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Stacie Mari Williams will complete her M.S. in Library Science and Archives Management at Simmons College?s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies in August 2011. She currently works in Access and Reference Services at Harvard Medical School's Countway Library and sits on the board of directors of SLA-Boston as the organization's archivist. She is interested in accessing all of the known information of the world on her smartphone, and reaching out to librar* folks, DJs, pastry chefs and Jedi knights via Twitter (@Wribrarian).
Working as a second-shift reference and access librarian at a major medical research library here in Boston, I am asked all kinds of questions. People want to know about course reserves, they want to know how they can access a certain article, they're looking for specific information on histopathology, or want to be able to find their h-index. And of course, many people still just want to know where the bathroom is. One slow May evening, when these requests had trickled down to an intermittent drip, a regular patron came to the desk with a decidedly unrelated medical reference question. "Who is Oprah Winfrey," she asked in her still-strong accent, "And why is she so famous?" The patron, a researcher from Eastern Europe, kept hearing references to the queen of talk's final show and was quite curious. I answered, but the patron persisted with a line of questioning that took an interesting and unexpected turn. "She is from humble background, yes? How did she get to be so famous and rich and not others?"
It turned out as we waded through this particular reference interview that what she wanted to know was how did a black woman, and this black woman in particular, manage to rise above what she understood to be oppressive American racism to become so wealthy and influential. Each subsequent question took us down more of what I refer to as "reference rabbit holes."
"What kind of last name is Winfrey," she asked. Then I have to give a miniature history lesson about how slaves were generally given their owners' names, and how those last names became the names of many African `Americans in this country. "She is brown like you," the patron says, "and not darker, so she has different blood, yes?" Then I explained that while yes, there is significant dilution among African Americans (and all of us, really, as this book reveals), we come in so many shades that a skin color is not the best indicator of your family bloodline. It became a discussion, about how slavery destroyed the black family structure, rape of slaves by their owners, lynchings, Thomas Jefferson, "The Color Purple" and Stephen Spielburg, along with a brief discussion of the Holocaust, and Jim Crow vs. institutional racism.
Now if you're reading this and you are thinking that my patron is racist or unintelligent, I would beg the contrary. The fact is that it's easy to underestimate what an average person knows about America. Luckily, I work in an information services field. My library has an extremely international patron population; there are people studying and teaching medicine from all over the world. How must Jim Crow look to people from another country?
This is where diversity comes in. I am the only visible black librarian at this library. We have an African-American man who works in the bindery department and another African-American female who works in the publications department, but I am the only one who regularly interacts with patrons, answering questions, taking calls and greeting others from a main location in the library. In the days after that conversation, I wondered how might it have been different if one of my co-workers had been asked those questions. I believe that she waited to ask me and she felt comfortable. Is this a bad thing? No. I think it is a perfect illustration of how we can better serve our patrons by having a diverse staff.
We all bring something different to the job. We comprise a variety of previous experiences, undergraduate degrees (no, not all of us majored in history or English), socioeconomic experiences, living experiences, and learning experiences. But the one glaring area that the field is lacking is in regard to race. According to the 2011 Current Population Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 83.9 percent of current librarians are white. Even though we as people are not just limited to our color, the fact is that color shades our cultural experiences and affects how we move about in the world and receive and share information. Having a diverse staff can help people access resources and receive information in a way that they are comfortable with.
I reflect on this post after having attended ALA 2011 annual conference in New Orleans as a Spectrum Scholar, the program created by the ALA to counteract the underrepresentation of librarians of color in the field. I sat in a room with dozens of library students receiving an intensive series of panels and discussions designed to help us with interviewing, mentoring, brand building and integrating diverse resources into our organizations. It was an incredible experience, and one that hopefully is prepping all of us for leadership roles to make it that much more likely that we could have the hiring power to increase diversity. I believe in the program and am honored by the responsibility. But I also realize that diversity is bigger than the program. It is the interactions I have with my patrons, the suggestions I make to the collections development manager, ideas that I make for outreach and instruction, and my willingness to also take advice and suggestions on those things. I look forward to collaborating with my co-workers, who have shown me that they care just as much about this issue as I do. I can only hope that others see it as a priority, too, and that it can only enhance all of the many things we offer to our patrons.
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When I met with Stephanie Barron, our senior curator of modern art, and her curatorial researcher Dorothea Schoene, to review the scope of photography they were planning to include in Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures, it caused me both delight and some shame because, for first time, I saw the photographs of Maria Sewcz, Helga Paris, and Gundula Schulze Eldowy.
Each of these photographers was based in East Berlin in the 1980s. In different ways, all three took the language of documentary photography and applied it to the harsh realities and marvelous banalities of GDR society. All three women found ways to both speak of and comment upon ways of life that neither visually nor politically fit with the official version of East Germany at the time.
Maria Sewcz's observational photographs are brilliantly strange—every photographic moment is somehow out-of-kilter, full of visual and symbolic contradictions, and communicates a detached and playfully ironic perspective upon the cracks within a highly regimented culture.
Gundula Schulze Eldowy has a unique antenna for casting friends and strangers as her photographic subjects and collectively creates a powerful record of lives that did not fit with the party line. Her subjects are vulnerable, raw, expressive, and resolutely individual.
Helga Paris's plain, naturally lit single portraits cannot be disconnected from the plainest portraits made by the early-twentieth-century German photographer August Sander. (Sander, a commercial portrait photographer, attempted to photograph and categorize social "types" ranging from those that were determined by social class, profession, and political and intellectual affiliations; the range fell foul of the Nazi Ministry of Culture in 1934 and Sander was forced to cease his project.) Paris's portraits carry that magical, Sander-esque mix of frank fragility of the photographic connection between the subject and the photographer, and the self-determination that the subject projects to Paris and her camera.
Thanks to Stephanie's fateful introduction to Sewcz, Paris, and Eldowy, we have since acquired works by each of them for LACMA's photography collection.


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Taste of Travel: Santa Cruz: A paradox of eternal spring and surf
On any given day, the smell of redwood permeates the crisp, cool and foggy morning air. My recollections of past visits to Monterey Bay were in January, when mild temperatures took me out of winter's brisk weather. But on this visit, I left behind summer's smothering humidity and 90-plus degree days; it was a welcome surprise to arrive in the eternal spring of Santa Cruz, Calif., at the end of July, when mornings temperatures hovered around 50 degrees until about noon, at which time the sun warmed to the low-to-mid 70s, and come sunset back again to cool and crisp temperatures.
With these daily fluctuations, it's no surprise that wine grapes grow well here.
From the San Jose airport, it's a one-hour drive to Santa Cruz, located on the north side of Monterey Bay and south of San Francisco. Just outside of downtown Santa Cruz is The Hotel Paradox (www.thehotelparadox.com), sited along a strip of diners and such that doesn't match the hotel's interior design at all. Inside, the entrance boasts ecology: bird's nest light fixtures and transparencies of a redwood forest in life-size images on ceilings and as a wall in the private dining area. I hunker down for the next few days, sleeping on a bed behind a wall of repurposed raw wood, and I conclude that all in Santa Cruz is a paradox; my hotel is aptly named.
Just around the corner from Hotel Paradox, a short walk leads to downtown Santa Cruz, where organic food is sold at kiosks everywhere and the area is peppered with downtown owner-operated artisan stores. There's a nut store (www.nutkreations.com) that offers a wide variety of gluten-free, vegan, paleo, non-GMO, organic and all natural items (120, in fact) for sale, and an olive oil store that offers tastings (www.trueoliveconnection.com). This area is no tourist trap. In fact, if you arrive early enough, you'll view a multitude of homeless people, and at all times you'll witness the hippie culture. Yet, this is an upscale area, keeping in line with the Santa Cruz paradox.
The wines of Santa Cruz are plentiful, courtesy of vineyards that run alongside mountainous terrain. Many of the winemakers I meet here consider the area to be wine country. The proof is in the amount of wineries everywhere, including Loma Prieta, whose name and label on its wines depict the mountain of its origin and the earthquake that once shattered its earth.
As I drive the Sea Wine Trail, I ascend the steep slope that leads to Loma Prieta Winery (www.lomaprietawinery.com), owned by Attorney Paul Kemp, the largest producer of South African pinotage grapes. Kemp is a trial lawyer who took his lofty earnings from a winning case and built a chateau next to his home. Loma Prieta Winery has been open on weekends since last year, and visitors are welcomed on weekends to enjoy a picnic on the premises, if not a game of bocce ball on the newly built court, or to play checkers or chess with life-size figures.
Off-mountain, an industrial area turned wineries and specialty shops boasts everything community; Santa Cruz prides itself in keeping it local.
Surf City Vintners (www.sonescellars.com) opened approximately six years ago and includes a chain of wineries: Sones Cellars, Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard and Silver Mountain Vineyard tasting rooms, to name a few. The latter, a winery in place for 34 years, but since November 2009 with Jerold O'Brien, is where I discover O'Brien's expertise as a well-traveled (Air Force) oenophile who prefers wine education as adventure.
His vocation is confirmed while I taste his 2012 Pinot Rose, a light, refreshing wine that pairs well with the Sones' cousin Ben's artwork that surrounds the perimeter. Award-winning wines include chardonnay, pinot noir and alloy, a rich complex Bordeaux blend from local vineyards. Sones' 2010 Song of the Sea is a mix of dry and sweet, a paradox, as is the essence of Santa Cruz. And their 2008 syrah comes from grapes grown in the Santa Cruz Mountains from vineyards in Zayante. It tastes quite nice with cheddar cheese.
Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard offers an oak-less 2012 Grenache Blanc that is dry, crisp and sweetly aromatic with a mandarin orange flavor. "Oak is a tool," says Jeff Emery, winemaker, "and shouldn't be a sledgehammer." His 2010 pinot noir from Branciforte Creek ($39) has lots of character and is crafted in the most French-style of the pinot noir offerings.
On my last morning in Santa Cruz, breakfast at Solaire is incredibly healthful and delicious. My recommendation would be to order the garden eggs Benedict with local Castroville artichokes, Swiss chard and tomato. Solaire is inside Hotel Paradox, where I'd previously enjoyed dinner that included a tasty artichoke risotto with cheese. Since I could not recreate this complicated recipe, I will not be able to share. You'll just have to go there and taste the freshness firsthand.
A drive on Highway 1 will get your taste buds salivating for the freshest avocados and artichokes you can buy — 10 for a dollar at local farm stands. Or you can stop at the Westside Farmer's Market (www.santacruzfarmersmarket.org), where I was introduced to the sweet and flavorful Jersey Wakefield cabbage, an heirloom cabbage from the mid-1800s. Everything at this farmers market is organic, and the market is open year-round, offering grass-fed beef, artichokes, wines and quality music played by talented musicians. There are tables placed for patrons to enjoy breakfast from one of several booths, one offering coffee with saffron-infused milk, and another serving breakfast tacos extraordinaire. And six times last year, Pop Up breakfasts were held.
If food and wine isn't at the top of your list, family activities in the area include a stop at Mystery Spot, where physics takes a front seat to a mind-boggling experience (wear comfortable shoes and do not enter if you have Vertigo), and a stop at the amusement park on the beach boardwalk, rated the No. 1 amusement park on a beach where the barking of sea lions and spotting of surfers is a continuous sound and sight. With 10 minutes to spare, Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is located just before you enter the boardwalk and offers free admission in its semi-circle of artifacts, photographs and historical documentation — a quick synopsis of how the area became known as the surfing capital of California (www.santacruzsurfingmuseum.org).
For all things sun, surf and healthy living, you'll want to experience spring in Santa Cruz, but if you want summer, it's best to head there in November, when you'd be more likely to enjoy weather in the low 80s.
Charlene Peters is editor of special features at GateHouse Media New England. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The long gap between releases of Apple's most powerful computer—the Mac Pro—is finally about to come to an end. The company today announced that the first major upgrade of the Pro since August 2010 will be released in December.
The entry-level model will cost $2,999 and will come with a 3.7GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processor, 12GB of DRAM, dual AMD FirePro D300 graphics chips with 2GB VRAM each, and 256GB of SSD. The machine is being assembled in the US, Apple said today.
Mac users with heavy processing needs, such as graphics professionals, were disappointed when Apple didn't refresh the stagnating platform last year. CEO Tim Cook promised that great news for Mac Pro users would come sometime in 2013, and Apple delivered on that promise in June when it unveiled a Mac Pro with a smaller design and upgraded internals. At the time, Apple said only that it would be "coming later this year," and the company didn't announce the official launch window until today.
The Mac Pro now has a cylindrical design, looking much like a black trash can. Its shell can be taken off in a "Darth Vader's helmet" sort of way, revealing futuristic looking innards that I like to think resemble a Dalek.
As we noted in previous coverage, fully loaded Pros can feature up to 12 cores-worth of Intel Xeon E5 chips, with up to 30MB L3 cache and 40GBps PCI Express bandwidth. There's a four-channel DDR3 memory controller that runs at 1866MHz, delivering up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth (twice as high as the previous model). Two AMD FirePro GPUs with up to 6GB of dedicated VRAM each help support up to three 4K displays, with GPU performance going from 2.7 to seven teraflops. Apple also promised 528GB/s total bandwidth.
"There's never been a system that can do what the Mac Pro can do with 4K video," Apple Senior VP of Marketing Phil Schiller said today.
The Mac Pro can have up to 1TB of user-accessible flash storage, with 1.2GB/s read speeds and 1GB/s write speed. Wireless connectivity is provided with 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.
With its cover off, ports for Thunderbolt 2, USB 3, Gigabit Ethernet, and HDMI 1.4 are revealed. Thunderbolt in particular is impressive, with six ports, each supporting up to six daisy-chained devices, 36 in total. Thunderbolt will provide 20Gbps throughput, Apple said today.
The new Mac Pro design also helps with power and cooling. Instead of multiple heat sinks and fans, heat is conducted away from the CPUs and GPUs and distributed across a "unified thermal core." That means "if one processor isn't working as hard as the others, the extra thermal capacity can be shared efficiently among them," Apple has said.
The Mac Pro is environmentally friendly, with Energy Star 6 and EPEAT Gold certifications, Apple said. In an idle state, it consumes 43 watts and will be about as loud as a Mac mini.
Although the specs and re-design are impressive, the small package isn't completely beneficial to potential users. Dave Girard noted in his "Critical look at the new Mac Pro" that the machine has "a truly epic lack of expandability." Apple called it "the most expandable Mac ever built" because of its Thunderbolt ports, but Girard noted that it has no extra internal drive bays, only four USB 3.0 ports, and no optical drive. There's also no Nvidia option for the GPU.
The Mac Pro may not have everything users want, and it likely won't be the best-selling Mac computer. But with the three-year gap in major updates making Windows-based workstations look attractive even to Mac devotees, the Pro's release is important for Apple to hold on to users with the most intensive computing needs.
Apple's event is currently in progress, and we will update this article as more details become available. Ars is there in person, so for up-to-the-minute information you can follow our liveblog.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase faced tough questions from U.S. senators last Friday about why the bank played down risks and hid losses from regulators when it was losing billions of dollars.
The hearing was held a day after the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a scathing report that ascribed widespread blame for $6.2 billion in trading losses to key executives at the nation's biggest bank.
The losses came less than four years after the 2008 financial crisis and hurt the reputation of a bank that had come through the crisis known for taking fewer risks than its competitors. Three employees in the London office were fired — two senior managers and a trader. It also led to the resignation of Ina Drew, the former chief investment officer overseeing trading strategy.
Douglas Braunstein, the former chief financial officer, and Drew were pressed to explain why bank executives gave federal examiners in April information that significantly understated losses for the first quarter of 2012.
"The number I reported (to the regulators) was the number that was given to me," said Drew, who resigned last spring after the losses became public.
Drew blamed the losses on executives under her watch who failed to control risks out of the London office. She said that undermined her oversight and kept her from preventing the losses.
The report also suggested that CEO Jamie Dimon was aware of the losses in April, even while he played them down publicly. And Sen. Carl Levin, the chairman of the panel, implied that Dimon set a precedent at the bank for withholding information.
Dimon acknowledged in May 2012 that the firm had lost $2 billion on risky trades out of its London office. The losses have since been revised to more than $6 billion.
After reading the report and hearing executives testify that they didn't know who was responsible for informing regulators, members of the panel questioned whether the nation's biggest bank had become too large to manage.
The "trading culture at JPMorgan ... piled on risk, hid losses, disregarded risk limits, manipulated risk models, dodged oversight and misinformed the public," Levin said last Friday at the hearing.
New York-based JPMorgan acknowledges that it made mistakes but rejects any assertions that it concealed losses or risks.
The bank said in a statement last Friday, "We have made regrettable errors and overhauled our risk policies to correct these mistakes, but senior executives always provided information to regulators and the public that they believed to be accurate."
Dimon was not a witness at last Friday's hearing.
In April, news reports said a trader in JPMorgan's London office known as "the whale" had taken huge risks that were roiling the markets. Dimon immediately dismissed the reports as a "tempest in a teapot" during a conference call with analysts.
But Dimon acknowledged the losses a month later. And he told a separate Senate committee in June that the bank showed "bad judgment," was "stupid" and "took far too much risk." He also had his compensation last year reduced by 50 percent, as did Braunstein.
After the trading loss came to light, Drew resigned after 30 years with the firm and voluntarily paid back two years of salary.
Drew said last Friday that while she doesn't believe she bore personal responsibility for the losses, she decided to step down to make it easier for JPMorgan "to move beyond these issues." Her comments were her first public remarks since leaving the firm.
Braunstein acknowledged that risk models for the trading operation were changed in a way that was improper early last year. The changes made the bank's trading losses appear smaller than they were.
The subcommittee report was also critical of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, JPMorgan's primary regulator. It said the Treasury agency failed to investigate the trading even when the London operation repeatedly blew through pre-set risk limits and it failed to notice when the unit didn't submit required reports for several months.
The agency acknowledged that there were shortcomings in its oversight of JPMorgan.
"There were red flags that we failed to notice and act upon," Comptroller Thomas Curry testified at last Friday's hearing.


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Today in the news: Prince Charles makes statement on future grandchild
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"It's a very nice thought to become a grandfather in my old age, if I can say so. I'm very glad my daughter-in-law is getting better. Thank goodness!" Prince Charles commenting on the pregnancy of the duchess of Cambridge. Catherine left the hospital today after being admitted earlier this week due to severe morning sickness.
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Hunters in Iowa have found two bodies believed to belong to cousins Lyric Cook, age 10, and Elizabeth Collins, age 8. The girls have been missing since July 13 and are believed to be the victims of abduction. The remains were sent to the state medical examiner's office in Ankeny, Iowa, for complete identification.
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Numbers show how bad Illinois is for business
SPRINGFIELD - Starting a small business is tough; starting one in Illinois is even more difficult.
Over the years, Illinois lawmakers have created a system that could make even the most intrepid entrepreneur shudder.
The Land of Lincoln is a tough place to do business to be sure.
For example, Office Depot has been capturing plenty of headlines. The company recently merged with OfficeMax, and its executives were pondering whether to use OfficeMax's Naperville headquarters or Office Depot's Boca Raton, Fla., site.
The Sunshine State won out. It's not hard to figure out why.
Just consider:
- Illinois has a corporate tax rate of 9.5 percent (7 percent income, 2.5 percent personal property replacement tax) while Florida has a 5.5 percent corporate tax rate.
- Illinois has a personal tax rate of 5 percent while Florida has none.
- For every $100 worth of payroll, Illinois employers pay an average of $2.81 for workers' compensation insurance, compared to $1.84 in Florida.
- Illinois' minimum wage is $8.25 per hour, compared to $7.79 in Florida.
But a company as big as Office Depot has the political clout to go to the Illinois General Assembly and push for special tax breaks. In fact, the Senate endorsed such a proposal, though it never came up for a vote in the House.
For a small entrepreneur, the story is quite different.
They lack clout to cut sweetheart deals with politicians. And yet they have to compete against large corporations that do get such deals. More significantly, Illinois small businesses are saddled with the state's burdensome taxes and regulations.
You see, it's not just Florida that Illinois has trouble competing against. It's just about every state that has a leg up on the Land of Lincoln.
Just consider:
- A study conducted by the state of Oregon found that Illinois has the fourth-highest workers' compensation rates in the nation.
- Illinois also has the fourth-highest minimum wage in the nation.
- Illinois' corporate tax rates rank, you guessed it, the fourth-highest in the nation.
- Given these numbers, it's little wonder that Illinois has the 11th-lowest rate of entrepreneurship in the U.S., according to the Kauffman Entrepreneurial Index.
And small businesses are the major job generators in the economy.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small firms employ just more than half of the private sector workforce and created nearly two-thirds of nation's net new jobs over the past 15 years. Please keep in mind, every big company started out small.
Not all that long ago, Apple was an idea of Steve Jobs, who was running the business out of his home's garage. The same could be said of Amazon, which not that long ago was just a fledgling startup in Seattle.
Small firms are the ones most hurt by the Prairie State's backward approach to taxes and regulation. There seems to be a mindset among Illinois lawmakers that business is a bottomless pit from which they can continue to extract money.
According to a 2013 Bradley University/University of Tennessee study, 25 percent of small businesses fail in their first year, and 73 percent go under within a decade. Those are pretty daunting odds.
Not surprisingly, entrepreneurs look for places to start a business where they are most likely to succeed. And increasingly they are concluding Illinois is not one of those places.
But the secret to turning things around is pretty straightforward: lower taxes and fewer regulations for all businesses and individuals - not just the politically favored.
With that, more people will be willing to take a chance on Illinois.
Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at email@example.com. Readers can subscribe to his free political newsletter by going to ilnews.org or follow his work on Twitter @scottreeder


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Since the early 1990s, NATO has developed a network of Contact Point Embassies (CPE) to support the Alliance's partnership and public diplomacy activities in countries participating in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), Partnership for Peace (PfP), Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). Following the review of NATO's partnerships policy in April 2011, the network of CPEs has also been extended to other partners across the globe.
CPEs are a valuable tool which contribute to NATO's outreach efforts. In every partner country an embassy of one of the NATO member states serves as a contact point and operates as a channel for disseminating information about the role and policies of the Alliance. In addition to this public diplomacy role, the CPEs mandate has been extended to also include support – as required – for the implementation of other agreed activities with partners.
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CPEs are not NATO's diplomatic mission in the host country; however, they play an important role in disseminating information about the Alliance. CPEs identify key decision makers, opinion formers and public diplomacy opportunities within the country and coordinate with the Public Diplomacy Division on events. CPEs also inform individuals within the host country on how to apply for NATO fellowships and participate in scientific programmes.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Tuscan Squash Pie
In making this pie, I went rogue with a few of the details. Obviously, I made a substitution for the main ingredient. I also added some red bell pepper because I had some that needed to be used, and I thought it would look as nice as it would taste. And, even though the ingredients were supposed to have been split between two eight-inch pans, I piled them all into one 12-inch tart pan. A custard was made from eggs, flour, milk, and water. To that, minced garlic, sliced scallions, salt, pepper, and nutmeg were added. In the introduction to the recipe, there's a suggestion about adding some grated parmigiano reggiano if you'd like. Of course, I'd like, so I most certainly added the cheese. The sliced squash and bell pepper were arranged in the tart pan in two layers, and the custard was poured over top. I reserved a little grated parmigiano to sprinkle on top, and then drizzled on olive oil before baking.
To serve, a second drizzle of olive oil was suggested for each piece, but I used leftover basil oil instead. Although this is a custard pie, it's not heavy at all and the vegetables are the main attraction here. The custard served to just barely bind the sliced squash into a cohesive whole. The scallions and garlic added great flavor, and in my opinion, the parmigiano should have been included in the recipe rather than mentioned as an option. This was a nice dinner with salad and garlic toast on the side, but it would work well for brunch too. The amount of custard could be easily scaled up, and several other vegetable combinations come to mind that might be used here. It's essentially a crust-less quiche, but with these particular vegetables, and just a few tablespoons of grated cheese, it was a perfectly light, summery meal.
Posted by lisa is cooking at Thursday, June 25, 2009
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I love that book too!!! It's got so many ideas!!!ReplyDelete
This pi looks amazing, so healthy too! Yummy!
Going rogue, eh? Looks very much like a success! Such vibrant, beautiful ingredients -- your food is always so photogenic. : ) I'm not familiar with the book, and as a vegetarian/pescentarian, clearly I should get familiar.ReplyDelete
Wow, that's one weird looking squash! I've never seen that before! Not a big fan of veg pie but it looks so pretty =)ReplyDelete
You might not believe me, but I have never seen a squash that shape! The squash pie looks beautiful!ReplyDelete
p.s. Sorry that I didn't visit last few days. My new templates(oh, yes, I am still trying some gadgets) somehow screwed up my blog link lists, many of links were just gone........to play it safe, I added you to the follower list.
Sounds like your substitutions are what made this dish. Again.ReplyDelete
Nice looking squash, never seen it. The pie looks so tasty with all the ingredients in it. Nice pictures!ReplyDelete
You've been so creative, especially lately Lisa. I am so happy to see this dish. It's kind of summery, happy and fun, and delicious too. I think I've seen this squash before. Not sure why didn't feel tempted to take it. Now I am ....ReplyDelete
This dish is very colorful and light..So perfect for summer...I love squash and we don't cook squash this way..ReplyDelete
Wow...Give me a huge slice of that pie right now! mmmm...ReplyDelete
this is so awesome! I love the sexy appealing looks of the squash! just amazingly beautiful!ReplyDelete
That's one beautiful pie. I'll bet it was delicious :)ReplyDelete
What a great recipe. Love the pictures.ReplyDelete
What an excellent recipe, Lisa!ReplyDelete
Great for picnics!
Lisa, your CSA veggies look amazing! It looks like I will be getting my first infusion of summer squash in tomorrow's pickup, so you might just be my inspiration!ReplyDelete
i will happily devour any squash in any preparation, but it's always nice when said squash is beautifully displayed. this is an elegant and classy and undoubtedly delicious dish that i wish was sitting in front of me right now.ReplyDelete
Oh man, that first picture is food porn at its best - total yum!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous dish!!!ReplyDelete
My mom used to pickle pattysquash when we lived in Russia.
- AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 11:39 AM
That is one neat-looking squash! The pie sounds super delicious!ReplyDelete
Your squash pie looks so pretty, I bet it tastes heavenly. Funny enough I am leaving for Tuscany tomorrow : )ReplyDelete
this looks delightful. i definitely heart squash. i will be making it just as soon as it stops being 105 degrees outside!ReplyDelete
The pie looks totally fabulous..!!so flavorful lisa..:)..n thanks for the visit n comment.:)ReplyDelete
oh wow, I'm admiring all your dishes. Perfect execution every single time and this Tuscan squash pie is no exception! I really enjoy reading your blogReplyDelete
woah... that looks sooo good, and its full of veggies (i'm trying to eat healthy these days). I think this is something my girl would like too! thanx! :)ReplyDelete
This looks so yummy Lisa. I love cooking with squash all year long. I'm bookmarking this recipe! :)ReplyDelete
now this is my kind of dinner. i made something similar a few weeks ago with eggplant in it, too. i love savory pies.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 10:17 PM
WOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!! My eyes are literally POPPING out of my head like the Mask. It looks SO good!ReplyDelete
That looks so delicious and healthy! To pie-ify vegetables immediately upps their appeal to even the vegetable fearing :)ReplyDelete
This pie looks like a great way to enjoy the summer squash!ReplyDelete
Oh! I just love that last picture. & what a cute looking squash:-)ReplyDelete
that looks fantastic! i'll have to try something like this.ReplyDelete
Wow! What an absolutely gorgeous dinner! Chock full of vegetables and vitamins! This is a great dish for summer!ReplyDelete
Hi! Just ran across your sight from Tastespotting- this looks delicious! Mind if I ask what CSA you use? I just learned about these a few weeks ago, apparently too late to get in on it for this year. :(ReplyDelete
Hi Carey, thanks for visiting! I have a share with Hands of the Earth Farm. They're sold out for this season, but they should be signing up for the next season soon.ReplyDelete
Thanks! :) I looked into that one but waited too long... I'll definitely get in on it next season!ReplyDelete
This looks great! I just got a bunch of summer squash from my CSA so this is perfect!ReplyDelete
Lisa, this is just beautiful! It screams summer and its almost too pretty to slice up.ReplyDelete


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text: Back All About Age-Related Macular Degeneration Age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD) is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in people older than 60. What it is Macular degeneration is a chronic, progressive and painless condition that causes the death of cells in the macula, the small central part of the retina that allows you to see fine detail. It blurs the sharp, central vision needed for activities that require straight-ahead vision, such as reading, sewing, and driving. There are two types of AMD: wet and dry. Both destroy central vision. Color vision and distance vision also are affected. Dry AMD, which accounts for the majority of cases of AMD, occurs when cells in the macula begin dying for no apparent reason. The damage causes gradual blurring of the central vision in the affected eye. Often, only one eye is initially affected; later, the second eye may become involved. 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See your doctor if you notice any of these symptoms: A sudden or gradual loss of ability to see clearly, such as difficulty reading fine print or needing more light for reading or doing close work A decrease in ability to identify colors Distorted vision, such as wavy lines that should be straight A dark or empty spot appearing in or near the center of vision Blurry or fuzzy vision Difficulty seeing at a distance Causes and prevention AMD is most common among people older than 50, but the American Academy of Ophthalmology says it can appear as early as age 40. These factors increase the risk for AMD: Advancing age — Individuals over age 75 have a 30 percent chance of developing AMD. Smoking Obesity — Research suggests a link between obesity and the progression of early and intermediate stage AMD to advanced AMD. Race — Whites are much more likely to lose vision from AMD than are African Americans. Family history — People with a family history of AMD are at higher risk for developing the disease. In some people, AMD may be associated with an immune system response caused by an inherited gene. Genes have been located that are thought to account for about 25 percent of the cases of AMD. Gender — Women appear to be at greater risk than men for AMD. High cholesterol High blood pressure and other forms of cardiovascular disease AMD may be brought on or worsened by dietary deficiencies, high blood pressure, smoking, and exposure to high levels of ultraviolet (UV) light and blue light. These steps may help delay the onset of AMD or slow its progression: Eat five to nine servings a day of fruits and vegetables, especially those rich in vitamins A, C, and E. Take an vitamin supplement containing antioxidants, zinc, copper and lutein. Ask your eye care professional which supplement you should take. If you smoke, quit. Multiple studies have linked smoking to AMD. Eat a low-fat diet. 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The supplement combination tested was a daily dose of 500 mg of vitamin C, 400 IU of vitamin E, 15 mg of beta carotene (often as vitamin A; up to 25,000 IU), 80 mg of zinc (as zinc oxide), and 2 mg of copper (as cupric oxide). Talk to your health care provider before taking these supplements, because there may be health risks. If you are a smoker or a former smoker, high doses of beta carotene (vitamin A) may increase your risk for lung cancer. Doses of vitamin E higher than 400 IU have been associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular death. Lutein has been shown to slow down the progression of AMD and while the daily amount is still under investigation, most eye doctors advise taking 10-20 mg per day. Dry AMD No treatment is currently available to reverse the process of dry AMD. Researchers are looking at photocoagulation as a possible way to delay vision loss. 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Another drug, bevacizumab, originally approved to treat colorectal cancer, has shown in a preliminary study to reduce leakage from abnormal blood vessels in the retina. Many other drugs are being studied. Living with AMD People whose vision has been damaged by AMD can be helped by low vision specialists with the use of magnifiers and non-optical aids such as large print books. Ask your eye doctor about these options and the availability of low vision clinics in your area. Most people can be helped to lead a comfortable lifestyle. Dry AMD If you have dry AMD, the National Eye Institute (NEI) recommends that you have a comprehensive eye exam at least once a year and ask your eye care provider if high dose supplements would help delay the advancement of the condition. Because dry AMD can turn into wet AMD at any time, the NEI recommends you get an Amsler grid from your eye care professional and use it every day to test your vision for signs of wet AMD. 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System Size
Here are some links to information and projects related to Linux system size.
- 1 Technologies for decreasing system size
- 1.1 Kernel size reduction
- 1.2 File system compression
- 1.3 Shrinking your application
- 1.4 Library savings
- 1.5 Execute-in-place
- 2 Size measurement tools and techniques
- 3 Case Studies
- 4 Other Tidbits on System Size
Technologies for decreasing system size
Kernel size reduction
Configuration Options
- Kernel Size Tuning Guide - document about measuring kernel size and configuring the kernel for smallest size
The Linux-tiny patchset
- The Linux Tiny patch set is a collection of patches which can be used to make the Linux kernel consume less space. The long-term goal of the Linux-tiny project is to mainline these patches. Several patches have been mainlined over the last few years, and work continues in this area.
Compiler options for reducing kernel size
An LWN article talks about three gcc options to shrink the kernel.
The first option is -Os which is already in the tiny kernel patch.
The second option is new in gcc 3.4, -funit-at-a-time. This apparently makes gcc do a much better job of inlining and dead code removal. It reduces the size of both text and data. It depends on another inlining patch that I think is in the tiny kernel patch (maybe same idea but different details).
The third option, -mregparm=3, seems to be x86 specific, it instructs the compiler to use registers for the first three function arguments. by John Rigby
Runtime size of kernel
Often, the focus of memory size reduction for the kernel is on the size of the statically compiled image for the kernel. However, the kernel also allocates memory dynamically when it runs. On loading, the kernel creates several tables for things like network and file system structures.
Here is a table showing different kernel hash tables, and their approximate size for a 2.6 kernel. (Table taken from page 25 of http://logfs.org/~joern/data_structures.pdf )
|Hash Table
|memory < 512MiB RAM
|memory >=512MiB RAM
|TCP established
|TCP bind
|IP route cache
|Dentry cache
File system compression
For read-only data, it is useful to utilize a compressed file system. The following are used heavily in embedded systems:
- Cramfs
- SquashFS
See the File Systems page for more information.
Shrinking your application
You can use the 'strip' command to eliminate unneeded symbols from your application. The 'strip' command should be included with your toolchain, and may be architecture-specific. (I.e. you may need to run arm-linux-strip
There is a "super-strip" utility, which removes additional material from an ELF executable program (which 'strip' usually misses) is available at: [1]
Hand-optimizing programs, for size
If you are very intent on creating small binaries, you can use some techniques to manually create the smallest Linux executables possible.
See A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux
Library savings
Use of a smaller libc
Glibc is the default C library used for Linux systems. Glibc is about 2 meg. in size. Other C libraries are also available for Linux, and they offer varying degrees of compatibility and size savings. In general, uClibc is considered a very good alternative to glibc, for systems where size is an issue.
- uClibc - small footprint but complete C library
- dietlibc - another library to produce very small statically compiled executables.
- klibc - very small library for use in init ram filesystems
- eglibc - a version of glibc designed for embedded systems. Reduced footprint is one of the design goals.
- Subset Libc Specification - CELF once considered the possibility of creating a subset libc specification. Some companies have also examined the possibility of modularizing glibc, so that parts of it can be made configurable. Preliminary research indicates that this could be a very difficult thing, since glibc has very messy function interdependencies.
Static Linking
If your set of applications is small, sometimes it makes more sense to statically link your applications than to use shared libraries. Shared libraries by default include all symbols (functions and data structures) for the features a library provides. However, when you static link a program to a library, only the symbols that are actually referenced are linked in and included in the program.
Library reduction
It is possible to reduce the size of shared libraries, by eliminating unused symbols.
MontaVista released a tool for library optimization. This tool scans the entire file system, and can rebuild the shared libraries for the system, including only the symbols needed for the set of applications in the indicated file system.
Care needs to be taken with this approach, since it may make it difficult to use add-on programs or or do in-field upgrades (since symbols required by the new software may not be present in the optimized libraries). But for some fixed-function devices, this can reduce your library footprint dramatically.
See http://libraryopt.sourceforge.net/
Deferred Library Loading
It is possible to reduce the RAM runtime footprint for a product, by lazily loading shared libraries, and by breaking up library dependencies. Panasonic did some research into a process called Deferred Library Loading, which they presented at ELC 2007.
See the Deferred Dynamic Loading presentation.
You can save RAM memory by using some text or data directly from flash.
Kernel XIP
By executing the kernel in-place from flash, it is possible to save RAM space.
- see Kernel XIP
Application XIP
By executing applications in-place from flash, it is possible to save RAM space.
- see Application XIP
Data Read In Place (DRIP)
This is a technique for keeping data in flash, until it is written to, and then making a RAM page for it.
Size measurement tools and techniques
Kernel size measurement data
- Bloatwatch - a kernel size regression analysis tool.
- Bloatwatch provides a great amount of detail, and the ability to compare the size of kernel versions over time.
How to measure the kernel image size
- to see the size of the major kernel sections (code and data):
size vmlinux */built-in.o
[tbird@crest ebony]$ size vmlinux */built-in.o text data bss dec hex filename 2921377 369712 132996 3424085 343f55 vmlinux 764472 35692 22768 822932 c8e94 drivers/built-in.o 918344 22364 36824 977532 eea7c fs/built-in.o 18260 1868 1604 21732 54e4 init/built-in.o 39960 864 224 41048 a058 ipc/built-in.o 257292 14656 34516 306464 4ad20 kernel/built-in.o 34728 156 2280 37164 912c lib/built-in.o 182312 2704 736 185752 2d598 mm/built-in.o 620864 20820 26676 668360 a32c8 net/built-in.o 1912 0 0 1912 778 security/built-in.o 133 0 0 133 85 usr/built-in.o
- to see the size of the largest kernel symbols:
nm --size -r vmlinux
[tbird@crest ebony]$ nm --size -r vmlinux | head -10 00008000 b read_buffers 00004000 b __log_buf 00003100 B ide_hwifs 000024f8 T jffs2_garbage_collect_pass 00002418 T journal_commit_transaction 00002400 b futex_queues 000021a8 t jedec_probe_chip 00002000 b write_buf 00002000 D init_thread_union 00001e6c t tcp_ack
How to measure the memory usage at runtime
See Runtime Memory Measurement for a description of ways to measure runtime memory usage in Linux.
Also, see Accurate Memory Measurement for a description of techniques (and patches) which can be used to measure the runtime memory more accurately.
Linux size increase from 2.4 to 2.6
Linux increased in size by between 10% and 30% from version 2.4 to 2.6. This incremental growth in kernel size has been a big concern by forum members.
Please see the Szwg Linux 26Data page for supporting data.
GCC Code-Size Benchmarking
CSiBE is a code size benchmark for the GCC compiler. The primary purpose of CSiBE is to monitor the size of the code generated by GCC. In addition, compilation time and code performance measurements are also provided.
Case Studies
- Motorola reduction of system size (presumably for cell phones) using 2.4 Linux: MotSizeReduction.ppt - this is a placeholder for this Powerpoint as it was too big to upload to the wiki. Email btraynor at gmail.com if you need it immediately.
Other Tidbits on System Size
Memory leak detection for the kernel
Catalin Marinas of ARM has been recently (as of 2.6.17?) been posting a memory leak detector for the Linux kernel. It may get mainlined in the future. Here's a link to the LKML discussions around it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/11/39
How System Size may affect performance
It has long been theorized that reducing system size could provide a performance benefit because it could reduce cache misses. There does not appear to be hard data to support this theory on Linux, but this has been discussed on the kernel mailing list.
See this post by Linus Torvalds
Stripping down the filesystem of a desktop distribution
Here is a good document with tips on how to strip out unneeded files from a desktop distribution. The example distribution used here is Linux From Scratch, but the tips should work with many distributions.


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August 18th, 2010
What's the probability of HIV transmission?
An HIV-positive German pop star stands accused of having unprotected sex without informing her partners about her status. She is charged with grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm.
The case against Nadja Benaissa, 28, former singer in the girl band No Angels, has generated much ethical and legal controversy. There are also some scientific questions.
What's the probability of a female with HIV transmitting the virus to her male partners through unprotected sex? Is there a difference between female-to-male versus male-to-female transmission?
Girl band singer accused of infecting partner with HIV
"As with many things in clinical science, there is no black and white," said Dr. Charles Hicks, professor of medicine at the Duke University Medical Center.
The scientific literature provides conflicting findings. Some studies report that there are big differences in virus transmission rates between females-to-males versus males-to-females. Others show that they are about equal.
Despite different findings, Hicks said, "My opinion is that it's not enormously different—the idea that men very rarely get infected is a dangerous myth."
"It used to be thought that it was unidirectional with very little female-to-male transmission," said Dr. John Bartlett, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "There is a large Uganda study that showed it was much more equal. The number that is quoted is 2-to-1; in other words, male to female is twice as efficient or more likely to transmit HIV, as female to male."
It also depends on viral load (the amount of HIV measured in his blood), which can be suppressed by taking medication and condom use.
It's a topic that doctors aren't eagerly discussing, but the rate of transmitting HIV is low during heterosexual intercourse- estimates are from about 1 in 1,000 to as low as 1 in 10,000. Anal intercourse is believed to be more efficient in transmission.
Determining such probability is an inexact science. Safe sex is heavily stressed, because, Bartlett said, not doing so is "Russian roulette."
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Rock-steady sport: Wakefield resident introduces PreHistoric Paddle
Steven Creelman may very well be New England's first bona fide rock jock.
With a couple of slabs of granite in each hand, the Wakefield resident has proven to be an unbeatable all-star in a league all his own.
Welcome to the world of PreHistoric Paddle, a relatively new and innovative sport that Creelman helped create over a decade ago. The sport is currently gathering a cult-like following in and around the Greater Boston area with more people trying their hand at stoning the opposition.
The brainchild of Creelman and two of his friends, PreHistoric Paddle has seen an increase in its participants in recent years with as many as 18 athletes turning out for the annual Wakefield PHP Invitational Tournament, which took place June 9.
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"The reactions we've been getting from people while we play has been just unbelievable," said Creelman, who first developed the sport in the early '90s. "It made me think, I have to really revive this."
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The origins of PreHistoric Paddle can be traced back over 15 years ago, while Creelman, then a student at UMass-Amherst, was visiting his college roommate and game co-creator Eric Ehnstrom on Cape Cod.
While relaxing out on the beach, the pair decided to play a round of Kadima (a common paddle and ball game) but ran into a small problem.
"We forgot the paddles," said Creelman, a Longmeadow native, who moved to Avon Street in Wakefield two and a half years ago. "And I just can't sit at the beach for eight hours and do nothing."
Looking for an entertaining alternative, Creelman quickly turned his attention to the shoreline. Spotting a couple of big flat rocks along the beach and a tennis ball that washed up along the shore, Creelman was hit with an Abner Doubleday-like idea.
"I just said, 'Let's use these rocks as paddles and just try to keep the ball alive,'" Creelman recalled saying. "Sure enough, we were getting really good at it. By the end of the day, I brought 15 huge rocks home with me."
Since then, Creelman and his friends have led an athletic revolution of sorts, putting a new spin on the term "rock star."
"I've just been playing it through the years," said Creelman, an account manager for Grainger in Woburn. "It's kind of like Hacky Sack, keeping (the ball) alive. Next thing you know, we were smashing it, making these crazy saves, and we got good at it."
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Creelman and Ehnstrom shared the excitement of being on the cusp of discovering something special, so they carried their newfound sports concept to friend Stephen Crichton. Together the trio hatched the general rules of the game in Crichton's Longmeadow backyard.
Two courts were created, spread 20 feet apart, using household items that included a garden hose and an orange extension cord as boundary lines. A team consisting of two-players was to occupy each court, using rocks as paddles in each hand. Unlike most sports, the teams playing PreHistoric Paddle aim to keep their score at zero.
The object of the game is simple: don't let the ball land in your court. When it does, the offending team is assessed 2 points, which is added to its score. A miss hit adds 1 point to a team's score. The first team to amass 15 points loses.
Each player can also hit the ball two times on a possession, allowing teammates to pass the ball to each other, much like volleyball's familiar bump, set, spike strategy.
With the ground rules in place, Creelman and company were anxious to get others involved.
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An enterprising inventor, Creelman introduced his sport to UMass/Amherst administrators, and he persuaded the director of physical education to add PreHistoric Paddle to the gym curriculum. For two years, Creelman and instructor Jon Courtney held court, teaching the sport to a new wave of athletes.
Fresh off another successful tournament run in 2007, Creelman is eager to convince the next generation of paddlers to join in on the craze.
According to Creelman, all you need to be successful in this sport is a little hand-eye coordination.
"I've got to get it more into the mainstream," Creelman said. "I'm working on getting some leagues together."
He's already launched the league's very own Web site - www.prehistoricpaddle.com - and continues to draw crowds with each and every exhibition.
"The coolest thing by far is playing down at the Boston Common," said Creelman. "I have played a hundred sports before - volleyball, softball - and people never stop and watch, but people stop, sit down and spend time watching this."
And with more tournaments planned in the near future, PreHistoric Paddle is showing no signs of gathering moss any time soon.
Wakefield Observer sports editor Christopher Hurley can be reached at email@example.com.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Evan Longoria wants to be with the Tampa Bay Rays for his entire big league career.
The slugging third baseman agreed Monday to a 10-year contract that adds six guaranteed seasons and $100 million.
"I always wanted to be kind of a benchmark player ... the guy that you could think about or associate with the organization," Longoria said. "My goal from Day 1 was to be the first player that played their whole career here, to be the first guy that came into the organization and went out in the organization, and played all the years in between. There's no better place for me."
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Tampa Bay holds a $13 million option for 2023 with a $5 million buyout, and escalators could raise the option price to $18 million.
Longoria became just the seventh player with a contract guaranteed through 2020. Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun, Detroit first baseman Prince Fielder, Chicago Cubs outfielder Jorge Soler and Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki have deals covering the next eight years, with Los Angeles Angels first baseman Albert Pujols' contract running through 2021 and Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto's through 2023.
Tampa Bay selected Longoria as the third overall pick in the 2006 amateur draft, making him the first player drafted under Sternberg and Friedman.
Longoria played in just 74 games in 2012 because of a partially torn left hamstring. He underwent a minor surgical cleanup procedure on the hamstring Nov. 20 and is expected to be ready for spring training.
"With the time that we had now, there's no doubt that I'd be able to recover and be at 100 percent or close to it by (the start of) spring training," Longoria said.
Longoria will rehab the leg during the winter and will not participate in next year's World Baseball Classic.
Tampa Bay was 41-44 during Longoria's absence, and 47-27 with him in the starting lineup.
The two-time AL Gold Glove winner and 2008 AL Rookie of the Year ranks second on the Rays career list with 130 home runs, third with 456 RBIs and fourth with 161 doubles. Longoria is one of 11 active players to average at least 25 homers and 90 RBIs during his first five seasons.
Longoria will donate more than $1 million during the contract to the Rays Baseball Foundation, the team's charitable foundation.
Sternberg said this deal does not rule out the possibility of signing other Tampa Bay players to mulityear contracts, such as AL Cy Young Award winner David Price. The Rays were at the bottom of the big leagues in home attendance this year.
"One of the challenges we'll have is figuring out how to take the next step for our organization," Sternberg said.
Tampa Bay and Longoria had brief, preliminary contract talks before the season began and resumed discussions after the season ended.
"We kind of tried to find a middle ground to where we would able to do some things to be able to afford some players to put ourselves in a position to win every year," Longoria said. "And I told them from the beginning that I didn't want to be the one sucking up all the payroll so we can't afford anybody else."


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Taking advantage of pitching that they loaned to Team USA, the Rockies knocked seven straight ninth-inning singles to win a World Baseball Classic exhibition game, 8-7, on Wednesday night at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.
Rockies Minor League catcher Lars Davis, a Canadian, singled off Logan Kensing to drive in the winning run.
"That was the first time I've ever pulled for a pitcher and a hitter at the same time," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
The Rockies struggled in the early innings, managing just one hit off Team USA pitching and trailing 5-0 before loaner players began appearing in Team USA uniforms. The big ninth occurred against Minor League pitchers Nick Schmidt and Kensing.
Before the late Rockies rally, Team USA's Brandon Phillips went 4-for-4. It was the second of two exhibitions for Team USA, which plays Mexico in the Classic '13 opener on Friday night at Chase Field.
"It was a nice diversion from a typical Spring Training game," Weiss said. "It was a night game -- playing against Team USA. There was a little different feel to the start of that game."
Rockies left-hander Drew Pomeranz, who had not appeared in six days because he needed time to work on his mechanics and was ill, labored for 2 2/3 innings against a loaded lineup and came out of it with just one run charged to him, on three hits and two walks. Pomeranz struck out one.
Phillips doubled off Pomeranz to open the third. Pomeranz left with two out, and David Wright singled off reliever Edgmer Escalona to drive in the game's first run.
"I feel bad showering and leaving after three innings," Pomeranz said. "It feels like a real game, kind of. I threw some good pitches and they were fouling them off. They were tough. Of course, they're going to be tough."
Team USA would score four times and knock eight hits in three innings against Chris Volstad, a non-roster candidate for the Rockies' rotation. Phillips had an RBI single in the fourth, and Adam Jones added an RBI single and Jonathan Lucroy doubled in two runs in the fifth. Just one of the runs off Volstad was earned because of a fifth-inning throwing error by first baseman Tyler Colvin.
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AS Path Dispersion (by AS Hop)
701 UUNET - 1299 TELIANET - 174 COGENT-174 - 2914 NTT-COMMUNICATIONS-2914 - 7018 ATT-INTERNET4 - 3356 LEVEL3 - 209 CENTURYLINK-US-LEGACY-QWEST - 4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE - 6939 HURRICANE - 1273 CW - 7922 COMCAST-7922 - 4837 CHINA169-Backbone - 3320 DTAG - 6762 SEABONE-NET - 12956 Telefonica - 58453 CMI-INT-HK - 6453 AS6453 - 1239 SPRINTLINK -
UsesThis graph will give you an immediate view of the AS peering relationships near the monitor. It is primarily useful to compare with the hosting organization's own information about what ASes are providing transit for your data, to see whether it matches what the Ark probes have discovered. For example, one could see whether probes are travelling over academic or commercial networks, and where those connect with each other. It also gives the best sense of the monitor's relationship to the rest of the Internet, by seeing how close it is to a Tier 1 or Tier 2 network.
CaveatsIt is important to recognize that these graphs are meant to illuminate the routing from a monitor, and not to show the volume of traffic normally flowing on the links or their bandwidth. Because of this, an AS/IP that might only be used for a small amount of actual traffic (but routes to a large section of the address space) can seem disproportionately large on the graph.
Characteristics of this graphIn this graph, we show the AS-level path dispersion, where all adjacent hops within the same AS are collapsed into a single hop. Typically, the first hop will be all one AS (ie, the local network that the monitor is in), with the second or third hop starting to split into different ASes as probes go to their destinations. This is seen as one solid contiguous column with several smaller column segments to its right.
Background(See the Routed /24 Topology Dataset for more information. This applies to all the dispersion graphs.)
Ark monitors collect data by sending scamper probes continuously to destination IP addresses. Destinations are selected randomly from each routed IPv4 /24 prefix on the Internet such that a random address in each prefix is probed approximately every 48 hours (one probing cycle). A single monitor won't probe all prefixes, but the prefixes it does probe will be randomly distributed, which gives a good sample cross section of the address space. As each probe travels from the monitor to its final destination, it passes through several IP addresses (ie, routers) which are owned by different autonomous systems (ASes).
How This Graph was Created(This applies to all the dispersion graphs.)
Data ProcessingWe first take the IP addresses found in each path and look up its corresponding AS, creating a set of AS paths. We use heuristics to infer any unknown values in the IP and AS paths. First, any range of unknown ASes whose previous and following hops have the same value are all assumed to be within the same AS.
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