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Orange-Ginger Grilled Boneless Short Ribs with Green Onion-Peanut Relish
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- Orange-Ginger Glaze:
- 4 cups fresh orange juice
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons tamari
- 1 teaspoon Schezuan peppercorns
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 whole star anise
- One 2-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced into rounds
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- 1/4 cup canola oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped salted peanuts
- 2 green onions, green and pale green part, thinly sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon light brown sugar
- Pinch allspice
- Pinch cinnamon
- Kosher salt
For the orange-ginger glaze: Combine the juice, sugar, tamari, peppercorns, ground pepper, salt, anise and ginger in a saucepan. Cook over high heat, stirring occasionally, until reduced by half. Strain and cool.
For the grilled boneless short ribs: Toss the ribs with 1/2 cup of the glaze, reserving the remaining glaze. Set aside the ribs at room temperature for 30 minutes.
Prepare the grill for direct grilling at medium-high heat. Remove the ribs from the glaze, shaking off the excess. Brush the ribs with the oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill the ribs until nicely charred and still pink in the middle, about 3 minutes each side. Brush the ribs occasionally with the reserved glaze.
For the green onion-peanut relish: Combine the peanuts, onions, sugar, allspice, cinnamon and sprinkle lightly with salt.
Transfer the ribs to a platter and top with the green onion-peanut relish.
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The Commission is testing a new public format for this year's Interim Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, 2-3 December. Previous meetings were held in the IPHC headquarters offices in Seattle and, although the meetings have been webcast, the available space limited outside attendance to a small number. This year's Interim Meeting will be held at the Hotel Deca in Seattle, allowing the public to attend. The hotel is located at 4507 Brooklyn Avenue NE in Seattle, near the University of Washington campus.
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Guest blogger: Zoo Academy student, Tyler Allgeyer
Hi! My name is Tyler Allgeyer. I'm a senior attending the Zoo Academy. This is a special two-year career tech program that runs through Hughes STEM High School. Here we take all of our normal classes such as math and English, but we also take special classes related to a zoological and a botanical field of study in the form of Zoo and Aquarium Management and Environmental Science.
Besides our tech courses, we go to what are known as labs. They are two-hour intervals at the beginning of the day for juniors and at the end of the day for seniors. Here we work as zookeepers in a six-week rotation at various departments in the Zoo.
Some of my favorite labs so far have been the Cheetah Show, Reptile House, and Manatee Springs.
Some of my favorite experiences happened while I was working at the Cheetah Show. Going into enclosures in direct contact with cheetahs is a once in a lifetime experience. This is a special opportunity the keepers let us have provided that we did a good job and worked well with them.
Manatee Springs is probably one of the best departments to work in. The keepers there are very relaxed and fun to be around. Lots of positive energy flows through there, especially when Chris is around. He's always keeping the humor level high. The best part for me while working there was when Lindsey and I would go do the animal encounter with Hermit, a three-foot American alligator. It was the first time I had held an alligator that size. He can be a bit squirmy, but we always had a great time!
My absolute favorite department here at the Zoo is the Reptile House. Reptiles are where my heart truly lies so it makes sense. Lots of jokes and funny stories were told during my time there. I even spent some time over the summer on weekends volunteering for the whole day. I got to do some fun things like taking out snakes for animal encounters and hand feeding the Komodo dragon.
Many of the departments have some awesome people that are very easy to work with. You really get to enjoy doing your work in a fun adventurous environment. My time here at the Zoo Academy may be short, but the experiences I've had will last a lifetime.
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Listening To Our Animals
As an animal trainer or even a pet owner the most important thing you can do with your animal is to listen to them. I don't mean physically having the ability to listen to them, but rather your willingness to sit, watch, and listen. In my blog post last week it was very clear that listening to an animal I work with can be imperative – it can save your life. Like listening to Makine, my rehab Java Macaque. The keepers and staff at the Cincinnati Zoo also listen to and know their animals. A clear example of keepers knowing their animals and listening to them is found in the story of the design of the Zoo's cougar exhibit.
When I was helping to raise the cougars, "Joseph" and "Tecumseh," we had a strict schedule of exercise, enrichment, training, and play. Each day we would go for multiple walks, exercise them in the Cheetah Encounter yard, play with them, and even nap with them. We had to build a very strong bond with these animals so they could be transferred to their new enclosure and feel safe and secure. The only way to do this was to spend the time with them so even if they were worried they would trust their trainers and look to them for guidance. We wanted them to know if we weren't worried about something, they didn't need to be either. The only way to get that response and trust from them was to spend every day, all day, with them. Rough job, I know. [Read more →]
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Cat Canyon Construction Continues
With beautiful weather like today, the construction crew down at Cat Canyon is busy. The snow leopard and tiger enclosures are really starting to take shape and the tiger viewing shelter is going up. Most of the public paths have been paved and the footers are in for the tiger sculpture and an artificial tree sporting claw marks. Horticulture has started bringing in plants and getting ready to landscape. Next week the sound system and speakers will go in and we'll start planning where to pipe in the tiger roars and such. Our signs are still in production, which is fine because they are usually the last elements to be installed. See how the exhibit construction is coming along for yourself in Thane's latest video.
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I am a fan! This is a nice, more tailored pair of leggings that yes, may look like a pair of skinny pants/jeans. However, they are certainly a step up from something casual; the material is soft, thicker than I thought it would be and holds it shape well. I am definitely ordering another pair (or two!).
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One of the BEST leggings I've ever bought; had to buy more!! From what she described I think the customer above must have received the wrong item because mine are everything they should be and just what previous customer described that she did not get. Love them. And am really happy for a change that these sit high on the back and are not slippping down the behind like so many do.
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I have just reread an article I wrote for Ekklesia from last year's G20 in Cannes, and while I sit here in the evening sun in Los Cabos with world leaders just a few miles away tucking into their Summit working dinner, I feel angry.
Los Cabos is hot and rammed full of federal police and offshore gunships and the military atop armoured vehicles. Late last night, when the US President touched down in the local airport, the town was awash with sirens and helicopters and outriders.
Two CAFOD partners have been detained by police whilst investigating human rights abuses near Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata's new Tintaya site in Peru
Secretary of State Caroline Spelman has said churches have a vital role to play at next month's Rio+20 summit
Since 2000, 55 journalists in Mexico have been killed. Most of them brutally shot or tortured for doing their job. Maria Elizabeth Macia Castro from the city of Nuevo Laredo wrote online under the pseudonym 'The Girl from Laredo', reporting the activities of criminal groups in her area. She used Twitter to push the information she uncovered to a wider audience.
Aid and human rights agencies have expressed dismay at the UK government's repeated failure to heed informed criticism of its legal plans.
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"We live in our dreams, and everything is about fantasy invading reality or reality breaking into fantasy." - filmmaker Guo XiaoluGuo Xiaolu's intricate and unconventional debut How is Your Fish Today? moves fluidly between fiction and reality, and eventually seamlessly melds the two together. A scriptwriter sits in his apartment chain-smoking as his plants die around him, furiously writing his next screenplay. His character, a young man, escapes southern China after killing his lover and heads for a small town on the northern border. The character's journey inspires the writer to take the same path and, in doing so, boundaries are obscured. Multiple award-winner, including prizes at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival.
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July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Forty-six people are confirmed dead in the crash of a Boeing 727 aircraft that was attempting to land during heavy rains in Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the chief executive of Hewa Bora Airways, the plane's owner.
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China: Online predator or hapless host?
The People's Republic of China has been singled out in increasingly unequivocal language by the US and its allies as one of, if not the greatest, source of online attacks, be they perpetrated by criminals or the Chinese state itself. But amid all the anti-Beijing bluster, has China been given an unfairly bad rep? At first sight …
Oh yes?
It is more accurately an indication that within that country exist a large number of vulnerable machines and perhaps inadequate law enforcement or industry regulation
"inadequate law enforcement" - in China? Yeah, riiiiight........
Re: Oh yes?
Without the authority and the go ahead of those in charge this wouldn't happen. Someone allows it to happen, whether directly or in turning a blind eye...
Re: Oh yes?
How many computers have pirated copies of Windows, with Windows Update disabled to stop Microsoft from deactivating them? That is where the inadequate law enforcement is.
Re: Oh yes?
As if the UK isn't hacking other countries networks....
I would be shocked if there isn't some black-op team breaking into the systems of other states...
Before the world of IT we had agents in different countries, double agents even in friendly nations... now I expect we will be hacking friend & enemy systems......
As close a friend as the USA is, I would not trust the US gov as far as I could throw an average american.....
When your 'closest ally' runs an illegal detention center where they detain people without trial and still refuses to release one of your citizens, it makes everyone else look good in comparison...
Re: Oh yes?
"As if the UK isn't hacking other countries networks....I would be shocked if there isn't some black-op team breaking into the systems of other states..."
You obviously see the UK security services as James Bond. I see them as more in the mould of Johnny English, and would be most surprised if they had any skill in this area, and even more surprised if our politicians would let them do such a thing.
Re: Oh yes?
Hacking state systems only really benefits the ones who are "behind" in any specific criteria.
Once China has Stealth tech, nanotech, pharmatech, biotech, insertothertech that is superior to "ours", then there will be strategic advantage for us to hack them.
Until then, it will be surface surveillance only and a generous helping of plausible deniability.
Cui bono ?
The catspaw argument might be more compelling if the attacks were mostly scams. As it is, a disturbingly large number aren't after money or ID, they're after industrial secrets. My money says this is state sponsored and it's too sophisticated for a US false flag.
I know how to reduce my customer's expenses.
The ability to block mainland-china, in it's entirety, is a valuable tool.
Re: Whatever.
Is your blocking based on the source IP address of incoming packets?
Re: Whatever.
> blocking based on the source IP address
That's what I do.
My main home machine runs Linux and I used to find my logs showed several attacks - mainly against SSH - daily. These were generally trivial attempts to guess passwords (none of which ever worked). Over a period of time I logged the IP address of the attacker and made a list of 23 */8 address blocks that seemed to account for pretty much all the unwanted attention. A cursory check showed that these were all located in the far east, not just China.
Adding lines in to /etc/hosts.deny, of the form ALL:58. ... seems to have cured the problem almost entirely.
Re: Whatever.
Same here, I block all /16's and larger from China based on maxmind's geoip DB, plus a few Romanian and Kuwaiti networks.
/24's? There's plenty of them but I really couldn't be arsed going that far ;o)
...has China been given an unfairly bad rep?
China has amazing levels of Internet border control (thanks to Cisco).
If someone's inside the walls and hacking someone outside, it's because China wants them to.
Have to laugh at some of the armchair security people here
"The People's Republic of China has been singled out in increasingly unequivocal language by the US"
Because we can trust a word they say?
We can't trust ANY of them US China or our own Govt. On one hand they are crying that China are a bunch of spies, on the other hand they are disabling foreign nuclear power stations with viruses.
The US was unequivocal in its use of language when we all went to war to stop the various counties with large deposits of oil, fissionable and opium, yet that turned out to be a steaming pile of crap, why should them covering their own tracks by pointing the figure at someone else be any different?
China is an easy target, but not doing anything that the rest of the words self serving administrations are not also doing.
Re: Have to laugh at some of the armchair security people here
Agree wholeheartedly, but it's naive to think there isn't a complete difference in the scale of government sponsored hacking in the US and China. US tend to go for small scale, directed attacks (like Stuxnet and Flame) whereas China goes for 'Quantity over Quality' style attacks, bombarding all and sundry with low level attacks, I believe this 'volume' is what the article is referring to.
No doubt though that the vast amount of pirated copies of Windows are responsible for Chinese PCs being such a target for hacking for other countries. Maybe that's why they've been on such a drive to clear up piracy in the Middle Kingdom recently.
Re: Have to laugh at some of the armchair security people here
You are wrong! After invading our intelligence was validated: Some did in fact have opium and some had oil.
Perfect false flag system
Cyber attack 'emanating from within your borders'. Right..
Doesn't mean the payloads were originally created there, though. Not that China isn't indeed very naughty but it's the Kettle to the USA's Pot.
And I don't mean the MaryJ kind, either.
It's difficult to feel much sympathy with Beijing given the apparent volume and persistence of state-sanctioned attacks originating from within the Great Firewall. But it's also worth remembering that activity of this kind is certainly being carried out to a lesser or greater extent by all major global powers.
Life's a lot easier isn't it when you don't have to hack the PCs and the telcos just roll over and play nice?
Most of the attempts to use my email server to send spam come from a couple of Chinese providers. The number of different pcs attempting it suggest either total complacency or apathy by the isp or they are a willing partner in the whole thing. Firewalling China and Korea frankly would seem to be a logical step forward.
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Actually not a bad idea. Lets encourage BT et al to block all IPs originating from China. I cant say I've ever seen a legitimate request come from China to our servers. First thing I do on every new server is block all known Chinese IPs. How much friendlier would this be if BT etc provided a tick box on their user admin pages to say, please block these countries for me at the network level... How do we start a campaign?
Re: soam.. @George 8
That's probably a better idea than you realise...
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But that's where everything gets weird. The Chinese will never believe that companies are blocking them of their own volition, they'll think the Govt is behind it. I'm sure the Chinese have conspiracy fans too, like the 'Utah' comment up there. It would end up causing a big mess I'm afraid.
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I know of a small business that gets a significant percentage of its trade from China. It's not the business of BT to decide which countries its customers are allowed to receive connection attempts from. It's the business of each business to decide what firewall rules and other data security to impose on itself. the only sensible approach is to assume that ALL internet addresses are potentially hostile. It may have been your best customer until yesterday, but how do you know who is in the driving seat of today's connection attempt?
That was quite clear from the beginning of the whole IT security budget raising China bashing campain. Software piracy is wide-spread in developing countries, including China. A copy of Windows, MS Office, etc. costs ca. 2 dollars in such countries, and PCs are often sold with non-genuine Windows, etc. copies pre-installed, because they are cheaper and there is virtually no intelectual property problems to be feared. Windows update on those copies does not work, as the OS is detected by MS as not genuine. Combined with the very little security awareness of a common PC user (all over the world, not just developing countries - people are happy if the PC just works at the moment), that leads to a huge number of vulnerable PCs, which can be very easily compromised. And China has most of them due to its sheer population size.
A few more thoughts on this: The public China bashing in "West" is the result of mainly US (and riding the wave also other western) military simply trying to keep and extend its budget in times of cuts (and the bashing recepients respond with the same in their own countries, of course, as we all are the same animal walking this small planet). With obvious publicity support by companies selling IT security tools and services.
Microsoft could improve the situation drastically by abandaning their "genuine advantage" policy and allowing non-genuine copies of their products to update themselves. But they can't be blamed, as they are a commercial enterprise after all, trying to sell their products. So, what they do instead are the purely cosmetic but well-publicised "hacker ring crackdowns" for marketing purposes.
The US (whose jurisdiction MS is based in) wouldn't force MS to abandon "genuine advantage" even if they could, as rising the general IT security of potencial adversaries is not in their interests.
Governments of developing countries don't crack down on the raging software piracy, as it is currently not in their interests to increase average computing costs, thereby slowing the rate of economic development. But I guess they are going to start doing that when the average living standard increases so that more people will be able to afford genuine software, and costs of being compromized (identity theft, etc.) start outweighing computing costs (right now they are just used in botnets).
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In K2 set some articles the way you need them, start an export, in the resulting csv-file put your content into columns and import the file again. Its as easy as this.
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Import for K2 still lacks of an "import mask", where a user could save his configurations once for all. Same work has to be done over and over, and can lead to mistakes.
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Having reviewed the market, Import for K2 is the only product enabling to import csv (Excel exports) tables into K2 and linking them to K2 categories.
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Two lawmen say a pamphlet that informed people of their Fourth Amendment rights cost them their jobs.
Chattooga County sheriff's resource officer Jeremy Reece and Summerville police officer Josh Brock launched a referral service website called Uncle Wiggy's. The site also offered a pamphlet called "Uncle Wiggy's Secret Guide to Dealing with the Police," and the officers said they were forced to resign before their supervisors read what was inside it.
"Well hello niece or nephew, welcome to the family, I'm your Uncle Wiggy!" the pamphlet began. "I've spent the better part of thirty years in law enforcement. I've gained a lot of knowledge and experience over my career and I want to share it with you."
The pamphlet gave members a list of their Fourth Amendment rights along with tips such as when you can refuse police access to your home or vehicle.
Neither Brock nor Reece thought to mention their side business to their supervisors before they were confronted in late June.
"When you arrest somebody you have to advise them of their rights. I didn't think a pamphlet would be anything," Brock said.
Both officers spoke out Thursday after public criticism erupted in the county, they were called unfit to be in law enforcement and the controversy shut down state court for a day earlier this week.
Chattooga County Solicitor Sanford "Buddy" Hill was accused of being unethical for advertising on the website and in the pamphlet, since he prosecutes misdemeanor crimes in the county.
Yet, after Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader got his hands on a copy of the pamphlet, he said he couldn't find anything unethical or anything untrue inside.
Schrader said Reece was confronted because the website and pamphlet violated the sheriff's office employee code of conduct and ethics policy by referring people to businesses such as bonding and tow truck companies. The sheriff said Reece asked to resign before the department launched an investigation.
But Reece said he wasn't told a reason why he had to resign except that: "I had lost the public's trust and that it was anti-law enforcement."
Now Brock and Reece, who shut down the website after they lost their jobs, said they are looking into whether their First Amendment rights were violated.
"It's a principled matter about freedom of speech," said John Dennis, who also advertised in the pamphlet and is looking into the matter for the officers.
While officers launching such a website doesn't violate state law, it doesn't look good for a law enforcement department, experts said.
"I don't know if I'd call it unethical, but it sends up red flags," Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council spokesman Ryan Powell said.
But there is a state law that prohibits secondary employment by police officers without permission from supervisors, he said.
Brock said he got the idea to start a referral service more than 10 years ago when he worked at the county jail. He said he watched as inmates couldn't call long-distance from the jail and sometimes would have to sit in their cells before they could get help.
In January, Brock said, he approached Reece about starting up a company that would have a 1-800-number to help criminals get the information they needed on bonding companies and such. They said they didn't plan to refer people to one company but would go down a list of services and give out information.
The officers sold multiple ads costing between $500 and $650 each to local companies, defense attorneys and even to state Rep. Tom Weldon, R-Ringgold, who also is a defense attorney.
But the business never got off the ground, and Brock said he sent the money back to the advertisers. Now they will look into what can be done, but both ex-lawmen said they are shocked by the response.
"They judged its book by its cover," Reece said.
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Toll bills are going out late for 350,000 trips on the Highway 520 and Tacoma Narrows bridges, because of hiccups in the state's effort to match license plates to databases.
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The state says it is late mailing bills for 350,000 toll-bridge trips made early this year, because of difficulty matching license plates to government databases.
About two-thirds of those crossings were made by cars registered outside Washington.
They involve "pay by mail" transactions. When a car lacks a Good to Go account to have tolls electronically deducted, tolling employees use a license-plate photo and obtain the owner's mailing address from databases in Olympia, or other states and provinces.
These crossings occurred between Dec. 29, when tolling began on the Highway 520 floating bridge, and June 30, the end of the fiscal year. The state Department of Transportation found discrepancies while reconciling the financial records, then delved into toll records to locate missed billings, state tolling director Craig Stone said.
The late bills amount to 2 percent of the 18 million tolled crossings during the first half of this year. About 250,000 were on Highway 520, and 100,000 on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Drivers may wonder if the delay puts them at risk of taking a $40 civil penalty, charged for each tolled crossing that goes unpaid 80 days. The answer is no. The 80 days don't begin until a bill is put in the mail by DOT, said Stone.
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We have been trying to keep content current on two blogs. One blog is enough work, two, impossible. Recently, we created a new site at www.superfruitseeds.com. It is both a blog and ecommerce store thanks to the versatility of WordPress. I won't go into the rationale for this new site here but suffice it to say that we will not be updating this blog. We will keep it up but ask that you visit the Super Fruit Seeds site for the most up to date blogs related to gourmet strawberries and nutraceutical berries.
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Time to Think about Your Seed Needs
Within the last couple of days there has been a spike in emails and phone calls about seeds. The most asked question to date is whether our seeds are GMO. The answer, we signed the safe seed pledge which means that we do NOT sell GMO seeds. All of our seeds are open pollinated and are not hybrids.
We do sell some heirloom plants that are hybrids but none are GMO. They are propagated vegetatively which means by rooting their runners, so they are not open pollinated.
A couple of notes about seed availability and price. So far we are holding our prices or offering better prices and more discounts than in the past. We don't know how long we'll be able to do this. Some of the seed is now grown here in Delaware but a still significant amount is imported. The U.S. dollar is weaker than it was a year ago but we are pretty well stocked up right now. We likely will have some shortages as the season goes on, especially for seed we produce.
One other factor affecting availability is a significant increase in demand for seed from outside the U.S. Several species and many of the selections we offer are not available at all or to any great extent off shore. This is especially true for Fragaria virginiana and many of our F. vesca selections.
We are still making the transition from plant production to seed production. If demand for seed continues to increase we will likely significantly reduce our plant production and sales. Many of our customers are either garden centers or growers who grow for garden centers. With shipping costs being what they are it's probably for the best if we ease back on plant production. It will be much more economical for gardeners to buy plants locally than to have us ship them across the country. It comes down to shear economics.
One last point. Most strawberry seed takes about 14 weeks from sowing to first fruit if grown in a range of 65 to 75 degrees F. This knowledge will help you to plan your sowing and also your seed purchases. Seed can be stored in a freezer prior to sowing and actually should be frozen for at least a month before sowing. All strawberry seed that we ship is already preconditioned and ready to sow. If you get the seed early or if you are a distant international customer who has to wait up to a couple of weeks to receive your order, freeze the seed until you are ready to sow to help optimize germination.
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I've been getting a fair number of emails from customers stating that they are glad that I signed the safe seed pledge. Here is one of the responses I sent to a customer today:
"Fortunately, til now those who want to tinker with genetics have left the alpines alone. I fear that won't last long. The renewed interest in these wild types has caught the attention of the breeders who cannot accept plants for what they are. They think they need to "improve" even what is the best the God ever made. Their idea of improvement is to make them larger and harder so they can be shipped long distances. Haven't they ever heard of "grow local"? No need to ship those grown locally."
The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
On December 26, 2010 Nature Genetics published a monumental research effort. This work is awesome. I can't say that I have read the whole article yet and have to admit that what I have read is difficult for me to understand. I did take college genetics, biochemistry and lots of biology classes. But, this work goes way beyond what most of us can comprehend. Check it out for yourself using the following link:
The Genome of Woodland Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
It think it's a great idea to use the now current technology to bring flavor back to the strawberry, even if it sacrifices some of the size. My one hope is that scientists can restrain themselves in creating GMO strawberries and ruining the wild strawberries (another post discusses this.
Ornamental Strawberries
I received several emails last season about pretty pink flowering strawberries that produced no fruit. When we see these pretty plants at a "big box store" we just have to pick them up and take them home. Will you get fruit? The short answer is "that depends".
I'm bringing this up now because I'm starting to offer seeds and plants with pink or rose flowers. Those that I have selected will produce fruit. These include 'Fragissimo' and 'Tarpan'. We'll talk more about those in another post.
Back to the pretty non productive ones. I found an excellent site that explains where these strawberries come from. The link is at Fragaria x Potentilla Hybrids. Strawberries that are grown for ornamental purposes that do not produce fruit include: 'Pink Panda' (also known as 'Frel'), 'Franor' (aka 'Red Ruby Strawberry'), 'Gerald Straley', and 'Lipstick'. If you're buying these for ornamental purposes then they are good choices. But, why buy ornamental strawberries when there are REAL strawberry varieties with pretty pink or rose flowers that produce tasty fruit?
Genetically Modified Strawberries
We are hearing more and more from the media about genetically modified food. The most recent story I heard is about salmon. Genetically modified crops such as corn have been around for a while. Large seed companies are modifying the genetics of various plants and justifying it in many ways. One so called justification is to say that yields will be increased.
Corn for example has been modified in several ways. One way is by modifying the genetics of the corn plant so that it produces a bacterial pesticide in every cell. This pesticide is known as Bacillus thuringensis. It kills a number of different types of worms. Another modification allows corn to be sprayed with a herbicide called Roundup. The corn is known as Roundup Ready. This herbicide is broad spectrum non selective herbicide the essentially kills most any green plant. It doesn't just kill the foliage. It translocates throughout the plant and kills it roots and all.
So how does all of this relate to strawberries? In fact, I hadn't thought about it too much. I sell seeds and plants that to my knowledge have not been genetically modified. Most are selections that have been grown for centuries without breeders getting involved, except perhaps home gardeners or European commercial growers looking for certain specific characteristics that improve various aspects of that cultivar.
Within the last 6 months I have become aware of behind the scenes work going on with hybrid strawberries to modify the genetics. In fact, it appears that this has been going on since the 1990's. Do a quick search on Google for "genetic modification strawberries". Some very interesting articles pop up. I won't go into detail, but work is being done to introdroduce fish genes into strawberries to provide them with frost protection … the type of frost protection that the arctic fish have. Another modification involves making strawberries Roundup Ready. A widely used commercial fumigant has been doomed for quite some time. Those who are working on making strawberries herbicide tolerant are justifying it by saying that the loss of the fumigant will increase labor costs needed to remove weeds from the commercial plantings – which will also drive up the price of strawberries in the store.
Other than the obvious worry about adding yet another herbicide to the long list of pesticides that are applied to commercial strawberries, why would I spend any time mentioning all of this? The Google search also turned up several articles about what is being called genetic drift. It seems that wild strawberries that are growing in the vicinity of genetically modified strawberries pick up these characteristics fairly quickly. There is a very real possibility that the wild populations will be decimated by this genetic manipulation. The genetic manipulation can also render current species infertile. The movement of genetic alterations to wild populations has been proven in the case of sunflowers.
It doesn't seem like many are concerned with what's going on. Even the government isn't protecting wild species and requiring extensive testing before releasing the genetically modified plants. Look what happened at the research level when killer bees escaped. It's too late once the release has been done. You can't take it back. You can only deal with the consequences. And, the consequences could be devastating. It could mean the loss of the wild species that we know.
Think about it. Do what you can. Talk to politicians and others that can influence those "in charge". I think it's time that we stand up and say something about what's going on. I for one intend to start. I'm not sure yet where I'll start, but something must be done to prevent a potential disaster to wild populations of strawberries.


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