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Terry Regier
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terry [dot] regier [at] berkeley [dot] edu
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SILC Faculty Member and member of our Spatial Network.
Biographical Sketch:
Professional preparation:
University of Michigan, Computer Science, B.S., 1983.
UC Berkeley, Computer Science, Ph.D., 1992.
Postdoctoral researcher, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, 1992.
Lecturer, Computer Science, UC Berkeley, 1993.
Assistant professor, Psychology, University of Chicago, 1994-2001.
Associate professor, Psychology, University of Chicago, 2001-2009.
Associate professor, Linguistics and Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley, 2009-present.
Five most relevant publications
Regier, T. (1996). The human semantic potential: Spatial language and constrained connectionism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Crawford, E., Regier, T., & Huttenlocher, J. (2000). Linguistic and non-linguistic spatial categorization. Cognition, 75, 209-235.
Regier, T. & Carlson, L. (2001). Grounding spatial language in perception: An empirical and computational investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 273-298.
Regier, T. (2005). The emergence of words: Attentional learning in form and meaning. Cognitive Science 29, 819-865.
Regier, T. & Zheng, M. (2007). Attention to endpoints: A cross-linguistic constraint on spatial meaning. Cognitive Science, 31, 705-719.
Five other recent publications
Regier, T. & Gahl, S. (2004). Learning the unlearnable: The role of missing evidence. Cognition 93, 147-155
Gilbert, A., Regier, T., Kay, P., & Ivry, R. (2006). Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left. PNAS, 103, 489-494.
Regier, T., Kay, P., & Khetarpal, N. (2007). Color naming reflects optimal partitions of color space. PNAS, 104, 1436-1441.
Foraker, S., Regier, T., Khetarpal, N., Perfors, A., & Tenenbaum, J. (2009). Indirect evidence and the poverty of the stimulus: The case of anaphoric one. Cognitive Science, 33, 287-300.
Regier, T. & Kay, P. (2009). Language, thought, and color: Whorf was half right. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 439-446.
Selected Synergistic Activities:
Editorial board of reviewers (2004-2005): Cognitive Science
Co-chair of the 2004 annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Invited participant, Future challenges for the science and engineering of learning, NSF workshop, July 2007.
Associate editor (2009-present): Cognitive Science
Collaborators in the last four years: Paul Kay (ICSI/Berkeley), Barbara Malt (Lehigh), Steven Sloman (Brown), Asifa Majid (MPI Nijmegen), Stephani Foraker (Buffalo State), Amy Perfors (Adelaide), Joshua Tenenbaum (MIT), Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York U., Toronto), Anna Franklin (Surrey), Ian Davies (Surrey), Richard Ivry (Berkeley).
Graduate advisor: Jerome Feldman (Berkeley)
PhD students supervised in the last five years: Naveen Khetarpal (current)
Postdoctoral sponsor: Mingyu Zheng


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2002 News Releases > April 2002 > Three-person comedy to be dinner theatre production
Three-person comedy to be dinner theatre production
Different people have different interpretations of what constitutes fine art, and those differences of opinion can be funny.
At least that's what playwright Yasmina Reza counted on when she penned "Art" a few years back. She must have been right.
Art, a comedy about three men with different tastes, has been keeping audiences laughing for several years and earned a Tony Award in 1998. Originally written in French, the play has been performed in more than 20 languages and is internationally acclaimed.
Wayland Baptist University's Theatre department will present the comic piece for its annual dinner theatre, planned April 19-20, 26-27 in Harral Auditorium. The event features a three-course meal and gourmet dessert, served at 6:30 p.m., followed by the play at 8 p.m.
According to director Marti Runnels, the play deals with a particular piece of artwork that begins a comic argument on what fine art really is.
"The play is about three men who are friends. One of them decides to buy a painting and spends $200,000 on it," Runnels said. "The whole play is about what that event does to the friendship and how it gets them to question the deeper aspects of their friendship."
Runnels said the three characters - and the men who play them - are what creates much of the comedy throughout the play.
First there's Mark, an aeronautical engineer who is more conservative in his art appreciation. Serge, a dermatologist and a modern art enthusiast, is the one who buys the painting - a piece with white lines on white canvas.
"Then there's Yvan, who cares less about art and more about having friends," Runnels said. "He's just trying to make everyone happy. He's a failure in business and in his relationships with women."
Though art is obviously a major theme throughout the play, Runnels said theatre guests won't have to be knowledgeable about visual arts to appreciate the piece. The play is also relatively short, running under 90 minutes.
Runnels said Reza was inspired to write the play after a friend of hers purchased a piece by Martin Barre. Her comic talent has won London's Laurence Olivier Award for best comedy and the Moliere Award for best author in Paris. Art also received The New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for best play and was nominated for best play by the Outer Critic's Circle, Drama Desk and Drama League. Runnels feels the Wayland production will receive such rave reviews as well.
Chris Moore, a senior who has been involved in every production since transferring two years ago, plays Mark. Cory Norman, another senior theatre veteran who recently starred in Wayland's production of The Elephant Man, plays Yvan. Serge is played by senior Patrick Whitfill, a relative newcomer to the Wayland stage.
Adult tickets for the production are $15, which includes the meal and the play, or $7 for the play only. Other ticket options and prices can be obtained and reservations made by calling the Box Office at 291-1089.
Because seating is limited, Runnels encourages early reservations for the dinner theatre. All reservations must be made by two days prior to each show. Tickets will not be available at the door for the dinner.


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Lewis Latimer
- Birthdate
- 1848/08/04
- Death date
- 1928/11/11
- Associated organizations
- United States Lighting Company, Edison Pioneers
Lewis Howard Latimer was born to George and Rebecca Latimer on 4 September 1848, the youngest of four children (three boys and one girl). He attended only grade school, and the remainder of his education was self-taught. At the age of ten he began working with his father in order to support the family. He had a fabulous appetite for reading, drawing, and learning in general.
The son of a former slave, Latimer had bitter feelings about slavery. At the age of fifteen, he falsified the date on his birth certificate and enlisted in the Union Navy during the Civil War. After receiving an honorable discharge, Latimer returned to Boston. His first job was as an office boy with Crosly and Gage, a well-known Boston patent law firm. He taught himself drafting and, after recognizing his talents, the firm promoted him to draftsman. One of his assignments was to make the initial drawings for one of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents.
In 1880, Herman Maxim, Chief Engineer and Electrician for the United States Lighting Company, who was very impressed with Latimer's talents as a draftsman, hired him. Latimer took this opportunity to learn about the electric industry. During his tenure with Maxim, he invented an electric lamp with a carbon filament (1881). He traveled to London to advise the English on setting up a lamp factory.
In 1885 he began his association with Thomas Edison, serving as an engineer, chief draftsman, and expert witness on the Board of Patent Control in gathering evidence against the infringement of patents held by General Electric and Westinghouse. He was named an Edison Pioneer in 1918, an elite group of men who worked for Edison.
Latimer married Mary Wilson on 10 December 1873, and they had two children, Emma Jeannette, born in 1883, and Louise Rebecca, born in 1890. Throughout his life, Latimer was also interested in poetry, the arts, and civil rights.
Notable Patents and Contributions
- 147,363: Water closet for railroad cars (1874)
- 247,097: Improvement to electric lamp (1881)
- 252,386: Process for manufacturing carbon filament (1882)
- 255,212 Arc light: globe support (1882)
- 334,078: Apparatus for cooling and disinfecting (1886)
- 557,076: Device for locking hats, coats and umbrellas on hanging racks (1895)
- 781,890: Lamp fixture (1910)
In his patent role, he was responsible for preparing the mechanical drawings for Alexander Graham Bell's patent application for his telephone. Thomas Edison took note of his work for Bell and on the light bulb and hired him in 1884. Latimer, in fact, holds the distinction of being the only African American member of the Edison Pioneers, the original engineering division of the Edison Company.
He continued to work on electric lighting, and in 1890 published Incandescent Electric Lighting, a technical engineering book that became the standard guide for lighting engineers.
He retired in 1924 at the age of 75. He passed away at his home in Flushing, New York on 11 November 1928, at the age of 80. When Latimer died, the Edison Pioneers attributed his "important inventions"-- he held eight U.S. patents-- to a "keen perception of the potential of the electric light and kindred industries." The Edison Pioneers published an obituary that included the following testimonial:
"He was of the colored race, the only one in our organization, and was one of those to respond to the initial call that led to the formation of the Edison Pioneers, January 24th 1918. Broadmindedness, versatility in the accomplishment of things intellectual and cultural, a linguist, a devoted husband and father, all were characteristic of him, and his genial presence will be missed from our gatherings."
Further Reading
1) Rayvon Fouché, Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
2) Louis Haber, Black Pioneers of Science and Invention. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970.
3) Ivan Van Sertima, Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transition Books, 1984.
4) Robert C. Hayden, Eight Black American Inventors. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1972.
5) Aaron E. Klein, Hidden Contributors: Black Scientists and Inventors in America. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971.


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Thoughts of warm climates inspire winning sundae
New London — At Michael's Dairy at Mitchell College Wednesday, thoughts of spring, ice cream and competition were on everyone's mind.
In preparation for the dairy's opening on Friday, it sponsored a "Create-a-Sundae" competition, where 30 members of the Mitchell College community submitted sundae recipes in hopes that their creation would be featured on the menu this summer.
Dairy manager Jessica Brodeur and John McGowan of Radio Mitchell chose 10 finalists — five students and five faculty and staff members — whose concoctions were sampled by a panel of judges, including Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and Dean of Students Jason Ebbeling.
"I've got the worst job ever," Finizio joked. "It's really, really rough, but I'll do my best."
After the four judges shared the 10 sundaes, they offered up the remains to self-proclaimed "back-up judges" in the audience. Mitchell sophomore Robbie Cohen threw a thumbs-up into the air after tasting "S'more Please" and called "Death by Chocolate" a chocolate wonderland.
With 46 flavors of ice cream to choose from, and countless toppings and sauces, contestants did not have trouble dreaming up sundaes. The "Nutty Buddy" submitted by Melissa Shafner, a staff member, consisted of butter pecan, peanut butter and pistachio ice creams, with nut toppings and whipped cream.
"I've been coming to Michael's Dairy since I was a little girl, and those have been some of my favorite flavors," Shafner said. "It looked like a fun idea, so I entered."
The winner of the contest was the "Luau," a tasteful mixture of coconut and orange pineapple ice creams topped with strawberry and pineapple toppings and coconut shavings.
Its creator is Christopher Scott, assistant director of the Thames Academy, a pre-college transitional program run by Mitchell. He said he was inspired by the warm idea of a luau in the depth of winter.
"I haven't tasted it yet, but I can assure you, it's a slice of heaven," Scott said prior to the competition. After winning, he decided to retire from sundae making and give others a chance at victory. He did, however, pledge to order the Luau every time he visits the dairy.
Among the runners-up were "Cookie Monster," "Cookie Dough Day Dream," "Death by Chocolate" and "Bee Nutty."
Until it was sold to Mitchell College in 2006, Michael's Dairy had been family-owned for 70 years. Now run by Mitchell College students as part of the college's hospitality and tourism programs, the dairy offers a learning opportunity for many Mitchell students.
Bob Forcier, chairman of the hospitality department, calls the dairy a "learning lab."
"It's a place to talk about inventory, purchasing, service or anything else," Forcier said. "Students can get the full dose of management, the whole works."
The dairy hopes to continue the tradition of competition, perhaps introducing a signature milkshake contest next year.
The winners
Overall winner:
The Luau by Christopher Scott, assistant director of Thames Academy:
Orange pineapple Ice cream, coconut ice cream, pineapple topping, strawberry topping, shredded coconut with a paper umbrella.
Runners up:
Cookie Monster by student Alix Battle:
Oreo ice cream, cookie dough ice cream, vanilla, Oreo topping, hot fudge and whipped cream
Death by Chocolate by Bob Forcier- Faculty, hospitality and tourism department chairman:
Brownies with extreme chocolate ice cream, brownie batter ice cream, with chocolate syrup, hot fudge, chocolate sprinkles and chocolate chips
Bee Nutty by learning specialist Jen Sullivan:
Vanilla ice cream, peanuts and honey
Cookie Dough Daydream by student Kelsey Miller:
Cookie dough ice cream, caramel topping, hot fudge topping, brownie pieces, and waffle cones pieces
Waterford's Ella Dyjak - The Day's All-Area Swimmer of the Year
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Is there some block to using operamini? Openmokko figures prominently in mickos link so is direct collaboration with openmokko also an option? Amigo hasnt shown any interest in posting his unfinished arm work online. Debian and ubuntu also have models to copy. Freerunner is mentioned as a platform although availability is an issue for me at least. If someone with knowledge could select a phone to target.
on reflection i'd like to clarify. My full although limited by knowledge support will be behind ANY initiative that gets puppy on any phone. Count on me for testing and use on a daily basis. I see browser choice as just another user downloadable choice of app from the many available and so dont see browser as a limiting factor. If micko and Pierre can swing this using any combination of surfer, deforaOs and puppy the sooner the better in my book.
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I am not sure but here is one reason it is so difficult to get puppy on ARM or pads or smartphones with Android on them.
The software and hardware guys don't want us to.
It's fair to speculate that in the coming years, Apple's locked-down iPad will continue to offer the best user experience - provided you're happy to work within the narrow confines that Apple allows, but Android will probably gain a larger market share by becoming available on a wider range of brands and devices.
It's also fair to speculate that Android tablets will likely suffer a lot of the same problems as Android phones: home screens filled with crappy undeletable apps added by hardware manufacturers or network service providers, Android Market apps that don't work or work poorly due to hardware fragmentation, and difficult operating system upgrade paths due to customized interfaces laid on by each manufacturer. These are unavoidable with an open system that runs on such an array of hardware.
These people are dependent on each other. No software sold then they can not pay the hardware guys. and vice versa.
So we need to get every potential puppy love to put in a fair amount of cash to preorder a version of an android phone with Puppy on it.
Then unless that firm get boycotted by Google then we get one.
Am I too pessimistic?
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I am also interested in using puppy for the Sylvania 7" or on a 10.2 " tablet I was going to buy. I'll read the ubuntu thread to see whats possible.
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this would be a good start to port puppy to arm
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As I tried to write on some other thread. Booting seems to get the Radio circuits on the Smartphones to boot up first so the boot sequences are highly specific for each phone and that way it is guared by the manyfactories?
But I know too little to say anything.
an old workmate managed to find a program on internet that allowed him to root a windows phone and to boot android on it.
So why not use same program to boot puppy on it? Just a naive thought but I trust that program is highly illegal to use so I did not dare to ask him for its name. But I saw how he started the smartphone and could chose to either start into windows on it from built in ROM or into Android from the SD card with that boot up program on it.
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I'll be getting (maybe sometime Feb) a CherryPal Africa laptop (arm-9 400mhz suspected) along with the Always Innovating's Smartbook (MID+tablet+keyboard) and I plan on testing out just about every linux dist under the sun (or should I say Oracle now) that work on ARM, including (and perhaps with more vigor towards) Puppy. So far, I have a plethora of machines running fedora, ubuntu, centos, yellowdog (on my ps3 and old mac g4), DSL, puppy, and slackware .. oh, and a kernel-only running on my dreamcast. Anyway, once these guys arrive I'd be more than happy to help out with Puppy-on-ARM project or just post what I'm doing/not getting to work etc.
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Debian has for a long time have ported their basic things to ARM.
How easy that is to make a puppy of is way beyond my capacity to guess.
Those that have made Dpup maybe know more?
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ARM seems to be the future for low power Fan less computers.
Read here
desktop PC replacement. There's also mention of the company offering more than one operating system working "out-of-the-box," but what will actually be running the show hasn't yet been announced.
Availability is expected to be some time in April
... NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processing platform. ...
The 5.1 x 3.7 x 0.6-inch (130 x 95 x 15mm) Trim-Slice is the company's smallest and most energy efficient model to date, having an average operational draw of just 3W. Within the rugged all-metal, nickel-plated housing beats the Tegra 2 heart, where a 1GHz Dual Core ARM Cortex A9 processor and an ultra low power, high definition GeForce graphics unit sit together on the same chip.
Supporting players include 1GB DDR2 memory and 64GB of solid state storage, with expansion possible via the duo of media card slots.
So would be cool to have a Debian or Puppy OS on such a machine.
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nooby, you actually are quite right about creating a debian-based puppy for ARM. Anyone who has mastered 'woof' building and can compile and package all the extras which puppy needs which aren't in debian, plus adapt any scripts which need it, could fairly easily get a start on an ARM port. There are some difficult points, though. First of all with the bootloader -ARM can't use grub, syslinux or lilo. Then, most ARM devices are not gonna have CD drive. Even if they are not 'embedded' systems (like phones), they are still gonna need a way to be install to the hard-drive, USB Flash, SSD or whatever. Basically you'd have to create a puppy which is *not* a LiveCD distro.
That's the real sticking point, I think, because it requires re-designing the core boot-up procedure to fit the hardware usage. Otherwsie, you wind up with something that is much slower than needed. These devices are nearly all fairly low-spec hardware. It makes no sense to use up half of the RAM(already low), nor take the time to copy a rootfs into the RAM. Doing so means that for any program running, there are two copies of it RAM.
This is why I asked you the other day what 'feature' or characteristics of Puppy you would hope to see in your phone or other small device. It seems to me that most of what characterizes Puppy is exactly what you would not want to do on such a device. The (maybe) friendliness of the Puppy desktop is the only concept I see thjat really applies. Even the supposed 'lightness' of Puppy is not really so great for these devices -it simply takes too much RAM to be that effective -if the device has no permanet, accessible storage, you can't suppose to only run part of it RAM and have the rest in a frugal install or save_file. Do you see what I'm saying? There is so much that would need to be *undone* to make Puppy effective for these devices. It would be more expedient to start from scratch and incorporate the best ideas out there for the task -including any thing from Puppy which fit the bill.
I say it would be 'easy', but I mean for someone who knows how to do all these things. And it would still be a very large job. Also, there is one thing you need to realize, there is no ARM architecture. There are over 2,000 varieties of ARM! There are quite a few variant instruction sets, most of which are available for different hardware variants. So, just which ARM do you want to choose? All the work done above will have to be repeated for nearly each platform you want to support! Do you understand why this hasn't been done?
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Thanks Amigo, I read you loud and clear. It was even worse than my pessimism could imagine.
I don't remember if it was Aitch or Lobster or somebody else that wanted Puppy for ARM and I jumped on the train too seeing the need but that guy or those guys maybe wanted to encourage some of the Devs to get interested in it and even if I did not understood the difficulty I am a pessimistic person by nature and always thing things are way more complicated than what most people think ....
Anyway you confirm that this is much more difficult than what any of us enthusiasts could imagine.
So what would one do instead. We have smart phones that are almost like computers. We have ten or more Pads that try to out compete the Apples internet Pad and all these alternatives have Android on them.
And out there on internet there are "Mods" that modify Android so one can root it and add things that the OEM??? Operators did not made available.
But that is not what I like because most likely it is not legal to do such. I guess when buying one have accepted some Google policy to let them decide on such things. So what one need is an agreement with them that one are allowed to use these android devices under some regulated FOSS thing not making cash on them unless Google get their share maybe.
So we need then a Puppy SDK for doing apps for Android in Puppy?
That would be cool. As it is now I guess one need either MsWin, Apple, Ubuntu or Debian to do such apps?
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Before I say anything else, nooby, I want to take a minute to compliment you -your english is getting better!
I don't mean to totally discourage you about having a lightweight ARM installation. Starting from an existing debian port is the easiest way to go -but it means having a cross-compile environment for most arches. And, the ports they have already cover the few ARM instructions sets + arch which are most-widely used. They probably do not include your Psion phone, though, but who knows?
Devices which use 'meego' insetad of Android probably make for an easier target. My own interest in ARM support is mostly about having something for one or more of the ARM tablet-PC's. They provide an easier starting point. Installing a new embedded system -like on your phone or a PDA is a whole different problem and will always require one to be 'adventurous' and to be willing to give up your warranty on the device.
Aitch has been holding out hope for a long time now. Maybe someday we'll get there...
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nooby wrote:
ARM seems to be the future for low power Fan less computers.
It's been powering low power fanless computers since June 1987!
Acorn actually created ARM processors for use in desktop machines, starting with the Archimedes 300 and 400 series. Use in mobile products is actually a much later development (Psion Series 5, IIRC).
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Read here
desktop PC replacement. There's also mention of the company offering more than one operating system working "out-of-the-box," but what will actually be running the show hasn't yet been announced.
That actually looks quite interesting. I have an Advantage Six A9home, which has 128MB of RAM and a 400MHz ARM 920 processor. It comes with RISC OS 4.42 as its operating system but it may be possible to run Linux on it, I've not really investigated it. It's a nice little machine, RISC OS just flies on it.
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@ Jades
Like a blood hound I sniff (click) everything and this link is 404:
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@ Audience
No reflection on OP but: I own a TracFone. If our car breaks we can call a wrecker, that's all we use it for. If I want something with smarts I turn on a PC. Not everyone is "monkey see, monkey do".
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@ Jades
Like a blood hound I sniff (click) everything and this link is 404:
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Cheers for letting me know, I've fixed the link. The problem turned out to be a stray uppercase letter i in the file name - looked like a lower case l so I didn't realise I'd forgotten to change it!
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@ Audience
No reflection on OP but: I own a TracFone. If our car breaks we can call a wrecker, that's all we use it for. If I want something with smarts I turn on a PC. Not everyone is "monkey see, monkey do".
I'm still running an old Siemens A50, one corner of which is now held together with tape. I've never had any real interest in smart phones, I much preferred my Psion Revo Plus, a proper palmtop with an excellent keyboard. Really should get the batteries fixed - built-in rechargeables are never a good idea IMHO.
Puppy would probably run nicely on my A9 although the memory being limited to 128MB would probably be a bit of a challenge for something like Lupu. Wary would possibly work. It's even possilble to read RISC OS format discs with Linux although it may need to be specifically compiled in.
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Just a question starting from teh beginning: ARMs have been around for awhile. Some ARMS have LAN boards, some have Wi-Fi boards, some have Cell, some have serial.. If you are going to talk to an ARM, what is going to be your standard forgetting teh device to begin recieving boot instructions?
For example, in the PC world, I have a LAN connection, where I can boot, say a porperly configured Windows 2008 configuration and logon to manage it without the use of a display, keyboard, or mouse using PXE. I've imaged that I can do this also with a Knoppix/Linux distro which I pre-configure to start SSH/VNC or something after it boots so that I can login and get a desktop. PXE is a standard
If I am going to use an ARM device, in today's world, what STANDARD must I set so that I can get something booted to make the ARM device useful so that I can achieve desktop/console?
I ask this to help. Hope this helps.
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Scott's anchored putting stroke has him near the top of the recent Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. – It's no coincidence that Adam Scott became better in majors after when he found consistency on the putting greens — and he credits his anchored putting stroke for the improvement.
Scott has finished tied for second and eighth the past two years on Augusta National's lightning-fast greens since switching to a long putter. He's been among the top 15 in six of the past eight major events, including his disappointing second-place at the British Open after leading by four strokes with four holes to play.
Scott's not pleased with a proposed rules change banning such putters in 2016. A decision is expected later this spring.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - On Wednesday night, MIT men's and women's fencing hosted Boston College, Brandeis University and Harvard University for the Third Annual Beanpot. The Engineers fought well and finished 1-2 on the evening, but they were no match for the Crimson of Harvard University, which captured its third-straight tournament crown.
Senior Stephanie Shin had a solid night, posting a 7-2 record including 3-0 records against the fencers from B.C. and Brandeis. Kirsten Hessler (4-5) and Sophie Monahan (3-6) rounded out the epee squad, which had the Cardinal and Grays best day among the three weapons.
Cordelia Link was the only other Engineer to post a winning record, as the senior finished 7-2 and scoring winning records against all three teams. Jenna Caldwell (4-5) and Lindley Graham (2-7) also competed at foil.
In sabre, freshman Annabeth Gellman (4-5) had the best day, while Molly Kozminsky (3-6) and Elena Tatarchenko (1-8) found themselves outmatched.
MIT (14-11) now looks forward to the postseason and the NCAA Regional Championships hosted by Brown University on Sunday, March 14.


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Two bills in the California Legislature would make baby diaper changing tables as accessible to men as they are to women.
"This bill reflects our modern families now," said California state Sen. Ricardo Lara, sponsor of one of the bills, in an interview with USA TODAY Network.
Lara's bill would require facilities with changing tables make these tables accessible to both genders. This means having a changing table in a men's restroom if there is one in a women's, or having a family restroom.
The bill would apply to newly constructed or refurbished facilities and is likely to be up for a vote by the full state Assembly in August, Lara said.
Lara said he thought of introducing such a bill after receiving calls from same-sex couples who wanted changing tables in men's restrooms. The population affected by the bill is much broader, he said.
The other bill, sponsored by state Sen. Lois Wolk, would take the requirement a step further and require that existing facilities make changing tables equally accessible.
Nine out of 10 fathers who lived with their children said they bathe, diaper or dress their children every day or several times a week, according to a 2013 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We want to be involved, but why isn't society stepping up and evolving with us?" said Doyin Richards, a Los Angeles father who blogs at Daddy Doin' Work.
Richards said he has had to change his two daughters' diapers in the trunk of his car or in women's restrooms because there was no changing table in the men's restroom.
He said he calls restaurants ahead of time to make sure they have a changing table in the men's restroom.
The website Changing Table Locator lists more than 3,000 facilities nationwide that are "family-friendly" for changing diapers, only accessible to women or have no changing table.
Jacob Smithers, an Illinois stay-at-home dad who helps run the website, said he realized the lack of changing tables when he had to change his baby's diaper a couple of years ago in a Chicago restaurant.
There was no table in either men's or women's restroom, Smithers said, so he resorted to laying out paper towels and changing his 6-month-old son on the bathroom floor.
Smithers said that if a restaurant has high chairs, it should have changing tables. "What kid who sits in a high chair does not wear diapers?" he said.
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Core Technology Services, the information technology arm of the North Dakota University System, has discovered and shut down suspicious access to one of the university system's servers. An entity operating outside the United States apparently used the server as a launching pad to attack other computers, possibly accessing outside accounts to send phishing emails.
Unfortunately, personal information, such as names and Social Security numbers, was housed on that server. There is no evidence that the intruder accessed any of the personal information. As a precautionary measure, steps are being taken to inform all who could potentially be impacted by the suspicious activity.
"Information security is of the utmost importance to us, and it is very unfortunate this has happened" said NDUS Interim Chancellor Larry C. Skogen. "We are working diligently to help make sure this doesn't happen again. It's disturbing that higher education is often targeted by criminal elements in today's global assaults on IT systems."
Records of more than 290,000 current and former students and about 780 faculty and staff resided on the server. No credit card or bank account information was contained in the records. The suspicious activity was discovered on Feb. 7, and the server was immediately locked down. A thorough internal investigation and forensic analysis was conducted to understand the cause and scope of the incident. Law enforcement has been contacted, and the server information was also sent to a national forensic organization to confirm the internal analysis.
"There is no indication that any of the personal information was actually accessed," said Lisa Feldner, vice chancellor for information technology and institutional research. "Nevertheless, we are making every effort to inform people of the situation and are taking every possible precaution to safeguard our systems."
In response to incidents like this one and to help prevent them in the future, NDUS is continually modifying its systems and practices to enhance the security of sensitive information. To support this effort, NDUS removed all access to the affected server and revalidated each individual user, initiated more stringent intrusion detection measures, and developed a taskforce to address how we access data securely.
NDUS has established a web page that provides more details about the incident. It will be updated on a regular basis as new information becomes available. In addition, NDUS is making arrangements to provide identity protection services for one year for all those who wish to use it. A call center will be established soon to assist those who have additional questions. More information about these services will be posted on the website as soon as it is available.
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The star of The Office, Fiber One spokesperson, and mom to son Weston, almost one, gets real about breastfeeding, working motherhood, and how long it really takes to lose the baby weight.
You've been refreshingly candid about not dropping the baby weight immediately. How did it happen for you?
It happened the way it happens for most women. I just waited to start exercising and making any real changes to my diet until I was getting good rest and was healed from child birth, which wasn't until my son was about 6 months old. By then he was napping and sleeping about 6 or 7 hours a night. I personally wasn't interested in doing much between focusing on him.
I'm not a person who goes to extremes. I believe in moderation. I don't go on cleanses, and I believe in having real dessert! Before I had Weston I used to make homemade diet desserts. Obviously now I don't have time to make homemade anything any more. But then I saw the 90-calorie Fiber One brownies in the grocery store, and they were amazing! If I know at the end of the day, I'm going to get dessert, it helps me eat healthy the rest of the day.
Did you feel pressure to drop pounds immediately?
I think I had this unrealistic expectation that it would be faster or easier. That's because that message is out there that you can lose weight so quickly after having a baby. But after investigating I found on average it takes about a year. I don't want to send the message that's it's not important to lose the weight. Before I got pregnant, I was a fit person, and I had dreams when I was nine months pregnant about being able to be active and move my body again. But I had to be patient about the process and not rush it.
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What do you love about having a boy?
Little boys love their mommies. I secretly wanted a boy, but you're not supposed to say that. Then he was! I just love my little guy.
How do you make being a working mom work?
Well, I have really great support so I am very lucky. My husband and I have coordinated our schedules so that one of us is there when he gets up. We're able to eat together as a family every night too, which is something I did as a kid. I also have an amazing nanny who brings Weston to see me at work. We really work hard to make family our priority. If we're not working, we send the nanny home to give Weston the most normal life we can.
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How much I love every single part of it, and how I have an endless supply of patience and energy I didn't know I had in me. Even the grunt work…I enjoy it!
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Star-studded party for Israeli president's 90th
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli and global leaders, local celebrities and Hollywood superstars celebrated under one roof Tuesday to honor Israeli President Shimon Peres for his upcoming 90th birthday, reflecting world respect for one of the country's peace pioneers.
Peres is hosting his annual Presidential Conference that brings together an array of artists, thinkers and leaders to discuss issues relevant to Israel and the world.
Instrumental in building Israel's military in the first days of the state six decades ago, Peres served twice as prime minister and promoted peace between Israel and the Palestinians, sometimes reaching far ahead of his own people.
For his role in the landmark interim peace accord in 1993, he received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize along with Israel's then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
His tireless campaigning for a peace agreement has won him supporters and sympathizers around the world. His last five years as Israel's president has also gained him affection at home, absent during much of his political career.
In an event that kicked off the conference Tuesday and marked Peres' birthday, songstress Barbra Streisand sang a prayer in Hebrew and belted out one of her greatest hits, "People," to enthusiastic applause. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was ushered to the stage by a quintet of saxophones.
Leaders and public figures from around the world, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Barack Obama to Bono, sent their good wishes to Peres. His birthday is in August, but organizers felt it would be difficult to bring back such a star-studded, high-powered crowd so soon. The conference, held every June, is doubling as a birthday bash.
Clinton, who on Monday prodded Israelis to hasten to make peace with the Palestinians, stepped away from politics at the two-hour long celebration, choosing instead to poke fun at Peres' age, calling him "the last living Israeli who knew King David."
Scattered in the audience among Israeli Cabinet ministers and local clergy sat actors Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone. Rwandan President Paul Kagame sat in the front row beside former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now an international envoy to the Middle East.
The star of the night was Streisand, dressed in a flowing black dress accented with gold jewelry. Streisand sang the Jewish prayer "Avinu Malkeinu," which Peres called "heavenly" and gave her a long embrace and two kisses on the cheek. The prayer, which means "our Father, our King" is recited on the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur, a day of fasting and reflection. Streisand said the prayer was meant to "cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth."
Peres, who serves in a largely ceremonial position, was serenaded by local musicians and entertained by dance troupes, one of which intercut its music with inspirational quotes from the nonagenarian leader.
"We long for peace with our neighbors," Peres said to the applauding crowd. "The yesterday between us and the Palestinians is full of sadness. I believe that the Israel of tomorrow and the Palestine of tomorrow can offer our children a ray of hope."


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Bhikkhu P.A. Payutto wrote:Do kamma and not-self contradict each other?
There is one question which, though only occasionally asked, tends to linger in the minds of many newcomers to the study of Buddhism: "Do the teachings of kamma and not-self contradict each other?" If everything, including body and mind, is not-self, then how can there be kamma? Who is it who commits kamma? Who receives the results of kamma? These doubts are not simply a phenomenon of the present time, but have existed from the time of the Buddha, as can be seen in the following example:
A bhikkhu conceived the following doubt,"We know that body, feeling, perception, volitional impulses and consciousness are not self. If so, then who is it who receives the results of the kamma made by this 'non-self'?"
At that time, the Blessed One, knowing the thoughts of that bhikkhu, addressed the bhikkhus thus:"Bhikkhus, it may be that some foolish people in this Teaching and Discipline, with mind fallen into ignorance and confused by desire, might conceive the teaching of the Master to be rationalized thus: 'We know that body, feeling, perception, volitional impulses and consciousness are not self. If that is so, who is it who receives the results of the kamma created by this "non-self"?' All of you now, having been thoroughly instructed by me, consider these matters: is form permanent or impermanent?"
"Impermanent, Lord."
"Is what is impermanent (a cause for) happiness or suffering?"
"Suffering, Lord"
"Of that which is impermanent, unsatisfactory, and normally subject to degeneration, is it proper to say that 'this is mine, this is me, this is my self'?"
"No, it is not proper, Lord."
"For that reason, form, feeling, perception, volitional activities and consciousness, of whatever description, are merely form, feeling, perception, volitional activities and consciousness. They are not 'mine,' not 'me,' not 'my self.' Reflect on this as it is with wisdom. The learned, Noble Disciple, seeing in this way, does not attach to form, feeling, perception, volitional impulses or consciousness. He is free of those things, and has no further task to do."
From: Good, Evil and Beyond: Kamma in the Buddha's Teachings by Bhikkhu P.A. Payutto
Does anyone know how I can convert these PTS numbers into actual sutta numbers?
Thanks / dhammapal.


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1. Me!
2. and 3. My parents
4. and 5. My grandparents
8. Joseph James Allen
7 April 1891, Wyman/Edmore, Montcalm, Michigan; bet. 1846 and 1950, Michigan
9. Daisy May Croad
6 Nov 1896, Lakeview, Montcalm, Michigan; 24 June 1990, Pinellas Co., Florida
16. Joh Grant Allen
18 May 1869, Niles, Trumbull, Ohio; 27 Sep 1955, Parma, Jackson, Michigan
17. Marion Wood
Feb 1871, Summit, Jackson, Michigan; bef. 1955
34. Charles S. Wood
Oct 1842, probably Ireland; bet. 1910 and 1915, probably in Rolland, Isabella, Michigan
35. Didame/Diadame/Didamia Beam
10 Oct 1852, East Zorra, Oxford, Ontario, Canada; 7 May 1895, Rolland, Isabella, Michigan
68. Charles Wood
circa 1817, Ireland; 22 March 1863, South Dumfries, Brant, Ontario, Canada
69. Jane Montgomery
6 Aug 1816, County Cavan, Ireland; 18 Feb 1893, Blenheim, Oxford, Ontario, Canada
The Woods were supposedly originally from Scotland, reportedly from just outside Edinburgh. I have not been able to go that far back with the family. They were most likely Ulster Scots from County Cavan, Ireland before coming to Canada in 1855. They first settled in Galt, Waterloo, Ontario where Jane's family had come to some time before. I'm very confident that Jane's last name was Montgomery and have multiple sources that support it. However, for some strange reason, Jane's daughter (also a Jane) lists her mother's maiden name as Fallagher on her death record. Whoever reported the death either didn't know or had been missinformed, but I'm still mentioning it as a possibility just in case.


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Of the division's four teams, the New York Jets improved themselves the most in the NFL draft.
FOXBORO - It wasn't nearly enough to shift the balance of power in the AFC East. A four-game gap wasn't about to be erased in three days' time.
It says here that the Patriots will win their sixth straight division title in 2014.
It also says here that the New York Jets won the 2014 NFL Draft within the division, however.
Here's a look at what Thursday-through-Saturday nights brought to the AFC East:
Buffalo: Surrendering two first-round picks (this year's and next) plus a fourth rounder (in 2015) to Cleveland, the Bills paid a ransom Thursday night in order to move up five spots to the fourth slot overall to select Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins.
The cost was lessened one day later when the Bills dealt veteran wide receiver Stevie Johnson to San Francisco for a fourth-round pick (which could become a third) in 2015.
Still, while Watkins was the best wide receiver on the board, was he worth a first-round pick and Johnson when the Bills could have sat back and let Lousiana State's Odell Beckham come to them at No. 9?
You've got to admire a team that last earned a playoff berth in 1999 and went 6-10 in 2013 for going for it, but as ESPN's Bill Polian said, "Watkins has to be an Andre Reed-type receiver in order to justify" such a move.
The Bills' second-round choice, Alabama's Cyrus Kouandijo, has been projected as an NFL left tackle in the making, but anytime the words "arthritic knee condition" appear in an analysis (Page 89 of NFL.com's Nolan Nawrocki's NFL Draft 2014 Preview) it's alarming.
The value of Preston Brown, the Louisville linebacker selected in the third round, could increase if ex-Patriot Brandon Spikes, who shuffled off to Buffalo as a free agent earlier this offseason, is one-and-done.
Miami: In offensive lineman Ja'Wuan James, the Dolphins (8-8 last season) addressed what was a disaster area, both on the field and off it, in 2013, but it seems the tackle from Tenneesee was a reach at 19.
The predraft consensus with Lindy's Sports Pro Football Draft magazine, Nawrocki, and Ourlad's Guide to the NFL Draft was that James was a second-round talent at best.
The makeover of the Dolphins' offensive line extended to the third round when they drafted another tackle, North Dakota State's Billy Turner.
Between the two linemen the Dolphins grabbed a potential high-quality possession receiver to complement deep threat Mike Wallace when they tabbed Louisiana State's Jarvis Landry in the second round.
New England: After going 12-4 in 2013, I suppose the Patriots could afford to go high risk/high reward in the first round and they did, selecting Florida defensive lineman Dominique Easley at 29 overall.
Easley could translate to a value pick if he can stay on the field.
He could also translate to a bust if he breaks down, a distinct possibility for a player with his past (major injuries to alternate knees in 2011 and 2013).
With Ryan Mallett's (lack of) development over three years, the time to draft a quarterback had come, but given the fact that even at 37 (in August) Tom Brady hasn't shown signs he's lost much and with him signed through 2017 I'm not sure I would have invested a second-round choice in Eastern Illinois' Jimmy Garoppolo.
Tom Savage (the Pittsburgh quarterback went to the Houston Texans in the fourth round), A.J. McCarron (Alabama; Cincinnati in the fifth round) and Zach Mettenberger (LSU; Tennessee in the sixth) were among those who were there for the taking later.
With Stevan Ridley, Shane Vereen and Brandon Bolden all heading into contract years, Wisconsin running back James White's greatest value may come in 2015 and beyond.
Fellow fourth rounders Bryan Stork (Florida State) and Cameron Fleming (Stanford) and sixth rounder Jon Halapio (Florida) infuse young blood into the offensive line.
New York Jets: The Jets (8-8 in 2013) led the division in quantity (12 picks) and quality in the draft.
After trying, and failing, to squeeze a year out of an aging Ed Reed in 2013, the Jets went young at the safety position, making Calvin Pryor their first-round choice.
A physical presence, Pryor forced nine fumbles and intercepted seven passes over three seasons at Louisville.
In a "wish I'd written that" line on CBSSports.com, Rob Rang wrote, "I have no doubt that he's going to be a Broadway hit for the Jets."
Maryland cornerback Dexter McDougle may not have been worth a third-round pick, but at least the pick was dedicated to a position of need.
Between the two defensive backs the Jets added to their offense, grabbing a pass catcher in Jace Amaro, whose 1,352 receiving yards at Texas Tech last year set an NCAA single-season record for tight ends.
Fourth-round additions Jalen Saunders (Oklahoma) and Shaquelle Evans (UCLA) and sixth rounder Quincy Enunwa (Nebraska) provide more potential targets at the wide receiver position on a team whose top pass catcher, Jeremy Kerley, had just 43 receptions last year.
Of course, it remains to be seen if the Jets actually have a quarterback (and in Clemson's Tajh Boyd in the sixth round they added another) who can actually get them the ball.
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On Sunday, three Chinese astronauts manually docked their craft with the Tiangong 1 space module, which is due to be replaced by a permanent space station around 2020.
Yes, China is just repeating achievements we've already pulled off — but the United States can't even launch its own astronauts these days. So the news confirms what analysts have warned about for years: America is steadily losing the race for space.
The implications are huge, especially for our national security.
China's equivalent of NASA isn't about scientific research or space rides; it's an arm of the People's Liberation Army. So, while the Obama administration has largely ceded leadership in space flight to Russia and private firms like Space X, China is gearing for something that will give the phrase Star Wars a whole new meaning.
Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, warns that China's real goal is to find ways to "deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries" like the United States, while building up their own military capabilities, including beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
In that sense, the space-docking exercise is just one more landmark in an anti-satellite warfare program that's been aimed at us since 2007, when China successfully tested its first satellite-killing ballistic missile.
Then, in January 2011, it sent up a highly sophisticated out-of-the-atmosphere kinetic kill vehicle (or KKV). The Chinese said it was for anti-missile defense. Others, including in the Pentagon, noted that it would work well for shooting down satellites, too. Ian Easton, researcher at a Washington think tank that tracks Chinese military trends, said then, "The implications of this test are potentially huge" in expanding China's ability to render our satellite-based Global Positioning System useless.
GPS works by transmitting signals from satellites to receivers on earth, which then automatically coordinate signals from several satellites to give the user information on his location, speed, bearing and more. The more satellites, the more exact the data.
Our Defense Department needs its 30 or so GPS satellites to keep exact track of ships, planes and units scattered around the globe — and also to provide the data feed that delivers our precision guided munitions, from ICBMs and JDAMs to Tomahawk missiles, right to target. If some — say a third — of those 30 satellites were knocked off line, our forces would become effectively blind and impotent.
People's Liberation Army hackers have been working on doing that via software for years; these satellite-killing missiles allow for a complementary "hardware" approach.
Meanwhile, China is also working on its own GPS, the Beidou Navigation Satellite System; it will have 16 satellites up and running by year's end, with more coming.
We lack any significant anti-satellite capability. So, in the event of a future conflict, the Beidou system would let Beijing independently identify, track and target our forces even as its hackers and missiles deny us the power to do the same thing. Navy subs, aircraft carriers, even B-2 bombers and Stealth fighters would become sitting ducks, and blind ones at that.
Manned Chinese space vehicles might even be able to hijack our satellites, with a future space station overseeing the entire operation. Farfetched? So was the idea that tanks could outmaneuver the impregnable Maginot Line — and the idea that airplanes could sink an entire battlefleet at Pearl Harbor.
America has been so used to leading in space that we haven't had to think of an effective countermeasure to this kind of attack. We did successfully test our own anti-satellite missile back in 2008 — but at a lower altitude than what the Chinese can do. And a steadily shrinking defense budget isn't going to leave much money to pay for today's conventional weapons, let alone the space weapons of tomorrow.
Still, it's time to start some serious planning for the New Star Wars—before the race for space turns from a noble dream into a hideous nightmare.
Arthur Herman's latest book is "Freedom's Forge."


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Fall makes me think of pears, and pears make me think of that oft-seen salad in which the fruit is paired with walnuts and chunks of blue cheese over lettuce.
It's popular in restaurants for a reason. The sweet and juicy pears play off the salty rich cheese, while the walnuts add texture and their nutty rich flavor.
The combination seemed ripe for tinkering. What if I used radicchio instead of the typical mixed greens. And could the blue cheese be melted on croutons? And — that kind of musing led nowhere. It was merely the same salad with a few swap-outs. But wait? What if the pears and cheese go into a grilled sandwich? And use Asian pears, for their crisp flesh and floral notes. Now I was interested, and it led to this.
If you cannot find pepper jelly, experiment with another preserve for a bit of sweetness (apricot? fig?) or giardiniera for heat. Or both. If the radicchio makes the slaw too bitter, add a little honey or fresh orange juice to the dressing.
Grilled pear and blue cheese sandwich with slaw
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes
Servings: 2
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 head radicchio, cored, sliced in thin ribbons
1 small bulb fennel, cored, julienned
1/4 cup walnut pieces, toasted
4 slices rustic bread
2 ounces blue cheese, at room temperature
1 medium Asian pear, cored, thinly sliced
1 to 2 tablespoons jarred pepper jelly
1. Whisk 2 tablespoons olive oil, lemon juice and zest, and 1/4 teaspoon salt together in a small bowl. Spoon half the vinaigrette over the radicchio and fennel in a bowl; toss. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt. Toss again; add more dressing, if needed. Top with the walnut pieces.
2. Spread the blue cheese over one side of 2 slices of bread, gently mushing into the bread so cheese doesn't fall off while cooking. Layer the pear slices on top. Spread pepper jelly over one side of the other 2 slices of bread. Sandwich the pepper jelly slices over the pear and cheese slices. Spread the tops and bottoms of the sandwiches with a little olive oil.
3. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet or griddle over medium-high heat. When hot, add the sandwiches; cook, turning once, until golden brown and the cheese melts. Serve with the slaw alongside.
Note: Toast the nuts in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant, about 5 minutes.
Nutrition information:
Per serving: 744 calories, 42 g fat, 11 g saturated fat, 27 mg cholesterol, 79 g carbohydrates, 17 g protein, 1,350 mg sodium, 10 g fiber.