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comes from an Egyptian opposition newspaper. Egypt has major concerns
about Hamas but it doesn't serve its strategic interest to completely cut
them off. That hurts them a lot more at home and denies Egypt leverage in
its relationship with Israel, which is exaclty why the opposition would
want to claim something like this. Have you seen anything else on Egypt's
moves against Hamas beyond this opposition paper?
For the Israel update, this is what is key to watch this week:
Mitchell is expected in the region on Tuesday, and will hold talks in
Ramallah that day and Wednesday, with PNA President Mahmoud Abbas and PNA
leaders. On Thursday, after Shavuot, he is expected to hold talks with
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
If you read Ayalon's statement below, it sounds like the Israelis are
prepared to come back to the US with much bigger expectations. They're
saying, forget the talk on creating borders, let's focus on the bigger
issue of peace between Jews and Arabs. Nice way to get out of the issue.
These are the talking points for the discussion this week:
- How to guarantee that the future Palestinian state will be
- How Israel will monitor the eastern border of a future Palestinian state
to ensure that weapons are not smuggled in.
- How to come to an agreement regarding Israel's right to use the airspace
over the future Palestinian state.
- How to find a mechanism that would enable Israel to pursue terrorists
across the border in the event of a terrorist attack.
- How to ensure Israeli monitoring and surveillance stations will be
established in the new state, at least for the first few years.
Israeli official says two-state goal "too narrow"
Text of report in English by privately-owned Israeli daily The Jerusalem
Post website on 17 May
[Report by Herb Keinon: "Ayalon: Two States 'Too Narrow' a Goal, What Is
Needed Is 'Historic Reconciliation' Between Jews and Arabs"]
The stated goal of the nascent diplomatic process should be a historic
reconciliation between Jews and Arabs, and not just a two-state solution,
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Sunday, on the eve of US Middle
East envoy George Mitchell's next visit to mediate indirect talks. Ayalon,
speaking to The Jerusalem Post, said that framing the upcoming discussions
as trying to get to a two-state solution was to define the problem in too
narrow a fashion. "For this to be a lasting peace," Ayalon said, "what was
needed was reconciliation based on co-existence."
Ayalon said that Israel would agree to a Palestinian state if this was the
way the road had to go to lead to a historic reconciliation, but could not
agree to a Palestinian state that would infringe on vital Israeli
interests and not result in the longed-for historic agreement. "We want
peace, and understand it will entail two states," Ayalon said. "We also
want to move as fast as possible. But we can't be fatigued or impatient.
We can't work under a time limit."
Ayalon said it was crucial for the Palestinians to show more flexibility
towards Israel and pointed out that in the 17 years since the Oslo process
began in 1993, all Israeli parties have moved a long distance towards
accepting the idea of Palestinian state. By comparison, he said, "the
Palestinians have not moved an inch." Ayalon said the US is aware of this
and is "pragmatic."
Mitchell, meanwhile, is expected in the region on Tuesday, and will hold
talks in Ramallah that day and Wednesday, with PNA President Mahmoud Abbas
and PNA leaders. On Thursday, after Shavuot, he is expected to hold talks
with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. The US envoy is still
trying to bridge wide gaps between Israel and the Palestinians regarding
the timetable for the indirect talks, as well as the agenda of those
While the Palestinians want to begin the talks by discussing the issue of
borders, picking up where talks left off with former prime minister Ehud
Olmert in 2008, Netanyahu has made clear that Olmert's offer to Abbas -
which the Palestinian leader rejected - did not bind him. At the end of
2008, Olmert, according to his own admission, offered Abbas 93.5 to 93.7
per cent of the territory, a one-to-one swap for most of the rest, and an
arrangement whereby no one would have sovereignty over the "holy basin" in
Jerusalem, but rather it would be administered by a consortium made up of
the Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Saudis and Americans.
While the Palestinians want to begin the Mitchell-mediated discussions by
talking about borders, Israel wants the talks to focus on security
arrangements of a future Palestinian state. Among the security-related
issues Israel wants to discuss are the following:
- How to guarantee that the future Palestinian state will be
- How Israel will monitor the eastern border of a future Palestinian state
to ensure that weapons are not smuggled in.
- How to come to an agreement regarding Israel's right to use the airspace
over the future Palestinian state.
- How to find a mechanism that would enable Israel to pursue terrorists
across the border in the event of a terrorist attack.
- How to ensure Israeli monitoring and surveillance stations will be
established in the new state, at least for the first few years.
While months of talking about the sequencing of these issues has not yet
yielded any results, there is a degree of expectation in Jerusalem that
the two issues - both borders and security - will be discussed during the
indirect talks in parallel.
Source: The Jerusalem Post website, Jerusalem, in English 17 May 10
Major Developments for Israel/Jordan:
1. Iran agrees to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear fuel swap
-Iran agreed to swap 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium for
higher-enriched nuclear fuel
-The move is seen by Western powers and Israel as an attempt to avert
sanctions while not making any real concessions and still moving towards
a nuclear weapon
2. Report: Egypt cutting Hamas off
-Cairo has decided to cut all contact with heads of the Hamas movement,
both in the Palestinian territories, and abroad.
-Signifies new low in Hamas-Egypt relationship - puts Hamas in the vice
since both neighbors have cut off contact
3. Israel plays wargame assuming Iran has nuclear bomb
-A wargame involving former Israeli generals and diplomats has concluded
that a nuclear-armed Iran would blunt Israel's military autonomy
4. Jordan, Azerbaijan eye more joint investments
-King Abdullah on Sunday held talks with Azerbaijan President Ilham
Aliyev on means to boost bilateral cooperation, particularly in the
economic, trade and investment fields.
5. US Jewish group urges concessions
-A group of American Jewish activists and leaders has signed a petition
calling on the Israelis and Palestinians to offer *significant
concessions and commitments by both sides*
- Shows the increasing left-wing stance of American Jewish community and
its backing of Obama's Middle East strategy and forcing concessions on
Iran agrees to ship uranium to Turkey in nuclear fuel swap
17 May 2010
Iran, Brazil and Turkey signed an agreement on Monday over a nuclear
fuel swap designed to allay international concern over the Islamic
Republic's atomic ambitions and avert fresh sanctions on Tehran.
Iran and Brazil
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Iranian
counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attend an official meeting in Tehran
with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on May 16, 2010.
Photo by: Reuters
Iran said it had agreed to swap 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium for
higher-enriched nuclear fuel, to be used in a medical research reactor.
The exchange would take place in Turkey, Foreign Ministry spokesman
Ramin Mehmanparast said.
Iran, which rejects Western accusations it is seeking to develop nuclear
bombs, had earlier insisted such a swap must take place on its
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on six world powers, which
have been discussing further UN sanctions on the major oil producer, for
fresh talks on Iran's nuclear program after the fuel exchange agreement.
"Following the signing of the nuclear fuel swap deal, it is time for 5+1
countries to enter talks with Iran based on honesty, justice and mutual
respect," Ahmadinejad said, referring to the five permanent UN Security
Council members and Germany.
There was no immediate comment from Washington, which has been leading a
Western push to impose additional punitive measures on Tehran.
Turkey and Brazil, both non-permanent members of the UN Security
Council, had offered to mediate to find a resolution to the impasse. It
was seen as the last chance to avoid a fourth round of UN sanctions.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister
Tayyip Erdogan discussed the deal with Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iranian
state media reported.
"The swap will take place in Turkey," Mehmanparast told reporters,
shortly before the agreement was signed by ministers in front of
Mehmanparast said Iran would send low-enriched uranium to Turkey within
a month and that it would be under the supervision of the UN nuclear
agency, state Press TV reported.
Major world powers had urged Iran to accept a months-old International
Atomic Energy Agency plan to ship 1,200 kg (2,646 lb) of its
low-enriched uranium - enough for a single bomb if purified to a high
enough level - abroad for transformation into fuel for a medical
research reactor.
The proposal, backed by the United States, Russia and France, was aimed
at giving time for diplomatic talks with Iran.
Tehran agreed in principle to the deal in October but then demanded
changes such as a simultaneous swap on Iranian soil, conditions other
parties in the deal said were unacceptable.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Turkey would be obliged
to return Iran's LEU "immediately and unconditionally" if Monday's
agreement between Iran, Brazil and Turkey was not implemented.
"Based on the agreement signed this morning, if the swap does not take
place, then Turkey will be obliged to send back our dispatched uranium
immediately and unconditionally," Mottaki said.
Trita Parsi, director of Washington-based National Iranian American
Council, said a potential breakthrough had been made in the long-running
dispute, saying Turkey and Brazil had succeeded in filling a "trust
"But will the deal be satisfactory to the U.S.? With the details
remaining unknown, it's impossible to speculate," Parsi said in an
e-mail comment.
Israel plays wargame assuming Iran has nuclear bomb
17 May 2010 08:30:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
* University simulation broaches Iran getting the bomb
* Israel seen being brought to heel by U.S. restraints
* Netanyahu government not present, but will be apprised
By Dan Williams
HERZLIYA, Israel, May 17 (Reuters) - A nuclear-armed Iran would blunt
Israel's military autonomy, a wargame involving former Israeli generals
and diplomats has concluded, though some players predicted Tehran would
also exercise restraint.
Sunday's event at a campus north of Tel Aviv followed other high-profile
Iran simulations in Israel and the United States in recent months. But
it broke new ground by assuming the existence of what both countries
have pledged to prevent: an Iranian bomb.
"Iranian deterrence proved dizzyingly effective," Eitan Ben-Eliahu, a
retired air force commander who played the Israeli defence minister,
said in his summary of the 20-team meeting.
Though the wargame saw Iran declaring itself a nuclear power in 2011,
the ensuing confrontations were by proxy, in Lebanon. In one, emboldened
Hezbollah guerrillas fired missiles at the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv.
That was followed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence findings that Iran
had slipped radioactive materials to its Lebanese cohort, to assemble a
crude device.
Neither move drew Israeli attacks, though Ben-Eliahu said his delegation
had received discreet encouragement from Arab rivals of Iran to "go all
the way" in retaliating.
Instead, Israel conferred with the United States, which publicly
supported its ally's "right to self-defence" and mobilised military
reinforcements for the region while quietly insisting the Israelis stand
down to give crisis talks a chance. "As far as the United States was
concerned, Israel was trigger-happy. It sought to use the Hezbollah
(missile) attack as justification for what the United States was told
would be an all-out war," said Dan Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to
Tel Aviv who played President Barack Obama.
Kurtzer voiced satisfaction with his team's response to the "dirty
bomb", which entailed cajoling U.N. Security Council powers into
mounting an armed intervention against Hezbollah.
"Countries like China and Russia have their own terrorists, and don't
want to see them getting nuclear weapons," he said.
"In certain circumstances, agile U.S. diplomacy can actually work in
this region, and it ends up not only leaving Israel in check but it also
ends up (with Washington) leading a willing international coalition."
Those playing Iran and Hezbollah went as far as to question the very
premise that Tehran would let the Lebanese guerrillas goad Israel into a
potentially catastrophic fight, or give them nuclear know-how that would
worry even sympathisers like Syria. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, a retired
Israeli intelligence chief acting as Iranian Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei, insisted Iran would regard its bomb as a means of
"self-defence and strategic balance" -- an allusion to Israel's own,
assumed atomic arsenal. Such assessments are seldom voiced by Israel's
rightist government, which describes a nuclear-armed Iran as a mortal
danger. Where Israeli officials would once make veiled threats to strike
Iran, now they often try to warn the West against accommodating their
foe, which denies seeking atomic weapons.
In what appeared to signal government discomfort with the wargame, a
senior Israeli defence official who had been due to attend withdrew at
short notice. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said a written summary would
be studied at government-level.
That left Tzipi Livni, the centrist head of Israel's opposition, as the
most prominent observer of the IDC event.
"As leader of the free world, the United States has the responsibility
of leading more effective sanctions that can turn around, absolutely,
this shift from a process of stopping (Iran's nuclear aims) to a process
of acceptance," she said. While the simulation found no immediate
international drive to tackle Iran, Kurtzer attributed this to passive
factors such as U.S. war-fatigue and complained of a failure to address
ramifications such as a nuclear arms race among Arab powers.
Some of the participants -- including those playing Israel, the
Palestinians and Syria -- saw an opportunity for renewed Middle East
peacemaking that might head off Iran's ascendancy.
"This was tactical, but of course tactics can often serve real strategic
interests, both for us and for the Americans," said Zalman Shoval, a
former Israeli ambassador to Washington who acted as Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. (Editing by Samia Nakhoul) (For blogs and links on
Israeli politics and other Israeli and Palestinian news, go to
US Jewish group urges concessions
A group of American Jewish activists and leaders has signed a petition
calling on the Israelis and Palestinians to offer *significant
concessions and commitments by both sides* to enable the *extremely
fragile* proximity talks to succeed.
The petition, which models itself after a similar initiative by a group
of European Jews last month, has garnered the signatures of some of the
most highly placed Jewish thinkers and activists.
The list includes Jeffrey Solomon, the chief executive of the Andrea and
Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, the head
of the Reform rabbinate*s umbrella body, and Prof. Steven Cohen, a
respected Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion scholar of
Jewish sociology and demographics.
*We believe without reservation that *Israel is the national home of the
Jewish people,** the petition states, quoting from Israel*s own
Declaration of Independence, *and we therefore feel both entitled and
obligated to make our views known.*
As with the European JCall petition and the Washington-based J Street
organization, this petition also *endorse[s] the American government*s
vigorous encouragement of the parties to make the concessions necessary
for negotiations to advance.
*Together with all Israeli citizens, both Jews and Arabs, we lament the
decades of death and destruction that have plagued the Land of Israel,*
it reads. *We categorically condemn terrorism and we mourn the tragic
loss of blood and treasure that has afflicted the region over the
However, *at the same time, we abhor the continuing occupation that has
persisted for far too long; it cannot and should not be sustained.
*Ultimately, the long-term security and welfare of the democratic Jewish
State of Israel depend upon a genuine resolution of the conflict within
the framework of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side
in comity,* the petition states.
Citing the *extremely fragile hope* for peace represented by the
proximity talks, the petition calls on Israel to immediately *cease
construction of housing in the disputed territories,* *dismantle the
settlements considered illegal under Israeli law,* and *protect
Palestinians from maltreatment and violence by extreme elements of the
settler community.*
It also calls on Israel to *set aside its insistence on exclusive
sovereignty over all of expanded Jerusalem, including Arab
neighborhoods, where, we anticipate, the designated capital of the new
state of Palestine will be located.*
The Palestinians, too, must end terrorism and *set aside their claimed
*right of return* to Israel, which would undermine the very notion of a
Jewish state.*
They must also *vigorously oppose incitement against Israel.*
While acknowledging that *it is the citizens of Israel and their
neighbors who will decide on their future,* the petition insists on the
signatories* right *to call attention to decisions the government of
Israel takes which, in our view, endanger the State we hold so dear.*
Report: Egypt cutting Hamas off
Al-Mesryoon reports Cairo has decided to deny entry visas to movement's
officials, freeze diplomatic channels with Gaza rulers, 'in response to
defamation campaign against Egypt'
Roee Nahmias
Published: 05.17.10, 11:59 / Israel News
New record in Hamas-Egypt tensions? Cairo has decided to cut all contact
with heads of the Hamas movement, both in the Palestinian territories,
and abroad, "high-ranking Egyptian officials were quoted as saying.
In Monday's edition, independent paper al-Mesryoon, which is affiliated
with the Egyptian opposition, reported that Cairo has decided to reject
any requests by Hamas officials for entry visas to Egypt in the near
future, and to freeze all channels of diplomatic and security
communications with the movement.
According to a senior official, the decision was made as part of a
series of steps to respond to what the Egyptians called "Hamas' media
defamation campaign against Egypt".
The Egyptians say the public campaign is being led by the organization's
most senior and well-known figures: Politburo chief Khaled Mashaal and
member of the political bureau Mohammed Nazzal in Damascus, and Prime
Minister Ismail Haniyeh and senior figure Mahmoud al-Zahar in the Gaza
According to the sources, the severing of ties is not related to the
failure of Egyptian-mediated talks to reconcile between Hamas and Fatah,
but comes as a response to "the organizated media campaign that Hamas
officials are waging against Egyptian figures, by defaming them in Arab
satellite television stations and in Arab media."
Months of tension, accusations
The tension between Hamas and Egypt has been escalating in recent
months, and is rooted in Egypt's consistent refusal to open Rafah
crossing, its construction of the steel fence on the Gaza border, and
its war against smuggling tunnels.
Last month, Hamas accused Egypt of spraying poisonous gas into one of
the tunnels, which led to the death of four Palestinians.
Developments last Wednesday only added fuel to the fire. Hamas spokesman
Sami Abu Zuhri accused Egypt of torturing 30 Palestinian detainees in
its custody, using electric shocks and prolonged hangings.
Later, it was reported that Hamas heads had learned from Palestinians
who were held in Egyptian prisons that the spokesman's brother, Yusef
Abu Zuhri, was killed from an electric shock in the Egyptian security
forces' facilities in Cairo, and did not die in hospital of low blood
pressure as the Egyptians claimed.
Also last week, a Palestinian fisherman was killed when his boat
collided with an Egyptian naval vessel in Egypt's territorial waters.
Gazans said the Egyptian sailors beat the fisherman to death with clubs
and pipes.
The Hamas government demanded the Egyptian interior minister probe the
incident, and asked the Egyptian Union of Fishermen's Cooperatives to
condemn the act.
Shortly after the incident, another tense event took place when Hamas
security forces announced they had defused a bomb near the Egyptian
embassy in Gaza City, which has been inactive since Hamas took over the
Strip in 2007.
Jordan, Azerbaijan eye more joint investments
AMMAN (JT) ** His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday held talks with
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on means to boost bilateral
cooperation, particularly in the economic, trade and investment fields.
The two leaders reviewed available opportunities to increase cooperation
in the agricultural, energy and transportation sectors with the
participation of the private sectors in both countries.
King Abdullah highlighted available opportunities for the private sector
in Azerbaijan which could take part in implementing mega-infrastructure
projects Jordan plans to carry out in various vital sectors.
Discussions also covered the latest developments in the Middle East and
efforts to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the two-state
solution and within a regional context that brings about security and
stability to the region.
In press remarks after the talks at the presidential palace, the King
said that the two sides identified ways of cooperation in the fields of
agriculture, energy and services in addition to several joint
opportunities which emerged over the past years.
King Abdullah, who returned home later in the day, expressed comfort
over talks that covered regional issues, particularly efforts to achieve
a comprehensive peace in the region.
He said it is important *for all of us* to achieve a comprehensive
solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on the two-state
solution that guarantees the establishment of a viable and sovereign
state for Palestinians that lives side by side with Israel in security
and stability.
For his part, the Azeri president said that economic cooperation between
Jordan and Azerbaijan will improve through supporting communication
between the private sectors and investors in both countries.
Also Sunday, the King met with Azerbaijan*s Prime Minister Artur
Rasizade and stressed the importance of implementing agreements signed
between the two countries and to translate them into joint projects,
expressing Jordan*s keenness to attract more Azeri investments to the
King Abdullah also toured a centre for military industries in Baku where
he was briefed on the products manufactured by the facility.
During the King*s visit to Azerbaijan, the two countries signed an
international cooperation agreement.
Trade exchange between Jordan and Azerbaijan during the past two years
increased by 43 per cent to reach JD10 million, which is mainly in
favour of Jordanian exports. Investment volume also increased as 15
Jordanian companies are operating in Azerbaijan, while seven Azeri
companies are working in Jordan.
A total of 30 agreements have been signed between the two countries in
the economic, political and technical fields including agreements for
investment promotion and protection, a protocol for economic and trade
cooperation as well as a memorandum of understanding for political
cooperation and views exchange.
17 May 2010
Chris Farnham
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That's right folks. Tecmo has been working on a game called Quantum Theory, a third-person shooter copycat of Gears of War. The game was going to be a PS3 exclusive only, and it would have been a prime jab to the 360 library, all while Team Tachyon producer Kohei Shibata made claims that "Simply, it's the most powerful hardware." But, a disappointing bash toward 360 seemed to mean nothing when they decided to make it exclusive to the 360 as well. Unfortunately, the producer had nothing to say this time, but the move to 360 can be considered obvious, since shooter tend to fare better on the 360. It is also known for its quality when playing Unreal Engine games, like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament III, and has been known for the best shooters around. Do you think the switch was based on how shooters sell on the 360? Does this lower the value of the game to PS3 owners? Will anyone really want it if it's completely similar to Gears of War on the 360? Here's some evidence in case it didn't satisfy your appetite.
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we got a minature jack russell 5month old and is house trained but has peed on our bed,she sleeps in a dog bed next to ours but past 2nights she peed like a puddle and it went through the cover, duvet and mattress. When we told her off she ran around the room barking at us and jumped on the bed again and peed she did this 3x throughout the night we let her out before going to bed and gets walked and let out reguarly throughout the day and night. Took her to the vets and has no problem just dont understand why shes behaving like this. |
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I have several jack russells and am with a jack russell rescue as well. I have a couple of thoughts but need more info. Is this something she has always done or has it just started? Was she recently spayed? Anything else change recently? What are you doing to correct her? Is she peeing when she is sleeping or when you are interacting with her? Does she seem to not know she did it? If she is doing it when you are bending over her or "telling her off" it may be submissive urination, which you do not want to punish for or it will make it worse. Are you taking her out to pee right before bed and getting up early to take her out? Some 5 month old dogs can really only hold it for 5 hours or so. Have you tried taking her out once a night at about 1 in the morning? I'm also a bit concerned that she was barking at you when you tried to correct her. Does she think that she is dominant? Also, she should not have time to do that, cause as soon as you catch her, you need to stop her and carry her outside immediately. Probably the best solution would be crate training. Take her out late at night before bed and make sure she pees. Crate her and let her out again at about 1 in the morning to pee, crate again and let her out at about 6 or 7am. You can then gradually lengthen the time you leave her in there after putting her to bed until you have her sleeping through the night. That will teach her to hold it through the night. Also give lots of praise and treats when she pottys outside. But if it is happening when she is sleeping, it's a different story. If she is also having dominance issues with you, I can give you some strategies for that as well. Ania |
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About ten small pigs too. (sorry no rhyme)
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top webpage search box help
all files are php .... Website with the search box in the main site and the search engine is in iframe
This is the code for the top of the website search box
<input name="search" class="search" type="text" value="under construction..." onfocus="if(this.value == 'under construction...'){this.value = '';}"/>
The search engine is on the website in iframe

Your browser does not support iframes.

The form code in the search/index.php for the iframe
<form action='index.php' method='get'>

Search

<input type='text' name='query' size='50' value='<?php echo $query; ?>' />

<input type='submit' value='Search!' />
How can i get to where someone types in the top search box and the results show in the results page from the search engine in iframe
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You can do it by not using iframes? This is a javascript question, not a PHP one. Here goes;
Demonstration of code available here; http://tydus.net/tst/192712.phpCode:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">   <title>192712</title>
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 <input id = "query" /> <input type = "submit" onclick = "submitThing()" />

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This is the main site
This is the Iframe site
If u click on Business Directory u'll see the Iframe site in the middle of the main site so how can i use ur code ... to different sites but trying to get the top serach box after submit show up in the iframe search page ... and if you type in "ho" in the search u'll get hollywood as the result from the iframe site. and the search box from the main site u get nothing to the iframe site.
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not sure how high abv you are talking here, but i recently bottled a 1.074 IPA. Instead of using dry yeast i used about one and a half cups of a Safale 05 yeast slurry and it took off like crazy and got down to 1.012 in about 10 days. I've used only dry yeast on everything and 05 seems to eat anything up pretty well. I made a hearty pale ale with OG of 1.065 and used one pack of 05, took care of it very nicely. Someone else with a little more ferm knowledge will chime in tho.
You can use a dry yeast in a starter. The idea is to multiply the yeast, dry yeast multiply just as much as wet yeast when added to sugar. If its a big 5 gallon batch you'll want a nice big starter, I'd do a 2 liter one for most brews. You'll just want to check the stats on your yeasties and make sure they can survive the alcohol content. Edit: A half cup of slurry is a bunch of yeast, probably equivalent to like a 1L starter, imo close enough for that gravity. I do starters for ever beer above 1.050. 05 is a BEAST though, swear if you put your hand in during fermentation it'll eat it too.
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- 1 teaspoon grated lime peel
- 1 garlic clove, pressed
- 2 tablespoons chopped shallot
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 1/2 teaspoons minced seeded jalapeño chili
- 1/2 cup crumbled soft fresh goat cheese (about 2 ounces)
Lightly oil grill racks. Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Grill corn and bell pepper until corn is tender and beginning to brown in spots and pepper is blackened, turning occasionally, about 12 minutes for corn and 15 minutes for pepper. Enclose pepper in paper bag 10 minutes. Peel, seed, and chop pepper; place in large bowl. Cool corn, then cut kernels off cobs; add to bowl with pepper.
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- Carbohydrates17 g (6%)
- Fat9 g (14%)
- Protein4 g (8%)
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- Sodium36 mg (2%)
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- Fiber3 g (13%)
- Monounsaturated Fat5 g
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Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). Preliminary results show that they have found 706 "candidates" — some of which further research may prove to be planets with Earth-like geochemical characteristics.
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Nemo the Magnificent (2786867) writes "In this guy's opinion most IT workers can't think critically. They are incapable of diagnosing a problem, developing a possible solution, and implementing it. They also have little fundamental understanding of the businesses their employers are in, which is starting to get limiting as silos are collapsing within some corporations and IT workers are being called upon to participate in broader aspects of the business. Is that what you see where you are?"
Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "Last week, the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved Palcohol, a powdered alcohol product that you can either use to turn water into a presumably not-that-delicious marg or to snort if you don't care too much about your brain cells. It's the first time a powdered alcohol product has been approved for sale in the US, but not the first time someone has devised one, and such products have been available in parts of Europe for a few years now. Now you may be wondering, as I was, how the heck do you go about powdering alcohol? As you might expect, there's quite a bit of chemistry involved, but the process doesn't seem overly difficult; we've known how to do it since the early 1970s, when researchers at the General Foods Corporation (now a subsidiary of Kraft) applied for a patent for an 'alcohol-containing powder.'" It turns out the labels were issued in error, so don't expect it to be available soon. But it does appear to be a real thing that someone is trying to have approved.
New submitter janoc (699997) writes about a backdoor that was fixed (only not). "Eloi Vanderbeken from Synacktiv has identified an intentional backdoor in a module by Sercomm used by major router manufacturers (Cisco, Linksys, Netgear, etc.). The backdoor was ostensibly fixed — by obfuscating it and making it harder to access. The original report (PDF). And yeah, there is an exploit available ..." Rather than actually closing the backdoor, they just altered it so that the service was not enabled until you knocked the portal with a specially crafted Ethernet packet. Quoting Ars Technica: "The nature of the change, which leverages the same code as was used in the old firmware to provide administrative access over the concealed port, suggests that the backdoor is an intentional feature of the firmware ... Because of the format of the packets—raw Ethernet packets, not Internet Protocol packets—they would need to be sent from within the local wireless LAN, or from the Internet service provider's equipment. But they could be sent out from an ISP as a broadcast, essentially re-opening the backdoor on any customer's router that had been patched."
Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes with some concerning news from the Atlantic. From the article: "In a secret test of mass surveillance technology, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sent a civilian aircraft over Compton, California, capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality. Compton residents weren't told about the spying, which happened in 2012. 'We literally watched all of Compton during the times that we were flying, so we could zoom in anywhere within the city of Compton and follow cars and see people,' Ross McNutt of Persistence Surveillance Systems told the Center for Investigative Reporting, which unearthed and did the first reporting on this important story. The technology he's trying to sell to police departments all over America can stay aloft for up to six hours. Like Google Earth, it enables police to zoom in on certain areas. And like TiVo, it permits them to rewind, so that they can look back and see what happened anywhere they weren't watching in real time."
First time accepted submitter blottsie (3618811) writes "A new project proposes to do away with dead 404 errors by implementing a new HTML attribute that will help access prior versions of hyperlinked content. With any luck, that means that you'll never have to run into a dead link again. ... The new feature would come in the form of introducing the mset attribute to the <a> element, which would allow users of the code to specify multiple dates and copies of content as an external resource." The mset attribute would specify a "reference candidate:" either a temporal reference (to ease finding the version cited on e.g. the wayback machine) or the url of a static copy of the linked document.
snydeq (1272828) writes "As software takes over more of our lives, the ethical ramifications of decisions made by programmers only become greater. Unfortunately, the tech world has always been long on power and short on thinking about the long-reaching effects of this power. More troubling: While ethics courses have become a staple of physical-world engineering degrees, they remain a begrudging anomaly in computer science pedagogy. Now that our code is in refrigerators, thermostats, smoke alarms, and more, the wrong moves, a lack of foresight, or downright dubious decision-making can haunt humanity everywhere it goes. Peter Wayner offers a look at just a few of the ethical quandaries confronting developers every day. 'Consider this less of a guidebook for making your decisions and more of a starting point for the kind of ethical contemplation we should be doing as a daily part of our jobs.'"
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Paul Monies reports at NewsOK that Oklahoma's legislature has passed a bill that allows regulated utilities to apply to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to charge a higher base rate to customers who generate solar and wind energy and send their excess power back into the grid reversing a 1977 law that forbade utilities to charge extra to solar users. 'Renewable energy fed back into the grid is ultimately doing utility companies a service,' says John Aziz. 'Solar generates in the daytime, when demand for electricity is highest, thereby alleviating pressure during peak demand.'
The state's major electric utilities backed the bill but couldn't provide figures on how much customers already using distributed generation are getting subsidized by other customers. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. and Public Service Co. of Oklahoma have about 1.3 million electric customers in the state. They have about 500 customers using distributed generation. Kathleen O'Shea, OG&E spokeswoman, said few distributed generation customers want to sever their ties to the grid. 'If there's something wrong with their panel or it's really cloudy, they need our electricity, and it's going to be there for them,' O'Shea said. 'We just want to make sure they're paying their fair amount of that maintenance cost.' The prospect of widespread adoption of rooftop solar worries many utilities. A report last year by the industry's research group, the Edison Electric Institute, warns of the risks posed by rooftop solar (PDF). 'When customers have the opportunity to reduce their use of a product or find another provider of such service, utility earnings growth is threatened," the report said. "As this threat to growth becomes more evident, investors will become less attracted to investments in the utility sector.''"
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "It looks like a standardized test question: Is the sum of two numbers on the left or the single number on the right larger? Rhesus macaques that have been trained to associate numerical values with symbols can get the answer right, even if they haven't passed a math class. The finding doesn't just reveal a hidden talent of the animals—it also helps show how the mammalian brain encodes the values of numbers. Previous research has shown that chimpanzees can add single-digit numbers. But scientists haven't explained exactly how, in the human or the monkey brain, numbers are being represented or this addition is being carried out. Now, a new study (abstract) helps begin to answer those questions."
Nerval's Lobster (2598977) writes "The axe has been with us for thousands of years, with its design changing very little during that time. After all, how much can you really alter a basic blade-and-handle? Well, Finnish inventor Heikki Karna has tried to change it a whole lot, with a new, oddly-shaped axe that he claims is a whole lot safer because it transfers a percentage of downward force into rotational energy, cutting down on deflections. 'The Vipukirves [as the axe is called] still has a sharpened blade at the end, but it has a projection coming off the side that shifts the center of gravity away from the middle. At the point of impact, the edge is driven into the wood and slows down, but the kinetic energy contained in the 1.9 kilogram axe head continues down and to the side (because of the odd center of gravity),' is how Geek.com describes the design. 'The rotational energy actually pushes the wood apart like a lever.' The question is, will everyone pick up on this new way of doing things?"
cartechboy (2660665) writes "Led by Tesla, electric cars are all the rage now. And the idea of a nine-passenger all-electric vehicle sounds good--until you learn that it maxes out at 30 mph, weighs almost four tons, and costs in the six figures. What is this monstrosity? It's the Frankenstein creation of a group of animal-rights advocates, who are proposing it as the replacement for New York City's fabled horse carriages--and who paid $450,000 to have a prototype built. Who's against it? Would you believe Liam Neeson and one of NYC's daily papers? The huge electric car--modeled after an early 1900s open touring car, complete with brass lanterns--is on display this week at the New York Auto Show, and it's certainly attracting its share of attention."
An anonymous reader writes "In a claim brought by The New York Times and the ACLU, the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the administration must disclose the legal basis for targeting Americans with drones. From the article: 'Government officials from Obama on down have publicly commented on the program, but they claimed the Office of Legal Counsel's memo outlining the legal rationale about it was a national security secret. The appeals court, however, said on Monday that officials' comments about overseas drone attacks means the government has waived its secrecy argument. "After senior Government officials have assured the public that targeted killings are 'lawful' and that OLC advice 'establishes the legal boundaries within which we can operate,'" the appeals court said, "waiver of secrecy and privilege as to the legal analysis in the Memorandum has occurred" (PDF).'"
An anonymous reader writes "In his new book, Social Physics, MIT data scientist Alex 'Sandy' Pentland argues that by analyzing data from smartphones, social media, and credit-card systems, we'll soon be able to have a mathematical understanding of 'the basic mechanisms of social interactions.' Social scientists will be able to understand and predict the interactions of people the way physicists understand and predict the interactions of objects. That will, in turn, enable governments and businesses to create incentive systems to 'tune' people's behavior, making society more productive and creative. In a review of Pentland's book in Technology Review, Nicholas Carr argues that such data-based social engineering 'will tend to perpetuate existing social structures and dynamics' and 'encourage us to optimize the status quo rather than challenge it.' Carr writes, 'Defining social relations as a pattern of stimulus and response makes the math easier, but it ignores the deep, structural sources of social ills. Pentland may be right that our behavior is determined largely by social norms and the influences of our peers, but what he fails to see is that those norms and influences are themselves shaped by history, politics, and economics, not to mention power and prejudice.'"
Rambo Tribble (1273454) writes "Popular director Joss Whedon has taken the film world by surprise by releasing his latest offering, 'In Your Eyes', available for download on the same day it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The new release comes from Whedon's own "micro studio", Bellwether Pictures, and is featured on Vimeo as a $5 rental, (free trailer). Whedon mused, 'It's exciting for us because we get to explore yet another new form of distribution — and we get $5.' Mr. Whedon has a history of pushing the delivery envelope, as with Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, in 2008."
Lasrick (2629253) writes "Really interesting piece by Emma Rosenblum about women freezing their eggs in order to take 'biological clock' pressure off while they pursue careers: 'Not since the birth control pill has a medical technology had such potential to change family and career planning. The average age of women who freeze their eggs is about 37, down from 39 only two years ago... And fertility doctors report that more women in their early 30s are coming in for the procedure. Not only do younger women have healthier eggs, they also have more time before they have to use them.'"
An anonymous reader writes in with an interesting look at how important plate tectonics may be to life and why the crust on Venus works differently than it does on Earth. "Without plate tectonics, carbon would build up in the atmosphere. Venus, which does not have tectonics, shows the results: an atmosphere that is 96 percent carbon dioxide. It's toxic. Yet Venus is about the same size and composition as our planet, so why doesn't it have plate tectonics? Some researchers made a model to explore how Earth initiated plate movements, and these same researchers made one model of its neighbor for comparison. A 1.5-billion-year-old Earth and a similarly aged Venus were modeled as a hot, mushy material made of tiny particles of rock. The model uses physics at the one-millimeter rock grain scale to explain how the whole planet behaves. According to David Bercovici, a geophysicist at Yale who was an author on the paper, the model also shows how plate tectonics emerged on Earth but not on her twin."
An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interesting look at the battle for mobile video game money between Google and Apple. 'Last August, for the launch of "Plants Vs. Zombies 2," a highly anticipated sequel to a popular zombie-survival strategy game, publisher Electronic Arts Inc. struck a deal with Apple, which promoted the game prominently in its App Store, according to people familiar with the matter. In exchange, one of these people said, EA agreed to give Apple about a two-month window of exclusivity for the title, which wasn't released on Google's Android software until October.'"
darthcamaro (735685) writes "The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability has dominated IT security headlines for two weeks now as the true impact the flaw and its reach is being felt. But what will all of this cost? One figure that has been suggested is $500 million, using the 2001 W.32 Nimda worm as a precedent. Is that number too low — or is it too high?"
schwit1 (797399) writes "An electromagnetic pulse is a burst of electromagnetic energy strong enough to disable, and even destroy, nearby electronic devices. In the first few minutes of an EMP, nearly half a million people would die. That's the worst-case scenario that author William R. Forstchen estimated would be the result of an EMP on the electric grid. 'If you do a smart plan — the Congressional EMP Commission estimated that you could protect the whole country for about $2 billion,' Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, told Watchdog.org. 'That's what we give away in foreign aid to Pakistan every year.' He said the more officials plan, the lower the estimated cost gets. 'The problem is not the technology,' Pry said. 'We know how to protect against it. It's not the money, it doesn't cost that much. The problem is the politics. It always seems to be the politics that gets in the way.'"
jfruh (300774) writes "While Intel is going after low-end Android tablets in a big way chipmaking x86 rival AMD is taking a more judicious approach, looking to focus on the high end. 'This idea of contra revenue is foreign to us,' said AMD's CEO, referring to Intel's strategy of selling chips at a loss to boost market share. But will Intel's vast resources keep AMD in its niche?"
theodp (442580) writes "In a NY Times interview on How to Get a Job at Google with Laszlo Bock, who is in charge of all hiring at Google, the subject of grit-based hiring came up. Bock explained: 'I was on campus speaking to a student who was a computer science and math double major, who was thinking of shifting to an economics major because the computer science courses were too difficult. I told that student they are much better off being a B student in computer science than an A+ student in English because it signals a rigor in your thinking and a more challenging course load. That student will be one of our interns this summer.' Bock also advised, 'You need to be very adaptable, so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans.'"
The Guardian carries Edward Snowden's detailed rebuttal to critics who say that his recent live-TV interaction with Vladimir Putin, in which Snowden asked whether the Russian government was engaged in spying on Russian citizens' communications, was a scripted moment intended to curry or maintain favor with Putin. After all, Snowden is currently living in Russia, where he has been granted only temporary harbor, goes this argument, so he is at the mercy of the Russian government, and has just gamely thrown Putin a softball. (Slashdot reader Rambo Tribble said the exchange had a "canned quality," a sentiment widely echoed.) Snowden writes that, far from being a whitewash of actual policies by the Russian government, his question ("Does [your country] intercept, analyse or store millions of individuals' communications?") "was intended to mirror the now infamous exchange in US Senate intelligence committee hearings between senator Ron Wyden and the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, about whether the NSA collected records on millions of Americans, and to invite either an important concession or a clear evasion"; he decribes Putin's answer as a combination of inconsistent denial and evasion. Snowden writes: "I blew the whistle on the NSA's surveillance practices not because I believed that the United States was uniquely at fault, but because I believe that mass surveillance of innocents – the construction of enormous, state-run surveillance time machines that can turn back the clock on the most intimate details of our lives – is a threat to all people, everywhere, no matter who runs them. Last year, I risked family, life, and freedom to help initiate a global debate that even Obama himself conceded 'will make our nation stronger.' I am no more willing to trade my principles for privilege today than I was then. I understand the concerns of critics, but there is a more obvious explanation for my question than a secret desire to defend the kind of policies I sacrificed a comfortable life to challenge: if we are to test the truth of officials' claims, we must first give them an opportunity to make those claims."
Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "According to the National Golf Foundation, golf has lost five million players in the last decade with 20 percent of the existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years. Now Bill Pennington writes that golf courses across the country are experimenting with 15 inch golf holes the size of pizzas to stop people from quitting the game. "We've got to stop scaring people away from golf by telling them that there is only one way to play the game and it includes these specific guidelines," says Ted Bishop, president of the PGA of America. "We've got to offer more forms of golf for people to try. We have to do something to get them into the fold, and then maybe they'll have this idea it's supposed to be fun." A 15-inch-hole event was held at the Reynolds Plantation resort last week featuring top professional golfers Sergio García and Justin Rose, the defending United States Open champion. "A 15-inch hole could help junior golfers, beginning golfers and older golfers score better, play faster and like golf more," says García, who shot a six-under-par 30 for nine holes in the exhibition. Another alternative is foot golf, in which players kick a soccer ball from the tee to an oversize hole, counting their kicks. Still it is no surprise that not everyone agrees with the burgeoning alternative movement to make golf more user-friendly. "I don't want to rig the game and cheapen it," says Curtis Strange, a two-time United States Open champion and an analyst for ESPN. "I don't like any of that stuff. And it's not going to happen either. It's all talk.""
Just a few days after General Mills changed its policies to declare that people who so much as "liked" their page on Facebook thereby waived their right to sue the company in favor of arbitration, the company has reversed itself: "The announcement resulted in huge backlash on social media, as well as from consumer groups. Legal experts expressed doubts it could ever be enforced. Hamline Law Professor David Schultz appeared on WCCO Sunday Morning. "When I first saw this earlier this week I said this is questionable at best from a legal point of view," he said. "From a marketing point of view, it's a dumb idea, too, but legally it didn't rest on very sound grounds so it's not a surprise that they are reversing it. The lawyers at General Mills should have known better."