AIRFLOW MANAGEMENT - Data Center Talk

Data centers consume about 25 to 30 times more electricity compared to the normal office spaces. This calls for an energy efficient design of the data center that can save money and reduce electricity use.

?Data center design is a relatively new stream that contains a dynamic and evolving technology. The most efficient data centers incorporate modern design technologies that are cost-effective and energy efficient. Short design cycles lead to incomplete assessment of the full design requirements. Most of these short design cycles ultimately lead to just scaling up the older versions of design of office spaces.

Modern data centers house server racks in a fashion that leads to concentration of the heat loads. In facilities of different sizes, starting from a small data center for a few office buildings to a large co-location facility; design of the center to precisely control air flow is of utmost importance. Air flow through the room for efficient removal of the accumulated equipment heat has a strong impact on the reliability and the energy efficiency of the entire data center.

Air management includes all the minute details of design that are required to minimize or curtail the mixing of cool air supplied to the room with the hot air rejected from the room. When it is designed correctly, it helps in reducing the operating and maintenance costs of the equipment and other issues caused by the thermal heating of the devices.

The main design issues related to air management are:

• Location of the data center
• Location of the cooling equipments
• Equipments required for intake and exhaust ports
• Configuration
• Air flow patterns in the room

Principles of air flow management:

• Use of hot and cold-aisle configurations can double-up the cooling efficiency of the data center.
• With the aide of an airside economizer, air management can reduce data center cooling costs by over 60%
• Removing hot air immediately through the exhaust improves efficiency rather than mixing the hot air with the incoming cold air.
• Equipment environmental temperature specifications refer primarily to the air being drawn in to cool the system.
• A higher difference between the return air and supply air temperatures increases the maximum load density possible in the space and can help reduce the size of the cooling equipment required, particularly when lower-cost mass produced package air handling ?units are used.
• Poor airflow management will reduce both the efficiency and capacity of computer room cooling equipment.

?Therefore an effective air flow management system can bring down the costs and power consumption rates to a great extent. Design of these systems also play a very important role in the quality, reliability, and security of data centers.

Source: http://www.datacentertalk.com/2012/09/airflow-management/

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Skate On keen to carry on winning streak

Seven consecutive conquests is really a commendable and brilliant feat. This is what Skate On has accomplished. Now, the M. Walsh trained brindle bitch is hell-bent to perpetuate this excellent success streak with the addition of the glorious title of Colin Harney Northern Oaks ? Final that is scheduled to go down at Belle Vue racecourse on Thursday night, September 27.

The two-year-old star hound will break from the orange box to compete against five mighty rivals while running over 470 meters. The temptation to earn the big cash prize worth ?1500 will lead her to perform to his utmost.

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The punters, who have underrated Skate On for this year, will surely be disappointed to see him winning convincingly. The way she won his last seven races shows that the brilliant bitch is going to be an invincible runner in tonight?s marathon.

Moreover, Walsh has administered many helpful training techniques on her to lift her stamina and confidence. In the presence of all these factors, how can any of the other five contestants dominate Skate On.

The talented daughter of Cashen Legend out of Grannys Image has achieved more than her trainer expected when she started her career in January 2012. Her profile is adorned with triumphs.

The maverick sprinter debuted with a grand triumph and moved on to bag a couple of consecutive victories in the month of February.

After a few decent podium finishes, she started a glaring success streak by winning a T2 race on August 7. After an A1 victory, she elegantly won three big open races during August.

On September 13, Skate On again finished first by the huge margin of 4? lengths in a T2 race. Her last triumph came in Colin Harney Northern Oaks.

These stats speak volumes of the talent the Walsh?s pupil enjoys. She has tested and proved her capabilities on a number of occasions. Now, no one should have any doubt on her skills.

Among the bitch?s rivals, Blue Glenard and Nyla Fantasy are likely to perform well.

So, let we turn to Belle Vue to enjoy the charged action. Good luck to Skate On.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the writer's own and do not reflect Bettor.Com?s editorial policy.

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HBT: Indians fire Acta amid 2nd-half implosion

In August, Indians GM Chris Antonetti said that Manny Acta would be back as manager for 2013. ?August was a loooong time ago, apparently, because the team just announced that he will not be back for 2013. ?Sandy Alomar Jr. will replace Acta for the final few games of the season.

The Indians totally cratered in the second half. They went 5-24 in August and are 10-14 in September. ?Maybe no manager could have saved this team, but when you skid out of control like that, someone is likely to be held accountable.

As for the future: Alomar was a popular candidate when Acta was hired, has been mentioned as a managerial candidate elsewhere and is much-loved in Cleveland. ?This may be a short audition in the run up to being made the permanent skipper.

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Probability maps help sniff out food contamination

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) ? Uncovering the sources of fresh food contamination could become faster and easier thanks to analysis done at Sandia National Laboratories' National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC).

The study, in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, demonstrates how developing a probability map of the food supply network using stochastic network representation might shorten the time it takes to track down contaminated food sources.

Stochastic mapping shows what is known about how product flows through the distribution supply chain and provides a means to express all the uncertainties in potential supplier-customer relationships that persist due to incomplete information.

If used on a larger scale, such methods also might assess the vulnerability of food supplies to wide-scale, deliberate contamination.

Tracking down the source of fresh food contamination can be difficult and time-consuming. Stephen Conrad (6924) says difficulties in adequately characterizing connections and product flows among producers, distributors and suppliers can contribute to significant uncertainty in assessing the risk of foodborne illness.

"This is often a serious problem when there is an outbreak of food poisoning in a particular region and the healthcare authorities cannot quickly trace the source of the outbreak," Stephen says.

When an outbreak occurs, epidemiologists must interview affected people to track down where foodborne exposures happened. Often those interviews take place weeks after the exposure, leading to inaccurate or incomplete information and making it difficult to pinpoint a likely food culprit. Once the tainted food has been identified, investigators must trace up through the food distribution supply chain to locate the source of contamination.

"Epidemiologists involved in trace back start behind the eight ball," Stephen says. "They attempt to reconstruct the pathway the contaminated food has traveled through the distribution network well after the fact."

Even at the supply chain level, investigating how food moves through the system is daunting. Stephen says supply chains vary widely from one food marketing system and agricultural sector to another. Some supply chain parts change frequently. Even within a single agricultural sector, some parts of the food supply chain may be characterized by enduring supplier/customer relationships, while others may be market-based and highly transitory.

Even industry insiders may not understand the supply chain map. Many only know "one up and one down" -- that is, they know only their direct supplier and direct customer. Some information about customers and suppliers can be proprietary and therefore hard to get, Stephen says.

In 2011, sprouts were the focus of a serious E. coli outbreak in Europe, but tracing contaminated products to their source proved difficult.

Sandia researchers applied the stochastic mapping technique to test data from the fresh sprout sector in a single state in the U.S., using a case study of the edible seed sprout distribution system as the basis of their computational model.

"Stochastic network representation provides the ability to incorporate and express the uncertainties using probability maps," Conrad explained. "The method enables effective risk analysis and designing robust food defense strategies."

Future work for the team will include scaling the analysis up to the company or industry level as well as mapping commodity flows into, out of and within a geographic region.

Ultimately, NISAC intends to work with partners in business and federal and state agencies to ascertain whether the agencies have a business case for adopting the method.

If there is, the team will seek to help achieve wide acceptance of using data analysis to assess risk.

Building on techniques and knowledge developed at NISAC over the past four years, the work was initiated with funding from Sandia's Laboratory Directed Research and Development program and continued with funding from the Department of Homeland Security.

"If stochastic mapping was widely used now, perhaps outbreaks, such the recent ones involving salmonella, could be more quickly tracked down and contained. Quicker containment would benefit not only consumers but also the farmers who grow fresh food for our nation and who can be severely impacted economically by uncertainties and market restrictions on sales of their products caused by delays in pinpointing an outbreak's source," Stephen says.

For more information, visit Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems (CASoS) Engineering Initiative website, or the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC).

The International Journal of Critical Infrastructures article, "The value of utilizing stochastic mapping of food distribution networks for understanding risks and tracing contaminant pathways," written by Conrad, W.E. Beyeler and T.J. Brown, appeared in Volume 8 of the 2012 publication.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies and economic competitiveness.

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US Airways flight attendants reject contract

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Trial of pope's ex-butler to shine big light on tiny Vatican

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has certainly seen more sensational trials in its long history. The Inquisition ordered Galileo to recant his theory that the earth revolves around the sun, and philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy.

But even those cases, both in the 17th century, did not involve a breach of trust by a papal aide - the issue at the core of this Saturday's trial of papal butler Paolo Gabriele for stealing and leaking the pontiff's personal papers.

One of the worst crises in Pope Benedict's papacy will play out in a small Vatican tribunal, where a three-judge panel will decide the fate of the 46-year-old Gabriele, whom the pope used to call "Paoletto" (little Paul) and who is now described in Vatican documents as "the defendant".

The case will put the inner workings of the tiny Vatican, the world's smallest state, in the type of media spotlight it usually strives to avoid.

The man who served Pope Benedict his meals and helped him dress is charged with aggravated theft for leaking private papers in a self-styled attempt to clean up what he saw as evil and corruption in the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

The documents pointed to a power struggle at the church's highest levels.

Gabriele, who said he saw himself as a whistle-blowing "agent of the Holy Spirit", risks up to four years in jail if convicted, which is widely expected to be the outcome of the case because he has confessed.

ITALIAN JAIL

Since the Vatican is a monarchy where the pope reigns supreme, the trial will start when the president of the tribunal, standing in front of a crucifix, says, "In the name of His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI ...".

The trial procedures will be based on a 19th century Italian penal code.

The wood-paneled courtroom, which can hold only several dozen people and has an ornate papal crest at the centre of its ceiling, is the venue for about 30 trials a year, usually for petty crimes such as theft in St Peter's Square, according to Prof. Giovanni Giacobbe, an expert on Vatican law who briefed reporters.

It is not clear how long the trial might last.

Gabriele, a father of three living a simple but comfortable life in the city-state, told investigators after his arrest in May that he believed a shock "could be a healthy thing to bring the Church back on the right track".

The trusted manservant said he wanted to help root out the corruption, "because the pope was not sufficiently informed", according to details made public when Gabriele was indicted in August.

"The Pope cannot tell the judge what verdict to reach, but he can intervene at any time if he wants to, and he can also grant a pardon," Giacobbe said.

Since the papal state has no prison, Gabriele would serve time in an Italian jail if he is convicted and the pope does not pardon him.

TELEVISION NOT ALLOWED

Either side at the trial can call witnesses, but the president of the court will decide on each request. The prosecution and the defense cannot directly question the defendant or witnesses but must do so through the judge, Giacobbe said.

The trial will be covered by a pool of eight reporters. Television cameras and recording devices will be not be allowed in the courtroom, but the Vatican will release a short, silent video clip of the opening of each session of the trial.

Gabriele's arrest capped nearly five months of intrigue and suspense as a string of documents and private letters found their way into the Italian media.

The most notorious of the letters were written to the pope by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, currently the Vatican's ambassador to Washington, who was deputy governor of Vatican City at the time.

In one, Vigano complains that when he took office in 2009, he discovered corruption, nepotism and cronyism linked to the awarding of contracts to outside companies at inflated prices.

Vigano later wrote to the pope about a smear campaign against him by other Vatican officials who were upset that he had taken drastic steps to clean up the purchasing procedures.

Despite begging not to be moved away from the Vatican, Vigano was later transferred to Washington by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's number two.

Other leaked letters concerned the Vatican's bank, which has been at the centre of several scandals in the last few decades.

The Vatican has described the revelations as a "brutal" attack on the pope. Benedict himself has merely alluded to personal pain and criticised a media portrayal of the Vatican that "does not correspond to reality".

Gabriele will go on trial alongside Claudio Sciarpelletti, a Vatican computer expert who is charged with aiding and abetting a crime. Sciarpelletti risks up to one year in jail.

(editing by Jane Baird)

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United African Organization: Tanzanian Bye Bye Summer BBQ

Event: Bye Bye Summer BBQ

Date: September 29th

Time: Noon to 6pm

Location: Schiller Woods West Forest Preserve Grove Number 9, on the intersection of Irving Park Ave. and Cumberland Ave.?

This will be a great chance to enjoy the final days of warm weather in Chicago, meet TCA members, TCA Leaders and friends of Tanzania and be a part of organizing our next big event.?Please bring food and drinks to share, and don't forget to bring your family and friends and clothes to play soccer in!

Source: http://unitedafricanorganization.blogspot.com/2012/09/tanzanian-bye-bye-summer-bbq.html

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Netflix iOS and Android apps have a remote control easter egg for PS3 owners

Now that the revamped Netflix interface has hit phones and tablets for both Apple and Android powered hardware, the service has quietly enabled something else: second screen remote control. Currently the feature is only known to work on the PlayStation 3 with a mobile device on the same local network, once the two apps are running you can browse as normal on your phone or tablet and when you go to play a movie or TV show it asks you to choose where it will play. While the video is playing you can stop, pause or seek through it to a certain point, change the audio or subtitles, choose a different episode or even browse for something entirely different without stopping the action. The YouTube app on PS3 works in a similar fashion after its most recent update. We've got a few screens of the mobile apps at work in the gallery, check after the break for a quick video of it working.

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European Commission Realises There Might Be Startups Out There To Be Funded

European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes has decided the billions of euros stored over at the EU might well be better spent. In a speech today in Brussels she proposed a number of new ideas about how to spend EU research money under the EU's research programme, Horizon 2020. This is effectively a fund running from 2014 to 2020 with an ?80 billion budget to back the EU?s new programme for research and innovation and ultimately to drive new growth and jobs in Europe. Out of the ?80 billion available to Horizon 2020, Kroes has proposed investing ?16 billion in digital technology research. Most interestingly for startups is a proposal to ring-fence significant funds for high growth technology companies and innovative SMEs. ?The world is changing: the way we innovate needs to change too," she said.

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Apple supplier halts China factory after violence

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Anti-union Gov. Scott Walker tweets support of unionized NFL refs

(AP)

Like most Green Bay Packers fans, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker woke up Tuesday morning still stinging from a controversial call?made by the NFL's replacement referees?that cost the team a victory over the Seattle Seahawks on "Monday Night Football."

"After catching a few hours of sleep, the #Packers game is still just as painful," Walker tweeted. "#Returntherealrefs."

The Seahawks' 14-12 victory ended on a Hail Mary pass that was intercepted by Packers safety M.D. Jennings but ruled a touchdown by the replacement refs. The play sparked a firestorm of criticism on Twitter, with players, coaches and fans like Walker all weighing in on the debacle.

But the Republican governor's call for the league to end its dispute with the unionized officials is surprising, considering Walker backed anti-union legislation in the state.

[Related: Seahawks win the strangest game in their history on the call that will define replacement refs]

"His tweet has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with a blown call," Cullen Werwie, Walker's press secretary, wrote in an email to Yahoo News.

Some Twitter users disagreed.

"So you PRO-union now?" one wrote in response to Walker's tweet. "Here's what hiring low-wage scabs gets you."

"Really!?! You hypocritical FOOL," wrote another. "Your attack on unions gives businesses the ability to hire unqualified employees."

[Also read: The worst call in NFL history?]

The NFL and the officials union are reportedly battling over about $3 million annually in pension commitments, according to Yahoo Sports.

"The replacement ref experiment is a disaster," Yahoo's Dan Wetzel wrote in a column calling on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to issue a public apology. "It has overwhelmed the league. It's overshadowed strong play. It's turned Goodell's vaunted shield into a joke."

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In parallel to this work, Dell is helping nonprofits worldwide as they provide comfort and care to young cancer patients and their families. Through our multimillion dollar, multiyear commitment, our support ranges from establishing remote learning opportunities for hospitalized children to funding leukemia treatments for children who would otherwise have to discontinue treatment. By applying our technology, expertise, donations and employee volunteerism, we hope to open new possibilities for children fighting cancer.

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Our Children's Cancer Care initiatives help power clinical researchers and doctors around the world, with high-speed cloud computing solutions that can allow experts to identify and share personalized treatments in days instead of months. Dell?s support will also expand the reach and impact of the world?s first FDA-approved personalized medicine trial for pediatric cancer, which is a collaboration between the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC). Learn more about the trials

Offering support for families

We support nonprofits worldwide through activities such as providing remote learning for children facing treatment, connecting families who are living remotely while their children are getting the care they need, issuing grants to cover cancer treatment for those who cannot afford it, funding pediatric care facilities and supporting outreach work. In the U.S., our own team members also provide comfort and personal support to families living in homes away from home like the Ronald McDonald House. Read about our partners

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Restore SMS to iPhone from computer

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Self Improvement Month: Get Organized |

This month is Self Improvement Month. All this month I will do a weekly post to help you improve yourself by getting organized.

Last week we took a home assessment for Self Improvement Month. This week we put that plan into action. This week it is time to get organized!

Look over your home assessment list and let?s get started.

• You want to first gather your supplies. (Trash bags, boxes, sharpies, etc.)
• You want to get started in one area first.
• Sweep through the house organizing according to the plan you wrote out last week.
• Immediately take out the trash and take the donations to where you have already designated them to go.
• Start containerizing what you have decided to keep.
• Put everything in their place. You should already have the designated spots preplanned from your outline last week.

That?s it! You now have completely organized your home. Give yourself a pat on the back and a cup of tea. Now this process can take you several weeks to complete. It?s not like the TV shows you see where everything is tip top in 48 hours. So don?t get discouraged at the length of time it may take to get everything in order. Just keep working your plan and you should have no problem having an organized home in no time.

Next week I will show you how to maintain what you have now put in order. Because maintenance is the key to success.

Until next week?

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Samantha Pointer is the owner of Get It Together! Organizing and Pointer's Vine Web Design. She is a Blissfully Domestic Writer and the Director of Technology for NAPO Nashville. She also manages several websites and blogs. She is the mother to two beautiful girls and enjoys spending time with family and friends. Samantha is a tech geek, foodie, history buff and sports fanatic just to name a few of the hobbies she enjoys. You can find her on her computer late at night sending out emails. She loves cooking,architecture, old homes and decorating. If she was not doing what she is doing now she would have been an economist or historian.

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Gingrich criticizes Romney-Ryan space plan

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Newt Gingrich says Mitt Romney's space plan doesn't go far enough.

By NBC's Alex Moe

BELOIT, Wis. ? One-time presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who promised during the GOP primary to create a U.S. moon colony if elected, criticized Mitt Romney?s plan for space exploration as not being ?robust? enough.

?The Romney plan for space starts to move in the right direction but could be much more robust,? the former House speaker told NBC News a day after the Republican presidential nominee unveiled his ?Securing U.S. Leadership in Space? plan. ?We could move into space much, much faster than we are. Romney is better than [President] Obama on space but could be bolder and more visionary.?

Saturday, Romney?s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, laid out the campaign?s plan during a townhall meeting in Orlando, Fla., and accused President Barack Obama of ?dismantling? America?s space program.

"We are near the Space Coast, I think it?s important that we have a space program that has a clear space mission, a space program that we know where we are heading in the future, and a space program that is the unequivocal leader on the planet in space travel and space research,? Ryan said at the University of Central Florida. ?We don?t have that right now.?

The Wisconsin congressman continued: ?Mitt Romney and I believe that America must lead in space. Mitt Romney and I believe we need a mission for NASA, a mission for a space program, and we also believe that this is an integral part of our national security.?

During the long Republican primary season, Gingrich regularly spoke about fixing the space program after the cancellation of American space shuttles.

Speaking in Cocoa, Fla., at the end of January, Gingrich vowed the United States would ?have the first permanent base on the moon? and by the end of 2020 the country would have "the first continuous propulsion system in space" capable of allowing people travel to Mars.

Romney, whom Gingrich later endorsed for president after suspending his campaign in May, mocked the former House speaker for proposing a lunar colony during one of the several GOP debates earlier in the year.

"I spent 25 years in business. If I had a business executive come to me and say they wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, I'd say, 'You're fired,'" Romney said at the debate in Jacksonville, Fla., co-hosted by CNN, the Republican Party of Florida and the Hispanic Leadership Network. "The idea that corporate America wants to go off to the moon and build a colony there, it may be a big idea, but it's not a good idea."

Under a President Romney administration, there would be four space priorities: focusing NASA, partnering internationally, strengthening security, and revitalizing industry.

The steps put forward by the Romney-Ryan ticket do not go far enough in Gingrich?s eyes.

?I was with Richard Branson in Yalta last week and his commitment to a dynamic private secure entrepreneurial model that works with innovators and risk-takers to put people into space inexpensively (compared to government rates) is a big example of the future,? Gingrich said in an email Sunday.

Branson, the entrepreneur and CEO of Virgin Airlines, is launching Branson's Virgin Galactic which will offer commercial space flights as the government closes down it?s space shuttle operations.

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Source: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/23/14049265-gingrich-criticizes-romney-ryan-space-plan?lite

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Twitter CEO reveals plans for interactive tweets, content curation, reinforces belief in syndication

Twitter has ruffled a few feathers recently, so when CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco, he took the opportunity to put some minds at rest. First he dismissed the idea that the service would become a media company by forcing users to the site or official app for content, before reasserting his belief in syndication. Costolo then went on to imply that the reason behind the tighter (and unpopular) API controls was ensuring quality -- stating that Twitter would reach its full potential now there's more control over how tweets are delivered. With boots strapped, we can look forward to some new features, such as the option to curate messages that are published (such as during live events) plus tweets with interactive features like polls during live sports games. The famous 140 character limit is to remain, but will also serve as a "caption for additional functionality." Perhaps of most interest to disenfranchised developers, however, was the mention of application functionality in tweets, where short messages could contain small interactive apps. Something for devs to get potentially get back on board with? We hope so. But until further details unfold, we're still left considering our options.

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Border shootout kills Israeli soldier, 3 militants

JERUSALEM (AP) ? An Israeli soldier died Friday in a shootout that also killed three Islamic militants attempting to infiltrate the country from Egypt with an eye toward carrying out a terror attack in the Jewish state, the Israeli military said.

The attack highlighted the growing threat of violence along Israel's border with the Sinai Peninsula, a stretch of desert which has been demilitarized since Israel returned it to Egypt as part of their 1979 peace deal. While once a popular tourist destination for Israelis, Sinai has become increasingly lawless and dangerous in recent years as al-Qaida-inspired groups have taken hold in the vast desert.

The militants were wearing explosive belts when they opened fire on troops guarding a team of workers building a border fence between Israel and Sinai, according to military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich.

There were different accounts of what happened next.

Leibovich said the Israeli troops returned fire, killing the militants. An Israeli soldier was shot in the head during the gunbattle and later died of his wounds.

But Egyptian intelligence officials said the attackers had crossed the border and that one of the three militants blew himself up inside Israel.

The Israel-Egypt border has become increasingly volatile since the fall of longtime Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising last year. Israel has repeatedly warned Egypt's new authorities of the deteriorating situation and the growing militancy in Sinai.

Militants have staged multiple attacks on a pipeline delivering gas from Egypt to Israel, frequently lobbed rockets into the Jewish state and have snuck across the border and killed Israelis.

One of the most brazen attacks came last year, when Palestinian militants crossed from Gaza into Sinai, made their way along the Israel-Egypt border, then crossed into Israel and attacked Israeli vehicles, killing eight people. Israeli forces chased the attackers down and killed six Egyptian troops in the process ? an incident that increased tensions between the two countries.

And in August, Islamist gunmen brazenly killed 16 Egyptian soldiers before smashing through a fence into Israel. Egypt responded by launching an operation in Sinai, using tanks and troops against the militants.

Since Mubarak was toppled, Israel has made some exceptions to the peace deal requiring Sinai remain demilitarized and allowed Egypt to send in more troops to Sinai to deal with the militant threat.

Israel has issued several travel warnings to its citizens against visiting Sinai, based on information alleging that militant groups from the Gaza Strip were operating in the area and planning to attack or kidnap Israeli tourists.

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Associated Press writer Ashram Sweilam contributed to this report from El-Arish, Egypt.

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Decades later, Brooklyn has its own pro team again

NEW YORK (AP) ? It was like a death in the family for Brooklyn baseball fans when their beloved Dodgers left the borough behind in 1957 for the California coast.

Times were grim for Brooklyn back then. Residents were leaving en masse for the suburbs. Crime was on the rise. And there was little hope that the borough's plight would improve.

"When the Dodgers left, it was another punch in the face to the fact that Brooklyn's best days may not be ahead, but may have been behind us," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, who was 12 years old at the time. "It was depressing."

After decades without a professional sports team, New York City's ascendant borough is hitting the major leagues again on Friday when the Brooklyn Nets' new arena opens to the public. The state-of-the-art, 18,000-seat arena will be officially christened Saturday night with a rap concert by Nets co-owner and native Brooklynite Jay-Z.

Just as the Dodgers' departure was a harbinger of difficult times ahead, the opening of the Barclays Center is a symbol of Brooklyn's astonishing rise in recent years as a sought-after destination for people from all over the globe.

Basketball is now the sport du jour here, not baseball. And in a stroke of irony, the new stadium was built directly across the street from the spot where Dodgers President Walter O'Malley wanted to erect a new ballpark to replace Ebbets Field, the team's home that was later demolished.

"When they left, that's when I washed my hands of baseball," said 72-year-old Fred Wilken, who was so distraught by the loss of his hometown team that he stopped watching sports altogether. "For years we supported them, we came down here. And then all of a sudden they decide to leave."

The Dodgers were the golden thread that tied Brooklyn together in those days. The fabric of the team was woven into the neighborhood. Players like Willie Mays lived nearby and played stickball with kids in the streets.

About two miles from the new Nets' Arena, the hallowed ground where Ebbets Field once stood is now a massive brick apartment building in a neighborhood of Caribbean immigrants.

"We still haven't gotten over it," admitted Ron Schweiger, Brooklyn's official borough historian, whose basement is stuffed with Dodgers memorabilia. "I tend to think they never moved. They're on an extended road trip."

Why O'Malley moved the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season was, at its core, a question of dollars and cents. O'Malley wanted the city to help subsidize the new stadium, and the city refused. Fast-forward to the present: the $1 billion Barclays Center has received millions in public money.

With its deliberately rusted steel exterior, the new arena looks like a spaceship that cruised in for a landing in Brooklyn's busiest transportation and shopping hub. There are chain stores galore. A Modell's sporting apparel store across the street is stocked with racks full of team apparel in the Nets' new black-and-white color scheme and the logo designed by Jay-Z himself. Rivalry-stirring T-shirts proclaim: "New York Divided."

The city is banking on Brooklynites' deep-rooted sense of borough pride to win over new fans. And the championship-hungry Nets are hoping their new Brooklyn home will turn the tide for a franchise that has been largely overshadowed by the New York Knicks.

But gone are the days when sports allegiances were dictated by zip code. Brooklyn is a tight-knit borough no more: It is a deeply diverse community of many nationalities and income brackets.

Large swaths of Brooklyn are actually starting to look a whole lot like Manhattan. The borough of about 2.5 million residents draws its own share of tourists who want to stroll down Brooklyn Heights' charming brownstone-lined streets or shop in Williamsburg's hipster-chic boutiques.

Celebrities live in Brooklyn now. It's home to fashionable hipsters and upscale beer gardens and well-heeled mothers pushing expensive baby strollers down the street. Brooklyn is no longer just a place to live ? it's a place to visit.

"Brooklyn had an image as the underdog upstarts, which the Dodgers exemplified," said Henry Fetter, author of "Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball." ''I think Brooklyn no longer has that image. And the Nets don't necessarily exemplify that."

At the end of the day, as the wins pile up, the fans will follow. A new generation of Brooklyn children will grow up with the Nets, just as their grandparents and great-grandparents grew up with the Dodgers. But fans are a more fickle species nowadays.

A group of young men shooting hoops across the street from Ebbets Field Apartments vowed to remain loyal to the Knicks, despite being born and raised in Brooklyn.

"If they had Dwight Howard, they would've been the team of New York," said 23-year-old Mario Volcin. "They would've been the best team of New York. The Nets don't really have enough pieces."

In a winner-take-all kind of town, being second-best just doesn't cut it. And as any Dodgers fan would tell you, old loyalties die hard. But even the old-timers are willing to give this new team a chance.

"I can't see this as atonement. Too many years have gone by for that," said Schweiger, the historian. "But I definitely intend to go to a bunch of the games. In fact, I already have a Brooklyn Nets T-shirt."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/decades-later-brooklyn-own-pro-team-again-063527269.html

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