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Montréal, August 6, 2008 – In 1990, Theresa Schiavo, an American citizen, had a cardiac arrest that caused irreversible brain damage which led to a persistent vegetative state diagnosis. A few years later, this diagnosis became a source of conflict over the interruption of artificial nutrition. The "Schiavo Case" was widely discussed from a medical, ethical and social standpoint in the United States and elsewhere. In an article to be published in the September 23 issue of Neurology, the renowned journal of the American Academy of Neurology, and available online today, a team of bioethicists composed of Dr. Éric Racine of the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and experts from Stanford University, in California, and the University of British Columbia examines the media coverage featuring this famous case.
The study reviewed American daily newspapers that were most prolific about this story: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Tampa Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times. A total of 1 141 articles and over 400 letters to the editor were analyzed. Never before had the media coverage of such a clinical case been studied so extensively. The accuracy and the nature of the statements on Terri Schiavo's neurological condition, her behaviours, her behavioural repertoire, her prognosis and the withdrawal of treatment were examined. "In the course of our research, we were surprised by the amount of medical inaccuracies that these newspapers had published, said Dr. Racine. Some journalists even wrote about Mrs. Schiavo's reactions to specific words or expressions supposedly showing that she was conscious." More than scientific and medical information, the legal, political and ethical dimensions made the headlines.
Only 1% of the articles examined gave a definition of the "persistent vegetative state," an essential concept to understand the issues at stake. The persistent vegetative state is an established neurological condition characterized by severe lesions to the cerebral cortex, which eliminate higher functions: inability to communicate, absence of memory, absence of pain, etc. However, the brain stem responsible for vital functions is not damaged, which accounts for the patients' reflexes and their ability to breathe and swallow independently. Despite the fact that Terri Schiavo's medical condition did not allow any reasonable hope of recovery, a fifth of all articles (21%) contained statements according to which her condition would improve. "Our observations show that the press capitalized on the controversy to a large extent, and selling copies mattered more than delivering scientific information. Media coverage sustained myths and false hopes," explains Éric Racine.
The Neurology article provides an objective measure of misinformation, which underlined that the information available to the media had limitations. "The public debate surrounding this case showed that the medical, ethical and legal consensuses on the legitimacy of the withdrawal of treatment in accordance to a patient's will were challenged." In fact, Racine points out that while in the 60's and 70's people mostly rallied over the right to refuse treatment, an opposite pressure was applied in the Schiavo Case by relatives and public opinion. "This case is quite original because it reveals the emergence of a pro-life social stream, a trend that has now reached Canada," adds the researcher.
For their misunderstanding of the subject matter or their bias, are journalists to be blamed? Mass media have become a space of complex social interaction where the public takes its information and reacts to it. However, Internet and the media cannot replace official sources, be they medical, legal or political. In order to improve the quality of the information that is relayed to the public, families and key-actors, specialists must adopt strategies that will take into account the limitations identified in the media coverage of the Schiavo Case. Such ethical and medical debates would certainly benefit from information that is both more accurate and more accessible to the layperson.


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Stockton is a peculiar place, at once both inland and a port, both city and exurban community for people who work in Sacramento and the Bay Area. It's a weird mix of different kinds of places, and there's nothing quite like it.
But to listen to recent commentary, it's being portrayed as a quintessential California city.
That misinformation comes from those who want to use Stockton's bankruptcy to draw broad conclusions about cities in California and around the country. The main narrative is that they are being bankrupted by overspending, or by pensions and retiree benefits for employees.
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There's more than a grain of truth in that -- unsustainable pensions and retiree health benefits are a big problem in California, and in many other places -- but let's put a hold on the rhetoric.
Most cities aren't going bankrupt, and most won't.
Stockton is a rare case, and probably will remain so. That's because it's getting hit both by urban problems, by the economic problems of the Central Valley, and by the housing and foreclosure crisis of exurban communities.
This is also the moment for a corrective about pensions. As the former deputy state treasurer Mark Paul (who is my California Crackup co-author) often notes, it's wrong to say that one problem for Stockton and other cities is about pensions.
The real problem is two problems: compensation and governance.
Pensions are a form of compensation -- deferred compensation. And too many places in California and elsewhere have paid public employees more than they can afford -- both in today's salaries and in deferred compensation (which is what pensions and retiree benefits really are).
The public employees who have been most overpaid in California, compared to other states, are law enforcement workers. California's system of governance makes this problem worse because it encourages local elected officials to defer compensation and other costs into the future.
Because our system doesn't permit local officials to set tax rates, they don't have to come up with the money to fund their promises. Local officials are thus spenders, and they are incentivized to spend as much as they possibly can. An easy way to do that, when the state and federal governments are providing less money, is by making future spending commitments; pensions and retiree benefits are forms of that.
The solution to this crisis is not to blow up attempts to provide people with retirement security, but to reform governance, by returning to local officials the responsibility of setting tax rates and raising the money to fund their promises.
The other crucial thing is simple: stop paying public employees, particularly the law enforcement ones, more than we can afford.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Fighting the battle of the bulge is hard enough.
CORRECTION: July 31, 2012
An incorrect last name was listed in the print and initial online versions of this story. The error has been corrected online.
Fighting the battle of the bulge is hard enough.
But when middle age strikes, losing weight can be even more of a challenge.
And while revamping the diet is a must, those who have been successful in shedding pounds say strength training boosted their flagging metabolism, as did a change in attitude.
Dana Lee was 46 with about 250 pounds on her 5-foot-21/2-inch frame when she decided to reclaim her body about two years ago.
"I had asthma, acid reflux, high blood pressure and just a lot of pain in my hips and knees," Lee, who works for the Diocese of Stockton, said of weight-related health problems. "I had gained a lot of weight as a mom. I knew I had to make a change."
She lost more than 100 pounds by watching her diet, hitting the weights at an In-Shape City gym and practicing daily gratitude.
"I got started by taking advantage of my employer's wellness plan through ACI Specialty Benefits. (I had a) wellness coach, and he called me every week," Lee said, describing tips on exercise and nutrition. "I learned to eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables along with lean protein. I also concentrated on removing excuses from my life and thinking positively. And I work out with weights four to five times a week."
Now, Lee proudly says, she can get down and pump out 40 pushups.
"All that money I was spending on medicine, I now spend on the gym and yoga classes," said Lee, who also does some daily cardio. "A lot of women don't want to lift weights. Get over it."
Lee's journey illustrates how cutting calories alone isn't effective.
"The body 'defends' a certain weight and prevents changes - mostly losses - in body weight by adjusting metabolic rate when our dietary or physical activity patterns change. So the idea is that someone cuts back on 500 calories a day in their eating, but they don't lose weight, because their metabolism simply slows down to compensate for the reduction in food intake," said Mark Van Ness, an assistant professor in health, exercise and sports nutrition at University of the Pacific in Stockton, explaining the set-point theory. "It also helps people understand why adding exercise helps so much with weight loss."
Incorporating strength training into a workout builds lean muscle mass, which helps the body burn more calories throughout the day because it improves insulin sensitivity. That's what really helps with long-term weight management.
"Metabolism does slow as we get older, mostly due to loss of lean muscle mass," said Tracy Bento, a clinical dietician in Kaiser Permanente's Stockton medical office. "Regular consistent exercise, both aerobic and strengthening, are important. ... The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism is. Our calorie needs also go down as we age, so a reduction in calories is helpful."
One couple found success when they switched up their diet and turned to strength training together.
Jason and Heidi Hensley were feeling old, tired and overweight when they joined Crossfit Cencal in Stockton.
"I injured my neck in 2009 and had to stop working out," said the 35-year-old mother of two, who is director of Quail Lakes Baptist Church's children and family ministries. "I gained about 80 pounds. It was horrible. When I was cleared to work out, my doctor told me to do something low-impact with weight training, so my husband and I joined Crossfit in March 2011."
Her husband, a police officer, was having a midlife moment.
Turning 40 and tipping the scales at 290 pounds made him realize it was time. At 5 feet 8 inches tall, she weighed 239 pounds.
"Now, I am very proudly 167," she said, adding that her husband shed 85 pounds by joining her at the gym five days a week for a workout that mixes cardio with weights. "We changed our diet. We eat a lot of raw fruits and vegetables. We eat a fair amount of lean protein, primarily fish. Once a week, we go out to dinner and take a break."
Both the Hensleys and Lee say that their healthier lifestyle is a prescription for youth.
Shedding weight and getting stronger makes them feel, act and look younger.
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You might not know it yet, but you probably love tea. Maybe you don't fancy yourself a tea drinker—outside of the occasional winter toddy—and you might never have set foot in a tea shop. But whether you're a spirits enthusiast, a beer geek or a coffee fanatic, there's probably a tea out there that would taste eerily similar to your drink of choice. Love peaty scotch? Try a smoky Lapsang Souchong tea. Can't get enough Kenyan AA coffee? Go for a bright, citrusy Ceylon tea. Get a little adventurous, and you'll soon discover that tea has universal appeal. Still not convinced? Use the following guide to teas with beverage-world doppelgangers and we're pretty sure you'll find a new favorite drink.
Satrupa Assam
For those who enjoy: Aged rums
Why You'll Like It: Black teas grown in India's Assam region are known for their full body and breakfast-table brawn. Those grown on the Satrupa estate are described by Intelligentsia tea buyer Doug Palas as being more nuanced and flowery, with a cane-sugar–like sweetness not unlike that of rum. "When I think of fine rums that I've tasted, I think of the subtle dried fruit and vanilla notes that come from the aging process," Palas says. "The Satrupa Assam has delicate notes of dried date and fig that, combined with the sweetness, remind me of a good bottle of rum."
intelligentsiatea.com, $9/2 oz.
Li Shan
For those who enjoy: Intense pear brandies
Why You'll Like It: Named for "Pear Mountain," the region of Taiwan where it's grown, this rich, floral oolong tea might gets its distinctive stone-fruit notes from production methods, though some say the ancient pear orchards that grow nearby have something to do with it. Oolong teas, which are produced in China and Taiwan, are only partially oxidized, falling between un-oxidized green teas and fully oxidized black teas in intensity. "Many of the fruit flavors that one finds in pear brandies would also be found in the Li Shan," says Harney & Sons head tea taster Michael Harney. "The Li Shan has a wonderful mouthfeel and body–gentle but assertive. It's one of my favorite teas, and Pear Williams is one of my favorite brandies."
harney.com, $40/4 oz.
Bao Zhong
For those who enjoy: Hoppy IPAs
Why You'll Like It: "Though not bitter in the slightest, one of our finest oolongs, the Bao Zhong, has a super fresh, floral flavor that always reminds us of some of the great IPAs that the Northwest has to offer," says Jake Gano of Townshend's Tea. Bao Zhong is grown in tea-rich Ping Lin, Taiwan, and is only lightly oxidized, leaving it seductively fragrant. "It leaves a full-bodied, dry aftertaste on the palate, and a lasting, but not overwhelming flowery aroma that seems to fill the sinuses. An IPA enthusiast would very likely appreciate the layers of flavor and revitalizing effect of Bao Zhong, whether they're drinking it hot or on ice."
townshendstea.com, $6.50/1 oz.
For those who enjoy: Dry sakés
Why You'll Like It: This Japanese tea is nicknamed "the people's tea" because it originated during the country's World War II tea shortage, when the Japanese started adding roasted brown rice to their green tea as filler. (Invariably, a few grains of tea pop during the roasting process, earning genmaicha the additional nickname "popcorn tea.") Genmaicha's roasted rice notes and grassy green tea flavor make it a no-brainer for fans of bright, grassy sakes. "When served cold, the crispness of the toasty notes parallel those in dry saké," says SerendipiTea co-founder Linda Villano. "Though most quality saké is consumed cold, every once in a while a hot saké is comforting—kind of the inversion of the tea. Hot or cold, genmaicha is refreshing."
serendipitea.com $5/1 oz.
Lapsang Souchong
For those who enjoy: Peaty Scotch whiskies
Why You'll Like It: This ancient Chinese "smoke tea" was famously transported by Russian camel caravans to a tea-thirsty 18th-century Europe via treacherous Mongolia and Siberia, along with oolong and Keemun black teas. Pine fires give this earthy black tea its smoky overtone. "The really interesting part is that the dried leaves are never put over the fire or in contact with any heat but rather the smoke is controlled and redirected so that it's only the smoke that comes in contact with the tea leaves," says Infinitea co-owner Jeff Mares. "I'd imagine a scotch drinker is going to want a hearty, smoky cup of tea with a nice amber color–this tea will not disappoint."
infiniteateahouse.com, $4/1 oz.
For those who enjoy: Honey-sweetened herbal liqueurs
Why You'll Like It: Rooibos, or African red bush tea, is an earthy, amber-colored South African herbal tisane with a deep, wine-like quality and a smooth honey-like sweetness—making it a no-brainer for fans of honey-sweetened herbal liqueurs like Drambuie and Bénédictine. "Rooibos' naturally sweet, honey-like character compares well to Drambuie," says Rishi Tea's Ghazal Sheei. "And in addition to being sweetened with honey, Drambuie—like rooibos—is warming." And since rooibos is caffeine-free, there's no reason one of these liqueurs can't go along with your favorite nightcap. Bénédictine and rooibos toddy, anyone?
rishi-tea.com, $3/1 oz.
Taiwan Ruby Black
For those who enjoy: Rich, spicy Shiraz
Why You'll Like It: Named for its deep red color in the cup, this Taiwan-grown black tea has more in common with Shiraz than its hue. "There is a wine-like complexity to this tea that goes beyond a simple tannic sensation and shows up in the way it spreads and settles on the palate and sort of mingles with the sweet and lingering malty aftertaste," says Norbu Tea owner Gregory O. Glancy. "The wine-like aspect of this tea's flavor is what really drew me to it. It has a subtle depth and slightly drying mouthfeel that remind me a bit of a medium tannic, less fruity red wine."
norbutea.com, $5.50/0.8 oz.
Floral White Tea Blends
For those who enjoy: Crisp Sauvignon Blancs
Why You'll Like It: Chinese white teas are known for their delicate body and flavor—they're minimally processed, typically made with young leaves and buds, and some of the dried leaves have an ethereal silver hue. Add some Egyptian chamomile petals and Chinese osmanthus flowers, as teamaker Steven Smith does in his White Petal blend, and you have a tea that's downright sniff-and-swirl-worthy. Smith describes it as "light and delicate with hints of flowers and tree fruits." He adds that, served hot or over ice, the blend is "crisp, clean and refreshing with slight creamy, toasty notes and nuances of peach." Go ahead and break out the stemware.
smithtea.com, $10/2 oz.
For those who enjoy: Dry, earthy, wood-matured tawny Port
Why You'll Like It: Pu-erh is funky, to say the least. Like a fine cheese, this ancient Chinese tea is aged to dark, dank, earthy perfection—either naturally, with time, or through accelerated fermentation. Traditional pu-erhs are aged naturally over many years and sometimes fetch hundreds of dollars per ounce, but most common pu-erhs are known as Wo Dui, or forced fermentation style. "Wo Dui-style pu-erhs are very dark, earthy, damp and smooth," says Tao of Tea owner Veerinder Chawla. "A beverage-world counterpart for Wo Dui would be old cask-conditioned tawny Port, without any fruitiness. The color is slightly more b
rown than a Port (deep burgundy), but both are deep, thick, and smooth with sweet undertones." Pu-erh, with its funky depths, is a reward in itself, but pair it with chocolate, and you might find yourself shopping for plane tickets to Yunnan. Don't say we didn't warn you.
taooftea.com, $2/1 oz.
Kenilworth Ceylon
For those who enjoy: Fruity African coffees
Why You'll Like It: The coffee vs. tea discussion is a slippery slope. Most people are firmly situated in one camp or the other. But it's easy to love both equally. Some coffees, like Panama's famous La Esmeralda, are frequently described as being tea-like. And with certain bright, citrus- and berry-noted African coffees, the resemblance to a traditional Earl Grey is undeniable. So it's no surprise that Adagio Teas' Michael Cramer sees Ceylon, a common base for earl grey blends, as a good entry point for drinkers of bright, fruity Ethiopian coffees. And Ceylons from the Kenilworth estate, such as Adagio's Ceylon Sonata, are considered the best. "They'll appreciate its natural bright citrus notes and balanced astringency," he says. "It's medium-bodied with a lively crispness and sweet, juicy notes of mandarin peel or grapefruit."
adagio.com, $6/3 oz.
Yunnan Gold
For those who enjoy: Dark drinking chocolates
Why You'll Like It: This black tea from China's abundant Yunnan province is named for its unique golden brown color. It's known for its consistent quality and inherent sweetness—a product of both Yunnan's rich soil and the high ratio of golden leaf tips used in the tea. "Every time I smell a good Yunnan Gold, I smell a good-quality dark chocolate powder coming at me," says Floating Leaves' Shiuwen Tai. "It's a bit sweet, with a chocolate-like taste, dried fruit notes and sometimes with a hint of smoky wood scent. It's smooth, hearty and pleasant like a good chocolate–full of good flavors and surprises."
floatingleaves.com, $6.50/1 oz.
Black Dragon Pearls
For those who enjoy: Hearty stouts
Why You'll Like It: This black tea is grown in the lush, mountainous Yunnan province of China—a region known for its large tea leaves and healthy buds, and regarded by many as the birthplace of tea cultivation. It's then hand-rolled into beautiful brown spheres, like tiny, edible balls of yarn. Teavana's Patrick Farrell describes the final product as "a robust full-bodied black tea with sweet chocolaty and malty undertones. Similar to a chocolaty stout, this hearty black tea can even pair with steak, pork and other robust foods. In the tea world, we'd say it stacks up comparably in flavor and tone to a stout or porter, without the fullness and calories."
teavana.com, $15/2 oz.


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What is the common practice to write classes which take some data class and store it to some backend? In my case I have table classes (columns, headers, etc.) which are written to Excel. So I have a class Table with the data and a class ExcelDocument with access operations and basic writing (cells, ...).
Where would I put the code which knows how to deal with Table data and knows how to write that the ExcelDocument? Both might be subject to refactoring at some point.
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LSU's defense has as much speed as any team in the country, and the Tigers' defenders say they'll put it to good use as they continue to get more comfortable in Bo Pelini's system
Monday, August 13, 2007
By Jim Kleinpeter
BATON ROUGE -- Football in the past 20 years has become less about brute force and more about speed.
Whether using it to make game-changing plays on offense or getting more tacklers to the ball quicker on defense, it has become one of the necessary ingredients for success.
LSU has got more than it's share from the top of the roster to the bottom. But speed isn't always about how fast the players run, rather how fast they play. In that respect, LSU is sporting what could be a dominant defense this season, and it's one of the main reasons the Tigers start the season near the top of the polls.
With eight starters returning from a team that ranked in the top five nationally in five categories, the 2007 Tigers' defense is hitting the ground running. The intricacies of third-year coordinator Bo Pelini's defense have become second nature to a group that boasts seven front-line seniors and four juniors.
"What our guys run 40 (yard dash)-wise compared to other groups, I have no idea," Pelini said at media day Sunday. I don't know if we time as fast as other groups. But I know our guys play fast, play hard, play decisive and play with an attitude, and I think that's the key to playing good defense."
It's hard to imagine the Tigers topping last season's effort. LSU finished No. 3 in the nation in total defense, pass defense and passing efficiency defense, and fourth in scoring defense, leading the Southeastern Conference in all four categories.
But the players believe to a man that they can continue on the roll they built throughout 2006. They played fast then and believe they can play faster in 2007.
"We feel a chemistry there that we don't even have to talk to each other to know what's going on," junior defensive end Tyson Jackson said. "I can look at Glenn (Dorsey) and we both know what's about to happen. That comes with time.
"It's like A-B-C, 1-2-3. Now you can play off your natural talent. We don't have to be thinking too much. He (Pelini) lets us use our athletic ability, makes it plain and simple."
That's not to say there won't be some new wrinkles. Because of his unit's grasp of the playbook, Pelini said opponents may see some 3-4 schemes.
But another ingredient is the character and maturity of the players, who recognize the importance of trying to get better. He pounds into his players that if they aren't getting better, they're getting worse.
"We're way ahead of where we were as far as knowledge of what we're doing," he said. "We have a lot more options. We've really progressed scheme-wise because our guys are able to handle a lot more now.
"It's not really what you do as how you do it. Every year is a different year. Just because we had success last year, it doesn't mean anything to this year's group. Our guys understand that."
Said junior defensive tackle Marlon Favorite: "The chemistry is great through the first week. It's awesome. We can be better than last year, but we're not focused on last year. We want to get better."
Anchored by Dorsey, an All-American last season, at tackle and Jackson, who is at or near that level, LSU's strength is in its line. Opponents are expected to have trouble establishing a running game against a deep, talented unit.
Senior cornerbacks Jonathan Zenon and Chevis Jackson bring a wealth of experience at the next most important positions after the defensive line. Speedy linebackers Ali Highsmith and Darry Beckwith are big-play athletes.
Depth at defensive back allows LSU to match up well with multiple-receiver sets. All-American safety LaRon Landry will be missed, but Curtis Taylor and Craig Steltz are well-seasoned.
"I love this group of guys," Pelini said. "We have high expectations, tremendous senior leadership, a lot of character, and I think everything is heading in the right direction.
"We're not the finished product by any means, not even close, but we understand there's a lot of work between now and the first game and that's all we're concerned with, the next practice, next meeting, keeping our focus channeled where it needs to be."
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BOTHELL, Wash. – Robin Lake has been named director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington Bothell, effective March 1. Lake has served an integral role in CRPE's success for many years, which will help ensure a seamless transition.
Since 1993, CRPE has conducted independent research and policy analysis on a range of K–12 public education reform issues, including choice & charters, finance & productivity, teachers, urban district reform, leadership, and state & federal reform.
Lake assumes the role held by CRPE Founder and Research Professor Paul T. Hill, who says Lake helped him build CRPE into a highly productive, well-respected research center.
"Under Robin's leadership I am confident that CRPE's influence and impact on America's education policy debate will continue to grow," Hill says.
CRPE's work is based on two premises: that public schools should be measured against the goal of educating all children well, and that current institutions too often fail to achieve this goal. Its research uses evidence from the field and lessons learned from other sectors to understand complicated problems and to design innovative and practical solutions for policymakers, elected officials, parents, educators, and community leaders.
After nearly 19 years as the head of CRPE, Hill says he is now looking forward to relaxing his work schedule so he may focus on research.
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February 14, 2013 Charles C. Mann to Deliver Sixth Kislak Lecture, on Post-1492 World
New Book Is "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created"
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Charles C. Mann, winner of the National Academy of Sciences' Keck Award for best book of the year ("1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"), will deliver the sixth Jay I. Kislak Lecture on his recent best seller, "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created."
The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, in the Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not needed. The Library's John W. Kluge Center is sponsoring the program with co-sponsors the Center for the Book, the Hispanic Division and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
In "1493" Mann deftly demonstrates how what has been described as "the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs" -- Columbus' landfall in the Americas -- underlies much of human history since. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, Mann shows how the creation of a worldwide network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa and for two centuries made Mexico City -- where Asia, Europe and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted -- the center of the world. In such encounters, Mann uncovers the germ of today's fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars.
Columbus' exploration of the Americas is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, potatoes in Idaho, chocolates in Switzerland and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions and African grasses; bacteria, fungi and viruses; rats of every description—all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet.
Mann is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science and Wired magazines, and he has covered the intersection of science, technology and commerce for many publications worldwide, including BioScience, The Boston Globe, Fortune, Geo (Germany), The New York Times (magazine, op-ed, book review), Panorama (Italy), Paris-Match (France), Quark (Japan), Smithsonian, Der Stern (Germany), Technology Review, Vanity Fair and The Washington Post (magazine, op-ed, book review).
In addition to "1491" and "1493," he has co-written four other books: "The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics" (1986; rev. ed., 1995); "The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine and 100 Years of Rampant Competition" (1991), "Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species" (1995) and "@ Large: The Strange Case of the Internet's Biggest Invasion" (1998). He has also written for HBO and the television show "Law and Order." A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, Mann has received writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Margaret Sanger Foundation and the Lannan Foundation (2006 literary fellowship).
The Kislak Lecture is a component of the Kislak American Studies Program, established at the Library of Congress in 2004 by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Previous lecturers were Jared Diamond, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Michael Coe, Jonathan Spence and David Stuart.
In addition to the lecture series, the Kislak gift includes an important collection of books, manuscripts, historical documents, maps and art of the Americas. A permanent rotating exhibition of materials from the Kislak Collection, "Exploring the Early Americas," (myLOC.gov/Exhibitions/EarlyAmericas/), opened in December 2007. The Kislak gift also provides for fellowships to study its materials.
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov.


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The next generation of mobile development has arrived and it appears that the predominant operating system of choice is Linux.
The analogy of the personal computing revolution has often been associated with what we are now experiencing in the mobile computing space. Instead of Mac versus PC, its Mac versus Linux. While Microsoft continues to revamp its Windows Mobile platform, and Blackberry and Symbian seek ways to remain relevant, Linux has risen as a result of its low-cost open source licensing model, its ubiquity, and flexibility to run on a diverse range of hardware platforms -- not to mention its rapid acceptance among application developers for its support of numerous application languages.
Recognizing this rising tide, three companies have opted to ride the wave of this growing tsunami.
- Google purchased the Android platform and is busy incorporating it into as many mobile handsets supplied by as many carriers as it can.
- Nokia acquired Trolltech and is busy porting the Qt development environment into its Maemo platform.
- Intel, recognizing the trend of netbooks as a growing market to affix its Intel Inside stickers on, has retooled the Linux Foundation's Moblin, a traditional desktop Linux distribution, into a nimble, lightweight combination optimized for its Atom series of processors so prevalent into today's netback designs.
As a consequence of these three approaches, mobile platform developers have to make a choice on where to spend the most time to maximize the return on their time. They also have to start placing bets on which platform will prove to be the most popular with the highest return on investment.
Introduced to the consumer market just over a year ago, the Google Android platform has rapidly evolved since its commercial release. In that time, it has moved from a 1.0 to a 2.0 version and expanded its hardware and wireless vendor market from one to many with more coming into the fold every month. This aggressive release schedule coupled with frequent SDK iterations has generated considerable momentum and buzz for the platform. Additionally, Google's relatively seamless integration of their core services into the device elevates its baseline functionality beyond ordinary smartphone status.
Currently available in its 2.0 iteration, the Android Developer SDK works well within an Eclipse IDE. The latest SDK has altered the way it delivers SDK components to interested developers. Instead of bundling the whole stash into a single download, the new SDK features a more lightweight initial package. Running the "android" application provides an interface for developers to select the components they prefer. This not only reduces the initial bulk of the SDK but also offers an easier mechanism to download future SDK updates without disturbing the previous Android virtual machine configurations and design environment settings.
Even though Android is Linux-based, applications are written using Java. This is because the architecture of Android isolates each Android application such that if a problem occurs, only that running instance of the application is affected. This makes Android's multitasking execution platform inherently stable and reliable. Anyone with intermediate Java development experience will be writing Android applications within minutes. However, a large number of custom Android classes coupled with the fact that not all Java desktop edition classes are included do take time getting used to. And of course, the verbosity of the Java language does get annoying at times. Nevertheless, Android scores points for its cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux desktop) development platform support, slick Eclipse feature integration, and familiar Java syntax.
To entice new developers to the Android family, Google has sponsored two Android Developer Challenges whereby developers with innovative application implementations can win big money. They also ignite ideas beyond the usual clump of first-generation platform apps like small text editors, tip calculators and the like. With so many input sensors available on Android -- acceleratometers, compasses, Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS radios, etc. -- the varieties of possible mash-ups supply plenty of new approaches to mobile computing situations.
Finally, the Android Market offers developers a fairly well established mechanism to distribute both free and paid applications to the network of active Android clients. While not nearly as easy to navigate and polished as Apple's iPhone App Store, the Android Market still makes it simple for developers to reach the worldwide Android audience.
Introduced around the time of Nokia's first-generation Internet Tablet device, the Maemo operating system (a Debian variant) has been around for several years. However, it wasn't until Nokia combined the tablet concept with their phone experience and developed a smartphone that elicits a serious amount of telecommunication gadget envy, even from iPhone owners. The new N900 will ship with Maemo 5, though Nokia and the Maemo community are hard at work on the Maemo 6 edition that will offer even greater features and development opportunities.
Unlike the Android multi-platform supported development environment, Maemo development is hard-core Linux only, requiring a Debian-based distribution to house its development tools. While this isn't an issue for those developers who have already made Linux their primary desktop environment, most developers will opt for the virtual machine approach. Knowing this, I was a bit surprised and disappointed that the Maemo community have not packaged up a VMware appliance or other VM package to further motivate interested developers to fire up the developer tools and give Maemo a test drive. Instead, you have to assemble your own development environments, complete with taking care of all the dependencies and VDSO32 kernel modifications on a 64-bit system. The details are explained on the Maemo installation page, but it still requires a considerable amount of effort just to get going.
[Editor's Note: Thanks to a note from a reader, we're pleased to report that there is a package for Maemo development environment available here. The VM image for this page appears to be located here. This should certainly help interested developers overcome the initial hurdle of setting up the environment to test drive the Maemo SDK.]
For those motivated enough to slog through the installation and configuration, the Maemo tools are what you would expect from a community-driven open source project -- functional without a lot of frills and commercial polish, just enough to get things done. The SDK is predominantly C-based, though Python developers will be satisfied to learn that many of the examples and currently available Maemo applications are Python GTK+-based. And that is perhaps what is the most attractive aspect about Maemo -- it is truly an open, Linux-based platform. Unlike Android that attempts to abstract the Linux underpinnings as much as possible, Maemo lets developers dive as deep into the operating system as they desire. While knowledgeable developers and guru hackers are sure to love the platform as a result, the question of system security and whether wireless carriers (especially in the U.S.) will allow such unbridled devices to connect to their networks.
Once a developer signs up for an account on the Maemo website, new applications can be posted to maemo.org for other Maemo users to download. As this writing, there are about 46 applications available, mostly consisting of popular Linux ports such as an OpenSSH client/server, a VNC viewer, a Vim editor and several games. There are currently no programming contests or incentives beyond the openness of the platform to entice new developers to Maemo, though that might change once the N900 is commercially available.
(Also see Java and the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet by Eric Bruno.)
With its just-released Moblin 2.1, Intel would like to see the Moblin platform become a dominant netbook OS. By removing boot programs irrelevant to netbooks as well as retooling the X Windows environment in an effort to streamline GUI performance, Intel engineers have done an admirable job at reconfiguring Linux to run in this optimized environment. Originally developed by Intel but now hosted by the Linux Foundation, Moblin is an open source project that supports Linux-based software platform and is optimized for the next generation of mobile devices, including netbooks. To date more than a dozen operating system vendors (Asianux, Canonical, DeviceVM, gOS, MontaVista, Novell, and Wind River, among others) have committed to distribute Moblin-based products..
However, while the Moblin reference platform has been created for netbooks, it has yet to make the leap to smartphones. Partners like Canonical are working with Intel to help make this a reality, but the devil remains in the details. Also, due to the modifications made to the standard Linux desktop libraries, existing Linux applications have to be optimized for Moblin backend and target GUI footprint. Intel is making a strong effort to market the platform to all netbook and mobile systems enthusiasts, but its contributions remain a very Intel staff-centric project.
The Moblin SDK is heavily geared toward C and C++ development, with an expectation that developers are already very comfortable with developing standard Linux desktop applications in those languages. And even in its 2.1 release, Moblin continues to be a work in progress, with driver issues and other annoying bugs that can get in the way of using the current iteration as a production-ready netbook replacement OS.
Intel is sponsoring the Atom Developer Challenge, an Intel technology innovation contest, not exclusive to Moblin. While Moblin follows the Maemo approach of offering a "Garage" to download Moblin-optimized applications from, the current selections are still catching up with application libraries available on netbook-optimized Linux distributions like Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Other developer resources include Dr. Dobb's MoblinZone and Moblin.org.
Place Your Bets
Given the variables and the current state of the art of each of these platforms, Android currently seems best positioned for success at this stage. Google's long-term commitment and partnerships, combined with its deep pockets, can expand Android to more carriers and more markets around the world. The Android development environment is also the most friendly, both in terms of the IDE's host OS and broad developer familiarity with Java. Finally, Android's established marketplace provides an easy way for developers to distribute applications in a free or commercial format.
Maemo has the most innovation potential due to its fully open platform, but given the very Linux-centric systems required to develop and deploy Maemo applications, it will be a platform of most interest to Linux embedded systems developers and open systems advocates.
Moblin could become a nice reference platform for netbook manufacturers and, if it makes the successful leap onto smartphones, handset providers as well. Given the competition from various Linux distributions that have already optimized part of their platforms to run on netbooks (such as Ubuntu's latest Netbook Remix distribution) and Google's intention of moving Android upstream into the netbook space, Moblin will have to work to reach a broader user audience.
Regardless of the outcome, there is no question that Linuxwill remain a mainstay mobile operating system for years to come.


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I've looked again at the War Diary for the 150th Field Company, RE. It's noticeable that, between their arrival in France and the date of Sapper McKee's death there is not a single mention of enemy action and certainly nothing to suggest that shellfire was a threat where they were working. On the other hand, the CO does comment about shortages of materials (timber, stone) and labour, as well as the wet conditions. Taken together with the fact that the word "killed" next to Spr. McKee's name is clearly crossed out, it does lead me to suspect that the version published in the Armagh Guardian is an example of "news management" or "spin". I don't doubt that he died in a trench collapse (or similar mishap during the building of the new rear defences) but have to question that the cause was a German shell. No doubt some officer responsible for sending news home about casualties decided that blaming a "German shell" would be better for morale at home than any suspicion of an avoidable accident, especially as Spr. McKee was the first Co. Armagh volunteer to die.
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So, it's time to get a family dog. Just like there's no typical family, there's no typical family dog. A family with three kids and a farmhouse outside of Nashville, Tenn., needs a very different dog from a young couple with a new baby in Brooklyn, N.Y.
There are many important factors to consider about your family's lifestyle before deciding which breed will be the best fit. How much time do you have to devote to the dog? Will there be people around during the week, or is the house empty for most of the day? Is there someone in the family who regularly goes for runs and long hikes, or is everyone happy on the couch watching DVDs?
Coming up is a list of 10 great dogs for any family situation.
Newfoundlands, which were originally bred to be working dogs in the cold North Atlantic, consistently rank as the kindest, gentlest, best-tempered purebreds in the world. Newfs are also enormous (up to 150 pounds!) and one of the strongest dogs for their size, but their legendary patience makes them very suitable for families with small children. This is the dog to trust if your baby ever needs to be saved from an icy river.
However, their sweetness comes with a price: maintenance. Their thick coat needs brushing at least once a week, and it's no use denying that Newfoundlands are slobber factories. They also need plenty of space -- a moderate daily walk will take care of their exercise requirements, but make sure to have enough room indoors for them to sprawl out on the floor afterward.
Often overlooked as mere lapdogs, papillons are perfect companion dogs and make good pets for city-dwellers. Papillons aren't just a fashion accessory, so don't let their prettiness fool you. Unlike other toy breeds, papillons are spirited, highly intelligent, fun-loving and eager to please, making them ideal for the family without a lot of square footage to spare.
For all their charm, papillons aren't recommended for families with small children -- not that they'll be a danger to the child, but the other way around. Though papillons have a personality bigger than their body, they're also more fragile than other breeds, which can make them injury-prone when playing with toddlers who haven't learned their own strength yet.
Golden Retriever
The golden retriever has been a staple family dog breed for a long time, and with good reason -- this dog is an absolute sweetheart that loves anyone and everyone. Perfect for large families, small families, toddlers or teenagers, golden retrievers are also one of the easiest breeds to train, as their combination of intelligence and eagerness to please makes them much better attuned to positive reinforcement than other dogs. Their one drawback is that, being universally adored, golden retrievers trustingly assume that everyone is their friend. As guard dogs, they're more likely to roll over on their back for a belly rub than bark out a warning when confronted with a shady character or a sneaky burglar.
Pugs, along with sloths, seahorses and baby armadillos, fall into the category of animals that are at once bizarre-looking and absolutely adorable. Though their strange faces get them teased for being the dog that chases parked cars, they're actually well-tempered, friendly and serene animals that are active enough to be fun, but still small enough not to require a 5-mile run every day.
Most importantly, pugs are patient and sturdy little guys -- the perfect set of features for a family with either small children who may not play gently, or apartment-dwellers who need to ensure their pet won't wake the neighbors with constant yapping.
Labrador Retriever
Labrador retrievers are dogs in the most classic sense of the word. Friendly, loyal and enthusiastic, Labs work hard, play hard and eat like gangbusters when they get home at the end of the day. They need plenty of space and attention, but they also repay that care with the pure devotion and love that has been humbling humans since we first met our canine companions.
Being good with children and highly intelligent, they're also one of the most popular service dogs in the world. Labs are a match for a family that needs a companion for outdoor activities, maybe has some small children and wants to make sure that their dog will go bananas when a stick or a Frisbee gets thrown.
Lovable Mutt
While mutts aren't technically a breed, you should consider the possibility of rescuing a puppy or an abandoned older dog when choosing a family pet. Every mutt is unique, and their hybrid vigor makes them much less prone to the health problems and personality quirks that often come with some inbred pedigreed dogs. Best of all, rescuing one literally means saving a life (and potentially saving a small fortune in vet bills).
While mutts tend to be friendly, intelligent and excellent at dog sports, the one downside is that getting a mixed-breed puppy can be a bit like rolling the dice if space is an issue. All puppies are tiny, so it can be difficult to tell whether the dog will grow into a petite pooch or a pony-sized hound of the Baskervilles.
Despite the fact that it would be very, very easy for them to hide in a hot dog factory, dachshunds take themselves seriously. No one else does, but that doesn't seem to bother them. They're not particularly smart, and they're a little bit yappy and standoffish around strangers.
What's the appeal, then? Good old-fashioned goofballery. Unlike many other lapdogs, dachshunds are extremely playful, never boring, and absolutely adore being around their owners. Their coats are generally short, so shedding isn't an issue. And, the amount of exercise that even a highly energetic dachshund requires is still roughly proportional to its size. This is a dog that rewards doting, making it the perfect breed for less physically active families or empty nesters who want an animal that's low-maintenance but still has some personality.
Basset Hound
Let's face it; a dog can be a huge time commitment. Feeding, cleaning up poop, brushing, washing, exercising -- it can be like having a small child who will never figure out that drinking out of the toilet is a bad idea.
Sometimes, the best family dog is one that doesn't really do much. At the extreme end of the low-energy spectrum, we present the basset hound. With minimal activity to keep off the extra ounces, this dog has an energy level roughly equivalent to a potato. Though reasonably active in their youth, as basset hounds age, they're content to rest on the porch or in front of the fire. Over the years, this family dog becomes more like a much-loved piece of furniture than an active nuisance.
Rough Collie
Due to the popularity of a certain 1950s TV dog, rough collies have become a breed that's synonymous with wholesome family doghood. But while they're absolutely excellent animals, they may not be ideal for every situation.
Rough collies are better suited for families with older children. As sheepdogs, they have thousands of years of trainability behind them, but also the instinct to herd whoever or whatever happens to be around, making them a poor match for a family with a young child. That is, unless you've got the type of kid who falls into a well, gets attacked by bobcats or is pinned under a fallen roof beam in a burning mill at least once a week. Collies should come standard with those kids.
Happy-go-lucky is a word that's thrown around a lot to describe beagles. So are sweet, adorable and friendly. While all are true, this may also be a polite way to highlight beagles' personality over their intelligence. Beagles were originally bred as pack-hunting hounds, giving them a gregarious and cheerful nature that makes them perfect for larger families where they can get plenty of attention and feel like part of the team. Admittedly, beagles aren't the most brilliant dogs, which can make them slow to house train. But their friendly temperament, smallish size and good behavior around young children make them a popular choice for families.
Why Do Dogs Sniff Each Other's Butts?
To a human it's unimaginable — sniffing another's derriere. But to our canine companions, it's totally normal. But why? Why?
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- American Kennel Club. "Frequently Asked Questions About Beagles." 2010. (May 1, 2010). http://clubs.akc.org/NBC/NBC_FAQs.html
- American Kennel Club. "Meet the Breeds: Beagle." 2010. (May 1, 2010). http://www.akc.org/breeds/beagle/
- Animal Planet. "Dog Breed Directory." 2010. (April 27, 2010). http://animal.discovery.com/breedselector/dogselectorindex.do
- Coleburg, Tiami. "Dachshund Breed Profile." Rescue Every Dog. 2010. (April 28, 2010). http://www.rescueeverydog.org/dachshund_breed.html
- Foreman, Ozzie. "Newfoundlands: An adaptable, gentle giant." Canis Major. 2010. (April 28, 2010) http://www.canismajor.com/dog/newf.html


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Hello, Brooklyn
Exactly one year ago Makeshift Society launched in San Francisco. It was an experiment at the time, intended by Rena Tom to free herself and others from the overwhelming stillness of working from home, alone. I'm proud of what Rena, Victoria, Suzanne, and the team have accomplished in the intervening year, and happy to share that soon we will be opening a second location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Yup: we. I've joined the business to help shape its future. If what you read below sounds worthy of your support, you can help too, by contributing to our Kickstarter.
On paper Makeshift Society seems quite distant from the work I've done over the past five years, most of which was helping the Finnish government learn how to utilize. Makeshift is a move from a national remit to a very focused one; it's a shift from working within the public sector, to the private; Sitra has a billion dollars in the bank, Makeshift… doesn't. Yet the reason I'm stepping up my involvement in this project is because I think we have the freedom to explore the most important design challenge of the 21st century: redesigning and reimagining the institutions of our everyday life.
Makeshift is a trojan horse, in that sense. It is a coworking space and a community, but it's about providing people in the creative fields with new pathways to independence by giving them the resources, agency, and accountability they need to excel.
We want to be the best place for people to start and sustain a creative business. In the US "entrepreneurship" is so often treated as though it's short for "high-growth technology entrepreneurship" that other pursuits get marginalized. As important as tech is, as much money as tech generates, a healthy society (and market, for that matter) is not predicated on one field. At Makeshift we are tackling the challenge of supporting low and medium growth businesses, including freelancers, because we believe in independence and insist that we can do better than a Task Rabbit economy.
Introducing Makeshift in this way reveals my own opinion that straight up coworking is actually pretty boring as a business; it's tiny, desk-sized real estate. We're not in it for the desks, per se, but it turns out that tables are a uniquely useful alibi for our larger goals.
I am a fan of tables. They naturally incline people to linger, and that means to share. A table is always the center, even when it's on the edge.
When I moved from Helsinki to New York at the beginning of the year I left a small community of friends involved in just about every aspect of creative production (even tables). What I learned is that the luxury of Finland is not in consumption but in creation, in being surrounded by acts of design and manufacture such that many of the objects, environments, and pieces of media comprising my daily life were in some way touched by a friend's effort. It was a bubble in the best sense.
As a newcomer to Finland, however, I was alone in a quiet place. After months searching for the cafe or corner joint where a density of my people could be found, I realized that Helsinki is not built on that logic. Districts are defined by character more than trade, and commercial real estate is parceled into tiny portions that atomizes the many thriving design studios all over the city. The raw spatial equality that this brings is eminently Finnish in its own way, but also means there's no easy 'in' for newcomers like myself. So I seeded my own densely creative corner of the city once per month, around a shared table and heaping mounds of Szechwan peppers.
At those meals the table* did its thing. New links started forming as illustrators and baristas, architects and authors, chefs and strategists, photographers and furniture makers joined for a bite to eat. It was a casual ritual, but a meaningful one, and is now sustained by friends who've remained there in Helsinki, regularly sharing a meal with a rotating group of faces, familiar and fresh.
Landing in a city that is nearly twice as large as the entire country of Finland I was reminded of the specialization that rules here in the creative fields. In New York it's not the individuals that feel distant from each other, but the disciplines. NYC has so many bubbles of activity all packed in among each other, and all rather insular. They're alone together, and this seems like something that Makeshift could nudge in a different direction.
As we prepare to launch Makeshift in Brooklyn our primary focus is making a top notch place for creatives to work, learn, and hang out. There are many details that must be attended to that might seem unnecessary, but we are obsessing about all of them. We do this because deep collaboration begins with being in the same place at the same time, long enough time to get to know each other. Fostering a community of people who are stronger together than they are alone is a lofty goal, and it starts with a good table in a good room.
If this piques your interest, keep track of our progress on the blog, Twitter, or Facebook, and Kickstarter or drop by early next year when we have the doors open in Williamsburg.
* Through empirical study conducted over the course of 13 months I've concluded that the perfect table for a social gathering of 8-16 people is 2 meters in diameter. At this size a group will be able to maintain a single conversation without any one individual being so distant from their complement on the opposite side that it is not possible for them to discuss. Likewise, the round shape allows all to share a single conversation if they choose, without preventing people from breaking into smaller subgroups. Also important: the broccoli is never further away than the arm-span of two people.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It's another good indicator the economy is improving -- the country's largest vehicle retailer just reported its sales were up 15 percent last month.
The increase is a sign the industry will do well in 2013.
The two big dealers Channel 4 spoke with have sales increases that make AutoNation's record numbers look small.
It's fantastic news for those in the car industry and people in the marker for a new car in 2013 -- sales are way up.
At least two of Northeast Florida's largest dealerships, including Keith Pierson Toyota, are seeing these sales increases.
"We're very optimistic about 2013," Keith Pierson of Keith Pierson Toyota said. "Everything is looking great. The product line up is perfect. We can get all the cars we need. And customers -- people are starting to realize the world is not coming to an end."
Improving consumer confidence and bigger inventories on dealership lots are giving the car industry a big boost at the start of the year.
"You know, this is two or three years in a row of very solid growth," Vice President of Bozard Ford Lincoln Jeff King said. "As a matter of fact, we're planning on expanding our service department with some new construction to handle the additional customer volume."
AutoNation is the largest vehicle retailer in the United States. It's now reporting a 15 percent gain in December sales, a 20 percent increase for the entire year over 2011.
The numbers for dealers in Northeast Florida are no exception.
Pierson said sales at his Toyota dealership are up 25 percent over last year.
At Bozard Ford Lincoln, it's good news, too. Te dealership hit its record sales month in December, selling 300 cars.
With packed lots and people feeling more comfortable about making bigger purchases, things are shaping up for a great year in the auto industry.
"The factories are now kind of ramped up to the amount of production that's necessary to support 14 or 15 million car sales a year and we now have the inventory to support the growth that we're talking about," King said.
Last year, 14.5 million vehicles were sold, the highest sales volume in the United States in the last five years.
For 2013, AutoNation predicts more than 15 million will be sold.


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eNiGMa wrote:Okay, I know someone has asked about violence, but what about language? If one of our characters was to utter a profanity in the heat of a moment, what words wouldn't he be allowed to say in this contest?
hmm.... Since everyone else is saying how far they are, I'm just gonna say here that I just finished the outline for my first story. Lookin' good....
I think you can probably take a leaf out of Fry_Slayer's book. (Though "Holy Brick" is probably trademarked now, so you'll have to think of your own parody... )
As with anything on Classic-Castle, profanity is frowned on, although substitutions therefore (like "Megablox") is perfectly acceptable.
That is, however, just my moderatorly opinion, and is not an official word on the contest. I would, however, put down money that Lenny says much the same thing.
~Michael A. Joosten - Moderator~


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sharks forward Logan Couture will undergo a procedure to repair a hand injury Wednesday and is expected to be sidelined for three to four weeks, a team source disclosed late Monday night.
The news casts doubt on Couture's ability to play in the Sochi Olympics. The Canadian team will be revealed Tuesday, and Couture was considered a top candidate.
However, he still could be selected, as the rules allow teams to name players, then replace them if injuries prove to be a problem.
The Sharks recalled Freddie Hamilton from Worcester on Monday, 24 hours after he was sent down. Hamilton likely will replace Couture in the lineup Tuesday night against the Nashville Predators.
Couture has stayed off the ice this past week except for the games themselves, so Monday's news does not come as a total surprise.
Bob McKenzie, analyst for TSN, first reported the injury and said the sense was Couture still "might be OK for the Olympics."
Couture is the Sharks' fourth-leading scorer with 14 goals and 21 assists for 35 points.
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You've already seen the App Store in its iTunes pants, and if you've ever used iTunes before, you pretty much know how it works. Here, we do a quick pictorial walkthrough of how the App Store works from your iPhone, once you have the iPhone 2.0 firmware installed.
This is what you'll see on the main page of the App Store when you tap on its little icon. The default tab is the "Featured" category, although you can also look through apps by Category and Top 25.
If you don't see what you're looking for, you can search for apps using the Search function. As you type, the App Store will automatically try and narrow down the field for you by offering suggestions that match what you've already entered.
Once you select what you want, you're brought to a mobile version of that app's iTunes page. Here, you can read the description, see a screenshot, see the pricing, and read reviews of the product.
Once you've decided to buy or download the app, you click the button with the price on it (or in the case of free apps, the button that says "FREE" on it), which will then turn green and say "INSTALL." Click that, and it'll ask you for your password so it can charge your account and/or log the download.
Once you enter your password successfully, your app will be added to an open spot on one of your home screens (this one went to my last home screen because my first one is full) and begin downloading with a progress bar to indicate how far it is. When it's done, the "Loading..." will change to the App's name and it will no longer be grayed out.
That's it! Now you can use your newly-downloaded application, and the next time you plug your iPhone into your computer, iTunes will ask you if you want to transfer the app (mainly for backup purposes).
You can expect a more in-depth look into the App Store and iPhone 2.0's changes as part of our full iPhone 3G review when it goes live!


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A recent question asked for graph properties that are first order axiomatizable but not finitely axiomatizable. Connectedness was mentioned in the context. Connectedness can be axiomatized in infinitary logic, but not in ordinary first order logic. Just take an ultraproduct of the paths $P_n$ of length $n$, $n\in\mathbb N$. The paths are connected, but the ultraproduct has exactly two vertices of degree 1 and these two are not joined by a path of any finite length. If connectedness was axiomatizable by a first order theory $\Phi$, then all the $P_n$ would satisfy $\Phi$ and hence the ultraproduct satisfies $\Phi$. But the ultraproduct is not connected, a contradiction.
I was wondering whether non-connectedness is first order axiomatizable. I guess it is not, but I don't have an argument for this right now.
An attempted proof goes as follows: Let $G_n$ be the disjoint union of two cycles of length $n$. Take an ultraproduct $H$ of the $G_n$. Now all vertices of $H$ have degree $2$ and
there are no finite cycles. In other words, $H$ is the disjoint union of a family of
infinite (in both directions) paths.
We were done if we could show that $H$ is elementary equivalent to the bi-infinite path (is there a notation for this graph?). I assume that this is the case, but I don't see why.
A different proof that non-connectedness is not first order axiomatizable would also be welcome (or an axiomatization).


text: player1465698 0 Posted October 8, 2010 There've been a lot of, sometimes heated, discussions of this recently to various separate threads. I wanted to discuss a couple of points, specifically what house rules might make this expansion worth investing time and money in ... without opening the whole can of worms again and thought the homebrew section would be a good home for this. As I understand it: SoB has a lot going for it but is ultimately broken against any Overlord who seriously tries to win. It could be playable against an overlord who plays Lieutenant more like a GM "for fun" rather than in the competitive way which marks Descent as such a good game for Overlords in the genre. Lieutenants are almost unbeatable except in very contrived circumstances, and are practically unkillable. The fact that they do not have to return to their starting location makes forcing a Lieutenant to flee a mostly fruitless victory. Some people find that SoB's sea encounters and island levels in general to be impossible but this is more contentious. Others find only a couple of extreme examples to be terrible (but no more so than shades in Box Canyon, say), but are generally fine, if not easier than a Dungeon level. Other factors (Home port, a better structured map, Divine favour, Amended final battle, Treasure maps instead of Legendary Locations) in general seem like they would make for an improved campaign from RtL... if only it were winnable. Does this sound about right? I'm really hoping that FFG is devoting some serious testing into how to make this game playable... but in the meantime, does it seem as though this would be a good game if only the Lieutenants were houseruled into being beatable? Current suggestions seem to run along the lines of forcing Lts back to their starting location and counting the Revenge exiting the far side of the map as a hero victory. The Immortal mentioned that he had some ideas... care to share them? The main discussions, although there have been legion... seem to me to be those below: Long argument on whether there is anything good in SoB at all. Lots of opinions. Corbon concedes after several attempts that the campaign is unwinnable against an Overlord who seriously and aggressively pursues victory through Lieutenants: A current discussion on BGG. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I dont think Amare's comments were made to offend Antoni but clearly they did. At the same time Amare should take some accountability for his poor defense throughout his career, alot of its effort and thats something we often havent seen from Stat on defense.Mike D'Antoni responded to comments made this week by Amar'e Stoudemire suggesting he had never been taught defense during his entire NBA career.
D'Antoni has been Stoudemire's primary coach between his time with the Suns and Knicks.
I think its great, DAntoni said Thursday after the Los Angeles Lakers practice. I think its great that hes listening. He might have forgotten that Mike Woodson was also running the defense the last year I was there, so I dont know if he just didnt pick that year to listen. But Amares great. Sometimes you say things, but hopefully, thats another step he can take forward and help his game. That would be great.
Its funny how the word "defense" continues to haunt Mike D'antoni, hes been having mini temper tantrums over it since before he came to the Knicks. I also think its funny how this is the 3rd time Amare has been quoted for saying that hes never learned how to play defense going back to his last year in Phoenix after Antoni left


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Alec Baldwin says his younger brother Stephen Baldwin, arrested today on tax-evasion charges, is "no different than millions of other people," in that he spent money he had that should have been put aside to pay taxes.
"I don't think he's going to jail," the "30 Rock" star said Thursday on "Piers Morgan Tonight." "I know that he's in a negotiated settlement...Things that were online, which were...that's what media today does, they try to tilt it the way that they need it to be to sell copies and what have you, and sell online hits to their sites."
Speaking of which, before being asked about Stephen, Baldwin had offered this opinion on modern-day paparazzi culture:
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"My attitude is that the business would be infinitely better if all of them were gone," he said, not surprising us in the least. "If I could push a button tomorrow and flush them all down some swirling sewer vortex , I would do it. Where's the button? Hand it to me now."
As for his brother's money woes, Baldwin said his sibling is already in the process of taking care of business.
"We're talking about him being arrested and taken into custody and what have you, [but] this was all prearranged with the D.A. for him to go in and make an appearance," he explained of procedural rigmarole Stephen had to go through today that resulted in his Blue Steel mug shot. "And they've got to shake him down, and they've got to make him walk that gauntlet because that's their procedure, even though steps have been made to begin the process of remediating that money, and down payments have been made."
Stephen Baldwin cops to driving with a suspended license, pays a fine
"But one of the things I find interesting in my lifetime, and I'm sure you will recognize this in yours with people that you've known," Baldwin told Morgan,"is that when you have far less money than you need and you have far more money than you need, they're both equal in terms of how easy it is to get into trouble with the tax man.
"Only people who really walk down the middle in a more realistic framework financially seem to keep that right," he noted. "I have so many friends of mine who annualize their income, they make a lot of money one year, two years, three years, then they just assume it's going to carry on for many, many years, and those people end up spending the money that they ordinarily would have to segregate into a tax account. And my brother in that sense is no different than millions of other people.
"His problem as of today is being cleared up," Baldwin concluded, "but they did drag him through that mud today."


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Enterprise Unix Roundup: Talking Past Each Other
"Unix Held Hostage, Day 98?"SCO, Linus Torvalds, and Open Source Initiative co-founders Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens unleash their fury with 'open' letters. But in all cases, are the real recipients even paying attention? In other news, SGI is SCO's latest target; Sun's pricing announcement for Orion looms on the horizon; and Novell elaborates on its strategy shift. We also reveal our tool of choice for logwatching.
"War in the (Utah) Desert?"
We're trying to figure out the title for the informative infographic we'd provide if this column were a news show and we led each episode with more about the SCO/Linux case, which, like the rainy season in Portland, Oregon, has settled over the IT landscape in a way that causes us to shake our fists at the sky, pleading for just one day sans the relentless drizzle.
It seems as though absent a ruling, which is a long ways away, we aren't going to get any relief. SCO has to make its case before the public to have any hope of selling any of its freshly minted runtime licenses (which convert that free copy of Linux your company downloaded last week into a $900-per-seat Unix knock-off), and that means people who disagree with SCO are climbing over each other to rebut.
We'd like to think that last week's column, in which we opined that SCO is burning bridges with the server room set as it makes its case to the suits, was noticed in the Lindon, Utah offices, inspiring the company to reach out to open source developers with an open letter this week. But that would mean we'd have to take responsibility for writing a column that was flatly incomprehensible to SCO, as it took the opportunity provided by that open letter to accuse open source developers of theft and irresponsibility.
On the other hand, it's not like SCO's letter was to open source developers. It was really just more communication with the suits whom SCO is expecting will not meditate too hard on assertions like "the Open Source community needs a business model that is sustainable if it is to grow beyond a part-time avocation into an enterprise-trusted development model."From a software vendor's point of view, that makes a certain amount of sense: Part of SCO's corporate DNA includes an early Linux mover (Caldera) that went down in flames trying to sell something others are giving away for free. From the point of view of the rest of us (i.e., the people who have to use this stuff), comments like that ignore the way all sorts of open source projects, like Linux, Apache, the BSD family, PHP, sendmail, and bind, are trusted by all sorts of "enterprise customers" who make money with open source software not by selling it, but by conducting business with it. It ignores this fact so badly that we could almost suspect the letter was only recently dug out of a time capsule from 1997.
But that's just SCO's part of the drama this week; the open source developers it was talking past wrote back. Most notable, if only because he has a reputation for affability and a general disinterest in the spotlight, Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote a missive titled "Open letter to Darl McBride -- please grow up," which read, in part:
"... we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery."
Open Source Initiative co-founders Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens also fired back their own letter, charging SCO's CEO with writing a "farrago of falsehoods, half-truths, evasions, slanders, and misrepresentations."
Raymond's other contribution to the dust up this week is a piece of software able to compare large chunks of code at the rate of 55,000 lines per second. Conceivably, such a tool could be used to compare, say, Linux source code to SCO source code, helping to resolve just how much copyright infringing is going on, if any. Though Raymond declined to say he if plans to use it to undermine SCO's case, he did say "I am grinning a grin that should frighten the thieves and liars at SCO out of a week's sleep."
It may be time to reconsider "War in the Desert" for that news graphic: If the claims, counterclaims, and rhetoric get any more heated, welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com is going to have some competition:
"Don't believe the lies of the infidels. There is no SCO code in the Linux kernel. Never!"
Oops. Looks like it already has.
In Other News
- In the midst of all the other hollering, SCO included mention that SGI is now, officially, on the hook for potential infringement of SCO's intellectual property, too. According to the company, a Linux developer on the SGI payroll stripped SCO copyright notices from code licensed to SGI and included it in the Linux kernel. No word yet from SGI, and SCO says the companies are currently in talks about the matter. We should note that the only major Unix players untouched by SCO (so far) appear to be the BSD family. Everyone else seems to be getting ready to go to court or has already, at least figuratively, mailed a check to SCO in exchange for indemnification, provided suspicions about HP are correct.
- We're heartened to read Sun will be announcing some prices for the Orion "software train," which the company says will revolutionize the way companies pay for server products. As one network ops chief and loyal Sun customer told us a few weeks ago, "I'd be more interested if I had some idea what they want for it." Next week's SunNetWork conference, where the announcements are being made, should provide her an answer.
How this all fits with Sun's hardware business was made a little more apparent, too, as the company intimated prices will be lower for customers buying Sun's x86 hardware than they will be for customers running, say, Dell hardware.
- Novell put some meat on the bones of recent
pronouncements about its shift in strategy at BrainShare Europe
2003. The company will be including recent `` Ximian's Red
Carpet, a software management product, in its Nterprise Linux Services
package, which is slated for release by the end of the year. The package will
also include iFolder, NetMail, iManager, and Novell's Internet mail
The newly OS-agnostic face of Novell was also on display in its announcement of the Nterprise Branch Office 2 package, which will work equally well with Windows, Linux, and NetWare servers. Nterprise Branch Office 2 is an appliance software package that acts as an intermediary between primary data centers and groups of workstations.
- Wind River USA announced it is discontinuing its distribution of "the commercial BSD": BSD/OS. Customers have until December 31, 2003 to purchase the final release (5.1), which will include enhancements such as Kerberos 5, gcc 3.2.2, gdb 5.2.1,
binutils 2.3.1, TCP Segmentation Offload, USB 1.1 support, enhanced DMA bus support, and Common Access Method (CAM) Layer support. The announcement marks the end of Wind River's two-year stint as a BSD distributor. The company purchased rights to the product in 2001 after BSDi, the original distributor, shifted its business to hardware
as iXsystems.
- Another piece of Sun news, previously covered, is the
departure of Bill Joy from the company after 21 years. Many a Unix
nerd holds Joy in no small amount of esteem for his role in Berkeley
(later BSD) Unix, and his authorship of the bane of Unix newbies
everywhere, the vi editor. We once described vi as ideal for
"masochists on some sort of bizarre kick that causes second-year
college students to run away to monastic cults until they get tired of
eating porridge and sweeping the floor with rush brooms that are too
We have no such issue with Bill Joy, himself, for whom we wish the best of luck.
Security Tip of the Trade
This week brought news of yet another RPC-based hole in Windows, which brought predictable crowing and carrying from everyone else. While we enjoy a little schadenfreude as much as the next Unix geek, we also remember to keep an eye on our logs and make sure no one's making a monkey of us. Our tool of choice for the chore of logwatching?
A free tool called "logcheck." This handy program parses log files for entries that look anomalous, such as repeated failed login attempts to your FTP server from somewhere in Russia, and mails you a copy of the entries. Better yet, it can be customized to operate at several levels of cautiousness, from "workstation" to "paranoid," ensuring you aren't inundated with pointless messages. It also has a configuration directory that enables admins to use regular expressions to mask out messages that aren't worth worrying about. Here's a sample line from the "ignore" file for the secure shell daemon that makes sure you aren't warned every time someone hangs up a remote ssh session:
sshd.*: (fatal: )?Connection closed by remote host\
We got this example courtesy of the Debian distribution (which forked the project to suit its needs), but you can always visit the closest thing to a project page to find tarballs to build.
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EGLIN AFB -- Last week, the first two United Kingdom pilots started training to fly the F-35.
They join an elite rank. Only 30 pilots in the world have been or are in the process of training to fly the new stealth fighter jet, which is still in testing phases.
"It's an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," said Royal Air Force squadron leader Franki Buchler, one of the two pilots. "I feel very privileged and lucky. I hope I do the aircraft and the Air Force justice."
Buchler and fellow pilot, Royal Navy Lt. Cdr. Ian Tidball, have joined the U.S. Marines Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, which is conducting initial training and instruction on the F-35B at Eglin Air Force Base.
The Air Force is conducting similar training on the F-35A variant.
The U.K. pilots will take academic courses for about six weeks before they go on their first flights.
In addition to the two pilots, 12 aircraft maintainers, two supervisors and their families moved from the United Kingdom to the area to join the Marines and learn about the F-35.
In 2014 this group, along with another pilot and 50-odd more maintainers, are set to head to Edwards Air Force Base in California to stand up their own United Kingdom squadron to test the plane for combat use.
While at Eglin, wing commander Jon Millington, who heads the U.K. group, said he and his men effectively are operating as Marines.
"I told them, 'You are part of that Marine squad. Embrace it. Enjoy it. You won't have a chance to be a Marine again,' " Millington said.
Buchler said being embedded with the Marine Corps is different than the Royal Navy. He's been taking part in squad runs and has noticed the Marines require much more physical training time, which he said is a good thing.
"It's going to get my fitness back into shape," he said.
He was honored to become a temporary part of the force.
"Just to be around the guys, it's great," Buchler said. "They've bent over backwards to make us feel that we're Marines, too."
The United Kingdom has had a hand -- and money invested -- in the development of the F-35 from the beginning.
"The F-35 would not be here today if it wasn't for the U.K.," said Marine Col. Art Tomassetti.
He said the United Kingdom has the most knowledge on earth about short takeoff and vertical landing capabilities, which the F-35B variant has.
The U.K. has purchased three of the planes, two of which already are at Eglin. The third is expected in February.
For now, those planes are added to the Marine fleet of 11 F-35Bs. The three planes are expected to be flown to the U.K. by 2018.
Millington said the community has been extremely supportive of his men and their families, including the 21 children who were brought to live here while the team trains.
Most have settled in Bluewater Bay, he said.
Royal Air Force Capt. Steven Grant, who graduated from his weapons maintenance course Monday, relocated his wife and 3-year-old son from northern Scotland.
He said it was "a bit of a different climate" in Florida. The family arrived in September when it was still warm enough to go to the beach.
"It's been very hectic since we got here, but everybody's been really helpful," he said. "Everybody we spoke to, they realized who we are. They seemed to know we were coming before we were even here."
He said many locals invited the families to their homes for Thanksgiving.
Tomassetti said the Marines, the United Kingdom's Navy and Royal Air Force and the U.S. Air Force have formed a uniquely qualified team with wide-ranging experience to work through initial test phases with the F-35.
"Other than the fact that people are wearing slightly different clothes, it would seem that everybody's a part of one big operation," he said.


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Monday, March 05, 2012
Tuesday Recipe: Taco Salad: Whole30 Style
After work, after my run, after baseball registration I whipped up this salad for my tomorrow lunch and dinner. Oh my gosh. It is SO good that I ended up eating it tonight for dinner along with Troy! He wasn't sure about the purple cabbage but at least gave it a try. His response "not bad" as he shoveled the last forkful into his mouth!
I made a ton so I am going to drop off a tupperware for my sister at CrossFit-she brings my nephew to the same building for Taekwondo after my CF class, which is going well. Although last Thursday I learned that i have no skill in learning snatch , clean and clean and press. I suck miserably but practiced all weekend with a piece of PCV pipe because my form is horrible. Hopefully at class tomorrow it isn't as horrible as it was last Thursday.
This is REALLY good:
Brown 2 pounds grass fed beef
Season with 2 T chili powder, 2T garlic powder, 1/2 salsa, 2T cumin, 1 T ground pepper, 1 T red chili pepper flakes
1 head purple cabbage
1 clump green onions
2 mangoes oh my gosh how I love mango
2 cucumber
1 avocado
3 T olive oil
2T balsamic vinegar
Place greens onto plate, pile on beef. Oh yeah! The cool crisp vegetables and fruit with the warm spicy beef is just wonderful.
Speaking of beef..I found another grass fed beef producer in the area that will DELIVER to me free of charge any Thursday! Awesome.
My first batch will arrive this Thursday. He also invited me out to his farm to check out the operation. Gotta like that. I don't imagine I will see cows knee high in manure, being fed corn and being dosed with antibiotics because their stomachs can't digest corn. OK, that's another tangent.
So enjoy the Taco Salad above. You will like.
2 comments:
- Damon said...
The Oly lifts will come in time. Part of it has to do with flexibility, and I found that 25 years of focusing on running long distances has really messed with my mobility. But, I am constantly improving in the Oly lifts and their sub-components (such as the OH squat). Give it time, don't push the weight too much - focus on form over weight moved - and they will get better.
- Jensamom23 said...
Discovered you last night on the BC class. Very inspiring story you have. And this receipe looks yummy!
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