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Dear Bartender and Priestess,
I'm not sure what I expect from you, but I feel like I need to get this off my chest. I'm just so taken aback. And angry. Okay, really angry.
I love dogs. I'm a dog owner and have always been a dog owner. Every dog I have ever had was socialized and well trained. Every dog has had up-to-date shots. Wherever you live, these must be the minimum requirements for being a dog owner. Dogs are not status symbols; they're meant to be companions. But that means you have to be responsible.
In the last two months, I have had two friends on bicycles bitten by dogs, neither of which was contained in their yards. Luckily neither friend was badly hurt, but one had to have rabies shots, which are wildly expensive and painful.
I was with another friend, who was walking her dog very properly, on a leash, in a public park, when another dog, also on a leash but far larger than the elderly couple who owned it could handle, pulled away and savaged my friend's dog. Their careless son got himself a big muscular dog, then got a job in the city, and foisted Bowser off on his parents. If they'd ever wanted a dog, I can't imagine Bowser was their first choice. They wound up paying a lot of money in vet bills.
None of these dogs had been trained. And Bowser is just one more dog, completely unsuited to people without a massive amount of upper body strength and the willingness to work very hard to turn him into a family pet.
This deliberate carelessness leads to people who are devastated because their beloved pet has to be euthanized — and who are clueless that it's their fault. It's a waste of wonderful animals who could be companions to the right people, but will never be, because people confuse training with abuse. People and pets are injured because these poor animals have not had responsible pet owners. I think not socializing your dog is mistreating that dog.
Fed up with Status Dogs and Lazy Owners
Dear Fed Up,
B&P: I'm not sure what more we can say here because I think we'd just be adding our voices to your chorus. But you know, being a chorus for reason isn't necessarily a bad thing.
B: Dogs can be wonderful. They can be, of course, faithful companions and a surprising amount of help, a source of love and comfort and security. But they are animals with limited reasoning capabilities, and they need to be trained. From day one. By owners that can clearly be in control of the dog; they may be limited in their ability to reason but they know when their owner isn't actually in charge. Otherwise, they act according to their doggy will, which may be friendly or aggressive or aloof or high-strung or bitey, as their inherent doggy temperaments will accordingly predispose them.
P: While I like dogs, I don't have them, because I know that I would not be a good dog owner. I'm not interested in taking the time they require to train and the attention they deserve when you bring them into your life. People look at a darling puppy, or even a jaunty senior and think, that dog is going to love me. That works about as well as having a baby when you're a teenager. They may love you, but they require a lot of hard work to be good companion animals and good neighbors and citizens.
B: What people either fail to recognize or ignore outright—what I think about this depends on the day, sometimes the hour—is that when you take in a pet, you generate a sort of contract with that animal. You're basically saying to that animal, I'd like you to live in this home. From you, I expect companionship/help/adorable YouTube videos, etc. In exchange, I'm going to do what I can to take care of you, including making sure you are either A) socialized into the society I live in, or B) in a cage/behind a fence if your socialization can't be properly executed. It's why you need to keep pet rats in a cage (can you blame the stranger on the street who would hit it with a rock, if it got out?) and also why wild animals like chimps and tigers make bad pets (they can't be fully domesticated).
P: Much of my job, far more than I ever suspected, revolves around building community. Humans live well in societal groups. We feel secure; we can be more welcoming; life is better when we have a community around us. That means we have to live our lives aware of our neighbors. If we're going to have pets, they have to be part of that communal society. One person's right to have a dog is not larger than your neighbors' rights to be safe. You can have a dog but the dog must be socialized. And most of them are trainable. But you don't get to have a wild or aggressive animal.
B: What this explicitly does not mean is that you should be so cavalier/uninvolved/negligent/incapable toward a pet that it becomes a public nuisance. The bitey dog that chases bicyclists will only get so many strikes against it from the public health department before the dog warden will show up to take that animal and destroy it. Not through that animal's fault. Through the owner's. They're the ones who violate the contract when they are careless with their pets. It's kind of the same thing with people who are neglectful toward their kids, and let them run wild.
P: Right, Terri, it's interesting that neither of us have dogs or children. We're keeping other contracts. Because we like dogs and children, we didn't have them — because we were not interested in dedicating the time they would require to grow up to be healthy, loving, contributing members of our families and communities. We enjoy other people's dogs and children, when they're enjoyable. And we're likely to be fairly clear about our boundaries for acceptable behavior and require it. Because we're who we are, we often get the behavior we expect. However, it's not our job to be there because you don't do your job.
Serendipity being what it is, I just had a conversation with a wedding couple who have a disabled dog. An untrained, un-vaccinated, too big for the owner, large dog tore up this little Pekinese. The Peke lost one eye, was blinded in the other, is now deaf in one ear, and lost a leg. And the Peke's owner was bitten trying to save his dog. "Hey, dude, he's a big dog," is not taking responsibility for the dog's behavior.
B: Nobody—and I mean nobody—wants to live near the wild kids or the bitey dogs. Conscientious household stewarding involves recognizing the rights of your neighbors to be unmolested or live in constant worry of dog attacks. If you don't want to tend to the dog and even want it to be bitey, then you'd better make sure you restrain it at all times. Make sure it's always on a leash that's being held by someone strong enough to hold it, and build a fence for your yard. Thoughtful dog training makes for better neighborhoods. It's not funny—it's divisive, it's scary, it's expensive, it can be fatal—for a dog to be allowed to run at will and bite. Dog owners, do you want to be that person? If you're going to agree to take in an animal, then abide by the unspoken contract, and act in that dog's best interests. The dog only knows what it's taught; dog owners, it's up to you to fill in the rest so the dog can function in our established society.
P: And when you don't do the work you should have done, societally minded priestess that I am, I expect a couple things to happen. A) I expect you to take full responsibility (that means both an admission that you animal was out of control, acknowledgement that you were lax in training, and provision for financial costs incurred by your animal.). B) I expect you to make a sincere apology for their missteps. C) I expect you to take your dog for training.
B&P: We don't know that the people we're talking to will be reading this, but we hope at the very least we can empower more of us to speak up. Don't let bitey dogs win. Demand training and ask to see the evidence. That makes you, dog owner or no, a good citizen and a good neighbor.


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Slovenly documentarian Michael Moore has a pretty good idea about why America's newspaper industry is in the toilet! 1) Greed; 2) Americans are dumb; 3) Republicans.
Moore had a press conference this morning about his upcoming movie I Hate Capitalism. He went off on a rant about the newspaper industry that is both surprisingly insightful, and unsurprisingly rooted in a Chomskyite capitalist critique! His remarks were transcribed in full by the National Post, so all are [sic]. His main points:
1. In Europe, papers get more revenue from circulation than from ads, so they have an incentive to put out a quality news product. Here, newspapers are ad-supported, and they've cut their content down to shit. Then he quotes David Simon, as is the law in such an argument.
2. "We live in a nation of 40 million functional illiterates: that's 40 million adults who cannot read and write above a fourth grade or fifth grade level. We have another probably 40 million adults who can read and write above a fourth grade level but don't have the comprehension beyond that very much. So if you have literally that many tens of millions of adults who either can't read and write above a fourth and fifth grade level or can't comprehend what they do read, you've created a nation of people who are not going to be reading the newspapers." No matter how hard they try, newspapers will never be able to become as dumb as Americans. It's a fact!
3. Republicans hate the Department of Education and thereby contribute to this widespread American illiteracy; nevertheless, Moore says, "In the 17 elections between 1940 and 2004, the majority of American newspapers endorsed the Republican candidate for President 14 of the 17 elections." Vote Republican and die, newspapers.
Also, you know, the XBox is just too fun. Read his whole speech at The Ampersand.


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2008 review: April
Here are the five most popular Dezeen stories from April 2008. Firstly, a tea house made out of paper and cardboard by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.
Second most popular was Zaha Hadid Architects' design for the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Our third most-viewed story showed NE apartments, a block of eight apartments for motorcycle enthusiasts in Tokyo, designed by Japanese architects Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi and Hirofumi Ohno.
Fourth was Monowheel by Ben Wilson - a cycle where the rider sits inside a large, spokeless wheel.
In fifth place was Bryghusgrunden Project by Office for Metropolitan Architecture, a building on Copenhagen's waterfront that will house the Danish Architecture Centre and the Realdania Foundation.
See all our stories from April 2008
See also:
2008 review: January
2008 review: February
2008 review: March


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I'll be taking a few weeks off to travel with my family, and will write infrequently during this time. I'm reposting some favorites in case you missed them. Have a good, safe summer!
A study of caffeinated drinks and type 2 diabetes caught my eye. I'm always on the lookout for studies on coffee, because – let's admit it – I love coffee, and like many other coffee aficionados, I fear that someday this pleasure will be found a guilty one. And then what shall we do? Decide it's worth the risk? Or convince ourselves we never really cared for this delicious, thought brightening, history-defining drink?
For coffee lovers most research news has been reassuring. Years of investigation have shown that coffee in moderation poses no threat to healthy adults – those worries about heart disease and cancer risks end up being unwarranted. What's more, the coffee habit has even been shown to confer health benefits, and is associated with protection from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, stoke, gallstones and liver disease.
Caffeine and diabetes
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, observed a very large population of about 75,000 women and 40,000 men for more than two decades, trying to see if there's an association between the caffeinated and caffeine-free drinks they consume and the development of type 2 diabetes.
The study looked at all types of typically caffeinated drinks: coffee, tea, sugary drinks and artificially sweetened drinks.
Over the years more than 10,000 of the people developed type 2 diabetes. There are many factors known to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, such as obesity, family history of diabetes, hypertension and smoking. After controlling for those, the researchers set about to see whether caffeinated drinks made a difference.
Here's what they found:
- Coffee, caffeinated or decaf, was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.
- Caffeinated tea was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes.
- Sugary drinks, both caffeinated and caffeine free, were associated with a significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
Are coffee and tea protective?
It's impossible to conclude cause and effect from these kinds of studies. The authors describe a few plausible protective mechanisms in which coffee and tea can affect diabetes: both are rich in flavonoid antioxidants, which may help in reducing inflammation. It's likely that it's one of the multitude of compounds in coffee and tea – or several of them acting together -- that have positive health effects, and caffeine, which we treasure for its stimulating properties, has nothing to do with the other benefits.
On the other hand, the association between sugary drinks and diabetes is very suggestive of a direct biologic effect: sugar and high fructose corn syrup are quickly absorbed and cause spikes in blood sugar and insulin. Several studies have shown that sugary drinks are linked with diabetes independently of the weight gain associated with these drinks.
What this study shows quite well is that it's the sugars that are associated with the development of type 2 diabetes, not the caffeine. The caffeine content of soda seems irrelevant to the risk of diabetes.
So hurray for coffee – and tea – but before you go on a coffee binge, a few words of caution: most studies showing coffee's benefits and lack of harm looked at people drinking coffee in moderation. Coffee in moderation is fine, but that doesn't mean that coffee in large amounts is even better – quite the opposite!
That also doesn't mean that caffeinated drinks are healthy – it seems that energy drinks can be quite unsafe.
And it doesn't attest to caffeine's safety for kids. These coffee and caffeine safety studies were done with adults only, and kids' physiology is quite different.
Dr. Ayala
Image: The shrub on the right, Coffea Arabica, carries coffee berries. On the left: the familiar roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of the plant.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Strawberry Mirror Cake: Daring Bakers July
This month Peabody of Culinary Concoctions chose a beautiful Strawberry Mirror Cake for the July Daring Baker Challenge. The cake consists of 3 parts: sponge cake, strawberry Bavarian cream, and a strawberry gelatin (none of which I have made before). The whole process took Bettina and I about 2 days to complete. Out of all the days in this month, we just happened to pick the hottest day of this year (remember me complaining about that heat wave?) to do the challenge, which was not a good idea.
The Cake:
I was a little worried the cake would taste too eggy since the recipe called for 6 eggs. Three of the eggs were separated and the whites were beaten to stiff peaks and the 3 yolks were combined with the 3 remaining eggs and beaten "until thick and light." I've never made a sponge cake before so I thought I could beat the eggs by hand, while I leave my KitchenAid to beat the whites. I was feeling particularly lethargic in the heat that day so I didn't want to wash out my mixing bowl after beating the eggs to beat the whites. This is rather ironic because washing the bowl would have taken one minute whereas we spent 10 times longer beating them by hand. I had no trouble beating the whites but beating the eggs by hand was not a good idea when it was 90 degrees indoors. Bettina and I had to take turns beating the eggs. After 10 seconds of beating we would break into a sweat and have to go sit in front of the fan to cool off while the other person took over the beating. They looked a tad thicker but little did I know, they were suppose to double, triple, even quadruple their original volume! The color was supposed to be very pale yellow but mine were still very yellow. Some DBs beat the eggs for 20 minutes in a KA, imagine how long I would have had to beat by hand to achieve the same result! Eek! In the end we were fed up with the eggs and proceeded to the next step. The eggs were still very liquidy rather than light and voluminous, so folding in the cake flour and the whites was very troublesome.
When the cakes emerged from the oven (450 degree oven on a hot summer day, not fun), the tops were an even golden brown and looked very nice. They were springy to the touch. However, they had shrunk to about 7 1/2 inches in diameter, when I baked them in an 8in cake pan. When I flipped the cake out to cool, I noticed the bottom felt tough and rubbery. I crossed my fingers and hoped it was just a thin layer on the bottom of the cake that would be remedied by pouring the cream on top.
The Cream and Mirror:
No major problems with the Bavarian cream or mirror. There was a little foam and bubbles on top of the mirror that I neglected to skim off so the mirror wasn't as shiny or smooth as it could have been. (I was getting a little lazy towards the end.)
The Assembly:
Now here is where it got tricky. In the original recipe, the cake is baked in a 11 by 17 jelly roll pan and then 8 1/4 in diameter cake rounds are cut out of the rectangular sheet cake. A round is placed in a 10 in springform then the Bavarian cream is poured over it when it is thick but still somewhat liquidy. I had a 10 in springform pan however, since my cake layers had shrunk to 7 1/2 inches, that would mean the outer layer of frosting would be over an inch thick, way too thick. I didn't have a 9 in springform but using my Daring Baker ingenuity (dun da da dun!), I fashioned a foil collar that I set around the cake so I could pour in the Bavarian without the outer layer being overly thick of cream. I had to tuck the bottom of the foil under the cake so the cream wouldn't leak. I really wish I had remembered to take a picture of this setup because it was quite a hilarious and ridiculous sight. Bettina and I cracked up every time we looked this "disposable springform".
The Final Verdict:
The Bavarian was fluffy and airy when I made it but setting overnight in the fridge it ended up being a little too rubbery for my tastes. I've never made or had Bavarian cream before so I wasn't sure if Bavarian cream was supposed to have that texture. However, I really loved the flavor of the cream. It was light, full of the lovely flavor and fragrance of fresh strawberries. The strawberries impart a beautiful and delicate pink hue to the cream. When I sliced into the cake, I saw that the bottom 1/3 of the cake was a rubbery inedible mess (due to not beating the eggs enough). The top 2/3 of the cake was spongy and delicious, not too eggy at all. My favorite part aside from the top part of the cake that was actually edible was the mirror. The mirror was the best strawberry gelatin I've ever had. Overall the cake tasted alright but I think I could have done a better job.
I was dissatisfied with the end result of this cake, not because of the recipe, but because of my mistakes and inexperience. I will definitely try my hand at the cake again. I'll remake the sponge cake for a Boston Cream Pie. Next time I remake the Bavarian cream I'll use a little less gelatin.
The Recipe:
Visit Peabody's blog for the complete recipe, courtesy of "Cakes and Pastries At The Academy by the California Culinary Academy". Be sure to check out all the beautiful mirror cakes by visiting the Daring Bakers Blog Roll.
27 comments:
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Amy, I think you nailed this one! My favorite part was the mirror too. I really want to make some red jello and use this recipe. I also think the bavarian cream was lovely with the strawberry fragrance! I am so sorry you didn't get a photo of your "disposable springform" to share with us but I'll bet it will always bring a smile to your lips whenever you remember it! I think you've just experienced the ideal Daring Baker challenge and you've gotten lessons and good experience from it.
Well done with the cake Amy, so glad you are a Daring Baker. - July 31, 2007 at 12:05 AM
- Anh said...
Amy, your cake is really lovely. I love it.
My cream stays ok even after long time in the fridge. The mirror is beautiful, isn't it? - July 31, 2007 at 1:27 AM
- Meeta K. Wolff said...
I liked the juice the best. It looks totally great and great job with the challenge. Glad you are one of us!
- July 31, 2007 at 2:31 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Once again the Daring Bakers have taught us all a few lessons about baking -- for me, the lesson is to leave the mirror cake to other, more experienced bakers! Glad you tried this and will try it again.
- July 31, 2007 at 3:18 AM
- breadchick said...
Yup, figures about picking the hottest day huh? I had to have the AC in the kitchen cranked to Morgue temp to even stand being in the kitchen the day I made mine. Bavarian cream doesn't normally have that much gelatin in it. I think it was needed here to give a firm foundation for the mirror. Great job though!
- July 31, 2007 at 4:51 AM
- Andrea said...
Great job on your cake! The juice was delicious, wasn't it? We both did the aluminum foil thing and it worked! :-)
- July 31, 2007 at 5:32 AM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Amy, your cake looks superb - you did a great job trying so many things for the first time!
- July 31, 2007 at 7:02 AM
- Deborah said...
I think we all learned many things on this challenge. Your cake is beautiful!
- July 31, 2007 at 8:49 AM
Goodness, ya'll are daring bakers indeed! 2 days for a cake? I'm impressed.
Ari (Baking and Books) - July 31, 2007 at 9:52 AM
- Wandering Chopsticks said...
It looks lovely. I just bought one for dinner Saturday night. Had no idea there was a name for it! :)
- July 31, 2007 at 12:12 PM
- Unknown said...
Your cake looks very good :)
- July 31, 2007 at 12:39 PM
- Jenny said...
Your cake looks great! A job well done!
- July 31, 2007 at 2:14 PM
- Dharm said...
Great Job Amy! Well done!
- July 31, 2007 at 8:57 PM
- Peabody said...
Good job Amy. sorry the texture wasn't all you would have hoped it would be.
- July 31, 2007 at 11:55 PM
- WokandSpoon said...
Wow - I still think the cake looked beautiful! I like "springy" cakes ;-) send it over!
- August 1, 2007 at 12:28 AM
- Lis said...
Ugh I can just imagine how horrible it was beating the eggs in that kind of heat - and then having to turn your oven up to such a high temp.. I feel your pain.
But you guys trudged through and that right there says you are definitely a Daring Baker!
xoxo - August 1, 2007 at 2:19 AM
I think you did terrific,Amy. Your cake looks awesome. I really wished you took a picture of your disposable spring form setup that sounds interesting!
- August 1, 2007 at 2:59 AM
You are unhappy with the cake? But it looks lovely and so much effort was spent. Good job!
- August 1, 2007 at 10:11 AM
- Cheryl said...
I think you did a really great job with the cake.
- August 1, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Sorry to hear you weren't happy with the final cake. I found it a bit bland as well. But you still did a wonderful job!
- August 1, 2007 at 3:31 PM
- Unknown said...
Nice job. My cream turned a little rubbery too, which was sad.
- August 1, 2007 at 5:54 PM
- Jerry said...
Heat has come to Texas! Turn on the A/C! Looks wonderful despite the weather!
- August 2, 2007 at 1:55 PM
- Dolores said...
I think your cake is gorgeous... it withstood the heat quite nicely. I love how we all seem to learn from these challenges.
- August 2, 2007 at 11:59 PM
- Amy said...
Thank you everyone for your sweet comments! I can't say how much I enjoy the Daring Baker challenges and how much I learn from them! Can't wait to tackle next months challenge. I'm so glad to be a part of this group! Thanks again everyone!
I'm so tempted to make the mirror again and just eat it. It was really quite delicious.
I think I'll like the texture of the cream more if I use 2 tbsp rather than 2.5 tbsp of gelatin.
The juice was so delicious!
I'm looking forward to making that Boston Cream Pie and trying my hand at sponge cake again.
Lol morgue settings! Yeah I was wondering about the gelatin since I saw a few recipes with less. I think I will definitely like it more if it used less.
Daring bakers think alike. ;D
I love trying new things. The DB challenges are always great!
We spread out the cake making but it still took a long time.
Oh interesting! I've never seen these cakes before.
Thank you!
I still loved the challenge, thanks for choosing it!
Aw thanks. :)
Old house = no AC = a bad day to bake. Lol. But it was worth it stealing little spoonfuls of the cream. Yummy ;D
The foil thing was really... unquie. Lol.
In the end probably not worth the time and effort but definitely worth it considering all the things I learned.
Thank you!
I would have liked the cake more if it didn't have that rubbery layer on the bottom. Good learning experience though!
Aw, it was so delicious before getting rubbery too. :(
I really wish I had AC that day.
Learning is the best part. :) - August 3, 2007 at 11:58 AM
- Elle said...
Amy, I think you did a great job, Daring Baker. I agree that less gelatin in the bavarian cream would be better, but the sponge cake was great. Sorry it took me so long to comment.
- August 3, 2007 at 4:03 PM
Lovely job!
- August 5, 2007 at 8:28 PM
- Amy said...
Aw thanks! I'm hoping to redo the sponge very soon.
Thanks! - August 5, 2007 at 8:43 PM


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TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Israel's airstrike against Syria Wednesday underlines just how jumpy the Israelis are as they grapple with a range of emerging threats on all their increasingly unstable borders.
"Instability on every border has created a new strategic environment in Israel," the U.S. global security consultancy Stratfor observed.
Syria's civil war, which will enter its third year March 15, is in a dangerous phase as the Damascus regime of President Bashar Assad battles for survival. It threatens to spill over into ever-volatile Lebanon, stronghold of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, an implacable foe of the Jewish state.
The security of Syria's considerable arsenal of chemical weapons, as well as an estimated 50 tons of enriched uranium for a thwarted nuclear program, makes the Israelis extremely edgy.
Israeli leaders have warned they'll take military action if these fall into the hands of the jihadist forces fighting Assad or Hezbollah.
It's still not clear what the Israeli warplanes hit Wednesday. U.S. and Arab officials say it was probably a Lebanon-bound truck convoy carrying advanced Russian SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah. Syria maintains it was a military scientific research center near Damascus, without giving any hint why that would be a target.
The fact the Israelis felt compelled to mount such a high-profile operation indicates the extent of their concern the Syrian conflict's closing in on them, enough to merit military action.
The airstrike, plus last week's deployment of two Iron Dome counter-rocket batteries to northern Israel, and a recent flurry of diplomatic activity, with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sending senior officials to Moscow and Washington, underline the Israelis' unease.
Earlier this month, the Israel army's 7th Armored Brigade, the oldest tank brigade in the military, carried out major live-fire exercises with their Merkava tanks in the disputed Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 war, to boost combat readiness.
To the south, Israel is building up its defenses along the desert border with Egypt, where in the political turmoil that's swept the Arab world for two years the Muslim Brotherhood now rules in Cairo.
The Islamists, empowered after the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, are questioning the historic 1979 peace treaty Egypt signed with Israel. That's been a pillar of the Jewish state's strategic security policy for more than three decades.
Cairo's loss of control of the Sinai Peninsula, where jihadist groups are mounting attacks on southern Israel, means Netanyahu has to deploy sizeable military forces there again.
On Dec. 26, the army inaugurated a new southern brigade to protect the region around the city of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba, Israel's only port of the Red Sea and vital for trade with Asia. It's a prime target in any future conflict with Egypt.
The formation of the Eilat Brigade, part of the 80th Division, "is an expression of our changed operational perception," regional commander Brig. Gen. Nadav Pedent said.
On Jan. 21, the military announced a new southern commander, Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman, the former commander of the 7th Armored Brigade.
"The situation in Jordan is no more encouraging," Stratfor noted.
King Abdullah II, whose late father King Hussein signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, is facing rising political unrest, a consequence of the Arab Spring but heightened by his foot-dragging on promised democratic reforms and the flood of some 200,000 refugees from Syria.
This has heightened the Hashemite kingdom's perennial economic woes.
To make matters worse, more than 60 percent of Jordan's population of 6.5 million is Palestinian, long marginalized and increasingly restive.
Abdullah's nightmare is that the Israelis plan to push West Bank Palestinians to the east bank of the River Jordan and turn his resource-poor kingdom into the Palestinian state they demand.
Fallout from Syria could well ignite trouble there that will affect the Jewish state at a time when Netanyahu seems intent on driving Palestinians out of the West Bank forever.
Stratfor observed that Wednesday's airstrike may have been intended as warning to Hezbollah not to transfer weapons from Syria as the crisis there continues to degrade.
But, it said, "whatever the reason, one thing is clear: the new Israeli government facing the daunting challenge of managing multiple external threats on its borders."


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Fionnuala Britton en route to a commanding victory in Velenje (© Mark Shearman)
7 December 2012 – Budapest, Hungary – Hungary stages the SPAR European Cross Country Championships for the first time with the venue being the town of Szentendre, which is on the banks of the Danube just north of the Hungarian capital. Belgium's Atelaw Bekele and Ireland's Fionnuala Britton will both return to defend the titles they won in 2011 on Sunday (9).
In addition, Great Britain's 2011 junior girl's winner Emelia Gorecka does not turn 19 until next month and the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships 3000m bronze medallist is eligible to try for a second gold medal.
Senior men
Bekele is still striving to recover his best shape after suffering illness and injury earlier in the year - an Achilles problem and then a virus caught while training in his native Ethiopia - which caused him to miss the entire summer.
He showed a glimmer of the form he showed 12 months ago when he finished fifth on home soil at the recent top-quality European Athletics Cross Country Permit Meeting in Roeselaere but the mantle of pre-race favourite over 10km this time around falls on the shoulders of Ayad Lamdessem, the silver medallist in 2010 and 2011.
Lamdassem showed he is coming good at the right time when he finished second, and was the leading European, at the Cross de Alcobendas in Spain on 25 November.
Another man bidding to get on the podium again will be Portugal's Jose Rocha, last year's bronze medallist, who battled through tough conditions to win the Portuguese selection race at the Cross de Torres Vedras last month.
Two other names to mention are Turkey's 2012 European 10,000m champion Polat Kemboi Arikan, although he has little Cross Country form, and Ukraine's evergreen nine-time champion Serhiy Lebid, who has competed in every edition of the Championships since they started in 1994.
Senior women
Britton ran away with the 8km race from the halfway point last year but it will be a surprise if she wins with the same ease this time year, despite her recent performance when finishing third, and the leading European, at the European Athletics Cross Country Permit Meeting in Leffrinckoucke, France on 25 November.
Massed against her will be several good Portuguese runners including last year's silver medallist Ana Dulce Felix, the 10,000m winner at the European Athletics Championships last summer.
Felix has won two high quality Cross Country races in recent weeks, including a win in the Dutch city of Tilburg by five seconds from The Netherlands' hope, Adrienne Herzog, who was fifth in 2011.
Spain's Diana Martin has also been in splendid form in races at home and the steeplechaser looks set to improve significantly on her previous best position of 14th from two years ago.
Under 23 men
There's no doubting the track pedigree of Azerbaijan's Hayle Ibrahimov as he has won European senior medals both indoors and out, and clocked 13:11.34 over 5000m in the summer but he has never ran in an international Cross Country race and so there must be a big question mark over how he will fare.
If Ibrahimov falters in the mud, then Great Britain's 2011 silver medallist James Wilkinson could step up a place on the podium.
Spain's Abdelaziz Merzoughi has tasted victory in this event in the past, having won the 2010 junior title, and shows all the signs in his Spanish outings over the last month of being to the fore again.
Belarus's Siarhei Platonau could also be a factor, having finished fifth last year and improved significantly on the track this summer and it would also be unwise to discount Denmark's Abdi Ulad after his impressive effort to take the Nordic senior title last month.
Another interesting Scandinavian runner on the start line of this race will be the 2012 European 1500m champion Henrik Ingebrigtsen who was 15th in Velenje.
Under 23 women
This has all the signs of being a very high quality race but the marginal favourite seems to be Great Britain's Jess Coulson.
Still only 22, Coulson finishing a fine third at the IAAF Cross Country Permit Meeting, Cross Internacional de Atapuerca, in Spain on 11 November, when she came home a place in front of the European senior champion Fionnuala Britton. She followed this up with a win over other experienced runners at the UK trials in Liverpool two weeks later.
Germany's Corinna Harrer took the bronze medal in this category 12 months ago and clearly could make the top three again. Although she is primarily a 1500m runner, she reduced her personal bests over a variety of distances by big margins during the summer.
However, on a heavy course in Darmstadt last month, she was beaten into second place by Switzerland's Fabienne Schlumpf, who could bid for her country's first medal since 2000.
Junior men and women
This 6km junior men's race could be wide open race as only one man from last year's top 10, Great Britain's Kieran Clements (who was ninth), will be on the start line this time around.
Norway's Filip Ingebrigtsen, younger brother of Henrik, and Croatia's Dino Bosnjak were the leading European finishers in the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships 1500m and 5000m respectively and could transform their track talent to a different surface.
It is difficult to look beyond Gorecka for the gold medal in the junior women's 4km race but if anyone if to beat her then it is likely to be Serbia's Amela Terzic, second and third in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
Great Britain have also named Jessica Judd, the 2012 World Junior Championships 800m silver medallist in their squad.
A record 539 athletes and 35 countries have entered this year's Championships.
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Ethernet vendors will need to develop faster products more quickly to keep up with the demand being created by mobile and cloud computing, some participants at an industry group meeting said. The fast-growing use of mobile devices, fueled by tablets and cloud services, is rapidly increasing traffic on carrier backbones and data-center networks, said industry leaders and observers at the Ethernet Alliance's Technology Exploration Forum in Santa Clara, California.
The traffic is growing so fast that vendors can only stay two or three years ahead of carriers' needs with each new generation of Ethernet, forcing service providers to replace expensive gear more quickly than they want to, said Joel Goergen, a distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems.
To meet the needs of service providers and users 10 to 12 years into the future, the industry needs to dramatically accelerate its technology advancement, Goergen said.
"You need a 100-times jump, but all we can do is two-times or three-times," Goergen said in an interview at the conference.
The problem isn't so much pure technology advancement as the time it takes to reach consensus among vendors, he said. This is despite the fact that the networking industry works together better than most other IT sectors, he added.
Others said both elements come into play. The two work hand in hand, according to David Stauffer, chairman of the Physical and Link Layer Working Group at the Optical Interoperability Forum, who spoke at the conference.
Though researchers may develop new, faster technologies, vendors can't reach consensus on them until they're confident that the components can be manufactured for a reasonable price, Stauffer said. A component that can be made in a lab and demonstrated may not be feasible to manufacture in large volumes, he said.
Demand for bandwidth is growing especially fast in virtualized data centers, where high server utilization is driving companies to deploy 10-Gigabit Ethernet links to top-of-rack switches, said Dell'Oro Group analyst Alan Weckel. Aggregating all that data will require 100-Gigabit uplinks from switches, which some enterprises are clamoring for, and Terabit Ethernet data-center backbones, Weckel said. Terabit Ethernet isn't even in development yet, though some large entities, including Facebook, have said they need it.
Weckel doesn't think the industry can stay more than two or three years ahead of the need for speed. Though greater leaps may be technically possible, often they aren't economical, he said.
However, work toward new Ethernet standards is moving steadily forward. The IEEE 802.3 100-Gigabit Backplane and Copper Cable Study Group is on track to get a task force formed to solve the problems it is defining, said John D'Ambrosia, who is chairman of the study group. That task force would define standards for using 100-Gigabit Ethernet in the backplanes that provide connections within a switch. If all goes well, the IEEE will approve the task force in September, D'Ambrosia said.
A group studying the need for a next generation of Ethernet beyond 100-Gigabit is also making progress, according to D'Ambrosia. The IEEE 802.3 Industry Connections Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment Ad Hoc will receive input from the financial industry later this month and from Comcast and other big users of Ethernet later in the year, said D'Ambrosia, who also chairs that group.
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In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
Dear Dr. Laura,
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination … End of debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord – Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
4. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
5. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?
6. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?
7. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
8. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
9. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I'm confident you can help.
Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your adoring fan,
James M. Kauffman, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus,
Dept. Of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
University of Virginia
PS. It will be a shame if we can't own a Canadian.
Footnote: We are grateful to our reader, Damon Minvielle, for drawing our attention to Dr. James Kauffman's denial that he wrote the "Dear Dr. Laura" letter.
http://drlauraletter.com/ and http://people.virginia.edu/~jmk9t/


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Right on the button… The emo-inspiring (in pop terminology, that is) webcomic title of Pictures For Sad Children has some of the driest and most on-point sense of humor I've seen online. And the depictions of music blogs and obsessions with top 10 lists is pretty histerical, even given my own end of the year lists.
Still, the thing I love most about end of the year lists isn't an incessant need to categorize everything, but rather reflect on some of the music/movies/whatever that I found particularly compelling from the past year. These lists are often attempts by many to stand the "test of time," but in many ways they're a great marking for an individual's personal state-in-time. Looking back on some of my previous end of year lists, I see records I undeniably loved and still cherish, but I can see there are other albums that would have garnered higher spots and some records that mean more to me as a, dare I say it, nostalgic item more than "album # of whatever year it is." Looking back, there are some albums I might dig up soon and give another re-listen (because catching up on music is a job in and of itself).
Largehearted Boy has a full listing of countless year end music listings, to which this blog was humbly included, so check out that site for all the music you could ever want and more. I will not even attempt to match what he's done, but rather give something of a breakdown, matching where I placed my top 10 against other listings. Enjoy:
# 1: TV On The Radio – Dear Science,
#1: Ann Powers (L.A. Times), The A.V. Club, Chris DeLine (Culture Bully), Entertainment Weekly, Jon Pareles (New York Times), Josh Keller (Culture Bully), Michael D. Ayers (Billboard), MTV, Rolling Stone, Spin
#2: Edna Gundersen (USA Today), I Guess I'm Floating, Margaret Wappler (L.A. Times), Stereogum (Gummy Awards), NME, TIME, WOXY (Top Played Albums)
#3: Blender, New Haven Register, Tiny Mix Tapes, Uncut Magazine
#4: Alexandra Cahill (Billboard), Erik Thompson (Culture Bully), Greg Kot (Chicago Tribune), NPR Listeners Poll
#5: Amy Lindsey (KEXP), Justin Harris (Billboard), Cleveland Plain Dealer
#6: Pitchfork, Troy Carpenter (Billboard)
#7: Associated Press (Best Rock Albums), Nate Chinen (New York Times), Q Magazine
#8: Susan Visakowitz (Billboard)
#9: Cortney Harding (Billboard)
#10: Jessica Letkemann (Billboard)
#11: Chicago Sun-Times
#20: Mojo
#27: Drowned In Sound
#33: Amazon.com editors' Best Albums
#50: Paste Magazine
General Favorite Listing: John Bush (Allmusic.com, top pop albums), Heather Phares (Allmusic.com, top pop albums), James Christopher Monger (Allmusic.com, top pop albums), Jason Kinnard (KEXP), Joan Anderman (Boston Globe), Kelly Hilst (KEXP), Limewire Music Blog, Sarah Rodman (Boston Globe),
Honorable Mention: New York Observer
#2: Why? – Alopecia
#1: Morgan Kluck (KEXP)
#6: About.com
#7: Drowned In Sound
#8: Eric Mahollitz (KEXP)
#10: Morgan Chosnyk (KEXP)
#11: Tiny Mix Tapes
#13: Stereogum (Gummy Awards)
#24: Cokemachineglow
General Favorites Listings: Kyle Johnson (KEXP)
Honorable Mention: Pitchfork
#3: Parts & Labor – Receivers/Escapers Two
#5. New Haven Register
#6: Greg Kot (Chicago Tribune)
#9: Amazon.com editors' Best Alternative Rock Albums
#12: Chicago Sun-Times
#25: I Rock Cleveland
#53: Amazon.com editors' Best Albums
General Favorite Listing: Allmusic.com Best Noise Albums
#4: Sun Kil Moon – April
#1: Erik Thompson (Culture Bully)
#2: Jonathan Cohen (Billboard)
#5: New York Observer
#7: Robert Thompson (Billboard)
#8: Paste Magazine
#16: The A.V. Club
Honorable Mention: Pitchfork
#5: Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual
#8: Blender
#12: Tiny Mix Tapes
#13: Fact Magazine
#50: Pitchfork
General Favorite Listing: Allmusic.com Best Noise Albums
#6: Neon Neon – Stainless Style
#7: Uncut Magazine
#28: Mojo
General Favorite Listings: Stephen Thomas Erlewine (Allmusic.com, top pop albums), Matt Collar (Allmusic.com, top pop albums),
#7: The Mae Shi – HLLLYH
#8: Baltimore City Paper
#18: Pitchfork
#8: The Dodos – Visiter
#2: Josh Keller (Culture Bully)
#5: Katie Hasty (Billboard)
#9: Chris Barton (L.A. Times)
#10: Eric Mahollitz (KEXP), NPR Second Stage
#12: Cokemachineglow
#23: Stereogum (Gummy Awards)
#24: I Guess I'm Floating
#39: Paste Magazine
Honorable Mention: Pitchfork
#9: Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
#8: Drowned In Sound
#46: WOXY (Top Played Albums)
General Favorites Listings: Melissa Trejo (KEXP)
#10: Food For Animals – Belly
Looks like it's just me…
…then again, this list is quite short of "comprehensive." And in the end, it's ultimately the individual who chooses what they like, right?


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The US Air Force will cut five of its six single-ship demonstration teams for the 2012 airshow season, according to a statement released Thursday on the Air Combat Command website.
Citing budget constraints, only the Air Force's flagship aircraft—the F-22 Raptor—survived the chopping block, subsequently banishing the A-10 Warthog East and West, F-16 Viper East and West, and the F-15E Sentry Eagle teams to the history books, at least for the 2012 airshow season.
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The decision leaves the success of the 2012 season up in the air only weeks after the 2011 season drew to a close. The statement projects a savings of more than 900 sorties that would have otherwise been flown by the teams—900 sorties of which will not be hitting the circuit this year. While none of the USAF's multi-ship teams, which include the iconic Thunderbirds and the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation programs, were significantly affected by the cuts, the budget blast will leave a number of airshows without a big-ticket, high-powered performer—like the F-16 Viper—to anchor the show.
Small and mid-sized shows across the country who often "rely on these assets will experience a significant reduction in visitors and sponsors," said a seasoned airshow organizer who asked to remain anonymous in order to speak candidly. Additionally, "for the organizations that don't have private owners to tap [to fill the show-bill], this will impart a very negative impact on not only the show itself but the community that has come to expect the economics benefits of having the show in town," the source said.
Chris Trobridge, a member of the Commemorative Air Force with strong ties to the airshow community, agrees. "Unfortunately…this will hurt airshow attendance and sponsorship. The draw of the demo teams was always very high and, without them, I do not know how many people in the general public will want to attend shows of [only] warbirds and aerobatics performances."
As goes the money, so go the airplanes. Without big, military-issue afterburners, sponsors will be less likely to buy into the show. Consequently, many shows will be sent scrambling to shore up enough support to drop a civilian act into the anchor slot. But private acts do not come cheap, with the crowd-drawing jet acts often running at several thousand dollars per hour.
Someone to Look Up To
It is not just the airshow circuit that will lose out as a result of the cuts, though. Indeed, the Air Force itself stands to come out on the losing end of the deal. With less presence in the public eye, the branch will lose a substantial channel by which to connect to the nation it serves.
Considered a powerful tool for recruitment, "[the single ship demo teams] make you feel directly connected to those who are fighting tooth and nail for our interests abroad. They create a fire in your gut, a powerful sense of exhilaration and patriotic defiance," says defense blogger Ty Rogoway, owner of AviationIntel.com. "They are much more real, down to earth, and approachable than their flawless Thunderbird counterparts," he said.
"Unfortunately, the result will be the USAF experiencing a reduction in new recruits," the anonymous airshow organizer said.
But while disappointed, the organizer was undeterred. "I can work with this sacrifice—if it is just for one year. Our show will go on." the source said.


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Lasso X makes it easy to connect to Danish public data sources, delivering information about companies and their finances, properties, ownerships, and much more. With the Lasso X Power Automate connector, you can enrich your processes with this data wherever they take place. – Jeppe Bech Madsen CTO, Lasso X– Krishna Surendra, Chief Technology Officer
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U.S. seeks extradition of Mexican cartel leader
(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors plan to seek the extradition of Mexico's most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, to face trial in the United States after he was captured in Mexico.
Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn, said on Sunday his office would request Guzman's extradition to face a variety of charges.
Guzman, caught on Saturday in Mexico with help from U.S. security forces, had long run Mexico's infamous Sinaloa Cartel. His capture marks a major victory in the fight against drug gangs in Mexico.
It was not immediately clear whether Mexico would agree to extradite him any time soon. Sensitivities over the issue could mean he is more likely to face justice first in Mexico, where he still has an outstanding term to finish. He broke out of prison, reportedly in a laundry cart, in 2001.
The United States had a $5 million bounty on Guzman's head. His cartel has smuggled billions of dollars worth of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States, and fought vicious turf wars with other gangs across Mexico.
In addition to facing sealed U.S. criminal charges in Chicago and Brooklyn, Guzman was indicted in 2007 in Miami on cocaine smuggling charges, with additional charges added there last month.
He also was charged in 2012 in Texas with importing cocaine and marijuana, money laundering, firearms violations and running a criminal enterprise that included murder.
A spokesman for the Mexican attorney general's office declined to comment on the extradition request. President Enrique Pena Nieto's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
Guzman, 56, was captured in a pre-dawn raid on a seaside condominium in the northwestern tourist resort and fishing and shrimp-processing center of Mazatlan, around 135 miles from Guzman's suspected base in Culiacan.
Nearly 80,000 people have been killed in the last seven years with much of the violence in western and northern regions that have long been key smuggling routes.
Many of the victims are tortured and beheaded and their bodies dumped in a public place or in mass graves. The violence has ravaged border cities and even beach resorts such as Acapulco.
(Additional reporting by Gabriel Stargardter and Simon Gardner in Mexico City; Editing by Kieran Murray and Mohammad Zargham)


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Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency*1 of 36.9%*2 using a triple-junction compound solar cell in which the solar cell has a stacked three-layer structure.
Compound solar cells utilize photo-absorption layers made from compounds consisting of two or more elements, such as indium and gallium. Because of their high conversion efficiency, compound solar cells have been used primarily on space satellites.
Since 2000, Sharp has been pursuing research and development of a triple-junction compound solar cell that achieves high conversion efficiency by stacking three photo-absorption layers. In 2009, Sharp succeeded in improving cell conversion efficiency to 35.8% based on proprietary technology that enabled efficient fabrication of a stacked triple-layer structure with InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) as the bottom layer.
This latest increase in conversion efficiency was achieved by improving the maximum power output of the solar cell by reducing the resistance of the junction areas necessary to connect the solar cell layers in series.
Sharp achieved this latest breakthrough as a result of a research and development initiative promoted by Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)*3 on the theme of "R&D on Innovative Solar Cells." Measurement of the value of 36.9%, which sets a new record for the world's highest non-concentrating conversion efficiency, was confirmed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
In the future, processes for transferring ultra-thin photovoltaic layers onto film substrates will make lightweight, flexible solar cells possible. Sharp's goal in the years to come is to take full advantage of this latest development success for use in concentrator-type solar cells, as well as for practical applications such as on space satellites and for flight craft and land vehicles.
Structure of Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell
Wavelength Distribution of Solar Photo-Energy and Wavelength Sensitivity of Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell
History of Sharp Compound Solar Cell Development


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We need your contact information for complaints about odor, dust or wood smoke if we decide to take enforcement action against the offending party and need you as a witness.
However, you may anonymously report a burn ban violation. This is because we receive so many wood smoke complaints during a burn ban that we cannot respond to each individual complaint. Rather, we collect all complaints and use that information to help identify neighborhoods that are being most impacted by wood smoke during a burn ban and focus our enforcement activity. For more information please call 800-552-3565.
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Yes, although we do not respond to anonymous complaints for wood smoke, dust or odor complaints. Due to the number of complaints we receive, we focus our resources on complaints where the person complaining is willing to provide their contact information for any follow-up questions.
Important: If you provide your contact information, we cannot keep it anonymous. Your complaint will become a public record. Being a public agency, we are required by our regulations (PDF) and state law to provide access to your complaint (and contact information) if someone submits a request. For more information please call 800-552-3565.
Fire departments are the main contact for outdoor burning because they know where outdoor burning is allowed and banned. Where it is allowed, they issue burning permits with requirements that certain conditions be met. One of these conditions is that the fire not impact one's neighbors. Therefore, contact your local fire department if your neighbor's outdoor fire, permitted or not, is impacting you. For more information please call 800-552-3565.
We do not regulate the emissions from trains, so we do not respond to complaints about idling trains. We recommend that you report your complaint to the railroad company.
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Oracle ships Solaris 11 Express
Solaris 11 for the impatient
If you can't wait to get your hands on Solaris 11 when Oracle makes it available next year — like Oracle itself can't wait in its Exadata and Exalogic clustered systems — then you'll be happy to know that Oracle has started shipping Solaris 11 Express.
The company may have let the OpenSolaris project die of neglect, but Oracle has kept its word that it would get a Solaris 11 Express version out the door before the end of this year to give developers and sysadmins a chance to put the future Solaris 11 through its paces before its official launch next year.
As previously reported, Solaris 11 (in both its current Express and future plain-vanilla version) is comprised of over 2,700 different software packages with more than 400 features added to the operating system. Sun says it has spent 20 million person-hours on developing Solaris 11 and over 60 million hours of testing to make the software commercial-grade.
Given that Oracle is putting Solaris 11 Express in its latest clustered systems supporting database and middleware stacks, you might ask why the company didn't just go for it and put Solaris 11 out there for full consumption, and skip the whole Express bit. But Oracle seems to want to show off with the Exadata and Exalogic clusters, particularly the fast reboot (in under 10 seconds instead of 10 minutes), hot patching of more software components (increasing system uptime), and performance improvements for Oracle's Fusion middleware.
Sun provided technical support for a fee with OpenSolaris, and Oracle is continuing this practice with Solaris 11 Express, offering customers support if they want to be on the bleeding edge of Unix technology.
By contrast, Red Hat does not provide support for its Fedora development release, and in fact gets miffed if you call it that — but when you don't provide support for a server operating system, then that's how you know it's a development release.
By this definition, Solaris 11 Express is not exactly a development release so much as what you might call a 1.0 release with a service pack coming sometime next year. (Argue semantics amongst yourselves.)
The new operating system is technically known as Solaris 11 Express 2010.11, and you can check out the full feature list here. Solaris 11 Express is supported on the new 16-core Sparc T3 processors and also has tunings for Intel's Xeon family of processors, which Oracle also sells in rack and blade form factors as it does its own Sparc T3s. Oracle is not offering Solaris 11 Express as a pre-installed operating system on its generic Sun Fire rack, Sun Blade blade, or Enterprise M midrange and high-end servers.
If you want to deploy Solaris 11 Express in a production environment, you have to buy a Premier Support for Operating Systems or a Premier Support for Systems support contract from Oracle. Otherwise, you can use Solaris 11 Express to develop or test your code.
Oracle is perfectly happy to support Solaris 11 Express on other vendors' iron and charge you for support contracts. Premier Support for Solaris costs $1,000 per socket per year on non-Oracle iron for machines with four or fewer processor sockets and $2,000 per socket on machines with five or more sockets.
To download the software, which you can do here, you have to agree to only use the code in testing and development or to pay Oracle for a support contract in production environments.
The current hardware compatibility list shows 512 servers being able to run Solaris 11 Express, along with 950 desktops and 2,864 laptops; 154 of Oracle's own products can run the new OS. Solaris 10, by contrast, runs on those same 154 systems from Oracle, but is only certified as being compatible on 332 desktops and 329 laptops; it is supported on a total of 598 servers, which is 17 per cent more machines.
While Oracle has correctly brought Solaris to a laser focus on systems — particularly its own and volume products from HP and Dell — clearly someone has been hard at work certifying Solaris 11 Express on desktops and laptops.
The operating system also includes a new Image Packaging System, making it easier to install, update, and remove packages from a system, as compared to Solaris 10. Another important feature of Solaris 11 Express is the ability to convert a Solaris 10 physical server into a virtual instance running inside a Solaris 10 container running atop Solaris 11. This will help legacy Solaris 10 customers gradually move to new iron and the newer operating system without having to recertify their applications on the new release.
Oracle's own Zettabyte File System is the root file system on Solaris 11 Express; UFS is no longer supported as the root file system. Oracle has done a lot of work on improving the performance of InfiniBand networking with Solaris 11, which is important for Oracle RAC clusters, and there are tons of networking virtualization and performance enhancements for Ethernet NICs and the TCP/IP stack as well. ®


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The image of an African farmer scraping out a living with a hoe is changing as the continent's productivity grows
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African agriculture has enjoyed something of a makeover in recent years, shedding the tired image of a poor farmer barely able to scratch out a living with a hoe, according to the head of a regional partnership set up to improve smallholder farming on the continent.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), founded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006, focuses on getting better quality seeds to farmers, boosting their access to markets and finance, helping them band together to lobby for policy change, and revitalising degraded soils.
AGRA's president, Jane Karuku, believes one of the main shifts in African farming is "how topical it has become" at both national and international levels. "The fact that African agriculture has got so much attention in the last two years is great," she told Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
But it's not all just talk. There is growing demand - albeit still low - for high-yielding seeds that are more resilient to climate stresses such as drought. Infrastructure is being built, mobile phones are spreading weather and price information far and wide, and mechanisation is on the rise. As a result, the productivity of African farmers has begun to creep up.
"People have stopped seeing agriculture as subsistence - and even if you are subsistence, you still want to make a profit," said Karuku. "A lot of these farmers use about 60 percent of their income to buy food, so they want to improve their productivity, and they want to have extra to sell...so certainly the notion of 'I am a smallholder farmer, I can be profitable' is rife."
There's still some way to go, however, particularly in attracting younger Africans to farming. Last week, the Montpellier Panel, a group of European and African experts in agricultural development, released a report arguing that investment in rural and food-sector entrepreneurship among Africa's growing youth population would create jobs, wealth and robust livelihoods, as well as achieving food security.
Africa has almost 200 million people aged between 15 and 24, but more than 70 percent of young Africans live on less than $2 per day, and they are twice as likely to be unemployed as adults, the report said.
Encouraging more young people into agriculture is a solution that can also prevent them migrating to city slums or being drawn into shady activities that pose a security risk, said Karuku, a member of the Montpellier Panel.
"The reason they don't like (agriculture) is because subsistence farming has been hard and treacherous, because of the use of the hoe," she said. But "there is new demand now for mechanisation, making agriculture sexy."
There are more exciting agricultural business opportunities than toiling away in the fields, including things like renting out tractors, setting up seed and fertiliser dealerships, and using greenhouses to grow tomatoes and other new crops, according to Karuku. "I think there are many points at which you can attract the youth - it is not all doom and gloom, and take the hoe," she said.
At the same time, farming has to be profitable for young people to want to get involved, and they tend to find it hard to find start-up finance as many don't own land that can be used as collateral. So there is a need for innovative financing, Karuku said.
Nairobi-headquartered AGRA, for example, has worked with commercial banks in several countries, including Kenya and Mozambique, using loan guarantee funds to leverage millions of dollars in credit for small farmers.
Karuku believes that a holistic approach to agriculture - rooted in scientific research, ensuring advances benefit all farmers down to the poorest, and providing marketing and financial support - will also protect Africa from the negative effects of climate change.
"It's not a disaster. It can be dealt with, but we need to address it in a sustainable way," she said. That includes more efficient use of Africa's substantial natural resources, such as harnessing the power of rivers to provide much-needed irrigation on a larger scale, she argued.
Despite the changes that are now underway in African agriculture, Karuku is impatient with the pace of transformation.
"What we have is nice little things that work. Proof of concepts exists. But… we must scale up, which is going to come from future investments and everybody playing their part... It is very urgent," she emphasised.
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1453: After being imprisoned for more than two years after his defeat in his quest to claim his throne from his father, Charles IV of Nafarroa is set free after his father, John II, is pressured by deputies of the Kingdom of Aragon. Charles tries again to claim his throne and is again defeated and imprisoned, though is freed again after the Catalonians revolt in protest. At that time, he is made governor of Catalonia, but soon dies, possibly of poison. During his time in prison, he writes the Chronicle of Navarre, the primary source on the history of the lineage of the kings of Nafarroa.
1890: Miners in Bilbao, having striked against their employers because of bad working conditions (sleeping in barracks, often three to a bed; work hours from dawn to dusk; forced to buy food from the companies; irregular pay), return to work. With the police unable to stop the strike, which eventually comprised 28,000 workers, 16,000 of which were miners, the military had been called in, under the command of General Loma, who established the "pacto de Loma" which improved some of the working conditions. However, the failure of the companies to observe these conditions led to subsequent strikes.
1994: Jon Manuel Bilbao Azkarreta who, along with William A. Douglass, founded the Basque Studies Program (later to be known as the Center for Basque Studies) at the University of Nevada, Reno, dies in Vitoria-Gasteiz. His many accomplishments include building the Basque Studies Program Library; founding Eusko Bibliographia (the Institute of Basque Bibliography) and Harriluze, an institute dedicated to the study of the Basque diaspora; and the books Eusko Bibliographia, Los Vascos en Cuba, and Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World (with William A. Douglass).
2005: Izaskun Bilbao Barandika, born in Bermeo, is elected President of the Basque Parliament, the first woman to hold that post in the history of that body.


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Security researchers fret over Adobe PDF flaw
Double danger
Adobe has warned that its Reader and Acrobat PDF software is vulnerable to an unpatched vulnerability.
The two security vulnerabilities in Adobe's software are particularly nasty, because they lend themselves to the planting of malicious code on vulnerable PCs. The flaws therefore potentially lend themselves to drive-by download attacks. There's no evidence of this happening as yet, even though proof of concept attack code has been developed.
Analysis on the response to the last such vulnerability from Adobe by security scanning firm Qualys, which dates back to February, shows that users were very slow at applying patches. Applying application security updates, as distinct from operating system patches, is becoming the most pressing problem in patching, according to Wolfgang Kandek, CTO at Qualys.
Security firms, such as Sophos and F-Secure (here), both advise surfers to consider the use of alternative PDF reader packages (list here), as a way of moving away from a monoculture of PDF readers, which is bad security practise. ®


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Few international architectural competitions are complete without an entry from Norman Foster, and so persuasive is his architecture that he often wins. Consequently his architecture can be seen from Tokyo to Nebraska, from Hong Kong to London and a good many points in between. Encompassing almost every building type from art galleries and sports stadia to office towers and airports, it appeals across the range of functions and cultures.
Much of this appeal lies in Foster's extraordinary ability to match generic human experiences with emerging technologies. The ability to strip an experience back to its essence and rebuild it from technology which appears to be universal, helps to explain why many of his major works deal imaginatively with functions that many other architects find hard to define, like airports and office blocks. And the remarkable skill with which he synthesises even the most complex design challenges into a logical whole means each decision and every component becomes part of a contingent chain, from which nothing could be removed or added without damaging the overall effect. The precise logic of the structures has an austere beauty, but where that starts to interact with the less predictable patterns of human usage, it acquires another level of meaning.
Foster initially studied architecture at Manchester but it was winning a scholarship to Yale that provided the most decisive influences. One of his teachers was Paul Rudolph, an architect who found expressive power within a modernist language long after most of America had turned to Post Modernism. Like many other young British architects in the early 1960s, he came under the spell of the Case Study houses in Los Angeles, profound images of a relaxed modern lifestyle, achieved on relatively low budgets with common industrial materials, designed by architects like Charles and Rae Eames. He overlapped with another young Briton, Richard Rogers, with whom he would later found Team 4. But perhaps most important of all was the influence of Buckminster Fuller, the scientific polymath, who exuded the conviction that logically applied technology could improve modern life.
Foster's trajectory from Team 4, through to Foster Associates which he founded with his first wife Wendy in 1967, to the international presence of Foster and Partners is, in one sense, a progression from simple and elegant industrial sheds to some of the most sophisticated buildings ever made. But there is also a consistency in the clarity of construction and rationality of how architecture serves its functions, and in the interplay between the precision of advanced engineering and the ambiguity of human existence. His work will always be associated with the label "high tech", but increasingly it explores technology's interaction with humanity, not as an end in itself.
Born: 1935
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The Federation of American Scientists revealed in late January that the U.S. Navy had deployed for the first time a submarine armed with a low-yield Trident nuclear warhead. The USS Tennessee deployed from Kings Bay Submarine Base in Georgia in late 2019. The W76-2 warhead, which is facing criticism at home and abroad, is estimated to have about a third of the explosive power of the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) called the news "an alarming development that heightens the risk of nuclear war." We're joined by William Arkin, longtime reporter focused on military and nuclear policy, author of numerous books, including "Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State." He broke the story about the deployment of the new low-yield nuclear weapon in an article he co-wrote for Federation of American Scientists. He also recently wrote a cover piece for Newsweek titled "With a New Weapon in Donald Trump's Hands, the Iran Crisis Risks Going Nuclear." "What surprised me in my reporting … was a story that was just as important, if not more important, than what was going on in the political world," Arkin says.
AMY GOODMAN: So, to say the least, this has been an explosive week of news in Washington, D.C., and your news, which has hardly gone reported, is — should really be one of the top news stories of these last weeks.
WILLIAM ARKIN: Well, during the very time when the Iran crisis was at its highest, the United States, last December, deployed a new nuclear weapon, the first new nuclear weapon to be deployed, Amy, since the end of the Cold War. So here we have not just a momentous occasion, but a weapon which is intended explicitly to be more usable — and not just more usable against Russia and China, but to be more usable against Iran and North Korea, as well. It seemed to me that looking more deeply at this weapon, looking more deeply at the doctrines behind it, and then, really, what surprised me in my reporting, looking more at Donald Trump and the role that he might play in the future, was a story that was just as important, if not more important, than what was going on in the political world.
AMY GOODMAN: So, talk about what this — what does it mean, "low-yield" nuclear weapon?
WILLIAM ARKIN: Well, "low-yield" is actually a little bit wrong. The United States actually possesses nuclear weapons with even smaller yields than five to six kilotons, which is what this is estimated at. That's 5,000 to 6,000 tons. And so, that would be — if you thought of it in Manhattan terms, it would be probably something on the order of 20 square city blocks obliterated and radiation coming from that area. So, to say "low-yield" is, of course, a little bit wrong. But it is the lowest-yield missile warhead available to the strategic nuclear forces.
And the real reason behind deploying a Trident warhead with this low-yield weapon was that the United States, the nuclear planners, felt that they didn't have a prompt and assured capability to threaten Russia or threaten other adversaries — "prompt" meaning that it would be quickly delivered, 30 minutes, or even, if a submarine is close, as low as 15 minutes, and "assured" meaning that it isn't a bomber or an airplane that has to penetrate enemy air defenses in order to get to the target. So, those two things, prompt and assured, is what they really wanted. And putting a warhead on the missiles on the submarines allowed them both covert deployments as well as getting close to the target.
AMY GOODMAN: So, talk about what this means between the United States and Russia.
WILLIAM ARKIN: Well, between the United States and Russia, I think it really doesn't change very much. The Russians can denounce the Trident warhead, but the reality is that they have 2,000 of their own small nuclear weapons of this sort opposite Europe. And one of the justifications for the deployment of this new nuclear weapon, Amy, was that the Russians in fact had, if you will, a numerical advantage against NATO, and there was a desire to have a more "usable" nuclear weapon in order to eliminate that advantage. I think the U.S.-Russian situation is certainly tense, but it's not really what this weapon is about. What this weapon is about is having a more usable nuclear weapon against countries like Iran and North Korea, where in fact a shocking first use of nuclear weapons, a preemptive use of nuclear weapons, would be used to either stop a war or to destroy a very important target, say, for instance, if there were a missile on a launchpad ready to strike at that United States.


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The reason I said small club etc is the wind any Gypos scouting the forum. I know it drives me mad reading out on rivals forums. Seems only you and Rathfarnham_Saint got that. As you say, any chance to slag them. Bunch of bleeding aul ones on the forum.
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"Ethnoancestry is pleased to announce the launch of a new SNP, S22, which unites haplogroups I and J to the exclusion of G, H and K, within the F supergroup. This SNP may be interesting for anyone in the rare F* group, or anyone within hg I or J who is interested to confirm their status at this marker."The new internal branch of IJ-S22 is an exciting new development. We had previously known that the ancestors of haplogroup I arrived in Europe from West Asia in Upper Paleolithic times. Subsequently, haplogroup J bearers also entered Europe from the same region, during the Holocene.
The new discovery is the "missing link" between these two groups, establishing their common ancestry.
Interestingly, the regions inhabited today by I and J bearers are primarily found on a "corridor" from the Middle East through Asia Minor, the Balkans, Central Europe to Scandinavia. To the west of this region, haplogroup R1b is more important, and to the east, haplogroup R1a1.
This same corridor has also been identified by physical anthropologists in the past as the route by which leptoprosopic southern Europoids migrated into Europe, forming a "wedge" between the indigenous broad-faced northern Europoids. Thus, the strong metrical similarity between modern Nordics (found principally in Scandinavia, a nexus of I concentration), and modern Mediterraneans (from West Asia and Southeastern Europe, a nexus of J concentration) can be interpreted as a consequene of their common descent. This suggestion is not new, having been proposed by Carleton Coon in his Races of Europe in 1939, although dating this common descent was obviously inaccurate before the advent of carbon dating and the molecular clock.