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China property curbs may trigger short-term home buying rush
China's property-related shares fell by the most in nearly five years on Monday on plans to tighten curbs on the housing market, though some economists predict a near-term spike in existing home prices, at least until local governments work out how to implement the changes.
The plans, announced by the cabinet late on Friday, include the stricter implementation of an existing 20 percent capital gains tax on home sales, strengthening restrictions on home buying and increasing loan rates for those buying a second home in cities where prices are rising too quickly.
"More detailed measures will be announced by related ministries including the People's Bank of China (central bank) and local governments, so markets should definitely take the edict seriously and be prepared for falling prices of related financial assets," Bank of America-Merrill Lynch's chief China economist Ting Lu wrote in a March 3 note.
Lu said there could be a rush to buy existing homes before local governments say how they will levy the capital gains tax, but the number of deals would then slump, hitting property agencies.
A gauge of property-related stocks listed in Shanghai slumped 9.3 percent on Monday - its biggest drop since mid-June 2008. The CSI300 index of leading Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks <.CSI300> dived 4.6 percent, its steepest fall since November 2010. In offshore Chinese markets, China Resources Land <1109.HK> slumped 8.6 percent, reversing gains so far this year, in its worst session for 17 months. The stock is now down 2.4 percent in 2013 after surging 69 percent last year. The broader Hang Seng Index is down 0.5 percent this year.
"The actual impact of the new policy can be very severe or not severe at all, depending on implementation. But the wording is unexpectedly harsh,' said Yao Wei, China economist at Societe Generale CIB. "In three months time, the impact may not be big at all. But it has stirred very high negative expectations."
Local governments are expected to release their property control targets and detailed implementation plans by end-March, various Chinese media reported on Monday, citing Qi Ji, a vice-minister of housing and rural-urban development.
Friday's announcement came amid speculation about rising house prices and what additional curbs Beijing may bring in the run-up to annual parliamentary meetings that officially complete China's leadership transition. Xi Jinping formally takes over as the country's new president on Tuesday.
A private survey last week showed average home prices in China's 100 biggest cities rose for a ninth straight month in February, although the pace of increase slowed.
BofA-Merrill's Lu said the measures - a "turning point" for China's property sector - may shift demand for existing homes to new homes, and are independent of China's overall monetary policy position, which should remain supportive in the first half.
While it's difficult to predict just how local governments will implement the changes, analysts said the moves would likely accelerate consolidation in the property sector over time, with larger developers cutting prices in a market with fewer home-buying deals.
The 20 percent capital gains tax is not new, but home-owners had a choice between that and paying 1-2 percent of the property's sale price.
"While the aim of (the capital gains tax) will be to further disincentivise home purchasing for capital gain, the side-effect could be that secondary market transactions will dry up," said Lee Wee Liat, head of Asia property research at BNP Paribas, adding he was more negative on those developers over-exposed to so-called Tier 3 cities.
Property prices have risen more sharply in the larger and more developed Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities, but home buyers' sentiment will likely be affected across the board, with Tier 3 cities facing over-supply of homes, Lee said.
In an emailed response to Reuters, mainland China's biggest developer by sales, China Vanke <000002.SZ>, said it would "follow the direction of the policy and keep supporting the demands of housing."
"The market is a complicated system, so we still have to wait and see the short-term impact. The launch of the new policy confirmed central government's determination to curb prices and reaffirmed our view on periodic tightening," the company said.
(Additional reporting by Pete Sweeney in SHANGHAI and Langi Chiang in BEIJING; Editing by Ian Geoghegan)


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When I watch the passing of the Torah at a bar or bat mitzvah,
I wonder: Who passes the Torah to me?
My father was Irish Catholic,
and my mother a Catholic who was once a Presbyterian.
My name is Ruth bat Avraham v'Sarah
But Abraham and Sarah died a long time ago.
I have no family stories about Passover.
Like Ruth, I'm here only because I wanted to be.
Who passes the Torah to me?
When I approached a rabbi about conversion
He gently suggested we study together
And passed the Torah to me.
When my first Hebrew teacher patiently
guided me right to left through the aleph-bet
She passed the Torah to me.
When I shivered in the water of the mikveh
and the cantor led me through the blessings
She passed the Torah to me.
When I talked for an hour with the Beit Din
When the Torah study class showed me how Jews study Bible
When the Talmud group welcomed me for discussions and stories
When an Israeli acquaintance corrected my Hebrew
When my study partner clapped a kippah on my head
They passed the Torah to me.
When a little girl showed me how to tear the challah
When a woman offered me my first taste of a Hillel sandwich
When the guy at the bakery said, "Shabbat Shalom!"
When a committee chair said to me, "Here, you can do this."
When friends shared recipes and stories and customs
They passed the Torah to me.
If it takes a village to raise a child
It takes a congregation to raise a convert:
We pass the Torah from hand to hand
and make sure all the Jews who want can hold it:
can write it on their hearts,
speak of it in their homes,
teach it to their children,
bind it on their hands,
hold it before their eyes,
and write it – in golden letters! –
on the doorposts of their gates.
– Rabbi Ruth Adar

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SoundCloud Voices
SoundCloud Voices is a weekly Community feature focusing on new spoken word creators found on SoundCloud. It might be a podcast, radio show, audio book, interview, audio messages, a poem, anything! Keep an eye out every Thursday for a new post.
This week on SoundCloud Voices we are showcasing some fantastic radio shows/podcasts from Australia, namely from ABC Australia, Australia's national public broadcaster. If you ever wanted to be further enlightened about the human body and science or religion, politics and all things ethnic then you have come to the right place!
First up is Dr Karl, a weekly science talkback show on Triple J. Hosted by Karl Kruszelnicki, Dr Karl is a scientist holding degrees in mathematics, biomedical engineering, medicine and surgery. He has also studied astrophysics, computer science, and philosophy and has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands, car mechanic, film-maker, hospital scientific officer, biomedical engineer, TV weatherman, taxi driver, and medical doctor! So if you want to know more about the effects of swallowing gum, the Coriolis effect, "furry male allergies" or Higgs Boson, Karl is your man. Take a listen to a couple of shows below and follow him on SoundCloud!
Our other ABC Australia focussed show this week is Sunday Night, "a babble about religion, politics and all things ethnic". Hosted by John Safran and Father Bob, the two take a look at topics ranging from conspiracy theories, atheism,…. often inviting guests such as authors, directors, artists etc to discuss the broad range of topics. Take a listen to one podcast featuring author Neil Gaiman and another featuring conspiracy theorist debunker Karl Mamer below! And follow the show on SoundCloud here!
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CRS: Financing Issues and Economic Effects of American Wars, July 29, 2008
From WikiLeaks
About this CRS report
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Wikileaks release: February 2, 2009
Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: Financing Issues and Economic Effects of American Wars
CRS report number: RL31176
Author(s): Marc Labonte and Mindy Levit, Government and Finance Division
Date: July 29, 2008
- Abstract
- With military conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress has expressed an interest in how wars have been financed historically, and what effects the wars had on the economy. This report examines financing and economic issues in World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Vietnam Conflict, the Reagan Military Buildup, and the 1991 and 2003 wars in Iraq. It examines tax policy, non-military outlays, the budget balance, economic growth, inflation, and interest rates during these periods.
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Earlier this summer, Christine Blasey Ford wrote a confidential letter to a senior Democratic lawmaker alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago, when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. Since Wednesday, she has watched as that bare-bones version of her story became public without her name or her consent, drawing a blanket denial from Kavanaugh and roiling a nomination that just days ago seemed all but certain to succeed.
Now, Ford has decided that if her story is going to be told, she wants to be the one to tell it.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Ford said that one summer in the early 1980s, Kavanaugh and a friend - both "stumbling drunk," Ford alleges - corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a house in Montgomery County.
While his friend watched, she said, Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes, grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one-piece bathing suit and the clothing she wore over it. When she tried to scream, she said, he put his hand over her mouth.
"I thought he might inadvertently kill me," said Ford, now a 51-year-old research psychologist in northern California. "He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing."
Ford said she was able to escape when Kavanaugh's friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School, Mark Judge, jumped on top of them, sending all three tumbling. She said she ran from the room, briefly locked herself in a bathroom and then fled the house.
Ford said she told no one of the incident in any detail until 2012, when she was in couples therapy with her husband. The therapist's notes, portions of which were provided by Ford and reviewed by The Washington Post, do not mention Kavanaugh's name but say she reported that she was attacked by students "from an elitist boys' school" who went on to become "highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington." The notes say four boys were involved, a discrepancy Ford says was an error on the therapist's part. Ford said there were four boys at the party but only two in the room.
Notes from an individual therapy session the following year, when she was being treated for what she says have been long-term effects of the incident, show Ford described a "rape attempt" in her late teens.
In an interview, her husband, Russell Ford, said that in the 2012 sessions, she recounted being trapped in a room with two drunken boys, one of whom pinned her to a bed, molested her and prevented her from screaming. He said he recalled that his wife used Kavanaugh's last name and voiced concern that Kavanaugh - then a federal judge - might one day be nominated to the Supreme Court.
On Sunday, the White House sent The Washington Post a statement Kavanaugh issued last week, when the outlines of Ford's account became public: "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time."
Through a White House spokesman, Kavanaugh declined to comment further on Ford's allegation and did not respond to questions about whether he knew her during high school. The White House had no additional comment.
Reached by email Sunday, Judge declined to comment. In an interview Friday with The Weekly Standard, before Ford's name was known, he denied that any such incident occurred. "It's just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way," Judge said. He told the New York Times that Kavanaugh was a "brilliant student" who loved sports and was not "into anything crazy or illegal."
Christine Ford is a professor at Palo Alto University who teaches in a consortium with Stanford University, training graduate students in clinical psychology. Her work has been widely published in academic journals.
She contacted The Post through a tip line in early July, when it had become clear that Kavanaugh was on the shortlist of possible nominees to replace retiring justice Anthony Kennedy but before Trump announced his name publicly. A registered Democrat who has made small contributions to political organizations, she contacted her congresswoman, Democrat Anna Eshoo, around the same time. In late July, she sent a letter via Eshoo's office to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
In the letter, which was read to The Post, Ford described the incident and said she expected her story to be kept confidential. She signed the letter as Christine Blasey, the name she uses professionally.
Though Ford had contacted The Post, she declined to speak on the record for weeks as she grappled with concerns about what going public would mean for her and her family - and what she said was her duty as a citizen to tell the story.
She engaged Debra Katz, a Washington lawyer known for her work on sexual harassment cases. On the advice of Katz, who said she believed Ford would be attacked as a liar if she came forward, Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate.
By late August, Ford had decided not to come forward, calculating that doing so would upend her life and probably would not affect Kavanaugh's confirmation. "Why suffer through the annihilation if it's not going to matter?" she said.
Her story leaked anyway. On Wednesday, the Intercept reported that Feinstein had a letter describing an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school and that Feinstein was refusing to share it with her Democratic colleagues.
Feinstein soon released a statement: "I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court," she wrote. "That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities."
The FBI redacted Ford's name and sent the letter to the White House to be included in Kavanaugh's background file, according to a Judiciary Committee aide. The White House sent it to the Senate Judiciary Committee, making it available to all senators.
As pressure grew, the New York Times reported that the incident involved "possible sexual misconduct."
By then, Ford had begun to fear she would be exposed. People were clearly learning her identity: A BuzzFeed reporter visited her at her home and tried to speak to her as she was leaving a classroom where she teaches graduate students. Another reporter called her colleagues to ask about her.
On Friday, the New Yorker reported the letter's contents but did not reveal Ford's identity. Soon after, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a letter from 65 women who say they knew Kavanaugh when he attended high school from 1979 to 1983 at Georgetown Prep, an all-boys school in North Bethesda.
"Through the more than 35 years we have known him, Brett has stood out for his friendship, character, and integrity," the women wrote. "In particular, he has always treated women with decency and respect. That was true when he was in high school, and it has remained true to this day."
As the story snowballed, Ford said, she heard people repeating inaccuracies about her and, with the visits from reporters, felt her privacy being chipped away. Her calculation changed.
"These are all the ills that I was trying to avoid," she said, explaining her decision to come forward. "Now I feel like my civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation."
Katz said she believes Feinstein honored Ford's request to keep her allegation confidential, but "regrettably others did not."
"Victims must have the right to decide whether to come forward, especially in a political environment that is as ruthless as this one," Katz said. "She will now face vicious attacks by those who support this nominee."
After so many years, Ford said, she does not remember some key details of the incident. She said she believes it occurred in the summer of 1982, when she was 15, around the end of her sophomore year at the all-girls Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. Kavanaugh would have been 17 at the end of his junior year at Georgetown Prep.
At the time, Ford said, she knew Kavanaugh and Judge as "friendly acquaintances" in the private-school social circles of suburban Maryland. Her Holton-Arms friends mostly hung out with boys from the Landon School, she said, but for a period of several months socialized regularly with students from Georgetown Prep.
Ford said she does not remember how the gathering came together the night of the incident. She said she often spent time in the summer at the Columbia Country Club pool in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where in those pre-cellphone days, teenagers learned about gatherings via word of mouth. She also doesn't recall who owned the house or how she got there.
Ford said she remembers that it was in Montgomery County, Maryland, not far from the country club, and that no parents were home at the time. Ford named two other teenagers who she said were at the party. Those individuals did not respond to messages on Sunday morning.
She said she recalls a small family room where she and a handful of others drank beer together that night. She said that each person had one beer but that Kavanaugh and Judge had started drinking earlier and were heavily intoxicated.
In his senior-class yearbook entry at Georgetown Prep, Kavanaugh made several references to drinking, claiming membership to the "Beach Week Ralph Club" and "Keg City Club." He and Judge are pictured together at the beach in a photo in the yearbook.
Judge is a filmmaker and author who has written for the Daily Caller, the Weekly Standard and The Post. He chronicled his recovery from alcoholism in "Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk," which described his own blackout drinking and a culture of partying among students at his high school, renamed in the book "Loyola Prep." Kavanaugh is not mentioned in the book, but a passage about partying at the beach one summer makes glancing reference to a "Bart O'Kavanaugh," who "puked in someone's car the other night" and "passed out on his way back from a party."
Through the White House, Kavanaugh did not respond to a question about whether the name was a pseudonym for him.
Ford said that on the night of the party, she left the family room to use the bathroom, which was at the top of a narrow stairway. She doesn't remember whether Kavanaugh and Judge were behind her or already upstairs, but she remembers being pushed into a bedroom and then onto a bed. Rock-and-roll music was playing with the volume turned up high, she said.
She alleges that Kavanaugh - who played football and basketball at Georgetown Prep - held her down with the weight of his body and fumbled with her clothes, seemingly hindered by his intoxication. Judge stood across the room, she said, and both boys were laughing "maniacally." She said she yelled, hoping that someone downstairs would hear her over the music, and Kavanaugh clapped his hand over her mouth to silence her.
At one point, she said, Judge jumped on top of them, and she tried unsuccessfully to wriggle free. Then Judge jumped on them again, toppling them, and she broke away, she said.
She said she locked herself in the bathroom and listened until she heard the boys "going down the stairs, hitting the walls." She said that after five or 10 minutes, she unlocked the door and made her way through the living room and outside. She isn't sure how she got home.
Ford said she has not spoken with Kavanaugh since that night. And she told no one at the time what had happened to her. She was terrified, she said, that she would be in trouble if her parents realized she had been at a party where teenagers were drinking, and she worried they might figure it out even if she did not tell them.
"My biggest fear was, do I look like someone just attacked me?" she said. She said she recalled thinking: "I'm not ever telling anyone this. This is nothing, it didn't happen, and he didn't rape me."
Years later, after going through psychotherapy, Ford said, she came to understand the incident as a trauma with lasting impact on her life.
"I think it derailed me substantially for four or five years," she said. She struggled academically and socially, she said, and was unable to have healthy relationships with men. "I was very ill-equipped to forge those kinds of relationships."
She also said that in the longer term, it contributed to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms with which she has struggled.
She married her husband in 2002. Early in their relationship, she told him she had been a victim of physical abuse, he said. A decade later, he learned the details of that alleged abuse when the therapist asked her to tell the story, he said.
He said he expects that some people, upon hearing his wife's account, will believe that Kavanaugh's high school behavior has no bearing upon his fitness for the nation's high court. He disagrees.
"I think you look to judges to be the arbiters of right and wrong," Russell Ford said. "If they don't have a moral code of their own to determine right from wrong, then that's a problem. So I think it's relevant. Supreme Court nominees should be held to a higher standard."
The Washington Post's staff writers Beth Reinhard and Seung Min Kim and researchers Alice Crites and Julie Tate contributed to this report.


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First, I don't have a strong knowledge of physics, so please forgive my lack of precision in defining my question.
Consider an airless free-fall situation where a steel ball and a balsa ball (with the expected great difference in mass) were dropped simultaneously. They fall, say, 1 meter and hit the ground, which is (for example) a 10 cm thick dry hard concrete slab.
Now consider the above experiment, performed on the earth, and performed again on the moon. What are the differences that would be observed, based on the differing gravities?
At first I was thinking that on the moon, the recoil or bounce from the object striking the ground would lift the objects higher up. But now I think that the reduced force of gravity on the moon would result in less impact force, and therefore an identical rebound, in height.
But the time spent falling should be different, correct? And would the "hang time" of the object after the bounce be longer on the moon?
Thanks for your help with this.


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Bustarviejo Silver Mine
Mining heritage in the Region of Madrid
Surrounded by an amazing natural environment on the Sierra de Guadarrama, this ancient silver mine is an authentic underground gem, a rare trace of historical eras.
It was one of the most important metal mines on the entire Sierra de Guadarrama. There, silver was mined and there were also several foundries, both at the mine pithead and in the town itself. In the latter, ingots of the precious metal were mined in the 17th and 18th centuries. The chronicles even mention some gold findings. The Bustarviejo silver mine is a vestige of an era in which, with huge amounts of ingenuity, businesses were undertaken that are considered to be risky today. The mine exploded towards the end of the 19th century, but a good part of the vestige of the subterranean works of the 17th and 18th centuries was conserved. The Torre del Indiano stands out among these, built in the 17th century and declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1983, it is a true identifying sign of the exterior of this mine. Outside the mine, there are informative panels that explain each of the elements that make up the mining and industrial complex.
Bustarviejo Silver Mine
Bustarviejo Silver Mine
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July 14, 15, & 16, 2017
Join the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project for a fun-filled weekend learning about and celebrating the return of Mexican wolves to the wild. This year marks the 19 year anniversary of the first releases of Mexican wolves back into the wild in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area.
Where: Apache Trout Campground Fir Group site at Big Lake in the Apache National Forest, Arizona.
When: Friday, July 14th, 2017 starting at 3:00 pm through Sunday, July 16th at noon.
Online registration is now closed!
Registration Deadline was July 9, 2017 at 11:59 pm AZ time.
Please bring your own personal camping equipment and comfortable clothes for hiking in and appropriate for high elevation weather during the Monsoon season. Here is a list of Recommended Personal Camping Supplies to bring with you.
Meals included in the weekend for registered participants: Dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and a pack-your-own brown bag lunch spread for lunches on Saturday and Sunday. All the meals served will be vegetarian and we will make an effort to accommodate vegan options and food allergies that are indicated by filling out our registration form (registration form below). Please Bring Your Own Beverages of choice. Note there are strict orders from the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest on bear resistant food, trash, and personal hygiene product storage for the Big Lake area. Read the special order here, and be prepared to lock all food and personal hygiene items you bring with you in your vehicle.
Optional Weekend Activities include:
- morning bird walks
- wildlife tracking workshops with wildlife tracking experts
- a hike to the "Green Fire" site where Aldo Leopold had his epiphany about wolves
- hikes on the Paseo del Lobo trail
- evening talks by wolf conservationists and biologists
- session on writing comments and giving testimony in support of wolves
Sorry, no dogs are allowed (besides service dogs) to join us at the campground or on the activities at the Big Lake Campout Weekend. We are huge fans of companion dogs, but because we will be sharing a group camp site and will be camping and hiking in areas occupied by Mexican wolf packs and other wildlife, we want to minimize our disturbance to the wolves and their new pups. Thank you for your understanding!
Please note that camp sites spots and meals will only be provided to those people who register! The registration form will close on July 9th, 2017 at 11:59 pm AZ Time. Thank you!
Many thanks to these sponsors for helping to support the Big Lake Howliday weekend!


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AirWatch®, the global leader and innovator in mobile security and the largest Mobile Device Management (MDM) provider announces that market research firm, Aragon Research, ranks AirWatch as a leader in the 2013 Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Mobile Management Software. The AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution delivers industry-leading Mobile Application Management (MAM), Mobile Content Management (MCM), Mobile Email Management (MEM) and BYOD management.
"Mobilizing the enterprise is a business imperative, and being able to manage the entirety of the mobile environment is a top priority," said Mike Anderson, President and Co-Founder, Aragon Research. "It's no longer adequate to manage just the devices. End users are looking for leadership from providers that take a holistic approach spanning apps, content and devices that are personally and corporate owned."1
The Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Mobile Management Software defines a leader as a company with comprehensive strategies that align with industry direction and market demand. Enterprise Mobile Management, as defined by Aragon Research, transcends MDM, MAM and other management software that has been aimed at managing mobile assets.
AirWatch receives a leading position due to a number of factors:
- Mature content management solution (AirWatch Secure Content Locker™)
- Ability to support deployments of 100,000 devices and more
- Multi-tenant, highly scalable architecture
- Strong management team
- Aggressive pricing model
- Global reach
- Impressive installation base
- No outside funding
"With the largest install base and more than twice the resources of our closest competitor, AirWatch is constantly one step ahead of industry trends and needs," said John Marshall, President and CEO, AirWatch. "We are committed to providing the most relevant and comprehensive management tools, and our placement in this report further validates our success in enterprise mobility management. We view third party recognition as the gold standard by which we're measured in the industry, and we're pleased to be named a leader by Aragon Research."
About AirWatch
AirWatch is the global leader in mobile device security and management (MDM) systems, and, with 5,000 customers and nearly 1,000 global associates, is more than twice the size of any other MDM company. Having no outside capital, AirWatch is predominately funded by operating cash flow, resulting in an estimated install base four to five times larger than any other MDM provider. The largest customer base, combined with the largest research and development team in the industry, allows AirWatch to provide the broadest functionality at the lowest cost. This, combined with a scalable high-availability architecture, results in virtually every mobility project with more than 20,000 devices being managed by AirWatch. Examples of this market leadership include the top four global Fortune companies, nine of the top 10 US retailers, six of the top 10 global airlines, the top four global energy companies, six of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, seven of the top 10 global CPG companies, three of the top five US medical device companies, five of the top 10 global luxury goods companies and two of the top three global hotel groups.
© 2013 AirWatch, LLC. All rights reserved. AirWatch® and the AirWatch logo are registered trademarks of AirWatch, LLC. All other brands and trademarks mentioned in this press release are the property of their respective owners.
1Aragon Research does not endorse vendors, or their products or services that are referenced in its research publications, and does not advise users to select those vendors that are rated the highest. Aragon Research publications consist of the opinions of Aragon Research and Advisory Services organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Aragon Research provides its research publications and the information contained in them "AS IS," without warranty of any kind.
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Whoa! Stanford Student Solves Rubik's Cube While Juggling
We'll get back to the real news in a little bit, but first some amazing footage from Stanford University.
As the school tweeted, it shows mathematics undergrad Ravi Fernando "solving a Rubik's Cube while juggling." Here's the video — warning, there's a curse word:
Fernando, by the way, is a member of the World Cube Association. He has managed to solve a cube in 7.65 seconds.
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Amazon Counters Google Cloud Price CutsAmazon Counters Google Cloud Price Cuts
Amazon trotted out a wide range of price cuts to Amazon Web Services products one day after Google made a similar announcement.
March 27, 2014
Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday one of its largest-ever price reductions for a wide range of virtual instances and services.
Amazon's announcement at AWS Summit 2014 came a day after Google made a 32% price cut across all virtual instances on its Compute Engine, dropped Cloud Storage rates by 68%, and cut BigQuery prices by 85%.
However, Amazon senior VP of web services Andy Jassy, during the main Amazon executive address at the Summit, made no reference to Google as he described portions of Amazon's existing catalogue of services, then cited its 41 price reductions in the last six years, and finally came to "our 42nd price cut."
Amazon cut the price of its Simple Storage Service by an average of 51%, with cuts varying between 36% and 65%, spread across the different tiers of the service. S3 is Amazon's popular service for storing large object files over a long period of time. It is used to store many different types of data, both structured and unstructured.
The move will lower Amazon's price of storage in S3 to $0.03 per GB for the first TB in its Standard Storage service. Google's 68% price cut Tuesday means that its first TB of storage has been reduced to $0.026 per GB a month. Amazon, however, also cut prices in its Reduced Redundancy storage from $0.068 to $0.024 per GB a month. Glacier storage, Amazon's low I/O and infrequently accessed permanent service, remains at $0.01 per GB a month.
[Want to learn more about how Google is challenging Amazon's cloud cred? See Google Turns Up The Heat On Amazon.]
AWS reduced the price on its M3 general-purpose server instance running under Linux by 38%. An M3.medium, a virtual server with a single virtual CPU, 3.75 GB of RAM, and 4 GB of solid state disk, will drop from its current $0.113 to $0.07 per hour for an on-demand instance, as of April 1. On-demand instances are available at the swipe of a credit card. Reserved and spot instances, which cost less, have different payment terms that require more upfront payment and commitment, or a willingness to wait for unutilized capacity on Amazon.
An M3 running under Windows received a smaller reduction of 24 to 27%.
In Amazon's sometimes confusing lexicon of virtual instances, the M3 is a modernized version of its initial, general-purpose M1 servers from eight years ago. The M3 runs on a modern CPU, usually the Intel E5-2670 Sandy Bridge Xeon processor, and the virtual CPU uses one of the core's two threads. The chip runs at 2.6 GHz.
That makes the M3 significantly more powerful than its M1 predecessor. An M1.medium is a virtual server with a single virtual CPU and 3.75 GB of RAM, with 410 GB of disk storage instead of SSDs, meaning it will have slower operations overall as the CPU waits on I/Os. It's currently priced at $0.12 an hour, which will be reduced April 1 to $0.087, a drop of 36%. The single virtual CPU, despite the similarity of some other elements, is a weaker chip, equivalent to one single-threaded core of a 2006 or 2007 Xeon running at 1 GHz. Amazon claims the more modern M3 virtual machine will get more work done with the same application, if the application can use the processing power.
Likewise, the modernized virtual instance, compute-intensive C3.large combines more processor power with a limited amount of memory. The C3 received a 30% price reduction running under Linux, and 19% under Windows. A C3 server comes with two virtual CPUs, or roughly a double-threaded core of a Xeon E5-2680 Sandy Bridge chip running at 2.68 GHz, 3.75 GB of RAM, and two 16-GB SSDs. With the 30% reduction, it costs $0.105 an hour.
The C3 series is an upgraded version of the C1 instances that are still offered by Amazon. AWS VP Adam Selipsky explained in an interview after Jassy's address that M3 and C3 server instances are meant to replace M1 and C1 instances with new users. Their more powerful processors give them a price-performance advantage, he said. But some customers have geared applications to run with existing C1 and M1 instances, so Amazon continues to offer them.
The accompanying reductions on other M1, C1, and C2 virtual server instances ranged from 10 to 40% under Linux and 7 to 35% under Windows.
Amazon also lowered prices on Reserved Instances, considered by many long-term customers as its best pricing model. Customers must make a down payment on use of the instances and hold them through a one- or three-year period. Pricing for modern Reserved C3 and M3 Instances running under Linux were lowered 30% for both one-year and three-year contracts. Under Windows, Reserved C3 and M3 Instances were lowered 16% and 18%, respectively, for one-year contracts, and 13% and 15% for three-year contracts. The older instance types were lowered 10 to 40%.
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I moved to San Ramon in 1997. I had two cats or maybe three at that time. I boarded them at the Norris Canyon Animal Hospital, which was near my new job at Two Annabel Lane. I remember seeing an illustration in the lobby of the new animal hospital planned for Bishop Drive. That of course became Bishop Ranch Veterinary Center. I don't remember if Urgent Care was part of the original name.
I continued to bring my cats to Bishop Ranch, which I shall refer to now as BR, but the vet hospital has grown very big and hospital-like. In fact they boast that they are like a real hospital with all of the services and facilities, and they are.
Being like a real hospital also has some negative aspects. BR has lots of Doctors. In fact they seem to be hiring new ones every time I go in. They list 15 Doctors on their website. That's good for getting a same-day appointment, but now it is too much like visiting a people Doctor.
First you check in at the front desk. Then you wait with your cat for about 10 minutes in a crowded waiting room, usually filled with dogs. Then a Vet Tech takes you back into one of the little examining rooms where you wait another 20 minutes. One time I waited almost an hour. I finally came out to see what was taking so long and the receptionist said, "We forgot about you." Nooooo.
I was bringing my big cat, Molly, to Bishop Ranch for weight loss. Dr. Baine said she needed a low carbohydrate diet and put her on Hills M/D. Hills makes three different kinds of diet food, M/D which is for diabetes but can be used for weight loss, R/D which has fiber added to bulk up the food without adding calories, and W/D which is their standard weight loss product.
Molly lost about two pounds in three or four months, but for almost two months she plateaued at 17 lbs. Dr. Baine just told me to "feed her less," even though she had been throwing up half her food. Dr. Baine phoned me later and suggested switching from Hills M/D to Purina D/M, which I did, but it didn't work any better. So that's when I decided to switch to Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital.
I made an appointment with Dr. Sandy Block, who is the owner of Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital. The receptionist told me Dr. Block likes to spend an hour with new patients, and she set up an appointment for Wednesday afternoon, March 13th.
Dr. Block worked at BR about 10 years ago. According to one of my friends in Safe-Cat, she left because she wasn't up to their medical standards. I asked Dr. Block about that and she said she wanted to spend more time with patients, which didn't fit with BR's appointment schedules. I understood that very well, and that's exactly why I wanted to switch from BR to a smaller, more personalized animal hospital. It also didn't hurt that Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital is only 5 minutes from my house.
Dr. Block did a very thorough exam of Molly and put her on Hill's new Metabolic cat food. She told me to feed her 1.66 cans a day. Molly liked the new food and didn't throw up as much as she did with the M/D or the D/M. Over the last two months she's lost 1.5 lbs. Dr. Block wants her down to 13.5 lbs., which is about 1.5 lbs. less than Dr. Baine's target weight.
Not only has Molly been losing weight on the Metabolic food, I won a free case after bringing her in for a weigh in. I didn't even know there was a contest, but every time I bring her into Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital for a weigh in, my name is entered into the monthly drawing for a free case of food. I was so pleased with the way Dr. Block is taking care of Molly, I planned to switch my other three cats there too.
About a year ago I rushed my cat Smudgy to BR. I wrote about this in my blog Goodbye Smudgy. I was stuck at a light on Bollinger Canyon Road for 2 minutes, and by the time I got him to BR he was gone. I thought that if I could have gotten him to a vet 5 minutes sooner, he could have been saved.
Well this past week I had a replay of rushing a sick cat to Bishop Ranch, but this time with a happier ending. My cat Cinnamon was hiding under the bed. She usually does that when she isn't feeling well, but I am not able to get her out from under the bed by myself. So I called Elise Stewart, President of Safe Cat. It was Mother's day, and I wasn't sure she would even answer. She did answer, and said BR closes at 8 pm on Sunday, and it was almost 8 pm. She said she'd come over in the morning.
I didn't think it was too serious; so I thought Monday morning would be fine. The last time Cinnamon hid under the bed she had a broken tooth. Elise Stewart pulled her out and I took her to BR for an extraction and cleaning. That wasn't an emergency, so I didn't think it was this time either.
I called Elise around 10 am on Monday morning. Cinnamon was looking weaker and I wanted to get her into the vet that afternoon. Elise said she couldn't come over and I should call Nanette, one of the other Safe Cat volunteers who lives in San Ramon. I called Nanette and she was going out and would be back about 1 pm. She said she'd call me when she got home.
I made an appointment at Bishop Ranch for 4:10 pm to be sure Nanette would be able to get Cinnamon out from under the bed with enough time for me to take her over there. I thought she should go to BR in case it was something serious and she needed surgery. Besides Cinnamon's medical records were at BR and not at Bollinger Canyon yet.
By 1:30 pm I hadn't heard from Nanette and started to worry about Cinnamon. She was whimpering under the bed but wouldn't come out. She was near the side where I could see her but couldn't grab her. She looked very weak.
So I called my neighbor Sally, who also has cats. I wasn't sure Sally would be able to get Cinnamon out from under the bed but I was getting very worried about her.
Sally came over and was able to get Cinnamon out fairly quickly. She put Cinnamon in a carrier and said I should take her right away. I thought I had time to phone Nanette and leave her a message that she didn't need to come. I also phoned BR to say I was coming in with an emergency by 2 pm.
Sally was getting very worried and reminded me of Smudgy, and I should go right away. Cinnamon was fading fast. As I was driving on Alcosta past Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital I thought about taking Cinnamon there, but I knew they would not be prepared for an emergency, so I continued another 10 minutes and got to BR at 2:10 pm.
A Vet Tech rushed Cinnamon back where Dr. Shann Ikezawa examined her. Cinnamon's blood count was very low, only 5 out of 30. She needed an immediate blood transfusion. She was having difficulty breathing and put into an oxygen cage.
Dr. Ikezawa told me Cinnamon has blood type B, which is much rarer than type A. They reached a type B donor on their Donor List. I asked if Cinnamon could hold on until the donor cat got there. Dr. Ikezawa smiled and nodded yes.
Cinnamon was at BR for three days until her blood count stabilized at 24 or 80 percent. Dr. Ikezawa took bone marrow samples to test for leukemia and cancer, but both turned up negative. I was able to take Cinnamon home Wednesday afternoon. She'll be going back this Wednesday for a follow up. I hope her blood count will be back up to normal by then.
Dr. Ikezawa is treating Cinnamon for an autoimmune condition until we know what caused her blood count to drop so low. I will continue to take Cinnamon to BR for at least a year until she recovers completely or requires continuing care for the rest of her life.
I brought Molly to Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital on Tuesday to be weighed. I told the Vet Tech about Cinnamon needing a blood transfusion. The tech said they are not set up for blood transfusions; so it was a good thing I continued on to BR. Cinnamon is doing well so far on her medications. I'll write a follow up after her checkup on May 23rd.
I still plan to switch my other cats to Bollinger Canyon Animal Hospital, but Pet lovers in San Ramon are so fortunate to have a facility like Bishop Ranch Veterinary Center and Urgent Care here when we need it.


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Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero will face no action for his two-footed challenge on Chelsea's David Luiz.
The Football Association has confirmed that the Argentina striker will not be charged retrospectively for the incident in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.
It follows confirmation that referee Chris Foy had at least seen part of the incident and acted on it during the match - Chelsea were awarded a free-kick.
Both of Aguero's boots made contact with the upper part of Luiz's left leg but under current FA rules only off-the-ball incidents or those viewed as "exceptional" - which would, for example, warrant more than a three-match ban - are dealt with retrospectively.
There was an outcry when the FA took a similar view on Wigan's Callum McManaman after his studs-up challenge on Newcastle's Massadio Haidara, who was carried from the field on a stretcher, last month.
This was slightly different in that, unlike Haidara, Luiz suffered no serious harm and played on until the end of the match - but the Chelsea man himself has called on Aguero to apologize.
Luiz said: "Aguero is a great player but he needs to be honest with himself and say, 'I don't like to do bad tackles'. Kids see the game and they want to see the good things and not the bad - I would apologize. Football is beautiful, but sometimes in games people have five seconds like that - I forgive him because I have a good heart. I don't like to beat people.
"Sometimes in a game people have five seconds when they are angry and do things they don't like to do. I think it was that. I never saw Aguero do a bad tackle on other players."


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The first PvP season of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is underway! Players are now able to compete in level-85 Rated Arenas for top gear, items, and titles -- and for the first time ever, they can enter level-85 Rated Battlegrounds to fight for the same rewards available through Arenas, along with the original World of Warcraft PvP titles. Players can also participate in unranked War Games, skirmishes that allow Battleground and Arena teams to hone their skills against opponents of their choosing -- even if they're in the same faction. So prepare yourselves, aspiring Grand Marshals and High Warlords, as the struggle between the Horde and the Alliance is about to get bloodier.


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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch: Google to Start Reporting Subscriber Numbers
David Chartier / Download Squad: Google Reader now reports feed subscriber numbers, offers Publisher Tips page
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
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John Markoff / New York Times:
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Kim Zetter / Wired News:
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Humble Beginnings — Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins had a lifelong fascination with games. "I fell in love with complex board games like Strat-O-Matic and Dungeons & Dragons," he told us. "I realized I was making invaluable social connections from playing games and that my brain was more active."
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Jason McMaster / GigaGamez: They Saw Farther - An Early History of EA
Chris Kohler / Game | Life: Back When Electronic Arts Was Cool
Blake Snow / Joystiq: Rags to riches: the story of Electronic Arts
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Vonage narrows 4Q loss to $65 million, meeting forecasts — NEW YORK (AP) - Vonage Holdings Corp. on Thursday narrowed its fourth-quarter loss to $65 million as revenue nearly doubled, but the Internet phone company's stock fell to a new all-time low amid worries about weak subscriber growth.
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Mark Evans:
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop: More details about rumored Apple subnotebook
Tom Raftery / Tom Raftery's I.T. views: Parallels on Mac — I upgraded my copy of Parallels to the RC3 version released today.
Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile.com: What I'd love to see in a Tablet PC
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Apple Working on Flash-Based Sub-Notebook
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites — Impressive. Scanning the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007 , Wikipedia sites are highlighted for just entering the top ten most visited. OK, technically — they're in the top ten for having the most unique visitors.
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US: Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year
Saul / localglo.be:
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb: European Startups and Web Innovation Around The World
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Bill Slawski / Search Engine Land:
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William Slawski / SEO by the SEA: Feedback on Custom Search Engines
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
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Pat Phelan / Roam4free:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: AllFreeCalls Shut Down — AllFreeCalls has been taken offline …
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM: More 'Free' Phone Call Providers Offline
New York Times:
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Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Nielsen: Not So Much Ad Skipping, Time Shifting
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Business Week:
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Some problems can only be solved by Fiona Apple songs. Loud. In headphones. All up in my brain. In the car. Drowning out surroundings.
Fiona Apple reminds me of heartbreak that I no longer mourn. Young loves from years ago. Young loves that feel old now. Loves that I feel faded into just good memories. The sting is gone… and it's all just sweet. The memories are indulgent. The drama so pleasingly removed. It's like watching a movie in my head… me and that cute boy I loved are the star. It's tender and earnest.. and there is good even when it gets sad.
It's hard to imagine how my now will someday have this faded comfort of my current memories. All of the now feels so… now… and pressing and urgent. If I'm lucky, my now will be my sweet moments later.
But really… the now is sweet indeed.
I made pastry vessels for whipped strawberry cream…. then I covered the whole thing in chocolate. I'm not the first and I won't be the last to do this.. but I feel pretty much like a genius.
If you had told me ten years ago that I'd be sitting on a bed eating strawberry cream and NOT crying to this song… I wouldn't have believed you. I would have called you a liar… because that song would always and forever tear out my heart. Or.. not! Because now it just feels sweet, and tender, and reminds me of love and strawberries and cream.
Is it completely hard to believe that flour and butter turn into cream puffs?
It sort of blows my mind… it can't be this simple, right?
We need eggs. Eggs do all the heavy lifting in this recipe. They create the webbed and moist texture. Eggs also create the lift and lightness in this dough.
Eggs are a wonder.
If you've never made a pate a choux dough… it's a little different.
Don't let its difference intimidate you.
Flour is added to a mixture of simmering water and melted butter.
Sounds crazy, but it totally works out.
The mixture gets cooked and stirred over a low flame, helping the moisture cook out. The process is entirely satisfying.
Once some of the moisture is cooked out, we're going to add more fat and moisture with eggs!
This is the dough after two of four eggs are added.
It looks slightly tough and glue-y.
It will smooth out with the addition of more eggs.
After four eggs are beaten into the flour mixture, the dough is glossy and smooth. Thick and juuuuust pourable.
The dough gets piped onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Pro Tip One: when this recipe asks you to line the baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper…. just do it. Trust the process.
Pro Tip Two: I used a 1/2-inch pastry tip (the #9) and disposable piping bags for this recipe. It's an investment…. but it's totally worth it. If you like to bake, disposable pastry bags and a few tips are really a great thing to have on hand. Think on it.
I have a new obsession in my kitchen: freeze-dried strawberries!
These strawberries are my favorite part of packaged breakfast granola. They come in a bag of just freeze-dried berries from Trader Joe's or Whole Foods.
I suppose you could even make your own freeze-dried strawberries. That's a whole thing that requires machinery.
Because I don't have proper machinery… I buy the bag of freeze-dried berries.
I used a spice grinder (though you could use a small food processor) to grind the berries into a powder.
This is the powder that will flavor and tint our whipped cream.
The best, right?
(The Tomato Tart has an amazing use for freeze-dried strawberries. It's the inspiration!)
Just barely pink and full of strawberry flavor.
All you really need is a spoon. Truth.
Because I don't know when to stop…. we need milk chocolate.
Let's pour hot cream over it and call it a ganache. Come on…. what's better than that? (nothing… duh.)
Let's smash three desserts into one!
Profiteroles + Strawberry Cream + Milk Chocolate Sauce
Nothing bitter. It's all just sweet. Let's keep it sweet.
This recipe is slightly adapted from Thomas Keller. Ok… so it's ballsy to adapt a Keller recipe… to be sure. But! I added strawberry cream. I'm sure he'd understand.
If you don't have access to freeze-dried strawberries, you can make a whipped cream filling with vanilla beans, you can add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder and double the powdered sugar, or you can add a splash of bourbon. You've got options.
This might not be the sort of recipe you'd think to make. I know… there are a lot of steps. I know… you're cooking dough. It might feel weird and overwhelming. Try something new! Surprise your kitchen brain. It needs surprising.
Strawberry Cream Puffs with Milk Chocolate Sauce
makes about 2 dozen puffs
adapted slightly from Thomas Keller
For the Profiteroles:
1 cup water
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 to 5 large eggs
For the Strawberry Cream:
2 cups heavy cream
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1/2 cup freeze-dried strawberry powder
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
For the Chocolate Sauce:
4 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
To make the Profiteroles:
Place racks in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, and set aside.
In a medium saucepan, combine water, butter, sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Once the butter is melted and the mixture is brought to a simmer, lower heat slightly, and add flour all at once. Stir immediately using a stiff heat-proof spatula or a wooden spoon. Stir until the mixture thickens, pulls away from the side of the pan, forms a mass, and the bottom of the pan is clean. The mixture will be glossy and damp.
We're going to cook the dough over a low flame. This will allow moisture to evaporate from the dough, allowing it to absorb more fat when the eggs are added. Stir for about 5 minutes. A thing gluten coat will form along the bottom and sides of the pan. When enough moisture has evaporated, the dough will steam and the cooking flour will smell slightly nutty.
Immediately transfer the dough to the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed for about 1 minute, releasing some of the heat from the cooked dough. Add four eggs, one at a time, beating until each egg is thoroughly incorporated. Stop the mixer between each egg addition and scrape down the bowl. After beating in the last egg the mixture should be glossy and thick… but still juuuust pourable. When scooped into a spoon, the dough should slowly pour off the spoon. If it doesn't fall, or it fall in one giant clump… beat in the 5th egg.
Spoon the dough in a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch pastry tip. On the prepared sheets, pipe out dough into circles so that they are about 1 1/2-inches across, about about 3/4-inch tall. Space them about 1 1/2-inches apart on the sheet pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Rotate the pans from bottom shelf to top. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F, and bake for 15 minutes more.
Remove a cream puff from the oven and slice in half. If the inside is not gooey, but still just moist, they're done! If they're gooey, bake for another 3 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on the pan.
To make Strawberry Cream:
Place dehydrated strawberries in a spice grinder or small food processor. Grind to a powder. Set aside 1/2 cup of pink strawberry powder.
In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, fitted with a whisk attachment, add cold cream and powdered sugar. Beat of medium-high speed to incorporate. Stop mixer, add strawberry powder and vanilla extract. Beat on medium-high speed until just thick. You want the cream to be thick and hold its shape, but not over whipped and on its way to butter.
Allow cream to chill in the refrigerator until it's time to assemble the cream puffs.
To make the Milk Chocolate Sauce:
Place chopped chocolate in a medium bowl.
In a small saucepan, heat heavy cream and corn syrup until just simmering. Pour hot cream mixture over chopped chocolate. Let stand for 1 minute, then carefully whisk to incorporate. Mixture will be glossy and smooth. Refrigerate sauce if you'd like a thicker consistency.
To assemble Cream Puffs:
Cut each profiterole in half. Top with 1 heaping tablespoon strawberry cream. Place the top of profiterole on top of the cream. Drizzle with chocolate. Serve with coffee. Once assembled, these are best served immediately. Profiteroles can be made a day ahead, wrapped will and kept at room temperature. Before serving, place profiteroles on a sheet pan and toast at 300 degrees F for about 5 minutes… just to heat through and re-crisp. Cool then fill with cream and drizzle with chocolate sauce.