashar al-Assad suspended the talks in protest over the January war in Gaza.
However, then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who left office in late January, was optimistic that the talks would resume and eventually produce an accord.
"We started negotiations with Syria and... at the end of the day, we will be able to reach an agreement that will end the conflict between us and the Syrians," he said in a speech.
Hof envisions environmental preserve in Golan Heights
A key facet of the deal would involve shared water resources and the creation of a Jordan Valley-Golan Heights Environmental Preserve. While Israeli settlements would be dismantled, the plan envisions both Israelis and Syrians having free access to the territory for the purposes of tourism, among other things.
"In addition to mitigating Israeli concerns about the return of sensitive territories and providing a venue for informal people-to-people contacts, the Jordan Valley-Golan Heights Environmental Preserve approach would give the parties a good platform for practical bilateral cooperation even as the ink on a peace treaty is drying, allowing for a constructive, confidence-building start to the implementation phase of the withdrawal process," the report says, according to the USIP's website.
Israelis dampen expectations
Israeli officials have tried to downplay expectations over Hof's visit, noting that a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not on the schedule. Officials in Mr. Netanyahu's office have indicated that the emphasis should continue to be placed on reaching a two-state with the Palestinians.
Uzi Arad, Netanyhau's national security adviser, said in a weekend interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz that Israel would not consider any peace deal that would prevent it from staying "deep into the Golan Heights," a definition sure to be off-putting to Syrian negotiators.
"The Syrians are certainly aware that the Netanyahu government and the majority of the public will not leave the Golan Heights," Dr. Arad said in the interview.
There are more than two dozen Israeli settlements in the area, with 9,000 settlers living there.
Israeli spokesman: It's Syria that's stalling talks
A spokesman for Netanyahu says that Syria should not expect Israel to agree to preconditions – such as recognizing verbal agreements that are said to have been made by the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s. Israel, in return, would be ready to talk to Syria, despite its disinclination to do so, given support in Damascus for Hamas and Hizbullah.
"We are ready for negotiations with the Syrians without preconditions, but it's the Syrians who are putting all sorts of preconditions on the talks that prevent them from happening," says Mark Regev, a spokesman for Netanyahu. "They're actively supporting both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, not just political support but very tangible support. If we wanted to say no talks until that stops, we could."
The Obama administration decided in June to send an ambassador to Damascus, ending a four-year hiatus in diplomatic ties.


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Like pretty much everybody, I believe it's only a matter of time before "TV" means pretty much any screen you can think of, anywhere.
Why wouldn't it?
For now, there are some key obstacles, and they're all interlinked. Some of the big ones are infrastructure and cost (particuarly in mobile), and — not insignificantly — the lack of an easy apples-to-apples comparison for media buyers.
Mediaweek reports that MindShare and online video ad network YuMe have taken a shot at creating a metric they call the "iGRP". The idea is to have a comparable internet metric to the TV GRP.
You can get the YuMe iGRP whitepaper here. (PDF)
If this works even a little bit, I'd expect to see the same downward pressure on TV prices that's happening to online publishers. Reckitt-Benckiser recently fired a $20M shot over the bow of the TV business, which is likely the opening salvo in a longer war.
This transition is not going to be quick and easy, and it's certainly not likely to be painless. As Tom Friedman recently noted in his book about the changes in the energy business, "It's not a revolution if nobody gets hurt".
Still, I can't imagine a more exciting time to be in the advertising and marketing business. So much of the talk is about the death of the old way of doing things, and I can understand that.
But the opportunities are all about what lies ahead. In fits and starts, we are witnessing the birth of something new.
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The S-1 project built a family of multiprocessor supercomputers. The project was envisioned by Dr. Lowell Wood at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in 1975 and staffed for the first three years by two Stanford University Computer Science graduate students, Tom McWilliams and Curt Widdoes.
That two graduate students could design and almost completely build a supercomputer by themselves is an amazing feat, comparable to the design and building of the CDC 6600 by Seymour Cray and a small staff a dozen years earlier. However, McWilliams and Widdoes are even better known for the major advances in CAD tools for logic design that they developed as part of the early days of the project and for the startup company they founded, Valid Logic Systems. In this respect the S-1 project was similar to the Super Foonly project.
"What we did was the first practical use of structured design for designing a real computer—not a toy research project in a university, but a large computer that really worked." — Curt Widdoes
The project ramped up in 1978 with the addition of more students, including Mike Farmwald and Jeff Rubin, and again in 1979. Dr. Carl Haussman provided the day-to-day oversight as the project team grew in size.
Five generations of S-1 processors were planned, and two MSI/ECL generations were built. The project independently invented two-bit branch prediction, directory-based cache coherency, and multiprocessor synchronization using load linked and store conditional. The project also influenced the development of programming languages and compilers including Common LISP and gcc.
Support for the S-1 project came initially from the Fannie and John Hertz foundation, and later from the U.S. Navy, through the efforts of Dr. Lowell Wood and Dr. Edward Teller.
Dr. Lowell Wood, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) and protégé of Dr. Edward Teller, led the special studies group at LLNL, which was called the O-Group. The O-Group members had many interests, but their work mainly revolved around ideas for a national missile defense. Wood was also an interviewer for the Hertz Foundation, which awarded prestigious scholarships to graduate students interested in the applied sciences. From this position, Wood could occasionally recruit top students to work at the lab.
In the summer of 1975, two Hertz Foundation scholarship recipients, Tom McWilliams and L. Curtis Widdoes, enrolled in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford and came to work with Dr. Wood at LLNL. Wood challenged them to design and build a supercomputer. In fact, Wood envisioned a family of multiprocessor supercomputers, with each having nodes with compute power similar to contemporary commercial supercomputers. The plan was to build five generations of processors with the same general architecture and to develop computer-aided logic design tools that would ease the task of re-implementing the processors in each new logic technology family. The fifth generation was planned to use wafer-scale integration (WSI).
In the fall of 1975 McWilliams and Widdoes developed the instruction set and multiprocessor structure. The computer was to have a 36-bit word length. The 30-bit address counted 9-bit quarterwords, and instructions were 36 bits in length. For more details, see the S-1 Architecture Manual.
In the spring of 1976 McWilliams and Widdoes used the Stanford University Drawing System (SUDS) on the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) PDP-10 system to start drawing logic diagrams and developed the Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design (SCALD) language to describe the design hierarchically. SCALD consisted of the following components:
- SUDS was used to input and edit drawings.
- macro expander: 8,000 lines of Pascal initially, written by Tom McWilliams.
- router and wire lister: 12,000 lines of Pascal initially, written by Curt Widdoes.
Although SUDS was written in PDP-10 assembly language, the other SCALD software was written in Pascal, so it could be run on the IBM System/370 model 168 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). SCALD ended up with about 30,000 lines of PASCAL code.
In the Summer the wire lister was determined to be too demanding for a summer research associate to complete.
In the Fall McWilliams and Widdoes began implementation of SCALD I on the IBM System/370 model 168 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The purpose of the SCALD Design System was to automate the conversion from a graphical, heirarchial block diagram to the low-level instructions for the wire-wrap machine[1]. The development debug cycle started with borrowed SUDS time on the PDP-10 at SAIL in the morning, courtesy of John McCarthy. When funded users arrived to use the PDP-10, the data was moved by magnetic tape to the IBM System/370 model 168 at SLAC for back-end processing. Those results were marked up by hand for editing the next morning on SUDS[2]. Time on the SLAC computer was also borrowed, courtesy of Forest Baskett.
- In the Spring the bulk of SCALD I was complete.
- Summer saw the completion of the physical design subsystem, including simulation of signal waveforms.
- By Fall the final S-1 Mark I wire list was ready.
- In the Spring additional personnel join the project, including Mike Farmwald and Jeff Rubin, for debugging Mark I and for the multiprocessor operating system, known as Amber. Farmwald was also on a Hertz Foundation fellowship.
- In Summer the Mark I ran its first significant program and a single-user operating system, probably a port of Unix 7th Edition, which did not have virtual memory.
- Each node was to have the processing power of a CDC 7600, though benchmarks indicated the completed processor was 1/3 the power of a 7600 or about the power of an IBM System/370 model 168.
- One node was built.
- 10 million instructions per second, 5300 chips, ECL-10K implementation (10 MHz).
- Originally planned (in around 1976) to have a 4,096-word instruction cache, a 4069-word data cache, both four-way set-associative with 4-word line size.
- No segmentation.
- The design required two man-years of effort using the specially-developed CAD tools; there were 211 high-level diagrams and 144 low-level diagrams.
- There were 12 boards, each about 18 by 24 inches, with 5300 integrated circuits involving about 80,000 gates organized into three "pages" of logic; the pages unfold to allow access to wiring.
- SCALD papers were presented at the 15th Annual Design Automation Conference in June:
- In the Fall work began on the Mark II and on SCALD II. Instead of depending on borrowed time at SAIL and SLAC, the group could now use the S-1 Mark I as its support computer. SCALD II added the following components:
- packager: written by Curt Widdoes, about 30,000 lines of Pascal initially.
- timing verifier: written by Tom McWilliams, 6,000 lines of Pascal initially.
In February Ted Anderson and Daniel Weinreb join the project. Probably at this time Jeff Broughton, Hon Wah Chin, Charles Frankston, and Lee Parks join. Hon Wah Chin is the operating system team leader.
- In February an S-1 paper by Curtis Widdoes is presented at the Spring COMPCON: The S-1 Project: Developing High-Performance Digital Computers.
- McWilliams' dissertation is completed in May: Verification of Timing Constraints on Large Digital Systems.
- In July, John Manferdelli, Michael Farmwald and William Bryson submit an S-1 paper to the Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Annual Technical Symposium: Signal Processing Aspects of the S-1 Multiprocessor Project.
- Weinreb returns to MIT in August.
- Parks also leaves.
- Earl Killian joins the project.
- Widdoes' dissertation is completed in December: Automatic Physical Design of Large Wire-wrap Digital Systems.
- Broughton becomes the operating system team leader.
- McWilliams, Rubin, and Widdoes start Valid Logic Systems.
- Farmwald completes his dissertation in August: On the Design of High-Performance Digital Arithmetic Units, in which he predicts that the first Mark IIA will be operational in early 1982.
Broughton becomes the S-1 project director, diluting the manpower assigned to the operating system. Charles Frankston took an extended leave to continue his education.
- John D. Bruner joins the S-1 project in February.
- Jay Pattin joins the S-1 project and contributes substantially to the operating system.
- The brochure The S-1 Multiprocessor Test and Evaluation Facility is published, promising a Mark IIA uniprocessor by the summer of 1983, running Unix version 7, and a multiprocessor by early 1984 running Amber, the operating system being developed by the S-1 group.
- In June Michael Farmwald submitted a paper to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on High-Speed Computation: The S-1 Mark IIA Supercomputer which described the future Mark IIA multiprocessor as having 16 processors, and the Mark IIA uniprocessor as "undergoing initial checkout".
In May Charles Frankston completes his thesis: The Amber Operating System in which he states that the Mark IIA had been delayed and was not yet ready. In a follow up note dated 1998 he stated that a single uniprocessor had been completed.
Killian leaves the S-1 project for MIPSco.
It isn't clear from the available documentation when the Mark IIA became operational, but 1985 seems like a good guess. The 1982 design was as follows:
- Each node was to have the power of a Cray-1.
- Several nodes were to be built.
- Circuit technology was to be 15 MIPS, ECL-100K.
- A 4,096-word instruction cache and a 16,384 word data cache, both four-way set-associative with 16-word line size.
- Vector operations, selection, matrix and signal processing operations were added.
- Segmentation was added, with a variable boundary between the segment number and the offset.
- Relative pointers.
- Pipeline stages controlled by writeable microcode.
- Decoded instruction cache expanded the 36-bit instruction word to a 56-bit format to reduce the instruction decoding time.
- In approximately 1977 it was decided that branch prediction bits would be held in the instruction cache.
- "advance computation" in the early pipeline stages of simple instructions—execution was done twice: once in the Ibox and again in the Abox for ease of branch misprediction recovery; they used the term "value prediction".
- high-performance emulation of the DEC PDP-10 and the Univac AN/UYK-7 (32 bit word).
- 64 (later possibly 72) boards of logic, 25000 integrated circuits.
- The Instruction box (Ibox) was designed by Jeff Rubin and Tom McWilliams.
- The Arithmetic box (Abox) was designed by Mike Farmwald and Bill Bryson
- The early physical design was similar to the Mark I: Figure 4 of the Widdoes and Correll Compcon 80 paper[3] shows the Mark IIA, 5 "pages" of logic, pages unfold to allow access.
- A later design used a fixed frame in which each processor was built with four pages extending out from a central hub: see the 1983 "S-1 Multiprocessor Test And Evaluation Facility" brochure[4].
Anderson continued to work on the S-1 project until June, and John D. Bruner until August. Dr. Carl Haussman retires.
Current Location of Hardware
External References
Historical reference material for the S-1 project is at Clemson University and at Stanford. See also the S-1 Architecture Manual.
The Computer History Museum contains transcripts of interviews by Holly Stump on February 12, 2008, with Tom McWilliams and Curt Widdoes:


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Shaun Green - Head Coach
Shaun Green has been the Head Coach at CCSU for over 30 years. He was selected as the Notheast Conference "Coach of the Year" in 2013, 2011 and 2003 and inducted into the Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame in 2014. He alos received the "Bob Casey Courage Award" by the Connecticut Sports Writer Alliance in 2008.
Shaun Green returns to the sidelines for his 30th season as head coach for the Central Connecticut State University men's soccer program in 2015. Green was introduced as the Blue Devils' head coach in 1985.
In 2013 the Blue Devils won the Northeast Conference regular season championship and the right to host the NEC Championships in New Britain. Central posted a 6-1 record in league play and would finish the 2013 season with a 9-9-1 overall record. The Blue Devils were 6-0 heading into the final game of the conference and had already clinched the top seed prior to a loss at Bryant. Green was named Coach of the Year for the second time in three years. The Blue Devils had six players earn All-Conference honors, including NEC Rookie of the Year Conor Qualter. He was a first team selection and five Blue Devils were named second team. The Blue Devils also earned the NSCAA Team Academic Award for their performance in the classroom.
In 2012 the Blue Devils finished 8-8-2 overall and 6-3-1 in Northeast Conference action, good for a fourth place finish in the regular season standings. Senior Reece Wilson was named the NEC Player of the Year and led a group of four All-Conference selections. Wilson was also named a CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American, becoming the first CCSU student-athlete to earn First Team honors at the Division I level. Wilson was joined by classmates Thomas Obasi and Jessie Menzies on the First Team All-Conference squad. Senior Steven Bailey was named to the Second Team.
In 2011, Green led the Blue Devils to a 10-8-1 (7-3 NEC) record which tied them for the NEC regular season championship. Green was recognized as NEC Coach of the Year after leading Central into the conference tournament for the fifth time in his career.
Green, a Newcastle, England native, has built a winning tradition on the New Britain campus over the past 29 years. In 2007, Green coached the Blue Devils to their first ever Northeast Conference Championship and first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. CCSU won the NEC Tournament as the four seed, beating both Monmouth and St. Francis (PA) in 1-0 matches. Coach Green's team knocked off 15th ranked Harvard and 9th ranked Tulsa on route to the round of sixteen in the NCAA Tournament, a feat unmatched by any other CCSU team in the Division 1 era. The Blue Devils finished nationally ranked in the NSCAA poll for the first time in school history. A tactical innovator, Green's tenure has helped the Blue Devil program rise to national prominence.
In 2008, Green helped seniors Yan Klukowski and David Tyrie cap off tremendous careers at Central. Both student-athletes were named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List prior to the season. The Hermann trophy is awarded, each year, to the top collegiate soccer player in the country. After much team success in 2007, with an NEC Championship and NCAA Tournament run, Klukowski and Tyrie received many individual accolades in 2008. They received NSCAA/adidas All-Region honors for the third straight year and All-NEC accolades for the fourth time in as many seasons.
In 2006 CCSU made appearances in both the NSCAA/Adidas and College Soccer News national top-25 polls, peaking at #19 in the former. Additionally, Klukowski, a sophomore at the time, became the third straight Blue Devil to lead the nation in a major statistical category. The Wiltshire, England native followed Jorden Holder, the 2005 statistical champion in assists, and Alex Harrison, the 2004 statistical champion in goals, by leading NCAA Division I in assists with .73 per game.
In 2003, Green earned Northeast Conference Coach of the Year honors after guiding the Blue Devils to an appearance in the NEC tournament final. Green coached Alex Harrison, one of his many standouts, to league player of the year honors the following season. Harrison won the honor again in 2005, leading the Blue Devils to a second place finish and another appearance in the NEC Tournament.
From 1994 to 1997, as a member of the Mid-Continent Conference, Green built CCSU into a regional power, compiling a record of 51-27-7 (.641). Under Green, the Blue Devils played in four consecutive Mid-Continent championship matches, winning back-to-back conference championships (1994-95) and earning two NCAA play-in match berths - a 1-0 overtime loss to Notre Dame in 1994 and a 3-1 loss to Butler in 1995.
While at CCSU, Green's players have excelled as a unit and individually, with numerous players earning all-conference honors. In addition to coaching the two-time conference player of the year in Harrison, Green was also at the helm in 1995 when Steven Jarvis became the first player in school history to be named a Division I All-American. Meanwhile, 22 former Blue Devils have advanced to the professional ranks and numerous others have represented their respective nations in World Cup qualifying and at the World University Games. In the summer of 2007, Klukowski represented Great Britain at the latter in Bangkok, Thailand.
Green is the former Director of Coaching in Connecticut for the National Soccer Coaches of America (NSCAA) and has also served as the head coach of the Connecticut U-17 Olympic Development Team, which he led to the Region I Championship. He is currently the president of the International Coaches Association and formally served as the chairman of the NSCAA Regional Ranking Committee and chairman of the NCAA Coaches' Committee.
In addition to on-the-field work, Green is a worldwide leading author of soccer books and multimedia. He has published four coaching books and eight multimedia instructional coaching cds focusing on instructional coaching techniques. In addition, Green is the founder and President of the International Coaches Association (ICA), which is the world's largest coaching website. Green, an associate professor at Central, received his tenure from the University in 1991. He holds an NSCAA Advanced National Coaching Diploma and a United States Soccer Federation 'A' License and is a member of the English Football Association. Coach Green, a 1985 graduate of Davis & Elkins (WV) College, lives in Southington with his wife, Laurie, and their sons, Kenneth, Shane and Adam.


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When a new student arrived at Ohr Somayach with the intention of doing some Torah study before beginning his residency for being licensed as a physician in the U.S., he was assigned to one of the Ulpan classes for beginners with limited knowledge of Hebrew.
He walked into the Ulpan class taught by Rabbi Avraham Zuroff and soon realized hat he had wandered into the wrong class. It turned out, however, to be the right class in another sense when Rabbi Zuroff asked him his name. Upon hearing the family name Rabbi Zuroff commented that his child's pediatrician in Kiryat Sefer had the same name. The student turned pale upon hearing the full name of the doctor and then explained why.
About 20 years ago this young man's parents were divorced in Russia. He went to the U.S. with his mother and heard rumors that his father eventually came to Israel. During several trips to Israel he made unsuccessful attempts to locate his father, even enlisting the services of a friend in Army Intelligence. Only now, by coming to Ohr Somayach and entering the wrong Ulpan class did he finally succeed in being reunited with his long-lost father.


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text: Stocks have been on a tear this summer. What could go wrong? By Anne Kates Smith, Executive Editor September 19, 2012 Investors have been treated to an incredible summer rally in 2012. From June 1 through September 19, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose nearly 14.2% -- about as much as the market's gain for the year so far. The S&P is just about 7% below its record high of 1565, set in October 2007. Smaller-company indexes have already reached record highs.SEE ALSO: 3 Reasons the Bull Market Will Continue But the market is nothing if not perverse. It's precisely when things are going along swimmingly that you need to watch for red flags. We're not predicting that stocks are about to plunge, or even that the remarkable rally is at its end. But complacency is not a wise approach. It's in that spirit that we remind you of some of the stock market's biggest worries. Sponsored Content 1. Inflation On September 13, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it would continue doing everything in its power to push long-term interest rates down and pump some cash into the economy, in a bid to stimulate growth -- employment growth especially. The Fed said it will buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed bonds a month until the job picture improves. "We want to see more jobs," Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said at a news conference. This round of asset purchases, known as quantitative easing, is the Fed's third since 2008 but the first without a preset time limit. QE3, as it is called, combined with ongoing programs will result in the central bank buying $85 billion worth of bonds and mortgages a month until the end of the year. Plus, the Fed promised to keep short-term rates at zero or barely above through mid 2015. Advertisement The news sent stocks soaring, the gains piling onto previous gains. 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That goes for central bankers in Europe, too, where the debt crisis still simmers. Meanwhile the slowdown in China, the main driver of global economic growth, has experts worried. Exports, representing about one-fourth of the Chinese economy, have slowed sharply in recent months -- they rose less than 3% in August compared with a year ago, depressed by Europe's recession and the anemic recovery here. Still, a slow year in China might translate into 7% GDP growth, down from double digits two years ago. Kiplinger's expects real GDP growth in the U.S. of about 2% this year, as well as next year. See our GDP outlook for more. 6. The Bull's Advancing Age At three and a half years old, the bull market is fast approaching the median duration of bull markets for the past 80 years, notes Jim Stack, of InvesTech Research. Moreover, since the 1950s, more than two-thirds of bull markets have peaked in the second half of the year. All of these issues are legitimate causes for caution. 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